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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 Texas 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.
Das Nobel
Founder & CEO of MTX Group
Das Nobel is the Founder & CEO at MTX Group.
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About MTX Group: MTX Group is a global technology consulting firm that enables organizations to modernize through digital transformation and strategy.
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Leemon Baird
Founder & CEO of Swirlds
Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.
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About Hedera Hashgraph, Swirlds: Swirlds enables developers to build applications that rapidly achieve consensus, resulting in fair.
Dylan Macalinao
co-founder and CEO of Saber Labs
Dylan Macalinao is the Founder and CEO at Saber Labs.
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About Pipe, Saber Labs: Saber Labs is the cross-chain stablecoin and wrapped assets exchange on Solana.
Michael Dell
CEO of Dell
Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important information. With revenues of $94B and 130,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. The company’s unique structure allows innovative, fast-moving startups to co-exist with, and leverage, the global reach and trusted reputation of the large enterprise. Michael’s story started when he founded Dell Technologies with $1000 in 1984 at the age of 19. Notably quoted as saying that “technology is about enabling human potential,” Michael’s vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Known and admired for his astute business vision and bold moves, Michael took Dell Technologies private in 2013, setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016 and the subsequent relisting of Dell Technologies on the public markets in 2018. Michael continues to serve as chairman of the VMware board of directors following the spin-off of VMware from Dell Technologies in 2021. In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital, a private investment firm that exclusively manages the capital for the Dell family. And in 1999, he and his wife, Susan Dell, established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to accelerate opportunity for children growing up in urban poverty in the U.S., India and South Africa. Michael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. He is also a member of the Technology CEO Council and the Business Roundtable. He serves on the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China and on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. He is a board member of Catalyst and also served as the United Nations Foundation’s first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship. Michael is also the author of two books, Direct from Dell and Play Nice But Win.
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About Dell, Dell Technologies, Dell Technologies Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, SecureWorks, VMware: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jake Dunlap
CEO of Skaled Consulting
My passion and continued focus is in building organizations and sales / outreach processes. Over the past 10 years, I have led and developed high performing sales and operations organizations in professional sports, advertising, and SaaS organizations. My mission is to build large scale, flat organizations that do not rely on one person at the top to drive success. In addition, replacing the “blocking and tackling” nature of account management with interesting, new ways to think about continued client engagement. Specialties: Extensive US and International experience working with Global 2000 executives on human resources, brand, marketing, and real time decision making. Building initial client experience, operations, and sales processes/organizational structure for start ups
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About Skaled Consulting, Stage 2 Capital: Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps startup and established companies scale more efficiently.
Max Paltsev
CEO & Founder of Service Fusion
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About Service Fusion: Service Fusion provides a suite of management software applications to HVAC, plumbing, electrical, IT and many other service businesses.
Kevin Thompson
President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds
Kevin Thompson brings nearly 20 years of corporate finance, strategic planning and management experience to the NetSuite board. Thompson currently serves as president and chief executive officer at SolarWinds, a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software applications. Prior to SolarWinds, Thompson was senior vice president and chief financial officer at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world. Before that, he was chief financial officer, treasurer, and an executive vice president of Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHT), the world’s leading provider of Linux and open source solutions to the enterprise. Earlier in his career, Thompson served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he managed operations, debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions for public and private technology companies.
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About Samanage, SolarWinds: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Howard Buff
Co-Founder & CEO of Citra Health Solutions
As CEO and Co-Founder of Orange Health Solutions— He is passionately leveraging his unique entrepreneurial skills and disciplined Fortune 500 company successes. For 20 years, his Executive leadership focus has been in all aspects of healthcare and financial services within UnitedHealth Group, Paychex and Insperity. Howard led and drove numerous enterprise-wide organizational efforts that resulted in double/triple digit growth, industry leading customer/consumer satisfaction outcomes, high levels of employee engagement, while expanding profit margins and improving shareholder value. Prior to creating Orange Health Solutions, Howard held various Executive positions at UnitedHealth Group since 2004. Most recently, he led the enterprise-wide Health Wealth Financial Services business, along with that position he also was a UHG Innovation Executive. As Health Wealth Executive, his oversight included all financial and operational aspects of the division. In a previous UHG role, he was CEO of UnitedHealthcare Benefits Services, a subsidiary that provides Benefits Administration and Insurance Services. Also during that time, he held a concurrent role as Chief Operating Officer for UHC Consumer Services. Throughout his tenure at UHG, he would drive strategic initiatives, including spearheading the acquisition of multiple companies in the healthcare, consumer, healthcare exchange, TPA and benefits administration/outsourcing industries. During his tenure at Paychex, he held various Executive HRO/BPO/PEO business positions in operations, sales, product & innovation, marketing, strategy & business development, finance and technology services. In his last role, he preformed multiple roles as President of the Paychex Insurance Company and Senior Executive of the Human Resource Outsourcing, Paychex Business Solutions and Retirement Services. At Insperity, he had overall Senior Executive responsibility for the Health & Welfare, Property & Casualty, Retirement Services and Human Resources. Howard is very focused on improving and eliminating all Childhood Cancers and improving the overall US healthcare system. Currently, he serves on boards of two national organizations. He is the Treasurer for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Director, Board member for the national Momcology organization. He is dedicated to his loving family, wife Kimberly, son Matthew (Leukemia cancer survivor) and daughter Erikah.
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About Citra Health Solutions, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, vsource: Innovative technology and services healthcare enablement company.
John Olajide
President & CEO of Axxess
John Olajide is the founder and CEO of Axxess, a technology solutions company that provides software to help home health care organizations run more efficiently and provide quality care. With customers in all 50 states nationwide, Axxess’ innovative technology helps organizations and professionals provide quality care to over a million patients in their homes. Prior to founding Axxess in 2007, John was an independent IT consultant for home health agencies nationwide, starting in the Dallas area. While doing this, he quickly identified the need for a one-stop resource to accomplish all aspects of operations. John’s entrepreneurial nature led him to found Axxess as a consulting company to meet this need. After consulting for hundreds of organizations nationwide, John recognized the opportunity to create a user-friendly and web-based software solution to improve business management and patient outcomes, which triggered Axxess’ entrance into the home health software business. Today, Axxess has grown into one of the leading home health software companies in the country. Headquartered in Dallas, Axxess has employees nationwide. John is passionate about improving the quality of health care services given to patients in their homes by empowering home health agencies and professionals through the use of technology and education. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce and is the current Chair of the Innovation and Capital Committee of the Chamber. John continues to advocate for quality healthcare delivery through improved education, innovation and collaboration across different healthcare settings. John attended the University of Texas at Dallas where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering.
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About Axxess: The fastest-growing home health technology company.
Michelle Davey
Founder & CEO of Wheel
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About Wheel: Wheel is a healthcare technology company that brings together the tech infrastructure and clinicians to power virtual care and telehealth.
Travis Oliphant
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenTeams
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About NumPy, OpenTeams: OpenTeams is a web platform for open source contributors to get recognition for their work.
Rodney Rice
CEO of Waldo Photos
Currently CEO of Waldo Photos Inc. Prior to Waldo, Co-founder / CEO of HomeAdvisor (formerly ServiceMagic), took business from concept to highly profitable, $250M per year revenue business employing 1,200+ people. Since selling HomeAdvisor to InterActiveCorp (IACI), have been an active angel investor in (and advisor to) many successful technology, product and retail businesses. Currently serve on the boards of QualVu, Healthcare Blue Book and The Boerne Education Foundation. Early investor in Izze Beverage, Photobucket, Q’doba and Victors & Spoils. Featured speaker in the tech industry including The Kelsey Group’s Directory Driven Commerce, Inman News Real Estate Connect and StartUp BaseCamp and named to Denver’s FortyUnder 40.
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About Waldo Photos: Waldo Photos is a mobile first photo sharing platform leveraging facial and jersey recognition to take hassle out of finding photos.
Chuck Gordon
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Storable
Chuck Gordon is CEO @ SpareFoot.
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About Storable: Storable is a provider of self-storage management software used to help storage operators increase efficiency and improve profitability.
Brian Proctor
President and CEO of Mente Group
Brian Proctor is a founder and President of Mente Group, LLC and has been serving private aviation clients for 10 years. Having been involved in over $3.5 billion in aircraft transactions and over $5 billion in aviation business planning, Brian’s experience is sought by corporations and individuals, worldwide. After serving for six years in the US Army as an infantry Ranger and intelligence officer, Brian left the military to pursue a career in the private sector. After working at Transamerica Corporation, Mr. Proctor served as consultant, COO and President of CAAP and later Leading Edge. Brian serves on several industry boards and is involved with the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. He holds a BA degree in International Studies in Politics and Diplomacy from the University of Richmond and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
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About Mente Group: Mente Group is an aviation advisory firm that provides unmatched, valued counsel to large corporations, growth companies.
Kiwi Camara
CEO of DISCO
Founder and CEO at DISCO
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About DISCO: DISCO is a legaltech company that applies AI and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes.
Philip Asherman
President & CEO of CB&I
Philip Asherman is President and Chief Executive Officer of CB&I. Mr. Asherman was named to this position in 2006. Philip has more than 35 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry. Philip began his career in 1979, serving in a variety of project operations, business development and senior management positions, including a number of regional executive positions in Europe, South America and Asia. In 2001, Philip joined CB&I as a Senior Executive in Amsterdam and was promoted to Executive Vice President that same year, reporting directly to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Philip was elected to his current position by the Board of Directors in February 2006 and was elected to the Supervisory Board of Directors in July 2006. Philip is a Member of the Board of Advisors for The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and serves as an Advisor for the university’s Council on Emerging Market Enterprises. Philip is a Member of the Board of Directors at American Petroleum Institute and the National Petroleum Council. Philip also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Arrow Electronics Inc. and the National Safety Council. Following active duty in the United States Air Force from 1970 to1974, Philip graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida. Philip earned a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and he has completed advanced management programs at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.
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About CB&I: CB&I provide technology and infrastructure for the energy industry, focusing on safety and quality standards.
Jamie Fitch
Co-Founder & CEO of OnlineMedEd
Jamie is an Ohio State and Tulane graduate rooted in medicine and healthcare. He’s currently the cofounder and CEO of OnlineMedEd (OME), a hyper-growth adult learning platform based in Austin, TX. In his day to day he focuses on investing in his employees through coaching to keep his company culture genuine and aligned. As an angel, he invests in industries such as: medical diagnostics, telemedicine and digital marketing. Jamie’s focus on culture, trust and empowerment has led him to become passionate in supporting startup community. He helps craft narratives to attract talent, funding and business opportunities.
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About OnlineMedEd: OnlineMedEd is a digital health care learning platform designed for medical students and health professionals.
JW Roberts
Chief Executive Officer of General Datatech
Founder and CEO JW Roberts has guided GDT since its inception in 1996. Under his leadership, the company has experienced continuing, double-digit growth in both revenue and profitability, and is now nearing a billion dollars in annual revenue. GDT has been nationally recognized for its commitment to customers, associates, and the community. JW values relationships and believes they set the foundation for success in life and in business. JW encourages the development of deep relationships – between associates, between associates and clients. His attitudes have fostered a company culture and business climate that promotes self-managing, self-monitoring, and personal growth for each and every GDT team. JW’s approach and attitude have stimulated the birth of creative customer solutions and led to an expansion of opportunities unparalleled in the Cisco VAR industry.
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About General Datatech: GDT is an award-winning, international multi-vendor IT solutions provider and Cisco Gold Partner.
Nancy Albertini
Office of the CEO of Kingsley Gate Partners
Nancy Albertini is Chairman of the executive search firm, Albertini Group Inc. (AGI), which she founded in 2006. Recognized as a search industry innovator and thought leader, Nancy has connected the most sought after talent with industry leading companies for over 25 years. Throughout her career, Nancy has been instrumental in building winning companies. From finding key executives to locating funding at strategic points in their development, Nancy’s ability to propel companies to the next level has been a key to both her clients’ and her own success. Nancy founded Taylor Winfield Inc. in 1986, partnering with private equity firms and focusing on executive search for emerging growth companies. In 1993, she began an innovative investment model, investing alongside her clients, in their portfolio companies, in addition to placing the executive teams. Her largest return came in 1994 when she introduced BEA Systems to Warburg Pincus, resulting in BEA becoming the fastest growing software company in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s and leading to a $32 billion market cap by October 2000. Nancy’s other exits include Rhapsody Networks which was sold to Brocade and AFC which was sold to Telllabs where she executed both CEO searches. In 2003, she co-founded Pagemill Partners, which provides financial advisory services, including M&A advisory, private placement advisory and specialized financial studies to emerging and middle-market technology companies. There, she was instrumental in the funding of Shop.com and the placement of technology luminary Bob Kavner to its board. Nancy’s completed board searches include Audit Chair for LivingSocial and two board members for F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), three board members for Ruffalo Cody, three board members for Contact Solutions, two board members for Inmar, a board member for Evidon, and two board members for SmartPak International including a board member from Google and Netflix. Recently, Nancy completed the President at Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the CEO Arespike, CEO Kaazing, CMO Inmar; CRO, VP Sales and Chief Product Officer for Metamarkets, CIO Western Dental, SVP Operations and CFO Joyent and Yodlee, General Counsel and SVP HR of vRide, CHRO Trinet (NASDAQ: TNET), and CMO Vendavo. Nancy also completed the President of Merchant Funded offers for JPMorgan Chase. (NYSE: JPM) The Albertini Group, Inc. has just been named the U.S. Partner for Intel Capital. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Committee of 200 which is an invitation only international organization of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders, Silicon Valley Executive Network (SVEN), and Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. Nancy was named one of the Influential Women of Silicon Valley for 2010 and is a distinguished Junior Achievement 2012 Hall of Fame Laureate. Nancy serves on the board of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, the board of BUILD which is an organization for high risk high school students, and the Advisory Board of the Big Live and Monitise (MONI) listed on the AIM. Nancy holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University (SMU) with international training from the London Business School (LBS). Nancy has attended Stanford University’s Director’s College focused on the role of governance for public companies and has completed the Stanford program for Mergers & Acquisitions.
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About Kingsley Gate Partners: Kingsley Gate Partners is a management consulting and information technology company located in Dallas.
Arvind Sarin
Chairman & CEO of Copper Mobile
Arvind Sarin is the Founder and CEO of Copper Mobile, he oversees Mobile Application development for the company and manages several clients. He holds a Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Arvind has been associated with Fujitsu, WICAT, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Ranbaxy, BARC, and Impiger.
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About Copper Mobile: Copper Mobile is a preferred digital transformation partner that has specialized in enterprise mobile app development since 2010.
Ross Blankenship
Managing Partner and CEO of Angel Kings
Ross Blankenship (https://angel.co/ross-blankenship) is a media expert on startups, entrepreneurship, and angel investing; Ross Blankenship is a 3x entrepreneur, 7x bestselling author, angel investor and expert on the next billion-dollar startups (https://www.udemy.com/user/ross-blankenship/) and how to invest money with angel investments and venture capital (http://rossblankenship.com). Ross Blankenship has written extensively on the topics of venture capital and angel investing, and is also an early-stage angel investor in America’s hottest, must-watched startups: both software and hardware companies. Ross Blankenship advises the media on important topics from startups to entrepreneurship. Ross Blankenship has invested in early technologies ranging from multi-factor authentication (MFA) to digital assets such as Ethereum and Bitcoin: According to a recent interview with Ross Blankenship, “Investing is about discovering the next-big thing. It’s about spotting the trends, identifying problems, and understanding solutions. Having been on both sides of the equation: as an entrepreneur and investor, I can spot pain points for both consumers and enterprises. I can also spot big profit opportunities. For example, I was one of the first investors in a technology of a modified version of the blockchain called “Ethereum”… I studied Ethereum, smart contracts, and literally interviewed and met with everyone on this planet who would tell me about what they were building with Ethereum.” In another recent interview with Ross Blankenship in which he discussed focus and what it means to be an entrepreneur, “The first challenge is the focus. I have to make sure I am not doing ten things at once, but I am doing one if not two things all the time. The time motif returns, i.e., there’s never enough time to get everything done in a day, so prioritize those things that are most likely to be profitable – professionally and personally. If you only have a certain amount of time, you have to focus. I inspire entrepreneurs to find one or two products or services that they are passionate about but to limit their focus to just those.” Ross Blankenship continues to advise America’s top startups and be a member of technology development communities from the West Coast to the East Coast.
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About Angel Kings, Blankenship Ventures, Stonehawk Investment Group: Angel Kings is a software and mobile app development firm that builds America’s top startups.
Umer Fazal
Founder & CEO of Nespon IT Services
Mr. Fazal, with over 10 years of leadership as President and Founder of Nespon IT Services, oversees all aspects of the business. He is a roll-up your sleeves type of leader, jumping on technical calls with his clients, helping kick off major engagements, all the while creating an environment that reflects his values – Family, Drive, Intelligence, Humility, and Success. With 17 years of experience as a strategic thinker as well as a tactical mover, Mr. Fazal has developed, trained, and managed stable professional IT teams to consistently deliver multi-million- dollar enterprise business solutions, with a philosophy of “Keeping IT Simple.” With 3 University degrees – BSME, and 2 MSCS with honors, there is only one way a person could describe Umer – Intelligence with Humility.
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About Nespon IT Services: Nespon IT Services is an IT company for desktop and internet/intranet based applications, providing professional software solutions.
Earl C. Austin, Jr.
President & Chief Executive Officer of Quanta Services
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About Quanta Services: Quanta Services provides engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for comprehensive infrastructure needs.
Jonathon Morgan
Chief Executive Officer of Yonder
Jonathon Morgan is the founder and CEO of Yonder, a technology company building a more authentic internet. Prior to Yonder, Jonathon founded Data for Democracy, a non-profit volunteer collective of 4,000 members that organized data projects for social impact. Over the course of his career in technology, Jonathon has designed crisis data platforms for Ushahidi, a Nairobi-based technology NGO, founded and hosted Partially Derivative, a top 50 iTunes podcast about data science and machine learning, and served as an advisor to the US State Department. Jonathon has published research about social media disinformation and radicalization with the Brookings Institution, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, presented at NATO’s Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, the United States Institute for Peace, and the African Union. He has published op-eds about information integrity and disinformation for CNN, The Guardian, and the New York Times. Jonathon is currently focused on data science research projects and product strategy for CrisisNET, a crisis data platform for Ushahidi. He was previously the CTO of SA Trails, a networking technology startup with operations across South America, Principal Technologist for Bay Area interactive agency Bright & Shiny, and founder of Good at the Internet, a full-service interactive agency with clients like SXSW. He’s also the co-host a weekly podcast about data science and snobby beer called Partially Derivative.
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About Yonder: Yonder is the leading authentic internet company that helps our users understand the cultural context behind information online.
Paul O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of MediaTech Ventures
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About Cleantech Open, DivInc, GroupCharger, MediaTech Ventures, MediaTech Ventures, SEO’Brien, Texas Venture Growth Fund: Venture development group, employing a proprietary framework connecting capital and advancing opportunities in modern media.
Greg Stock
Chairman & CEO of Zenoss
Chairman & CEO at Zenoss.
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About Manugistics, Zenoss: Zenoss is the leader in Software-Defined IT Operations™, ensures the the world’s largest organization”s IT services & apps are always on.
Abel Avellan
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of AST SpaceMobile
Abel Avellan is AST’s Chairman, founder and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 2017. Prior to founding AST, Mr. Avellan served as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), a satellite-based communications services provider to maritime and other mobility markets, from 2000 until its sale for $550 million in July 2016. Mr. Avellan has over 25 years of success in the space industry and is an inventor on 24 U.S. patents. He was the recipient of the Satellite Transaction of the Year award by Euroconsult in 2015 and was named Satellite Teleport Executive of the Year in 2017. A proud United States citizen, Mr. Avellan resides in Florida with his family.
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About AST SpaceMobile: AST SpaceMobile is building the first space-based broadband cellular network to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices.
Shion Deysarkar
CEO & Founder of Datafiniti
Shion Deysarkar is the CEO and founder of [Datafiniti](https://www.datafiniti.net). Prior to Datafiniti, Shion was CEO of [80legs](http://www.80legs.com), where he managed business and product development. Before joining 80legs, he founded a predictive software firm called EXC. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from CMU and a MBA from Rice.
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About Blue Squad, Datafiniti: Datafiniti is a data company that provides businesses with a wide variety of information on retail products, properties, and companies.
Jeffrey Fry
CEO / President – Founder of Well Beyond Care
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About Keep Safe Care, Well Beyond Care: Disintermediating the High Cost of Caregiving
Jon Iadonisi
Founder & CEO of VizSense
I love to design and build new types of technology businesses that tackle antiquated methods and legacy thinking. After successfully founding and exiting two profitable technology companies, my focus today is the intersection of art, science and public data. Currently, I’m blessed to be the Founder and CEO of VizSense, a Dallas-based Influencer Marketing and Sales Intelligence Firm that works with Fortune 5-5000 clients, delivering highly specialized marketing and sales campaigns engineered to a specific brand’s DNA.
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About San Diego State University, VizSense: A Micro-Influencer and Data Science Firm for brands.
Sudhakar Pennam
CEO & Founder of Kairos Technologies Inc
Sudhakar was the Founder & CEO of Cigniti Technologies, the world’s 3rd largest independent software testing services company. Sudhakar started Cigniti Inc as a two-member company in 2004, and under his leadership, Cigniti rapidly expanded its global operations and added many Fortune 500 customers. Sudhakar has led Cigniti to great success with the market capitalization of the company touching its all-time high during 2016-17. In 2014, Sudhakar knew that the next big technology wave would be around cloud, mobility and social. To ensure he expands his passion for the technology he founded Solunus Inc. Within four years Solunus grew to be a 100-plus member strong technology focused organization. Sudhakar now personifies Solunus Inc. commitment to customer satisfaction and high quality. Through his experience in a variety of leadership roles, he has built a reputation in the software industry for his exceptional ability to build and grow new business offerings and nurture long-term relationships. He is extremely passionate about the impact of technology on human lives. In particular, he believes Education as a great enabler for Social Empowerment. His vision, commitment, and direction are today responsible for Solunus’ strong Corporate Social Responsibility focus. Sudhakar is also credited with building global leadership on Software Testing across the world. He chairs and mentors many global leadership and IT forums and conferences. He serves as an advisor to many budding entrepreneurs and start-ups. He served as IT Serve President for the year 2015 and was a part of IT Serve Executive Chair 2016. Currently, he plays an impeccable role being on IT Serve Governing Board.
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About Kairos Technologies Inc, Solunus: Kairos Technologies is an information technology company offering salesforce integration and development services.
Ellen Keszler
President and CEO of Clear Sky Group
Ellen L. Keszler is a recognized expert in the travel and travel technology industries and runs her own management and strategy consulting firm focusing on these verticals. She serves on the board of directors of three technology companies (Pros Holdings (NYSE PROS), a big data software company; Sojern, a digital media company; and Farelogix, a travel distribution company). She also serves on the advisory boards of six technology start-up companies. Previously, she was the co-founder and president of Travelocity Business, Prior to that, she led the North American division of Sabre Travel Network, a $1Bn revenue business. The first thirteen years of Ellen’s career were spent in a variety of finance functions at JCPenney, American Airlines and Sabre Holdings. Ellen received her B.S. in Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Clear Sky Group: Clear Sky Group is a dynamic, people-friendly IT services company that is passionate about delivering excellent customer service.
John-David Enright
CEO of TMGcore
Experienced and dedicated executive with 23+ years working with DOD, Multi-national Private, and Public sector organizations. Executive level management to include CEO, President, VP and Sr. Director for globally engaged organizations. Mr. Enright is highly proficient in culturally diverse work scenarios. Primary focus on developing and executing Strategic Step-Up Growth initiatives in Emerging Markets and Technologies.
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About TMGcore: TMGcore develops and commercializes emerging technologies which support global Blockchain stability, growth, and long-term sustainability.
Jack McDonald
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Upland Software
Jack McDonald is Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Silverback Enterprise Group. Founded in 2010 and backed by Austin Ventures, a $3.9 billion venture capital firm, Silverback acquires and builds industry-leading enterprise software companies. In the past 15 months, Silverback has completed four acquisitions and its PowerSteering Software subsidiary is today the largest cloud software company in the enterprise project and portfolio management (PPM) market, with over 800 active enterprise customers and more than 250,000 active users in 50 countries. Prior to Silverback, Jack was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Perficient, Inc., a leading information technology consulting firm, from 1999-2009, where he led a team that grew the business from startup to a publicly traded (NASDAQ: PRFT) $250 million revenues award-winning industry leader with operations in North America, Europe, China and India. Jack is a serial entrepreneur and a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is actively involved in the Austin civic and nonprofit community and currently serves as chairman elect of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, chairman of PeopleFund, a community development loan fund for low-income entrepreneurs, and serves on the Board of Directors for KIPP Austin Public Schools, a network of seven nonprofit schools serving more than 2,000 students in east Austin. Jack previously served as Chairman of the Greater Austin Technology Partnership and Chairman of Texas Emerging Technology Fund for the central Texas region, as well as on the Board of Peoples Community Clinic, which provides high quality healthcare to more than 10,000 low income central Texans.
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About Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Upland AccuRoute, Upland Software: Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) is a leader in cloud-based tools for digital transformation.
Chris Ripley
Co-Founder and CEO of Smarter Sorting
Chris Ripley is the co-founder and CEO of Smarter Sorting.
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About Smarter Sorting: Smarter Sorting helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better.
Prabhu Patil
Founder, President & CEO of PROLIM Corp.
Prabhu Patil is founder & CEO of PROLIM. PROLIM is a 13 years old global Enterprise IOT, PLM Software Solutions company with global presence in US, Canada, Germany and India. PROLIM helps global companies to build innovative products by providing IOT & PLM Software solutions. Prior to founding Prabhu worked in leadership roles at Siemens, EDS, IBM and Space Scientist.
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About PROLIM Corp.: PROLIM Corp. is a provider of end to end PLM, IT, and Engineering Services.
Chip Wagner
CEO of Information Services Group
Chip Wagner joined ISG as CEO in 2016.
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About Information Services Group: Information Services Group was founded in 2006 by a group of industry veterans whose vision is to create a new leader in the fast-growing
Lucas Braun
CEO of OnRamp
Lucas is responsible for OnRamp’s sales, marketing, business development and strategy. Lucas and Ryan Robinson led a group of investors in acquiring OnRamp through Brown Robin Capital, a private investment firm formed to make long-term investments in established, profitable businesses in growing industries. Prior to founding Brown Robin Capital, Lucas worked as a consultant for Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). At Mercer Management, Lucas led and worked on numerous board level strategy and operations engagements for companies in the technology and media sectors as a part of the Communications, Media and Technology (CMT) practice. Lucas holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.
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About OnRamp: OnRamp is a HITRUST-certified hybrid cloud hosting company specializing in high security and compliance services
Josh Knutson
Co-Founder & CEO of Rhithm
Former psychotherapist turned entrepreneur. I use my diverse knowledge base to identify high impact problems and leverage technology to engineer efficient solutions. The current manifestation of that process is Rhithm, Inc. I am a polymath, problem solver, autodidact, change maker, and born communicator.
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About Rhithm: Rhithm is a wellness company currently serving K12 students, staff and administrators.
Lee Hovermale
CEO of Project Leadership Associates
Lee currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Project Leadership Associates. Prior to his role as CEO, Lee spend 11 years as Executive Vice President for PLA’s South Central region. Prior to joining Project Leadership Associates, Lee served as Principal/Chief Information Officer at Client Profiles Corporation based in Atlanta, GA. Before working at Client Profiles he was the Principal/Chief Information Officer at FirmLogic, L.P. In 1995, Lee was the co-founder of Enhanced Systems and Solutions (ESS), a leading integration firm serving the legal industry. He was a member of the ESS Board of Directors and the company’s Strategic Planning Committee responsible for researching vendors and products to bring value to ESS E-Support and Web-based System Management Offerings. In 1999, ESS was recognized by the Houston Business Journal as the 2nd fastest growing private company in Houston. Prior to co-founding ESS, Lee specialized in law firm integration while employed with LAN Systems in Washington, D.C. Lee’s expertise in the areas of security, professional project management, computer technology, product knowledge and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance consulting has earned him the reputation as a leader in the Information Technology industry.
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About Project Leadership Associates: Business and Technology Consulting Firm
Eric Kavanagh
CEO of Inside Analysis
Eric has more than 20 years of experience as a career journalist with a keen focus on enterprise technologies. He designs and moderates a variety of New Media programs, including The Briefing Room, Information Management’s DM Radio and Espresso Series, as well as GARP’s Leadership and Research Webcasts. His mission is to help people leverage the power of software, methodologies and politics in order to get things done.
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About eWEEK.com, Global Association of Risk Professionals, Inside Analysis, The Bloor Group, The Bloor Group, United Nations: Inside Analysis is a web-based multimedia to deliver vendor-neutral education.
Pankaj Kumar
Chief Executive Officer of PMAM
Kumar is the Founder and CEO of PM AM; having over 30 years of experience in leading the operations of large multi-national corporations. Prior to his leadership role at PM AM, Mr. Kumar was the CEO of Birla Consultancy and Software Services (now PSI Data System) a CMM5 and ISO company with 15,000+ employees. In addition, Mr. Kumar led and oversaw IT operations for the Aditya Birla Group in Thailand and India which were responsible for some the organization’s highest valued initiatives. Appointed as the IT advisor to Chief Minister of an Indian state, he was responsible for developing the complete IT strategy for the state including all departments and infrastructure, as well as establishing the department responsible for its management and oversight on an on-going basis. This was an honorary position to which he volunteered his time to help the state.
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About PMAM: PMAM Corporation is a global information technology company
Ian Wilson
Founder and CEO of Servient
Founder & CEO at Servient.
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About Servient: Servient is a full enterprise eDiscovery solution.
Gregory Price
CEO and Co-Founder of Shipwell
Gregory Price is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shipwell.
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About Shipwell: Shipwell is a freight trucking startup that provides business with automated way transport of goods and services.
Thomas Marriøtt
Founder & CEO of Marriøtt Corporation
American entrepreneur.
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About 7LETTERS, Anvil, Barbegal, Batwørks, House of Marriøtt, Marriøtt Corporation, Montopølis, SAMEX: American holding company
Luke Schneider
Chief Executive Officer of Refraction AI
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About Refraction AI: Refraction AI is a robot delivery startup offering food delivery service from restaurants to customers through its self-driving robot REV-1.
Zafar Shaikh
President and CEO of SoftNice
Zafar Shaikh serves as president and CEO of SoftNice.
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About Cambay Consulting, SoftNice: SoftNice provides deployment and delivery of IT solutions enabling enterprises in their digital transformation journey.
Scott Abel
Founder, President & CEO of Umuse
Scott Abel is the co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. In January 2006, Scott Abel co-founded Spiceworks, the world’s network for IT. More than 4.0 million IT professionals use Spiceworks to connect with peers, research the latest products and services and connect with over 2,700 technology companies. Scott Abel is a serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years in the technology industry, including seven years working for Steve Jobs. He co-founded Motive, which achieved numerous company milestones, including generating over $100M per year in revenue, navigating a successful an IPO in 2004, and inking customer deals with 40 of the world’s top broadband providers. Before joining Motive, Scott was vice president of Worldwide Professional Services for NeXT Software (acquired by Apple), where he built NeXT’s consulting organization from the ground up. He grew the organization into a $14 million business in just over two years. Previously, Scott held various business and software development positions at Apollo Computer, Motorola, Tracor and Applied Research Labs. He is an InformationWeek Magazine “Top 15 Innovator and Influencer” and holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of Texas, Austin.
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About Umuse: Umuse is a stealth mode startup that try to bring order to the chaos that has become workplace communication.
Sabina Bharwani
Founder and CEO of Hello World
Sabina Bharwani is the Managing Director of Innovation Strategy & Partnerships at Teach For America, where she manages a multi-million dollar fund focused on the rigorous application of improvement sciences and is charged with stewarding bottom-up and top-down innovations through rapid cycles of learning and iteration. Included in her portfolio is the oversight of three national programmatic priorities – teacher training and development, classroom education technology integration, and achieving broader student outcomes. Sabina and her team manage contracts with EdTech companies and non-profits focused on STEM, Common Core, blended learning models, culturally responsive teaching and student data products. Prior to leading across multiple priority areas, Sabina was Teach For America’s Director of Education Technology, where she strategized daily with external technology vendors to research, prototype, build, execute, assess and refine education technology products through teacher classroom usage. Prior professional experiences include teaching 4th-6th grade at a high performing charter elementary/middle school, implementing the successful use of EdTech tools at the classroom level, and coaching teachers on pedagogical and curricular practices across all grades and subject areas. Sabina also completed a Fulbright scholarship at the BC Ministry of Education in Canada and Mexico’s Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretariat of Public Education), where she led comparative quantitative research on intersections between student drop-out rates, attendance, test scores, family engagement and school leadership between indigenous and urban communities within respective countries. Sabina holds an M.P.P. from Harvard University, an M.S. in Education & Development from the Relay Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in mathematical economics from Rice University.
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About Hello World: Hello World is a computer science enrichment program taught by software engineers, AI architects, data scientists.
Panos Moutafis
Co-founder & CEO of Zenus, Inc.
Panos is a computer scientist with expertise in facial recognition. He is well-known for his work ethic, diligence, and persistence. Panos is passionate about STEM education and in his spare time, speaks at schools about careers in science and technology.
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About Zenus, Inc.: We develop award-winning facial recognition software.
Nick Goggans
CEO, Founder of PumpJack Dataworks
Nick’s diverse background spans multiple analytics and communications disciplines during 10 years in media. Nick is responsible for client services and development at Umbel. Most recently Nick was President and Co-Founder at Lytiks, Inc. (acquired by Thrive Hive), a marketing analytics company in Boston, MA. Nick also created the web-TV show, 20onFive.com interviewing Boston area innovators. Prior to 5 years with Lytiks, Nick gained marketing experience with his own AdWords consultancy which he began in law school. Nick began his career in film with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter John Sayles, and later a stint in broadcast journalism with Emmy Award Winning journalist Charlie Rose. Nick holds a B.A. in English from Williams College.
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About Conversion Associates, PumpJack Dataworks: Pumpjack Dataworks is a Customer Data Platform designed to help Sports organizations know their customer base and increase their value.
Gaurav Khandelwal
CEO of ChaiOne
Gaurav Khandelwal’s strong desire to help clients accelerate business has driven him to challenge the status quo in enterprise web and mobile applications. A visionary in mobile strategy and technology innovation, Khandelwal has focused ChaiOne to create engaging products internally and for clients. Khandelwal received the 40 under 40 Award in 2009, and has led ChaiOne to top 10 finishes from 2010-2012 in the annual Houston Business Journal Fast Tech 50. Khandelwal also operates a local coworking space called START www.starthouston.com START is Houston’s leading tech coworking space for web and mobile startups.
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About ChaiOne, Velostics, YPO: Enterprise Mobile Design and Development
Carleton (Mickey) Miller
CEO, President & Board Member of Vislink
Mickey Miller is the CEO and President of Vislink Technologies.
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About Vislink: Vislink is a leading global technology business specializing in the provision of advanced communications to the broadcast.
Mohit Tiwari
Co-Founder, CEO of Symmetry Systems
Mohit Tiwari is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, His current research focuses on building secure systems, all the way from hardware to system software to applications that run on them. Tiwari and his team have designed and built the first secure processor that obfuscates all digital signal outputs, including even addresses to physical memory. This processor, implemented on a Convey FPGA-based server, can be used as a root of trust in datacenters where an attacker (a malicious employee, for example) has physical access to confidential computation. They are also working on a platform where users can control their privacy while using applications that span mobile and datacenter machines. We have prototyped an OS-level mandatory access control system that enforces policies across Android and server-side Linux machines, and developed a simple design pattern to express rich functionality in privacy preserving applications.
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About Symmetry Systems, The University of Texas at Austin: Symmetry Systems is a platform that detects, responds, and protects against data breaches.
Chris Steven Villanueva
Founder & CEO of MB2 Dental Solutions
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About MB2 Dental Solutions: MB2 Dental Solutions offers an array of services to streamline dental office management while maintaining a high quality of patient care.
James Hancock
Co-Founder/ CEO of Parasanti
James is an entrepreneur and executive in the Data Science and Machine Learning space. James lives in Dallas, TX and has extensive experience in the Public Sector and DoD space.
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About Parasanti: Parasanti is a powering the world’s edge infrastructure, to tame the cloud and bring it down to earth
Sean Erickson
CEO of One Touch Brands
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About One Touch Brands: One Touch Brands operationalizes virtual and instant mobile video connection technology for you to connect to your customers.
Sean Erickson
CEO of One Touch Brands
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About One Touch Brands: One Touch Brands operationalizes virtual and instant mobile video connection technology for you to connect to your customers.
Manohar R. Kesireddy
Founder/CEO of mroads
Manohar is responsible for day-to-day operations as well as leading the company’s product development and technology strategy. He has over 15 years of experience in corporate at various roles. He has successfully led development teams at Verizon Telecom. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Madras, India and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas. He is also holds several patents in technology and is a member of board for the non-profit organization India Dreams.
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About mroads: mroads is a niche tech start-up powering Pañña – an intuitive video interview platform built to find the right talent in the shortest time.
James Benham
Co-Founder & CEO of JBKnowledge
Founder and CEO of JBKnowledge, a bootstrapped IT consulting and SaaS company that has grown from 0 to 250 employees, 4 offices, 6 software products and thousands of clients worldwide. Experienced in IT strategy consulting, custom enterprise software architecture and development, Software as a Service design and deployment, Sales and Marketing. Heavily involved in the Insurance and Construction industries in software development, consulting and public speaking.
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About JBKnowledge, SmartCompliance, TerraClaim: JBKnowledge is a technology solutions firm specializing in SaaS development and IT Consulting for the construction and insurance industries.
Diane Gonzales
Founder, President & CEO of Netsync
Diane Gonzales, President and CEO, founded Netsync Network Solutions in 2002. She has grown the company to a multiregional IT consulting leader focused on client satisfaction, excellence, and fair business practices, while delivering the most innovative and sound solutions to Netsync’s clients. Under Diane’s guidance, Netsync established rock-solid relationships with Cisco and HP, leading to prestigious industry awards, such as Cisco’s 2014 SLED Education Partner of the Year and Break Away Partner of the Year US/Canada: South.
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About Netsync: Netsync specializes in collaboration & unified communications, data center and cloud, network infrastructure and others.
Scott Sparvero
CEO & Co-Founder of iland
Scott Sparvero is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iland Internet Solutions. Mr. Sparvero co-founded iland in 1995 with Brian Ussher, President. Initially created to provide websites and storefronts, iland grew as the Internet expanded, and network security demands intensified. Mr. Sparvero led iland to become a global provider of hosted VMware solutions, managed colocation and high speed IP network and data services for high-bandwidth customers, including SaaS, content providers, Fortune 1000 companies and technology start-ups. Mr. Sparvero oversees the execution of all aspects of the company’s sales, marketing, financial and operational services and along with Mr. Usher, is responsible for iland’s strategic direction and growth as a global provider of cloud infrastructure solutions. Prior to iland, Mr. Sparvero pursued a medical degree and interned as a Research Technician at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston where he authored two research papers published in the Journal of Molecular Biology and in Regulatory Molecular Biology.
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About iland: iland is a cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure, disaster recovery, and backup as a service.
David Zakariaie
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Senseye
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About Civil Air Patrol, Senseye: Senseye is a Neurotechnology company
Jeffrey J. Guy
Co-Founder & CEO of Sevco Security
J.J. Guy is co-founder & CEO of Sevco Security. Sevco is an enterprise security company helping IT and Security Operations Teams operationalize asset management. Before Sevco, J.J. CTO of JASK, the first cloud-native SaaS SIEM, acquired by Sumo Logic in 2019. J.J. was also part of the founding team of Carbon Black, where they created the first endpoint telemetry platform, which Gartner later branded Endpoint Detection and Response. Carbon Black’s telemetry enabled the industry to operationalize detection and response as part of day to day operations at a speed and efficiency not possible with traditional DFIR tools. Before Cb, he spent 12 years with various federal teams doing offensive network operations where he built his security foundation in vulnerability research, exploitation, enterprise networks and software development, . He’s been preaching about the inevitability of compromise since 2002. He’s excited the rest of the world final recognizes the problem so he’s no longer “that crazy government guy.”
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About Sevco Security: Sevco Security is a provider of cybersecurity services and products for cyber experts.
Chris Harman
Board Member, Co-Founder & CEO of Rail Yard
Chris is the CEO of Rail Yard. His career spans over 23 years of commercial and corporate real estate experience and he has most recently been working on the launch of Rail Yard®. Chris founded HCP Advisors, a boutique commercial real estate consulting firm, where he advises financial institutions and large corporate clients on real estate related matters, application development and business processes. For the past 10 years, he has focused on technology infrastructure agreements in large commercial buildings on behalf of several telecommunication clients. Chris is the co-founder of CNG Foundation supporting low-income housing and health care initiatives. Chris graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Economics and Finance. Chris survives on Mexican food, loves frequenting food trailers, boating on Lake Austin, fly fishing and escaping to Marfa and the mountains.
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About BBG, Harman Studio, HCP Advisors, Rail Yard: Rail Yard offers an information platform that enables businesses to find and order suitable telecom services.
Neil Smiley
Founder/CEO of Loopback
Neil Smiley is the founder and CEO of Loopback Analytics. Smiley started Loopback Analytics in 2009, after serving for 12 years as the founder and CEO of Phytel, a provider-led population health improvement company acquired by IBM Watson. Smiley started his professional career in management consulting with Accenture and later as a partner with EY, working with Fortune 1000 clients in the manufacturing, high tech, oil and gas, and transportation industries. Smiley serves as President of the Charles H. Hood Foundation, supporting child health research with leading institutions across New England and the Board of the Dartmouth Hood Museum of Art. Additionally, Smiley and his wife Judy are Auction Chairs for the Carson Leslie Foundation for pediatric cancer research. In 2013, Smiley was one of four finalists nominated for the Tech Titans Award for Emerging Technology Innovation in Dallas, and selected as one of the top 25 most influential persons in health care by the Dallas Business Journal. He serves as an active investor and mentor with Health Wildcatters, a health technology accelerator based in Dallas, working with emerging health care startups. Smiley’s passion is to build the kind of company where every employee feels connected to the mission of transforming the country’s health care system to benefit patients and providers. Smiley holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Dartmouth College.
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About Loopback: Loopback Analytics offers a management platform helping health systems identify at-risk patients, match intervention, and improve outcomes.
Brent Kelton
Chief Executive Officer of Ameri 100
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About Ameri 100: Ameri100 is a SAP Centric Cloud Digital Consulting Company.
Jeff Sunshine
CEO of Expert Knowledge Networks
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About Expert Knowledge Networks: The first comprehensive SaaS solution focused on connecting and engaging the various participants within an “innovation ecosystem.”
Logan Brown
President & CEO of Exodus Intelligence
Logan is responsible for handling the business side of things at Exodus. While his background in film production may not have prepared him for his computer security career, he quickly got up to speed in 2008 and has since published and presented original research on reverse engineering, fuzzing, and vulnerability discovery. Although most of his time is spent with managerial tasks, Logan takes every opportunity to aid the team in developing cutting-edge exploitation techniques and research.
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About Exodus Intelligence, San Jac Saloon: Exodus Intelligence provides actionable security information through a vulnerability intelligence data feed.
Lanham Napier
CEO & Builder of BuildGroup
Lanham Napier is Co-CEO at Build Acquisition Corp.
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About Build Acquisition Corp., BuildGroup: BuildGroup is a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power.
Wil Oxford
Founder, CEO of Anametric
Wil is founder and CEO of Bra-Ket Science, a spin-out from Southern Methodist University pursuing photonic quantum storage and logic devices. Wil received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from University of North Carolina in 1987, where he was a John Motley Morehead Scholar. His dissertation project was one of the world’s first tabletop E-beam testers for commercial ICs. After graduating, Wil went to Apple’s Advanced Technologies Group in Cupertino CA, where he worked on advanced DSP algorithms as well as mixed-signal IC designs for personal computer use. Among other things, Wil was responsible for the architecture and design of the audio subsystems for Apple’s award-winning multimedia computers and some components of Apple’s QuickTime multimedia software suite. In 1995, Wil moved to the joint Apple/IBM/Motorola Design Center in Austin, TX, where he was part of the team that produced several generations of PowerPC CPU designs. After Apple, Wil joined LifeSize Communications, where he developed breakthrough video and audio conferencing products. Wil was the primary designer of the LifeSize Phone; the world’s most advanced conference telephony system. He led a team of audio and manufacturing engineers to design and ship this ground-breaking product in less than 18 months from the day that he joined the company. LifeSize was acquired by multimedia giant Logitech in 2009. After LifeSize, Wil founded Rubicon Labs, Inc. and spent the next dozen years developing Rubicon’s Zero-Knowledge IoT security platform. His work resulted in both commercial products as well as a number of publications in the IoT security area. Rubicon’s IoT security platform is currently being used to provide secure identity services scaling over a wide range from very low-power edge devices to high performance server farm applications. Wil left Rubicon in 2017 to found Bra-Ket Science. He is the holder of 40 issued US patents, several foreign patents and has many more still pending.
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About Anametric: Anametric is developing new technologies and devices for chip scale quantum photonics, with a focus on cybersecurity
Patrick Cline
CEO of Lightbeam Health
Patrick Cline was Founder & President at NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.
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About Lightbeam Health: Lightbeam provides a single vendor platform that facilitates end-to-end population management.
Alex Ramirez
Co-Founder & CEO of CognitOps
Alex Ramirez co-founded CognitOps in 2018 after successfully building a Warehouse Execution Software company, Reddwerks, which was acquired by Dematic in 2015. Before Reddwerks, Alex helped Accenture and HighJump Software build warehouse management systems. Alex has spent over 20 years in the warehouse technology space and has helped countless organizations get the most out of their supply chain investments. In his CEO role, Alex serves the team by owning strategy, customer success, HR, and fundraising.
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About CognitOps: CognitOps specializes in the fields of SaaS, warehouse management, predictive analytics, and machine learning.
Luke Quanstrom
Founder and CEO of Ontic
Lukas Quanstrom is working as Founder and CEO at Ontic.
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About Ontic: We believe businesses around the world can be safer by serving intelligence to those who protect.
Maleka Momand
Co-Founder & CEO of Esper
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About Esper: Esper provides a platform for governments to create and manage public policy from a single dahsboard.
Jorge Ortiz
CEO/Founder of Varsity Hype
Houston native with a determination to create and implement creative solutions across the sports and tech space. Experienced founder and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the media, sports, and the technology sector of the start up world. Has a passion for numbers, data, action, and a massive curiosity for the formula that brings ideas to life.
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About Varsity Hype, VYPE Media: Varsity Hype aims to empower students, coaches and instructors, and the organizations they are part of to level the playing field.
Carl Hoemke
CEO, President of CrowdReason
Carl is an business executive turned entrepreneur. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at CrowdReason, LLC, a technology and human solutions developer based in Dallas, Texas. Our business focuses on three segment: Innovation, Funding, and Operations. See more at: http://www.crowdreason.com.
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About CrowdReason, Valentiam Group: Building Solutions for Innovation, Funding, and Operations using the power of the crowd.
Balaji Sreenivasan
Founder & CEO of Aurigo Software
Balaji Sreenivasan founded Aurigo Software in 2003 and has played a key role in product definition, customer success and capital raise. As CEO, Balaji works closely with customers, industry experts and partners to identify new markets and drive innovation.
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About Aurigo Software: A cloud-based capital program and project portfolio management software for infrastructure and private owners.
Ashley Rose
CEO of Living Security
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About Living Security: Living Security provides a human risk management solution that has been designed and developed specifically for CISOs, CIOs, and others.
Beto Altamirano
CEO/Co-founder of Irys
Beto Altamirano is the CEO and Co-founder at Irys.
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About Irys: Irys offers AI-driven tools that bring real-time visibility and data analytics for urban stakeholders.
Hubert Zajicek
Co-Founder, Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Health Wildcatters
Hubert Zajicek is CEO & Co-founder of Health Wildcatters, a healthcare seed fund and accelerator in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital and guidance to up to 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 12 week program which culminates in a pitch day annually. Health Wildcatters three funds are invested in over 30 healthcare startup companies. Dr. Zajicek has extensive experience with startups and is an active speaker, panelist and thought leader on healthcare innovation, startups, entrepreneurship & financing. He serves as advisor, mentor and board member on various organizations and startup companies. He was managing director – medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center), where he ran what eventually became the Southwest’s largest medtech investment conference, showcasing startups that attracted in excess of $300M. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the Departments of Internal medicine and Cell Biology. He is president and founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs – DFW chapter, co-founder & partner of Lone Star Angels and is on the Board of the Southwest Venture Forum. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU.
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About Health Hacking Crisis Network, Health Wildcatters: Health Wildcatters is a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on improving healthcare by supporting entrepreneurs and healthcare startups.
Ryan Pape
President & Chief Executive Officer of Xpel Technologies Corp.
Ryan serves as Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer and has served in various other capacities in operations and technology within the company for over six years. Prior to joining the Corporation, Ryan was in technology consulting. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Xpel Technologies Corp.: Xpel Technologies Corp is a leading supplier of automotive paint and headlamp protection.
Scott Francis
Founder & CEO of BP3 Global, Inc
Scott Francis is the Founder & CEO at BP3 Global.
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About BP3 Global, Inc: BP3 gives people faster ways to get things done. Digital Process Automation Experts.
Christopher Payson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reach Wireline
Christopher Payson, also known as Chris, founded Reach Wireline, LLC in and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Christopher Payson has been President of CDK Perforating , overseeing a tremendous period of growth. Christopher Payson served as an Executive Vice President and President of US Completions of Nine Energy Service, Inc. Christopher Payson served as President of US Wireline at Nine Energy Service, Inc. and served as its Vice President of United States Wireline. Prior to that, he was an active owner and operator of American Eagle Raingutters. He began his career in Jacksboro, Texas, as a correction’s officer, then shift supervisor with Lindsey Correctional Facility.
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About Reach Wireline: A Fort Worth, Texas-based provider of cased hole wireline and pumpdown services to exploration and production companies.
Dennis Cagan
CEO of Caganco Incorporated
Mr. Cagan is a high-technology industry executive and successful entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded over a dozen different companies, and in addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Cagan has been a c-level executive (both public and private companies), consultant, venture capitalist, private investor, and professional board member – 66 for-profit corporate boards. In 2011 he was elected to the IT Hall of Fame – Channel Wing, administered by CompTIA. In 2017 Mr. Cagan published his book, ‘The Board of Directors of a Private Enterprise’, available on Amazon and B&N. Dennis is an internationally recognized authority in information technology, including Internet, software, hardware, and communications, in the disciplines of strategy, sales, distribution channels, marketing, services, logistics, and distribution. On more than one occasion Mr. Cagan has been responsible for international sales and has actively done business in 35 countries. He has authored dozens of articles and spoken frequently. In 1979 he was the Keynote Speaker at the first COMDEX Show in Las Vegas. In 1976 he founded the David Jamison Carlyle Corp. (his 5th start-up), turning it into one of the country’s largest distributors of computer peripherals, and taking DJC public (NASDAQ) in 1981. Over the years Mr. Cagan has had consulting relationships with companies large and small including AT&T, IBM, Digital, BellSouth, Kodak, Xerox, General Electric, TRW, Wang, U.S. West, and others. Since 1985 Mr. Cagan has served as a shadow or interim C-level executive usually for companies where he was already a member of the Board. Before returning to his consulting practice, Caganco Incorporated, in 2011, Mr. Cagan served as CEO of NL Systems LLC (dba Encryptics) in Frisco, TX, an information assurance/encryption/secure content management software firm; and SureBooks LLC, based in McKinney, TX, a SaaS company providing financial services and processing for small-medium size businesses and accounting firms. The Cagan’s moved from Santa Barbara to Dallas when, from May 2006 to July 2008, Mr. Cagan stepped in as a Board Member and served as the Chairman, CEO and President of TWL Corporation (TWLO.OB). Prior to running TWL Dennis founded, and still runs, the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC, a private incubator and investment firm engaged primarily in working with and investing in early-stage technology companies. Mr. Cagan currently serves on several corporate Boards of Directors. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he majored in economics, and he has an honorable discharge from the USMC. Mr. Cagan and his wife Angelia live in Plano, TX with their youngest of four daughters, and are active in their church. See www.linkedin.com/in/denniscagan or Google “dennis cagan”
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About Caganco Incorporated, GovernX LLC: Shadow CEO® Counseling entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders/owners on establishing, scaling and governance since 1983 Consulting Mentoring Advising
Paul Snow
CEO of Factom
Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Inventor of the Factom protocol and a co-founder of Factom Inc., Paul has spent 30+ years writing compilers, interpreters, protocols, and rules engines. An early adopter of Bitcoin, he organized Passing Bitcoin Around the World in 2013, a stunt highlighting the speed at which value can be exchanged around the world. He continues to run meetups, speaks, and even testifies before Congress about Bitcoin and crypto technology.
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About Factom: Factom, Inc. is a blockchain innovations company providing blockchain as a service platforms.
JC Adams
Founder and CEO of Cloud 9
JC Adams is Founder and CEO at Cloud 9.
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About Cloud 9: Cloud 9 creates a dual treatment solution for behavioral healthcare prevention and intervention.
Rick Seger
Founder, Chairman & CEO of SigmaSense
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About 3AxisData, SigmaSense: SigmaSense provides a digital and fully-scalable sensing technology to solve the noise immunity and tuning challenges of touch sensors.
Jed Somers
Founder & CEO of Carbic
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About Carbic: Carbic builds sensor technology to monitor flow behavior in fluid systems.
Emma Fauss
Chief Executive Officer of Medical Informatics Corp
Emma Fauss is CEO Medical Informatics Corp.
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About Medical Informatics Corp: Medical Informatics offers solutions that give care teams access to the data they need to take action for alarm management and safety.
Sean Menke
President and CEO of Sabre Corporation
As president, Sean Menke is responsible for the overall performance of Sabre Travel Network, the world’s leading provider of high-performance travel solutions. Before joining Sabre, Menke served as the chief operations officer and executive vice president of Hawaiian Airlines overseeing the airline’s flight operations, in-flight services, customer service, maintenance and engineering, safety and regulatory security, operations planning and scheduling, and performance engineering and operations analytics. Previously, he was executive vice president of resources at IHS Inc., a global information technology company. Menke’s career in the travel industry spans more than 20 years in executive leadership for the areas of marketing, customer experience, strategy, planning, sales, distribution and revenue management with Air Canada, United Airlines, Western Pacific Airlines and America West Airlines. He has served in the role of president and CEO for both Pinnacle Airlines and Frontier Airlines using his experience in commercial, operational and financial areas of the business. Menke is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys participating in marathons, ultra-marathons, cycling, snow skiing and spending time with his wife and three boys. He earned his MBA from the University of Denver and dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Aviation from Ohio State University. Sean is the incoming CEO and President of Sabre, effective December 31, 2016.
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About Sabre Corporation: Sabre Corporation is a U.S.-based travel technology company providing software solutions to the travel industry.
Stephen J Thomas
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of TPT Global Tech
Previously, Mr. Thomas was founder and CEO of Trans Pacific Telecom Group, Inc. and prior to that was president and CEO of New Orbit Communications. In 2002, as CEO of Trans Pacific Telecom Group, Mr. Thomas was featured on CBS MarketWatch for winning “Product of the Year Award for 2002” at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo widely considered the number one global event focused on voice, video, fax and data convergence. Award winning VIVOware is a feature-rich billing and customer care software application. It provides complete Web-enabled call detail record tracking, rating and routing, call completion reporting, automated customer invoicing and payment gateway, reporting and management tools with automated domestic and International rate tables, trouble tickets, and more. During his employment with New Orbit, Mr. Thomas worked extensively throughout Latin America, gaining extensive expertise and resources in the international telecom marketplace. Mr. Thomas has also served as Director of Network Optimization/Validation for WorldxChange Communications, one of the largest privately held facilities-based telecommunications company with headquarters in San Diego, California and international operations all over the globe. His responsibilities included Cost Assurance for expenses in excess of $500M per annum. Mr. Thomas attended Northeastern University majoring in Finance and Management.
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About TPT Global Tech: TPT Global Tech provides Technology solutions to businesses domestically and worldwide.
Vamsi Bollineni
CEO of Access Global Group Inc
Technologist, Entrepreneur & Investor.
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About Access Global Group Inc: Access Global Group is a global Technology Services and Technology Consulting company based in the US, Canada, and India.
Andrew Bruce
CEO of Data Gumbo
Andrew Bruce is the founder and CEO at Data Gumbo, a Houston-based technology company creating an interconnected blockchain network to streamline smart contracts management for industrial companies, such as oil and gas.
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About Data Gumbo: The smart contract network company trusted by global industrial enterprises
Jared Huke
CEO of Daito Design
Jared Huke helps the enterprise mobilize their workforce with a blend of contextual mobility and predictive User Centered Design. With a focus on utility, he has lead teams into the darkest corners of corporate infrastructure to bring these large companies to modern, mobile world. His specialties are user experience, product design, ethnographic and strategic research.He has 1000’s hours of oil field and field logistic research work.
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About Daito Design: UX, UCD, design firm focused on enterprise transformation
Brian Borack
CEO of RelayiQ
CEO and Co-Founder RelayiQ. COO at SoftServe. Entrepreneur. Angel Investor
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About RelayiQ: SaaS Solution to deliver insights from data that are prescriptive and measurable. Solves the last mile problem with current BI solutions.
Chris Slaughter
Co-Founder & CEO of LVL
Chris Slaughter is a Founder & CEO at Lynx Laboratories.
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About LVL, Lynx Laboratories: LVL is an FDIC-insured mobile banking app where you can exchange cash & Bitcoin for free & invest easily with Autopilot.
Derek Morkel
Chief Executive Officer of GAFFEY Healthcare
Derek Morkel serves as Chief Executive Officer of GAFFEY Healthcare. With more than 20 years of experience in both the health care and technology industries, Morkel leads the overall strategic direction of the company and oversees operations, growth strategy and financial performance. Previously, Morkel served as Senior Vice President at MedCath Corporation, Operations CFO at IASIS Healthcare, CEO US Operations for Craneware, Hospital CFO at Province Healthcare (now Lifepoint), and Division Director Finance HCA. Morkel earned a bachelor’s degree from Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa and a master’s degree in health care administration from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.
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About GAFFEY Healthcare, HealthTechS3: GAFFEY Healthcare provides next-generation, cloud-based revenue cycle technology and services.
Michael Walsh
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cariloop
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About Cariloop: Cariloop’s caregiver support platform relieves the anxiety of caring for a loved one while working a full-time job.
Aju Koshy
CEO of ConvergePoint
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About ConvergePoint: ConvergePoint is the leading compliance software provider on the SharePoint and Office 365 platforms.
Brad Lawler
Co Founder CEO of DRAFT
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About DRAFT: Draft offers a modern suite of analytics and communication tools built to help wealth advisors win and retain assets.
