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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 United States based Advisor operating in the Art space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Steve Westly
Advisor of SentinelOne
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About : SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Noah Shanok
Advisor of Rev.com
Noah is furthering the movement to bring personalized, on-demand, quality, and always-current audio content to listeners everywhere. He was the founding VP of Sales for StubHub, an online ticket market- place that sold to eBay in January 2007. Noah also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a fixed-income trader at JP Morgan Chase & Co. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Skidmore College. In his spare time, Noah enjoys youth mentoring, mountain biking, skiing, golf (even though he is terrible!) and things that go fast.
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About : Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Susannah Smoot Campbell
Advisor of Loupe
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About : Pioneering service transforming how art is experienced; #1 Lifestyle app in 64 countries on AppleTV/Fire TV/Android/PlutoTV/Samsung/Comcast
Paul Phillips
Advisor of C3 AI
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About : C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Seamus Hatch
Advisory Board Member of Rally
I have spent twenty years building valuable businesses around innovative technology. I’ve developed complex systems, run sales, business development, marketing and services organizations, co-founded startups, taken established technology companies public and turned around under-performing businesses. My experience has been pretty eclectic; from software in Silicon Valley, to investment banking in London, to industrial systems in China. The common thread, and what gets me up each morning, is a drive to solve high value problems in creative ways using next generation technology.
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About Aran Strategy+Finance, Invision AI, Level Eight Ventures: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Alysse Soll
Advisor of Rally
President, NewModel Advisory Angel Investor, Board Of Directors (Deal Co-Chair) Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, Vice Chair WiST (Women in Sports Tech) Judge, Mentor, Advisor Sports Tech Accelerators – Stadia ventures, Comcast Sports Tech, MassChallenge Sports Tech, leAD Sports Advisor – SportsHi, Helios Hockey, Healium, Ghost Pacer NHL – 17 years, launching San Jose Sharks and 10 additional NHL Teams over 10 years. Launched NHL marketing department Managing Director – OmniCap LLC (Licensed Series 7 and Series 63)
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About : Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Whitny Perkins Sobola
Advisory Board of Rally
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About : Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Keith Gordon
Advisor of Rally
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About : Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Keith Gordon
Advisor of Rally
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About : Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Jonathan Kibera
Advisor of Pathover
Jonathan Kibera is the Co-Founder & Manager at SFR3 Fund.
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About SFR3 Fund: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Alex Turkeltaub
Co-Founder & Senior Advisor of Roam Analytics
Alex is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Roam. Before Roam, Alex co-founded and served as Chief Executive of Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), a venture-backed data and analytics company focused on emerging markets that currently serves more than 250 leading multinationals. Alex and his family immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1988. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations from Stanford University and a J.D. from the Yale Law School.
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About Roam Analytics: Roam transforms patient and physician pathway analysis through a proprietary artificial intelligence platform built for the healthcare.
Monte Stettin
Advisor of doc.ai
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About : doc.ai is a digital health company designed for a new generation of medical research.
Geert Weening
Technical Advisor of Proper
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About : Proper provides AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping services to property managers and asset managers.
Doug Jones
Board Advisor of Agari
Doug joined Alloy Ventures as a Venture Partner in 2012. He focuses on investments in SaaS and Enterprise Software solutions for both Consumer and Business applications. Doug is currently serving as an advisor and board observer to Agari. Doug joins Alloy with over 20 years of operational experience as an executive for high-growth companies. Most recently, he served as interim VP of Corporate and Business Development for Badgeville. Doug prior experience includes SVP of Corporate and Business Development at Lithium Technologies, Entrepreneur-in-Residence for BridgeScale Partners, and several positions including Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with Interwoven, Inc., where he was also employee number 10. Doug holds an MBA from IESE in Spain and a BA from the University of Colorado. Additionally, Doug has been an active angel investor in companies such as DemandForce, Egnyte, Tealeaf Technologies and Experience Project.
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About : Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Rebecca Kush
Life Sciences Advisor of Saama
Rebecca Daniels Kush is President of Catalysis, Inc. a consulting company founded in 1997 with a vision to apply enterprising solutions to transform clinical research and accelerate a learning health system. She is the Chief Innovation Officer for Elligo Health Research, which is dedicated to engaging physicians and patients who may not otherwise have access to research and transforming the research process using eSource and improved data flow techniques. She also consults for the Translational Research Informatics Institute (TRI Japan) working to expand the International Academic Research Organization (iARO) Council activities globally. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Learning Health Community. Dr. Kush was previously the Founder, President and CEO of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). After 20 years, this standards development organization (SDO) now offers a suite of data standards that support clinical research in therapeutic areas that affect over 1.5 billion lives. These standards are now required for submissions for new drug applications by FDA and PMDA. Dr. Kush has over 30 years of experience in clinical research, including positions with academia, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a global CRO and biopharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and Japan. She wrote the chapter on Data Sharing in Clinical Research Informatics (ed. Springer), was the lead author of eClinical Trials: Planning and Implementation (a CenterWatch publication) and has written numerous publications for journals including New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine. She is currently an Associate Editor for Wiley’s open access journal on Learning Health Systems. Dr. Kush earned her Doctorate in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of New Mexico.
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About : Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Dominique Bastos
Advisor of Rokk3r
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About : Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Amit Singhal
Advisor & Angel Investor of Mezi
Amit Singhal is a senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. He has worked in the field of search for over fifteen years, first as an academic researcher and now as a Google engineer. His research interests include information retrieval, its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T Labs Singhal is also the author of two publications: Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Switch based Irregular Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and Terabit Switching: A survey of Techniques and Current Products. Singhal obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, and his M.S. from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Ph.D.in computer science from Cornell University.
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About Singhal Foundation, Sitare Foundation: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Nickhil Jakatdar
Advisor & Angel Investor of Mezi
Nickhil Jakatdar is the CEO & Founder of Vuclip. Prior to Vuclip, Nickhil was instrumental in the founding and running of three successful startups. Nickhil led Praesagus, CommandCAD, and Timbre Technologies through financing, tremendous growth, and eventual acquisition. Nickhil received his M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He has been the recipient of many awards from various organizations. He has to his credit more than 30 patents and 20 conference papers.
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About : Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Vivian J. Weinblatt, MS, CGC
Scientific Advisory Board Member of FDNA
Ms. Vivian Weinblatt is a certified genetic counselor with over 20 years of clinical experience in multiple settings. She has published book chapters on the topics of genetic counseling and multiple gestations. Ms. Weinblatt previously served as the president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and the Genetic Counseling Foundation and is currently an adjunct professor at Arcadia University’s Genetic Counseling Program. Ms. Weinblatt obtained her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Human Development and Family Studies, and her Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Weinblatt is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics, and is a Charter member of the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
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About : FDNA develops facial dysmorphology novel analysis technology solutions for healthcare professionals.
Dr. Cynthia J.R. Curry, MD
Scientific Advisory Board & Steering Committee Member of FDNA
Dr. Curry is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco and the Medical Director of Genetic Medicine Central California in Fresno, California and on the adjunct clinical faculty at Stanford. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics and has been practicing clinical genetics in Fresno for over 30 years. Dr. Curry has pursued research studies on thrombophilia, syndrome delineation in the fetus and newborn, and causes of intellectual disability and birth defects. She has held many national positions in both genetics and pediatrics and speaks nationally and internationally.
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About : FDNA develops facial dysmorphology novel analysis technology solutions for healthcare professionals.
Mark Boyce
Advisor of Cargofy
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About : Easiest way to find loads for owner-operators
David Tominsky
Advisor of Cargofy
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About : Easiest way to find loads for owner-operators
Chris Lu
Board Advisor of FiscalNote
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About : FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver predictive analytics on government information to determine its impact.
Mike Euglow
Advisor of GoodTime.io
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About : GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Franz Och
Advisor of Lilt
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About : Lilt powers the global experience across every step of the customer journey.
Greg Owens
Advisory Board Member of Xeeva
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About : Xeeva is the leader in AI-powered spend management solutions that help drive real-time savings and optimize procurement processes.
Greg Owens
Advisory Board Member of Xeeva
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About : Xeeva is the leader in AI-powered spend management solutions that help drive real-time savings and optimize procurement processes.
Dan Teree
Advisor of Vango
Dan Teree Co-founder, CEO at Big Neon.
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About Big Neon, Tari Labs: Changing the way we buy original art
Evelyn Lieberman
Senior Advisor and Assistant to the Secretary for External Relations of Smithsonian Institution
Evelyn S. Lieberman is senior advisor and assistant to the Secretary for external relations at the Smithsonian Institution. In this role, she advises the Secretary on Smithsonian matters, coordinates activities with the senior leadership team and oversees brand management, cross-cutting efforts and special projects. Lieberman had been the Smithsonian’s director of Communications and External Affairs since 2002. She oversaw the Institution’s internal and external communications, the Office of Government Relations, the Office of Special Events and Protocol and the Office of Visitor Services, the organization that coordinates Smithsonian volunteers. Before joining the Smithsonian, Lieberman was the first under secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, appointed by President Bill Clinton. While at the State Department, she oversaw the merger of the U.S. Information Agency and the State Department and also directed the first White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy. From 1997 to 1999, Lieberman was the director of Voice of America, the largest international nonmilitary broadcast operation, communicating in 52 languages to 93 million people worldwide.Lieberman was a member of the White House staff from 1993 to 1997. She served as assistant to the President and deputy chief of staff, the first woman to hold that title. She also served as deputy assistant to the President and deputy press secretary for operations and as assistant to the chief of staff in the Office of the First Lady. Before serving in the White House, Lieberman was press secretary to then-Sen. Joseph Biden Jr. (D-Del.) from 1988 to 1993 and was director of communications at the Children’s Defense Fund from 1981 to 1988.Lieberman received an honorary doctor of humane letters from Buffalo State, the State University of New York, May 17, 2014.A native New Yorker, Lieberman and her husband, Edward H. Lieberman, an attorney, live in Washington, D.C.
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About Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government.
Dan Senor
Advisor and investor of Windward
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About : Predictive Intelligence company fusing AI and big data to digitalize the global maritime industry
Josh Adam
Co Founder & Advisor of Accrete
Josh Adam is a Co-Founder.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Christopher K. Zarins
Founder & Senior Advisor for Clinical Affairs of HeartFlow
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Noah Eisner
Startup Advisor of Eloquent Labs
In 2006 Noah founded Coupa software, an industry leader in spend management software. Noah has since become an advisor to a number of young enterprise/B2B startups. He works closely with Old St Labs guiding the business on product strategy and positioning.
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About : Eloquent Labs supplies artificial intelligence to augment and replace live chat customer support agents at eCommerce companies.
Matt Klein
Advisor of Utrip
Drawing on more than a decade of experience, Matt’s passion is crafting consumer experiences that delight and engage. He most recently served as Global Product Lead for Yahoo! Travel, and was responsible for globalizing the Yahoo! Travel site, creating the mobile version and the original Yahoo! Travel app, TimeTraveler. He’s worked with multinational brands including Sprite, Corona, and (at McAfee’s Consumer Software Division) AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Paypal, and Equifax. Matt holds a BA in Business Economics from University of California—Santa Barbara.
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About : Free travel planning technology that uses artificial intelligence to create personalized itineraries
Andrew Balbirer
Senior Advisor ,Chief Financial & Administrative Officer of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Andy Balbirer is the Senior Advisor ,Chief Financial & Administrative Officer at CCC Information Services.
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About CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.: CCC Information Services help companies improve their claims management process through better decision-making.
Jeanne McCann
Executive Technology Advisor of Nuance Communications
Jeanne is the senior Nuance executive for Nuance’s IBM relationships and also works on matters of R&D strategy, prioritization, and operational excellence. Jeanne has been with Nuance for 10 years. Prior to joining Nuance, Jeanne led development programs at Lernout & Hauspie and before that Dragon Systems and Wang. Jeanne has over 30 years of experience in technology development leadership, and holds a B.A. from Simmons College and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Tina Klocke
Advisor of KiraKira3D
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About : KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application
Joerg Joergensen
Advisor of Vic.ai
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About : Vic.ai is an AI platform for accounting firms and enterprise finance departments.
Timothy Machado
Co-Founder & Advisor of CTRL-labs
Tim received his PhD in Neuroscience from Columbia University and was a Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation.He was the winner of the 2015 Kavli Award for Distinguished Research in Neuroscience and has 8 publications in scientific journals including Cell (2015, 2016), Nature, Neuron, and the Journal of Neurophysiology.
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About CTRL-labs: CTRL-labs is a startup pioneering the development of non-invasive neural interfaces that reimagine how humans and machines collaborate.
Jack Schenk
Investor/Advisor of Topo.AI
Jack Schenk serves as VP of Business Development and Company officer with the Company since December 2015. He has over 25 years of experience in security operations, including in physical security, systems integration and intelligence gathering software platforms. Jack joined Securitas Security Services in 1995 – 2011, Jack held numerous executive roles at Securitas, including Vice President Sales and Marketing, West Coast Region. Jack also led the team responsible for landing Securitas’ then-largest company contract. From 2011 to 2014 Mr. Schenk was Senior Vice President of Sales at SDI Solutions, a leading systems integrator specializing in mission-critical technologies and infrastructure. He was also a member of the mergers and acquisitions team, where he led the integration of sales processes from numerous acquisitions that expanded SDI’s footprint to the national level. Most recently, Jack served as Executive Vice President and investor at Geofeedia, a location-based, social media monitoring company where he managed Geofeedia’s sales initiatives and launched the corporate security practice, which was responsible for adding numerous Fortune 100 customers to GeoFeedia’s book of business. Jack attended Loyola University of Chicago. He is active in ASIS, the International Association of Healthcare Safety and Security, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Building Owners and Managers Association and the Special Agents Association.
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About Allied Universal, Geofeedia: Topo.AI is an operational intelligence for global enterprise security.
Aashish Chandarana
Advisor of Frame AI
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About Productiv: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Essy Nickolova
Media Advisor of Opsani
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About : Opsani uses the capabilities of AI to optimize applications in the cloud.
Vince Kadlubek
Executive Advisor of Meow Wolf
Vince is the visionary CEO behind Meow Wolf, the much-buzzed-about, hard-to-describe, immersive art installation in Santa Fe, New Mexico (and its new locations, coming soon to Denver, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada). Vince raised $7 million from investors including author George R.R. Martin to create what just might be the future of experiential art.
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About Meow Wolf: Meow Wolf creates entertainment that delights audiences through location-based and digital media experiences.
Eduardo Siman
Board of Advisors/Investor of Virtualitics
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About : Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Aleksander Szlam
Advisor of Tharios
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About : Curate, Produce and Enrich textual content using artificial intelligence!
Alec Radford
Advisor of Indico Data
Alec is an avid scuba diver who spends most of his time trying to get computers to make pretty pictures. Otherwise, he is addicted to exploring datasets and building practical products out of them.
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About : Indico Data transforms unstructured data into actionable insights.
Steve LaValle
Advisor + Investor of Lightform
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About : Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Mark F Bregman
Co-Founder, Advisor, Board of Booxby Inc.
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About Booxby Inc., Edmund Hillary Fellowship(EHF), Quidnet Ventures: A.I. to monetize stories
Anthony Kelani
Advisor of mvmtAi
Anthony Kelani is a technologist and businessman with over 13 year of experience in the tech industry as a software engineer, data scientist, startup CEO and CTO. His background includes expertise in executing projects in web & mobile apps, distributed computing, SaaS, real-time video and data science. Anthony launched his career with the premier defense contractor, Northrop Grumman, where we was honored for his work in designing and developing life-saving situational awareness software for the United States military. He then became Head of Engineering at one of the first venture studios in Los Angeles. In 2013, he founded ShowKit, which was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist in 2014 and exited a year later. After ShowKit, Anthony served as Head of Microsoft for Startups Los Angeles, where he worked closely with startup founders and the leading accelerators and VCs in the L.A. ecosystem. He is on the advisory board of several L.A.-based startups and continues to mentor founders at the preeminent accelerator programs in the nation. Anthony has a unique synthesis of engineering, product and business experience, which enables him to effectively evaluate and mentor entire early stage startup teams. His skills and ability to identify great teams catalyze his acumen for advising and providing quality deal flow to investors. As Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office, Anthony will focus his efforts on working closely with Quake’s accelerator founders in the areas of engineering and operations, expanding Quake’s investor and partner network, and assisting with fundraising and strategy. Due to his astute technical background, he will also serve as the CIO of the fund by architecting Quake’s data platform. Anthony is a strong advocate for the inclusion of minorities and women in tech, and has met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to spur support for diversity and entrepreneurial success.
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About mvmtAi: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Will Summerlin
Advisor of mvmtAi
Will Summerlin is the Investor at ARK Investment Management LLC.
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About ARK Investment Management: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Steve Carlin
Advisor of mvmtAi
Steve Carlin is an executive leader and advisor to multiple global startups. Founding director of mvmtAi inc, founder/CEO of Kebek Ventures, and venture partner/executive in residence at TransLink Capital. He was most recently President and Chief Strategy Officer of SoftBank Robotics. In this role, he oversaw all commercial activities and led the growth of the Americas team. Carlin previously worked at Facebook where he held the role of Global Head of Strategy – Gaming. In this role, he drove the global strategic vision for the company’s Gaming Business. Prior to joining Facebook Carlin was the Senior Director of Marketing and Insights for Ubisoft, the third largest video game publisher in the world. In this role, he oversaw the marketing and insights function for the North American operations of Ubisoft. His responsibilities included short and long term shopper and retail marketing visions for Ubisoft’s games, shaping the sales team’s national market plans, and developing the in-store and online programs for the world’s largest retailers. Before joining Ubisoft in 2009, Carlin worked at Energizer Battery Company where he held multiple roles in Sales, Channel Marketing and Brand Marketing. There he was responsible for, among other things, the development of channel strategy for Energizer’s business in the Grocery and Mass & Electronic classes of trade. Additionally, he not only conducted strategic consulting work for key customers including business plan and sales strategy development, but he was also responsible for the category management teams for the channel’s customers. Before his tenure at Energizer, Carlin worked for Procter & Gamble in Customer Business Development and Brand Marketing where he was responsible for marketing, sales and strategic project work for Procter & Gamble’s beauty care business, including the $600MM Cosmetic division. Carlin is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he holds a BA in Geology, and of Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta, where he holds an MBA (with Honors) in Marketing and International Business. He has also studied at Cornell, HEC business school in Pars and the UIBE business school in Beijing.
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About Kebek Ventures, Translink Capital: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Abe Malkin
Advisor of mvmtAi
Physician and entrepreneur with passion for building and growing companies in the health and wellness industry.
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About mvmtAi: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Deena Ghazarian
Advisor of mvmtAi
Deena Ghazarian is an award-winning business executive with more than 25 years of experience driving top consumer technology and fashion brands. She has a proven record of successfully achieving hundreds-of-millions of dollars of sales growth while building corporate alliances and providing industry-leading sales management. As Founder and CEO of technology accessories company Austere, Deena has taken the next step in her career as an entrepreneur. In addition to serving as CEO at Austere, Deena is also a Managing Partner at TargetPath LLC, and a Founding Director at mvmtAi inc. Before founding Austere, she played an integral role in building a number of the world’s most recognizable technology brands, including Monster Products, Beats by Dre and AVAD. Prior to her consumer electronics career, she held management roles at Macy’s where her experiences shaped her passion for fashion and design. Her diverse, cross-industry background helped develop her disciplined business acumen, which has shaped her vision for Austere.
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About mvmtAi, TargetPath: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Michael Brouthers
Advisor of mvmtAi
Seasoned corporate executive (change agent) with significant record of success building, growing, and managing all sizes of health care related entities ranging from start-ups to divisions of Fortune 100 firms. Grew smallest region for Fortune 100 healthcare firm into 2nd largest region (profit). Created new paradigm and clinical strategy for dialysis industry leader. Led strategic restructuring of growth efforts in $2B division for nation’s largest health insurance firm. Built nation’s 2nd largest hospitalist firm. Built nation’s first comprehensive advance directive solution company. Proven results in achieving organic growth, improving cost effectiveness, and increasing profitability throughout career.
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About : Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Mobile App, Information Technology, Computer Software, Health, Wellness, Healthcare
Pat DeFrancesco
Advisor of 7 Chord
Pat is the CTO for Genesis Trading, responsible for the firm’s trading technology and quantitative research. Prior to Genesis, Pat was the CTO at 7 Chord, a machine learning startup developing predictive trading signals for US corporate bonds. Previously, Pat led technology for credit trading at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) following acquisition of Creditex, where he was responsible for the firm’s data architecture. Pat has also served as interim CTO and advisor for several early stage ventures in financial technology. Pat holds a M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Saint Bonaventure University.
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About Genesis: FinTech firm that uses Machine Learning (A.I.) to automate pricing and execution in corporate bonds. Corporate Bond Electronic Trading
Dennis Shasha
Advisor of 7 Chord
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About : FinTech firm that uses Machine Learning (A.I.) to automate pricing and execution in corporate bonds. Corporate Bond Electronic Trading
Wing Wong
Cofounder & Scientific Advisor of Univfy
Professor Wong is Professor of Statistics in the Departments of Statistics, Health Research Policy, and by courtesy, the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He played a critical role in developing the technology that forms the basis of Univfy’s intellectual property. Professor Wong’s seminal contributions to theoretical statistics — most notably, Bayesian network structures, machine learning, Monte Carlo, and applied statistics in computational biology — have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for developing innovative high-throughput genomics analysis tools that have been pivotal in driving genomics research in the past decade. Professor Wong’s international research leadership is evidenced by his role as Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Peking University and appointment to the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Chair Professor Team at Tsinghua University, also in Beijing. As Univfy’s Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Professor Wong advises Univfy’s scientific team to ensure rigorous quality control of prognostic tests and projects in the R&D pipeline.
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About Stanford University, Tsinghua University, Univfy: Univfy AI Platform makes fertility costs and success more predictable for women and couples navigating their family-building options.
Robbert Van Renesse
Technical Advisor of Midokura
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About Exotanium: MIDOKURA is a Sony Group company that delivers innovative solutions to power the Edge AI revolution in IoT.
Bill O’Shea
Board Advisor of Bitvore
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About : Bitvore provides unprecedented business insights from unstructured data.
Larry Melvin
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of AI Therapeutics
Larry Melvin is Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at LAM Therapeutics.
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About : AI Therapeutics develops drugs for rare diseases and cancer.
Alan Salisbury
Advisor of Panamplify
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About : Procedurally Generated Intelligent Reporting
Jeremy Schrage
Advisory – Growth Hack of SAM.AI
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About : Sam.ai is a network powered relationship intelligence and outreach platform humanized with voice activated conversational AI.
Sasa Pekec
Data Science and Machine Learning Advisor of ENGAGE Talent
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About ENGAGE Talent: ENGAGE leverages AI to predict people’s job security and likelihood to change jobs based on publicly available information.
Isaac Babbs
Executive Advisor of Comprendi
Handmade is a mobile advisory and angel investor group that assists great entrepreneurs and new start ups in a co-founding partnership. Handmade helps teams by adding expertise, relationships, and capital from inception through Series A funding and ultimately a liquidity event. Handmade specializes in companies with mobile platforms, systems, and services among the following areas: marketplaces, advertising, monetization, sensors, productivity, entertainment, and cloud. Handmade is led by Isaac Babbs, Founder and CEO, a successful mobile operating executive and entrepreneur. He has more than 13 years of mobile experience in creating and leading companies such as Sorrent (Glu Mobile), Atlas Mobile, Qualcomm Services Labs, and Millennial Media. Handmade is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Handmade Ventures: Comprendi helps advertisers harness the power of textual big data to build more effective, hyper targeted campaigns on New Media.
Daniel Levner
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sight Diagnostics
Daniel Levner is Emulate’s Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Emulate’s founding team, he was a Senior Staff Scientist with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where he led the advanced engineering team responsible for developing Emulate’s Organs-on-Chips platform. Levner played a key leadership role in managing the multidisciplinary Organs-on-Chips team by formulating innovative approaches for fostering close collaboration and in-depth exchange between biologists and engineers. Levner brings this tight integration of disciplines to Emulate, where it is a defining part of the company’s culture. Prior to directing the Organs-on-Chips program, Levner worked with world-renowned Harvard geneticist Prof. George M. Church in programs related to medical diagnostics, DNA/RNA sequencing tools, and multiplexed analysis techniques. As an entrepreneur, Levner co-founded a medical diagnostics startup company, and earlier in his career, an optical telecommunications startup company. Levner received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University as well as an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics, also from Stanford. He has authored numerous publications and more than 20 issued and pending patents.
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About Emulate, Sight Diagnostics: Blood diagnostics company that uses machine vision and AI to transform health systems and outcomes through fast and accurate blood testing.
Raghu Raghavan
Advisor of RFPIO Inc.
Raghu is the product visionary and driving force behind the company. A seasoned entrepreneur, he led the initial design of the Act-On service and the development of its core technology and infrastructure. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of Responsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTG), the industry leader in email and life cycle marketing solutions for high-end retailers. The company was backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Sigma Partners. Raghu got started down the entrepreneurial path when he quit a cushy job and took a giant pay cut to join a small startup named Mentor Graphics, which had a small team of smart, passionate people and zero revenue. He participated in its frantic growth through a very successful IPO (NASDAQ: MENT) and revenue of well over $400M by the time he left seven years later. Raghu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
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About : Revolutionary RFP software that enhances collaboration and fosters a truly efficient response process. Allow your team to thrive with RFPIO.
Peter Gerard
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor of Welcome: Real time travel plans
Peter Gerard is the Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at Welcome.
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About Welcome: Real time travel plans: Welcome: Real time travel plans is a real-time travel plans powered by friends & Artificial Intelligence.
Jon Logan
Advisor of Catalia Health
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About : We create the Mabu personal healthcare companion to help patients with chronic disease and collect data to healthcare providers.
Narinder Singh
Investor & Advisor of Revenue.io
Narinder is responsible for championing the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. A co-founder of Appirio, Narinder brings more than 15 years of software and business experience and plays a key role in keeping Appirio at the forefront of cloud, social and mobile technology. Prior to Appirio, Narinder worked at SAP in the Office of the CEO as a part of the Corporate Strategy Group. Working with the management board and other executives, Narinder led initiatives on sales, maintenance and competitive strategies, as well as potential business and technology disruptions. Prior to SAP, Narinder managed R&D, sales and marketing activity as vice president and general manager of webMethods (WEBM) workflow business unit. He also previously led R&D for the company’s BPM, workflow, B2B and industry products. Narinder began his career with Accenture at its Center for Strategic Technology.
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About : Revenue.io powers high-performing teams with real-time guidance.
Don Weil
Advisor of Faraday
Faraday is Advisor at Faraday.
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About : Faraday helps brands get closer to their customers by optimizing every engagement with AI-driven predictions.
Devin Goodman
Advisory Board Member of Ori.ai
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About : Ori is an AI-powered navigator that bridges the gap between care teams and their patients.
Kate Kuehn
Board Advisor of SenseOn
Kate Kuehn has been an active thought leader in Security and Advanced Network Technologies for close to 20 years. She led some of the industry’s first projects in DDOS, Ethernet as a network (CPA), SaaS and IaaS. Since joining vArmour, Kate has been focusing on leading alliances worldwide. Previously, Kate worked in Security and emerging technologies for companies like Senseon, Wandera, BT and Verizon. She is passionate security, and her main areas of focus include the role of security within digital transformation initiatives, diversity and STEAM outreach.
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About SenseOn, vArmour: SenseOn’s self-driving cyber defense platform automates the process of threat detection, investigation and response.
Alexander McKinney
Advisor of PaxeraHealth
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About : A leading provider of AI powered Medical imaging archiving systems that helps radiologists & physicians to manage imaging studies.
Chris Holm
Advisor of Spacee
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About : Changing the way customers shop and enabling business transformation through AI and Computer Vision.
Kan Au
Clinical Advisor of Strados Labs
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About Strados Labs: Strados Labs innovates respiratory monitoring using smart biosensors and artificial intelligence.
Henry Gordon
Advisor of Stout Street Capital
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About : Stout Street Capital is Denver Based VC focused on investing in early stage Tech companies that improve efficiency in core growth sectors
Robert Autenreith
Advisor of Stout Street Capital
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About : Stout Street Capital is Denver Based VC focused on investing in early stage Tech companies that improve efficiency in core growth sectors
Kim Davis King
Advisor – Technology Commercialization of Trials.ai
Kim Davis King is the Partner at Launch Factory.
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About EvoNexus, Launch Factory, Rady School of Management, San Diego State University, StartR: We are on a mission to get effective treatments to patients faster by using AI to optimize clinical trial protocols for speed and success.
Amitav Misra
Advisor of Arundo Analytics
Prior to Arundo, Amitav was a partner in Cardinal Advisors, a boutique investment banking, and strategic advisory firm. Prior to Cardinal, he was President of Taxa, Inc., as well as, led Channel Sales and worked in field marketing at EnerNOC, Inc. He has also worked in a series of venture capital and private equity investment roles, and as a management consultant, largely in the energy sector. Amitav is active with the Houston Center for Literacy, which coordinates adult basic education in the City.
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About HighRadius: Arundo Analytics provides cloud-based and edge-enabled software for the deployment and management.
Awais Nemat
Advisor of Data Science Dojo
Awais Nemat is an Advisor at Data Science Dojo. Awais founded PLUMgrid in 2011, following senior technical and management roles at leading global companies in the networking industry. As Vice President of Marvell Semiconductor’s Enterprise Business Unit, he led the growth of the company’s $270 million Switching Solutions Business. Awais came to Marvell when D5 Networks, the company he founded and led as president and CEO, was acquired by Marvell. With D5 Networks’ pioneering LinkCrypt technology, Marvell gained technology leadership in Ethernet security. Prior to founding D5 Networks, Awais held senior technical positions at Cisco Systems and Mentor Graphics, a pioneer in electronic design automation. At Cisco, he was instrumental in driving the Switching and Security initiatives that later evolved into Cisco Trusted Security (CTS) and the Nexus 7000 platform. As part of the Cat6K system architecture team, he led the design of many generations of switching ASICs for the multi-billion dollar Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 product lines. Awais holds multiple patents in scheduling, security, lookup, switching and processors.
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About : Data Science Dojo is an education startup that enables professionals to extract actionable insights from data.
Stanislav Shalunov
Advisor of bicedeep
Stanislav Shalunov is an Internet architect who designed the new congestion control in BitTorrent (uTP/LEDBAT). In the beginning of 2011 he co-founded Open Garden. Open Garden connects smartphones and other devices into a self-organizing and self-optimizing mesh network. This peer-to-peer network improves users’ coverage and speed. In 2000-2006, Stanislav was with Internet2, where he chaired the transport working group, led the open source initiative, and did seminal work in evaluating Quality of Service technologies, which proved to be of significant value to a broad coalition, including Internet2, which promoted net neutrality in policy discussions in Washington. His insights were very helpful to the debate, and provided the foundation for Internet2’s arguments made before the Senate Commerce Committee. Stanislav is a mathematician by training.
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About : Data Science AI As A Service
Ozan Şener
Advisor of bicedeep
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About : Data Science AI As A Service
Giri Venkataraman
Board of Advisors of CarePredict
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About CarePredict: CarePredict is an AI Elder care platform that helps seniors live independently, economically and longer
Blaine Laney
Financial Advisor of Gluon
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About : Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Garrett Gaudini
Advisor of Wexus Technologies
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About : IoT software company empowering the global food supply chain to adapt to climate change with renewable energy + water intelligence
Micki Seibel
Advisor of Wexus Technologies
Investor, advisor and product builder using technology to solve the world’s hardest food & environmental problems.
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About Radicle Growth, Unfold: IoT software company empowering the global food supply chain to adapt to climate change with renewable energy + water intelligence
Edward Valeau
Advisor of Wexus Technologies
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About : IoT software company empowering the global food supply chain to adapt to climate change with renewable energy + water intelligence
Chip Luman
Board Advisor of Patheer
Entrepreneur and executive with over 25 years of general management, operations, customer success and human resources experience in start-ups, the Fortune 500 and non-profits. Experience serving in advisory, board, fiduciary committee and non-profit board capacities. Co-founder of HireVue with broad industry experience including software as a service (SaaS), HR and talent services, technology development, financial services, non-profit, video game software development, consumer packaged goods and heavy industry.
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About : Re-Inventing Talent Development and Analytics
Dan Deac
Advisor of Patheer
Entrepreneur, investor and advisor – IoT, Big Data, BI, mobile, social media, advertising. Fellow Emeritus @ Sigma Prime Ventures – http://sigmaprime.com/team/dan-deac. Angel investor in private ventures and in the Where Angel Fund @ LaunchAngels. Technology, strategy and VC advisor for early-stage startups (pre/post funding). Expertise in data architecture, business intelligence, software and systems engineering, product management, online advertising, and corporate strategy and operations. Held management positions at several technology companies – from startups to established multinationals.
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About : Re-Inventing Talent Development and Analytics
Ashoke Dutt
Investor, Advisor of Semantify
Held several C-level/EVP positions at two of the world’s largest financial services companies, Citibank and Morgan Stanley. Largest individual investor in Semantify.
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About : Empowers business users to freely explore data using natural language queries, and easily perform ad-hoc and predictive analytics.
Cindy Le
Marketing Advisor of RageOn!
Co-founder in stealth mode.
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About Stealth Mode, Upstart Marketing: The World’s Best Custom Creation Social Marketplace
Jeff Dayton
Advisor of RageOn!
Advisor, angel investor, Tier 1 CTO, Venture leader
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About : The World’s Best Custom Creation Social Marketplace
Peter Breunig
Advisor of Maana
Peter Breunig is a an Advisor at MAANA Inc. since September 2015. Peter, a former General Manager of Technology Management and Architecture at Chevron IT, has over 30 years’ experience in using technology to manage, interpret and contextualize the ever-increasing amounts of data oil and gas companies generate daily. Peter began his Chevron career in 1980 as a Geophysicist. During his tenure, Peter held a variety of functional and technical leadership roles providing technical support and service to various upstream business units. In his most recent role as General Manager, Peter lead Chevron’s information technology direction and strategy and established technology best practices across the enterprise, including security, network, storage, cloud computing, application development and mobile computing, among others. Peter has served on the Energistics Board, the SPE IT Tech Board, XLDB Advisory Board, Microsoft Security Council, and the industrial advisory board of computer science at California Polytechnic State University. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and a Master of Science degree in Geophysics both from Boston College, as well as a Certificate in Environmental Engineering from Houston Community College.
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About : Maana Knowledge Platform turns human expertise and data from silos into digital knowledge to improve assets and operations of Fortune 500.
Giacomo Nannicini
Advisor of 30SecondsToFly – Claire
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About : A.I. Powered Travel Agency Automation
Joshua Lampl
Angel Investor, Business & Finance Advisor of Conectric Networks
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About : Hyper scalable wireless sensor networks for intelligent buildings
Mike Strickland
Advisor of A3Cube Inc.
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About : A3Cube turns your time, your data and your infrastructure into value. A3CUBE INC. – NO GOAL IS OUT OF REACH
Sanjay Kamlani
Advisory Board Member of Premonition
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About : Premonition Analytics is an artificial intelligence system that mines big data to determine which attorneys win before which judges.
