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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 Board Member operating in the Software space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Harish Kashyap
AI Developer Advisory Board Member of Microsoft
Harish Kashyap has a Masters from Northeastern University, Boston in Electrical Engineering. He received the Graduate Student Award, a research scholarship as a part of which he worked at the BBN Technologies in the area of Bayesian Machine Learning algorithms as applied to Speech Recognition. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Signal Processing and Software development. He has several publications and patents filed in the areas of ML. He has led various Data Analytics projects across US and Europe that led to organizational savings of $8M+. He has built out the curriculum for Machine Learning training platform, refactored.ai which is now part of SUNY Buffalo’s graduate ML course. He is currently the founder of Mysuru Consulting Group (MCG.ai) and Diagram.AI where he works on ML algorithms.
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About : Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Larry Brilliant
Board Member of Salesforce
Larry Brilliant is the Board member Salesforce.org of salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tim Griffin
Chief Strategy Officer & Board Member of Odeko
I’m a founder and angel investor, backing early stage fintech and marketplace startups. I founded Cloosiv (YC S19), where I led our growth from initial prototype, to the highest-rated mobile ordering app for coffee shops in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Collectively, the Cloosiv app was downloaded by 125,000 users, who spent over $10 million dollars across 500+ cafés using our product. I’ve raised millions in venture capital to support the small business economy and orchestrated Cloosiv’s merger with Odeko, where I continue to focus on democratizing access to innovative technology for small businesses.
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About : The operating platform for small businesses.
Chris Darby
Board Member of Endgame
Chris Darby is President and CEO of In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technologies to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader Intelligence Community. He joined In-Q-Tel in September 2006. Darby was previously Vice President and General Manager at Intel overseeing their Middleware Products Division. At Intel, Darby had responsibility for the Corporation’s Infrastructure Software business including Open Source and Commercial Products. He joined Intel in August 2005 with the acquisition of Sarvega Inc. Darby had been the president & CEO of Sarvega, a venture backed supplier of XML Networking and Security products. Prior to Sarvega, Darby was the Chairman and CEO of @stake, the well-known internet security consulting firm ultimately acquired by Symantec (SYMC). While at @stake, he assembled the world’s leading collection of security researchers and built a business that spanned North America and Europe. Before @stake, Darby served as President and CEO of Interpath Communications, a facilities-based ASP later acquired by US Internetworking (USIX). Darby also held several executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard) with responsibility for telecom industry initiatives, corporate strategy, and alliances. He began his career at Northern Telecom (now Nortel Networks) and Bell Northern Research. Darby is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.
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About : Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
Shelley Leibowitz
Board Member of Endgame
Shelley Leibowitz has been a director of the Company since December 2014. From 2009 through 2012, Leibowitz served as Group Chief Information Officer for the World Bank, where she was responsible for the technology services and capabilities that underlie the work of delivering quality knowledge and financing products to the Bank Group’s clients across the globe. Leibowitz managed the Bank Group’s cybersecurity program and served as a member of the Bank’s Pension Investment Committee. Previously, Leibowitz held Chief Information Officer positions at Morgan Stanley, Greenwich Capital Markets and Barclays Capital. Leibowitz also served as Board member and technology advisor for GAIN Capital, now listed on the NYSE. In 2002, Leibowitz received a Merit Award from the Women’s Bond Club of New York for career achievement and leadership in the financial industry. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College with a B.A. in Mathematics. Ms. Leibowitz is currently an Advisor to security intelligence firm Endgame. Ms. Leibowitz is a member of the E*TRADE Bank board and a member of the Risk Oversight Committee.
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About : Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
Micah Avni
Advisor & Board Members of Fundbox
Micah Avni is Advisors & Board Members at Fundbox.
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About : Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Ron Bekkerman
Advisor & Board Members of Fundbox
Ron joined Carmel in October 2012 as Chief Data OfficerRon brings over 12 years of experience in Big Data and intelligent software applications At Carmel, Ron takes part in the investment process while focusing on data-driven technologies, performing technical due diligence, and consulting Carmel’s portfolio companies on Big Data related strategic initiatives Ron served as a Senior Research Scientist at LinkedIn, where he was responsible for data analytics that affect LinkedIn’s product and marketing strategyPrior to that, Ron worked in R&D positions at large high-tech companies, including HP and Motorola
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About Cherre: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Jonathan Chadwick
Board Member of ServiceNow
Jonathan Chadwick joined F5 Networks’ board of directors in August 2011. Chadwick is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at VMware. Prior to joining VMware, Chadwick served as the chief financial officer of Skype and as a corporate vice president of Microsoft Corporation since its acquisition of Skype in October 2011. Chadwick joined Skype from McAfee where he was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2010 until February 2011. From 1997 to 2010, he held various finance roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president, CFO – global customer markets, senior vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer, and vice president, corporate finance & planning. He also worked for Coopers & Lybrand in various roles in the US and UK. Chadwick is a Chartered Accountant in England and holds an honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Bath, UK.
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About : ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Javier Ferreira
Co-CEO & Board Member of Scopely
Javier Ferreira is the co-CEO of Scopely, one of the fastest-growing mobile games companies in the West. A longtime digital media and technology executive with 15+ years of experience in gaming, Javier joined Scopely in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer to expand its business operations, strategy, slate and partnerships. In 2016, he became President, overseeing all aspects of day-to-day operations and joined the Scopely Board. In 2019, he became co-CEO with co-founder Walter Driver. Since Javier joined the business in 2014, Scopely has scaled 35x with a highly-diverse, top-grossing games slate, including the award-winning MARVEL Strike Force, Scrabble® GO, Star Trek™ Fleet Command and YAHTZEE® With Buddies, among many others. Javier’s leadership has helped Scopely achieve accolades such as recognition in Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and Entrepreneur’s “30 Startups to Watch” as well as ranking #2 on Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 500” and #9 on Inc. magazine’s “Inc. 5000” as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America. In 2019, Javier was also recognized by Variety as a “Dealmaker of the Year.” Prior to Scopely, Javier served as Senior Vice President of Games Publishing at Disney Interactive, where he oversaw a large slate of mobile, console and online digital properties—helping establish the brand as a world-class publisher with over 500 million downloads and $1 billion in revenue during his tenure. Earlier in his career, Javier served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Europe at JAMDAT Mobile, which was acquired by Electronic Arts during his tenure for $680 million. Javier helped build the JAMDAT business into a top mobile games publisher in Europe. Following the company’s exit, Javier served as Vice President of Publishing at EA where he drove the brand’s global strategy and technology investments across the EMEA region, as well as expanded international distribution and closed a wide range of strategic partnerships with major IP holders. Javier began his career in gaming at Telefónica Mobile as Head of Product, Games. Javier holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Warwick and a M.S. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Michelle Wilson
Board Member of Pinterest
Michelle Wilson is a director and helped with the initial public offerings at Pinterest, Inc. (NYSE:PINS), Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), and Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE:ZEN). At Pinterest, Michelle acts as lead director, chairs the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. Michelle chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees at Okta and Zendesk. Michelle also serves on the Okta Compensation Committee and the Zendesk Audit Committee. She was previously a director and served on the Audit Committee at Stripe, Inc. Michelle previously was a senior executive at Amazon.com for thirteen years, acting as general counsel from 1999 to 2012 and head of human resources from 2001 to 2003. She was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2001 and participated in operating and strategic decisions across the company’s retail, cloud computing, content, and hardware businesses. Her areas of expertise include scaling and management in hyper growth, proactive customer service and engagement, international expansion, talent acquisition, public and government relations strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic relationships. Prior to Amazon, Michelle was a partner at Perkins Coie LLP and a member of the firm’s executive committee. She directed the legal teams for acquisitions, public offerings, and venture capital financings and advised boards of directors on corporate governance. Michelle received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Chicago School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Finance), summa cum laude, from the University of Washington.
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About : Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Fredric Reynolds
Board Member of Pinterest
Fredric G. Reynolds has served as a Director of Pinterest since December 2017. Mr. Reynolds served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CBS Corporation, a mass media company, from 2006 to 2009. From 2001 to 2005, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom Television Stations Group and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Viacom Inc., a mass media company, from 2000 to 2001. He also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CBS Corporation and its predecessor, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, from 1994 to 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Reynolds held several positions at PepsiCo for twelve years, including Chief Financial Officer or Financial Officer at Pizza Hut, Pepsi Cola International, Kentucky Fried Chicken Worldwide and Frito Lay. He currently serves as a Director of Mondelez International, Inc., Hess Corporation and United Technologies Corporation, and previously served on the board of directors of AOL, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from the University of Miami, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About : Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Sharmila Phadnis
Board Member Company Name of Autodesk
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About Autodesk, Cisco: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Jill Sommers
Advisory Board Member of Green Key Technologies
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About : GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Joseph E. Davis
Co-Founder & Emeritus Board Member of Capella
The 30-year career of Joe Davis is one of combining imaginative technical innovation with sound business practices to set new industry standards. His areas of specialization have included wavelength selective switches, tunable lasers, magnetic and optical disk drives, as well as such related technologies as optical switches, micro-optics, and micro-machining. Prior to his retirement, Joe served as the company’s CEO from 2000-2004, and subsequently as the Chairman. He co-founded Capella in 2000. Preceding that, he was co-founder and interim COO of Iolon, a Seagate spinoff that focused on tunable lasers for telecommunications. In 1996, he co-founded Quinta Corporation and served as its CTO, where he co-invented a multi-disk data-storage architecture that combined the best features of magnetic and optical technologies. Quinta was sold to Seagate in 1997. Joe has also held senior executive positions with several successful public companies including Maxtor, Seagate, and SyQuest. Joe received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics, with a Ph.D. minor in business economics, from the California Institute of Technology. He holds 26 patents in the fields of optical subsystems, MEMS devices, and magneto-optical data storage and is the author of publications in several fields.
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About Capella: Capella is a provider of wavelength selective switch technologies for use in ROADM’s and optical cross connects.
Jeff Carr
Advisory Board Member of Zenefits
Jeff leads Zenefits’ go-to-market functions including sales, service, support, channels, alliances and growth organizations. Jeff is a technology veteran with an extensive Cloud HCM background and more than 20 years experience leading a variety of venture-backed startups and successful public companies.Prior to Zenefits, he was CEO at PeopleFluent, President of Saba, COO at Taleo, CEO at Motiva, President at RightWorks (President) and EVP at PeopleSoft.
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About Inkling Systems: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Larry Summers
Board Member of Premise Data
Larry Summers is an American economist. He entered MIT at age 16, where he originally intended to study physics but soon switched to economics. He also attended Harvard University as a graduate student and, in 1983, at the age of 28, Summers became one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. He served on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan in 1982 and 1983 and also served as an economic adviser to the Dukakis Presidential campaign in 1988.The economist left Harvard in 1991 to serve as the Chief Economist for the World Bank, where he remained for two years. In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs and later in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury, serving as the 71st Treasury Secretary from 1999 to 2001. When George W. Bush succeeded Clinton as president, Summers left the Treasury Department and returned to Harvard, becoming the university’s as 27th President, serving from July 2001 until June 2006. In 2009, Summers was named the Director of National Economic Council by President Barack Obama. Today, the economist is a special advisor to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, serves on the board of directors for Square as well as Lending Club and is an advisor to The Minerva Project.
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About : Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Robin Foote
Board Member of Avalara
Robin Foote is a private investor, corporate director and consultant.In her corporate career, she held a variety of executive leadership positions in pioneering roles with several large banks, which subsequently became formative merger partners for Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. She also served as head of Strategic Marketing for AT&T just prior to that company’s break-up in 2000. Robin began her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., and has returned to that field at various points throughout her 40+ year career. Most recently, in 2005 she merged her independent consulting practice into Novantas, LLC., where she remains a partner today. In addition to Avalara, Robin serves on the Board of Directors of Saturna Trust Company as well as several community organizations. She is a past Director of Cascade Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, Cascade Bank as well as of DLJdirect (now part of E*Trade) and several private companies, all of which have been successfully sold or merged. Robin graduated magna cum laude from Smith College with a degree in Economics and with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was inducted into the ‘Century Club’ and honored as a Baker Scholar. She is also a graduate of Northwestern University Kellogg School’s ‘Women Director Development Program.’
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About : Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Harvey White
Board Member of Brain Corp
Harvey White is a co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. Presently, he is chairman of (SHW)2 Enterprises, a privately held firm that consults primarily in the wireless communication field, and invests and works with technology-based start-ups to assist in the commercialization of their products and services. White founded Leap Wireless and was its Chairman and CEO until 2004. Leap’s Cricket Wireless service was the first to offer unlimited calling for a fixed monthly fee and thus changed the landscape for all U.S. based wireless service pricing. Cricket is now the sixth largest carrier in the U.S. Prior to Leap, White was a co-founder, director and President of Qualcomm, Inc. He served as its COO for much of his tenure there where he oversaw the day-to-day operations and was deeply involved in managing its growth to become the dominant technology company in the terrestrial wireless industry. He also interfaced with the financial community and was a major contributor to the strategic direction of the company. His prior experience included financial and operational roles, including heading a $100-million-per-year conglomerate business, primarily in the aerospace marketplace. White is on the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, the Old Globe Theater, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the San Diego Padres. He also sits on the Board of Directors of ViaSat Inc. and Zeebo. He holds a BA in economics from Marshall University.
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About : Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Allen Gruber
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Board Member of Brain Corp
Allen Gruber is a neuroscientist, physician, and founder of several successful technology companies. In 1993, Gruber co-founded INTERVU, Inc, a streaming video provider, which went public and was sold to Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: AKAM) for $2.8 billion. He founded Kintera, Inc., in 1999, and later served as Executive Vice President in charge of Engineering for Kintera, Inc., an online fundraising and marketing platform for nonprofit organizations. Kintera reached a market capitalization of $500 million and was sold to Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB). Gruber graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biochemistry and also with an MD. He attended Washington University for clinical and research training and was on the faculty of the University of Texas. Gruber was a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Neural Computation at UCSD in 2007. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Neuroscience, and IEEE.
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About Brain Corp, Intheon: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Chris Stolte
Board Member, and Technical Advisor of Tableau
Chris Stolte is Tableau Software’s Chief Development Officer and is responsible for product strategy, product design and engineering. Prior to co-founding Tableau, Chris spent six years researching the analysis and exploration of multidimensional databases at Stanford University, culminating in the Polaris system which was the basis for Tableau’s first products. This research resulted in fourteen landmark research publications and two large-scale visualization systems. Chris was also the CTO and co-founder of BeeLine Systems, a visualization software company that developed a revolutionary map rendering system and was purchased by Vicinity Corporation (NASDAQ: VCNT). Chris is a co-inventor on five software patents related to information visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Eric R. Schnadig
Board Member of Dynamic Yield
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About : Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
David Bettner
Board Member of Playful Studios
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About : Playful is a new game development studio in McKinney, TX. Our team has shipped beloved titles such as Words with Friends.
Chris Ball
Board Member of Parsable
Chris Ball serves as the Managing Director of Retail Industry and Senior Vice President and General Manager of West Region at SAP America, Inc. Chris Ball has been a Member of Industry Advisory Board at Parsable Inc.
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About : Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Deepak Gupta
Co-founder, CTO/CISO & Board Member of LoginRadius
Co-founder/CTO @LoginRadius, Securing 1B+ IDs worldwide. CyberSecurity innovator and author. Developer at heart. Infrastructure Architect.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Steven Hammersly
CFO and Board Member of PORTL Hologram
Steven Hammersly is the CFO at PORTL Hologram.
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About PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Joseph Beatty
Board Member of FourKites
Joseph Beatty is Advisor at FourKites.
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About Hyde Park Angels: FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
Gail Landis
Board Member of Morningstar
Gail Landis was elected to Morningstar’s board of directors in 2013. Landis was a founding partner of Evercore Asset Management, LLC, an institutional asset management firm, and served as managing principal from 2005 until her retirement in December 2011. From 2003 to 2005, she served as head of distribution for the Americas for Credit Suisse Asset Management, the asset management division of Credit Suisse AG. From 1981 to 2002, she served in senior roles with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. and its successor company AllianceBernstein L.P., a global asset management firm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from Boston University and a master’s degree in business administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About : Morningstar provides independent investment research to investors worldwide.
Ralph Baxter
Board Member of Intapp
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About : Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
Howard Charney
Investor & Board Member of Spectrum Labs
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About Santa Clara University: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Shan Sinha
Founder, Exec Chairman, Board Member of Highfive
Shan Sinha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Highfive. He co-founded Highfive with the vision of making every conversation at work face-to-face. Prior to Highfive, Shan was the Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise. Shan joined Google via acquisition in 2010 after Google bought his collaboration company, DocVerse, which later became part of Google Drive. Shan founded DocVerse in 2007 after leaving his role as Product Manager for Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server. Shan graduated from MIT with a Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science, where he conducted research in network systems and performance. Highfive is Shan’s fourth startup company.
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About : Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
John Stewart
Executive Board Member & Co-Founder of TreatAnyone
John Stewart is co-founder at TreatAnyone
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About KoolSpan, Tech HotBed, TreatAnyone: TreatAnyone is a cloud-based, SaaS platform specifically designed for the Mental Health Practitioner.
Siva Namasivayam
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Cohere Health
Prior to co-founding Cohere Health, Siva was a founding partner of SCIO Health Analytics which served over fifty Fortune 500 clients. Siva’s experience also includes serving as SVP, Chief Revenue Officer at MphasiS, SVP, Payer Services at Dell, and Senior Software Engineer at Intel. Siva received his bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli. He holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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About Cohere Health: Cohere Health is a SaaS company that focuses on aligning patients, physicians, and health plans to create optimal care journeys.
Ken Coleman
Board Member of Saama
Ken Coleman is Chairman of Saama Technologies. He also currently serves as a Special Advisor to Andreessen and Horowitz, and is a member of the Board of Directors of AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah Insurance Exchange (Insurance Exchange), which provides insurance services to AAA members in a dozen states. A member of AAA since 1979, he was appointed to the Insurance Board in 2008. Ken is the founder and former chairman/CEO of ITM Software, an enterprise software company focused on information technology. Previously, he was executive vice president of global sales, service and marketing for Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a computer systems company. Prior to that, he was SGI’s senior vice president of administration and business development. Ken was vice president of product development at Activision, Inc. He also spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held several management positions. Ken is a Director of City National Bank, United Online, Entertainment Partners, and is a member of the advisory board of the Ohio State University Business School. Among his many distinctions, he is the recipient of the Ohio State University Distinguished Service Award and School of Business Distinguished Graduate Award, the National Alliance of Black School Educators Living Legend Award, the American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley Exemplary Leader Award, the One Hundred Black Men of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award, the Silicon Valley Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame and the Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice Exemplary Community Leadership Award. Ken earned a B.S. and M.B.A. from Ohio State University. He also served as a Captain in the United States Air Force.
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About : Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Kirill Makharinsky
Co-Founder, CEO, President & Board Member of Enki
Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company. Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each. Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first in Mathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.
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About Emerging Travel Group, Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Kishore Mirchandani
Board Member of ComplyGlobal
Kishore Mirchandani is the Board Member at Avestar Capital.
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About TMA Group: ComplyGlobal is the cloud-based software platform
Aaron Krane
Board Member of Modal
Aaron Krane founded Hitpost (acquired by Yahoo), the leading app developer for sports fans. Aaron was Hitpost’s CEO and Designer, during which time the company raised venture capital from top investors including Khosla Ventures and Floodgate, gained millions of users, and sold to Yahoo in 2013. Prior to that, Aaron worked for the founders of Paypal at Slide (acquired by Google), and prior to that, Aaron worked at a blog search engine called Technorati. There, he launched a daily webshow called “Buzz TV,” which made him a micro-celebrity for 40 days. Aaron was reared in the hills of Silicon Valley, and in 8th grade, was elected student body president in a massive upset over the teacher’s pet (not literally a pet).
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About Modal: Modal provides digital commerce for auto dealers and brands.
Pete Godbole
Board Member of Hearsay Systems
Pete Godbole is the Board Member of [Hearsay Systems](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hearsay-social/), the leader in social business for the financial services industry, helping advisors and agents efficiently and successfully engage with clients and prospects on multiple digital channels. GodBole also worked at GoodData, Autodesk and Hewlett Packard, where he held key roles in financial planning. GodBole holds an MBA in finance from Michigan State University.
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About Hearsay Systems, Smartsheet: Hearsay Systems is reinventing the human-client experience in financial services.
Craig Ramsey
Founder, Board Member of Vlocity
Craig D. Ramsey is the Founder of Vlocity, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. Craig Ramsey served as the Chief Executive Officer at Solidus Networks, Inc. (doing business as Pay By Touch) from July 2003 to November 2004. From March 1994 to March 1996, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Support at nCUBE Corporation. He was employed by Amdahl Corporation. He served as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Siebel Systems Inc. and also as its Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations from 1995 to April 2000. He served as Vice President of U.S. sales at Oracle Corporation. From February 1986 to March 1994, Craig Ramsey was employed by Oracle Corporation and held a variety of executive positions, including Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales and Vice President of OEM Strategic Accounts. From 1968 to 1994, he held various positions with IBM. Craig Ramsey serves as Co-Chairman at Verticals onDemand, Inc. He served as Co-Chairman at Veeva Systems Inc He serves as a Director of Fan Appz, Inc. and Pay By Touch. He has been a Director of ArcSight, Inc. since October 2002. He served as a Director of Guidewire Software, Inc. since 2005. He served as a Director of Salesforce.com, Inc from April 2003 to September 9, 2014. He served as a Director of Solidus Networks, Inc. He also serves as a Board member of the Glide Memorial Foundation. He served as a Director of M-Factor, Inc. Craig Ramsey received a B.A. in Economics and Communications from Denison University.
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About Vlocity: Vlocity provides industry-specific cloud and mobile software that drives digital transformation for companies.
Paul Stahura
Board Member of Donuts
Paul Stahura has been a technology entrepreneur for decades. He founded domain name registrar eNom in his garage in 1997 with little capital and during a time when the industry was dominated by a single combined registrar and registry.He took the company from $0 in sales to more than $80 million in total revenue in less than 10 years, and from no domain names under management to the second largest domain name registrar in the world. The company now generates more than $100 million in highly profitable revenue. Paul sold eNom to Demand Media in 2006, on the day the now publicly-traded company was formally organized and closed on its first round of $150 million in financing. After the transaction he became Demand Media’s President and Chief Operating Officer, then its Chief Strategy Officer. Paul served as a Demand Media board member until his departure in 2009. While bringing thousands of domain name resellers and numerous ICANN-accredited registrars to the eNom platform, Paul also successfully negotiated and obtained for eNom exclusive rights to Verisign’s .TV premium domain name portfolio. His fellow registrars twice elected Paul as the Registrar Stakeholder Group representative to ICANN’s nominating committee. Paul has participated in more than 30 ICANN meetings, and being intimately familiar with registrar and registry operations and the domain name lifecycle, he has been invited to present on various panels during these conferences. A renowned and respected technology innovator, Paul holds four United States patents (three in the domain name system space) and twice has been called to testify before the U.S. Congress on issues related to domain names and Internet policy. Paul is a founder of NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform (initially called “Club Drop” and a wholly-owned subsidiary of eNom), has been a member of the board of directors of AboutUs.org since that company’s founding, and is an investor in and board member for several Seattle-area technology startups. He was also named “one of the most influential people in the Americas” by Managing Intellectual Property magazine in 2012. Paul earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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About : Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Michael Greenberg
Co-Founder & Board Member of Retina AI
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About Retina AI, ScaleFunder: Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Ade Olonoh
Board Member of Formstack
Ade is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He founded Formstack, a SaaS company that grew to over $25M ARR. He also founded Formspring, which became one of the fastest-growing social media platforms of its time, reaching over 50 million monthly users. He’s currently an active angel investor and Venture Partner at Starting Line.
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About Starting Line: Formstack is a workplace productivity platform helps organizations digitize, automate workflows, and fix processes—all without code.
Jason Bellet
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Board Member of Eko Health
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
William Bennett
Board Member of Viridis Learning
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About : Viridis, a human capital technology SaaS solution, that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill labor.
ALEXANDER SKALABANOV
Board Member of Intellectsoft
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About : Intellectsoft is a digital transformation consultancy and engineering company
Satish Tadikonda
Advisory Board Member of Blue Cloud Ventures
Satish Tadikonda is the Executive Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
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About Cellanyx, Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, TiE Angels, Unruly Studios: BCV is a venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage software companies.
Brian Mann
Founder & Creator, Board Member of Cypress.io
Brian Mann is a Founder & Creator at Cypress.io.
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About Cypress.io: Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser.
Drew Lanham
CEO, Board Member of Cypress.io
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About Cypress.io: Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser.
Tracie Ahern
Board Member, Chair of the Audit Committee of RueOne Investments
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About : RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Kerry Byler
Board Member of SwipeSense
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About : SwipeSense is a healthcare technology company that makes healthcare safe, efficient, and predictable through location-aware applications.
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.
Ben Brigham
Founder, Board Member of Conversica
What if your sales team knew which leads were more likely to result in a conversation? What if you had an autonomous support system to answer FAQs, follow up after sales and generate payment reminders? That is the business solution I’ve passionately pursued as an inventor, founder and patent-holder for more than a decade. I founded AutoFerret.com in 2007, bringing AVA, the first Artificial Intelligence Sales Assistant to the world. By engaging in natural, two-way email conversations with prospects, AVA connected hot leads with salespeople, driving a more efficient sales process. Today, that intellectual property is a key product of Conversica®, the leader in conversational AI for business and the only provider of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations. More than 1,200 companies use Conversica, including CenturyLink, AT&T and Epson. I was bootstrapping AutoFerret when the economy collapsed. I often say, “Fortune favors persistence,” and I focused on a new product which used AI to work leads autonomously, an Automated Virtual Assistant-AVA. Released in 2009, it was an immediate success. With a customer base, healthy profits, and what I knew would be a billion-dollar opportunity, I took AutoFerret through an A series of funding in 2013, bringing in a management team and a board of directors. I spent 2015 in retirement and started Intelligens in 2016 to provide conversational AI for marketing, sales and finance teams in Latin America. Intelligens was acquired by Conversica in 2017, at which time I accepted an operational role as General Manager of Conversica Latin America. In 2018, Dealer Marketing Magazine named me the Father of Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Retail. I have one patent granted and several more filed. I’m available to speak at events and serve on leadership boards. If I can help you learn how AI can impact an industry, please connect with me.
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About : Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Kareem Yusuf
Board Member of Workboard
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About : Workboard provides an enterprise results management platform designed to automate business reviews.
Phillip Raub
Founder/Board Member of b8ta
Phillip Raub is the CEO of Model No. and also the co-founder and board member at b8ta, a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for product makers and exciting for consumers. In his role at b8ta, he oversaw the day to day operations of the company. Previous to b8ta, Phillip held executive roles at Nest/Google, where he led the Global Channel Marketing team. Prior to Nest, Phillip spent six years at Nintendo as the Director of Retail Marketing. In addition to his years of experience at Nest and Nintendo, Phillip held various leadership roles in marketing at Gap Inc.
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About b8ta, Model No.: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
Irwin Gotlieb
Board Member of INVIDI Technologies
Irwin Gotlieb is the Global CEO of GroupM, the leading global media investment management company. Irwin started his journey to becoming one of the most powerful men in Advertising and Media history in 1972 when he joined SSC&B, Inc as the Manager of Network Relations before moving to Benton & Bowles in 1977. At Benton & Bowles, Irwin started as the Associate Director of Broadcast Programming. This, however, didn’t last long as through Irwin’s determination, work ethic and successes he was quickly promoted to Vice President of Benton & Bowles within just 2 months. His success continued at Benton & Bowles and in 1981 he was promoted to the Manager of National Broadcast and then in 1983 he was appointed as the Senior Vice President, Director of National Broadcast and Programming. Irwin continued in this role until 1990 when he was promoted to Senior Vice President Worldwide Director of Broadcast and Programming. In 1993 Irwin moved on to a new venture in the form of MediaVest Worldwide, which he founded through the combination of the former Televest and MediaVest units along with the unbundled media resources of DMB&B. While at MediaVest Worldwide Irwin acted as both President and CEO. Irwin Stayed with MediaVest Worldwide until September of 1999 when he joined WPP as the Chairman and CEO of MindShare Worldwide. While at MindShare Irwin was responsible for launching MindShare North America and creating a global media entity through the consolidating of JWT and Ogilvy. Irwin has remained with WPP and in 2003 took over as the Global Chief Executive Officer for Group M, the world’s largest Media and Advertising company. He holds this role to this day. Bragging rightsBroadcast and Cable Hall of Fame Inductee, Three time AdWeek/MediaWeek All Star, Presidents Award Recipient, Double Recipient of the Advertising Age Media Maven Honor, 2000 Advertising Age Media Player of the Year, 2010 Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award Recipient, Former Chairman of the A.A.A.A. Committee on Broadcast Networks and Programming, Member of the A.A.A.A. CEO Committee, Member of the Board for the Executive Committee of Council and the Family Friendly Program Forum OccupationGlobal Chief Executive Officer of GroupM
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About : INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Chuck Myers
President, CEO, & Board Member of Cogniac
Chuck Myers is the President, CEO, and Board Member at Cogniac.
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About Cogniac: Cogniac is an enterprise platform for Artificial Intelligence-grade visual observation.
Greg Galanos
Board Member of Viathan Corporation
Gregory P. Galanos, also known as Greg, has been Co-Executive Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital, Inc. (formerly Softbank Venture Capital) since May 2000. Mr. Galanos served as an Advisor of PhoneSpots, Inc. (Also called as Pocketthis Inc.). He spent 22 years as a Software Developer and Entrepreneur. He served as the Managing Director of Softven L.P and Mobius Technology Ventures VI, L.P. Since 2000, he has led early stage investments in semiconductors, communications equipment, wireless infrastructure software and internet-centric mobile platforms. He has extensive experience in managing the development, licensing and deployment of software development tools for desktop, consumer electronics and embedded Internet platforms on a variety of CISC and RISC-based microprocessor architectures. He served as Co-Executive Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital. Mr. Galanos served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Metrowerks Corporation until 1996; President and Chief Technology Officer until August 1999, when it was acquired by Motorola. From September 1999 to January 2000, Mr. Galanos was mandated with the development of the sector software strategy as part of the Office of the President of Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). Between 1978 and 1985, he assisted in the development of environmental mapping systems (GIS) for the James Bay Development Corp. and developed a local area network for scientists in the Environment Department of Hydro-Quebec in Montreal. In 1985, Mr. Galanos founded Metrowerks, one of the world’s leading software development tools providers, producers of the CodeWarrior line of programming tools, now acquired by Motorola. He has been a Director of Danger Inc. since December 2000. Mr. Galanos serves as a Director of FUJIN Entertainment, Inc., RFco Inc., Visage Mobile, Inc., Infinera Inc., SkyPilot Networks, Inc., EMC Insignia, Generic Media, Danger Research, and Bergana Communications. He served as a Director of Reactrix Systems, Inc. and Bloom Energy Corporation. He served as a Director of Metrowerks Corp., since January 1, 1990. Mr. Galanos served as a Director at Impinj, Inc. and FlexICs, Inc. Mr. Galanos served as a Director of HVVi Semiconductors Inc. (Formerly RF Power Devices), Viathan Corp., Bermai, Inc., PhoneSpots, Inc., Transilica, Inc. and Wheels of Zeus Inc. He served as a Director at Infinera Corp. until November 20, 2006. Mr. Galanos holds an M.S. in Computer Science from l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
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About : A software infrastructure company focused on storage virtualization.
Morris Wolfson
Board Member of Wristcam
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About : Computer Vision for Wearables
Austin McGee
Board Member of WellDone International
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About : WellDone International employs design, technology, and advocacy to empower communities that lack access to water and sanitation
Krishna Kolluri
Board Member of Console Connect
Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA board memberships include OANDA, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Novatium, RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, and Teracent. Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, a position he assumed following Juniper’s acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen’s acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 17 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry. He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects. Kittu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a M.S. in Operations Research from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
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About : Console Connect is an enterprise software and interconnection solution provider with more than 170 PoPs globally.
Joseph Mallee III
Advisor/ Board Member of Soar
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About : Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
William H May
Board Member of TAC Security
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About : TAC Security is a global leader in vulnerability management that protects Fortune 500 companies, large enterprises & governments globally.
Robert Stephens
Board Member of iCracked
A native of Chicago, Robert left a scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 to pursue a degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota. While attending the University, he landed a job fixing computers for the Human Factors Research Laboratory. Over a three year period, he rose to become head engineer of the lab while earning scholarships from the U.S. Navy and the FAA building flight and driving simulators. It was also during this time he started a computer consulting business. In April 1994, after three years at the University, he formed The Geek Squad with $200. In 2002, The Geek Squad acquired by Best Buy and opened Geek Squad precincts in all Best Buy US and Canadian stores. With over 6000 Agents , The Geek Squad is now North America’s largest technology support company offering phone, in-store, and in-home support. Stephens is the author of The Geek Squad Guide to Solving Any Computer Glitch, released in 1999 by Fireside. In plain English and with a humorous flair, The Geek Squad Guide demystifies the most widely used hardware and software, offers quick fixes to common glitches, and provides smart maintenance advice to keep things running smoothly. To date, The Geek Squad has serviced over 150,000 computer problems for clients such as 3M, Cargill, General Mills, The Rolling Stones, U2, and The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. The Geek Squad story has been featured in numerous national media including CNN, Newsweek, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, People, Rolling Stone, and InStyle Magazine.
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About : iCracked offers on-demand iPhone, iPad, and Samsung device repair services and offers a platform to sell used devices.
Mason Ross
Board Member and Director of Macerich
Mason Ross has over four decades of investment experience, with extensive involvement in commercial real estate. He spent 35 years at Northwestern Mutual Life, an industry leading life insurance company, the final nine years of which he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. During the prior 27 years, he held a variety of positions including leading the company’s real estate investment and private securities operations. During that time he also served as a director of Robert W. Baird, Inc., a regional brokerage and investment banking firm and the Russell Investment Group, an international investment management firm. Since retiring from Northwestern Mutual in 2007, he has remained active in the investment business and currently serves as a director of Schroeder – Manatee Ranch Inc., a privately held real estate company and as a trustee of several large private trusts. He is the past Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers and a former trustee of the Urban Land Institute.
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About : Macerich is an independent real estate investment trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Steve Soboroff
Board Member and Chairman of Macerich
Steve Soboroff is the President of the Los Angeles Police Commission and has served in that position since his appointment to the Board of Police Commissioners by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in August of 2013. Since 1978, he has been the managing partner of Soboroff Partners, a shopping center development and leasing company. During 2001 to 2010, he served in the roles of Chairman and CEO as well as President of Playa Vista, one of the country’s most significant multi-use real estate projects. Mr. Soboroff also was President of the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission from 1995 to 2001 and a member of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission. In addition, Mr. Soboroff is a board member of several non-profit philanthropic and academic organizations.
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About : Macerich is an independent real estate investment trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
John Alschuler
Board Member and Director of Macerich
John Alschuler is a Chairman of HR&A Advisors Inc.
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About Columbia University, Columbia University, HR&A Advisors: Macerich is an independent real estate investment trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Tim McCarthy
Advisory Board Member of Cloud Lending
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About : Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Woody Scal
Board Member of Owlet Baby Care
Woody has over 20 years of experience with high-growth consumer product companies. Recently he was partner at Avanti Growth Partners, a consulting and private equity firm focused on growth-stage companies. Previously Woody was Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of CamelBak Products LLC, where he managed all sales, marketing, and R&D activities and led CamelBak’s successful entry into new markets and product categories. Prior positions include Senior Vice President at Kransco Partners LLP, a private equity firm; Director of Business Development at Kransco Group Companies; Director of Development at Visa International; Product Manager at General Mills; and Analyst at Cambridge Associates. Woody has an MBA from Stanford Business School and a BA from Williams College.
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About : Owlet Baby Care offers a health monitor that allows parents to view their child’s vital signs in real-time.
Edwin Gillis
Board Member of AppNexus
Ed Gillis has worked as a Business Consultant and Private Investor since January 2006. In 2009-2010, Ed was an Executive Advisor at Skype, where he was engaged by Silver Lake Partners in connection with that firm’s acquisition of Skype. Previously, Ed was an interim Chief Financial Officer of Avaya Inc. Ed also served as Senior Vice President of Administration and Integration at Symantec Corporation and he has held Chief Financial Officer positions at Veritas Software Corporation, Parametric Technology Corporation and Lotus Development Corporation. Before joining Lotus, Ed was a Certified Public Accountant and Partner at Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. Since 2006, Ed has served as a Board Director for a number of organizations, including Bladelogic Inc., Endeca, Inc., EqualLogic, Inc., LogMeIn Inc., Sophos Plc., and Teradyne Corporation. Ed earned a Bachelor’s degree in Government from Clark University, a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About : AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.
Frederick Ball
Board Member of Engagio
Frederick Ball is the chief financial officer of Marketo, a leading provider of a cloud-based marketing platform, a position he has held since May 2011. Prior to Marketo,Frederick Ball was the chief financial officer of Webroot Software, a leading provider of software security solutions, a position he had held from June 2008 to April 2011. From August 2004 to November 2007, Frederick Ball was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of BigBand Networks, a provider of digital video networking platforms. From September 2003 until May 2004, Frederick Ball served as chief operating officer of CallTrex Corporation, a provider of customer service solutions. Prior to his employment with CallTrex, he was employed with Borland Software Corporation, a provider of enterprise software development solutions, from September 1999 until July 2003. Prior to his employment with Borland, Frederick Ball served as vice president, mergers and acquisitions for KLA-Tencor, a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries, and prior to that as its vice president of finance. Frederick Ball was an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 10 years. Frederick Ball has been a director of Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a publicly held technology company, since 2003 and is a member of its audit committee.
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About : Engagio provides a platform that enables B2B marketers to execute and measure account-centric programs in one place.
Jonathan Flesher
Advisory Board Member of Baobab Studios
Head of Business Development at Discord.
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About Reddit: Baobab Studios is a VR animation company that creates story and character driven cinematic experiences.
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.
Andre Arzumanyan
Founder | Board Member of OmniLync
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About OmniLync: OmniLync enables SMB Retailers and the evolving retail ecosystem with digital marketing.
Christophe Garnier
Advisory Board Member of Confiant
Christophe Garnier joined Upflex as Co-Founder & CEO in 2018.Technology entrepreneur with expertise in SaaS, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Mobile Tech & Ad Tech verticals between the US & Europe. Specialist in US expansion & cross borders development. Results-oriented with P&L responsibility and experience in setting business strategy, scaling distribution, building/leading teams up to 200 people & ultimately driving business growth. Primarily focused on revenue generation through sales efforts, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, strategic M&A & licensing deals. • Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Finalist • Forbes 2012 Most Promising Company Winner • Top 5 Social Media Strategist of the Year 2011 by Social Media Week • Ranked #4 for Leaders in Social Media Marketing & Commerce by Internet Retailer 2012 • Top 10 in Social Commerce IQ Report by 8th Bridge & Forrester in 2012 • Member at Summit Series • Mentor at ERA (NYC start-ups accelerator) • Mentor at French Tech NYC • Mentor of the London Mayor’s International Business Programme
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About BWelcome.ai, Spark Labs, Upflex: Confiant protects digital publisher’s reputation and revenue with anti-malware software that keeps them ahead of the bad guys.
Sarah Sanders
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Native
Sarah Sanders is a co-founder at Native AgTech, a B2B platform designed to democratize agricultural data. Previously, Sarah was a territory account executive at Toast. Sarah Sanders holds a bachelor of business administration degree in management from the University of Kentucky.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Doug Petillo
Board Member of TrueCommerce
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About : TrueCommerce, Inc. provides electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions to small and mid-tier companies. Its end-to-end solution includes
Reed Sturtevant
Board Member of Zapata Computing
Reed Sturtevant serves as a board member at Zapata Computing.
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About : Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.
Russ Wilcox
Board Member of Zapata Computing
Russ Wilcox is one of the board members at Zapata Computing.
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About : Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.
Johann Schleier-Smith
Board Member of Sama
Johann is Co-Founder & CTO & Board Member at if(we). Today, if(we) operates hi5 and Tagged while also pursuing game-changing opportunities in social apps, building on over 10 years of experience in the space while approaching billion-user opportunities. Johann has been responsible for scaling the infrastructure supporting hundreds of millions of users, for pushing cutting-edge software development techniques, and for innovating on how the organization applies machine learning in recommendation engines and how it executes on data science. Starting out as an entrepreneur in college, Johann launched a dozen businesses in collaboration with Co-Founder Greg Tseng before focusing on social networking in 2004. He holds an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University and pursued a Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford for several years, before leaving to chase entrepreneurial opportunities.
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About : Sama is a training data platform trusted by organizations to develop accurate artificial intelligence and machine learning models.
Lloyd Taylor
Board Member of Sama
Lloyd has a unique way of looking at the world, most likely due to his upbringing by a quantum physicist and a professional musician. He spent most of his childhood and teen years hanging out with people holding widely varying, and often contradictory, perspectives on the universe, and learned to appreciate that our ability to deal with reality is largely a matter of how we perceive it. Understanding the overall system, and getting to the underlying facts, is the core of his professional and pro bono work. Some of his better-known methods for getting to the underlying truth include asking “What problem are we really trying to solve here?”, applying the discipline of the five whys, and focusing on why people behave in self-limiting ways rather than work for their own good as well as the good of the organization. Lloyd’s professional work includes developing a worldwide infrastructure platform for mobile social media companies ngmoco and DeNA; preparing LinkedIn for its rapid growth; developing, implementing and operating an infinitely scalable physical infrastructure for Google’s server farms; building out a worldwide performance measurement infrastructure for Keynote Systems; and developing one of the first managed hosting architectures for Digex. His pro bono work includes angel funding and advising a select group of non-profits working on no-dependency systems approaches to ending poverty throughout the world.
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About Alembic: Sama is a training data platform trusted by organizations to develop accurate artificial intelligence and machine learning models.
Matthew Schiltz
Advisory Board Member and Investor of Parachute Health
Matthew Schiltz is the Advisory Board Member and Investor of Parachute Health.
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About Parachute Health: Parachute Health is a provider of medical equipment ordering software.
Tom Peterson
Board Member of Beckon
Tom Peterson is a veteran early-stage technology investor who has been with El Dorado Ventures since 1986. He focuses on early-stage investments in software, service and communications companies. Tom joined El Dorado in 1986 from Union Venture Corp., the venture capital arm of Union Bank of California, where he was an Investment Officer. Prior to joining Union Venture, Tom held engineering and management positions with Hewlett-Packard and General Electric. Tom received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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About : Beckon provides data management and real-time marketing intelligence for better, faster decisions to grow your brand.
Vip Sandhir
Board Member of Fooda
Vip Sandhir founded HighGround in 2012 with a mission to change the way companies engage their employees. He has vast experience building start-ups from the ground up and growing them significantly. Vip is also a Co-Founder of the corporate food technology platform Fooda. He previously worked as the Executive Vice President and Founding Executive at Echo Global Logistics (Nasdaq: Echo), the COO and Co-Founder at The BusBank, and the VP of Sales and Operations at Iexplore.
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About : Fooda is a food technology platform that connects restaurants to people while at work.
Arsen Harutyunyan
Board Member, Director of Aquicore
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About : Aquicore is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based software designed for asset operations platform for the CRE sector.
Christopher Piedmonte
Board Member of Suvola Corporation
Christopher Piedmonte is an Information Technology Entrepreneur. He’s currently working as a CTO and CEO at Suvola Corporation. In the past, he has worked for the companies like Phantom Air Racing, Incorporated and Algebraix Data Corporation.
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About NeoTerra Capital: Suvola Corporation is an information technology cyber security company pioneering the next-generation security solutions.
Christopher Boone
CEO, Board Member of Coveroo
Christopher Boone is President & CEO of Cimbal, a software driven mobile promotion and payment network. His career includes senior executive positions in investment banking and operating roles leading software companies. Prior to Cimbal, Mr. Boone was President & CEO of Visuvi, an image initiated search engine and CEO of AppCentral, a desktop virtualization software company. He worked in management consulting as a technology, media and telecom advisor to leading asset management funds, law firms and technology companies and as a director of business and corporate development with Excite@Home. Mr. Boone was an investment banker with JPMorgan in New York where he managed a billion dollar derivatives portfolio. He began his career in corporate finance at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Boone is a recognized scholar with the Gerson Lehrman Group’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications council. He holds over a dozen US patents-pending in payment, authentication, virtualization and distributed networks. Mr. Boone is a graduate of JPMorgan’s Executive Finance Program which included graduate business school professors from Harvard, Wharton, Columbia and NY University. He holds a bachelor of science degree in medical physics from the University of Notre Dame where he was an Isko Foundation academic scholarship recipient and rowed varsity crew.
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About Cimbal, Coveroo, Visuvi: Coveroo is a software, printing and brand licensing platform that enables consumers and partners to create highly customized products.
Bob Stevenson
Board Member of N3TWORK
Bob Stevenson has over 20 years of experience as a Creative Leader and Entrepreneur in the games industry, His key skills are being an Entrepreneur, Producer, Game Maker, Art/Game Director, Creative Problem Solver, Occasional Mediator, Mentor and Empath. He loves his Family, Friends, Movies, Music, Wine, Laughter, Playing instruments, Games, Art, Tech, Business and despite his joy of people he has a fear of public speaking! (I am working on it) In 2008, he co-founded ngmoco:) a Future Entertainment Company that specialize in creating Social Mobile Games that unite and delight the world. With over 100m downloads and over 15 hit games, including We Rule, GodFinger, Rolando, Topple and Mazefinger, they have become one of the key companies in the mobile games industry. They were acquired in 2010 by DeNA: The leading Social Mobile company in the world. Bob plays an ongoing global role as CCO across that quickly expanding business. Prior to ngmoco, his games have appeared on nearly every major platform in the history of the industry, working with major partners like EA, THQ, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Virgin, Activision and SEGA.
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About : Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Jonathan Sherry
Co-Founder & Board Member of CB Insights
Jonathan Sherry is co-founder of CB Insights (CBI), a National Science Foundation-backed information services company focused on the venture capital, angel and private equity investment markets. CBI’s partners include Forbes, Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Capital Association. In 2011, CBI was selected to participate in the founding class of the FinTech Innovation Lab, which is an incubator program organized by Accenture, the New York City Investment Fund as well as numerous other prestigious financial services institutions. CB Insights and its data have been featured everywhere from The New York Times to the Wall Street Journal. Prior to founding CB Insights, Jonathan worked at American Express where he pioneered the company’s $50 million Chairman’s Innovation Fund. Earlier in his career, he spent a five-year stint at Deloitte consulting for the Financial Services industry. Educational highlights include an MBA from Columbia Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About CB Insights: CB Insights builds software that predicts what the next technology trend will be.
Larry Pickett
Board Member of RxDataScience
Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Syneos Health.
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About RxDataScience, Syneos Health: RxDataScience is a unique data science software solutions for pharmaceutical & healthcare companies
Ken Wilcox
Board Member of Columbia Lake Partners
Ken Wilcox served as Chairman of Silicon Valley Bank and was the first President of SPD Silicon Valley Bank. Ken Wilcox was previously the CEO of SVB Financial Group. In that role, he successfully pursued a strategy of expansion and diversification, while remaining focused on the group’s core niches of technology, life sciences, venture capital and premium wineries. Ken Wilcox is a member of the Asia Society, the Equilibrium Capital Group, and the Young Adult and Family Center at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also an executive committee and board member of the Bay Area Council and an adjunct professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Earlier in his career, Ken Wilcox was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2006 to 2012. In 2008, Ken Wilcox was named “Banker of the Year” by American Banker. He earned the distinction of “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young in 2009 and in 2010. The Yangpu District of Shanghai has also honored Ken Wilcox with an “Innovation Contributor Award”. In 2013, the Shanghai Municipal Government presented Ken Wilcox with the “Magnolia Silver Award”, a municipal honor given to expatriates for their outstanding contribution to the city’s economic, social or cultural development. Ken Wilcox earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
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About : Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Wayne Goldstein
Board Member of Columbia Lake Partners
Wayne Goldstein is a Co-Founder and Principal of The Endicott Group, an investment and financial advisory firm specializing in financial institutions which was established in 1996. As such, Wayne Goldstein is responsible for the development of Endicott’s funds and the implementation of the investment strategy. In addition Wayne Goldstein provides financial, strategic and transaction advisory services to middle-market financial institutions, primarily banks. Prior to founding Endicott, from 1988 to January 1996, Wayne Goldstein was a Managing Director at Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P., an investment banking firm specializing in financial institutions. Wayne Goldstein held prior positions in equity research at L.F. Rothschild Holdings, Inc. and corporate lending at Irving Trust Company. Wayne Goldstein received a Master of Business Administration in finance from New York University (1985) and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Brandeis University (1983). Wayne Goldstein is currently a member of the Board of Directors of First Capital Holdings, Inc., an asset based lending and factoring company headquartered in New York City, and American Chartered Bancorp, a commercial bank headquartered in Schaumberg, IL, a Chicago suburb. He also maintains observer or advisory status for a number of other middle market bank boards, including Sterling Bancorp (Montebello, NY), C&S Bancorp (Atlanta, GA), NewBridge Bancorp (Greensboro, NC), Florida Bank Group (Tampa, FL), Equity Bancshares (Wichita, KS) and Washington First Bancshares (Reston, VA).
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About : Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Sunay Tripathi
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Pluribus Networks
Sunay Tripathi is the founder and chief technology officer of [Pluribus Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pluribus-networks#/entity). Prior to that, he was a senior distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. Tripathi holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. He has also studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Tripathi is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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About Pluribus Networks: Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software defined networking (SDN)
Michael Middleman
Board Member of Cloudvirga
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About : Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Michael Middleman
Board Member of Cloudvirga
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About : Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Advisory Board Member of SideChef
Though Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the world’s most famous chefs, his skills extend far beyond the kitchen. A savvy businessman and restaurateur, Jean-Georges is responsible for the operation and success of a constellation of three and four star restaurants worldwide. Born and raised on the outskirts of Strasbourg in Alsace, France, Jean-Georges’ earliest family memories are of food. He began his training in a work-study program at Auberge de l’Ill as an apprentice to Chef Paul Haeberlin, then went on to work under Paul Bocuse and Master Chef Louis Outhier at L’Oasis in southern France. With this impressive three star Michelin background, Jean-Georges traveled to Asia and continued his training at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, the Meridien Hotel in Singapore and the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong. It was during this time spent working and traveling throughout Asia that Jean-Georges developed his love for the exotic and aromatic flavors of the East. His signature cuisine abandons the traditional use of meat stocks and creams and instead features the intense flavors and textures from vegetable juices, fruit essences, light broths, and herbal vinaigrettes. Jean-Georges’ culinary vision has redefined industry standards and revolutionized the way they eat. Jean-Georges has published several cookbooks reflecting his influential style of cooking, including Simple Cuisine (Wiley, 1990); Cooking at Home with a Four Star Chef (Broadway Books, 1998), for which he won the Best Cookbook Award from the James Beard Foundation in 1999; and Simple to Spectacular (Broadway Books, 2000). In October 2007, he released Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges, featuring beloved recipes from his restaurants Spice Market, Vong, and 66. Most recently, Jean-Georges released Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes (Clarkson Potter 2011). In this book Jean-Georges shares the recipes for easy, quick and seasonal meals that are Vongerichten family favorites, including Crab Toasts with Sriracha Mayonnaise, Watermelon and Blue Cheese Salad, Herbed Sea Bass and Potatoes in Broth, Lamb Chops with Smoked Chile Glaze and Warm Fava Beans, Tarte Tatin, and Buttermilk Pancakes with Warm Berry Syrup. Jean-Georges is involved in every aspect of his restaurants – concept, menu, architectural design, staff selection and trainings – in an ongoing effort to create restaurants that are both timely and enduring. Inspired by his travels, Jean-Georges is constantly developing fresh concepts and evolving as a chef and restaurateur, both adapting to and impacting the global culinary landscape. Jean-Georges has opened a number of new restaurants including The Inn at Pound Ridge by Jean-Georges, ABC Kitchen, ABC Cocina, Simply Chicken at Madison Square Garden, The Pump Room in The Public Chicago and Eden Rock in St. Barths. Most recently, Jean-Georges ventured to Roppongi Hills to open JG Tokyo, a 14-counter seat restaurant. Jean-Georges has appeared on Live! With Regis and Kelly, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Martha Stewart Show, The Early Show on CBS, Top Chef, the Food Network, in the 1995 PBS series In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs and Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts with Hugh Jackman. Additions since then include NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fox 5 “Good Day Café” and The Today Show. He is also co-hosted his wife Marja’s PBS series, Kimchi Chronicles. Jean-Georges has made culinary history and developed a reputation as remarkable as his food by tapping his deep understanding of the restaurant world and pairing it with his forward-thinking vision. Yet, after years of success, Jean-Georges’ favorite retreat is still the kitchen, and his favorite meals dished from a street cart in Thailand.
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About : SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Erik Weihenmayer
Board Member of Aira
Erik Weihenmayer is one of the most celebrated and accomplished athletes in the world. In 2001, he became the only blind person in history to climb Mount Everest. When he stood on the top of Carstensz Pyramid in 2008, he completed his quest to climb all of the Seven Summits, the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. Erik is the author of the bestselling memoir, Touch the Top of the World, which was made into a feature film, as well as The Adversity Advantage, which shows readers how to turn everyday struggles into everyday greatness. His latest book, No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon, is more than an adventure story; it illuminates how we move forward in our lives towards growth and purpose despite the barriers that get in our way. He is an internationally recognized speaker and brings his message of living a No Barriers Life to audiences around the world. In September 2014, Erik and blinded Navy veteran Lonnie Bedwell kayaked the entire 277 miles of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River, considered one of the most formidable whitewater venues in the world. Erik continually seeks out new adventures, focusing his efforts on empowering people traditionally swept to the sidelines of life. He founded an organization called No Barriers, which helps people with challenges tap into the human spirit, break through barriers, and contribute to the world.
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About : Aira provides tech-enabled services for the 300 million visually impaired people around the globe.
Mark Kress
Board Member of Ordergroove
Mark Kress is the Founder and CEO of Spencer Forrest, Inc. the leading manufacturer of cosmetic products designed to enhance the appearance of thinning hair in men and women. Mark greatly built his business by focusing on customer retention and continuity marketing. Prior to launching Spencer Forrest, Mark was a broadcasting entrepreneur and a pioneer in the televised home shopping industry. His very first product line is still airing on QVC after 20 years and has amassed among the highest sales of any product line sold through this medium. He was also instrumental in creating the first nationally televised program which combined a talk show format with direct product sales.
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About : Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Lior Koriat
CEO & Board Member of Quali
CEO at QualiSystems
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About Quali: Quali provides cloud platform solutions that increase productivity, cut costs, and optimize infrastructure utilization.
Billy Meadow
Founder & Board Member of LocatorX, Inc.
Billy is a serial technology entrepreneur who has thrived for decades in commercializing and funding companies like Blink Science, based on the ideas of research scientists. Billy founded PaySpan.com the largest medical payment network in the US with 1.3M providers & 100M user accounts. LocatorX has been awarded contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency. Billy pioneered internet-based long-distance calling with SS7 switches deployed in 130+ countries.
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About LocatorX, Inc., PERSOWN: LocatorX, Inc. offers revolutionary technology that enables customers to find and track nearly everything, everywhere.
Patrice Breton
Advisory Board Member of Calvin
Patrice Breton is a successful serial entrepreneur. He was co-founder and Vice-President Emerging Technologies of “Mediagrif Interactive Technologiesâ€, a publicly traded world leading developer and operator of business-to-business vertical maketplaces based in Montreal, Canada (TSX:MDF). Patrice was the original founder of Mediagrif and initiator of its first and most profitable B2B marketplace. Patrice also founded and operates inVin Wine Solutions, a Montreal based company specializing in wine industry business applications including inVinSys, a white-label wine warehouse management system which offers both client and corporate-side inventory management functionalities; and Wine Price Exchange, an online service for serious wine enthusiasts and professionals which allows users to organize, appraise and source wine on a single platform. Patrice also founded and operates a highly acclaimed small luxury winery (Vice Versa) in Napa Valley, California (www.viceversawine.com).
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About : Calvin is a planning tool to help people make plans more efficiently.
Board Member / Lead Investor of SkyKick
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About : SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
