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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 CEO’ operating in the Collaboration space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Mathilde Collin
CEO and Co-Founder of Front
Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
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Dustin Moskovitz
CEO & Co-Founder of Asana
Dustin Moskovitz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Asana. He is also the Co-Founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures. Mr. Moskovitz is a former Co-Founder of Facebook.
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About Asana, Good Ventures, Open Philanthropy Project: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Mariano Suarez-Battan
Co-Founder & CEO of MURAL
Mariano Suarez-Battan is a Co-founder and CEO at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He is a three-time co-founder and an inventor by trade, who is on a mission to inspire, enhance, and connect “imagination workers” so they can collaborate and solve hard problems together. Previously, he co-founded Three Melons, a video game studio that designed and published online games for clients like LEGO, Disney, Mattel, Warner Bros. Three Melons created more than 50 games as well as the soccer-based Facebook game Bola!, which had more than 20 million players globally in 2010 (1M daily during the World Cup). The company was acquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney, where Mariano served as Creative Director following the acquisition. He then co-founded Idea.me, a leading crowdfunding site for the Latin American region. Mariano is an active angel investor and startup advisor at Endeavor.org, a global non-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. As an Endeavor entrepreneur, he mentors other founders at various stages of their scaleup journey. He is a graduate of the Endeavor Leadership Program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About MURAL: MURAL is a digital workspace that provides a visual collaboration platform that enables teams to work remotely and efficiently.
Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO of Zoom
Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco’s collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Ivan Zhao
Co-founder, CEO of Notion
Ivan Zhao is the CEO and founder of Notion.
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About Notion: Notion is the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
Joe Thomas
Co-founder and CEO of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Clark Valberg
Co-Founder & CEO of InVision
Clark Valberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies, including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Stephen Olmstead
VP, Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO of InVision
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-Founder & CEO of Coda
Mr. Shishir Mehrotra is a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc. Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director of Product Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Coda: Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together.
Tope Awotona
CEO & Founder of Calendly
Tope spent the last seven years growing strategic accounts and territories for some of the most successful software companies including IBM, Perceptive Software, ImageRight/Vertafore and EMC. During that time, he managed $2m+ territories, won numerous awards, influenced others to achieve results and succeeded in high-pressure environments. When not fine-tuning and perfecting Calendly, he’s probably LOLing at a standup comedy club, occasionally showing up for CrossFit or dreaming about a tropical vacation. And oh yeah, Go Dawgs!
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About Calendly: Calendly is a modern scheduling platform that helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate meeting by removing the back and forth.
Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turned his frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world’s leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
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About Dropbox, FWD.us: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Vlad Shmunis
Founder, CEO, Chairman of RingCentral
Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral’s cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Brian Grey
CEO of Remind
Brian Grey serves as the Executive in Residence for Polaris Venture Partners. Grey moved to Polaris from Fox Sports Interactive, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager.
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About Remind, Spright: Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Jamie Hodari
CEO & Co-Founder of Industrious
Jamie Hodari is the Co-Founder and CEO of Industrious. Prior to Industrious, Jamie was the CEO and Co-Founder of Kepler, a rapidly growing experimental university that Scientific American called a “daring global experiment” to bring “top-tier instruction to the neediest parts of the planet.”Jamie previously ran the education non-profit Generation Rwanda, analyzed investments at the hedge fund Birch Run Capital and was a project finance lawyer at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. He started his career as a journalist at the Times of India. Jamie holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.
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About Industrious: Industrious is a premium flexible workspace provider that redefines the workplace experience.
Brad Brooks
Co-Founder, CEO of TigerConnect
Brad is the Co-Founder and CEO of TigerConnect and a Co-Founder of Whisper. He previously ran DIC Entertainment as President for 6 years after working for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette as an Investment Banker. After acquiring the company with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000, he helped grow the company from less than $10mm of revenues to over $80mm in 2005 when he took the company public on the London Stock Exchange at a $200mm valuation. Brad received his BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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About TigerConnect, Whisper: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Ronak Trivedi
Founder & CEO of Pietra
Ronak Trivedi is the founder and CEO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Eric Rea
CEO and Co-Founder of Podium
Eric Rea is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Podium.
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About Podium: Podium is a customer communication platform for businesses who interact with customers on a local level.
Rami Musallam
Chief Executive Officer of CafeX Communications
Rami Musallam is the CEO at CafèX Communications.
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About CafeX Communications, Thrupoint: CafeX is a WebRTC company enabling business applications with real-time communication capabilities across mobile and desktop endpoints.
Kaspars Dancis
Co-Founder & CEO of Whimsical
Kaspars Dancis is the Co-Founder & CEO at Whimsical.
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About Whimsical: Whimsical is a software company that develops tools for workplace collaboration.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Zeb Evans
Founder & CEO of ClickUp
Zeb Evans is a billionaire entrepreneur that’s started several software companies worth over $4 billion. He’s founder and CEO at ClickUp, a productivity platform that revolutionizes the way people work.
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Usama Abid
Co-founder & CEO of Inventhub
Usama Abid is a technology entrepreneur. As an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, he has dedicated himself to improving the hardware design process, and is an active contributor to the open-source community. His company, InventHub, Inc., is founded on the idea that innovation can happen at scale if: one, engineers are provided with a new way to collaborate; and two, the open-source community is empowered with resources. Prior to InventHub, Usama founded DIY GEEKS, a startup that focuses on robotics education in his native Pakistan, where Usama helped cultivate the community and ushered in a love of making with his self-learning DIY kits, workshops and seminars. He was recognized by TechJuice in 2018 as one of Pakistan’s “25 Under 25” — an annual list of those helping to change the landscape in the country’s startup ecosystem. His work has been featured in numerous tech blogs and magazines, including TechJuice, StartUp Magazine, Geo TV.
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About Inventhub: Inventhub is an electronics design collaboration and data management platform that helps maximize product quality.
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
Gary Guseinov
CEO of Business Hangouts
Gary Guseinov is a principal at International Equity Partners LLC. Gary is a seasoned technology-marketing executive, he founded web development and e-commerce firm Digital Media in 1994, where he served as the chief executive officer. In 1998 co-founded Synergy, a performance based online marketing firm, where he served as the President/CTO. During his tenure at Synergy he generated over $2 billion in revenues for its clients including GoToMyPC/Citrix, Oracle, Chase, Nortel, HP, Bank of America, and CitiBank. In 2003 Gary co-founded US Tech Support, a NASDAQ company, and raised over $50M from multiple institutional investors. US Tech Support provides internet security, cloud storage and live remote technical support services that work together to ensure maximum safety for consumers in a digital world.
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About Business Hangouts, inCast, International Equity Partners, iolo technologies, RealDefense: With over 2.5m enterprise users, Business Hangouts is the only webinar app fully integrated with G Suite.
Osman Rashid
CEO & Chairman of Convo
Osman is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of educational technology. He is currently the CEO of Convo Corp. and Founder & CEO of **Galxyz** , an intergalactic science adventure on a mission to ignite the fascination of science and unlock the true potential in every student. Previously he was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rental leader **Chegg** (NYSE:CHGG) until early 2010, and also co-founder and CEO of **Kno, Inc.** (acquired by Intel in 2013), a digital education platform company. He is also on the Board of Trustees at a health focused non-profit, ChildLife Foundation, which provides urgent care to the poorest in Karachi, Pakistan. CLF runs Karachi’s largest children emergency rooms and is deploying satellite urgent care centers to provide critical care and prevention education. Osman has received several honors, including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year Award (CA) in 2009, which is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, as well as Forbes Impact 15 for 2012 and Inc.’s Immigrant Edge: 9 Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs. To find out more about Osman, check out his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter @osmanrashid.
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About Convo, Galxyz: Convo provides an enterprise social collaboration platform that enables easy, secure conversations between desk/non-desk workers.
Michael Gold
Chief Executive Officer of Intermedia
Michael Gold is Intermedia’s president, leading the organization with a focus on profitably growing the company through an increasingly broader set of cloud services – and a superior experience for customers and partners. Gold joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company’s acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Gold brings over 15 years of senior management experience in cloud services and channel development. Before joining Intermedia, he was CEO of Zlago, a cloud services company he founded and grew via a nationwide network of managed service providers, VARs, and other channel partners. Previously, Gold was a senior vice president at cloud automation provider Parallels. Gold came to Parallels through its acquisition of Sphera, a cloud services company where he served as CEO. Gold has held a variety of other executive roles in the industry, including CEO of software company Vicorp and senior vice president of Qwest Communications, where he had P&L responsibility for the Internet Products business and launched Qwest’s CyberCenter datacenter and hosting business. Long dedicated to the channel community that supports small and mid-size businesses, he was named one of the 25 most innovative executives by CRN and Everything Channel in 2009 and 2010. Gold earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Intermedia, Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Bill Boebel
Founder & CEO of Pingboard
CEO and founder of Pingboard.
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About Capital Factory, Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Lief Larson
Co-founder & CEO of Engage
Lief Larson is the Founder and CEO of Engage, Inc., the creator of the Engage platform that serves clients ranging from The PGA Tour to Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, and designed the Salesfolks.com marketplace launch in 2019. Larson was also the co-founder of Jenny Life, Inc. a venture-backed insurtech start-up that built the world’s first native mobile apps (Apple AppStore & Google Play) for the end-to-end purchase of life insurance without without the need for a medical exam. Larson is a software and human factor engineer with over 20 years’ experience in human-machine dynamics, including eight years in self-service kiosk systems and fifteen in web-based applications, platforms, and SaaS. He has been working in web-based marketing and social media sciences since 2004. He was previously named #8 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 10 American Entrepreneurs Under 30 list. Lief founded and grew KIOSK.com into one of the world’s largest providers of interactive self-service terminal technology solutions, and subsequently navigated the business to a successful sale. During his tenure in that industry he also built the industry publication and premier industry event. In 2004 Lief was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kiosk & Self-Service industry association and was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Lief is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and has been a mentor to over 200 entrepreneurs during the last two decades, including through programs at the Carlson School of Management, TiE Global, Project Skyway, and the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship. Larson attended the University of Wisconsin (MC) and the University of Minnesota (TC).
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About Engage, Green Bay Packers, Jenny Life, Salesfolks: Engage provides a real-time sales management platform for communication and live chat.
Vineet Jain
Co-founder & CEO of Egnyte
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at KPMG and Bechtel. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About Egnyte: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Julie Anne Quay
Founder and CEO of VFILES
Julie Anne Quay is VFILES Founder and CEO and has over 20 years of experience in the fashion and media industries. Quay was Executive Editor for V Magazine before founding VFILES, and has worked for VH1, Vogue Japan and Australia, style.com, Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, and more leading industry figures.
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About VFILES: VFILES—connect, discover, collaborate, and be a part of what’s next.
John Xie
Co-Founder & CEO of Taskade
John Xie is the Co-Founder & CEO at Taskade.
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About Forem, GitStart, Laserfocus, Outlier, Taskade: Taskade is a real-time organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams.
Brett Hurt
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Data.world
Brett Hurt current job as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at data.world. Brett joined Austin Ventures in 2012 and focuses on early-stage software investing. Prior to AV, Brett founded Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV) and served as CEO and President for seven and half years, leading the company from bootstrapped concept to almost 2,000 clients worldwide and through its successful IPO. He subsequently guided the company through a successful follow-on offering and two acquisitions, PowerReviews and Longboard Media. Brett continues to actively support Bazaarvoice as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Brett founded Coremetrics and helped grow the company into a global, leading marketing analytics solution for the eCommerce industry before its acquisition by IBM. Brett holds an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Wharton School and previously served on the Board of Directors of Shop.org. Brett established the Bazaarvoice Foundation and is very active in the philanthropic arena. He received the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation’s Community Leadership Award in 2012. Brett is entrepreneur empowerment group RISE’s Serial Entrepreneur of the year for 2012. He was named by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for Austin in 2009 and is a member of the Austin chapter of the International Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Brett was also named CEO of the Year for large companies by the Austin Business Journal in 2012.
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About Capital Factory, Data.world: Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Jason Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Slab
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About Slab: Modern Knowledge Base & Wiki for Teams
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Sam Liang
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Otter.ai
Sam is the CEO/Co-Founder of Otter.ai Inc, based in Silicon Valley. Funded by Spectrum Equity, Horizons Ventures (DeepMind, Waze, Zoom, Facebook), Tim Draper, David Cheriton of Stanford (first investor in Google), etc. AISense has created Ambient Voice Intelligence™ technologies with deep learning that understands human-to-human conversations. Its Otter.ai product digitizes all voice meetings and video conferences, makes every conversation searchable and also provides speech analytics and insights. Otter.ai is the exclusive provider of automatic meeting transcription for Zoom Video Communications. Previously, Sam was the CEO and Co-Founder of Alohar Mobile Inc in Palo Alto, California, which created world’s first mobile location context platform. Alohar was later successfully acquired by Alibaba. Before that, Sam was the lead of Google Map Location Platform & API for four years. Sam got his Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specialized in large scale distributed Internet systems.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
TJ Sangam
CEO and co-founder of SupplyPike
TJ develops and articulates the company’s strategic product direction, and oversees the engineering, design, and product teams. Previously, TJ has worked with companies like Acxiom, J.B. Hunt, and Mercy Hospitals, and has been involved with numerous startups.
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About SupplyPike: SupplyPike uses technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to inform and build collaborative products.
Dan Streetman
Chief Executive Officer of TIBCO
Dan Streetman is the Chief Executive Officer at TIBCO. He is a former Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing for BMC Software, Inc. Dan joined BMC in 2015 as senior vice president for Strategic Sales and Operations, which included sales to global outsourcing and system integrators and the federal government, as well as the Sales Operations, Inside Sales, Channel, and Best Practices groups. Prior to joining BMC, Dan was senior vice president of alliances and channels for Salesforce. He previously led sales, consulting, marketing and operations for several leading companies, including C3 Energy, Hanson McClain, Amdocs, and Siebel Systems. Dan honed his leadership skills during his service as an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry officer. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and is the recipient of a Bronze Star Medal and the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. Dan serves on the advisory boards of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Wounded Warrior Project, VetsInTech and several technology companies. He serves as an executive sponsor for BMC’s community partnerships with veterans organizations. An avid athlete, he has completed multiple Ironman triathlons and enjoys guiding visually impaired marathon runners each year in the Boston Marathon. Dan was a distinguished graduate and regimental commander of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
John Furneaux
CEO of Hive
John Furneaux is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Hive.
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About Hive: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Suresh Sambandam
Founder & CEO of Kissflow
Suresh Sambandam is the CEO of Kissflow, the first unified digital workplace for organizations to manage all of their work on a single, unified platform. Kissflow is used by over 10,000 customers across 160 countries, including more than fifty Fortune 500 companies. Suresh is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize cutting-edge technologies and help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate their work through an intuitive blend of collaboration, coordination and control. He has three US patents to his credit.
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About Kissflow, OrangeScape: Kissflow is a leading SaaS software provider in the work management space.
Peter Thompson
Co-founder and CEO of LucidLink
Cofounder and CEO at LucidLink.
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About LucidLink: LucidLink provides file storage as a service, transforming any cloud object store into a shared file space.
Anand Prahlad
Founder and CEO of Parablu
Anand is Founder & CEO at Parablu Inc. Anand has over 25 years of experience building Enterprise software solutions and has a unique mix of security and storage DNA. He was previously Head of McAfee’s R&D Center in India and served there as Managing Director while also leading Engineering for all of McAfee’s Data Center product engineering teams as Vice President. Previously, as Sr Vice President of Worldwide Product Development at Commvault, he was part of the management team that led Commvault to a successful public offering in 2006. Anand claims several patents relating to storage and data management.
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About Parablu: Parablu is a Secure Data Management solution for enterprises – with a focus on Data Privacy.
Sy Fahimi
Co-Founder and CEO of DocSpera
Sy Fahimi serves as a Member of the Executive Team and Operating Partner at Symphony Technology Group. He was Executive-in-Residence at the firm. Fahimi leads the strategy and innovation charter across several portfolio companies. Until 2012, Fahimi was In Charge of Yahoo’s Monetization and Emerging Market products. Prior to 2012, he held various Vice President positions including Head of Yahoo’s Advertising Products globally, which also encompassed mobile, video, and social monetization. He ran Yahoo Small Business and Emerging Markets Products for the company. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Adteractive, Inc. He joined Adteractive in October 2005. He served as the Managing Director of West Coast Office of SSA & Company, LLC since January 26, 2009. Fahimi has diverse experience with privately held, venture-backed and large public technology companies, along with SSA & Company’s long-standing consulting credibility and process improvement thought leadership. Prior to joining Adteractive, Fahimi spent most of his career in senior executive positions at Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and General Electric, where he held several executive positions including Operations, Marketing, Sales Ops, Risk Management, Quality, Finance, and Org./Process Excellence. During his tenure at GE, he became a certified Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma methodology, and served in two Vice President Positions. Fahimi began his career at GE, where he provided audit and consulting services to a wide variety of business units around the globe. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems as a Director of Six Sigma Quality and Customer Advocacy. After becoming a Senior Director of Global Sales Operations at Sun, he joined Intuit Corporation in a number of operating, customer advocacy, and process/organizational leadership roles. As an active entrepreneur over the last ten years, he has served as an Advisor, Investor or Board Member to several technology enabled start-ups such as Mint (Intuit), Empire Avenue, Sales Portal, Progresso Financiero, Blackfire Research Corporation, as well as being the Co-Founder of Compliant Innovations. Fahimi served as an Advisor, providing consulting services and early stage investment guidance to select start-up companies in Silicon Valley. He has been a Director of Empire Avenue Inc. since December 10, 2013. He has experience in international software, e-commerce, and digital media. Fahimi earned an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a Bachelors degrees from University of California at Berkeley in and EconomicsEngineering .
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About DocSpera, Symphony Technology Group: DocSpera provides web and mobile solutions addressing surgical care coordination challenges facing health systems & devices
Jamie Roche
CEO of HELIX
Jamie and Matthew Roche are the Co-CEOs of BO.LT. Over 15 years, the two brothers have created three successful startups. Their most recent company, Offermatica, defined the category of online testing and targeting and is now the Adobe Test and Target platform, which serves billions of impressions per week. Prior to Offermatica, the two advised and built solutions for many of the most powerful companies in the world including Wal*Mart, Intuit, Intel, CNET, Nike and many others. James and Matthew have spent their careers focused on removing the barriers that separate marketers from their audience.
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About HELIX: HELIX RE is a platform for creating and delivering digital twins for buildings.
Gabe Paez
Founder and CEO of The Wild
Gabe Paez is the founder of WILD, a software company building a platform for design collaboration leveraging the power of shared virtual reality. WILD makes it easy to share 3D design ideas with a group of people together in realtime. Gabe has been a Technical Director and coder for 15 years. He specializes in creating immersive digitally augmented spaces. He is proud to have worked with a diverse roster of agencies and clients including Adidas, Verizon, Google, Nike, and Samsung. Gabe is an avid problem solver and finds great joy in bringing big ideas to life.
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About The Wild: SaaS, collaboration platform
Justin Mitchell
Founder & CEO of Yac
Justin Mitchell is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yac.
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About Getsyrup.com, SoFriendly, Yac: Yac is an asynchronous voice messaging platform for remote teams.
Derek Labian
Co-Founder & CEO of MediaFire
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About Fast.io, MediaFire: MediaFire is a cloud storage service helping people store, organize, and share data via the internet.
Gil Mandelzis
Founder & CEO of Capitolis
Gil Mandelzis co-founded Traiana in April 2000 and on his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of EBS BrokerTec in March 2012, was appointed Executive Chairman of Traiana. Gil led Traiana’s growth from a small start-up to a recognised global leader in post trade services resulting in Traiana’s acquisition by ICAP in 2007. Gil was appointed to the New York Federal Reserve’s Foreign Exchange Committee in 2012. Prior to Traiana, he worked in the M&A Group at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown (formerly BT Wolfensohn) in New York, where he advised companies in the financial and technology sectors. Gil holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Capitolis, EBS BrokerTec: Capitolis is a technology provider addressing capital market constraints in equities and foreign exchange.
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Dhiraj Sharma
Founder & CEO of Simpplr
Dhiraj Sharma is the founder and CEO at Simpplr.
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About Simpplr: Simpplr is a provider intranet software platform for companies to engage with and manage employees.
Francois Stieger
CEO of Intentional Software International Sarl of Intentional Software
Francois Stieger is CEO of Intentional Software International Sarl. Immediately prior to joining Intentional Software International, Mr. Stieger was senior vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Verisign, the leading provider of critical infrastructure security services for the Internet and telecommunication markets. Before joining Verisign, Stieger was a partner of Amadeus Capital, a leading European venture capital firm based in London. In 1996, Stieger established BroadVision’s European operations. Under his management through mid 2001, these operations grew to more than 400 employees and US$104 million annual revenues. He was also personally involved in BroadVision’s very successful initial public offering on NASDAQ in June 1996, and its public offering on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt in November 1999. From 1987-1992, Mr. Stieger was Vice President of Oracle Corporation, where he established and managed operations of Oracle Corporation for southern and central Europe. Mr. Stieger is a graduate of the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Technology.
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About Intentional Software: Intentional Software Corporation’s mission is to make the world’s knowledge more accessible and useful.
Paroon Chadha
Co-founder and CEO of OnBoard
Paroon Chadha co-founded Passageways in 2003 and continues to lead its business strategy. He led Passageways sales team to be named in the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing businesses in America, in 2008. He was named one of the top 10 Young Professionals Under 40 by Tippy Connect, Indiana. Paroon is a frequent speaker at conferences and has been widely published in several magazines.
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About OnBoard: Passageways provides board management software OnBoard and enterprise collaboration software OnSemble.
Steve Martocci
Chief Executive Officer of Splice
Steve Martocci is a co-founder of Splice, a technology platform for music creators which streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music, freeing musicians to spend their time and energy on the creative process. Previously he was a co-founder of GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, Steve was a lead software engineer at Gilt Groupe and founded Sympact Technologies and Bandwith.us. Steve helps lead SummerQAmp, a nationwide initiative to create tech jobs for American youth and train a new workforce in high-tech skills. Steve is actively involved in the New York tech startup scene, serving as a Techstars mentor, onSwipe advisor and an investor in companies including Codecademy, SmartThings, TransferWise and Timehop. Steve graduated from Carnegie Melon University in 2004 with a B.S. in Information Systems and currently lives in New York City.
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About BLADE, Splice: Splice provides a technology platform for music creators that streamlines the process of creating and sharing music.
Bryan Cheung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Liferay
Bryan Cheung steers the company’s strategic direction and worldwide business development efforts as one of the founders serving with the company since its inception in 2004. Drawing on his technical experience, understanding of customer needs, and a passion for end users, Bryan leads Liferay in meeting its commitment to deliver focused and effective business solutions to its customers and its community. Bryan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, and is a sought-after keynote speaker at major IT and open source industry events.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Daniel Kwak
Co-Founder & CEO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Erik Larson
Founder & CEO of Cloverpop
Cloverpop is a product of Erik’s desire for people to be happy at work, his passion for building great things and his curiosity about how our brains create our minds, our minds perceive our world, and our world becomes what we decide it to be. An Illinois farm boy turned MIT rocket scientist and Harvard MBA, Erik spent the past decade launching a dozen v1.0 SaaS products at Adobe and Macromedia. He’s also happily married to a wonderful wife with two cute kids and two dazzling dogs. On the weekends you’ll find them hiking, biking and skiing around Northern California.
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About Cloverpop: Cloverpop’s enterprise platform is the way to keep track of decisions in Slack. Make better decisions 2x faster with 100 percent visibility.
Howie Liu
Co-founder & CEO of Airtable
Howie Liu is CEO of Airtable, the platform democratizing software creation that he co-founded in 2016. Netflix, TIME, Conde Nast, jetBlue, Shopify, Glossier, The City of Los Angeles, and half the Fortune 1000, currently use Airtable to power their most ambitious operations. The company has been named among the Davos World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Cloud 100, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Fortune’s 100 Greatest Designs of All Time. Prior to Airtable, Liu was a product leader at Salesforce after its acquisition of his first company, the intelligent CRM Etacts. Originally from Texas, he taught himself how to code C++ at the age of 13, after finding an unread training book in his dad’s office, and has been interested in software as a medium for creative expression and economic value creation ever since.
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Yves Frinault
Co-Founder and CEO of Fieldwire
Yves Frinault is a french entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of FieldWireLabs, a mobile, geo-tagged task management application for the field, where he focuses on the overall product development and strategy. Yves has held leadership roles in the video game industry at Ubisoft, where he led development teams on both console and mobile products. Yves holds an M.S. from the Ecole Polytechnique where he studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering as well as an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.
Badri Rajasekar
CEO + Founder of Jamm
Badri Rajasekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jamm. He was formerly the CTO and SVP of Engineering at TokBox, where he spearheaded development and scaling of the OpenTok Video API platform that has been used by thousands of companies and powered billions of video minutes. TokBox was acquired by Telefonica S.A. and subsequently spun out and acquired by Vonage. Prior to TokBox, he held engineering roles at Microsoft Corporation and BEA Systems.
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About Jamm: Jamm is a lightweight, spontaneous voice and video collaboration app for remote teams.
Eugene Kaspersky
Founder & CEO of Kaspersky Lab
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About Kaspersky Lab, SafeUM: Kaspersky Lab is a vendor of endpoint protection solutions for consumers, SMBs and enterprises.
John Case
CEO of Unify Square
John Case is President and CEO of Unify Square. A seasoned leader and technology executive, John spent 18 years prior to joining Unify Square working at Microsoft, holding management roles in both sales and marketing. Most recently at Microsoft, John spent four years as Corporate Vice President leading the global marketing, product management, and business teams for Office and Office 365. During that period he led the rollout of Skype for Business and enterprise voice in the cloud. Prior to Office, he spent four years as Vice President in the Microsoft Worldwide OEM Division in both Marketing and Sales. Previously, John oversaw product management, sales, and marketing worldwide for all Microsoft developer and designer products, including multiple versions of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. John also worked in the Windows Server product management team and was part of the team that launched Windows 2000.
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About Unify Square: Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Aziz Virani
CEO, CLEAResult of Unify Square
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About : Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Raj Koneru
Founder & CEO of Kore.ai
Raj Koneru is the Founder/CEO of [Kore](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kore#/entity), . Prior to this, he was the Founder/CEO of Kony. Previously, he was the co-founder/CEO of Intelligroup, Seranova & iTouchPoint. Koneru has studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He lives in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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About Kore.ai: Kore.ai, an AI-based enterprise focused on conversational and digital platforms and products.
David Karp
Founder & CEO of Tumblr
David Karp, a web developer and entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Tumblr, a micro blogging platform and social networking website. Prior to that, he worked at Davidville, UrbanBaby, Frederator Studios, and Tekserve. David Karp was born on July 6, 1986, and currently resides in New York, United States.
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About Tumblr: Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website, enables users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
Andrew Filev
Founder and CEO of Wrike
Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, provider of popular social project management software with customers from 50+ countries. Andrew started his first software development company at the age of 18. Today, he is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager, and advisor to several fast-growing ventures. Andrew’s views on project management, business and technology are reflected in his Project Management 2.0 blog and occasionally in guest posts in tech and business media (VentureBeat, PandoDaily, etc.) Apart from business, Andrew is interested in human and artificial intelligence – from cognitive psychology to neuroscience to machine learning. He also trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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About Wrike: Wrike is a work management platform for managing cross-functional work and enables contextual collaboration in a secure environment.
Bob Moore
Cofounder & CEO of Crossbeam
Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships by discovering which customers and leads they have in common. Moore previously co-founded RJMetrics (acquired by Magento) and Stitch (acquired by Talend). Bob’s writing about technology, startups, and data has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and numerous other publications. Outside of his day job, he serves as Board President of Philly Startup Leaders, is an improv comedy performer at Philly Improv Theater, and is a Trustee of the Glassboro Education Foundation.
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About Crossbeam: Crossbeam is a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships.
Karl Sun
Co-Founder & CEO of Lucid
Karl Sun is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucidchart & he attended Harvard Law School in 1993.
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About Forbes Magazine, Lucid, Lucidchart, Lucidpress: Lucid is a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality.
Nick Ionita
Co-Founder, CEO of Flux
Nick Ionita is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Flux and a Board Member of the Innovation Development Lab (IDLab) at DePaul University.
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About Flux: Flux’s internal mobility platform connects employees looking to grow their careers with the most impactful work at the company.
Andrew Birkholz
Co-Founder & CEO of RedRex
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About RedRex: The metaverse for every day use
Chad Reynolds
Founder & CEO of Batterii
Chad works with clients and strategic partners to accelerate Batterii’s vision. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati DAAP Program, Chad has been a leader on co-creation as a way for global brands to use design thinking to inspire innovation. His experience includes leading innovation initiatives for adidas, GE Healthcare, Nike, Procter & Gamble and Warner Bros.
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About Batterii, OCEAN Accelerator: Cloud platform to organize visual assets, insights, and product ideas
Pat Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer of Ryver
Before he was the Godfather of CRM, Pat Sullivan was a salesman. That may explain why after he became Co-Founder and CEO of ACT!, over 6 million salespeople paid for it out of their own pockets. Following ACT!’s purchase by Symantec, he founded SalesLogix in 1995 and led its revenue growth to $108 million, successful IPO and repurchase of ACT!. Heralded as one of the “80 Most Influential People in Sales and Marketing History”, among Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Jack Welch and Bill Gates by Sales and Marketing Management, Pat Sullivan was also twice named Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for both ACT! and SalesLogix. Pat has served as a board member for multiple tech companies, and is currently working on revolutionizing the way business makes contact with the launch of Contatta.
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About Ryver: The only collaborative email for business.
Scott Unger
CEO of Kahua
Scott Unger is the CEO at Kahua.
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About Kahua: Kahua provides a cloud-based, hub-to-hub, and global platform to deliver business-to-business collaboration.
Saje Sandhu
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
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About Bit.ai, elink.io: Next-Gen Document Collaboration Platform
Guy Shani
CEO Company Name of Clarizen
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About Clarizen, DevOps Sherpas: Clarizen is a global leader in project management and collaborative work management software.
Angel Grablev
CEO & Director of Sales of Freedcamp
Angel is a web developer that started his first web start-up at age 17. Angel has worked for famous musicians including Jack Johnson and The Wailers. His expertise include design, coding, and programming. He is well versed in coding professional html and css pages, and designing high end templates using photoshop. Angel’s first start-up was exfrag, a social network for gamers. Funding reached was $5000 from anonymous investors. The website was fully developed and functional within 6 months, it raised a good traffic flow and it gained some valuable members. Unfortunately the online gaming platform Steam came out with their own social network that had less features, but they had already possessed the database of millions of gamers. His first real job in the web development industry was for a company named Oniracom who develop high end websites for musicians. Oniracom took Angel under their wing and taught him skills and techniques that help him deal with various web development issues every day and create cutting edge websites. Currently Angel is the CEO of Freedcamp, the revolutionary Project Management and Collaboration platform. He is in charge of managing a team of 5 people while still being responsible for all Front-End interface design and implementation of the Application.
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About Freedcamp, Freedcamp, UCSB Professional and Continuing Education: We are building the first truly intelligent project management system.
Anthony Duca
Founder and CEO of Cavrnus
Anthony Duca is CEO and Founder at Cavrnus.
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About Cavrnus: Cavrnus is a software company that specializes in spatial collaboration via extended reality.
Joaquin Roca
CEO and Co-Founder of Minerva
Joaquin Roca is a Co-Founder and CEO at Minerva.
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About Minerva: Minerva is a platform enabling anyone to create and sharing clickable instructions for anything on the internet.
Roman Stanek
Founder & CEO of GoodData
Roman Stanek is the Founder and CEO of GoodData. Roman Stanek is a passionate entrepreneur and industry thought leader with over 20 years of high-tech experience. His latest venture, GoodData, was founded in 2007 with the mission to disrupt the business intelligence space and monetize big data. Prior to GoodData, Roman was Founder and CEO of NetBeans, the leading Java development environment (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999) and Systinet, a leading SOA governance platform (acquired by Mercury Interactive, later Hewlett Packard, in 2006).
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About GoodData: GoodData is an analytics company that provides access to business reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analytics to customers.
Milton Chen
Founder & CEO of VSee Lab, Inc
Milton Chen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VSee. Milton founded VSee following his Ph.D. at Stanford University on the human factors of video collaboration. Milton has deployed VSee for Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Mandy Moore, the band Linkin Park, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Milton has also worked in refugee camps from Syria to South East Asia to Africa. Milton is the co-author of XMPP video standard and winner of the DEMO God Award. Milton loves reading biographies and experimenting with how people communicate.
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About VSee Lab, Inc: VSee is a telehealth platform combining HIPAA video chat, health data visualization, and medical work flow services.
Arian Nemati
Co-founder and CEO of ADEx
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About ADEx, Scopii: Purpose-Built Document Automation for Real Estate Industry
Steve Douty
CEO of Glicq
Steve has been in the technology business for nearly 25 years. The first 15 years of his career were in telecom, IT and systems integration – he served at companies like GTE, IBM and AT&T. He broke into the Internet marketplace in 1996, when he joined Hotmail as VP of Marketing, Sales and Business Development. After Microsoft acquired Hotmail at the end of 1997, he became the director of business planning and media programming for MSN. At MSN, he was a key player in the conversion of MSN.com to a portal, the acquisition of LinkExchange, and the creation of Passport. In mid-1999, Steve and two colleagues co-founded Octopus Software, the award-winning content integration platform that was eventually acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2001. Steve has a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
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About Glicq: Glicq is a platform to collaborate with co-workers.
Oren Barak
Co-Founder and CEO of Glicq
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About Glicq: Glicq is a platform to collaborate with co-workers.
Chris Macomber
CEO of WhoKnows
Chris Macomber is the CEO at WhoKnows.
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About WhoKnows: WhoKnows is the first omni-channel lead gen platform driven by AI and specifically optimized for startups.
Ronald Tse
Founder and CEO of Ribose
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About CalConnect, CalConnect, CalConnect, CalConnect, CalConnect, Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, ECCMA, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, Ribose, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Ribose is a cloud collaboration platform that makes working together easy and fun while keeping your data safe.
Michael Coates
Co-Founder & CEO of Altitude Networks
Michael is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter. Previous roles include head of security for Mozilla, creator of Firefox web browser, and director of product security at Shape Security, a VC backed silicon valley startup that defends web applications against automated and bot attacks. Prior to these roles Michael spent many years providing security expertise to financial, enterprise, and telecommunications companies to analyze and strengthen their architecture and software applications. Michael also serves on the board of two nonprofit security organizations. Michael is the former chairman and a current member of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) board of global directors, an international non-profit organization represented in over 100 countries focusing on advancing techniques, tools, and practices for securing critical applications. Michael also serves on the board for the Vendor Security Alliance, a coalition of companies committed to improving Internet security. Michael has been frequently sought out for security commentary from organizations such as Bloomberg West, Wall Street Journal, and Venturebeat. Michael has also been featured as one of SC Magazine’s Influential IT security minds. In addition to his work at Twitter and nonprofit organizations, Michael is a strategic advisor for several technology startups. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer, Information and Network Security from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael resides in San Francisco with his wonderful wife, two children, and two dogs.
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About Altitude Networks, August Equity: Altitude Networks provides a cloud native DLP to protect Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace data from accidental loss or malicious theft.
Dana Lampert
Founder & CEO of Wiggio
In 2008, having just graduated from Cornell, Dana Lampert co-founded the group collaboration website Wiggio.com. During a previous internship on Wall Street, Dana had seen how the large corporations were equipped with amazing tools for group communication – tools that the average consumer did not have access to. Therefore, he created Wiggio to bring that sort of functionality to the average person desiring an easier way to work together. Throughout 2010 Wiggio grew from about 350,000 to 600,000 users and in March of 2011, Wiggio launched a 2.0 version of its software and a brand new iPhone Application.
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About Wiggio: Wiggio provides a toolkit for students collaborate on group projects, keep track of meetings, share documents, and contact group members.
Matt Robinson
co-founder & CEO of Spreadsheet.com
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About Spreadsheet.com: The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system.
Kevin Matossian
CEO, Film Solutions, Board Member of CritiqueIt Inc.
Kevin Matossian is the founder and CEO of both SilverCrest Entertainment, LLC., a Los Angeles based film and television production company, and Film Solutions, LLC, providers of film productivity and workflow solutions. Matossian has been a partner in several startup ventures including Ventura Marketing, Inc., Netlinks Co, and SearchFast, Inc. where he served as Senior VP of Marketing. His passion for the business of entertainment establishes the tempo at Film Solutions. With his leadership, both SilverCrest Entertainment and Film Solutions share a unified, resolute drive and a fiscally responsible approach to business.
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About : CritiqueIt provides rich-media annotation tools for real-time conversations on any asset.
Ashley Bradford
Co-Founder, CEO of CritiqueIt Inc.
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About CritiqueIt Inc.: CritiqueIt provides rich-media annotation tools for real-time conversations on any asset.
Ashim Banerjee
CEO of IDMission
Ashim Banerjee is the CEO at IDMission.
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About IDMission: IDMission is a cloud-based company offering services such as mobility, cloud computing, collaboration, and analytics for its users.
Bin Yu
President and CEO of Utegration
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About Utegration, Utegration: Utegration, Inc is a full service SAP consulting company focused on the Utilities industry.
Gregory Taylor
CEO, President of Orion Labs
Greg was appointed Orion’s Chief Executive Officer in January 2020 after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2019 and is a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for the company’s vision, global strategy and day-to-day operations. In this role, he leads the critical emergence of the company as a foremost global leader in the enterprise Voice Activated Business Automation category within the Workstream Collaboration / Connected Workforce sector. His focus is on accelerating the company’s leading market position and global growth. Greg is a veteran executive and entrepreneur in the enterprise software industry. He recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer of global SaaS leaders HighQ (acquired by Thomson Reuters) Eka Solutions Inc., and notably served as the Executive Vice President of Triple Point Technology, the global leader for in-cloud commodities management software. At Triple Point, Greg drove the company’s record software industry-leading 5x revenue and earnings growth over seven consecutive high-growth years. He led the successful global expansion strategy, integrated eight acquisitions and grew the company to 16 global offices, 450 marquee corporate customers on six continents, over 900 employees as well as to seven consecutive INC 500 awards. In the summer of 2013, he and his two partners completed the successful sale of Triple Point to ION, in one of the largest enterprise software deals of the year. Prior to Triple Point, Greg served as Executive Vice President for Netkey Technology, Inc. (acquired by NEC), iMediation Inc. (acquired by OpenText) and Vice President at Datalogix International (IPO, acquired by Oracle). He started his career in sales and management at IBM after graduating with a BA from Connecticut College. Greg serves on the boards of Connor Industries Inc., Harris Freeman & Company Inc. and The Everest Leadership Academy (a not-for-profit entity in leadership mentoring for less-advantaged students with academic promise).
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About Orion Labs: Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
Raymond Grainger
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Mavenlink
Raymond Grainger is the current Chief Executive Officer at Mavenlink. He was most recently Executive Vice President of Professional Services and Strategic Alliances at InQuira, a leading Knowledge Management and Enterprise Search software company. Prior to that, he developed his consulting expertise as a Global Managing Partner at Accenture for 17 years in the high technology industry, having consulted to both large enterprises and small & medium sized businesses. Earlier in his career he served on two expeditions to Antarctica and was awarded a congressional medal. Mr. Grainger is also a Trustee of Harvey Mudd College and Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee. He holds a B.S in Engineering with Distinction from Harvey Mudd College.
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About Mavenlink: Mavenlink is a transformative SaaS platform for the modern professional services organization.
Rix Kramlich
CEO | Director of Blurb
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About Blurb: Blurb is a self-publishing platform allowing individuals to create, publish, share, promote and sell their own books.
Alex Quilici
CEO of YouMail
Alex joined YouMail as its CEO in February, 2007. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of Quack.com, a voice portal company founded in July 1999 that was sold to AOL in August 2000. After the AOL acquisition, he remained at AOL, and was a key member of the team that led AOL’s Voice Services division to launch a set of successful voice services, including AOLbyPhone, AOL Voicemail, and AOL Call Alert, that wound up with over 1m paying subscribers and $50m in annual revenue. He is a board member of NeoEdge Networks, a Strategic Advisory Board Member of Jefferson Partners, and a member of the Tech Coast Angels. Alex has a B.A in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, an MS and PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. He is the holder of several voice-service related patents, and has written a series of best-selling computer science textbooks.
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About YouMail: YouMail has developed a feature-rich, easy to use visual voicemail app, for your phone, tablet, or computer.
Andreas Glocker
CEO / Founder of Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP
– Founder & CEO: Fastmetrics, Inc. Bay Area Business Connectivity 2002 – Current – Founder & CEO: Sirius Connections (Regional ISP) 1994 – 1999 – CheckSum (Accounting Software): Sirius Solutions 1992 – 1994 SFSU – B.S. Computer Science 1989 – 1992 (https:
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About Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP: Specialist building & business ISP. Dedicated Ethernet, managed fiber, direct cloud connect, hosted voice, WiFi & network service solutions.
Argentina Moise
Founder & CEO of Bleexy
Argentina Moise is the CEO & Founder of Bleexy, the innovative decentralized e-commerce ecosystem, and the driving force behind the Bleexy Blockchain Commerce Alliance, a partner-led community offering retailers proof-of-concept solutions to applying blockchain technology. Prior to founding Bleexy she co-founded Rover Store, Inc. an e-commerce company that grew to $9M in annual sales and became a top 1000 Amazon US and Canada retailer. She also founded Insight Software, the first and most successful company selected to be part of Incubator America, an USAID and George Mason University program. She received a M.S. in Mathematics and Information Technology from West University, Timisoara. Ms. Moise is a serial entrepreneur and believes that disruptive technologies will empower consumers to support small businesses and local economies across the globe.
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About Bleexy: Dynamic Product Experience Protocol and Marketplace, building protocols and infrastructure for the next generation of e-commerce.
Andy Dearing
CEO of Boundless Spatial
Andy Dearing is the President of Spatial STL Advisors. He also serves as the lead for the GeoFutures Initiative, a regional initiative under Greater St. Louis Inc. Prior to Spatial STL Advisors and GeoFutures, he served as the CEO of Boundless Spatial, a leading startup in the geospatial industry, which was acquired by Planet Labs, Inc in 2019. He has worked as a leader in the geospatial industry for almost 20 years. Andy serves as an advisor at Saint Louis University’s Geospatial Institute, Co-Chair for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s St. Louis Area Working Group, Board Member for the Gateway Global American Youth and Business Alliance Academies Inc. (AYBAA) and Dynamo Metrics. He earned his MBA from Maryville University, and holds Bachelors of Science in Aviation Management and Aviation Science from Saint Louis University. Andy resides in Missouri with his wife and four kids, where he enjoys hiking, fishing, and woodworking – when is he is not out camping with his son’s Boy Scout troop.
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About Boundless Spatial, Cultivation Capital: Boundless is a provider of open source product support, training, and core development to meet geospatial requirements.
Harry Curtin
Chief Executive Officer of BestIT
Harry Curtin is the founder and CEO of Phoenix-based IT firm BestIT. In addition to providing strategic business technology services to companies around the globe, Harry is also the captain of the GTS Pirelli World-Challenge Camaro team with BestIT Racing. Born and raised in New York, Harry began amateur racing in his early 20s at the Jim Russell Racing School in Canada. He started his pro-racing career first in off-road racing in the SCORE Baja 1000 in 2009 & 2010.
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About BestIT: BestIT is a full-service IT firm specializing in the development of business-aligned IT and technology roadmaps.
