Best Startup
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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise 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.
Spencer Kimball
Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs
Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a front row seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
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Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Wendi Sturgis
CEO Europe of Yext
Wendi Sturgis serves as an independent board member at Kustomer.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Stephen Murphy
CEO of Genesis Global
Stephen graduated with a 1st in BSc Computer Science and has held senior business & “C-level” technology positions for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC & BTG Pactual. During his career he has lived in São Paulo, New York, Hong Kong & London. Stephen has managed teams of over 250 people, technology budgets over $100 million and supported business lines with over $500 million of revenue. Stephen also led from a client perspective key multi-million dollar contracts negotiations with major software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SunGard, Murex, Calypso, Charles River and Fidessa.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Tarek Sherif
CEO Medidata Solution and Chairman Life Sciences Sector Board, Dassault Systemes of Dassault Systemes
A founder of Medidata Solutions, Tarek has served as chief executive officer since 2001 and chairman since 2009. Under his leadership, the New York City-based company has grown to become the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the life science industry—supporting clinical trials in over 115 countries—while defining the vertical cloud company business model. From inception, Tarek has focused on building the company, including setting Medidata’s growth strategy, driving its innovative business model and helping to attract and inspire the talent that has been the basis of the company’s success. He led Medidata’s successful IPO in June 2009, which has positioned Medidata as one of the best performing companies to go public since 2009 and New York City’s most successful public technology company. Prior to Medidata, Tarek was the managing member of a partnership focused on public and private investments in technology and life science companies. He co-managed a private equity fund specializing in publicly-traded technology companies, including those in the healthcare and information technology fields. Tarek also served as assistant vice president of corporate finance at General Electric Capital Corporation and was a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company. Tarek received his BA in economics from Yale University in 1984. He graduated from Columbia Business School in 1991, where he earned a degree in business administration and finance. Tarek has received a number of industry accolades, including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award for the metro New York area in 2010 and the PharmaVOICE 100 most inspirational people in the life science industry award in 2007. He is a board member of the Partnership Fund for New York City and is chairman of Blue Legacy International, a not-for-profit organization focused on preserving our water resources.
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About Dassault Systemes, Medidata Solutions, Partnership Fund for New York City: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
David Politis
Founder and CEO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Amir Orad
CEO of Sisense
Amir Orad is the CEO of Sisense. He has held various executive roles for different companies including NICE Actimize, RSA Security, Cyota, and IDF. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science/management from Tel Aviv University and an MBA degree from Columbia University – Columbia Business School.
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About LimitScreen Inc, Sisense: Sisense is the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere.
Liad Agmon
CEO of Dynamic Yield
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Felix Van De Maele
Co-founder / CEO of Collibra
Felix Van De Maele is the CEO and Co-Founder of Collibra. Felix has led Collibra from idea to funding to more than eight years of record growth and industry leadership. He’s responsible for the company’s global business strategy. Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in General Management from the Vlerick Business School. In 2017, Felix was named by DataNews as the ICT personality of the year.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Rami Musallam
Chief Executive Officer of CafeX Communications
Rami Musallam is the CEO at CafèX Communications.
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About CafeX Communications, Thrupoint: CafeX is a WebRTC company enabling business applications with real-time communication capabilities across mobile and desktop endpoints.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Ulrik Bo Larsen
Founder & CEO of Falcon.io
Ulrik Bo Larsen founded Falcon Social in 2010 after working in the groove between marketing and technology for an A-list of global clients such as PANDORA Jewelry, Carlsberg, Georg Jensen, JWT, IUM, Mindshare and MediaEdge CIA. Prior to Falcon, Ulrik founded and ran the digital agency Mingler, producing data-driven, social campaigns and assets for a global audience. He also created the first Scandinavian social network and led it to a successful exit to Danish media company – JP/Politikens Hus.
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About Falcon.io: Falcon.io provides an SaaS platform that allows marketing departments to create, launch and measure social media campaigns in real time.
Anil Dash
Chief Executive Officer of Glitch
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About Glitch, Monegraph, Stack Overflow: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Dave Waiser
CEO & Founder of Gett
► Serial Entrepreneur. Silicon Valley and Israel ► Successfully exited the first two companies, building his third one (Gett) ► 20+ years of CEO experience in hyper-growth startups and public companies ► Passion for building GREAT teams and products ► I thrive on positive energy and feed it right back ► I believe that there is an opportunity everywhere you look At Gett, I am part of a team of entrepreneurs who love to challenge the status quo. Gett is a technology platform solely focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), a market worth $101B globally. Gett is the GTM category leader, serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies, including: Google, Disney, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Coca Cola, Apple and many others. Gett’s cloud-based software aggregates thousands of transportation providers (corporate fleet, ride-hailing, taxi, and limo) into one single platform, helping businesses manage all of their ground transportation spend, saving businesses up to 49% of the cost. We are building the first global grid of ground transportation, embracing the entire World, connecting the dots, similar to telephony and internet grids. At Gett, we are inspired to become the standard in corporate ground transportation, similar to how Zoom has become the standard for corporate communication. Founded in 2010, Gett has raised more than $750M in funding,
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About Gett: Gett is a technology platform focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), for spend estimated to exceed $100b globally
Sam Gutmann
CEO, Co-Founder of OwnBackup
Sam Gutmann is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at OwnBackup. He is a software entrepreneur and business builder that pioneered the online and cloud backup and recovery space. Prior to OwnBackup he was an entrepreneur in residence at Golden Seeds focusing his time on helping portfolio companies sharpen their business models as well as the CIO of the global Import/Export trading company, BassTech International. Prior to his current roles, Sam was the CEO of Intronis, an online (cloud) backup software company that he co-founded in 2003. Working as a small-business consultant in the late 1990s, Sam found that many business owners were backing up their data only sporadically when they remembered to do it at all. Sam realized that tapes, disks, and CDs would always create incomplete backup sets. In 2000, together with his co-founders, he began development on the offsite, secure, user-friendly solution that would grow to become Intronis. After three years of research, development, software design, and testing, Intronis was launched in 2003. While CEO of Intronis, Sam focused his time on building a world-class SaaS company with an industry-leading economic model. Through a metrics-driven approach and detailed market segmentation analysis, the team was able to focus on the sales and marketing engine and achieve great ROI while creating a recurring revenue base with organically expanding sales. Prior to Intronis, Sam worked for several years as an independent small-business technology consultant. He is a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Management Information Systems.
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About OwnBackup: OwnBackup provides backup and recovery solutions for companies that use Salesforce.
Michael Jaconi
Co-Founder and CEO of Button
Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the mobile commerce platform that maximizes the value of every tap. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies and has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten Loyalty, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies in Washington, D.C. and served in a variety of capacities within various political campaigns.
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Jonathan Finkelstein
Founder & CEO of Credly
Jonathan Finkelstein is founder and CEO of Credly. The company’s enterprise-class digital credential platforms enable thousands of organizations to recognize, reward and market skills and achievement. As founder of LearningTimes, Jonathan’s work has helped hundreds of mission-driven organizations produce and launch innovative online programs, products and platforms that have impacted the lives of millions of learners. Jonathan is also the founder of the popular open source BadgeOS project. Prior to LearningTimes, Jonathan was co-founder and Sr. Vice President of Product Development at HorizonLive (now Blackboard). Jonathan is author of Learning in Real Time (Wiley), contributing author to The Digital Museum (AAM), and recently co-authored a report for the US Department of Education on the potential for digital badges. Jonathan is a frequent speaker on digital credentials, Open Badges, and the future of learning and workforce development. Jonathan graduated with honors from Harvard University.
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About Credly: Credly is a platform for verifying, sharing, and managing digital badges and credentials.
Arnab Gupta
CEO of Opera Solutions
A strategy consultant by training and an entrepreneur by nature, Arnab Gupta has developed several successful software and consulting companies. He founded business consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group and Zeborg, a business intelligence company. Arnab founded Opera Solutions in 2004 and has guided the company in becoming a premier center of Big Data science and practice. Arnab believes the information explosion has created unprecedented opportunity for value creation, and companies combining superior talent with machine learning science can deliver dramatic productivity and profit improvement to customers. Since 2004, he has worked with the Gates Foundation on its India HIV-AIDS initiative, employing private sector approaches to help oversee the disbursement of $400MM in grants toward HIV-AIDS prevention. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, including SXSW Interactive, Strata, and Structure:Data. Arnab earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Ramy Farid
President & CEO of Schrödinger
Ramy Farid Co-founded Nimbus Discovery, LLC. in 2009 and served as its President and also serves as its Director. Farid has been at Nimbus Therapeutics, Inc. since 2002. Prior to joining Schrödinger, Faird was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University where his research focused on computational protein design, resulting in a number of high-profile publications. After joining Schrödinger, Farid rapidly rose through a series of leadership positions as well as led many research and development projects. He authored several highly-cited publications applying computational tools to drug discovery, including the innovative Induced-fit docking algorithm, which is the most cited article from the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry in 2006. Farid received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1991, and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. After joining Schrödinger, Ramy rapidly rose through a series of leadership positions as well as led many research and development projects; he also authored several highly-cited publications applying computational tools to drug discovery.
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About Nimbus Therapeutics, Schrödinger, Schrödinger: Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Jared Augustine
CEO & Co-Founder of Thuzio
Jared is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thuzio, and the Founder of Julius.
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About Julius, Thuzio: Thuzio is a client entertainment platform for b-to-b sales organizations and professionals.
Hector Hoyos
Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO of Hoyos Corporation
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About Hoyos Corporation: Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on developing systems for access control and the identity market.
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Clay Williams
Founder & CEO of Medaptive Health
Entrepreneur, computer scientist, healthcare wonk, cyclist, dachshund lover.
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About Medaptive Health: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Alex Lyashok
CEO of WorkFusion
Alex Lyashok is a CEO & President of WorkFusion. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Alex was Head of Global Operations at EPAM, NYSE-listed software product development services firm. He was responsible for Strategy, Marketing, and EPAM’s operations globally. Alex joined EPAM in 2009 when EPAM acquired Rodmon Systems, a media industry services company Alex co-founded. Prior to his Operations role, he was EPAM’s CTO and was responsible for EPAM’s business in the Media industry. Alex has been in technology industry since 1997. His experience ranges from helping build network operation support systems for national telecommunications carriers in the United States to advising the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on its global initiative in Africa and Latin America. Alex received his MS and BS degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and has an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.
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About EPAM Systems, WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
John Furneaux
CEO of Hive
John Furneaux is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Hive.
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About Hive: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Jeff Baehr
Founder & CEO of RueOne Investments
RueOne Investments is an independent private investment firm offering family offices and institutional investors exclusive access to direct and co-investment opportunities in private equity and venture capital. I have been involved in the alternative investment industry since 1998. I began my career as an analyst working for Strategic Financial Solutions and continued in increasing roles of responsibility at The Carlyle Group, The World Bank, and ARIS Capital Management. Most recently, I founded Empiric Asset Management, a family of funds focusing on energy infrastructure and energy master limited partnerships(“MLPs”).
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Daniel Ruch
Founder & CEO of Rocketrip
Prior to joining Genacast Ventures, Daniel served as Vice President, Europe for Tremor Video, based in London, England. Prior to his European stint, Daniel was Senior Director of Business Development for Tremor Video US. Before Tremor, Daniel held several director and managerial level positions at TACODA where he was responsible for East Coast business development until TACODA’s sale to AOL. In this role, he identified and solicited key strategic publishers to join TACODA’s network. Prior to TACODA, Daniel worked in strategic media planning at GroupM’s agency Mindshare / MAXUS global, allocating spend by medium for brands such as HSBC, Lufthansa, and Church & Dwight. Daniel graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a BA in Psychology.
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About Rocketrip: Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Devaraj Southworth
Co-Founder and CEO of Thirstie
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About The Second Chance Foundation, Thirstie, Yureekah: E-commerce solutions for beverage alcohol brands.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Angelo Stracquatanio
CEO & Co-founder of Apprentice.io
Angelo is Co-Founder and CEO of Apprentice.io, providing the only intelligent, spatial augmented reality system for Life Sciences teams. As a pioneer of AR and AI for human empowerment, Angelo has positioned Apprentice as the frontrunner of innovative technology. He imagines a world in which in which a synergistic relationship generated between man and technology exists so that meaningful research, lifesaving product development and manufacturing are all executed with greater reliability.
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About Apprentice.io: Our disruptive tech helps pharma manufacturers get medicine to patients faster by providing one platform to turn molecules into medicine.
Bill Wise
Co-Founder & CEO of Mediaocean
Bill Wise is the founding CEO of Mediaocean. Bill has spent over a decade unleashing the potential of revolutionary advertising technologies, overseeing more than $5 billion in mergers, acquisitions and public offerings, including the $720 million sale of Mediaocean to Vista Equity Partners in August 2015. He comes to Mediaocean from his role as CEO of advertising software provider MediaBank, one of Mediaocean’s two founding companies along with Donovan Data Systems (DDS). Prior to MediaBank, Bill served as an executive at Yahoo, overseeing global advertising platforms – a role he achieved after serving as president of Right Media, which he helped guide to an $850 million acquisition by Yahoo in 2007. His other executive leadership positions have driven success at companies including DoubleClick, MaxOnline and Ask, which became part of IAC Advertising Solutions. Bill is on the board of directors of the Ad Council and the Centre for Social Innovation. He is also chairman of MediaWallah. Bill is an avid and active angel investor through Click Ventures. Business Insider ranked him as a top digital professional four times, he was listed among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and he was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology. Bill is a sought-after speaker and frequently writes articles for AdWeek, Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He holds a B.S. in accounting and business from the University at Albany and is a CPA. He is the proud father of Connor, Kate and Charlotte.
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About Click Ventures, Mediaocean, MediaWallah, Superpowers Podcast: Mediaocean provides software platforms for the advertising community.
Dilip Rao
Co-Founder & CEO of Sharebite
Dilip Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Rohan Deuskar
Founder & CEO of Stylitics
Founder and CEO of Stylitics, the leading visual merchandising platform that powers hundreds of outfitting, styling, and gifting programs for dozens of the world’s leading retailers. Over 35 million shoppers engage with Stylitics shoppable content and recommendations more than 200 million times per day, across site, apps, email, ads, and stores. * Frequent speaker on the future of technology and analytics in fashion retail, including Databeat, New York Fashion Week, Decoded Fashion, and FIT. Recent features in WSJ, Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, New York Times, Oprah.com, Inc., Economic Times, Wired Japan cover story, and others.
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About Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Simon Kim
CEO of CLO Virtual Fashion
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About CLO Virtual Fashion: CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
Avner Ronen
CEO & co-founder of Boxee
Avner Ronen is the founder and CEO of [Boxee](/organization/boxee), a freeware media player software platform. Prior to founding Boxee, Avner co-founded Odigo, an instant messaging service. Avner worked with the Odigo team from its founding in 1998 until its purchase by [Comverse](/organization/comverse-technology) in [2002 for $20M](http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1141181). Avner stayed on with Comverse as the VP Corporate Strategy & Business Development until early 2007. Named one of Rolling Stone’s “Agents of Change” for 2009, prior to boxee Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. Ronen was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were key to the company’s evolution from a Voicemail company to a Billing and VAS provider. Ronen joined Comverse in 2002 when they acquired Odigo, a company he co-founded in 1998. Odigo was one of the early Instant Messaging services on the web serving over8M users worldwide, and earned Ronen the 2002 honor of being a member of Crain’s 40 under 40. Prior to Odigo Ronen served for 4.5 years in the Israeli Defense Force in the special computer unit, MAMRAM.
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About Boxee: Boxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with social networking features, designed for the living room TV.
Jordan Girard
CEO of Whiterock AI
Proptech entrepreneur and real estate investor.
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About Whiterock AI: Novel data for novel real estate insights.
Shane Fox
Co-Founder and CEO of LINK3D
Shane is a technology evangelist and entrepreneur at the forefront of the Industrial 3D Printing revolution. While working at Within Technologies, a software company that developed and designed software tools for additive manufacturing, Shane’s technology innovation reached over 35 countries. Specializing in topological optimization, he helped create the product known today as Within Medical. In May 2014, Autodesk acquired Within and Shane went on to lead product architecture and business development for the Additive Manufacturing division. Having left Autodesk, Shane co-founded LINK3D. The company’s focus: to automate and optimize the entire additive manufacturing workflow. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company,’ which previously featured Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Michael Dell (Dell), among others. Shane holds a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing, automation, topological optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S in Management Information Systems from California University.
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About LINK3D: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Brandon Paton
Founder & CEO of Localize
Founder / CEO at Localize. We’re hiring! Come work with us: https://localizejs.com/company/careers
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About Localize: Grow global with Localize, an all-in-one, no-code solution for high-impact web, mobile app, subtitle, email and document translation. With Localize, you can easily implement and launch translations through automated workflows, instant content detection and powerful SEO tools, reducing turnaround times by up to 2/3rds.
Allen Thomas
Chief Executive Officer of Specified Testing Labs
Over 25 years in the field of Environmental Analytical Chemistry for both national and medium sized analytical laboratories. I started an environmental lab at Envirogen, a prominent bio-remediation firm in 1991, and grew this asset to $4mm in sales. In 1999 I established New Jersey Analytical Labs (NJAL). NJAL is a leading laboratory, supporting the environmental community with complete and defendable testing services. Specialties:Environmental analytical chemistry. Bench scale studies in ERD, chemical oxidation, bioremediation, and new technologies. Drinking water, groundwater-wastewater and soil analytical expert in New Jersey as related to site remediation (LSRP), PWS, PWTA and low level surface water regulations-requirements.
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About Specified Testing Labs: Specified Testing Laboratories, LLC is a holding company of testing laboratories and related operating companies. Formed in September .
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Michael Gregoire
Chief Executive Officer of CA Technologies
Mike Gregoire is the Chairman Of The Board at Paradox.
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About Brighton Park Capital, CA Technologies, CA Technologies, Nimsoft, Smartsheet: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Abel Mathew
CEO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Mark Benjamin
Chief Executive Officer of Nuance Communications
Mark Benjamin is the Chief Executive Officer at Nuance Communications.
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About ADP, Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Dillon Erb
Co-founder & CEO of Paperspace
Co-founder at Paperspace
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About Paperspace: Paperspace powers next-generation applications built on GPUs.
Nick Jordan
CEO / Co-Founder of Narrative
Nick Jordan is the Founder and CEO of Narrative I/O. He founded Narrative in March of 2016 to help organizations more efficiently acquire and monetize raw data sets. Previous to that he served as a Senior Vice President of Global Strategy of Tapad which was acquired by Telenor in early 2016. Mr. Jordan also served as Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Tapad. Prior to Tapad, Mr. Jordan served as Director of Product Management at Adobe, overseeing Adobe’s data management platform AudienceManager (formerly, Demdex). He served as Vice President of Partner Solutions at Demdex, Inc. since September 2010. Prior to Demdex, he served as a Senior Director at Yahoo!. At Yahoo!, he ran the non-guaranteed marketplace team of the North America Yahoo! Display Ad Network. He helped integrate both BlueLithium and Right Media after their acquisitions by Yahoo! At Demdex, Mr. Jordan ran partner management focusing on strategic and operational client-facing solutions.
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About Narrative: Narrative empowers participants in the data economy.
Michael P Huseby
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble Education
Michael Huseby joined Barnes & Noble Education Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2015.
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About Barnes & Noble Education: Barnes & Noble Education enhances the academic and social purpose of educational institutions.
Seif Saghri
CEO & Founder of BenefitHub
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About BenefitHub: BenefitHub is the market’s number one online benefit portal and employee discount marketplace in the US.
Ethan Eden
CEO of Market76, Inc.
Founder at Market76, Inc.
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About Market76, Inc., Market76, Inc.: Market76 makes financial services work better by empowering businesses to operate with the best, highest-quality data available.
Salim Elkhou
CEO and Founder of Onna
Salim Elkhou is the Founder and CEO at Onna. He was the Founder of eStet (Acquired by EY).
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About Onna: Onna is a data integration platform that enables companies to integrate their workplace knowledge-based apps together into one system.
Peter Byrnes
Co-Founder and CEO of Fundraise Up
Peter Byrnes is the Co-Founder and CEO at Fundraise Up.
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About Campus On Fire, Fundraise Up, Lúgh Studio, Inc.: The new standard in online giving.
Luis Sanz
CEO of Carto
Based in Olapic’s New York headquarters, Sanz serves two roles as Chief Operating Officer and as head of technology and product development. Sanz’s deep technical background fueled the development of Olapic’s proprietary predictive algorithm, Photorank™ that analyzes dozens of different aspects of an image to determine its likelihood to trigger a purchase. Raised in Zaragoza, Spain, Sanz earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from University of Zaragoza, completing a thesis in Active Noise Control using Machine Learning. Sanz also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he co-founded Olapic in 2010. Prior to founding Olapic, Sanz was a consultant for Accenture, working for aerospace/defense projects in Europe and also worked for Ericsson, responsible for all support teams for the Billing Gateway and Service Provisioning departments across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sanz and his Olapic co-founders have been recognized by the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund at Columbia Business School and were recipients of the E-cademy Award. Sanz is sought after by media and conferences for his expertise in image recognition and digital imaging technologies.
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About Carto: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Chad Rubin
Co-Founder & CEO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.
Rohyt Belani
Co-Founder and CEO of Cofense
Rohyt has over a decade of experience in the information security industry with prior roles including, co-founder and CEO of Intrepidus Group which was acquired by NCC Group, managing director at Mandiant, principal consultant at Foundstone, acquired by McAfee, and researcher at the Software Engineering Institute. He has served as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is a contributing author for Hack Notes Network Security and Extrusion Detection, Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions.
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About Cofense: Cofense provides phishing threat management for organizations concerned about human susceptibility.
Rob Ashe
CEO of Cognos
Robert Ashe, is the former President and CEO of Cognos Inc., having joined the Company in 1984. He was appointed President in 2002, and CEO in 2004, and held both roles until IBM acquired the company in 2007 for $4.9 billion, IBM’s largest software acquisition to date. From 2010 until 2012, he served as IBM’s General Manager of Business Analytics. Prior to becoming President and CEO of Cognos, Robert held several senior executive roles at the company including Senior Vice President of Application Development Tools, Senior Vice President of Products, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Customer Services, Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Robert is a director of ServiceSource International, Inc, MSCI Inc., Shopify, and Halogen Software Inc. He has been a Member of Technology Advisory Board of Bridge Growth Partners LLC as well as an advisor to Mistral Venture Partners. He holds Bachelor of Commerce in accounting from University of Ottawa and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
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About Cognos, IBM: Cognos provides business intelligence and performance management software solutions for organizations.
Jory Schwach
Founder & CEO of Andium
Mr. Jory Schwach serves as an Executive Director of Andium Inc.
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About Andium: Andium is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company that builds a smarter world and empowers leaders to create meaningful change.
Jesse Sutton
CEO & Co- Founder, Member of the Board of Majesco Entertainment
Jesse is a co-founder and CEO of Majesco Entertainment Company(NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, focused on developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented titles on leading console and portable systems. Jesse brings more than 20 years’ experience in business management and has been instrumental in developing and overseeing all of Majesco’s key strategic alliances. Having been in the industry for so long, Jesse has built a network of relationships in all areas. Finance, Development, marketing, licensing, sales and operations. In true entrepreneurial spirit, Jesse has been founder or lead investor in several businesses.
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About Majesco Entertainment: Majesco Entertainment is an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, focused on developing and publishing a wide range of
Barry Honig
CEO of Majesco Entertainment
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About interclick, Majesco Entertainment: Majesco Entertainment is an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, focused on developing and publishing a wide range of
Erica Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of Healthie
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About Healthie: Healthie is a comprehensive software for health and wellness organizations to deliver preventative, longitudinal care.
Yochay Ettun
Co-founder and CEO of cnvrg.io
Yochay is a an experience tech leader with a background in building and designing products. Since the age of 7 Yochay has been writing code. He served in the Israeli Defence Force Intelligence unit for 4 years, and received a BSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) where he founded the HUJI Innovation Lab. Yochay lead as the former CTO of Webbing labs, and has been consulting companies in AI and machine learning. After 3 years of consulting, Yochay, along with Co-founder Leah Kolben decided to create a tool to help data scientists and companies scale their AI and Machine Learning with cnvrg.io.
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About cnvrg.io: cnvrg.io is a full stack data science platform that helps teams manage models, and build auto-adaptive machine learning pipelines
Devin Daly
Co-Founder & CEO of SpinCar
Devin co-founded SwipeToSpin in 2011 with the goal of making online shopping more intuitive and engaging than ever before. With a background in venture capital consulting, Devin was afforded a unique perspective on cutting-edge software solutions. After watching one tech company, which enabled eCommerce websites to easily add zoom functionality to their websites, rise to its now ubiquitous position he saw a similar opportunity for 360 content. Devin knew from his own shopping experience and numerous industry studies that consumers feel much more confident in their online purchase if they can view a product from 360 degrees. As an early advocate of growth hacking, Devin teaches traditional businesses how to apply lean business methodologies to increase profitability. In long-established industries like automotive, SwipeToSpin flips conventional growth theory on its head. By promoting total optimization of the online sales funnel prior to advertising spend, SwipeToSpin helps retailers get significantly more leverage out of their marketing dollars and dominate competition. Devin earned his Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude while playing Division I Men’s Varsity Lacrosse.
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About SpinCar: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Jose Cayasso (Caya)
CEO & Co-Founder of Slidebean
José Cayasso (commonly known as Caya) is a Costa Rican graphics designer and entrepreneur. Caya was a Trainer and Senior Support Agent for Intel, covering Desktop Boards and Processors for the North America Region; he obtained extensive experience with hardware and software support over the course of 6 years. In 2011, Caya founded Saborstudio, a creative content company. Their first startup, Pota-Toss, was an iOS game crowdfunded on Kickstarter and released to the App Store on October 2012. It was deemed by Techcrunch and CNN as “The Next Angry Birds” and having its graphics compared to a Pixar movie by Business Insider. Pota-Toss was installed in over 300,000 devices that year. Saborstudio was also the first Costa Rican startup to be selected for a major US Accelerator. In November 2012 Caya was selected as a one of the 40 Under 40 Costa Rican innovators by El Financiero Newspaper; and was also named an Innovation Champion by the Costa Rican Ministry of Science and Technology. Caya was also invited to speak at the 2013 TEDx Joven PuraVida Conference in Costa Rica, along with speakers like Luis Von Ahn and Michael Lindenmayer. In mid-2013, Caya founded Slidebean, a simplified, cloud-based presentation tool. Slidebean was part of Startup Chile, one of the most important accelerators in Latin America and then selected for Batch 11 of 500 Startups, one of the top US Based Accelerators according to Forbes and Techcrunch. Slidebean has been featured in Techcrunch, TheNextWeb and The Economist, as the third most valuable internet startup in Costa Rica.
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About Saborstudio, Slidebean: Slidebean is an online platform that designs and creates presentations on demand with user provided content.
Ryan Urban
CEO & Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bounce Exchange, Inc the leader in behavioral automation software and analytics. In 2015 he was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. In the same year, under his leadership, Bounce Exchange was ranked number one overall for both employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld, named one of the best places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York and honored as one of Fortune’s top three best places to work. Ryan was formerly Director of Acquisition at Bonobos and prior to that, Brickhouse Security. He has served on the advisory boards of both BabyAge.com and Bonobos. He holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Marie Chevrier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sampler
Marie Chevrier is a young entrepreneur originally from Montreal, Canada. Marie started her career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson in Toronto. From there, she had the chance to work at a venture capital firm in New York City. After a few years there, Marie came back to Toronto to merge her passion for marketing and technology. Marie started Sampler with a vision to transform the way consumer packaged good companies distribute promotional offers. Sampler is an end-to-end digital sampling SaaS that helps brands, agencies, publishers and retailers create targeted, measurable and social product sampling campaigns. The platform was developed with the goal of helping consumer packaged goods brands create loyal customers through a targeted sampling strategy. Using Sampler, brands can set up digital sampling programs with just a few clicks and gather real-time analytics on how their campaign is performing and who is participating
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About Sampler, TechToronto: The Leader in Direct-To-Consumer Product Sampling
Eric Fischgrund
Founder/CEO of FischTank PR
Eric Fischgrund is the founder and CEO of FischTank PR, a boutique communications and marketing firm headquartered in New York City. A career MarComm executive, Eric has worked both agency side and in-house prior to launching FischTank PR. The firm specializes in a number of corporate practice areas, including but not limited to B2B and B2C technologies, renewable energy and sustainability, financial services and personal finance products, and non-profits. Eric resides in North Jersey with his wife Monica and dog (Buddy), and enjoys spending time with family and friends, biking, golfing, hiking, reading, and writing.
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About Boom Local, FischTank PR: FischTank PR is a public relations and marketing firm specializing in media relations, content writing, branding, digital/social, & more.
Greg Alvo
Founder & CEO of Ordergroove
Greg Alvo is the CEO and founder of Ordergroove, responsible for setting the overall strategic direction for the company and overseeing day-to-day operations. Greg founded Ordergroove from his apartment in 2010 with the vision of making consumers’ lives easier via innovative commerce experiences (before anyone knew what a subscription service was: “huh, like magazines?”). While in school and shortly thereafter, Greg held a variety of enterprise sales roles at Liquidation.com, an eCommerce startup that went public in 2006. Greg graduated from George Washington University, where he created his own Major with a degree in Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management. Prior to attending GWU, Greg founded Voteq, a computer hardware firm which he grew to over 100 clients nationwide. Originally from Miami, Florida, Greg now lives in Brooklyn with his much better half, Caroline, and three daughters Adriana, Daniella and Bleecker (dog included here). In any free time, Greg most enjoys reading, exercising and getting back on the tennis court.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Anand Adya
Founder & CEO of Pathlock
Anand Adya founded Greenlight Technologies in 2004 and has led the company from its inception into the market leading provider of continuous enterprise business controls. Anand has more than 15 years of experience leading technology teams as well as having worked in the management consulting field and for the information technology advisory practice at PwC. As a serial entrepreneur, Anand has been a founding member of two successful technology start-up organizations prior to Greenlight Technologies. As CEO of Greenlight Technologies, Anand is responsible for driving the organization’s strategic agenda, technology vision and business operations. He is considered to be an industry thought-leader on the topic of governance, risk and compliance management and is a frequent speaker at major conferences on this domain. Anand received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Management.
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About Pathlock: Pathlock is a provider of unified access orchestration.
Marc Cenedella
Founder & CEO of Ladders
Marc Cenedella is the Founder at Leet Resumes – we write great professional resumes for free (tips appreciated!) www.leetresumes.com and Founder at Ladders – we apply to $100K+ jobs for you: ldd.rs/jobs He is the author of the largest career advice newsletter in the United States, which reaches an audience of nearly 10 million weekly. Several of his books have reached #1 on Amazon Careers Bestsellers List: www.ldd.rs/amzn A nationally renowned thought leader on careers, career management and recruiting, Marc is frequently sought out by national media organizations for his expert commentary on employment and entrepreneurialism. He has been profiled in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Wired, and Businessweek, appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg and has spoken at Ignition, SHRM, and Internet Summit as well as Harvard Business School, Columbia University, and Yale. Previously, Marc was a Senior Vice President at HotJobs.com, where he served as lead on its sale to Yahoo in 2002 for $436 million. From Fredonia, New York, Marc holds an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College. A list of Marc Cenedella’s social media accounts is here: o. Ladders: https://www.theladders.com/expert/marc-cenedella o. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcenedella/ o. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9153 o. Twitter: https://twitter.com/cenedella o. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marc-Cenedella/e/B0040YIP54/ o. Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cenedella/ o. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/mcenedella o. Github: https://github.com/cenedella o. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cenedella/ o. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVd-moy_xzNMUWkKEYDejQ o. Angellist: https://angel.co/marccenedella o. Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-cenedella o. GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/22907929-marc-cenedella o. StackExchange: https://stackexchange.com/users/1656820/marc-cenedella o. Medium: https://medium.com/@cenedella o. BusinessInsider: https://www.businessinsider.com/author/marc-cenedella o. Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcenedella o. Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Marc-Cenedella
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About Ladders: Ladders is the home for $100K+ careers
Steve Kalalian
CEO of globaledit
Steve Kalalian is the CEO of globaledit, a creative production platform that simplifies and accelerates the management of visual assets at scale, and Industrial Color Brands, a family of integrated production companies that offers end-to-end services including studio facilities in NY and LA, still and video capture, post-production, and creative workflow solutions. Steve has been on the forefront of the digital imaging industry since founding his first company, Impact Digital, in 1991. The high-end retouching company Impact Digital has since evolved into the creative services powerhouse that Industrial Color Brands is today. Always searching for inspiration and embracing new ideas, Steve strives daily to pioneer digital production and bring innovative technology solutions to creatives. Steve’s companies have received several industry awards including LA Business Council Interior Design Award, APPY, Effie, Art Directors Club, One Club, Ad Age, American Graphic Design, and Cannes Lions awards.
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About CoCreativ, globaledit, Igneous Ventures: Creative production platform that empowers creative ops professionals to manage visual production at scale.
Michael Averto
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of ChannelApe
Founder at ChannelApe, a SaaS commerce company that helps businesses automate their product catalog, inventory and orders across all commerce channels.
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About ChannelApe: ChannelApe’s enterprise fulfillment SaaS scales direct-to-consumer brands by separating supply chain software from physical operations.
Brian Caouette
Cofounder & CEO of OnFrontiers
Brian manages OnFrontiers day to day. Before OnFrontiers Brian founded Farmbuilders (Echoing Green Fellow) and was an early employee with Seamless Health.
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About OnFrontiers: OnFrontiers builds enterprise knowledge networks for distributed businesses seeking to become more agile and competitive.
Quinlan Eddy
CEO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
Quinlan Eddy began his career in financial and consolidations systems at Citibank as a financial analyst in Singapore where he pioneered the use of Essbase for Citicorp as a corporate standard. He joined Arbor Software in 1994, prior to its IPO and subsequent merger with Hyperion Solutions. In 2004 he founded Star Analytics focused on the Oracle Hyperion product suite. In 2013, Star Analytics exited to IBM and in 2017, Quinlan co-founded OneCloud, an iPaaS technology delivering automation & integration solutions in the BI and EPM space. Quinlan holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.
Lisa Xu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nopsec
Lisa Xu serves as Chief Executive Officer where she is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic and operational functions for NopSec. Lisa has a passion for connecting business with technology and thrives in transforming disruptive technology into leading solutions. Over the past two decades, Lisa has advised Fortune 500 enterprises on data security, privacy, and technology risk management, and led many diverse teams at Ally Financial (GMAC), KPMG, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Lisa holds a B.A. in Economics and a Master’s in Finance from Boston College.
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About Nopsec: NopSec provides precision threat prediction and remediation solutions for businesses to protect their IT environments from security breach.
Stacy Giunta
Project Manager & Executive Assistant to the CEO of CentralBOS
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About CentralBOS: CentralBOS provides cloud-based, ERP SaaS solutions for small to mid-sized business.
Alexey Panyov
CEO and CTO of Navigine
PhD in Physics and Mathematics. More than 10 publications and reports on specialized conferences.
More than 15 years of working experience in software development for mobile complexes navigation and over 10 years of leadership experience.
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About Navigine: Software platform for precise positioning and online-to-offline attribution.
David Schiffer
CEO of RevBits
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About RevBits: RevBits is a leading developer of next-generation endpoint security, privileged access management (PAM), and phishing detection solutions.
Karoline Gross
Founder & CEO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
Jarrett Bauer
Founder & CEO of Health Recovery Solutions
Jarrett Bauer joined Health Recovery Solutions as CEO and Co-Founder in 2012.
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About Health Recovery Solutions: Health Recovery Solutions develops a cloud-based warning system to help users reduce readmissions for hospitals and ACOs.
Ardalan Khosrowpour
CEO & Co-Founder of OnSiteIQ
Ardalan Khosrowpour is the CEO & Co-Founder at OnSiteIQ.
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About OnSiteIQ: OnSiteIQ is a computer vision platform for construction risk assessment
Tom Lavery
CEO & Founder of Jiminny
Tom Lavery is CEO & Founder of New York based startup Jiminny. Jiminny is a platform specifically designed for B2B sales. It is the first app that use’s the power of your own sales activity to help you coach your team more effectively. Jiminny’s helps you create a coaching culture across your sales organization. Previously Tom was on the board at Reward Gateway for five years and was their Global SVP of Sales for 8 years. He has seen them through two MBOs. One for $40m to Inflexion PE in 2010 and for $220m to Great Hill Partners in 2015. He has over 15 years experience in sales and sales leadership and has worked in the U.S, Europe, and Australia.
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About Jiminny: Conversation intelligence to build smarter sales teams. Record, transcribe & analyze every interaction and empower your reps with Jiminny
Daniel Chait
CEO of Greenhouse Software
Daniel Chait is the CEO and Co-founder of Greenhouse – a modern, smart recruiting platform. Greenhouse automates and simplifies the best practices for recruiting top talent, continuously monitors your recruiting activity, and automatically suggests improvements. Previously, I co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing strategy, design and technology consulting, building advanced solutions for the world’s leading investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges. With offices in New York, London and Dublin, Lab49 counts most of the world’s largest banks as clients and is an industry leader in capital markets technology. I also advise startups and am an active member of New York Angels. I teach a class called “How to Make Hiring a Strength of your Company”, currently offered through General Assembly and the New York Angels education series. My personal interests include technology, innovation, human capital, and entrepreneurship. I’ve spoken and presented at numerous events including the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference and the Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference, and I am an active member of New York Angels. I graduated in 1995 from the University of Michigan with a degree in Computer Engineering. Specialties Human Capital, including recruitment, strategic HR, performance management, and training. Software development, including architecture, design, coding, and agile methodology. All aspects of entrepreneurship including launching a new business, developing software, recruiting, sales & new business development, marketing, and legal. I also have experience in a number of corporate finance and investment rounds from angel and early VC through 8-figure private equity deals.
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About Greenhouse Software: Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.
Jami Miscik
Co-CEO of Kissinger Associates
Miscik has been a director of EMC since August 2012. She has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm, since May 2015 and Vice Chairman since January 2009. She served as President of Kissinger Associates from January 2009 to May 2015. From June 2005 to September 2008, Miscik was Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers; and served in various positions at the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1983 to 2005, including Deputy Director for Intelligence. In December 2009, Miscik was appointed to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, where she serves as Co-Chairman. She is also a director of Morgan Stanley (where she is a member of the Operations and Technology Committee and the Risk Committee). Miscik holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from Pepperdine University and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Denver.
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About Kissinger Associates: Kissinger provides industry integrated accounting and business management software solutions to small and mid-sized businesses.
Tamir Koch
Founder & CEO of TriPlay
Tamir Koch is the Founder & CEO at TriPlay.
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About eMusic, TriPlay: TriPlay is the next generation personal cloud company
Shahaf Galil
CEO of CronSights
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About CronSights: CronSights plugs into the Service Cloud and automates the collection and generation of Handle Time and SLA metrics.
Kenneth Damato
Founder, CEO of DoughMain
Ken has a long history of working for Fortune 100 companies and is particularly proud of his time at GE where he led Marketing for the Lighting division. Following these experiences Ken spent a few years in Private Equity which is where he hatched the plan for DoughMain. Ken and his wife are very proud of their two boys age 12 and 7. Their son Michael is always in their hearts and minds
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About DoughMain: DoughMain is a service provider offering family coordination and financial education solutions.
John Rourke
CEO & Co-Founder of Starburst Labs
John Rourke is the CEO & Co-Founder at Starburst Labs.
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About Starburst Labs: Starburst Labs makes and operates web-and-mobile apps for investors, advisors, broker-dealers, and financial brands.
Sam Caucci
CEO & Founder of 1Huddle
Sam Caucci is the Founder & CEO of 1HUDDLE (f.k.a. Sales Huddle), a workforce training company that helps get people ready to work using quick-burst games. Sam has led training for thousands of sales & service reps, with clients including ESPN, Audible (an Amazon Company), Madison Square Garden, Golden State Warriors, Hyundai Motors and more. He has been featured on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and ESPN.
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About 1Huddle: The Fastest Way to Fire Up Your Team // Enterprise SaaS
Michael Liebow
Founder & CEO of Foretuit
As an independent Board Member for newScale, he positioned the company as the leader in private cloud management and automation, hired the banker and ran herd as the board’s transaction lead to its successful exit to Cisco. As the CEO of Dexterra, an early innovator in enterprise mobility applications, Liebow drove its merger with Antenna Software to become the undisputed leader. As a senior executive at IBM Global Services, he started the SOA-based IT infrastructure business and grew revenues to well over $4 billion in four years by creating a diverse portfolio of asset-based solutions and training 90,000 consultants worldwide to guide the transition. Liebow ran strategy and market development for IBM’s Intel Server business, transforming that product line from a $900 million industry laggard to a $3 billion industry leader in 3 years. He created the brand’s technology blueprint, called it X-architecture, and take pleasure in seeing the concept endure some 12+ years later. He lead P&L/general management efforts for a variety of technology and consumer companies including PanAmSat, a global satellite communications provider to the entertainment industry, Cadbury Schweppes, a global soft drinks company, and Loews Corporation. Liebow has a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin (Go Badgers!).
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About Foretuit: Foretuit is a software that provides predictive approach to B2B sales by determining patterns based on employees’ business behaviors.
Joe Meyer
Chief Executive Officer of ExecThread
Joe Meyer is the President and CEO of HopStop, a leading location-based service that provides transit-routing and pedestrian navigation in 57 major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Russia. Prior to HopStop, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President and General Manager for AOL’s Quigo Technologies. At Quigo, a leading contextual ad network that was acquired by AOL in late 2007 for $376 Million, Mr. Meyer was responsible for on-boarding and managing exclusive partnerships with hundreds of leading online publishers including Time Inc., ABC News, CareerBuilder, ESPN, Forbes, FoxNews, USA Today, Fodor’s and several other top digital media companies. Before Quigo, Mr. Meyer was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for Onset Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyer was a General Manager at eBay where he launched eBay’s inaugural co-op advertising program, and managed several large product categories for the e-commerce leader including Collectibles and Sporting Goods. In addition to his responsibilities at HopStop, Mr. Meyer was most recently on the Board of Advisors for Adtuitive (acquired by Etsy) and Belief Networks (acquired by BenefitFocus); and is currently on the Board of Advisors for Snooth, Spongecell and Kalexo. Mr. Meyer lives in Mamaroneck, NY with his wife and four children, and earned a BA degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Wharton.
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About ExecThread, HopStop.com: ExecThread helps hiring companies and recruiters connect with other professional people.
Mayer Mizrachi
CEO of Criptext
Mayer Mizrachi is a Founder & CEO at jigl.
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About Criptext, jigl: The world’s most private and secure email service
Noah Dinkin
Founder and CEO of Stensul
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About FanBridge, Stensul: Stensul is an email creation platform that gives enterprise marketers the power to generate custom emails while ensuring brand governance.
Elad Efraim
CEO & Co-Founder of Custodia
Elad Efraim is the CEO and Co-Founder at Custodia.
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About Custodia: Helping companies eliminate friction and frustration with the power of AI
Richard Handler
CEO of Jefferies Financial Group
Richard Handler is CEO at Leucadia National. He is CEO & Chairman at Jefferies.
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About Drexel Burnham Lambert, Jefferies, Jefferies Financial Group: Jefferies Financial Group engages in investment banking, capital markets, asset management, and direct investing.
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO of Stack Overflow
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About Stack Overflow: Empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Wasim Khaled
CEO of BLACKBIRD.AI
Wasim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackbird.AI and brings with him a lifetime of entrepreneurial acumen combined with a background in computer science and human-interface design.
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About BLACKBIRD.AI: Early Warning Artificial Intelligence Platform surfacing manipulative disinformation campaigns, misinformation and propaganda.
