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 Real Time 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.
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
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.
Jon Fisher
Co-founder & CEO of CrowdOptic
Chief Executive Officer (Co-Founder) / Director Jon is CrowdOptic’s CEO and served as CEO of Bharosa (Oracle NASDAQ: ORCL), NetClerk (NYSE: ROP) and AutoReach (AutoNation NYSE: AN). Jon is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Award (Emerging Category, 2007) and lives in Marin County, CA with his wife and daughter.
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About CrowdOptic, ViciNFT: CrowdOptic uses algorithms and real-time sensor data from electronic devices to enhance security, social media sharing, and advertising.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Peter Hunn
Founder & CEO of Clause
Peter Hunn is Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clause, Inc. The Accord Project (now a Linux Foundation project) from Clause, Inc. is the leading organization for the development of techno-legal standards for smart legal contracts and distributed ledger applications in the legal industry. Peter is also an angel investor in early stage startups.
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About Accord Project, Clause, Substrate: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Andy Wirth
President & CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Resort
Mr. Andrew Wirth, also known as Andy, serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Alpine Meadows of Tahoe, Inc. Mr. Wirth has been the Chief Executive Officer of Squaw Valley Ski Corporation since August 2, 2010 and serves as its President. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation since June 2009. He has direct responsibilities for all aspects of marketing and sales at the resort. He serves as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing – Steamboat of Intrawest ULC since June 1, 2006. He served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Intrawest ULC (formerly Intrawest Corp.), since July 2007. He joined Intrawest as a result of the acquisition of Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation that was completed in March 2007. He has 24 years of sales and marketing experience and based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation. He serves as the President of Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Board of Directors. He has been a Trustee of Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority since July 2013. Mr. Wirth has a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and attended Edinburgh University in Scotland.
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About Squaw Valley Ski Resort: Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California, is one of the largest ski areas in the United States.
Jesper Andersen
CEO & President of Infoblox
A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
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.
Alban Denoyel
Co-Founder & CEO of Sketchfab
Alban is a 32-year-old French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Sketchfab – the #1 platform to publish and explore 3D content online and in VR. Prior to Sketchfab, he launched a low cost web agency, and worked for 4 years in the 2D world of photojournalists. He loves making things (usually with wood or in 3D). He graduated from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France).
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About Sketchfab: Sketchfab provides a platform to publish and find 3D models online
Harry Qi
Co-Founder & CEO of Motion
Harry Qi is the co-founder and CEO of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Andre Swanston
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tru Optik
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About Tru Optik: Tru Optik is the Only Audience Measurement and Data Management Platform Built for OTT
Torrance Harris
Founder & CEO / Social Engineer of Acrochat
If you are reading this you have been influenced by him some kind of way and you possibly don’t even know it. In the near future he will change the way people talk, text, and type simply by using acronyms, you will never look at a normal word the same. Torrance Harris is the founder of “Acrochat”, (www.acrochat.com) it’s the world’s only acronym based social network, a photo sharing website “Flodger” (www.flodger.com), and dating app like none other “Petty” (www.petty.chat). He noticed the internet world consisted of a language that would eventually be used in everyday communication. Torrance explains, “every social network does the same thing which consist of connecting people but Acrochat is the only social network that gives users the option to change the way you communicate using an embedded language that is built off the premise of acronyms”. During the development & testing phase of Acrochat Torrance created this “internet chatbot persona” that involved his social engineering and marketing skills. It allowed him to attract people to join his social site and once joining they would convince friends to sign up. This allowed Acrochat to grow to 30,000 users off simple “word of mouth”. Spending 4 years in college only to obtain an associates degree in mechanical engineering technology. He applied and received his first business license in 1998 starting a video game repair company called Game Over Enterprise. His knowledge of disrupting the internet started in the early 2000’s hanging out in the hacker’s lounge on yahoo messenger where he first experienced the pros and cons of DDOS programs and traffic exchange software can be. He had a brief stint in the music industry managing his main artist who was his brother. Torrance wanted the album sales to grow rapidly so he searched for a glitch in the recording industry network and found it. He purchased bar-codes from GS1 US (https://www.gs1us.org/) formerly know as Uniform Code Council and he hacked the numbers associated with obtained bar-codes. Consumers would purchase his brother’s cd in store consisting of only 2 songs for $0.50 and once the store scanned the bar-code it would credit and register as a full album sale from Nielsen SoundScan. His brother’s album sales increased making him #3 in sales in some stores in Memphis. He hired an Manhattan attorney Anthony Arther (www.artherlaw.com) to represent his label where they had meetings with Badboy, Interscope, etc. but to no avail a deal was ever made. Torrance stock portfolio contains shares in Snapchat, Facebook, online travel, textile, oil and gas, and etc. In 2004, he exploited a Sony PlayStation glitch simply using a router w/ yahoo email MP3s attached to knock their game servers offline. Glitching his online internet enemies he saw it as fun to counter against cheaters. In 2010 he disrupted top music mixtape website Datpiff.com, changing artists user stats and giving them more views and more recognition and leaving his number for DatPiff CEO to call him so he could discuss how vulnerable his website was. He has worked for companies such as Sharp Electronics, Microsoft XBox Division, Amazon, FedEx, and Beckman Coulter. He owned an ATM repair company ATM Geek that was notarized by FedEx and he served on Fed Ex Mobile Council Board. Retired from his days of being one of the first and self-proclaimed internet trolls, Torrance main focus is his family and making sure his social networking sites are used for fun and not evil. He will tell you all the years of what he was doing he considered real life research & development to find out how vulnerable things are and eventually finding a solution to make them stronger.
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About Acrochat, Graapevine, Petty: World’s only acronym based/enhanced social networking website
Tony Zhao
Founder & CEO of Agora.io
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About Agora.io: Agora.io enables developers to add HD interactive broadcast, voice, and video calls into mobile and web apps through SDK.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Gordon Campbell
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Cornami
Gordon Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process. Mr. Campbell began his career as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager moving into managing one of the company’s largest divisions. He left Intel to found SEEQ Technology, which became a leading manufacturer and the developer of the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, Campbell founded and became Chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies, the world’s first fabless semiconductor company. CHIPS and Technologies was instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that early customers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell now dominate. As a result of his success at CHIPS and Technologies, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”. In his 40-year career, Mr. Campbell has also served on the Board of Directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm, and has founded, invested in, and been involved with a number of highly successful start-ups, including CHIPS and Technologies, 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate. In honor of this repeated success, the FSA named Mr. Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Max Eliscu
Chief Executive Officer of Viewpost
Max has been building and scaling businesses in the B2B space for nearly two decades, first as the founder of LSQ Funding Group and more recently as the founder of Viewpost. He is CEO of both companies. In creating LSQ Funding Group, Max set out to help small to midsize businesses access working capital through quick and efficient invoice financing. Fueled by referral relationships with the nation’s leading banks, including U.S. Bank and Bank of America, LSQ to date has provided more than $14 billion in financing to small businesses. The scale and structure of financing operations at LSQ placed it at the epicenter of the B2B market’s transactional inefficiency. Max saw the opportunity amid the arcane, largely paper-based methods many businesses still use to send, receive and make payment, and launched Viewpost. Viewpost offers businesses of every size, across AR/AP, a secure business network that removes the barriers to exchanging invoices and payments electronically. The network connects businesses and people to data that is used to improve efficiency, collaboration and cash flow management, while drastically reducing the need for paper-based processes. Recognizing the shared interest between Viewpost and financial institutions, Max and his leadership team forged partnerships with U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank and others soon to be announced, aiming to accelerate the elimination of paper invoices and payments for every business, big or small. To date, more than $24 billion has transacted over Viewpost. To feed the rapid growth of LSQ Funding Group and Viewpost, Max has raised more than $240 million in equity capital over the last three years.
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About Forbes Technology Council, LSQ, Viewpost: Viewpost helps big businesses streamline payments, eliminate paper checks, and earn cash back on payments to vendors.
Jeffrey Chapman
CEO of Babel Street
Jeffrey Chapman is the Chief Executive Officer of Babel Street, a firm specializing in software solutions for multilingual text analytics and media monitoring. Before founding Babel Street, Mr. Chapman served as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he developed financial strategies concerning the government overhaul of domestic capital markets and terrorism finance regulations. Prior to his Treasury appointment, he co-founded, led and sold a software and consulting company formed to meet post-9/11 needs of the homeland and national security. Mr. Chapman is a former intelligence officer and decorated combat veteran. He is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and holds graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard University.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Sanjay Sharma
CEO of Roambee
Sanjay Sharma is a strategic thought leader with an impressive 17+ years of entrepreneurial experience building technology startups from the ground up. As CEO of Roambee, he is responsible for leading the company’s vision, driving its worldwide business growth, and increasing the company’s value. Sanjay has successfully co-founded and led two successful Silicon Valley technology startups – KeyTone Technologies, which was acquired by Global Asset Tracking Ltd and Plexus Technologies, which became an ICICI Ventures portfolio company. He has also been a part of the engineering teams at EMC, Schlumberger, and NASA. Sanjay has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University.
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About Roambee, Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Vivek Sharma
Founder & CEO of Movable Ink
Vivek is leading the charge to make email a more dynamic and relevant communication channel for marketers and consumers. With a background in both sales and product development, Vivek brings a potent combination of engineering talent and business savvy to his role as Movable Ink’s CEO. Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Vivek headed Eastern North American and EMEA sales for Engine Yard. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Blue Martini and Cisco Systems. Vivek graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About EasyPrep, Movable Ink: Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement.
Mert Iseri
CEO of SwipeSense
Mert Hilmi Iseri is the young turk of design. His journey started off in Istanbul, Turkey and changed courses completely once he arrived at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. After graduating with his own degree ?Entrepreneurial Design? in the spring of 2011, he is excited to embrace design and entrepreneurship to galvanize a generation into positive change. During his time in Northwestern, he co-founded Design for America, a national network of student led design studios working to create social impact. Currently, he is the Co-founder and CEO of SwipeSense – a company that aims to save the 100,000 deaths that occur every year in the US due to Hospital-Acquired Infections.
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About SwipeSense: SwipeSense is a healthcare technology company that makes healthcare safe, efficient, and predictable through location-aware applications.
Harpal Sandhu
CEO of Integral Development
Harpal Sandhu founded Integral in 1993 to transform wholesale capital markets through the use of advanced technology. In the late 1990s, Harpal led Integral in the development of a global data grid to electronically connect the world’s major financial institutions into the first integrated trading network for foreign exchange and interest-rate derivative products. That effort, now known as FX Grid® is the basis of Integral’s highly successful product line. Prior to founding Integral, Harpal was founder and president of Infinity Financial Technology, a leading supplier of software products for the financial services industry, which was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 1998. Harpal began his career as a financial engineer in the Capital Markets Product Development Group at Morgan Stanley & Company. Harpal holds a BA from Stanford University. He is also a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences.
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About Integral Development: Integral Development develops and operates a multi-sided trading facility that connects market participants with sources of FX liquidity.
Ashley Crowder
CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA
Ashley Crowder is the co-founder and CEO of VNTANA, an industry leading augmented reality platform for creating and distributing premium mixed reality experiences. Prior to co-founding VNTANA she graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and gained valuable manufacturing experience at Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and BP. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development. Ashley was featured as one of USC’s leading engineering CEOs of 2016. Ashley is a part of the Microsoft Early Developer Program along with the Microsoft Bizspark Plus program. Ashley has been a speaker at SXSW, Digital Summit, Internet Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx Venice, the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies & Technology Pioneers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, The Montgomery Summit, Siemer Summit, Digital LA, and others.
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
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
Kristen Dumont
CEO of Machine Zone
Kristen became CEO of MZ in June 2018 after serving as the company’s Chief Operating Officer since 2015. As COO, Kristen was responsible for MZ’s worldwide strategy and operations, overseeing the company’s unprecedented growth into a gaming powerhouse with three of the mobile gaming industry’s all-time top performers: Game of War, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy. Kristen led the company’s efforts to hire and develop the most talented engineers, developers, and creative talent in the industry, and to cultivate international partnerships and success in foreign markets. Dumont is also the first and only woman CEO of a major gaming company, one of two women CEOs among PitchBook’s 30 most valuable private companies, and one of only a handful of Latina CEOs in Silicon Valley. She is a sought-after speaker on a range of technology and business issues, having been a featured speaker and panelist at conferences including Collision and Web Summit. Before joining the company, Dumont was a strategic advisor to MZ and its founder for two years, helping the company transition from start-up phase to a maturity as a global company, and building a solid foundation for growth. Ms. Dumont was born and raised in Northern California and earned her BA at the University of California at Berkeley. She serves as an advisor to Silicon Valley venture capital firm 8VC, and she served a five-year term as a Board Member of the Sky’s The Limit Fund, which provides grants to support at-risk youth to attend wilderness rehab programs. Dumont lives in the Silicon Valley with her husband and four children.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Simon Yencken
Founder & CEO of Fanplayr
Simon Yencken is the CEO & Founder at Fanplayr Inc.
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About Blackbird Ventures, Dokio, Fanplayr, Moda Operandi: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
John Dillon
CEO of Aerospike
John has more than 30 years of experience building high-growth technology companies, and a passion for empowering developers creating next-gen applications in the cloud. His engineering background, deeply ingrained sales DNA, customer-first approach make him a remarkable leader. “I’m a serial entrepreneur and engineer at heart, and I carry that perspective with me in my role as CEO. I’m fascinated with analyzing business models, solidifying the areas that work and tackling the challenges that slow growth so companies can maximize their full potential.” John previously held CEO roles at Engine Yard, Hyperion Solutions, Navis and Salesforce.com. Earlier in his career he was an engineer at Electronic Data Systems and held sales management roles at Oracle as the relational database management company grew from $100M to $1B. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as an officer in the nuclear submarine service for five years and retired as a commander.
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Dave Petruziello
CEO/Founder of Sureal Music
Dave is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in Management and Communications with a minor in Anatomy Physiology, as well as a 4-year starter and All-Big Ten selection on the football team and earning the academic achievement award. After a short stint in the NFL with the Patriots and the Browns, he applied his skills in the medical device industry for several companies, as one of the top sales producers in the US market. Dave applied this knowledge and experience toward great success in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Fund-Raising and Executive Management. As founder and CEO Ziello Labs, Dave managed and developed all domestic and international business relationships for Mago Skin Care (now Mission Athlete Care (owned now by Mia Hamm former captain of the women’s Olympic Soccer Team). This skincare line was used by athletes featured in the documentary “Running the Sahara,” directed by James Moll and narrated by Matt Damon for the nonprofit “Clean Water Africa.” Most recently Dave co-founded Flashnotes.com/ Luvolearn.com, developing and growing the business and moving headquarters to Boston, MA, the US higher education hub. This Fall 2018’ Flashnotes will be re-launching and Dave is the founder of the business as well as President. Dave is driven by taking on challenges and figuring out solutions in his passion for growing companies, building brands and applying ever changing and evolving technology. Currently, Dave is proud to be the CEO/Founder of Sureal Music. Dave spends most of his spare time with his 15 yr old Son David, his Fiancée Chrissy, and 4 loving kind hearted Pit-Bulls.
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About Steve Popovich Legacy Foundation, Sureal Music: Connecting fans and empowering musicians for a better music experience for all.
Michael Lovett
Founder & CEO of Vagabond Vending
Michael is responsible for managing the commercial operations of the company. He brings a decade of entrepreneurial spirit and experience in IT services, software and international partnerships. Prior to CirrusWorks, Michael founded and currently serves as Chairman of Vagabond (www.vagabondvending.com), a mobile software and cellular electronics firm based in Washington, DC. Michael was an early employee at Core Communications, where he conceived and launched Critical Network Productions, a telecom systems integration business unit which became the impetus for Swisscom’s acquisition of Core in 2006. At Swisscom (www.swisscom.ch), Michael led the global enterprise solutions group and expanded Swisscom’s operations into Asia, India and the Middle East. Michael is co-author of our principle patents at CirrusWorks.
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Mark Gilbreath
CEO and Founder of LiquidSpace
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About LiquidSpace: LiquidSpace supports Work From Anywhere with a platform that makes it easy to discover, transact, and manage your office needs on-demand.
Andrei Pop
Founder & CEO of Human API
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About Human API: Human API is a real-time health data network that gives consumers a simple way to view and share their health data from everywhere.
Nikesh Desai
Founder & CEO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Nikesh is a founder and CEO of InvestingChannel. As CEO, he leads the company’s overall strategic direction. Nikesh and Bob started the consultancy Giant Step Strategies which served as the initial underpinning of InvestingChannel. They successfully helped major financial media companies with their ad strategies which created the demand and impetus for InvestingChannel. He has been the key figure in building the largest exclusive consortium of financial destinations at InvestingChannel. Prior to building Giant Step Strategies and InvestingChannel, Nikesh served as the Vice President of Business Development at TheStreet.com where he implemented strategic initiatives and new technologies, including partnerships, contextual advertising, co-registration, customer acquisition/lead generation and many other programs to increase revenue, drive traffic and enhance site performance. He was one of the original members of PeoplePC’s business development team and was instrumental during its IPO process and sale to EarthLink. Nikesh focused on product development, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisition activities. He started his career as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens involved in public offerings and mergers & acquisitions aggregating over $1 billion with Internet and software companies. Nikesh aspires to be a traveling food critic while trying to hit every major soccer stadium across the world.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Kwang Suk (David) Kim
Co-CEO & President of InvestingChannel, Inc.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc., L2: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
John Saroff
Chief Executive Officer of Chartbeat
John Saroff is CEO of Chartbeat, the leading content intelligence platform used by more than 50,000 of the world’s top media properties in over 60 countries. Chartbeat believes that meaningful stories matter wherever they live, and that in an increasingly mobile, social world, Chartbeat is the only analytics solution newsrooms rely on to understand consumer attention and make the most of their quality content on site and offsite. Saroff has worked on the cutting-edge of media and technology for 17+ years, setting the daily operations and business development agendas of companies as diverse as Google, NBC-Universal and vente-privee.
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About Chartbeat: Chartbeat tools measure and monetize website visitors’ attention and engagement on page content and advertising.
Glen D. Mella
CEO of CYPHER
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About Axcend, CYPHER: CYPHER develops software solutions for real-time noise reduction, signal identification, and signal extraction on various devices.
Milin Desai
CEO of Sentry
Milin Desai currently serves as the CEO of Sentry.io. He joined Sentry from VMware where he was General Manager, Cloud Services. Milin and his team were responsible for VMware’s cloud strategy, the company’s transition to SAAS and expanding the portfolio with solutions for public cloud. Prior to this role, he started network virtualization and grew the NSX product line into a billion+ dollar a year business. Earlier in his career, he held engineering roles at Veritas and was early at Riverbed in a product role. Milin Desai has a Masters in Compute Science from University of Southern California.
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About Sentry: Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real time to catch bugs early.
Samuel Berger
Founder, President and CEO of FOREX Strategies
Samuel Berger, Founder, President and CEO of FOREX Strategies, Inc.: Mr. Berger is an expert in foreign exchange, programming and company development. He has founded and built multiple software companies. Mr. Berger served as an enterprise architect for Capital Group Companies (managed over $1.3 trillion), database architect for E*Trade and Barra Securities and has written over 2 million lines of custom code over his career. Mr. Berger is also an expert on relational database programming, multi-tier development, complex linking and interfacing, full production database architectural design as well as data warehousing. Solutions include fault tolerance and local as well as geographic load balancing. Mr. Berger has provided expert application development, IT, database and security software consulting for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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About FOREX Strategies: FOREX Strategies is a technology company specializing in financial products and services offered to businesses.
Jonny Simkin
CEO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
Jonny Simkin is the co-founder and CEO of Swiftly, a San Francisco-based technology company that has created an industry-leading big data platform to help public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Living in San Francisco and having experienced the challenges of urban mobility first hand, Jonny is on a mission to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions in cities across the world. Prior to founding Swiftly, Jonny was the Director of Product at Rafter Inc., where he helped nearly 3 million students save over $700 million on college textbooks. Before Rafter, Jonny was the co-founder and CEO of SwoopThat and HubEdu (acquired in 2012), where he built a leading online textbook comparison engine. Jonny holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with an Economics Concentration from Harvey Mudd College. In his spare time, he enjoys hockey, ping pong, tennis, and coffee.
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Mahesh Veerina
President & CEO of Cloudleaf
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Wade Havens
Founder & CEO of WadeCo Specialties
Wade founded WadeCo in 2005 and has lead the company’s growth from a two man/two truck operation to the eight locations it operates today. Prior to founding WadeCo, Wade had accumulated over 30 years of oil and gas chemical experience in key positions for various chemical providers.
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About WadeCo Specialties: Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Midland, TX, WadeCo provides production well chemicals to oil well operators used for corrosion
Todd Greene
CEO of PubNub
Todd Greene is the co-founder and CEO of PubNub. As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procurement solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
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About PubNub: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Robert Levin
CEO of Transclick
Robert E. Levin, emerging markets, global macro strategist, mobile technology leader, author, inventor Robert Levin is the CEO of Transclick, Inc., a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum with over 10 million app client downloads in 192 countries. Transclick is launching the largest digital health & medical apps marketplace for the developing world. Transclick has recently won 3 awards: The OnMobile 100, the AlwaysOn Global 250 and the Gold Edison Award 2012. He is a Tech Laureate of the Tech Museum of Innovation. He is also a Managing Director of Emerging Star Capital, LLC which advises family offices, private banks and institutional investors. He is an inventor, best-selling author, public speaker and holds one issued US patent. He is also a strategist in global macro, emerging markets and technology investments. He was trained at Salomon Brothers and was a top strategist for 2 hedge funds, Tudor and Moore Global.Robert Levin is a foreign policy analyst and recognized expert in technology and global emerging markets. He is a member of the World Economic Forum and was an active corporate member of the Council on Foreign Relations.He is the author of the first biography of President Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton: The Inside Story, and Democratic Blueprints: National Leaders Chart America’s Future. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance at the Columbia Business School teaching global investment strategy and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. Contact: robert@transclick.com or 1-212-751-5150 Ext. 5 and mobile Ext. 1
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About Edison Awards, Emerging Star Capital, TED, The Global Future Education Foundation, The World Economic Forum, Transclick: Transclick provides real-time translation capabilities for cellphones, and messaging and collaboration systems.
Martijn Atell
CEO & Founder of VoteBash
Martijn is founder and CEO of VoteBash. At VoteBash, he is responsible for outlining the strategy and managing the company’s operations. He has over 10 years of experience at BMW. Prior to VoteBash, Martijn was at a Silicon Valley tech start-up. Martijn has both worked and lived in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. With VoteBash he is carrying out the mission to surface the opinions of others and make them more accessible in a universal way. Martijn holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering with honors and a BSc in Information Communication Technology both from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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About Black Girls CODE, VoteBash, VoteBash Corporate Security: VoteBash is a visual real-time research tool with brand amplification and personalization.
Daniel Ramot
Co-Founder and CEO of Via
Daniel Ramot is the co-founder and CEO of Via. Prior to Via, Daniel built supercomputers designed to discover new pharmaceutical drugs at D. E. Shaw Research, and developed avionic systems for F-15s and F-16s for the Israeli Air Force. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Talpiot program.
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About Via: Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters.
Umur Cubukcu
Founder and CEO of Citus Data
Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data
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About Citus Data, Microsoft: Citus Data horizontally scales PostgreSQL, taking relational power further for real-time data.
Paulo Martins
CEO & Co-Founder of Arena.im
CEO & Co-Founder at Arena.im Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Our mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community in their website.
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About Arena.im: Arena.im is Live Chat for Streaming, Live shopping and CDP
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.
Jay Desai
Co-Founder & CEO of PatientPing
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About PatientPing: PatientPing is a care coordination data and software company that focuses on senior care and patients with complex needs.
Stephen Wolfram
Founder & CEO of Wolfram Alpha
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, author lecturer, and business leader. He is the founder of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram’s early scientific work was mainly in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, and cosmology. Having started to use computers in 1973, Wolfram was well known in the emerging field of scientific computing, and in 1979 he began the construction of SMP, the first modern computer algebra system. Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued his work on complexity, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing concepts such as computational irreducibility. Following his scientific work on complex systems research, in 1986 Wolfram founded the first research center and the first journal in the field, Complex Systems. Wolfram began the development of Mathematica in late 1986. Wolfram Research was recognized for both technology and business in the software industry. By 1990, he was focused on foundational problems in physics, biology, computer science, mathematics, and several other fields. He was also a lecturer at Caltech and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In addition, he was a professor of physics, mathematics, and computer science at the University of Illinois. Wolfram described his achievements in his 1200-page book titled A New Kind of Science. He has also written several other books related to his research. Wolfram has been president and CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. In addition to his business leadership, Wolfram is involved in the development of the company’s technology, and oversees all aspects of the functional design of the core Mathematica system. Stephen Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech. In recognition of his early work in physics and computing, Wolfram became the youngest recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981.
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About Touch Press, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research: Wolfram Alpha offers a computational knowledge engine that provides answers to users based on built-in data and algorithms.
Andrew Wagner-Trugman
Co-Founder, CEO of Roo
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About Roo: Roo is a crowdsourced mobile app for sharing and discovering what social venues are like in real-time.
Doron Kagan
Co-Founder & CEO of Game of Whales
Doron Kagan is the Founder at X3M Games.
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About Deemedya, Game of Whales, Google, X3M Games: Game Of Whales is an AI and Machine Learning platform that maximize digital games players monetization and retention automatically.
Jacob Ross
CEO of PebblePost
Jacob Ross is the CEO at PebblePost.
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About PebblePost: PebblePost provides marketers a way to transform recent online data into intelligent direct mail programs that perform.
Matt Schulman
Founder & CEO of Pave
Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave (https://pave.com).
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About Pave: Pave leverages real-time HR and equity integrations to help companies plan, communicate, and benchmark compensation.
Daniel Shaked
CEO & Founder of Home365
Daniel Shaked founder & CEO at Home365.
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About Home365: Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before.
Christopher Richins
CEO & Founder of RBC Signals
Christopher Richins is co-founder and CEO of RBC Signals, a provider of global satellite ground station “infrastructure as a service.” Richins began his career as an RF Communications Engineer at Boeing Sea Launch, where he supported multiple launch campaigns from the ship-based equatorial launch site. After business school, he completed an internship with SpaceX before joining Bain & Company as a management consultant. Post Bain, Richins held management roles at Arkyd Astronautics (Planetary Resources), Space Angels Network, Expedia, and Applause. Richins earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Fellow, a master’s degree in Astronautics from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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About RBC Signals: RBC Signals provides global satellite communication “infrastructure as a service”
Matthew Craig
Co-Founder & CEO of Blink
Matt spent five years working as Page One Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Boston University and has worked for Harvard University, The Nieman Foundation and the VII Photo Agency. When he isn’t evangelizing about Blink, Matt can be found researching vintage Porsches or toting a Leica around Brooklyn with members of MJR, an international group of artists he founded in 2007.
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About Blink: Headquartered in New York, Blink is a platform that connects the world’s best storytellers to companies that have a story to tell.
Jeff Drake
CEO of Bitvore
Jeff Drake serves as Chief Executive Officer at SecondVoice, Inc. Jeff Drake is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in the technology arena, predominately focused on startup companies. Jeff Drake served as an Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development at ServiceMesh, Inc. and was responsible for strategic alliances, M&A, and new market development. He served as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at SOA Software, Inc. (alternate name, Akana, Inc.). Jeff Drake Co-founded Access360 and served as its President and Executive Vice President of Corporate Planning & Strategy. He has formulated complex strategic alliances with companies such as VeriSign, Oracle, and IBM. He serves as Director of Bitvore Corp. He served as Director of Security Strategy for IBM Tivoli Software. Earlier, he served as Vice President of Business Development of Enterprise Solutions, Ltd. where Jeff Drake led the development of its global sales and business development team. He served as Vice President of Quadratron Systems, Inc., and as a Senior Systems Analyst at ASI Systems International. He serves as Member of Board of Advisors at CloudAccess, Inc. Jeff Drake co-authored the book “Security Provisioning, Managing in Extended Enterprises“ and is a frequent contributor to articles and at speaking engagements.
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About Arena Investors, LP, Bitvore, ServiceMesh: Bitvore provides unprecedented business insights from unstructured data.
Chad Halvorson
Co-Founder & CEO of When I Work
Chad Halvorson is the CEO of thisCLICKS , makers of When I Work, a cloud-based mobile employee scheduling software. When I Work simplifies staff scheduling and communication for restaurants, retailers, healthcare providers and countless SMBs in more than 50 countries around the world. Before thisCLICKS, Chad led the development team at Meditech Communications, a digital marketing agency that provides app development, animation and video production services to the medical device industry. For over a decade, he led the development and architecture of interactive tools, apps and web software for Fortune 500 giants like Boston Scientific, UnitedHealthcare and St. Jude Medical — plus countless small and mid-sized companies.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Philippe Vincent
President & CEO of Virtual Instruments
Philippe Vincent brings over 20 years of experience in technology industries. Philippe held senior executive positions with BigFix, IBM and Accenture. During his tenure at BigFix, he led several business functions and drove strategy and operations across the company. He helped drive BigFix to a leadership position in the Systems and Security Management markets, and a successful sale to IBM in 2010. At IBM, Philippe helped lead the integration of BigFix into the Tivoli business unit. Before BigFix, he was a Partner with Accenture’s High Tech strategy practice, and a leader of its Software practice. Philippe began his career with engineering positions at Alcatel and PSA Peugeot Citroen. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM (France).
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About Virtual Instruments: Virtual Instruments offers IT infrastructure performance management solutions for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
Bryan Bennett
CEO & Founder of Cortex Sustainability Intelligence
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About Cortex Sustainability Intelligence: Your Effortless Solution to Office Building Sustainability
Mark Forster
Founder & CEO of Adello Inc
Mark is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and digital space veteran. Before founding Adello, Mark co-founded several companies, including OnEmotion, a mobile marketing development company, which was acquired by Goldbach. Before, Mark assumed general management positions at Minick, pioneer in interactive mobile applications, and Masterfoods, leading consumer goods company. Mark is regularly invited to speak at digital events and universities about mobile and its future. Mark holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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About Adello Inc, AirSage, GeoCTRL, P-MV digital momentum, Venture Kick: Adello uses programmatic media-buying platform at Big Data scale that uses the power of machine learning to deliver marketing ROI.
Edward Kim
Co-Founder and CEO of SimpleReach
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About SimpleReach: SimpleReach is a content data cloud for brands to measure and improve content ROI.
Rajit Marwah
Co-Founder & CEO of Loop Survey
Rajit is Co-Founder & CEO of Loop. Prior to this he was VP Product at Myspace and held various product roles at Microsoft in Hotmail, Messenger, CRM. Rajit graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Management Science & Engineering and Economics.
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About Loop Survey: Loop Survey is Real Time Mobile Feedback Surveys For Teams & Organizations.
Paul Dawes
CEO of Mode
Prior to Liberate, Paul was VP, Sales & Marketing for VerdiSoft, a mobile software provider that has become the foundation of Yahoo’s Connected Life division (2005 acquisition). Earlier, Paul held product and business development roles at Gain Technologies, Tom Siebel’s multimedia software company (1997 Sybase purchase). Paul started his career in software engineering, product marketing and sales at Integrated Systems, Inc., an embedded systems company (1990 IPO). Paul holds a BSME degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSME from Stanford University.
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About Mode: Mode operates a software-defined core network (SD-CORE), built around a real-time network control breakthrough.
Terry Thoren
Founder & CEO of Wonder Media
Terry Thoren is an animation producer with 40 years of experience in traditional media and digital applications for new media in education. He was the former CEO of Klasky Csupo ( “the Rugrats Company” ) and is now the CEO of Wonder Media USA. He partnered with the Institute for Habits of Mind to produce the 16 Habits as a powerful set of instructional animations for students For ten years, Thoren has been producing education content for any child at risk of falling behind before third grade. His mission is to provide educators and parents with animation solutions that engage children emotionally and educate them across all media. When educators experience the power of his animation to motivate young learners they consistently ask for instructional animations for students in grades 4-12. Responding to these requests, Terry developed a remarkable program called “Wonder Media Story Maker” in which students in grades 4-12 use all of his animation assets to create their own animated stories Wonder Media currently has working relationships with the Institute for Habits of Mind, Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, the Betty Ford Children’s Center, the Hero in You Foundation, Girl Scouts USA, the NALC Food Drive, the Festival of Children and the Wyland Foundation. Join Terry as he shares how he will bring Hollywood’s most advanced story telling techniques to students in schools nationwide.
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About Wonder Media: Wonder Media is a creative technology and production company that changes the way animation is created, produced, experienced and used.
Matt Keiser
Founder & CEO of LiveIntent
Matt Keiser is the Founder and CEO of LiveIntent. He formed LiveIntent with the vision of solving problems that have been plaguing the email industry for years. Prior to LiveIntent, Matt co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media (now PulsePoint), where he architected the underlying technology for their suite of performance-marketing and audience measurement solutions. Matt is a founding partner and co-chair of the investment committee of Grape Arbor VC, one of NY’s most active teams of angel investors. He is also the co-founder of Perky Jerky and is on the advisory council for the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia.
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About LiveIntent, Perky Jerky, Traffix: Liveintent is a people-based marketing technology platform that generates a customer graph while driving sales and revenue.
Gabriele Sorrento
CEO & Co-Founder of Mindesk
Gabriele Sorrento is the CEO of Mindesk, a web platform that allows users to prototype 3D contents in virtual reality. With over 8 years of experience in 3D modeling, Gabriele envisions VR being the next big thing in 3D Design. He constantly seeks for virtual reality solutions to real world problems. Gabriele has a master’s degree in entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University – Leavey School of Business.
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About Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Mindesk, The VR/AR Association, Vection Technologies: Mindesk is a Real-Time 3D design platform that integrates with existing commercial CAD software to extend their operations.
Harris Morris
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Wazee Digital
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About Wazee Digital: Wazee Digital is a technology company enabling rights holders to manage their content in new ways.
Giadha Aguirre De Carcer
Founder & CEO of New Frontier Data
DeCarcer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Financials Group Inc., a cutting edge firm providing authoritative and actionable intelligence in the Cannabis industry. She is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in business execution, management and strategic business development with an emphasis on emerging markets. DeCarcer is also the Founder of GNI International, a strategic business consulting firm focused on high-growth market opportunities, the co-founder of VentureCamp, a fully immersive accelerator and Docu-Series, and most recently the Creator of Love & Business, 90 Days to Launch, a Docu-series unveiling the unique life and career challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. Before founding GNI International, DeCarcer worked as senior a consultant in the Defense, Technology, and Telecommunications sectors. Prior to GNI International, she worked in investment banking for JPMorganChase in Manhattan and London, and ran Florida-based First Federal Transportation as its Co-Founder and COO. DeCarcer is an avid supporter of entrepreneurship as a conduit to new job creation and innovation. She runs the Women Entrepreneurship Reinforcement (WeR) program in support of women entrepreneurs nationwide, and was the Executive Director of the Grassroots Innovation Network, a non-profit organization focused on validating and funding college students’ business ideas globally. She received an A.A. from Miami Dade Community College, a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Georgetown University. Decarcer was born in Italy, raised in France and Spain, and has traveled to, and worked in, over 25 countries. She speaks five languages fluently and now resides in Washington D.C.
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About New Frontier Data, New Frontier Data: New Frontier Data is an independent, technology-driven analytics company specializing in the cannabis industry.
Stephane Dubois
Founder & CEO of Xignite
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About Xignite: Xignite provides cloud-based financial market data distribution solutions to fintech companies and financial services providers.
Eric Rawn
Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC
Eric is the Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC. Prior to Fetch, Eric has been successful as Founder and CEO for many established companies in various fields of the technology industry, including BCT Consulting, Inc., Xobee Communications, Green Planet, Bulldog Internet. He has also been instrumental in the start-up of other organizations such as Electronic Recyclers & Addicted.com A graduate of California State University, Fresno, Craig School of Business, Eric travels extensively between Northern and Southern California for both business and pleasure.
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About BCT Consulting, Inc., Bulldog Internet, Fetch Mobile, LLC, Xobee Networks: Fetch is a mobile app modernizing the valet industry through easy payment exchange and one-click parking/fetching via smartphone.
Ryan Berryman
CEO & Founder of Oakmore Labs
Ryan Berryman is the founder and CEO of [Oakmore Labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oakmore-labs), a provider of cloud-based data management and analytics solutions. Formerly, he held several positions, including the vice president for products and general manager for advertise solutions at Oversee.net. Prior to Oversee.net, Berryman was the director of product management, internet banking, and bill payments at Digital Insight. He holds two bachelor’s degrees in economics and mathematics from Occidental College and an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT.
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About Oakmore Labs: Oakmore Labs delivers SaaS platform which delivers turn-key solutions for big data management and real-time predictive analytics.
Jinal Jhaveri
Co-Founder & CEO of Referenceable
Founder and Chairman of SchoolMint Found and CEO of Enable.us
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About LogN, Referenceable, Runa Capital, SchoolMint: Modern Enablement Platform For B2B Buyers and Sellers
Aaron Gibson
CEO of Hurree
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About Hurree: Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform.
Bill Lenahan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman of Board of OffSite VISION
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About OffSite VISION: OffSite Vision is a developer of fixed and mobile surveillance and motion alarming solutions for property owners.
Meyar Sheik
CEO & Co-Founder of Certona
Meyar Sheik is a seasoned software industry executive with 25 years of experience. Since 2000, Meyar has been a web analytics pioneer working with some of the largest sites on the Internet such as Staples, ESPN, Fox, Sony, Best Buy, Disney, CBS and many other leading brands, in the areas of web analytics, personalization and real-time content optimization. Prior to co-founding Certona, Meyar was the CMO and COO of web analytics leader, WebSideStory (now part of Omniture/Adobe). Before joining WebSideStory, Meyar was the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances for the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software vendor SuperNova, Inc., Earlier in his career, Meyar held senior sales management positions in Analytics and Security software products companies. Since co-founding Certona in 2004, Meyar and the Certona team of predictive analytics experts have been focused on applying Certona’s innovative, real-time behavioral targeting, optimization and adaptive personalization technologies to generate more revenue and higher conversion rates for online retailers and other multi-channel businesses. Meyar has a BS in Electrical Engineering from New York Institute of Technology and an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology
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About Certona: Certona is an AI-powered omnichannel personalization platform for brands and retailers.
Cameron Hight
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Theory
Cameron worked as an equity research analyst for 10 years, covering primarily technology companies and supporting over $20B in transactions for firms such as Lehman Brothers, CIBC (NYSE: CM) and Credit Suisse First Boston (NYSE: CS) before joining Afton Capital Management, a $200M long-short equity hedge fund, in 2002. He currently sits on the boards of several funds and financial technology start-ups as well as the UNC-Chapel Hill Business School Investment Fund. Cameron earned his Business degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and became one of the youngest ever to receive the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1999. It was on the buy-side that Cameron became aware of the avoidable mistakes investment managers were making causing lost performance and he vowed to solve the problem. When he told his grandmother why he was starting Alpha Theory, she looked at him and asked, “You mean they’re not doing this already?” and he knew at that moment he had a responsibility to help bring about a change in the industry. Today, Cameron spends his time deepening his knowledge on important topics in behavioral finance, decision sciences, portfolio management and acting as a thought leader to investment managers on investment process “best practices” through direct communication at conferences and seminars, on TV and Radio, and through the written word. Cameron is an avid golfer, Citi-biker, runner, a technology early-adopter, magician (he taught his three year old and one year old daughters to love sushi) and a die-hard Tarheel fan.
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About Alpha Theory: Alpha Theory mission To transform the investment process by instilling discipline in every decision
Ryan Van Wert
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vynca
Ryan is a prolific healthcare innovator and dynamic speaker with a passion for improving patient care through technology. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and the Assistant Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. His academic focus is in technology assessment and in teaching biomedical innovation. He is a cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of Vynca, Inc., a Silicon Valley healthcare technology company whose mission is to improve care delivery at the end of life, and co-founder at AWAIR, Inc., a medical device company developing technology to reduce complications in the intensive care unit, which was licensed to Cook Medical Technologies in 2015. He serves as an advisor to young technology companies, including through the Biomedical Zone, a hospital-based incubator in Toronto, Canada.
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About Vynca: Vynca ensures that personalized end-of-life care is available to every individual, every time.
Siddharth Kothari
Founder and CEO of Appbase.io
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About Appbase.io: Appbase is an API for consuming JSON data streams with ElasticSearch.
Bob Miller
CEO & DisasterAWARE Enterprise Launch: Natural Hazards, Business Continuity, Risk Intelligence of Tenefit
Robert “Bob” Miller is the chief executive officer of [Kaazing](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kaazing), a technology company that offers a solution enabling enterprises to securely and reliably deliver real-time applications over the web. Previously, he founded CloudPrime. Miller held a series of senior roles at companies, including Cloak Labs, ONStor, Data General, IBM, Mud Mtn Ventures, and MIPS Technologies. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University and a master’s degree in thermodynamics from Stanford University.
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About Cloak Labs, CloudTimes, HarperStudio, Tenefit: Tenefit provides a simple, secure, and real-time solution for enterprise-grade digital transformation.
Sanj Sanampudi
CEO and Co-founder of Concert Finance
Sanj Sanampudi is the CEO and founder at Concert Finance.
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About Concert Finance, Varicent Software: Concert helps your company commission smarter, through better administration, reporting, and plan design.
Henry Schuck
CEO and Co-Founder of DiscoverOrg
Henry Schuck is a leading entrepreneur in sales intelligence and lead generation. Having founded DiscoverOrg in 2007 when he was 23, he has led the company on a rapid growth path including funding investments from the likes of TA Associates, Goldman Sachs BDC, FiveW Capital and NXT Capital. Under Henry’s leadership, DiscoverOrg built the industry’s most accurate, highest-quality contact database, through a mix of technology and a team of live researchers who continually call into thousands of IT, marketing, HR, and finance departments. DiscoverOrg was recognized for the quality of its datasets with both a Stevie® and a CODIE award. It was also named a Leader and ranked Number One in customer service by G2 Crowd. Before founding DiscoverOrg, Henry managed marketing and research at iProfile leading the company to a successful private equity sale. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was selected in 2013 as the Honors College Alumni of the Year. He also holds a juris doctorate degree cum laude from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and has studied comparative law at Oxford University. He is a licensed attorney in Washington and Nevada.
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About DiscoverOrg, RainKing, ZoomInfo: DiscoverOrg is a sales and marketing intelligence platform providing access to the most accurate data, org charts, and real time projects.
Nir Livneh
CEO & Founder of Equalum
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About Equalum: Equalum’s unified, continuous data integration platform is the only solution to natively support all data integration use cases with no-code
Kevin McRaith
Chief Executive Officer of Welldoc
Kevin McRaith is the President and CEO at Welldoc.
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About Welldoc, Welldoc: Welldoc is a health care technology company that develops solutions to transform the management of chronic disease.
Isaac Barlow
Chief Executive Officer of busybusy
Isaac is originally from Northern Utah. He has over 18 years experience in Construction Management. Isaac has spent 6 years in the technology industry developing busybusy. His passion for systems and processes fueled his entrepreneurial drive. He saw the need to help with the primary responsibilities business owners face through technology and systemization. He is actively engaged in educating the industry, and has been a featured speaker at many events on the value of adopting culture and technology in the construction industry.
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About busybusy: Busybusy is a web and mobile app that helps automate time and labor tracking, job costing, and project documenting.
Jonas Hellgren
CEO of APERIO AI
Jonas Hellgren is President & CEO at Vaultive. Vaultive tackles the pivotal issue of cloud data protection that stands in the way of broader cloud adoption: the requirement for businesses to maintain ownership and control of their data while it is processed by and stored at cloud providers. With Vaultive, businesses can move to the cloud and still ensure that their data: – Complies with many regulations such as HIPAA-HITECH, GLBA, PCI, and others – Cannot be disclosed to the government without their authorization – Conforms to the broad range of data residency laws around the world – Cannot be accessed by unauthorized individuals Vaultive addresses these critical requirements through its groundbreaking encryption-in-use technology which enables businesses to encrypt their data before it goes to the cloud — so it can then be processed while still encrypted at the cloud provider. This capability enables organizations to independently control access to data processed by third-party services.
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About APERIO AI, Jumptap, Vaultive: APERIO AI uses the power of machine learning to solve a wide range of operational data quality issues for industrial companies.
Bob Hampe
Founder & President/CEO of Actall Corporation
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About Actall Corporation, Rakana Technologies, USA Hockey: Actall provides Real-Time Location (RTLS), sensing services, and specializes in complex and difficult RF environments.
Jay Swansson
Co-Founder/ Co-CEO of ClearVoice
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About ClearVoice: ClearVoice is a talent network and content marketing platform designed to help brands and agencies create great content again and again.
Joseph Griffin
CEO & Co-Founder of ClearVoice
Joe Griffin is the CEO of ClearVoice, a content marketing technology company for high-quality blogs and content destinations that he co-founded in 2013. He has served in executive roles at Web.com and iCrossing, and has founded multiple companies. Joe is prolific writer and is published in Content Marketing Institute, Entrepreneur, HubSpot, MarketingProfs, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch, CMO.com, Social Media Examiner, Search Engine Journal, SEMRush, and Chief Marketer. In addition, Joe has a long career in speaking – including Bolo, Digiday Agency Summit, Digiday Content Marketing Summit, AZIMA (Arizona Interactive Marketing Association), MIMA Summit, SEMpdx, and VentureMadness.
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About ClearVoice, Dean Garland Corporation: ClearVoice is a talent network and content marketing platform designed to help brands and agencies create great content again and again.
Keith Fix
Co-Founder, CEO of Retail Aware
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About Retail Aware: In-store Shopper Behavior Data
Vid Jain
CEO/Founder of Wallaroo
Founder and CEO at Wallaroo.
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About Wallaroo: Wallaroo provides an enterprise AI platform that enables clients to deploy ML and analytics projects into production.
Debjani Deb
Co-Founder and CEO of ZineOne
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About ZineOne: ZineOne uses AI to deliver intelligent customer experiences in key moments to delight customers, foster loyalty, and increase revenue.
Bane Hunter
CEO & Board Member, Global of GetSwift
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About GetSwift: GetSwift is a smart delivery platform.
Bahadir Kuru
Co Founder & CEO of Veloxity
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About Veloxity: Veloxity is a California-based privately held wireless telecom company.
Adam Uselmann
CEO & Co-founder of OnLume
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About OnLume: OnLume provides intuitive and ergonomic solutions for the integration of precise fluorescence image-guided surgery.
Paris Subrizi
Founder, CEO & Chief Programming Officer of Collectiveview
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About Collectiveview: Collectiveview offer businesses, organizations, and companies the opportunity to make their everyday tasks so much easier.
Nathaniel Christian
Founder & CEO of picshare
Nathaniel Christian is the founder and CEO of Picshare Inc. Picshare is a location-based photo app that allows you to instantly and effortlessly share photos with friends and others nearby, simply with the push of a button! Take a photo with picshare, and the app automatically shares it with other nearby users – no texting, emailing, or networking required. Picshare’s proprietary technology takes away all the work required of sharing. Simply open the app and take a photo, as you would your camera, and you’re done! Photos taken within 500 meters are gathered in your personal picshare stream, instantly generating an album of your day’s events. Want to download a few for safe keeping ? go for it ! Want to upload to Facebook or Twitter? Picshare allows you to do that as well. All you have to do is point and click, and picshare does the rest of the work for you. Of course, how much you share is up to you. Picshare allows you to select who exactly can see your photos, be it your Facebook friends or everyone nearby. So if you’re at a private party, you can keep it private and share only with your closest friends; if you’re at a football game, feel free to share it with everyone in the stadium. No matter how big or small, you’re able to create a record of your memories with no effort at all and control who you share with. * Automatically share photos with friends and other users within 500 meters * Download any photos shared to store memories of your favorite events. * View your stream to see all photos taken nearby – an album created without any work from you. * Adjust your privacy settings to decide who exactly can see your photos. * See how many people have downloaded your photos. * Connect with Facebook, Twitter, and email to share your photos with the world. Picshare is the first-of-its-kind, designed to allow you to share experiences without the effort required by texts, emails, and social networks.
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About Nathaniel Christian Group, picshare: Picshare is a location-based photo app that allows one to share photos with friends.
Abe Kleinfeld
President & CEO of GridGain
Abe Kleinfeld serves as GridGain’s president & CEO and has transformed the company into the leading in-memory computing platform provider. Since joining in 2013, Abe has led the company through five years of triple-digit average annual growth, $29M in Series B venture financing and numerous awards including being named to the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest growing private companies for the past two years. GridGain is also known for founding and producing the annual In-Memory Computing Summit, the world’s first and only in-memory computing conference. Prior to joining GridGain, Abe was president & CEO of network security leader nCircle, a company he led from early stage with a handful of customers through ten consecutive years of revenue growth, five consecutive years of profitability, two acquisitions and over 6,500 enterprise customers worldwide. In April, 2013, nCircle was acquired by Tripwire. Before nCircle, Abe was president & CEO of Eloquent, a leading provider of rich media communications solutions. While at Eloquent he attracted an experienced management team, implemented a high-growth strategy and guided the company through its successful $83 million IPO in February 2000. Prior to Eloquent, Abe co-founded document management leader Odesta Systems Corporation. He played a key role in building the company from startup in 1991 through its merger with Open Text Corporation in 1995 and subsequent IPO in 1996 (NASDAQ:OTEX), where he led the company’s sales and later marketing through 1998. Abe’s career spans four decades, dating back to his start as a software engineer at Raytheon Data Systems, and marketing and sales management roles at Oracle Corporation and Wang Laboratories. Abe holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from State University of NY at Oswego, and is an avid photographer and science fiction fan.
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About GridGain: The Leading In-Memory Computing Platform Provider
Sanjay Nadimpalli
Founder & CEO of Tuebora
Sanjay founded Tuebora with a firm belief that Identity and Access Governance implementation and use be made much simpler to benefit all types of Organizations. Sanjay’s passionate desire for innovation has earlier led him to take jobs at start-ups and technology leaders, the most recent one being Aveksa(aquired by EMC/RSA). As a founding engineering team member there, he quickly became Director of Engineering responsible for key Engineering activities and many successful releases over 5+ years. Prior to that, Sanjay played senior technical roles at Intel Corp, Webridge and Sequent Computer Systems (acquired by IBM). Sanjay has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Mysore and MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Institute of Technology.
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About Tuebora: Real Time Identity and Access Management
Rohit Nistala
Co-Founder and CEO of Cleo
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About Cleo: Cleo provides a real-time solution to help businesses get access to better data and intelligence.