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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 Vice President operating in the Art space. If you think a Vice 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.
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.
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Jared Phipps
Vice President Worldwide Sales Engineering of SentinelOne
Jared has been involved in cybersecurity professionally since 2001, and is passionate not only about technology, but also with effective use of technology to solve real problems. Jared is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineering at SentinelOne, where he gets to use his passion for technology and experience in cybersecurity daily as he advises various prospects and clients through security projects. He spent the prior 6 years leading the sales engineering, processional services and incident response teams at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Prior to joining Fidelis he worked for MITRE supporting NSA Cryptographic Modernization Programs for the United States Air Force. Jared is a veteran of the United States Air Force where he worked in cyber defense and offensive cyber operations.
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About SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Haddad
Executive Vice President & General Manager of Warner Bros.
President at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment.
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About Warner Bros., Warner Bros.: Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of several forms of entertainment.
Adam Husein
Vice President, Data Science and Advanced Analytics of Warner Bros.
As VP, Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Adam Husein leads the Data Science and Advanced Analytics functions at Warner Bros. Since joining the studio in early 2017 as the inaugural member of the team, Adam has built a global team focused on utilizing data science and analytics to improve how we do business at WB. Some of the team’s notable initiatives include: growing Home Entertainment digital sales by applying machine learning and building user and content analytics around our users. In the decade prior to Adam’s time at WB, he spent the majority of his time helping businesses such as EA Games and Jack in the Box, as well as many other smaller firms, adopt data science and analytics across multiple industries and functions, including but not limited to, retail stores, digital sales, rentals, digital and offline media buying, and user experience research and analytics.
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About Warner Bros.: Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of several forms of entertainment.
Thomas Gewecke
Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development of Warner Bros.
Thomas Gewecke was named President, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) in December 2007. In this post, he works to extend Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Groupâs digital strategy and reach across current and emerging platforms. Charged with global responsibility for the strategic growth initiatives around all of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Groups asets, he also leads development and execution of activities in the wireless, online, transactional video-on-demand (VOD)/pay-per-view (PPV) and electronic-sell-through (EST) sectors. He is further responsible for identifying strategic partnerships and next generation distribution channels to open new revenue streams. Prior to joining WBDD, Gewecke most recently served as Executive Vice President, Global Digital Business for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, where he headed worldwide digital business development efforts and oversaw the creation of new digital ventures. Gewecke also oversaw that companys online advertising, digital long-form video, and direct-to-consumer commerce businesses, and led its expansion into the US off-deck mobile market. Prior to Sony BMG, Gewecke was Senior Vice President of Business Development in the Digital Services Group for Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. While at Sony Music he founded and led its mobile business, building a dominant market position for the company; launching the industryâs first US master ringtone offering in mid 2003; and becoming the only record label to create and operate a major US on-deck direct-to-consumer mobile storefront. Gewecke also held the position of Publisher of the PC World Online Network at International Data Group (IDG). During his tenure with the company, he built IDG’s largest online publishing division and oversaw the launch of multiple internet properties. He also played a major role in the development of IDGs overall digital strategy. Gewecke graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with a bachelors degree, magna cum laude, in social studies.
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About Warner Bros., WarnerMedia: Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of several forms of entertainment.
David Williams
Vice President, WB Technology of Warner Bros.
Vice President, Technology at Warner Bros.
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About Warner Bros.: Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of several forms of entertainment.
Ed Boon
Vice President, Creative Director of Warner Bros.
Vice President, Creative Director at NetherRealm / Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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About Warner Bros.: Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of several forms of entertainment.
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.
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.
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.
Catherine Lowell
Vice President of Content of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ke Yin
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering of Blaize
Ke Yin is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Bruce Morimoto
Vice President, Drug Development of Alto Neuroscience
Bruce Morimoto, PhD, brings over 25 years of industry experience in leading project teams in the development of innovative medicines, providing guidance in the design and execution of manufacturing, nonclinical, clinical and regulatory strategies with a therapeutic focus on CNS indications including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementias. Previously, Bruce held leadership roles at Cerecin, Alkahest, Celerion and Allon Therapeutics, and works closely as a scientific advisor to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, chairing one of their scientific review panels. Bruce started his career on the faculty in the Chemistry Department at Purdue University, where his independent research focused on neuronal signal transduction. Bruce earned his doctorate in biochemistry from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley.
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About Alto Neuroscience, Cerecin: Alto Neuroscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that creates precision medicines through its AI-driven biomarker platform.
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.
Lisa Ackerson
Vice President of Marketing of Inky
Lisa Ackerson is the Vice President of Marketing at Inky. Prior to joining Inky, she worked as a Vice President and Privacy Officer at ByteGrid for over 2 years.
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About Inky: Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing.
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.
Stephen Tsuchiyama
Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Customer Success of FortressIQ
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About FortressIQ, Pavilion: FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI.
Karen Steele
Senior Vice President Marketing of Near
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About Alloy, Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Atakan Cetinsoy
Vice President – Predictive Applications of BigML
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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.
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.
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
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.
Sean Di Ianni
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Exhibitions of Meow Wolf
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About Meow Wolf: Meow Wolf creates entertainment that delights audiences through location-based and digital media experiences.
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.
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.
Oliver Sharp
Co-Founder and Vice President of Customer Services of Highspot
Oliver Sharp is the co-founder and VP of Product at Highspot.
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About Highspot: Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
Jarod Greene
Vice President Product Marketing of Highspot
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About Highspot: Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
Fonda Snyder
Vice President of Creative Development & Sales of Rainmaker Entertainment
Fonda Snyder joined Rainmaker to oversee creative development, acquisitions, co-productions and production service opportunities for Rainmaker Entertainment, and its television division, Mainframe Entertainment. Recognized industry-wide for her achievements in children’s entertainment, Fonda brings to the company her extensive knowledge of development, production and marketing. Most recently, Fonda has served as Creative Consultant at Technicolor, while overseeing her own management company Alchemy Ink, Inc., where she represented authors and illustrators for global sales to publishers, major film studios and networks. Previously, she served as Vice President, Original Movies for Disney Channel, where she supervised the development of all original movies, along with the Wendy Wu and The Cheetah Girls franchises. Previously, Fonda served as Senior Vice President of Creative Development and U.S. Sales at Cookie Jar Entertainment where she oversaw the development and sales of more than 50 properties, including Richard Scarry’s Busytown Mysteries, as well as numerous comedy and boys’ action animated series licensed to networks including Disney Channel (for Playhouse Disney), Kids WB and Cartoon Network. Over the course of her career, Fonda has developed more than 25 projects for major television networks and film studios.
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About Rainmaker Entertainment: Rainmaker Entertainment is a CG animation studio creating unique CG animation styles using artist friendly tools.
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.
Alex Wu
Vice President, Marketing and Partnerships of HomeCourt
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About HomeCourt: HomeCourt is an interactive basketball app that acts as a personal skills trainer for basketball players.
Erik Reynolds
Vice President of Sales of ENGAGE Talent
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About ENGAGE Talent: ENGAGE leverages AI to predict people’s job security and likelihood to change jobs based on publicly available information.
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.
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.
Daniel de Mos
Vice President of Finance of Orion Labs
Daniel de Mos serves as VP of Finance at Orion Labs. Over the past 12 years, Daniel has held the position of senior financial officer for global companies specializing in innovative software technology in the marketing automation, lead generation and fintech spaces.
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About Orion Labs: Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
Arun Iyer
Executive Vice President of HEXANIKA
Business + IT Leader with experience in the Banking and Financial Services specifically in the Capital Markets domain. * Extensive experience in areas such as Strategy and Planning, Business Consulting, IT Consulting, Pre-Sales and Business Development, Business Architecture and Solution Conceptualization, Product Alliances, Practice Development, People Management and Operations * Experienced in selling, leading and managing Business / IT consulting engagements involving interactions with CxO level professionals. * Responsible for building and managing large teams of high end consulting professionals. * Keen interest in building innovative solutions and service offerings Specialties: Capital Markets with specialization in Investment Banking, Brokerage, Asset & Wealth Management, Risk Management, Trading and Post Trade Processes across Asset classes
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About HEXANIKA: HEXANIKA products reduce costs by delivering useable data and robust regulatory reporting at the speed of now
Ian Cameron
Vice President Media & Entertainment of Expert.ai
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About Expert.ai, Temis: Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.
Archna Bhandari
Executive Vice President, Data and Analytics of Expert.ai
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About Expert.ai: Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.
Josh Pierce
Vice President Of Strategic Sales of Postie
Josh Pierce is the VP of Strategic Sales at Postie.
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About Postie: Postie offers automated marketing tools for direct mail marketing.
Brock Thompson
Executive Vice President of Drips.com
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About Drips.com: Drips.com features an AI engine that helps improve lead-to-call conversion and reduces overall lead gen costs.
Otkrist Gupta
Vice President of Data Science of Lendbuzz
Otkrist Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT Media Lab. He works at camera culture, his research is focused on inventing new algorithms for deep learning for health screening and diagnosis, hidden geometry detection, exploiting techniques from optimization, linear algebra and compressive sensing. He also works on designing algorithms for futuristic 3D projective displays. Before joining MIT Media Lab Otkrist worked in Google Now team where he built voice actions such as take a picture and what’s on my Chromecast and worked on voice response quality from Google Now. He also worked in LinkedIn where he developed services such as Smart ToDo, Ultra fast auto-complete, Notifications and CheckIn platform. He completed his bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in Computer Science with emphasis on algorithms and linear algebra. After graduating from IITD, he worked for one year in field of High Frequency Trading at Tower Research Capital.
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About Lendbuzz: Lendbuzz is a car financing platform that helps consumers with thin U.S. credit history obtain financing for their car purchase.
