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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 Video 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.
Jieyi Long
Founding Member, CTO of Theta Labs
Jieyi Long co-founded SLIVER.tv, the next-generation eSports entertainment platform that live-stream top eSports games in fully immersive, 360° cinematic VR video.Its cutting edge, patented technology immerses the audience inside the 3D game world, viewing their favorite players and matches in an exciting new way never seen before. Prior to SLIVER.tv, Jieyi also co-founded MadSkill Game Studios, developing a real-time massive multiplayer game engine for mobile platforms. He received a B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Peking University in Beijing, China. He also received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL where he conducted research in mathematical modeling and algorithms to optimize large scale electronics systems. Many of which are finding their way into SLIVER.tv’s platform.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain
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Sam Yam
Co-Founder , President & CTO of Patreon
Sam Yam is the President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Patreon.
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About Patreon: Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
Sriranjan Manjunath
CTO & Head of Engineering of JioSaavn
Sriranjan Manjunath (Sri) is the CTO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Sri joined Saavn in 2010 and helped build out its infrastructure and create initial versions of its products. He has since led various engineering teams within Saavn and currently oversees all of its engineering efforts including product development, infrastructure and operations. Prior to Saavn, Sri was a lead engineer at Yahoo focussing on building scalable backend systems.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Eric Tang
Chief Technology Officer of Livepeer
Co-founder and CTO at Wildcard
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About Groupon, Hyperpublic, Livepeer, Wildcard: Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet.
Dave Pickles
CTO of The Trade Desk
As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems. At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system) In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding. After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.
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About The Trade Desk, Trade Desk Inc.: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Louis Sivillo
Co-Founder and CTO of RemoteHQ
Louis Sivillo is the co-founder and CTO of RemoteHQ.
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About RemoteHQ: RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.
Michael 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.
Nick Auger
Co-Founder & CTO of RevZilla
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About RevZilla: The best Motorcycles, Motorcycle Gear & Awesome-sauce. Noteworthy Nuggets from TeamZilla.
Vibol Hou
Chief Technology Officer of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Jernej Barbic
Co-Founder and CTO of Ziva Dynamics
Jernej Barbic is the co-founder and CTO at Ziva Dynamics.
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About Ziva Dynamics: Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation.
Derek Chiang
Co-Founder & CTO of Zelos Gaming
Derek Chiang serves as a co-founder and CTO at Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
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.
Lior Netzer
VP and CTO IoT of Akamai Technologies
Lior Netzer is the Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Mobile Business at Akamai where he leads the formulation of Akamai’s edge strategy as it relates to cellular networks. Previously, Lior was AVP Corporate Development at Comverse Network Systems focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the mobile application space. Lior has also held various senior operational positions in early stage companies such as Voltaire, and advisory board positions with Metacafe. Lior holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the Technion Israel.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Charlie Gero
CTO of Akamai Technologies
Charlie Gero is the Advisor at Rafay.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Anders Bjoras
Co-founder & CTO of Storygize
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About Storygize: Storygize is a native technology platform designed to empower digital media buyers to achieve maximum results with minimum effort.
David Harrison
Chief Technology Officer of Samba TV
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About Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.
Jason Sperske
Co-Founder & CTO of Zeality Inc.
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About Grammarly, Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
Mike Dierken
CTO of Varsity Tutors
Mike’s experience in e-commerce, machine learning and recommendation systems are a great fit for Spruce Up’s mission to apply data-driven personalization to help people surround themselves with the things that make them happy.
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About Nerdy, Varsity Tutors: Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal.
Michael Weiksner
Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters
Michael Weiksner is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters. He also serves as Chairman of e-thepeople.org and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Princeton University. He enjoys spending time with his wife and four kids.
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About EndlessTV, Pocketful of Quarters, SocialFeet, Tip or Skip: Pocketful of Quarters is a universal virtual currency platform for gaming, usable across different games and platforms.
Yitao Guan
Co-Founder & CTO of FunPlus
Yitao Guan, Founder and CTO of FunPlus, is a technology enthusiast passionate about social, mobile, cloud and data. Prior to founding FunPlus, he worked as a software architect for more than 15 years with leading technology companies, including IBM and Ask.com, where he was responsible for building worldclass infrastructure accessible from anywhere with the capacity to process hundreds of millions requests every day. Yitao received both a Bachelor and Master of Science degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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About FunPlus: FunPlus is a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play mobile games
Byron Hsu
Co-Founder, President, CTO of Paragon One
Founder at Paragon One.
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About Founders Pledge, Paragon One: Paragon One turns company work into scalable remote externships that help students gain hands-on work experience in different industries.
Kevin Law
Co-founder, CTO of Cambly
Kevin Law is Founder at Cambly.
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About Cambly: On-demand access to English tutors over video chat.
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
David S. Bennahum
CEO / CTO of Ready
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About Alpha Partners, Ready: Ready democratizes gaming with The Ready Games- DIY game tournaments- and Ready Maker, a platform for gaming and robotics.
Alagu Periyannan
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of BlueJeans Network
Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding Blue Jeans Network, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, a leader in network security and WAN optimization appliances. During his tenure at Blue Coat he held various senior R&D management positions and was part of the management team responsible for leading the company through its successful repositioning from CacheFlow, a maker of web and video caching appliances, to Blue Coat. He also led the team that was responsible for the company’s entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to CacheFlow, Alagu was an early member of the management team at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup. He built an R&D team from the ground up to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market, culminating in a successful sale of the company to CacheFlow in 2000. Before joining Entera, Alagu spent eight years at Apple and held various research and product development roles in networking and video over networks in the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and then as a founding member of the QuickTime Streaming Group. Alagu holds a Masters in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India.
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About BlueJeans Network: BlueJeans offers interactive, multi-directional video communication services through a cloud-based platform.
Steve Timson
CTO of Manticore Games
Steve Timson is the Chief Technical Officer of Manticore Games.
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About Manticore Games: Manticore Games develops Core, a platform to build, share, and play online games.
Tal Chalozin
CTO & Co-Founder of Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, the leading connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere. Tal is a serial entrepreneur and tireless global leader in video technology. In addition to serving as Innovid’s CTO, Tal is a board member for the IAB’s Digital Video Center of Excellence and for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been named a 2018 inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement for his significant impact on the industry via mentorship, inspiration, volunteerism and training. Previous accolades include being named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “Best Young European Entrepreneurs” by Businessweek, a member of Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” Class of 2016, and to Cynopsis Digital’s 2016 “It List.” Prior to Innovid, Tal co-founded GarageGeeks – a non-profit organization and one of Israel’s largest hacker spaces and innovation hubs boasting more than 8,000 members. Tal also served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for over eight years where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity. Tal owns several global patents in digital video technology, and he is a regular speaker at global events, including Cannes Lion, CES, The Drum’s Programmatic Punch, IAB, MWC, NAB, TVOT, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O, Broadcasting & Cable’s Advanced TV, Wired Magazine’s NEXTFEST, Le Web’s Digital Innovation Conference, Ars Electronica, and eConsultancy’s Creative Programmatic.
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About Garagegeeks, Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
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.
Steve Gable
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Frontier Communications
Steve Gable became Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in April 2015. He joined Frontier Communications in November 2012 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to Frontier, Mr. Gable was Executive Vice President/CTO of Tribune Company. At the same time, he was President, Tribune Digital, with expanded responsibility for the strategy and supporting technology that powered the company’s digital brands latimes.com and chicagotribune.com. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Gable was Senior Vice President and CTO of Tribune Company, responsible for all aspects of information technology systems for its TV and newspaper operations. Before this, Mr. Gable served as Vice President of Technology for Clear Channel Radio, responsible for the technology strategy and direction of 1200+ radio stations. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Systems from Northwestern University.
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About Frontier Communications, Frontier Communications: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
Artavazd Mehrabyan
Co-Founder & CTO of Picsart
Artavazd Mehrabyan is Co-Founder and CTO of PicsArt, the leading image editing app. Prior to founding PicsArt, Artavazd has worked as Chief Software Architect at Sourcio, the Virtual Solution Global Services, and Lycos Europe. Artavazd has over six years of experience conducting practical classes in Software Architecture and Object-Oriented Analysis at various universities. Artavazd has MS in Computer Information Science from American University of Armenia.
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About Picsart: Picsart is an all-in-one photo & video editing app, powered by a creative community of monthly active users and influencers.
Christopher Mueller
Co-Founder & CTO of Bitmovin
Christopher Mueller is CEO and Co-founder of bitmovin and Head of Technology. He received his M.Sc (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Science from the Aplen-Adria University Klagenfurt with distinction. He gained practical expertise in various companies, notably Infineon Semiconductors and Dolby Laboratories Inc. Los Angeles, USA. His main research interests are multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation. In his position as an Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC) he has published more than 20 papers in these areas and currently holds 2 U.S. patents. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash. He contributed several open source tools, notably MPEG-DASH VLC plugin and libdash, worked in various EC-funded projects, e.g., ALICANTE and SocialSensor, and he is the supervisor and main contributor of the MPEG-DASH ITEC blog (dash.itec.aau.at) with more than 100k views per year.
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About Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Chris Jones
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Owner of Obsidian Entertainment
Chris Jones is a developer who worked at Interplay Entertainment on Fallout and Fallout 2 as Senior Programmer and was a CTO of Obsidian Entertainment during the development of ‘. He can also be considered a Van Buren developer.
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About McLeod Software, Obsidian Entertainment: Obsidian Entertainment is an American role-playing video game.
James Coletti
CTO of MedCircle
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About MedCircle: MedCircle is a San Diego based company redefining the mental health care market
Dan Ogles
CTO of Proletariat
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Joe Mukai
CTO / Co-founder of Proletariat
Joe Mukai joined Proletariat as Director of Engineering / Co-founder in 2013.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Stephane Guez
CTO and Co-Founder of Dalet
Stephane Guez is the CTO and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Brian Kaiser
CTO of Hudl
Brian Kaiser is the CTO of Hudl. A Overland Park, Kan. native, Brian graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a computer engineering degree from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School in Computer Science and Management.In 2012, he was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the sports category, and was joined by co-founders David Graff and John Wirtz on Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2010.
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About Hudl: Hudl is a software platform that provides video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Joseph Werle
Chief Technology Officer of Rad
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About Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Gary Foreman
Co-Founder & CTO of Stakester
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About NextWave Safety Solutions, Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Wesley Boyer
CTO of Class Technologies
Wesley Boyer is the Chief Technology Officer of Class.
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About Class Technologies: Class Technologies provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software for teachers on the Zoom Meetings platform.
John Riordan
Cofounder & CTO of OnSIP
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About OnSIP: OnSIP is a leading provider of real-time communications services to businesses.
Steven Pontillo
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of AMC Networks
As executive vice president and chief technology officer, Steven Pontillo oversees the strategic use and deployment of technologies throughout AMC Networks Inc. and its popular and award-winning national cable television networks AMC, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, and BBC AMERICA (operated through a joint venture with BBC Worldwide). Pontillo is responsible for identifying new opportunities for technology to assist in company planning, decision-making, and operations by developing and implementing effective technological solutions using emerging technology. He also oversees the broadcasting & technology, post production, and information systems departments. He has held this position since 2012. His previous position was senior vice president of broadcasting, information systems and technology, which he held since 2004. During his career, Pontillo has held a number of key positions within AMC Networks and its former parent company, Cablevision Systems Corporation. Pontillo is credited with many technological achievements at AMC Networks, including the design and implementation of the AMC Networks Broadcasting and Technology Center, which is located in Bethpage, NY. This state-of-the-art technical marvel consolidates both origination and satellite communications functions in one 62,000 square foot facility and keeps AMC Networks at the forefront of technology, providing both standard- and high-definition digital infrastructure. During his tenure, he has been responsible for the technical facility and distribution design of many major programming services, including the cable television networks of AMC Networks, the global channels of AMC, SundanceTV, and WE tv, as well as third party clients MSG Network, MSG Plus, MSG Varsity, fuse, and numerous other regional and national sports networks. Additionally, Pontillo spearheaded the design and implementation of the company’s Media Asset Management system, which allows for digital asset storage and retrieval of all media types along with the implementation of AMC Networks’ RightsLogic rights management system. He was one of the key architects of the design, construction and launch of the Rainbow-1 spacecraft that was originally used for distribution of AMC Networks’ VOOM HD Networks. Pontillo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the New York Institute of Technology and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New York. He is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), National Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) and serves on several advisory boards in the cable and broadcast industries.
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About AMC Networks: AMC Networks produces quality programming and movie content for more than 30 years.
Weidong Chen
Cofounder and CTO of Casa Systems
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About Casa Systems: Casa Systems offers network edge devices for the interactive digital video and broadband IP services sectors.
Javier Pastor Sánchez
Co-founder & CTO of Streamloots
Javier Pastor Sánchez is a Co-Founder of Streamloots. He is a former Co-founder at Duely, Overpog, and Idlee. Mr. Sanchez received a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology at the University of Murcia.
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About Duely, Streamloots: Streamloots monetizes the audience of Esports players and Live streamers
Cihan Ucar
CTO & Co-Founder of Clovers
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About Clovers: Clovers intelligent interview solution uses AI to accelerate hiring and reduce bias
Tom LaFleur
CTO of Lytx
Tom has more than three decades of experience in the engineering and technology field and is currently a partner in Griffen Investments. He began his career in engineering at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) doing solar geophysical engineering before serving as director of research and development at Digital Research. He moved to Linkabit Corp. (later M/A Com) as a director of engineering, developing satellite communication systems. Tom joined Qualcomm and served as vice president of engineering and IT for more than a decade during a period of the company’s rapid growth. He also co-founded and served as chief technology officer of Ryhthms Net Connection before joining DriveCam (now Lytx, Inc.) as chief technology officer and, later, as a member of the company’s board. Tom is active in the technology community and has taught engineering at the college level.
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About Lytx: Lytx, Inc. develops video-based driver safety and fleet management solutions.
Benlloyd Goldstein
Co-Founder and CTO of Hyphy
Benlloyd Goldstein is the CTO and Co-Founder of Hyphy.
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About Hyphy: Supermall is a social commerce app.
Robert Ochshorn
Co-founder and CTO of Reduct
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About Reduct: Reduct is an AI-powered cloud video platform that aims to allow for richer human communication.
David Wippich
Co-chairman, CTO, Executive Producer of SunSpear Games
David is the Co-Chairman, CTO, and Executive Producer of Sunspear Games. Previously he was CTO/SVP and a member of the global management board for Ingram Micro a $50B global technology provider. Prior he was Chairman and CEO/CTO, of Ensim Corporation, which he sold to Ingram Micro. Prior to Ensim he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Active ISP (AISP), one of Europe’s largest hosting service providers, Executive Vice President at ConnectInc.com (CNKT), a high-volume e-commerce platform provider serving complex trading networks for Global 2000 companies, Vice President and General Manager for the Internet and Embedded Products Division of Phoenix Technologies (PTEC) and Award Software (AWRD) (sold to Phoenix), and held a variety of senior sales and operations management positions at ACER, one of the world’s largest technology manufacturers. David attended Stanford University and Southern Oregon University.
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About SunSpear Games: SunSpear is developing the next great RTS esport, bringing together a team of top designers and executives with deep experience and skills.
Nadeem Ahmed
Co-Founder, CTO, Chief Architect of Biscotti
Dr. Ahmed most recently was at WiQuest Communications, the leading ultrawideband semiconductor supplier, where he was responsible for architecting, simulating and developing baseband and system level algorithms. Dr. Ahmed has spent time working with several research centers including Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs), Nokia’s R&D Center, and Texas Instruments DSP Solutions R & D center. His research interests lie in signal processing techniques for communications. He has worked on modulation, detection, equalization and power distribution techniques for both wireline and wireless applications. Dr. Ahmed received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 2000 and 2004, respectively. At Rice University he was a member of the Digital Signal Processing group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was a Texas Instruments Fellow and NSERC PGS A and B recipient. He is the author of numerous publications and has 8 patents and pending applications.
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About Biscotti: Biscotti is a consumer electronics company that develops video calling products for home use.
Tim Specht
Co-Founder & CTO of Dubsmash
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About Dubsmash: Dubsmash is a developer of a viral video messaging app that lets users create and share their videos.
David Mullins
CTO of GG Media Network
David Mullins has been an avid gamer and actively involved in the competitive eSports community for over a decade now. The expertise he brings to the team on the subject, coupled with his background in IT are a valuable asset to the company’s growth, in both with the community as well as the digital front. Acting as the Creative Director for the company’s vision, he hopes to bring authentic insight into the needs for gamers worldwide and create genuine content that garners massive following and participation.
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About GG Media Network: GG Media Network is a rising eSports media production company.
David Mullins
CTO of GG Media Network
David Mullins has been an avid gamer and actively involved in the competitive eSports community for over a decade now. The expertise he brings to the team on the subject, coupled with his background in IT are a valuable asset to the company’s growth, in both with the community as well as the digital front. Acting as the Creative Director for the company’s vision, he hopes to bring authentic insight into the needs for gamers worldwide and create genuine content that garners massive following and participation.
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About GG Media Network: GG Media Network is a rising eSports media production company.
Alon Cohen
EVP & CTO of Phone.com
EVP at Phone.com.
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About Phone.com: Phone.com is the modern, work-from-anywhere solution for today’s agile, mobile, and always-on entrepreneurs and growing businesses.
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder & CTO of Runway
Anastasis Germanidis is the Co-Founder and CTO of Runway.
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About Runway: Runway is a next generation video editing solution powered by machine learning.
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.
Jeremy Nam
CTO & Co-Founder of AmazeVR
Jeremy D. Nam is the CTO and Co-Founder of Amaze VR.
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About AmazeVR: AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution using the proprietary technologies.
Greg Huff
SVP & CTO of LSI Logic
Greg Huff oversees the company’s corporate strategy and technology roadmaps. Previously, he was senior vice president of Corporate Strategy for LSI. In this capacity, he was responsible for shaping the future growth strategy of LSI products within the storage and networking markets. Huff joined the company in May 2011 from HP, where he was vice president and chief technology officer of the company’s Industry Standard Server business. In that position, he was responsible for the technical strategy of HP’s ProLiant servers, BladeSystem family products and its infrastructure software business. Prior to that, he served as research and development director for the HP Superdome product family. Huff earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
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About LSI Logic: LSI Logic provides silicon, systems and software technologies for products that bring together people, information and digital content.
Miriam Aguirre
Chief Technology Officer of Skillz
Miriam Aguirre, an avid gaming enthusiast, is the Vice President of Engineering at Skillz. Prior to this, she worked as a software engineer for companies including HubAnalytics, Krush Inc., Financial Engines and Hewlett-Packard. She has been featured in CIO Magazine for her passion and efforts to bring diversity to eSports and gaming. Miriam grew up in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after graduating from MIT. Today, she can be found leading the Skillz engineering team and working to advance the eSports industry.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Ketu Patel
Co-Founder, CTO of Rockbot
Ketu dreamt up Rockbot at his hometown bowling alley, Porterville Lanes. He’s a huge music nerd but isn’t afraid to admit the first tape he ever owned was C+C Music Factory’s seminal classic, “Gonna Make You Sweat”. When he’s not furiously coding and picking 5+ upvote jams on Rockbot, Ketu likes to snowboard and be disappointed by Cal football.
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About Rockbot: Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
Andy Payne
CTO of Nemo
Andy Payne is cofounder and CTO of Unmeeting. Previously he founded and led Cisco Emerge, a team focused on advancing the future of work. Emerge explored new technologies to create experiences that change how teams work. The Emerge team created experimental products in areas such as AI, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and hardware design. Previously Andy started and led Norton Labs and the Emerging Products Group at Symantec. Before that he cofounded and was Chief Architect of a startup applying machine learning to detect malware.
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About Nemo: Get more out of your virtual meetings – automatically
Jayesh Sahasi
CPO & CTO of ON24
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Band of Angels, ON24, ON24, Wharton Alumni Angels: ON24 is a cloud-based Platform that makes easy to create, scale, and personalize engaging experiences to take leads to revenue.
Jay Brown
CTO of The Meta
Jay Brown is the CTO of The Meta.
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About The Meta, The Meta: Esports training software
Lief Liebmann
Co-founder & CTO of Jargon.ai
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About Jargon.ai: Jargon.ai is the first intelligent video calling platform for busy professionals.
Hassan Uriostegui
Co-Founder and CTO of Flyr TV
Hassan Uriostegui is a self-taught entrepreneur and inventor. His pioneering work in Computer Sciences and Visual Effects for mobile devices has contributed to the advancement and development of many technical innovations and successful commercial applications like Kybela(2011), Kromath(2011), Viddy(2012), Cinekolor(2014) and Ultrakam(2014), the later even selected by Apple Computer Inc. as a technical reference for app developers world wide. Hassan Uriostegui’s expertise in the Visual Effects field has been recognized with the most important film and TV awards in Mexico including the “Ariel” (2008) and the “Pantalla de Cristal” award (2011) for the Best Visual Effects category. As a cofounder of the interactive video platform Flyr(2017) Hassan Uriostegui is devoted to the mission of democratizing video storytelling bringing its power to all the citizens of the digital world.
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About Flyr TV: Flyr tv is currently featuring 6 premium channels, filled to the brim with quick, eye-catching videos.
Ayyappan Sankaran
Co-Founder & CTO of YuMe
Ayyappan Sankaran is the Co-Founder and CTO of YuMe, Inc.
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About YuMe: YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and more.
Jonathan Mavor
Co-Founder and CTO of Uber Entertainment
Jonathan Mavor is the Board Member of Uber Entertainment.
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About Uber Entertainment: Uber Entertainment is a video game development company whose products include Monday Night Combat and Planetary Annihilation.
Bill Galloway
Founder, VP and CTO of Pivot3
Bill Galloway is a recognized thought leader in the storage industry. He is named on 24 storage related patents and has been actively involved in storage technologies and standards such as SAS, SATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel, and RAID. Prior to Pivot3, Bill was co-founder of BREA Technologies, Inc., a successful private storage technology company. Prior to BREA, he worked for many years at Compaq Computer Corp. as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff where he architected and developed many breakthrough products for storage hardware and software. Bill has over twenty years of product development experience in storage and I/O technology at both public and private companies.
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About Pivot3: Pivot3 develops hyperconverged infrastructure platforms for enterprise IT.
Uday Mathur
Chief Technology Officer of RED Digital Cinema
Uday Mathur is the Chief Technology Officer of RED. Uday has an extensive background in systems and application engineering. He began his career in image sensors and ASIC design at Biomorphic VLSI as a chip designer, and later as an applications engineer at Micron Technology where he focused on digital processors and camera modules. Uday joined RED in 2008 as a digital system designer and was responsible for the embedded system design of the Academy Award-winning RED Epic. He later led the design of RED’s DSMC2 line of cameras, the Panavision DXL, and several custom cameras built with RED technology.
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About RED Digital Cinema: Red.com is an American manufacturing company that produces digital cinema cameras.
Clay Webster
CTO of BuzzCast
Clay Webster is the CTO at BuzzCast.
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About BuzzCast: BuzzCast is a virtual events platform that produces large-scale virtual and hybrid events.
Manish Gupta
Co-Founder, CTO of Vivid Vision
Manish left IBM to co-found the company in 2014. Experienced in both engineering and design, Manish leads development at Vivid Vision.
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About SeQuent Scientific, Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Barbara Rosario
Co-Founder and CTO of Vyrill
Barbara Rosario is the Co-Founder and CTO at Vyrill.
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About Vyrill: Vyrill’s AI platform offers user generated video – discovery, intelligence, licensing, and content marketing tools for social commerce.
Anthony Duerr
Co-Founder & CTO of JobPixel
Anthony Duerr currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for JobPixel. He previously worked at Lyft as the Director Of Engineering.
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About JobPixel: JobPixel is a web-based video hiring experience that is revolutionizing how businesses find, evaluate, and hire the best candidates.
Paul Kim
Chief Technology Officer of Stanford Graduate School of Education
An education technology entrepreneur, Dr. Kim leads initiatives involving the design of learning technologies, educational research, and community development. In a trans-disciplinary project aiming to promote innovation and competition by constructing a Programmable and Open Mobile Internet (POMI 2020), Dr. Kim designs and implements mobile technologies and social learning environments. In 2009, Dr. Kim founded Seeds of Empowerment, a 501(C3) non-profit global education incubator for social innovations leveraging mobile technologies. Under his direction and leadership, Stanford undergraduate and graduate students carry out mobile-social educational research and development in real-world classrooms and virtual learning environments. Dr. Kim serves on the Board of Directors of WestEd, the Committee on Grand Challenges in International Development for the National Academies of Science, and the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Directorate.
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About Stanford Graduate School of Education: Stanford Graduate School of Education is dedicated to solving education’s greatest challenges.
Chris Howell
CTO of Wickr
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About Wickr: Wickr is a free top-secret messaging app allowing its users to send and receive top-secret messages, pictures, videos, audios, and files.
Dave Evans
Chief Technology Officer of PlayCanvas
Dave creates tools that make people happy. He has over 12 years of experience writing games and game tools. He has been a developer on all manner of games from hand-helds to AAA blockbusters and virtual worlds. While at Sony Computer Entertainment he was the lead tools developer on PlayStation Home.
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About PlayCanvas: PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.
Santi Herrero Bajo
Co-Founder & CTO of EdPuzzle
Santiago Bajo is Co-Founder & CTO at EdPuzzle.
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About EdPuzzle: EdPuzzle is a video-editing tool with analytics for classroom.
Roger Hajjar
Founder & CTO of Prysm
Since 2005, Roger Hajjar has pioneered Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology, working with multidisciplinary technologists and business people in the U.S. and around the globe. Roger has registered more than 75 U.S. and worldwide patents and has a proven record of success in taking optical-based technologies from inception to high-volume manufacturing. Prior to Prysm, Roger served as Vice President/GM of Transmission Subsystems with Avanex Corporation and Vice President of Technology with Vitesse Semiconductor. Roger was Chief Technology Officer and founder of Versatile Optical Networks prior to its acquisition by Vitesse, and later Avanex. Roger held management positions with TeraStor Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Company. Roger also held research positions at the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Roger holds a Ph.D, M.S. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
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About Celladon, Prysm: PPrysm enables individuals and teams to see and interact with all their data, content, and applications on displays of all sizes.
Joshua Pressnell
Chief Technology Officer of Penthera Partners
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About Penthera Partners: Penthera Partners is an international software company that makes video viewing friction-free.
Brendan Schwartz
Co-Founder, CTO of Wistia
Brendan is the CTO and co-founder of Wistia. In fourth grade, he owned an iguana named Iggy whose favorite snack was zucchini flowers. In high school, he was the president of Model UN, voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’, and only wore khakis. As a junior in college, Brendan hosted an anti-gravity themed party to celebrate the launch of his new website. Today, he loves quiet nights at home and Sleepytime Tea. Brendan’s a proud owner of a nose hair trimmer, but he’s yet to use it.
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About Wistia: Wistia is the video platform of choice for business.
Erik Sapir
Co-Founder & CTO of uMake
Erik Sapir joined uMake as CTO & Co-Founder in 2014.
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About uMake: uMake offers an application that enables iPad users to create designs in 3D form.
Alain Fontaine
Co-founder & CTO of Clutch Prep
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About Clutch Prep: Clutch Prep is the best way to actually learn Video guides that follow your college textbook.
Charlie Beckwith
Co-founder & CTO of FocalCast
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About FocalCast: Live qualitative research platform with no downloads or plugins
John Bartkiw
CTO of Devolver Digital
John Bartkiw is the VR Believer and CTO of Devolver Digital.
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About Devolver Digital: Working with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote the most original, eccentric, and beloved games.
Dean Collins
Chief Technology Officer of iROKO Partners
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About iROKO Partners: iROKO Partners is an online Nigerian entertainment media distribution company that offers online media products.
Changyin Zhou
Co-founder & CTO of Visbit
Changyin (CY) Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Visbit, is a tech visionary with over a decade of experience in computer vision, image/video processing and computational camera. Prior to Visbit, he was one of the founding members of the Gcam team at Google X Lab, and worked on projects including the Google Glass camera and Android camera HDR+ mode. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and has over 20 patents.
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About Visbit: Smart transmission and playback of premium quality immersive media across headsets, mobile, and web.
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.
Daniel Brackett
CTO & Co-Founder of Extreme Reach
an is the CTO of Extreme Reach. He leads innovation and development with a customer-centric revision cycle, growing our industry-leading platform with new capabilities every two weeks. With over 15 years of experience in systems architecture, application design and development leadership, Dan is known for developing transformative advertising technology solutions.
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About Extreme Reach: Extreme Reach is a tech platform for video ad campaign workflow that delivers ads to every screen and device on time and in perfect quality.
Jonathan Lucas
CTO of VeePIO
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About Burnbook, VeePIO: Mobile Social Video Monetization Platform
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.
Srinivas Mandyam
Founder and CTO of Tynker
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About Tynker: Tynker is a creative computing platform that teaches kids programming skills in a fun, intuitive, and imaginative way.
Justin Simmons
Co-founder & CTO of GameApart
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About GameApart: GameApart brings team members, friends, and families together in an increasingly remote world.
David Kohel
Chief Technology Officer of XpresSpa Group
David Kohel is the Chief Technology Officer of XpresSpa.
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About XpresSpa Group: XpresSpa Group is is leveraging its core asset xpresspa in building a preeminent pure-play health & wellness service company.
Ilya Osipov
Founder, President, CTO of WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.)
Ilya Osipov (Russian: Илья Викторович Осипов) An entrepreneur with 18 years experience in web-based and mobile applications. Expert in gamification, HCI, and TUI. I participated in various projects as a founder, investor, mentor and manager. Author of 17 scientific articles: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8017-8153 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56622574600 Founder of WOWCube.com, Numbuster, NN.RU, nnov.org, FedSP.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_V_Osipov
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About i2istudy INC., NN.ru, Numbuster Ltd, WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.): WOWCube system is a puzzle cube with tangible interface where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting shaking.
Severin Andrieu-Delille
CTO of The Hollywood Reporter
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About Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter: The Hollywood Reporter is an online platform, providing entertainment news, reviews, videos, and analysis for its users.
David Schleupner
Co-Founder & CTO of Lootcakes
David Schleupner (CTO/COO) used to study rocks (aka geology) but ultimately got sucked into the magical world of writing code. After years of building rock-hard code, Dave sold his software & technology consulting firm to a large corporation (see NYSE: WLTW), then set about building a second floor on his house. Upon completing this herculean task, and after several months of doing nothing, Dave answered his phone.
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About Lootcakes: Lootcakes empowers gamers to harness their purchase data, and helps game publishers acquire the world’s biggest spenders.
Gordon Li
CTO of Shotcall
Shotcall is a decentralized esports social network/e-commerce marketplace that connects the gaming community allowing you to coordinate your gameplay on who, when, and how you engage.
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About Shotcall: Shotcall is the platform and marketplace for fans to join the game or content with their favorite people.
