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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 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.
Artur Meyster
Founder and CTO of Career Karma
Artur Meyster is the CTO of Career Karma (YC W19), an online marketplace that matches career switchers with job training programs. After graduating from a coding bootcamp, Hack Reactor, he joined Funding Circle as a full stack software engineer. This led him to start the Breaking Into Startups podcast featuring people with non-traditional backgrounds who broke into tech which reached over 3 million people. In 2019, Artur was one of the first bootcamp grads to graduate from Ycombinator, a startup accelerator that helps companies scale to millions of users.
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About Career Karma: Career Karma helps people find career advice and job training to navigate their careers.
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.
Dave Pickles
CTO of The Trade Desk
As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems. At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system) In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding. After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.
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About The Trade Desk, Trade Desk Inc.: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Matt Harris
CTO & Co-Founder of Backspace
Founder of Backspace.
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About Backspace, Backspace: Gamified Social Network with Self-Deleting posts.
Eric Anderson
CTO of Aspiration
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
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.
Rose Xi
Co-founder & CTO of Pocket Conservatory
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About Pocket Conservatory: A music learning community that provides a comfortable space for practice and performance.
Thanh Khuu
Chief Technology Officer of Evite
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About Evite: Evite, an online personal party planning service, offers tools for planning recipes and a wine-pairing chart, the process and themes.
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.
Oindril Dutta
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of AreaHype
Oindril Dutta is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at AreaHype.
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About AreaHype, Tara AI: We connect small businesses with clients.
Yin Wang
Co-Founder and CTO of Amino Apps
Yin Wang is a Founder at Amino Apps company.
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About Amino Apps, Narvii: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Jeremy Martin
CTO of Stream
Senior Software Engineer at Elemental Cognition.
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About Elemental Cognition, Stream: Stream is a company behind Stream, a live first OVP that powers video for publishers, professional sports, and top brands.
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
Mark Harding
Chief Technology Officer of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
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.
Scott Kacyn
Co-Founder & CTO of Hunt Club
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About Hunt Club, New Coast Ventures, TapFit: Hunt Club is a talent company that leans on subject matter experts to help clients find their next hire.
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.
Kay Johansson
CTO of Inmusik
Kay Johansson has over 20 years of experience in audio-video and digital technology. His achievements in technology crosses a diversity of domains, including cloud-based services, the Internet of Things, and distributed systems. He currently serves as a mentor at [GSVlabs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nestgsv#/entity), a hub of innovation focused on accelerating high-growth, high-impact verticals. During his career, Johansson has worked closely with Fortune 500 customers such as Apple, Microsoft, Ericsson, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, HP, Cisco, Samsung, Disney, ABC, and the BBC. Previously, he was the chief technology officer at MobiTV, where for nearly seven years he oversaw all technology and product strategy, including the development and deployment of the company’s multiscreen cloud-based Connected Media Platform. Earlier in his career, Johansson was the chief technology officer of Popwire, a former Ericsson company that specialized in video and audio processing for distribution to mobile phones, over the internet to PCs or directly to TVs. While he was at Popwire, Johansson directed research and development as well as product strategy in the lead up to the company’s acquisition by Teleca AB. Johansson is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 25 approved, published and pending patents with a specific emphasis on streaming and bandwidth adaptation techniques over wireless networks, and media delivery solutions from server to handset. He regularly contributes to several industry standards bodies, as well as serving as a frequent speaker at conferences and forums.
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About Inmusik: InMusik is a music-orientated social networking service for emerging artists to share their talent with music fans.
Michael Cirello
CTO of OkCupid
Mike Cirello is the Co – Founder & CTO of Silver Living. Mike CirelloAfter graduating from Cornell, Mike started his career as a developer on the Microsoft Office team. He spent a few years writing super-secret code for Raytheon’s missile defense systems, and he has worked for startups in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City. Most recently he was the VP of Engineering for Oyster.com, an online hotel review site. As Silver Living’s CTO, he is responsible for product management and engineering of the site. Mike enjoys working on products that help people solve difficult problems. He started Silver Living to build something that can give families an important tool to guide them through a difficult time in their lives. He lives on the banks of the Hudson River in New Jersey with his wife Christine and their baby boy.
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About OkCupid: OkCupid is an online dating website that uses quizzes and multiple-choice questions to find a match for the user.
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.
Ethan Sutin
Co-founder/CTO of Squad
Ethan has been coding since he was 6 years old and is passionate about the intersection of social cognition and computer science. He spent 4 years as the lead engineer at Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project. His career spans low-level programming languages for container security to front-end mobile development at GoGrid, Sysdig and Code for America. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a pursued a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (incomplete). Follow Molly on TwitterGet FeaturedSend Feedback
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
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.
Tim Herby
CTO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder of Mighty Networks
Tim Herby is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Architect of Mighty Networks.
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About Mighty Networks: Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities.
Peter Walker
Founder & CTO of JamKazam, Inc.
Peter Walker is Founder & CTO at JamKazam.
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About JamKazam, Inc., Visa UK: Disrupting the $8B music lesson marketplace with unique technology platform that lets musicians play live in sync from different locations.
Raj Chilakapati
CTO of Capterra
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About Capterra, Gartner: Capterra is the leading online resource for business software buyers.
Dave Chavez
Chief Technology Officer of zSpace
David brings 20 years of experience in start-up companies, working with technologies ranging from GSM infrastructure to laptops, printers, PDAs and smartphones, in both consumer and commercial product spaces. He has managed product development teams through the full range of the product life cycle, from initial concept to volume production. David has extensive experience working with suppliers and manufacturing partners worldwide, with a particular emphasis in Asia. He has held various positions in product development organizations such as pen-based computer companies GO & EO, Hewlett Packard, and Handspring.
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About zSpace: zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
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.
Erik Wagner
Co-Founder and CTO of Perengo
Erik Wagner is the co-founder and CTO of Perengo. He is a former principal sales engineer at comScore, Inc.
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About Perengo: Perengo is a programmatic recruitment automation and analytics platform for performance-conscious recruiters.
Paul Barnes-Hoggett
CTO of Daylight
Paul is the Co-Founder & CTO of Daylight.
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About Daylight: Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.
Michael T. Smith
Co-Founder & CTO of YvesBlue
Michael T. Smith is the Co-Founder and CTO of YvesBlue.
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About YvesBlue: YvesBlue distills the sustainability narrative across your entire portfolio.
Mani Ponniah
CTO of MyCircles
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About MyCircles: Afinity based social & dating networks
Mani Ponniah
CTO of MyCircles
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About MyCircles: Afinity based social & dating networks
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.
Jean-Paul Bonjour
Co-Founder and CTO of Blis
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About Blis: Blis operates as an on-demand staffing platform for businesses to connect with the best creative and technical professionals anywhere.
Greg Egan
Co-Founder & CTO of The Landing
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About The Landing: The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together.
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.
Ivan Smirnov
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Elude
Ivan Smirnov is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Elude.
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About Elude: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Tim Trinidad
Founder, CTO of Schoology
Tim is the Co-Founder of Schoology Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Lead Architect. He is responsible for the architecture of the Schoology application as well as the design and scalability of the back-end infrastructure.
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About New York CTO Club, Schoology: Schoology provides a user-centric learning management system that makes it easy to create and share academic content.
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.
Yihe Li
CTO, Interactive Entertainment of BitTorrent
Yihe Li is the CTO, Interactive Entertainment at BitTorrent.
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About BitTorrent, DLive.tv: BitTorrent is a protocol that creates advanced technologies to efficiently move large files across the internet.
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.
Johnny Thompson
Chief Technology Officer of MeritBuilder
Johnny Thompson is Chief Technology Officer at MeritBuilder.
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About MeritBuilder: The MeritBuilder program allows individuals and corporations to send, received, collect, and display accolades, thank-yous and kudos.
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.
Becky Raichur
CTO & Co-Founder of DrOwl and MrOwl
Becky Raichur is an innovative entrepreneur who has co-founded several companies including:
1. DrOwl is a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform built on patented technology that empowers people to access, understand, and share their medical records to help improve their care and outcomes.
Your health records belong to you, the patient. Access them for free on DrOwl and learn more about your health. Connect to thousands of medical providers, including the VA and Medicare, and receive a personalized Patient Portal that can be shared on-demand with caregivers, providers, and family members as needed.
DrOwl combines AI and machine learning to create a Patient Portal with your conditions, medications, and allergies in easy-to-understand language with physician-curated content from trusted resources. Making it easier than ever to understand more about your health.
Users can also save up to 80% on prescriptions and set medication and refill reminders.
One health record, infinite uses.
2. MrOwl, where she is the CTO. MrOwl is a Social Cloud Storage™ platform that allows people to store, share and simultaneously search their cloud, computer files, and the internet all together because they all belong in one search box. It’s never been easier to connect and collaborate with endless communities and discover what others have shared.
Becky Raichur has over 20 years of experience in the internet space including co-founding four technology companies. She previously served as a director for government contractors serving the US Department of Defense. Her graduate work focused on Applied Math and High-Speed Databases. Becky has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving ethical Internet use.
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About DrOwl: DrOwl is a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform built on patented technology that empowers people to access, understand, and share their medical records to help improve their care and outcomes.
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.
Chris Goes
Founder & CTO of Stash
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About Stash: Stash is an intelligent bookmarking tool that automatically analyzes and organizes saved links.
Andy Nguyen
Founder, CTO of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is the world’s first work-for-equity platform that helps entrepreneurs bring ideas to life.
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 Kong
Co-Founder and CTO of GiveCampus
Mike was a long-time engineer at Facebook, where he was responsible for making sure the world’s most-used social network was up and running.
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About GiveCampus: GiveCampus is a social fundraising and engagement platform for educational institutions.
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.
Shelby Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Prysm
Shelby Thomas is the Co-Founder & CTO at Prysm.
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About Prysm: The group ownership platform — Own anything, together.
Noah Krugel
Co-Founder and CTO of Beyond Gaming
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About Beyond Gaming: Beyond Gaming is a social network that creates tournaments for gamers to compete online for cash.
Brian Powell
Founder | CTO of Inclusive HR
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About Inclusive HR: Applications promoting diversity and inclusion outcomes for interviews and hybrid-remote work
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.
Alan Ni
Co-Founder and CTO of Grow Therapy
Alan Ni is the Co-Founder and CTO at Grow Therapy.
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About Grow Therapy: Grow Therapy is transforming mental healthcare accessibility by helping therapists launch tech-driven, in-network practices.
Derek Barrera
Chief Technology Officer of Proof of Impact
Derek Barrera currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Proof of Impact. He attended Radford University.
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About Proof of Impact: Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company that bridges the gap in ESG and impact data.
Joshua Stephens
Co-Founder, CTO of ScoreStream
Joshua Stephens co-founded ScoreStream. He also worked for the same company as its chief technology officer. Prior to this, he worked for Digium as general manager, business products. Joshua also used to worked for Four Loop Technologies as the company’s CEO.
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About ScoreStream: ScoreStream is a communication platform that allows fans to share information around sporting events with their family and friends.
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
