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 Web Development 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.
Nitesh Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of B12
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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About B12, Getaround, Rough Draft Ventures, Stellar Capital: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Emmanuel Straschnov
Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder and co-CEO at Bubble. Prior to that, Emmanuel served as a special assistant to the CEO at Prada.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
Josh Haas
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Bubble
Josh started Bubble in 2012 after seeing the importance of empowering people through technology while working as the co-founder and CTO of his prior startup, KeywordSmart. At Bubble, Josh oversees technology and infrastructure. Before that, he was a manager at Bridgewater and a philosophy major at Harvard.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
Hamza Zia
Founder & CEO of GitStart
Founder and CEO at GitStart (YC S19) Y Combinator-backed startup that helps engineering-focused companies be more agile, scale feature deployment faster, and reduce management complexity. Passionate about technology and programming from a very young age, I have built technology-based businesses globally and scaled high-performance teams across San Francisco, Zurich, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Worked closely on the core Microsoft Azure team at Shanghai, helping improve their cloud platform, and was recognized as an outstanding individual contributor.
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About GitStart: The modern way to scale your tech team
Andrew Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts
As CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson has aligned the company around three core strategic pillars: putting players first, driving a digital transformation and operating as one team. During Andrew’s tenure as CEO, EA has launched groundbreaking new games and services, reached record player engagement levels across its global franchises, and transformed into one of the world’s leading digital entertainment companies. Andrew has held several positions during his over 15 years at EA, providing leadership on product and brand development for both packaged goods and digital services. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2013, Andrew served as executive vice president of EA SPORTS and Origin where he oversaw all aspects of the EA SPORTS business and development, as well as EA’s digital PC service. Andrew has also led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the direct-to-consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA studio in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he previously served as vice president and executive producer of all EA SPORTS FIFA games, growing the property into one of the largest videogame franchises of all time.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Roy Dunbar
CEO of Network Solutions
Mr. W. Roy Dunbar, age 53, has been a Director of the Company since April 2011. Mr. Dunbar is the Chairman of private companies engaged in renewable energy and green construction. Prior to such time, Mr. Dunbar served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Network Solutions, Inc. from 2008 to 2009; as President of Global Technology and Operations of Mastercard International, Inc. from 2004 to 2008; and in various senior leadership roles at Eli Lilly & Company from 1990 to 2004, including President, Intercontinental Region, and Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Dunbar also serves as a director of Humana, Inc. and iGate Corporation.
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About Network Solutions: Network Solutions provides domain registration, e-commerce, SEO, online promotion, hosting and email services for small businesses.
Rod Johnson
Founder and CEO of Atomist
Rod Johnson is co-founder and CEO of Atomist, which is transforming software delivery. He is a developer (mainly in Java, Scala and increasingly TypeScript), author and investor. Rod is the creator of Java’s Spring Framework and was co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware in 2009, Rod served as SVP, Application Platform at VMware. Rod is the author of several popular and influential books on Java and Java EE, including Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development and J2EE without EJB (with Juergen Hoeller). He sits on the board of three prominent open source companies besides Atomist: Neo Technology, Meteor, and Hazelcast.
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About Andreessen Horowitz, Atomist, Elastic: Atomist make microservice applications Easy and fun to build, through a cloud-based service.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Darrell Silver
CEO & Co-Founder of Thinkful
Founder of Thinkful (acq by Chegg), Perpetually (acq by Dell).
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
David Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO of Glide
David Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Glide. He previously worked at Microsoft. He also held positions at Xamarin, Futureproof, and X1 Technologies. David holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and computer science engineering.
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About Glide: Build powerful apps from spreadsheets without code, in minutes.
Srinivas Balasubramanian
CEO of Photon
Srinivas Balasubramanian is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Photon, the leading Cloud to Consumer UX™ Company. Srinivas Balasubramanian has a track record of building category dominating, highly profitable companies with significant market value. Since 2007 when he took over as full time CEO at Photon, the company has worked with hundreds of customers including a significant percentage of the Fortune 100 and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Prior to taking over as CEO of Photon Infotech, Srinivas Balasubramanian was a Senior Vice President at webMethods, a Nasdaq listed middleware technology company reporting to the CEO. Prior to that, Srinivas Balasubramanian was Founder, President and CEO of Infravio Inc, a Cupertino, CA based company which was a leading provider of Web Services and SOA infrastructure software that coined the term and created the category “SOA Governance”. Infravio was acquired by webMethods for $38mn in cash in 2006. Srinivas Balasubramanian served in various capacities at Infravio – initially as founding CEO responsible for raising the initial institutional Venture capital round in 2000. Thereafter, he served as Chief Strategist of the company between 2001 and January 2005 where he was responsible for closing a strategic financing round from NetIQ Corp and for closing a large number of the early customers. In January 2005, Srinivas Balasubramanian took over as CEO of Infravio. As CEO, he replaced the executive management team and drove the company to a thought and customer leadership position in the emerging Web Services and SOA market until its ultimate sale to webMethods in September 2006, which he architected. Srinivas was earlier an equity and derivatives trader at JP Morgan and Credit Lyonnais Securities at Mumbai, India. At Credit Lyonnais, he headed the largest institutional trading in the country that won almost every award on offer at the time he ran it. Srinivas has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and is a graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Brady Brim-DeForest
CEO of TheoremOne
Brady Brim-DeForest is the Chief Executive Officer of Theorem.
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About Codex, Halmos Ventures, International Academy of Web Television, International Academy of Web Television, TheoremOne, TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Peter Pezaris
Founder & CEO of CodeStream
Founder & CEO at CodeStream.
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
Dwayne Lafleur
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ezoic
Dwayne Lafleur is an entrepreneur, hands-on technologist, founder and CEO of venture-backed start up Ezoic Inc. Previously, Dwayne founded Cubics, the first display ad network for Facebook app developers. The ad network was unique, because it used anonymous demographic data to target advertising to Facebook app users (and launched in 2007, prior to Facebook’s own ad targeting system). After selling Cubics to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, the social display division grew to serve more than 500 million ads per day. Dwayne continued to innovate within the company including spearheading the use of cloud computing architecture to handle the huge volume of ads being served within Facebook apps; becoming Amazon’s biggest AWS customer at the time. As founder and CEO of Ezoic, Dwayne has once again founded a business that is technically interesting, a first of its kind and can scale to a large online market. He is originally from Alberta, Canada and now lives with his family in San Diego, CA.
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About Ezoic: Ezoic is a website optimization platform for digital publishers and website owners powered by true machine learning.
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
Finbarr Taylor
Cofounder, CEO of Shogun
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About Shogun: Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores.
Osman Rashid
CEO & Chairman of Convo
Osman is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of educational technology. He is currently the CEO of Convo Corp. and Founder & CEO of **Galxyz** , an intergalactic science adventure on a mission to ignite the fascination of science and unlock the true potential in every student. Previously he was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rental leader **Chegg** (NYSE:CHGG) until early 2010, and also co-founder and CEO of **Kno, Inc.** (acquired by Intel in 2013), a digital education platform company. He is also on the Board of Trustees at a health focused non-profit, ChildLife Foundation, which provides urgent care to the poorest in Karachi, Pakistan. CLF runs Karachi’s largest children emergency rooms and is deploying satellite urgent care centers to provide critical care and prevention education. Osman has received several honors, including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year Award (CA) in 2009, which is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, as well as Forbes Impact 15 for 2012 and Inc.’s Immigrant Edge: 9 Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs. To find out more about Osman, check out his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter @osmanrashid.
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About Convo, Galxyz: Convo provides an enterprise social collaboration platform that enables easy, secure conversations between desk/non-desk workers.
Konstantin Stoyanov
Founder & CEO of 411 Marketing
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About 411 Marketing: 411 Marketing is a fully-certified Google Partner, and we are actively following all the strict standards of the SEO to improve rankings.
Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder & CEO of JFrog
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Aleksandar Cabrilo
CEO of HTEC Group
Aleksandar is an entrepreneur by passion. He is the founder and CEO of HTEC Group, a consulting and technology R&D services company, founded in Serbia and grown internationally, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Serbia, Scandinavia, and the UK, servicing its clients and partners globally in various verticals. Aleksandar has a special interest in business digitalization, corporate innovation, and venture acceleration and in HTEC he makes sure that technology excellence of its engineering teams meets relevant industry domain expertise to create the disrupting digital products that support innovative business models. Aleksandar is also a partner, advisor or investor with several technology startups.
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About HTEC Group: HTEC Group is a consulting, product development and digital platform engineering company.
Katherine Lents
CEO and Founder of ShowUp Media
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About ShowUp Media: ShowUp is an interactive, online video platform for independent web series
Katherine Lents
CEO and Founder of ShowUp Media
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About ShowUp Media: ShowUp is an interactive, online video platform for independent web series
Robert Brisco
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Internet Brands
Bob Brisco is the President & CEO at Internet Brands.
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About CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
Jeremy Paradise
CEO and Co-Founder of Auction Mobility
Jeremy Paradise is seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of building enterprise and consumer software companies. In 2011, he co-founded Quickable, a mobile marketplace designed to be easy to use and fair to both buyers and sellers on sites such as eBay and Craigslist. In 2013, he launched Auction Mobility, the mobile marketplace of choice for the world’s leading auction houses. Jeremy currently works as the CEO of Auction Mobility. Prior to Quickable and Auction Mobility, Jeremy spent 13 years providing consulting services and Siebel implementation analytics software. After leaving Siebel itself following a three-year tenure, he founded Paradise Analytics Inc. Paradise Analytics established multiple channel partnerships with enterprise software companies such as Siebel, Microsoft, and Oracle. It sold software and services to Fortune 1000 companies such as Genzyme, Solidworks, Serono, Pfizer Adams, Fleet Bank, and Viacell. Paradise Analytics was acquired in 2004.
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About Auction Mobility, QUICK Technologies: Auction Mobility is a customized auction software platform that provides auction services to promote tablet, mobile, and the web.
Taylor Otwell
Chief Executive Officer of Laravel
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About Laravel: Laravel reignited my passion for code, reinforced my understanding of MVC, and made development fun again!
Gonzalo Gil
CEO of 3dcart
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About 3dcart, Shift4Shop: 3DCart provides an easy-to-use e-commerce solution suite to design any type of online business portals.
Ryan Carson
Founder & CEO of Treehouse
Ryan Carson is the Founder and CEO of Treehouse.
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About Treehouse: Treehouse is an online technology school that guides students from zero to job-ready for the tech industry in 6-12 months.
Tobias Dengel
CEO of WillowTree
Tobias Dengel is the CEO of WillowTree® Apps, Inc., a leading mobile applications and web development company based Charlottesville, VA. Previously, Tobias co-founded Leads.com. As President of the company, he managed its rapid expansion as an early pioneer in packaging online search products, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL, together for sale to small businesses. After growing to over 60 employees in 2 years, Leads.com was sold to Web.com, where Tobias continued to work in an executive role until 2009. Prior to starting Leads.com, he was SVP & General Manager of AOL Local & Yellow Pages. He previously held a variety of roles in the AOL Business Affairs department, including VP, International. Tobias began his career as an Analyst at the management consulting firm AT Kearney. He holds a BSE in Finance (Wharton) and a BSE in Systems Engineering, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About WillowTree: WillowTree is a mobile innovation agency creating beautiful digital products designed to drive growth for brands.
Jordan Rothstein
Founder, CEO of King Tide Creative
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About Furious M, King Tide Creative, Raziel, TravelZeeky: King Tide is a full-service creative agency specifically and intricately designed to surpass the reach of the modern branding machine.
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.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Alex Krailo
CEO of Datamart
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About Datamart: Datamart is a global full-service software development company that offers technical consulting and software engineering services.
Zach Suchin
Founding Partner & CEO of Brand Knew
Zach is an entrepreneur and investor based out of Los Angeles & New York. Born and raised in Los Angeles to a family deeply immersed in the entertainment industry, he absorbed pop-culture and took great interest in the media and technology sectors. Throughout high school, he worked for executive management at Sony, 20th Century Fox, ICM and The Firm. He earned bachelor degrees in both Political Science and Film at Emory University, while marketing high-profile weekly events for college students, featuring recording artists such as Akon, Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Outkast and Jeezy. In 2006, Zach moved back to Los Angeles with an increased knowledge of digital marketing and developed College Tonight with Jason Schutzbank, which in its first 12 months of operation, won the Mashable award for Best Event-Based Social Network and was published in Generation MySpace as one of the top 15 social networking sites on the Internet. What started as a conduit between local businesses and college students, became a more robust collegiate platform. The Quad consisted of a retail outfit, collaborative tools and Greek community features. Suchin led the company through a substantial venture round, eventually taking the small-cap company public in late 2007. This made Suchin the youngest CEO of a publicly-traded company in the United States. With Zach at the helm, the company grew past a market capitalization of over $100 million. He and Jason sold their share of the company in early 2009. The duo then co-founded Brand Knew to help both start-ups and veteran brands better navigate the digital landscape. Suchin is credited with having invented the developmental venture equity model now popularized by boutique digital agencies, guest lectures in new media at UCLA and Boston University, and has been a technology contributor on BloombergTV. Zach sits on the board of directors for several portfolio companies and the steering committees for various non-profit organizations, serving as the Digital Chair for YaLa Academy. He remains intimately involved in the creative direction of Brand Knew’s clients and chairs both the Brand Knew Opportunities conferences and the Causathon event series.
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About Brand Knew: Creative Collective & Strategic Advisory
Kris Kibak
Founder & CEO of The Control Group
Entrepreneur & Investor focused on startups, equities and real estate.
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About The Control Group: The Control Group is an online development and web marketing company based in San Diego, California.
Rehan Fernando
CEO of EIGHT25MEDIA
Rehan Fernando is the chief executive officer of EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Mike Capone
CEO of Qlik
Capone leads Qlik’s mission to be a leader in the Analytics Economy as CEO. Mike has first-hand experience in leveraging the power of data through analytics to transform businesses and entire industries. In addition to his extensive experience in high-growth SaaS companies, Mike was recently the COO of Medidata Solutions, a publicly-traded provider of SaaS analytics solutions to the Healthcare, Life Sciences and Pharma markets. There he played a significant role in the company’s product development, data science, professional services and go-to-market operations, accelerating its strategy to provide a comprehensive cloud platform that leverages data and analytics to transform clinical trials. Prior to Medidata, Mike held senior leadership positions at ADP including Corporate Vice President of Product Development, CIO, and SVP & General Manager of ADP’s global outsourcing business. He was also head of product development and technology operations for ADP, one of the world’s largest B2B cloud services providers, delivering critical services to over 600,000 companies and 39 million of their staff members worldwide. Capone holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Dickinson College and a master of business administration degree in finance from Pace University.
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About GlobalView Software, Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Ram Garg
Founder and CEO of Software Assurance, LLC
Ram Garg, a serial entrepreneur is Founder and CEO at Software Assurance, LLC; a Dallas-based IT company offering Web, Mobile App Development and Testing Services. He has 25+ years of extensive experience in global IT and Software Industry with strong business acumen and technical agility. He has held wide range of leadership roles and executed mission critical projects while managing diverse global teams. Ram has worked with fortune 500 companies and, provided consulting services to companies such as IBM, Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu. He has extensive experience in working for diverse domains such as mobility and telecom, cloud/SaaS, finance, e-Commerce, gaming & entertainment, human resource, hospitality, real estate, education, etc. Ram is founding member of SID Information Framework (initiated by TM Forum Standards) which is used world-wide by most of the telecom solutions providers. He has served on Board of PMI Service & Outsourcing SIG and various other companies. Recently, he has joined YooLotto Board of Directors. As an Angel Investor, Ram has been actively involved in fueling entrepreneurial growth in Dallas Fort Worth Area. Over the last few years; he has invested in various fast growing Technology Startups and, additionally, is helping them with his technology expertise. Ram is a published author, and as an international speaker he has talked on topics focusing on how to deliver outsourced projects successfully.
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About appbiz360, Software Assurance, LLC, Tech Wildcatters, YooLotto: Web, Mobile App Development and Testing Solutions company
Ross Blankenship
Managing Partner and CEO of Angel Kings
Ross Blankenship (https://angel.co/ross-blankenship) is a media expert on startups, entrepreneurship, and angel investing; Ross Blankenship is a 3x entrepreneur, 7x bestselling author, angel investor and expert on the next billion-dollar startups (https://www.udemy.com/user/ross-blankenship/) and how to invest money with angel investments and venture capital (http://rossblankenship.com). Ross Blankenship has written extensively on the topics of venture capital and angel investing, and is also an early-stage angel investor in America’s hottest, must-watched startups: both software and hardware companies. Ross Blankenship advises the media on important topics from startups to entrepreneurship. Ross Blankenship has invested in early technologies ranging from multi-factor authentication (MFA) to digital assets such as Ethereum and Bitcoin: According to a recent interview with Ross Blankenship, “Investing is about discovering the next-big thing. It’s about spotting the trends, identifying problems, and understanding solutions. Having been on both sides of the equation: as an entrepreneur and investor, I can spot pain points for both consumers and enterprises. I can also spot big profit opportunities. For example, I was one of the first investors in a technology of a modified version of the blockchain called “Ethereum”… I studied Ethereum, smart contracts, and literally interviewed and met with everyone on this planet who would tell me about what they were building with Ethereum.” In another recent interview with Ross Blankenship in which he discussed focus and what it means to be an entrepreneur, “The first challenge is the focus. I have to make sure I am not doing ten things at once, but I am doing one if not two things all the time. The time motif returns, i.e., there’s never enough time to get everything done in a day, so prioritize those things that are most likely to be profitable – professionally and personally. If you only have a certain amount of time, you have to focus. I inspire entrepreneurs to find one or two products or services that they are passionate about but to limit their focus to just those.” Ross Blankenship continues to advise America’s top startups and be a member of technology development communities from the West Coast to the East Coast.
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About Angel Kings, Blankenship Ventures, Stonehawk Investment Group: Angel Kings is a software and mobile app development firm that builds America’s top startups.
Jay Correia
CEO of DreamCo Design
Jay Correia is the Founder & CEO of DreamCo Design, a professional web and app development company founded in 2006 based in Chicago. He is also author of the book ‘Daily Fantasy Sports’, a member of the Board of Directors for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, pilot, and consultant that serves on numerous start-up advisory boards.
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About DreamCo Design: DreamCo Design is a professional web and app development company that designs, develops, and markets custom websites and apps.
Manik Juneja
Founder & CEO of Vinsol
Manik Juneja is the Co-Founder & CTO at SnackMagic.
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About Senstream, SnackMagic, STADIUM, Vinsol: Leading Ruby & Mobile app development agency
John Amaral
Founder and CEO of Slim.AI
John Amaral is the Founder and CEO of Slim.AI He was the Head of Product Delivery, John is responsible for driving the product roadmap and engineering initiatives across the CloudLock CASB and cloud cybersecurity solution set. John has more than 20 years of experience as a technologist and product development leader in information security and networking. Prior to joining CloudLock, John served as the Senior VP of Product Management at Trustwave where he guided the technical direction and development of several core Trustwave security product lines. He joined the company through the acquisition of data loss prevention leader Vericept in 2009 where he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development. Before Vericept, he was Chief Technology Officer at NEI, now known as UNICOM Engineering. He was also Chief Technology officer at Artel Video Systems. He was founder and Chief Technology Officer of ITS Corporation, a developer of broadband networking equipment and technology, which was acquired by Artel Video Systems. John was selected as a top 40 under 40 business leader by American Venture Magazine in 2007. John holds an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Slim.AI: Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy, and run their cloud native apps.
Akash Takyar
CEO of LeewayHertz Technologies
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About LeewayHertz Technologies: LeewayHertz is a blockchain development company, providing scalable and robust blockchain solutions to enterprises and startups.
Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Vasily Voropaev
CEO of Smartbrain.io
Previously launched the first remote work project in Russia (FL.ru) which at the beginning of the 2000s turned into the first active community of freelancers in the country and the region.
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About Free-lance.ru, Rubrain.com, Smartbrain.io: Smartbrain.io is a platform connecting companies with the best IT specialists from Eastern Europe.
Harnil Oza
CEO & Founder of Hyperlink InfoSystem
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About Hyperlink InfoSystem: Hyperlink InfoSystem is a mobile app development company that providers information technology services.
Chris Boyd
Founder/CEO of Apptitude
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About Apptitude: App development made easy.
Steve Rendle
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of VF
Steve Rendle is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at VF Corporation. He has more than 35 years of experience in the specialty outdoor and action sports industry, more than half of which have been with VF. Steve was appointed CEO in January 2017 and then Chairman of VF’s Board of Directors in October 2017. Prior to being named CEO, he was President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing all of VF’s business coalitions worldwide: Outdoor and Action Sports, Jeanswear, Imagewear and Sportswear. He also was responsible for VF’s Global Supply Chain and Direct-to-Consumer platforms. Prior to becoming President and COO, Steve was Senior Vice President, Americas, and was responsible for driving strategies to support VF’s continued growth in its Americas-based businesses. Previously, Steve spent three years as Group President, Outdoor and Action Sports Americas, leading VF’s Outdoor and Action Sports businesses in North and South America. He also served as President of VF’s Outdoor Americas coalition, where he oversaw The North Face®, JanSport®, Eagle Creek® and lucy® brands, as well as business development for the coalition. Steve began his VF career with The North Face in 1999 and shortly afterward was promoted to Vice President of Sales, where he worked to reshape the business’ sales organization, product and marketing strategies, and go-to-market model. In 2004, Steve was appointed President of The North Face brand, a role he held for seven years. Under Steve’s leadership, the brand expanded globally and experienced considerable growth from $483 million in 2004 to $1.6 billion in 2011. Before joining The North Face, Steve held leading sales management roles at Youngone Corporation and at W.L. Gore and Associates. Steve serves on the Board of Directors of the Retail Industry Leaders Association. He is a founding board member of the Outdoor Industry Association’s Outdoor Foundation and has served in an advisory capacity to Bainbridge Graduate Institute where he provided insight into its creation of a Master of Business Administration program with a focused concentration on sustainability. In 2018, Steve was named CEO of the Year by Corporate Responsibility Magazinefor his progressive environmental, social and governance agenda. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Washington.
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About VF: VF offers a diverse portfolio of iconic outdoor and activity-based lifestyle and work-wear brands.
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.
Don Scales
CEO, Investis Digital of Investis Digital
Don Scales is the CEO of Investis Digital, a global digital communications company that helps world-class businesses manage their corporate brands. He is an interactive industry veteran, with more than 25 years as an executive manager. Before joining iCrossing, Scales was CEO at Agency.com, where he managed all aspects of the agency’s worldwide operations. He had also served as Global COO, North American President, and Western Regional President. In addition, Scales served as Managing Director of Igate Capital, an Internet-centric holding company that focuses exclusively on e-services. In its fifth anniversary issue, BtoB Magazine named Scales one of the top 25 newsmakers for 2000-2005. He was also named to BtoB Magazine’s list of Who’s Who in Search in 2009. Scales is a member of the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas and a member of the Internet Task Force for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. He has dual undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Physics, and a master of science in chemical engineering from Rice University; he also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Investis Digital: Investis Digital is a digital communication company that provides its clients with SaaS platform to manage their digital ecosystem.
Nataliya Anon
CEO , Founder & President of Svitla Systems Inc.
Nataliya Anon – a Stanford Business School graduate with Ukrainian heritage, entrepreneur, leader, and strategic implementer – is the Founder and CEO of Svitla Systems. Nataliya brings to Svitla extensive international business experience, keen cross-cultural knowledge and strong interpersonal skills. Her client-centric approach and relentless dedication to the highest standards have propelled Svitla’s success in the last decade. Prior to founding Svitla in 2003, Nataliya founded and served as CEO of Lohika Systems (acquired by Altran Solutions Corp.) Before that, she held management positions at Ernst & Young as well as received private equity and venture capital experience in the US and UK, where she made investments in various emerging technologies and manufacturing companies. Nataliya was a member of the Fourth Class of Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program administered by the Committee of 200. Nataliya was also the co-founder of Ukrainian Students Association at Stanford. She holds a Masters Degree in IT and Accounting from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Svitla Systems Inc.: Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Michael Zhao
CEO of Array Networks
Dr. Zhao brings to Array Networks more than 20 years worth of experience in executive roles at Internet infrastructure and systems integration companies. Most recently, Michael was founder and COO of Asia Info – a $500M systems integration company he led to a Nasdaq IPO. He is considered a major industry leader and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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About Array Networks, Zentry Security: Array Networks engages in application acceleration, secure access and cloud service delivery.
Artyom Keydunov
CEO of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev, Statsbot: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Barry Morris
CEO of Undo
With over 25 years’ experience working in enterprise software and database systems, Barry is a prodigious company builder, scaling start-ups and publicly held companies alike. He was CEO of distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) specialists IONA Technologies between 2000 and 2003 and built the company up to $180m in revenues and a $2bn valuation. A serial entrepreneur, Barry founded NuoDB in 2008 and most recently served as its Executive Chairman. Barry has now been appointed as CEO to lead Undo’s high-growth phase.
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About Undo: Undo allows some of the biggest software companies to improve the quality of their products and fix customer issues quickly.
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
Marcos Mena-Brena
Founder & CEO of Geekbears
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About Geekbears: Democratizing the design and development of business apps
Jason Field
CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked with over 350 corporations in the process of digital transformation, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.
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About BrainStation, BrainStation: BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age.
Dominic Holt
CEO of harpoon
My passion for technology has enabled me to be a trusted resource from start-ups all the way up to multi-billion dollar organizations due to my vision to design aggressive growth plans leveraging advanced technologies. I have a unique skill set as a Technology Executive because I am constantly learning and applying new technologies personally by writing code, which gives me an edge over other executives who don’t truly understand the technologies their teams use. I thrive in creating new revenue streams that have generated billions of dollars in income and helped emerging tech leaders secure vital VC funding. I am a fast-achieving executive that began my career as a Software Engineer and have grown to be an international business leader that is highly sought after to provide strategic counsel on product development, technology selection, software architecture, customer experience and other areas central to business success.
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About harpoon, Valerian Technology: harpoon is a No Code Kubernetes platform
Prashant Bhatia
CEO of Praadis Technologies Inc.
Prashant Bhatia is the Founder and Managing Director of Praadis Education.
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About Praadis Education – The Best Learning App, Praadis Technologies Inc.: Praadis Technologies Inc. is a one-stop IT company delivering best-in-class software solutions viz.
Itai Sadan
Co-Founder & CEO of Duda
Itai Sadan is the co-founder and CEO of DudaMobile. Prior to founding DudaMobile, Sadan was a director at SAP, where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and led relationships with IBM, HP and Fujitsu. He also worked for Amdocs and Finjan and founded InterSight, a start-up for data storage. He has more than a decade of experience in business development, partner management, program management and development and has a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from the Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Duda, Duda: Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.
Daniel Dargham
President & Chief Executive Officer of Lohika
Daniel Dargham brings twenty years of international experience in a diversified range of software engineering, marketing, sales and general management experience to Lohika, from both established and high-growth companies at the cutting edge of software development. Mr. Dargham comes to Lohika from KLA-Tencor, where he held full P&L responsibility for the Test and Analysis Software Division, including the management of the Custom Software Development and Client Services departments. While at KLA-Tencor, he achieved 250% revenue growth in three years, and developed the annual Strategic Plans for his division. He is also credited with turning around the Test Software product line, making it the most profitable in the company. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Mr. Dargham was at IBM, where he held several software engineering and engineering management roles in data analysis application development. Leading an IBM-Siemens (now Infineon) joint venture team, he was instrumental in introducing and ramping up IBM’s Advanced Memory Manufacturing Line in Paris.
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About Capgemini Engineering, Lohika: Lohika significantly improves your time to market by providing fully managed teams of senior engineers.
Brendan McCorkle
Partner & CEO of Jarvus Innovations
Brendan McCorkle is the Co-Founder, Advisor at TrekIT Health
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About CareAlign, Jarvus Innovations: Jarvus is a web software engineering firm passionate about building impactful systems and companies.
Greg Fenton
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RedShelf
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About RedShelf: RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials for the higher education community.
Haroon Elsarrag
Founder and CEO of Trust Sourcing
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About Cygility Inc., Mr. Tomato, Trust Sourcing: Trust Sourcing is a Software Development company that specializes in web design and software, mobile apps and web development and testing.
Oleg Sotnikov
CEO of AppMaster.io
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About AppMaster.io, G1 Software: AppMaster.io is a no-code platform to create and publish web and mobile applications with AI-generated source code.
Jonathan Kogan
Co-Founder, CEO of RPA Tools
Enjoy building businesses and a big fan of innovation that benefits society and impacts culture. Currently helping startups and small businesses by designing and implementing, custom, no-code tech stacks that scale. On Deck fellow (No-Code Cohort #1).
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About RPA Tools: We create custom tech stacks for startups and small businesses with no-code tools, custom integrations, and automations.
Gustavo Valadao
President & CEO of GBMV
Researcher, Contributor, SWE Apprentice, Procurement Executive, Federal Liaison
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About GBMV: Software Service, Mobile App, Payment
Damien Rocchi
Founder & CEO of Grand Circus
Damien Rocchi is Founder & CEO at Grand Circus.
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About Grand Circus, Techstars: Grand Circus is a training institute that provides customized training, coworking, and events for the tech community.
Neeraj Singh
Founder & CEO of BigBinary
Neeraj loves Ruby, JavaScript and open source culture. He has done extensive contribution to Ruby on Rails framework. He is a core contributor to Rails’s jquery-ujs library . By forcing himself to look at Rails internals he is able to understand better how Rails really works. He has contributed to many open source applications including ActiveMerchant , Spree and jQuery. Neeraj has written extensively about inner workings on Ruby on Rails and jQuery at our Blog.
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About BigBinary: BigBinary is a Ruby on Rails development company that builds web and mobile applications, and provides consulting services.
Max Lynch
Co-founder & CEO of Ionic
Max is the Co-founder & CEO of Ionic, empowering millions of web developers to build top-quality apps for the app stores (http://ionicframework.com/).
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About Ionic: Ionic is the leader in enterprise app development, powering 15%+ of all app store apps and thousands of critical enterprise apps.
Chad Robley
Chairman & CEO of Mindgruve
Chad is the Cofounder and CEO of Mindgruve (INC. 5000 Company). Since launching the agency in 2001, he has played a key strategic role in helping brands transform their business through marketing and technology. Over the past two decades, he has worked with some of the top global consumer and B2B brands such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Qualcomm, Oracle, Merck, Live Nation and House of Blues. Prior to Mindgruve, Chad spent more than a decade as a startup entrepreneur building and scaling early stage businesses into mature, sustainable companies. He is now an angel investor and advisor to fast growth companies. Chad also serves on several company and industry boards in the consumer, technology, healthcare and B2B space. Chad is a regular writer and public speaker on the Convergence of Technology and Marketing, Digital Business Transformation and Customer Acquisition Strategies for Rapid Growth Companies.
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About Ad Age Collective, Bay City Brewing Co, Celebration Wishes, Honeymoon Wishes, Mindgruve, Mindgruve Ventures: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
Lev Barinskiy
CEO & Co-Founder of Contactability
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About Contactability, Cyber Technology, InsuranceAgents.com, Lob, SmartFinancial: Lead Management and Marketing Automation
Albert Santalo
Founder / CEO of 8base
Global Head of Community at LinkedIn.
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About 8base, LinkedIn: 8base is a low-code development platform for building and running enterprise-grade digital applications.
Adam Enbar
Co-Founder & CEO of Flatiron School
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About Flatiron School, Flatiron School: The Flatiron School trains highly motivated individuals in web application development. They teach best practices in Ruby, Rails,
George Avery
CEO of Native Rank
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About Affiliate.com, LocalSEO, Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Raymond Hong
CEO and Co-founder of ALLO
CEO and Co-founder@BeeCanvas, Inc.
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About ALLO: Allo is a whiteboard-based virtual workspace for team collaboration.
Vadim Peskov
CEO & Co-founder of Diffco
Seasoned executive within startup and corporate establishments. Expert knowledge of software development, stellar supervising and management skills, extensive experience with multiple web/mobile projects of high complexity, which require deep and critical understanding of businesses, markets, industries and target audiences. Started 3 companies from ground up and made them into successful businesses across the globe. Very successful in building relationships with customers, partners, investors; taking charge of critical problems, and delivering on customer expectations. Customer focused and result driven.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Diffco: Mobile apps and AI solutions development for Startups and Enterprises
Richard Yanowitch
Chief Executive Officer of Brandcast
Richard Yanowitch is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a proven track-record transforming early-stage companies into high-growth market leaders, creating millions of customers, billions of dollars in revenue, and multi-billions of dollars in sustained shareholder value. Since September 2006, he has served as venture partner for Accel Partners, with a particular focus on digital media. He currently serves as an independent director on the boards of video ad network, Yume, and global mobile social network, mig33. Prior to Accel, Richard served as Vice Chairman of the NDS Group, a $600 million market leader in digital media technologies, and as Senior Consultant to the News Corporation. For nearly five years, he served as Executive Vice President for internet services provider VeriSign, where his team built numerous high-growth businesses and led its international expansion, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues. He participated in VeriSign’s strategic financings, IPO, and acquisitions. VeriSign grew from 30 to 2,500 employees and from $500,000 to $700 million in revenue during this period, creating a multi-billion dollar market valuation. Richard reported to Stratton Sclavos, Chairman and CEO. Prior to VeriSign, Richard served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing for database provider Sybase, where his team drove core marketing operations, including marketing communications, direct marketing, product marketing, customer acquisition, and international. He participated in Sybase’s late-stage financings, IPO and acquisitions. Sybase grew from 300 to 5,000 employees and from $10 million to nearly $900 million in annual revenue during this period, generating a multi-billion dollar market valuation. Richard reported to Dr. Stuart Schuster, Executive Vice President. Prior to Sybase, Richard was Director of Strategic Marketing at UNIX operating system provider The SCO Group, where he was lead negotiator for a breakthrough Microsoft licensing agreement and investment. SCO grew from $5 million to $24 million in revenue during this period, subsequently going public and achieving a half-billion dollar market valuation. Prior to SCO, Richard held various sales, marketing, and management positions with Digital Equipment Corporation and Lanier Harris. He also served as entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm IVP. Richard received a B.A. in the Honors Program for Classical Studies at Swarthmore College and a MBA from the Harvard Business School. He serves on the board of directors of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. He is married to Wendy Shuman Kesser, a former Executive Producer for ABC News in San Francisco, and they have two children. He also serves as a senior advisor to national congressional leaders on economic leadership, entrepreneurialism, and the Internet. Dixon R. Doll For more than 35 years, Dixon has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer and communications industries. In recognition of his accomplishments in venture capital, Dixon was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture investors on its Midas List for the past four years, as well as one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway by Upside Magazine. In April, 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association in Washington, D.C. He was recently appointed to the NVCA Executive Committee, is chairing the 2007 Annual Meeting, and will become NVCA Chairman-elect in April, 2007. Since the early 1980s, Dixon has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer. In 1996 he launched DCM, an early stage technology venture capital firm which currently has more than $1.5 Billion under management, headquartered in Menlo Park, California. DCM has backed such well known entrepreneurial companies as About.com, @Motion, Clearwire, 51job, Foundry Networks, Internap, Ipivot, Neutral Tandem, PGP Corp., Recourse Technologies, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, and Sling Media. DCM has become widely recognized as one of the top Silicon Valley venture firms actively investing in China and Japan. In the mid-1980s, Dixon cofounded the venture capital industry’s first fund focused exclusively on telecommunications opportunities. Those funds he organized launched such noteworthy companies as Alantec, Bridge Communication, Centillion Networks, Network Equipment Technologies, Optilink, Picturetel, Polycom, and UUNet. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Dixon was the founder and CEO of an internationally recognized strategic consulting firm focused on telecommunications and computer networking. From 1972 to 1980, Dixon also served as a faculty member of the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City, and then served on the IBM Networking Systems Organization’s External Advisory Board from 1983 to 1991. He has authored two books, and traveled extensively to six continents to give highly sought after lectures and conference presentations. Through their family foundation, he and his wife, Carol, give generously to numerous educational and philanthropic organizations. Among these are, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (where he serves as Chair of the museum’s dual governing boards), San Francisco Symphony, Kansas State University, the University of Michigan Business School, the Papal Foundation, the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the University of San Francisco where he has served as the Investment Committee Chair. He also has served as a trustee or advisory board member for each of these organizations. He received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.
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About Brandcast: Brandcast helps enterprises move faster by fusing web design, content creation, and brand asset management into a unified system.
Nick Kishfy
Founder & CEO of MojoTech
Nick is the founder of MojoTech, a full-service software design and development agency. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with offices in New York City and Boulder, Colorado, MojoTech’s client base ranges from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. For more than ten years, Nick has helped startups to become successful companies. As an engineer, he has built applications and infrastructure used by millions, including critical safety systems for the US Coast Guard. As a leader, he has hired, trained, and managed teams responsible for creating category-leading products. Nick believes that even the best ideas can only succeed with equally strong execution, so he constantly strives to refine the process of turning ideas into products. Founded in 2008, MojoTech’s award-winning team is composed of engineers, designers, and strategists. Their innovative projects have been recognized by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Mashable and more. MojoTech was recently ranked the 42nd Fastest Growing Software Company in America by Inc Magazine, and was listed as one of 2014’s Best Places to Work, by Providence Business News.
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About Allocate, MojoTech: Software Design and Development Agency
Philip Tadros
Founder, CEO of doejo
Founder of doejo where we design and develop brands through software. We help people get to market based on their intentions, resources and goals.
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About Bow Truss Coffee Roasters, Columbia College Chicago, doejo, TextHog: web design & website development
TK Herman
Co-Founder CEO & President of Aptera Software
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About Aptera Software, SkyZone: Aptera is a Custom Software Development partner specializing in creating Mobile Apps, Web Apps and Websites for enterprise-level companies.
Jay Wengrow
Founder and CEO of Anyone Can Learn To Code
Jay Wengrow is an experienced web developer and educator, having both a M.S. in Software Engineering and a M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from Loyola University Chicago. He has extensive experience with Ruby on Rails in a variety of roles. He was the lead developer at Doggyloot, a successful e-commerce startup, and currently works at Apartments.com building complex enterprise systems from scratch. He launched his Anyone Can Learn To Code mentoring service last year, and has been teaching Rails to a variety of clients over nights and weekends. He is now morphing his mentoring service into the Anyone Can Learn To Code Bootcamp, which he feels will enable him to teach his finely tuned curriculum to a greater number of students, and allow more people to get into the field of technology. Jay believes that many people shy away from entering tech because of a wide misconception that one has to be either brilliant or a nerd to understand it. He aims to make the field of software engineering more accessible by teaching programming in a way that is intuitive, utilizing his (unfortunately) rare ability to explain “complex” technical concepts in plain English. Outside of work, he also enjoys spending time with his family, creating kids’ computer languages, massive multiplayer shuffleboard, and writing about himself in third person.
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About Anyone Can Learn To Code: ACLTC is a tech education co. w/ resources for learners of all levels. Actualize is our part-time coding bootcamp & apprenticeship program.
Adrian Bubela
Founder & CEO of SEVEN
Founder and CEO of IT Company SEVEN with a demonstrated 18-year history of working in the software development and IT industry. During this time I have developed a proven track record in leading teams to deliver strategic projects that produce real benefits, achieving business goals with cost-effective, efficient and innovative IT solutions. My team and I focus on projects which really make a difference for such important industries аs healthcare, transportation, construction, and government agencies. Software development for our clients helps people accomplish more and change their lives for the better. Also, I invest in promising startups, mentor them from initial conception to the finished product. Throughout my career, I have developed a wide variety of skills and expertise. These include Strategic Business Planning, Business Analysis Management, Sales and Marketing Management, Negotiation, Project Engineering among others.
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About SEVEN, Vixit: The full-service IT company that for 11 years has been a reliable 360º technological partner
John Sung Kim
CEO of JetBridge
John Sung Kim is a chief executive who created the software companies Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN), DoctorBase (acquired by Kareo), and JetBridge (current). He’s an early angel investor in: SpaceX, Rappi, LVL5 (acquired by DoorDash), Credy, Maximus Health, Panther, Siempre Tequila and Juice Labs. Occasionally he writes for TechCrunch, Forbes and his blog JohnSungKim.com (NSFW).
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About JetBridge, Kareo: Connecting startups to Eastern European tech talent
Bismarck Lepe
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Wizeline
Bismarck Lepe founded and manages Wizeline. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Ooyala. Lepe came from Google where he was a Senior Product Manager guiding the development of content monetization products for AdSense, Social Networks and Online Video. At Google, he deployed display advertising for the $900 million Google-MySpace deal and the YouTube Video Monetization product. Lepe has a B.A. from Stanford University. Bismarck is now starting a new company. Source: [Ooyala](http://www.ooyala.com/management)
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About MiSalud, Startup GDL, Wizeline: Wizeline is a product design and development services company that builds data-driven, cloud-native products and platforms for its clients.
Stephan Shere
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Exquisite Software
Stephan Shere is the founder of Exquisite Software Development based out of Phoenix, Arizona. His background includes 20 years of development experience. He specialize in Desktop and Web development, with expertise laying in C#, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, CakePHP3, SQL Server, MySQL and MongoDB and has over 10 years experience with Email Marketing and Social Network Marketing.
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About Exquisite Software: Desktop, Mobile, and Web Application Development
Chris Boardman
Co-Founder and CEO of Fable
Chris Boardman is the Founder and CEO of Fable.
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About Fable: Fable is a computer software company that offers a web-based motion design platform.
Kevin Kading
CEO of Intelagy
Kevin H Kading CEO and Director of M&A, is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kading Companies S.A. since its founding in 1995. Between 1979 and 1995, he held various positions at several investment banking firms, ranging from retail sales to Regional Vice President. From 1995 on, Mr. Kading has founded and participated in a number of public and private companies. He has been a member of the Securities Traders Association both nationally and in New York since 1995. Mr. Kading was a founder, officer, and Chairman of the Board of Advanced Reconnaissance Corp. from 1997 to February 2006. Mr. Kading was a founder and officer of Syringex Medical, Inc., from October 1997 to June 2004.
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About Accelerated Technologies Holding, Intelagy, Phantom Fiber: Intelagy provides API linked payment gateway accepting credit cards & ACH payments.Offers services web design,hosting,internet marketing.
Ron Rand
President & CEO of Rand Group
President & CEO at Rand Group
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About Rand Group: Business Management Software Solutions
Anton Baranchuk
CEO & Co-Founder of AnyChart
Anton Baranchuk is the CEO at AnyChart.
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About AlterGeo, AnyChart, Unicorn Bay: Flexible cross-platform data visualization solutions — JavaScript (HTML5) libraries for charts, maps and dashboards, Qlik extensions & more
Bradley Greenwood
Founder & CEO of Scalio
Bradley has 20 years of software engineering, product design, and management experience in the corporate environment, startups, and entrepreneurial ventures. Bradley has built engineering and product teams from the ground up. He’s architected, designed, and developed numerous high-trafficked websites, big-data architectures, and top-ten mobile applications for startups and Fortune 500 companies. His passion lies in building sustainable businesses through technology and digital strategy. As the founding partner and CEO of Scalio, he works with leading brands to bring their product innovation to market. Within only eight years, Scalio has completed over 570 projects, with nine client acquisitions, ranging across 27 industries. As of late you can find Bradley pioneering spatial-semantic search using deep convolutional neural networks for multi object detection in AR (and his friendly Vector robots). Bradley loves to create and strives to maintain his expert-generalist passion in web/mobile architecture, infrastructure, and design – contributing to open source projects in his spare time. You can view his work here: https://github.com/bmgdev
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About Scalio: We create digital products and services for the world’s leading companies.
Yomi Toba
Founder & CEO of YT Advisors
Yomi Toba is the co-founder and CEO at YT Advisors.
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About YT Advisors: Provides premier back office support services for communities and nonprofits.
Calvin Tran
CEO of Hype Well
Founder at Hype Well
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About Hype Well: Hype Well executes, manages, and optimizes customer’s all social media and online marketing efforts.
Deven Patel
Founder & CEO of Alter
Founder and CEO of Alter, a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names. Prior to Alter, he was founder and chief executive officer of Cyfe, a SaaS startup which offers an all-in-one dashboard software that helps businesses easily monitor, analyze, and share all of their vital business data from one single location in real-time.
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About Alter: Alter is a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names.
Joseph Cohen
Founder & CEO of Universe
Joseph is the CEO and Founder of Universe, the easiest way to make a website.
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About Universe: Universe is an app that enables users to create an incredible website with no code, just a phone.
Brian Kariger
CEO of Nothing Limited Ventures
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About Nothing Limited Ventures: Nothing Limited Ventures is a private company that supports and develops innovations for learning, sharing and growing sustainably.
Bing Yao
CEO of Jinfonet Software
Dr. Yao has spent over 35 years in database management and business intelligence, resulting in innovative reporting, DB, and BI products, as well as many technical publications. After starting XDB Systems, a DB workbench company, Dr. Yao founded Jinfonet Software on the belief that all enterprise users should have easy, timely access to data visualization and analytics through reporting, dashboards, and mobile devices. Dr. Yao has been a Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University and the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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About Jinfonet Software, SteraVision: Reporting Software and Dashboards
F Scott Moody
Co-founder, CEO & Chief Member Advocate of K4Connect
Scott previously co-founded, and was the CEO of AuthenTec, which was acquired by Apple in 2012 (the only public company ever acquired by Apple). You now know their products as the Touch ID featured on the iPhone 5S. It is that same focus on the consumer, on making their lives better, that forms the foundation of K4Connect. Scott likes to think of himself as youthful, but we just tend to think he’s pretty immature for his age
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About K4Connect: K4Connect develops solutions intended to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities.
Fred Stevens-Smith
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rainforest QA
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About Rainforest QA: Rainforest QA offers modern testing for web and mobile apps.
Raziel Tabib
Co-Founder & CEO of Codefresh
Entrepreneur with a track record of delivery of innovative enterprise software products, revenue growth and profit enhancement. Over 12 years of product management, marketing and software development experience.
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About Codefresh: Codefresh is a next-generation enterprise software delivery platform for cloud native applications.
Vinod Subbaiah
FOUNDER & CEO of Asahi Technologies LLC
After a successful career designing and developing software applications for legal businesses in New York, Vinod followed through on his personal dream – harnessing technology to help startups, small and medium businesses with their business challenges. Since 2005, Vinod has worked relentlessly to nurture the three core ingredients for driving excellence – a) process driven approach b) team passionate about technology c) unrelenting commitment to quality
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About Asahi Technologies LLC: Asahi Technologies is a premier web development firm, committed to offering the highest quality service and business value to it clients.