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 San Francisco, California based CEO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Immad Akhund
CEO & Founder of Mercury Technologies
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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About Mercury Technologies: Mercury is the banking stack for startups.* FDIC-insured accounts, debit cards, currency exchange, APIs, 3rd party integrations & more.
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Richard Socher
CEO of you.com
Richard Socher is the CEO and Founder of you.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
Andrew McCollum
CEO of Philo
In 2014, Andrew McCollum became CEO at Philo, an entertainment-focused OTT streaming service that launched nationwide in November 2017. Before assuming the role of CEO, Andrew served on Philo’s board, mentored Philo’s co-founders, and was one of the company’s first investors. Prior to Philo, Andrew was on the founding team of Facebook, and the social design of products has been a persistent interest. After Facebook, Andrew was an Entrepreneur in Residence at two of Philo’s investors, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flybridge Partners. He continues to be an active early-stage angel investor and advisor.
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About Philo: Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Daniel Demetri
Founder & CEO of Trellis Technologies
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About Trellis Technologies: P&C insurance data services
Pavel Golubev
Chief Executive Officer of Stack (by Appodeal)
Pavel Golubev is the Chief Executive Officer at Appodeal Stack.
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About MaritimeAI, Stack (by Appodeal): Stack is the natural progression of a vision that emerged back in 2014.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Jeffrey Byun
CEO, Co-Founder of BLADE
Jeffrey Byun is the CEO of BLADE – a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he was the CEO of OrderAhead – a mobile ordering/payments startup that was acquired by Square. Prior to that, Jeffrey was a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey is a graduate of MIT and Penn.
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About BLADE: BLADE is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
David Kopp
Chief Executive Officer of Healthline Media
David leads the Healthline Media team. His 25 year career spans publishing, digital advertising, consumer services, and clientside marketing for both big brands (Disney and Yahoo!) as well as more entrepreneurial ventures. David believes that people need better tools, education, and support in order to achieve good health, and he’s confident that Healthline’s purpose-driven team will make the world stronger and healthier. He also talks a lot about sugar: if you want to live a long, healthy life, minimize your sugar intake.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Brett Granberg
CEO of Vannevar Labs
Brett Granberg is the CEO of Vannevar Labs.
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About Vannevar Labs: Machine learning products for the country’s most critical national security problems
Ken Tarkoff
Chief Executive Officer of Syapse
Ken Tarkoff is a health technology veteran with deep experience in facilitating physician, health system, and health plan relationships. Before joining Syapse, Ken most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager at RelayHealth Intelligence, a data and analytics business owned by McKesson, and as Chief Operating Officer of RelayHealth before the company was acquired. Previously, Ken held leadership positions at Xign Corporation, Questium, and Vivra Specialty Partners. Ken holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA from Amherst College. Ken enjoys spending time with his wife and two high-school-age kids, one of whom is currently making her college decisions. He also enjoys watching his son play water polo or going out for a few rounds of golf when he has the time.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Anton Bernstein
Co-founder & CEO of Highrise
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About Highrise, Lux Group, Pocket Worlds: Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends.
Dhaval Chadha
Co-Founder & CEO of Justos
CEO at @Justos • Formerly CEO @Vivo (acquired) • Head of Latam @ClassPass • @Harvard University
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About Justos, NFX, Pipa, Stealth Startup: Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
William Freiberg
CEO of Crux
Will Freiberg is CEO of Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and operations platform. He is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success and strategic initiatives. Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as the company helped define the cloud native container industry. Previously, Will was Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and started his career as an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. He is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, including an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio.io. Will holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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About Crux: Crux help companies scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs.
Akin Jones
CEO & CO-FOUNDER of Aella
Akin Jones is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Aella Credit.
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About Aella: Aella helps africans get credit, invest, get health insurance, and make payments.
Alex Cyriac
Cofounder & CEO of Lively
Alex Cyriacis the co-founder and CEO of Lively – a modern HSA platform for individuals and employers.Previously, Alex was the Head of Operations at JustworksInc., a payroll, benefits, and compliance tech company in New York City (who over $50M raised in venture capital). Alex led all of Justworks’ operations from day 1including state licensing, regulatory compliance, benefits infrastructure, workers compensation management and underwriting, accounting & finance, and legal. Alex holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Alex Lives in San Mateo, CA with his wife Jenita.
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About Lively: Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals.
Ranjan R Reddy
Founder, CEO of Bureau
Ranjan R Reddy is the Founder and CEO of Bureau.
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About Bureau: Bureau secures mobile-first enterprises against new age cyber risks.
Steve Goodman
CEO & founder of Restless Bandit
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About Restless Bandit: Restless Bandit transforms workforce data into workforce decisions.
Bjoern Zinssmeister
CEO & Founder of Templarbit
Bjoern is the Co-Founder and CTO of Design Inc. He is best known for his work with building community platforms like Match and Synack. Bjoern has spent more than a decade as a software engineer and built two venture backed startups from the ground up. Prior to Design Inc. Bjoern worked as a mobile lead for Match Group (Match, Tinder, OKCupid) and was instrumental in helping Match establish their labs office in San Francisco prior to their IPO and acquisition of OK Cupid. Bjoern went on to lead engineering at YCombinator backed Userfox, which was later acquired by Adroll. In September of 2013 Bjoern joined Synack as their Director of Engineering and helped to build up their engineering team from the ground up, helping the company to grow and raise successful A and B rounds. Originally from Germany, Bjoern graduated from the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Computer Science before moving out to San Francisco to pursue his work with startups.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Kevin Leland
Founder & CEO of Halo
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About Halo, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Village Global: Halo is a market network that moves science forward by connecting companies directly with scientists for research collaborations
Sumir Meghani
Co-Founder & CEO of Instawork
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About Instawork: Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Gaurav Dhillon
Chairman & CEO of SnapLogic
Gaurav Dhillon is currently the Chairman and CEO of cloud connection company, SnapLogic. An early investor in SnapLogic, Gaurav Dhillon joined as CEO in 2009 to help realize the potential of its cloud and on-premise integration products, strategy, and unique business model. He is spearheading the company’s rapid growth and manages its financing, products, strategic relationships, and operations. As former CEO of Informatica Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a data integration company that he co-founded in 1992, Gaurav led it from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise – ultimately forging a broad acceptance of the vision he pioneered. Prior to Informatica, Gaurav held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp.
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About SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Peter Clark
Co-Founder & CEO of Journey
Peter Clark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Our Journey Software.
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About Journey, Our Software Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Rajiv Khemani
Co-founder & CEO of Innovium
Rajiv Khemani is Founder and CEO of Innovium, a venture funded startup based in Silicon Valley (www.innovium.com). As a partner at Moment Ventures, he is also an investor in several software-based infrastructure startups. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Cavium, a leading public semiconductor company that provides solutions for data-center, enterprise and mobile applications. Rajiv joined Cavium in 2003 and held senior executive roles leading marketing, sales, engineering and operations. He helped drive the company from an early startup stage to profitability, IPO and a valuation of over $2.5 billion. Prior to Cavium, Rajiv spent 5 years at Intel, where he was GM of the network processor business and led the business to achieve industry leading market share. He joined Intel as a result of acquisition of his startup company, Netboost. Before that, he held engineering and marketing management roles at Netapp and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Rajiv has also served on the Management Board of the Stanford Business School. He holds an MBA from Stanford University, a BS in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. His hobbies include golf, traveling and hiking.
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About Innovium: Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Will Laufer
Founder and CEO of Prelude
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Will spent two years leading go-to-market strategy for ePals (School Division), where he guided the business development of a new social LMS. He then became the first sales employee at Clever, where he drives enterprise partnerships with digital learning providers. He’s passionate about building sales teams and employing creative models for scaling innovative products in education.
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About Prelude: Prelude provides a platform designed to streamline recruiting operations.
Nuno Sebastiao
Co- Founder, Chairman & CEO of Feedzai
Prior to starting Feedzai, Nuno was an engineer for the European Space Agency, and worked closely with several successful technology startups. In 2011, Nuno, along with his fellow co-founders Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro, established Feedzai to fight financial fraud with advanced machine learning technology. Fast forward to today, Nuno has been named the Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, shared a stage with tech leaders such as Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, and has been the driving force of Feedzai’s global growth. Under Nuno’s leadership, Feedzai has raised more than $282 million in venture funding, surpassed 500 employees, and continues to keep commerce safe for many of the leading banks, retailers, and payment processors around the globe. Nuno has an MBA from the London Business School.
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About Feedzai: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Co-Founder & CEO of platform.ai
Arshak is a technology entrepreneur having founded Launchpad.AI, Fellowship.AI, and is a co-founder of Platform.AI. He has delivered AI solutions for some of the largest enterprises in the world as well as multi-billion dollar quantitative hedge funds. Previously Arshak served as the Chief Technology Officer at Sentient Technologies. He has also been in technology leadership roles at Argyle Data, Alpine, Endeca/Oracle.
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About Launchpad.AI, platform.ai, Startup.ML: platform allows domain experts to produce high-quality labels for AI applications in minutes in a visual, interactive fashion.
Iddo Gino
Founder / CEO of RapidAPI
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About RapidAPI: RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables developers to find, manage, and connect to thousands of APIs.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Kaitlyn Knopp
Founder and CEO of Pequity
Creator of systems nuts and bolts, scrubber of process, creative ideator.
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About Pequity: Pequity automates HR workflows from offers to promotions and transfers which helps companies save time, money, and talent.
Chi-Foon Chan
President and co-Chief Executive Officer of Synopsys
As Synopsys’ co-CEO, Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for crafting vision and strategy, leading the company, and ensuring execution excellence in support of our customers’ success. As the company’s President and COO, a role Dr. Chan held for 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment to President and co-CEO, he guided internal operations and worldwide field organizations. Dr. Chan’s joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services where he helped build the Technical Field organization. He has sponsored several key initiatives such as entering the IP market, and personally facilitated key acquisitions such as Avant!, Virage Logic, and most recently, Magma Design Automation. Prior to Synopsys, Dr. Chan contributed to industry leading companies like NEC Corporation, where he was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University; and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Aart Geus
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Synopsys
Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to the world leader in electronic design automation.
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About Synopsys, Tinfoil Security: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Steven Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Moov
Steven Zhou is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Moov.
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About Moov: Moov is a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment.
Vladimir Novakovski
Co-founder and CEO of Lunchclub
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About Lunchclub, South Park Commons: Lunchclub utilizes AI to match people for one-on-one video meetings.
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Michael Babineau
Co-Founder & CEO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Co-Founder of Second Measure.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
John Doyle
Co-CEO , President & COO of Castlight Health
John leads the finance, human resources and corporate development teams. John joined Castlight after serving as chief operating officer at Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company. In that role, John managed business development, finance, information technology, and business strategy. Previously, John was vice president of finance and corporate planning at Genentech, Inc. John received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Achoagen board of directors.
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About Castlight Health: Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
Arvind Patel
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowzzy
Seasoned Silicon Valley executive and CEO with direct experience in managing multi-million dollar companies. Wide range of experience in tech management, raising capital, revenue growth and M&A. Tenure in technology has spread across many verticals to include Hardware, Contract Manufacturing and Software. His multilingual skills leverage his wide network. Current activity is to lead a next-gen AI platform to funding, product launch and rapid growth.
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About Rowzzy: Innovators of NVU™ a PaaS /A.I. Voice-to-Display solutions for eCommerce and beyond.
Andy Moss
Founder and CEO of Roadster
Andy Moss is CEO at Fabkids.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Gaurav Singh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Verloop.io
Gaurav Singh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Verloop.io. He attended Jabalpur Engineering College.
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About Verloop.io: Verloop.io is the world’s leading customer support automation platform.
Neil Serebryany
CEO of Calypso AI
Neil is the founder and the CEO of Calypso.
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About Calypso AI: Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of AI technologies.
Amir Nathoo
CEO and Co-Founder of Outschool
Amir Nathoo is a Co-Founder and CEO at Outschool.
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About Outschool: Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Dan Burkhart
CEO & Co-Founder of Recurly
Dan co-founded Recurly with a deep appreciation for the combination of commerce, marketing, business analytics and good user experience design. Dan brings extensive experience from his background of 14 years in roles spanning internet marketing, product marketing, strategic partnerships, business development and corporate development for eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and NBC Internet. While at eBay, Dan led the Global Buyer Engagement team, the eBay Global Affiliate Program and the eBay Portal and Partner organization. Prior to eBay, Dan was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in building the company from $20MM in revenue to $120MM. Dan attended the University of Pennsylvania’s, Wharton School for his undergraduate degree in economics and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Outside of the office, Dan enjoys being a dad, and taking full advantage of the many benefits of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Brendan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Fig
Brendan Falk is the co-founder and CEO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Fangjin Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of Imply
Fangjin Yang is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat) and Cisco Systems. Fangjin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Rick Song
Co-Founder & CEO of Persona
Rick Song is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Adam Ahmad
Founder & CEO of kea
Adam Ahmad is the Co-Founder & CEO at kea since 2017.
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About kea: kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
Shashank Samant
CEO of GlobalLogic
Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Shashank Samant has helped turn the company from a group of bright technology minds working with startups into a global Digital Product Engineering Services leader helping Fortune 500 companies on their innovation agenda. In Shashank’s time as President and CEO of GlobalLogic, the company has experienced explosive growth in size and revenue – all while developing a culture that fosters engaged employees around innovation and client success. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Shashank was President of Ness Technologies, where he founded and built their product engineering services business. Prior to Ness, Shashank managed product engineering for Hewlett-Packard’s Verifone line of business. Furthermore, Shashank was instrumental in establishing IBM’s first Indian engineering lab, thus globalizing its R&D and engineering. Shashank started his career at Citicorp where he was part of the core team that developed the FlexCube banking product that changed retail banking. With a passion for technology and innovation, Shashank is focused on transforming GlobalLogic into a trusted partner for the Fortune 500’s and a trusted employer with a strong culture that evolves as the company grows. Shashank is a frequent speaker on the topics of global innovation and digital disruption. He is also an avid cook and history buff. You can find him dining late at night with the chefs of the hotels where he stays during his travels, or reading in his home library.
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About GlobalLogic, GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Tejas Konduru
Co-Founder & CEO of Via
Tejas Konduru is the Co-Founder and CEO at Via. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance at Brigham Young University.
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About Via: Mobile commerce platform for D2C brands
Andres Angelani
Chief Executive Officer of Softvision
As the CEO of Softvision, Andres is responsible for both the day-to-day operations and the strategic vision of the firm. He most recently served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Globant, responsible for the design and development of digital solutions while leading strategic customer engagements globally. His areas of expertise include product development, agile transformation, and gaming. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Andres founded and served as the EVP and GM of Globant’s gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as VP of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K. Andres has spoken at many leadership, strategy, and tech conferences and co-authored the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. Originally from Argentina, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Andres holds a Bachelors of Science in Business from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and enjoys cross-fit training, skiing with his wife, Laura, and their four kids, running and playing classical piano.
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About Alliance of Chief Executives, Cognizant Microsoft Business Group, Forbes Technology Council, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
Alap Shah
Founder and CEO of Sentieo
Alap Shah is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sentieo. He is currently Managing Partner at Digital Investments and Co-Founder of Thistle. Mr. Shah is a former Analyst at Citadel LLC, Viking Global Investors, and Castanea Partners. Alap received a bachelor of arts in Economics at Harvard University.
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About Sentieo: Sentieo provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors.
Tim Junio
Co-Founder & CEO of Expanse
Tim has over a decade of operational and academic experience in cybersecurity and large-scale distributed sensing. Prior to co-founding Qadium, he worked at DARPA, RAND Corporation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and CIA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and remains an affiliate,occasionally lecturing and mentoring students on cybersecurity. Tim holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Mark Rojas
CEO & Founder of Proper
Mark Rojas is an American technology entrepreneur and product designer.
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About Proper: Proper provides AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping services to property managers and asset managers.
Sean Li
CEO & Co-founder of Magic
CEO @ Magic
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About Magic: Plug and play auth that grows with you
Ian Coe
CEO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Ian Coe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tonic. For over a decade, Ian has worked to advance the use of data by removing barriers impeding teams from answering their most important questions. As an early member of the commercial division at Palantir Technologies, he led teams solving data problems in industries ranging from financial services to the media. At Tableau, he continued to focus on analytics, driving the vision around statistics and the calculation language. As a founder of Tonic, Ian is directing his energies toward synthetic data generation to break down traditional data silos, protect customer privacy, and drive analytic efficiency.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Selcuk Atli
Co-founder and CEO of Bunch
Selcuk Atli is Founder and CEO of Bunch; a group video chat app designed for live mobile games. Selcuk is a graduate of YCombinator (W14), an Endeavor entrepreneur, a Fulbright Scholar. Before Bunch, he was a Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Prior to that that he co-founded Boostable (acquired by Metric Collective) and before that he founded Manifest Commerce (acquired by Rakuten). Mr. Atli is also Co-founder of Nomadic Minds, a non-profit that connects top mentors in silicon valley with founders in emerging tech hubs around the world (acquired by TheFamily). Selcuk was recognized by Endeavor as a global high-impact entrepreneur and was the recipient of an innovation award from the World Bank. He advises several startups including StackShare, Fetcher.ai and Mobile Action. He’s also the lead singer and songwriter for The HMMS, a recording indie rock band based in New York City.
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About Bunch, Z1.VC: Bunch is the first app that allows its users to play their favorite games with friends over video chat.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Paul McCabe
CEO of JetBrains
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About Chronon Systems, JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Doug Camplejohn
Founder and CEO of Airspeed
Doug Camplejohn is CEO and Founder at Airspeed.
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About Airspeed: Airspeed is a team-building platform for modern companies.
Fred Toney
Co-Founder and CEO of Launchpad Digital Health
Fred founded Launchpad Digital Health in 2013. He spent 20+ years in the technology, medical and digital health markets: Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CFO of RxList (sold to WebMD); CEO of HealthCentral at its sale and CFO at its IPO on Nasdaq; EVP & CFO of C8 MediSensors which received regulatory approvals of its medical device + medical software application in 27 EU countries. 15+ years in research, investment banking, portfolio management with 100+ companies funded or sold. Current BOD positions include Limelight Health, Hint Health, LifeDojo, Tueo Health, Moving Analytics, Stop, Breathe & Think, Wellstart Health and others.
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About Launchpad Digital Health: Launchpad Digital Health is an early-stage investor and mentor in digital health
Federico Baradello
Founder & CEO of Finalis
I am the Founder and CEO of Finalis, a modern broker-dealer and deal technology platform delivering compliance and technology solutions to investment bankers, placement agents, and fintechs. I have an extensive background in M&A and private placements. As an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, I managed M&A deals for blue-chip private equity firms and strategics from term sheet negotiations and auction bids to closings. Previously, as an associate at a London-based private equity firm, I supported cross-border deals in Europe and Australia. In addition to building Finalis, I support the World Identity Network, a startup launched in collaboration with Sir Richard Branson that leverages blockchain technology to give digital identities to refugees, migrants, and other vulnerable persons. I’ve also launched refugee and migrant initiatives with Human Rights Watch, Chobani’s Tent Foundation, and the National Immigration Forum. I am a Professor of Law & Business at Hult International Business School, where I teach courses on U.S. corporate law, regulations, and disruptive technology trends. As an Argentinean-American, I’m committed to helping entrepreneurs in Latin America scale and raise capital in the United States. I’m a Limited Partner with Alaya Capital Partners, among Argentina’s premier venture capital firms. I have also advised multiple Argentinean companies, including VATES, Winclap, and BairesDev.
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About Finalis: Finalis is the leading platform enabling private securities brokerages to operate legally and compliantly.
Sasha Novakovich
CEO of Alchemy
Sasha Novakovich is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Alchemy Cloud. She was TIZE’s Chief Executive Officer before that.
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About Alchemy: Alchemy is an enterprise SaaS company that develops software to help modernize the specialty chemicals industry.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Chris Turlica
Co-Founder and CEO of MaintainX
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About MaintainX: MaintainX is a mobile-first workflow management platform that allows factory frontline teams to know what they need to do and how to do it.
Ellen Pao
Co-Founder & CEO of Project Include
One of Silicon Valley’s leading advocates for diversity and inclusion, Ellen K. Pao is not only a long-time entrepreneur and tech investor, but her landmark gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, propelled her to the front of the fight — years before the Times Up movement. Her 2012 lawsuit helped encourage other women, people of color and especially women of color to stand-up against harassment and discrimination in tech in what has been called the “Pao Effect.” Currently, Ellen serves as CEO and co-founder of nonprofit Project Include, where she works closely with tech leaders to bring fairness to all tech workers, using data-based, practical solutions and recommendations. As interim CEO of reddit, she was the first leader of a large social media company to ban revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos as part of her broader efforts to curtail harassment on the site. Before reddit, she spent seven years as a investment partner at Kleiner Perkins. During her two decades in Silicon Valley, she has also served as a board member, engineering manager, software programmer, and business development executive. She received her BSE in electrical engineering and public policy certificate from Princeton University, her JD from Harvard Law School, and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Project Include: Project Include promotes diversity and inclusion through research and advocacy. We are a non-profit, and we are hiring.
Peter Szulczewski
CEO of Wish
Peter Szulczewski is currently the CEO of ContextLogic and previously a coder at Google, Microsoft, ATI, and Nvidia.
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About Wish: Wish is an e-commerce shopping app, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide.
Kaan Gunay
Co-Founder & CEO of Firefly
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About Endeavor, Firefly: Firefly is a mobility based advertising and data platform that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising.
Bindu Reddy
CEO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Bindu Reddy is the CEO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. RealityEngines.AI is a foundational AI research company that solves the hard problems that enterprises face in the AI/ML space, and packages that research into easy to use, pay as you cloud services. Before starting RealityEngines.AI, she was the General Manager for AI Verticals at AWS, AI. She started the AI verticals organization at AWS, which created and launched Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast, the first of their kind AI services that enable organizations to create custom deep-learning models easily. Prior to that, she was the CEO and co-founder of Post Intelligence, a deep-learning company that created services for social media influencers that was acquired by Uber. Bindu is proud to be a Xoogler (ex-Googler) where she was the Head of Product for Google Apps, including Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides, Sites and Blogger. Bindu has a Masters Degree from Dartmouth and B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI, Amazon Web Services: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Peter Platzer
Co-founder & CEO of Spire Global
Peter Platzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Spire Global, Inc. He cofounded the company in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. Platzer is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites into space. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and was named a White House Champion of Change in 2013. Platzer was also named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2015 in acknowledgement that Spire’s technology is poised to have a significant impact on business and society. Prior to launching Spire, Platzer trained at CERN and the Max Planck Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand. Platzer spent nearly a decade on Wall Street as a quantitative trader before leaving finance in 2011 to focus on high frequency and high accuracy data in space. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while completing an MSS from the International Space University. Platzer co-created and launched CareerTeams at Harvard Business School and currently serves as a Career Coach for students and alumni. Platzer received an MS in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker scholar.
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About Harvard Business School, NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global, The Boston Consulting Group, The Rohatyn Group: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Scott Walchek
Founder, CEO & Chairman of Trōv
Founder, CEO & Chairman at Trōv.
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About ePlanet Capital, Jetset Magazine, Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.
Derek Steer
CEO of Mode Analytics
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek was an early member of Yammer’s Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Deepak Sekar
Co-Founder and CEO of Prof Jim
An inventor with 125 patents and the creator of Sally the Robot, Deepak is responsible for technology, products, and strategic partnerships as President of Chowbotics. Deepak founded Chowbotics in 2014 to make fresh food more accessible to all through the application of advanced robotics. Prior to Chowbotics, he was a Director at Rambus and Chief Scientist at MonolithIC 3D Inc. He received his B. Tech from IIT Madras in 2003 and PhD from Georgia Tech in 2007.
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About Prof Jim: Prof Jim is an educational platform that revolutionizes the education sector by using artificial intelligence.
Peter Yared
Founder & CEO of InCountry
Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO at InCountry. He is a former Founder & CTO at Sapho. Previously and the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive and the founder of five enterprise infrastructure companies that were acquired by Sun, VMware, Webtrends, Sprinklr and Prograph. Peter’s software has powered brands from Fidelity to Home Depot to Lady Gaga. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Application Server Division and the CTO of the Liberty federated identity consortium that designed SAML 2.0. Peter is the inventor of several patents on core Internet infrastructure including federated single sign on and dynamic data requests. Peter began programming games and utilities at age 10, and started his career developing systems for government agencies. Peter regularly writes about technology trends and has written for the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and TechCrunch. Mr. Yared graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor of science in Computer Science.
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About CBS Interactive, Citrix Systems, InCountry, Transpond: InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business.
Neha Sampat
Founder and CEO of Contentstack
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP), adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart. Previously, Neha was Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Built.io®, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is a recognized industry leader, a proponent of diversity, and an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. She can be found appearing on keynote stages or expert panels discussing her experiences as an entrepreneur, a female leader, or her company’s role in the future of technology. Neha raised a Series A funding round of $31.5M USD for Contentstack, one of the largest for enterprise SaaS software companies. She was one of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley” in 2015, was named in “San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2017, and is a “San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40” honoree. Neha was also honored as “CEO of the Year” by Aragon Research in December 2018 and Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year in 2020. Most recently, she was recognized as “Best CEO for Diversity” and “Best CEO for Women” in the 2020 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards.
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About Built.io, Contentstack, KurbKarma, raw engineering: Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content.
David Fontain
Founder and CEO of Foresight Commercial Insurance
Founder and CEO at Foresight, the insurtech for mid-market workers compensation. At Foresight, we’re rewarding proactive insureds with lower premiums and rewarding brokers with higher commissions.
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About Foresight Commercial Insurance, Foresight Risk and Insurance Services: Foresight is the commercial insurtech that ties safe work practices to insurance savings.
Barr Moses
CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo
Barr Moses is the Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo.
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About Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo is a digital data reliability platform designed to monitor and offer alerts for missing or inaccurate data.
Zao Yang
CEO of Daglabs
Sizhao “Zao” Yang is currently the COO/co-founder at BetterWorks, Inc., a perks platform for small medium businesses. Previously, he co-created Farmville, and was the CEO/co-founder of MyMiniLife, Inc. (sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S. in computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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About Daglabs: Daglabs is a company dedicated to the research and development of DAG protocols for blockchain based projects and platforms.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Denis Mars
Co-founder and CEO of Proxy
Denis Mars, CEO & Co-Founder Before Proxy, Mars was the Director of Admissions at Y Combinator, responsible for initiating programs to help discover and evaluate the most promising founders and ideas that could change the world for the better. Prior to Y Combinator, Mars founded Meetings.io, which was acquired by Jive, founded an automotive startup, and was a chief engineer for the champion winning Formula 3 race team. Mars has a B.S. in Physics and a B.E. Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sydney. Startup founder, YC alum. Physics, Mech Engineering, Code, Design, UI/UX, Products. Likes to engineer the impossible and disrupt the status quo. Tech Startups: •Y Combinator Alum – Embedster Inc W2010 •Y Combinator Alum – Bitplay Inc (Meetings.io) W2011 •Meetings.io acquired by Jive (NASDAQ:JIVE) in 2012 Other accomplishments: •Modena Inc – Acquired by Auto Group in 2005 •3Jive Inc – Music Platform Technology •Roxentric – Indie Record Label •Formula 3 Racing – Chief Engineer 2x championship wins •Formula SAE – Team Lead 2001 winning team
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Justin Wickett
CEO and Co-founder of Informed.IQ
Justin Wickett is the CEO and Co-founder at Informed.IQ.
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About Informed.IQ: Informed is a developer of a consumer auto financing platform designed to collect and analyze loan documents.
Param Desai
Founder & CEO of Stealth Mode Startup
Param has 16+ years of experience in driving customer focused enterprise software products growth. He is proficient at leading and building teams and maximizing business opportunities that balance high level strategy with ground-level execution, while maintaining steadfast focus on technical competency. He has been a key catalyst leader in introducing disruptive product portfolios that successfully drove multi-billion-dollar revenue and strategic OEM opportunities at companies like Citrix, VMware, Wyse (acquired by Dell) and Dell. Param is a US patent holder. His educational qualifications include a MBA in International Business from University of Miami, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Gujarat University, India. He has also participated in executive training at the Stanford University Executive Institute in Palo Alto, California. He is also an investor in early stage start-ups focusing on Infrastructure Technologies, Internet & Consumer, Mobile Software and Cloud-Enabled Services.
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About EmpireIO, Stealth Mode Startup: Our vision is to empower DevOps and application developers and change how modern software applications
Garrett Larsson
Co-founder & CEO of Rhombus Systems
Garrett is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rhombus Systems which provides cloud managed video security to enterprises. Previously, Garrett co-founded Mojave Networks which specialized in web and mobile security and was later acquired by Sophos. Before Asurion, Garrett co-founded Lumitrend which was sold to Asurion and became Asurion Mobile Applications. Garrett has a BS from Stanford University.
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About Rhombus Systems: Rhombus provides cloud managed video security for enterprises that is intelligent and doesn’t require complicated servers or NVR’s.
Patrick White
CEO of Bitwave
Pat White, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitwave. As a serial entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast, Pat is passionate about the potential for blockchain technology to change the world, and is on a mission to enable that change. He combined his expertise in enterprise software, accounting, and cryptocurrencies to co-found Bitwave in 2018, which provides a complete, end-to-end back office solution for businesses that use Crypto. Over the last decade, Pat White has built enterprise software at companies such as Intuit, Microsoft, VistaConnect, Fortify Software (now HP Security). As Fortify’s Group Product Manager, Pat oversaw the development of award winning security products before leaving to start his first company. Later he co-founded Synata, an enterprise search platform that was acquired by Cisco in 2016, where he worked as the Chief Architect for their Webex Teams Product. Pat has contributed code to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several other crypto-currency projects.
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About Bitwave: Bitwave is a digital asset management platform that supplies back-office software solutions to enterprises that accept cryptocurrencies
Shadiah Sigala
Co-Founder & CEO of Kinside
CEO and cofounder of Kinside, the modern child care benefit.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Yvonne Wassenaar
CEO of Puppet
Yvonne Wassenaar is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture. She is currently a board member of Forrester (FORR) and Harvey Mudd College. Amidst growing concerns with how modern technology could be used, Yvonne is championing it to drive a safer, more efficient and innovative planet.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Kevin Lynch
CEO of Volerro
As chief technology officer, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units.This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™ the cross-operating system application runtime that bridges the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop with the real-time dynamic capabilities of the web. He also oversees Adobe’s developer relations program, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through Adobe Labs and customer advisory councils.
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About Apple, Maschmeyer Group Ventures, Volerro: Simplifying Content Collaboration
Ryan McKenna
CEO of New Entity Operations
CEO of New Entity Operations Inc.
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About New Entity Operations: New Entity Operations Inc. builds and organizes software projects to bring entity-centric computer systems to market.
Kimberly Shenk
Founder & CEO of Novi Connect
Kimberly Shenk is the Director of Data Science Solutions at Domino Data Lab where she is helping change the way data science teams work through a Data Science Platform that accelerates research, increases collaboration, and lets companies productionize their models faster. Leveraging her past experience as a data scientist in the United States Air Force, a data science consultant helping small businesses and non-profits and then building the data science organization at Eventbrite, Kimberly will be talking about the best practices she has seen in highly successful data science teams.
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About NakedPoppy, Novi Connect: Novi is a technology platform that uses AI to ingest proprietary chemical information from chemical manufacturers.
Don Burnette
Co-Founder & CEO of Kodiak Robotics
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About Kodiak Robotics: Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucking.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Rika Nakazawa
CEO and Co-Founder of BoardSeatMeet
Rika Nakazawa is an entrepreneur, investor, keynote speaker, and senior leader in the realm of business transformation driven by technology. She is the CEO and Co-founder of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. a public benefit corporation focusing on gender-balancing corporate board rooms by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology – delivering “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow”. She is also Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Ascent Robotics, a Tokyo-based AI software venture. Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US initially to attend Princeton University as an International Student. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies – NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express – and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and serves on venture boards in next-gen computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems. Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing women’s leadership in governance, technology and business across industry verticals and global lines. Rika is also the only woman on the Dean’s Council for Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University, where she addresses the matter of gender parity in STEM Higher Education. Rika is passionate about deepening intersection of human and digital through transformational innovation and the pursuit of purpose-driven collaboration. Rika is passionate about the intersection of the human, the digital, and the physical through innovative experiences. Her non-profit company, BoardtSeatMeet, Inc is her most deliberate venture around this convergence and one that can be powerfully embraced in the current climate of gender balance in corporate governance.
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About Ad-comm Group, Atheer, BoardSeatMeet: BoardSeatMeet is a social impact venture driving gender and racial equity in board rooms with a simple network orchestration platform
Orion Hindawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Tanium
Orion Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its chief executive officer. Orion leads product strategy and development of the Tanium Platform, in addition to all customer-facing technical operations and management functions. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in the areas of network communications and systems management. Orion works closely with Tanium customers on a daily basis in the pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments. Orion also serves on the Tanium Board of Directors.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Tim O’Reilly
Founder, Chairman & CEO of O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, and many others. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O’Reilly Media. Maker Media’s Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
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