At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Massachusetts based CEO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
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David Friend
Co-founder, President & CEO of Wasabi Technologies
David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a revolutionary cloud storage company. David’s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind. Friend founded or co-founded five other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation – an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software – a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet – which became the world’s largest provider of fax-to-email services, Sonexis – a VoIP conferencing company, and immediately prior to Wasabi, what is now one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies, Carbonite. David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
Jeffrey Markley
founder and CEO of Markley Group
Jeffrey Markley is the founder and chief executive officer of [Markley Group](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/markley-group#/entity). Throughout his career, Markley has completed over 500 real estate transactions for major national and international mission-critical clients as well as appeared in over 50 major publications. He has also been cited many times in the [Wall Street Journal](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wall-street-journal#/entity) as the leading real estate developer in the telecommunications and datacenter industries. Markley has studied at the [University of Georgia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-georgia-2#/entity). He lives in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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About Markley Group: New England’s largest and longest operating multi-tenant, mission-critical telecommunications and data center facility.
John Van Siclen
CEO of Dynatrace
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About Dynatrace, NetMechanic: Software intelligence to help DevSecOps teams across every industry tame cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Caithrin Rintoul
Co-Founder/CEO of Provender
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About Provender: Provender is an online platform that enables farmers to create direct-trade associations with buyers.
Raymond Kurzweil
Founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies
Ray Kurzweil is a noted futurist, author, inventor, and executive. He has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
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About Google, Kurzweil Technologies: Kurzweil Technologies offers solutions such as pattern recognition, AI, algorithms, signal processing, and simulation of natural processes.
Daria Leshchenko
Co-Founder, CEO & Partner of SupportYourApp
Daria Leshchenko is CEO and Partner at SupportYourApp. Taking charge of the company at the age of 21, Daria turned it into a multinational business and one of the TOP-3 customer care companies (according to Clutch). Daria has studied at MIM-Kyiv business school, the Aspen Institute in Kyiv and is a Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education alumna. She is featured in Top 30under30 list by KyivPost and won a Silver Stevie Award in the category “Woman of the Year in Customer Service & Sales”. Daria actively participates in mentoring programs for women, including mentoring at Google Hackathon and Startup Weekend Ladies. She also represents Ukraine in Canada-Ukraine Trade & Investment Support Project (CUTIS) and participates in ITC SheTrades.
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About SupportYourApp: Human+Tech Customer Support Outsourcing that powers Unicorn and acclaimed tech companies worldwide
Vojta Drmota
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon
Vojta Drmota is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon.
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About Ribbon: Ribbon is a one-stop-shop online platform for live and recorded events that provides services such as Zoom integrations and email marketing.
Derek Zanga
Co-Founder and CEO of Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC
Derek Zanga is the CEO and Co-Founder at Zone & Company Software Consulting.
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About Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC: NetSuite sales, implementations, services, and custom development
Derek Lo
Founder and CEO of Medallion
Derek Lo Founder and CEO of Medallion. He was previously co-founder and CEO at Py. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics from Yale University.
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About Hired, Medallion: Medallion provides a network management platform for the healthcare industry.
Samuel Clemens
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Reprise
Samuel Clemens is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Reprise.
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About Harvard Business School, Reprise: Reprise empowers enterprise sales and marketing teams to create sales demos, product tours, and trial environments.
Bryan Stevenson
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Reprise
Bryan Stevenson is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Reprise.
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About Reprise: Reprise empowers enterprise sales and marketing teams to create sales demos, product tours, and trial environments.
Emad Rizk
President and Chief Executive Officer of R1 RCM
Emad Rizk currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Accretive Health. He previously served as president of McKesson Health Solutions, a business unit of McKesson Corporation, and as Senior Partner and Global Director, Medical Management/Pharmacy for Deloitte Consulting. He led the company’s medical cost and quality management practice. Previous to that, he held a variety of roles at Monsanto Corporation, serving as Associate Medical Director, Corporate Medical and Scientific Affairs and then Worldwide Medical Director. Emad Rizk was formerly a member of the board of DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance and currently serves on the boards of directors of the National Association for Hispanic Health, Manage Care Editorial, Accuray Inc. and Accretive Health. A Senior Scholar professor at Jefferson Medical College, Emad Rizk’s work has been widely published in medical journals and medical books. His book, The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and Payers, focuses on ways that providers and payers can work together to reduce costs while improving efficiency and patient care. In 2013, Modern Physician named Emad Rizk one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in the United States,” the fifth time he has been recognized by this publication. In addition, Modern Healthcare has listed him among the “Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” while Managed Healthcare Executive named him to its “Top 25 Leaders in Disease Management.” Emad Rizk has frequently lectured at Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg School, and Columbia Business School.
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About R1 RCM: R1 RCM serves as a revenue cycle management partner for hospitals and healthcare systems regardless of the payment models.
Ravi Ika
President, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RxAdvance
A noted entrepreneur and an innovator of disruptive business solutions, Ravi Ika founded RxAdvance in 2013 and serves as president and chief executive officer of the full service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company. He launched RxAdvance to lower pharmacy, specialty and avoidable drug-impacted medical costs and achieve better outcomes, quality and compliance in the new era of value-based health care. The RxAdvance platform Mr. Ika created from the ground up, the Collaborative PBM Cloud™, provides comprehensive automated services for all PBM administrative, clinical, specialty management, care stakeholder engagement, and compliance management functions. It does so in a way never before imagined in the PBM industry. The Collaborative PBM Cloud™ combines pharmacy, medical, and lab information to deliver actionable intelligence. Prescribers receive this real time actionable intelligence at the point of care, pharmacists at point of sale, patients via mobile cloud and payers clinical and pharmacy staff engagement through their workflows. Among the valuable results: Lower costs, optimal utilization, better outcomes, higher quality, greater transparency and rigorous compliance. Mr. Ika envisions a $750 billion PBM market long in need of transformation. The five largest PBMs, which manage over 80% of $300 billion in pharmacy benefit spend, provide limited, siloed services using antiquated, legacy platforms. Their lack of holistic vision introduces an additional $350 billion of avoidable drug-impacted medical costs into U.S. health care. In addition, $100 billion in poorly managed “buy and bill” specialty drug spend needs to be converted to an “authorize and manage” model. More than 15 years ago, Mr. Ika recognized a similar transformational opportunity in health insurance. Industry insiders, challenged to reduce administrative costs by 30% and avoidable medical costs by 20%, saw the goals as unachievable. Mired in paper-based processes, the industry also struggled with a myriad of fragmented, inflexible, and expensive legacy systems. Mr. Ika responded to this opportunity with ikaSystems, an enterprise payer-platform company. Disrupting obsolete paradigms, he delivered unprecedented change long before passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The ikaSystems platform decreased administrative costs for many health insurers by as much as 50% and significantly reduced avoidable medical costs. With these results, ikaSystems raised more than $140mm capital from Providence Equity and Essex Woodland Ventures. Known for building and inspiring world-class teams, Mr. Ika takes a hands-on approach to ensure his clients’ success. Over the years, healthcare industry leaders have come to rely on his vision and talent for creating enterprise platforms that radically disrupt legacy business paradigms and deliver significant value. Mr. Ika has a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Old Dominion University and worked as a research scientist at Harvard University prior to his entrepreneurial career.
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About RxAdvance: RxAdvance, a national full service PBM, leverages disruptive Collaborative PBM Cloud™ to manage standard & specialty drug benefits.
Enis Konuk
CEO of Qwiklabs
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About Qwiklabs: Qwiklabs provides lab learning environments that help devs and IT pros get hands-on experience with leading cloud platforms and software.
Matt Stevens
CEO and President of AppNeta
Matt Stevens is a CEO and President at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Peter Bauer
Co Founder & CEO of Mimecast
Peter Bauer founded Mimecast in 2003 with CTO, Neil Murray. With the support of angel investors, loyal customers and a strong management team, Peter has overseen eight consecutive years of continual growth. He relocated to Boston in August 2011 to help drive the expansion of Mimecast’s US business, and was instrumental in securing $62m of Series C funding from global private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners in September 2012. Peter’s career began in South Africa, where, after studying marketing and founding a successful distribution company, he trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and began working with corporate messaging systems. He founded his first technology company, FAB Technology, in the mid-nineties. A leading integrator of new internet and messaging technologies, the business grew rapidly and was acquired in 1998 by Idion, a JSE-listed technology business. Peter became Idion Managing Director, a role he stayed in until, observing trends in internet business services, he decided to move to the UK.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomer Health Tech
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech. She holds two master’s degrees in engineering and management/integrated design and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Andrew Lau
Co-Founder & CEO of Jellyfish
Andrew Lau is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is an engineering management platform that enables leaders to align engineering work with strategic business objectives.
Tanya Bakalov
CEO and Founder of HelloTeam
Tanya Bakalov is the CEO & Founder of HelloTeam, a modern employee engagement and performance management platform that is redefining the way companies engage and retain top talent. In 2005, Bakalov left her position as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte and Touche to co-found SevOne, where she served as COO and Chief People Officer. Under her leadership, the company grew to more than 500 employees worldwide and generated nearly $100M annually, making it the industry leader in digital infrastructure management software. Using her experiences in scaling SevOne, Tanya created HelloTeam in 2016 to address a growing problem in the workplace: providing business leaders with data and insights needed to build strong and data-driven people strategies. In collaboration with her global team, Bakalov advances the mission to empower each individual within an organization: boosting productivity, transforming the employee experience, and enhancing overall business and company culture. Her groundbreaking work as a two-time female founder earned her several awards, including the prestigious 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year® award. Bakalov is also Managing Partner at VT Technology Ventures and a member of the Horn Entrepreneurship National Advisory Board at the University of Delaware. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and MIS from the University of Delaware.
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About HelloTeam, VT Technology Ventures: HelloTeam is the all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform for the modern workforce.
Suelin Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Cake
Suelin Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Cake (joincake.com), an online platform for advance care and end-of-life planning that is used by companies including Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA, Harvard Pilgrim, Liberty Mutual, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Suelin earned her BS and PhD from MIT, where she engineered new medical imaging technologies at a translational research lab at MGH. She served as the director of The Lab at Harvard, where she worked with student entrepreneurs and researchers at the Wyss Institute to commercialize their ideas. Suelin then worked as a transaction advisor to healthcare companies at IMS Health Capital before starting Cake.
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About Cake: Cake is the world’s largest platform for helping people navigate end-of-life.
Vance Loiselle
President & CEO of Boston Logic
President & CEO at Propertybase.
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About Boston Logic, Boston Logic, Propertybase: Boston Logic offers an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents.
Jonathan Bush
Founder and CEO of Zus Health
Jonathan Bush is the CEO and Founder of Zus Health. He is also the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Bush co-founded athenahealth, Inc. in 1997 and has been a director since our inception. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bush served as an EMT for the City of New Orleans, was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army, and worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Bush obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Firefly Health, Zus Health: Zus Health helps a new wave of healthcare builders to create technologies and services without the usual blockers.
Frank Selldorff
Founder & CEO of Acorio
Frank Selldorff is CEO and founder of Meteorix. An accomplished veteran of the IT consulting industry, with a sharp focus on innovation, Frank founded Meteorix in January of 2011 because he believes Workday’s technology is revolutionary and that the opportunity exists to change the way services are delivered. A true entrepreneurial leader, adept building high performing teams, Frank drives the company’s unwavering commitment to both customer and employee success. In addition to his role at Meteorix, Frank is also founder and Chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies with the potential to become industry leaders in the information technology sector. Prior to Momentum, Frank was founder and co-CEO of Reach Internet Incubator, whose portfolio of companies includes success stories BrandMuscle, BlackSmith Applications, BrainShark and netNumina (later acquired by Keane). In 1992, Frank founded Breakaway Solutions, a full-service Internet provider, and served as its chairman, president and CEO through 1998. Under his direction, the company was recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing technology companies, ranking No. 73 on the 1998 Inc. 500 and on Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50/500 from 1996-1998.
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About Acorio, Meteorix: Acorio helps customers to maximize the return on their investment in ServiceNow.
Andrew Archer
CEO of Aitheon
Serial entrepreneur focused on AI & robotic systems, Andrew began building robots at the age of 12 and subsequently started his 1st company at 16 producing wi-fi connected motor controllers for robotics. Through his public school outreach programs such as Wreck Lab Make Lab, he motivated children & their parents enabling them with hands on experience in creating simple robotics. Currently he acts as CEO at Aitheon, A Fedora Labs subsidiary, a business software platform giving the ability to leverage AI, distributed robotics and IOT without the need of a tech background.
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About Aitheon: Aitheon is the digital ecosystem, simplifying your world through AI, robotics, IoT & human symbiosis.
Donald Fischer
CEO and Co-founder of Tidelift
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About Tidelift: Tidelift makes open source software work better—for everyone.
Timothy McGrath
President and Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection
Mr. Timothy McGrath is President, Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection Inc. Mr. McGrath has served as Chief Executive Officer since August 2011, and as President since May 2010. Mr. McGrath served as Chief Operating Officer from May 2010 to August 2011. Mr. McGrath also served as Executive Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from May 2007 to May 2010, as Senior Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from December 2006 to May 2007, and as President of PC Connection Sales Corporation, sales subsidiary, from August 2005 to December 2006.
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About PC Connection: PC Connection is a direct marketer of a range of information technology (IT) solutions.
Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder & CEO of DUST Identity
Ophir Gaathon is the CEO and co-founder of DUST Identity.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Vess Bakalov
CEO of Pliant.io
Vess Bakalov has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of [SevOne, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sevone#/entity). Previously, he held a number of senior technical positions at BankOne, including assistant vice president and network architect. Bakalov also led the network management team for the credit card services division of BankOne, which was the largest issuer of VISA credit cards in the U.S. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Delaware.
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About Pliant.io, VT Technology Ventures: Pliant is low-code and no-code IT Process Automation Platform for ITOps, DevOps, and SecOps teams.
Moshe Yanai
Founder & CEO of Infinidat
Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s, joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies.
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About IBM, Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Matthew Arbesfeld
CEO and Co-Founder of LogRocket
Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
John Graham Cvinar
CEO of BPOSeats.com
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About BPOSeats.com: BPOSeats.com allows business to run BPO and call-center solutions with video-centric facility, recruitment, and payroll solutions.
Randy Battat
CEO & Founder of PreVeil
Before PreVeil, Randy was President and CEO of Airvana from 2000-2014, growing the company from a two-month old startup to a 400 person global corporation.Airvana became the #2 supplier of wireless broadband infrastructure software for the CDMA standard used by operators like Verizon and Sprint, and the #1 supplier of femtocell access points used to provide great wireless coverage inside homes. Randy spent the first thirteen years of his career at Apple, including five years as Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing and three years as Vice President of the PowerBook Division. After Apple, Randy joined Motorola to run its Wireless Data Group and later became Senior Vice President of Motorola’s Internet and Networking Group, responsible for businesses such as cable voice and data communications, enterprise networking equipment, and wireless content servers.
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About PreVeil: PreVeil is a cybersecurity company, born out of research at MIT, that provides end-to-end encryption.
John Amaral
Founder and CEO of Slim.AI
John Amaral is the Founder and CEO of Slim.AI He was the Head of Product Delivery, John is responsible for driving the product roadmap and engineering initiatives across the CloudLock CASB and cloud cybersecurity solution set. John has more than 20 years of experience as a technologist and product development leader in information security and networking. Prior to joining CloudLock, John served as the Senior VP of Product Management at Trustwave where he guided the technical direction and development of several core Trustwave security product lines. He joined the company through the acquisition of data loss prevention leader Vericept in 2009 where he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development. Before Vericept, he was Chief Technology Officer at NEI, now known as UNICOM Engineering. He was also Chief Technology officer at Artel Video Systems. He was founder and Chief Technology Officer of ITS Corporation, a developer of broadband networking equipment and technology, which was acquired by Artel Video Systems. John was selected as a top 40 under 40 business leader by American Venture Magazine in 2007. John holds an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Slim.AI: Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy, and run their cloud native apps.
Jonathan Rennert
Chief Executive Officer of ZOLL Medical Corporation
Jonathan Rennert was named Chief Executive Officer of ZOLL in April 2016. Since joining ZOLL in 2008 as President, he has led the company to become the global leader in external defibrillation, diversified the product portfolio through the addition of transport ventilators and intrathoracic pressure regulation (IPR) therapy, and has overseen the establishment of Asahi Kasei ZOLL Medical, ZOLL’s Japanese subsidiary. Prior to joining ZOLL, Jonathan Rennert led the analytical instruments business at PerkinElmer, Inc., and earlier in his career, held manufacturing and engineering leadership positions with United Technologies and General Electric. Jonathan Rennert holds master’s degrees in management and mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University.
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About ZOLL Medical Corporation: ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions.
Andrew Needleman
CEO & Founder of DoseSpot
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About Claricode, DoseSpot: E-Prescribing Integration Services
Ash Ashutosh
Founder, President and CEO of Actifio
Ash joined Greylock in 2008. While being a recognized leader in the storage industry, Ash’s areas of interests include semiconductors, systems, storage, software and utility and cloud computing. As a serial entrepreneur, Ash has over two decades of operational and strategy experience in founding, building and advising companies. Ash was the founder of three companies in technologies ranging from semiconductors, systems and enterprise software, each of which led their respective markets and had successful exits. He also worked for and has been a member of the board or the advisory board of several large and small technology companies. Prior to joining Greylock, Ash was Vice President and the Chief Technologist at the storage business unit at HP, responsible for strategy and development of next-generation data center technologies. He joined HP as a result of the acquisition of AppIQ, a company he founded in 2001 that became a leader in standards-built Storage Resource Management (SRM) software. Ash currently serves on the board of Delphix, a company developing radically innovative database management solutions. He is also a charter member of TiE Boston.
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About Actifio, G20 Ventures: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
Roy Schoenberg
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President of Amwell
Roy Schoenberg M.D., MPH founded American Well Inc. and serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of its American Well Systems. Roy Schoenberg founded Carekey, Inc. and served as its President. He served as a Senior Vice President and Chief Internet Solutions Officer at TriZetto, following its acquisition of CareKey in December 2005. He served as Senior Associate of the Center for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He serves as a Director of American Well Corporation. Roy Schoenberg is a frequent speaker at the American Medical Informatics Association and other conferences. He has published a number of scientific papers in leading journals. In 1998, he joined the Harvard-MIT Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics and earned an additional MPH in Healthcare Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Roy Schoenberg completed his Medical Training (MD) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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About Amwell: Amwell is a telehealth platform that provides its patients with more affordable, higher quality health care.
Ido Schoenberg
Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Amwell
do serves as the Chairman and CEO of American Well Corporation and oversees the company’s corporate strategy. Ido has a lengthy track record of successfully leading technology companies in the healthcare field. In 1996, together with Phyllis Gotlib, he co-founded iMDSoft, a provider of enterprise software that automates hospital critical care units. He grew the company into a market leader with a large multi-national install base in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. In 2001, Ido joined CareKey Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and took the company through its acquisition by the TriZetto group. Ido served as TriZetto’s Chief Business Strategy Officer until his departure in the summer of 2006. Ido received his MD from the Sackler School of Medicine.
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About Amwell: Amwell is a telehealth platform that provides its patients with more affordable, higher quality health care.
Alex Adeli
Founder/CEO of Stynt
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About Stynt: Simplifying healthcare staffing to enhance the quality of patient care.
Benjamin Nye
CEO of Turbonomic
Ben has served as a member of the board of directors since 2008. He leads the technology and infrastructure investing efforts for Bain Capital Venture Partners, and is the CEO of VMTurbo. His previous positions include SVP at Veritas Software Corporation, COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, Ltd., and director of SolarWinds. He serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including AppNeta, AppAssure and VMTurbo. Ben received a B.A. in government from Harvard College and a MBA from Harvard Business School. Benjamin Nye has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2008.
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About Turbonomic: Turbonomic develops tools that optimize application performance, compliance, and cost in real-time.
Konstantinos Ligris
Chief Executive Officer of Stavvy
Kosta Ligris is an experienced entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of the Ligris family of companies, a collection of professional services, real estate, consulting, and tech companies. Under his leadership, the Ligris companies have grown to become one of the largest residential conveyancing and transactional firms in Massachusetts. Along with its affiliated title agencies – the Ligris companies have overseen over $30 billion of real estate matters in the last decade, consistently placing them as the top agents for the country’s largest title insurance underwriters in New England. Kosta is Cofounder of Stavvy and EscrowMint – products at the intersection of FinTech and PropTech. Kosta is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and the United States Federal Court for the First District. He has been recognized as a real estate “Super Lawyer” for seven consecutive years (2012-2018). Kosta has represented and performed consulting services for some of the nation’s largest banks and real estate companies and has developed real estate in the Greater Boston markets for over a decade. Kosta develops systems, protocols and technology to create greater efficiency, security, compliance, and oversight in the real estate and title/settlement industry. Kosta also advises real estate companies in all verticals of real estate in innovation, strategy, technology, legal, compliance and other matters. He also mentors, advises, and invests in startups in fintech, “real-estate tech”, and blockchain – disrupting the real estate and title insurance verticals. Kosta has been a mentor at MIT’s Leadership Center and has researched corporate engagement with MIT’s Innovation Initiative based in Kendall Square. Kosta mentors executive MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. He is passionate and has written about culture in the workplace and using tools to mitigate anxiety and stress for busy executives and professionals. When he is not practicing his amateur photography skills, he is an active philanthropist, serving various boards benefiting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Beth Israel Lahey Health, to name a couple. Kosta holds a B.S. in Physiology and Chemistry from Boston University, a J.D. with honors from Suffolk University Law School (where he serves on the Dean’s Cabinet and as a Univeristy Trustee), and an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stavvy: Stavvy is a modern lending platform designed to connect lenders with their title, settlement, and appraisal vendors.
Jeremy Kauffman
Founder & CEO of LBRY
Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime supporter of decentralized technology and freedom of information. Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science.
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About LBRY, Odysee: LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform that is decentralized and owned by its users
Paul Flanagan
President & CEO of Nasuni
Paul is the President & CEO at Nasuni.
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About Nasuni, Sigma Partners, Sigma Prime Ventures: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Ian Seiferling
Chief Executive Officer of AdaViv
Growing up in the sparsely populated prairies, with nothing between myself and grassland fields and aspen bluffs but a rusty barbed-wire fence, I developed a strong interest in nature and the intricate interactions within natural systems – ecology. And so, it is that initial passion for nature that guides my career objectives towards, both, the pursuit of understanding human-nature interactions and the education of people and human systems on environmental change and sustainability. My extensive research and professional experience has crossed various fields of ecology, within several different systems, and it is a major career objective of mine to maintain this trend. My ultimate ambitions include the integration of ecological study with the realm of humanities and technology (e.g., social, political-policy, and community science), as I believe it is essential to understand the social and political context in which conservation and sustainability objectives exist if they are to be successful ones. Hand in hand with my passion for ecology is my interest in technology and art. As much as I enjoy experiencing and viewing the natural world, I equally enjoy capturing images of it. I am an avid conservation/nature photographer and aim to integrate photography with my professional career. I have recently embarked on a start-up project involving building and employing unmanned aerial vehicles for close-range imaging. I try to present my research and topics using a highly visual approach. We live in a visual age, and communicating science to people outside academia will more and more demand visual presentation skills and creativity to capture interest and understanding. Specialties: Solid interdisciplinary background in ecology, biology, geography, and geology. Specialized knowledge in landscape and spatial ecology, GIS, conservation biology, forest ecology and disturbance dynamics, community ecology, biological effects of climate change, botany, and paleoecology.
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About AdaViv: AdaViv is a hardware-enabled, predictive agriculture company.
Matt Provo
Co-founder & CEO of StormForge
Matt Provo is an experienced entrepreneur, product manager and leader, as well as an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. Matt is currently the founding CEO @ StormForge.io Matt is a founder of ParkedIn–an SMS and machine-learning based service for finding, managing and reserving parking. Prior to starting ParkedIn, Matt spent five years leading a large technical team at Apple. He also works as an organizational consultant, and has led projects at various companies and non-profits, including the Advisory Board Company and is a co-founder of Invisible Children (the organization that created the documentary film Kony 2012). While at Invisible Children, Matt and his wife Nicole lived in Uganda, and pioneered the development of the Schools 4 Schools program, which has provided access to quality education for thousands of Ugandan children. Proud husband and father of two, the best part of Matt’s week is enjoying Saturday morning breakfast and spending time at the beach with his family.
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About *gram Labs, StormForge: StormForge brings together data scientists and software engineers to enable businesses to drive breakthrough IT and operations efficiency.
John Cahaly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eze Castle Integration
John Cahaly is CEO and Chairman of Eze Castle Integration, the leading provider of technology and IT services to the investment industry. In 1995, Cahaly co-founded Eze Castle Consulting, which spun off five successful businesses — Eze Castle Integration, Eze Software Group (formerly Eze Castle Software), Pivot Solutions (acquired by CME Group), Code Red, Inc. (acquired by FactSet), and Ledgex Systems. John also serves on the board of directors for The ConvergEx Group. John has more than 20 years of experience in computer engineering and business management and was instrumental in building the financial industry’s first Windows NT trading room that was used by Fleet Financial Group in 1996. Prior to co-founding Eze Castle, John worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for nine years holding various engineering positions including a senior role as a member of Digital’s Windows NT technical marketing group. John attended Northeastern University’s computer engineering program.
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About Eze Castle Integration, Ledgex: The global market leader in outsourced IT technology and services for the financial industry.
Peter Hartzbech
Founder & CEO of iMotions A/S
Peter Hartzbech passion is global entrepreneurship and building companies. Driven by a desire to make a difference in the world, he embarked upon his entrepreneurial career by starting his first venture at the age of 25. Prior to founding iMotions, he worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues. In December 2006, Peter was appointed by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35, where the Magazine appoints Notable Entrepreneurs under 35. Peter’s positive attitude and global vision have been the main driving forces behind iMotions’ rapid growth and expansion.
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About iMotions A/S: iMotions A/S develops and provides biometric platforms, neuromarketing, psychology, VR, and engineering solutions.
Rich Gliklich
Founder and CEO of OM1
Rich Gliklich is the Founder and CEO at OM1.
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About Cyft, OM1: OM1 is a healthcare technology company that leverages real-world clinical data for medical research and personalized medicine.
Erik Brooks
Founder and CEO of Ethos Capital
Erik Brooks is the founder and CEO of Ethos Capital, a private investment firm that focuses on companies in which technology can be used to automate, optimize and transform traditional business models into faster-growing, more efficient organizations.
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About Ethos Capital: Ethos Capital is an investment company that helps companies drive growth and transformation by employing new technologies.
Andy Detwiler
CEO of Virtua Research
Andy Detwiler joined Virtua Research as CEO in 2005.
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About Consensus Analytics, Virtua Research: Virtua’s Interactive Analyst Center (IAC) is the only product available today that delivers interactive and operating data for IR websites.
Matthew Van Buskirk
Co Founder and Co-CEO of Hummingbird
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About Hummingbird: Hummingbird operates as a modern platform for anti-money laundering.
Richard Napolitano
Chief Executive Officer of Advisor360°
Richard Napolitano is the Chief Executive Officer of Advisor360°.
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About Advisor360°: Advisor360° is a wealth management platform that streamlines advisor workflow, increases productivity and drives enterprise growth.
Nicole Sahin
CEO & Founder of Globalization Partners
Nicole Sahin’s mission is to make it easy for any company to expand into any country as easily as they hire team members in the United States. Her current focus is building the world’s most competent and trustworthy Global PEO to meet the standards of the company’s Fortune 500 clients. She led Globalization Partners to a ranking of No. 33 on the 2017 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, No. 6 on the 2016 Inc. 500 list, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year in New England, and has won numerous awards for breaking the traditional corporate mold by building a nationally-recognized company culture. Prior to launching Globalization Partners, Nicole was a Managing Director at High Street Partners, a firm which provided international HR, tax, legal, and compliance services to CFOs, HR Directors, and General Counsel of fast-growing technology companies establishing subsidiaries and hiring in dozens of countries. Via her experience advising companies ranging from Tesla to HID Global on their international expansions, Nicole founded Globalization Partners to create a legal and technology platform that eliminated the need for companies to set up branch offices and subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions prior to expanding their global sales footprint. Prior to her work at High Street Partners, Nicole co-founded the Sweet Life School in rural Cambodia, which was designed to help kids in one of the poorest countries in Asia leapfrog to a modern education by providing access to English language teachers, electricity, and the internet. She also owned a business in the Caribbean, which was her first foray into entrepreneurship and doing business in other cultures. Nicole holds an MBA in International Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She lives in Boston, loves to travel, and is inspired by the belief that by making it easy for people to collaborate across borders makes the world a better place for us all.
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About Globalization Partners: GP enables international companies to hire teams without setting up branch offices or subsidiaries.
Stephen Wolfram
Founder & CEO of Wolfram Alpha
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, author lecturer, and business leader. He is the founder of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram’s early scientific work was mainly in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, and cosmology. Having started to use computers in 1973, Wolfram was well known in the emerging field of scientific computing, and in 1979 he began the construction of SMP, the first modern computer algebra system. Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued his work on complexity, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing concepts such as computational irreducibility. Following his scientific work on complex systems research, in 1986 Wolfram founded the first research center and the first journal in the field, Complex Systems. Wolfram began the development of Mathematica in late 1986. Wolfram Research was recognized for both technology and business in the software industry. By 1990, he was focused on foundational problems in physics, biology, computer science, mathematics, and several other fields. He was also a lecturer at Caltech and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In addition, he was a professor of physics, mathematics, and computer science at the University of Illinois. Wolfram described his achievements in his 1200-page book titled A New Kind of Science. He has also written several other books related to his research. Wolfram has been president and CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. In addition to his business leadership, Wolfram is involved in the development of the company’s technology, and oversees all aspects of the functional design of the core Mathematica system. Stephen Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech. In recognition of his early work in physics and computing, Wolfram became the youngest recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981.
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About Touch Press, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research: Wolfram Alpha offers a computational knowledge engine that provides answers to users based on built-in data and algorithms.
Chris Peng
Co-founder & CEO of Labfront
At kiipo, Chris utilizes his experience in product development from his work on several products starting with his work at HTC on the Dynamical Biomarkers Group’s entry into the Tricorder XPRIZE. Since then, he managed the design and engineering effort in the creation of Ethiopia’s first Emergency Medical System. Although his background is electrical and software engineering, he is passionate about designing for social impact. Prior to his time at HTC, he spent 6 months as a volunteer in Northern Thailand where he taught technology skills to underprivileged children as a ladder out of poverty. Chris also worked with local nonprofits to improve their business models. Thailand was his first foray into sustainable social impact, since then he’s done work in Ethiopia, China, and Taiwan.
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About Labfront: Labfront elevates your research findings by simplifying physiological data collection and management.
Ganesh Pai
Founder & CEO of Uptycs
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About Uptycs: Uptycs is the provider of a cloud-native security analytics platform for security analysts, incident response teams, and IT professionals.
Doron Reuveni
Co-Founder & CEO of Applause
Doron Reuveni is the driving force behind one of the fastest growing tech companies in New England. With clarity of vision about the future of web and mobile applications, Doron has grown the company exponentially– in terms of funding, revenue, customers and employees—in just a few short years. Although his idea of “in-the-wild” software testing through a crowdsourcing model was a radical notion in 2007, it has been enthusiastically adopted as an integral part of the software development process for 1000+ companies worldwide. In the years since, Doron has led Applause to numerous honors, including the #8 spot on Forbes’ 2013 list of America’s Most Promising Companies and the #16 spot on the 2012 INC 500. Doron himself was also a finalist for the 2012 Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year award. With more than 25 years experience, Doron has become an internationally-recognized expert in software development and testing, as well as startup formation and entrepreneurship. Most recently, he was the CEO and Owner of Re.D Consulting, where he advised enterprise firms on their go-to-market strategies, company direction, and product roadmaps. He assisted early stage startups in raising capital, and provided counsel to VC’s for portfolio companies’ market direction, technology and management evaluation. Prior to Re.D, Doron was SVP of Technology at Enigma, where he led multi-million dollar software implementations for companies such as Ford, Volvo, and United Airlines, while effectively managing a global team of professional software engineers, testers and project managers. In his personal life, Doron is a husband and father of three active children. He helps coach his children’s soccer teams, and is an avid skier, cyclist and runner. In fact, Doron has run the Boston Marathon for the past nine years, and competed in several triathlons.
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About Applause: Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers.
David Tenenbaum
CEO and Founder of MerlinOne
David founded MerlinOne in 1988, and has been CEO ever since. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and after graduation was an Associated Press photographer for 15 years, covering events including Space Shuttle launches and landings, Pope trips, Presidential campaigns and trips, Super Bowls, Olympics and conflicts in Central America, and was runner-up in the Pulitzer competition for Spot News Photography. David has been a pilot for 31 years, holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, and currently flies a multi-engine turboprop with his wife Jann, who is also a licensed pilot. He enjoys kayaking, visiting small airports, and is allowed to live in the home shared by Jann and Isabel, a recently adopted 2-year-old Shelty.He is privileged to work with a terrific team of individuals, all focused on applying advanced technologies to help humans work smarter and with less grunt work.
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About MerlinOne: MerlinOne, Inc. is a dedicated and innovative supplier of digital asset management solutions for organizations large and small.
Tom Hopcroft
President & CEO of MassTLC
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About MassTLC: MassTLC is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors.
James Graham
Co-Founder and CEO of Community Phone
James Graham is the co-founder and CEO of Community Phone.
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About Community Phone: Community Phone provides easy-to-use, dependable landline phone service for households and businesses.
David A. Rosen
Chairman & CEO of Acrelic Group
David A. Rosen is the President & Founder Private Directors Association .
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About Acrelic Group, Private Directors Association: Management Consulting firm providing experienced operating teams as strategic and M&A advisors to the Tech 100 and Defense 5.
William Karol
President & CEO of KODA Enterprises Group
William Karol is a President & CEO at KODA Enterprises Group.
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About KODA Enterprises Group: KODA Enterprises Group acquires companies which are or have the potential to be market leaders.
Peter Howard
President & CEO of Realtime Robotics
Peter Howard is CEO of Realtime Robotics. He has a particular passion and interest in business formation and the process of creating order and value out of formative chaos. His roles have included entrepreneur-CEO, investor, and board director. As CEO, Peter has founded and successfully grown five companies, leading two to IPOs, one to strategic sale, and another to major technology license. In its first year of operations, Peter led Realtime Robotics in raising $2m in seed funding, landing several important contracts with global 100 firms, and launching its initial product. He has also been integral in the creation and launch of hundreds of innovative products as an industry leader in outsourced R&D and manufacturing services businesses based in the US, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, and China. Peter holds an MS degree from MIT in Management, and a Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors.
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About Realtime Robotics: Realtime Robotics develops a platform for robots to function seamlessly across deployments with minimal programming.
John Lunny
Chief Executive Officer of Vestmark
John Lunny joined Vestmark in April of 2002 as the Chief Operations Officer responsible for the operations of the company and the customer engineering organization. John Lunny was named Chief Executive Officer of Vestmark in 2008. Prior to joining Vestmark, John Lunny was a Senior Director of Engineering at Vignette Corporation where he was responsible for Vignette’s analysis, personalization, and wireless products. John Lunny joined Vignette through their acquisition of DataSage, an eCRM software provider, in January of 2000. John Lunny was a co-founder of DataSage and served as the Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all product design and development. Prior to joining DataSage, John Lunny had more than 10 years of TCP / IP research and development experience through his tenure at The Wollongong Group (acquired by Attachmate) where he was responsible for their network management products, the DOD where he implemented one of the first FDDI interconnects, and the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science where he helped develop the reference TCP / IP implementation (PCIP) for the Internet.
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About Vestmark, Vignette: Headquartered in Wakefield, MA, Vestmark has been a leading technology platform provider delivering wealth management and investment
Michael Blundin
Chief Executive Officer of Vestmark
Mr. Blundin joined Vestmark in July of 2004 and runs the Vestmark Relationship Management group. Mike is responsible for making sure clients get the full value of their relationship with Vestmark through superior service and support. His teams are responsible for implementation, product adoption, ongoing account management, and renewal sales. Prior to joining Vestmark, Mr. Blundin was Vice President of Products at Savantis Systems, an industry pioneer in Server Virtualization technology. Mr. Blundin led product management and market development for the industry’s first database server virtualization product. Prior to joining Savantis, Mr. Blundin was Director of Product Management at Vignette Corporation where he led a team of product managers with responsibility for the vision, strategy and roadmap for Vignette acquired products and technologies. Mr. Blundin joined Vignette through their acquisition of DataSage where he was a co-founder and Director of Marketing, responsible for all market development and product management activities. Previously Mr. Blundin was the Vice President of Marketing for Cirrus Recognition Systems, a Data Mining software company which he co-founded in 1991. Mr. Blundin holds a BA in Physical Sciences from Colgate University, where he studied Physics, Chemistry, and Japanese.
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About Vestmark: Headquartered in Wakefield, MA, Vestmark has been a leading technology platform provider delivering wealth management and investment
Sombit Mishra
Founder & CEO of QMedic
Sombit brings 10 years of experience in Web/Mobile/Wearable UX, strategy, product management, marketing, and business development to QMedic. Previously, he conceived, designed, and launched an obesity management and telemedicine application in partnership with one of the world’s leading hospitals. He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences on mobile health and healthy aging, including AARP, Health 2.0, Aging 2.0, the Cleveland Clinic Summit, and Athenahealth’s More Disruption Please. In 2013, Sombit was selected as a TEDMED Innovation Scholar and 1 of 14 Emerging Innovators by American Express and the Ashoka Foundation. While in graduate school at MIT, Sombit was awarded the Patrick J. McGovern Prize for outstanding contributions to the student community, which included raising over $1M in sponsorships for MIT companies across health, software, and clean technology. He continues to serve as a business mentor to hundreds of executives through the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and Sloan Fellows programs. Sombit completed his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from Northwestern University.
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About QMedic: QMedic is an intelligent medical alert & routing service to keep care in network and at home.
Kent Sahin
President & CEO of REAL Software Systems
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About REAL Software Systems: REAL Software Systems is an information technology company that provides enterprise software, collaborations, and IP management services.
Mihael Mikek
Founder & CEO of Celtra
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About Celtra: Celtra is the Creative Management Platform that empowers agencies, media suppliers, and brand leaders
Brendan Hannigan
Co-Founder and CEO of Sonrai Security
Brendan Hannigan joined Polaris Partners in 2016 as a Venture Partner. In this role, he focuses on funding and founding companies in the technology sector with a concentration in cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity. A 25 year technology industry veteran, Brendan was most recently the General Manager of IBM Security. Under Brendan’s leadership, IBM Security grew significantly faster than the overall security market to become the number one enterprise security provider in the world with almost $2B of annual revenue. Previously, Brendan was President and CEO of Q1 Labs, a pioneer and leader in the security intelligence and analytics market. Over eight years from 2003 to 2011 Brendan served in a variety of executive positions, including Executive Vice President of Marketing and Engineering, COO, President and eventually CEO. Before joining Q1 Labs, Brendan was Vice President of Marketing and Technology at Sockeye Networks, a route optimization firm that was sold to Internap in 2003. Prior to that, as director of network research at Forrester Research from 1996 to 2000, he oversaw the firm’s most successful practices, covering enterprise networks, security technology and public network services. Before Forrester, Brendan served in a variety of senior engineering roles at Digital Equipment Corp., Wellfleet Communications and Motorola. He currently serves on the board of Bitsight Technologies, a security ratings and third party risk technology company. Brendan graduated with honors in computer science from University College Dublin in Ireland.
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About Polaris Partners, Sonrai Security: Sonrai Security delivers enterprise cloud security for companies running on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Nathan Dionne
CEO & Founding Team of GreenRun
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About GreenRun: GreenRun builds world-class technology products, creates sports content,and develops real-world experiences in the sports and betting space.
Peter van der Sluis
President and CEO of Turnkey Health
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About Turnkey Health: Turn·Key Health (“TKH”) offers solutions to select healthcare services providers .
Mohamed Shoura
Founder & CEO of PaxeraHealth
Dr. Mohamed Shoura, PhD is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PaxeraHealth Corp., a Boston-based healthcare imaging software platform company that provides cutting-edge products built to combat the industry’s most significant challenges.
As a global company with operations in six territories, PaxeraHealth provides a full suite of comprehensive imaging solutions and professional services to clients across the globe, including solutions for enterprise imaging, vendor neutral archive, image sharing, and mobile imaging applications.
Dr. Shoura’s commitment to understanding client needs and delivering outstanding results through innovative solutions is just one reason the company continues to flourish today. His contribution to AI technology in imaging has had an immense effect on the advancement of the scoring and labeling of imaging studies.
Before PaxeraHealth’s launch in 2009, Dr. Shoura spent years honing his technology, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills at industry giants Siemens and Toshiba Medical Systems, in addition to earning his PhD in medical imaging.
In 2016, he founded the award-winning CarePassport platform with the goal of continuing to change healthcare by empowering patients to take a more active role in their care and advancing health service efficiency.
Dr. Shoura is a true innovator and while his companies’ solutions have earned him many accolades, such as PaxeraHealth’s Best in KLAS awards for Global PACS in 2020 and 2021, as well as CarePassport’s Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award in 2018, it is his passion and vision to transform the medical imaging industry that makes him most celebrated as a leader.
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About CarePassport, PaxeraHealth: A leading provider of AI powered Medical imaging archiving systems that helps radiologists & physicians to manage imaging studies.
Phillip Ragon
Founder & CEO of Intersystems
Since founding InterSystems in 1978, Ragon has led the company to worldwide prominence in the database, interoperability, and healthcare application markets. Prior to starting InterSystems, Ragon co-founded a healthcare software company that became a leader in the U.S. and is now part of GE Healthcare. He has served as a healthcare IT consultant to academic and government institutions and received a prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in healthcare information technology. Ragon is a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also served as Honorary Co-Chair of the MGH Campaign. He is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. He is also a member of the MIT Corporation, the governing body of MIT, and chairs the Visiting Committee that reviews the Physics Department. In 2008, Ragon helped created the Ragon Institute, a joint research center of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. The vision of the Ragon Institute is to harness the immune system through science to prevent and cure disease, and its immediate objective is the creation of a vaccine for HIV. The son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Ragon was born in Arizona. He grew up in a variety of states and graduated from high school in Bogota, Colombia. He obtained an S.B. (B.S) in physics from MIT.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Andrew Kieve
CEO, Co-Founder of Tolemi
Co-founder of Tolemi
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About Tolemi: Turning government’s data into the information edge they require to lead in the 21st Century
Charles Sizer
Founder & CEO of Dairyvative Technologies
Chuck Sizer has had a distinguished and recognized food science career with a particular interest and experience in beverages and beverage packaging systems. He’s recognized both internationally and nationally; he’s managed the North American technical activities for the global food processing and packaging giant, Tetra Pak, as well as has been Director of the National Center for Food Safety and Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. He completed his Masters and PhD in Food Science and Nutrition at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since then he has worked for his entire career in the food industry. The knowledge of Food Science is his passion. He has been published over 110 times, has numerous awards including, most recently, a Director’s Special Citation Award from the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He currently holds 14 patents in food science related areas.
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About Dairyvative Technologies: Dairyvative Technologies is a dairy business with patented SEVENx technology for concentrating milk.
Stephen Punzak, MD
CEO & Founder of One Medical Passport, Inc.
Stephen Punzak, M.D., is the founder and CEO of One Medical Passport, Inc., a company that is revolutionizing the pre-op screening process for surgical patients. The One Medical Passport system, first envisioned by Dr. Punzak over a decade ago, has been adopted by hundreds of medical facilities nationwide. This system has streamlined the pre-op and day-of-surgery workflow and resulted in marked improvements in patient safety and convenience. In addition to being the hands-on CEO of a rapidly growing company, Dr. Punzak still practices clinical anesthesia, noting, “this is where many of the company’s best ideas for product development have come from.” Dr. Punzak’s more than 20-year career as an anesthesiologist has included a range of challenges, from performing complex open heart and liver transplant surgeries at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston, to fast-paced ambulatory surgeries, pain management and obstetrical anesthesia. He attained board certification in both anesthesiology and pain management. During his work on the front lines of an anesthesia practice, Dr. Punzak experienced first-hand the inefficiencies and shortcomings of the traditional pre-op process. This experience inspired him to found MWT to make the process much more efficient. Dr. Punzak graduated from the Boston College School of Management in 1983 with a major in finance and a minor in pre-med studies. He was the first graduate of Boston College to simultaneously receive the Scholar of the College Award in Biology and to be chosen as the commencement speaker for the School of Management. Dr. Punzak attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and did his residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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About One Medical Passport, Inc.: One Medical Passport is the convenient, secure online solution that connects patients, medical facilities.
Shahbaz Ali
President and CEO of Tarmin, Inc.
Shahbaz Ali is a visionary entrepreneur and strategic executive manager with more than 20 years’ experience creating dynamic solutions for enterprises. Shahbaz serves as the public face of Tarmin and brings the vigor and experience of a seasoned entrepreneur with a history of successful companies. Shahbaz today oversees all core business activities, including marketing, partnership development and sales at Tarmin. Shahbaz is the creator of the company’s award-winning GridBank product. Tarmin is an industry leader in the emerging category Data Defined Storage. Re-shaping the future of storage with its proprietary GridBank solution, Tarmin resolves modern day data challenges by delivering a comprehensive unified solution that focuses on data content over media type. By unifying application information and storage tiers, GridBank provides a content driven unrivaled strategy that modernizes the way organizations utilize, access, and control their information. Dr. Shahbaz Ali has over 20 year experience designing ground breaking enterprise technology. Currently, Shahbaz is Chief Executive of Tarmin, Inc. a leading provider of Data Defined Storage solutions. Data Defined Storage is focused on the critical role of Metadata management in addressing rapid proliferation of massive data volumes, particularly unstructured data. Recognized as a leader by numerous industry analysts, including Gartner, IDC, ESG, Taneja and Clipper, Tarmin’s Data Defined Storage solution, GridBank 3.0, is powerful infrastructure software that has the power to positively impact a broad base of organizational objectives. Data Defined Storage and Tarmin’s award winning GridBank technology are the results of Shahbaz’s commitment to solving previously intractable challenges through the innovative application of advanced software designs. Prior to Tarmin, Shahbaz served as Senior Director of Banking Systems at MasterCard International where he was responsible for overall digital content strategy. Shahbaz joined MasterCard through its acquisition of Mondex International where Shahbaz along with Tarmin co-founder Steve Simpson pioneered the Chip and PIN technology that is today a globally adopted standard in the banking industry. Previously, Shahbaz served as Senior Director at Lucent Technologies where he oversaw the entire FIFA World Cup Communications project. Leading a team of over 170 and having full P&L Responsibility,
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About Tarmin, Inc.: Tarmin delivers GridBank Data Management Platform the premier Data Defined Storage solution.
Santhana Krishnan
President and CEO of The Business Information Company
Santhana Krishnan is the Managing Partner of Om Ventures.
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About American India Foundation, Asian Art Gallery, Om Ventures, The Business Information Company: The Business Information Company provides timely information and unparalleled insights on millions of businesses.
Frederic Lasnier
Chairman & CEO of Pentalog
Frederic Lasnier is a passionate entrepreneur and globetrotter who founded Pentalog together with four university mates in France in 1993. Starting from 1997, he has opened 8 branch offices in Europe, 1 in Asia, 1 in the USA and 1 in Canada. His skills & expertise: – Offshore, low cost solutions – HR-based businesses – International project sponsoring – Digital strategies – Venture capital and startups – Eastern European development opportunities
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About Pentalabbs, Pentalog: IT Services and Outsourcing Company
Ashifi Gogo
Founder and CEO of Sproxil
Ashifi founded Sproxil® in 2009 and currently serves as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award-winning Sproxil Defender™ technology that has been used over 75 million times by consumers in 6 countries to verify the authenticity of their products and earn instant rewards for their loyalty. In 2015, Ashifi was named to Fortune’s 40 under 40 list. He was awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2014 by the Schwab Foundation. In 2013, Sproxil was named the world’s most innovative company in health care by Fast Company, and #7 most innovative worldwide, beating 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. Ashifi served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. He holds a US Patent and earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Dartmouth College. Ashifi holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Whitman College, where he delivered the 2018 commencement address and received an honorary doctorate. He is Dartmouth’s first-ever Ph.D. Innovation Fellow and teaches a course in New Business Ventures Technology Management at Columbia University.
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About Sproxil: Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement.
Ze Jiang
Founder/CEO of iQuartic
EHR systems and healthcare data expert (in processing and analyzing). Presented at clinical data and systems conferences, and consults healthcare organizations (esp. community based) on leveraging data and systems to advance care quality and financial health.
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About iQuartic: iQUARTIC develops cloud-based platforms that eliminate traditional paper-based coding with easy-to-use web programs.
Ted Gramer
CEO of TrueMotion
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About TrueMotion: TrueMotion provides the world’s leading smartphone-only driving data platform.
Richard Kosowsky
Chairman, CEO & Founder of PerfectMotion
Rich brings 30+ years of management, technology development, and financing expertise from successful companies including Qualcomm and Four11 (Yahoo). He has founded and run numerous early-stage technology companies and has been mentoring start-ups for 14+ years at MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service. Rich served on the board of Telio, Norway’s fast growing VoIP provider through their IPO and is currently on the board of Amelio, a rapidly growing day care business in India. Rich was also an advisor to FairwayIQ, a technology leader creating innovative solutions in golf course management. Rich was an early employee at QUALCOMM, the wireless communications technology leader, where he grew from an engineer and program manager to eventually lead wireless data initiatives. As CEO and founder of Momentum, Inc., Rich set strategic direction, successfully led the financing efforts and was the visionary and spokesman for this early developer of portable client-server technology. He also advised Four11.com, an Internet email innovator, through its acquisition by Yahoo.
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About PerfectMotion: PerfectMotion has developed and patented (pending) an app-based expert system for training motion.
Charles Hipwood
Founder ,President & CEO of MassVentures
Charles Hipwood is a founder and executive with 20+ years of experience in financial services and technology start-ups (founded Fluent Fintech, STAG Capital Partners and AI Exchange).
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About MassVentures: MassVentures is a venture capital firm focused on supporting Massachusetts-based startups to prosper in their businesses.
Dana Wheeler
Founder, CEO, Director, and President of Plymouth Rock Technologies
Dana Wheeler is the Founder, CEO, Director, and President of Plymouth Rock Technologies. Previously General Manager of HXI (formerly Terabeam-HXI) millimeter-wave operation since July 2002. Prior to Terabeam, served as Chief Operating Officer for Harmonix Corporation. Over 30 years of experience in the millimeter wave industry. Dana has held senior management positions at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co. (now BAE Systems), M/A-COM and Millitech Corp. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
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About Plymouth Rock Technologies: Plymouth Rock Technologies is a publicly trading company that develops security screening technology solutions.
Craig Powell
Director, President and CEO of Motus
Craig Powell is Director, President and CEO at Motus.
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About Motus: Motus is the most accurate vehicle management and reimbursement platform available.
Ron Rubbico
CEO & Co-Founder of Pointillist
• Successful growth-oriented CEO and entrepreneur with experience across software, cloud services, analytics and machine learning applications and products. • Consistent track record of building and rapidly scaling profitable technology businesses as a founder, CEO, board member and investor/advisor. • Skilled at building agile, inclusive, merit-based cultures to create winning strategies and deliver strong results with crisp execution. • I bring a good range of business, technology and interpersonal skills to attract and retain the truly great people who have made my career both successful and fun. • Active participant in Boston’s early-stage venture community and frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. We founded Pointillist with a single obsession – to help companies optimize their customers’ cross-channel experiences. The Pointillist™ Customer Intelligence Platform was designed from the ground up as a SaaS solution to scalably analyze mountains of raw data and enable marketers to quickly pinpoint opportunities, define segments, and drive coordinated communication strategies across teams, channels, and tools.
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About Pointillist: Pointillist customer journey analytics software rapidly uncovers customer insights, so you can dramatically improve CX and marketing.
Adam Honig
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Spiro.AI
Adam Honig is CEO at Spiro.ai.
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About Spiro.AI: Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities.
Mark Shepherd
CEO of Irresistible Materials
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About Irresistible Materials: Irresistible Materials is a materials technology company.
Bill Ledingham
CEO of Fairwinds
Bill Ledingham is VP, Engineering for Verdasys. He is a seasoned technology professional with over 25 years of experience in bringing new technologies and companies to market. Bill most recently served as VP of Engineering at Avalere, a software company focused on information management and security, which was acquired by Iron Mountain Digital. Prior to Avalere, he served as the initial VP of Marketing and Business Development at Virtual Iron, a server virtualization software company. Previously, Bill held a number of executive positions at SpeechWorks, a leader in speech-based solutions that IPO’d in 2000 and later merged with ScanSoft/Nuance in 2003 Bill holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and a MBA from Harvard University. Bill’s honors include Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Terman Engineering Award for graduating at top of Stanford’s undergraduate engineering class.
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About CVP Management, Fairwinds: Kubernetes security, policy and compliance experts
Jacob Drucker
Co-founder and CEO of Supply Clinic
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About Supply Clinic: How smart dentists shop for supplies
Jeffrey Allan
CEO & Founder of Echo Ridge
Silicon Valley strategist. Past global business developer for SAP and IBM. US Marine Corps veteran. UND summa cum laude.
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About Echo Ridge: Regulatory and legislative predictive analytics for hedge funds, PE, and ERM.
Havell Rodrigues
CEO & Co-Founder of Adjoint
Havell Rodrigues is CEO and Co-Founder of Adjoint.
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About Adjoint, Forbes Technology Council, MassChallenge, NextGen Venture Partners, Startupbootcamp FinTech London: Adjoint provides a full-stack platform that encompasses all stages of the smart contract lifecycle from conception to deployment.
Winfried A. Burk
Co-Founder, President and CEO of iGetBetter
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About iGetBetter: iGetBetter is bridging care transition between hospital and home by allowing clinicians to create standardized care plans for patients.
John Fox
CEO, Co-founder of Sipsynergy
John Fox is an AMTE Power executive focused on business development.
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About AMTE Power, Obsideo, Sectorsix, Sipsynergy: A market-leading cloud collaboration solutions provider to SMEs
Alan Dumas
Chief Executive Officer of Red River
In his role as president of Accunet Solutions, Alan works with other members of the management team to steer the Company’s strategic direction and to help manage its overall operations. Alan brings more than 25 years of experience in IT and systems integration sales and operations to his position. While he oversees all aspects of the Company’s operations, Alan focuses most of his efforts on customers through his leadership of the sales, business development and operations management functions. Prior to starting Accunet Solutions in 1997, Alan was VP of Sales for Vertex, Inc., a global provider of systems integration services. In that position, he had overall responsibility for managing sales and operations for all of North America and Europe. Earlier in his career, Alan was an Account Manager with Anixter, a global distributor of voice and data products before being recruited by Vertex to open an office in New Jersey. Alan holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Furman University.
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About Red River: Red River is a technology integrator that helps customers optimize business processes and maximize technology investments.
Matt Zarracina
Co-Founder & CEO of True-Tickets
Matt Zarracina is the Co-Founder & CEO at true tickets.
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About Said Business School, University of Oxford, The Priyanka Foundation, True-Tickets: A secure contactless digital ticket delivery service that aims to make buying, selling and transferring live event tickets simple and safe.
Maya R. Said
CEO and Co-Founder of Outcomes4Me
Maya Said is the Founder and CEO of Outcomes4Me.
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About Outcomes4Me: Outcomes4Me is a developer of a free mobile app and platform to navigate cancer treatment and care.
Jason Meller
Co-Founder, CEO of Kolide
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About Kolide: The user-focused endpoint security platform for teams that Slack.