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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 Founder operating in the Software space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder of Superhuman
Co-Founder: Superhuman, LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) | Seed Investor: SaaS, Future of Work, productivity, collaboration, messaging, creator economy, no-code/low-code, automation, data platforms, prosumer, consumer (mobile, social, fintech), select moonshots
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
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.
Jason Chicola
Founder, CEO of Rev.com
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About Rev.com: Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Ryan Rafols
Founder & CEO of Newchip
Engineer, army veteran, and founder of 3 startups. Ryan graduated at 15, founded his first startup at 17 and has 10+ years experience building international teams, 7+ years in public and private sector fundraising, corporate boards, working with regulators and lobbying.
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About Astralabs, Newchip: Newchip is a global Remote Startup Accelerator.
Greg Mercer
Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout
Greg Mercer is the Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout.
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About Downstream, Jungle Scout: Jungle Scout is a platform for finding, launching, and selling products on Amazon.
George Baker Sr.
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of ParkHub
Entrepreneurial, practical, and a visionary. These words seem somewhat contradictory, but these words truly describe George’s leadership style. His experience and education have led him to the point where he is today – building his own brand in the parking industry and beyond. Even though he has big ideas, he possesses the pragmatism to see the limitations, challenges and obstacles at hand. He believes in others and enjoys building teams and driving innovation through collaborative effort. This team-first ethos forms the foundation upon which George built ParkHub into the successful and driven organization that it is today. George has nearly 17 years of hands-on experience in the parking realm, focusing on managing the parking operations of class-A office garage facilities and comparable top-tier parking operations across the continental United States. He prides himself on deep domain knowledge of the event parking space and providing a comprehensive suite of services both software and hardware to support his ever-growing clientele therein. In order to consistently exceed customer expectations in the event-parking space, ParkHub provides logistics and occupancy management services, as well as cutting-edge insights into parking management. Truly, George is reshaping the parking universe, one satisfied customer at a time. When he’s not modernizing the parking world, he’s at his home in Dallas, Texas, spending time with his wife Chelsey and their two children, George II and Kuper. George graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s of Science in Regional Development | City Planning. George is a proud Eagle Scout, Past Worshipful Master of his Texas Masonic Lodge, winner of the 2016 Greater Dallas Business Ethics Award, multiple recipient of the National Parking Association 40 under 40 award, 2016 finalist of EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and devoted member his local Highland Park United Methodist Church congregation.
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About ParkHub: ParkHub is a technology company that provides software and hardware for the destination industry.
Nathan Sportsman
Founder and CEO of Praetorian
As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. He also holds the additional duties of CTO where he is responsible for overseeing the innovation and development engine of the company keeping the firm well positioned to defeat the ever evolving cybersecurity threat. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 86%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering). Nathan holds a BS in electrical & computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Arthur Veytsman
Co-Founder/CEO of Immerss
Co-Founder of Immerss.
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About Immerss: Anchored around live video, Immerss offers a suite of engagement and monetization tools designed for D2C brands.
Danielle Allen
Partner & Co-Founder of ATX Venture Partners
Danielle Weiss Allen is Partner + Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at ATX Venture Partners. Danielle graduated from Tulane University (2001) and earned an MBA focusing on Finance & Investments from the Zicklin School of Business in 2005. She spent 14 years on Wall Street at top hedge funds, private equity firms, and investment banks including JPMorgan, Nomura and Millennium. She has been responsible for investor relations, product management, marketing, business development, and infrastructure design. Currently Danielle is a mentor for TechStars as well as other startups in the area. Danielle is a native New Yorker and proud Texas transplant. Knows what it means to excel in ludicrous mode. Learned from Wall Street mentors and the clients she serves. Favorite Superhero is Captain Jack Sparrow.
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About ATX Venture Partners: ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software, APIs, frontier tech, marketplaces, and applications.
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.
Darren Morris
COO and Co-Founder of Gradient Cyber
Darren Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Gradient Cyber.
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About Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Paul Bettner
Founder & CEO of Playful Studios
Paul Bettner has been creating beloved entertainment for 20 years, including the smash hit Words With Friends. He started Playful Corp in 2012 and recently launched Lucky’s Tale, a delightful platforming adventure bundled with every Oculus Rift.
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About Playful Studios: Playful is a new game development studio in McKinney, TX. Our team has shipped beloved titles such as Words with Friends.
Katy Drake Bettner
Co-Founder of Playful Studios
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About Playful Studios: Playful is a new game development studio in McKinney, TX. Our team has shipped beloved titles such as Words with Friends.
Rob Taylor
Co-Founder & CEO of Convey
Rob has two decades of experience on founding teams and early stage operations, including four venture backed businesses and two IPOs. Rob currently serves as Co-Founder & CEO of Pivot Freight, a SaaS software company helping companies that ship freight manage their supply chains. Previously, Rob was President of BlackLocus, a SaaS software company focused on pricing and assortment intelligence for retail and acquired by The Home Depot in late 2012. Prior to BlackLocus, Rob was one of the early execs at TrueCar, Inc, an auto pricing and buying service disrupting the way cars are bought and sold, where he started and scaled Truecar.com. Rob was also a founding team member of Pricelock, another disruptive software company helping companies and individuals protect against fuel and commodity price volatility. Rob lives in Austin, TX with his wife Renee and toddlers Jack and Grant. Rob’s passion outside of family and startups is road cycling in Texas hill country.
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About BlackLocus, Capital Factory, Convey: We leverage unique intelligence to transform customer delivery into a competitive advantage for the world’s largest retailers.
Bill Boebel
Founder & CEO of Pingboard
CEO and founder of Pingboard.
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About Capital Factory, Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Robert Eanes
Founder & CTO of Pingboard
Founder & CTO at Pingboard
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About Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Matthew Cox
Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of ARK Ecosystem, SCIC (ARK.io)
Matthew is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Strategist at ARK.io. His work has contributed to some of the top projects in the industry and represented a combined $4 billion in market capitalization at the height of the bull run in December 2017. Prior to his work at ARK, Matthew served 17 years with the United States Department of Defense as a former Intelligence & Cybersecurity analyst. He also served as co-founder and Communications Director at Crypti, the first Javascript Blockchain Platform and predecessor to the technology that powers both ARK and Lisk. He is currently dedicated to the growth and expansion of the ARK Ecosystem.
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About ARK Ecosystem, SCIC (ARK.io), CyberWerks: ARK is a modular platform for rapid blockchain development.
Brett Koetsier
Co-Founder of GovInvest
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About GoDaddy, GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Manish Patel
Founder, CEO of RealYields
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About Arrive Logistics, Mighty Equities, RealYields, SeedSumo, Springdale Ventures: RealYields is an intuitive and relevant real estate financial analysis on the web.
Blair Garrou
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Mercury
Since the late 90’s, Blair Garrou has focused on funding, operating and incubating startup software companies. Blair’s current investments include Alert Logic, Donde, Filament Labs, GameSalad, Graphicly, Koupon Media, Molecule Software, ShareThis, and Vistar Media. Blair’s previous investments have included Alert Logic (Welsh Carson), BlackLocus (Home Depot), Infochimps (CSC), Phurnace Software (BMC Software), FuelQuest (Saracen Energy), Intermat (IHS) and SAT Corporation (Invensys). Blair is a Managing Director of Mercury Fund, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm that makes investments in compelling and novel software and science-based startup opportunities, focusing on technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent. Since inception in 2005, Mercury has become one of the most active seed-stage venture firms in the Midcontinent, becoming a “go-to” fund for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of idea generation, company formation, and market execution. Blair is also a co-founder of SURGE Accelerator (Houston, TX), a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on entrepreneurs seeking to solve the world’s energy problems using software. Blair is also a mentor with seed accelerators The Brandery (Cincinnati, OH) and TechStars (Austin, Chicago, San Antonio). Prior to co-founding Mercury, Blair was the CEO of Intermat (NYSE: IHS), a leader in product information management software; a Principal with Genesis Park, a Houston-based private equity firm; helped launch and was the Director of Operations for the Houston Technology Center, the largest tech incubator in the Southwest, where he led the formation of the Houston Angel Network. Blair received a B.S. in Management from Washington & Lee University.
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About Mercury, Rice University, Topl: Early-stage venture capital firm investing in SaaS, cloud, and data platforms across Middle America.
Dan Watkins
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Mercury
Dr. Watkins is a Managing Director of DFJ Mercury, a venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in the sciences and software sectors in the mid-continent region. He is actively investing in both energy related physical sciences startups and life sciences startups. Prior to co-founding DFJ Mercury, Dr. Watkins was the founder and Managing Partner of A3 Associates, a venture firm focused on seed-stage investments in university and research center-based technology transfer opportunities. Dr. Watkins received his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Rice University and his MS and Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently serves on the advisory boards of BioHouston, the Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship, and Northwestern University’s Innovation and New Ventures Office.
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About Mercury, Mercury Data Science, Sonexis Technology: Early-stage venture capital firm investing in SaaS, cloud, and data platforms across Middle America.
Hamid Ansari
President & Co-Founder of Prodea
Hamid Ansari is President and Co-Founder and brings more than 25 years of entrepreneurial experience building and deploying technology products and services worldwide. His expertise in strategic positioning, mergers and acquisitions has resulted in several successful business transactions with values ranging from tens of millions to more than a billion dollars. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Hamid co-founded telecom technologies, inc., where he managed a professional services organization and oversaw the creation and worldwide deployment of four carrier-class products. Hamid served as the company’s President until its successful merger with Sonus Networks (Nasdaq: SONS) in 2001. Hamid launched his career at MCI, where he was part of a small group of pioneers in the world of telecommunications divestitures. As part of the advanced engineering group, his contributions led to the development and implementation of new products and services and resulted in one of the most technically advanced telecommunications networks in the world. Later, Hamid headed the advanced data communications network division of an international consulting company in support of World Bank projects in Africa and the Middle East. Hamid has completed advanced credits towards a doctorate of communications. He earned a master’s degree in computer science and telecommunications from George Washington University.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
Amir Ansari
Co-Founder & CTO of Prodea
An inventor and serial entrepreneur, Amir Ansari brings more than 16 years of experience to Prodea Systems, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Amir served in the intelligent IP division of Sonus Networks(Nasdaq: SONS), a provider of IP-based voice infrastructure products. There he was responsible for providing technical guidance and direction in deploying one of the industry’s first soft switches in a carrier network. Amir joined Sonus via its acquisition of Telecom Technologies, Inc., where he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. There Amir led efforts to design and deploy the INtelligentIP (INIP) Softswitch, the most robust and scalable product of its type. Telecom Technologies’ client list consisted of Fortune 500 companies such as WorldCom, Qwest Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and AT&T. Under Amir’s stewardship as Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Technologies earned recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies and Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 500 technology companies. Amir is a member of the XPRIZE Foundation’s Vision Circle and its Board of Trustees. Together with his family, he was a title sponsor for the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million cash award for the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Amir is actively involved with several non-profit organizations that strive for social development. He has co-authored numerous technical papers and filed several U.S. patents in the areas of voice over IP and multimedia services. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
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.
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.
Chris Richter
Co-Founder & CEO of FloorFound
Chris is a 15 year veteran startup sales leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success with high profile, VC backed B2B SAS and enterprise software companies. Chris has expertise across eCommerce and Social Media and developing market opportunities for companies in the media, financial services, retail, CPG and manufacturing verticals. Chris was an early employee and sales leader with companies including Webify, Bazaarvoice and the Founder of Socialware which has become the market leader in the social media compliance solutions category.
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About FloorFound: FloorFound is a developer of an e-commerce software platform that facilitates returns and resales of oversized products for retailers.
James Layfield
Co-Founder of Clearfind
Im a serial entrepreneur & investor, I love to catalyze innovation to positively change the status quo. I have a passion for many sectors from property to financial technology. Moved to Austin and I’m currently disrupting the way we manage software as Cofounder of Clearfind.com Also, I invest through theTreasury.com exclusively in Fintech
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About City of London, Clearfind: Clearfind is a developer of a software management platform designed to provide data-driven insight.
Jeffrey DeCoux
CEO and Founder of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Colin Guinn
President and Founder of Hangar Technology
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About Guinn Partners, Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
James McAndrew
CTO and Founder of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Christopher Ciabarra
CTO and Co Founder of Athena Security
Co-founder, CTO at Athena Security
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About : Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Josh Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Solovis
Josh brings a wealth of experience in investment management having worked in various investment capacities and as a consultant for investment management organizations. Josh has spent time in multiple roles as an analyst, investment team member, operations associate and subsequently, to a head of technology creating a software platform that helped a large outsourced CIO manage operations, risk and daily investment activities. After consulting for family offices, endowments and fund of funds, his passion for improving operational efficiencies and helping investment professionals make more informed decisions led Josh to co-found Solovis – the first true multi-asset class portfolio management and reporting application focused exclusively on the limited partner community.
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About Solovis, VRGL: Solovis is a multi-asset class portfolio management, analytics and reporting technology platform, designed for institutional investors.
Efstathios Maroulis
Founder and CEO of Jarvis Analytics
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About Henry Schein One, Jarvis Analytics, Mesasix: Jarvis is a business intelligence (BI) platform that is a leader in end-to-end data analytics solutions for dental support organizations
Kenny Tomlin
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of AnthemIQ
Kenny Tomlin is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at AnthemIQ.
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About AnthemIQ, CourtAvenue, Elevate Growth Partners, Kasita, Kimber Modern Boutique Hotel, SubVRsive: We build technology that helps Commercial Real Estate brokers manage their deals from search to signed lease.
Chris Skyles
Co-Founder & CGO of AnthemIQ
Chris Skyles is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at AnthemIQ.
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About AnthemIQ: We build technology that helps Commercial Real Estate brokers manage their deals from search to signed lease.
David Cantu
Co-Founder/ Chief Customer Officer of HotSchedules
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About HotSchedules: HotSchedules provides mobile, cloud-based technology for the restaurant, retail and hospitality industries.
William Hurley
Founder & CEO of Strangeworks
William Hurley “whurley” is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup based in Austin, Texas. Whurley’s career has spanned over 25 years, founding startups such as Honest Dollar and Chaotic Moon Studios, as well as working in technical leadership roles for Apple, IBM, and Goldman Sachs. Prior to founding Strangeworks, Whurley was managing director at Goldman Sachs which he came to through the acquisition of Honest Dollar; a fintech startup that offers a retirement savings platform that simplifies and brings transparency to the investment products available for a range of consumers. Whurley is dedicated to fostering collaboration and establishing unified metrics and standards across the quantum computing community. He partnered with StackOverflow to create the world’s largest community of quantum computing developers, and currently serves as the Chair of the Quantum Standards Working Group at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is leading the development of the first quantum commuting standards, PAR7130 “Standard for Quantum Computing Definitions” and PAR 7131 “Standard for Quantum Computing Performance Metrics for Performance Benchmarking”. Whurley is committed to making quantum computing more accessible and improving quantum literacy. His latest book, “Quantum Computing For Babies,” offers simple explanations of quantum computing for the youngest audiences and is one of the best selling books on quantum computing. His upcoming book, Endless Impossibilities, continues his mission of improving quantum computing literacy and helps readers understand the potential of quantum computing. Whurley is a regular contributor to TechCrunch and regularly speaks around the world on the potential power and impact of quantum computing and what quantum needs to succeed. He has received numerous awards and recognitions including being named a 2018 Eisenhower Fellow, the 2012 International Genius Grant recipient, and an IBM Master Inventor. Whurley is an advocate and works on a range of issues he cares about, including diversity and equality. Whurley is a founding partner of UN Women; ‘EQUALS’: The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age bringing together partners across sectors to bridge the gender gap in technology by championing equality of access, skills development, and career opportunities.
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About CERN & Society Foundation, Ecliptic Capital, Eisenhower Fellowships, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strangeworks: Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com
Justin Youens
Co-Founder & CTO of Strangeworks
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About Strangeworks: Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com
Jon Fry
Founder & CEO of Lendflow
Founder & CEO at ChannelGrowth
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About ChannelGrowth, FoodEagle, Lendflow, Quickline Credit: Lendflow makes it easy for software companies to embed lending services into their product.
Paul Azunre
Founder and Chief Architect of Algorine
Mathematician, engineer, software developer, machine learning scientist. Presently serves as Founder and Chief Architect at Algorine Inc. Previously served as Director of AI Research at New Knowledge. Received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and his Masters Degree (M.Sc.) in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to that he received a Bachelors Degree in Science (B.Sc.) as well as a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Engineering and Economics respectively from Swarthmore College.
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About Algorine: Develops advanced optimization & machine learning software for improved system design, e.g., solar, optics, vehicle routing, NLP
Saritha Katikaneni
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Zenoti
Saritha Katikaneni is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Marketing at Zenoti.
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About Zenoti: Zenoti is a provider of cloud-based software for the spa and salon industries.
Sriram Vishwanath
President and Co-Founder of GenXComm
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About BrilliantMD, GenXComm, The University of Texas at Austin: GenXComm enables true full duplex for next generation communications infrastructure.
Stephen Gartside
Co-Founder of GenXComm
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About GenXComm: GenXComm enables true full duplex for next generation communications infrastructure.
Ravi Parikh
CEO / Founder of RoverPass
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About Code Galaxy, RoverPass, StoryBuilt: RoverPass develops a reservation management system software to make reservations online and track the availability of the site.
Steve Winn
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of RealPage
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President Steve Winn is a true visionary who has continually identified revolutionary business concepts and aggressively pursued their development. Before acquiring RealPage, Steve was president of Research Institute of America (RIA), the largest provider of information services to the accounting industry, with more than $300 million in annual revenue. He was also president and CEO of Computer Language Research, a publicly traded company that was a leader in tax compliance, tax research, and accounting software. Accounting Today recognized him as one of the 100 most influential people in the accounting industry. His foresight led to the development of the largest web-based application in the accounting industry, supporting more than 100,000 accountants in the United States. Similar technology is now being applied to develop RealPages on-demand systems for the multifamily industry. Steve is a member of the board of directors of the National Multi Housing Council and a member of the Real Estate Council. He has also served as a member of the Stanford University Sloan Board, the American Business Conference, St. Marks Board of Trustees, and the American Electronics Association. As a nationally recognized expert on multifamily issues, Steve has spoken at such events as the National Apartment Association Education Conference and Expo, Multi-Housing World, the Multifamily Trends Conference, the Real Estate Council Conference Group, the National Multi Housing Council Technology Conference, the U.S. Apartment Market Conference, and the Texas Apartment Market Conference. In January 2002, Steve was one of five people recognized by the National Apartment Association as a true leader in the multifamily industry. In January 2006, Multifamily Executive magazine named Steve as one of the 30 men and women who are shaping the multifamily industry.
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About RealPage: RealPage is a provider of cloud-based software for managing multi-family real estate.
Zane Lackey
Founder & Chief Security Officer of Signal Sciences
Zane Lackey is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly) and the Author of Building a Modern Security Program (O’Reilly Media). He serves on multiple advisory boards and is an investor in modern cybersecurity and DevOps companies. Prior to co-founding Signal Sciences, Zane lead a security team at the forefront of the DevOps/Cloud shift as CISO of Etsy.
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About Elevate Security, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Lael Alexander
Founder & President of Noitavonne
Lael Alexander Founder of Noitavonne™ ™ and inventor of the IP Loop Connectivity Protocol (802.11L) studied at Grambling State University prior to leaving school to join the Navy where he earned a commendation from the Admiral and The Navy Achievement Medal for his innovations in the development of a retention program for Naval human resources. After leaving the Navy he worked in the oil and gas sector where he continued to innovate new processes leading to the development of new roles designations in the refinery environment. After 14 years in oil and gas he formed PREMARC Turnkey Systems followed by Tide Wind Energy and Smart Grid Systems all of which ultimately led to the technological breakthroughs that gave birth to Noitavonne™ and a catalog of emerging devices. The visionary behind this products and services offered by Noitavonne, Lael A. Alexander, has a knack for building upon ideas to continually improve on what others might deem perfection. However, it is his experience in technology that spans decades and crosses multiple functional industry sectors ranging from healthcare to energy related segments that continue to prove up his concepts from a practitioners approach. The emergence of this technology and the devices in which it is currently being implemented has caused a seismic shift in the collective paradigm around how the world views mobility and impact how tablets, phones and personal computers as network devices will be used.
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About Noitavonne, Shenzhen Noitavonne Electronics and Appliance Corporation, Siecom International Holdings Limited: Noitavonne is a manufacturer and supplier of workstations, tablet computers, mobile phones, and smart watches.
Rene Larrave
CEO & Founder of CommandHound
Rene Larrave is the Chairman & Founder at MangoChango SA.
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About Altenbach Partners, Calatestra Partners, CommandHound, Cox School of Business, MangoChango, Motopia Club: CommandHound is a B2B software platform focused on enabling accountability to drive business performance.
AJ Bruno
Founder & CEO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Cole Evetts
Co-Founder & COO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Peter Bonanni
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Muxy
Peter Bonanni is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Muxy.
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About Muxy: Muxy provides tools to make live broadcasters and brands successful at reaching millions of viewers.
Ram Garg
Founder and CEO of Software Assurance, LLC
Ram Garg, a serial entrepreneur is Founder and CEO at Software Assurance, LLC; a Dallas-based IT company offering Web, Mobile App Development and Testing Services. He has 25+ years of extensive experience in global IT and Software Industry with strong business acumen and technical agility. He has held wide range of leadership roles and executed mission critical projects while managing diverse global teams. Ram has worked with fortune 500 companies and, provided consulting services to companies such as IBM, Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu. He has extensive experience in working for diverse domains such as mobility and telecom, cloud/SaaS, finance, e-Commerce, gaming & entertainment, human resource, hospitality, real estate, education, etc. Ram is founding member of SID Information Framework (initiated by TM Forum Standards) which is used world-wide by most of the telecom solutions providers. He has served on Board of PMI Service & Outsourcing SIG and various other companies. Recently, he has joined YooLotto Board of Directors. As an Angel Investor, Ram has been actively involved in fueling entrepreneurial growth in Dallas Fort Worth Area. Over the last few years; he has invested in various fast growing Technology Startups and, additionally, is helping them with his technology expertise. Ram is a published author, and as an international speaker he has talked on topics focusing on how to deliver outsourced projects successfully.
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About appbiz360, Software Assurance, LLC, Tech Wildcatters, YooLotto: Web, Mobile App Development and Testing Solutions company
Brandon Metcalf
CEO & Founder of Place
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About Blueprint Advisory, Place: Place Technology is a developer of strategic finance software for SaaS companies.
Saurav Agarwal
Co-Founder, CEO of SIERA.AI
Saurav has worked at Qualcomm Research developing multiple patents for autonomous drones. He has won the prestigious Qualcomm Padovani Fellowship for his work along with National Innovation Awards and NSF I-Corps.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
Star Carter
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kanarys
Star Carter is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Kanarys. Kanarys is a technology company focused on partnering with organizations to build more inclusive workplace cultures. Kanarys is committed to creating a world where diversity is sought after, inclusiveness is honored and equity is evident.
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About Kanarys: Kanarys is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion focused SaaS platform providing clear metrics to diagnose, prioritize and optimize DEI efforts.
Mandy Price
Co-Founder and CEO of Kanarys
Mandy Price is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kanarys. Kanarys is a social enterprise that works with organizations to build more inclusive cultures, and is committed to creating a world where diversity is sought after, inclusiveness is honored and equity is evident.
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About Kanarys: Kanarys is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion focused SaaS platform providing clear metrics to diagnose, prioritize and optimize DEI efforts.
Alex Pinchev
Co-Founder and Chairman of FieldPulse
Alex Pinchev is an Executive Vice President and President of Global Sales and Marketing at Rackspace since January 2016. Alex oversees Rackspace’s sales and marketing organizations and is responsible for driving the company’s growth as the leader in managed cloud services. Alex brings more than 30 years of technology industry experience to Rackspace. From 2003 to 2012, Alex led sales, services and marketing at Red Hat and helped increase the company’s revenue tenfold to more than $1 billion. While at Red Hat, Alex built key relationships with many Fortune 1000 companies and launched a global partner network with major original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, independent software vendors and system integrators. After leaving Red Hat, Alex served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Acronis, a leader in data protection and disaster recovery software. Alex was most recently Chief Executive Officer at Capri Ventures, which helps tech companies develop go-to-market strategies, sales scalability and business modeling to accelerate growth. Alex currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at XebiaLabs, OneCloud Software, Apprenda and Logi Analytics. Alex holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University ITMO in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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About Capri Ventures, FieldPulse, Rackspace: FieldPulse is an all-in-one application to run your mobile service business – available on iOS, Android, and computer WebApp.
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.
Matthew Wensing
Founder of Summit
Matthew Wensing is the Founder at Summit.
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About Stormpulse, Summit: Summit is a computer software company.
Jason Story
Co-Founder and VP of Business Development of ReturnSafe
Jason Story currently works as Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at ReturnSafe. He previously worked at Interlock Partners as Founding Partner.
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About ReturnSafe: The first end to end platform for managing infectious disease.
Lyal Avery
Founder & CEO of PullRequest
Lyal Avery is the founder & CEO of PullRequest, a Google-backed platform that combines automation with a network of on-demand reviewers to improve and simplify the code review process. Lyal Avery’s career as a leader in the technology industry spans over 18 years, with multiple exits across Vancouver BC, San Francisco CA, and Austin TX. Previous to PullRequest, Lyal cofounded Playerize, a payment and distribution platform for mobile and social games (exited to TSE:PER in 2015).
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Patrick Barsallo
Co-Founder of PullRequest
Patrick is a co-founder of PullRequest and serves as head of engineering. Previously, Patrick worked at Corona Labs and Perk.com, after graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in Computer Science.
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Tyler Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of PullRequest
Tyler is co-founder and CTO of PullRequest. He has been a software engineer and technical leader at a variety of software companies including Dropbox, Cisco, and ThinAir.
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Peter Zandan
Executive Board Chair/Co-Founder/Investor of Quantified
Global Vice Chairman of Hill & Knowlton Strategies Founder and CEO of Intelliquest (IQST) a NASDAQ traded information firm, sold to WPP. Founder and CEO of Zilliant. Ph.D. in Evaluation Research, MBA from University of Texas, Austin
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About Quantified: Quantified is an AI-Powered Coaching Platform that helps you have Better Conversations with Better Outcomes.
Bill Moore
Founder/CEO of Zello
Bill is CEO of Zello, founder and director of TuneIn, and an early stage angel investor. Zello is social radio with 55 million anonymous users enjoying live public conversations from around the globe. NPR, PBS, BBC, CNN and Fox Business have covered Zello’s role as the most popular app for activists in Turkey, Egypt, Venezuela and Ukraine. While CEO of TuneIn thru 2011 Bill’s team created a platform to organize the worlds radio, created a top 50 overall app across 100 countries and won embedded deals powering BMW, Sonos and product lines across auto, mobile and connected device. Bill closed the funding with Sequoia Capital, moved the team to Palo Alto and returned to Texas.
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About Zello: Frontline workers save the world everyday. We build technology for them.
Raymond Kaminski
Co-Founder and CEO of ibble
Successful Entrepreneur, exceptional Engineer and proven Business leader within the Space Exploration and FinTech industries. Career spanning the NASA Space Shuttle & International Space Station Programs, Honest Dollar acquired by Goldman Sachs within 1yr of the product release, COO of HyperSciences launching rockets for NASA, and CEO of ibble revolutionizing fintech.
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About ibble: Ibble is the social video app for users to spark conversations and ignite new ideas with other people.
Vinay Bhagat
Founder and CEO of TrustRadius
Vinay is an entrepreneur passionate about tackling big problems. Vinay conceived TrustRadius after experiencing challenges when buying enterprise solutions at his last company. In 1999, Vinay founded Convio, the leading Software as a Services platform for nonprofits. In April 2010, Convio became a public company, and was acquired in May 2012 for $325 million. Prior to Convio, Vinay was a Director at Trilogy Software and a Consultant at Bain & Company in London, Hong Kong and Kiev. He holds an MBA Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, an MS Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a MA Engineering Information Sciences from Cambridge University with First Class Honors. When he’s not working, Vinay loves playing with his kids, swimming and the occasional squash game.
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About TrustRadius: TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews.
Scott Miller
Co-Founder & Board Member of TrustRadius
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About TrustRadius: TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews.
Nathan Latka
Founder of Founderpath
Nathan Latka is the CEO & Founder of Getlatka & he attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2008.
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About Founderpath, Getlatka: Founderpath helps SaaS companies increase cash flow without diluting ownership by offering loans based on their monthly recurring revenue.
David Wilson
Founder & CEO of JamKazam, Inc.
David Wilson is a serial entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas, with exits as an executive across a wide variety of technology startups to Google, eBay, Cisco, GameStop, Worksoft, and more. David loves to create and build products and companies that change the world in positive ways. His strengths functionally include product management, product marketing, marketing communications, business development, operations, strategy, fund raising, and general management. David has experience and proven success in both consumer and enterprise markets, spanning software, hardware, and Internet ventures. David earned his bachelor’s degree with majors in economics and computer information systems, graduating summa cum laude from Baylor University in 1987. He earned an MBA degree from Stanford University in 1992.
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About GameStop, JamKazam, Inc.: Disrupting the $8B music lesson marketplace with unique technology platform that lets musicians play live in sync from different locations.
Peter Walker
Founder & CTO of JamKazam, Inc.
Peter Walker is Founder & CTO at JamKazam.
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About JamKazam, Inc., Visa UK: Disrupting the $8B music lesson marketplace with unique technology platform that lets musicians play live in sync from different locations.
Chris Boyd
Founder/CEO of Apptitude
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About Apptitude: App development made easy.
Brian Cruver
Founder & CEO of AlertMedia
Cruver is the Founder & CEO at Alert Media. He is a Co-founder at Xenex.
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About AlertMedia, Marketdriver Ventures, Xenex: AlertMedia provides a critical communications platform and monitoring services to enterprise customers.
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.
Jeff Haynie
Co-Founder & CEO of Pinpoint.com
Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator before the Axway (NYSE:AXW.PA) in January 2016. Jeff is a long-time serial entrepreneur, angel investor, technologist and blogger. Previously, Jeff was Co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena and before that, CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and off-shoot of Bill Gross’ idealab!. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C as well as core contributor to a number of important open source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. Jeff served with distinction in the U.S. Navy.
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About Pinpoint.com: A collaborative workspace that is free from distraction so you can create, share, and work together no matter where you are.
Peter Li
CEO, Co-Founder of Atlas Wearables
Founder of Atlas Wearables.
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About Atlas Wearables: Atlas Wearables is a fitness-technology company that designs products to enrich the fitness experience both in and out of the gym.
Beryl Goldman
Founder and President of PCMS
Beryl Goldman, founder and president, has a career that spans 40 years in software development, outsourcing and consulting. His extensive industry background includes 30 years designing and implementing insurance software systems specifically for property and casualty management and administration, as well as holding positions of senior level management. Beryl received a B.A. and M.A. in Mathematics from Kharkov University in the Soviet Ukraine.
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About PCMS: PCMS is a leading provider of P&C software solutions and services.
Charlie Vallely
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Smarter Sorting
Charlie Vallely is the co-founder and chief product officer 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.
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.
Allen Schober
Co-Founder / Head of Software of Orro
Allen Schober is the Co-Founder and Head of Software at Orro.
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About Orro: Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
Krishna Kurapati
Founder & CEO of qliqSoft
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About qliqSoft: Secure messaging application provider
Bryan Burkhart
Founder and CEO of Worksmith
Bryan Burkhart is founder and CEO at H.Bloom. Under his strategic leadership, H.Bloom has developed into a recognized luxury floral brand with a rapidly growing national presence. Bryan has extensive leadership and management experience gained through more than a decade in the software industry. He began his career in sales at Trilogy Software, in Austin, Texas. Later he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Callidus Software, Inc., where he was responsible for all revenue and managed the company’s sales operations globally. Bryan joined Callidus when it was a start-up and helped grow the company to over $100 million in revenue and an IPO in 2003. Bryan graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Entrepreneurial Management. Bryan is a weekly contributor to The New York Times with a blog about team-building, talent development, and leadership.
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About Worksmith: Worksmith is a store experience management platform provider that helps brands adapt to the new world of retail.
Nir Leibovich
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of GoCo.io Inc
Nir Leibovich is a seasoned entrepreneur and serial startup founder with a proven track record. His strengths span across business operations, product and market strategy, business development, and scalable marketing. Currently the Founder and CEO of GoCo.io Inc based in Houston, TX on a mission to simplify and automate business operations and administrations for SMBs. His previous startup, Arpeggi Inc, a genetic data analytics company that he co-founded and served as CEO was acquired by Gene by Gene Ltd. Before Arpeggi, Nir was at Zynga Inc where he spearheaded several key product initiatives and served on an executive board tasked to define emerging market opportunities and corporate product strategy. His arrival at Zynga came through the acquisition of MarketZero Inc, a gaming analytics company Nir co-founded in 2005 and sold to Zynga in 2011. Additional previous ventures include a successful stock training & analytics platform with hundreds of thousands of members earning a highly respected weekly spot on CNBC, a portfolio of web commerce assets, and a Dallas, TX based restaurant. In his free time, Nir invests, advises and mentors startups, fulfilling his passion to harvest and empower the entrepreneur spirit. Nir is a devoted father of two wonderful daughters and an incredibly supportive wife.
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About GoCo.io Inc: GoCo.io offers software that helps businesses simplify their human resources systems.
Sri Rao Boddapu
Founder and CEO of Arctic
Sri Rao Boddapu is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arctic.Sri is a renewed leader, President of Esolvit Inc, Cloudsolvit Inc, Voice of Big Data, Technozant and Inforide Technologies. Sri is a great motivator.
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About Arctic: Arctic is an analytics and predictive insights employment platform that connects job seekers, hiring agencies, employers, and recruiters.
Stephan Chenette
Co-Founder and CTO of AttackIQ
Stephan Chenette is the Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of AttackIQ, responsible for technology strategy and vision. Stephan launched AttackIQ in 2013 as the first open platform in the emerging market of Continuous Security Validation and has held several roles and responsibilities during that time. Prior to establishing AttackIQ, Stephan held management and lead positions in research and development at companies like IOActive, Websense, SAIC and eEye Digital Security. Stephan is a frequent speaker on risk, threats, metrics, security offense and defense, and other topics.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
James Clark
Founder of Netscape
James (Jim) Clark has founded several successful and influential technology companies over the past three decades. Dr. Clark co-founded Silicon Graphics Inc. In 1982 which revolutionized desktop computing by building high-performance workstations that could create and display 3-D images in real time. The company’s technology was eventually licensed to graphics chip manufacturers and is now used in practically every smart phone and computer made. Jim also co-founded Netscape Communications Corp. in 1994. Netscape is credited with launching the rapid growth of the Internet in the mid-1990’s as well as initiating the IPO and Internet stock-market boom during this period. Jim has also started several other successful Internet companies including Healtheon Corporation, which ultimately became WebMD, MyCFO, and Shutterfly. Dr. Clark has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications, Shutterfly, Healtheon, DNA Sciences and WebMD. Dr. Clark was an associate professor at Stanford University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, and Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics from the University of New Orleans. In 1999, Dr. Clark donated the funds to create the James H. Clark Center for Engineering, Biology, and Computer Science (known as Bio-X) at Stanford, where he is presently a Consulting Professor. His main area of interest is Synthetic Biology.
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About Beyond Identity, Netscape, Silicon Graphics: Netscape Communications offers development, marketing, sale, and support of enterprise software solutions.
Nick Koston
Founder, Owner & Chief Executive Officer of cPanel
Nick is a developer and the Chief Executive Officer of cPanel. He started the company out of his childhood home and has grown cPanel into an operation with more than 200 employees and a global customer base. In his journey from part-time programmer to full-time CEO, Nick has had a hand in marketing, customer service, and even human resources. This experience, a testament to Nick’s leadership style, makes him one of cPanel’s most versatile team members.
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About cPanel: cPanel is a control panel designed for the web hosting industry.
William Baxter
CTO & Co-Founder of Vertalo
William Baxter is CTO & Co-Founder at SeriesX.
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About SeriesX, SuperScript Technology, Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Antonio Arocha
CEO & Co-Founder of Nuve
After graduating from the University of Texas with a double degree in computer science and government, Antonio was driven to use his background and computer science degree to help solve a real world problem that would benefit society. He started working on Nuve, which was accepted into IBM’s SmartCamp (Mexico) in 2012. Antonio won that competition and Nuve began receiving recognition from local incubators in Austin. Currently, Antonio is leading the company towards unrivaled success in asset protection and with a broader vision related to the Internet of Things.
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About Nuve: Nuve is a software company that develops and delivers asset management and fraud prevention solutions.
Nadeem Ahmed
Co-Founder, CTO, Chief Architect of Biscotti
Dr. Ahmed most recently was at WiQuest Communications, the leading ultrawideband semiconductor supplier, where he was responsible for architecting, simulating and developing baseband and system level algorithms. Dr. Ahmed has spent time working with several research centers including Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs), Nokia’s R&D Center, and Texas Instruments DSP Solutions R & D center. His research interests lie in signal processing techniques for communications. He has worked on modulation, detection, equalization and power distribution techniques for both wireline and wireless applications. Dr. Ahmed received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 2000 and 2004, respectively. At Rice University he was a member of the Digital Signal Processing group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was a Texas Instruments Fellow and NSERC PGS A and B recipient. He is the author of numerous publications and has 8 patents and pending applications.
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About Biscotti: Biscotti is a consumer electronics company that develops video calling products for home use.
Dan Cornish
CEO & Founder of Cosential
Dan oversees Cosential’s strategic direction. He’s grown the company for more than 20 years, providing the marketing and business development expertise needed to build the industry’s leading solution. Previously, Dan spent eight years as the President of Cornish Productions, where he created marketing presentations for architecture, engineering and construction firms. He is also known for his photography of the Statue of Liberty’s restoration in the 1980’s.
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About Cosential: Cosential provides cloud-based CRM and proposal automation solutions for architecture, engineering and construction firms.
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.
Kyle Carberry
Co-Founder & CTO of Coder
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About Coder: Coder provides open-source tools and an enterprise platform that makes it easier to configure, secure, and scale development environments.
Cameron Cooper
Co-Founder and CTO of Hoss
Cameron Cooper serves as a Co-founder and CTO at Hoss.
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About Hoss, Vobi: Hoss is an enterprise software company that helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume.
Matt Hawkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Hoss
Matt Hawkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hoss.
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About Hoss: Hoss is an enterprise software company that helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume.
Robin Bloor
Co-Founder and Chief Analyst of Inside Analysis
Robin is co-founder and Chief Analyst of The Bloor Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in the world of data and information management. He is the creator of the Information-Oriented Architecture, which is to data what the SOA is to services. He is the author of several books including, The Electronic B@zaar, From the Silk Road to the eRoad; a BOOK on e-commerce and three IT books in the Dummies series on SOA, Service Management and The Cloud. He is an international speaker on information management topics. As an analyst for Bloor Research and The Bloor Group, Robin has written scores of white papers, research reports and columns on a wide range of topics from database evaluation to networking options and comparisons to the enterprise in transition.
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About Bloor, Inside Analysis, The Bloor Group: Inside Analysis is a web-based multimedia to deliver vendor-neutral education.
Stuart Lloyd
Co-Founder / CEO of DoctorLogic
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About DoctorLogic: DoctorLogic offers an EHR-integrated marketing service that helps doctors grow their practice.
Ray Myers
Co-Founder / CTO of DoctorLogic
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About DoctorLogic: DoctorLogic offers an EHR-integrated marketing service that helps doctors grow their practice.
William Payne
Founder and COO of Servient
William leads the team that manages internal and external processes, systems, and solutions that assist Servient’s clients as they address information governance, ediscovery and data management challenges. Prior to Servient, William practiced law for over 24 years and has extensive commercial litigation, eDiscovery, regulatory and investigation experience in representing financial institutions and corporations. He also served as a board member for a $1.5B bank that included responsibility on Audit and Compliance Committees, and IT Security and IT Solutions subcommittees.
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About Servient: Servient is a full enterprise eDiscovery solution.
