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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 Information Technology 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.
Eric Svetcov
CTO/CSO of Medigram
Recognized leader building highly resilient and performant solutions with security, privacy and compliance requirements built in at all levels of the solution. History of driving cutting edge solutions with embedded market winning compliance requirements into high performance cloud computing solutions that solve customer business problems. Skilled at engendering confidence, trust, and performance with both internal and external teams to deliver within specified timeframes. Applying all of my experience in Architecture, Solution Design, Security, Privacy, IT, Support, & Technical Operations to build one of the most important companies of our time. At Medigram we are building a new kind of company to solve some of the hardest challenges in medicine; initially targeting to save hundreds of thousands of lives and delay disability for millions more. Specific Achievements: 1. Startup veteran – fourth time designing IT/Operations/Security from scratch 2. Designed architecture and infrastructure for a real-time data analytics product delivering $18MM ARR. 3. Rapid scaling – drove IT/Operations/Security that enabled 5x headcount growth over a 2 year period 4. Builds Governance/Security programs – ISO 27001, HITRUST, HIPAA, COBIT, and ITIL 5. International Scale – Driving results in Europe, Middle East, North America, APAC, and ANZ 6. Sought after trainer/speaker internationally 7. Co-author CCISO Body of Knowledge and articles in leading IT/Security magazines
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About EC – Council, Medigram: Medigram provides instant insight to save lives and make hospitals millions on iOS, Android, & the web. It is a full stack system.
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GEORGE NG
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of GGWP
George Ng joined GGWP as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer.
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About GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
Bryan McCann
CTO and Co-Founder of you.com
Bryan McCann is a Co-Founder and CTO of You.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
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.
Larry Ellison
Chief Technology Officer of Oracle
Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and served as CEO until September 2014. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.
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About Lawrence Investments, Oracle, Oracle Corporation Japan, Tako Ventures: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Devon Townsend
Co-Founder & CTO of Cameo
Devon Townsend is a co-founder and CTO at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
David Bill
CTO of Freestyle
David Bill is the CTO at Freestyle Capital.
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About Burning Man Project, First Round Capital, Freestyle: Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Jeff Flowers
Co-Founder, CTO of Wasabi Technologies
Jeff Flowers is the Board Member at Carbonite. Jeff Flowers (Co – Founder and former CTO and Chief Architect at Carbonite) is a seasoned technology executive with deep IT and technical expertise. Jeff has worked with David Friend (CEO) since 1982 and co-founded Sonexis, FaxNet and Pilot Software. At Sonexis and FaxNet, he also served as CTO. In 2009, he was named CTO of the Year by the Mass Technology Leadership Council. In addition to the three companies he co-founded with David, Jeff served as VP of Engineering for Computer Pictures. He also served as VP of Development at ON Technology Corporation, a software vendor that provided groupware and utility products for Apple and Novell Netware operating environments. During Jeff’s tenure, ON Technology completed its IPO. Jeff holds a B.S. and M.S. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He attended the Northeastern University School of Business.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
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.
Brad Boven
CTO of PEAK6 Investments
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About PEAK6 Investments: Peak6 Investments operates as an investment management firm.
Eric Tang
Chief Technology Officer of Livepeer
Co-founder and CTO at Wildcard
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About Groupon, Hyperpublic, Livepeer, Wildcard: Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Suresh Venkatarayalu
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer – Safety & Productivity Solutions of Honeywell
Suresh Venkatarayalu is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Safety & Productivity Solutions (SPS). Suresh is responsible for driving New Product Introduction, Innovation, Technology Roadmaps, Mid-segment Offerings, Internet of Things, and fueling Breakthrough Initiatives. Most recently, he was VP & Chief Technology Officer, Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) leading global technology and engineering organization fueling growth & innovation. Prior to leading technology agenda for ACS, Suresh was President, Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), leading more than 50% of Honeywell’s global technology design centers across India, China, and Czech Republic. Suresh has 23 years of technology & IT leadership experience, beginning his career in the aerospace industry with India’s Aeronautical Development Agency. At Honeywell, he contributed to number of avionics products & platforms in Aerospace; strategically applied his business and technical expertise across businesses turning IT into a transformational growth driver; managed technology development and engineering driving and impacting Honeywell businesses and their customers globally He received Honeywell’s 2009 Senior Leadership Award and the 2011 Aerospace Leadership Award for his outstanding and exceptional contributions to the organization. A graduate in Computer Science Engineering from Bharathidasan University (India), he has completed his post-graduation in General Management from IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Kozhikode (India).
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About Honeywell, Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Adam Perry-Pelletier
Co-founder & CTO of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
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
Devavrat Shah
Co-founder and CTO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Lincoln Wallen
CTO of Improbable
Lincoln is chief technology officer for DreamWorks Animation, the global family entertainment company, a position he has held since 2012, having joined the company as head of research and development in 2008. Prior to this, Lincoln served as chief technology officer for the mobile business of Electronic Arts, Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software company. He has held senior positions at Criterion Software, MathEngine plc and is a non-executive director of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics & System Engineering. Lincoln is also an advisory board member of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a member of the STEM Advisory Committee of the National Academy foundation. Lincoln was formerly a lecturer and reader in computation at the University of Oxford.
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About Caltech, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Paul Daugherty
Chief Technology & Information Officer of Accenture
Paul Daugherty is Accenture’s Chief Technology Officer and senior managing director of Accenture’s Technology Strategy and Innovation group. With these roles, Daugherty is responsible for Accenture’s technology innovation and growth agenda. He oversees Accenture Technology Labs, Accenture’s Cloud and Mobility businesses, and groups that incubate emerging technology capabilities. Daugherty also is responsible for Accenture’s pool of deeply skilled, certified technology architects. Previous roles include Chief Technology Architect and overseeing more than 17,000 professionals globally who focused on advanced technology solutions. In these roles, Daugherty founded Accenture’s practices in key areas such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Social Media, Open Source, and Big Data. He has worked with customers in many industries in areas such as complex systems delivery, infrastructure services, architecture, and IT strategy. Daugherty has also worked with customers on large Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and IT Outsourcing (ITO) engagements. Daugherty has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.
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About Accenture, University of Michigan: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jean-Luc Chatelain
Global Chief Technology Officer – Accenture Applied Intelligence of Accenture
Formely the EVP Strategy & CTO of Datadirect Networks, the world largest privately help storage company, Chatelain bring to Accenture several decades of experience as a technology industry leader. Chatelain was as an HP Fellow & CTO Information Optimization (Information Management, BI & Analytics). He was responsible for successfully leading HP’s Information Optimization strategy, steering the entry of HP into the ILM space. Prior to HP Chatelain founded Persist Technologies, a leader in reference information storage software which was acquired by HP. Prior to that, he co-invented the SmartCell™, the world’s first application-centric enterprise storage technology, and created a breakthrough medical imaging workflow technology for Cemax-Icon, which experienced significant growth as a result of this innovation before being acquired by Imation/Eastman Kodak
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About Accenture, Forté Ventures, SambaNova Systems: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Chip McCullough
Executive Technology Director and CTO of Accenture’s HPE Business Group of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
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.
Praveen Vishakantaiah
Senior Vice President and CTO, Infrastructure Solutions Group of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Frank Molsberry
Technologist – Office of the CTO of Dell
Frank Molsberry is Technologist – Office of the CTO at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Tom Marsh
Chief Technology Officer of Boulder Equity Analytics
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About Boulder Equity Analytics: Boulder Equity Analytics was founded with a mission to bring better tools and services to the stakeholders in financial reporting.
Tom Marsh
Chief Technology Officer of Boulder Equity Analytics
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About Boulder Equity Analytics: Boulder Equity Analytics was founded with a mission to bring better tools and services to the stakeholders in financial reporting.
Eric Detterman
Chief Technology Officer of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies, LexPredict: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Said Tabet
Senior Technology Strategist, Corporate CTO Office of Dell EMC
Said Tabet is the Lead Technologist for IoT Strategy at DellEMC. Tabet is a member of the Object Management Group Board of Directors, Principal EMC Representative to the Industrial Internet Consortium and member of its steering committee. Tabet is Chair of INCITS Secure Cloud Computing Group, ISO Editor of Cloud Security SLA. Tabet is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance International Standardization Council. With over two and a half decades in the industry, Tabet played the role of a Technology Advisor to large multinational companies. He contributes to technology innovation forums, guides startups through mentorship and coaching. Tabet works on challenges around Industrial IoT, connected vehicles, AI/deep learning, Big Data analytics and security, risk management and semantic data.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Balachandran Rajendran
CTO, EDA of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Flavio Devide
IOT Edge CTO & GTM Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Paul Warren
CTO, Cloud Platform Team of Dell EMC
Paul is the CTO of Dell EMC’s Cloud Platform Team. With over 20 years experience in the software industry most of which has been spent working on APIs, frameworks and tooling for Developers. He is a proponent of Cloud Foundry and Spring and an advocate for open source software in general. He is the creator of the open source libraries Spring Content and Ginkgo4j (for test-driven development). He is a committer on several CloudFoundry projects including UAA and Volume Services and helped design the Cloud Foundry Certification program. He is also a member of the Container Storage Interface working group helping to design the interface for storage for the Cloud.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Brett Goldsmith
Chief Technology Officer of Cardea Bio
A founding member of Nanomed and the company’s CTO, Dr. Goldsmith’s passion is taking nanoelectronic technology out of the theoretical realm to create practical and manufacturable products that better people’s lives. One of the few people in the world with the combined expertise in biology and nanotechnology needed to develop graphene as a viable bio-electronic device, Dr. Goldsmith was the lead researcher on landmark academic papers in Science and Nature Nanotechnology demonstrating the coupling of biochemical systems to carbon nanotubes, for which he won the Nottingham Prize from the Physics Electronics Conference. Following graduate school at UC Irvine, Dr. Goldsmith joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Intelligence Community Fellow and led a project developing nanoelectronic sensing of Lyme biomarkers as well as successfully integrated membrane proteins with nanoelectronic circuits. Leaving his post-doc position to start a nanotechnology group at the Navy’s San Diego laboratory, Dr. Goldsmith identified technological needs in the field and advanced nanotechnology solutions to those needs through partnership with programs including Living Foundries and IVN Dx. Prior to founding Nanomed, Dr. Goldsmith was the CTO of Nanosense in Mountain View where he developed and drove the first successful fabrication of a nanoelectronic sensing system in the chemical manufacturing industry in the form of commercial industrial gas sensors. Dr. Goldsmith brings proven experience in transforming academic learnings into viable commercial fabrications to his role as CTO of Nanomed.
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About Cardea Bio, Nanomed: Cardea is developing a new generation of (bio)technology infrastructure based on proprietary biology-gated transistors.
Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tom Hite
Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO of VMware
Tom Hite is the Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Hsieh
IT CTO of VMware
Jason Hsieh is the IT CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joe Kinsella
CTO, CloudHealth of VMware
In his role as Chief Technology Officer and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, Joe Kinsella focuses on CloudHealth’s vision to enable organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing without having to sacrifice cost, availability, continuity, or service level. He sees CloudHealth bringing the cloud to the enterprise in a new paradigm of cloud adoption with IT service management for the cloud. Joe has 20+ years of experience in delivering commercial software for both startups and large enterprises. He was previously VP of Engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he developed and managed large scale cloud infrastructure spanning multiple public clouds. He was also a managing director at Dell, where he led global engineering teams delivering multiple software as a service (SaaS) products. Joe was also Vice President of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies, where he helped pioneer remote management software, acquired by Dell in 2007. He is an advisor to the University of Massachusetts Boston Entrepreneur Center, and blogs at High Tech in the Hub.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Marc Fleischmann
CTO of VMware
Marc Fleischmann is the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Dennis Moreau
Senior Engineering Architect for CyberSecurity and Compliance – OCTO of VMware
Dennis Moreau is a Senior Engineering Architect at VMware, focusing on security innovation in highly dynamic utility computing environments. Moreau has over three decades of experience in the representation, visualization, analysis and control of complex system behavior and security. He has been a Sr. Technology Strategist at EMC/RSA, a founder/CTO of Configuresoft (now a VMware technology), the CTO Baylor College of Medicine, and a tenured Computer Science faculty member, with research sponsored by NASA/Jet Propoulsion Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, IBM, the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine and the National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at security conferences worldwide.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amanda Blevins
Sr. Director & Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO of VMware
Amanda Blevins, Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware, ensures the success of customers and partners through customer intimacy, field engagement, and unifying R&D. She leads the Office of the CTO Global Field and CTO Ambassador Programs to bring innovation and change to VMware. She has successfully run programs that develop stronger partnerships with VMware customers and programs that enable VMware employees on technology, trends, and customer experiences.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simon Kofkin-Hansen
CTO, IBM Cloud of VMware
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About IBM, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Brunner
CTO, Server Platform Technologies of VMware
Richard Brunner is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christos Karamanolis
Fellow, CTO Storage & Availability of VMware
Christos Karamanolis joined VMware in 2005. He was appointed as a VMware Fellow in 2016 for his overall contributions to storage virtualization. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of the Storage and Availability Business Unit where he is in charge of strategy and technical product roadmap. Christos was one of the original vSAN architects who envisioned and developed the product, currently the fastest growing business in VMware’s product portfolio. He is still actively involved in the architecture and development of the product. During his tenure with VMware, he has worked on the ESXi storage stack and led a number of projects including VMware’s vSphere Replication, Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. He also works with strategic industry partners to architect storage and data protection features and APIs that enable a rich product ecosystem for VMware customers.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jad El-Zein
Principal Architect, CMBU Office of the CTO of VMware
Jad is a Principal Architect in VMware’s CMBU’s Office of the CTO. As Principal Architect, Jad focuses on driving strategy and vision of VMware’s Cloud Management and emerging technologies. Jad has over 19 years of experience in IT, including an 11-year tenure with Lockheed Martin Corp, and has spent much of the last 9 years focusing on datacenter optimization and emerging cloud technologies.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anoop Jalan
Staff SE, CTO Ambassador of VMware
Anoop Jalan is a Staff SE, Team Lead, and CTO Ambassador with VMware, and has been with VMware for more than ten years. Anoop has more than 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an architect, a consultant, an engineer, a trainer, developer, an author, and probably a few other things that he has since forgotten (including a VERY brief stint as a sports writer). Anoop holds a number of industry certifications and speaks regularly at local regional and national events.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joel Leichnetz
Director, Business Development; Office of the CTO of VMware
Joel Leichnetz serves as director of business development at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Salim AbiEzzi
Director R&D, IoT OCTO of VMware
Salim AbiEzzi, Ph.D., is Director of R&D in the Industrial Standards Office (INSO) at VMware. Salim represents VMware on IoT consortia and standard groups. He is a founding member of the EdgeX Foundry and a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In his 34+ year career, Salim led a wide variety of technology development projects including at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft with dozens of publications and patents. Related to IoT, Salim was the founding chairman of the UPnP consortium in the fall of ‘99, leading it for four years into a successful international organization, today with more than two billion certified devices.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Chris Gully
Staff System Engineer, Office of the CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rafael Brito
Application Platform Architect – Office of CTO of VMware
Rafael Brito serves as an application platform architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nathan Hudson
Office of the CTO, Ambassador of VMware
Nate Hudson serves as an ambassador at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Shawn Bass
CTO – End-User Computing of VMware
Shawn Bass serves as CTO of End-User Computing at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Steve Tilkens
Staff Technical Account Manager, Lead & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Steve Tilkens serves as a staff technical account manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Udo Gomez
Chief Technology Officer of Bosch
Udo Gomez is Chief Technology Officer at Robert Bosch GmBH.
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About Bosch: The Bosch Group is a global supplier of technology and services.
Darin Van Pelt
CTO of ABL Space Systems
Darin Van Pelt is the CTO at ABL Space Systems.
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About ABL Space Systems: ABL Space Systems specializes in building rockets to launch satellites.
Dave Pickles
CTO of The Trade Desk
As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems. At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system) In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding. After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.
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About The Trade Desk, Trade Desk Inc.: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
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.
Carlos Paniagua
CTO & Co-Founder of Glia
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Matthias Kadenbach
CTO & Co-founder of Templarbit
CTO & Co-founder at Templarbit Inc.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Allen Chaves
Chief Technology Officer of Endurance International Group
Allen Chaves leads the product engineering teams and spearheads the vision and strategic technical direction for all the Endurance’s software offerings. He brings with him more than 25 years of engineering leadership, technology strategy, and software architecture experience in several technology companies like Intuit, Ultimate Software, and Sage. An accomplished executive with a proven track record of transforming legacy systems into modern software architectures and delivering highly scalable SaaS systems, Allen ensures Endurance’s products, technology platforms, and software architecture are able to evolve to support emerging customer and market opportunities. Allen holds a bachelor’s of science degree in computer science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Anil Sevim
Co-Founder & CTO of Journey
Director of Engineering @JUUL Labs, formerly founding engineer @Udemy, growth @Adroll
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Mayur Kapani
Chief Technology Officer of IntercontinentalExchange
Mayur Kapani is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) where he oversees all technology groups within ICE, including NYSE and Interactive Data. Prior to his role as CTO, Kapani served as SVP, Trading Technology. Since joining ICE, Kapani assumed technology responsibility for all ICE futures and options exchange platforms, ICE Trade Vault, ICE Benchmark Administration and SuperDerivatives. He also leads technology diligence on all of ICE’s acquisitions. In 2016, Kapani was recognized by Institutional Investor in the Trading Technology 40, an industry ranking of the leading technology executives in the financial markets. Before joining ICE in 2006, Kapani was Vice President of Options Development at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where he focused on the development of several initiatives including the transition of trading from a floor-based model to a high performance electronic platform.
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About IntercontinentalExchange: Intercontinental Exchange is an operator of regulated exchanges and clearing houses serving the risk management needs of global markets.
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.
Puneet Agarwal
Co-founder and CTO of Innovium
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About Innovium: Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Bryan Martin
CTO of 8×8
Bryan R. Martin is Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at 8×8. With over two decades of service to the Company, including 11 years as Chief Executive Officer, Martin has been a key figure in 8×8’s growth, leading the company from its early days as a VoIP pioneer to becoming the leading provider of Unified Communications as a Service solutions. Prior to being named CEO in 2002, he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations. He has been a member of 8×8’s Board of Directors since 2001 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2003. Martin holds 44 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. In November 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Broadband Task Force for the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and he later served as Chair of the task force’s Emerging Technologies and New Applications Working Group. In 2006, he was named one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” by Internet Telephony magazine. In addition to his technical knowledge and expertise, Martin is well versed in industry and business affairs and has spoken before numerous trade, financial and regulatory organizations including the FCC, California Public Utilities Commission, California State Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee, IEEE, National Emergency Number Association, Association of Police Communication Officials, TechNet, Supercomm, VON, United States Telecom Association and NGN. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
David Pham
Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer of Mogul
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Mogul: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Mukund Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of Photon
Mukund Balasubramanian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Photon. His strategic technology agenda is the driving force for mobile presences developed by over 25% of the Fortune100 companies. As a trusted technology advisor, CIOs seek his advice on technology direction, design and architecture of enterprise-class mobile and digital presences. Mukund oversees and guides one of the largest pool (over 1500) of trained digital and mobile consultants in the world. He was previously the Vice President of Product development at webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which acquired Infravio for $40mn, where he was the founder and CTO. Infravio was the leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) registry and governance company. He has served as an active member and adviser to several standards organizations such as XML schema, W3C Web services architecture and Open Source web services. Mukund has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Tom Harel
CTO and Co-Founder of Routable
Tom Harel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Routable.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
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.
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
Deepak Gupta
Co-founder, CTO/CISO & Board Member of LoginRadius
Co-founder/CTO @LoginRadius, Securing 1B+ IDs worldwide. CyberSecurity innovator and author. Developer at heart. Infrastructure Architect.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
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.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
David Quattrone
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cvent
David Quattrone has been with Cvent since the company’s founding, bringing a wealth of expertise in designing and developing large-scale Internet applications. David designed and supervised the development of Cvent’s original beta product as well as all of Cvent’s subsequent product releases, upgrades and redesigns. Prior to co-founding Cvent, David worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services. There, David specialized in large-scale custom Internet/Intranet application design and development. David’s clients included BlueCross/BlueShield Association, United States Postal Service, and MCI. He was also a Consultant with E.J. Bell Systems, a software integration and application development firm, where he helped found the company’s Internet/Intranet development practice. Prior to E.J. Bell Systems, David co-founded Network Resources Group, a New York based firm specializing in Internet software integration and application development. At Network Resources Group, David created the Online Gaming Review, an online publication subsequently acquired by Air Age publishing.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Dhruba Borthakur
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Errol Fagone
Co-Founder, CTO of Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC
Errol Fagone is the Co-Founder and CTO at Zone & Company Software Consulting.
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About Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC: NetSuite sales, implementations, services, and custom development
Matt Schrage
CTO and Co-Founder of Fig
Matt Schrage is the Co-Founder and CTO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Medha Parlikar
CTO and Co-Founder of CasperLabs
Medha Parlikar is co-founder and chief technology officer of CasperLabs. Medha has more than 30 years of tech experience and is considered one of the top women in blockchain.
As CasperLabs CTO, Medha is on a mission to make blockchain the platform for doing business in the future. “It’s not a scary technology,” says Medha. “We are de-risking the blockchain for the enterprise. The time is now for businesses to adopt and not be left behind.” Medha began working with blockchain in 2017 as a program manager with Pyrofex, where she managed the development of an open-source blockchain platform.
When she realized the blockchain technology platform she needed didn’t actually exist, she decided to build it herself and CasperLabs was born. Beyond blockchain, Medha’s specialties includes Ethereum, SaaS, Product Engineering, and Cloud technologies.
Medha started working with technology in the early 1980’s, building computers in the basement. For the past two decades, she has been delivering production SaaS software for large companies including Adobe, Omniture and Avalara.
Medha excels in building and guiding high-functioning technical teams, inspiring them to deliver solutions that solve customer problems. She is a prolific speaker, having spoken at several global conferences including Davos, LA Blockchain Summit, and NFT.NYC, among others.
Medha is a mentor and has worked with organizations including Strongurl to elevate and encourage women in blockchain/tech. In her personal life, Medha is a wife and mother to three children, and holds a black belt in karate. Medha graduated summa cum laude from Coleman College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and Programming.
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About CasperLabs: CasperLabs, a leading blockchain software company for the enterprise market, is re-imagining blockchain for enterprise with a future proof solution. The company also provides development, support and advisory services for organizations building on the Casper network.
Guided by open-source principles, CasperLabs is committed to supporting the next wave of blockchain adoption among businesses and providing developers with a reliable and secure framework to build private, public and hybrid blockchain applications.
Its team possesses deep enterprise technology experience with a cumulative 100 years of enterprise experience, hailing from organizations including Google, Adobe, AWS, Dropbox and Microsoft. To learn more, visit www.casperlabs.io.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Jim Walsh
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of GlobalLogic
With over 30 years of software development experience, Jim Walsh brings diverse technology management capabilities to GlobalLogic. As Chief Technology Officer, Jim is responsible for leading GlobalLogic’s horizontal technology practices, technical advisory services, and solution accelerator initiatives. Jim joined GlobalLogic from Chordiant (now PegaSystems), where he served as Vice President and General Manager of Offshore Operations. At Chordiant, Jim established and grew development centers in Bangalore, India and in Eastern Europe and led the adoption of Agile processes worldwide. Previously, he was responsible for Apple’s OS X network and web software development via the company’s acquisition of NeXT Software. During his career, Jim has led architecture and re-architecture initiatives for scores of verticals (e.g., agriculture, health care, retail and warehouse logistics, etc.), as well as more technically-oriented platforms such as web application servers, real-time decision analysis platforms, security frameworks, and IoT. Jim earned his B.A. in Physics and Math from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University. He is also a frequent speaker and blogger on technical subjects and distributed software development best practices. In his free time, Jim enjoys reading political thrillers and science fiction, following current events, and spending time with his family.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Dennis Zimmer
CTO of CodeNotary
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About CodeNotary, vChain: CodeNotary is a software company based on Taxes.
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.
James England
Chief Technology Officer of Dynamic Screening Solutions
While finishing up my B.S. in Computer Science at Utah State University, I began working an internship at Dynamic Screening Solutions. The internship turned into a permanent position with DSS and eventually led to the development of our HR onboarding software, 321Forms. As CTO, I love to create elegant, adaptable solutions to problems, and 321Forms has been the perfect assignment to illustrate this for the HR community. As a personal project, I’ve taken this same approach with my enthusiasm for college football and math, and developed a rating system that calculates the performance of the teams. The similarity of its statistical modeling to that of the computers used to determine the official ratings for the BCS (Bowl Championship Series), led to being a part of the Kenneth Massey team for rating college football. In 2014, I identified an opportunity at a local elementary Charter School where I get to make a difference in the community while having a positive impact on the future. As a dedicated mentor and tutor, I get to be a part of developing and shaping our students and future leaders, witnessing their exceptional abilities and how they might change the world. I get a sneak-peek at the future as it evolves and develops in our children.
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About Dynamic Screening Solutions: Dynamic Screening Solutions is a woman-owned web-based paperless solutions company that focuses on screening and form fill completion.
James England
Chief Technology Officer of Dynamic Screening Solutions
While finishing up my B.S. in Computer Science at Utah State University, I began working an internship at Dynamic Screening Solutions. The internship turned into a permanent position with DSS and eventually led to the development of our HR onboarding software, 321Forms. As CTO, I love to create elegant, adaptable solutions to problems, and 321Forms has been the perfect assignment to illustrate this for the HR community. As a personal project, I’ve taken this same approach with my enthusiasm for college football and math, and developed a rating system that calculates the performance of the teams. The similarity of its statistical modeling to that of the computers used to determine the official ratings for the BCS (Bowl Championship Series), led to being a part of the Kenneth Massey team for rating college football. In 2014, I identified an opportunity at a local elementary Charter School where I get to make a difference in the community while having a positive impact on the future. As a dedicated mentor and tutor, I get to be a part of developing and shaping our students and future leaders, witnessing their exceptional abilities and how they might change the world. I get a sneak-peek at the future as it evolves and develops in our children.
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About Dynamic Screening Solutions: Dynamic Screening Solutions is a woman-owned web-based paperless solutions company that focuses on screening and form fill completion.
Steve Grobman
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of McAfee
Steve Grobman is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at McAfee.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Matt Kraning
Co-Founder & CTO of Expanse
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
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.
