Best Startup
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 SaaS 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.
Abhay Parasnis
CTO & EVP of Adobe
Abhay Parasnis is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems#/entity), a software company that provides digital marketing and media solutions. Previously, he was the senior vice president of the same company. Parasnis served as the president and chief operating officer of Kony before he joined Adobe. Parasnis holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
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Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
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.
Conrad Irwin
Co-Founder & CTO of Superhuman
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Mickey Alon
CTO and Founder of Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Mickey Alon is the founder and CTO of Gainsight PX (previously Aptrinsic), the Product Experience Platform. He is a serial entrepreneur focused on designing, building and launching innovative products that help drive business outcomes. Before joining Gainsight through the acquisition of Aptrinsic, Mickey was Global VP of Engineering where he led the global engineering and product management for their web personalization and predictive content solutions. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Insightera, a personalization and predictive analytics software, which was acquired by Marketo in 2013. He also co-authored Mastering Product Experience in SaaS – a book on delivering personalized product experiences with a product-led go-to-market strategy.
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About Aptrinsic, Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Steven Tamm
CTO of Salesforce
CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Charlie Isaacs
CTO for Customer Connection of Salesforce
Charlie Isaacs has a track record of R&D leadership, starting with GTE (Verizon) where he served as VP of Engineering/Operations and headed a group of over 200 engineers working on Government and commercial applications. Following GTE, Mr. Isaacs held R&D leadership positions at Answer Systems (acquired by Computer Associates), Broad Daylight (sold to Primus Knowledge, then ATG and then Oracle), and CTO and CCO at Kana Software, Inc. and then Alcatel-Lucent/Genesys Global Innovations Group where he filed several Mobile patents and guided several Customer Service applications. Charlie joined Salesforce in 2012 and is VP and CTO for Customer Connection. Charlie’s primary role is to incubate IoT projects for Salesforce Customers; he evangelizes and speaks worldwide about IoT and Customer Service. Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from California Lutheran University.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
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.
Larry Ellison
Chief Technology Officer of Oracle
Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and served as CEO until September 2014. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.
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About Lawrence Investments, Oracle, Oracle Corporation Japan, Tako Ventures: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Robert Conrad
CTO of Crunchbase
Robert Conrad has been serving as Head of Engineering at Crunchbase since October 2015.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Shlomo Dalezman
CTO/Co-Founder of Intello
Shlomo is CTO/Co-founder of PlatformWatch. He previously was a Senior Full Stack Engineer at The Muse.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Robert Osborn
TitleChief Technology Officer, Global Governments of ServiceNow
Bob Osborn is Chief Technology Officer – Federal for ServiceNow. Bob is an accomplished senior executive who has held many high level IT leadership positions, including director of Logistics IT for the U.S. Army G4, Deputy J6/CIO for U.S. Transportations Command, Deputy CIO at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and CIO of the National Nuclear Security Administration. He has led major IT and organizational transformations throughout his career and is a thought leader recognized across the public sector market. As a user of ServiceNow, Bob led ITIL based Enterprise Service Management standardization within the Department of Energy. Bob also served as a United States Marine Corps officer for 27 years.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Hisham Younis
Chief Technology Officer of Levelset
Hisham has directed zlien’s system architecture and development since 2009. He previously worked as a technical lead and software engineer for Microsoft, focused on search relevance, machine intelligence, and user intent for Bing. Prior to Microsoft, Hisham worked with Valeo on implementing solutions to provide vehicles with situational awareness and enhanced visibility. He is an experienced software developer and server manager with experience in PHP, MySQL, Zend, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS, CSS Languages, and Linux and Windows servers. Hisham is from Cairo, Egpyt, where he spends part of the year working with zlien’s development team. He spends much of the year in zlien’s New Orleans office, possessing an H1B visa.
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Vlad Vendrow
CTO of RingCentral
Vlad Vendrow is the co-founder and chief technology officer of RingCentral, where he is the key architect of the RingCentral cloud phone solution. In this position, he is responsible for enabling RingCentral’s innovation while maintaining overall design to ensure the scalability and availability of the RingCentral solution. Prior to RingCentral, Vendrow served as the director of engineering at Ring Zero Systems and Motorola. His accomplishments include leading the development of the Ring Zero phone and fax communications software that shipped over 25 million copies worldwide. Vendrow has been granted more than a dozen patents in the areas of unified communications, fixed-mobile convergence and cloud services. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and applied mathematics from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
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.
Aditya Jami
Chief Technology Officer of Meltwater
Aditya Jami is the Chief Technology Officer of Meltwater, responsible for overall technical strategy and overseeing the company’s AI & Data science initiatives across all product lines. He works very closely with the CEO on acquisitions, and leads their architectural integration. During Aditya’s tenure, he has been responsible for leading the transformation of underlying media intelligence technology into an expanded, data science platform – Fairhair.ai – which powers Meltwater’s products across multiple business lines. Prior to joining Meltwater in 2016 as Senior Director of Engineering, Aditya has created and led several efforts to translate his expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence and Big Data for end-to-end products and platform offerings, including: Yahoo, Netflix, Stanford, Cornell and a startup he co-founded, Predict Effect.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
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.
Jeyappragash Jeyakeerthi
Co-founder and CTO of Tetrate
Jeyappragash aka JJ is a co-founder and CTO of Tetrate. Prior to starting Tetrate, he led Twitter’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Platform. This platform helps developers manage their services and provide detailed visibility to management about resource usage. Before Twitter, he worked as an Engineer at Motorola, leading efforts to build their Notification Infrastructure, their Software Upgrade services, and a Prospective Search based Content Delivery Service. Jeyappragash graduated from IIT Madras with a Masters in EE.
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About Tetrate: Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
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.
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Michael Klett
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chargify
Michael is a former hardware engineer who designed circuit boards for Alcatel, and parts of the XBOX 360 CPU for IBM. After his adoption of Ruby on Rails, Michael left the hardware world in 2007 to pursue web development full-time. He launched his own company, Web Advocate, to create custom e-commerce sites and content management systems, and ran it for two years. Now, as co-founder & Technical Lead of Chargify, Michael leads all of Chargify’s development. He derives particular enjoyment from working on applications that help entrepreneurs. Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State University. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing soccer, snowboarding, and putting together puzzles with his daughter.
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About Chargify: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Francis Duong
Co-Founder & CTO of Flexe
Francis has deep experience as a software engineer and a successful track record as an entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding FLEXE, Francis started and built Ignition Mobile, a Y-Combinator backed mobile analytics company, leading it to a successful exit in 2011. Earlier in his career, Francis spent several years at Microsoft as a Developer for Windows and a PM for Xbox.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
David Glick
CTO of Flexe
As CTO, David is responsible for the design and development of the FLEXE technology platform. Before FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the technology for Amazon’s transportation systems for two of those years.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Tom Dixon
CTO of Yext
Tom serves as Yext’s Chief Operating Officer, supervising engineering and development of the company’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Yext, Tom founded justatip.com and co-founded Intwine. He also served as CIO of Datran Media during its acquisition of Intwine. Tom holds a degree in philosophy from Princeton University.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
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.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Mahmoud Arram
Co-founder & CTO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CTO of TriggerMail; an ecommerce marketing automation company. He had once built the multi-channel user notifications infrastructure -including email- for Sponty, Gameday Tycoon, LoopIt, Canv.as and Moda Operandi. Previously, He led the engineering team at Moda Operandi, the premiere luxury fashion ecommerce retailer. He was responsible for building the email infrastructure, revenue and reporting systems, multi-currency order calculators and on-site merchandising tools. Prior to M`O, He was a software architect at Allurent designing merchandisable shopping experiences for online retailers. He was on the team that lead the transition to a SAAS business and implemented Allurent’s radically simple integration strategy. While on leave from Allurent, He co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which helped people discover indy music events. In a previous life, He worked on a heart monitoring device at Guidant. At 22 He was the youngest person to receive the highest technical award among 3000 engineers. He graduated in 2004 with dual degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering from Iowa State University on a full merit scholarship. He also tried to teach computers how to read cursive Arabic handwriting at MIT.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Dario Vergara
CTO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Formerly SVP of technology for OnDeck. Most recently, VP of Technology for Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the US.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Erik Troan
Founder & CTO of Pendo
Erik Troan is the Founder of Pendo.io, Inc and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Troan co-founded rPath, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. At rPath, Mr. Troan was responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for rPath’s IT infrastructure. Mr. Troan was involved in Linux development and was a maintainer of the Sunsite Linux Archives. Prior to founding rPath, Mr. Troan served in multiple roles at Red Hat, Inc. including the Vice President of Product Engineering for several years as well as the Senior Director of Marketing and Chief Developer for Red Hat Software. Mr. Troan was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM and Anaconda. He managed a multimillion-dollar budget, participated in two public stock offerings and assisted in acquiring and integrating nine other companies. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Cloudsoft Corporation Limited Mr. Troan is Member of the Technology Advisory Committee at Southern Capitol Ventures. Since May 2007, he also serves on the Board of Directors for Digium, Inc. He served as a Director of rPath, Inc. Mr. Troan has co-authored two editions of Linux Application Development.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Carlos Paniagua
CTO & Co-Founder of Glia
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Curtis Liu
Co-Founder, CTO of Amplitude
Curtis is an MIT grad with degrees in EECS and Mathematics. After happy days working at Google, he decided to start Sonalight, an effort to improve how people use voice to interact with their mobile devices. He likes to balance work with a dose of movies and television, and strongly believes in video games as art.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Anil Sevim
Co-Founder & CTO of Journey
Director of Engineering @JUUL Labs, formerly founding engineer @Udemy, growth @Adroll
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Toshish Jawale
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Bryan Martin
CTO of 8×8
Bryan R. Martin is Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at 8×8. With over two decades of service to the Company, including 11 years as Chief Executive Officer, Martin has been a key figure in 8×8’s growth, leading the company from its early days as a VoIP pioneer to becoming the leading provider of Unified Communications as a Service solutions. Prior to being named CEO in 2002, he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations. He has been a member of 8×8’s Board of Directors since 2001 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2003. Martin holds 44 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. In November 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Broadband Task Force for the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and he later served as Chair of the task force’s Emerging Technologies and New Applications Working Group. In 2006, he was named one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” by Internet Telephony magazine. In addition to his technical knowledge and expertise, Martin is well versed in industry and business affairs and has spoken before numerous trade, financial and regulatory organizations including the FCC, California Public Utilities Commission, California State Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee, IEEE, National Emergency Number Association, Association of Police Communication Officials, TechNet, Supercomm, VON, United States Telecom Association and NGN. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Raj Neervannan
Chief Technology Officer of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Marty Hu
Co-founder & CTO of Prodigy
Marty Hu is Co-Founder and CTO at Prodigy. Prior to this, he was a technical lead at Dropbox. He also co-founded and was the CEO of Predictive Edge from February to June, year 2014.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Courtney Guertin
Founder & CTO of Ease
Courtney Guertin graduated from the University of Minnesota – Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Japanese. Worked as the lead developer at a couple of startups in the Twin Cities before starting his own company. Provides technology due diligence services for a private equity firm. Very passionate about new technologies and starting businesses.
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About Ease, Eightbit.me: Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
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.
Alex Yurkowski
Co-Founder & CTO of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Aravind Bala
Co-Founder & CTO of SeekOut
Aravind Bala is the co-founder and CTO of Seekout.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Jonathan Salama
Co-Founder, CTO of Transfix
Jonathan Salama is Co-Founder, CTO at Transfix. Before launching Transfix, Jonathan led engineering at Cherry, an on-demand startup acquired by ride-share giant Lyft, where he built Cherry’s mobile app, inventory software and automated payment processing system. Prior to Cherry, Jonathan led the business operations engineering team at Gilt Groupe. One of Gilt’s first employees, he was responsible for developing the company’s infrastructure from the ground up, playing key roles in building Gilt’s proprietary inventory management system, enterprise resource planning software and purchase order system.
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About Transfix: Transfix is a freight marketplace connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Nischal Nadhamuni
CTO & Founder of Klarity
Nischal is Cofounder and CTO of Klarity. Nischal is an MIT hacker (B.S. 18′) with strong Machine Learning background. Before he co-founded Klarity, he built an automated fraudulent user detection tool at Flipkart and worked on algorithms to detect cancer causing mutations using Machine Learning for Mass General Hospital.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Dima Soroka
CTO of OroCommerce
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About MageCore, OroCommerce: OroCommerce is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce and the OroPlatform.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Ashwath Nagaraj
Founder, CTO of Aryaka Networks
Ashwath Nagaraj is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors at Aryaka since 2009. As part of the founding team, Ashwath has been responsible for building Aryaka’s vision and technology since its inception in 2009. Ashwath has previously been part of three successful San Francisco Bay Area companies. Ashwath was Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Allegro Systems, a security startup. Allegro Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems in September 2001 for $185M. At Cisco, Ashwath held senior management positions in the Security Technology Group, and the Internet Switching Business Unit. Prior to Allegro, Ashwath was part of the founding team at Assured Access Technologies, which developed WAN access and aggregation products. Assured Access was acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $350M. Before Assured Access, Ashwath was one of the principal architects and Director (Engineering) at Mylex, a leading RAID/storage company in the SF Bay Area. Ashwath has also held management positions at Schlumberger, Tata Elxsi and PSI Data Systems. Ashwath holds 17 patents in storage, security, architecture and networking. Ashwath received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About Aryaka Networks: Aryaka Networks provides a network optimization and application acceleration platform that addresses the connectivity needs of enterprises.
Jonathan Levine
Chief Technology Officer of Intermedia
Jonathan Levine joined Intermedia in 2015, bringing with him 25+ years of experience in information technology, cloud operations, data analytics, software development and corporate strategy. Levine is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, ensuring that Intermedia continues to deliver the security, availability, and value that customers and partners depend on. Prior to Intermedia, Levine served in a wide variety of senior leadership roles at Japanese leading e-commerce and internet service company, Rakuten. Most recently, he was the Vice Managing Director of Rakuten Group’s Development Unit, where he was responsible for global technology and corporate infrastructure and established Rakuten’s Next Generation Data Center, Private Cloud, Backbone Network and Global Development and Operation Center. Levine was also a board member of Fusion Communications, Rakuten’s telecommunications carrier, ISP and public cloud subsidiary. Previously, he served as Board Director, Chief Operating Officer, co-President and CTO of Rakuten’s Online Advertising Subsidiary LinkShare. During his tenure, Rakuten expanded from fewer than 50 employees to more than 10,000. Prior to his long career at Rakuten, Levine was co-founder and VP of Engineering at ePhysician. Levine has also held management positions at PointCast, IBM, and Lotus Development. Levine holds a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is the Board Director for the New York Theatre Ballet. He has five online marketing and database technology patents and is the co-author of two books on e-commerce and Java technology.
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Lior Netzer
VP and CTO IoT of Akamai Technologies
Lior Netzer is the Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Mobile Business at Akamai where he leads the formulation of Akamai’s edge strategy as it relates to cellular networks. Previously, Lior was AVP Corporate Development at Comverse Network Systems focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the mobile application space. Lior has also held various senior operational positions in early stage companies such as Voltaire, and advisory board positions with Metacafe. Lior holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the Technion Israel.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Charlie Gero
CTO of Akamai Technologies
Charlie Gero is the Advisor at Rafay.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Elias Torres
Founder & CTO of Drift
Elias Torres is Founder and CTO at Driftt While I’d love to have sales dev or inside sales reps “man” live chat, it’s not feasible for us. We’re a yearbook company, and more than half our traffic comes from current customers (yearbook advisors working on their books and parents and students who are looking to buy their books). While we’d love to talk with them all the time, too, Sales needs to focus on talking to prospects.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Mike Warren
Co-founder & CTO of Descartes Labs
Mike leads the technical team at Descartes Labs as the Co-founder & CTO. His past work spans a wide range of disciplines, with the recurring theme of developing and applying advanced software and computing technology to understand the physical and virtual world. He was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years, and also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sandpiper Networks/Digital Island. His work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the Gordon Bell prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. He has degrees in Physics and Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, and he received a PhD in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Robert Eanes
Founder & CTO of Pingboard
Founder & CTO at Pingboard
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About Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Deepak Diwakar
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of MindTickle
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About MindTickle: MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Debo Olaosebikan
Founder & CTO of Gigster
Debo Olaosebikan talks with Dave Rael about shooting for the stars, lessons from physics, learning from mistakes, thinking positively, and delivering solutions Debo Olaosebikan is the CTO and co-founder of Gigster. He worked formerly at IBM where he worked on theoretical/computational frameworks for analyzing experimentally observed transitions in spin transfer devices in collaboration with Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Barbara Jones He has a Ph.D. and Masters from Cornell where he worked on building world’s first electrically activated silicon laser.Hme went from Nigerian rapper to co-founder of high flying Silicon Valley startup in just three short years and was a part of the Y-combinator class of 2015.
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About Gigster: Gigster is the first team intelligence engine, enabling software development teams to achieve 30% higher efficiency.
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.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Kyle Wilkinson
CTO & Co-founder of Eden Workplace
Kyle is the co-founder and CTO at Eden. Kyle was the co-founder of InternMatch and has held other senior engineering roles.
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About Eden Workplace: The complete suite of workplace software for hybrid companies.
David Kelso
Founder, CTO & Chairman of Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing)
David is a former YC founder, Ember.js contributor, and experienced developer. He has built & maintained products used by millions of customers daily.
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About Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing): #1 Revenue Management Solution for Short-Term Rental Managers and Owners to Get, Grow, and Keep Revenue
Cai GoGwilt
Co-Founder and CTO of Ironclad
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About Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
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.
Jacob Boudreau
Co-Founder and CTO of Stord
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About Stord: Stord provides cloud supply chain services to brands who seek visibility and control over their inventory.
Brian Zotter
Co-Founder and CTO of Cacheflow
Brian Zotter has 15+ years of engineering and product management experience building and delivering enterprise-class products. Brian is currently VP and Technology and Products at ClearStory Data. Previously, Brian was Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce.com. Prior to Salesforce, Brian held senior engineering positions at EMC, BEA Systems and MobiTV. He is also a two-time founder and entrepreneur having founded Connectize and Boxcar Software (acquired by Documentum). With 8 patents in PaaS, SaaS and multiple other fields, he’s passionate about building and leading innovative, high-performance engineering teams.
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About Cacheflow: Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments.
Rebecca Wolkoff
CTO of ChargeNet Stations
Rebecca has prototyped and produced algorithmic software for intelligent and efficient energy management solutions and led teams of software engineers and computational scientists. She has coordinated the development of six patents per year. Her software as a service development advancements have helped define the futures of companies such as Enel X, Tesla, National Grid, GM and others.
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About ChargeNet Stations: ChargeNet Stations specializes in the fields of SaaS, cleantech, electric vehicle supply equipment, and distributed energy resources.
Thomas Chen
CTO, Co-Founder of Supergrain
Thomas Chen is the co-founder and CTO of Supergrain.
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About Supergrain: Data, Enterprise, SaaS – Data infrastructure to power modern business intelligence tools and data applications.
Adrienne Lin
CTO/Co-Founder of Nectar Vet
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About Nectar Vet: Next-gen Veterinary SaaS
Thomas B. Pedersen
CTO & founder of OneLogin
Thomas has more than 15 years of experience in building and selling carrier-grade billing systems for phone companies, initially at Cisco-backed Digiquant in Denmark and later at Intec Telecom Systems in the US. After having helped Zendesk grow to 5,000 customers as VP Business Development, he is now laser-focused on making OneLogin the most widely deployed identity management solution in the cloud.
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Zach Silverman
Co-founder & CTO of LeafLink
Zach Silverman is the co-founder and CTO of LeafLink. He is a former product manager at eBay Enterprise.
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About LeafLink: LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers.
Rohan Sathe
Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall AI
Rohan Sathe is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall.
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About Nightfall AI: Nightfall identifies business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.
Kenny Daniel
Co-Founder & CTO of Algorithmia
Kenny Daniel is co-founder and CTO of Algorithmia. He previously worked at wine enthusiast app, Delectable, to build out a deep learning, image-based recognition system. Kenny holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Mechanism Design.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Thomas DeGodoy
Data Scientist & CTO of DataRobot
Tom has more than 10 years of experience as a data science leader, building and implementing predictive models. As CTO of DataRobot, Tom projects the vision of the company by directing its strategic technology investments. Before DataRobot, Tom was Senior Director of Research and Modeling at Travelers Insurance, where he managed a team of data scientists. Tom has been ranked as high as 20th in the world on the data science competition platform Kaggle.com, which has more than 500,000 registered data scientists. Tom has his master’s degree in Mathematics, and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Michael Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer of DataRobot
Michael Schmidt is the Chief Scientists at DataRobot, and has been featured in the Forbes list of the world’s top 7 data scientists and MIT’s list of the most innovative 35-under-35. He has authored AI research in the journal Science and has appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, NPR’s RadioLab, the Science Channel, and Communications of the ACM. In 2011, Michael founded Nutonian and led the development Eureqa, a machine learning application and service used by over 80,000 users and later acquired by DataRobot in 2017. Most recently, his work has focused on automated machine learning, feature engineering, and time series prediction
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Kelvin Cheung
CTO, Founder of LeanData
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About LeanData: LeanData is a platform that enables revenue teams (marketing, sales, customer, and partner ops) to manage all go-to-market motions.
Hung Vo
CTO/co-founder of Ecomedes
Hung Vo is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ecomedes. After one unsuccessful professional kickboxing bout, Hung quickly changed careers and earned his Electrical Engineering degree. He escaped the Minnesota winters to be a part of the Silicon Valley tech scene and went on to run the development team for Hyperion/Oracle financial planning applications. Although Hung would rather be racing at Laguna Seca Raceway, he spends his spare time enjoying the simpler things in life: a good wine bottle from Howell Mountain, a cheese plate, and time with his family.
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About Ecomedes: Ecomedes is a SaaS platform that helps manufacturers, designers, builders, and building owners save time and money.
Sudhir Wadhwa
Founding CTO of Viridis Learning
– Founded two companies in the San Francisco, Bay Area – Viridis and DataTiles. – Part of Leadership teams ( M&A): Canesta acquired by Microsoft, Fixstream Networks acquired by Resolve. – Created deep partnership with several teams at Salesforce including
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About Indian School of Business (ISB), Santa Clara University, Viridis Learning: Viridis, a human capital technology SaaS solution, that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill labor.
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.
Brady Cale
Chief Technology Officer of Taulia
Brady is responsible for Taulia’s product strategy, delivery and operations. Leading our Product, Engineering, Operations, and IT teams, he is focused on delivering a best-in-class solution for our customers. Prior to joining Taulia, Brady combined his technical and business acumen, serving in various senior leadership roles at ProvideCommerce, an e-commerce company based in San Diego, CA. As General Manager of Sincerely, a division of ProvideCommerce, he was responsible for overall business unit strategy, product and operations. Prior to this, he served as Chief Technology Officer for the full suite of ProvideCommerce brands (including ProFlowers, Sincerely, Personal Creations, Shari’s Berries and RedEnvelope) where he led the 175 person technology team and platform as the business rapidly scaled from $80 million in revenue to over $700 million. When not working, you can find Brady chasing after his three toddlers with his wife, or out enjoying a Warriors or Giants game with his friends and family.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Vivek Farias
Chief Technology Officer of Celect
Vivek is Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Celect. He is the Robert N. Noyce Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School. His research has led to numerous innovations in operations, supply-chain and yield management. Prior to academia he worked in algorithmic finance and received his PhD in EE at Stanford.
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About Celect: Celect is a cloud-based, predictive analytics SaaS platform that helps retailers optimize their overall inventory portfolios.
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.
Ashish Aggarwal
Founder, CTO of Productiv
Ashish Aggarwal is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Productiv.Prior to founding Productive, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Postmates where he built and led a team of over 130 engineers to develop technology for the food delivery marketplace. He also served as the Director of Software Development at Amazon where he helped build and launch Amazon’s Line Haul Freight Transportation Network.
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About Productiv: Productiv is a real-time engagement data and insights platform used to manage SaaS applications.
Tyler Brock
Co-founder and CTO of Hustle
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About Hustle: Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that enables personal conversations at scale.
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.
Kevin McGrath
CTO of Spot.io
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Ricardo Oliveira
Co-Founder & CTO of ThousandEyes
Ricardo is the co-founder and CTO of ThousandEyes (www.thousandeyes.com), a network intelligence startup based in San Francisco. Ricardo is also the creator of Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu), a platform to detect attacks to the Internet routing infrastructure, like the one that brought youtube.com down in Pakistan in 2008. Ricardo is a technologist at heart and a believer in the importance of simplicity and good design in any product. He is also a caffeine junkie. Ricardo received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University (FEUP), Portugal in 2001, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2009. During his PhD he did several internships, including AT&T Labs, Thomson and Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. During his PhD he developed research in inter-domain routing, network security and Internet topology. He is the main author of several patents and dozens of papers in international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE Transactions on Networking. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Stephan Richter
Founder & CTO of Shoobx
Stephan Richter is CTO and Co-Founder of Shoobx, the fast-growing SaaS company providing automated equity management solutions for venture-backed startups.
Reshaping how companies get started, raise capital, and exit, Shoobx is bringing together startup leaders, lawyers, and investors into a single collaborative hub that enables startups to streamline communications, fundraise faster, and stay financing-ready. Shoobx is used by brands such as Aumni, Zus, Type:A Brands, and Toast.
Prior to Shoobx, Stephan served as VP of Engineering and Chief Information Security Officer at CipherHealthwhere he formulated and developed CipherHealth‘s initial product offering, driving them to HIPAA compliance and initiating the HiTRUST certification process. Stephan was also a founding engineer at Keas, Inc. After 17 years of industry experience, he has published several books, holds 3 patents and is heavily involved in Open Source Software development.
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About Shoobx: Shoobx is a comprehensive platform designed to manage startup corporate legal activity from incorporation to exit.
Don Bosco Durai
Cofounder, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Privacera
Bosco is a seasoned entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. Bosco built one of the first real-time user and entity behavioral based fraud detection product and his company Bharosa was acquired by Oracle. After his stunt in Oracle, Bosco’s founded XA Secure, which reinvented security at scale for Big Data paradigm. After XA Secure’s acquisition by Open Source focussed Hortonworks, Inc. XA Secure product was donated to Apache Software Foundation and now it is called Apache Ranger. Bosco is still an active member of the open source community. Bosco through his current startup, Privacera, is trying to tackle the new challenges caused by data explosion and liberal sharing of sensitive data within enterprises. Privacera approach is data centric, which “follows the data” and protects them from malicious users and accidental data policy violations. In the process, Privacera is also bridging the chasm between the security team, data owners, and compliance officers to provide a more effective and frictionless end-to-end security for sensitive and personal data.
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About Privacera: Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
Michael Nutt
CTO of Movable Ink
Michael is the engineer behind the biggest innovation in email marketing today. One of the most respected hackers in the start-up scene, Michael oversees product strategy, development, and implementation as Movable Ink’s CTO. Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Michael held senior software development positions at Gilt Groupe and Limewire, managing complex technology projects of massive scale. Michael graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and remains an active contributor to Open Source and Ruby on Rails community projects.
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About Movable Ink: Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement.
David Daeschler
CTO of OneRail
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About OneRail, Pink Lotus Technologies, Inc., SlideWave LLC: OneRail is a fulfillment SaaS platform that offers final mile delivery services for enterprise shippers.
David Timothy Strauss
Co-Founder & CTO of Pantheon
Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. If you’ve ever deployed an enterprise website, chances are you’ve benefited from one of the tools he’s developed. After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, David found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions. Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. Now he wanted to use this expertise to improve websites for everyone. When the opportunity to build an all-in-one website platform came along, he knew he needed to be a part of it. In addition to his role as Pantheon CTO, David also co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs on most of the world’s Linux systems, serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and leads the development of Pressflow.
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About Pantheon, The Fedora Project: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Julie Iskow
SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Vladimir Kozyrev
Co-Founder and CTO of Rainmakers
Vladimir Kozyrev is the co-founder and CTO at Rainmakers. He is a former software developer at theScore, Inc. and was the co-founder of ApptheGame. Vladimir holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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About Rainmakers: The career marketplace for top salespeople
Daryoush Paknad
Co-Founder and CTO of Workboard
Daryoush Paknad is Co-Founder and CTO at Workboard.
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About Workboard: Workboard provides an enterprise results management platform designed to automate business reviews.
