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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a President 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.
Pieter Abbeel
Founder, President, Chief Scientist of Covariant
Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter’s work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.
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About Covariant, University of California Berkeley: Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.
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Ron Alfa
Senior Vice President, Translational Discovery of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Ron Alfa is Vice President, Discovery and Product at Recursion Pharmaceuticals where he manages scientific product development and external alliances across Recursion’s AI-enabled discovery platform. Ron Alfa’s scientific contributions prior to Recursion span Neurosciences, Metabolism, and Genetics.
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Yoni Rubin
Vice President of Business Operations of Pypestream
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About Pypestream: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Dan Hopkins
Vice President, Applied A.I. of Eightfold
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Ulf Zetterberg
Co-founder & President of Time is Ltd.
Ulf Zetterberg is the Co-founder & President at Time is Ltd.
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About Time is Ltd.: At Time is Ltd., we provide an advanced analytical SaaS platform that delivers a holistic view of an organization collaboration patterns.
Brandon Pearce
Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software of Relativity Space
Brandon Pearce is the Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software at Relativity Space.
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About Relativity Space: Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
Jay Casey
President & Co-Founder of Intellectus Partners, LLC
Experienced investor and financial professional working in various roles; including Venture & Private Equity investing, Portfolio Management, Trading, and Client Relationship Management. Experienced investor in Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Private companies. Previous experience with First Union, Manulife Financial, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, and currently Intellectus Partners.
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About Intellectus Partners, LLC: Intellectus is an exclusive, private MFO for Entrepreneurs offering Wealth Creation&Preservation,Investment Mgmt, Venture & startup Advisory
Zander Steele
Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales of Hyperscience
Zander Steele serves as director of enterprise sales at HyperScience.
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About Hyperscience: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
Josh Burns
Senior Vice President of Finance of Interos
Josh Burns is the Senior Vice President of Finance at Interos.
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About Interos: Interos helps companies manage risk and continuously monitor their supply chain and business relationships to avoid disruptions.
Charles Virden
Vice President of Revenue of Interos
Charles Virden is the Vice President of Revenue at Interos.
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About Interos: Interos helps companies manage risk and continuously monitor their supply chain and business relationships to avoid disruptions.
Robert J. Manne
Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Ultimate Software
Bob Manne has served as senior vice president, general counsel at Ultimate Software since 2004. Before joining Ultimate, Mr. Manne was a partner at the international law firm of Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. In addition to administering the litigation department of the law firm, Bob was a permanent member of the firm’s executive committee which was responsible for law firm operations, and he has performed legal services for Ultimate since its inception. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School.
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About Becker & Poliakoff, Brooklyn Law School, Ultimate Software: Ultimate Software is a provider of cloud-based people management solutions.
Hans Guntren
Vice President, Product Design of C3 AI
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Houman Behzadi
President and Chief Product Officer of C3 AI
Houman Behzadi is President and Chief Product Officer at C3 AI (NYSE:AI), a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers the C3 AI® Suite for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications, in addition to an increasingly broad portfolio of turnkey AI applications. Mr. Behzadi leads C3.ai’s Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Global Services, and Hosting Operations functions. Prior to C3 AI, Mr. Behzadi was at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for product operations and release management for its application and business intelligence products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he held leadership roles in products, engineering, and strategy at Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI, C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Henrik Ohlsson
Vice President, Data Science of C3 AI
Henrik Ohlsson is VP of data science at C3.ai. He has deep knowledge in machine learning, time series analysis, deep learning, and its applications. Henrik is also an assistant professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has both a Master of Science in electrical engineering and applied physics, and a Ph.D. in automatic control from Linkoping University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Siheun Song
Co-Founder & President of Rally
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Ishan Sinha
Vice President of Point72 Ventures
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About Point72 Ventures: Point72 Ventures is an every-stage global VC fund focused on fintech, deep tech, and enterprise investments led by Steven A. Cohen.
Allen Gruber
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Board Member of Brain Corp
Allen Gruber is a neuroscientist, physician, and founder of several successful technology companies. In 1993, Gruber co-founded INTERVU, Inc, a streaming video provider, which went public and was sold to Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: AKAM) for $2.8 billion. He founded Kintera, Inc., in 1999, and later served as Executive Vice President in charge of Engineering for Kintera, Inc., an online fundraising and marketing platform for nonprofit organizations. Kintera reached a market capitalization of $500 million and was sold to Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB). Gruber graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biochemistry and also with an MD. He attended Washington University for clinical and research training and was on the faculty of the University of Texas. Gruber was a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Neural Computation at UCSD in 2007. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Neuroscience, and IEEE.
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About Brain Corp, Intheon: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Steve Fingerhut
President & Chief Business Officer of Pliops
Steve Fingerhut is the president and chief business officer at Pliops.
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About Pliops: Pliops is a creator of new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers.
Sean Brehm
Co-Founder and President of Gradient Cyber
Sean Brehm is the Co-Founder and President at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Brian Rieger
President & Co-founder of Labelbox
Brian is an accomplished aerospace engineer, data scientist, and software developer turned serial entrepreneur. He is currently Co-founder and President of Labelbox, the leading training data software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He began his career in the aerodynamics, testing and flight certification of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Afterward, he built an Aerospace company that put hardware on the International Space Station and is recognized by Forbes 30 under 30 for transforming enterprise technology with machine intelligence. Brian loves understanding problems and is often heard saying: “A perfect formulation of a question is its own answer”. He’s also a lifelong hockey player and private pilot.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Claude Marais
Founder and President of SirionLabs
Claude Marais is Founder and President at SirionLabs. He is also an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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About Forbes Technology Council, SirionLabs: SirionLabs offers a SaaS enterprise contract management (CLM) platform to help enterprises manage the contracting lifecycle.
Amy Holtzman
Senior Vice-President of Marketing of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Kiva Kolstein
President and Chief Revenue Officer of AlphaSense
Kiva Kolstein is President and Chief Revenue Officer at AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Martin G. Reese
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President of Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia)
Martin Reese is an internationally recognized expert and entrepreneur in Genomics and Bioinformatics. Prior to founding Omicia, Martin Reese served as Vice President of Discovery Informatics for ValiGen. Prior to this, Martin Reese co-founded Neomorphic, where he served as President and Chief Scientific Officer. The human genome annotation software that Martin Reese developed at Neomorphic, provided the foundation for the successful commercialization of microarrays by Affymetrix. During his career Martin Reese has been actively involved in community-wide assessments of genome annotation. He organized the state-of-the-art Genome Annotation Assessment Project and was a member of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, which provided the essential proof-of-concept platform for “shotgun” sequencing technology. At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories Martin Reese developed gene-finding algorithms for the Human Genome Project. He holds a Masters degree in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. in Genetics jointly from the University of Hohenheim, Germany and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia): Global healthcare platform for genomics-driven precision medicine. Fabric’ proven AI algorithms power genomic insights.
Steven Reinharz
President of Robotic Assistance Devices
Steve Reinharz is the President and CEO of Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD), where he oversees the development, sales and marketing, and strategic vision for the company. Reinharz has more than 20 years of experience in various facets of the high-tech industry – as the founder of security integration firm Security Zone, Inc., and a strategic leader at global enterprises. Reinharz has extensive knowledge of a diverse portfolio of technologies, developing practical, effective solutions for end-user customers. As CEO of RAD, Reinharz leverages his extensive knowledge and interest in robotics and artificial intelligence to design and develop robotic solutions that increase business efficiency and deliver cost savings. Reinharz is a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and attended the University of Western Ontario, where he earned dual bachelor of science degrees in political science and commercial studies.
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About Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc(AITX), Robotic Assistance Devices: RAD is an innovator in the delivery of artificial intelligence and robotic solutions for operational, security and monitoring needs.
Edward Oliver
Vice President, Customer Success – Strategic Accounts of Dataminr
Edward Oliver is the Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Dataminr. Edward has over nineteen years of experience in financial services and fintech. At Dataminr he has been responsible for content analysis for the finance vertical and currently helps lead the finance vertical sales team. Prior to his role at Dataminr, he was a trader in the equities division at Citigroup where he traded NYSE and NASDAQ companies across a variety of sectors. Edward holds a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Jason Wilcox
Executive Vice President, Product and Engineering of Dataminr
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Kevin Blankespoor
Vice President of Controls & Autonomy of Boston Dynamics
He is the Vice President of Product Engineering at Boston Dynamics.
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About Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Steve Schwinke
Vice President Customer Engagement of Sibros
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About Sibros: Sibros offers automotive cloud solutions including OTA software updates, data logging, fleet management, and vehicle analytics.
Michael Perry
Vice President of Marketing of Dexterity
Michael Perry currently works as Vice President of Marketing at Dexterity. He was the vice president of business development at Boston Dynamics.
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About Dexterity: Dexterity provides robotic systems solutions for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain.
Jonathan Briggs
Vice President of Sales, 3PL and Parcel Verticals of Dexterity
Jonathan Briggs currently works as Vice President of Sales, 3PL, and Parcel Verticals at Dexterity.
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About Dexterity: Dexterity provides robotic systems solutions for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain.
Chris Finley
Vice President of Business Development of Momentive
Chris Finley is the former vice president of business development at [SurveyMonkey](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/surveymonkey#/entity), a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that helps users gather survey-related information.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Tom Hale
President of Momentive
Tom joined SurveyMonkey in July 2016 and oversees engineering, infrastructure, product, product marketing, user experience and growth, including international expansion. Before SurveyMonkey, he spent six years at HomeAway, first as Chief Product Officer, then as Chief Operating Officer, leading the company through IPO and acquisition by Expedia. Tom also served as Linden Lab’s Chief Product Officer where he redesigned the consumer experience of Second Life. Prior to that, he spent a decade at Macromedia and Adobe in various executive roles in general management, product management, and marketing. Tom sits on the board of Cars.com and holds an AB from Harvard University.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Jon Cohen
Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Business Development of Momentive
Jon joined SurveyMonkey in January 2014. He brings years of research and data expertise to the company’s portfolio of products and solutions, as well as strategic direction for future innovations. Previously, he was Vice President of Research at the Pew Research Center. As Director of Polling and Polling Editor, he also led The Washington Post’s polling operation through two presidential campaigns and four congressional cycles, as well as numerous gubernatorial and mayoral elections. Prior to the Post, he was a polling expert at ABC News and the Public Policy Institute of California. He is an active member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and previously served on AAPOR’s Executive Council, as well as the president of its Pacific Chapter, PAPOR. Jon earned an MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Kevin McCarthy
Vice President Of Business Development of Inpher.io
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About Inpher.io: Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.
Lloyed Lobo
Cofounder & President of Boast.AI
Co-founder and President of Boast.ai
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About Boast.AI: Boast.AI is a fintech platform that helps companies identify, claim, and finance R&D tax credits and government incentives.
Chris Taylor
Vice President Global Sales Performance of Databricks
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About Databricks, Successful Workplace: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Trevor Templar
Chief Executive Officer & President of Aviso
Trevor has a 22 year track record of executing rapid revenue growth for leaders in the SaaS and Enterprise software space. He has built high-performance teams that deliver customer value to the enterprise space. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Templar served as Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com where he led one of the company’s largest revenue-generating business groups with multiple years of 100% plus revenue growth. During this time, Salesforce.com’s revenue grew from $1B to over $4B. Trevor has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle, Baan and PTC where he led some of their largest enterprise relationships. Trevor has a dual masters in MIS and Accounting from Arizona State University. He also has a bachelors in mathematics and economics from St Xavier’s
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Ravi Suryanarayan
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Aviso
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Mandy Wen
Vice President of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Tim Saeger
Executive Vice President, Engineering of iRobot
Tim Saeger has served as executive vice president of engineering since March 2017. Mr. Saeger previously served as senior vice president of engineering from August 2015 until March 2017. Prior to iRobot, Mr. Saeger served in multiple roles at Bose Corporation from 2005 – 2015, including Vice President of Home Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saeger also served at Thomson, Inc., and General Dynamics, in a variety of engineering and engineering management positions. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Saeger also has been awarded 24 U.S. patents.
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About iRobot, iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Russell J. Campanello
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Seth Knox
Vice President of Marketing of Agari
Seth helps customers around the world to understand new, internet scale, data driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks. He keeps tabs on the emails threat landscape and shares that with the industry analysts, press and IT Security professionals.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Utkarsh Contractor
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Aisera
Utkarsh Contractor is the Director of AI at Aisera, where he leads the data science team working on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Vision. He is also pursuing his graduate degree at Stanford University, focussing his research and experiments on computer vision, using CNNs to analyze surveillance scene imagery and footages. Utkarsh has a decade of industry experience in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning working at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Chris Wirth
Vice President, Marketing of AMP Robotics
Chris Wirth is the vice president of marketing at AMP Robotics.
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About AMP Robotics: AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Cheng Lu
President & CEO of TuSimple
Cheng Lu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TuSimple. He has over 13 years of experience in strategy and corporate finance in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to TuSimple, Cheng Lu co-founded and was a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of KCA Capital Partners, a Pan-Asian growth equity investment fund. Prior, Cheng Lu was with HOPU Investments and CITIC Capital based in Beijing and Cerberus Capital Management in New York focused on private equity and special situation investments. He started his career in the investment banking division of Citigroup in New York.
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About TuSimple: TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing technology that allows them to drive from depot-to-depot without human intervention.
Ben Parr
Co-Founder and President of Octane AI
Ben Parr is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, investor, and expert on attention. Through his experience as a technology writer, venture capitalist, and prolific public speaker, Parr has coached dozens of young startups and Fortune 500 corporations on how to get attention for their products. Parr is a co-founder and managing partner of DominateFund, a venture capital firm that invests in and accelerates the growth of early-stage technology, software, and product startups through its expertise in the press, marketing, customer and user acquisition, viral products, and strategic celebrity partnerships. Previously, Parr was the co-editor and editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote more than 2,400 articles on social media and technology, managed Mashable’s editorial team, and interviewed everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Mark Zuckerberg. He also served as a columnist and commentator for CNET. His work has been featured in a variety of media, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News.
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About DominateFund, Octane AI: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Reichen Kuhl
President, Chief of Insurance & Legal, Founder of LeaseLock
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About LeaseLock: LeaseLock is an insurance technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits.
Ricardo Garcia
Vice President of Engineering of LeaseLock
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About LeaseLock: LeaseLock is an insurance technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits.
Milind Karnik
Executive Vice President of Elementary Robotics
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About Elementary Robotics: Elementary Robotics is a robotics startup that built a platform for applying machine learning to the logistics industries.
Chris Varma
Founder, President & CEO of Frontier Medicines
Chris joined Flagship in 2007 as Partner and focuses primarily on Life Science investments. He came to Flagship with significant management experience in clinical development, regulatory strategy, business development, sales, and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to Flagship, Chris was with Novartis Pharmaceuticals since 2004 where he served most recently as Director of the Tekturna (aliskiren) marketing team responsible for all Medical Marketing, Medical Strategy, and Professional Promotions activities in the U.S. Chris also oversaw Tekturna�s extensive clinical development programs, and played a key role in the FDA approval, CMS reimbursement coverage approval, and successful commercial launch of Tekturna in early 2007. Previously at Novartis, Chris was Director of Business Development & Licensing where he identified several in-licensing opportunities and drove key transactions. Prior to that, Chris focused on corporate strategy working directly with the Novartis Pharma CEO in Basel, Switzerland. Before Novartis, Chris was a consultant for Millennium Pharmaceuticals working on special projects in the Personalized Medicine Group. Before Millennium, Chris worked for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Office of Combination Products coordinating and managing reviews across the major Centers. Early in his career he co-founded Epitrope Corporation, a company that developed server-side solutions for wireless telecom carriers.
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About Frontier Medicines, Harvard Medical School, Vision Medicines: Frontier Medicines is a developer of a chemoproteomics platform intended to further accelerate the path to drug discovery.
Robert Zhang
Co-founder & President of CloudMinds
Robert Zhang is a Co-Founder and President of CloudMinds Technology, where he is responsible for the company’s global business and product strategies, operations and strategic partnerships. Prior to co-founding CloudMinds, Robert was the Head of Service Strategy and Operations for Samsung Telecommunications America (2012-15). Previously (2011-12), he was Vice President of Product Management at Irdeto where he was responsible for global product strategy on broadband video, which included over-the-top, connected, social and Internet TV and next generation broadcasting. From 2009-11, he served as Vice President of Product Development at the Joint Innovation Lab. Prior to these senior executive roles, he was a Senior Program Manager for New Products Introduction, XBox 360 at Microsoft (2008-09) and as IPod Operations Program Manager (2004-08) and as Senior Engineering Scientist for CPU Software (2001-04) at Apple. Robert served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (2002-08) and as President of the Silicon Valley – China Wireless Technology (2004-05). Robert earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Mechanics and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Tongji University, China.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Dan Wright
President & COO of DataRobot
Dan Wright is the Chief Executive Officer of DataRobot.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Richard Hoyland
Vice President of Sales of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Rob Hickey
Vice President of Engineering of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Razi Raziuddin
Vice President of Business Development & Marketing of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Chris Devaney
Vice President of Operations of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Ben Solari
Vice President, Inside Sales of DataRobot
Ben Solari is the VP of Global Inside Sales at DataRobot, where he leads a team of 30 Account Executives in offices in Boston, Singapore, and London with a focus on helping companies use accessible machine learning technology to solve practical business problems and improve their operations.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Steve Pham
Vice President of Clinical and Research Affairs of Eko Health
Steve Pham is a practicing emergency medicine physician, the head of medical and research affairs at Eko, and a new father. His passion is translating between digital and clinical insights.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Keelin McDonell
Senior Vice President, Customer Success of Narrative Science
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Colin South
Vice President of Zymergen
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Neill Osika
Vice President Sales of WorkFusion
Neill Osika serves as vice president of sales at Workfusion.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Cameron Jacox
Vice President, Growth of Lark
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About Lark: Lark is a digital health startup that provides virtual care through AI coaching, smart devices, and tele-monitoring.
Dhiraj Mallick
Vice President of Engineering and Business Development of Cerebras Systems
Dhiraj Mallick serves as vice president of engineering and business development at Cerebras Systems. Prior to joining Cerebras, Mallick served as the VP of architecture and CTO of Intel’s data center group. Dhiraj holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Rochester.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
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.
Stephen Coakley
COO & President of Babel Street
Stephen Coakley is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Babel Street, a company that provides actionable intelligence by persistently monitoring and analyzing a variety of data sources. Babel Street serves governments, higher education, and a wide spectrum of the business sector. Prior to Babel Street, Stephen was the Founder and Principal of Horizon Services, a government contractor that rose to #312 on the Inc 500 Fastest-Growing Companies List, with $8M in revenues and 150 employees. Steve’s philosophy is that he wants to work with very smart people doing something they all can be incredibly passionate about. Otherwise, it’s time to reinvent.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Mark Mavroudis
Vice President Operations of BootstrapLabs
Mark Mavroudis is VP Operations at BootstrapLabs, a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. Mark Mavroudis has held leadership roles in private and public companies managing complex businesses and rapid growth. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and was a technical contributor, writing systems and applications software, before moving into engineering management, product planning, business development and sales & marketing. Mark’s experience was developed at large corporations such as IBM, Siemens, and Xerox, and he was a founding member/senior manager at a successful startup company that went public. He has held other executive roles in early-stage startup companies.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
Lior Delgo
Co-Founder and President of Globality of Globality
Lior is an entrepreneur with a proven record of building disruptive technology and new business models. He was Co-Founder and CEO of FareChase (acquired by Yahoo) and VideoSurf (acquired by Microsoft). He loves leading product and technology teams, most recently as a Partner and GPM of Microsoft’s Xbox, and holds numerous technology patents.
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Nate Ramanathan
Senior Vice President Operations of AEye
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Jeffrey Brewer
President & CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Giulio Ruffini
President, CSO and co-founder of Neuroelectrics
Dr. Giulio Ruffini is the CEO and CTO of Starlab and the president and CSO of Neuroelectrics. He obtained a BA in Mathematics & Physics from Berkeley and a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Davis/LANL in 1995. In 2000 he founded Starlab to transform science into high-impact technologies.
12 years later he founded Neuroelectrics, a company which combines high-precision multichannel stimulation technologies with advanced biophysical and neuro-computational models.
For the past 15 years, Giulio has been developing technology for and researching the use of non-invasive brain monitoring and brain stimulation techniques, with a focus on EEG and transcranial current stimulation. His paper on brain-to-brain telepathy communication was the top 10 most shared papers of 2014. He is currently leading or involved in several European programs such as Galvani ERC Synergy, STIPED or Neurotwin.
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About Neuroelectrics: Neuroelectrics is a digital brain health company that diagnoses and treats brain disorders with personalized neuromodulation, and improves overall brain health.
Chuck Myers
President, CEO, & Board Member of Cogniac
Chuck Myers is the President, CEO, and Board Member at Cogniac.
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About Cogniac: Cogniac is an enterprise platform for Artificial Intelligence-grade visual observation.
Rebecca Lerner
Executive Vice President at MadHive & MAD Network of MadHive
Rebecca Lerner is Executive Vice President at MAD Network, the first contextually-aware blockchain protocol enabling the future of advertising innovation with privacy by design. Anchored in strong cryptography and private edge computing, MAD removes unnecessary intermediaries and eliminates fraud while helping advertisers more effectively reach their consumer. In addition to her role at MAD, Rebecca serves as an advisor for innovative blockchain companies like Fr8 Network and Blockdaemon, and was previously a strategy consultant for companies like PayPal, eBay, and ADP. She has also served as the VP of Product Management at Wiredrive, and as a Product Marketing Lead at Magento. Rebecca has a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
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About MadHive: MadHive provides a unified video ad platform with a real-time AI powered by blockchain technology.
Adam Perold
Co-founder, President & CEO of Element
Adam Perold is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Element.
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About Element: Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Luke Wilson
Vice President of Intelligence of 4iQ
Luke Wilson brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to 4iQ as the Vice President of Intelligence, with over 15+ years working within federal law enforcement, the department of defense, and the intelligence community. Previously the vice president of business development at Elliptic, Luke has a deep understanding of virtual currency and Blockchain technology. Prior to Elliptic, Luke worked in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division and Counterterrorism Division for over 9 years. With the assistance of colleagues, Luke constructed the government’s first interagency task force for investigating illicit uses of virtual currency; integrating, coordinating, and sharing investigative techniques, tactics, and procedures throughout the teams. Luke has advised the U.S. government and regulators on digital currencies while at the Department of Defense and the United States Intelligence Community and has over 17 years of law enforcement and intelligence experience. Luke has a certificate in Fintech: Future Commerce from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and law enforcement administration from Bellevue University.
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About 4iQ, CounterCraft: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Heather A. Brown
Senior Vice President, Market Access & Reimbursement of HeartFlow
Dr. Brown brings 10 years of experience in advanced medical imaging product development and service. She has held leadership roles in multiple startups and drove the development of AAA stent graft and TAVR planning applications as well as novel methods of assessing cardiac wall mechanics. Dr. Brown developed the first Volumetric Medical Imaging college accredited program at Jefferson Community and Technical College in 2005. She holds six patents. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Daniel Bounds
Vice President, Marketing of VAST Data
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About Value Pro Partners, VAST Data: VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise.
Laura Millichap
Co-Founder, President and Strategic Accounts of CRE Simple
Laura Millichap is the co-founder and president at CRE Simple.
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About CRE Simple: Reinventing CRE financing with capital and software solutions that bring speed, certainty, and transparency to every CRE transaction.
Stefan van de Graaff
President, Partner, and ECD of Chamber.Media
Stefan van de Graaff is the President, Partner, and ECD at Chamber.Media.
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About Chamber.Media, Tangible School: Chamber.Media is the industry leader in data crafted video ads with 3,000 productions/mo and $800M in tracked revenue driven for brands.
David Werry
Founder, President & COO of Well
David Werry Co-founder, President & COO at Well
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About Well: Well is a health technology company that provides access to trusted health partners.
Brian Denenberg
Vice President, Global Sales of Einsights
Brian has more than twenty years of experience leading sales teams and driving revenue for start-ups, enterprises and consultancies worldwide. His broad experience includes complex technical sales, high volume sales to the SMB market, as well as sales to C-level executives. Prior to joining Einsights Brian was a Senior Consultant at Channel Partners where he advised leading technology vendors and cloud partners on how to improve their sales and Go-To-Market strategies. Prior to Channel Partners he was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales for the leading online parenting website in Southeast Asia, MumCentre.com, which partnered with 90% of the family oriented brands in Southeast Asia and over a thousand SMB customers. Brian received his BA degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington.
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About Einsights: Einsights develop the business analytics tool built for the inquisitive mind.
Janet Muto
President of WEVO
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About WEVO: WEVO is a customer experience company that offers a solution for pinpointing WHY visitors are not engaging.
Noble Kuriakose
Vice President, Data Science of Edison
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About Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Alexandre Elkrief
Co Founder & President of Knowhere
Alexandre Elkrief joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & President in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Wei Zheng
Vice President of Product and Design of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Brian MacLeod
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Mary Jo Prigge
President, Service Operations of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Mary Jo leads CCC’s Valuescope Operations, Customer Service, Technical Support, Implementation and Field Training functions.
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About CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.: CCC Information Services help companies improve their claims management process through better decision-making.
Pete Morowski
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Pete has responsibility for CCC product development, product management, architecture, IT operations & infrastructure, business applications, and product strategy and marketing.
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About CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.: CCC Information Services help companies improve their claims management process through better decision-making.
Tony Lorentzen
General Manager and Vice President, Intelligent Engagement of Nuance Communications
Tony has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector, spending the last 17 with Nuance where he is currently the GM of the company’s market-leading Voice and Security businesses. Before that he served as the leader of several teams at Nuance including Sales Engineering, Business Consulting, and Product Management. A proven leader in working with the cross-functional teams, Tony blends his in-depth knowledge of business management, technology and vertical domain expertise to bring Nuance’s solutions to the Enterprise market, partnering with customers to ensure implementations drive true ROI. Prior to Nuance, Tony spent time at Lucent and Verizon where he led teams that applied the latest technologies to solve complex business issues for large enterprises. Tony received a B.S. from Villanova University and a MBA from Dowling College.
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Thomas Brown
CIO and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services and Operations of Nuance Communications
Thomas “T” Brown is the senior vice president of Services and Operations within Nuance’s Enterprise Division, supporting customer self-service solutions that are used by leading organizations around the world to automate and optimize the customer care experience across all channels including phone, web, and mobile. In this role, Mr. Brown is responsible for leading the divisions’ global services organization, including the day-to-day operations and global strategy for Enterprise Professional Services, Network Services, Global Hosting and Infrastructure, and On-Demand teams and businesses. Prior to joining Nuance, Mr. Brown spent more than a decade in senior technical and management positions with Hughes Aircraft Company, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Brown holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Penn State University and a MS degree in Computer Science from UCLA.
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About : Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
