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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 Internet 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.
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.
John Bicket
CTO of Samsara
John is responsible for Samsara’s disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering.At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks. Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki’s platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco’s fastest-growing cloud product. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ben Calderon
CTO Hardware, Operations and Support of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Braden Pezeshki
Co-Founder & CTO of Unstoppable Domains
Braden is a co-founder of an Ethereum startup working to put domain names on the blockchain. Braden previously built drones to search for orangutans in Borneo before catching the ethereum bug and deciding to re-write web3. Recently his company was awarded a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to build a batteries included front end library for ethereum development (Browseth). Additionally Braden is a mentor with the ENS foundation annual hackathon which is building the protocol layer for blockchain based domain names on Ethereum.
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About BuyETHdomain, Unstoppable Domains: Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites.
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.
Rob Fan
Founder & CTO/COO of Sharethrough USA
Rob leads all product and technology strategy for the company. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far. Prior to Sharethrough, Rob worked as a technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton advising various three-letter government agencies. As an early adopter of the Facebook platform, Rob was one of the teaching assistants for the first-ever “Facebook Class” while at Stanford. Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Don Prodehl
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice president Technology of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Oliver Pedersen
Co-founder and CTO of Yahoo
Oliver is co-founder of PlayerScale and an Internet entrepreneur who designs and builds highly scalable distributed systems for the Web. He has over 10 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and online communities as well as managing development teams. Prior to PlayerScale, he co-founded the venture-funded gaming site Nonoba.com and service platform Player.IO.
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About GameClub, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Sriranjan Manjunath
CTO & Head of Engineering of JioSaavn
Sriranjan Manjunath (Sri) is the CTO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Sri joined Saavn in 2010 and helped build out its infrastructure and create initial versions of its products. He has since led various engineering teams within Saavn and currently oversees all of its engineering efforts including product development, infrastructure and operations. Prior to Saavn, Sri was a lead engineer at Yahoo focussing on building scalable backend systems.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Oskar Bruening
CTO & Co-founder of Peek
Oskar Bruening is Co-founder & CTO of Peek.com. He loves travel and exploring cultures and their histories. He knows 6 languages, amongst them ancient Greek and Korean. Oskar got his engineering start at the age of 14, leading to a B.Sc. and a M.Eng. from MIT in EE/CS. He was the director of engineering and founding employee at ccLoop/Pipewise and built serious software at VMware and Vontu/Symantec. On the side he is deeply passionate about art and design, thanks to growing up in an artist’s family and a second education at the San Francisco Studio School.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Mehmet Yavuz
Co-Founder and CTO of Celona
Mehmet Yavuz is the Co-Founder and CTO of Celona.
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About Celona: Celona accelerates adoption of digital automation and critical apps on enterprise wireless.
Jean-Paul Martin
CTO (co-founder) of Alarm.com
Jean-Paul Martin, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2000. Prior to joining us, Mr. Martin served as a Software Architect with MicroStrategy Incorporated. Mr. Martin has also served as Chief Technology Officer of Media Cybernetics Inc., which provided image processing and analysis software used in medical, industrial, forensic and remote sensing applications. Mr. Martin holds a B.Sc/M.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Robotics from the Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III, France).
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
Jason Baudendistel
CEO, CTO & Content Manager of Wibbets.com
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About Self Employed, Sixy Press, Wibbets.com: Wibbets.com is the ultimate pro privacy shopping platform.
Vijay Venkatesh
CTO of MakeSpace
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About MakeSpace: MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.
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.
Louis Sivillo
Co-Founder and CTO of RemoteHQ
Louis Sivillo is the co-founder and CTO of RemoteHQ.
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About RemoteHQ: RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.
Michael Sprague
CTO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
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About Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
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.
Michael Bryzek
Co-Founder / Chairman / CTO of Flow Commerce
Michael Bryzek is the Co-Founder, Chairman, CTO of Flow.io. Prior to that, he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gilt Groupe. Michael brings to Gilt Groupe extensive experience in developing user-focused Internet software and a deep passion for leveraging technology. Prior to Gilt Groupe, Michael founded Volunteer Solutions, an Internet-application service provider for the philanthropic sector. Volunteer Solutions was acquired by United Way of America in 2001. Michael then served as chief technology officer for United eWay, the United Way of America’s technology subsidiary. He holds a BSc and Masters in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Flow Commerce: Flow is a platform that enables e-commerce companies to go global.
Pan Pan
Co-Founder, CTO of Pietra
Pan Pan is a co-founder and the CTO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
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.
Sam Solomon
CTO of Brilliant.org
Sam is the lead developer at Alltuition and architects all of our Planners. When he’s not at the office (rare), Sam builds robots and helps organize a national college-level air and ground robotics competition.He can also fix almost anything including replacing brake pads, rewiring phone patch-bays, repairing an intelligent lighting control console, returning an jammed old dead bolt system to like new working condition and optimizing a 10,000 watt sound system.He studied Computer Science at Illinois Institue of Technology and manages Alltuition’s data and systems.
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About Brilliant.org: Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
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.
Cameron Morris
CTO of Fabrica
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About Fabrica: We make real estate programmable
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.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Nick Auger
Co-Founder & CTO of RevZilla
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About RevZilla: The best Motorcycles, Motorcycle Gear & Awesome-sauce. Noteworthy Nuggets from TeamZilla.
Claude Denton
CTO of Zeenk
Claude Denton is the CTO at Zeenk.
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About Zeenk: Zeenk delivers actionable analytics to e-commerce brands selling on Amazon or Shopify
Amos Schallich
CTO & Co-founder of eero
Amos Schallich is a co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Vice President of Engineering-Software. Amos Schallich previously worked at Tagged and BigTent, where he focused on backend server development and scaling. He studied large-scale distributed systems at Stanford.
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
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.
Enrique Rodriguez
EVP and CTO of Liberty Global
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Vibol Hou
Chief Technology Officer of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
JJ Fliegelman
Co-Founder & CTO of WayUp
Co-founder & CTO of WayUp.
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About WayUp: WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college — from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation.
Rong Yan
Chief Technology Officer of Verishop
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About Verishop: Verishop is a premium lifestyle company that offers everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home, and more.
Nick Bushak
Co-founder, President, and CTO of Gem
Nick Bushak is a Co-Founder, President, and CTO at Gem. Before starting Gem, Nick spent 6 years at Facebook, where he led various engineering teams for Facebook Pages, Ads, and Messenger.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Rob Lawson-Shanks
CTO & Co-Founder of LifeFuels
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About LifeFuels: LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go.
Manuel Kreutz
Co-founder and co-CTO of QuickNode
Manuel Kreutz is a Co-founder and co-CTO of QuickNode. Before that, he was the Co-Founder and VP Software Engineering at BelugaCDN.
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About QuickNode: QuickNode simplifies blockchain infrastructure for teams big & small. Global API and Web3 developer tools for 10 blockchains.
Josh Newman
Co-Founder and CTO of Spectrum Labs
A former Software Architect at Salesforce, Josh began his career at a research center of Middlebury College. After transitioning to tech, Josh spent a decade developing scalable data management and distributed systems at Vodori, Syapse, and Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Christian Posta
CTO of Solo.io
Christian Posta is a Principal Middleware Specialist/Architect at Red Hat and well known for being an author, frequent blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast and committer on Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Fabric8 and others. Christian has spent time at web-scale companies and now helps companies creating and deploying large-scale distributed architectures – many of what are now called Microservices based. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.
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About Red Hat, Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
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.
Dave Walters
CTO of Hired
Dave Walters is the CTO at Hired (formerly Vettery). He graduated from Stony Brook University.
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About Hired: Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies.
Daniel Marashlian
Co-Founder & CTO of Drata
Daniel has specialized his career in leading & creating the technology for successful startups and enterprises. Currently, Daniel is the Co-Founder & CTO at [Drata](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/drata). Before that, Daniel was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Portfolium](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/portfolium), a student success platform. Prior, Daniel joined up with the Co-Founders of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to start [RapidEngage](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rapidengage). He was part of the acquisition of [Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to [Lockerz](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lockerz). Former CTO and creator of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) which supported a giant piece of the photo sharing ecosystem on [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). He also was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Pelotonics](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pelotonics), a simple online project management system.
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About Drata: Drata is a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance workflow on a company’s security controls.
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.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Amir Ansari
Co-Founder & CTO of Prodea
An inventor and serial entrepreneur, Amir Ansari brings more than 16 years of experience to Prodea Systems, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Amir served in the intelligent IP division of Sonus Networks(Nasdaq: SONS), a provider of IP-based voice infrastructure products. There he was responsible for providing technical guidance and direction in deploying one of the industry’s first soft switches in a carrier network. Amir joined Sonus via its acquisition of Telecom Technologies, Inc., where he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. There Amir led efforts to design and deploy the INtelligentIP (INIP) Softswitch, the most robust and scalable product of its type. Telecom Technologies’ client list consisted of Fortune 500 companies such as WorldCom, Qwest Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and AT&T. Under Amir’s stewardship as Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Technologies earned recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies and Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 500 technology companies. Amir is a member of the XPRIZE Foundation’s Vision Circle and its Board of Trustees. Together with his family, he was a title sponsor for the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million cash award for the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Amir is actively involved with several non-profit organizations that strive for social development. He has co-authored numerous technical papers and filed several U.S. patents in the areas of voice over IP and multimedia services. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
Keith Bentley
Chief Technology Officer of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Alex Spinelli
CTO & EVP product, technology, and operations of LivePerson
Alex leads the technology organization at LivePerson, overseeing all R&D globally. Prior to LivePerson, he was global head of Alexa OS for Amazon.com, running a large, distributed team of developers around the world, and leading the development of the core software systems and capabilities that underpin the Alexa platform. Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup — one of the world’s largest marketing organizations with 24,000 staff across more than 100 countries — and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling. At Thomson Reuters, he oversaw product and technology for news and media, including real-time, AI-driven news curation for financial professionals. He has also held executive technology leadership positions at TheStreet.com and MTV Networks as CTO of Comedy Central. Alex started his career as an engineer in New York City, working on real-time data feeds. He has an MBA from Duke University.
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About Google, LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Yaniv Kopelman
Networking CTO, Sr. Director of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
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.
Mike Dierken
CTO of Varsity Tutors
Mike’s experience in e-commerce, machine learning and recommendation systems are a great fit for Spruce Up’s mission to apply data-driven personalization to help people surround themselves with the things that make them happy.
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About Nerdy, Varsity Tutors: Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal.
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO of Computable
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Co-Founder & CTO of Constellation Labs
With over five years of experience as a Software Engineer & Data Scientist in Silicon Valley, Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the CTO and Co-founder of Constellation Labs. Prior to co-founding Constellation Labs, Wyatt contributed to the Graphic User Interface of the Kepler spacecraft’s light curve data and the implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication for NASA. He also served as a data engineer for Radius Intelligence and Rally Health, a platform engineer for Zignal Labs, and as the Lead Backend Engineer for Arrived.us. Wyatt holds a B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary.
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About Constellation Labs, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Lawrence J. West
Chief Technology and Data Officer of Sapphire Digital
Larry serves as CTO and was part of the founding team at Vitals. He is responsible for adding ever-greater functionality to the site, as well as improving data and search matching capabilities to make finding a doctor easier for patients. Larry has more than 17 years experience leading technology teams. He joined Vitals from Frog Design, Inc. where he was Director of Technology. Prior to Frog Design, Larry was Co-Founder and Vice President of Technology at ioLogics. He has also held senior executive roles at Vignette, and Platinum Technology. Larry received his B.S. in computer science from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
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About Sapphire Digital: Sapphire Digital is a full omnichannel digital engagement and shopping platform for consumers, employers.
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
Mohammed Alisrawi
CTO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Alec Rooney
CTO and Co-Founder of Minim
Alec Rooney is the Co-founder and CTO at Minim.
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About Minim: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Kristoffer Josefsson
Co-founder & CTO of FOAM
Kristoffer Josefsson is CTO and co-founder, FOAM.
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About FOAM, NAVEL: FOAM works on geospatial protocol and the resulting market implications on global infrastructures.
Nicholas Pilkington
CTO, Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Nicholas Pilkington is the founder of DroneDeploy, a platform for simple managed drone operations. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed degrees in computer science, maths and information systems at Rhodes University. After graduating he started a Ph.D in machine learning at the University of Cambridge (Magadalene College) on a Nelson Mandela Rhodes University Scholarship. While at Cambridge Nicholas co-founded MyMoneyDog and Curious-Orange as well as the South African Bitcoin Exchange, Bitx. He currently resides in SOMA, San Francisco.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Andrei Oprisan
CTO of OneScreen.AI
Andrei Oprisan is a technology professional with experience managing high performance engineering teams, direct software engineering experience, and a technology consulting background. He has experience managing multiple technical platforms and migrating to newer ones when needed, with experience scaling an engineering organization in a high-growth environment, both as remote contractors and co-located, full-time employees. He puts his strong consensus building skills, negotiation, and decision-making skills, coupled with sound judgment, to good use to help grow teams, while being able to both code and mentor and lead engineers at the technical level. Currently at Wayfair, Andrei leads the global sales research and development department, across product, engineering and design functions. We’re focused on building Wayfair’s moat through sales agent driven sales, provinding a higher touch, personalized and vertical integrated experience for B2B and specialized B2C sales. He is part of Wayfair’s senior executive leadership team and reports to the CTO. Previously as a VP of technology for Global Retail Markets for the US market at Liberty Mutual, Andrei led a customer centric transformation of digital teams, leading all digital customer facing properties and assets for Liberty Mutual and Safeco brands, and oversees the 250 person strong Boston Tech Hub that he built out. At HubSpot Labs, the startup incubator within HubSpot, he helped engineering efforts to build the largest marketing community platform, among other R&D projects. At MRM McCann / Optaros, a full services digital commerce consulting group, Andrei was engaged in mobile application development and web eCommerce projects, including development of a multi-language, multi-currency solution for a large European retailer and contributing to engineering efforts in the areas of advanced hosting and platform techniques.
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About OneScreen.AI, Oprisan, Inc.: The world’s first Market Network for real-world media. Performance marketing meets out-of-home on the internet of places.
Scott Fitsimones
Co-founder and CTO of AirGarage
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About AirGarage: AirGarage is the 21st century parking operator. We handle everything it takes to run your parking asset.
Isaac Mosquera
Chief Technology Officer of Armory
Isaac has been architecting large-scale systems for the past 13 years. Isaac co-founded FamilyOven.com, the top recipe oriented social networking site. Isaac brings extensive experience in online publisher content and high scalability/load websites from FamilyOven.com and XM Radio, as well as a background in user acquisition and retention strategies, and has created high scalability/load websites for brands such as Games Radar by Future Publishing (topping 100MM page views monthly).
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Jason Toy
Co-founder & CTO of SocMetrics
Former CTO at BackChannel Media. Founder of Ruby developer community RubyNow. Active in Big Data, Hadoop and Ruby communities.
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About CloudApp, SocMetrics, somatic, TrueLens: SocMetrics offers a web-based self-service platform helping agencies and brands identify topical influencers and turn them into advocates.
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.
Eric Typaldos
Co-Founder & CTO of Hive
Eric Typaldos is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Hive.
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About Hive: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Joe Oesterling
CTO of Liquid Web
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About Liquid Web: Liquid Web is a provider of web hosting and managed cloud services.
Jay Jamison
Chief Technology Officer of Quickbase
Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures. At BlueRun, he focuses on early stage consumer mobile and enterprise mobile investments. He currently serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting and Thumb.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Patrick Vatterott
Co-Founder & CTO of Vitally
Patrick Vatterott serves as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Vitally.
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About Vitally: Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn.
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.
Ben Longmier
Co-founder & CTO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Ben Longmier was previously the Founder and CEO of Aether Industries (acquired by Apple in 2015). While at Apple, Ben led an Aerospace R&D effort for several company objectives. Prior to working at Apple, Ben was a tenure track Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Ben holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA-JSC.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Carson Junginger
CTO of Abode
Carson is the technical co-founder of Abode. He has designed and engineered systems at several startups over the past decade. Carson has a large technology skillset, specializing in design, user experience, technical architecture and full-stack development. Prior to Abode, Carson co-founded Pangea Money Transfer and Alpha Lead with Kyle. He earned a Computer Engineering degree from Iowa State University.
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About Abode, USRealty.com: Abode is a user-friendly app that eases the home buying process and is especially helpful to first-time buyers.
Eric Lyon Miles
Chief Technology Officer of Mogo
Eric Miles has been Mogo’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2012 and has over 30 years of experience leading world-class software and technology companies. Mr. Miles’ former roles include CEO, SVP/GM/VP at companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Bi3 Solutions, AssetPoint, Entopia, Sybase, Informix and Ingres.He has deep expertise in managing the innovation, development and support of category creating technology. Significant innovative technologies include; first relational database (DB2), first mainframe UNIX system (UTS), first high-speed columns oriented database for big data analysis, personalized text search engine relating topics to employee work profiles, and mobile application for manufacturing equipment maintenance management and service prediction. Mr. Miles is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Mathematics.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
Suyu Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Chowbus
Suyu Zhang is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chowbus.
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About Chowbus: Chowbus is a delivery platform that provides authentic Asian food sourced from local independent restaurants and stores.
Matt Casey
CTO of x.ai
Matt Casey is a CTO at x.ai.
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
Victor Flores
CTO of LeadBully.com
Victor is from Miami, FL and heads our technology department. He is responsible for all of the programming that happens behind the scenes. Anything from PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML & CSS. Vic makes everything at LeadBully.com work and if it wasn’t for his 12-14 hour work-day ethics LeadBully.com wouldn’t be what it is today.
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About LeadBully.com: LeadBully is a service marketing agency that specializes in lead generation, bulk consumer, and landing page optimization aspects.
Jun Yang
Co-Founder,& CTO of Dada-JD Daojia
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About Dada-JD Daojia: Dada-JD Daojia owns and operates an online crowdsourcing logistics portal and provides local instant delivery service.
Kenter Wu
Co-founder & CTO of Dealpath
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About Dealpath: Dealpath is the intelligent software solution empowering smart investment decisions with data-driven insights and digital collaboration
Brad Vogel
Co-founder & CTO of Mixmax
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About Mixmax: Mixmax is a sales engagement platform that helps sales and customer success teams accelerate revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Christopher He
Co-Founder & CTO of Bravado
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About Bravado, Grady Health System: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Thomas Christmann
CTO of Cake
After many years of gathering experience in large scale enterprise settings, I decided it’s time for a change and to apply my talents in the startup sector. I am the CTO at Cake, where we help making a complex subject easy to understand. We break down the daunting task of advance care and end-of-life planning into simple, bite-size chunks, and provide expert opinion and advise to help you in the process.
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About Cake: Cake is the world’s largest platform for helping people navigate end-of-life.
Joseph Callahan
CTO & Co-founder of SmarTECHS
Joseph M. Callahan is founder and CEO of Ciright Systems, Inc. and Ciright Digital Media. With over 25 years experience in developing mobile applications and technologies, Joe is an Internet of Things (IoT) expert and true visionary. As a serial entrepreneur, perpetual innovator and inventor with a passion for outside the box problem solving and technology, he has helped countless businesses leverage the power and scalability of the leading, flexible, nimble open platform and mobile technologies. When he is not reading or on the river rowing, he can be found spending time with his wife and son or traveling to visit his daughters.
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About Ciright Systems, SmarTECHS: SaaS – Delivering context relevant work and safety instruction for technicians in the field
Aaron Henshaw
CTO & Co-Founder of Bison Trails
Aaron is a Grand St. Co-Founder and application engineer. He handles back-ends and makes the company’s websites look exactly like they’re designed. He always makes my day by saying, “I don’t know whether I’m looking at the test build, or your Illustrator file.” Sailing from Miami, Aaron brought beach chillax and warm sunshine with him. A renowned chef (at least in the office), Aaron hosts numerous dinner feasts for friends and families. He’s good at all sports but pool (Shocking!), and boasts that he could easily beat Dustin at ping pong. He delights in kale juice, Brooklyn Kitchen, and plans parties that the cops even love when they show up
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Hamel Kothari
Co-founder & CTO & CDO of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Tal Chalozin
CTO & Co-Founder of Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, the leading connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere. Tal is a serial entrepreneur and tireless global leader in video technology. In addition to serving as Innovid’s CTO, Tal is a board member for the IAB’s Digital Video Center of Excellence and for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been named a 2018 inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement for his significant impact on the industry via mentorship, inspiration, volunteerism and training. Previous accolades include being named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “Best Young European Entrepreneurs” by Businessweek, a member of Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” Class of 2016, and to Cynopsis Digital’s 2016 “It List.” Prior to Innovid, Tal co-founded GarageGeeks – a non-profit organization and one of Israel’s largest hacker spaces and innovation hubs boasting more than 8,000 members. Tal also served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for over eight years where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity. Tal owns several global patents in digital video technology, and he is a regular speaker at global events, including Cannes Lion, CES, The Drum’s Programmatic Punch, IAB, MWC, NAB, TVOT, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O, Broadcasting & Cable’s Advanced TV, Wired Magazine’s NEXTFEST, Le Web’s Digital Innovation Conference, Ars Electronica, and eConsultancy’s Creative Programmatic.
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About Garagegeeks, Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Matt Abrams
CTO of AddThis
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About AddThis: AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting.
Alan Messer
Chief Technology Officer of MOJIO
Alan Messer has been a worldwide leader in advanced software and intelligent services for connected consumers for more than 20 years. Alan is the CTO of Mojio and leads InnovationShift, where he works with autonomous, automotive, consumer and IoT companies, helping define or revise their technology strategies. Formerly, he was Vice President of Software and Innovation and CTO of Global Connected Consumer Experience at General Motors. Alan was also Vice President of Advanced Software Technology at Samsung Electronics. Currently, he also serves several industry organizations in advisory or board roles, including the Microsoft AI Advisory Council and the DAV Alliance.
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Patrick Wilbur
Co-founder & CTO of Hologram
Patrick Wilbur is CTO @ Konekt.
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About Hologram: Hologram provides a platform to connect devices to any network with cellular connectivity, and offers software for monitoring an IoT fleet.
Nick Shiftan
Co-Founder & CTO of Curalate
Nick Shiftan is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director at Curalate.
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Gajus Kuizinas
CTO of Contra
Hands-on technology leader known for a good understanding of the entertainment, advertisement and Wi-Fi industries. Extensive experience delivering scalable end-to-end solutions for starts-ups and large enterprises. Uniquely qualified to lead technical development as well as day to day execution. Breadth of experience engaging business leaders and deeply technical audiences alike. Founder of multiple successful start-ups.
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About Contra: Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Clark Li
Technical Founder | CTO of Rently
Clark Li is Founder @ Rently.
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About Rently: Rently offers a self-service showing and smart home solution for property managers, real estate developer, and multifamily operators.
Peter Rive
Chief Technology Officer of Everdream
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About Everdream: Everdream is a digital content agency providing on-demand personal computer and desktop management software services.
