Meet United States's 100 Top VP's in the Machine Learning Space

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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Machine Learning 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.

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Ron Alfa

Senior Vice President, Translational Discovery of Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Ron Alfa is Vice President, Discovery and Product at Recursion Pharmaceuticals where he manages scientific product development and external alliances across Recursion’s AI-enabled discovery platform. Ron Alfa’s scientific contributions prior to Recursion span Neurosciences, Metabolism, and Genetics.

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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.

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.

Richard Lucquet

Head of Solution Engineering & Map Operations, VP of DeepMap

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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Karim De Martino

VP Business Development of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

Jason Weber

VP of Business Development of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

Erin Miller

VP of Account Management of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Assaf Baciu

SVP of Products & co-founder of Persado

Assaf Baciu is the SVP of Products and co-founder of Persado. He was the Vice President of Product Management at Upstream before that. Assaf is responsible for driving the development of Upstream’s next-generation mobile marketing solutions and identifying new markets for expansion. Prior to joining Upstream, Assaf worked for speech and imaging solutions supplier Nuance Communications as a senior director of product strategy where he was responsible for developing on-demand and mobile solutions. Assaf joined Nuance from BeVocal, following its acquisition in 2007, where he led product management and developed innovative multi-channel mobile strategies and solutions. Assaf holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and he has a Masters in Social Psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris.

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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.

Mihir Nanavati

Executive Vice President, Product of NextRoll

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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.

Jason Finkelstein

SVP Global Marketing of NextRoll

Jason is SVP Global Marketing at AdRoll, a division of NextRoll. He advises Traitify, Disconnect and Swellbox. He was formerly Chief Revenue Officer at Traitify and before that Chief Marketing Officer at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), who was acquired by Avast Software in 2016 for $1.3B. Before AVG, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Location Labs which AVG acquired in 2014 for $220M. Prior to Location Labs, Jason served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Funambol, Vindigo and Millennium Technology Ventures. Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.

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.

Brad Klaus

Group Vice President, International Solutions of FourKites

Brad Klaus is the Group Vice President, International Solutions at FourKites, Inc.

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About FourKites: FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.

Chris Kolmar

Co-Founder and VP of Marketing of Zippia

Chris helped co-found Zippia four years ago which helps college students and recent grads find jobs that fit them. He was previously the Sr. Director of Marketing at Movoto and graduated from Pomona College.

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About Zippia: Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives.

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.

Ralph Lafferty

VP & Head of Commercial Business of Orbital Insight

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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Bhavin Shah

Founder, EVP Sales & Marketing of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES

Bhavin has over 20+ years of industry experience working on cutting edge technologies. At Volansys, as a Executive Vice President for Sales & Founder, Bhavin is responsible for Business Analysis, Sales and Business Development and Strategic client relationships. He is responsible for driving new sales along with focus on delivering profitable business for our company. He held leadership role in Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) based Product Company and one of India’s leading Electronic Design Services Companies. He led India Development Centre to deliver customized product (FMC) based on customer requirements and handled customer engagements. He grew Embedded Division of India’s leading Electronic Design Services Company from 25 to 250 people and increase the revenues as well as head count. He has extensive experience on Silicon Platform Services, Consumer Electronics, Streaming Media and Security Surveillance Systems from concept to prototype development, Porting BSP, Driver Development, Audio/Video Algorithm Optimization and Application Development. He has successfully executed multi-million USD businesses. He was involved in Build Operate Transfer (BOT), multi-year, multi-projects engagements. Bhavin holds Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering.

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About VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES: VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs

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.

Philip Rathle

SVP of Products of Neo4j

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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.

Milind Karnik

Executive Vice President of Elementary Robotics

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About Elementary Robotics: Elementary Robotics is a robotics startup that built a platform for applying machine learning to the logistics industries.

Chris Heine

VP of Strategic Alliances of Paradox

As Senior Vice president of Global Client Services & Operations, Chris Heine oversees multiple teams responsible for converting sales into revenue, and leads the planning, reporting and strategy for sales tools and technology for AOL’s $1.5B advertising business. Since joining the company in 2005, Chris has led several organizational integrations and acquisitions for AOL Platforms, driving the company’s effort to deliver brands and agencies a cleaner and more holistic advertising offering. Before joining the AOL family, Chris’s entrepreneurial spirit drew him to product and project management roles at several startups including Impreza Design, a web design company and 180s, a provider of wearable technology. His efforts resulted in the successful sales of Impreza Design, and 180s, making the #9 spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2003 list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies.Chris received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and lives with his wife and two daughters in Annapolis, MD.

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About Paradox, Vizual.ai: Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.

Stephen Ost

VP, Product of Paradox

Stephen has a passion for creating beautiful, innovative, and scalable software that solves real client problems. As the Vice President of Product at Paradox, Stephen is responsible for helping Olivia come to life. His unique set of Product skills and background in Computer Science allows him to take the complexities of building an artificial intelligence and create a simplified and beautiful candidate and recruiter experience. Stephen works closely with our product and engineering team to ensure the reliability, efficiency, and performance of Olivia, while also adding new features and benefits. Prior to Paradox, Stephen was recognized as a College Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine and has built several software companies, with one leading to an acquisition.

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About Paradox: Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.

Adam Kahn

VP, Fleet Business of NetraDyne

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About NetraDyne, NetraDyne: NetraDyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.

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.