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 Real Time 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.
Simon Last
Co-Founder of Notion
Simon Last is the Co-Founder of Notion. He is a former Intern – Software Engineering at Nebula, Inc, and Space Telescope Science Institute. Mr. Last received a bachelor of science in Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park.
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About Notion: Notion is the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
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Theodore Dziuba
Co-Founder, Developer of Milo
Ted Dziuba co-founded at [Milo](/organization/milo), an online/local shopping company acquired by eBay in 2009. He worked on several “internal startups” at eBay before leaving to join Oak Labs as the Vice President of Engineering, to build a software team to tackle retail innovation. After Oak, he co-founded Event6, an online marketplace for event planning. Today, he lives in Placerville, California and is a candidate for California State Senate, District 1.
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About Milo: Milo, a product search space, enables shoppers to research products online and buy locally while tracking real-time availability and price.
Jerry Greenberg
Co-Founder of Samesurf
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About Publicis Sapient, Samesurf, SapientNitro, SUSHI NOZAWA LLC: Samesurf is a cobrowsing platform that provides the ability for screen sharing from anywhere.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Peter Hunn
Founder & CEO of Clause
Peter Hunn is Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clause, Inc. The Accord Project (now a Linux Foundation project) from Clause, Inc. is the leading organization for the development of techno-legal standards for smart legal contracts and distributed ledger applications in the legal industry. Peter is also an angel investor in early stage startups.
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About Accord Project, Clause, Substrate: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Murali Kashaboina
Founder of Entrigna
Murali Kashaboina is the founder, CEO & President of Entrigna Inc. Murali is a Technology driven Business oriented leader & evangelist who brings 17+ years of IT experience in the areas of Travel & Transportation, E-Commerce, Real-Time Predictive Architectures , Real Time Business Intelligence, Event-Driven Services Architecture, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, Applications Development & Delivery, IT Strategy, IT Project Execution & Governance, Technology Governance, IT Total Cost of Ownership Optimization and Agile Software Development Methodologies. Most recently, Murali served in the capacity of Managing Director, Enterprise Architecture at United Airlines and played a key role in the Merger Integration of United & Continental Airlines and in the selection of merger-surviving Enterprise Systems, ensuring business viability of systems in a perspective that could ultimately enable the realization of billions in revenue synergies. During 2004-2006, Murali was the Lead Architect for united.com and led the Architecture & Delivery of next generation online Booking Engine, one of the largest initiatives at United Airlines. His deep understanding of the intricacies involved in building real software for real world business problems and seamlessly enabling them for real business consumption, helped him in forming a strong technology group for Entrigna which truly is the differentiator of the company. Murali advocates that “Organizations should auto-pilot & cruise towards Profitability and Success by fueling their Business Operations with Real Time Intelligence that flows through and persists tangibly in their own Real Time Business Data”. Murali is an ardent knowledge-seeker with the belief that knowledge and expertise should be shared and not hoarded. Going with this belief, he published several white papers on various key technical subjects. Murali holds a Masters’ degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Dayton, Ohio
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About Entrigna, Forbes Councils: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Geeth Narayanan
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Geeth Narayanan is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. and a dedicated IT leader with over 15+ years of experience in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, high performance technology solutions in various industries including banking, airline etc. Geeth is a results-driven executive with extensive experience leading people and project teams, developing business transformation and technology strategy roadmaps, implementing and overseeing technology solutions that spans multimillion-dollar budgets. He strives for optimal balance between strategic and tactical orientation with a focus towards delivery. He enjoys challenging leadership opportunities providing value-added technology solutions leveraging his business experience and systems expertise to contribute to the profitability of a growing organization. While working as a Director for Enterprise Applications and Information Architecture with United Airlines, Geeth played a key role in the merger of United and Continental Airlines including successful delivery of United’s “Customer Day One” program where he led a cross-subsidiary architecture for seamless customer experience. As a Lead Architect for the customer portfolio he led the delivery of Mileage Plus’ next generation “MP 2.0” program that delivered Airline Loyalty industry leading Redemption products weaving-in CIO’s IT multi-year vision items into program delivery. Prior to that, he led the architecture and delivery of United’s multi-channel, multi-product Merchandising program, that enabled United to deliver industry leading ancillary revenues. As a Senior Architect in the Ecommerce area he was instrumental in building the 3 Billion annual revenue generating united.com website. Prior to that Geeth worked as an Architect for Washington Mutual bank building their next generation Middleware Platform. Geeth is an avid technology blogger and follower of technology blogs to keep himself up-to-date on technology. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toledo, Ohio
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About Cognizant, Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Venu Middela
Co-Founder of Entrigna
Venu Middela is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. Prior to joining Entrigna, Venu served as a Senior Manager IT at United Airlines Inc. managing IT infrastructure & Middleware Engineering teams supporting Airline operations, customer channels. Venu is a seasoned veteran with 15+ years in building, architecting and managing Enterprise IT infrastructures including business critical ecommerce sites, mission critical IT operational systems.Prior to this role, Venu served as the Principal Infrastructure Architect at United, implemented Virtualiztion technologies across the enterprise, consolidating IT infrastructures,instrumental in stabilizing IT operations, meeting Enterprise Operational SLAs. Prior to United, Venu served as an Infrastructure Lead at Military.com, a web based portal serving 30 million Americans having Miltiary Affinity. Venu holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA . Venu is an avid sports fan, loves to travel.
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About Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Prasad Nagu
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Prasad Nagu is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. Prasad has over 14 years of experience.
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About Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Prasad Nagu
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Prasad Nagu is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. Prasad has over 14 years of experience.
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About Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
John Xie
Co-Founder & CEO of Taskade
John Xie is the Co-Founder & CEO at Taskade.
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About Forem, GitStart, Laserfocus, Outlier, Taskade: Taskade is a real-time organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams.
Alban Denoyel
Co-Founder & CEO of Sketchfab
Alban is a 32-year-old French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Sketchfab – the #1 platform to publish and explore 3D content online and in VR. Prior to Sketchfab, he launched a low cost web agency, and worked for 4 years in the 2D world of photojournalists. He loves making things (usually with wood or in 3D). He graduated from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France).
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About Sketchfab: Sketchfab provides a platform to publish and find 3D models online
Harry Qi
Co-Founder & CEO of Motion
Harry Qi is the co-founder and CEO of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Omid Rooholfada
Co-Founder of Motion
Omid Rooholfada is the co-founder of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Andre Swanston
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tru Optik
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About Tru Optik: Tru Optik is the Only Audience Measurement and Data Management Platform Built for OTT
Torrance Harris
Founder & CEO / Social Engineer of Acrochat
If you are reading this you have been influenced by him some kind of way and you possibly don’t even know it. In the near future he will change the way people talk, text, and type simply by using acronyms, you will never look at a normal word the same. Torrance Harris is the founder of “Acrochat”, (www.acrochat.com) it’s the world’s only acronym based social network, a photo sharing website “Flodger” (www.flodger.com), and dating app like none other “Petty” (www.petty.chat). He noticed the internet world consisted of a language that would eventually be used in everyday communication. Torrance explains, “every social network does the same thing which consist of connecting people but Acrochat is the only social network that gives users the option to change the way you communicate using an embedded language that is built off the premise of acronyms”. During the development & testing phase of Acrochat Torrance created this “internet chatbot persona” that involved his social engineering and marketing skills. It allowed him to attract people to join his social site and once joining they would convince friends to sign up. This allowed Acrochat to grow to 30,000 users off simple “word of mouth”. Spending 4 years in college only to obtain an associates degree in mechanical engineering technology. He applied and received his first business license in 1998 starting a video game repair company called Game Over Enterprise. His knowledge of disrupting the internet started in the early 2000’s hanging out in the hacker’s lounge on yahoo messenger where he first experienced the pros and cons of DDOS programs and traffic exchange software can be. He had a brief stint in the music industry managing his main artist who was his brother. Torrance wanted the album sales to grow rapidly so he searched for a glitch in the recording industry network and found it. He purchased bar-codes from GS1 US (https://www.gs1us.org/) formerly know as Uniform Code Council and he hacked the numbers associated with obtained bar-codes. Consumers would purchase his brother’s cd in store consisting of only 2 songs for $0.50 and once the store scanned the bar-code it would credit and register as a full album sale from Nielsen SoundScan. His brother’s album sales increased making him #3 in sales in some stores in Memphis. He hired an Manhattan attorney Anthony Arther (www.artherlaw.com) to represent his label where they had meetings with Badboy, Interscope, etc. but to no avail a deal was ever made. Torrance stock portfolio contains shares in Snapchat, Facebook, online travel, textile, oil and gas, and etc. In 2004, he exploited a Sony PlayStation glitch simply using a router w/ yahoo email MP3s attached to knock their game servers offline. Glitching his online internet enemies he saw it as fun to counter against cheaters. In 2010 he disrupted top music mixtape website Datpiff.com, changing artists user stats and giving them more views and more recognition and leaving his number for DatPiff CEO to call him so he could discuss how vulnerable his website was. He has worked for companies such as Sharp Electronics, Microsoft XBox Division, Amazon, FedEx, and Beckman Coulter. He owned an ATM repair company ATM Geek that was notarized by FedEx and he served on Fed Ex Mobile Council Board. Retired from his days of being one of the first and self-proclaimed internet trolls, Torrance main focus is his family and making sure his social networking sites are used for fun and not evil. He will tell you all the years of what he was doing he considered real life research & development to find out how vulnerable things are and eventually finding a solution to make them stronger.
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About Acrochat, Graapevine, Petty: World’s only acronym based/enhanced social networking website
Tony Zhao
Founder & CEO of Agora.io
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About Agora.io: Agora.io enables developers to add HD interactive broadcast, voice, and video calls into mobile and web apps through SDK.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Gordon Campbell
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Cornami
Gordon Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process. Mr. Campbell began his career as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager moving into managing one of the company’s largest divisions. He left Intel to found SEEQ Technology, which became a leading manufacturer and the developer of the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, Campbell founded and became Chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies, the world’s first fabless semiconductor company. CHIPS and Technologies was instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that early customers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell now dominate. As a result of his success at CHIPS and Technologies, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”. In his 40-year career, Mr. Campbell has also served on the Board of Directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm, and has founded, invested in, and been involved with a number of highly successful start-ups, including CHIPS and Technologies, 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate. In honor of this repeated success, the FSA named Mr. Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Fred Furtek
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Chief Architect of Cornami
Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in multicore processors and functional verification tools and methods. He was among the pioneers in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory), and it was at these two companies that Dr. Furtek began a long-term project to develop groundbreaking tools for full functional verification of digital systems. During breaks in this effort, Dr. Furtek founded a field-programmable-gate-array company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to Apple Computer, National Semiconductor and IBM and which was ultimately acquired by Atmel Corporation. He has also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms based on reconfigurable, multicore architectures unrivaled in price/performance and energy efficiency (Interval Research, QuickSilver Technology and Rapport, Inc.). At CORNAMI, this 30+ years of experience has provided the foundation for Dr. Furtek’s most recent accomplishment: solving the multicore programming problem, which has bedeviled computer science for the past 50 years. Dr. Furtek holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and doctorate in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has 30 issued U.S. patents.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Shon Myatt
CTO, President & Co-Founder of Babel Street
Shon Myatt Co-Founder and CTO of Babel Street, Shon Myatt shares the first steps that he took to found Babel Street, a technology company that provides intelligence from online and private sources that accurately detected the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks before it happened.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Chuck Doerr
President, Co-Founder & COO of OpenFin
Chuck Doerr is President, Co-Founder, and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFin, Chuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICE, Chuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company’s award-winning technology platform, led software development and managed Creditex’s global technology infrastructure. Before Creditex, Chuck worked at UBS automating their front office equity trading operations. Earlier, he worked on missile system software at Raytheon. Chuck attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Vivek Sharma
Founder & CEO of Movable Ink
Vivek is leading the charge to make email a more dynamic and relevant communication channel for marketers and consumers. With a background in both sales and product development, Vivek brings a potent combination of engineering talent and business savvy to his role as Movable Ink’s CEO. Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Vivek headed Eastern North American and EMEA sales for Engine Yard. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Blue Martini and Cisco Systems. Vivek graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About EasyPrep, Movable Ink: Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement.
Ashley Crowder
CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA
Ashley Crowder is the co-founder and CEO of VNTANA, an industry leading augmented reality platform for creating and distributing premium mixed reality experiences. Prior to co-founding VNTANA she graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and gained valuable manufacturing experience at Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and BP. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development. Ashley was featured as one of USC’s leading engineering CEOs of 2016. Ashley is a part of the Microsoft Early Developer Program along with the Microsoft Bizspark Plus program. Ashley has been a speaker at SXSW, Digital Summit, Internet Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx Venice, the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies & Technology Pioneers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, The Montgomery Summit, Siemer Summit, Digital LA, and others.
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Gabe Paez
Founder and CEO of The Wild
Gabe Paez is the founder of WILD, a software company building a platform for design collaboration leveraging the power of shared virtual reality. WILD makes it easy to share 3D design ideas with a group of people together in realtime. Gabe has been a Technical Director and coder for 15 years. He specializes in creating immersive digitally augmented spaces. He is proud to have worked with a diverse roster of agencies and clients including Adidas, Verizon, Google, Nike, and Samsung. Gabe is an avid problem solver and finds great joy in bringing big ideas to life.
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About The Wild: SaaS, collaboration platform
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.
Jesse Boyes
Co-Founder of Dasher
Jesse Boyes is a co-founder of [Dasher](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dasher#/entity), a next-generation messaging platform that enables the delivery of interactive and real-time data in group chats. Prior to his current position, he worked at [Gilt Groupe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gilt-groupe#/entity) as the director of mobile engineering. In 2013, Boyes filed a patent request for inventing the method and system for trying out a product in relation to a real world environment. He currently resides in New York, United States.
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About Dasher, Outalot: Dasher is building a next-generation messaging platform enabling delivery of rich, interactive, real-time data in 1:1 and group chats.
Simon Yencken
Founder & CEO of Fanplayr
Simon Yencken is the CEO & Founder at Fanplayr Inc.
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About Blackbird Ventures, Dokio, Fanplayr, Moda Operandi: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Derek Adelman
Founder & Regional VP Asia Pacific of Fanplayr
Derek Adelman is the Founder & Regional VP Asia Pacific at Fanplayr.
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About Fanplayr: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Matt Frischer
Co-Founder & CMO of Wristcam
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Srini V. Srinivasan
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Aerospike
When it comes to databases, Srini Srinivasan is one of the recognized pioneers of Silicon Valley. He has two decades of experience designing, developing and operating highly scalable infrastructures. He also has over a dozen patents in database, web, mobile and distributed systems technologies. ‘I just took to programming early on. There was a professor in college who tossed out a challenge, and I ended up winning it. That’s when I discovered I really enjoy thinking through how to solve problems in code. I invented an algorithm to do online index operations – it was used in the Tandem product line. That was my first significant thing. At IBM I was on a team where we built the first Internet database product – DB2-www – in three months. It was way ahead of the curve.’ Srini co-founded Aerospike to solve the scaling problems he experienced with Oracle databases while he was Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo. ‘I moved into database development because nothing that I saw would actually work – it was a lack of flexibility. They weren’t designed to do what people needed them to do. They were too manual and labor-intensive. We put together a simpler, much more effective solution. It’s based on fundamental database technology – to ensure you don’t lose any data. And the apps are easy to write. But then we added the third, key element: our database is self managing. 24/7. It never goes down. No loss of data. Others claim to do this by slapping some attempt at self management on later. But with Aerospike, it’s at the core. Today we’re building a company that we hope will have a culture of innovation and service that other companies are simply not providing. It’s funny, we’ve been at this for about three years now. There were lots of people who said what we’re trying to do is impossible. Fortunately, we didn’t listen to them.’
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Brian Bulkowski
Co-Founder & CTO of Aerospike
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Dave Petruziello
CEO/Founder of Sureal Music
Dave is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in Management and Communications with a minor in Anatomy Physiology, as well as a 4-year starter and All-Big Ten selection on the football team and earning the academic achievement award. After a short stint in the NFL with the Patriots and the Browns, he applied his skills in the medical device industry for several companies, as one of the top sales producers in the US market. Dave applied this knowledge and experience toward great success in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Fund-Raising and Executive Management. As founder and CEO Ziello Labs, Dave managed and developed all domestic and international business relationships for Mago Skin Care (now Mission Athlete Care (owned now by Mia Hamm former captain of the women’s Olympic Soccer Team). This skincare line was used by athletes featured in the documentary “Running the Sahara,” directed by James Moll and narrated by Matt Damon for the nonprofit “Clean Water Africa.” Most recently Dave co-founded Flashnotes.com/ Luvolearn.com, developing and growing the business and moving headquarters to Boston, MA, the US higher education hub. This Fall 2018’ Flashnotes will be re-launching and Dave is the founder of the business as well as President. Dave is driven by taking on challenges and figuring out solutions in his passion for growing companies, building brands and applying ever changing and evolving technology. Currently, Dave is proud to be the CEO/Founder of Sureal Music. Dave spends most of his spare time with his 15 yr old Son David, his Fiancée Chrissy, and 4 loving kind hearted Pit-Bulls.
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About Steve Popovich Legacy Foundation, Sureal Music: Connecting fans and empowering musicians for a better music experience for all.
Dave Labuda
Founder, Chairman & Senior Innovation Advisor of MATRIXX Software
Dave Labuda Founder, CEO & CTO MATRIXX was co-founded in 2008 by telecom industry veteran Dave Labuda. His revolutionary vision: making it possible for every Telco & Digital Service Provider to realize the benefits of digital transformation. Dave Labuda co-founded Portal Software in 1994, creating the first real-time billing and revenue management solution for internet and communications service providers. As CTO, he led the architectural design and product strategy of the company. After stepping into the CEO role in 2004, he successfully sold the company to Oracle in 2006. Dave then served as CTO of Oracle’s Communications Global Business Unit until February 2008, providing architectural vision for the new organization and acting as a key advisor on several strategic acquisitions. He started his career at Sun Microsystems working for 8 years in the UNIX Operating Systems group. Dave also serves as a board member for Aria Systems. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and has 13 patents issued with several more pending.
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About MATRIXX Software: Provider of a digital commerce platform designed to monetize 5G
Jennifer Kyriakakis
Founder & VP Marketing of MATRIXX Software
MATRIXX Founder and Vice President of Marketing, Jennifer Kyriakakis, brings deep expertise in both telecoms and software with roles ranging from complex systems delivery to technical sales to strategic marketing. Her 20 plus years of experience helping Telcos reinvent themselves has propelled the growth of MATRIXX into markets all over the globe. In 2009, Jennifer co-founded MATRIXX Software with the vision of transforming how Telcos do in business in the digital economy. Jennifer is a Forbes contributor and is often recognized for her impact on the industry. Some of those acknowledgments include being named Women in IT Entrepreneur of the Year by Information Age, Women to Know in Mobile from Martech Executive, 2017 Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal, Gold Innovator of the Year and Silver Entrepreneur of the Year by Women World Awards and most recently a Women in Business Gold Stevie®. As a panelist and keynote speaker, she has shared her thoughts on the topics of leadership and technology at events including Mobile World Congress, Big Communications Event, TM Forum Live and Telecom Council Mobile Forum.
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About MATRIXX Software: Provider of a digital commerce platform designed to monetize 5G
Michael Lovett
Founder & CEO of Vagabond Vending
Michael is responsible for managing the commercial operations of the company. He brings a decade of entrepreneurial spirit and experience in IT services, software and international partnerships. Prior to CirrusWorks, Michael founded and currently serves as Chairman of Vagabond (www.vagabondvending.com), a mobile software and cellular electronics firm based in Washington, DC. Michael was an early employee at Core Communications, where he conceived and launched Critical Network Productions, a telecom systems integration business unit which became the impetus for Swisscom’s acquisition of Core in 2006. At Swisscom (www.swisscom.ch), Michael led the global enterprise solutions group and expanded Swisscom’s operations into Asia, India and the Middle East. Michael is co-author of our principle patents at CirrusWorks.
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Juan Jorquera
Founder & COO of Vagabond Vending
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Mark Gilbreath
CEO and Founder of LiquidSpace
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About LiquidSpace: LiquidSpace supports Work From Anywhere with a platform that makes it easy to discover, transact, and manage your office needs on-demand.
Andrei Pop
Founder & CEO of Human API
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About Human API: Human API is a real-time health data network that gives consumers a simple way to view and share their health data from everywhere.
Nikesh Desai
Founder & CEO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Nikesh is a founder and CEO of InvestingChannel. As CEO, he leads the company’s overall strategic direction. Nikesh and Bob started the consultancy Giant Step Strategies which served as the initial underpinning of InvestingChannel. They successfully helped major financial media companies with their ad strategies which created the demand and impetus for InvestingChannel. He has been the key figure in building the largest exclusive consortium of financial destinations at InvestingChannel. Prior to building Giant Step Strategies and InvestingChannel, Nikesh served as the Vice President of Business Development at TheStreet.com where he implemented strategic initiatives and new technologies, including partnerships, contextual advertising, co-registration, customer acquisition/lead generation and many other programs to increase revenue, drive traffic and enhance site performance. He was one of the original members of PeoplePC’s business development team and was instrumental during its IPO process and sale to EarthLink. Nikesh focused on product development, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisition activities. He started his career as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens involved in public offerings and mergers & acquisitions aggregating over $1 billion with Internet and software companies. Nikesh aspires to be a traveling food critic while trying to hit every major soccer stadium across the world.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Bob Verrico
Co Founder / Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Bob Verrico is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel.
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About Giant Step Strategies, LLC, InvestingChannel, Inc., OspreyMedia: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Jay Desai
Founder and CFO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Jay is a founder and CFO of InvestingChannel. As CFO, he spearheads business strategy and oversees the corporate development and finance functions. Before InvestingChannel, as a consultant with Giant Step Strategies (GSS), Jay helped Internet entrepreneurs write business plans, forge strategic partnerships, improve business strategy, raise capital and negotiate mergers and acquisitions. Prior to GSS, he was a partner at Hambrecht & Quist, a technology-focused investment bank later acquired by JP Morgan Chase. At H&Q, Jay helped found and grow the company’s Internet industry group and mergers & acquisitions practice and specifically focused on the online advertising space in his last few years. From raising capital through private placements and public offerings to providing strategic and mergers & acquisitions advice, he has helped shape the web from a financial and advisory role. Working on transactions ranging from $10 million to over $2 billion, Jay worked with such clients as Netscape, Quote.com, Adforce, UUnet, Infospace, Netcentives. Prior to his seven years with H&Q, he worked in the technology and biotechnology industries for the merger and acquisition specialist, Wasserstein Perella. A true weekend warrior that loves the outdoors, Jay participates in virtually every sport imaginable and has the battle scars to prove it.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Antoine Halff
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Kayrros
Antoine Halff served as Director of Global Energy of Eurasia Group, Ltd. since February 2005. Antoine Halff served as Principal Administrator of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, where his primary responsibilities included price and short-term demand analysis. He served as Staff Member at the French Embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1985 to 1987. From 2000 to 2004, Antoine Halff served as a Co-Author of the IEA’s influential monthly Oil Market Report and frequently spoke at numerous industry conferences and to the media on the demand effect of the 2001-2002 global economic downturn and China’s role as a Driver of global demand. Antoine Halff served as New York Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence Group covering global crude and products markets for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry publications. He taught World History and Third-World History at Touro College in New York City from 1991 to 1994 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 1988 to 1989. A native of France, Antoine Halff was educated in Paris, earning an Advanced degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1986 and an MA from Université Paris 7 in 1983.
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
Reeve Collins
Co-Founder of SmartMedia Tech
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About SmartMedia Tech: SmartMedia Tech is a self-serve audience activation and real-time programmatic buying platform.
Samuel Berger
Founder, President and CEO of FOREX Strategies
Samuel Berger, Founder, President and CEO of FOREX Strategies, Inc.: Mr. Berger is an expert in foreign exchange, programming and company development. He has founded and built multiple software companies. Mr. Berger served as an enterprise architect for Capital Group Companies (managed over $1.3 trillion), database architect for E*Trade and Barra Securities and has written over 2 million lines of custom code over his career. Mr. Berger is also an expert on relational database programming, multi-tier development, complex linking and interfacing, full production database architectural design as well as data warehousing. Solutions include fault tolerance and local as well as geographic load balancing. Mr. Berger has provided expert application development, IT, database and security software consulting for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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About FOREX Strategies: FOREX Strategies is a technology company specializing in financial products and services offered to businesses.
Jonny Simkin
CEO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
Jonny Simkin is the co-founder and CEO of Swiftly, a San Francisco-based technology company that has created an industry-leading big data platform to help public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Living in San Francisco and having experienced the challenges of urban mobility first hand, Jonny is on a mission to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions in cities across the world. Prior to founding Swiftly, Jonny was the Director of Product at Rafter Inc., where he helped nearly 3 million students save over $700 million on college textbooks. Before Rafter, Jonny was the co-founder and CEO of SwoopThat and HubEdu (acquired in 2012), where he built a leading online textbook comparison engine. Jonny holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with an Economics Concentration from Harvey Mudd College. In his spare time, he enjoys hockey, ping pong, tennis, and coffee.
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Mike Smith
CIO & Technical Co-Founder of Swiftly
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Will Dayton
CTO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Ravi Roopreddy
VP of Software Engineering & Co-Founder of Cloudleaf
Ravi is a founder and technical leader of Cloudleaf. He has deep expertise developing enterprise applications and infrastructure on a wide variety of platforms for companies including CallidusCloud, Zaplet and Electronic Arts. Ravi enjoys the outdoors, traveling and video games.
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Wade Havens
Founder & CEO of WadeCo Specialties
Wade founded WadeCo in 2005 and has lead the company’s growth from a two man/two truck operation to the eight locations it operates today. Prior to founding WadeCo, Wade had accumulated over 30 years of oil and gas chemical experience in key positions for various chemical providers.
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About WadeCo Specialties: Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Midland, TX, WadeCo provides production well chemicals to oil well operators used for corrosion
Martijn Atell
CEO & Founder of VoteBash
Martijn is founder and CEO of VoteBash. At VoteBash, he is responsible for outlining the strategy and managing the company’s operations. He has over 10 years of experience at BMW. Prior to VoteBash, Martijn was at a Silicon Valley tech start-up. Martijn has both worked and lived in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. With VoteBash he is carrying out the mission to surface the opinions of others and make them more accessible in a universal way. Martijn holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering with honors and a BSc in Information Communication Technology both from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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About Black Girls CODE, VoteBash, VoteBash Corporate Security: VoteBash is a visual real-time research tool with brand amplification and personalization.
Daniel Ramot
Co-Founder and CEO of Via
Daniel Ramot is the co-founder and CEO of Via. Prior to Via, Daniel built supercomputers designed to discover new pharmaceutical drugs at D. E. Shaw Research, and developed avionic systems for F-15s and F-16s for the Israeli Air Force. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Talpiot program.
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About Via: Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters.
Umur Cubukcu
Founder and CEO of Citus Data
Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data
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About Citus Data, Microsoft: Citus Data horizontally scales PostgreSQL, taking relational power further for real-time data.
Paulo Martins
CEO & Co-Founder of Arena.im
CEO & Co-Founder at Arena.im Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Our mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community in their website.
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About Arena.im: Arena.im is Live Chat for Streaming, Live shopping and CDP
Bart Heilbron
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Bart earned his stripes as an entrepreneur and visionary by founding the web content management company GX Software in the early days of the World Wide Web. Here he managed the company’s growth with his strategic insights into the online market, first as head of sales and business development operations, and later as CEO. Bart’s entrepreneurship and firm belief in the power of online engagement subsequently inspired him to co-found BlueConic. Under his leadership, BlueConic has become a highly successful provider of online marketing software. Bart is passionate about cross-channel, customer-driven online engagement and holds a master’s degree in communication and new media.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Martijn van Berkum
CTO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Martijn brings to BlueConic a tremendous amount of experience and innovation in product management and business development, with an expert ability to integrate technology, the Internet and marketing. He has a passion for cutting-edge technology and its impact on markets, business and society. Martijn is a true visionary, driving the company’s thought leadership. In collaboration with R&D and marketing, he translates his vision into a world-class product.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Jay Desai
Co-Founder & CEO of PatientPing
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About PatientPing: PatientPing is a care coordination data and software company that focuses on senior care and patients with complex needs.
Stephen Wolfram
Founder & CEO of Wolfram Alpha
Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, author lecturer, and business leader. He is the founder of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram’s early scientific work was mainly in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, and cosmology. Having started to use computers in 1973, Wolfram was well known in the emerging field of scientific computing, and in 1979 he began the construction of SMP, the first modern computer algebra system. Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued his work on complexity, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing concepts such as computational irreducibility. Following his scientific work on complex systems research, in 1986 Wolfram founded the first research center and the first journal in the field, Complex Systems. Wolfram began the development of Mathematica in late 1986. Wolfram Research was recognized for both technology and business in the software industry. By 1990, he was focused on foundational problems in physics, biology, computer science, mathematics, and several other fields. He was also a lecturer at Caltech and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In addition, he was a professor of physics, mathematics, and computer science at the University of Illinois. Wolfram described his achievements in his 1200-page book titled A New Kind of Science. He has also written several other books related to his research. Wolfram has been president and CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. In addition to his business leadership, Wolfram is involved in the development of the company’s technology, and oversees all aspects of the functional design of the core Mathematica system. Stephen Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech. In recognition of his early work in physics and computing, Wolfram became the youngest recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981.
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About Touch Press, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research: Wolfram Alpha offers a computational knowledge engine that provides answers to users based on built-in data and algorithms.
Andrew Wagner-Trugman
Co-Founder, CEO of Roo
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About Roo: Roo is a crowdsourced mobile app for sharing and discovering what social venues are like in real-time.
Ledion Bitincka
Co-Founder & CTO of Cribl
Ledion Bitinck is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Cribl. He was the Advanced Development Architect at Splunk and the Founder and Systems Engineer of Triangulus Communications before that.
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About Cribl: Cribl is an observability pipeline company that provides administrators control over their data in motion.
Doron Kagan
Co-Founder & CEO of Game of Whales
Doron Kagan is the Founder at X3M Games.
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About Deemedya, Game of Whales, Google, X3M Games: Game Of Whales is an AI and Machine Learning platform that maximize digital games players monetization and retention automatically.
Matt Schulman
Founder & CEO of Pave
Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave (https://pave.com).
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About Pave: Pave leverages real-time HR and equity integrations to help companies plan, communicate, and benchmark compensation.
Daniel Shaked
CEO & Founder of Home365
Daniel Shaked founder & CEO at Home365.
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About Home365: Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before.
Christopher Richins
CEO & Founder of RBC Signals
Christopher Richins is co-founder and CEO of RBC Signals, a provider of global satellite ground station “infrastructure as a service.” Richins began his career as an RF Communications Engineer at Boeing Sea Launch, where he supported multiple launch campaigns from the ship-based equatorial launch site. After business school, he completed an internship with SpaceX before joining Bain & Company as a management consultant. Post Bain, Richins held management roles at Arkyd Astronautics (Planetary Resources), Space Angels Network, Expedia, and Applause. Richins earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Fellow, a master’s degree in Astronautics from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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About RBC Signals: RBC Signals provides global satellite communication “infrastructure as a service”
Matthew Craig
Co-Founder & CEO of Blink
Matt spent five years working as Page One Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Boston University and has worked for Harvard University, The Nieman Foundation and the VII Photo Agency. When he isn’t evangelizing about Blink, Matt can be found researching vintage Porsches or toting a Leica around Brooklyn with members of MJR, an international group of artists he founded in 2007.
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About Blink: Headquartered in New York, Blink is a platform that connects the world’s best storytellers to companies that have a story to tell.
Shama Zehra
Co-Founder, President of Jetzy
Shama Zehra is the Co-founder & Chairperson of SZ Global, the holding company of JETZY which is the world’s first social platform to connect and reward people with passion for travel, adventure and unique lifestyle experiences. Jetzy has a reach of more than 6 million people monthly across platform. And Jetzy app has been used in 170 countries, 4000 cities. On Jetzy app users can connect with other people by their location and interests, and get authentic recommendations, find travel & activity partners or simply make new friends all over the world. In addition users can get JetPoints for exciting rewards by simply referring friends to Jetzy, posting recommendations and communicating on the app. Shama is a serial entrepreneur and has built several successful businesses in technology, financial services and fashion space. Shama began her career as one of the youngest female entrepreneurs in Pakistan when she started a women apparel firm with her mother and sister right after high school. Within a few years, Shama had opened a small factory and three sales channels (1. retail store, 2. sales via department stores, 3. exports), and successfully sold the business at age 20. Shama’s passion for travel and technology led her to brand the first frequent flyer credit card in Pakistan, spearhead mobile and interactive voice responder (IVR) applications in early 2000’s in South Asia (pre-US market adoption) and take pilot training aspiring to become the second female pilot in Pakistan. An alum of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Shama’s entrepreneurial vision and success has been featured in Forbes, Crains, Huffington Post, Nasdaq Entrepreneurs. Michigan University’s Dividend Magazine, Columbia University’s Core Magazine, Wework’s Creator Magazine, and several other publications. Shama holds two MBA degrees: one in Finance & Strategy from Michigan Ross School, and second in International Business from IBA, Karachi (the oldest business school outside North America to award an MBA degree formed in affiliation with Wharton, University of Pennsylvania). Shama lives in Gramercy in New York City and enjoys travel, ski, yoga and spending time with her family (esp her niece and nephews).
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About Jetzy: Jetzy is the world’s first social platform to connect and reward people with passion for travel, adventure and unique lifestyle experiences
Nicholas Singh
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seeonic
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About Seeonic, Seeonic: Seeonic, Inc. offers inventory management solutions. The company also offers SightWare electronic module that automatically gathers
Harley Feldman
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Seeonic
Harley Feldman serves as Chief Executive Officer of Seeonic, Inc. Harley Feldman served as President and Chief Technology Officer of Seeonic, Inc. Harley Feldman has thirty years experience in information technology including database management, Internet applications, predictive analysis, and global solutions. He spent over 20 years at Ceridian Corporation in increasing positions of responsibility including Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Vice President of two major operations. He was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer of two healthcare startup companies. Harley Feldman has a BS degree in Chemistry and Computer Science and an MBA degree in Finance.
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About Seeonic: Seeonic, Inc. offers inventory management solutions. The company also offers SightWare electronic module that automatically gathers
David Mandel
Co-Founder & Chairman of Bitvore
Mandel is an active entrepreneur and tech investor that holds patents in data visualization. Prior to founding Bitvore, he was a seed investor in Broadcom, Access360 (acquired by IBM) and Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel). Mr. Mandel was also lead investor for Innovent Systems (acquired by Broadcom).
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About Bitvore: Bitvore provides unprecedented business insights from unstructured data.
Chad Halvorson
Co-Founder & CEO of When I Work
Chad Halvorson is the CEO of thisCLICKS , makers of When I Work, a cloud-based mobile employee scheduling software. When I Work simplifies staff scheduling and communication for restaurants, retailers, healthcare providers and countless SMBs in more than 50 countries around the world. Before thisCLICKS, Chad led the development team at Meditech Communications, a digital marketing agency that provides app development, animation and video production services to the medical device industry. For over a decade, he led the development and architecture of interactive tools, apps and web software for Fortune 500 giants like Boston Scientific, UnitedHealthcare and St. Jude Medical — plus countless small and mid-sized companies.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Daniel Olfelt
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of When I Work
Daniel Olfelt is a Co-Founder and Chief Architect at When I Work.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Andy Ambrose
President & Co-Founder of Liveoak Technologies
Andy is the co-founder and CEO of Liveoak Technologies, a leading SaaS provider of remote on-boarding & identity verification tools that leverage human expertise & interaction in the digital customer experience. Andy has 20+ years experience as a financial services executive with a focus on sales, customer success, and technology within the insurance and wealth management industry. He has worked for notable firms such as Hartford Financial, John Hancock, and MassMutual throughout his career.
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About Liveoak Technologies: Liveoak is a computer software company that specializes in cloud-based platform.
Peter Rung
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Liveoak Technologies
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About Liveoak Technologies: Liveoak is a computer software company that specializes in cloud-based platform.
Bryan Bennett
CEO & Founder of Cortex Sustainability Intelligence
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About Cortex Sustainability Intelligence: Your Effortless Solution to Office Building Sustainability
Mark Forster
Founder & CEO of Adello Inc
Mark is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and digital space veteran. Before founding Adello, Mark co-founded several companies, including OnEmotion, a mobile marketing development company, which was acquired by Goldbach. Before, Mark assumed general management positions at Minick, pioneer in interactive mobile applications, and Masterfoods, leading consumer goods company. Mark is regularly invited to speak at digital events and universities about mobile and its future. Mark holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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About Adello Inc, AirSage, GeoCTRL, P-MV digital momentum, Venture Kick: Adello uses programmatic media-buying platform at Big Data scale that uses the power of machine learning to deliver marketing ROI.
Jason Black
Founder of Junior.Golf
A promotional products industry veteran with nearly two decades of experience, Jason co-founded and serves as CEO of Boundless Network. He has been recognized by Counselor Magazine on its Power 50 list of industry movers and shakers, as well as on the magazine’s yearly HOT List. Jason’s industry insights have gained him a loyal following on Twitter and his blog.
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About Junior.Golf: Junior.Golf is the easy button for our club.
Roger Tsien
Co-Founder, Research Collaborator of Avelas Biosciences
Roger Tsien, Ph.D., is Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Howard Hughes Investigator at the University of California, San Diego. Roger Tsien designed many highly informative fluorescent reporters of signaling and gene expression in live cells and has creatively used them to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of calcium signaling and synaptic plasticity. These fluorescent probes make possible a wide range of high-throughput screening assays and explorations of cell function. Roger Tsien’s work has won many honors, including the Heineken, Wolf, and Rosenstiel awards and the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In October 2008, Roger Tsien was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his seminal contributions regarding understanding the chemistry of the fluorescence properties of “green fluorescent protein”( GFP) and other members of the GFP family. Importantly, the modified GFPs developed by Roger Tsien provided the means to analyze protein-protein interactions and changes in protein structure, such as the binding of ligands by receptors. Many of Roger Tsien’s discoveries have resulted in issued patents covering the use of GFP for these applications. Senomyx has licensed the use of patented GFP technology in the flavor and fragrance field.
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About Avelas Biosciences, National Academy of Sciences, University of California, San Diego: Avelas Biosciences develops real-time luminous maps for oncologic surgeons to refer while in surgery.
Eric Lubow
Co-Founder of SimpleReach
I co-wrote Practical Cassandra and was a Datastax MVP for years. If you’re reading this, you probably know me already.
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About Mymee, SimpleReach: SimpleReach is a content data cloud for brands to measure and improve content ROI.
Edward Kim
Co-Founder and CEO of SimpleReach
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About SimpleReach: SimpleReach is a content data cloud for brands to measure and improve content ROI.
Rajit Marwah
Co-Founder & CEO of Loop Survey
Rajit is Co-Founder & CEO of Loop. Prior to this he was VP Product at Myspace and held various product roles at Microsoft in Hotmail, Messenger, CRM. Rajit graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Management Science & Engineering and Economics.
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About Loop Survey: Loop Survey is Real Time Mobile Feedback Surveys For Teams & Organizations.
Nithin Michael
Co Founder of Mode
Nithin Michael received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, where he was a Jacobs Fellow. His dissertation at Cornell solved a long-standing problem in networking, which forms the basis of Waltz’s core technology.
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About Mode: Mode operates a software-defined core network (SD-CORE), built around a real-time network control breakthrough.
Terry Thoren
Founder & CEO of Wonder Media
Terry Thoren is an animation producer with 40 years of experience in traditional media and digital applications for new media in education. He was the former CEO of Klasky Csupo ( “the Rugrats Company” ) and is now the CEO of Wonder Media USA. He partnered with the Institute for Habits of Mind to produce the 16 Habits as a powerful set of instructional animations for students For ten years, Thoren has been producing education content for any child at risk of falling behind before third grade. His mission is to provide educators and parents with animation solutions that engage children emotionally and educate them across all media. When educators experience the power of his animation to motivate young learners they consistently ask for instructional animations for students in grades 4-12. Responding to these requests, Terry developed a remarkable program called “Wonder Media Story Maker” in which students in grades 4-12 use all of his animation assets to create their own animated stories Wonder Media currently has working relationships with the Institute for Habits of Mind, Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, the Betty Ford Children’s Center, the Hero in You Foundation, Girl Scouts USA, the NALC Food Drive, the Festival of Children and the Wyland Foundation. Join Terry as he shares how he will bring Hollywood’s most advanced story telling techniques to students in schools nationwide.
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About Wonder Media: Wonder Media is a creative technology and production company that changes the way animation is created, produced, experienced and used.
Matt Keiser
Founder & CEO of LiveIntent
Matt Keiser is the Founder and CEO of LiveIntent. He formed LiveIntent with the vision of solving problems that have been plaguing the email industry for years. Prior to LiveIntent, Matt co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media (now PulsePoint), where he architected the underlying technology for their suite of performance-marketing and audience measurement solutions. Matt is a founding partner and co-chair of the investment committee of Grape Arbor VC, one of NY’s most active teams of angel investors. He is also the co-founder of Perky Jerky and is on the advisory council for the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia.
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About LiveIntent, Perky Jerky, Traffix: Liveintent is a people-based marketing technology platform that generates a customer graph while driving sales and revenue.
Harry Boxer
Founder/President of The Tech Trader
Harry Boxer is founder of TheTechTrader.com, a live trading room featuring his trade alerts and technical market analysis. A 45-year veteran technical analyst and stock picker, Harry is author of “Profitable Day & Swing Trading,” named by Stock Trader’s Almanac as the “2015 Best Investment Book of the Year.” Harry is a popular speaker at financial forums and conferences in the U.S. and internationally, including The Traders Expo and World Money Show, and widely syndicated on sites including MarketWatch, TheStreet, Minyanville, DecisionPoint, and more.
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About The Tech Trader: Thetechtrader is a live technical analysis and stock picking trading room featuring veteran wall street analyst harry boxer.
Gabriele Sorrento
CEO & Co-Founder of Mindesk
Gabriele Sorrento is the CEO of Mindesk, a web platform that allows users to prototype 3D contents in virtual reality. With over 8 years of experience in 3D modeling, Gabriele envisions VR being the next big thing in 3D Design. He constantly seeks for virtual reality solutions to real world problems. Gabriele has a master’s degree in entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University – Leavey School of Business.
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About Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Mindesk, The VR/AR Association, Vection Technologies: Mindesk is a Real-Time 3D design platform that integrates with existing commercial CAD software to extend their operations.
Giadha Aguirre De Carcer
Founder & CEO of New Frontier Data
DeCarcer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Financials Group Inc., a cutting edge firm providing authoritative and actionable intelligence in the Cannabis industry. She is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in business execution, management and strategic business development with an emphasis on emerging markets. DeCarcer is also the Founder of GNI International, a strategic business consulting firm focused on high-growth market opportunities, the co-founder of VentureCamp, a fully immersive accelerator and Docu-Series, and most recently the Creator of Love & Business, 90 Days to Launch, a Docu-series unveiling the unique life and career challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. Before founding GNI International, DeCarcer worked as senior a consultant in the Defense, Technology, and Telecommunications sectors. Prior to GNI International, she worked in investment banking for JPMorganChase in Manhattan and London, and ran Florida-based First Federal Transportation as its Co-Founder and COO. DeCarcer is an avid supporter of entrepreneurship as a conduit to new job creation and innovation. She runs the Women Entrepreneurship Reinforcement (WeR) program in support of women entrepreneurs nationwide, and was the Executive Director of the Grassroots Innovation Network, a non-profit organization focused on validating and funding college students’ business ideas globally. She received an A.A. from Miami Dade Community College, a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Georgetown University. Decarcer was born in Italy, raised in France and Spain, and has traveled to, and worked in, over 25 countries. She speaks five languages fluently and now resides in Washington D.C.
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About New Frontier Data, New Frontier Data: New Frontier Data is an independent, technology-driven analytics company specializing in the cannabis industry.
Stephane Dubois
Founder & CEO of Xignite
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About Xignite: Xignite provides cloud-based financial market data distribution solutions to fintech companies and financial services providers.
Scott Paseltiner
Founder and Chairman of Phenix
Scott D. Paseltiner serves as Managing Member of VBI Chicago, LLC, a group of venture investors and Gladiator Trading Group, LLC, a securities, options and futures trading firm. Scott Paseltiner served as President of the Independent Floor Members Association. He served as a founding director of First Variable Rate Fund for Government Income. He also consults and mentors high level executives and business leaders. He served as a Member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and served as a member of the Nominating Committee of the CBOE. He serves as the Chairman of PhenixP2P Inc. Scott Paseltiner has a long history in the financial markets both as a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange for over 16 years and as a serial entrepreneur of start-up tech and biotech companies for over two decades. Scott Paseltiner serves as a Director of Mission Critical Linux, Inc. He serves as a Director at Moerae Matrix, Inc. He serves on the board of Visibility Inc. and TechSearch, LLC. He served as a Director of Visibillity, Inc. Scott Paseltiner holds B.S. in Economics from Wharton School of Finance and law degree from George Washington University School of Law.
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About Phenix: Phenix is a real-time streaming tech platform that streams synchronous real-time video to broadcast-sized audiences.
Stefan Birrer
Founder and Chief Software Architect of Phenix
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About Phenix: Phenix is a real-time streaming tech platform that streams synchronous real-time video to broadcast-sized audiences.
Jeff Ferguson
Co-Founder and President of PipelineDB
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About PipelineDB: High-performance time-series aggregation for PostgreSQL
Eric Rawn
Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC
Eric is the Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC. Prior to Fetch, Eric has been successful as Founder and CEO for many established companies in various fields of the technology industry, including BCT Consulting, Inc., Xobee Communications, Green Planet, Bulldog Internet. He has also been instrumental in the start-up of other organizations such as Electronic Recyclers & Addicted.com A graduate of California State University, Fresno, Craig School of Business, Eric travels extensively between Northern and Southern California for both business and pleasure.
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About BCT Consulting, Inc., Bulldog Internet, Fetch Mobile, LLC, Xobee Networks: Fetch is a mobile app modernizing the valet industry through easy payment exchange and one-click parking/fetching via smartphone.
Ryan Berryman
CEO & Founder of Oakmore Labs
Ryan Berryman is the founder and CEO of [Oakmore Labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oakmore-labs), a provider of cloud-based data management and analytics solutions. Formerly, he held several positions, including the vice president for products and general manager for advertise solutions at Oversee.net. Prior to Oversee.net, Berryman was the director of product management, internet banking, and bill payments at Digital Insight. He holds two bachelor’s degrees in economics and mathematics from Occidental College and an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT.
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About Oakmore Labs: Oakmore Labs delivers SaaS platform which delivers turn-key solutions for big data management and real-time predictive analytics.
Jinal Jhaveri
Co-Founder & CEO of Referenceable
Founder and Chairman of SchoolMint Found and CEO of Enable.us
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About LogN, Referenceable, Runa Capital, SchoolMint: Modern Enablement Platform For B2B Buyers and Sellers
Basia Kubicka
Co-Founder of SliceUp
Basia Kubicka is the Co-Founder of SliceUp.
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About SliceUp: Time-series analytics on the Edge
James James P.
Co-Founder of SliceUp
James P. is the Co-Founder of SliceUp.
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About SliceUp: Time-series analytics on the Edge
Bill Lenahan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman of Board of OffSite VISION
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About OffSite VISION: OffSite Vision is a developer of fixed and mobile surveillance and motion alarming solutions for property owners.
