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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 Social Media 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.
Devon Townsend
Co-Founder & CTO of Cameo
Devon Townsend is a co-founder and CTO at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
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Bobby Murphy
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Snap
Bobby Murphy is the co-founder and CTO of Snapchat, Inc., a popular ephemeral messaging application that he and friend Evan Spiegel created in 2011. Bobby oversees the company’s engineering and product development.
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About Snap, Toyopa Group, LLC: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Oliver Pedersen
Co-founder and CTO of Yahoo
Oliver is co-founder of PlayerScale and an Internet entrepreneur who designs and builds highly scalable distributed systems for the Web. He has over 10 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and online communities as well as managing development teams. Prior to PlayerScale, he co-founded the venture-funded gaming site Nonoba.com and service platform Player.IO.
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About GameClub, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
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.
Thor Muller
Cofounder & CTO of Origin.al
Thor is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, having founded five start-ups, including Get Satisfaction, a pioneering social platform connecting customers to products and brands. Prior to Off Grid Electric, he served as Get Satisfaction’s original CEO and later as its CTO, growing the business to serve over 70,000 customer communities. In 2012, he published a New York Times bestselling book, “Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business.” Thor is an alumnus of the University of Iowa.
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About Department of Reckless Abandon, MyVillage, Origin.al: Origin.al is a new way to represent a user’s work—projects and examples in real time.
Matt Harris
CTO & Co-Founder of Backspace
Founder of Backspace.
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About Backspace, Backspace: Gamified Social Network with Self-Deleting posts.
Michael Kamprath
CTO of Tubular Labs
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About Claireware Software, Tubular Labs: Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Sean Thielen
Co-founder & CTO of Koji
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About Koji: Koji is the world’s most powerful link in bio platform, building the app store for the Creator Economy.
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.
Josh Newman
Co-Founder and CTO of Spectrum Labs
A former Software Architect at Salesforce, Josh began his career at a research center of Middlebury College. After transitioning to tech, Josh spent a decade developing scalable data management and distributed systems at Vodori, Syapse, and Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
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.
Barry Steinglass
CTO of Community
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About Community: Community is an app that solves communication and engagement problems.
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.
James Davis
CTO of Wooly
He is a software developer and entrepreneur working on various projects with his company InovaCode.com. He loves to spend time with my family, play sports, the guitar, rock climb, and enjoy the great out doors.
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About SoftPay Solutions, TippingCircle, Wooly: The brand engagement platform. Drive sales & awareness through word of mouth marketing. #KnowYourHerd
Mohammed Alisrawi
CTO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
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
Mike Price
Chief Technology Officer of ZeroFOX
Michael Price is currently Chief Technology Officer at the social media & digital protection startup ZeroFOX. He wrote his first line of BASIC on his mom’s Commodore64 in the 80s and became involved with information security in the early 90s. He entered the information security field as a NASA contractor in 1999. He has otherwise worked professionally in the information security field for over 20 years. He has held major roles at several successful startups including Foundstone (acquired by McAfee), Appthority (acquired by Symantec), Vulnr (acquired by ZeroFOX) and ZeroFOX. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Security and Risk Analysis from The Pennsylvania State University, and is additionally a published author, a frequent speaker as well as co-founder of the first and only technical security conference in Chile – the 8.8 Computer Security Conference.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Michael Price
Chief Technology Officer of ZeroFOX
Mike is CTO at ZeroFOX. He is responsible for leading and setting the vision for all technology. He oversees all aspects of product management, engineering, research, development and threat operations. Prior to ZeroFOX, he founded the mobile security company Vulnr. Prior to Vulnr, Mike was Vice President of Engineering at Appthority. In this role, Mike collaborated with the engineering team to build industry-leading products, with a focus on mobile operating system and application security. Previously, Mike was Senior Operations Manager for McAfee Labs, having joined through McAfee’s acquisition of Foundstone.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Thomas Christmann
CTO of Cake
After many years of gathering experience in large scale enterprise settings, I decided it’s time for a change and to apply my talents in the startup sector. I am the CTO at Cake, where we help making a complex subject easy to understand. We break down the daunting task of advance care and end-of-life planning into simple, bite-size chunks, and provide expert opinion and advise to help you in the process.
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About Cake: Cake is the world’s largest platform for helping people navigate end-of-life.
Nick Roskam
CTO of Emerge Media
Nick Roskam is CTO @ Emerge Media.
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About Emerge Media: Emerge Media is a media and Internet company focused on the core areas of search, communication, and online dating.
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.
Nick Shiftan
Co-Founder & CTO of Curalate
Nick Shiftan is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director at Curalate.
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Robert Kwok
Chief Technology Officer of Tawkify
Robert Kwok is Tawkify’s Chief Technology Officera. Robert graduated with a full scholarship from MIT in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a minor in Comparative Media Studies. While at MIT, Robert developed an interest in educational games through his work on FLOGO at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. For his undergraduate thesis, Robert worked with Eric Klopfer at the Teacher Education Program (TEP) on mobile apps, including an augmented reality game called “Outbreak @ MIT”. Since graduation, he worked at Hewlett-Packard for three years as a User Interface software developer where he developed and shipped several database monitoring and management tools.
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About Tawkify: Tawkify is a relationship wellness company. We use trained matchmakers & technology find long-term romantic relationships for our clients
Kushal Dave
Co-Founder & CTO of Scroll
Kushal Dave is the Co-Founder & CTO at Scroll.
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About Scroll: Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise.
Mike Celona
Chief Technology Officer of Transmit.Live
Mike Celona is the Chief Technology Officer at Transmit.Live.
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About Transmit.Live: The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Justyna Denuit-Wojcik
CTO of Enplug
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About Enplug: Enplug is a software company that built the first open platform for digital displays everywhere.
Kamal Shah
Founder, CEO and CTO of fotobabble
Kamal Shah has over 20 years of experience building technology products and companies. Kamal was the Founder and President of Invu Technology for seven years. Prior to that he served as Chief Architect at enterprise software companies Wakesoft and Smashcast and started his career as a software engineer in the early ’90s. Kamal has a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Toronto where he was also the captain and nationally ranked member of the University of Toronto Swim Team.
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About fotobabble, FotoNotes, invu technology: Fotobabble is a software company providing photo- and audio-powered social marketing solutions.
Mark Hale
EVP, Operations & Chief Technology Officer of Scripps Networks
Mark Hale is Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Scripps Networks Interactive. In this role, he oversees the company’s operational and technical support services strategy and activities to address its global operating objectives and long-term strategic growth priorities. Hale has responsibilities over Scripps Networks’ award-winning internal production unit, Scripps Productions, broadcast origination, transmission, information technology, property development and facilities management. As an executive officer of the company, Hale serves as a member of its management and diversity committees. Prior to 2008, Hale served as Executive Vice President of Operations for Scripps Networks and Senior Vice President of Technology Operations for The E.W. Scripps Company. He joined Scripps in 1994. Hale has more than 30 years’ experience leading, developing and overseeing media-related organizations and supporting technologies. He was a member of the original management team that oversaw the launch of HGTV. Subsequently his team has orchestrated the company’s launch and support services across the company’s expanding portfolio of lifestyle media networks – Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country, both domestically and internationally. His team has received numerous industry recognitions for their technical facility designs and a technology and engineering Emmy award for pioneering innovations in media delivery confirmation systems. Hale served on the IS Advisory Board for Miami (Ohio) University’s Farmers School of Business and is currently on the Customer Advisory Board for satellite provider SES. Prior to joining Scripps Networks in 1994, he was a member of the start-up management team for the Movietime cable television network and held subsequent operational executive positions with E! Entertainment Television.
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About Scripps Networks: Scripps Networks Interactive develops lifestyle content for TV, internet satellite radio, books, magazines, and other media platforms.
Aaron Rankin
Co-Founder & CTO of Sprout Social
Aaron Rankin is a co-founder and the CTO of Sprout Social, a leading Social Media Management (SMM) platform.
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About Self Employed, Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Raj Chilakapati
CTO of Capterra
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About Capterra, Gartner: Capterra is the leading online resource for business software buyers.
Ilya Gorelik
Co-Founder & CTO of VirtualJobShadow
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About VirtualJobShadow, VirtualJobShadow: Strivven Media is a leading developer of high-tech, career exploration products for students.
Kazuki Nakayashiki
Founder and CEO/CTO of Glasp
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About Glasp, Glasp: Social Web Highlighter, Social Annotation, Social Note Taking, Web App, SaaS, Browser Extension, Mobile App, Social Bookmarking
Kyle Matthews
CTO & Co-Founder of Laicos, Inc.
COO & Co-Founder at Laicos.
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About Laicos, Inc.: A Tampa Based Startup Studio turning ideas into products into companies
Daniel Larimer
Chief Technology Officer of Block.one
Daniel Larimer is the Founder & CEO of Bitshares & he attended Virginia Tech in 2000.
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About Block.one: Block.one is a software company specializing in high-performance blockchain technologies.
Kenji Hashimoto
CTO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
Oleg Baidalka
Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of Boomcast
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About Boomcast: Boomcast is a social media platform dedicated to positive social change.
Ben Lund
CTO of Academia.edu
Ben studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Academia.edu, Ben worked for Nature and as a freelance web developer building web applications for researchers and medics.
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About Academia.edu: Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Padmanabhan Ramaswamy
Co-Founder & CTO of Sandboxx
Swamy is an entrepreneur and a technology evangelist who began his career in India as a teacher before he moved to the United States in 2001. His passion for impact-oriented businesses has helped him influence his teams over the last 20 years. He has been a part of several startups playing a multitude of leadership roles focusing on team dynamics, radical candor, and strategic culture. Swamy also acts as an advisor to organizations offering mentorship in business modeling and execution. Swamy currently serves as the Co-Founder and CTO of Sandboxx, a military lifestyle company focusing on the betterment of military service members who keep the country safe. His culture and people driven approach has earned him an internal title of Chief Culture Officer. Prior to Sandboxx, Swamy’s career trajectory has lent itself to leadership roles in various teams in Sales, Marketing, Product, Design, and Engineering. Swamy’s life motto is if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change and from a young age, he’s put that into practice in both his personal life and professional career. At a young age of 14, he set up his first business, a door to door book delivery service. Swamy and his friend took their bikes to the library, checked out all the free books they could and delivered them to kids for a charge. Although it was an unsustainable business model, he learned that you can still choose to do what makes your hearts happy, serve a community, and still earn a living. Swamy holds a master’s degree in computer engineering and computer sciences from the University of Louisville and a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences Kerala University in India. He also holds a certificate from Harvard Extension School for Finance and Investment theory. StrengthsFinder Top Five – Positivity – Adaptability – Ideation – Activator – Woo
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About Sandboxx: Sandboxx is a military media and technology company.
Andrew Look
CTO and co-founder of Aesthetic
Andrew Look is the CTO and Co-Founder of Aesthetic.
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About Aesthetic: Aesthetic automates all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics.
Sridhar Mantha
CTO, Product Engineering Services of Happiest Minds Technologies
Sridhar is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Engineering Services at Happiest Minds. In this role, he is responsible for defining the solutions and technology strategy. Sridhar also provides guidance to various horizontal technology practices and is involved closely with complex product development initiatives within the company. Sridhar has over 20 years of experience in web scale software product development working across the globe and distributed teams, with specialization in internet scale systems, IoT & Analytics. Before joining Happiest Minds, he has held multiple senior roles in both product and services organizations in India & US. Sridhar has a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering from Andhra University in India.
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About Happiest Minds Technologies: Happiest Minds provides IT services focused on cloud computing, social media, mobility solutions, BI, analytics, and unified communications.
Jonathan Kalbfeld
Chief Technology Officer of Ubiquity
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About Ubiquity: Ubiquity is focused on delivering next generation IP-based content and services for mobile, tablet, and professional/lifestyle screens.
Tom Zellman
Chief Technology Officer of Digital Roots
Leading product development and software engineering without fear.
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About Digital Roots, Interactions: Unlock the Power of Social Listening
Dave Andre
Group Chief Technology Officer of Trustly
Dave Andre is the Group Chief Technology Officer of Trustly.
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About Trustly: Pay directly from your online bank
Jose R. Garcia
Founder & CTO of Digital Vision Systems
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About Digital Vision Systems: Digital Vision Systems develops, manufactures, and distributes a technology platform for analyzing and correcting vision disorders.
Greg Bildson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Kanvas Labs
Greg Bildson is the Senior Principal Engineer at Tumblr.
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About CTO-NYC.com, Kanvas Labs, Tumblr: Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences.
Joseph Reth
Founder & CEO/CTO of RethDigital
Joseph Reth is the Founder & current CEO/CTO at RethDigital, one of the nation’s fastest-growing digital agencies.
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About Martha5 Agency, RethDigital: RethDigital is a global creative digital agency
Scott Meves
Co-founder & CTO of Quikly
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About Quikly: Quikly is a digital marketing platform that motivates consumers to react quickly.
Vikram Jayanthi
Co-Founder and CTO of Pundit
Pundit CTO
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About Pundit: The social network built for politics.
Arkadiy Kukarkin
CTO of Mediachain
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About Mediachain: Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it.
Wissem Zrelli
CTO of SDA Media
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About SDA Media: SDA Media is a media holding group, built for today. At its core, an attention engine that produces over 5-billion content impressions/mo.
Hugo Zanghi
CTO of Linkfluence
Hugo Zanghi is the CTO of Linkfluence. He specializes in web mining, machine learning, and distributed computing.
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About Linkfluence: Linkfluence is a media intelligence company that analyzes conversations on social networks to create business opportunities for brands.
Jason Merkoski
CTO of AdWallet
Jason Merkoski is the chief technology officer at AdWallet.
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About AdWallet: AdWallet operates as a direct to consumer marketing and research platform that rewards consumers for their time and attention.
Bart van Wissen
Chief Technology Officer of Speakap
Bart van Wissen is the Chief Technology Officer at Speakap.
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About Speakap: Speakap is a secure and private platform that enables organisations of all sizes to reach and engage with their front-line employees
Taj English
Co-Founder & CTO of ListedB
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About ListedB: ListedB is a social booking app for beauty & wellness services within the Black community. A marketplace connecting professionals & clients.
Jnan Dash
Chief Technology Officer of Strike Social
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About Strike Social: The global leader in AI for social advertising
Michael Englehaupt
Vice President & CTO of Graham Media Group
Michael (Mike) Englehaupt joined GMG as Vice President & Chief Technology Officer on June 1, 2015. In his role, he is responsible for leading the IT & Engineering strategy as the organization continues to evolve into a more digitally-centric, IP and IT-based media company. Before joining GMG, Englehaupt served as the Chief Technology Officer for KQED in San Francisco since 2013, overseeing all technology planning and strategy for their 3 UHF TV stations, and 2 FM radio stations, as well as their web and mobile sites. Previously, he served the Director of Broadcast Operations & Engineering with KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 2003 – 2013, and with KABC-TV in Los Angeles from 1999 – 2003. Prior engineering assignments include WLS-TV, Telemundo and WMAQ-TV, all in Chicago. Englehaupt has led facility rebuilds, renovations and improvements, managed IT expansions and driven energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives throughout his long career.
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About Graham Media Group, WTTW in Chicago: Graham Media Group is a broadcast media company.
Pooya Nazeran
Cofounder CTO of Xocracy
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About Xocracy: Xocracy is a social media platform for quick and easy voting.
Drew Tunney
Co-Founder & CTO of Voro
Drew Tunney is the co-founder and CTO of Voro.
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About Voro: Voro is a developer of a doctor’s recommendation platform designed to make community healthier.
Karan Khanna
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of 4C Insights
Karan Khanna is VP, Engineering at 4C Insights.
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About 4C Insights: Scope by 4C™ is the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems.
Tre Tomaszewski
Chief Technology Officer of YuVue, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tre-tomaszewski/2b/b68/601
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About YuVue, LLC: YUVUE helps brands, broadcasters and publishers acquire, discover and monetize user-generated videos and photos.
Gavin Silver
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Allstar
Gavin Silver is the Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Allstar.
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About Allstar: Allstar develops technology that enables gamers to effortlessly capture, personalize, and share their greatest gaming moments.
Andy Lincoln
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Government Products Portfolio of ViaSat
Andy Lincoln is Chief Technology Officer for Tactical SatCom Networks at ViaSat.
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About ViaSat: ViaSat produces satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location.
Elias Amador
CTO of imgScrimmage
Elias brings a tech-savvy sales and marketing perspective to the imgScrimmage concept. He is a highly regarded information technology specialist who has built numerous websites and mobile app/websites for a wide range of clients. His diverse credentials include lead media engineer at a major home security company and lead web developer at an online retailer of casual apparel. Elias’s experience in architecting and developing new technologies was the reason he was brought on board with imgScrimmage. He is currently responsible for developing and managing all the technologies imgScrimmage provides to its vast amount of users.
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About imgScrimmage: imgScrimmage is an online platform that enables its users to communicate on social media
Pierre-Habté Nouvellon
Co-founder and CTO of Snipfeed
Pierre-Habté Nouvellon is the Co-founder and CTO at Snipfeed.
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About Snipfeed: Where creators build empires.
Randall Eike
Founder & CTO of SOCXS Technologies
Randall is an accomplished software architect with extensive experience in social, web, gaming, broadcasting, green tech, consumer apps and nature preservation. As CTO, Randall drives product architecture and direction. Randall has built and run a successful software and development business for over 17 years. Prior to Socxs he was President and co-founder of Eike Interactive, a web development agency that designed and architected digital marketing programs for diverse clientele including Sony PlayStation, Genealogy.com (now Ancestry.com), and The Learning Company. Randall has held several leading positions including Engineering manager Broderbund Software and Software Engineer at Banner Blue Software. Randall graduated from Stanford University with an MS in Computer Science and holds a BS in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he graduated first in his class.
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About SOCXS Technologies: Designed for brand managers, marketers, designers & agencies, the SOCXS Platform gives you a single, Integrated Fan Experience.
Abe Gulko
CTO of Sky Fund LLC
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About Sky Fund LLC: Financial Technology and Investment Management in the Alternative Investment Industry. Investor and fund data structures.
Alan Rozet
CTO of Pilot
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About Pilot: Bloomberg for Hollywood
William White
Co-Founder / CTO of Fluence
William White is a co-founder and chief technology officer at [Fluence, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fluence). Prior to this position, he worked as a senior technical manager at AOL. He was also employed at Yahoo! and Slacker Radio. White holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from [McGill University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mcgill-university) and a certificate in entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About Fluence: Helping curators and creators better connect.
Filippo Portolano
CTO of inPowered
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About inPowered: inPowered is the AI platform delivering business outcomes with content marketing
Brad McEvilly
VP Technology/Acting CTO of Vesta
Brad McEvilly is a Mobile Architect at Edward Jones.
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About Edward Jones, Vesta: Vesta operates as an influencer and advocacy activation company.
Timur Kovalev
Chief Technology Officer of Untangle
Timur Kovalev serves as the CTO at Untangle and is responsible for driving technology innovation and integration of gateway, endpoint, and cloud technologies. Timur brings over 20 years of experience across various technology stacks and applications. Prior to joining Untangle, Timur headed up Client and Threat Intelligence Technology at Webroot, where he led development of desktop and mobile solutions, cloud intelligence services, and researcsh automation systems. Prior to Webroot, Timur was responsible for design and development of dynamic network communication architecture for medical devices at Dräger Medical Systems. Before that, he developed software for patient monitoring, imaging, and secure medical data delivery solutions at Siemens. Timur holds a dual bachelor degree in Computer Science and Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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About Untangle: Untangle, a network software and appliance company, provides multi-function firewall and internet management applications.
Jeff Gordon
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Evergreen
Co-Founder & CTO at Evergreen.
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About Evergreen: Evergreen is a beer, spirit, cocktail, and wine management and marketing platform for bars, restaurants, brands, and consumers.
Daniel Fernandez
CTO of KOSHU
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About KOSHU: Casting, Management, Strategy: Our ethos is disrupt the digital landscape with every creator & project encompassing inclusivity & diversity
Jeffrey Miller
CTO of PURE FOCUS
Jeff brings 14 years development & project management experience to Pure Focus, with specific expertise in Algorithms & Data Structures. Jeff works with clients to assess and optimize technology infrastructure. Jeff received his PHD in Computer Science from USC.
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About PURE FOCUS, University of Southern California, University of Southern California, University of Southern California: Content Marketing Software and Solutions
Eric Falcao
Founder & CTO of Khoros
Eric is responsible for and oversees API, scaling, data modeling and infrastructure at Spredfast. Prior to Spredfast, Eric founded TweetRiver (now Mass Relevance, now Spredfast). A technologist for over 14 years, Eric loves shipping software that builds value for business and has built a career doing in various development roles at PeopleAdmin, Fiveruns, and uShip. Eric holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Khoros, Mass Relevance, TweetRiver: Khoros is a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors.
Saket Newaskar
Co-Founder and CTO of TripHobo
Saket Newaskar is the Co-Founder and CTO of TripHobo
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About TripHobo: Triphobo helps users plan a trip by suggesting a customized vacation itinerary with flights, hotels and interesting things to do.
Mitchell Eisen
Co-Founder & CTO of Real Magnet
Mitchell Eisen is the CTO and co-founder of Real Magnet, a leading Marketing Automation and Email Service Provider (ESP). Mr. Eisen has more than two decades of experience in Email and Digital Marketing technologies, including SMTP protocols, encryption, authentication, and SPAM filtering techniques. Mr. Eisen is the chief architect of Real Magnet’s Marketing Automation platform and has a deep understanding of both the technological flexibility of marketing automation and its exciting user implications. He is a frequent and engaging speaker on Marketing Automation, Email Marketing, and Email Deliverability strategies and best practices. Prior to founding Real Magnet, he had a leadership role in television, film and advertising production and technology.
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About Real Magnet: Real Magnet simplifies marketing automation with its intuitive design & seamless integration with leading CRMs.
Ariel Spivakovsky
Chief Technology Officer of The Hill
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About The Hill: The Hill is a congressional newspaper that publishes daily when Congress is in session.It is written for and about the U.S.
Jason Fotter
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FuseFX
Jason Fotter is a co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of FuseFX. With more than 20 years of experience, Fotter has a strong history in the visual effects industry, starting his career as an artist and then migrating to the technology side. He brings a unique perspective to the technological needs of FuseFX and has emerged as a leader in the industry, driving innovation in visual effects workflows. As CTO, Fotter’s primary focus is to oversee the development of the Nucleus platform and the company’s technical infrastructure. Developing a digitally robust, efficient, and secure creative hub for all projects in the facility remains his constant focus. His expertise and knowledge in the post-production and visual effects process have enabled FuseFX to develop the most efficient workflow in the business. Fotter is also well versed in cloud technology, and FuseFX has become an early adopter and leader in developing innovative cloud workflows. A talented visual effects artist and technologist, Fotter’s career credits span commercials, episodic television, feature films, and music videos. He brings a wealth of knowledge and is always eager to learn and adopt new technologies that will keep FuseFX ahead of the curve and leading the charge in visual effects production.
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About FuseFX: FuseFX is a motion pictures and film company specializing in visual effects services for the film.
Alex Morse
Founder & CTO of Toutpost
Alex Morse is a Founder & CTO at Toutpost.
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About Cratejoy, Toutpost: Toutpost is a community for experts and enthusiasts to discuss and discover the best products and brands.
JR Walden
CTO & SVP of mediacom
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About mediacom, Mediacom Communications: MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media agencies.
Conor McGann
Founder & CTO of SocialOptimizr
Conor is an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years working in business and technology ranging from large-scale enterprise software to advanced technology R&D.; Conor was a founder of Cunav Technologies, an enterprise software services company. Conor built and managed the company through 3 years of profitable growth. He was the Chief Architect for the Customer Management Product Group at i2 where he managed technical and product teams for the rapidly growing enterprise market. Conor was also at NASA where he pioneered the use of automated planning technology for controlling autonomous robotic explorers. In 2010, he founded Wizbots to teach kids creative problem solving and design through robotics. Conor has a Bachelors in Mathematics and Engineering, and a PhD in Computer Science, from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).
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About SocialOptimizr: SocialOptimizr offers a social customer care platform that aggregates data to enable audience engagement and monitoring.
Rachel Clara Smith
Co-Founder and CTO of SquareOffs
Rachel is co-founder and CTO of SquareOffs – The Opinion Network™ Learn more at squareoffs.com | @SquareOffs | facebook.com/squareoffs Rachel is a senior full-stack software engineer with a background in advanced physics, computer-machine interfacing, cognitive science, and gender studies.
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About SquareOffs: The Opinion Network
Zachary Palacios
Co-founder, CTO of Swishh
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About Swishh: Swishh is a mobile app that allows its users to instantly exchange contact information with people they meet.
Sundeep Narang
CTO of Clickdaily
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About Clickdaily: Clickdaily is a subscription based Social Media and Web Presence management agency for small businesses, particularly restaurants.
Ethan Berl
Founder & CTO of Flye
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About Flye: AI marketing platform that gives brands the power to build and understand their audiences, then activate targeted personalized campaigns
Greg Smith
Chief Technology Officer of Sizmek
Greg Smith is the Account Manager at Listrak.
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About Listrak, Sizmek: Sizmek is an adtech company that offers Open Ad Management services to advertisers and agencies from around the world.
Rachid Sijelmassi
Team member – CTO of iyotee inc.
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About iyotee inc.: Focusing on personal and community network.
Christopher Sharp
CTO, Executive Vice President Design and Service Innovation of Digital Realty
Chris Sharp has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, with an extensive background in developing technology strategies in global markets. He has a deep knowledge of the data center sector and is well positioned to expand technical innovation at Digital Realty. Most recently, he was responsible for cloud innovation at Equinix, where he led the development of innovative cloud services solutions and developed new capabilities enabling next-generation, high-performance exchange and interconnection solutions, facilitating broad commercial adoption of cloud computing on a global basis. Previously, Mr. Sharp held leadership positions at top network and colocation providers, including Qwest Communications, MCI/Verizon Business and Reliance Globalcom.
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About Digital Realty: Digital Realty Trust is a wholesale data center provider, delivering customized data analysis solutions to businesses.
Andrew Werhane
CTO of Women.com
Andrew Werhane is CTO at Trippy.
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About Women.com: Women.com a lifestyle destination & advice community that delivers inspiration and conversation around doing & having it all.
Aaron Hernandez
CTO & Lead Developer of DyshApp
Aaron Hernandez is CTO & Lead Developer at Toast Labs (Dysh).
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About DyshApp: DyshApp is a Redefining food culture at the dish level.
Aaron Hernandez
CTO & Lead Developer of DyshApp
Aaron Hernandez is CTO & Lead Developer at Toast Labs (Dysh).
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About DyshApp: DyshApp is a Redefining food culture at the dish level.
Jordan Gilman
CTO and Software Architect of PeopleVine
With nearly 20 years of building custom platforms and web sites, Jordan founded PeopleVine to help agencies, brands and marketers launch engaging campaigns and opportunities for their consumers with ease. Prior to starting PeopleVine, Jordan managed a team of 150 globally to help Whirlpool Corporation roll out their eCommerce vision across the world.
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About 1871, PeopleVine: PeopleVine was built for private clubs and member-based business looking to provide premier and elevated experiences for their members.
Konstantin Shkut
CTO of ScaleLab
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About ScaleLab: ScaleLab helps you optimize your content and expand your audience so you can maximize your impact on YouTube and beyond.
Hamid Najafi
Chief Technology Officer of MateDetector.com
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About MateDetector.com, Sensoplex: MateDetector.com, Inc. is the world’s first subscription based social media company that utilizes proprietary wearable technology.
Giridhar Reddi
CTO and Technology Lead of My Campus Concierge Inc.
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About My Campus Concierge Inc.: Empowering College Students Through Social Engineering!
David Kim
CTO of Jaunster
CTO at Animoca
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About Jaunster: Instagram for Food and Adventure
Kevin Zittle
Founder & CTO of GoVoluntr
Kevin Zittle ‐ Kevin has an eye for beauty and a penchant for success. As Creative Director of his own design studio, Kevin has helped clients like Apple and Cisco look good. He’s truly an artist at heart and a maniacal technical genius to those who don’t know better. In his spare time, Kevin collects fine guitars, steeps some wicked tea, and criticizes bad typography.
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About GoVoluntr, Salesforce: GoVoluntr is a social network that aims to connect nonprofits with willing volunteers.
Himansu Karunadasa
CTO & Co-Founder of ensemba
Himansu Karunadasa is a Dallas-based Software entrepreneur and Technologist. Currently he is the Co-Founder and CTO of ensemba, the Social Recommendation system. Prior to that he served as the CTO of MediaDefined, the makers of the NetExam Learning Management System. Before joining MediaDefined he was the CTO of 3Stone, a Dallas based consulting company. Himansu holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Connecticut State University. Himansu and his wife live in a suburb of Dallas with their daughter and son.
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About ensemba, Netexam: ensemba is a social network that enables its users to add their interests and view content shared by others.
