Best Startup
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 Founder operating in the Cloud Infrastructure space. If you think a Founder 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.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder of HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto is best known as the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform and Consul. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company that builds powerful and elegant DevOps tools. He is also an O’Reilly author. He is one of the top GitHub users by followers, activity, and contributions. “Automation obsessed,” Mitchell solves problems with as much computer automation as possible.
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About HashiCorp, O’Reilly: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Armon Dadgar
Co-Founder & CTO of HashiCorp
Armon (@armon) has a passion for distributed systems and their application to real world problems. He is currently the CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings distributed systems into the world of DevOps tooling. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Steve Jang
Founder & Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures
Steve Jang is a venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. Based in San Francisco, Steve serves as founder and a managing partner of Kindred Ventures. As a generalist early stage venture fund, Kindred’s mission is to invest in brilliant and dedicated founders at the earliest stages of building their startup and, ultimately, our collective future. Over the past 12 years, Steve has backed over 100 companies across different theme areas, including Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Tonal, Color Health, Zymergen, and Blue Bottle Coffee. Since 2009 and up until IPO, Steve has also served as an Advisor to Uber since the founding of the company, up through initial product launch, global expansion, and then IPO. Steve also serves as an Advisor at Expa, a startup studio based in SF and NY, mentoring startup teams on product development, team building, and company growth. Most recently as an entrepreneur, Steve served as co-founder of Bitski, a digital wallet and storefront service for NFTs. Previously, he was co-founder/CEO of SoundTracking, a popular mobile music service that was Apple’s Best iPhone Music App of 2011 and was acquired by Rhapsody in 2014. Prior to these startups, in 2005, he was the co-creator and founding team member of the world’s first and largest on-demand music streaming service which reached over 100 million monthly unique users before its eventual acquisition by MySpace. //Investment Theme Areas of Interest// * Online Marketplaces * Decentralized Systems and Crypto * ClimateTech & Sustainable Systems * Digital Health and Wellness * FinTech * Social Consumer Media * Developer/Creator Tools * Future of Work * Software-enabled Hardware //Representative Portfolio Companies Include// Marketplaces/Market Networks: Uber (IPO), Postmates (acq. by Uber), Poshmark (IPO), StyleSeat, Italic, Reserve (acq. by Resy), Drip (acq. Kickstarter), GrandSt (acq. by Etsy), RangeMe (acq. by ECRM) Decentralized Systems & Crypto: Coinbase, dYdX, Zora, CoinTracker, Mina Protocol, Bitski, Computable, Nervos Network, Origin Protocol, Harbor, Radar Relay, Set Protocol, Messari, Rarebits Health & Wellness: Tonal, Color Health, Heartbeat Health, Forward, Enso, Breathometer Sustainable Systems/Climate Tech: Zymergen, Linear Labs, Replenysh, Mootral, Connora Systems FinTech & LegalTech: Atrium, Bloom Credit, Coinbase, Catch Benefits Developer/Creator Tools: Red Planet Labs, Northflank, Optic, Anjuna Future of Work: Bravado, Torch, Braintrust, Fountain, Catch Food Innovation & CPG: Taika, Blue Bottle Coffee, Fort Point Beer Consumer/Social Media: Clubhouse Frontier Tech: Humane
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About Bitski, Kindred Ventures: Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that supports startup companies.
Grant Miller
Founder & CEO of Replicated
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About Replicated: Replicated provides a platform for delivering and managing Kubernetes applications in any environment.
David Aninowsky
Founder of Vultr Holdings Corporation
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About Constant, Vultr Holdings Corporation: Vultr, the Independent Cloud, provides developers and businesses with powerful cloud infrastructure at an unbeatable price.
Edward Wang
Co-Founder of VMware
Dr. Edward Wang, Co-Founder and serves as Principal Engineer of Vmware, Inc. Dr. Wang has 10+ years of high tech industry experience. Prior to joining VMware, he worked as a principal engineer at VXtreme and Mindcraft and has consulted extensively on UNIX software projects. In 1993, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Usenix for his contributions to the development of Berkeley UNIX. He also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render
Founder and CEO at Render.
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About Render: Render provides a cloud for developers and startups to host all their apps and sites.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Yuri Frayman
Co- Founder & CEO of CAST AI
Yuri Frayman has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures. As a serial entrepreneur, Yuri has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Specialties:Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles.
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About CAST AI, Zenedge: AI-driven cloud optimization platform that slashes cloud cost, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster prevention.
Shawn Wilkinson
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Storj
Shawn Wilkinson is the founder and CSO at Storj Labs.
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About Storj, Storj, Storj: Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
John Quinn
Founder and CRO of Storj
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About Storj: Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tommy Skinner
Co-Founder of Aloi
Co-founder at Aloi // connecting e-commerce software
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tom Drummond
Founder & Managing Director of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
James Lindenbaum
Founder of Heavybit
James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an “OCD perfectionist”, and is chiefly responsible for the look and feel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku’s acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses. He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & President of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Mikhail Bautin
Co-Founder & Software Architect of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Catheryne Nicholson
Co-Founder & CEO of BlockCypher
As co-founder and CEO of BlockCypher, Catheryne has decades of experience in software product management, product marketing, environmental & energy, and defense. Catheryne is an engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. She has built large-scale commercial software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for companies such as BlockCypher, MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. She graduated from the U.S Naval Academy and Stanford University and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MS in Environmental Engineering, a MBA, and is a registered PE in Mechanical Engineering.
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About BlockCypher: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Matthieu Riou
Founder & CTO of BlockCypher
Co-founder of BlockCypher and software architect with 15+ years of experience working on complex platforms at banking, software and Saas companies. Former Apache Software Foundation member and VP with extensive open source development experience. He’s founded and mentored various open source projects, from distributed databases to build tools. Matthieu has developed many software systems at MommaZoo, C3, Intalio, BEA, Reef, BNP, and Societe Generale. Matthieu knows 10+ programming languages and all tools ranging from Lisp to Java and Node.js. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Ecole des Mines d’Ales.
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About BlockCypher, Joyent, MommaZoo, The Apache Software Foundation: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO of BigPanda
Assaf Resnick is CEO and founder of BigPanda, a data science platform for automating IT event correlation. BigPanda brings order to the alert chaos of large and fragmented IT Operations environments. Prior to founding BigPanda, Assaf was an investor with Sequoia Capital from 2005-2011. He lives in California with his wife and two beautiful kids.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Jarrod Yuster
Chairman, Founder and Co-CEO of Pico
Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading. Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. Before his work on Wall Street, Jarrod served as a product engineer, performing semiconductor research at Intel.
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About Pico: Pico is a provider of technology services for the global financial markets community.
Pouria Sanae
Founder & CEO of ixlayer
Pouria Sanae is the Founder and CEO of ixLayer.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Vahid Kowsari
Founder & CTO of ixlayer
Vahid Kowsari is the Co-Founder and CTO at ixLayer Inc.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Kenny Williams
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer of Compute Software
Kenny Williams joined Compute Software as Co-Founder & Lead Engineer in 2017.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Kenny Williams
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer of Compute Software
Kenny Williams joined Compute Software as Co-Founder & Lead Engineer in 2017.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Benjamin Hindman
Founder of D2iq
Ben Hindman is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Daniel Odio
CEO & Founder of Armory
Daniel Odio is CEO and co-founder of Socialize, Inc.Socialize is a cloud-based, turn-key social service distributed through APIs and SDKs with a focus on mobile integration. There are massive communities of users hiding inside each mobile app. Socialize is the first platform to leverage each app interest-graph, turning on the lights and letting passionate users rally around the app’s core content. Socialize also created AppMakr, the largest Do It Yourself mobile app creation platform for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps. AppMakr is used by brands like PBS, Newsweek, PGA TOUR, Harvard Business Review, US Congress, MacLife, Accenture and thousands of others. Over 1.5% of all apps in the iTunes App Store were created using AppMakr. Previously, Daniel earned his Series 22 & 63 securities licenses and real estate broker’s license to start Cardéa Commercial Real Estate Advisors, a commercial real estate brokerage specializing in tax-efficient real estate investments, and DROdio Real Estate, Inc, a residential real estate brokerage. Daniel also served on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of REALTORS and his real estate endeavors were featured on the cover of the The Wall Street Journal Marketplace section in July 2004. Prior to real estate, Daniel was the VP, Sales of AcceleratedServers, a Beowulf supercomputing cluster company whose customers included the Department of Defense and Paramount Pictures.Daniel has been featured on CNN, CNBC, TLC, Forbes, BBC and many other publications for his innovative use of technology in industries ranging from real estate to computer servers and mobile phones. Daniel was a member of General Electric Technical Leadership Program. Daniel worked for GE in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina. Daniel graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce, speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife.
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Balaji Parimi
Founder & CEO of CloudKnox Security
Balaji Parimi is Founder and CEO of CloudKnox Security, a Cloud Security company that empowers organizations to manage identity privileges across private and public cloud infrastructure. Prior to founding CloudKnox, Balaji was VP of Engineering and Operations at CloudPhysics, Staff Engineer at VMware, Architect and Technical Lead at 8X8, and Senior Software Engineer at Quality Call Solutions.
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Durga Gokina
CTO, Co-Founder of Macrometa
Building innovative products and teams.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
Amiram Shachar
Founder & CEO of Spot.io
Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst.
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Ricardo Oliveira
Co-Founder & CTO of ThousandEyes
Ricardo is the co-founder and CTO of ThousandEyes (www.thousandeyes.com), a network intelligence startup based in San Francisco. Ricardo is also the creator of Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu), a platform to detect attacks to the Internet routing infrastructure, like the one that brought youtube.com down in Pakistan in 2008. Ricardo is a technologist at heart and a believer in the importance of simplicity and good design in any product. He is also a caffeine junkie. Ricardo received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University (FEUP), Portugal in 2001, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2009. During his PhD he did several internships, including AT&T Labs, Thomson and Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. During his PhD he developed research in inter-domain routing, network security and Internet topology. He is the main author of several patents and dozens of papers in international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE Transactions on Networking. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Mohit Lad
Co-Founder & CEO of ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. from UCLA where he worked on building systems for Internet routing fault diagnosis and security. Mohit built Link-Rank, tool for visualizing routing dynamics. His work on route hijacking led to PHAS, one of the first systems to detect and alert on routing security problems. Mohit spent a year at Nokia building tools for analyzing the quality of Nokia’s mobile services. Since January 2010, Mohit has been involved in Thousand Eyes, a company he co-founded with Ricardo Oliveira.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Moti Rafalin
CEO, Founder and Chairman of vFunction
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About vFunction: VFunction allows enterprises to tackle application modernization and accelerate digital transformation.
Richard Li
Founder/CEO of Ambassador Labs
Richard Li is cofounder and CEO of Datawire.
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About Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Alexander Klizhentas
Co-Founder & CTO of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Ev Kontsevoy
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport
Ev Kontsevoy is the CEO & Founder at Gravitational.
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Taylor Wakefield
COO & Co-Founder of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
David Timothy Strauss
Co-Founder & CTO of Pantheon
Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. If you’ve ever deployed an enterprise website, chances are you’ve benefited from one of the tools he’s developed. After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, David found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions. Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. Now he wanted to use this expertise to improve websites for everyone. When the opportunity to build an all-in-one website platform came along, he knew he needed to be a part of it. In addition to his role as Pantheon CTO, David also co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs on most of the world’s Linux systems, serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and leads the development of Pressflow.
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About Pantheon, The Fedora Project: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Matt Cheney
Co-Founder of Pantheon
The creation, dissemination and consumption of information is one of the world’s most important processes. A formally trained librarian and traveler to over 85 countries, Matt Cheney has seen first-hand the global importance of this flow of information and the critical role that open-source technology can play in enabling that flow. Over the past eight years, Matt has been active in the open source community, helping organize events that empower developers (BADCamp, Drupalcon SF), contributing code to the Drupal project that modernizes the end user experience (Panels, Panopoly), and co-founding a website consulting company that works directly with clients to share their information with the world (Chapter Three). He co-founded Pantheon to make freely available development and hosting tools which makes it easier for everyone to launch and run websites. Technology should be an enabler — not a barrier — and Matt’s hope is that Pantheon can make the web better for everyone. When he isn’t working at Pantheon, Matt helps to run a fixed-gear bicycle shop called Mission Bicycle, travels the world, and cooks vegan food using cutting-edge molecular gastronomic techniques.
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Josh Koenig
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Pantheon
When a developer tells Josh Koenig how happy they are, that the drudge work has been automated and now they can handle more and larger projects, he knows it’s only a matter of time. Open source just took one step closer to world (or at least world-wide-web) domination. As Co-Founder and Head of Developer Experience, Josh believes the clues to Pantheon’s destiny are in its developer DNA: best practices, modular architecture, high performance are key for all websites whether it’s a personal hobby project or a major enterprise launch. And Josh believes all this should be easy and fast. Developers need tools that let them tackle more and bigger projects with less stress and worry, and that’s what he works on As a very early Drupal adopter (user #3313), Josh was part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003. He went on to found the Drupal Dojo, an online learning community for developers, and to co-found the premiere Drupal agency in San Francisco, Chapter Three. Demand for open source website technology is high and getting higher, but the the lack of readily available services presented too many challenges for widespread adoption. Developers and organizations didn’t need big support contracts to build faster, more scalable websites — they needed better tools to do it themselves. Today, Josh lives for the spark in a developer’s eye when they realize “there’s a best practice for that,” and it’s already built into Pantheon, the professional website platform.
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About Chapter Three., Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Halbert Nakagawa
CTO & Co-Founder of Machine Zone
Founder and CTO (Games) at MZ (Machine Zone, Inc.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Michael Sherrill
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Machine Zone
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Renat Khasanshyn
Founder of Altoros
Renat Khasanshyn is CEO of Altoros and Venture Partner at Runa Capital. Renat is a subject matter expert on database infrastructure software and Cloud Foundry PaaS . Altoros brings Cloud Foundry-based ”software factories” and “data lakes” into organizations through training, deployment, and integration. With 250+ employees across 8 countries, Altoros is behind some of the world’s largest Cloud Foundry & NoSQL deployments. Renat Khasanshyn is also founder of Apatar, an open source data integration toolset, founder of Silicon Valley NewSQL User Group and co-founder of the Belarusian Java User Group. He studied Engineering at Belarusian National Technical University.
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About Altoros, Atomica, Etherisc, Runa Capital: As a Kubernetes Partner and certified service provider, Altoros helps companies to deliver easily scalable and upgradable apps.
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
Scott Savitz
Founder and Managing Partner of Data Point Capital
Scott Savitz is the Founder and Managing Partner of Data Point Capital, an investment fund focused on the internet. Scott is a strong advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, especially where it aims to raise the bar on the consumer experience. Scott is also the founder and former CEO of Shoebuy.com. Scott founded Shoebuy in 1999, and served as its CEO through its sale to IAC. Under his guidance, Shoebuy grew on average over 55% a year becoming one of the largest online retailers in the country, with over 1 million products and $3.5 billion in inventory available for sale, serving over 8 million visitors a month. Between the sale of Shoebuy in 2006 and Scott retiring from the company in 2011, Shoebuy tripled revenues and grew bottom line faster than top-line. Scott owns and is Chairman of Smart Lunches (www.smartlunches.com), a fast growing internet meal service for schools, daycare and camps. He also serves on the boards of Bluestem Brands, SimpleTuition, Kitsy Lane, Two Ten, and MITX, and serves as an Advisor for Olejo Stores and On The Spot Systems, Inc. He also serves on several committees focused on fostering growth and a more robust economy including the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and Co-Chair of 12 X 12. Scott received a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and currently resides in Boston, MA. He is a frequent industry speaker and has received numerous awards and accolades including Ernst & Young’s New England Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Data Point Capital: Data Point Capital is a venture capital fund focused on the internet. The fund is non-stage specific and is made up of business executives
Ali Jelveh
Founder & Chief Revolutionary Officer of Protonet
Ali Jelveh is Co-Founder and CEO of Protonet. The German-Iranian software engineer previously was amongst the first developers at XING and studied physics. He’s on a mission to transform the Internet from centralization in the cloud to a state of distributed infrastructure and independent users. Ali is also the initiator of the Free Your Data campaign, which opts for a new kind of transparency law in Europe. When he isn’t working, he spends his time thinking, planning and simulating.
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About Protonet: Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform.
Vladimir Lounegov
Co-Founder, CEO of Mbanq
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About Mbanq: Mbanq builds digital banking technology that enables you to create a better bank for your customers
JP La Torre
Co-Founder & CEO of Caylent
JP La Torre is the Co-founder and CEO of Caylent, which provides DevOps managed service and consulting for software teams running containers and Kubernetes. Early crypto adopter. Co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Mines, a provider of turnkey crypto mining solutions. Southwest Director and founding board member of Blockchain & Crypto Mining Association (BCMA).
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About Caylent: Full spectrum AWS Cloud Native and DevOps consulting partner
Charles Liang
Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Supermicro
Charles Liang founded Supermicro and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for the past two decades. From July 1991 to August 1993, Mr. Liang was President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., a high-end motherboard design and manufacturing company. From January 1988 to April 1991, Mr. Liang was Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and Suntek Information International Group, a system and software development company. Mr. Liang has been granted many server technology patents. Mr. Liang holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Sara Liu Liang
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and Director of Supermicro
Chiu-Chu (Sara) Liu Liang co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1985 to 1993, Ms. Liang held finance and operational positions for several companies, including Micro Center Computer Inc. Ms. Liang holds a B.S. in Accounting from Providence University in Taiwan. Ms. Liang is married to Mr. Charles Liang.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Wally Liaw
Co-Founder, Vice President of International Sales, Secretary and Director of Supermicro
Yih-Shyan (Wally) Liaw co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of International Sales, Corporate Secretary and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Liaw was Vice President of Engineering at Great Tek, a computer company. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Bob Youakim
Founder & CEO of Passport
Bob has a diverse background in business development, finance and operations. Bob received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois. He is a proud father of four, loves flying planes and watching old episodes of MacGyver.
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About Passport: Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Moshe Yanai
Founder & CEO of Infinidat
Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s, joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies.
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About IBM, Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Edward Churchward
CTO & Co-Founder of Arch Platform Technologies
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About Arch Platform Technologies, Solstice Studios: Plug and play creative facilities as a service. The Arch SaaS Platform creates cloud infrastructure for collaborative teams in all markets.
Rohit Seth
CEO and Founder of CloudNatix
Rohit Seth is an ex-Google executive and Founder of CloudNatix Inc.
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About CloudNatix: CloudNatix is a provider of efficient infrastructure across multiple clouds and on-premise environments.
Shruthi Rao
Co-Founder & CBO of Vendia
Shruthi Rao is working as a Co-Founder & CBO at Vendia since 2020 and previously worked as a Global Business Development at AWS.
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About Vendia: Vendia is a multi-cloud distributed data sharing platform that enables customers to share data and code in real-time.
Shmuel Kliger
Co-Founder of Turbonomic
Shmuel is currently focused on product and technology strategy, as well as strategic partnerships. Previously, he founded and served as President and CEO of VMTurbo. Prior to founding VMTurbo, Shmuel served as Vice President of Architecture and Applied Research in the EMC CTO Office. Prior to joining the CTO Office, Shmuel was the Chief Technology Officer of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group. Shmuel Kliger joined EMC with the acquisition of SMARTS. Shmuel Kliger was a Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of SMARTS. As CTO of SMARTS Shmuel Kliger was responsible for setting SMARTS vision and strategy, managing SMARTS R&D organization, as well as Professional Services, Technical Support and Technology Partner Development. Prior to joining SMARTS, Shmuel was a member of the Distributed Systems Software Technology department at IBM Research developing middleware technologies. Shmuel also served as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and Manager of Technical Support Services for International Business Software in Israel. Shmuel holds a B.S. in mathematics from Bar Ilan University, an M.Sc.and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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About Turbonomic: Turbonomic develops tools that optimize application performance, compliance, and cost in real-time.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
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About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Brett Galloway
Founder &CEO of Xova Labs
Brett Galloway is the CEO at AttackIQ.
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About AttackIQ, Xova Labs: Xova Labs enable companies leveraging the mobile and cloud technology disruptions.
Cheray Unman
Co Founder of CLOUDCAST
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About Blackhawk Partners, CHERAY, CLOUD HORSE, CLOUDCAST, Equestrian Luxury, Gütermann Family Office, Sotheby’s International Realty, Tanner Unman & Co, ULTIMATE Group, Venture Bank, Venture Luxury, WINE LUXE: Patented Edge or Fog computing p2p mesh network for live steaming media & commerce .
Thomas Isakovich
CEO & Founder of Nimbus Data
Entrepreneur specializing in next-generation enterprise and datacenter infrastructure, particularly network storage, software, and compute platforms. Specialties: Startup creation, technical vision, software/hardware engineering, product and corporate marketing, major account development, and supply-chain operations. Thomas earned a B.A. with Honors from Stanford University.
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About Nimbus Data: Nimbus Data develops advanced flash memory solutions that power data-driven innovation.
JT Giri
CEO & Co-Founder of nClouds
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About nClouds, nOps: nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services.
David Hughes
CEO & Founder of Silver Peak
David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc. Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Murali Basavaiah
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Avi Networks
With over 20 years of expertise in Distributed Systems, Networking, and Storage, Murali was most recently the Vice President of Software Engineering for the Data Center group at Cisco, having joined through the acquisition of Andiamo. Prior to Cisco and Adiamo, Murali was an Architect at Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel), where he led the architecture for the innovative Shasta Broadband IP Services Platform – a distributed multi-subscriber services platform. Murali has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Arizona State University, a certificate from the Stanford Executive Program, and over 20 patents to date.
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About Avi Networks: Avi Networks drives automation and intelligence across multi-cloud environments with intent-based application services.
Siva S
Founder & CEO of Powerupcloud Technologies
Siva is the Founder and CEO of Powerupcloud Technologies – a technology company with a strong focus on building cloud and artificial intelligence solutions. Before starting Powerup, Siva has been VP – Business Development at Minjar Cloud Solutions (a Nutanix Company) and Business Head – Cloud at Progressive Infotech. Siva has tried his hand at entrepreneurship when he was pursuing his MBA in Marketing at LBS, Delhi. Siva started and ran Bookmytees.com – an online custom T-Shirts manufacturer and seller business. Siva had early success with Bookmytees bagging some sizable orders from colleges and SMBs in Delhi – the primary target market for Bookmytees. Siva is a Gold Medalist from LBS, Delhi where he did MBA in Marketing and was awarded the Best Outgoing Student at CIT, Coimbatore where he did B.E in Electronics. Motto: There is no Plan B for Passion. Get out and have a crack.
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About L&T Infotech, Powerupcloud Technologies: Powerupcloud is a cloud technology company with product & services in cloud migrations, managed cloud and AI solutions.
Klaus Badelt
Founder & CEO of Filmhub
Klaus Badelt is the Founder at Filmhub.
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About Copy-Kids, Filmhub, Wunderhorn Music: Filmhub is a the #1 distribution platform for Filmmakers and Streaming Channels.
Leonard Chung
Co-Founder of String
Leonard has been working in the technology industry for over sixteen years with a particular emphasis on successfully developing and delivering products and ideas from Zero to One. Previously, Leonard was Founder & CEO of Syncplicity (acquired by EMC in ’12). He has been working in the area of collaboration, data management, and internet scale applications for over 18 years and is the inventor of seven patents. Past products include Windows PowerShell, SETI@home, and internet storage company Scale Eight. Notable past collaborators include RISC/RAID inventor David Patterson and ACM Turing Award Winner Jim Gray. Leonard received a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About String: String is a software company that offers a cloud-based direct phone line and messaging solution for business texting and calling.
Zac Choi
Co-Founder & CEO of String
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About String: String is a software company that offers a cloud-based direct phone line and messaging solution for business texting and calling.
Nitzan Shapira
Co-Founder & CEO of Epsagon
Nitzan Shapira is the Co-Founder and CEO of Epsagon.
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About Epsagon: Epsagon is a privately held, modern observability company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
Brian Denker
Co-Founder and COO of Tackle
Brian has spent most of his career immersed in information technology and entrepreneurial business. With a background deeply set in data and analytics, Brian has helped some of the largest companies transform how they leverage their data for practical insights. Working with front edge MPP technologies such as Netezza, Greenplum & Hadoop, Brian was able to see how every company could become a technology company. As the cloud grew in popularity across the 2000’s, the software & procurement space lagged behind. Seeing that gap as an opportunity, Brian helped found Tackle.io in 2016 to transform the way companies sell software in the cloud.
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About Tackle: Tackle.io operates as a cloud marketplace subscription platform that helps software providers generate revenue.
Dillon Woods
Co-Founder and CTO of Tackle
Dillon Woods is the Co-Founder and CTO at Tackle.io.
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About Tackle: Tackle.io operates as a cloud marketplace subscription platform that helps software providers generate revenue.
Sanjay Govil
Founder & Chairman of Infinite Computer Solutions
Sanjay Govil is an Indian-American business executive. He is chairman of the board for Infinite Computer Solutions, an IT service company he founded in 1999. Govil attended Auburn University where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering.After graduating from Auburn, Govil began working for IBM. During his time at IBM, he earned a Master of Engineering from Syracuse University. He worked for various companies including Verizon Communications (Bell Atlantic at the time) prior to starting his own venture. In 1999, Govil founded Infinite Computer Solutions. He used $1,000 of his own money and did not take any venture capital funding for the company. He managed the company through its initial public offering on the Bombay Stock Exchange where it raised Rs. 1.8 billion on its first day of trading instead of its expected $50 million. He helped grow it to $200 million in yearly revenue as of 2011. Govil is still actively involved with the company, serving as its chairman of the board of directors. Govil is the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, given to him in 2002. He is also involved with the Wharton School of Business where he became a fellow. He also serves as a member of the Global CEO Advisory Council for its fellows program and the board of directors for the school’s Future of Advertising Project. Govil is currently serving on the 2018 board of directors on the U.S.-India Business Council. He is also one of the investors in the data firm Applecart. In addition to his work at Infinite, Govil is active in training young entrepreneurs.
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About Infinite Computer Solutions, Zyter: Next-Gen Business Technology Platformization™ and Product Engineering Services.
Fraser Kelton
Co-Founder & CEO of Koko
Fraser Kelton is the Product at OpenAI.
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About AdaptiveBlue, Koko, OpenAI: AI Powered Community Moderation
Bill Dallas
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
Bill Dallas is co-founder and chief executive officer for cloudvirga. He is responsible for founding and managing more than a dozen mortgage and financial tech companies over the past 40 years, including Skyline Homes and New Leaf. His first venture, First Franklin, grew to be one of the nation’s largest lenders and eventually sold for $330 million. Other successful ventures include risk management solution, interthinx, and lending process automation company, MindBox, which he sold for $27 million and $20 million respectively. Most recently, Dallas sold a minority stake of his company, OwnIt, to Merrill Lynch for $500 million. Although technology has disrupted and improved many industries, the antiquated mortgage lending process remains manual, slow and costly. Along with his co-founders, Dallas created the intelligent mortgage platform, which leverages data and an intelligent workflow to drastically cut the time and costs associated with closing a loan. The system, which has already processed nearly $5 billion in loans, is transforming home lending by digitizing, automating and simplifying the process for consumers, lenders and realtors. Dallas holds a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, as well as an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also founded and serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Oaks Christian School.
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About Skyline Financial: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Kyle Kamrooz
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
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About Cloudvirga: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Prabhat Gupta
Founder and CEO of Megh Computing
Prabhat. K. Gupta (PK) is Founder and CEO of Megh Computing, a startup focused on accelerating real time analytics using Spark. Previously he was the General Manager of the Xeon+FPGA Products in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for developing the Xeon+FPGA product for accelerating cloud workloads. Prior to that, he was the CTO of Intel’s Modular Communications Platform Division and the Director of Engineering in Intel’s Communications Infrastructure Group. He joined Intel since the acquisition of Dialogic in 1999, where he was last the VP of Engineering. PK holds a PhD and MBA.
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About Megh Computing: Megh Computing provides a collection of codes to be used in field-programmable gate arrays.
Ajit Mayya
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of VeloCloud
Ajit leads the talented development team that is working to Re-Invent WAN. Prior to co-founding VeloCloud, he was the Vice President of Engineering for YouWeb, an incubator of successful mobile technology companies including iSwifter/Agawi. He also spent time at VMWare as Sr. Director of Engineering in the Cloud and Infrastructure Management division where he was responsible for delivering the first version of VMware vCenter API, vCenter and award winning products like VMware Site Recovery Manager. He also spent time at BroadOn Communications as Vice President of Product Development and at WebVan as Vice President of Software Development. Prior, he held senior management and engineering positions at Healtheon/WebMd, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett Packard. He holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, and BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About VeloCloud: VeloCloud is a cloud networking services company that simplifies branch WAN networking.
Dani Golan
Founder & CEO of Silk
Dani Golan oversees strategy, go-to-market and overall company operations. Previously, Dani served as President and General Manager of Performix Technologies, acquired by NICE Systems in 2006. Prior to Performix, Dani was an executive responsible for leading new ventures at EMC. Dani holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to his professional career, Dani served as a fighter pilot and an officer in the Israeli Air Force.
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About Silk: The Database Supercharger
Hugo Shi
Founder of Saturn Cloud
Hugo Shi is the founder of Saturn Cloud.
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About Saturn Cloud: A cloud workspace for the whole data science team, supporting Python & R. Collaborate with powerful resources, jobs, deployments, and more
M. Sebastian Metti
Founder & CEO of Saturn Cloud
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About Saturn Cloud: A cloud workspace for the whole data science team, supporting Python & R. Collaborate with powerful resources, jobs, deployments, and more
Michael Tso
CEO & Co-Founder of Cloudian
Michael Tso is co-cofounder and CEO of Cloudian. Prior to Cloudian, he co-founded and led Gemini Mobile Technologies, a pioneer in wireless messaging, providing mission-critical infrastructure software that today powers services at some of the world’s largest telcos. At search engine pioneer Inktomi, Michael led engineering for an e-commerce search engine, and designed a network congestion control system for KDDI which later became an industry standard. At Intel, he led the development of web acceleration technology and collaborated with Nokia on NarrowBand Sockets, commonly known as SmartMessaging, which enabled the world’s first SMS ringtone download service. Michael holds 36 patents. He graduated from MIT with an MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in Economics.
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About Cloudian: Cloudian is a file and object storage company specializing in S3 object storage in the data center.
Joseph DeFranco
Co-Founder & VP of Sales of CNEX Labs
Joe DeFranco is Co-Founder and VP of Sales at CNEX Labs.
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About CNEX Labs: CNEX provides revolutionary solid-state storage semiconductor and software solutions for cloud, hyper-scale, and enterprise data centers.
Robert Clement
CEO & Founder of Songspace
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About Songspace: Professional network that powers creative and business workflows via shared music assets and data.
Zhenwu Shi
Founder & CEO of InfStones
Zhenwu Shi is the Founder and CEO of InfStones.
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About InfStones: InfStones provides decentralized blockchain infrastructure service on one integrated platform.
James L. Williams
Founder of QTS Realty Trust
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About QTS Realty Trust: QTS Realty Trust is a technology infrastructure company providing data center facilities and managed services.
Ezhilarasan Natarajan
Founder & CEO of CoreStack Inc
Ezhilarasan Natarajan is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoreStack.
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About CoreStack Inc: CoreStack delivers continuous and autonomous cloud governance for enterprises.
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
CEO & CO-Founder of Axalume
Develops silicon photonic integrated circuits that remove bandwidth, latency, and connectivity bottlenecks in datacenters. Axalume’s breakthrough optical switching photonic integrated circuits will enable datacenters to cost effectively scale.
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About Axalume: Axalume has developed proprietary technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits
Igor Mameshin
Co-Founder and CTO of Agile Stacks
Senior Director at EPAM Systems.
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About Agile Stacks, EPAM Systems: Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning.
Vinit Srivastava
Co-Founder and CEO of MerQube
Vinit is the co-founder and CEO of MerQube. Prior to MerQube, Vinit led the product management team globally at S&P Dow Jones Indices covering Strategy and ESG indices. In that role, Vinit brought several products to the market globally in the areas of equity strategies, volatility, multi-asset, and ESG. Prior to that role, Vinit was a principal engineer at Oracle working on various Oracle applications and middleware products.
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About MerQube: Cloud-native financial indexing platform
Praveen Yalagandula
Co-Founder and CTO of MerQube
Praveen Yalagandula is the Co-Founder and CTO at MerQube.
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About MerQube: Cloud-native financial indexing platform
Keith Loggie
Co-Founder and COO of MerQube
Keith Loggie is the Co-Founder and COO at MerQube.
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About MerQube: Cloud-native financial indexing platform
Jeremiah Steptoe
Founder & President of CyberCentric
Jeremiah Steptoe is founder and president at Cyber Centric.
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About CyberCentric: CyberCentric is an enterprise-focused cyber security platform that monitors sensitive data and controls access to prevent unauthorized use.
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
Tim Dorr
Founder and CTO of Spaceship
Tim Dorr co-founded SalesLoft and previously served the company as the Director of Engineering Infrastructure.
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About Deft Inc, Feedscrub, Spaceship: Spaceship is a Continuous Delivery platform used to get applications up and running with zero hassle on any cloud.
