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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 VP’ operating in the Art space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Sriram Krishnan
SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships of HeadSpin
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
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.
Imran Haque
VP Data Science of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Imran focuses his research on developing computational methods to go beyond brute empiricism in biology and medicine.He earned a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where his research on large-scale machine learning systems for drug discovery was co-advised by Vijay Pande and Daphne Koller.Following his PhD, Imran served for over five years in roles of increasing responsibility at Counsyl (now Myriad Women’s Health). As VP, Scientific Affairs, he led a research program in both clinical development, analyzing cohorts of hundreds of thousands of individuals to make discoveries in medical and population genetics; and in technology development, designing assays leveraging the ability to customize both chemistry and computation. Subsequently, he was the first chief scientific officer at Freenome, where he built and led an R&D team spanning molecular biology, computational biology, and machine learning to develop non-invasive blood-based screening protocols for early cancer detection.
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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.
Tom Banton
VP of Solutions Engineering & Enablement 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.
Azim Nagree
EVP Operations and M&A of Scorpion
Azim Nagree is EVP Operations and M&A at Scorpion. Azim’s passion is making great companies part of the Scorpion family. For the past 15 years, Azim has held executive roles in various SaaS startups – helping them grow, scale, and ultimately exit. He has also worked at blue-chip companies like Dell and Bain & Co. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, with dual undergraduate degrees in Law and Economics from Bond University in Australia.
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About Nagree Consulting, Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.
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.
Tao Ma
VP of Language Technology Group of ASAPP
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About ASAPP: Breakthroughs are born out of research and ASAPP is advancing AI to drive greater human productivity and automating the world’s workflows
Monal Patel
SVP & CBO of Unbxd
At Unbxd, Monal helps eCommerce companies solve their product discovery problems and create growth by providing new and improved approaches to decision making. Monal has 15+ years of experience in the software & retail industry and is a seasoned speaker at major eCommerce events like Etail West, MivaCon, Fashion Digital, Etail East, etc. Monal holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Scott Murtaugh
VP, Data Partnerships of Yext
Scott Murtaugh is the Vice President, Data Partnerships at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Jonathan Kennell
VP Product of Yext
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About 212 Labs, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Lauren Crocetti
VP Client Services of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ramin Abtahi
VP Client Services of Yext
Ramin Abtahi is the Vice President of Client Services at Yext and leads the Account Management team for Yext’s US East and Canada accounts totaling >130 of their enterprise accounts. Ramin joined Yext in 2015. Prior to Yext, Ramin served as the Market Development Leader for Financial Services at IBM. Ramin was responsible for identifying, marketing and implementing innovative solutions for their top accounts. Ramin joined IBM in 2009 to lead IBM’s Value Proposition Practice. Prior to IBM, Ramin was a Director at American Express, where he managed multiple strategic partnerships and led the development and launch of new products/services for both the Consumer and Small Business card portfolios. Ramin joined American Express in 2002 after gaining his MBA from Yale. Prior to business school, Ramin was a Senior Consultant at Accenture and attended Carnegie Mellon where he received a BS in Economics and Industrial Management in 1996. Ramin lives in New Canaan, CT with his wife Kerry and two sons.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Dave Lehman
EVP, Commercial Business Unit of Yext
Dave Lehman is the senior vice president of sales at [Campaign Monitor](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campaign-monitor#/entity). Previously, he held the same position at [Captora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/captora#/entity). Before joining Captora, Lehman was employed at [Salesforce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce#/entity), Puresense Environmental, and [Autonomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autonomy#/entity). Lehman obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit#/entity). He lives in San Mateo, California, United States.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Duane Forrester
VP, Industry Insights of Yext
Duane is the VP, Industry Insights at Yext. He was the VP, Organic Search Operations with Bruce Clay, Inc, one of the oldest digital marketing agencies in the country. Prior to moving to BCI, he was a Sr. Product Manager responsible for Bing’s Webmaster Program. Previously, he was an in-house SEM running the SEO program for MSN in the US & Americas. He’s also the founding co-chair of SEMPO’s In-House SEM Committee, was formerly on the Board of Directors for SEMPO and is the author of two books: How To Make Money With Your Blog & Turn Clicks Into Customers. Duane was a moderator at www.searchengineforums.com and maintains his own blog at www.theonlinemarketingguy.com. He’s written for publications ranging from SearchEngineLand and DuctTape Marketing, to Entrepreneur Magazine, the New York Times and Inc. He actively advises startups and large corporations, and even spent time advising the staff who maintain the White House’s websites.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Pratik Bhadra
SVP of Product of Bluecore
Pratik is the SVP of Product at Bluecore. In this role, Pratik leads the evolution of the next generation email solution and the leapfrog to a retail performance platform. Previously, he was the VP of Product at Zeta Global, where he led the product initiative to define and build Zeta’s marketing cloud, incorporating several ESPs and marketing databases to form Zeta’s flagship product line. Prior to Zeta Global, Pratik held several software management roles at National Instruments. Pratik holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
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.
Francisco Meza
VP of Engineering of Evisort
Francisco Meza is the VP of engineering at Evisort.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
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.
Bill Hicks
Chief Relationship Officer & SVP of Customer Relationships of Ultimate Software
Bill Hicks is chief relationship officer for Ultimate Software, responsible for managing Ultimate’s ongoing relationships with 2,600+ customers. Previously, Bill served as Ultimate’s chief information officer, overseeing the company’s award-winning IT team. During his tenure as CIO at Ultimate, he was honored as the South Florida CIO Council’s Member of the Year as well as South Florida Business Journal 2013 CIO of the Year. Bill was instrumental in the launch and execution of Ultimate’s industry-leading cloud solutions, and he also has overseen the management of Ultimate’s teams for customer service, knowledge services, payment services, and business operations. Bill’s recent speaking appearances include Dreamforce, IHRIM HRM Strategies, HR Technology Conference and Expo, as well as the American Payroll Association Congress every year since 2009. Bill also leads and serves on numerous community and industry-based boards. Prior to joining Ultimate Software, he was SVP & CIO at Precision Response Corporation.
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About 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.
Majid Emami
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
James Hom
Co-Founder & VP Products of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Amir Arbabi
VP Business Development of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
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.
Brian Hughes
VP of Sales of Brain Corp
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About Brain Corp: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Jerry Adriano
EVP of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Jerry Adriano
EVP of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Michael Cantalino
VP of Recruiting & Culture of Focal Systems
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Jason Scheckner
SVP of Sales & Customer Success of HiredScore
CRO @HiredScore based in NYC area. Dad of daughters and lucky husband. StartUps, Builder, Investor. I’m also Co-author of “Cutting Edge Sales.”
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Can Ozdoruk
VP Marketing of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Anant Verma
VP Engineering of Netomi
Engineering leader with expertise in software development and engineering management. I have personally managed and built many successful products that the customers love and built many happy teams on the way. I value principles such as simplicity, agility, building it right the first time and built in quality. Above all, I value individuals and how to draw on individuals’ strengths to build highly motivated, well-performing and results driven teams. I am a technology enthusiast and derive great pleasure in learning new technologies and skills. Expertise: People and technology management, Software delivery, Distributed Systems, Full-stack cloud based multi-tenant software, Data Analytics, Salesforce.com CRM and force.com platform.
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About Hired, Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Assaf Barnir
VP Customer Success of Netomi
Startups: eMeter, Zendesk, PubNub; Earlier: Amdocs, IAF, IBM
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Andy Denmark
Co Founder and VP engineering of Chairish
Andy Denmark is the former Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Chairish.
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About Chairish, Groupize: Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.
Jesse Noyes
VP of Marketing of Unsupervised
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About Unsupervised: Unsupervised is an automated analytics platform provider that finds hidden insights in complex data.
Kirk Haslbeck
VP Data Quality of Collibra
Kirk Haslbeck is the VP Data Quality at Collibra.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Mike Madden
VP of Demand Generation of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
David Beatus
VP, Digital Integrated Marketing & Product Marketing of Dataminr
David Beatus is the VP of Digital Integrated Marketing and Product Marketing at Dataminr.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
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.
Alejandro Jaimes
Chief Scientist & SVP of AI of Dataminr
Alex is Chief Scientist & SVP of AI at Dataminr. Alex is a scientist, keynote speaker, and engineering executive with 15+ years of intl. experience in research (Columbia U., KAIST) and product impact at scale (Nauto, DigitalOcean, Yahoo, Telefónica, IDIAP-EPFL, Fuji Xerox, IBM, Siemens, and AT&T Bell Labs) in the USA, Japan, Chile, Switzerland, Spain, and South Korea. He has published 100+ technical papers in top-tier conferences and journals in diverse topics in AI and has been featured widely in the press (MIT Tech review, CNBC, Vice, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, etc.). He has given 50+ invited talks all over the world, incl. talks at several O’Reilly conferences (AI, Strata, Velocity), the Deep Learning Summit (Re-Work), Tech Open Air, and Stanford, Cornell, & Columbia Universities. Alex was an early voice in Human-Centered AI (Computing)- his technical work focuses on machine learning, mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to gain insights on user behavior for product innovation. He’s been a professor (KAIST), and an executive at Yahoo, and at several startup companies. Alex holds a Ph.D. from Columbia 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.
Yoav Ben Shushan
VP Strategic Partnerships of Skyline AI
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About Homrun, J-Ventures, Skyline AI, Soma Capital: Skyline is a real estate technology platform that connects accredited global investors to US real estate opportunities.
Albert Lilly
VP of Marketing of Sibros
Albert Lilly is a Vice President of Marketing at Sibros.
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About Sibros: Sibros offers automotive cloud solutions including OTA software updates, data logging, fleet management, and vehicle analytics.
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.
Chang Huang
Co-Founder & VP of Algorithm of Horizon Robotics
Chang Huang was Principle Scientist and Architect (T10) at Baidu, one of core leaders in founding IDL. He is one of the top researcher in computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition and information globally. As a renowned deep learning expert in both industry and academia, he has over 4400 citations and owns 6 US patents. The face recognition system he developed was adopted by a wide range of digital cameras (80 percent of the market) and image management applications including Apple’s iPhoto. At Baidu, he led the image technology team at IDL launched multiple important products including a full-web face search engine, similar image search, text recognition in natural scenes, mobile image search, image smart match, etc. Prior to Baidu, Dr. Huang served as a researcher at the University of Southern California and NEC Labs America. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, where he received many awards including MSRA Fellowship of 2006, Tsinghua’s Excellent PhD Thesis Award of 2007, Beijing’s Excellent PhD Thesis Award of 2007, etc. Dr. He also won the 2012 1st Excellent Research Achievement Award with his project “Theory and Methods of Geometrical Computation in Visual Media” and participated in China’s 973 Plan project “3D-Space Oriented Theory and Methods of Information Processing of Internet Information in Chinese.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Ming Yang
Co-Founder & VP, Software of Horizon Robotics
Ming Yang is one of the founding members of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) and a former senior researcher at NEC Labs America. Dr. Yang is a well-recognized researcher in computer vision and machine learning. His research interests include object tracking, face recognition, massive image retrieval and multimedia content analysis. Dr. Yang owns 14 US patents, and has over 20 publications in top conferences like CVPR and ICCV and 8 publications in the top international journal T-PAMI with more than 5300 citations. During his tenure at Facebook, Dr. Yang led the deep learning research project “Deep Face”, which had a significant impact in the deep learning research community and got widely reported by various media including Science Magazine, MIT Tech Review and Forbes. Dr. Yang has served as a member of the program committee for multiple top international conferences including CVPR, ICCV, NIPS and ACMMM. He has also been a reviewer for several top international journals including T-PAMI, IJCV and T-IP. As the leader of the NEC-UIUC team, Dr. Yang and his team achieved the best result in the TRECVid 2008 and 2009 Event Detection Evaluation. He was also a member of the NEC team to win the 1st place in the ImageNet 2010 Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. Moreover, Dr. Yang is the owner of 14 US patents. Dr. Ming Yang received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Annie Tao
Co-Founder & VP, Operations of Horizon Robotics
Annie Tao has extensive experiences in top-notch technology and internet companies globally, with in-depth strategic thinking and analytic capabilities of the industry in both US and China. Prior to Horizon Robotics, she worked in Google Sales group at Silicon Valley and Baidu in both US lab and China. She led a number of global projects at Google, including product search operations optimization and key payment product operations at launches. TAO received Master’s Degree in Marketing from Northwestern University，Chicago, and was exchanged to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania during undergraduate.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Michael Liou
VP Strategy & Growth of Chooch AI
I lead Strategy & Growth at Chooch AI, an end-to-end visual artificial intelligence platform. Chooch AI provides fast and accurate computer vision training, image, object and process recognition for retail, media, advertising, healthcare, aviation and security industries. Chooch AI offers an easy-to-deploy API and dashboard for AIoT and Cloud AI. Try it free via Chooch.AI/demo and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/chooch-ai/ Prior to joining Chooch AI, I have been an active early stage investor in NY, LA, and the Bay Area focused on FinTech, consumer, SaaS, and healthcare having made over 100 investments
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Jeffrey Goldsmith
VP Marketing of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
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.
Jason Barton
VP, Partnerships & Global Channels of Dexterity
Jason’s experience centers on selling innovative technology solutions to both commercial and consumer markets. He recently served as COO at EnergyHub, a maker of home energy management products.He joined EnergyHub from Segway, where he was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. Jason joined Segway from Palm, where he held progressive sales positions, ultimately leading sales for Palm’s U.S. enterprise business.Previously Jason led UK sales and marketing for Precor Inc., a manufacturer of premium fitness equipment. Jason earned a BA Honors Degree from the University of Wales.
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About Dexterity, Realtime Robotics: 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.
Eric Johnson
EVP and CIO of Momentive
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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.
Raj Gossain
SVP Product of Alation
Raj Gossain is Vice President of Products at ClearSlide, Inc. since December 2014. Previously, Raj was Vice President of Products for Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group (CCATG) and was responsible for product strategy, planning and execution for Cisco’s cloud collaboration applications portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Raj was Vice President of Product Marketing for Yahoo!’s Communications and Communities properties. Raj earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Oliver Nicholas
VP of Engineering of Nana Academy
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby
Co-Founder & VP Operations of AKASA
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Operations at Alpha Health.
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About AKASA: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
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.
Dave Costenaro
VP of Artificial Intelligence R&D and Chief Data Officer of Capacity
Dave Costenaro is Head of Artificial Intelligence Design at Jane.ai and a Co-Founder and Technical Director at Prepare.ai.
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About Capacity, Prepare.ai: Capacity is an AI-powered helpdesk that automates support for customers and employees.
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.
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering of Databricks
Patrick Wendell is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Databricks.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Nadim Hossain
VP, Product Management of Databricks
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About Databricks: 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.
Pierre Bi
VP Air Quality of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
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.
Greg Howard
VP of Marketing of Vivun
Greg Howard serves as the VP of Marketing at Vivun. He was the former VP of Marketing for Risk I/O. Prior to Risk I/O, Greg was VP of Marketing for Grand Rounds, a fast-growth healthcare IT company. Before that, he ran marketing at AppDynamics where he helped the company grow to a $100 million run rate and become a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in only a few year’s time. Greg also oversaw the marketing team at HR outsourcing provider TriNet. Greg has a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University and a B.A. from UC Davis.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Jonathan Ross
VP of Sales of Vivun
Jon Ross has been in Software as a Service (SaaS) his whole career. He saw the shift to the cloud first hand in the marketing automation space from 2008-2010. Seeing the need to monetize on subscriptions, he moved to Zuora the leader in subscription management and billing. In his time at Zuora (NYSE: ZUO), he went from being the top AE to being the VP of North American Commercial Sales as the company grew from 5M to 180M in revenue. Currently is the Head of Global Sales at Vivun, the first platform for Presales Engineers.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Phil Shevrin
VP Technology of SoftBank Group
Phil joined SoftBank Capital in 2004 and brings 30 years of experience in the software and computer business. He offers a unique mix of technical and management backgrounds and has worked for both large companies and several start-ups. In his career, Phil has run both services and product groups. He has been a key member of industry bodies and presenter at numerous conferences, an executive of one of the ten largest software companies, run large distributed organizations, but has also raised venture capital to start new companies. On the technical side, Phil has always been on the leading edge of technology and his work has spanned all levels of systems and software. He has been the lead architect of a computer company, one of the earliest UNIX developers, pioneered distributed systems and operating systems, systems management, content management and collaboration tools and systems. Phil is also currently actively engaged in several strategic projects with SoftBank Corp. in support of the company’s initiatives in the Japanese broadband market.
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About SoftBank Group: SoftBank Group is a holding company focused on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Melanie Dyer
VP Fund Operations of SoftBank Group
Melanie joined SoftBank Capital in 2000 and has over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, investor relations and operations. Melanie is responsible for the financial oversight of SoftBank’s venture funds including the accounting, investor reporting and cash management functions for SoftBank’s partnerships and related entities. In previous positions with SoftBank, Melanie has been responsible for the accounting and reporting of SoftBank Group’s international subsidiaries and has assisted in the development of its foreign investment partnership structures. Prior to joining SoftBank, Melanie began her finance career with Arthur Andersen LLP where she spent four years in the audit practice. Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science, with honors, from Boston College’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About SoftBank Group: SoftBank Group is a holding company focused on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Matt Chappell
SVP Sales of Legion Technologies
Proven revenue leader with a track record of building and leading high performing commercial organizations across companies ranging in stage from startups to publicly traded multinationals. Background spans Sales and Business Development functions within the Technology and Financial Services sectors. Matt started his career at J.P. Morgan before entering the world of emerging technologies. He holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and English from Wake Forest University.
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About JP Morgan, Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Trevor Pagliara
VP of North America Sales of Agari
Trevor Pagliara is VP of North America Sales at Agari. With twenty years of experience executing rapid revenue growth for companies, Pagliara has previously worked FireEye and Dell EMC.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Michael Cichon
VP Digital & Content Marketing of Agari
Michael Cichon is a Silicon Valley-based marketing exec with specialties in brand strategy, digital marketing, content marketing and product marketing. He currently serves as CMO for 1Kosmos. Previously he has served as VP of Digital and Content Marketing at Agari and at ThreatMetrix and has held director-level roles with responsibilities for demand generation, sales enablement, event management, press relations and branding at companies including VMWare, KANA Software (Verint), Arena Solutions, Ketera (Deem), Aspect Development (I2) and Oracle. Combined he has over 20 years of experience helping b2b technology companies in various aspects of go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. Mike is a graduate of Purdue University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math / Computer Science.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID, Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sheryl Hawk
VP of Customer Success of Agari
Sheryl Hawk is Agari’s VP of Customer Success and is responsible for driving a customer centric strategy and initiatives across the company, Sheryl’s organization is responsible for managing renewal and upsell revenue for Agari as well as all customer health, adoption activities, and advocacy initiatives. She has over 25 years of experience in leading teams responsible for the customer journey both pre and post sales. Most recently, Sheryl led Customer Success at WhiteHat Security where she transformed the Customer Success team, bringing all post sales customer facing functions under the customer success umbrella. Prior to her role at WhiteHat, Sheryl spent 4 years as SVP Customer Success at Conversica, an AI sales enablement company where she built and grew the customer success function. Prior to Conversica she held VP Sales and Success roles at various ecommerce technology companies. Sheryl has a degree in Marketing from CSU Fresno, enjoys mentoring CSMs and trying new recipes.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Jacob Rideout
VP of Product Management of Agari
Jacob Rideout is the VP of Product Management at Agari, where he leads new product development and applied research. Previously, Jacob has led efforts in retail analytics, marketing optimization, and email security at Return Path. He is a regular collaborator in industry initiatives at M³AAWG and ETIS that foster data-sharing and define industry best practices.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sabina Knotter-Finney
VP of Business Operations of Agari
Sabina Knotter-Finney is VP of Business Operations at Agari, where she is responsible for leading sales operations and building the system infrastructure for all business units. Prior to Agari, Knotter-Finney worked in business operations at MongoDB and in product management at Oracle.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
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.
Jason Turpin
VP of Product of Observe.AI
Jason Turpin is the senior director of product management at Observe.AI.
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About Observe.AI: Observe.AI is an Intelligent Workforce Platform that helps teams improve CX and agent performance.
Geeth Narayanan
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Geeth Narayanan is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. and a dedicated IT leader with over 15+ years of experience in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, high performance technology solutions in various industries including banking, airline etc. Geeth is a results-driven executive with extensive experience leading people and project teams, developing business transformation and technology strategy roadmaps, implementing and overseeing technology solutions that spans multimillion-dollar budgets. He strives for optimal balance between strategic and tactical orientation with a focus towards delivery. He enjoys challenging leadership opportunities providing value-added technology solutions leveraging his business experience and systems expertise to contribute to the profitability of a growing organization. While working as a Director for Enterprise Applications and Information Architecture with United Airlines, Geeth played a key role in the merger of United and Continental Airlines including successful delivery of United’s “Customer Day One” program where he led a cross-subsidiary architecture for seamless customer experience. As a Lead Architect for the customer portfolio he led the delivery of Mileage Plus’ next generation “MP 2.0” program that delivered Airline Loyalty industry leading Redemption products weaving-in CIO’s IT multi-year vision items into program delivery. Prior to that, he led the architecture and delivery of United’s multi-channel, multi-product Merchandising program, that enabled United to deliver industry leading ancillary revenues. As a Senior Architect in the Ecommerce area he was instrumental in building the 3 Billion annual revenue generating united.com website. Prior to that Geeth worked as an Architect for Washington Mutual bank building their next generation Middleware Platform. Geeth is an avid technology blogger and follower of technology blogs to keep himself up-to-date on technology. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toledo, Ohio
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About Cognizant, Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Prasad Nagu
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Prasad Nagu is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. Prasad has over 14 years of experience.
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About Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Prasad Nagu
Co-Founder & SVP of Entrigna
Prasad Nagu is the co-founder of Entrigna Inc. Prasad has over 14 years of experience.
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About Entrigna: Entrigna offers RTES, a real time expert system platform that translates complex data and predictive analytics into actionable insights.
Malaikannan Sankarasubbu
VP, AI Research of Saama
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
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.
Tiffany Riley
VP Marketing of Kitman Labs
Tiffany Riley is the vice president of marketing at Kitman Labs.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
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.
Subutai Ahmad
VP of Research of Numenta
Subutai brings experience across real time systems, computer vision and learning to Numenta. He has previously served as VP Engineering at YesVideo, Inc. where he helped grow the company from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. In 1997, Subutai co- founded ePlanet Interactive, a spin-off from Interval Research. ePlanet developed the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers. He has served as a key researcher at Interval Research. Subutai holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While pursing his Ph.D, Subutai completed a thesis on computational neuroscience models of visual attention.
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About Numenta: Leading the new era of machine intelligence
Brian Li
VP Business Operations of Mezi
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About Mezi: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Dongyan Wang
VP AI Transformation of Landing AI
Dongyan Wang is currently the VP AI Transformation at Landing AI, a company founded by Andrew Ng to empower companies with artificial intelligence. Prior to Landing AI, He served as senior executive for multiple Fortune Global 500 enterprises such as Midea Group, NetApp, and Cisco, leveraging artificial intelligence, data science and blockchain technologies to lead strategic enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. He has also served as the COO of Grand Intelligence, a technology consulting company, and Chief AI Officer of a Blockchain+AI startup. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds more than 10 granted US granted US patents, 10+ international patents, and 30+ pending patents.
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About Landing AI: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
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.
John H. Mack
EVP, Marketing of Opera Solutions
John Mack serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for Zementis, and is responsible for all strategic and operational aspects of the marketing function. In his role, he strives to help Zementis’ customers and business partners understand the full range of capabilities that Zementis technologies offer, successfully integrate these technologies into their businesses and generate the maximum possible value from accelerated, dynamic predictive analytics capabilities. John also oversees strategic business development relationships with Zementis’ channel and technology partners and supports joint go-to-market efforts in collaboration with them. John brings to Zementis many years of technology industry experience, as an industry advisor, business practitioner and investor. His technology domain experience encompasses big data analytics, enterprise networking solutions, cloud computing, mobility and “The Internet of Things”. Prior to starting with Zementis, John was a Partner (Managing Director) in Accenture’s Management Consulting organization, where he was responsible for managing the firm’s consulting relationships with several key technology-sector clients, shaping and driving initiatives to help them achieve their business objectives. Earlier in his postgraduate career, John worked in Accenture’s strategy consulting organization, focusing on corporate strategy, M&A and business operations initiatives for the wireless industry, and then expanding that scope over time to encompass the broader high-technology sector. His prior professional experience spans management consulting (Aptos LLC, The Parthenon Group, Deloitte Consulting), investment banking (Morgan Stanley), corporate roles at Honeywell Aerospace and Cisco Systems and military leadership roles as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. John earned his MBA from Duke University and his BA in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College. He is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Bhavi Mehta
EVP, Corporate Development of Opera Solutions
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
