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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 Machine Learning 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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Brandon Nott
Vice President of Customer Success of UiPath
Brandon Nott leads the Americas Customer Success Team at UiPath. As a former customer, Brandon has built a successful RPA practice and brings firsthand knowledge of all aspects of the RPA life cycle to our Americas customers. Brandon is an award-winning technologist with a deep focus on sustainable, robust systems design. From automating mortgage operations to testing wireless technologies, Brandon takes a holistic approach to digital transformation that brings humans and technology together, seamlessly. Following a double major in Business and Accounting and a Master’s degree Business Information Systems, Brandon began his career writing communication and scheduling software which led to his architecting many of the core systems for the Bluetooth SIG. He then went on to start a Business Intelligence practice at VML, advising Fortune 100 companies on BI strategy. After his time at VML, Brandon ran operations for J.G. Wentworth Home Lending, automating the processing of home loans. Brandon’s passion for technology and holistic approach to automation makes him an invaluable partner to his customers, and a thought leader in the industry.
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About UiPath, UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Dabrowski
President of Synthego
Founder & President at Synthego
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About Synthego: Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables access to CRISPR to accelerate life science research and development.
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.
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.
Jason Heller
President of Persado
Jason Heller is the President at Persado
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Roli Saxena
President, AdRoll Business of NextRoll
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About Cowboy Ventures, NextRoll, Neythri Futures Fund, OVO Fund: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Executive Vice President, Product of NextRoll
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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Brad Klaus
Group Vice President, International Solutions of FourKites
Brad Klaus is the Group Vice President, International Solutions at FourKites, Inc.
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About FourKites: FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
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.
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
Andrew Endicott
Co-Founder, President & CFO of Petal
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About Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
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.
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.
Daniel Morozoff-Abezgauz
Co-Founder, President, Cloud Infrastructure Dev of Vidrovr
Dan is a PhD candidate at Columbia University working on machine learning applied to neuroscience. He has published research in computational physics, computer multimedia. He has worked at NASA, and HHMI Janelia.
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About Vidrovr: Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video.
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.
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
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.
Nat Natraj
Co-founder & President of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies, AccuKnox: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
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.
Konstantin Mehl
CEO, Founder & President of Kaia Health
Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur. His last company foodora, a global food delivery company was sold to delivery hero in 2015 after reaching 500 employees and 5,000 drivers. His current company Kaia has the mission to build the biggest platform for chronic disease management, powered by computer vision. His angel investments include more than 20 companies in the US and Europe. He holds a dual Masters from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree from Technical University Munich.
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About Kaia Health, Kaia Health: Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of medical disorders.
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.
Tonya Coppin-Fox
President of Our.Love
Experienced Founder & CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the civic & social organization industry. Skilled in Corporate turn-around, Business Development Programs, Management, Training, and Human Services. Strong business development professional with a Master of Education – MEd focused in Special Education and Teaching from Mercy College.
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About Our.Love: “It’s like Home Design Meets Noom, but for Relationships”
Adam Champy
Senior Vice President Product Management of Two Sigma
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About Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Jordan Sumerlus
Vice President, Product Management of Two Sigma
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About Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Michael Dickson
Vice President, Corporate Development of Xometry
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About Xometry: Xometry offers an online marketplace that allows customers to access a network of machine shops and custom manufacturers.
Dave Myron
Vice President Product Marketing of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Brad Terrell
Vice President, Product Management of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Newell Crane
Founder & Vice President of Emergynt
Newell Crane (Founder/Vice President) is a business-building veteran with a 40-year record of success in guiding businesses through the growth lifecycle. He is co-inventor of dry ice blasting technology in conjunction with Neil Armstrong and aerospace engineer David Moore, creator of the Cold Jet Company—a current worldwide leader in dry ice solutions, production technology, and industrial and environmental improvement operations—and founder of Del Crane Medical—medical equipment supplier and electronic medical record provider for the nursing home industry. Dr. Crane is a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and Pepperdine University graduate with a BS in Science, an MBA and PhD in Pharmacy Economics.
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About : Emergynt’s Instinct Engin allows companies to see around the corner by predicting tomorrow’s digital risks.
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.
Gary Bradski
President of OpenCV
Gary Bradski is the Board Member at Occipital Inc. Gary is the creator (and active director) of OpenCV. He recently founded Industrial Perception, and has been involved in several other computer vision related companies in the past, including VideoSurf and Willow Garage. Gary has his finger on the pulse of everything computer vision related, which makes him an enormous technical asset.
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About Arraiy, Industrial Pereception Inc., OpenCV, Stanford University: OpenCV is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library.
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.
Srinivasa Ogireddy
Executive Vice President of Products, Engineering and Operations of Saba Software
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
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.
Myra Norton
President & CEO of Arena Analytics
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About Arena Analytics: Arena Analytics applies predictive analytics and machine learning to talent acquisition challenges.
Mel Bessaha
Sr. Vice President – Revenue, North America of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Claudia Virgilio
Global Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth of Skai Israel
Claudia Virgilio has more than 23 years of revenue-generating experience that includes expertise in SAAS and Technology with a focus on SEM, SEO, Social, eCommerce, Consulting and CRM/loyalty channels. Claudia has been at Kenshoo for over 8 years initially headed up sales efforts with notable deals including Expedia, Hilton, Walmart, Shutterfly, HP, and more. She also led the Agency Team Globally and was been instrumental in developing Kenshoo agency solutions and partnerships. Currently she focuses on Global Strategic Partnerships including Amazon, Oath a Verizon Company, SAP, IBM and new emerging partnerships. Prior to Kenshoo, Claudia lead West Coast Sales for Performics/DoubleClick/Google/Publicis for 7 years, managing a team and instrumental in building the Western region, including accounts like HP, Patagonia, Norm Thompson, Safeway, Wells Fargo, Walmart, Disney, Countrywide, Adidas and more. Claudia has also held sales positions at Xpedite, Netcentives, Creditland, and Naviant.
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About Skai Israel: Skai Israel is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, and omnichannel media activation services.
Don Crawford
President and CEO of CorVista Health
Don Crawford, President & Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned medical device executive with a proven track record of excellent results driven leadership through team efforts and focused execution. Don previously founded and led Sapheon Inc., a cardiovascular-focused medical device company, from inception to $238 million acquisition by Covidien in 2014. His career started with Medtronic and included sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility with Guidant Corporation, Ventritex, and Intermedics, including an international sales director role in charge of a $100 million cardiovascular business. Don received his B.Ch.E. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech and M.B.A. from Emory University.
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About CorVista Health: CorVista Health uses artificial intelligence to develop a completely new form of medical imaging for coronary artery disease.
Atakan Cetinsoy
Vice President – Predictive Applications of BigML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/atakan
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About BigML: BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Bow Rodgers
Vice President, U.S. Business Operations of Alchera
Bow Rodgers is President and CEO at VET-TECH.
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About Alchera, VET-TECH: Alchera provides AI, AR, and big data solutions specializing in visual anomaly detection technology (VADT) using AI-based image recognition.
Amit Vij
President of Kinetica
Amit has been developing software for over a decade most of which have been focused purely in the Geographic Information System (GIS) field. Amit has been lead developer for several DOD and DHS contracts some of which include the US Army, DTRA, DISA, CBP, and HSARPA. Previously, he was employed by a Fortune 500 consulting firms and frequently deployed to potential software engineering clients in order to generate new business for the firm. Amit Vij excels among his peers time and time again and has been recognized by several scholarly awards. Amit is also a web entrepreneur, having successfully created and sold a leading consumer website that has been featured in several television news broadcasts and printed publications. Amit received a B.S. In Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park with a concentration in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics.
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About Kinetica: Kinetica combines historical and streaming data analysis with powerful location intelligence and AI for instant results.
Brook Hazelton
President & Co-CEO of Digital Reasoning
Brook leads our company’s commercial operations, including scaling the organization, achieving revenue targets, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services, and fostering a strong and healthy culture. Prior to joining Digital Reasoning, Hazelton was President of North & South America at Christie’s, the world’s largest art company, where he led more than 700 employees based in 11 offices across six countries, driving growth and expanding market leadership. Previously, Hazelton acted as the global CEO of Phillips, the leading boutique auction house. Hazelton began his career in the finance sector, working internationally with Goldman Sachs and The Carlyle Group.
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About charity: water, Digital Reasoning, James D. Wolfensohn Inc: Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses.
Royce Dalby
Co-founder, President of Hydrosat
Royce Dalby is the co-founder and president of Hydrosat.
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About Hydrosat: Hydrosat is a satellite data company that turns space imagery into vital products for agriculture and related industries.
Jeff Moyer
President and CEO of Luminoso
Jeff Moyer is the President, CEO, and Board member at Luminoso Technologies.
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About Luminoso: Luminoso is a new way for computers to understand language and turn text into actionable business intelligence.
Doug Cassidy
Vice President of Deep 6 AI
Doug Cassidy is the vice president at Deep 6 AI.
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About Deep 6 AI: Deep 6 AI is an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people.
Eric Gildenhuys
Vice President and Business Development of Deep 6 AI
Eric Gildenhuys is the vice president in business development at Deep 6 AI.
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About Deep 6 AI: Deep 6 AI is an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people.
Rehan Jalil
Founder, President and CEO of Securiti
Rehan Jalil is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Limited Partner in technology venture funds. Currently, he is the President, Founder and CEO of SECURITI.ai, the Cloud Services Security Company. He has been Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund. Rehan Jalil is currently the CEO of SECURITI.ai. He was the SVP and GM for Cloud Security at Symantec, leading research and development for Cloud Security and helping to extend the reach of Symantec enterprise security products to cloud. Rehan came into Symantec with $4.7B acquisition of Bluecoat, where he ran cloud security. He came into BlueCoat via the $280M acquisition of Elastica, that he founded and ran as CEO. Elastica innovated CASB and drove it to become an important security category. Prior to that he was the founder and chief executive officer of WiChours, an innovator in deep packet inspection centered packet core, which was used to deploy some of the earliest 4G networks. WiChorus was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Previously, he was Chief Architect at Aperto and helped innovate multicore processors at Sun Microsystems. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2010 and Top 25 Disruptor in 2015. He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Tanveer Zamir
Vice President Engineering of Securiti
Tanveer Zamir is the Vice President of Engineering at SECURITI.ai He is a former Head of System Engineering at Elastica. Tanveer has over 15 years’ experience in leading high velocity engineering teams responsible for developing test and monitoring products in communications space. Worked on projects ranging from distributed Linux applications to real-time embedded platform design for packet processing and storage.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Michael Rinehart
Vice President Data Science of Securiti
Michael Rinehart is the Vice President of Data Science at SECURITI.ai. He has applied cutting-edge and large-scale machine learning in numerous domains, including defense and marketing. At BAE Systems, he lead the development of machine learning based jamming system for rapidly identifying and denying communication of wireless threats.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Philippe Chambadal
President, FSI of LeapYear Technologies
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About ET International, LeapYear Technologies, Quantal: LeapYear develops technology for enterprises to securely unlock value from their most sensitive data assets.
Brendon Albrizio
Vice President, Customer Success of Crayon
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About Crayon: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
Stela Udovicic
Vice President of Marketing of Era Software
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About Era Software: The first time-series database built for machine learning and anomaly detection.
Peter Lee
President & CEO of RapidMiner
Before joining RapidMiner, Peter advised growth companies disrupting established markets such as Attivio, BlogTalkRadio, Ektron, Infomatix, Novus, NOPSEC, Reonomy, SecurityScoreCard and others as co-founder of Mister Wolf & Associates. Previously, Peter served as Executive Vice President of TIBCO where he was responsible for the Analytics/Big Data, B2B, Cloud, CXM and SIEM product groups. Peter joined TIBCO when it acquired DataSynapse, where he served as CEO and co-founder. Peter began his career as a strategy consultant for Deloitte International and as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan & Co. Peter earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs from The University of Pennsylvania and graduated AB cum laude from Harvard University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Attivio and as an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of the Advanced Finance & Investment Group. He has previously served on the Boards of Ektron (acquired by Accel-KKR, merged with EpiServer) and Upwardly Global.
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About RapidMiner: RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.
Ingo Mierswa
Founder & President of RapidMiner
Ingo Mierswa is an industry-veteran data scientist since starting to develop RapidMiner at the Artificial Intelligence Division of the TU Dortmund University in Germany. Mierswa, the scientist, has authored numerous award-winning publications about predictive analytics and big data. Mierswa, the entrepreneur, is the founder of RapidMiner. Under his leadership RapidMiner has grown up to 300% per year over the first seven years. In 2012, he spearheaded the go-international strategy with the opening of offices in the US as well as the UK and Hungary. After two rounds of fundraising, the acquisition of Radoop, and supporting the positioning of RapidMiner with leading analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester, Ingo takes a lot of pride in bringing the world’s best team to RapidMiner.
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About RapidMiner: RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.
Graham Hine
President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant
Graham Hine is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
David Walker
Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant
David Walker is the Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
Jules Roazen
Vice President, Adaptive Learning of Knewton
Jules Roazen is the vice president of adaptive learning technology at [Knewton](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/knewton), a company that offers adaptive learning technologies.
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About Knewton: Knewton is an adaptive learning technology provider with a mission to bring personalized education to the world.
Pavel Aronov
Vice President of Climax Foods
Pavel Aronov earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and worked at UC Davis, Stanford University and Thermo Fisher focused on advanced scientific instrumentation and its applications to food, health and nutrition. Previously, he directed chemistry and analytics at Impossible Foods.
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About Climax Foods: Climax Foods Climax Foods develops machine intelligence tools to create plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.
Harish Neelamana
Co-founder & President of Convr
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About Convr: Convr empowers commercial insurance carriers with frictionless underwriting to enable optimal efficiency.
Cindy Chin
President, Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Co-Founder of CLIPr
Cindy Chin is an entrepreneur, venture strategist, and cultural ambassador of the arts and sciences. As CEO of CLC Advisors, LLC, she is an advisor and board member to founding startup teams, opportunity scout for VCs, investors, and LP partners, a supporter of global entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems, strategic thought leader, and a sought-after speaker. She recently founded CLIPr Co and is the COO. Cindy is also a NASA Datanaut, an open data innovation program to promote data science, coding, and gender diversity. The NASA Datanauts program operates within the Office of the CIO at NASA Headquarters. She is also a mentor in the Google Launchpad Mentor Program, Stanford University’s Technology Entrepreneurship and undergrad programs, and a member of the faculty of the Startup Executive Academy of Silicon Castles in Salzburg, Austria. Cindy is passionate about social impact, smART cities, public-private sector partnerships and building great companies. She achieves this by defining strategies for building multidisciplinary global ecosystems, accelerators, outreach, and innovation phases of ventures, alternative revenue generation and sustainability. Gender parity and diversity are factors for consideration.
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About CLC Advisors, CLIPr, Google, Howard University, NASA, NASA International Space Apps Challenge, National Geographic, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), University of Applied Science Salzburg: CLIPr is a video analysis and management (VAM) platform using AI and machine learning for videos
Kingsley Idehen
Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software
Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software, a privately held company he started in 1992. Born in Manchester, England in 1965, Idehen was raised in both Great Britain and Nigeria. In the mid 1990s, he relocated to the USA, and OpenLink now has headquarters in both the US and UK. Under Kingsley’s leadership, OpenLink has been on the vanguard of data access, integration, and management, shipping a number of industry acclaimed products including: * OpenLink Virtuoso — a Universal Server for heterogeneous data virtualization, integration, and management, Virtuoso is the database behind DBpedia, the Linked Open Data cache, Sindice, and may other Linked Open Data Cloud oriented Data Spaces * OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers — a suite of high-performance ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB drivers for all major DBMS engines * OpenLink Data Spaces — a powerful platform for Personal Data Spaces (enterprise and InterWeb scales) * URIBurner — a publicly available service for generating 5-Star Linked Open Data from existing data sources (including HTML pages and various “Web 2.0” & Social Media APIs) *
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About OpenLink Software, W3C: Provides a modern platform for exploiting power of AI, Semantic Web, Cognitive Data Virtualization, and Multi-Model Data Management
Victor Todd Cushman
Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Aromyx
Mr. Cushman has driven new and innovative technologies to market for over 35 years in development, marketing, sales, and management roles. Mr. Cushman was an early entrepreneur in the micro-computer industry, building and selling computers from scratch and creating an independent multi-store retail chain, supported by a North American distribution network. The company had nine years of continual growth and led to a successful exit. Mr. Cushman spent 10 years consulting to major Pharma, Chemical and Services companies as a trusted advisor before joining IBM for a successful 17-year career. Victor was responsible for $2B in IBM direct sales and $1.2B in revenue via channel partners, joint sales initiatives and product co-development with other major companies. Mr. Cushman managed the world-class teams that developed IBM’s eCommerce products and operations, Security & Encryption software, Security Services Offerings and developed new lines of business in computing appliances, blade technologies, Telecom, and US Government and Foreign Security Consulting. Mr. Cushman led the acquisition and integration of 16 Silicon Valley technology companies and his assignments have included living and working extensively abroad in Asia Pacific and Europe. After leaving IBM, Mr. Cushman provided portfolio management and sales development consulting to start-ups and global companies like Honeywell, to open new markets, close large account sales and to rapidly bring new products to market that reduce product cost, improve availability and security. Catching up one day with his friend of over 10 years from IBM, Chris Hanson, Victor became interested in the nascent technology and un-developed market for smell and taste technology, leading to his involvement in the co-founding of Aromyx.
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About Aromyx: Aromyx is a biotechnology startup applying biotechnology and data science to capture unique sensory data.
Shawn Nichols
Vice-President of Product of Nikola Labs Inc.
Shawn Nichols is the VP of Product at Nikola Labs, Inc.
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About Nikola Labs Inc.: Rapidly deployable, remote, end-to-end condition monitoring solution providing predictive insight to enable proactive maintenance.
Itai Karelic
Vice President of Sales and Business Development of vHive
Itai Karelic the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for vHive, which developed the only autonomous multi drone solution for inspection and surveying. He is the Co-Founder of Jether Enegy and was previously Itai Karelic was VP Sales & BD for EnStorage and headed the US operations for Greenlet Technologies. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. Itai Karelic served as a commanding officer of a fast attack vessel in the Israeli Navy (rank of Lieutenant).
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About vHive: vHive provides a cloud-based software platform that enables enterprises to digitize and analyze assets using autonomous drone hives.
Jameson Yung
Vice-President of Sales of Gong
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About Gong: Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential.
Yasser Khan
Executive Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
Executive Vice President at Plasma Computing Group
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About ONE Tech, Inc., Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Andrew Gowasack
President & Founder of Trust Stamp
An economist by training, Andrew began his career in financial services sales and marketing. Gareth and Andrew have been friends for several years and explored a number of ideas before identifying the unparalleled potential of Trust Stamp. Although Trust Stamp is Andrew’s first startup, he has immersed himself in the lean-startup environment by completing incubator programs through Founder’s Space in San Francisco, QC FinTech in Charlotte and NAR REach in Chicago. Each of these programs has provided a different perspective and honed a different set of startup skills.
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About Trust Stamp: Trust Stamp is a developer of AI-powered software focused on identity and trust.
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
