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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 CTO’ operating in the Art space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Brien Colwell
CTO & Co-Founder of HeadSpin
Brien previously founded YC-backed Nextop. He worked on mobile architecture at Quora and started and led the Android team through many international launches. He was also an early engineer at Palantir and a lead engineer at a number of data and mobile startups.
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
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Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Ben Mabey
CTO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Ben is passionate about Recursion’s mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives. Before joining Recursion Ben was a Data Scientist in the healthcare space applying biometric sensors in wellness and recovery programs. Prior to that he ran a data science consulting company and was a machine learning engineer in ad-tech. Ben earned his MS in Computer Science from the University of Utah where he studied computer graphics and machine learning. Outside of work Ben enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, trail running, and competing in triathlons.
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Cameron Marlow
CTO at Apella Technology of Apella Technology
Cameron Marlow is a researcher at [Stanford University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-university). He founded and led the data science team at Facebook, which was responsible for applied research, product optimization, and user behavioral modeling within the company. Marlow received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. After completing his Ph.D., Marlow joined Yahoo Research where he studied social incentives, community evolution and social search in emerging applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Last.fm. He was also a research assistant at the University of Chicago and developer at Lafayette Project.
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About Apella Technology, Physera: Apella Technology is an AI startup that brings modern engineering to improve surgery.
Roopak Gupta
Chief Technology Officer of Eskalera
Roopak Gupta is an industry veteran of 20+ years who has built innovative, highly scalable and best-in-class Big data and Machine learning technologies at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals. Before Eskalera, Roopak was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and VP of Applications and Data at Krux, where he led the team responsible for the development and delivery of all of Krux’s products. Prior to that, Roopak led inventory management and price optimization engineering teams at Microsoft, having joined via Rapt acquisition. Roopak has a Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a minor in Management.
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About Eskalera: Eskalera improves employee engagement, productivity, and growth to help large and medium-sized companies transform their HR operations.
Bo Zhu
CTO of BlinkAI
Bo Zhu’s current work centers on the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to accelerate high-fidelity image acquisition and reconstruction for imaging modalities across the physical and life sciences. Bo is a cofounder of BlinkAI, and a postdoctoral research fellow in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and in Physics at Harvard University, based at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT where his research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) introduced the fusion of Doppler ultrasound and acoustic features for multimodal speech recognition, producing robust performance in noisy environments. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, where his graduate research focused on the development of switchable MRI contrast for molecular imaging to significantly boost imaging sensitivity of injectable contrast agents. As a postdoctoral research fellow, Bo proposed AUTOMAP (Nature 2018), which rethinks the conventional image reconstruction signal processing pipeline with a fully automated deep learning approach, resulting in significantly improved images even with rapidly scanned low-quality raw data, and sets up a flexible computational foundation for accelerating the future development of novel image acquisition strategies and unconventional hardware designs.
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About BlinkAI: BlinkAI designs and develops artificial intelligence based application software to extract sensor information.
Tom Dixon
CTO of Yext
Tom serves as Yext’s Chief Operating Officer, supervising engineering and development of the company’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Yext, Tom founded justatip.com and co-founded Intwine. He also served as CIO of Datran Media during its acquisition of Intwine. Tom holds a degree in philosophy from Princeton University.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
David Zbarsky
Chief Technology Officer of Clearstep
David started working at Mozilla and contributing to open source as a sophomore in high school, continuing to do so throughout college at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a dual degree from the Wharton School of Business and the school of Engineering. While interning at Bloomberg during undergrad, he created an internal tool to vastly speed up development efforts for thousands of engineers. He then went on to work at Dropbox, contributing to infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems as well as continuing to contribute to open source projects. Some projects David led included infrastructure optimizations saving tens of millions of dollars annually as well as creating a web-scale monitoring system. David’s engineering and leadership experiences have prepared him to spearhead Clearstep’s development and deliver a revolutionary product that materially improves patients’ lives.
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About Clearstep: Clearstep is a platform for health systems to provide a complete and digital front door experience.
Mahmoud Arram
Co-founder & CTO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CTO of TriggerMail; an ecommerce marketing automation company. He had once built the multi-channel user notifications infrastructure -including email- for Sponty, Gameday Tycoon, LoopIt, Canv.as and Moda Operandi. Previously, He led the engineering team at Moda Operandi, the premiere luxury fashion ecommerce retailer. He was responsible for building the email infrastructure, revenue and reporting systems, multi-currency order calculators and on-site merchandising tools. Prior to M`O, He was a software architect at Allurent designing merchandisable shopping experiences for online retailers. He was on the team that lead the transition to a SAAS business and implemented Allurent’s radically simple integration strategy. While on leave from Allurent, He co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which helped people discover indy music events. In a previous life, He worked on a heart monitoring device at Guidant. At 22 He was the youngest person to receive the highest technical award among 3000 engineers. He graduated in 2004 with dual degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering from Iowa State University on a full merit scholarship. He also tried to teach computers how to read cursive Arabic handwriting at MIT.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Amine Anoun
Co-Founder & CTO of Evisort
Amine Anoun is the co-founder and CTO of Evisort. Prior to that, he served as a data scientist at Uber.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Simon Williams
CTO of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Matt Doherty
Founder & CTO of ResoluteAI
Matt Doherty is the Founder & CTO at ResoluteAI.
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About ResoluteAI: ResoluteAI makes information retrieval seamless, helping you to innovate smarter.
Tim Stonehocker
CTO of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Hassan Afzal
Chief Technology Officer of Afiniti
Prior to joining the Afiniti team, Hassan held senior management positions with Deloitte Consulting, Commerce One and American Management Systems. At Deloitte Consulting, Hassan advised the CIOs of Fortune 500 companies on technology strategy, merger integration, and enterprise system implementations. As Senior Principal at American Management Systems (AMS), Hassan was responsible for the systems deployment function of AMS’s Healthcare product offering. As Senior Director at Commerce One, Hassan was responsible for professional services engagements in the Oil and Gas sector. Hassan holds a MA in Information Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Vikesh Khanna
CTO & Co-founder of Ambient.ai
CTO & co-founder
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Toshish Jawale
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Paritosh Gupta
Co-founder, CTO of Orai
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About Orai: Orai is an AI speech coach that helps people sound more confident in meetings and presentations.
Daniel Rasmuson
Co-founder & CTO of Labelbox
Dan Rasmuson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Labelbox, the leading training data management software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He was previously an Engineering Manager at DroneDeploy where he started and grew their platform to more than 100 integrations. These integrations are now providing access to machine learning for aerial imagery all of the world. Dan is a technologist recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and a youth national chess and ultimate frisbee champion.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Joshua Augustin
Chief Technology Officer of Tempo
Joshua Augustin is the CTO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Paulo Marques
Founding Partner and CTO of Feedzai
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Feedzai, Forbes Technology Council: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Stijn Christiaens
Co-founder & CTO of Collibra
Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Raj Neervannan
Chief Technology Officer of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Chiu Chau
Co-Founder, CTO of OpenTrons
Chiu worked in biotech for 20+ years before building the first OpenTrons robot. In his previous company (bought by Immucor in 2008) he led the engineering team to build the core multiplex qPCR automation technology now used in most blood banks for advanced blood typing. Chiu grew up in Hong Kong and is a diehard raquetball player.
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Shawn Lewis
Founder, CTO of Weights & Biases
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Jeff Kinsey
Co-Founder & CTO of Dataminr
Jeff Kinsey is Chief Technology Officer at Dataminr. Prior to co-founding Dataminr in 2009,]eff worked as a Software Engineer at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he developed research software for the study and modeling of the micro-behaviors of language comprehension. Additionally, he was a Consulting Engineer at Market & Research Systems, where he built custom CRM and database tools for enterprise clients. Before UMASS,Jeff developed computational emulators of the human language acquisition process, leveraging large behavioral data sets.Jeff holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University, with a focus on computational linguistics. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Dan Dubiner
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of ScaleHub AG
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About ScaleHub AG: AI & HI for better data – at infinite scale, Managed Service, CrowdSourcing/Collective Intelligence Services for Data Entry & Data Labeling
Justin White
CTO and Co-Founder of Notable
Justine White is the Co-Founder & CTO at Notable.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Hakan Gultekin
Co-Founder and CTO of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Aravind Bala
Co-Founder & CTO of SeekOut
Aravind Bala is the co-founder and CTO of Seekout.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Jonathan Chen
CTO & Co-Founder of Pathover
Co-Founder of FiscalNote, Inc., and Pathover. Inc. Specialized in AI & ML. Inc. 30 Under 30. D.C. 25 Under 25. Valedictorian University of Maryland, College Park.
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About FiscalNote, FiscalNote, Pathover: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Lateef Jackson
CTO of Troy Medicare
Lateef is an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor focused in healthcare technology. He is passionate about investing in non-traditionally funded founders. Lateef is an investor and CTO of Troy Medicare, a tech-enabled Medicare Advantage company focused on underserved communities. He has over 20 years of experience leading engineering teams at startups and large companies. He has led teams in building technology for cloud computing, real estate, healthcare and finance. Lateef holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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About iMedicare, Troy Medicare: Troy Medicare is arming independent pharmacies with a health plan and platform tailored to their most vulnerable patients.
Yash Nelapati
Co-founder and CTO of MakersPlace
Yash Nelapati is the co-founder and CTO at MakersPlace.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Anurag Kanungo
Co-Founder and CTO of Voxel
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About Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Tudor Achim
CTO of Helm.ai
Tudor Achim is the Chief Technology Officer of Helm.ai.
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About Helm.ai: Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
Kaushik Pendurthi
Co-founder, CTO of JOBOX.ai
Kaushik graduated with his masters in computer science from NYUs Courant Institute and has worked for BeWo and Nokia. In 2012 Kaushik was the global champion for the BeMyApp hackathon.
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About JOBOX.ai: JOBOX.ai is a AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy. Jobox officially launched from stealth mode in April 2022.
David P. Mariani
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of AtScale
Dave Mariani is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the VP of Technology. Prior to AtScale,he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.
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About AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
Robin Ducot
CTO of Momentive
Robin joined SurveyMonkey in October 2017. She leads the company’s engineering function and works closely with product, design, and data teams to help define our technical product vision. Previously, Robin spent five years as Senior Vice President of Product Engineering at DocuSign where she scaled the engineering team into a high-velocity streamlined organization using scaled agile framework, moved the product to a multi-product platform with a service-oriented architecture, and shifted the organization to a continuous integration delivery model. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Engineering at Eventbrite responsible for delivery of their platform and building out a complete engineering organization with extremely high staffing standards. Robin earned her BS in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Abraham Bachrach
Founder, CTO of Skydio
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About Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Varun Ganapathi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AKASA
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About AKASA, Terminal.com: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Alex Johnson
CTO & Co-Founder of Plotly
Alex is Plotly’s CTO and the instigator of Plotly.js. He also consults for Microsoft Research and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on data acquisition for quantum computing experiments. Alex holds a BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 20 peer reviewed publications, including 2006 paper of the year in Science, and other top journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Power Sources. He has previously worked in the fields of semiconductor optics, quantum information, magnetic resonance imaging, hydrogen fuel cells, and photovoltaic power.
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About Plotly: Plotly is a data science and AI company that makes it easy to create and deploy interactive web apps in any programming language.
Philipp Meisen
CTO & Cofounder of Breinify
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About Breinify, Philipp Meisen (LinkedIn): Predictive Personalization at Scale
Nischal Nadhamuni
CTO & Founder of Klarity
Nischal is Cofounder and CTO of Klarity. Nischal is an MIT hacker (B.S. 18′) with strong Machine Learning background. Before he co-founded Klarity, he built an automated fraudulent user detection tool at Flipkart and worked on algorithms to detect cancer causing mutations using Machine Learning for Mass General Hospital.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Josh Albrecht
CTO of Generally Intelligent
Josh thinks that computers and people are both interesting, so he started an AI recruiting company. He got paid to program video games in high school, published ML / NLP research, and sold a company. He enjoys playing new board games for the first time and can tell you exactly what he was doing during any minute in the past 10 years.
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About Generally Intelligent: Generally Intelligent is an AI research company that works on building human-level general machine intelligence that can learn naturally.
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan
Co Founder and CTO of Lily AI
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan currently serves Lily AI as co-founder and CTO. Prior to joining Lily AI, Narayanan was a software engineer designer for Texas Instruments, Informatica, and Yahoo!, and mobile apps Pocket Games and Gem Box.
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About Lily AI: Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce.
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & CTO of Databricks
Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks. He started the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to serve as its vice president at Apache. Matei also co-started the Apache Mesos project and is a committer on Apache Hadoop. Matei’s research work on datacenter systems was recognized through two Best Paper awards and the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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About Databricks, Stanford University, The Apache Software Foundation: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Mohan Reddy
Cofounder & Founding CTO of Astound
Mohan Reddy is the Co-Founder and Founding CTO at Astound.
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About Astound, FogHorn, FogHorn, SkyHive, Stanford University, The Hive, Vizzario: Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service.
Mike Warren
Co-founder & CTO of Descartes Labs
Mike leads the technical team at Descartes Labs as the Co-founder & CTO. His past work spans a wide range of disciplines, with the recurring theme of developing and applying advanced software and computing technology to understand the physical and virtual world. He was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years, and also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sandpiper Networks/Digital Island. His work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the Gordon Bell prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. He has degrees in Physics and Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, and he received a PhD in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
Chris Jones
Chief Technology Officer of iRobot
Chris Jones is Vice President of Technology at iRobot Corporation. Chris Jones has over 20 years of experience in robotics research and development across academia, government, and industry. At iRobot his responsibilities are centered on strategic technology planning and development and fostering partnerships to advance the state-of-the-art in practical consumer robotics. Prior to joining iRobot in 2005, he was involved in robotics research and development at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich, the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Robotics Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Chris Jones received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University
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About iRobot, iRobot Ventures: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Amy Yuan Zaoshi
Chief Technology Officer of Proven Skincare
Amy Yuan Zaoshi co-founded Proven Skincare in 2017, since which she has been serving as its chief technology officer.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Hans Lee
CTO and Co-founder of Freedom Robotics
Hans Lee is the CTO and Co-Founder of Freedom Robotics. He is also the Startup advisor, architect, and developer-in-residence at Innovativelee. Hans is a former CEO and CTO (Acquired by Tobii) at Sticky.ai and was Location-Aware API Lead at Fitbit. Mr. Lee graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a concentration in AI.
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About Freedom Robotics: Freedom Robotics is a software company that creates powerful control and monitoring software for modern robotics companies.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Rajeev Dadia
Chief Technology Officer of Saama
Saama Technologies‘ Chief Technology Officer, Rajeev Dadia drives the technology roadmap to enhance Saama’s technical edge and improve overall quality through leadership in delivery process and resource management. Previously at Saama, he lead the development of strategies, methodologies, and partnerships that enhance Saama’s solution sets offered during each client engagement. Rajeev focuses on cloud, syndicated data sources, social data, and mobile technologies as it impacts the data and analytics needs of the organization. He has 20 years of successive experience in leadership roles at Saama and at Silicon Graphics (SGI) in Corporate Information Systems. Rajeev has created BI and Analytic strategies for large organizations and managed large-scale deployments of data warehousing, analytics and applied data mining/predictive analytics systems in diverse business environments. He has also been involved in analysis, design and deployment of both B2C and B2B solutions in different vertical industries. In addition, he led the development of a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence operation to provide offshore development capabilities. He earned an M.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Chico.
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Antonio Nucci
CTO of Aisera
Antonio Nucci is the Chief Technology Officer at Aisera.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer of Shield AI
Nathan is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer as well as an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Michael is Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab; author of over 140 publications on control, perception, and cognition for resilient intelligent single and multi-robot systems; nominee or recipient of nine best paper awards (ICRA, RSS, DARS, CASE, SSRR); recipient of the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award and Robotics Society of Japan Best Paper Award (of 2014); and PI of past and ongoing research programs supported by ARL, AFRL, DARPA, DOE, DTRA, NASA, NSF, ONR, and industry. Nathan develops resilient intelligent autonomous systems capable of coordination and communication in challenging GPS-Denied environments.
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
Kairui Zeng
CTO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Xiaodi Hou
Founder & CTO of TuSimple
Dr. Xiaodi Hou co-founded TuSimple in 2015 and serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Xiaodi Hou is an internationally renowned expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. Dr. Xiaodi Hou currently holds 13 patents in the field of autonomous vehicles. In the field of computer vision, Mr. Hou has developed leading theories in computational models for visual saliency. He earned a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Xiaodi Hou has presented at global events such as Web Summit and Nvidia’s GTC conference and has been featured in leading publications such as Wired and Forbes.
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About TuSimple: TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing technology that allows them to drive from depot-to-depot without human intervention.
Arvind Sundararajan
CTO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Arvind Sundararajan is the CTO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. Before starting RealityEngines.AI,he was a senior technical lead at Uber’s autonomous vehicles division where he led the Autonomy Systems team, responsible for wide ranging software initiatives across the autonomy stack spanning onboard software, ML, and infrastructure. Previously, he was the CTO and co-founder of Post Intelligence. Before Post Intelligence, he was at Google, where he was the technical lead for AdSense’s machine learning and serving system, and the technical lead for GMail’s backend system (part of the initial launch team). Arvind was the recipient of two founders awards at Google and has a M.S. (CS) degree from Stanford and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Leif K-Brooks
Co-founder & CTO of Octane AI
Leif is one of the world’s leading experts at scaling and building chat technologies and has been building chat platforms for the last decade.He is the founder and creator of Omegle, one of the largest chat platforms of its kind. More than a million people use Omegle daily and his technology has powered over 2 billion conversations.
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About Octane AI, Omegle: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Dongho Kim
Co-Founder & CTO of Secondmind
Dongho’s research interests are various fields of machine learning and in particular decision making under uncertainty via reinforcement learning. He is originally from South Korea and a former postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is co-founder and CTO at PROWLER.io. He used to play the keyboard and write songs in a rock band. He has also been practising guitar with games like Rocksmith.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Nicolas Borensztein
Founder & CTO of CrowdAI
Founder at CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Sam Artioli
CTO of Abe AI
Sam Artioli is a Solutions Architect with 15+ years experience in Software Development. He currently manages the technology initiatives of the Abe, a white-label chatbot software for community banks and credit unions. Prior to leading the technology initiatives of Abe, Sam was the Lead Solutions Architect in Emerging Technology for Disney. During this time he was responsible for experimenting with machine learning and advanced NLP and chatbot technologies. Prior to his work with the emerging technology division of Disney, Sam worked as an engineer for Apple where he focused mainly on Build Systems and Foundation Code; programming in C, Objective-C, Unix and Perl. As a GM, Sam oversaw the release of essential Apple Software including DVD Studio Pro, iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iSync, Keynote, Logic, Motion, Qmaster, QuickTime, Shake, and Soundtrack. These days you can find Sam these days crafting full platform configurations with Node.js, Angular, Gulp, Express, Cordova, a splash of Go, and Docker to bind it all together.
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About Abe AI: Abe builds conversational banking solutions for progressive banks.
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO of Computable
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Brad Ito
Co-Founder & CTO of Retina AI
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About Retina AI: Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Bob Lindner
Co-Founder & CTO of VEDA Data Solutions
Dr. Robert Lindner leads innovation and data science at VEDA. Bob is a published astrophysicist with experience modeling data from a wide variety of sources, like radio telescopes, X-ray satellites, and Twitter. As a postdoctoral researcher at UW-Madison, he led the development of a new computer vision algorithm to help researchers interpret large data sets from next generation telescopes. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University, and studied mathematics and astrophysics at UW-Madison.
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About VEDA Data Solutions: VEDA is an AI and machine learning platform to save healthcare and administrative costs.
Thrasyvoulos Karydis
CTO and Co-Founder of DeepCure
Thrasyvoulos Karydis is the CTO and Co-Founder at DeepCure.
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About DeepCure: DeepCuris builds an AI engine for small-molecule drug discovery.
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Farhan Baaqri
Chief Technology Officer of Opera Solutions
Farhan Baaqri is the chief technology officer of [Opera Solutions](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opera-solutions#/entity), a provider of advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from big data. Baaqri holds a master’s degree in computer science from Preston University. He lives in New York, United States.
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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.
Rohan Sathe
Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall AI
Rohan Sathe is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall.
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About Nightfall AI: Nightfall identifies business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.
Kenny Daniel
Co-Founder & CTO of Algorithmia
Kenny Daniel is co-founder and CTO of Algorithmia. He previously worked at wine enthusiast app, Delectable, to build out a deep learning, image-based recognition system. Kenny holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Mechanism Design.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
David Julian
Founder & CTO of NetraDyne
David Julian, co-founder and chief technology officer, leads Netradyne’s long-term technology vision. A 20-year technology R&D veteran, he sees near infinite potential for Computer Vision and Deep Learning to solve things from everyday problems to highly specialized use-cases from automotive, healthcare and energy exploration, to recreation and entertainment. Prior to co-founding Netradyne in 2015, David served as Principal Engineer at Qualcomm, where he was awarded over 100 US patents covering a wide range of technologies during his 12 year tenure at the company. While at Qualcomm, he was also the Project and Systems Engineering Lead of a multidisciplinary team for the company’s ultra low-power and ranging ultra-wideband R&D efforts, taking it from concept to system-on-chip (SOC) prototypes. David was also instrumental in Qualcomm’s Zeroth team achieving best performance on the 2015 NIST TREVID semantic indexing task for video. Before Qualcomm, David co-founded Mountain View Analytics and supported Voyager and Cassini Deep Space programs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and a master’s of science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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About NetraDyne: NetraDyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.
Thomas DeGodoy
Data Scientist & CTO of DataRobot
Tom has more than 10 years of experience as a data science leader, building and implementing predictive models. As CTO of DataRobot, Tom projects the vision of the company by directing its strategic technology investments. Before DataRobot, Tom was Senior Director of Research and Modeling at Travelers Insurance, where he managed a team of data scientists. Tom has been ranked as high as 20th in the world on the data science competition platform Kaggle.com, which has more than 500,000 registered data scientists. Tom has his master’s degree in Mathematics, and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Michael Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer of DataRobot
Michael Schmidt is the Chief Scientists at DataRobot, and has been featured in the Forbes list of the world’s top 7 data scientists and MIT’s list of the most innovative 35-under-35. He has authored AI research in the journal Science and has appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, NPR’s RadioLab, the Science Channel, and Communications of the ACM. In 2011, Michael founded Nutonian and led the development Eureqa, a machine learning application and service used by over 80,000 users and later acquired by DataRobot in 2017. Most recently, his work has focused on automated machine learning, feature engineering, and time series prediction
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Aaron Kimball
CTO of Zymergen
At Zymergen, Aaron is responsible for building the data architecture to facilitate a robotics-driven approach to genome engineering. Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron has worked at several big data-oriented startups. He was the first employee at Cloudera, where he helped with a variety of big data challenges. In 2010 Aaron cofounded WibiData, the big data application company. Aaron has been working with the open-source project Apache Hadoop since 2007 and authored Apache Sqoop and MRUnit. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in computer science.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Arjun Narang
Co-Founder & CTO of Gatik
Arjun Narang is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics. The company delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium duty trucks, focusing on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers such as Walmart and Loblaw.
Arjun has 10+ years of experience working in the robotics space with expertise in perception, sensor fusion based SLAM, probabilistic modeling and multi-task learning. As a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, he built robots and intelligent systems that are able to autonomously operate in complex and open-ended environments. Before founding Gatik, Arjun was the Head of Perception at Otsaw Digital, where he conceptualized and led a multi-disciplinary team of engineers for development of hardware, firmware, software, backend, on-device and in-cloud algorithms for outdoor autonomous navigation of the O-R3 patrolling robot.
Arjun has made critical research contributions in the field of autonomous systems at Waseda University (Japan), CUNY (USA), Infratek Solutions (USA) and Carnegie Robotics (USA). He has contributed to several research papers on self-driving and robotics technology. Arjun earned his M.S. (Focus on Robotics and AI) from Purdue University and
B.S. from BITS Pilani, India.
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About Gatik: Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
Tianqi Chen
Co-Founder and CTO of OctoML
Tianqi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he was a member of ACM Class, now part of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. He did his master’s degree at Changhai Jiao Tong University in China on Apex Data and Knowledge Management before joining the University of Washington as a PhD. He has had several prestigious internships and has been a visiting scholar including: Google on the Brain Team, at Graphlab authoring the boosted tree and neural net toolkit, at Microsoft Research Asia in the Machine Learning Group, and the Digital Enterprise Institute in Galway Ireland. What really excites Tianqi is what processes and goals can be enabled when we bring advanced learning techniques and systems together. He pushes the envelope on deep learning, knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. His PhD is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship.
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About OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Andrew Volkov
Co-founder and CTO of WorkFusion
Andrew founded WorkFusion along with Max in 2010. As CTO, he oversees the WorkFusion’s technology strategy as well as development of its flagship products, WorkFusion™ and CrowdVirtualizer™. Prior to founding WorkFusion, Andrew was VP Technology at Freedom OSS, one of the first cloud computing consultancies and an early partner of Amazon Web Services. Andrew has held technology leadership and software architectural positions since 1997, ranging from Fortune 500 companies, such as Deutsche Bank, Motorola, Dun & Bradstreet, Bellcore (Telcordia) to not-for-profit entities, such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Andrew has BS degree in Math and Physics and MS degree in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Marc Aché
CTO of WorkFusion
Marc leads engineering at WorkFusion. He was most recently SVP of Technology at Viacom, where he managed and architected brand properties such as MTV, The VMAs, South Park, Comedy Central, VH1 and Logo. He first joined MTV in 2005 to build and launch its music service Urge, and the Zune service for Microsoft. Before that, Marc headed up R&D for Universal Music, Pressplay, and Napster. For more than 25 years, Marc has been a leader and evangelist for the importance of modern engineering practices such as DevOps, CI/CD, end-to-end test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud native systems.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Yun Fu
Co-Founder, CTO of Otter.ai
Yun is CTO and Co-Founder of Otter.ai. Previously, Yun was Head of Infrastructure in Particle Media Inc, Director Engineering in Alohar Mobile, and Principal Engineer in Yahoo. Yun held a number of patents in mobile technologies, distributed systems and information retrieval. Yun has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
Vlad Panov
CTO of Portion
I co-founded a startup (RegTech) that was selected into Techstars Barclays 2016 program (one of top 3 incubators). The same startup won multiple awards, including “Most Likely to Scale” from Amazon and was contracted by three global corporations as a software solution. My second successful startup raised $5M in seed round, was accepted into multiple incubators and was acknowledged for technology advances in the field of blockchain. In large corporations (JPMorgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley) I managed large groups of developers (up to 30 employees), proposed and won internal contracts to develop new products for that company, and most of them have been praised by major publications (including WSJ and NYT).
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About Portion: A marketplace for NFTs & art.
Tapojit Debnath
Co-founder & CTO of Obviously AI
Originally from Bangladesh, Tapojit has a background in Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics. Previously, he researched at MIT on Convolutional Neural Nets. And actively organized the first interdisciplinary Hackathon in the US for two years. After his job as a Machine Learning Engineer at B8ta, Tapojit is now the CTO at Obviously AI.
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About Obviously AI: Obviously AI is a tool for business analysts and product teams to rapidly run predictions on historical data.
Peter Swartz
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Peter Swartz is the CTO and co-founder of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Christopher Ciabarra
CTO and Co Founder of Athena Security
Co-founder, CTO at Athena Security
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About : Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Jeremy Fillingim
CTO of PassiveLogic
Highly experienced engineer with a wide variety of problem solving skills in both the hardware and software domains. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Specialties: C, C++, Python, Lua, Linux kernel development, PCB Design, Information Theory, High-speed Digital Design (ASIC/FPGA), Verilog, VHDL
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About PassiveLogic: PassiveLogic – the world’s first fully autonomous buildings platform.
Robin Singh
CTO of Doxel
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About Doxel: Doxel delivers an AI-powered project controls platform that predicts costly delays and cost overruns on construction projects.
Sriram Chakravarthy
Founder & CTO of Avaamo
Founder and CTO of Avaamo.
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About Avaamo: Avaamo is a deep learning Virtual Assistant Platform for the enterprise.
Brandon Hilkert
CTO of Bark Technologies
As CTO, Brandon is focused on delivering technology solutions to help protect our children from the dangers of the internet. As a technology leader with more than 10 years of industry experience, Brandon is also a parent of two young children and wants the internet to be a valuable place for them to learn while also being protected. Most recently, Brandon was Engineering Lead at PipelineDeals, a SaaS CRM. He’s also co-founded and served as CTO of Meeteor, an application that leverages social data to make introductions to people you didn’t know, but should. He also recently wrote a book on building Ruby gems. Brandon graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.
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About Bark Technologies: Bark uses AI to detect issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats.
Kevin McGrath
CTO of Spot.io
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Naren Thiagarajan
Co-Founder and CTO of FloydHub
Co-Founder / CTO at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
Yaacov Apelbaum
CTO and Founder of XRVision Pte. Ltd.
Yaacov Apelbaum is a CTO and Founder of XRVision.
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About XRVision Pte. Ltd.: AI-based Enterprise-grade Video Content Analytics (VCA) software
Shon Myatt
CTO, President & Co-Founder of Babel Street
Shon Myatt Co-Founder and CTO of Babel Street, Shon Myatt shares the first steps that he took to found Babel Street, a technology company that provides intelligence from online and private sources that accurately detected the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks before it happened.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Qirong Ho
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Petuum
Qirong Ho is vice president of technology at Petuum, Inc., an adjunct assistant professor at the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, and a former principal investigator at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. Qirong’s research focuses on distributed cluster software systems for machine learning at big data and big model scales, with a view toward theoretical correctness and performance guarantees, as well as practical needs like robustness, programmability, and usability. Qirong also works on statistical models for large-scale network analysis and social media, including latent space models for visualization, community detection, user personalization, and interest prediction. He is a recipient of the Singapore A*STAR National Science Search Undergraduate and PhD fellowships and the KDD 2015 Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner up).
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About Petuum, Singapore Management University: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Austin Trombley
CTO of Random Forest Capital
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About Random Forest Capital, SpotOn, Vaultbank: Investing more intelligently in credit via AI and Machine Learning
Luis F Voloch
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Immunai
Luis F Voloch is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Immunai, where he is helping bring transformational change to immunology, cancer, science, and beyond.
Immunai has a team of over 130 experts in machine learning, software, immunology, and genomics technologies and are focused on mapping and reprogramming the immune system, which has allowed his team to build the largest database for immunological data in the world.
Previously, Voloch was the Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at Israel Tech Challenge and worked on a variety of Genomics and AI efforts industry (including Palantir) and at MIT.
He won the Best Thesis award among all PhD-track students in MIT’s Computer Science department and was previously listed in this year’s Forbes 30-Under-30, Israel, and the list of top 100 MIT alumni.
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About Immunai: Immunai is a biotech company that combines single cell genomics with ML algorithms to enable high resolution profiling of the immune system.
