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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 Software 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.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
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Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
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
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.
Jason Purcell
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Salsify
Jason Purcell Co-Founded Salsify, Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Jason Purcell served as General Manager of eBusiness at Endeca Technologies, Inc. Jason Purcell served as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Product Management of Endeca Technologies, Inc. Jason Purcell spearheaded Endeca’s global marketing and product management organizations, responsible for core product marketing, strategy, and messaging. Jason Purcell roles at Endeca included leading the technical sales organization and establishing new product initiatives. Jason Purcell held positions at Parametric Technologies in the US and Japan. He holds B.Sc. in Biological and Engineering Sciences from Washington University
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Bhavesh Dayalji
Chief Executive Officer of Kensho
Bhavesh Dayalji is the Chief Executive Officer of Kensho.
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About Kensho: Kensho combines natural language search, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools.
Andy Singleton
Founder, CEO of MaxOS
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About MaxOS: MaxOS expertise in blockchain, custom software development and mobile app development with a focus on the financial services industry.
Mike Massaro
CEO of Flywire
Mike has successfully grown organizations for the past 14 years, both in start-up environments and multi-billion dollar companies. Prior to peerTransfer, he was Vice President of Strategic Accounts & Corporate Development at Carrier iQ, ranked #9 in the Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Venture-Funded Companies of 2011, where he lead the global sales team in revenue for five years as well as being responsible for new market development and global alliances. Prior to Carrier iQ, Mike held numerous sales and consulting positions at edocs, Inc. which was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2004 and subsequently by Oracle in 2005. Mike began his career as part of the technical risk services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Babson College.
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About Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Alasdair McLean-Foreman
CEO of Teikametrics
Alasdair McLean-Foreman is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Teikametrics. In 2001, Alasdair founded an e-commerce company in his dorm-room which grew into a multi-million dollar company selling high-end sporting goods. The company became one of Amazon’s first Third-Party Retailers in the sporting goods category in 2003. He also founded the weight loss and fitness company Trainer and has built and provided e-commerce solutions to large organizations including Newscorp, The Times of London, L’Oreal, and The New York Marathon. Alasdair earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Harvard University where he was captain of the Track and Field Team and a member of the Great Britain and England national track teams.
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About Teikametrics: Teikametrics is an e-commerce optimization platform designed for retailers on online marketplaces.
Yuchun Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allego
As an Executive-in-Residence with Summit Partners, Yuchun Lee works closely with the Summit team to help identify and build leading technology companies with a focus on enterprise software and data analytics. Yuchun currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Clarabridge, a company backed by Summit in 2013. Yuchun is the founder and former CEO of Summit portfolio company Unica Corporation, a software company focused on meeting the needs of marketers seeking to embrace technology to reach new customers. As Unica’s CEO since its inception in 1992, Yuchun chose Summit as a growth equity partner in 1999. Yuchun guided Unica to a successful IPO in 2005 and under his leadership, the company became a global provider of enterprise marketing management solutions serving more than 1,500 businesses worldwide. In 2010, Unica was acquired by IBM. Yuchun remained with IBM until 2012, serving as Vice President and General Manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management Group, with a global responsibility focusing on the needs of Chief Marketing Officers. Yuchun holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Allego, Summit Partners: Allego provides a mobile video based sales learning and development platform for high tech, financial services, medical device and pharma.
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.
Robert Playter
CEO of Boston Dynamics
Dr. Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics. Under his leadership, Boston Dynamics is transforming its world-leading robotics R&D into an industry-leading commercial organization with its first robot offering, Spot. Previously, as Chief Operating Officer, he spearheaded Boston Dynamics’ entrance into logistics automation with the development of the robot Handle, and acquisition of the deep-learning computer vision software known as Pick. Dr. Playter has over 30 years of experience researching, developing, and commercializing advanced mobile robots. He led Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot programs, including the creation of the PETMAN and Atlas robots, as well as the development of Boston Dynamics’ physics-based simulation software, Digital Biomechanics. An NCAA Division I National Champion gymnast while studying at The Ohio State University, Playter became interested in exploring robotics inspired by human biomechanics. He received his PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT in 1994. As part of his PhD thesis on robot gymnastics, performed at the MIT Leg Lab, he programmed a bipedal robot to do the world’s first 3D robotic somersault.
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About Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Boris Lipchin
Founder and CEO of BRIO Systems
Boris Lipchin, co-founder and CEO of Brio Systems, Inc.. Boris was previously a co-founder and CTO of Airmada, Inc. before Airmada four years as a flight software engineer, launch operator and GN&C engineer for SpaceX.
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About Brio, BRIO Systems, Techstars: BRIO Systems offers a complete COVID-19 testing system to help employers keep teams safe and businesses on track.
Adrien Nussenbaum
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Mirakl
Adrien brings to MIRAKL over 12 years of experience in business development and entrepreneurship with a strong emphasis on technology and retail. Prior to co-founding MIRAKL, Adrien co-headed FNAC.COM’s Marketplace business unit, focusing on developing the seller program and content syndication deals to increase the product offering. Prior to that, Adrien joinded Philippe in 2006 in the creation of SplitGames to grow it into a major group of websites dedicated to gamers until its acquisition by FNAC in 2008. Previously Adrien was a manager with DELOITTE’s restructuring team where he advised many retailers in their turnaround process. In his earlier years, Adrien co-founded ALL INSTANT, a NY based corporate instant messaging solution sold in 2003. Adrien started his career as an Investment Banker with PARIBAS in Hong-Kong. He holds an MBA from HEC School of Management in Paris and a joint degree from NYU Stern School of Business.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Brian Eberman
CEO of Zeenk
Brian is currently CEO of Zeenk, an actionable analytics company for e-commerce sellers. Zeenk provides companies with the forecasts, insights, and operating data they need to run their growing business across multiple sales and advertising channels. Brian has been a CEO, CTO, Board Member, and Investor in Technology and AI Companies for the last 20 years. He has run multiple e-commerce companies, data analytics focuses business, and has deep experience in AI and Robotics.
Brian holds thirteen patents in Speech Technology, Internet Search, and Robotics along with a Ph.D., M.S., and bachelor’s degrees from MIT.
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About Ten Factor Growth, Zeenk: Zeenk delivers actionable analytics to e-commerce brands selling on Amazon or Shopify
Michael Simon
Founder & CEO of LogMeIn
Michael Simon is the Member Board of Directors at CKE Restaurants, Inc.
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About CKE Restaurants, LogMeIn: LogMeIn provides SaaS-based remote connectivity, collaboration, and support solutions for businesses and consumers.
Joe Lemay
Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketbook
Joe Lemay is CEO & Co-Founder at Rocketbook.
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About Rocketbook: Rocketbook is a cloud-connected reusable notebook.
Steve Carlson
Advisor, Former CEO Obagi Medical of TRUINJECT
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About : TRUINJECT™ is a software company focused on the innovation, development & commercialization of medical products for the injectable market.
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.
Chris Greendale
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Technology Partners
Chris Greendale is the founder, chairman, and the chief executive officer of Cloud Technology Partners, a Massachusetts-based company that designs and builds cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures, which reduce IT costs and streamline operations. He began his career as the vice president of marketing at Oracle. In 1991, Greendale co-founded Cambridge Technology Partners and ran sales and marketing department of the company. In late 1997, he left Cambridge and founded Breakaway Solutions, a similar integrator focused on the next technology wave, Internet-driven enterprise solutions. He also made numerous personal investments in companies such as Siebel Systems and sat on a number of high-profile boards, including Clarify and Glasshouse. Greendale holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and an MBA in finance from Southern Illinois University.
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About Cloud Technology Partners: Cloud Technology Partners designs and builds cloud solutions for apps and infrastructures that reduce IT costs and streamline operations.
Pete Lamson
CEO of JazzHR
Pete Lamson, SVP, Sales and Marketing at Carbonite. Pete Lamson oversees customer acquisition for Carbonite, including direct and channel acquisition strategy and execution for the company’s consumer and SMB lines of business. Pete has 25 years of experience with emerging growth companies, having spent the majority of his career with technology solutions designed for consumers and the global small business community. Prior to joining Carbonite, Pete served as SVP & GM for NameMedia’s SMB-focused Domain Marketplace, the largest of its kind in the world. Pete also served as Chief Operating Officer of Monster Worldwide’s consumer relocation division, helping small businesses convert new movers into lifetime customers. Pete also co-founded P.D. Circuits, an outsourced electronics manufacturing supply chain management firm. Pete holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College. An MBA from Harvard Business School. He is Co – President & Board Member of the Dover-Sherborn, MA Soccer Club.
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About JazzHR: JazzHR is easy, powerful, and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
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
Andrew Antoš
CEO & Founder of Klarity
Andrew is Cofounder and CEO of Klarity. Andrew is a Harvard lawyer (LL.M. 17′) and spends his time on product development, doing sales and business strategy. Before Klarity, he worked as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs where he was focusing on Technology M&A and IP & Licensing.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Humayun Sheikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Fetch.AI
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Han Bin Lee
CEO of Seoul Robotics
Han-Bin Lee, born of South Korea – raised in the US, is an Engipreneure leading Seoul Robotics since 2017. He studied at Pennsylvania State University, with a focus on 3D simulation on distributed Linux system. He wants the computers to understand as well as humans do – through 3D sensors.
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About Seoul Robotics: Making Robots Intelligent – Building advanced Lidar perception software for self driving cars and robots
Paul Harkins
CEO of Billaway
Paul Harkins is CEO of Billaway. Mr. Harkins is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the consumer services and incentives industry. Prior to Billaway in 2011, Mr. Harkins served as the CEO at OfferIQ and as founder of inStream Media, a point of purchase advertising company. Mr. Harkins has secured advertising and incentive contracts with several large retailers, including Borders, Dollar General and Destination Maternity, as well as with financial institutions Chase and Fifth Third Bank. Mr. Harkins also led fundraising efforts and raised significant venture capital and debt financing for both OfferIQ and inStream. Prior to inStream, Mr. Harkins served as President of The Schubert Group, a boutique management firm focused on growing software relationships in China. Mr. Harkins attended St. Thomas Aquinas University with a focus on Psychology. –
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About Billaway: Billaway provides mobile phone subscribers across the globe free mobile airtime when they share their opinions in surveys.
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Idit Levine
Founder and CEO of Solo.io
Idit Levine is the Founder & CEO at solo.io. She is a former CTO for the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its Global CTO office, where she focuses on management and orchestration (M&O) over the entire stack, microservices, cloud-native apps, and platforms as a service. Idit became fascinated with the cloud when she joined DynamicOps (vCAC, now part of VMware) as one of its first employees. She subsequently took part in developing Verizon Terremark’s next-generation public cloud and served as acting CTO at Intigua, a startup focused on container and management technology. Idit graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and Biological Science.
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Nicholas Harris
Founder, CEO of Lightmatter
Nick Harris is the CEO and co-founder of Lightmatter, where his team is leading the evolution of computing, reducing its impact on our planet, and enabling the next great leaps in human progress through silicon photonics. Prior to founding Lightmatter, Nick was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow at MIT, where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Nick has authored 67 academic articles and 13 patents, and his doctoral thesis was titled “Programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.” Nick was previously an R&D engineer working on DRAM and NAND circuits and device physics at Micron Technologies.
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About Lightmatter: Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.
Archil Cheishvili
Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI
Archie (Archil) Cheishvili is the Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI.
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About GenesisAI, Palatine Analytics: GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services
John Goscha
Founder and CEO of Native Voice
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About Lucidity Lights, Native Voice: Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices.
Jeremy Paradise
CEO and Co-Founder of Auction Mobility
Jeremy Paradise is seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of building enterprise and consumer software companies. In 2011, he co-founded Quickable, a mobile marketplace designed to be easy to use and fair to both buyers and sellers on sites such as eBay and Craigslist. In 2013, he launched Auction Mobility, the mobile marketplace of choice for the world’s leading auction houses. Jeremy currently works as the CEO of Auction Mobility. Prior to Quickable and Auction Mobility, Jeremy spent 13 years providing consulting services and Siebel implementation analytics software. After leaving Siebel itself following a three-year tenure, he founded Paradise Analytics Inc. Paradise Analytics established multiple channel partnerships with enterprise software companies such as Siebel, Microsoft, and Oracle. It sold software and services to Fortune 1000 companies such as Genzyme, Solidworks, Serono, Pfizer Adams, Fleet Bank, and Viacell. Paradise Analytics was acquired in 2004.
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About Auction Mobility, QUICK Technologies: Auction Mobility is a customized auction software platform that provides auction services to promote tablet, mobile, and the web.
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.
Kendall Tucker
Founder and CEO of Knoq
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About 186k Ventures, Knoq: Knoq is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors.
SHAUN MCCONNON
CEO of Q1 Labs
Shaun is an industry veteran who brings extensive executive management experience in operations, sales, and marketing to the company. During his career, Shaun has successfully guided technology companies as CEO through IPOs and acquisition (e.g. Q1 Labs/IBM, Okena/Cisco) and has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.
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About Q1 Labs: Q1 Labs offers QRadar, a network security management solution that includes log, threat and compliance management.
Sam Mallikarjunan
CEO & Co-Founder of OneScreen.AI
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About HubSpot, OneScreen.AI: The world’s first Market Network for real-world media. Performance marketing meets out-of-home on the internet of places.
Chase Garbarino
Co-founder and CEO of HqO
For more than a decade, Chase has focused on leveraging technology to build networks and communities that help startups and small businesses. He is an active angel investor and has also founded his own businesses, including Streetwise Media, which was acquired in 2012 by the American City Business Journals, a division of Advance Publications, one of the largest and most successful media companies in the world. As co-founder and CEO of VentureApp, Chase is focused on building a marketplace to help startups procure their business services, saving them time, resources, and money, at scale. Chase received his BA in economics from Hamilton College.
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About Fullstack Ventures, HqO, PEAK6 Sports: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
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.
Shimon Elkabetz
CEO & Co-Founder of Tomorrow.io
Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for 11 years in several managerial and commanding positions. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his service stoked a fascination with the weather, that little thing that affects us all. He’s also passionate about soccer and can recall any statistic whether you ask him to or not. Shimon holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts.
David Shrier
Co-Founder & CEO of Esme Learning Solutions
David is a globally recognized thought leader in technology and educational innovation, serial entrepreneur, and author. The portfolio of digital classes he created for MIT and University of Oxford have engaged more than 15,000 innovators in over 140 countries, and revolutionized the model for university short-course offerings. He is a Professor of Practice (AI and Innovation) with Imperial College Business School, and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Fellow with SaÏd Business School, University of Oxford. David has published five books in the past five years focused on technology disruption, the three most recent of which with MIT Press or Little Brown. His latest book, Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work in the Age of AI will be published by Little Brown in spring 2021.
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About Adit EdTech, Colorado School of Mines, Copper, Esme Learning Solutions, FINRA, Imperial College Business School, MIT Press, Riff Analytics, University of Oxford, Visionary Future: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
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.
Krenar Komoni
Founder & CEO of Tive
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
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.
Christopher Garcia
CEO of Remedy Partners
Prior to his role as CEO, Chris was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer at Remedy, responsible for the financial strategy, reporting, and direction for forward progress at the company. Before Remedy Partners, Chris spent two years as a Managing Partner at Enhanced Equity Funds, leading their investments in hospital supply chain management, non-emergency transport services, specialty pharmacy distribution and pain management services. In 1992, Chris formed National Healthcare Resources, an episode management company focused on managing care for work-related injuries on behalf of property and casualty insurers. During his tenure, the Company developed a specialty preferred provider group, built a telephonic case management strategy to manage episodes and hit $170 million in annual revenue before being sold to Concentra Managed Care in 2002. From 2003 to 2010, Chris spent seven years with private equity team at the Charterhouse Group as an operating partner, leading their investments in behavioral healthcare services, out-patient rehabilitation, Medicaid eligibility and business process outsourcing for healthcare claims. Chris is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida.
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About GoodCell, Remedy Partners: Remedy Partners collaborates with healthcare organizations to launch bundled payment programs.
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.
Sravish Sridhar
Founder & CEO of Kintent
Sravish is the Founder and CEO at Kinvey.
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About Kintent: Kintent provides a compliance automation platform for certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
Evan Ehrenberg
Co-founder, CEO of Clara Health
Evan Ehrenberg is MIT’s youngest ever Ph.D. candidate in the brain and cognitive sciences department, he began the Ph.D. program at the age of 16 after graduating from UC Berkeley in 2010, and is now defending his thesis at the age of 22. Evan has past experience working at Palantir Technologies and other startups, and is an expert in cognitive and computational neuroscience research, with domain experience in human research management and recruitment. Previous: UC Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Palantir Technologies
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About Clara Health: Clara Health empowers patients to find the right clinical trial for them.
BC Krishna
Founder and CEO of MineralTree
BC Krishna is a technologist and entrepreneur skilled at turning innovative software solutions into industry-leading companies. He is currently President and CEO of Boston-based MineralTree, Inc, a venture-backed company that has created a secure payments platform for small and medium businesses. Prior to MineralTree, he founded bank fraud detection software company Memento. Prior to Memento, he founded FutureTense, a company that pioneered the content management category. BC holds an M.S. in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India. He is an avid reader, runner, and squash player.
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About MineralTree: MineralTree provides mobile and online accounts payable automation software for finance professionals at growing organizations.
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.
Andy Palmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Tamr
Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in accelerating the foundation and growth of early-stage, mission-driven companies. He has helped start, fund or found more than 50 innovative companies in technology, health care and the life sciences. Andy founded Koa Lab, a start-up fund in the heart of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.; and co-founded Tamr, with Turing Award winner MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. Andy was named Angel of the Year in the New England Venture Capital Association‘s 2013 NEVY Awards.
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About Carta, ExaGrid Systems, Founder Collective, jobFig, Kinsa, Koa Labs, Openbay, Tamr, Tamr: Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise.
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.
Nikos Moraitakis
CEO of Workable
Nikos is an entrepreneur and private investor with a proven track record in product marketing and international business development. He is the CEO of Workable, a technology startup he co-founded that aims to re-invent hiring for enterprises. Previously, in the role of VP Business Development at Upstream,he played a key role in the company’s growth from startup into one of the world’s top marketing technology companies, where he was actively involved in enterprise sales across 40 countries in 4 continents.
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About Workable: Workable is the world’s leading hiring platform, where companies find, evaluate and hire better candidates, faster.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Rana el Kaliouby
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Affectiva
A pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of MIT spinoff and category-defining company Affectiva, and is the author of Girl Decoded. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award-winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. She has raised over $50 million in venture and strategic funding for Affectiva, where the company’s technology is used by automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to improve road safety and the in-cabin experience, in addition to 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies to test content, and in other industries like HR video recruitment and mental health. Rana is now paving the way for Human Perception AI: software that can detect all things human, from nuanced human emotions and complex cognitive states, to behaviors, activities and the objects people use. Prior to founding Affectiva, Rana was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a PhD from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in press and on stage about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI and leadership. Forbes recently included Rana in their list of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech, Fortune Magazine included her in their 2018 40 under 40 and she was named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a trustee at the American University in Cairo and a senior advisor to the Technology and Public Purpose project at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rana is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and a member of the Partnership on AI, alongside founding companies Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind and others.
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About Affectiva, Affectiva, Harvard Business School, The World Economic Forum, The World Economic Forum: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
Venkat Janapareddy
Founder & CEO of Jobiak
Venkat Janapareddy is the Founder & CEO at Jobiak.
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About AKAR Ventures llc, Dragonfly Data Factory, Jobiak: Jobiak is an AI-based recruitment marketing platform that publishes job postings to Google, accelerating the flow of qualified candidates.
Donald Fischer
CEO and Co-founder of Tidelift
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About Tidelift: Tidelift makes open source software work better—for everyone.
Nitzan Shaer
Co-Founder and CEO of WEVO
Co-Founder and CEO at WEVO.
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About WEVO: WEVO is a customer experience company that offers a solution for pinpointing WHY visitors are not engaging.
Ryan Ansin
Chairman & CEO of Clarity Project
Ansin is President of Greenwich, Connecticut-based Family Office Association (FOA), a global membership organization that delivers private educational and networking opportunities, proprietary research, and access to thought leadership to multiple generations of wealthy families and the professionals who run their single-family offices. Ryan has sat on boards of directors of organizations dedicated to children, poverty reduction, and the use of media to encourage transparency worldwide. In addition to being listed on the Forbes 400 each year, Ryan and his family are consistently recognized for philanthropic, advocacy, and purposeful endeavors that have immediate social impact.
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About Clarity Project: Clarity Project seeks to recast the diamond industry as a driver of development.
John Moss
Founder and CEO of S2 Security Corporation
John has been an innovative force in security systems technology for more than 30 years. Before founding S2 Security in 2002, in 1981 he created Software House (now owned by Tyco International). He has led the creation of two successful companies and over a dozen major commercial products in the industry.
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About LenelS2, S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Kevin Frechette
Co-Founder & CEO of Fairmarkit
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
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.
Anand Mahurkar
Founder & CEO of Findability Sciences
Anand is Founder of Findability Sciences. A global technology executive Anand has 24 years of global business management. An innovator in Big Data & Contextual Data Technologies, Anand is on the advisory board of IBM Watson Ecosystem Partner Advisory Board. During 2014 IBM Big Data Magazine identified Anand as a Big Data Hero. Winner of server career award, Anand guides many startup companies. Anand has worked with globally recognized technology companies in developing innovative technology solutions and services. His goal is to help organizations and businesses understand Human Insights from the large data, too big to know.
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About Findability Sciences, Forbes Technology Council, TiE-Boston: Applies the power of big data, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the award winning Findability Platform®.
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.
Andrew Schiller
Founder & CEO, Chief Scientist of NeighborhoodScout
Andrew Schiller is Sr. Leader, Science & Analytics at CoreLogic.
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About CoreLogic, NeighborhoodScout: NeighborhoodScout is a software for consumers to select residential real estate and make relocation decisions.
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.
Robert McGrath
CEO of Labtiva
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About Labtiva: Labtiva develops online software for scientists offering research management tools for the life sciences and academic literature industries.
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.
Eugene Kaspersky
Founder & CEO of Kaspersky Lab
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About Kaspersky Lab, SafeUM: Kaspersky Lab is a vendor of endpoint protection solutions for consumers, SMBs and enterprises.
Andrew Bialecki
CEO of Klaviyo
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About Klaviyo: Klaviyo is a marketing automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses.
Mike Volpe
CEO of Lola.com
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About Capital One, Lola.com: Lola.com is an easy-to-use travel management tool that makes managing corporate travel easy, fast, and agile.
Joshua Lessing
Co-Founder and CEO of Root AI
Joshua Lessing is the Co-Founder and CEO at Root AI.
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About AppHarvest, Root AI: Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
David Coppins
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IntelyCare
David Coppins is co-founder and CEO of IntelyCare, the intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute healthcare facilities. Prior to starting IntelyCare, David served as president of Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Before Virgin Pulse, David co-founded the college savings company Upromise in 1999. After Sallie Mae bought Upromise for $300M in 2006, David remained with the company and was later named CEO. Earlier in his career, David held various roles in business consulting and private equity at companies including Monitor Deloitte and Monitor Clipper Partners. David has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Brigham Young University.
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About IntelyCare, Virgin Pulse: IntelyCare is revolutionizing healthcare staffing, scheduling, and training by offering an enterprise workforce management platform.
Nan-Wei Gong
Co-founder & CEO of FIGUR8
Dr. Nan-Wei Gong is a researcher, engineer and serial entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of figur8 Inc, and a research affiliate of the MIT Media Lab. Her first start-up, 3dim Tech Inc, received the grand prize of the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition in 2013, selected in the Global Founders’ Skill Accelerator and was acquired in 2014. She founded Circular2 in 2014 – a technical consulting agency that specialized in on body sensing, low-power wearable electronics and digital textile research and development. Their clients include top universities – MIT, Harvard – and fortune 500 companies such as Google and Samsung. Her past work includes flexible and customizable printed sensing surfaces for gestural control, time-of-flight modules for 3D gesture tracking, and wearable sensing for dynamic management of ubiquitous media. She publishes her research extensively at top-tier computer science conferences and journals including best papers at CHI, UbiComp, UIST and IEEE pervasive magazine. She has worked in a number of industrial research labs, among them Microsoft Research and the Nokia Research Center, and was assigned as the R&D lead of Project Jacquard at Google ATAP in 2014-2016. She holds a PhD and MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
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About FIGUR8, MIT Media Lab: FIGUR8 is the most advanced on-body movement intelligence solution for evaluating musculoskeletal health.
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.
Mark Ethier
CEO & Co-Founder of iZotope
Mark Ethier is the Co-founder and CEO at iZotope
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About iZotope: iZotope develops technology solutions for audio recording, mixing, broadcasting, and sound designing.
Swapnil Shah
CEO of CIMCON Lighting
Swapnil Shah was the CEO and Co-Founder of FirstFuel Software. He is currently the CEO of CIMCON.
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About CIMCON Lighting, New England Clean Energy Council: CIMCON Lighting provides software-powered lighting controllers and IoT-enabled city lighting management solutions.
Diego Villegas
Co-Founder & CEO of Slang
Diego Villegas is the Co-Founder & CEO at Slang.
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About Slang: Slang offers a variety of online specialized English courses for career development using a proprietary ML-driven engine,
Joe Moriarty
CEO & Co-Founder of Raven360
Joe Moriarty has a long history of motivating teams and delivering increased sales for various technology providers. He joined Raven360 in May 2011, previously working with Hybrivet Systems, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. While there, Joe led efforts that delivered a 2003 percent increase in sales from April 2010 through February 2011, when 3M acquired Hybrivet Systems. Joe also served as vice president of sales at TR3 Solutions, where he led the sales group to successfully market a portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for retail and consumer packaged goods. His work experience also includes director of sales roles for both Sterling Commerce (now IBM), and TR2 Solutions, a cloud-based startup acquired by Sterling Commerce, as well as senior software sales positions at Commerce One, AppNet, and Research and Planning. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut.
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About Raven360, Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
Robert Romeo
CEO of Anaqua
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About Anaqua: Anaqua provides intellectual asset management software solutions and services to corporations and law firms of all sizes.
Haowei Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO of Waylens Inc.
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About Waylens Inc.: Waylens is a vision technology company that develops camera products & solutions for automotive applications.
Shanel Fields
Founder and CEO of MD Ally
As the child of a volunteer EMT, Shanel Fields was inspired by her father’s experiences as a first responder to launch a healthcare technology company in the 911 space that focuses on ensuring the appropriate use of finite emergency resources and improving long-term patient outcomes. In 2018, she leveraged her mobile and healthcare technology expertise to launch MD Ally, an EMS telemedicine platform that enables collaborative partnerships between public safety and provider organizations for large-scale mobile integrated healthcare initiatives. Shanel has found that driving innovation in the 911 space has fulfilled her desire to positively impact the world around her and improve the health of all citizens, particularly when they’re at their most vulnerable moments. Prior to launching MD Ally, Shanel attended Wharton Business School where she majored in Healthcare Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as worked alongside life-long EMS researchers to study patient ER utilization and first responder advocacy. For more than a decade, she’s worked for innovative companies like AT&T and athenahealth, where she has scaled and led impact-focused growth teams focused on enterprise health systems, payers, and independent health entities.
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About MD Ally: MD Ally is a telehealth company that enables a virtual response tier for 9-1-1.
J.J. Allaire
Founder & CEO of RStudio
In 1995 J.J. Allaire created the web development tool Cold Fusion and co-founded Allaire Corporation. Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001. In 2002 J.J. Allaire founded Onfolio to create web research, syndication, and publishing tools. Microsoft acquired Onfolio in March 2006. At Microsoft, J.J. led the integration of Onfolio products into Windows Live, including the release of the weblog publishing tool Windows Live Writer. In 2007 J.J. Allaire co-founded Stax Networks to create a Platform-as-a-Service for Java applications. CloudBees acquired Stax Networks in December 2010. In 2008 J.J. Allaire created the iPhone application Lose It! and founded FitNow, Inc. Lose It! was the top free iPhone Health and Fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. In 2008, J.J. Allaire founded RStudio to build projects around the open-source R Statistical Computing environment. RStudio was recognized as one of the top 25 technology products of 2014 by InfoWorld.
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About RStudio: RStudio develops open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment.
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.
Oguzhan Uyar
CEO of Metrobi
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About Metrobi: Empower your business with an on-demand fleet.
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.
Jana Eggers
CEO of Nara Logics
Jana is CEO of Nara Logics (naralogics.com), a neuroscience-based artificial intelligence company focused on turning big data into smart actions. Whether starting and growing companies, or leading large organizations within big companies, Jana focuses on understanding the customer needs and creating technology products that customers love and drive business growth. Her software and technology experience comes from technology and executive positions at Intuit (NASDAQ INTU), Blackbaud (NASDAQ BLKB), Lycos, American Airline’s Sabre, and as CEO of Spreadshirt. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science at Hendrix College, followed by graduate school at RPI and supercomputing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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About Blackbaud, Nara Logics, SureCruise.com: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Jack Sweeney
CEO of SevOne
Jack is the CEO of SevOne.
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About SevOne: SevOne provides the only digital infrastructure monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s demanding.
Barry Morris
CEO of Undo
With over 25 years’ experience working in enterprise software and database systems, Barry is a prodigious company builder, scaling start-ups and publicly held companies alike. He was CEO of distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) specialists IONA Technologies between 2000 and 2003 and built the company up to $180m in revenues and a $2bn valuation. A serial entrepreneur, Barry founded NuoDB in 2008 and most recently served as its Executive Chairman. Barry has now been appointed as CEO to lead Undo’s high-growth phase.
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About Undo: Undo allows some of the biggest software companies to improve the quality of their products and fix customer issues quickly.
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.
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.
Bart Heilbron
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Bart earned his stripes as an entrepreneur and visionary by founding the web content management company GX Software in the early days of the World Wide Web. Here he managed the company’s growth with his strategic insights into the online market, first as head of sales and business development operations, and later as CEO. Bart’s entrepreneurship and firm belief in the power of online engagement subsequently inspired him to co-found BlueConic. Under his leadership, BlueConic has become a highly successful provider of online marketing software. Bart is passionate about cross-channel, customer-driven online engagement and holds a master’s degree in communication and new media.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
