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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 Director operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a Director 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.
Luci Fonseca
Principal & Director of Operations of Base10 Partners
Luci Fonseca currently works as a Principal and Director of Operations at Base10 Partners. Previously, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
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About Base10 Partners: Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy.
Lina Nilsson
Senior Director, Data Science Product of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Scott Nielsen
Director of Data Engineering of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Scott wrote his first computer programs as a research assistant studying cosmic rays at the University of Utah and hasn’t stopped. Since then, he has automated the collection of government healthcare sanctions to perform background checks, created an automatic underwriting platform for an insurance company, and helped prevent fraud for an insurance wellness program. He is always eager for opportunities to learn or experience something new, and loves spending time with his wife and four kids.
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Theresa Bui Revon
Senior Director Growth Marketing of ASAPP
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About ASAPP: Breakthroughs are born out of research and ASAPP is advancing AI to drive greater human productivity and automating the world’s workflows
Greg Lind
Director of Platform of Transparent Path spc
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About Buildly, Transparent Path spc: Real-time, end-to-end visibility for perishables — using IoT sensors, blockchain security, and predictive AI.
Elisha Carsrud
Account Director of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Rachel Martin
Director of International Partnerships of Yext
Rachel Martin is Director of Global Partnerships, Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Tammy Rechtin
Director, Enterprise Sales of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
David “Rev” Ciancio
Director Partner Marketing of Yext
David is a senior marketing, branding and digital strategist with 20 years of experience in digital marketing and business development, specializing in hospitality marketing, content and local SEO. He has led many clients to new levels of local, national and international success in the hospitality, financial service and entertainment sectors, and recently joined Yext as their director of partner marketing. Rev is an “expert burger taster” and pens burgerconquest.com one of the world’s top 3 Burger blogs where he provides marketing insight and tips.
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About LuckyDiem, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Erin Pfiffner
Design Director of Yext
Erin Pfiffner leads the design team for Pages product and Professional Services at Yext. She has over seventeen years of branding and digital design experience across agency, in-house, consulting, and entrepreneurial environments. Erin is a dual-degree graduate from the University of Denver’s Art & Digital Media Studies programs, who’s focused her career on designing for emerging technologies that drive tangible marketing outcomes. When she’s not pushing pixels around on a screen she tries to do nice things for other people and empower females of all ages.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ryan Linden
Senior Director, Client Delivery of Yext
Ryan is currently the Senior Director of Client Delivery at Yext, where he has helped grow the Enterprise Client Success organization over the past 6 years holding various positions in Operations & Services. He currently leads the teams responsible for Onboarding and Implementation at Yext. Prior to his role at Yext, he worked as an Associate at KPMG LLP focused in the Media and Technology industries.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ian Van Every
Co-Founder & UK Managing Director of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Amir Ghodrati
Director of Market Insights of App Annie
Amir Ghodrati has been with App Annie since May 2013 and currently leads the Market Insights team. Previously, he worked in market research providing analysis services to digital media clients across a variety of industries, including search, advertising, and e-commerce. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Duke University.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
Prateek Saxena
Director of Appinventiv
Prateek Saxena is the Director of AppInventiv, one of the fastest-growing mobile application development companies, based in Noida, India. With extensive experience in sales, he has established himself as a highly-focused user experience expert and product strategist, and as one who is always ready to take the new challenge to drive value to the company.
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About Appinventiv: A leading global Mobile App Development Firm empowering startups & Fortune 500 Companies to bridge the gap between ideas and reality.””
Christa Manning
Director, HCM Innovation of Ultimate Software
Christa Manning serves as the Director of Human Capital Management Innovation at Ultimate Software.
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About Ultimate Software: Ultimate Software is a provider of cloud-based people management solutions.
Stefano Lindt
Senior Director of Alliances of C3 AI
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About C3 AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Michael MacCombie
Director of Platform of ff Venture Capital
Mike MacCombie is Director of Platform at ff Venture Capital, an early stage firm based in New York City that has invested in financial technology, insurance tech, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, and real estate technology, among other sectors. He focuses on platforms, marketplaces, and consumer brands that will change the behaviors of millions of people.
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About ff Venture Capital, NextGen Venture Partners, Techstars: ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Scott Dubin
Director of Investor Relations of ff Venture Capital
Scott Dubin, OurCrowd’s Director of Investor Relations, has over ten years of experience leveraging the power of communities. Prior to joining OurCrowd, Scott was the founder of The AIPAC Technology Division, a network of pro-Israel political activists, and worked as an operative on municipal, gubernatorial, and US Senate campaigns in addition to consulting for advocacy campaigns and not-for-profits in the United States, Canada, and Israel. A lifelong advocate of Israel, Scott Dubin has served in leadership roles at the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel, and was elected to the Zionist General Council and Zionist Congress. He received his BA from the New York University, and served in the IDF’s Artillery Corp.
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About ff Venture Capital: ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Kiran Lokeswarappa
Director of Machine Learning & Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Rainer Leeb
Senior Director, Growth of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
David Kroner
Managing Director, Financial Services of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Sarah Fay
Managing Director of Glasswing Ventures
SSarah Fay is the Steering Committee Member, Boston Chapter of All Raise.
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About All Raise, Glasswing Ventures: Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage VC firm investing in next gen AI and frontier technology startups enabling the intelligent enterprise.
Taylor Goodman
Director Of Hardware Engineering of OpenTrons
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Jonathan Martinez
Senior Director of Sales of OpenTrons
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Tad Buchanan
Director of Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia)
Mr. Buchanan co-founded the investment firm of Buchanan Investments, Inc. in 1998 with his father, Mike. Together, they have founded, invested in and raised equity and debt capital for numerous companies, including DM&E Railroad, Central Montana Resources, Opti Canada, White Oak Resources, AlphaClone, TabletCommand, Gensys Software, Tri Alpha Energy, OneSun Solar, and numerous other private companies. Prior to founding Buchanan Investments, Inc., Tad was an Executive Director at UBS Securities with primary responsibility for managing Asian equity sales and trading based in NY. He was also an equity analyst at UBS and W.I. Carr (Far East), Ltd. based in Hong Kong, with responsibility for covering financial services, software, industrial and energy companies in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Prior to joining W.I. Carr (Far East) Ltd., Tad was a credit analyst within the Corporate Lending Group of Wells Fargo Bank. He graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. in Economics and from Boston College with an M.B.A, International Finance. He currently serves on the boards of Central Montana Resources, AlphaClone, Tablet Command, and OneSun Solar. Tad is also a board observer of Tri Alpha Energy. He is married with three children, and is a Trustee of Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, CA.
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About Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia): Global healthcare platform for genomics-driven precision medicine. Fabric’ proven AI algorithms power genomic insights.
Morgan Hitzig
Senior Director of Global Operations of Dataminr
Morgan Hitzig is the Senior Director of Global Operations at Dataminr.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Sarah Manning
Director, Engineering of Dataminr
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Joe Levy
Director, Strategic Accounts of Dataminr
Experienced entrepreneur, strategist, and sales leader extraordinaire who enjoys international business and solving tough problems. I’ve lived in six countries, love aviation, and rejoice in turning abstract dreams into reality.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Matar Haller
Director of Algorithmic AI of SparkBeyond
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About SparkBeyond: At SparkBeyond, we unleash AI for Business and Social impact
Mark Gorenberg
Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
Mark Gorenberg is a Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners, founding the firm in 2013. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Mark joined co-founders Ann Winblad and John Hummer as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners began investing our first fund in 1990. Prior to Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Mark was at Sun Microsystems where he managed emerging new media areas and was a member of the original SparcStation team. Over the last 20 years Mark has served as a board member for numerous successful Hummer Winblad start-ups, including Omniture (IPO and acquired by Adobe), AdForce (IPO and acquired by CMGI), NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Scopus Technologies (IPO and acquired by Siebel) and Crowdfactory (acquired by Marketo). Currently, he serves as a Director of Domino Data Lab, Domo, Eventboard, Follow Analytics, and InsideSales. In 2011, Mark was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a 21-person advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers (www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast). Mark is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, a member of the Steering Committee of Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the Leadership Board of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. In 2012, Mark also became a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Mark received a B.S.E.E. from MIT, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.
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About Domino Data Lab, Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Jocelyn Goldfein
Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
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About All Raise, Stanford University, Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Ash Fontana
Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
Ash started the money side of AngelList – the most successful startup investing platform in the world – managing $130M over more than 250 funds. There, he launched online investing, created the first startup ‘index fund’ and curated investment opportunities across 500,000 companies. He also ran special projects like AngelList’s expansion into Europe and the UK. Simultaneously, Ash led syndicates and angel investments in Canva, Mixmax and others. Ash previously co-founded Topguest, a Founders Fund-backed company that built customer analytics technology for companies like IHG, United and Caesars Entertainment. Topguest sold in an 8 figure transaction 18 months after the company was founded. He started his professional career at Macquarie Capital, where he was a top-ranked analyst in private equity, investment banking and equity research. Academically, he graduated with First Class honors in law and finance on five scholarships from the University of Sydney.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Charlotte Bowell
Director of Operations of Vicarious
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About Vicarious: Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence.
Hugo Fozzati
Director, Business and Operations of AutoX
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
Maria Pere-Perez
Director, Product (ISV) Partnerships of Databricks
Maria Pere-Perez is Director of Product (ISV) Partnerships at Databricks and a 20 year veteran in the enterprise IT industry. Maria works with technology partners to build, market, and sell joint-solutions that solve a customer problem.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Richard Lim
Founder and Managing Director of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
Kevin Fong
Managing Director of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
James Orsulak
Senior Director of Descartes Labs
James Orsulak oversees sales, business development, and commercial partnerships at Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company. He is responsible for selling the company’s primary product line which includes rocket propellant, water for life support functions, and construction materials sourced from asteroids for delivery to customers in the Earth-Moon system and beyond. Prior to joining Planetary Resources, he spent a decade developing industrial-scale fueling stations here on Earth. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and an Agronomy and Precision Agriculture certification from Purdue University.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
George McNamee
Director of iRobot
George McNamee has served as a director since August 1999; he brings extensive experience with the management of public and private companies, as well as deep financial expertise. Currently a private investor, McNamee served as a managing partner of FA Technology Ventures Corporation, an information and energy technology venture capital firm, from 2000 until 2012. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of Plug Power Inc., a leading fuel cell developer, and is a director of several private companies, a Sterling Fellow of Yale and a Trustee of the Albany Academies and The American Friends of Eton College. McNamee previously served on the board of directors of Broadpoint (now Gleacher) Securities as well as serving from 1984 to 2007 as chairman of its predecessor First Albany Companies and was also a board member of the New York Stock Exchange Inc., Maplnfo, Home Shopping Network, Inc. and the Meta Group. He holds a B.A. from Yale University. McNamee will be retiring from the board of directors and is not standing for re-election at this annual meeting.
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About AmberWave, iRobot, Plug Power, Yale University: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Gail Deegan
Member of the Board of Directors of iRobot
Gail Deegan has served as a director since May 2011 and brings extensive experience as a former chief financial officer of three public companies and director of five public companies, in addition to iRobot; she has served as Audit Committee Chair for three boards of directors. From 1996 until her retirement in 2001, Deegan served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Houghton Mifflin, a publishing company. She was previously senior vice president of regulatory and government affairs for NYNEX New England, and vice president and chief financial officer of New England Telephone. Earlier in her career she was senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Eastern Enterprises, as well as chief administrative officer of that company. Deegan is a former director of EMC Corporation, TJX Companies, Inc., and three other public companies. She brings deep experience with financial accounting matters for complex organizations, capital allocation, business transformation, and oversight of corporate governance requirements and financial reporting processes. Deegan holds a B.A. in Elementary Education from The College of Saint Rose, an M.S. in History from Ohio State University, and an M.B.A. from Simmons College School of Management.
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About : iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Danielle Dean
Technical Director of Machine Learning of iRobot
Danielle Dean is a senior data scientist lead at Microsoft in the Azure Machine Learning product group. She leads a team of data scientists and engineers on end-to-end analytics projects using Azure ML, from automating the ingestion of data to analysis and implementation of algorithms, creating web services of these implementations, and using those to integrate into customer solutions or build end-user dashboards and visualizations. Danielle holds her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied the application of multilevel event history models to understand the timing and processes leading to events between dyads within social networks
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Stephen Drzewiczewski
Director of Collaborative Applications of iRobot
Steve has been with iRobot for 8 years and is the Sr. Manager of Collaborative Applications. One Steve and his team’s main responsibility is maintaining their Windchill implementation. Prior to iRobot – Steve spent 11 years’ experience as a PLM/MCAD Consultant & MCAD. University of Vermont graduate with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Adalbert Wysocki
Sr. Director of Engineering of Legion Technologies
Adalbert Wysocki is the Sr. Director of Engineering at Legion Technologies.
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About Clearbon, Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Mike Jones
Senior Director of Product Management of Agari
Mike’s mandate is creating great products and growing the Agari Email Trust Network. Prior to Agari, Mike managed AOL’s Network Operations Center from 1997–2004. In 2005, Jones took responsibility for directing AOL’s Anti-Spam Operations and Postmaster. From 2005–2010, he helped drive the adoption of email authentication and reputation technologies at AOL and across the industry. Jones has represented AOL as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and other cross industry initiatives.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Karthik Raghunathan
Director of Research of MindMeld
Karthik Raghunathan is the Director of Machine Learning for Webex Intelligence, which is the team responsible for building machine learning-driven intelligent experiences across all of Cisco’s collaboration products. Karthik used to be the Director of Research at MindMeld, a leading AI company that powered conversational interfaces for some of the world’s largest retailers, media companies, government agencies, and automotive manufacturers. MindMeld was acquired by Cisco in May 2017. Karthik has more than 10 years of combined experience working at reputed academic and industry research labs on the problems of speech, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Prior to joining MindMeld, he was a Senior Scientist in the Microsoft AI & Research Group, where he worked on conversational interfaces such as the Cortana digital assistant and voice search on Bing and Xbox. Karthik holds an MS in Computer Science with Distinction in Research in Natural Language Processing from Stanford University. He was co-advised by professors Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, and his graduate research focused on the problems of Coreference Resolution, Spoken Dialogue Systems, and Statistical Machine Translation. Karthik is a co-inventor on two US patents and has publications in leading AI conferences such as EMNLP, SIGIR, and AAAI.
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About Cisco, MindMeld: MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces.
Jon Gertsmeier
National Sales Director of AMP Robotics
Jon Gertsmeier is a national sales director at AMP Robotics.
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About AMP Robotics: AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Natasha Petrukhin
Director, Investor Relations of Rokk3r
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About Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Lorenzo de Leo
Partner, Managing Director of Rokk3r
Lorenzo de Leo (Ph.D) is Partner at Rokk3r Labs, and Managing Director of Rokk3r Cobuild. As MD, he manages the strategic direction and operational oversight of Rokk3r Cobuild, and its senior team of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. Lorenzo provides leadership across cobuild engagements with entrepreneurs and organizations of all sizes, focusing on the deconstruction, evaluation and rethinking process of ideas that could turn into Rokk3r Labs portfolio companies or help enterprises innovate on the edge. He works with Rokk3r Labs leadership to create and drive inventive ideas to advance and scale cobuild. Previously, Lorenzo was Senior Program Manager and Business Developer at ARQUIMEA, where he led capital raising, aerospace technology innovation, and partner relationships. He conducted research into technology transfer in the fields of aerospace, security and robotics in his role as Senior Researcher at Unviersidad Carlos III de Madrid. Lorenzo holds a Ph.D in Mathematics, and Masters degree in Mathematics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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About Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Aurelia Crews
Director, Rokk3r Source of Rokk3r
Aurelia Crews is a Director in Rokk3r Source, where he engages with local, national and international business communities to identify target entrepreneurs for the Rokk3r Labs Think Phase, the entry point into the Rokk3r Labs portfolio of companies. She also develops key strategic partnerships with corporations, educational institutions, angel investors and VCs to further facilitate the growth process for Rokk3r Labs entrepreneurs and the brand. Previously, Aurelia was Vice President of Business Development for the joint venture between Magic Johnson and EdisonLearning. She also held senior business development positions at Cisco and Microsoft, where she built multi- million dollar accounts, and led global sales strategy implementations. Aurelia earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a concentration in economics from Northwestern University. She has also completed the Certified Professional Coach program at University of Miami.
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About Blue Mahoe Capital, Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Luis Buitrago
Creative Director/Digital Strategy of Rokk3r
Luis Buitrago is a Creative Director/Digital Strategy at Rokk3r Labs, and Senior Director of Rokk3r .
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About Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Luis Buitrago
Creative Director/Digital Strategy of Rokk3r
Luis Buitrago is a Creative Director/Digital Strategy at Rokk3r Labs, and Senior Director of Rokk3r .
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About Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
Konstantin Guericke
Member of the Board of Directors of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Konstantin Guericke is a Partner at Earlybird. He is based in Silicon Valley. Konstantin is Co – Founder of LinkedIn, where he has led marketing activities from launch to first six million members and profitability as Vice President of Marketing. Previously, he has been CEO of jaxtr (social communications start-up, over ten million registered users, purchased by SabSe Technologies). Konstantin has long-time entrepreneurial experience as founder of successful startups and he has helped established companies towards increased growth. Currently, he is Board member of several startups and Mentor of student entrepreneurs at Stanford University. Konstantin holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
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About : StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Jonathan Bullock
Co-Founder & Managing Director of LX
Jonathan Bullock is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX. He is involved in business advisory projects focused on the tech and investment sectors, including supporting numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, either directly or through their VCs, PE, or corporate investors. He holds a BA and MEng from Cambridge University in Engineering and Management.
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About LX: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Dora Nagy
Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX
Dora Nagy is the Co-Founder of LX and the Chief of Staff to the CEO of Kheiron Medical. She started my career at Google as an APMM (Associate Product Marketing Manager), rotating between roles and countries for 3 amazing years working on B2C and B2B initiatives, events, and scaled marketing programs.
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About LX, SaveSarah: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Joe Carlin
Board of Directors of VEDA Data Solutions
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About : VEDA is an AI and machine learning platform to save healthcare and administrative costs.
Venkat Srinivasan
Managing Director of Innospark Ventures
An expert in the field of computational linguistics, Venkat brings his rich academic background and knowledge of intelligent technology to EnglishHelper™. A uniquely experienced individual with substantial expertise in multiple functional areas, Venkat started his professional career as a public accountant and completed his doctoral work in credit and finance. He is an expert in knowledge-based systems architectures, computational linguistics, and natural language processing and holds several patents related to flexible technology architectures. Venkat is the founder of several other companies including Rage Frameworks, Brightleaf Corporation, and Corporate Fundamentals. He serves as Chairman of Teranode. Between 1992 and 2000, Venkat was the founding CEO of eCredit.com, the leading provider of credit, financing and receivables management solutions. Also active in the community, Venkat serves as a Trustee at American India Foundation, BUILD Boston Chapter, and the Boston Harbor Islands Alliance Board.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), English Helper, Innospark Ventures, Know Your Meds: Innospark Ventures is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm, investing in impact-driven AI startups in Boston/New England.
Max Ioli
Marketing Director of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Jason Bowles
Director of Business Operations of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Sivan Metzger
Managing Director, MLOps Business, DataRobot Inc. of DataRobot
Sivan Metzger is the General Manager, MLOps of DataRobot and he holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering and an Executive MBA, both from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About DataRobot, Skai Israel: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
John Forrest
Director of Customer Operations of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Anna Schena
Director of Growth Marketing of Narrative Science
Anna Schena is the director of growth marketing at Narrative Science.
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Hardika Narula
Director of Product Management of Involve.ai
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About Involve.ai: involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Travis Anna Hallstrom
Director, Operations & Partnerships of PassiveLogic
Buildings are the fundamental building blocks of communities. I apply my clear thinking, problem solving, debugging, project management, and leadership skills to making buildings better so communities work for the people who live in them.
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About PassiveLogic: PassiveLogic – the world’s first fully autonomous buildings platform.
Krishna Parab
Director of Product Marketing of Automation Anywhere
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About Automation Anywhere: Automation Anywhere is an enterprise-grade, cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform.
Micah Collins
Director, Product Management of Facebook AI
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About Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Matt Uyttendaele
Director of Facebook AI
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About Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Antonio J. Viana
Non Executive Director of BrainChip
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About BrainChip: Leading provider of software and hardware accelerated solutions for Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.
Bethany Salmon
Senior Director, Product Management of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Mei-Yuh Hwang
Director of Mobvoi
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About Mobvoi: Mobvoi develops technologies in Chinese language speech recognition, natural language processing, and vertical mobile search.
Lenny Tran
Director of Operations of Synapse Technology Corporation
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About Synapse Technology Corporation: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Armando Pauker
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Tensility Venture Partners
Armando is a general partner with an investment focus in enterprise infrastructure (hardware, software, security) and cleantech. Prior to joining Apex, Armando served as Vice President of Networking Products for Cybernet Systems Corporation, a Linux-based software start-up. Previously, he was a senior product manager for Electronics for Imaging, a developer of high performance digital imaging servers. Armando also served as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with clients in technology industries. Prior to Booz, Armando was a senior engineering manager at Tandem Computers, Inc., where he led product strategy, and hardware and software development in computer subsystems. Armando holds an MBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan, and he received his BS in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Armando led Apex’s investment in Illumitex and Suniva. He previously served on the boards of BrightCloud (acquired by Webroot), Initiate Systems (acquired by IBM), Informative (acquired by Satmetrix), Integrated Chipware (acquired by Serena), EVS (acquired by First American), and SiliconBlue (acquired by Lattice Semiconductor).
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About Apex Venture Partners, Tensility Venture Partners: Tensility Venture partners with founders of early-stage enterprise startups in security, digital health, and novel, vertical-applications.
Wayne Boulais
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Tensility Venture Partners
Wayne Boulais is a general partner with investment focus in wireless, enterprise applications, and cleantech. Prior to joining Apex, Wayne was a founding member of the Marsh & McLennan Capital C&I Fund. He was also a partner at Marsh’s, Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) developing growth strategies for high-tech clients. Prior to Mercer, Wayne led engineering development teams for Raytheon Corporation. Wayne received his MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and an MS and a BS in Engineering from University of Massachusetts. Wayne currently serves on the boards of Enkata Technologies, IfByPhone, IQS, and SolFocus. He is a board observer of CombineNet and DIRTT Environmental Solutions. Wayne is also a board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association and a supporting member of Chicago’s Clean Energy Trust. Wayne’s previous investments included Broadbeam (acquired by MobileAware), eCredit (acquired by Fidelity Ventures), Imaging Portals (acquired by MWA Intelligence), and RMI Corporation (acquired by NetLogic Microsystems).
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About Apex Venture Partners, Tensility Venture Partners: Tensility Venture partners with founders of early-stage enterprise startups in security, digital health, and novel, vertical-applications.
Jonathan Ozeran
Director of Product of Tempus
Jonathan is a product executive and serial entrepreneur in the Chicago technology community. He is currently Director of Product at Tempus, a technology company building the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data and an operating system to battle cancer. Tempus provides genomic sequencing services to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. He has held numerous product and engineering leadership roles and built the foundation for several Chicago-based companies including Zest Health, Yello and Lextech. He serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University and as an advisor to numerous startups and venture capital firms. Jonathan received a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in computer & information systems from Northwestern University.
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About Tempus: Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin
Director of AI of Zebra Medical Vision
Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin is the Director of AI at Zebra Medical Vision Ltd.
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About Zebra Medical Vision: Zebra Medical Vision is a medical imaging insights platform.
David Bishop Media
Board of Directors of Parrot Analytics
David Bishop is a visionary entertainment and digital media industry leader, adept at building customer-centric organizations to high levels of employee engagement and profits. David has a proud history of success anticipating market demands and launching new products to maximize revenue. He claims a substantial talent for devising solutions to complicated challenges. David Bishop is passionate about identifying and creating new distribution technologies and highly successful business models. He is articulate, analytical, and intuitive.
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About : Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
Alan Brusky
Senior Director of Brand and Creative of Blueshift
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About Blueshift: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Jay Turcot
Director of Applied AI of Affectiva
Jay is VP of AI at Afeefctiva.
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About Affectiva, Affectiva: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
Daniel Wong
Director, Product Marketing of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Mark Decker
Director of User Experience of Veritone
User experience leader with solid business execution and understanding of Information Technology in the Automotive Industry. Years of success optimizing user engagement for organizations small and large. Expert in creating a compelling user experience with results that improve brand loyalty, customer stickiness and usability.
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Paul Cramer
Managing Director, Enterprise Radio of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Adam Hanina
Co-Founder, Board Director of AiCure
Adam Hanina is CEO and co-founder of AiCure. He has been a strategist in healthcare software delivery for over fifteen years and holds over a dozen patents in his name. Prior to AiCure, he helped further develop Cerner Corporation’s European strategy and was a Visiting Fellow of eHealth at Imperial College in London, UK. Mr. Hanina has spoken extensively on the topic of healthcare innovation and has acted as a subject-matter expert on medication adherence technologies for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently a principal investigator for multiple NIH innovation grants. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
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About AIC Innovations Group, AiCure: AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.
Wissam Otaky
Co-Founder & Director of HATCHER+
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About HATCHER+: Hatcher+ offers a data-driven venture firm that uses AI/ML-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities.
Victoria Rege
Director, Alliances & Strategic Partnerships of Graphcore
Victoria Rege is the Limited Partner at Air Street Capital.
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About Air Street Capital, Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Elizabeth Rose
Director of Marketing of Analytics Ventures
Elizabeth Rose is the VP of Marketing at Standards Hub.
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About 3MF Consortium, Analytics Ventures, Dynam.AI, Kazuhm, Open Mobile Alliance, Standards Hub: Analytics Ventures is a venture studio fund providing front-to-end infrastructure to ideate, form, launch, and fund new companies in AI
Mendel Chuang
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Founder Friendly Labs
Mendel graduated from MIT with two degrees and joined Google pre-IPO. During his 5 years at Google, he worked on a variety of projects including Google Desktop, Toolbar, Blogger, AdWords, and AdSense, where he won the Google Founders Award. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of a mobile startup and is now the Executive Director of the FFL Startup Accelerator in Palo Alto. He has given talks at Harvard Business School, MIT, South by Southwest, and NBC.
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About Founder Friendly Labs: Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals.
Samantha Quist
Co-Founder and Director of Founder Friendly Labs
Samantha Quist is the Co-Founder and Director at Founder Friendly Labs.
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About Founder Friendly Labs: Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals.
Matt Derda
Title Director, Product & Customer Marketing of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Jianying Hu
Program Director of IBM Center for Computational Health, Distinguished Research Staff Member of MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
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About IBM, IBM, IBM, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab: MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab focuses on fundamental artificial intelligence research.
Robert Finocchio
Director, Audit Committee Chair of Nuance Communications
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About Nuance Communications, Santa Clara University: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Ed Veiga
Senior Director, Office of the CIO of Nuance Communications
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Rachel Ashby
Director, Enterprise Solutions Marketing of Nuance Communications
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Tyler Nelson
Director of Operations of Got It AI
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About Got It AI: Democratizing Conversational AI: TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training & Self Maintaining AI in the cloud
Ya Xue
Director, Data Science Operations of Infinia ML
Prior to Infinia ML, Ya was a senior machine learning scientist for Align Technologies. Ya has worked for Siemens Medical Solution, GE Global Research, and two startups. She has worked on over 20 projects spanning a wide range of application domains, such as industrial-system monitoring, security surveillance, renewable energy, online recommendations, and treatment planning. She has coauthored 7 patents. Ya received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Arizona State University, and Duke University respectively. The focus of her Ph.D. work was machine learning and statistical data modeling, and her publications have received 2500+ citations. Ya’s professional passion lies in putting theory into practice to create tangible results, but outside the office her attention is focused on her family and children.
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About Infinia ML: Infinia ML helps businesses redefine the possibilities of human potential with advanced machine learning.
Julia Yrani
Director, Global Strategic Alliances of Synack
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Russell Tillitt
Director, Market Research Operations of SimilarWeb
Mobile technologist Co-Author, J2ME & OpenMAX APIs VP Engineering, Beatnik; Jupiter Research Foundation MBA UC Berkeley, B.Sc. Mathematics, Univ Florida.
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Britt Ivy
Director of Operations of Prism Skylabs
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About Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
