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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 Big Data 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.
Justin Appler
Director of Engineering, Applications of Crunchbase
Justin develops software mostly in JavaScript, often for the web, and sometimes in other languages. The challenges of building products that stand the test of time and effective software teams (from recruiting through to day-to-day engineering process) fascinate him.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Danielle Ben-Gera
Director of Data Engineering of Crunchbase
Danielle Ben-Gera has been serving as Director of Data Engineering at Crunchbase since September 2018.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Jason Horne
Managing Director of GSV Ventures
Jason Horne is the Managing Director at GSV Ventures.
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About GSV Ventures: GSV Ventures is a venture firm investing company.
Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales of Foursquare
Leah is Senior Regional Director of Brand Partnerships at Foursquare, where she oversees key strategic client initiatives for New York and various eastern regions. She has had a hand in many of Foursquare’s largest brand and agency partnerships and most exciting creative executions, as well as the launch of Foursquare’s media and analytics products, Pinpoint and Attribution. She leads the charge in Foursquare’s evolution from social-focused media to meaningful location intelligence partnerships on behalf of some of our largest clients. Don’t let her gentle and fun demeanor fool you — Leah knows a thing or two about toughness as a former nationally-traveling competitive Roller Girl, and co-owner and founder of Beverly’s dba Essex Café Group, LLC on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Foursquare, Foursquare, Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Sarah Spagnolo
Director, Communications and Editor-at-Large of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Spencer Rosen
Director of Global Business Development of Zendrive
Spencer Rosen helps executive teams make decisions about strategic partnerships and investments to drive exponential revenue growth and enhance product market fit. Over the past two years he has supported the launch and dramatic growth of Verizon Telematics’ connected car consumer aftermarket product, Hum — which now counts more U.S. subscribers, miles traveled, and driver behavior data points than all competitors combined. Rosen has thrived as an automotive/mobility industry specialist with Verizon for the past 8 years by applying his prior experience and ongoing passion for helping tech startups grow. He loves working with top talent from across the auto-tech ecosystem, from start-ups to multinationals, to solve hard problems while bridging the adoption of technology for safer driving today to driverless vehicles in the future. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their six year old son.
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About Verizon Telematics, Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Marissa Bowman
Senior Director, Customer Success of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Jay Harris
Director of Product Management of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Scott Delandy
Technology Director of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC, Dell Technologies: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Laddie Suk
Director, Digital Transformation and Industry Solutions of Dell EMC
Laddie is the global industry lead for the Dell EMC Professional Services practice for Digital Transformation. Laddie has extensive experience spanning multiple industries—including Communications, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services and Healthcare. Reporting in to Laddie is a practice devoted to the transformation of firms in these industries. In his Dell EMC leadership role, Laddie has successfully led strategic and transformational initiatives for global enterprises. Serving as a partner at several major consulting firms honed his strategic and business skills, while his time as Network CIO for Verizon and Director for AT&T and Bell Labs enabled him to further develop his Communications Industry savvy. His deep domain experience puts Laddie in demand as a speaker at various industry gatherings, and he’s been quoted extensively in numerous publications including the Financial Times and Telephony. Laddie holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from the Northwestern University and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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About Dell EMC, Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Stefan Voss
Senior Director, Product Management – Dell Cyber Recovery of Dell EMC
Stefan Voss is the Senior Director of Product Management for Dell Cyber Recovery.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Chhandomay Mandal
Director and Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Chhandomay Mandal
Director and Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
John Engerholm
Senior Managing Director of Globant
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About Globant, Virtusa: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Chris Brummel
Director of Design of Globant
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About Globant, L4 Digital: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Darren Kaplan
Co-founder and Board Director of hiQ Labs
Darren Kaplan is the co-founder and founding CEO of hiQ Labs (www.hiqlabs.com), a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. Mr. Kaplan is an Alchemist Accelerator mentor, working with Augmented Reality, Cyber Security, and HR enterprise SaaS startups. In 2012 I co-founded hiQ Labs a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. We are the pioneers leading the way with a ground-breaking precedent for the entire Internet, and a global economy that depends on data. hiQ has a fast-paced culture that requires sound judgment and discretion when applying data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to publicly available data. We are customer-focused and innovate with feedback from our clients, prospects and partner community named Elevate. Follow our incredible story about how our idea of helping companies understand their workforce using publicly available data changed the world.
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About DataDistillr, EltonAI, hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Michael Krieger
Member of the Board of Directors of Finicity
Michael Krieger is a Member of the Board of Directors at Finicity.
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About : Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
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.
Laura Kholodenko
Managing Director of IHS Markit
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Jannes
Director, Head of Product and Trading Analytics of IHS Markit
John Jannes is a Director of Business Development for IHS Markit’s Trading Analytics product suite where he focuses on the creation of trading analytics solutions for trading compliance and transaction cost analysis. Prior to working at the firm John spent fifteen years working in electronic trading on the sell side. He has held a range of positions including trader, sales specialist, product manager, and execution consultant. John has extensive market structure experience including managing three different dark pools, creation of smart order routing strategies, and participation in best-ex committees. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 licenses.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Matt Short
Senior Research Director, IOT of IHS Markit
Matt Short is the research and analysis lead for Internet of Things (IOT) solutions within the Transformative Technology team at IHS Markit. As a Transformative Technologies lead, his role is to offer insights, data and strategic assistance to companies in their efforts to develop individual growth strategies, market-entry plans and competitive analysis in the disruptive world of IOT across different industries and levels in the supply chain. He has over 20 years of experience in applications engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture and product and segment marketing. Previously, he was a senior product line manager focused on storage for NXP’s Digital Networking business. Matt Short worked with key players in the industry to develop innovative new solutions. He has been a key figure in developing processors ranging from PowerQUICC I, the QorIQ PowerPC family of communications processors, Layerscape ARM based processors as well as specialty security ASSPs. As a customer liaison for Motorola, Freescale and NXP, he focused on a wide breadth of applications such as IOT and industrial, storage and datacenter, networking and communications, as well as security. He was the executive sponsor for NXP for the Multicore for Avionics working group that helped avionics companies achieve FAA and EASA certification and spent several years co-chairing that group. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Texas, US.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Liz Cruz
Associate Director, IoT & Smart Cities of IHS Markit
Liz Cruz manages the IoT and Smart Cities research portfolio within IHS Markit Technology. The group tracks IoT connectivity (cellular, WiFi, and low-power), platforms, cybersecurity, and smart cities. Her team provides companies with accurate market forecasts and share analyses that help clients to identify new market opportunities, make strategic product development decisions, and advise on M&A activity. During her tenure at IHS Markit she has launched numerous research areas and grown revenues significantly year-over-year. Prior to managing the IoT team, Liz’s research focused on how digitization, the outsourcing of data center management, economic factors, and a focus on sustainability is changing the physical infrastructure for data centers. She is a frequent commentator on industry trends, speaker at data center related events, and contributor to technology news publications.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Liz Cruz
Associate Director, IoT & Smart Cities of IHS Markit
Liz Cruz manages the IoT and Smart Cities research portfolio within IHS Markit Technology. The group tracks IoT connectivity (cellular, WiFi, and low-power), platforms, cybersecurity, and smart cities. Her team provides companies with accurate market forecasts and share analyses that help clients to identify new market opportunities, make strategic product development decisions, and advise on M&A activity. During her tenure at IHS Markit she has launched numerous research areas and grown revenues significantly year-over-year. Prior to managing the IoT team, Liz’s research focused on how digitization, the outsourcing of data center management, economic factors, and a focus on sustainability is changing the physical infrastructure for data centers. She is a frequent commentator on industry trends, speaker at data center related events, and contributor to technology news publications.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Matt Short
Senior Research Director, IOT of IHS Markit
Matt Short is the research and analysis lead for Internet of Things (IOT) solutions within the Transformative Technology team at IHS Markit. As a Transformative Technologies lead, his role is to offer insights, data and strategic assistance to companies in their efforts to develop individual growth strategies, market-entry plans and competitive analysis in the disruptive world of IOT across different industries and levels in the supply chain. He has over 20 years of experience in applications engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture and product and segment marketing. Previously, he was a senior product line manager focused on storage for NXP’s Digital Networking business. Matt Short worked with key players in the industry to develop innovative new solutions. He has been a key figure in developing processors ranging from PowerQUICC I, the QorIQ PowerPC family of communications processors, Layerscape ARM based processors as well as specialty security ASSPs. As a customer liaison for Motorola, Freescale and NXP, he focused on a wide breadth of applications such as IOT and industrial, storage and datacenter, networking and communications, as well as security. He was the executive sponsor for NXP for the Multicore for Avionics working group that helped avionics companies achieve FAA and EASA certification and spent several years co-chairing that group. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Texas, US.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Patrick Thompson
Director of Product of Amplitude
Patrick Thompson is the Director of Product at Amplitude. Before that, he was the Co-founder at Iteratively (acquired by Amplitude).
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
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
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Jill Scarbrough
Director, USCA Customer Success of Tableau
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About Tableau, Tableau, Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Elizabeth Jaff
Political Director of Crowdpac
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About Crowdpac: Crowdpac is a non-partisan political crowdfunding startup using technology and data to help citizens engage in politics.
Elizabeth Jaff
Political Director of Crowdpac
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About Crowdpac: Crowdpac is a non-partisan political crowdfunding startup using technology and data to help citizens engage in politics.
Heather Doshay
Managing Director, People & Talent of SignalFire
Heather Doshay is the Managing Director for People and Talent at SignalFire.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
John Gavin
Member of the Board of Directors of Varonis Systems
John Gavin has served as one of our directors since March 2010. From January 2007 to June 2008, Gavin served as Chief Financial Officer of BladeLogic, Inc., a provider of data center automation software, which was acquired by BMC Software, Inc. Prior to joining BladeLogic, Gavin served as the Chief Financial Officer for NaviSite, Inc., a provider of information technology hosting, outsourcing and professional services, from April 2004 through January 2007. Gavin has served on the board of directors of Cimpress N.V. (formerly known as Vistaprint, Inc.) since 2006, Qlik Technologies, Inc. since February 2010 and Varonis Systems, Inc. since 2013.
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About : Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Snir Ben Shimol
Executive Director of Varonis Systems
Snir is the Head of Cyber Security at Varonis, leading the security research, forensics and incident response teams. Snir began his career in the IDF Technology and Intelligence unit and continued as a Security Researcher in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. Since then, he has worked in the Advanced Security Center of EY as the Cyber Security Advisory leader, managing red-team operations and risk assessments. He has advised major international corporates and high-profile individuals to build their security resilience and protect their organization. Prior to his current role, he led Radware’s Cyber Security Research division, responsible for innovation and security solution capabilities.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Robert Sobers
Director of Inbound Marketing of Varonis Systems
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Bray Patrick-Lake
Director, Strategic Partnerships of Evidation Health
Bray is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Evidation Health. She develops collaborations to support the design and implementation of participant-centered studies, and serves on the All of Us National Advisory Panel, the Digital Medicine Society Scientific Leadership Board, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Health Science Policy Board. Previously, Bray led engagement for the Duke Clinical Research Institute Project Baseline Study Coordinating Center and served as co-chair on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director that authored the Precision Medicine Initiative’s Cohort Program. Bray holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia, and an MFS degree from National University.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Howard Rosen
Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure of Dremio
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About Dremio: Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data.
Meghan Langill
Director, Global Recruiting of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Mike Kim
Director of Sales, APAC of Orbital Insight
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Matt Hughes
Director of Talent of Lyric
Hughes is Head of Talent at Lyric, a designer and operator of technology and spaces aimed at created a more modern, connected world. As someone with an insatiable appetite for travel, a keen interest in technology, and experience in growth oriented startups, joining Lyric was a no-brainer. Previous to joining Lyric he led talent & people teams at Hired, Gigster, and Shutterstock.
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About Lyric: Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Gillian Hanson
Director, Data & Informatics of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Todd Daniels
Managing Director and General Partner of Leawood Venture Capital
Todd Daniels is the Managing Director and General Partner at Leawood Venture Capital. He is an experienced CFO for both publicly traded and private companies with over 25 years’ experience managing financial and administrative operations at multiple technology businesses. Most recently, CFO of Pivot International, an electronic design and manufacturing organization operating ten facilities in six countries on three continents. Previously CFO of Elecsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ESYS), Manager of Corporate Reporting at Epiq Systems (NASDAQ: EPIQ), and various financial management roles at Honeywell Aerospace, KPMG, and Deloitte. A native of Kansas City and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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About Leawood Venture Capital: Investing in Disruptive Early-Stage Technology Companies Nationwide
Jenny Barna
Director of Launch of Spire Global
Jenny is the Launch Manager at Spire, a satellite powered data company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Jenny comes to Spire from SSL, where she supported new business pursuits and programs, focused on smallsats and hosted payloads. Prior to joining SSL, Jenny spent almost 10 years as a launch vehicle propulsion engineer at Orbital in Chandler, Arizona, where she led an integrated propulsion team on many successful launches of the Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) and the development and qualification of propulsion subsystems for the two-stage variant of OBV. Jenny has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Arizona State University.
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About Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Christin Price
Director of Business Operations and Finance of Mode Analytics
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Matt Knopp
Director of infrastructure engineering of Mode Analytics
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
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.
Erik Benson
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Erik Benson is a General Partner with Voyager Capital, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to Voyager, Erik was an EIR for Seattle-based WRF Capital after leadership roles at Mimix Inc., a pioneer in the area of motion capture and animation software for the gaming industry. Erik started his career in New York City for a predecessor bank to JPMorgan Chase called Chemical Bank, advising and financing private equity clients.
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About Imperative, Lighter Capital, Rebellion Defense, Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Bill McAleer
Co-founder and Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Bill McAleer is the Co-founder and Managing Director at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Diane Fraiman
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Diane Fraiman joined Voyager Capital Managing Director as in 2007.
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About Act-On Software, Syndio, Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
James Newell
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
James Newell is the Managing Director at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Bryan Friedman
Director of Product Marketing of Pivotal
Bryan Friedman is a director of product marketing for Pivotal. Previously, he spent over ten years working for a large enterprise biotech company in a number of various information technology areas including as an application developer, administrator, and architect. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a master’s degree in computer science from California Lutheran University.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
David Julia
Director of Pivotal
David Julia is a long-time Pivotal Labs consultant with experience writing, deploying, and supporting production systems in Ruby, Golang and Java in XP teams for startups, fortune 100 companies, and everything in between. Started the lattice.cf project. He’s currently focused on helping large enterprises transform their internal development teams to adopt modern agile development, agile software architecture, and a culture of continuous improvement.
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About Eagle.io – Environmental IoT, Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Mark Weislow
Engagement Director of Pivotal
Mark started his career in Software Engineering, helping to develop and support a C language cross-compiler for embedded devices, developed medical research applications and moved into Professional Services Management for multiple product companies. Mark now works at Pivotal, Inc, in the Customer Success team as an Engagement Director.
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About Pivotal, Tetrate: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Brian Roncoroni
Director of Sales of PeerIQ
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About PeerIQ: PeerIQ is a data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the alternative lending sector.
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.
Michael Radocchio
Director of Customer Success, New York of PeerNova
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About PeerNova: PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data.
Michael Radocchio
Director of Customer Success, New York of PeerNova
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About PeerNova: PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data.
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.
Greg Goldsmith
Senior Director, Product Strategy, Analytic Applications & Data Management Portfolio of TIBCO
Greg Goldsmith is a senior director of product strategy, data management, and analytic cloud applications at TIBCO Software Inc.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Alex Marquez
Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Alex launched Experian Ventures in 2016 and is currently the Global Managing Director and a member of Experians Investment Committee. As a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world, we invest in data/analytics, information security, healthcare, automotive and the broader financial services ecosystem. The Experian Ventures portfolio of investments includes AireLabs, AxiaMed (acq), BankBazaar, Hyphen, Bonify, C88, Canopy, Cazana, Grab, InfoSum, Madaket Health, Finicity (acq), Grab (GRAB), Jirnexu, Infosum, Machinify, Nav, PlaceIQ, RecargaPay, Salary Finance, Stackin, TrueData, and TrueAccord. We have invested more than $225m across the globe since inception in 2016. Previously, Alex served as Executive Vice President at Nantmobile, part of the Nantworks family of companies, building novel consumer mobile applications in health, wellness, and computer vision. Alex was Managing Director with USAA’s Corporate Development Group and a member of USAA’s Executive Management team and built USAA Ventures into one of the most active FinTech CVC after his first year. Alex created USAA’s Blockchain Working Group and investment thesis in blockchain [according to CBInsights, USAA was recognized as the first bank/insurance company to invest in blockchain technologies] and was responsible for the groups investments in Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Saffron (acq by Intel), and CafeX, ExpectLabs (acq by Cisco), while establishing USAA’s venture brand in Silicon Valley. Alex was a Director with Intel Capital, the world’s largest corporate venture group having invested over $14B globally. During his tenure with Intel Capital, Alex managed or co-managed investments in Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom), BlackArrow (acquired by Cross Mediaworks), ChannelM (acquired by PlayNetwork), Gametrust (acquired by Real Networks), Gaikai (acquired by Sony), Envivio (Nasdaq: ENVI), Kabam (acquired by Netmarble), K2 Network (acquired by RHI), Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision), The Generations Network (Nasdaq: ACOM), SixApart (acquired by SayMedia), and Synacor (Nasdaq: SYNC). In addition, Alex was co-founder and CEO of AppScotch, which brought transparency to paid mobile advertising. AppScotch was acquired by AppAnnie in 2016. Alex has served as a mentor to Plug&Play Silicon Valley and numerous other startups and accelerators/incubators. Alex has served as an advisor to ProSieben – the second largest media company in Germany; supports Purdue University mentorship program (SV BIG); and was a member of UNLV’s Engineering Advisory Board. Alex has served as an advisor to Gamestop Corporation, Playspan (acquired by Visa), and he has also served as an advisor and mentor to dozens of early stage companies and global corporate venture groups. Alex was previously an advisor to the NVCA’s Corporate Venture working group.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Karim Chehade
Investment Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Karim Chehadé is an Investment Director at Experian Ventures, where he is responsible for identifying, sourcing, and investing in companies developing innovative consumer and business solutions for data creation, analytics and machine learning and information security. Prior to his role on the venture team, Karim was the Director of Small Business and Transactional Services for Experian’s Business Information Services unit, where he held responsibility over Experian BIS’ small business platforms, products, and services, and managed products and partnerships involving user-permissioned data. Prior to joining Experian, Karim held product management, strategy, and management consulting roles at Disneyland.com, Google, and Accenture, respectively. He has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and degrees in Economics and Spanish from Cal State University, Northridge.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Steve Wagner
Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics of Experian
Steve Wagner is Global Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics. Steve joined Experian in 2005 and has led a wide range of businesses including Consumer Information Services in North America, Credit Services, Marketing Services, and Consumer Services in Brazil and the now divested global Cross Channel Marketing business. Steve represents Experian on the board of the US Data and Marketing Association, and serves as Chairman of the Experian social innovation fund. Prior to joining Experian, Steve was General Counsel of ERisk, a risk and capital management software company owned by JP Morgan Partners. Before that, Steve was a corporate transactional lawyer in New York and London with the global firm of Clifford Chance. Steve has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Aaron Suplizio
Director, Online Lending & Fintech of Experian
Aaron is responsible for leading go-to-market strategy and operations for Experian’s Fintech and Insurance verticals. He works closely with online lending startups, the venture capital community and Experian’s sales, product and marketing teams to fuel innovation and growth for companies building exciting new businesses within Financial Services. Before joining Experian, Aaron spent 5 years at Line 6, a venture-backed music technology firm where he held various leadership positions in product and marketing. Prior to that, Aaron worked at Analysis Group, one of the largest privately-held economic consulting firms where he supported top academic experts in the areas of intellectual property, securities fraud, and antitrust litigation in the software and pharmaceutical industries.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Michael Gross
Product Innovation Director of Experian
With over 10 years of experience in financial services fraud prevention and risk management, Michael Gross has partnered with industry-renowned fraud experts to bridge business needs with technology solutions that pinpoint fraud, support innovation, facilitate market expansion, and drive revenue growth. At Experian, Gross is responsible for identifying banking, e-commerce, and travel industry trends, highlighting emerging fraud threats, understanding client and partner risk management controls, and defining, implementing, and measuring the performance of new risk strategies for top global online brands.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Timothy Starkey
Director, Strategic Accounts of Experian
Timothy Starkey is a Director for Strategic Accounts for Experian’s Fraud and Identity Solutions business, managing Experian’s Federal business and relationships, along with key Federal Sector solution and integration partners. Tim has been with Experian for more than 6 years, and has an impressive track record of delivering solutions that exceed client expectations for consumer identity verification, authentication and fraud prevention. Prior to joining Experian, Tim held a variety of senior level positions in sales, marketing and business development supporting both US and international markets, across both the public and private sectors.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Michael Delgado
Director of Social Media & Community Engagement of Experian
Michael is the senior manager of social media and public relations at Experian, North America, and teaches social media courses at the University of California Irvine extension school. He leads content strategy and community building efforts on Experian social channels and loves using live-streaming social platforms (Periscope, G+ Hangouts) to help consumers and businesses.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Jennifer Johnson
Director of Global Marketing Programs of Informatica
Jennifer P. Johnson is the Director of Global Marketing Programs at Informatic.
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About Informatica, San Jose State University: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Courtney Sato
Director of Community and Brand Marketing of Constellation Research
Courtney Sato is the Strategy and Operations at Basira
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About Basira, Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Braden Kelly
Chairman of the Board of Directors of FICO
Braden Kelly has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Censeo Health, LLC since 2013. Braden is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors at FICO since February 2016 and has served as a Member of the Board of Directors since February 12, 2013. While a Partner and Managing Director at General Atlantic, a global $17 billion private equity investment firm, Braden originated and ran the firm’s global health care practice; founded the firm’s Silicon Valley office; and was on the firm’s investment committee. During his 12 year tenure, Braden was responsible for managing investments in the U.S., Europe and India. At Morgan Stanley & Co., Braden was an Investment Banker in the mergers, acquisitions and restructuring department.
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About : Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Supriti Singh
Director, Analytic Science of FICO
Supriti Singh is currently serving as a Principal Analytics Consultant for FICO’s Fraud, Cyber, and Compliance solutions. Supriti has worked on a variety of projects using her expertise in advanced analytics, data modeling, and research across various domains including finance, healthcare, and insurance. She has over sixteen years of professional experience in developing and refining fraud predictive models across FICO’s multiple verticals. Singh is a subject matter expert in advanced fraud detection analytics, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Supriti Singh has a Master’s degree in Statistics from San Diego State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Mathematics, and Quantitative Business Analysis from Louisiana State University
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Joshua Prismon
Senior Director of FICO
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Hunter Gehlbach
Director of Research of Panorama Education
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About Johns Hopkins University, Panorama Education: Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US.
Matthew Tendler
Senior Director, Product, Data and Analytics of Medidata Solutions
Start up and Product guy
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Robert Taylor
Board of Directors of Medidata Solutions
Bob has served on Medidata Solutions’ board of directors since April 2008. He is the senior vice president for finance and administration for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational organization in Williamsburg, Virginia. In addition, Bob serves on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee for Zygo Corporation, a worldwide supplier of optical metrology instruments, precision optics and electro-optical design and manufacturing services. He is also a member of the finance committee for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a member of the board of directors of the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation, as well as chair of its investment committee and a member of its finance committee. Prior to joining The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Bob served as vice president and treasurer of Wesleyan University and as a staff accountant for Ernst & Young. Bob holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from St. Lawrence University.
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About : Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
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.
Demeita D’cruz
Sales Director of Leadbook
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About Leadbook: Global Leads Database with 64 million verified executive contacts from 7 million organisations across 145 countries.
Russell Christopher
Director, Product Strategy of Starburst Data
Russell loves data and has bar charts to prove it. He has worked in the data and analytics space for over 20 years and currently leads Product Strategy at Alteryx.
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About Starburst Data: The analytics engine for all your data. The fastest, most efficient query engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh.
David Bainbridge
Managing Director of Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Mr. Bainbridge is a Managing Director of VSS and is responsible for sourcing, developing and monitoring structured capital and private equity investments, particularly in the healthcare, education and business information industries. Mr. Bainbridge is currently a member of the boards of Strata Decision Technology, Remedy Health Media, Cambium Learning, Infobase Learning, MetSchools, DOAR Litigation, and Navtech and previously served on the board of Avatar International. In addition, he is a board observer of Trover Solutions and SourceMedical. Since joining VSS in 2003, he has also been active in VSS’s investments in Solucient, Executive Health Resources, and Gallo Holdings. Before joining VSS, Mr. Bainbridge spent 10 years as an investment banking professional, most recently with Berkery Noyes & Co., specializing in various information segments. Mr. Bainbridge is a graduate of Cornell University and an honors graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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About Veronis Suhler Stevenson: Veronis Suhler Stevenson finances private equity and post IPO equity investments.
Patrick Turner
Managing Director of Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Patrick N.W. Turner is a Managing Director of VSS and is responsible for developing investment opportunities, structuring investments, conducting due diligence, executing transactions, and monitoring portfolio companies. Mr. Turner joined VSS in 2014. Mr. Turner is currently a member of the board of the following VSS portfolio companies: IT-Ernity and MRG. Previously he was a Managing Director and a member of the Management Committee of Crescent Capital Group LP, a below investment grade alternative credit investment manager that was formerly part of Trust Company of the West, of which he also was a Managing Director. After his service with Crescent, he joined Crimson Capital, a leading private equity firm based in China, on whose investment committee he served. Prior to joining Trust Company of the West and Crescent in 2005, Mr. Turner was a Managing Partner and co-founder of Canterbury Capital Partners, where he was responsible for the firm’s mezzanine investing activities. Before that, Mr. Turner was a Director at Barclays Mezzanine Group for six years after serving as a Vice President in the leverage buyout group of Marine Midland Bank and as an Associate with Bankers Trust Company, which he joined in 1981. He has had substantial involvement in investments in over 165 companies in the United States and internationally. Mr. Turner is a member of the Board of the American Friends for Oxford University and the Squash Doubles Association.
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About Veronis Suhler Stevenson: Veronis Suhler Stevenson finances private equity and post IPO equity investments.
John Joe Smith
Sr. Director, Solutions Partnerships of mParticle
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
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.
Sam Roguine
Director, Solution Marketing and Enablement of Arcserve
Sam Roguine is Director of Solutions Marketing and Enablement at Arcserve. His expertise focuses on Data Protection technologies in multi-cloud, complex, multi-generational IT. Sam has more than 20 years Windows and Linux experience and has been in IT industry for more than 25 years.
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About Arcserve: Arcserve is a provider of data protection and recovery software that provides organizations with the assurance.
Ankit Gupta
Sr Director, Digital Identity Product and Solution of Persistent Systems
Ankit Gupta is the director of engineering and architecture with Persistent Systems, a global software and technology company. He is an authority on information security and compliance, and has security solution implementation at both small and major corporations. He is also implementor of some of the largest identity management, access control and data security solutions. across verticals such as retail, financial services, energy and higher education.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Julie Kae
Executive Director of Qlik
Ms. Kae is currently serving as the Executive Director of Qlik.org and the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility at Qlik, where she leads the organization’s program towards globally sustainability and empowering nonprofits to effectively serve our planet and vulnerable populations. The program includes leading sustainability reporting best practices internally and externally; managing strategic partnerships with the United Nations, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, Private Sector Roundtable and other organizations; directing a successful grant program leveraging the Qlik software through Qlik.org; and directing employee engagement activities with partners, WeSeeHope and Medair, as well as many other global nonprofits. Ms. Kae is the Founder and President of “WeSeeHope USA Inc”, a not for profit supporting women and youth programs in Africa; serves as Board Member to the Friends of Dana Farber Cancer Institute; and is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Corporate Sustainability at Harvard University.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Ryan Thorpe
Director of Analytics and Data Science of Womply
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Rod Hook
Managing Director of Two Sigma
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About Coriolis Ventures, Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Kiran Matty
Director of product management of Aerospike
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Roger Magoulas
Senior Director Data Strategy of Astronomer
Roger Magoulas is the research director at O’Reilly Media and chair of Strata + Hadoop World conferences. Roger and his team build the analysis infrastructure, and provide analytic services and insights on technology adoption trends to business decision-makers at O’Reilly and beyond. We find what excites key innovators and use those insights to gather and analyze faint signals from various sources to make sense of what others may adopt and why.
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About Astronomer: Modern Data Orchestration
R Brad Kirn
Director of Enterprise Data Solutions of Astronomer
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About Astronomer: Modern Data Orchestration
Sjen Johnson
Director of Human Resources of Astronomer
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About Astronomer: Modern Data Orchestration
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.
Dylan Boyd
Director, New Programs Development of R/GA Ventures
Dylan Boyd is currently the Director, New Program Development of R/GA Ventures where he works with global brands to develop in house, partner and accelerator programs. He is also Managing Director of the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles.
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About Global Sports Venture Studio, Leap Venture Studio, R/GA Connected Commerce Accelerator, R/GA IoT Venture Studio UK, R/GA Marketing Tech Venture Studio, R/GA Ventures, Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio with R/GA: Investment arm of R/GA. We’re helping industry leaders capitalize on disruptive technologies through access to the startup ecosystem.
