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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 Mobile 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.
Harry Heymann
CTO of Attentive
Harry Heymann is very good at creating software. Specialties: server architecture, java, scala, large scale data storage, technical management, technical recruiting, mongodb, postgresql, jetty
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
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William Fong
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Boxed
William Fong joined Boxed as CTO in 2013. Having developed an early love of programming, William has been coding since the age of 9. Prior to Blackgate Ventures, William was Co-Founder and CTO of Astro Ape Studios before being acquired by Zynga and becoming CTO of Zynga Mobile NY. William holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Tommy Krul
Founder & CTO of Super Evil Mega Corp
Previously at Riot Games, Gazillion, Factor 5 and Guerilla Games, Tommy is the architect of the Super Evil engine and technology approach.
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About Super Evil Mega Corp: Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Li Fan
CTO & Head of Engineering of Lime
Li Fan is the CTO at Lime. She was previously head of Engineering at Pinterest. Prior to this, she held senior engineering roles at Google for eight years. Fan also worked at Baidu as VP of search.
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Mitja Simcic
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer of GlobaliD
Building and empowering people with portable, user controlled identities. Entrepreneur since college. Computer Science and MBA background.
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About GlobaliD, Kupi, Qloud.io: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Jerome Fodor
CTO of TOOTRiS
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About TOOTRiS: TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to high-quality Child Care, anytime, anywhere.
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.
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.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
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.
Zheng Bu
Chief Security Officer; CTO of International Business Group of Didi
Zheng Bu is co-founder and President at Stealth Mode Startup. He also co-founded 421 Capital and FireEye Inc., and NSFOCUS. Zheng also worked at McAfee as Director of Threat Research and at Intruvert Inc. as a Senior Security Engineer. He also became a Research Assistant at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Zheng Bu is a trusted advisory to VCs and Start-up CEOs. He is a thought leader and speaker in security research and intelligence community. He lives in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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About Didi, Stealth Mode Startup: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
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.
Kartal Goksel
Chief Technology Officer of Kargo
Kartal Goksel As Chief Technology Officer, Kartal is responsible for leading engineering, product and UX efforts across Kargo’s high priority technology initiatives, including the company’s expansion into programmatic. Goksel joins Kargo from PubMatic, where he served as Vice President of Engineering, Programmatic Direct and led research and development for the company’s ad serving products. Goksel brings 15 years of experience building advertising technology to his role at Kargo, as well as a wealth of management, business development and product management experience. Prior to his role at PubMatic, Goksel co-founded Sporcum, the first online sporting goods store in Turkey, where he led the company’s engineering and UX teams as CTO before later becoming CEO. Before starting Sporcum, Goksel spent 10 years working in engineering and advertising technology at CNET and CBS Interactive, where he helped build CNET’s proprietary ad serving platform.
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About Kargo: Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising.
Ryan Stolte
CTO, Information Security Group, Symantec Enterprise Division of Broadcom
Ryan has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Bret Jordan
Technical Director & Master Engineer, Office of the CTO of Broadcom
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About Broadcom, Cyber Resilience Institute, OASIS, OASIS: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Noah Labhart
CTO, Co-Founder of Veryable
Noah has over 10 years of software development experience, a mixture of mobile/web development experience and enterprise systems management. Noah is the owner and lead engineer at Touchtap, a native mobile development agency, and he and his team have designed, developed and implemented award winning apps. Prior to Veryable, Noah was an IT Manager with Alcon Laboratories, supporting the manufacturing processes at both Fort Worth plants, overseeing the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of IT infrastructure. This included SCADA clients, virtualization of servers, network infrastructure and ERP/MES systems. Noah holds two bachelors degrees from Texas A&M University and a MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.
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About Code Story, Veryable: Veryable is an industrial technology company with marketplaces designed to improve speed, flexibility, and agility in manufacturing.
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.
Ameesh Paleja
Chief Technology Officer of OfferUp
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About OfferUp: OfferUp provides an online and mobile C2C marketplace app for people to buy and sell electronics, furniture, and cars.
David Benaim
Co-Founder & CTO of Photo Butler
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About Photo Butler: Photo Butler is a free mobile app for collaborative, real-time photo sharing that’s changing the way the world shares memories.
Andre Fuetsch
President AT&T Labs & Chief Technology Officer of AT&T
Andre Fuetsch – President – AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer Andre Fuetsch is responsible for delivering the architecture and design of AT&T’s future networking evolution.This transformation will utilize software-defined networking and network function virtualization to deliver products and services to the customer with greatly reduced time to market and significant operational efficiencies. He leads a team of over 2,000 engineers and computer scientists working on programs encompassing both the business and mass market customer segments.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Reshef Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of AppsFlyer
Reshef Mann is Co-Founder & CTO at AppsFlyer.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
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.
Tim Stonehocker
CTO of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Wes Biggs
Founder & CTO of Popwallet
Wes Biggs is the founder and CTO of Popwallet.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Severin Hacker
CTO & Co-founder of Duolingo
Severin Hacker a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, has created a technology that could transform the way we communicate with one another in a more connected, globalized society. Duolingo is a language learning program that teaches anyone who can access the Internet or a smartphone any number of languages. Right now, they have 10 million users. Learning a language can be time consuming and costly, but Duolingo seems to avoid both of these problems. The program itself is free, and it focuses on an interactive game-based model where you answer questions and practice speaking with immediate feedback on pronunciations. Helping people learn languages is just the beginning. Severin’s long-term vision is to make quality education accessible to everyone.
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About Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Matt Harris
CTO & Co-Founder of Backspace
Founder of Backspace.
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About Backspace, Backspace: Gamified Social Network with Self-Deleting posts.
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.
Claire Hough
Chief Technology Officer of Carbon Health
Claire Hough is the CTO of Carbon Health.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
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
Avnish Chauhan
Co-Founder, EVP, & Chief Technology Officer of Mobileum
Avnish is a co-founder of Roamware and is responsible for the company’s Roaming business, New Business Initiatives and the Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to Roamware, Avnish served as Vice President – Technology Solutions at US Interactive through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Avnish held cross-functional responsibilities helping design, build, sell and implement the Cross Roads 2001 award-winning solution across telecom service providers around the globe. Before SoftPlus, Avnish worked at Citicorp Software, where he led technology support teams for some of the projects in CitiGroup. He was also responsible for setting up and leading the Performance and Capacity Planning lab for Citicorp CEEMEA in London. Avnish has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry.
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Brian Gaffney
Chief Technology Officer of Parsable
Brian Gaffney is the Chief Technology Officer of Parsable.
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About Parsable: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Michael Flynn
CTO & Co-founder of Recharge
Michael Flynn currently works as the CTO and co-founder for ReCharge. He previously worked at Sponsumo as the founder.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Satish Raghunath
CTO / Co-Founder of Twin Prime
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About Twin Prime: Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
João Almeida
CTO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Surendra Goel
Co-Founder & CTO of Urgently
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About Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Yin Wang
Co-Founder and CTO of Amino Apps
Yin Wang is a Founder at Amino Apps company.
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About Amino Apps, Narvii: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Jeremy Martin
CTO of Stream
Senior Software Engineer at Elemental Cognition.
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About Elemental Cognition, Stream: Stream is a company behind Stream, a live first OVP that powers video for publishers, professional sports, and top brands.
Harry Robertson
Co-founder & CTO of Liftoff
Co-founder & CTO at Liftoff
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Mark Herschberg
Chief Technology Officer of Averon
Mark “Hershey” Herschberg is the CTO of Averon. He is a cryptographer, university instructor, and champion ballroom dancer. Hershey chairs the IEEE standards committee on HTTPSi and serves on the board of TechieYouth. After graduating from MIT with degrees in physics and EE/CS, he then continued his graduate work at MIT on cryptography. His master’s thesis, “Secure Electronic Voting over the World Wide Web,” created the first online voting system. He subsequently worked in Fortune 500s and startups to track down cybercriminals, terrorists and extremists on the dark web. Hershey’s range of other work includes big data tools, lead generation, media, enterprise mobile platforms, and he was brought in as the turn-around technical lead on an NBC business unit that was relaunched as Hulu. A part time academic, he has taught at MIT for almost two decades where he helped create MIT’s seminal Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program. He also created the Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School, he annually lectures at NYU, USC and elsewhere, and he enjoys speaking regularly on cybersecurity, technology, and entrepreneurship at conferences around the world. Although now retired from dance competitions, Hershey was a top, nationally-ranked ballroom dancer. He is passionate about helping others improve their personal and professional efficacy and for many years has been an active volunteer with Streetwise Partners, Futures & Options, TapRoot, and has successfully helped run CodeRanch for nearly a decade.
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About Averon, MIT Media Lab: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Javier Gonzalez
CTO of HUMBL
As CTO at Tickeri, Javier manages operations, engineering teams, and oversees all technical development of the main Tickeri platform and its multiple services and products in order to connect music fans with their favorite Latin artists.
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About HUMBL, Tickeri: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Anders Bjoras
Co-founder & CTO of Storygize
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About Storygize: Storygize is a native technology platform designed to empower digital media buyers to achieve maximum results with minimum effort.
Aber Whitcomb
CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City
Aber Whitcomb is co-founder and CTO of Jam City, where he oversees the software architecture underlying the company’s global gaming and analytics platform. Director and Co-founder at Core Scientific.
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About Core Scientific, i/o Ventures, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Andrew Mackenzie-Ross
Founder & CTO of HappyCo
Andrew Mackross is the Founder & CTO at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
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.
Dhruvesh Patel
Chief Technology Officer of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Dhruvesh has 20+ years of diverse experience building embedded software and systems for IoT, Multimedia, Networking, Wireless, Semiconductor, Telecom and Industrial Automation products. At Volansys, as Chief Technology Officer, Dhruvesh is responsible for steering business towards new technologies, formulating robust technology-centric business strategies, and leveraging technical innovations to address complex challenges. Dhruvesh has held variety of senior leadership roles in both, technology and management since 2001 and has served global markets including U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and India. He has worked with large corporations, as well as SME’s and start-up and has been endorsed for bringing to the table discrete solutions. His passion lies in envisaging cross-domain technology applications that open up diverse avenues for business and is adept at implementing those. Driven by this passion, Dhruvesh founded Xzadium Technologies in 2013, a product design & services company offering broad-based engineering services using a variety of client-partnership models for delivery. Within a span of 2 years, Xzadium gained the reputation of a trusted partner especially among small and medium sized product companies for covering entire product life cycle as well as its sustenance. Dhruvesh holds a master’s degree from IIT, Delhi, one of the most prestigious platforms for thinkers, innovators and learners alike.
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About VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES: VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Zhen Peng
Founder, CTO of Leia
Zhen has always been enthusiastic in adopting technologies to enrich life, bringing wow moments to the everyday through nano-photonics. At Leia Inc., Zhen is leading the efforts in nano-fabrication to implement it’s core technology in mass production, putting his fingerprint on a product that can truly make an impact in people’s life.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
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.
Steve Stravitz
CTO of Landover Wireless Corp.
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About Landover Wireless Corp.: Landover Wireless is a mobile broadband operator building nationwide services for enterprise customers.
Thien Tran
CTO & Co-Founder of Honeydue
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Elliot Kroo
Founder and CTO of Getaround
Elliot Kroo is the CTO and Founder of Getaround.
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About Getaround: Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.
Michael Wojcieszek
Co-Founder & CTO of Playbook
Michael Wojcieszek is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Simon Ratner
CTO & Founder of Proxy
Simon Ratner, CTO & Co-Founder Simon Ratner is the co-founder and CTO of Proxy, a company on a mission to empower all people with a digital identity signal that’s universally accessible, secure and private. At Proxy, he strives to create technologies that revolutionize the way we experience the physical world while empowering people to maintain complete control of their identity, data, and privacy. Before Proxy, Ratner was the co-founder of Inporia and Omnisio, which was acquired by Google, and an engineer at Jive Software, Youtube, and Sensory Networks. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as dual Bachelor’s degrees in Software Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Sydney.
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Roman Zaks
Co-founder and CTO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Kelechi Ukah
CTO of Novig
Experience in market making, software development, and statistical inference Interdisciplinary research background in quantitative trading, high-energy physics, and artificial intelligence
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About Novig: P2P Sports Betting Exchange
Angky William
Co-founder & CTO of Stoqo
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About Stoqo: An application that can facilitate business owners in the field of culinary.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Yun Fu
Co-Founder, CTO of Otter.ai
Yun is CTO and Co-Founder of Otter.ai. Previously, Yun was Head of Infrastructure in Particle Media Inc, Director Engineering in Alohar Mobile, and Principal Engineer in Yahoo. Yun held a number of patents in mobile technologies, distributed systems and information retrieval. Yun has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
Ofer Shaked
CTO of Earnin
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Jim Butler
CTO of HqO
Dr. Jim Butler is an accomplished technology executive and responsible for the Engineering and Technology group at Nexage. His laudable career spans various architecture, engineering, and consulting roles, in addition to serving as the founding Chairman of the Boston Technology Leadership Council since 2002. Prior to Nexage, Jim was CTO of matchmine, a media discovery network, where he provided technical leadership in the areas of Architecture, Engineering, and Operations. In the aftermath of the dot-com era, Jim was instrumental in the dramatic turnaround of eCredit.com, an enterprise software company later acquired by Fidelity Ventures. Jim has held Chief Architect positions at EC Cubed and American Management Systems. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, an MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an BSEE Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lowell.
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About HqO, NEXAGE: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Zachary Goldberg
Co-founder, CTO/COO of Lynk Messenger
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About Lynk Messenger: Lynk Messenger is a hyper-local messaging application that lets its users to chat with friends nearby for free.
Harlan Crystal
Founder, CTO of Pocket Gems
Harlan Crystal is the Co-founder and CTO of Pocket Gems, a leading developer of mobile games and entertainment. Harlan oversees the company’s technology initiatives and lead development on WAR DRAGONS, Pocket Gems’ first game with 3D graphics and synchronous multiplayer over mobile networks. Before founding Pocket Gems, Harlan was VP of Engineering at Smartleaf. He has hacked for many stage startups in the computer vision, compilers, embedded-realtime, bioinformatics and financial software.Harlan holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Pocket Gems: Pocket Gems’ mission is to be one of the world’s great creators of innovative interactive entertainment on mobile.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
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.
John Hoversten
Founder and CTO of ETA Wireless, Inc.
– Eta Devices (Mobile Devices Business Unit). System Architect – Texas Instruments. System Architect for TI Envelope Tracking – National Semiconductor. RF System Design Engineer. – Ph.D. & M.S. Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering (University of C
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About ETA Wireless, Inc.: Eta Wireless designs power management ICs that reduce energy consumption and heat dissipation of mobile devices.
Yaacov Apelbaum
CTO and Founder of XRVision Pte. Ltd.
Yaacov Apelbaum is a CTO and Founder of XRVision.
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About XRVision Pte. Ltd.: AI-based Enterprise-grade Video Content Analytics (VCA) software
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.
Valentin Podkamennyi
Co-Founder and CTO of Datamart
Co-founder and CTO at Datamart, MS in Informatics, previously Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in Software Development and Architecture Design.
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About Datamart, Towards Data Science: Datamart is a global full-service software development company that offers technical consulting and software engineering services.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Andrey Krotov
Chief Technology Officer of Net Element
Mr. Krotov has been Chief Technology Officer of the Company since March 1, 2014. Mr. Krotov joined the Company’s predecessor, Net Element, Inc., on January 4, 2011 and was senior software developer from January 4, 2011 until June 1, 2011 and Chief of Development Department of Net Element Russia from June 1, 2011 until March 1, 2014. From October 2008 through December 2010, Mr. Krotov was employed with Interactive Tribe GmbH, a software development company, as a senior software engineer responsible for the creation of architecture and software development. From April 2007 until August 2008, Mr. Krotov was employed with Artsofte, a software development company, as a software engineer. Throughout his career, Mr. Krotov was responsible for the creation of proprietary intellectual property portfolios and managed local and outsourced teams of software developers. Mr. Krotov has a master degree from Ural State Technical University by specialty “Calculating machines, complexes, systems and networks”.
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About ITSP Hub, Net Element: Net Element is a technology-driven group specializing in mobile payments and value-added transactional services.
Halbert Nakagawa
CTO & Co-Founder of Machine Zone
Founder and CTO (Games) at MZ (Machine Zone, Inc.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
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.
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.
Justin Santamaria
Co founder & CTO of Future
Justin Santamaria is the co-founder and CTO at Future Research.
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About Future: Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.
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.
Peter Piekarczyk
Co-Founder and CTO of Draftbit
Peter Piekarczyk is the Co-Founder & CTO at Draftbit.
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About Draftbit: Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps.
Malcolm Ross
VP, Product Strategy / Deputy CTO of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Michael Beckley
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Appian
Michael Beckley leads Appian’s technology vision and oversees customer initiatives worldwide in his role as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Customer Officer. Michael serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Virginia’s Computer Science Department and is a member of the University of Maryland Advisory Board in Computing. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a co-founder of Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Gordon Rimac
CTO of North American Bancard
Gordon Rimac is the chief technology officer for North American Bancard (NAB), a multi-faceted payment solutions provider dedicated to delivering the latest payments technology with the highest level of customer service. In 2001, North America Bancard (NAB) tapped Rimac to be its chief technology officer and manage the company’s growing technology requirements, and has driven NAB’s technical evolution for the past thirteen years. Rimac leads the expansion of NAB’s tech support team and its resources, developing a complete in-house technology department, and implementing systems along the way to allow NAB to automate many company processes. In 2010, Rimac and his team led the development of the core technology, software and Web systems with the company’s launch of PayAnywhere, a mobile and storefront payment service powered by North American Bancard. Prior to joining NAB, Rimac served as the chief engineer with OE Enterprise Solutions. Rimac obtained a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from GMI Engineering and Management Institute, and a Master of Computer Science and Engineering from Oakland University.
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About North American Bancard: North American Bancard provides payment processing solutions such as credit, debit, check conversion, guarantee and loyalty card solutions.
Shane O’Neill
Chief Technology Officer of Prodege
Shane joined Prodege in September 2013 as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Prodege Shane was the Chief Technology Officer for Accumen. Shane was on the founding team and oversaw all technology efforts to bring Accumen from startup to a business responsible for 32 labs in three states. Prior to joining Accretive, Shane served as Chief Technology Officer at Fandango, Comcast’s online ticketing business, where he had direct responsibilities for Fandango, Movies.com and the oversight of Daily Candy and SWIRL technology groups. He played a critical role growing both revenue and profits, building a world class organization and preparing the company for an acquisition. Shane identified key areas to improve website engineering, performance and availability driving total traffic growth more than 500% and helping Fandango’s average monthly users grow from 6 million to over 20 million. Under Shane’s leadership, Fandango was capable of taking over 500,000 transactions a day, while connecting to over 1600 theater locations. Today, Fandango is one of the top 20 traffic websites and top 5 mobile ecommerce sites. Prior to joining Fandango, Shane worked in a variety of technology roles in companies ranging in size and maturity from start-ups to those in the Fortune 500. Most recently he served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Synapse Group, Inc, a TimeWarner company, focusing on enterprise architecture, application development and new product offerings. There, O’Neill built highly customizable systems in order to acquire customers for some of the largest brands in the publishing industry, including Time, Newsweek, and People. These systems were capable of handling 20 million billing events per month helping drive growth from $30 million to $350 million in revenue over the course of 6 years. Before Synapse, Shane held positions at Warnaco Group, Inc, a large apparel manufacturer, and Owens Corning. He worked on a variety of projects for both companies building web applications which increased efficiency in the sales process and created greater visibility into customer behaviors and the financials of the company through advanced reporting technologies. Shane started his career developing technology solutions for ExpressBill, now a WebMD company. He currently serves as an advisor to the Board of Directors for Insureon.com and MoviePass. He was also an advisor to treatful.com and AXYS Innovations.
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About Prodege, Swagbucks: Prodege is a cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform that leverages its global audience to power its business solutions.
Jorgen Birkler
Founder & CTO of InsideMaps
Jorgen Birkler is Founder & CTO at InsideMaps.
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About InsideMaps: InsideMaps is a smartphone and tablet app that enables anyone to easily create photorealistic 3D models and virtual tours of their homes.
Masoud Jalali
Co-Founder and CTO of Fintor
Masoud received his Ph.D. in machine learning and mechanical engineering from UC San Diego. He has extensive experience in data science, machine learning, product management, and real estate. After Masoud’s last exit from the startup he Co-founded in the AI and computer vision industry, he wanted to make real estate more accessible and efficient with technology for the new generation. He is currently the co-founder at Fintor.
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About Fintor: Fintor is a platform for buying and selling fractional equity shares in real estate properties.
Drew Wingard
CTO, Board Member & Co-Founder of Sonics
Dr. Drew E Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996 and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Secretary and Director since 1997. Dr. Wingard has currently been awarded 30 US patent during his time at Sonics. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Wingard led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, and currently serves on the board of directors for Accellera Systems Initiative. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About Sonics: Sonics supplies on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices.
Stuart Parmenter
CTO of One Medical
Stuart Parmenter is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical.
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About One Medical: One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
Nathan Esquenazi
Co-founder and CTO of CodePath
I’ve been working professionally at early-stage startups for the last 10 years developing for web, mobile and desktop across many platforms. I have always been passionate about education, actively tutoring in college, holding workshops for students and volunteering to teach practical technical skills to those that want to learn them. I am passionate about open-source and I am the creator and maintainer of the Padrino ruby web framework.
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About CodePath, Miso: CodePath is a nonprofit increasing diversity in tech by transforming CS college education.
Lawrence Kiss
Co-Founder & CTO of SpotHero
After receiving his Master’s in Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder, Larry spent a number of years designing Microprocessors for Advanced Micro Devices, and then building mobile devices for Motorola. This experience helped Larry break off from the traditional corporate job, and pursue a lifelong goal of being an entrepreneur. A few iPhone apps later, SpotHero found Larry, and the rest is history.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Rick Harrison
Co-Founder / CTO of Meadow
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Reichart Von Wolfsheild
Chief Software Architect, CTO of Divy
Reichart is Divy’s founding Chief Software Architect and CTO. He is a technologist, inventor, artist, and futurist. He specializes in cognitive computing and has more than 30 years of software and hardware design, specializing in complex platform software architecture, including cross-platform development, lossless compression technology, encryption, and multi-point real-time communication systems. Reichart created the award winning “Walt Disney Animation Studio” (where he met Marc), and the multi-million dollar original video game franchise Return Fire. He created and pioneered Aristocrat’s “Bandit” Multi-Media Slot Gaming platform, and has also developed ground breaking training software used by law enforcement, the Olympics, the military, and the aerospace industry, including Boeing’s Remote Aerial Refueling system.
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About BIL Conference, Divy, Prolific Publishing, Inc, Raw Science Inc., ShowBizCentral, Inc, Silent Software, Inc: Divy transforms investing so finding stocks is simple and engaging. Buying them takes one tap and $10. Divy – The Market is now Open.
Peter Shelus
CTO / Lead iPhone & Android Developer of DatChat
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About DatChat: DatChat, Inc. is a personal privacy platform, focused on Encrypted Communication, Internet Security and Digital Rights Management.
Phil Cowan
CTO of The WISE App
Phil has been in the professional realm for over 20 years and brings his passion for programming and design to every level of the WISE application. As CTO Phil leads the development team continuing to improve the WISE application and all parts of the software product offering. Phil created the original WISE engine and continues to improve upon it every day while managing the rest of the WISE developers. Inspired by data driven applications, application architecture, and high-end development, Phil has mastered programming in some of the toughest languages. Both an exceptional programmer and designer, Phil is able to integrate his abilities to create unique solutions with amazing results. Phil has done work for such big names as Medtronic, Musicland, General Mills, Disney, Warner Brothers, Budweiser, and Pixar to name a few.
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About The WISE App: The WISE App is a mobile application that scans and grades 30, 60, and 100 question multiple choice questions instantly.
Stephane Guez
CTO and Co-Founder of Dalet
Stephane Guez is the CTO and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Dmitry Fink
Founder/CTO of Bugsee
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
WeiHua Li
Cofounder and CTO of Thunkable
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About Thunkable: Thunkable makes a drag-and-drop programming tool to allow anyone to make beautiful, native mobile apps.
