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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Robert Gunn
COO of Pryon
Robert Gunn has more than 22 years of senior management experience in high technology companies and a proven track record in technology startups. Prior to joining Serus in 2004, Robert was president and CEO of PhysicianAccess.com, an e-health company that developed the first Internet-based application to address the clinical, business and patient needs of private practice physicians. Prior to PhysicianAccess, Robert was an original member of the board of directors at Cobalt Networks, Inc., a leading Internet and intranet server company. As an advisor to the CEO during the company’s formation and as Vice President of Sales, he was responsible for the creation of worldwide marketing and sales strategies. Cobalt was purchased by Sun Microsystems in November 2000 for $2 billion. In addition, Robert has held executive-level sales and marketing positions at Micronics Computers, a leading supplier of advanced system boards and multimedia peripherals, and TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits for cellular phones and wireless networks.
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About Pryon: Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management.
Matt McLaughlin
Chief Operating Officer of DoubleVerify
Matt has been responsible for DoubleVerify’s product, engineering and sales operations efforts since 2011. Prior to joining DV, Matt held senior product, operations and executive positions in online advertising for over ten years, including roles at Advertising.com and CUnet. Prior to his commercial experience, Matt served as a nuclear submarine officer in the United States Navy. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and his M.A. (Cantab.) in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University.
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About DoubleVerify, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Rebecca Ye
Co-founder & COO of Xcalar
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About Xcalar: Xcalar is a business analytics platform to discover meaningful insights from modern data.
Jake Sussman
Co-Founder & COO of Evisort
Jake Sussman is a co-founder and COO at Evisort.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Steven Gerber
President & COO of Zeta Global
Steven Gerber is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Zeta Interactive. Gerber oversees the day to day management of the Company, encompassing all business lines and the technology platform.He joined Zeta in 2009 via an acquisition. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President at Tranzact LLC, building the company’s digital business and playing a key role in its sale to Veronis Suhler in 2008. He has also held leadership positions at Digitas and Bain & Co. Gerber’s entrepreneurial career began in 1999 as co-founder of HotSocket, a RedHerring Top 100 company in 2000. Gerber holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Gerber holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Mukund Ramachandran
COO of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Winnie Lee
Chief Operating Officer of Appier
Winnie Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Appier. Prior to joining Appier, Winnie was an immunologist for 10 years. Receiving her PhD from Washington University and her MS from Stanford University, Winnie has authored a number of publications in top-tiered journals, including four Nature papers, and her research work has received close to 1000 citations accumulatively. During her leisure time, Winnie enjoys shopping, swimming, traveling and learning new things.
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About Appier: Appier is a Taipei-based startup providing an AI powered platform to brands and retailers to help increase customer engagement.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Lillian Chou
Co-Founder and COO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Lillian Chou is the Co-Founder and COO of Second Measure. She is a former Manager, Data Systems & Analytics at Rumble and Product Manager, Analytics at Electronic Arts (EA). Ms. Chou graduated from the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School with a bachelor of science in Economics and concentration in Marketing.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
James Geshwiler
COO and Co-founder of Catalyze
James has been an active seed-stage investor in mobile, cloud, consumer and enterprise software for more than 15 years. He has been on the boards of many early stage technology companies and is passionate how companies can best transition from seed to scaling. He helped shape the transformation from Converge Venture Partners’ predecessor organization, CommonAngels, and has been a leader in shaping the professionalization of angel investing, co-founding two associations with the help of the Kauffman Foundation. James has been on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and the Board of the MIT Alumni Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program at the UT-Austin, a master’s degree in political science from UCLA, and an MBA from MIT. James also is an avid rower and member of Cambridge Boat Club.
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About Catalyze: Catalyze is a renewable energy data analytics, development, and asset management platform.
COO of Gramener
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About Gramener: Insights delivered as Data Stories : Analytical Custom Solutions delivered rapidly , Assets: Platform,Process & People.
Andrey Kazakov
Chief Operating Officer of Adjust
Andrey K. is the Chief Operating Officer at Adjust.
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About Adjust: Adjust is an analytics platform that helps marketers grow their mobile apps with with tools that measure, automate and protect user data.
Devin Shurtleff
COO of Opiniion
Devin Shurtleff is the COO at Opiniion.
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About Opiniion: Opiniion is an automated tool for property management companies to collect authentic real-time feedback from residents.
Matt Laessig
COO & Co-Founder of Data.world
Matt Laessig is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of [Data.World](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/data-world#/entity), the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world. He is an executive with over 18 years of experience in growing technology and internet businesses. Previously, Laessig held various leadership roles as Vice President at [HomeAway](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homeaway#/entity) and Bazaarvoice. He was also the general manager of BedandBreakfast.com. Laessig holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton Business School.
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About Data.world: Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Kweli Washington
COO of Piano
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About Piano: Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior through one complete platform.
Yuansong Liao
Co-COO/Chief Scientist/VP Analytics / Senior Analytics Manager of Opera Solutions
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Lisa Popovici
Co-founder & COO of Cartloop
Lisa Popovici currently works as the Co-founder and COO forCartloop. He previously worked at Ecommerce Brands as the Founder and CEO.
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About Cartloop: Cartloop is a conversational SMS marketing and text marketing platform for e-commerce.
Murali Swaminathan
COO of Sprinklr
After receiving his Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University and an M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern, Murali became an executive at Cisco Systems Inc., where he held several key leadership roles. These included the principal lead for the acquisition integration practice for Cisco Engineering, as well as developing the strategy and managing its global data center operations. At Sprinklr, he runs the Engineering, Operations and Services divisions, helping to drive the company forward.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Vivek Kundra
Chief Operating Officer of Sprinklr
Vivek Kundra currently works as COO for Sprinklr.
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About Outcome Health, Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Munish Gandhi
Founder, COO of Productiv
Munish Gandhi is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Productiv.Prior to founding Productiv, he led Sales Strategy and Operations as the COO for the Americas at LinkedIn for 4 years. Prior to that, he was the Director of Commercial Solutions at Equinix where he managed large, complex deals.
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About Productiv: Productiv is a real-time engagement data and insights platform used to manage SaaS applications.
Erin Robbins O’Brien
COO of GinzaMetrics
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About GinzaMetrics: GinzaMetrics offers an SEO and content marketing platform that provides recommendations and competitor analytics to agencies and marketers.
Kerry Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Stephen Coakley
COO & President of Babel Street
Stephen Coakley is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Babel Street, a company that provides actionable intelligence by persistently monitoring and analyzing a variety of data sources. Babel Street serves governments, higher education, and a wide spectrum of the business sector. Prior to Babel Street, Stephen was the Founder and Principal of Horizon Services, a government contractor that rose to #312 on the Inc 500 Fastest-Growing Companies List, with $8M in revenues and 150 employees. Steve’s philosophy is that he wants to work with very smart people doing something they all can be incredibly passionate about. Otherwise, it’s time to reinvent.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Dennis Kanemitsu
Chief Operating Officer of Constellation Research
Dennis Kanemitsu is the Chief Operating Officer at Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Aceil Halaby
Co-Founder & COO of Bloomer Health Tech
Aceil Halaby is the co-founder and COO at Bloomer Health Tech.
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Parthasarathy Krishnan
COO of Helios and Matheson Analytics
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About Helios and Matheson Analytics: Helios & Matheson is a Big Data company that helps global enterprises make informed decisions by providing insights into social phenomena.
Susan Kuo
COO & Co-Founder of Singular
Susan’s extensive background in mobile ad tech, analytics, and gaming was integral in the creation of Singular. Before founding Singular, she held senior leadership roles at Onavo and InMobi. As an active member of the mobile community, she serves on the advisory board for several mobile-focused startups.
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About Singular: Singular, a marketing intelligence platform, unifies marketing analytics, giving marketers actionable insights from previously siloed data
Toby Hemmerling
Chief Operating Officer of Blue Acorn iCi
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About Blue Acorn iCi: Blue Acorn iCi is an e-commerce consulting firm that helps online retailers increase sales, profitability, and ROI.
Alessandro Prioni
COO of Measurence
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About Measurence: Measurence is an IoT platform that provides actionable analytics for the physical world
Varun Nagaraj
COO of Bidgely
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Vikhyat Chaudhry
Co-Founder, CTO and COO of Buzz Solutions
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About Buzz Solutions: Buzz Solutions provides AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for asset fault detection and inspection of power lines.
James Felton Keith
COO of Accrue
James Felton Keith is currently President of The Data Union. Affectionately known as JFK, he is an award winning engineer and serial-entrepreneur that defined data as a natural resource in the book Personal Data: The People’s Asset Class. JFK has incubated the data industry via his founding of the Data Trade Association and Personal Data Week conferences. He has either written or influenced all of the global cyber policy over the past 10 years. A serial-entrepreneur, he has founded 12 companies of which 5 were successful. Most notably: Cyberfense, Accrue.com, Slay TV, and the LGBT Chamber. His expertise is in the ethnography of technology, or the study of the culture of tech. Over the past 20 years between 4 continents he has been obsessing about economic inclusion, and how to get equity in the hands of the people who have increasingly less, while the world becomes more productive from their input. JFK was the 1st Black representative of the LGBT community to run for US Congress. He says “it’s necessary to have the mind of a CEO and the heart of a Social Worker to solve real people problems”. James has been appointed to the cabinet of Elected Officials, taken over for and advised CEOs, Academics, and Non-profiteers. Keith currently serves on advisory boards at Rutgers University and the Democratic National Committee. He is a frequent keynote at global venues like the United Nations, Future Tech Congress, Money 20/20, and Hope Global Forums to name a few. Most recently he was honored as an IBM Global Entrepreneur, one of the UN’s International Young Leaders Assembly members, the United Kingdom’s Technology & Investment Financial Technology Delegation, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Commitment to Diversity, and multiple 40 under 40 notices.
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About Accrue, Cyberfense, NTGR8, nuOctave, Stall Talk: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Suhas Ahuja
Co-Founder, COO of SIERA.AI
Suhas is an experienced entrepreneur with multiple successful exits in the high-tech sector. Suhas leads all of Stocked Robotics’ sales and business development operations globally.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
Ben Hsieh
Co-Founder and COO of Synapbox
Ben Hsieh is the co-founder and COO of Synapbox. He is a former director at Nest.vc.
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About Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Tom Chapman
Chief Operating Officer of Lumen Learning
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About Lumen Learning: Lumen Learning provides high quality open courseware and support for educational institutions.
John Singleton
Co-Founder & COO of Watchful
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About Watchful: Watchful automates the process of distilling, scaling, and injecting subject-matter-expertise into machine learning models.
Michael MacDonald
COO of Claim Genius
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About Claim Genius, Nasdaq: Claim Genius features a real-time photo AI platform that generates auto repair estimates instantly.
Dave Anderson
Senior VP of Engineering & Chief Operating Officer of Atonarp
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About Atonarp: Atonarp combines electronics and data processing algorithms for chemical composition analysis.
Cory Munchbach
COO of BlueConic
Cory has spent her career on the cutting edge of marketing technology and brings years working with Fortune 500 clients from various industries to BlueConic. Before joining the BlueCrew, she was an analyst at Forrester Research where she covered business and consumer technology trends and the fast-moving marketing tech landscape. A sought-after speaker and industry voice, Cory’s work has been featured in Venture Beat, Wired, AdAge, and AdWeek, as well as spoken at conferences such as FutureM, MITX, and the Association of National Advertisers. A life-long Bostonian, Cory has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and spends a considerable amount of her non-work hours screaming wildly for all the local sports teams. The rest of that time is spent hanging with her husband, family, and friends; taking their dog for long hikes; at her CrossFit gym; or – most likely of all – reading. Follow Cory on Twitter @CorinneJames.
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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.
Will Lin
Co-Founder, Partner & COO of 3Q Digital
Will Lin is Co-Founder, Partner & COO at 3Q Digital
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About 3Q Digital: 3Q Digital is a digital marketing agency catering to online advertising and mobile marketing.
Daniel Barnes
COO of N3TWORK
COO @ N3twork Maximizing LTV to CPI, driving scalable acquisition of revenue and profitable installs to the entire mobile portfolio across some of the most successful games in the Appstores. Focus on Product Systems, Retention & Monetization to create sustainable revenue streams through scalable, centralized tool sets to increase specific KPIs. (If you got this far, I’m trying to growth hack my profile using bingo KPI buzzwords, sorry)
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Colton Jang
Founder & COO of LeapYear Technologies
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About LeapYear Technologies: LeapYear develops technology for enterprises to securely unlock value from their most sensitive data assets.
Senthil Nagarajan
Co-Founder & COO of Lumity
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About Lumity: Lumity simplifies the pain of company health plan decisions with data-driven recommendations that drive cost savings and improve outcomes.
Ankit Vyas
COO of IQM Corporation
ANKIT VYAS, is an Industrial designer with more than 5 years of business experience. His engineering background helps him execute the concepts into reality. He is a vision oriented innovation enthusiast, value focused decision maker and a sustainable ecosystem believer. He carries a life centric approach towards any problem & solutions. After designing several industrial products, Ankit set off on a mission to design a solution that would make the world actually a better place. At Oizom, Ankit is trying to discover the hidden patterns and correlations of the environment with a data driven approach. He imagines a future where they will have a complete understanding and command over their environment.
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About Cosire, IQM Corporation, Oizom: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kris Qiu
Co-Founder/COO of IQM Corporation
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About IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Beth Morgan
Chief Operating Officer of TrueData
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About TrueData: TrueData is a mobile data platform that works with app publishers who generate mobile data & the companies who need data for ad targeting
Matthew Senatore
COO & General Counsel of Earnest Research
Matthew Senatore is a COO and general counsel at Earnest Research.
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About Earnest Research: Earnest Research transforms raw data into a source for business and investment professionals to make better decisions.
Demetrios Louziotis
President & COO of RealNex
Demetrios brings 30 years of real estate and finance experience to his role of COO of RealNex. His many talents include asset management, business development, corporate real estate, education, lending, property management, research, risk management, strategy, structuring, technology, underwriting and valuation. Demetrios was the Senior Vice President of Global Real Estate Solutions Group at ARGUS software, where he successfully lead the initiative that resulted in the first corporate instance of integration between market data and analytical solutions for commercial real estate. Demetrios holds a M.S. in real estate from Penn State University. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the real estate master’s program at NYU, where he taught international real estate for ten years.
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About Pavonis Capital Partners, Pavonis Group, Pix-virtual, RealNex: RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company focused on providing data management, and analytic.
Josh Webman
Chief Operating Officer of Concertiv
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About Concertiv: Concertiv is a strategic sourcing advisor leveraging deep analytics and group buying power.
Dan Luis
COO of iovox
Current COO @ iovox – global call tracking provider with offices in London, Paris, Sydney, SF Former CEO @ Purple, ClearCaptions, GoAmerica, Wynd Communications Co Founder @ Concila, SureAdhere
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About Concila, Inc., iovox, SureAdhere Mobile Technology: Our mission at iovox is to make data from all phone calls useful, valuable, and actionable.
Dan Lines
COO and Co-founder of LinearB
COO and Co-founder at Linear B. Previously, Dan was the VP of Engineering at CloudLock which was acquired by Cisco in 2016.
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About LinearB: LinearB is analytics & automation for software development teams
Itai Kanot
COO & Co-Founder of BeeHero
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About BeeHero: BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Angela Schmuck
Chief Operating Officer (COO) of IDMission
Angie Schmuck is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at IDmission.
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About IDMission: IDMission is a cloud-based company offering services such as mobility, cloud computing, collaboration, and analytics for its users.
Steven Lee
COO and CFO, Co-Founder, Board of Directors of Crowdz
Founder at Crowdz.
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About Crowdz: Nasdaq for Receivables
Robert Ford
COO of Aidentified
Rob is a leader in driving technology adoption and commercialization processes for growth stage companies. He is versatile as a chief operating officer in orchestrating support for all aspects of operational roadmaps and strategic finance. Most recently, he developed and executed global roll out and markets expansion strategies for two companies in the fintech sector. Prior to that, Rob assembled a founding team and built from scratch an investment bank focused on emerging technology sectors. As COO, he oversaw his firm’s profitable growth to $90 million in annual revenues by year five, leading all aspects of operations, international strategy, and market development while also serving as President for the company’s NASDAQ listed parent. He also was President and COO of JobDirect.com, the Web’s first job matching subscription-based service for university students (exited to Korn Ferry International).
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About Aidentified: Aidentified identifies wealth events across millions of executives and surfaces these insights through the M2 Platform in real time.
Dave Tobias
Co-Founder & COO of Betterview
Dave scaled insurance loss control company, Research Specialist Incorporated (acquired by CCG), to >30k inspections per year with >500 inspectors across the United States.
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About Betterview: Betterview is a data and risk analytics platform for property insurers
Brad Kayton
COO & Co founder of Zome Energy Networks, Inc
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About World Energy Consortium, Zome Energy Networks, Inc: We use machine learning algorithms to virtualize, control and scale device power loads on the energy grid.
Adam Price
Interim Chief Operating Officer (Consultant) of Kinetic
Adam Price is the Interim Chief Operating Officer of KINETIC and an Advisor at Hailify and Cahoot. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Waitr and the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Homer Logistics before that.
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About Homer Logistics, Kinetic: Kinetic develops wearable devices connected to cloud-based software in order to reduce workplace injuries for the industrial workforce.
Wenkang Qi
Chief Operating Officer of VitalConnect
Wenkang Qi is the Chief Operating Officer at VitalConnect.
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About VitalConnect: VitalConnect is a wearable biosensor technology for wireless hospital and remote patient monitoring.
Akbar Dawood
Co-Founder and COO of Grafiti
Akbar Dawood is a Co-Founder of Grafiti.
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About Grafiti, Pathotrak: Grafiti is a search engine for graphs, charts, facts, info-graphics, data, and insights.
Patrick Benson
Chief Operating Officer of iMiDiA
Patrick Benson is the CIO for ClubCorp, the largest owner and operator of private golf and country clubs in the US. Patrick’s career as an IT Executive spans multiple world-class consumer, retail, and service corporations including CIO of the Ovations restaurants, multiple senior IT roles across the PepsiCo global business, as CIO of Lighthouse International in New York City, and as Americas Vice-President for Cadbury. He is a graduate of Loyola University.
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About iMiDiA: iMiDiA, provide services to help Manage, Deliver and Analyze the explosion of information.
Eric Wun
CoFounder & COO of Jupiter Intelligence
Mr. Eric Wun is the COO & Co-founder of Jupiter Technology Systems, Inc. since April 2017. Mr. Wun is Senior operations executive at the foundation of finance, Internet and machine learning Google, VISA International, Cybersource, Zip2, Corio, Vertical Response, Wells Fargo Bank Google’s Skybox (Terra Bella) Satellite Division.
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About Jupiter Intelligence: Jupiter Intelligence predicts risks of natural perils from severe weather and climate change.
Anh Nguyen
Co-Founder & COO of Gummicube
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About Gummicube: Big Data Anlytics for Mobile & App Store Optimization
Jennifer E Hill
Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of Remedy Analytics
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About Remedy Analytics: Remedy Analytics software engine that helps our clients make crucial prescription benefits decisions that affect millions of lives.
Piyush Lumba
COO of CommerceIQ
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About CommerceIQ: CommerceIQ is an omnichannel management platform that helps large brands use machine learning and automation to increase e-commerce sales.
Ross Jessup
Co-Founder, CFO & COO of Open Lending
Since co-founding both in 2000, Ross has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. He oversees all aspects of financial and operational business at Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC and subsidiaries. Through his efforts, the company has secured all necessary investment capital since inception. Ross co-leads national account sales to large financial institutions and captives, along with key customer support relations for the company. He has successfully developed key relationships with outside actuaries, investors, and insurance partners that have been instrumental in the company’s growth. Ross is the subject matter expert with regard to the Lenders Protection product and risk-based pricing solution. Under his leadership, Open Lending has been named to the Austin Business Journal’s “FAST 50” list five times, recognizing the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas. The company has also been named twice to the “INC 5000” list of fastest growing private companies nationwide and been named a “Best Place to Work” in Central Texas for three years. Additionally, Ross has been awarded the “Best CFO in Central Texas” by the Austin Business Journal. Ross brings a diverse background in corporate operations. He has extensive experience in public accounting for national firms such as Arthur Andersen. Ross has unique expertise and specialization in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, taxation, and financing transactions. Ross has been an active partner in various investment funds that provide early and later stage capital to technology-related companies over the past 25 years. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Young Entrepreneurs Organization. Ross received his BA in Accounting from The University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Texas. In his free time, Ross enjoys the outdoors, hunting, playing tennis, and golf. He and his wife, Lisa, reside in Austin, Texas with their four sons. He serves on several non-profit boards including Westlake Pop Warner, 12 Fields Foundations, the local Boy Scouts of America chapter, and others.
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About Open Lending: Open Lending is a provider of lending enablement and risk analytics solutions to financial institutions.
Jib Hunt
COO & Co-Founder of Octane11
I will get your B2B Marketing & Operations house in order. Results driven B2B marketer specializing in building complex martech and adtech stacks, multi-department campaign processes, project management toolsets, AI-driven ideal customer profile lists—complete with in-market FIT and intent signaling, and full attribution reporting across all owned, paid, and earned channels. Companies include Burton Snowboards, Virgin Mobile USA, Ghostery, Sizmek, 1010data and MediaMath.
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About Octane11: Octane11 is a B2B-focused analytics and collaboration platform that connects siloed enterprise data to real business impact
Claire Chen
Founder and COO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Morgan Linton
Co-founder & COO of Bold Metrics
Co-founder at Bold Metrics.
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About Bold Metrics, MorganLinton.com: Building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices
Sahar Arshad
Co-Founder & COO of CloudMedx
Sahar Arshad is Co-Founder & COO at CloudMedx.
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About CloudMedx: We collect and convert disparate data into holistic and actionable views of individuals and communities.
Dede Houston
Co-founder and COO of Myxx
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About Myxx: Myxx is a shoppable marketing platform based on a proprietary personalized List-to-Cart technology with real-time store sales lift analytics
Chris Drake
COO of Leap
As Founder and Head of Strategy and Technology for Armor, Chris is charged with developing key strategic partnerships, creating large business opportunities, and advancing Armor’s long-term product vision. Chris founded the company in 2009. Under his leadership, Armor has grown to become one of the leading cloud security solutions providers in the industry, protecting 1,200 customers in 45 countries. Prior to founding Armor, Chris began his career by serving as a paratrooper in the legendary 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. After his service, Chris went on to establish an interactive marketing and web development company, TargetScope, which developed hundreds of websites and applications containing critical data. After watching customers’ data being compromised while using other hosting providers, he saw a clear need in the market for a secure cloud platform and established FireHost, now Armor. Chris has been recognized as one of the “40 under 40” business leaders by the Dallas Business Journal and has received the University of North Texas Distinguished Young Alumni Award. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of North Texas.
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About Leap: Leap is a data-driven company.
Steve Thornton
Chief Operating Officer of FlightStats
Steve Thornton joined FlightStats in 2012. As Chief Operating Officer, Steve is responsible for Operations, Product Support, Professional Services, and Program Management functions. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, including program and engineering management experience spanning 20 years with Intel, Steve has held key roles in engineering, factory support, field service, program & project management, training, technology development, new product introduction, and business process development. Steve served as the President of the Board of Directors for the Project Management Institute in Portland Oregon, and was a Senior Instructor in Corporate Management Development programs.
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About FlightStats: FlightStats is a smart data and advanced analytics company that provides global flight tracking and travel planning services.
Elon Kaiserman
COO & Co-Founder of SPIDR Tech
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About SPIDR Tech: SPIDR Tech is a law enforcement technology company.
Jason Thompson
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Marketing Officer of IntSights
Jason Thompson is the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Marketing Officer at IntSights, where he oversees business operations as well as global marketing and sales development. Jason brings over 15 years of executive and marketing leadership experience, particularly focused in high-growth cybersecurity organizations. Prior to joining IntSights, Jason served as Chief Marketing Officer at SecurityScorecard and led marketing at NS1 and SSH Communications Security. Jason holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Colorado State University and a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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About IntSights: IntSights is an external threat intelligence and protection platform built to neutralize threats outside the wire.
Steven Bitondo
COO & Co-Founder of Node Capital
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About Goodway Technologies, Node Capital: Node Capital is a technology development and data science company which provides data science solutions.
Lisa Graham
COO of Seeq
Lisa Graham is the chief operating officer of Seeq.
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About Alkemy Innovation, Seeq: Seeq is a software company that accelerates industrial process analytics for process manufacturing data.
Dan St. Onge
Chief Operating Officer of Eagle Investment Systems
Dan St. Onge joined BNY Mellon as Chief Financial Officer in 2020.
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About BNY Mellon, Eagle Investment Systems: Eagle Investment Systems provides data management, investment accounting and performance measurement technology solutions.
Sasha DeWitt
COO & Co-Founder of Habit
Sasha DeWitt is the Co-Founder & COO at Habit Analytics.
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About Habit: Contextual, embedded and affinity insurance journeys based on contextual data. The right product at the right time thought the right channel
Nisha Shoukath
COO & Co-Founder of People10 Technologies
Nisha Shoukath is Co-Founder of Skyl.ai & People10
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About People10 Technologies, Skyl.ai: People10 Technologies Inc. provide Software Services like., Agile and Lean Product development, QA , Application management & many more.
Roy Barak
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Vindicia
Roy Barak currently works as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Vindicia. He previously worked at Amdocs as Finance Business Partner – SI&O Sales, Marketing, Services R&D, O2A, and RevenueGuard.
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About Vindicia: Vindicia offers comprehensive subscription management solutions that help businesses acquire and retain more customers.
Stuart Morstead
Co-Founder, President & COO of Arundo Analytics
A high tech entrepreneur and enterprise counselor, a co-founder of two high tech services companies, and most recently a partner at McKinsey & Company where he led McKinsey’s IT practice in the Southern US and Northern Latin America, Stuart brings hands-on experience and a deep appreciation of the challenges of managing complex enterprises.
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About Arundo Analytics: Arundo Analytics provides cloud-based and edge-enabled software for the deployment and management.
Alberto Gomez
COO & Co-Founder of Irys
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About Irys: Irys offers AI-driven tools that bring real-time visibility and data analytics for urban stakeholders.
Edward Dingels
Chief Operating Officer of GroundTruth
Edward Dingels is the Chief Operating Officer at GroundTruth.
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About GroundTruth: GroundTruth, the leading location technology company that drives results with real-world data.
ALEXANDER REIFE
Co-Founder & COO of IDOS – DIGITAL CFO
Alex is the founder of IDOS CORP with over 18 years of experience actively engaged in international development activities, including procurement policy, regulations and audit, budgeting and financial analysis and management, program risk assessment, business and educational program development, fostering business linkages and institutional capacity building. He has extensive hands-on experience in providing full business cycle management of multi-year development projects involving large teams of local and expatriate staff and subcontractors. He possesses strong analytical research and writing experience in the areas of financial analysis, economic and business development related to private sector restructuring, capacity building processes, institutional and organizational strengthening. Alex has substantial experience in managing firms’ contract, compliance and audit operations, especially in the field of international development. He has deep knowledge of the US Federal procurement regulations and is well versed in procurement regulations of other donor organizations including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). Promoted team development through coaching, mentoring, and facilitating professional growth opportunities. Alex led numerous successful business proposal efforts for major indefinite quantity contracts (IQC) and US GSA schedules.
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About IDOS – DIGITAL CFO: Accounting & Financial management software platform
Scott Langmack
COO of KUKUN
Tech startup CEO and enterprise CMO with experience in B2C and B2B businesses ranging from startups to growth companies to Fortune 50 global leaders. Expertise in leading high-performance teams who build powerful global products and brands. Early career executive experience with Microsoft, Pepsi-Cola and others. Two-time entrepreneur/founder. One success/successful exit. One miss. Avid home designer and builder.
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About ConnectUp Inc., KUKUN: Kukun is an originator of property data and predictive analytics delivering superior valuations and forecasts
Ravi Obbu
Co-Founder & COO of Hexplora
Ravi has over two decades of extensive experience in IT Management and Operations and was responsible for Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, IT consulting and Resource Management. Ravi is also Vice President of Operations at Infowave Systems. Prior to joining Infowave, Ravi worked as a Projects Manager for DuPont USA where he was a key player in setting up a state-of-the-art system for a polymer compounding plant. Prior to DuPont, Ravi was with the Engineering Branch of the Indian Air Force (I A F). Ravi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from JNTU, Anantapur, India.
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About Hexplora, Infowave Systems: Hexplora offers a comprehensive, end-to-end data warehousing and business intelligence solution.
Isis Ashford
Co-Founder & COO of Xplosion Technology, Inc.
Isis Ashford is the Co-Founder and COO of Xplosion Technology.
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About Prairie View A & M University, Xplosion Technology, Inc.: A coaching platform that transforms motion sensor data into actionable insights for coaches and athletes.
Jim Fitchett
COO of VODA.ai
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About VODA.ai: VODA.ai is an Artificial Intelligence company, serving the water utility market.
Sandy Huang
COO of R2.ai
Sandy Huang currently works as Chief Operating Officer at R2.AI.
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About R2.ai: R2.ai provides end-to-end AutoML product to develop and deploy machine learning applications in a fast, easy and affordable way.
Sam Acheson
Chief Operating Officer of SolSpec
Sam Acheson is the Chief Operating Officer at Teren.
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About SolSpec: Teren is the data analytics software platform for energy and civil engineering. We transform data into actionable reports.
Sam Acheson
Chief Operating Officer of SolSpec
Sam Acheson is the Chief Operating Officer at Teren.
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About SolSpec: Teren is the data analytics software platform for energy and civil engineering. We transform data into actionable reports.
Jason Kaminsky
COO of kWh Analytics
Jason Kaminsky is the VP of Partnerships at kWh Analytics, responsible for the firm’s strategic relationships with financial partners and solar developers. Just prior to joining kWh Analytics, Jason spent more than three years as a Vice President of Environmental Finance at Wells Fargo Bank. As a senior member of the Wells Fargo deal team, Jason originated, underwrote, and financed tax-equity investments during a time when the bank added nearly $1bn of solar assets. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2011, Jason worked at SPG Solar, where he supported the CEO on strategic corporate initiatives and established the company’s technology selection framework. His time in the energy sector also includes roles at Chevron and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Jason is a speaker on such topics as tax-equity financing, solar technology selection, and the water-energy nexus. Jason received both his B.S. in Mathematics and his B.S. in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Environmental Sciences from UCLA. He holds an M.S. degree in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, and also completed his M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About kWh Analytics: kWh Analytics provides solar asset data and portfolio analytics for the solar industry.
Trey Davis
COO and Co-Founder of Artifact
Trey Davis is the Co-Founder and COO of Artifact.
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About Artifact: Artifact is a developer of a qualitative data insights platform used to understand customer needs.
Thibaut Munier
Co-Founder & COO of Numberly
Thibaut Munier is a graduate of the EM Lyon Business School. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Research in Database Marketing from the University of Dauphine in Paris. He conducted research on loyalty marketing and data mining for major airlines. He is passionate about how companies can become data rich through digital channels, and why programmatic CRM is the new future for retention marketing. For over 10 years, he has been working on leveraging machine learning for digital marketing in multiple contexts, from retail to CPG and luxury goods. His current areas of interest are People Based Marketing and incrementality through programmatic media. He is a frequent speaker on data driven strategies, the role of DMPs and the convergence of media and CRM. Amongst the speeches he has given are those for DataLead (Berkeley-ENSAE), Stanford (Center for Professional Development), the Appnexus Summit in NYC, EMLyon (Graduation ceremony), and the Watch Marketing International Conference in Switzerland.
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About Numberly: Numberly is a marketing technologist that helps advertisers build long-lasting relationships with their clients.
Doug Williams
Chief Operating Officer of HMS
Doug Williams serves as HMS president of markets and product, responsible for leading the company’s business development and product strategy. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare information technology, sales, and operations, with a focus in healthcare consulting. Prior to HMS, Doug served as chief information officer of Aveta (now part of Optum, Inc.), senior vice president of the payer business unit at MedeAnalytics, global healthcare partner for IBM, and healthcare partner at Protiviti, Inc.
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About HMS: HMS advances the healthcare system by helping health organizations cut costs and improve health outcomes.
Michael Avon
Chief Operating Officer of Clutch
Michael Avon is the COO at Clutch,a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
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About Clutch: Clutch serves as a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
Manan Shah
Co-founder & COO of Apteo
Manan Shah is the co-founder and COO of Apteo.
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About Apteo: Apteo is an automated predictive marketing tool that helps eCommerce brands to increase their repeat sales.
Devika Darbari
Chief Operating Officer of Knoema
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About Knoema: Knoema is an integrated data management platform and AI toolkit for enterprises and data professionals.
Christopher Carroll
Partner & Chief Operating Officer of Anthem Marketing Solutions
Mr. Carroll has over 18 years of consumer marketing experience. He is a results-driven professional with a history of creating and implementing dynamic initiatives designed to yield strategic advantages while building brand awareness and increasing sales. Noted for his pro-active, detail-oriented, and innovative leadership approach, with proven expertise and repeated success in direct marketing (including direct media) strategy, database marketing strategy, and CRM. Mr. Carroll has both agency-side and client-side experience. As Vice President of Media for Professional Education Institute (formerly AMS Direct), a for-profit education and training company, he directed a combined advertising budget in excess of $250MM that generated approximately $1B in gross sales. More recently he was Vice President, Financial Products and Services for Professional Education Institute where he oversaw all aspects of this business vertical, including brand management, marketing and sales, product development and new business development. Mr. Carroll holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Notre Dame.
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About Anthem Marketing Solutions: Anthem Marketing Solutions creates analytic marketing strategies and develops media marketing concepts for B2B and B2C marketers.
Ben Hatala
COO of Clicktivated
COO at Clicktivated.
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About Clicktivated: Clicktivated is an IP-protected platform that enables viewers the ability to interact with individual items inside video.
