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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 New York based Founder operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Founder 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.
Michael Bloomberg
Founder and CEO of Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York. In 1966, Michael R. Bloomberg was hired by a Wall Street firm, Salomon Brothers, for an entry-level job. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go from the firm. Then with a vision of an Information Technology Company, that would bring quality to the buying and selling of financial securities, Michael R. Bloomberg launched a small startup in a one room office. Today, Bloomberg Company is a global company that has more than 15,000 employees and offices in 73 countries around the world. During his occupancy as Mayor, from 2002 through 2013, he turned around a broken public school system by raising standards and holding schools accountable for success. Michael R. Bloomberg’s economic policies helped New York City experience record-levels of private-sector job growth often in formerly depressed neighborhoods. His passion for public health led to new strategies that became national representations, including a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, as well as at parks and beaches. Michael R. Bloomberg launched pioneering anti-poverty efforts, including the Young Men’s Initiative and the Center for Economic Opportunity. He launched national bi-partisan coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructure. In addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ five areas of focus: public health, arts and culture, the environment, education, and government innovation, Michael R. Bloomberg has continued to support projects of other importance to him, including his university, Johns Hopkins University, where he served as the chairman of the board of trustees from 1996 to 2001. The university’s School of Hygiene and Public Health, the largest public health facility in the U.S., is the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment and support. He has donated more than $2.4 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations. As chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group from 2010 to 2013, Michael R. Bloomberg drew international attention to cities’ leading role in the fight against climate change. In 2014, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michael R. Bloomberg to be U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change where he will focus on helping cities and countries set and achieve more climate change goals. Michael R. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University till 1964, and later he attended Harvard Business School from where he obtained an MBA.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg TV, United Nations: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
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Thomas Secunda
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman & Global Head of Financial Products & Services of Bloomberg
Thomas Secunda, also known as Tom is Co-Founder of Bloomberg LP and serves as its Vice Chairman and Global Head of Financial Products & Services. Secunda served as the Chief Information Officer Bloomberg LP. He has overseen all research and development for Bloomberg, whose worldwide businesses include the Bloomberg Professional Service, television and radio networks and publishing operations. He served as the Chairman of The Board of Trustees at National Parks Conservation Association. Previously, he worked alongside Michael Bloomberg in systems research at Salomon Brothers. He serves as a Director of Bloomberg L.P. He serves on the Boards of The National Parks Conservation Association and the Intrepid Museum Foundation.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Matthew Winkler
Editor in Chief Emeritus & Founder of Bloomberg News of Bloomberg
Matthew Winkler, also known as Matt, is the News Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and has been its Editor-In-Chief Emeritus since 2015. Winkler served as its Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg L.P. Between 1991 and 1994, Winkler wrote the Capital Markets column for Forbes magazine. Between July 1980 and February 1990, Winkler was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and news services of parent Dow Jones & Co. in New York and in London. He was a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at The Bond Buyer (1978-1980); and a reporter for the Ohio-based Mount Vernon News (1976-1977). Winkler serves as Member of Advisory Board at Tsinghua University. He is trustee of Kenyon and The Kenyon Review; trustee of the business journalism program of the City University of New York; director of the International Center for Journalists; member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists; the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York board and the International Women’s Media Foundation board; chairman, board of Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University; member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College. He is co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg (April 1997, John Wiley & Sons) and author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors, (Wiley). Winkler is a graduate of Kenyon College (A.B. in history, honorary doctorate of Laws).
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Barak Kaufman
CEO/Co-Founder of Intello
Barak Kaufman was CEO & Co-Founder of Intello (acquired by SailPoint) and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Shlomo Dalezman
CTO/Co-Founder of Intello
Shlomo is CTO/Co-founder of PlatformWatch. He previously was a Senior Full Stack Engineer at The Muse.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Georgii Kesaev
Founder of Firld
Georgii Kesaev is a Russian sports agent specializing in athlete consulting, performance analysis, football scouting and player valuation. He is the founder of Firld, a sports company based in New York.
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About Firld: Fusing powerful data-driven processes, Firld is a sports company that specializes in helping athletes and teams maximize their potential
Keith McCullough
Founder & CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management
Prior to founding Hedgeye Risk Management, Keith built a track record as a successful hedge fund manager at the Carlyle-Blue Wave Partners hedge fund, Magnetar Capital, Falconhenge Partners, and Dawson-Herman Capital Management. He got his start as an institutional equity sales analyst after earning an economics degree from Yale University, where he captained the hockey team to a Division I Ivy League Championship. Keith regularly appears on financial TV and radio including CNN and Fox Business, and has been a contributor for CNBC and Bloomberg. He writes regularly for Fortune and Forbes and is the author of the popular book, Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager. He is currently co-chair of the NYC Bipartisan Policy Center, the only Washington, D.C.-based think tank actively promoting bipartisanship to address the key challenges facing the U.S.
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About Hedgeye Risk Management: Hedgeye Risk Management is a web-based financial research and media company providing investment information.
Matei Zatreanu
Founder of System2
Matei founded System2 on the belief that fundamental investing will be augmented by data-driven technology. He previously played a leading role in the data initiative of a large global hedge fund. There, he sourced alternative data from hundreds of vendors and performed research studies across numerous sectors ranging from retail to energy to real estate. Matei holds an M.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University and B.A.s in Psychology, Mathematics, Government, and Economics from Cornell University.
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About System2: SYSTEM2 helps investors integrate data science into their approach by providing sourcing & analysis of big data as a service.
Michael Blanche
Co-Founder of Surfside
Michael Blanche is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
Jon Lowen
Co-Founder of Surfside
Jon Lowen is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
Bridget Osetinsky
Founder & CEO of Hyperfine
Bridget is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperfine. She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in 2011 and her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.
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About Hyperfine: Advanced Analytics For Precision Medicine
Sandeep Varma
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Equity Data Science
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About Equity Data Science: EDS is an analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of data science to improve decision making and increase productivity.
Greg McCall
Co-Founder, President & CFO of Equity Data Science
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About Equity Data Science: EDS is an analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of data science to improve decision making and increase productivity.
Dan Porter
CEO and Co-Founder of Overtime
Dan Porter is CEO of Overtime. Previously, Dan was Head of Digital at WME | IMG; CEO of the social games company OMGPOP; and SVP Corporate Development managing investments for Richard Branson and the Virgin Group. Dan started out working with bands at RCA Records, was a public school teacher and President of the Teach For America program and President of Ticketweb which he sold to IAC. He has an AB from Princeton University and an MA from New York University and has studied at Berkelee College of Music as well as at INSEAD.
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About Inside Startups, Overtime, VentureCrushFG: Overtime is a sports network that produces several sports-focused series and short-form content for the next generation of sports fans.
Zachary Weiner
CoFounder, President of Overtime
Zachary Weiner is the President and Co-Founder of Overtime.
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About Overtime, The Sports Quotient: Overtime is a sports network that produces several sports-focused series and short-form content for the next generation of sports fans.
Edward Norton
Co-Founder of Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO)
Edward Norton is a Co-Founder of Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO).
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About Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO): Entertainment Data Oracle(EDO) is a data, measurement, and analytics company.
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.
Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO of YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is a co-founder and the CEO of YipitData.
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About 140it, UnHub, YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
James Moran
President/Co-Founder of YipitData
Jim is co-founder of YipitData.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Josh Troy
Co-Founder & CFO of Urbint
Josh Troy is the Head of Ops & Finance at Urbint.
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About Urbint: Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen.
David A. Steinberg
Founder & CEO of Zeta Global
David Steinberg is currently CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Zeta Global, a company known for its reputation as a top-tier big data marketing technology company. Previously, as CEO of CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg acquired several small companies including those with focuses in big data, customer acquisition (programmatic) and CRM, to form XL Marketing (now Zeta Global). Prior to founding CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet, with annual revenue in excess of $400 million. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004, the year it went public on the NASDAQ. Mr. Steinberg also served as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cellular, a business-to-business and retail wireless communications provider, and Sterling Communications, a communications telemarketing company. Mr. Steinberg was named the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for communications in 2002. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Faster Cures of the Milken Institute, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance as well as the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College. Mr. Steinberg holds a B.S. from Washington & Jefferson College.
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About Caivis, Sol systems, Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Pieter De Leenheer
Founder of Collibra
Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at Zenoptics, an analytics catalog and governance software company. Previously, Pieter founded Collibra, a unicorn software venture, that spun off from his data governance research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation. He serves as expert to several national governments and the European Commission. Pieter has held academic positions across the globe, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, VUB Brussels and VU University of Amsterdam. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
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About Collibra, ZenOptics: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder of AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is a visionary entrepreneur with a background in global financial services and a track record of delivering enabling technologies to demanding markets. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Silecs and a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley. He holds a Wharton MBA and a MSc. degree in engineering.
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
L.D. Salmanson
Co-Founder of Cherre
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About Cherre, The Salmanson Fund: The Leading Real Estate Data Management and Analytics Platform
Ben Hizak
Co- Founder of Cherre
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About Cherre: The Leading Real Estate Data Management and Analytics Platform
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Justin Zhen
Co-Founder of Thinknum
Justin Zhen’s mission is to crowd-source the best practices of financial analysis, bringing the tools of Wall Street to the masses and pooling their best insights. He believes that by creating a larger pool of insights, the best ones will get filtered out. The platform – Thinknum – is the brain-child of Justin and his Co-Founder Gregory Ugwi. After graduating from Princeton, Justin went to work at a hedge fund.
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About Thinknum: Thinknum is a web platform that allows investors to get data driven investment ideas by monitoring companies’ websites.
Ron Rofe
Founder & General Partner of Rainfall Ventures
Ron Rofe is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the head of U.S. operations for Vaizra Investments and early co-founder at Plarium.com, a social gaming company, with millions of daily active users.
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About Rainfall Ventures: Rainfall Ventures is a founder-focused venture capital fund based in NY and LA, that partners with teams to change industries worldwide.
Brian Brater
Co-Founder / Executive Chairman of AuDIGENT
Brian has spent the last 20 years building and monetizing massive audiences around pop culture. Before co-founding AuDigent he co-founded the legendary Rawkus Records (sold to Universal Music Group in 2004), where he signed and developed classic artists like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Eminem, and Dr. Luke. In 2007 he co-founded digital media giant UPROXX (sold to Woven Digital in 2014), the #1 Entertainment News and Culture destination for millennial males. In 2011 he co-founded Big Frame (sold to Dreamworks Animation and merged with AwesomenessTV in 2014), one of the dominant multi-channel networks providing talent representation and influencer marketing for some of the world’s biggest Youtube stars. Brian is a lifetime New Yorker and a proud jazz musician and electronic music producer.
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About AuDIGENT, Big Frame, UPROXX: Audigent is a next-generation DMP and a first-of-a-kind “data agency” comprised of exclusive entertainment, sports, and lifestyle audiences.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Raz Winiarsky
Co-Founder & Medical Director of Covera Health
Raz is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, Medical Director at Brooklyn Premier Orthopedics, and Director of Joint Reconstruction at Hudson Regional Hospital. Raz received his M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, underwent his orthopedic surgical training at University of Pennsylvania, and completed his fellowship in Joint Reconstruction at Hospital for Special Surgery, rated by U.S. News as the #1 Orthopedic Hospital in the U.S. In addition to running one of the largest orthopedic groups in NYC, Raz is also a part-time chauffeur for his three children, transporting them to and from events all around the city.
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About Covera Health: Covera Health is a provider of analytics-based programs intended to reduce medical misdiagnoses and improve quality of care.
Adam Smith
Co-Founder, Head of Strategy of Descartes Labs
Adam has 20 years of executive experience in technology, finance, and entrepreneurship. He built and launched his first company (software QA) while in college. He’s worked in management consulting, investment banking, the hedge fund industry, and most recently with two startups in the Education Technology sector. He has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
Hossein Azari
Founder, CEO of cmorq
My mission is to contribute to leveling the financial playing field. This involves developing financial management tools and novel products for establishing and maintaining ownership for consumers. I have been contributing to this space since 2015. Currently, I am Founder and CEO of cmorq. I was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research where I initiated and led multiple projects in collaboration with product teams such as Ad-Exchange. I was also a co-founder at Clarity Money (Acquired by Goldman Sachs), building a trusted financial advocate. I have a PhD in Computer Science (EconCS group) from Harvard University, advised by Professor David Parkes, and a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2014. I have an MBA from Columbia University (2016), MA in Statistics from Harvard University (2012) and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
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About cmorq: cmorq organizes blockchain data into standard products that empower institutions and individuals.
Andre Swanston
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tru Optik
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About Tru Optik: Tru Optik is the Only Audience Measurement and Data Management Platform Built for OTT
Lampros Kalampoukas
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Alphonso
Lampros Kalampoukas is the Co-Founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, Lucent: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO of Shareablee
Tania Yuki is founder and CEO of Shareablee, a leading provider of social content analytics for business. She has spent most of her career in digital marketing, measurement and analytics, and was recently honored with a Great Mind Award from the Advertising Research Foundation and featured in Fast Company and Forbes as one of 12 women driving digital in New York. Tania began her career as a media and internet attorney, specializing in digital rights management, IP and film financing. After moving to the US from Australia she was seduced by digital and went on to run an online video content network as head of acquisitions and branding and has also led product management for comScore’s Video Metrix, the world’s leading online video ratings service. After leaving comScore she ran the TV Ad Solutions practice with TV advertising company Visible World, where she oversaw sales, product management and research and development and grew revenue more than 50% year over year. Tania is also the founder of wimlink, an organization that holds regular events and seminars promoting entrepreneurship, leadership and the professional development of women.
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About Shareablee, wimlink: Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
Bryan Helmkamp
Co-Founder & CEO of Code Climate
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Code Climate, a SaaS automated code review service that helps engineering teams identify defects earlier in the software development process.
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About Code Climate, Efficiency 2.0, Weplay: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
Ram Ahluwalia
Co-Founder & CEO of PeerIQ
CEO at PeerIQ.
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About PeerIQ, Winged Foot Capital: PeerIQ is a data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the alternative lending sector.
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.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jason Beckerman
Co-Founder of Unified
Jason oversees all product, technology, and organizational strategy at Unified. Prior to co-founding Unified, Jason was co-founder and CEO of Social Suitcase, an innovator in the brand engagement space that was acquired by Connexus. He has held executive roles at a number of social media companies, including his tenure as co-founder and CEO of Teach The People, a Facebook Fund Grant Company and a TechCrunch 40 Finalist. Jason’s experience also extends to financial services and enterprise software, including positions at Merrill Lynch, Siebel, and Salesforce.com. At Salesforce.com he managed the release process for the largest on-demand CRM rollout in the history of the cloud at the time. Jason received a BS in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems from Quinnipiac University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Patrick Vatterott
Co-Founder & CTO of Vitally
Patrick Vatterott serves as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Vitally.
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About Vitally: Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn.
Jamie Davidson
Co-Founder & CEO of Vitally
Jamie Davidson is the Co-Founder & CEO at Vitally.io.
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About Vitally: Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn.
James Shinn
Co-Founder of Predata
James Shinn is the Advisor at Red Six Solutions.
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About Predata: Predata uncovers predictive behavior by applying machine learning techniques to online activity.
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.
Matthew Kalmans
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Applecart
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About Applecart, University of Pennsylvania: Applecart’s Social Graph technology allows customers to leverage interpersonal relationships to target and influence at scale.
Ato Kasymov
CEO, Co-Founder of Zentist
Entrepreneur
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About Zentist: Zentist is a dental insurance billing platform that delivers improved practice financial performance and patient affordability.
Wayne Mackey
Founder/CEO of Statespace
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About Statespace: Statespace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential.
Adam Fields
Chief Architect & Co-Founder of Graphika
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About Graphika: Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content you care about most.
Pankaj Kulshreshtha
Founder & CEO of Scienaptic
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About Scienaptic: Scienaptic Systems provides big data analytics and related solutions through its platform.
Nick Shiftan
Co-Founder & CTO of Curalate
Nick Shiftan is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director at Curalate.
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Joshua Abram
Co-Founder of Dstillery
Joshua Abram is the Co-Founder of Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, and NeueHouse. He is also the Founder & Co-CEO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. and Co-Founder, Partner at Coriolis Ventures.
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About Coriolis Ventures, Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, NeueHouse, TMRW Life Sciences: Dstillery is the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data.
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.
Arben Kane
Founder/President of Kontur Inc.
Arben Kane joined Kontur as Founder / CEO in 2017.
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About echoecho, Kontur Inc., Kontur Inc.: Integrated service technology that helps enterprises maximize their investments by processing customer relations
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.
Will Cohen
Founder and CEO of Top
An industry recognized, innovative business executive with extensive experience in digital, monetization, shopper marketing, retail advertising, product development; including a heavy focus on mobile and social media.
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About HuffPost, Top: Top is a multi-channel engagement platform for brands, giving them the chance to collect privacy-compliant data without the use of cookies.
Alanna Gregory
Managing Partner & Founder of Constellation
Prior to founding Constellation, Alanna Gregory was the founder and CEO of Vive, a YC-backed technology company with the mission of giving all busy women a faster, easier and more convenient way to maintain great-looking hair. Alanna has led product and growth consulting engagements and coached product and growth teams for venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies across NY, SF, LA and Europe. Alanna holds a degree in Operations Research Engineering from Princeton University and, following graduation, worked in Thailand as a consultant where she founded Thailand’s first V-Day campaign.
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About Constellation: Constellation builds products that connect with audiences and implement processes for sustained growth.
Dag Liodden
Co-Founder of Crisp
Dag Liodden is Tapad’s Co-Founder and CTO. Dag oversees all technological advancements for the company, including Tapad’s notable breakthroughs in delivering targeted advertising across platforms. Prior to Tapad, he was the co-founder and CTO of Giant Leap Technologies AS, the premier Business Mobility solutions provider in the Nordic region. While there, Dag managed some of the largest wireless enterprise solution rollouts in Europe. He began programming at 6-years-old and has a Master’s Degree in Science, Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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About Crisp: Crisp leverages the cloud to connect and analyze retail data sources in real-time, providing actionable insights to businesses.
Are Traasdahl
Founder & CEO of Crisp
Are Traasdahl is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently founder and CEO at Crisp, a programmatic commerce company aimed at optimizing the food and beverage supply chain through AI, automation and analytics. Crisp believes we can greatly reduce food waste, improve access to food and cut costs from the supply chain with the smart use of technology. Traasdahl is a contributor on technology topics for outlets such as CNBC and Bloomberg News, and has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Ad Age and other major news outlets. Traasdahl holds several board positions at technology start-ups and heads Spring Capital, an investment holding company. Prior to Crisp and Tapad, he founded Thumbplay, a mobile technology service that he grew to more than $100 MM in less than 3 years before he exited the company (the company, later acquired by Clear Channel, is now called iHeartRadio).
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About Crisp: Crisp leverages the cloud to connect and analyze retail data sources in real-time, providing actionable insights to businesses.
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.
Zach Davis
Co-Founder & VP Business Development of Stylitics
Zach Davis is the Co-founder at Stylitics .
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About InOurBuilding, Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Ari Jacoby
Co-Founder & CEO of Deduce
Ari Jacoby is the CEO of Deduce. He is a former co-founder/CEO of Newsletters.com (Marketresearch.com), Voicestar (MCHX), Solve Media and Circulate (ACXM/Liveramp)
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About Deduce: Deduce provides real-time analytics profiling and scoring to detect and prevent bad actors and account takeover.
Adam Hanina
Co-Founder, Board Director of AiCure
Adam Hanina is CEO and co-founder of AiCure. He has been a strategist in healthcare software delivery for over fifteen years and holds over a dozen patents in his name. Prior to AiCure, he helped further develop Cerner Corporation’s European strategy and was a Visiting Fellow of eHealth at Imperial College in London, UK. Mr. Hanina has spoken extensively on the topic of healthcare innovation and has acted as a subject-matter expert on medication adherence technologies for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently a principal investigator for multiple NIH innovation grants. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
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About AIC Innovations Group, AiCure: AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.
Brian Rifkin
Co-Founder and SVP Strategic Partnerships of JW Player
At JW Player Brian is focused on driving growth through strategic partnerships and leads the JW Player Demand team, working with publishers and brands to maximize advertising revenue. He has worked in the online space since 1997, and until 2007 served as president of A Simple Internet, a media services firm he founded in 2001 specializing in performance-based marketing. Previously, he was senior vice president of Business Development at About.com. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Dave Otten
Founder & CEO of JW Player
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Cristina De la Pena
CEO & Co-Founder of Synapbox
Cristina De la Pena joined Synapbox as Founder & CEO in 2018.Cristina De la Pena has been a technology innovator since the beginning of her professional career. From building algorithms to optimize digital models to rethinking the way we build and interact with the real world. During her latest years, she has been leading the growth of Synapbox and reinventing the way we understand human behavior. By using AI and visual computing to understand facial expressions and attentional engagement, we are able to quantify the experience of consumers while interacting with content on their screens at scale. Everything, without the use of any external hardware or implementation to brands.
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About NeuroCrowd, Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Christian Madsbjerg
Co-Founder of ReD Associates
Christian Madsbjerg is co-founder of ReD Associates and Senior Partner at ReD’s New York office. Christian has been leading projects and client programs since ReD’s foundation, focusing on ways to rigorously study human behavior and understand the use of particular methodologies in order to do so. He writes, teaches, and speaks about the kinds of methods and reasoning needed for fact-based investigations of human activity, emotions, and decision-making processes, and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, and many other leading publications. Christian’s latest book, “Sensemaking: The Power Of Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm”, is a defence of the humanities and social sciences as essential approach to understanding people.
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About ReD Associates: ReD Associates, a strategy consultancy, conducts research and analysis on human behavior in order to offer companies with consumer insights.
Antoine Halff
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Kayrros
Antoine Halff served as Director of Global Energy of Eurasia Group, Ltd. since February 2005. Antoine Halff served as Principal Administrator of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, where his primary responsibilities included price and short-term demand analysis. He served as Staff Member at the French Embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1985 to 1987. From 2000 to 2004, Antoine Halff served as a Co-Author of the IEA’s influential monthly Oil Market Report and frequently spoke at numerous industry conferences and to the media on the demand effect of the 2001-2002 global economic downturn and China’s role as a Driver of global demand. Antoine Halff served as New York Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence Group covering global crude and products markets for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry publications. He taught World History and Third-World History at Touro College in New York City from 1991 to 1994 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 1988 to 1989. A native of France, Antoine Halff was educated in Paris, earning an Advanced degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1986 and an MA from Université Paris 7 in 1983.
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
David Mavashev
President and CEO, Founder of Nastel Technologies
David Mavashev is a leading expert on IT infrastructure, middleware and messaging technologies with over 25 years experience architecting systems and solutions. His areas of expertise encompass implementing middleware-centric architectures and the underlying infrastructure monitoring that is fundamental for its optimal performance, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring and managing integrated application processes and performance across the enterprise, and helping companies achieve business agility through effectively aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. A successful entrepreneur, David founded Nastel in 1994 and also served as the company’s CTO for many years. Prior to that, he was the technical manager of the messaging group at NYNEX, where he architected and managed the implementation of the first commercial transactional messaging product, which now forms the basis for IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ-Series). A pioneer in the early evolution of messaging technologies, David logged many years as an IT consultant working with some of the world’s foremost banks and financial institutions.
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About Elefund, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Ajay Kulkarni
Co-Founder/CEO of iobeam
Ajay is the Co-Founder/CEO at iobeam, a data analysis platform for the Internet of Things. His previous startup, Sensobi, was acquired in 2011 by GroupMe/Skype/Microsoft. Ajay led the mobile team at GroupMe, which grew to millions of daily users and billions of monthly messages over a short period of time. His past experience includes roles at Microsoft, Citigroup, and several startups. He holds Bachelors, Masters degrees from MIT in Computer Science, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About iobeam, Timescale: A Data Platform for the Internet of Things
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Mark Hookey
Founder & CEO of DemystData
Mark is the Founder & CEO of DemystData. With a career focus on data technology product development, Mark is an expert in scalable data access and analytics for financial institutions. His deep understanding of the analytics market and his desire to solve the data gap to unlock financial services led him to create DemystData.
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About DemystData: DemystData helps financial institutions harness the explosive growth of data to serve more customers.
Jeremy Fain
CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
Jeremy Fain is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitiv. With over 20 years of interactive experience, Jeremy has worked across the agency and publisher landscape in roles ranging from marketing, to industry standards, to revenue leadership. While at CBS Interactive, he launched and oversaw one of the first premium programmatic exchanges, which eventually led to his role managing all North American accounts at Rubicon Project. Jeremy founded Cognitiv in 2015 with two childhood friends who shared an interest in making Deep Learning accessible to business. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Cognitiv: Cognitiv uses proprietary Deep Learning technology to help companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions.
Nicole Van Der Tuin
Co-Founder and CEO of First Access
Nicole Van Der Tuin is the co-founder and CEO at First Access.
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About First Access: First Access is a FinTech company that offers a smart data platform for financial institutions in emerging markets.
Nate Maslak
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon Health
Nate Maslak is the Co-Founder and CEO at Ribbon Health.
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About Ribbon Health: Ribbon Health is a predictive analytics and data platform for the healthcare industry.
Nate Fox
Co-Founder/CTO of Ribbon Health
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About InSITE Fellows, Ribbon Health: Ribbon Health is a predictive analytics and data platform for the healthcare industry.
Scotte Barkan
CTO & Co-Founder of Catchpoint
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Nick Slavin
President and Co-Founder of Curacity
Nick Slavin, Co-Founder and President has a background in real estate and hospitality private equity. Curacity launched in 2015 and is headquartered in Stanford, CT and New York City.
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About Curacity: Curacity is a data analytics company focused on the travel sector.
Moti Shkolnik
Co-Founder & CEO of Firedome
Moti Shkolnik is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Firedome where he helps to reshape the landscape of Smart Home security. Prior to founding Firedome, he served in management positions at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office for 15 years.
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About Firedome: Firedome secures IoT devices and prevent next cyber-catastrophe.
Sharon Mirsky
Co-Founder of Firedome
Sharon Mirsky is a Co-Founder at Firedome.
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About Firedome, Worldwide Investor Network: Firedome secures IoT devices and prevent next cyber-catastrophe.
David Sosna
Founder & CEO of Personetics
Mr. Sosna has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services arena. As co-founder and CEO of Personetics, he is responsible for the overall growth strategy of the company. Most recently, Mr. Sosna was co-founder and chief executive officer of Actimize, the leading provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions. Under his leadership, Actimize was recognized as a global leader in the financial services market. In 2007, Actimize was acquired by NICE systems, at which point Mr. Sosna joined the NICE management team. Prior to Actimize, Mr. Sosna founded Gilon Information Systems. Under his leadership, Gilon grew to become Israel’s largest business intelligence company, implementing large-scale data warehouse projects for many of Israel’s most recognized companies. Mr. Sosna graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University.
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About Personetics: Personetics is a provider of data-driven personalization and customer engagement tools for banks and financial services companies.
Sercan Esen
Co-Founder and CEO of Intenseye
Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of intenseye.
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About Intenseye: Intenseye is an AI-powered workplace safety platform that helps large enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility.
Brandon Reiss
Co-Founder, Engineering of Frame AI
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About Frame AI: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Robbie Mitchell
Co-Founder / Head of Operations of Frame AI
Head of Operations at frame.ai. Previously head of marketing at Cover, head of marketing at Knewton, co-founder at Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, and staff at Harvard Kennedy School.
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About Frame AI, Superstrong Labs: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Rui Delgado
Co-Founder and CEO of Berrymetrics
Rui is the Co-Founder of Pathfinder and its head of external relations and marketing. He’s also the Evernote Small Business Ambassador for Spain. He studied Communication Sciences at the external campus of the University of Wales in Seville, Spain. Previously, he has been the Marketing Strategies Manager of the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) and new media consultant for the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) in Santo Domingo. Through those two institutions, he has organized conferences, courses, workshops for young people in the Dominican Republic, New York, Washington and Paris, under the programs of the UN, the OAS and the UNESCO.
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About Berrymetrics: A smart analytics dashboard, exclusively tailored for online stores
Joe Zawadzki
Co-Founder & CEO of MediaMath
MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki is a respected pioneer in the online marketing industry, known especially for establishing the demand-side platform sector. With his deep experience in audience targeting and optimization, ad networks and exchanges, and real-time bidding Joe is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences, roundtables and major events. After a decade representing buyers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies, Joe Zawadzki saw the need to reshape the online marketing landscape by integrating technology, data, analytics, and marketing best practices into a single media platform. He founded MediaMath in 2007, launching a technological revolution with the first demand side platform (DSP) and today, the MediaMath Marketing Operating System, TerminalOne, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands. Previously, Joe was founder, president and chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1], incubated Right Media, and as managing member of Occam’s Razor, shaped AOL’s yield management and DoubleClick’s buy-side optimization strategy. His early career was spent as an investment banker, where he developed his expertise in quantitative analysis and market dynamics, and he remains an active New York technology investor whose portfolio includes AppNexus, AdSafe, 33Across, C3Metrics, Hashable, Accordant and Spruce Media. Joe holds several patents in the area of online methods for dynamic segmentation and content presentation. He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack, born on the summer and winter solstices respectively.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Anand Sanwal
Co-Founder and CEO of CB Insights
Anand Sanwal is the co-founder and CEO of CB Insights. Anand’s previous job was managing a 50 million dollar Innovation Fund for American Express. He also worked at one of the most well-known bubble startups, Kozmo.com, which received the largest amount of funding in NYC history for a tech startup. He worked with a small team to open up the European market for Kozmo.com. Along with his corporate and startup experience, Anand also has an education from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) along with a Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s of Science. Anand’s latest venture is ChubbyBrain, part of CB Information Services (the parent company of which he is CEO).
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About CB Insights: CB Insights builds software that predicts what the next technology trend will be.
Jonathan Sherry
Co-Founder & Board Member of CB Insights
Jonathan Sherry is co-founder of CB Insights (CBI), a National Science Foundation-backed information services company focused on the venture capital, angel and private equity investment markets. CBI’s partners include Forbes, Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Capital Association. In 2011, CBI was selected to participate in the founding class of the FinTech Innovation Lab, which is an incubator program organized by Accenture, the New York City Investment Fund as well as numerous other prestigious financial services institutions. CB Insights and its data have been featured everywhere from The New York Times to the Wall Street Journal. Prior to founding CB Insights, Jonathan worked at American Express where he pioneered the company’s $50 million Chairman’s Innovation Fund. Earlier in his career, he spent a five-year stint at Deloitte consulting for the Financial Services industry. Educational highlights include an MBA from Columbia Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About CB Insights: CB Insights builds software that predicts what the next technology trend will be.
Sanjay Jalona
Founder, CEO & Managing Director of L&T Infotech
Sanjay Jalona is the CEO and Managing Director of Larsen & Toubro Infotech(LTI). Sanjay joined the company in 2015, and has since led a rapid and comprehensive transformation of LTI into a leading technology consulting and digital solutions company, partnering with some of the most prestigious global enterprises. Sanjay has guided the company through one of the sector’s most successful IPOs in a decade and a rebranding effort that positioned LTI as a leader in the convergence of digital and physical world. Under Sanjay’s leadership, LTI surpassed USD 1 Billion in revenue, and has built a resilient portfolio with consistent growth and profitability. In addition to fast organic growth, the company also developed a strategic acquisition growth strategy to expand the breadth and depth of its services. Key acquisitions under his leadership include – Luxembourg-based Syncordis S.A., a leading core banking implementation services provider; and AugmentIQ Data Sciences Pvt. Ltd., an innovative start-up offering IP-based, big data and analytics solutions. Sanjay’s 25-year career has been marked with effective leadership, and implementation of change strategies that accelerate growth and transform large businesses. Prior to joining LTI, he was the Executive Vice President and Global Head of High-Tech, Manufacturing and Engineering Services business at Infosys. During his 15 years at Infosys, he held several leadership positions across industries such as Banking, Financial Services, and Retail & CPG, in USA, Europe and India. Prior to Infosys, he held leadership roles at Gemplus and Wipro. For his accomplishments, Businessworld magazine selected him as the ‘Exemplary CEO of the Year’ in 2017. Sanjay is a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. He holds a degree in Engineering from BITS Pilani, India.
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About L&T Infotech, Larsen & Toubro Limited: LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 250 clients succeed in a converging world.
Amichay Oren
Co-Founder & CTO of AppCard
Amichay is Chief Technology Officer at [JAJAH](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jajah); he is responsible for R&D, engineering and the global JAJAH network. Prior to joining JAJAH, Amichay was Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Vitronet Ltd., an Israeli bio-pharma start-up providing revolutionary technology for computer-based prediction of human Pharmacokinetics based on molecular structure. Amichay also co-founded Expression Inc., a one-stop-shop for collaborative software. As the company’s Chief Technology Officer he led multi-million dollar contracts with various industry leaders and the acquisition by SAP. Subsequently, Amichay worked for SAP in Product Development reporting directly to the SAP headquarters in Germany. He was responsible for SAP’s Real-Time Collaboration products and later assumed responsibilities for SAP’s highly sensitive joint projects with Microsoft. In his earlier days, Amichay co-founded CyBook Inc. a U.S. based start-up with offices in Sunnyvale, CA and Tel-Aviv, Israel. Cybook developed an electronic book and supportive web and desktop environments. He served as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for its hardware development, embedded programming, advanced display algorithms development and web connectivity. Amichay holds a Bs.c. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About AppCard: AppCard is a platform enabling merchants to retain customer through loyalty programs, analytics engines, rewards and personalized offers.
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.
Andreas Spartalis
Executive Conversion Director & Co-Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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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.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Nitzan Shapira
Co-Founder & CEO of Epsagon
Nitzan Shapira is the Co-Founder and CEO of Epsagon.
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About Epsagon: Epsagon is a privately held, modern observability company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
