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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 Machine Learning 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.
Mark Benyovszky
Director Artificial Intelligence of UiPath
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About UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
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.
Scott Marshall
Board Director of Simplebet
Scott was the Co-Founder & COO of ActionX, which was acquired by WPP in 2015. Prior to that, he was the COO & CFO of Thumbplay, which was acquired by Clear Channel in 2011 and is now iHeartRadio. Prior to that, he was the CFO of CSTV Networks, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Classic Sports Network, which was acquired by ESPN in 1997 and is now ESPN Classic.
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About ActionX, On Location Experiences: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Dick Green
Director of Liberty Global Corporation & Shaw Communications Inc. Chairman of Space Sciences Inst. of StackUp
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About : Stackup is an Artificial Intelligent Patent Pending System that Measure & Report all online reading & learning done across the web.
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.
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.
Matt Vella
Director of Engineering of Viam
As VP of Engineering at Unqork, Matt is thrilled to be tasked with building out the team and platform that is changing the way the world builds software. Prior to Unqork, Matt held engineering leadership roles with companies in the fields of education, advertising, financial services and media – most recently leading solutions architecture at Schoology and Engineering at Impact/Forensiq. His work at Unqork continues to build on his track record and passion of building innovative and scalable SAAS products. Matt received a BS in Computing and Information Technology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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About Viam: Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that helps people’s daily life.
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
Lenny Shteynberg
Director of Sales of Open Influence
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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Shaun Walker
Technical Director & Enterprise Guildmaster of Softvision
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About Arrow Digital, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
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.
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.
Wenbo Zhang
Director, Buyer Risk Management of Wish
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About Wish: Wish is an e-commerce shopping app, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide.
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.
Amy Hodler
Graph Analytics & AI Program Director of Neo4j
Amy E. Hodler is a network science devotee and AI and graph analytics program manager at Neo4j. She promotes the use of graph analytics to reveal structures within real-world networks and predict dynamic behavior. Amy helps teams apply novel approaches to generate new opportunities at companies such as EDS, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hitachi IoT, and Cray. Amy has a love for science and art with a fascination for complexity studies and graph theory.
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
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.
Mark Shell
Senior Director, Delivery Operations of Moogsoft
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Irene Choi
Director, Drug Discovery of Verge Genomics
Irene has nine years of experience leading multiple neuroscience drug discovery programs from idea to clinic. Prior to Verge, she led early discovery, pharmacology, and program teams at Nektar Therapeutics. There, she helped bring several drugs to clinic, including NKTR-181, a first-in-class mu-opioid analgesic currently in Phase 3 clinical trials. Irene completed her post-doctoral training in Catherine Rivier’s group at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and received her Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of New Mexico.
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About Verge Genomics: Verge Genomics uses machine learning and human genomics to accelerate drug discovery.
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.
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.
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.
Chris Cope
Director of Development Operations of Xometry
Chris leads Xometry’s efforts on Agility, Reliability, and Security. Chris has held technical and leadership roles in venture-backed companies as well as large research labs. He has extensive experience in accelerating data science, computational science, and software engineering teams. Chris holds a BS in Computer Science from The University of Chicago and a MS in Computer Science from DePaul University.
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About Aledade, Xometry: Xometry offers an online marketplace that allows customers to access a network of machine shops and custom manufacturers.
David Aponovich
Product Marketing Director of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Eve Alexander
Sr. Director, Product Marketing of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Tara Decko Bauer
Director, Customer Success of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
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.
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.
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.
Philip Saunders
CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Saba Software
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
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.
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.
Joyce Bacqueyrisses
Director Of Client Services of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Dan Lapinski
Director Of Client Services of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Brian Mulcahy
Senior Sales Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Dan Lapinski
Director Of Client Services of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Brian Mulcahy
Senior Sales Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Dana OMalley
Senior Director of Sales, West of LoopMe
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About LoopMe, Ranker: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Leonard Speiser
Board Director of The Level Hot Pantry
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About Horizon 3, Jones Lang LaSalle, Neuron.VC: Markov Corporation specializes in applications of Artificial Intelligence to solving real-world problems.
Arokia Nathan
Co-Founder and Director of Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
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About : Pressure Sensitive Multi-Touch for Next-Generation Smart Devices including Smartphones, Tablets, Automotive and Industrial
TJ Willett
Director Of Business Development of ISEE
TJ Willett is the director of business development at ISEE AI.
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About ISEE: ISEE develops a humanistic artificial intelligence for autonomous driving.
Jessica Kirkpatrick
Director of Data Science of KoBold Metals
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About KoBold Metals: KoBold Metals is a developer of machine prospector technology intended to facilitate a search for cobalt ore locations digitally.
Jessica Wisdom
Co-Founder and Director of People Science of Humu
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About Humu: Humu is a human resource company that affects work through science and machine learning.
Jim Warner
Member of the Board of Directors of Talix
James Warner has served as a member of our board of directors and as chairman of the compensation committee since February 2013, and as our lead independent director since December 2013. Since January 2009, he has been a Principal of Third Floor Enterprises, an advisory firm specializing in digital marketing and media. From January 2000 until December 2008, Warner served in various leadership roles at aQuantive Inc., including as Executive Vice President at Razorfish Inc. (formerly Avenue A), which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in August 2007. Prior to aQuantive, he held leadership positions at HBO, CBS and Primedia. James is also a member of the board of directors for Merkle, Inc., Invision, Inc., Zoom, Inc. and Healthline Networks, Inc. From 2011 to 2012, James served as a member of the board of directors of MediaMind, Inc. James received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Yale University and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. The board of directors believes that James’s experience in the consumer and digital marketing and media industries allows him to make valuable contributions to the board of directors.
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About : Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
Michael Patton
Senior Director of Clinical Terminology of Talix
Michael Patton is Senior Director of Clinical Terminology at Talix.
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About Talix: Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
Justin W. Clarke
Director of Vehicle Security of Cylance
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About Cylance, Cylance: Cylance is a global provider of cybersecurity products and services using A.I. and machine learning to solve security problems.
Daniel Zito
Co-Founder & Director of Engineering of StructionSite
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About StructionSite: StructionSite is a new category of construction software – Intelligent Project Tracking. Cameras and AI automate the tracking of work onsite
Quoc Tran
Director of Engineering of CurieVision
Quoc Tran has run tech teams in companies as diverse as major video game developers, self-funded small businesses to venture-backed startups. Quoc is currently CTO at Possum Interactive, helping small businesses focus on product development by offloading business administration and operations.
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About CurieVision, Possum Interactive: Building 3D affordably and at scale to fuel the Metaverse
Joel Anderson
Director, Infrastructure of Knewton
Joel Anderson is the director of infrastructure at [Knewton](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/knewton), a company that offers adaptive learning technologies.
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About Knewton: Knewton is an adaptive learning technology provider with a mission to bring personalized education to the world.
Vishal Singhania
Senior Director, Head of quid product managemnet of Quid
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About Quid: Quid powers human intuition with machine intelligence, enabling organizations to make decisions that matter.
Nick Arora
Director, Medical Information of xCures
Nick A. Arora is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor within emerging technologies and health. He is Director, Medical Information at xCures an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care. He also serves as Chief Health Advisor of Rymedi, a health/life sciences company improving the process of capturing, tracking & sharing data to expand markets and improve health & wellness. Previously, Nick has been Chief Business Development Officer at Solaster, a consumer-driven health ecosystem creating global interoperability of decentralized, distributed health applications and blockchains. He was a founding member and Chief Strategy Officer at LINKCHAIN, a blockchain-enabled supply chain company where he led key strategic initiatives including the company’s partnership with GoChain. Nick has also served as Chief Business Officer and Health Lead at BlockRake, a premier capital markets consulting firm. Nick has lectured on blockchain, supply chain and health at Stanford University and has been the Co-Host of Blockchain in Health Care SF, the largest blockchain health meetup organization in Silicon Valley. An Ivy League graduate from Yale University and former Medical Doctor (M.D.) Candidate, Nick’s research at Johns Hopkins University has been published in top scientific journals across the world. He has also advised healthcare organizations globally and founded multiple businesses, including CrankOut, a health tech company that was featured in Entrepreneur.
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About xCures: xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Sarah McMullin
Director of Marketing of 42Chat
Marketer. Unflappable learner.
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About 42Chat: 42Chat make AI Chatbots that provide instant answers and personalized connection over regular text (and other channels)
