Best Startup
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 Data Integration 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.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
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Tyler Bosmeny
Chief Executive Officer of Clever
With a background in startups and technology, Tyler spends his time at Clever working with innovative educational software companies. Prior to his current role, Tyler was Vice President of Sales at PaperG, ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 most promising companies in America. Tyler holds an MA degree in Statistics and a BA degree in Applied Mathematics, both from Harvard. He is a native of Tucson, AZ, and currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Shreesha Ramdas
CEO & Co-Founder of Strikedeck
Shreesha’s an entrepreneurial executive with a track record of launching and growing products in competitive markets. He has demonstrated experience as a GM in the areas of product conception and development, growth hacking, go-to-market strategy and execution. Shreesha is currently VP of Corp Dev & Partnerships at CallidusCloud. Shreesha Ramdas was the co-founder & COO at LeadFormix, a marketing automation platform, where he raised the initial funding, built the company and contributed to a successful acquisition by CallidusCloud in January 2012. Prior to LeadFormix, Shreesha was a co-founder of OuterJoin, an online marketing services company and an early member at Yodlee, where he held the role of General Manager of Yodlee’s offshore development center in Bangalore, India.
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About Aavenir, AccuKnox, BuyerAssist.io, Cultivate, Enact Systems, Forbes Communications Council, Fullcast.io, Medallia, Metadata, Promethium, Revv, Rocketlane, Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Higinio O. Maycotte
CEO and Co-Founder of Molecula
Higinio is CEO & co-founder at Molecula.
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About Molecula, Pilosa, YPO: Molecula closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI.
Ravi Balasubramanian
CEO and Co-founder of Sandbox Banking
Ravi was a trader and portfolio manager at Lehman, Barclays, UBS, and Harvard Management Company before co-founding AlphaPack. He was in the M&T program and got degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. When he’s not on the phone with customers, he’s writing Sandbox code in Python. Ravi loves rock-climbing, scuba diving, and travelling beyond cell-phone coverage.
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About Sandbox Banking: Sandbox Banking provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) technology to banks, credit unions, and fintechs
Simon Parmett
CEO & GM at MuleSoft of MuleSoft
Simon Parmett is the CEO of MuleSoft. Previously Simon leads MuleSoft’s worldwide sales, services and channels organizations, responsible for the company’s growth and customer success. Simon comes to MuleSoft from Oracle where he was general manager of Oracle’s PLM Business Unit. At Oracle and previously Agile Software (acquired by Oracle) he was responsible for sales, business development, alliances and solution delivery for the Asia Pacific region. Simon holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Steven Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Finicity
Steven Smith is Finicity’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He has strong strategic and tactical business skills and combines them with a passion to develop products and services that make a positive difference in people’s lives. Prior to co-founding Finicity, Steve served as a senior member of the executive team at Megahertz Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of data communication products for mobile computers. At the close of his nine-year tenure, Megahertz had more than 1,200 employees and claimed more than 50 percent of the North American PC Card market. Most recently, Steve led the acquisition and management of a global industrial engineering and manufacturing firm. Under his direction, the company became a leading supplier of critical service control equipment for chemical and petrochemical plants. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Utah.
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About Finicity: Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
William Freiberg
CEO of Crux
Will Freiberg is CEO of Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and operations platform. He is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success and strategic initiatives. Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as the company helped define the cloud native container industry. Previously, Will was Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and started his career as an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. He is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, including an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio.io. Will holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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About Crux: Crux help companies scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs.
Joseph Quan
CEOa and Founder of Knoetic
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About CPOHQ, Knoetic, Twine: Knoetic is the all-in-one platform built for Chief People Officers. Powerful people analytics & the world’s #1 CPO community (CPOHQ).
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Felix Van De Maele
Co-founder / CEO of Collibra
Felix Van De Maele is the CEO and Co-Founder of Collibra. Felix has led Collibra from idea to funding to more than eight years of record growth and industry leadership. He’s responsible for the company’s global business strategy. Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in General Management from the Vlerick Business School. In 2017, Felix was named by DataNews as the ICT personality of the year.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO of Civis Analytics
Dan Wagner is ambassador for the firm’s external partnerships, representing the company’s vital, core interests as it engages client business opportunities. Dan served as the Chief Analytics Officer on the 2012 Obama campaign, overseeing a 54-person team of analysts, engineers and organizers that provided analytics and technologies for voter contact, digital, paid media, fundraising and communication. His department’s work was credited with “reinventing how national campaigns are done” and has been highlighted in Time Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, and Harper’s. Dan began his work in politics as the Deputy Voter File Manager for Barack Obama during the 2008 Iowa caucuses, which defined the relevance of data, and client comprehension of data, in his career. That led to roles as the Great Lakes Targeting Desk and National Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Targeting Director, followed by the National Targeting Director at the Democratic National Committee for the 2010 election cycle. Dan previously worked with the FTI Consulting Economics Practice. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in economics and public policy. Dan is originally from Birmingham, Michigan, where he grew up imitating Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” performance. He remains the first one on any dance floor. He is fluent in Spanish and, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident, cried during “Like Water for Chocolate.” He used to play congas – not to be confused with the bongos – in a DC funk band.
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About Civis Analytics: Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
Piyush Goel
Founder & CEO of Beyond Key Systems Pvt Ltd (Beyond Key)
Piyush brings more than 15 years of leadership, business development, and marketing experience to BeyondKey. As the CEO of the company, he makes sure that we deliver solution of high value and customer focus and adopting latest technology is his main focus area, he is responsible for driving BeyondKey’s global growth initiatives.
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About Beyond Key Systems Pvt Ltd (Beyond Key), uRead: World-class software development and IT consulting company
Satyen Sangani
CEO & Co-Founder of Alation
Satyen Sangani founded Alation in July 2012, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer. He spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, he was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Sangani holds a Masters from the University of Oxford and a Bachelors from Columbia College, both in Economics.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Jeffery Hawn
Chairman and CEO of Quest Software
Jeffrey Hawn has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2015. Hawn is currently Chairman and CEO of Vertafore, a provider of software and solutions to the insurance industry. Prior to joining Vertafore, Hawn served as Chairman and CEO of The Attachmate Group, a software holding company, from May 2005 to November 2014. Prior to that, he was an Operating Partner of JMI-Inc., a private equity firm, a role he assumed in April 2004. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations for BMC Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, from July 2000 to March 2004 and as a partner with McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting firm, from July 1990 to July 2000. Hawn received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Hawn served on the board of Pervasive Software Inc. from February 2003 until April 2013, the board of Vignette Corporation from November 2001 until July 2009 and numerous private company boards.
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About Attachmate, CD&R LLP, Quest Software: Quest Software is a software manufacturer that develops, manufactures, and supports software used by IT professionals.
John Hall
CEO of Intapp
John Hall is the CEO of Intapp. Since joining the company in 2004, he has built Intapp into a global leader in business applications and services for professional services firms, serving 700 organizations. He is a regular presenter at industry events, covering topics such as technology and law firm innovation, and how innovation can enable client success. Prior to joining Intapp, John co-founded VA Linux Systems and helped lead the company from its start-up phase to its IPO. He is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Peter Platzer
Co-founder & CEO of Spire Global
Peter Platzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Spire Global, Inc. He cofounded the company in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. Platzer is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites into space. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and was named a White House Champion of Change in 2013. Platzer was also named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2015 in acknowledgement that Spire’s technology is poised to have a significant impact on business and society. Prior to launching Spire, Platzer trained at CERN and the Max Planck Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand. Platzer spent nearly a decade on Wall Street as a quantitative trader before leaving finance in 2011 to focus on high frequency and high accuracy data in space. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while completing an MSS from the International Space University. Platzer co-created and launched CareerTeams at Harvard Business School and currently serves as a Career Coach for students and alumni. Platzer received an MS in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker scholar.
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About Harvard Business School, NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global, The Boston Consulting Group, The Rohatyn Group: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Brandon Foo
CEO and Co-Founder of Paragon
Brandon Foo is co-founder and CEO of Paragon. He previously co-founded and was CEO of Polymail.
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About Paragon: Paragon makes it easy to integrate your product with the SaaS apps your customers use.
Jeremy Burton
CEO of Observe
Jeremy Burton is the Chief Marketing Officer of Dell, directly responsible for the global marketing structure, strategy, and all aspects of Dell’s enterprise marketing efforts including brand, communications, digital and field & channel marketing. In addition to his marketing responsibilities, Burton leads Corporate Development where is responsible for M&A and venture capital investment activity. He is based at Dell’s offices in Santa Clara, California. Burton joined Dell through its combination with EMC, where he served as President, Products and Marketing. In this role, he was responsible for product divisions within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business, including Product Strategy, R&D, Operations, CTO Office, Global Alliances and Global Marketing. Burton joined EMC in 2010 as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and extended EMC’s presence and relevance on the world stage, building and guiding EMC’s global reputation and brand. Prior to EMC, Burton has held several senior leadership roles including President and CEO of Serena Software, Group President of Symantec’s Security and Data Management business and Executive Vice President of the Data Management Group and Chief Marketing Officer at VERITAS. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at Oracle, culminating in the role of Senior Vice President of Product and Services Marketing. Burton holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems engineering from the University of Surrey, England.
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About Dell, Dell EMC, Observe: Observe provides performance management tools based on a versatile observability platform.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
J Weston Lunsford
CEO of Dental Intelligence
As CEO of Dental Intelligence, Weston oversees the strategic direction of the company and its products. He manages Dental Intelligence’s revenue growth and future expansion plans. He also dedicates a large part of his time to be intimately involved with our clients, the dentists, to fully understand their needs, wants and experience with Dental Intelligence’s products and solutions. Weston has spent the previous 10 years as the principal partner in Lunsford Peck Certified Public Accountants providing services for medical and dental professionals with nearly 2,000 clients. Weston’s vision and desire to create value has emanated passion throughout the company. “We are passionate about what we do… We trust in each other and in our abilities to create something special, something unique, and something impactful. We make incredible happen!”
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About Dental Intelligence: Dental Intelligence helps dental teams manage their work and provides insight into how dental practices can grow faster.
Evan Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Evan Smith is the CEO and co-founder at Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Jody Shapiro
Founder, CEO of Productiv
Prior to founding Productiv, Jody led Google’s enterprise marketing analytics platform, Google Analytics 360.Also at Google, Jody led Product Management for Google TV Ads, where he was responsible for innovative audience-based advertising and attribution products. Prior to Google, Jody was part of the founding team at TiVo Greater China and held leadership roles at technology companies including Silicon Graphics, PictureTel, as well as multiple startups. Jody holds a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, a Masters in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business with triple majors in Strategic Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management.
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About Productiv: Productiv is a real-time engagement data and insights platform used to manage SaaS applications.
Jeremiah Lowin
Founder & CEO of Prefect
Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder and CEO of Prefect.
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About Prefect: Prefect is a workflow management system that helps to eliminate data flow problems for companies’ data teams.
Tisson Mathew
Founder and CEO of SkyPoint Cloud
Tisson Mathew is the president and CEO of SkyPoint Cloud.
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About SkyPoint Cloud: SkyPoint is a modern cloud data and analytics platform with built-in data lakehouse and privacy vault capabilities.
Amit Walia
Chief Executive Officer of Informatica
Amit Walia is the president, products & strategic ecosystems, responsible for Informatica’s product & market strategy, product management, product development, user experience, cloud operations, strategic ecosystems strategy, and partnerships with strategic ecosystems. Previously, Amit was the executive vice president and chief product officer. Since joining Informatica in 2013, Amit has led the company’s product organization, delivering products and solutions to extend our leadership in our core markets and establishing our leadership in new areas of Enterprise Cloud Data Management. This has led to Informatica firmly establishing its leadership in key growth areas such as Master Data Management, Intelligent Cloud Services (iPaaS), Big Data Management, Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Governance, and Data Security. Amit has led Informatica’s innovation in Artificial Intelligence through the launch of CLAIRE. Under his leadership, Informatica is ranked as a leader in all the 5 Magic Quadrants related to its markets. Prior to Informatica, Amit worked in leadership positions across a variety of functions at Symantec, Intuit, and McKinsey & Company. He spent the earlier part of his career working for Tata Group and Infosys Technologies in India. Amit holds a Master of Business Administration with honors in strategy and economics from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Additionally, he received his Bachelor of Science with honors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Varanasi.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Yasir Ali
Founder, CEO of Polymer
Yasir Ali is the Founder and CEO at Polymer.
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About Polymer: No-Code Data Loss Prevention for SaaS Platforms
Wes Bush
President & CEO of Northrop Grumman
Wes Bush is chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leader in global security. Bush was named chief executive officer and president in January 2010, and elected to the company’s Board of Directors in 2009. He assumed the role of chairman in July 2011. Bush previously served as the president and chief operating officer of the company. Before that, he served as the corporate vice president and chief financial officer, and, earlier, as the president of the company’s Space Technology sector. Prior to the acquisition of TRW by Northrop Grumman, he had served since 2001 as president and chief executive officer for TRW’s UK-based global Aeronautical Systems. Bush joined TRW in 1987 as a systems engineer, and served in engineering, program management and business development roles in TRW’s Space & Electronics business. Prior to joining TRW, he held engineering positions with both the Aerospace Corporation and Comsat Labs. Bush earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed the University of California, Los Angeles’ Executive Management Program. Bush serves on the board of directors of Norfolk Southern Corporation, as well as the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Business-Higher Education Forum, Conservation International and the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. He is also chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association board of governors.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Kathy Warden
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman
Kathy Warden is corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector, a leading global provider of advanced solutions for defense, intelligence, civil agency and commercial customers. Warden is a member of the company’s Corporate Policy Council. In this role, Warden oversees large-scale, mission-critical systems and complex hardware and software products within the U.S. and internationally in areas such as command, control and communications; cybersecurity and identity management; homeland security; health, public safety and enterprise infrastructure; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and ground systems. Most recently, Warden was sector vice president and general manager, Cyber Intelligence division Northrop Grumman Information Systems. Warden has extensive experience in operational leadership and business development in government and commercial markets. Previously, she was vice president for the Cyber and SIGINT business unit in the sector’s Intelligence Systems division. She joined Northrop Grumman in 2008 as vice president, Strategic Initiatives, where she was responsible for ISR market strategies including key growth campaigns in cyber and intelligence information sharing. Prior to joining the company, Warden was vice president, Intelligence Systems at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, where she led the Intelligence Systems business unit. Previously, Warden was a senior vice president at Veridian Corporation where she led a business unit delivering ISR capability in support of space programs and led strategic pursuits with the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. Earlier, Warden was a principal in a venture Internet firm where she consulted with Fortune 500 companies on Internet use to expand their business models, and led development teams to deliver e-publishing, e-commerce and e-marketing solutions. Warden spent nearly a decade with General Electric Company working in commercial industries. She began her GE career as a systems engineer and later served as corporate auditor, strategy and merger and acquisitions director, and director of the global services operating unit of GE Information Services. Warden has a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University and a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University. She served as an advisor in the mid-1990s to the Internet Advisory Council formed under former Vice President Al Gore. She served as chair of the Executive Mosaic Cyber Group in 2011-2012. She is the Northrop Grumman Information Systems executive chair for the University of Maryland school systems and oversees the Northrop Grumman University Cyber Research Consortium. She is a member of AFCEA International and serves on the executive committee for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Rahul Sahgal
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Annik
Rahul is the founder and CEO of Annik, one of the leading Data Analytics outsourcing companies in India. Having spent 10 years in the US working with some of the Global Leaders in Market Research, he started the company upon his return to India. Initially providing software development services, he started offering data services in 2002 after which the company quickly grew from less than 20 to over 200 in a couple of years. Today, with over 1000+ employees, Annik is recognized as a pioneer in the KPO space. Having grown up in different countries and having attended various international schools, he has an appreciation for different cultures. He is fluent in English, Hindi and French. Rahul holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in the same subject from Hindu College, University of Delhi.
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About Annik, LiquidHub, QoreNext: Annik, now LiquidHub Analytics, is the global data management and analytics solutions wing of the customer engagement solutions firm.
Abe Gong
CEO and Co-Founder of Superconductive
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About Superconductive: Superconductive is the creator of Great Expectations, an open-source tool for data testing, documentation, and profiling.
Scott Howe
CEO of LiveRamp
Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences. LiveRamp is the largest provider of identity resolution services, serving more than 1,000 companies across a broad range of sectors including brands, agencies, technology vendors, data providers, and publishers. From 2011 to Sept. 2018, Howe served as CEO and president of LiveRamp’s former parent company, Acxiom—a technology and services company dedicated to providing the data foundation for the world’s best marketers. Throughout his tenure, Acxiom won countless industry awards and accolades, including recognition for the industry’s Best Innovation, Partner of the Year by the one of the world’s largest financial services companies and Supplier of the Year by the world’s largest retailer. In 2014, Fast Company named Howe one of the world’s Most Creative People. Before taking the reins at Acxiom in 2011, Howe held executive roles at Microsoft and aQuantive, where his teams built the world’s largest digital agency (Avenue A|Razorfish); pioneered people-based media buying (DRIVE Performance Media, aka the Microsoft Media Network); and developed the systems utilized for ad serving and attribution (Atlas International). He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. When he’s not helping LiveRamp deploy the world’s most advanced and trusted offline and digital identity resolution technologies, Howe can be found serving as scout master for Troop 28 in Burlingame, Calif., canvassing the country in his refurbished 1956 vintage Airstream trailer or designing and building furniture in his garage workshop. A native of Milwaukee, he is a proud fan and part owner of the Green Bay Packers. Scott graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in economics, and earned an MBA from Harvard University. He most recently served on the board of directors of Blue Nile, the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry, and is a former director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Andy Palmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Tamr
Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in accelerating the foundation and growth of early-stage, mission-driven companies. He has helped start, fund or found more than 50 innovative companies in technology, health care and the life sciences. Andy founded Koa Lab, a start-up fund in the heart of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.; and co-founded Tamr, with Turing Award winner MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. Andy was named Angel of the Year in the New England Venture Capital Association‘s 2013 NEVY Awards.
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About Carta, ExaGrid Systems, Founder Collective, jobFig, Kinsa, Koa Labs, Openbay, Tamr, Tamr: Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise.
DeVaris Brown
Co-founder, CEO of Meroxa
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk.
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About Meroxa: Meroxa is a real-time data platform as a service that enables customers at any level of expertise to build pipelines in minutes.
Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Kishau Rogers
Founder & CEO of Time Study
Kishau Rogers is a technology entrepreneur using computer science, systems thinking, and common sense to create intelligent human-centered solutions. As the Founder and CEO of Time Study, Kishau is one of the first Black women in the state of Virginia to raise millions in venture capital to scale her tech startup. Headquartered in New York City, Time Study is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises understand the impact of how their employees spend their time. Time Study is used by four out of the top 10 hospitals in the United States as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. Kishau’s work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Black Enterprise. She holds a Computer Science degree and has over 25 years of technology and entrepreneurial leadership experience.
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About Time Study, Websmith, Inc: Our platform makes complex time tracking easy. We proudly serve the largest hospital systems.
Arman Eshraghi
Chief Executive Officer of Qrvey
Arman Eshraghi is a serial entrepreneur presently serving as Founder and CEO at Qrvey. Arman’s professional career includes founding four B2B software companies while also serving as an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs. He is a member of Mindshare and the Forbes Technology Council and also a board member of INCspire. When he’s not working on his own startup or advising other startups, he can be found sharing his thoughts on leadership, entrepreneurship and technology on Linkedin, Medium and Forbes.com. Arman currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his family of three. For fun, Arman maintains an unusually large board game collection and sometimes designs his own strategy games, drawing inspiration from everything, especially from the nature around us.
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About Qrvey: Qrvey simplifies business analytics on AWS and moves analytics beyond just visualizations to include your entire data pipeline.
Arvind J. Singh
Chairman & CEO of Utopia
Arvind Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of Utopia Global, an industry leader in Enterprise Information Management software and services and long-time SAP Partner organization. Arvind believes true innovation happens when we push ourselves beyond the “good enough” and that 80% effort gets you through life but is not good enough to differentiate yourself and your organization. Arvind is a serial entrepreneur with experience in building global businesses for the last 20 years. Prior to co-founding Utopia in 2003, Arvind was the CEO of Value Communications Corporation (ValuCom), a company he founded in 1996. Under his leadership, ValuCom grew to be one of the most recognized brand names in prepaid telecom in the US. The company was acquired by Rediff.com (NASDAQ: REDF) in 2001.
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About Utopia: Utopia is an enterprise data solutions provider that leverages its proprietary Enterprise Data Lifecycle Management (EDLM) methodology.
Eric Best
CEO & Founder of SoundCommerce
Eric Best joined SoundCommerce as CEO and Founder in 2018.
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About SoundCommerce: SoundCommerce is a data platform that drives profitable growth, customer experience, and CLV for brands and retailers.
Bruce Buchanan
Chief Executive Officer of ROKT
Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt.
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Daniel Koppel
Co-Founder & CEO of Prospera Technologies
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About Prospera Technologies: Prospera is an agriculture technology data company that develops intelligent solutions.
Sanjoy Malik
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Urjanet
Sanjoy is a seasoned entrepreneur and experienced executive who has built and operated several successful technology businesses. In 1999 Sanjoy founded Air2Web, a leader in mobile marketing services. Under Sanjoy’s leadership Air2Web grew from a pioneering wireless services provider to become a market leader and global strategic mobile partner for over 100 of the most trusted brands in the world. Prior to Air2Web Sanjoy founded Synchrologic, a company that created the first enterprise class data synchronization platform for mobile devices. Sanjoy was responsible for raising venture capital, hiring a successful management team, and establishing partnerships with key industry leaders. Synchrologic was acquired by Intellisync which later became part of Nokia.
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About Urjanet: The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms the way businesses mobilize the data available within utility bills and invoices.
Travis May
Founder & CEO of Datavant
Travis May is the Founder and CEO of Datavant.
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About Datavant: Datavant is a provider of a healthcare data solutions to help institutions share, protect, and match health data.
Michael Long
President & CEO of Arrow Electronics
Michael Long is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Arrow Electronics, Inc. since May 2009. Previously, Michael served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Arrow, with responsibility for all of the company’s operations and business units. Before that, Michael served as Senior Vice President at Arrow and President of the company’s Global Components business with responsibility for overseeing Arrow’s semiconductor, passive, electromechanical and connector products and services businesses worldwide. Michael has been with Arrow since 1991 when Arrow merged with Schweber Electronics, a company where he held various leadership roles from 1983 to 1990. In 1994, Michael was President, Capstone Electronics, an Arrow company, and from 1995 to 1999, he was President of Gates / Arrow Distributing. From 1998 to 2005, Long was President and Chief Operating Officer, Arrow North American Computer Products (now Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions). As a result of his success in running and growing this business, Long was named one of Computer Reseller News’ “Top 25 Executives” in 2002 and 2004. Long also served as president, North America and Asia/Pacific components. Michael is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global peer networking group. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of AmerisourceBergen. Michael is also on the Board of Directors for the Denver Zoo. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin and attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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About Arrow Electronics: Arrow Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes electronic components for industrial and commercial sectors.
Anil Kaul
CEO of AbsolutData
Anil Kaul is a prominent figure in the field of Analytics and Market Research. He has a PhD in quantitative marketing from Cornell University. Before starting Absolutdata, Anil worked at Personify and McKinsey & Company. He has published articles in leading management and academic journals such as McKinsey Quarterly, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has also been invited as a speaker at McKinsey & Co., Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia and New York University. Anil is also an avid hiker, having recently climbed a 20,000 foot peak in Ladakh, India.
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About AbsolutData, Infogain Corporation: AbsoluteData offers analytics-based solutions.
Rich Waldron
Co-founder & CEO of tray.io
Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of Tray.io.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Rizwan Koita
CEO of CitiusTech
As the Chief Executive Officer, Rizwan Koita drives CitiusTech’s worldwide business strategy, including healthcare technology innovation and healthcare domain expertise development. Under his leadership, CitiusTech has become one of the fastest growing healthcare technology solutions providers, serving more than 60 leading healthcare organizations worldwide. Before CitiusTech, Mr. Koita was the CEO and founder of TransWorks (now Aditya Birla Minacs), a leading BPO with over 15,000 employees today. Earlier, he was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he consulted transnational clients on exploiting remote service opportunities. Mr. Koita is a winner of the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is also a recipient of the Indo-American Society’s ‘Young Achievers Award in Business.’ He has a Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About : Major provider of technology services and solutions to healthcare technology companies, providers, payers and life sciences organizations
Ali Kutay
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Striim
Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb, Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Striim: Striim is an enterprise-grade streaming data integration and operational intelligence platform.
Quimby Melton
Co-Founder & CEO of Confection.io
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About Confection.io: Privacy-First Data Generator
Misha Esipov
Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Credit
Misha Esipov is the CEO of Nova Credit, the world’s first cross-border consumer reporting agency. Nova has built a global network of credit bureaus to empower consumers to transport their financial identity wherever they move. Misha oversees the overall strategic direction of the firm as well as leading Nova’s mission to “enable immigrants to access credit to realize their potential.” Nova has emerged as one of the most promising financial technology companies from Silicon Valley in the last few years. Before Nova, Misha was a private equity investor at Apollo Global Management, a $190 billion global asset manager. Misha started his career at Goldman Sachs where he was involved in over $10 billion in corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions. Misha was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Finance from NYU and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Nova Credit: Nova Credit is a consumer-first credit bureau that enables financial access for immigrants and others discouraged by the financial system
Mark Hookey
Founder & CEO of DemystData
Mark is the Founder & CEO of DemystData. With a career focus on data technology product development, Mark is an expert in scalable data access and analytics for financial institutions. His deep understanding of the analytics market and his desire to solve the data gap to unlock financial services led him to create DemystData.
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About DemystData: DemystData helps financial institutions harness the explosive growth of data to serve more customers.
Polina Raygorodskaya
Co-Founder and CEO of Wanderu
Polina Raygorodskaya is the CEO of Wanderu, a Kayak-like ground travel search which helps consumers find and book inter-city buses and trains. Prior to Wanderu, Polina was the founder and President of Polina Fashion LLC, a fashion, beauty and luxury PR firm which she started when she was a sophomore at Babson College. Polina’s entrepreneurial endeavors have been recognized in BusinessWeek, FOX, TedX, LegalZoom, amongst others.
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About Polina Fashion, Wanderu: Wanderu is a developer of a travel meta-search engine used to book inter-city buses and trains.
Erik Kostelnik
Co-Founder & CEO of Postal.io
Erik Kostelnik is the co-founder and CEO of Postal.io, a leading offline engagement platform that automates direct mail and gifting in the sales and marketing workflow. Prior to Postal.io, Erik founded TextRecruit, one of the fastest-growing HR technology companies in the world, leading it to acquisition in 2018 by iCIMS, Inc. He also served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500. Erik was named an Upstart 50 Top Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017 and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife and three kids.
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About Postal.io: Postal.io offers an experience marketing platform helping businesses to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers.
Eliot Sun
Chief Executive Officer of Kloudless
Eliot is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Kloudless. He leads the company in its mission to make it easy for developers to build integrations. Eliot’s earlier experiences include product management roles at Check Point Software and Blackberry. Eliot attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with degrees in Mathematics, Economics, and three additional minors.
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About Check Point Software Technologies, Kloudless: Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs, creating a simple, unified interface for devs to build integrations into their apps.
Luke Bonney
Co-founder and CEO of Redox
Co-Founder of Redox.
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About Redox: Redox is an EHR integration and healthcare platform that accelerates the development and distribution of healthcare software solutions.
George Gallegos
CEO of Jitterbit
George Gallegos is the CEO at Jitterbit.
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About Jitterbit: Jitterbit is an API transformation company helping businesses to exploit data from any source.
Bart Heilbron
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Bart earned his stripes as an entrepreneur and visionary by founding the web content management company GX Software in the early days of the World Wide Web. Here he managed the company’s growth with his strategic insights into the online market, first as head of sales and business development operations, and later as CEO. Bart’s entrepreneurship and firm belief in the power of online engagement subsequently inspired him to co-found BlueConic. Under his leadership, BlueConic has become a highly successful provider of online marketing software. Bart is passionate about cross-channel, customer-driven online engagement and holds a master’s degree in communication and new media.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Elie Khoury
CEO & Co-founder of Woopra
[Elie Khoury](http://www.ekhoury.com) is the co-founder and CEO of [Woopra](http://www.woopra.com), a real-time customer analytics service based in San Francisco. He has been recognized for his work in the analytics space, most recently being chosen as a top innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Elie also co-founded YallaStartup, an NGO which aims to foster early stage entrepreneurship in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region by focusing on knowledge sharing, community building, mentorship, and assisting in finding seed investment.
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About Woopra: The leading Customer Journey Analytics platform helping organizations unify, visualize and act on data through every customer touchpoint.
Wade Foster
Co-founder & CEO of Zapier
Wade Foster is the co-founder of Y-Combinator startup Zapier. Zapier lets SaaS users create integrations that push data between hundreds of best-in-breed web applications without having to write any code or wrangle APIs.
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About Zapier: Zapier allows its users to easily connect and automate the apps they use.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Matthew Zeiler
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clarifai
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About Clarifai: Clarifai is a deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and data labeling.
Milovan Milic
Founder and CEO of Devtech
Self-made serial entrepreneur with a track record of building businesses in the technology space. Milovan began his IT career while still in high school in the early 2000s, deploying and maintaining infrastructure in internet cafes with a group of friends. Having dropped out of college, he has been involved in building startups in the Cloud & Hosting industry ever since. In 2008, Milovan co-founded ThinkGrid, a channel focused Cloud Computing vendor, which he helped build into a multi-million pound business. ThinkGrid was acquired by Colt Group in the summer of 2012. Milovan founded Devtech in late 2012 with the idea to help technology companies accelerate cloud enablement. Today, Devtech has a team of 150+ and it helps customers in over 20 countries and across 5 continents accelerate growth. In 2018, he co-founded Matter365 – a channel based vertical solution offering built around Microsoft Office 365 to help SMBs collaborate more effectively and focus on what really matters.
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About Devtech: Devtech is a Professional Services company focused on cloud enablement solutions for Telcos, CSPs, ISVs and MSPs.
Digvijay Singh Lamba
Founder and CEO of Lore IO
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About Lore IO: Lore IO eliminates ETL and automates the process of unifying data across dozens of disparate systems.
Andy Monfried
Founder & CEO of Lotame
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
Dan Ratner
Cofounder & CEO of Public Good Software
Dan Ratner is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Public Good, an organization that helps people find, connect with and support organizations that are working on the causes they care about. Prior to Public Good, Dan served as Director of Development for President Obama‘s 2012 reelection campaign, and as co-founder and COO/CTO at Sittercity, the nation’s largest service dedicated to helping parents find quality childcare online. In addition to his startup and campaign work, Dan is on the boards of Open Books, a Chicago literacy organization, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project. Also an investor, Dan serves on the board of Impact Engine, an accelerator and early stage investment fund. He also loves to write—he’s published two non-fiction books on nanotechnology and is working on a novel.
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About Cure Violence, Impact Engine, Open Books, Public Good Software: Meet new donors and raise more money by making online fundraising easy and accessible to all.
Mark Briggs
Chairman & CEO of Validity
Mark Briggs serves as Chairman and CEO of Validity. He has over 20 years of experience building and leading high-growth technology companies with a strong track record of generating exceptional shareholder value. Most recently, he served as CEO of ABILITY Network, a company he grew from <$10m to over $120m in revenue in four years. ABILITY was recently acquired by Inovalon (NASDAQ:INOV) for $1.2 Billion. Prior to ABILITY, Mark held executive leadership positions at Carefx Corporation, at NaviNet, was the President of MPI Solutions at QuadraMed Corporation, and served as the Chairman and CEO of LinkSoft Technologies, a company that he founded. Mark holds a Master’s in theoretical physics and a Bachelor’s degree in physics, both from Dartmouth College.
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About Validity: Validity is a Boston-based provider of data quality and compliance solutions
Jeffrey Lunsford
CEO & President of Tealium
Jeff Lunsford has served on the nCino board of directors since its inception. He is the CEO of Tealium, the leader in enterprise tag management. Prior to Telium, Lunsford was the CEO of Limelight Networks, an Internet platform and services company with more than 1,800 customers worldwide. He previously served as the CEO of WebSideStory, Inc., a provider of real-time data analytics and visualization applications, which was acquired by Omniture, Inc. in 2007. Before that Lundsford served as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for S1 Corporation, a provider of software for financial and payment services. Jeff received a B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About DefenseStorm, Tealium: Tealium is a provider of customer data orchestration tools aimed to address challenges in online search, marketing, and segment targeting.
Mark Geene
CEO & Co-Founder of Cloud Elements
Mark Geene brings more than 20 years of experience in consulting, sales and product management to his role as CEO and co-founder of Cloud Elements (founded in 2012). A serial entrepreneur, in the past six years Mark has been the CEO of two startups (Cloud Elements and ChannelInsight). Prior to this, he held executive positions at IBM, Oracle, Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Today Mark is a recognized figure in the startup community as a mentor and speaker at industry and trade events including Startup Week, Colorado Technology Association, Lean Startup and Cloud Foundry. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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About Cloud Elements: Cloud Elements is a developer of an API integration platform used to integrate and manage digital products and applications.
Brenda Mana Pastrian
Co-Founder & CEO of Atexto
Founded, developed, and worked hardly on 5+ startups, raised for those companies/startups seed capital funds worth USD 250K. Proudly selected for StartUp Chile Batch 3 and 20, TechStarts, Google Launchpad. Learned to do as many things as necessary to be consistent with a self-funded company, seeking always to come up with a cost-effective (preferably free) alternative. Learned the power of networking, and how easy is to crash an idea due to unconditional love. Wiser, and still hungry for knowledge. Now Cofounder & CEO @Atexto
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About Atexto: Atexto is the voice data solution the world needs to get rid of keyboards and adopt voice interfaces.
Esteban Gorupicz
CEO & Founder of Atexto
Proud member of 500 Startups Family #500Strong Machine learning researchers say that if a genie grants you 3 wishes, ask for data, data, and more data. But one of the main reasons I see for unsuccessful ML projects is that people stick into their model tons of bad data, hoping things will somehow work out. They don’t. Atexto creates, collects, annotates and transcribes speech to help machines understand people. Our customers are companies that use Atexto to improve their machine learning models in a wide range of use cases including call centers, voice assistants, regulatory surveillance, speech to text analytics, and more.
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About Atexto, Atexto: Atexto is the voice data solution the world needs to get rid of keyboards and adopt voice interfaces.
Kingsley Idehen
Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software
Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software, a privately held company he started in 1992. Born in Manchester, England in 1965, Idehen was raised in both Great Britain and Nigeria. In the mid 1990s, he relocated to the USA, and OpenLink now has headquarters in both the US and UK. Under Kingsley’s leadership, OpenLink has been on the vanguard of data access, integration, and management, shipping a number of industry acclaimed products including: * OpenLink Virtuoso — a Universal Server for heterogeneous data virtualization, integration, and management, Virtuoso is the database behind DBpedia, the Linked Open Data cache, Sindice, and may other Linked Open Data Cloud oriented Data Spaces * OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers — a suite of high-performance ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB drivers for all major DBMS engines * OpenLink Data Spaces — a powerful platform for Personal Data Spaces (enterprise and InterWeb scales) * URIBurner — a publicly available service for generating 5-Star Linked Open Data from existing data sources (including HTML pages and various “Web 2.0” & Social Media APIs) *
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About OpenLink Software, W3C: Provides a modern platform for exploiting power of AI, Semantic Web, Cognitive Data Virtualization, and Multi-Model Data Management
Joe Distefano
Co-Founder & CEO of UrbanFootprint
Joe is Principal and Co-Founder of Calthorpe Analytics. He leverages 20 years of experience in land use and transportation planning in leading the development and deployment of the RapidFire and UrbanFootprint modeling platforms, new models and software tools that bring critical information to land use planning decisions, energy and water resource choices, and the environmental, public health, and social equity challenges of their times.
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About UrbanFootprint: Urban, climate & community resilience data platform providing critical intelligence to institutions investing in the world’s infrastructure
Kent Dicks
President, Founder & CEO of Life365
Kent E. Dicks is CEO and Founder of Life365 Inc., an innovative digital health platform for connected care at home, based in Tempe, AZ. Previously Kent was CEO and Founder of MedApps, a remote health monitoring solution, which he guided from startup in 2006 to acquisition by a $3 billion rapid diagnostic manufacturer in 2012. After acquisition, he continued to lead the company as a new Connected Health division until 2015. His 30+ years of business experience also includes founding a successful information technology and engineering staffing firm that was acquired in 2008, prior to that he held positions at American Express and Texas Instruments as a lead consultant and programmer. In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Mr. Dicks has advocated the value of connected health technology through media interviews and industry panel discussions. He has also authored numerous articles, white papers, and provided testimony before Congress as a mobile health expert. Additionally, Kent participates in a range of initiatives that support Arizona’s startup community. Kent is a graduate of Arizona State University. He was named 2017 Healthcare Innovator of the Year by AZ Big Media and 2017 Healthcare Innovator by AZ Business Magazine.
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About Life365, Phoenix Business Journal Leadership Trust: Life365 is a virtual care platform for remote patient monitoring.
Cooper Mojsiejenko
Founder & CEO of HourNationArchive Inc.
Entrepreneur
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About HourNationArchive Inc.: HNA Live arms real estate & manufacturing experts with actionable big data insight. Optimizing time & maximizing profits.
Sammy Singh
Chief Executive Officer of CFO Base
Sammy Singh (also known as Sam Singh Mehta) has founded many entrepreneurial ventures and possesses a strong professional, as well as education background focused in financial technology, global taxation, and economics. Sammy’s aptitude came into the spotlight when he took over as the global Chief Financial Officer for the firm CXOsync- a global technology events and collaboration firm connecting the brightest of leaders for events niche specific and tailored toward their niche department seeking actionable insights through networking with other like-minded professionals in industry. When Sammy took over- the firm was in the small business phase, suffering in growth and a lack of direction with having a massive transition and restructure within the firm with how things were previous done. In the short span of 1 year (2016-2017), through his innovation and analysis of each individual department and product divisions- was able to have a history year of a 1089% increase in revenue. This was unheard of and remarkable in industry and made Sammy distinguished amongst his peers as a mover and shaker in industry through the offices of Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Sammy instituted state of the art blockchain based solutions and cash flow algorithmic function that combined 20 different formulas to yield 4 simplified metrics that he was able to distributed across the offices of CMO, CIO, CISO, CTO, CSO, and CEO- as well as ops and sales for increased data alignment and never before seen synergy amongst departments. He is the chief architect of closed loop reporting data alignment functionality utilizing a simplified approx. across an array of data streams for a fully aligned end point solution taking complex data lakes and creating one unified data stream to provide actionable solutions standardized across the entire organization. Sammy also was the Chief System Architecure and Advisor with CVS Health and worked instrumentally in creating the data functionalities and capture currently seen across every CVS Pharmacy globally with his data analytics passion from the onset of his professional prowess. Sammy possesses an extensive educational background ranging from The Wharton School of Business to The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the scope of public administration, economics and computer science (DevOps UI/UX); and through this- founded the financial disruptive firm that globally impacted many firms in how financial data was simplified for sales and CMO success with his founding firm- Atmosify Inc. Sammy has currently founded over 15 firms globally and has been involved in advising numerous firms- while currently focusing on his two largest US based enterprises- The Accountant Inc. and CFO Base Inc. An overview of Sammy Singh’s skill set would be described as follows: -Detail-oriented professional with an expertise in accounting, business intelligence, digital analytics, cryptocurrency, international taxation, business formation, and marketing analytics. – Experienced C-suite professional with exposure to roles of CMO, CDO, CISO, and CTO – strong leadership skills. – Expert in revenue recognition policies, strategic marketing, domain registration and management, trademark and copyright registration, and cryptocurrency formulation. Proficiency and Educational Background: •Masters of Science in Accountancy (Concentration in Revenue Recognition) •Masters of Business Administration (Concentration in Financial Accounting/ Economics) •Masters in Digital Analytics and Masters of Information Systems (MIS) (Concentration in Big Data Analytics) •Experience with Corporate Tax, International Tax, VAT, Corporate Financial Statements, Corporate Quarterly and Annual filings, F.A.S.B. codifications, G.A.A.P., I.F.R.S., and Public / Private Accounting. •Skilled in Digital Analytics, Closed Loop Analytics, S.E.O. , S.E.M. , C.R.M., and Cloud Based Data Security •Proficient in QuickBooks, Oracle, AS400, and SAP, Salesforce, Adobe, Azure, GitHub, iOS, Android, Ruby on the Rails. •Credentialed in Human Resource Administration, Department of Employment Securities, Vendor/Contractor/ F.T.E./ P.T.E. documentation and payroll taxation. •Dexterous in segmented marketing, strategic marketing, social selling, ROI measurement. •Fixed asset depreciation, sales tax jurisdiction analysis/ V.A.T. insight and disposal expertise • Accomplished in preparation of annual financial statements
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About Atmosify, CFO Base, CMO Market, Cryptonite, Hooper Tube, Shakespeareo, The Accountant: Digital CFO and CPA services providing solutions for business and individuals in accounting, tax, payroll, finance and business management
Brian Mullins
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mind Foundry
Brian Mullins is a pioneer in the field of augmented reality, whose experience with Human Machine Interface and Computer Vision technologies led him to found DAQRI, an Enterprise Augmented Reality company that seeks to change the way people work. He served as DAQRI’s CEO until 2017. In 2016 he testified before the United States Senate on the future of Augmented Reality. Earlier in his career, Brian helped develop systems that employed some of the earliest vision-based mixed reality technologies while working in the field of simulation at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and later at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
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About Mind Foundry: Mind Foundry is an Oxford University company that has developed an AI platform to solve the world’s most important problems.
James Hancock
Co-Founder/ CEO of Parasanti
James is an entrepreneur and executive in the Data Science and Machine Learning space. James lives in Dallas, TX and has extensive experience in the Public Sector and DoD space.
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About Parasanti: Parasanti is a powering the world’s edge infrastructure, to tame the cloud and bring it down to earth
Patrick Hogan
Co-founder & CEO of Handle
Helping businesses have better customer conversations at Tenfold. I grew up around a business that knew every customer by name. My mission is to make that possible for every company and put bad customer service out of business.
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About Handle: Simplifying construction financial management.
James McDermott
Co-Founder & CEO of Lytics
James McDermott is co-founder and CEO of Lytics. James was previously CEO of Storycode, a mobile software company acquired by Postano and vice president, business development at Webtrends, an analytics and optimization company.
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About Lytics: Lytics helps companies personalize engagement with customers through an advanced Customer Data Platform.
Susan Cook
Chief Executive Officer of Zaloni
Susan Cook is the Chief Executive Officer at Zaloni.
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About Zaloni: Zaloni is a data acceleration company.
Angela Benton
Founder & CEO of Streamlytics
Angela Benton is a pioneer of diversity in the technology industry and raising awareness around the inequalities that exist in the industry. In 2011 she founded NewME (acquired), the first accelerator globally for minorities. Through her leadership NewME has accelerated hundreds of entrepreneurs helping the nascent companies to raise over $47 million in venture capital funding. To date, Benton has received numerous accolades some of which include Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Fast Company’s Most Influential Women In Technology, Business Insiders’ 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology, Marie Claire’s 50 Women Who Rule, Ebony Magazine’s’ Power 150 and many more. In addition, Benton has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets including CNN’s award winning documentary series Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Inc, Forbes, Good Morning America, and the Wall Street Journal where she was a featured essayist alongside Mark Zuckerberg for the paper’s 125th Anniversary edition on The Future of Entrepreneurship. At the helm of her latest venture, Angela continues to uncover untapped spaces in technology and innovation.
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About Streamlytics: Streamlytics ethically unifies disparate data from today’s fastest growing communities.
Tony Berry
Founder & CEO of Interloop
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About BrainSell LLC, Interloop: Put Your Data To Work
Dan Rosenberg
Founder & CEO of Octane11
Dan oversees strategic partnerships and corporate development activities for MediaMath. He brings over 15 years of experience in digital media deal-making from HotJobs (pre-IPO and sale to Yahoo!), Virgin Mobile (pre-IPO and sale to Sprint) and Rave Wireless (mobile software backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Sigma Partners, RRE Ventures) and in growth investments from Maveron (venture capital investor in eBay, Shutterfly, Drugstore.com, Capella University, Knowledge Networks, Groupon, SAY Media and Zulilly), Jericho Capital (tech-media-telecom hedge fund) and ASIMCO (Beijing-based private equity firm acquired by Bain Capital). Dan’s team is focused on bringing the best of the ad tech ecosystem to MediaMath clients in a simple, seamless way and helping partners bring their solutions to market quickly and at scale. Dan also oversees MediaMath’s corporate development activities including M&A, joint ventures and capital markets. Dan is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
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About Octane11: Octane11 is a B2B-focused analytics and collaboration platform that connects siloed enterprise data to real business impact
Jeff Cotten
CEO of Tenfold
Jeff is the CEO of Tenfold having previously served as the president and CRO of Rackspace. He is a Dallas Native and began his career at Electronic Data Systems.
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About Tenfold: Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting customer information into action on the phone.
Frank Azzolino
Advisor @ Tenfold, Former CEO @ NetSuite of Tenfold
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About : Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting customer information into action on the phone.
Michael Perretta
CEO of Docket®
Michael is the Founder & CEO of Foxhall Wythe LLC. Michael has experience developing and implementing new solutions to service the HCIT space. Previously, Michael worked as a Project Manager and Implementation Consultant for Epic Systems Corporation. Michael holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston College.
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About Docket®: Docket® makes it easier than ever for American healthcare consumers to access, manage, and share personal and family immunization records.
Sina Adibi
CEO and President of Adaptive Clinical
Sina Adibi has over 25 years of experience in healthcare and life sciences informatics and business process outsourcing. Currently, as the CEO and founder of Adaptive Clinical Systems, Sina oversees all facets of the business from strategic planning, product development, sales and marketing, compliance and overall customer satisfaction of his revolutionary clinical trial data integration software. As a thought-leader in the healthcare industry, Sina frequently speaks at conferences and educates his constituency on clinical trial data protocol and efficacy. Sina held positions of leadership at a variety of leading healthcare companies. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Paraxel, Inc., he was responsible for ideation, design and development of all facets of eClinical technology such as IVRS/ IWRS, EDC, CTMS, and medical imaging. As Senior Vice President for Systems and Technology and CTO at Thomson-Reuters Scientific and Healthcare, Sina had responsibility for scientific, technical, medical information management systems, data capture work flow systems, content enhancement, format setup, and publishing. As co-founder of Practical CTO, Inc., Sina concentrated on cloud-based information technology, workflow systems, and analytics. He was co-founder of superior Media Solutions, a business process and technology outsourcing company in the information publishing industry.
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About Adaptive Clinical: Adaptive Clinical is a global life sciences technology company offers secure and cost-effective solution for clinical data integration.
Mark LaRow
CEO of Verato
Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of Verato. He was formerly at MicroStrategy, a BI software provider, for 14 years where he was the Executive Vice President of Products, responsible for product strategy, product marketing, and competitive intelligence. Prior to MicroStrategy, Mark was with Ernst & Young for 17 years and left as Partner responsible for all technical consulting in the east region of the US.
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About Verato: Verato is a cloud-based patient matching technology. It uses referential matching to link patient records across systems and enterprises.
Michael McCrary
Founder & CEO of PureSpectrum
Michael McCrary is the CEO at PureSpectrum
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About California Lutheran University, PureSpectrum: PureSpectrum curates the highest quality survey participants from leading panel sources to ensure you get consistent, predictable.
Andrew Kieve
CEO, Co-Founder of Tolemi
Co-founder of Tolemi
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About Tolemi: Turning government’s data into the information edge they require to lead in the 21st Century
Daniel Baker
CEO of FlightAware
Baker is the founder of FlightAware and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2005. In this role, he directs all of the business units, leads worldwide business development, and drives corporate growth. Originally one of the principal developers of FlightAware technology, he now enjoys working directly with partners and customers in both industry (e.g., airline, cargo, business aviation) and government (e.g., air traffic management) to create mutually beneficial relationships that leverage FlightAware’s technology and data to provide innovative and efficient solutions in aviation and travel. Baker brings years of experience as a driving architect of rapid growth businesses from both the technology and business sides as well as enterprise sales and partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and governments. He has been in the Internet services business for over two decades and is a published author on the subject of Internet protocols. Baker is a regular speaker at aviation and technology conferences and serves as a member of the the Board of Directors at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum. Baker is a passionate photographer, pilot, and cyclist. He lives with his wife and daughter in Houston. Baker holds an FAA Commercial Pilot certificate.
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About FlightAware: FlightAware is a privately held aviation data company that provides live flight tracking tools and commercial data services.
Rich Serunjogi
Founder & CEO of Business Score
Rich Serunjogi is the CEO at Business Score.
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About Business Score: Funding marketplace for eCommerce companies
Alex Yaseen
Co-Founder and CEO of Parabola
Alex Yaseen is Co-Founder and CEO at Parabola.
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About Parabola: Parabola is a drag-and-drop visual programming platform that lets everyone create custom reports, workflows, integrations, and more.
Brian Glick
Founder and CEO of Chain.io
Brian Glick is the Founder and CEO of Chain.io.
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About Chain.io: Chain.io is a SaaS supply chain integration platform that offers an easy way to connect systems and share data.
Will Margiloff
CEO of IgnitionOne
Will Margiloff serves as CEO of IgnitionOne. Margiloff is charged with the overall vision and strategic direction of IgnitionOne’s services and Digital Marketing Suite. With digital marketing experience stretching back to 1995, Margiloff brings unparalleled innovation and expertise to the company and to the industry. As one of the early pioneers in the Internet marketing field, he has helped revolutionize the online landscape, leading the use of new online advertising formats and technologies.
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About IgnitionOne: IgnitionOne is a marketing technology and services that offers cloud-based customer intelligence solutions to enterprise marketers.
Dan LeBlanc
CEO & Co-Founder of Daasity
Dan LeBlanc is the CEO and Co-Founder of Daasity.
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About Daasity: Daasity enables Consumer Product Brands to make better data-driven decisions, leading to faster and more profitable growth.
Bob Polus
Founder, CEO & President of Xact Data Discovery
As original founder of Xact Duplicating, Inc. in 1994, Bob Polus is the President and CEO at XDD. Bob has played an instrumental, hands-on leadership role for 20+ years, having evolved the company from its roots in paper discovery to its present suite of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services. Bob continues to spearhead the company’s exponential revenue growth in domestic and international markets, managing all mergers, investor relations and executive leadership team priorities. Leveraging the company’s unique “communication” brand platform, Bob continues to drive incremental growth across XDD’s 15 domestic and two international markets, in parallel with inspiring excellence with the company’s dedicated personnel at all levels.
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About Xact Data Discovery: Xact Data Discovery is an international provider of eDiscovery, data management, and managed review services for law firms and corporations.
