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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 Washington based Founder operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Founder 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.
Surbhi Rathore
CEO & Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai, Women in AI: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
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Toshish Jawale
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder and CEO of Glue Up
As a leader in the global tech industry, Eric is focused on developing customer-centric products and transforming the way professional communities build and enrich relationships. He has incubated multiple tech startups within the software, mobile, and environmental industries, and has worked with venture capital and private equity investments in the United States and China. He also founded China Entrepreneurs — a community he built into a 20,000+ member network. Eric is an elected member of AmCham China’s Board of Governors. In 2004, sponsored by Nike and Phillips, he traced Marco Polo’s route, cycling 100 days from Beijing, China to Venice, Italy. Eric holds an M.S. and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been featured in media such as the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, CCTV, China Daily, and numerous other outlets.
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About Glue Up: Glue Up is an all-in-one engagement management CRM for associations, chambers of commerce, event organizers and marketing professionals.
Mark Grovic
General Partner & Founder of New Markets Venture Partners
Mark Grovic co-founded New Markets Venture Partners in 2003 and is a General Partner. Mark serves or has served on the Board of Directors for Fishtree, Graduation Alliance, Think Through Learning, MediaSolv (sold to Nasdaq: TASR), Lightningcast (sold to NYSE: TWX), Moodlerooms (sold to Blackboard) and Workspace.com. Mark also serves or has served as a board observer for Aldagen (sold to NASDAQ: CMXI), American Honors College, Andera (sold to NASDAQ: EPAY), Appfluent, BioSET (sold to Ferring Pharmaceuticals), Mashable, Overture Technologies, Paratek Microwave (sold to NASDAQ: RIMM), Questar Assessment and Vision Chain. Mark also co-founded LifeJourney, an online educational company that allows students to test drive real life careers in specific corporations. Mark has been investing in high growth companies since 1992. Prior to New Markets, Mark was a Portfolio Manager for the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), a $200 million managed emerging market venture capital company, Director of Estonia-based Baltic Small Equity Fund, a Co-Founder and Principal of the Templeton Emerging Europe Fund, as Principal of Templeton Direct Advisors, and a Portfolio Manager of Private Equities at the Calvert Group. Mark is a Senior Advisor to University of Maryland University College (UMUC), advising on corporate development and entrepreneurship, and a Senior Lecturer at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he has taught a Private Equity Clinic for the last 15 years. Previously, he was VC-in-Residence at the Smith School and Deputy Director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. He has earned three awards for his instruction at UMD and at Howard University, plus a fellowship awarded for the innovative use of technology in the classroom. Mark helped to found and served as Board Director of the Baltimore Chapter of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), is Board Chair at Emerson Preparatory High School in Washington, D.C. and serves as on the board of Partners for Affordable Excellence. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the American Public University System and of the Innovation Advisory Board for the Lumina Foundation. Mark is also a member of the Washington Baltimore chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. Mark graduated with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in political economies and received a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University, where his focus was in international, tax, and corporate law. Mark has also completed graduate work in accounting and finance at the George Washington University and Pace University, and completed the Private Equity and Venture Capital Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Mark lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife and two children and is a mediocre musician and triathlete.
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About New Markets Venture Partners: New Markets Venture Partners is an early and growth stage venture capital firm.
Omri Mor
CEO and Co-Founder of Routable
Omri founded ZIIBRA in 2011 with the goal of helping artists turn their creative projects into full-time gigs. He has become renowned for his email-slaying skills and tireless attention to design and product. When he’s not in the office, you can find him picking up a new record to listen to, eating copious amounts of sushi, or cheering for his alma mater, the University of Washington.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
Geoff Osler
CEO and Co-Founder of S!NG
Geoff Osler si the Co-Founder and CEO of S!NG. Prior to co-founding ClearSign, Geoff Osler was Director of Partner Marketing for Adobe Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide programs with membership in excess of 10,000 developers, service providers, and certified training centers. Geoff has managed marketing teams in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in addition to the United States and Canada. Prior to Adobe, he was co-founder and marketing director of Crosstree Systems Inc., the developer of Target, one of the world’s first daily, industry-specific email news services. In 1994 at Science and Information Technology, Ltd., Geoff was part of the team that created MAPS, one of the first software systems to enable web-based image searching and content management. Geoff concluded agreements placing MAPS at some of the world’s leading publications including The Times of London, The Daily Mirror and The Economist. From 1992 to 1994, at the beginning of the shift to a free market, Geoff was a senior manager at Apple Computer in Warsaw, Poland with responsibility for product localization and securing exclusive distribution agreements with leading U.S. software and hardware manufacturers.
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About S!NG: S!NG is a hesitation-free idea-sharing platform providing new groundbreaking technology services targeted for the music industry.
Gregg Bennett
Chairman & Founder of SCATE Ventures
Gregg Bennett, Co-Founder, is an entrepreneur who coaches local, Seattle based, technology companies. Gregg has invested in and/or advised over 100 Northwest-based startup and early-stage companies.
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About Bennett Enterprises, Data Skrive, Data Skrive, SCATE Ventures: SCATE Ventures is a bitcoin mining & immersion technology.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Chuck Ghoorah (Co-founder)
Co-Founder & President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing of Cvent
Chuck Ghoorah is the co-founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. Chuck has been instrumental in Cvent’s growth from a two-person startup to an industry-leading global organization. Cvent has helped its more than 30,000 customers manage millions of events.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
David Quattrone
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cvent
David Quattrone has been with Cvent since the company’s founding, bringing a wealth of expertise in designing and developing large-scale Internet applications. David designed and supervised the development of Cvent’s original beta product as well as all of Cvent’s subsequent product releases, upgrades and redesigns. Prior to co-founding Cvent, David worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services. There, David specialized in large-scale custom Internet/Intranet application design and development. David’s clients included BlueCross/BlueShield Association, United States Postal Service, and MCI. He was also a Consultant with E.J. Bell Systems, a software integration and application development firm, where he helped found the company’s Internet/Intranet development practice. Prior to E.J. Bell Systems, David co-founded Network Resources Group, a New York based firm specializing in Internet software integration and application development. At Network Resources Group, David created the Online Gaming Review, an online publication subsequently acquired by Air Age publishing.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Rick McGeer
CEO and Co-Founder of engageLively
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About engageLively, US Ignite: Jupyter Hubs as a Service, with built in presentation, visualization, interaction, and a built in point-and-click chart editor
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain: Dragonchain is the most flexible platform for hybrid blockchain solutions. Dragonchain is used by enterprises and developers to build blockchain applications, and connect their logic with distributed ledger technology. Benefits include increased automation, provide trust and proof, maintain transparency, enable chain of custody, and ensure privacy, with unparalleled security.
Ben Cotton
Founder & CEO of Cyfir
Ben Cotton is the President, CEO and founder of Cytech Services, an industry leading computer forensics and incident response firm serving both public and private industry. Prior to founding CyTech in 2002, Ben was a twenty-one year veteran of the US Army, Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Mr. Cotton served in both unclassified and classified units fighting the Global War on Terrorism, specializing in sensitive site and digital device exploitation, Computer Network Attack (CNA), and Computer Network Defense (CND). While on active duty—in addition to being a fully qualified operator—Mr. Cotton was a technical visionary and pioneer in Cyber Security and Computer Forensics for the US Government and the SOCOM. Ben is a plank holder for the SOCOM capabilities that now exist within these technical areas. Ben holds a Masters of Science in Information Technology Management and has also earned numerous technical certifications, including the CISSP and other industry-recognized computer forensic and incident response certifications.
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About Cyfir, eSentire: CyFIR is the ideal network investigation and Incident Response tool for performing live computer investigations across any size enterprise.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Sadanand Sahasrabudhe
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Numerify
Sadanand is a Co-founder and Chief Architect of Numerify. Prior to Numerify, he held leadership positions in engineering, product management and solutions consulting at multiple Business Intelligence and Analytics companies. Early in his career, Sadanand was a key architect on the team that built the industry-leading analytical engine at MicroStrategy. He has designed products and implemented analytics solutions for large commercial enterprises and government agencies. When not working, Sadanand enjoys playing racquetball and following (almost) all sports. He is also a wine lover and an eternally struggling cook. Sadanand holds B.E. and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and Virginia Tech respectively.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
David Leeds
Founder & CEO of Tango Card
Experience starting, scaling, and managing large enterprise businesses. FiberTower: Cofounder, SVP Strategy, Sales, and Marketing. Stanford GSB MBA (2000), University of Vermont/Univ. of Copenhagen BSBA (1991).
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About Tango Card: Tango Card bundles simple technology, great rewards and expert service to help companies get the most out of their reward programs.
Kyle Hendrick
Founder & General Partner of AAF Management Ltd.
Kyle has lead direct investments in over 90+ early stage companies with over 500 tier 1 and tier 2 venture capital firms and corporate venture arms participating in the deals. He has LP exposure to over 17 venture capital funds globally and is an investment committee member at KBBO Ventures a $100M venture arm of KBBO Group in Abu Dhabi.
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About AAF Management Ltd., GoldCleats Global: AAF Management Ltd. is an early-stage VC firm focused on Seed and Series A technology companies.
Richard Tindal
Co-Founder and COO of Donuts
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Tom White
Chief Product Officer/Co-Founder of AI Data Innovations
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About AI Data Innovations: AI Data Innovations provides human annotation services for a variety of machine learning and AI applications.
Bassam Tabbara
Founder and CEO of Upbound
Bassam Tabbara serves as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Upbound, Inc. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Corporation.
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About UPBOND, Upbound: Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Chris Gibbons
Founder & CEO of The Greystone Group, Inc.
Chris Gibbons is a physician, health innovator and entrepreneur with a passion for digital health health innovation and diversity. He is currently The Chief Health Innovation Adviser for the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force and the Founder & CEO of The Greystone Group, Inc., a health technology research, innovation and incubation company. Previously Dr. Gibbons was an Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University where he currently remains as an adjunct assistant professor. He is a recognized health innovator, published author and international speaker who has authored over 75 scientific papers, books, book chapters and technical reports. Dr. Gibbons obtained his medical degree from the University of Alabama and then completed residency training in Preventive Medicine, a basic science research fellowship and a Master of Public Health degree all from Johns Hopkins.
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About Duke University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Greystone Group, Inc.: The Greystone Group, Inc. is a health technology innovation company focused on multicultural innovators and solutions.
Jay Sunny Bajaj
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Digital Management
Jay Sunny Bajaj is Digital Management, Inc.’s (DMI) Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. Sunny was raised in the technology industry, where both of his parents independently built successful IT services businesses. In 2002, he leveraged his deep understanding of the industry to found DMI. Under Sunny’s leadership, DMI has grown to become a recognized leader in enterprise mobility, big data analytics, strategic consulting, managed services, application development and cybersecurity. The company continues to experience dramatic growth, with an expanding client base that includes all fifteen U.S. Federal Departments and hundreds of Fortune 1000 commercial clients. DMI has received accolades for its growth, innovation and outstanding client service. The company has been honored as one of the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the country by Inc.com for the last seven years and was also recognized as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal. Growing more than 900 percent in the past three years, and employing more than 1,500 professionals, DMI recently received Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Award and was ranked as the 9th largest private job creator in the U.S. in 2013. Sunny is a multi-year winner of the Washington SmartCEO Future 50 award. In 2009 and again in 2010, he was honored as a Smart100 CEO, an exclusive group of 100 top-performing and highly respected CEOs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. Sunny earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to founding DMI, he worked at e-business pioneers AppNet and CommerceOne, as well as Goldman Sachs.
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About Digital Management: Digital Management provides mobile solutions and services that include enterprise mobility and cyber security.
Sean Sternbach
Co-Founder of Venture Out Startups
Sean Sternbach is the Co-Founder of Venture Out.
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About Venture Out Startups: Venture Out supports pre-seed, aspiring entrepreneurs with strong domain expertise from large tech companies to launch startups.
Seth Brickman
Co-Founder, Head of Product and Operations of Nicolette
Seth joined Nicolette out of his belief that we are all here for a purpose bigger than ourselves and helping patients and providers partner in healthcare helps accomplish that. Seth is a veteran of the US Navy and has been a senior executive at several companies including Microsoft and Holland America cruise line.
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About Nicolette, Qcash Financial: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Tom Gilbert
Founder, CTO & SVP Engineering of Blue Ridge Networks
Tom Gilbert has supported the sale of security and VPN products and services for more than 10 years. His extensive security experience and technical background have been strong assets in bringing Blue Ridge Networks products and services to market quickly and successfully. Like many members of the Blue Ridge team, Gilbert has seen his share of “firsts” in the technology industry. He was on the first team to provide commercial delivery of high-speed multimedia over satellite while working at Satellite Business Systems, a one billion dollar company. He was also on the team that developed and launched the first V-LAN during his tenure at Network Systems Corporation, where he served as director of business development, marketing director, technical sales consultant, and a national account sales manager, leading the IBM and AT&T accounts.Gilbert also managed the worldwide development and support of programming tools at IBM. He received a Bachelor of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
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About Blue Ridge Networks: Blue Ridge Networks provides high-security outsourced Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions.
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Sanju Bansal
Founder & CEO of Hunch Analytics
Sanju Bansal is the co-founder of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile software, big data and cloud-based services. He served as the company’s vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president till November 14, 2013. From 1993-2012, he served as chief operating officer of MicroStrategy. Bansal serves as a member of the board of directors of Cvent (NYSE: CVT), a cloud-based event management software provider, and The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ:ABCO), a research services company. In 2013, Sanju received the Washington Business Journal’s Outstanding Directors award for his work with Cvent. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from MIT and a Master of Science in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About CareJourney, Hunch Analytics: Hunch Analytics is a great company to work with, or work for. We are dedicated to harnessing newly available data and cutting-edge analytic.
Thanasis Delistathis
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PROOF
A native Grecian, Thanasis has an innate ability to spot trends early and accurately predict how they will be adopted globally. He has invested in entrepreneurs whose technology brought text messaging mainstream in the United States, movies to the Web, radio to your phone and the ability to buy couture straight from the runway. Thanasis brings two decades of experience to his entrepreneurial teams and access to a premier set of syndicate investors as companies quickly scale. In addition, Thanasis came up with the idea for the first early stage opportunity fund in 2004, which the Venture Capital Journal identified as a first in a prominent co-investment trend in the venture market. Before he became a venture capitalist, he spent three years providing corporate restructuring and financial strategies for 20 public subsidiaries and early-stage technology opportunities that are now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. He started his career at McKinsey & Co.
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About NAV.VC, PROOF: PROOF is a growth-stage VC that invests in breakout companies, in partnership with select early-stage Venture Capital funds.
Femi Adebogun
Co-Founder and CEO of ScholarMe
Femi Adebogun is a programmer, problem solver and technology innovator with a passion for improving broken and inefficient systems. While still in High School he founded Testify Software, an EdTech start-up geared towards individualized learning. Alongside Testify, Femi designs and develops custom websites and applications for commercial clients throughout the United States. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO at ScholarMe.
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About ScholarMe, Testify Software: ScholarMe simplifies how high school and college students pay for college.
Peter L. Corsell
Managing Partner/Founder of Twenty First Century Utilities
Peter L. Corsell is an entrepreneur and investor known for successfully bringing emerging technologies to market. MIT’s Technology Review recognized him as one of the world’s top innovators under age 35, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, and the National Association of Corporate Directors included him on its inaugural list of leading directors under 40. Corsell is Managing Partner of Twenty First Century Utilities, an investment firm dedicated to acquiring and transforming regulated electric utilities. He is responsible for implementing the firm’s investment thesis of generating excellent long-term returns, while identifying and implementing smart grid and distributed clean energy technologies within the traditional regulated utility model. Corsell is also Chairman of GridPoint, which he founded in 2003 and led as CEO until 2010. GridPoint developed an innovative smart grid platform to facilitate increased adoption of distributed energy technologies by aligning the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment. GridPoint has evolved into an established cleantech leader and Internet of Things pioneer, enabling businesses, utilities and government agencies to maximize energy savings, operational efficiency and environmental sustainability. The company has deployed more than 500,000 connected devices and has saved its customers almost $400 million and 5 billion kilowatt-hours of energy. In 2011, Corsell cofounded Hubub, a digital platform used by individuals, publishers and brands for exploring, discussing and debating topics of interest. In partnership with Bell Media, Canada’s largest multimedia company, Hubub developed a significant following in Canada, where it was featured in a 2015 Super Bowl commercial. In 2016, Hubub was acquired by The Stagwell Group, the digital marketing services conglomerate founded by Mark Penn, and was renamed Stagwell Tech. Corsell is currently Senior Advisor to The Stagwell Group. Corsell has been a board member and investor in several technology companies, with a focus on big data analytics and enterprise software. He has been interviewed on Charlie Rose and featured in several books including Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Tom Friedman, Perfect Power by Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager, Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp and The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder. Earlier in his career, Corsell served in the Central Intelligence Agency and with the U.S. Department of State in Havana, Cuba. He holds a BSFS degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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About Hubub, Twenty First Century Utilities: Twenty First Century Utilities, LLC is working to transform regulated utilities with a twenty first century model.
Larry Kellerman
Managing Partner/Founder of Twenty First Century Utilities
Larry Kellerman has spent over three decades in the electric utility, power generation and independent energy industries. Larry has overseen, acquired and constructed over 20,000 MW of conventional and renewable generation assets. The enterprises led by Kellerman have produced a cumulative profit of over $6.5 billion. Most recently, Larry was Chief Executive Officer at Quantum Utility Generation, a private equity-funded, independent power generation company. Previously, Larry was Partner at Goldman Sachs and President of the firm’s electric power business, where he built operations from the ground up and led a wide range of investments for the firm, including cleantech and smart grid initiatives. Earlier in his career, Larry served as Senior Managing Director at El Paso Corporation, where he developed a 6,000 MW fleet of highly profitable North American power generation assets. Larry was founding President of Citizens Power, the nation’s first independent power marketing enterprise, from start-up through its eventual high-value sale. Larry began his career with electric utilities Southern California Edison and Portland General Electric, where he became General Manager of Power Supply and Power Marketing. Larry holds a B.A. degree in Management from the University of California, Davis (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from West Coast University, Los Angeles (summa cum laude).
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About Twenty First Century Utilities: Twenty First Century Utilities, LLC is working to transform regulated utilities with a twenty first century model.
Vincent Lopez
Founder & CEO of LCA Vantage
Vincent Lopez is the founder & CEO of LCA Vantage Healthcare d/b/a Parker Health an innovative biotechnology company advancing healthcare into the next century. At Parker Health he is the chief visionary leading strategy & government affairs working closely with Congress and the National Coordinator for Health information Technology office to inform their results to economize spending, minimize legacy technology costs and inefficiencies, enhance patient care, and deploy the latest healthcare technology.
He is the founder of the Lopez Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit. In 2015, he was nominated to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Board of Governors by Governor Tom Wolf (D-PA), He’s the former student body president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the PASSHE Board of Student Government Presidents. He completed a Fellowship with an emphasis on STEM education in minority communities (7th Ward, Washington, DC), with then-President Obama’s Organizing for Action. He has worked for the US. Department of Homeland Security.
A native of Sacramento, California, Mr. Lopez was raised in Arlington, Virginia. He studied at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. He’s an avid golfer, and a fan of Formula 1 racing, horse racing, and fishing.
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About LCA CORP, LCA Vantage, The Lopez Foundation,Inc.: Electronic Health Records, Remote Physiological Monitoring, Biometrics, FHIR Complaint, Health Subscriptions
Jon Perl
Co-Founder of QA Wolf
Jon Perl currently works as the Co-Founder for QA Wolf. He previously worked at Zipdrug as a Consulting Engineer.
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About QA Wolf: QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs.
Co-Founder of Hybrent
Navneet Gosal Former CTO, and founding team member of the original Carefusion, Navneet now enjoys creating and operating new businesses with technology focus – like working with entrepreneurs as they try to build something that can scale and be interesting. Solving problems in small gaps in existing systems that can yield big efficiencies.
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About Hybrent, India Venture Partners: Hybrent is committed to improving the current state of healthcare by providing groundbreaking technology
Perianne Boring
Founder and President of Chamber of Digital Commerce
Perianne Boring founded the Chamber of Digital Commerce building it into the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. Perianne was named among CoinDesk’s “10 Most Influential People in Blockchain 2016” and “Top Woman in Bitcoin 2015” by a leading industry publication for her public policy accomplishments. Perianne is a communications expert and avid public speaker. She has presented at leading industry events including the Consumer Electronic Show (“CES”), Money 20/20, South by Southwest and many others. She also contributes to Forbes through her column, “The Beauty of the Blockchain.” Prior to forming the Chamber, Perianne was a television host and anchor of an international finance program that aired in more than 100 countries to over 650 million viewers. Ms. Boring began her career as a legislative analyst in the U.S. House of Representatives, advising on finance, economics, tax and healthcare policy. Perianne graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics. Raised in Florida, she currently resides in Washington, DC.
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About Chamber of Digital Commerce: The Chamber of Digital Commerce is the world’s leading trade association representing the digital asset and blockchain industry.
Kyle Quest
Founder & CTO of Slim.AI
Kyle Quest currently works as the Founder and CTO for Slim.AI.
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About Slim.AI: Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy, and run their cloud native apps.
Jeffrey Heer
Co-Founder & CXO of Trifacta
Jeff is Trifacta’s Chief Experience Officer & a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab. Jeff’s passion is the design of novel user interfaces for exploring, managing and communicating data. The data visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. In 2009, Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of “Top Innovators under 35″.
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About Trifacta, University of Washington: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Christopher Monroe
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of IonQ
Christopher Monroe is the co-founder and chief scientist at IonQ Inc.
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About IonQ: IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors to solve the world’s complex problems.
Montana Reed
Co-Founder & CPO of Mira
Montana Reed is working to define the future of augmented reality product experiences.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Farley Mesko
CEO & Co-Founder of Sayari Labs
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About Sayari Labs: Sayari Labs is a provider of financial intelligence and supply chain risk solutions for analysts and investigators.
Reet Singh
Co-Founder, Owner & Chief Administrative Officer of CNSI
Reet Singh has more than 20 years of experience in systems analysis and development, project management and operations management. Mr. Singh currently serves as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) at CNSI. In this role, he oversees a number of key internal functions, including governance and controls, infrastructure services, operations, human resources, security and talent management. In addition, Mr. Singh oversees CNSI’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program where CNSI is globally and locally committed to giving back to its communities. CNSI Management views employees to be the company’s most valuable asset, and as such, established a position that would help facilitate its continued growth while maintaining a strategic focus on the development of its people. As CAO, Mr. Singh is responsible for managing the current and future growth of CNSI’s employees and ensuring the company has skilled and committed talent throughout the entire organization. Under Mr. Singh’s leadership, he ensures employee engagement and employee wellbeing through CNSI’s Corporate Wellness Program. Prior to assuming the CAO role, Mr. Singh led CNSI’s federal government operations, where he oversaw the business unit’s strategic and operating plans, client relations and the expansion of large-scale projects. Mr. Singh holds a Master of Science in Information and Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University.
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About CNSI: CNSI delivers a broad portfolio of information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions.
Neal Gupta
Co-Founder & CIO of KiwiTech
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Doug Rybacki
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Filo.co
Doug Rybacki is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Filo. He was a former CTO and CPO at Conga. Doug has an MBA from the University of Washington and a BBA from The University of Texas.
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About Filo.co: Filo.co is a collaborative platform for virtual events, meetings, and workshops.
Seth Demsey
Co-Founder of configure8
Seth Demsey is the Co-Founder at configure8.
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About CircleBack, CircleBack, configure8, Embee Mobile, Konduit.me, Pathmatics, Rebel AI, X-ID: Configure8 is a developer experience platform that aids in the structure and knowledge of distributed system by engineers.
Michele Kang
CEO & Founder of Cognosante
A visionary in the field of health information technology, Michele founded Cognosante in 2008 to disrupt and challenge the status quo in the U.S. healthcare system. Leveraging a unique set of business, data, and technical expertise in a fundamentally different way, Cognosante provides innovative solutions central to carrying out national healthcare transformation. Under Michele’s leadership, Cognosante has emerged as one of the most trusted partners of key Federal and state health agencies, while growing rapidly over the past five years. In the spring of 2017, Michele was named winner of the Women in Technology (WIT) Corporate Mid-Market Sector Award at its 18th Annual Leadership Awards in Washington, DC. In 2015, Michele was honored as EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® for the Washington, DC region, and then went on to win the U.S. Award for the Services category. In November 2015, Michele was named Executive of the Year among contracting organizations with revenues of $75 million to $300 million during the 13th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards™. She also received the 2012 Mosaic Woman Trailblazer Award from Diversity Woman magazine in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments and leadership in business. Michele is actively engaged in promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) studies and careers for girls and women. In 2012, she was elected along with U.S. senators, high-ranking government officials, and top executives of Fortune 500 companies as an inaugural member of 100 Women Leaders in STEM. In 2016, STEMconnector® named her one of the “Top 100 CEO Leaders in STEM” in recognition of her deep personal commitment to the cause. To realize one of her lifelong passions, Michele launched the Cognosante Foundation in 2012. The Foundation is focused on helping underprivileged and underresourced individuals build meaningful professional careers and achieve financial independence. It has underwritten an annual fellowship program with the Young Invincibles for first-generation college students to develop critical skills and gain exposure to business and political environments that may otherwise be out of reach. Michele also has been a leader in Veterans causes, organizing the establishment, funding, and serving as chair of the National Women Veterans Committee for the Million Women Mentors (MWM) organization. In October 2016, Michele received the Veterans Service Award from MWM in recognition of her dedication to improving the lives and prospects for success of the nation’s 1.4 million female Veterans. Consistent with Cognosante’s overall vision, Michele established Cognosante Ventures to identify, invest in, and mentor emerging innovative health technology and data analytics companies. Cognosante Ventures focuses on building a portfolio of groundbreaking solutions and capabilities that can help fundamentally change the way healthcare is provided. To date, it has invested in four early-stage companies, and Michele serves on the board of three of these companies. Prior to founding Cognosante, Michele served as vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s Health Solutions division, and as a management consultant helping global information, technology, and telecom companies formulate and successfully execute profitable growth strategies. Michele is an American Enterprise Institute National Council Co-Chair, a Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Vice Chair, and a member of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management.
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About Cognosante: Cognosante is a provider of healthcare consulting, technology solutions, and business process outsourcing services.
Prem Kumar Kandalu
Founder & CEO of Cloud IQ Technologies
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About Cloud IQ Technologies: Cloud IQ Technologies offers you a portfolio of IT Cloud Management services.
Jai Vasanth
Co-Founder & CT) of Zync
Jai Vasanth currently works as the Co-founder and CTO for Zync.
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About Zync: Zync is a web-based meeting application that makes it easier to schedule meetings.
Kennet Westby
Co-Founder & President of Coalfire
Kennet Westby is a founding partner of Coalfire and serves as its president and chief security strategist. Kennet Westby has over 20 years of leadership experience in IT security, IT controls design and implementations. Kennet Westby provides cyber risk advisory to some of the world’s largest organizations and is a regular participant in programs advancing cyber risk management. Kennet Westby’s broad industry experience also includes application development, e-business and business process integration. He has served as COO for a global managed service provider where he provided both technical and operations leadership. Kennet Westby has also served as the COO and CIO for a major online healthcare network and telecommunications provider. He was selected as one of the nation’s top 100 CIOs by CIO Magazine, is considered an industry leader in IT risk advisory and has presented as a keynote speaker at some of the largest industry forums.
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About Coalfire: Coalfire provides risk assessments, testing and implementation security solutions for technology-related businesses.
Cory Siskind
Founder and CEO of Base Operations
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About Base Operations: Base Operations uses AI to aggregate and visualize threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.
Free Wortley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec
Free Wortley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec.
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About LunaSec, Refinery: Open Source data security platform to help you protect your most sensitive data.
Graham Covington
CEO & Founder of Engaging Networks
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About Engaging Networks: Engaging Networks is the technology used by many of the world’s leading charities to power their digital strategies.
Ray Liu
CEO and Founder of Origin Wireless
Ray Liu is the Founder and CEO of Origin Wireless.
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About Origin Wireless: Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals.
Allison Magyar
CEO, Founder & President of Hubb
Allie Magyar is a skilled entrepreneur and technology maven with over 15 years of experience driving successful technology enabled service companies. She founded Hubb to build a technology solution that directly addressed the needs of meeting planners as they manage the overload of information for their event content. As CEO of Hubb, she is responsible for directing the company’s strategic direction with an emphasis on key partnerships, integrations, and growth. Allie is also passionate about driving positive corporate culture and her companies have won several regional awards such as “Healthiest Workplace” and “Most Philanthropic”. Allie combines her real-world experience in marketing, sales, partner relationship building, and show production with a strong vision for the technology-enabled future of event management. She is an experienced speaker who has spoken at conferences such as CEMA, Event Tech Live and ACT-W Portland. Allie is CMP certified, a board member for TAO (Technology Association of Oregon), a member of Vistage, a two-time Inc. 5000 award winner, and was listed on the 2013 Collaborate 40 Under 40 in the meetings industry and the 2017 Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. She was named a 2017 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Smart Meetings Magazine and, in 2018 was an EY Pacific NW Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About Hubb: The Hubb Platform makes virtual, in-person and hybrid events with powerful attendee engagement tools that bring brands to life.
Josh Vande Krol
COO & Co-Founder of Hubb
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About Hubb: The Hubb Platform makes virtual, in-person and hybrid events with powerful attendee engagement tools that bring brands to life.
Jim Manzi
Founder and Partner of Foundry.AI
Jim was founder, CEO and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), which became the world’s largest purely cloud-based predictive analytics software company. Prior to founding APT, Jim worked at AT&T Laboratories, and was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting. Jim received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was subsequently awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in statistics to the doctoral program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
Ned Brody
Founder & Partner of Foundry.AI
Ned Brody is the Founder & Partner at Foundry.ai.
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About Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
David Ross
CTO & Co-Founder of Twistle
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About Twistle: Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery.
Brian Weaver
Founder ,Chairman & CEO of Torch.AI
Brian Weaver is the Founder , Chairman & CEO of Torch.AI.
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About MEDQOR, Torch.AI: Torch.AI is a network-centric AI that delivers augmented intelligence technology solutions and digital consulting services.
Trenor Williams
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Socially Determined
Williams is a family physician, entrepreneur, former CMIO and consulting executive and he most recently was the founder of Clinovations and former Managing Partner at the Advisory Board. In 2017, Dr. Williams founded a new company Socially Determined in order to create a service-enabled technology platform that integrates the social determinants of health with clinical data through the use of comprehensive care pathways and advanced analytics. With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Dr. Williams’ unique perspective is formed at the intersection of healthcare and technology. He has an extensive understanding and knowledge in the implementation of healthcare technology, clinical process redesign, consumer market strategy development, and clinical adoption strategy development for leading hospital systems here in the United States and around the world. He has authored and edited several articles and books including: EHR for Dummies and Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide, which received the 2009 HIMSS Book of the Year Award. Prior to starting Socially Determined and Clinovations, Dr. Williams led and supported engagements for Advanced Clinical Information Systems Implementations in both Inpatient and Ambulatory organizations. His expertise has helped organizations implement and optimize Computerized Physician Order Entries and develop strategies for achieving clinical, operational, and financial return on investment. Dr. Williams spent time in England working with the National Health Service to develop the national benefits that will measure every hospital in the country. He also helped healthcare communities redesign clinical care pathways for specific disease states in order to deliver improved and more efficient care. Dr. Williams’s subject matter expertise has helped clients develop physician adoption and clinical transformation methodologies and organize and motivate their clinical staffs during implementations. During these projects he worked side by side with clients to design and implement new governance structures, clinical content management strategies, clinician training plans and clinical workflow redesign efforts. Before beginning his consulting career, Dr. Williams was the medical director of Family Practice at Mammoth Hospital in California. He also served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.
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About Socially Determined: The social risk analytics company for organizations committed to addressing the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Chris Young
Founder and CEO of ChefSteps
Chris Young is the CEO and cofounder of ChefSteps, the James Beard and Dieline award–winning smart-product company behind Joule Sous Vide—the smallest, most powerful sous vide tool on the planet. Controlled by a video-rich app created entirely in-house, Joule has been used to cook more than 1 million meals and is Cook’s Illustrated’s top choice among sous vide tools. Prior to ChefSteps,Young was the principal coauthor of the acclaimed and worldwide best-selling six-volume work Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. He was also the founding chef of Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen, the secret culinary laboratory behind the innovative dishes served at one of the best restaurants in the world. Prior to becoming a chef, he completed degrees in theoretical mathematics and biochemistry.
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About ChefSteps, Combustion: ChefSteps is a well-funded and rapidly growing start-up that works at the intersection of culinary education, entertainment, and technology.
Malik Khan
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of LTN Global Communications
Khan co-founded LTN and serves as its executive chairman of the Board. From July 2005 to July 2007, Khan served as Chairman and CEO of NexTone, Inc., a session border controller (“SBC”) company. From 2004 to 2005, Khan served as Chairman and CEO of Converged Access, Inc., an integrated IP voice and data solutions company. Prior to that, Khan was founder, Chairman and CEO of Sitara Networks from 1996 to 2004 and co-founder and Chairman of Indus River Networks from 1996 to 2000. Khan served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Flagship Ventures during 1996. From 1984 to 1996, Khan was employed by Motorola Inc. and served in a variety of executive roles, including Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Network Systems Division. Khan holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Yousef Javadi
Co-Founder, President and CEO of LTN Global Communications
Javadi is a co-founder of LTN and its President and CEO. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive leader in both telecom services and IP technology. Javadi brings over 25 years of experience at starting, growing, and running global businesses. Most recently, Javadi was President of NexTone Communications, a privately held provider of software products. Earlier, Javadi was President of Sprint International, where he ran all of Sprint’s businesses, alliances, and relationships outside of the U.S. Under Javadi’s leadership and direction, Sprint built its next generation global Internet backbone. Prior to that, he held increasingly important corporate executive positions, including: head of the billion dollar North American operations of Primus Telecom; president of a wireless messaging unit at G.E. Capital; and vice-president of global sales and marketing at OTI, a start up satellite company that was sold to MCI. Javadi holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Yair Amir
Co-Founder & CSO of LTN Global Communications
Amir is a co-founder and the Chief Science Officer at LTN. He is an established expert in building messaging systems and C3I systems. Amir is the initiator of the Spread group communication and messaging toolkit (www.spread.org), which is used in thousands of installations around the world in commercial, academic and government settings. He also led the development of Secure Spread, which includes the first robust key agreement protocols. Amir is a creator of the Spines overlay network platform and the SMesh wireless mesh network, the first seamless 802.11 mesh with fast, lossless handoff (www.smesh.org), as well as the Backhand load balancing and Wackamole NxWay fair-over web clustering projects (www.backhand.org). Amir also serves as a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Distributed Systems and Networks lab (www.dsn.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University. Amir’s academic research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, NASA, and the NSA. He was nominated for the agency-wide “Performer with Significant Technical Achievement” DARPA award for 2004, and was awarded the DARPA Dynamic Coalitions program “Bytes for Buck” trophy in 2002. Amir holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Stephen Gilfus
Founder & Chairman of the Board of Gilfus Education
Mr.Gilfus launched a distinguished career as a founder of DC based Blackboard Inc. and principal designer of the company’s platforms and products. His work with educational institutions, leading industry publishers, technology partners, industry investors and standards bodies has helped facilitate Global educational opportunities and the development of online learning capacity. Gilfus has provided leadership strategies to some of the worlds most prestigious academic institutions and world publishers as the primary author of the “Educational Technology Framework”, a model used to guide hundreds of academic institutions to contemplate organizational, technological, and social impact of educational technologies on schools, districts, educational organizations and institutions. He is recognized by many organizations as a key driver behind the growth of the eLearning industry and has presented at hundreds of academic institutions and industry conferences. Mr. Gilfus has been active in various professional associations and community service organizations throughout his career. He has been a long-time member of EDUCAUSE. He serves on the board of directors of several companies with education initiatives including the Student Employment Council. He leads an extensive network as the organizer and head of the Blackboard, WebCT, Angel Learning and IBM Education Alumni organizations with deep relationships at 85% of the companies in the education space. In 2007, Mr.Gilfus left Blackboard to form the Gilfus Education Group, an independent organization that brings together a team of highly skilled industry professionals that foster global education innovation. The team partners with today’s organizational and industry leaders to develop effective and lasting improvements to education and provides independent consulting, technical implementation and industry research services to educational institutions, industry investors and the educational companies that serve them. Stephen has presented and keynoted several leading global industry conferences and has lectured on teaching and learning on the Internet and the growing online education industry. He has a unique ability to apply complex technology to real world problems, a key factor in the industries growth and institutional technology adoption. He is a highly sought-after speaker and presenter at various forums on education and technology. He is currently providing consultation to several delegations on innovative areas including the development of organizational capabilities for online learning programs, learning platforms, digital content repositories and distribution, enterprise resource planning and student information systems, community platforms, shared services and the development of both physical and virtual universities in Australia, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Morocco and the United States.
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About Education Innovation Foundation, Gilfus Education, Gilfus Venture Partners, Oversight Ventures, Vistria Group: Education Technology and Business Cons.
Ted T. Tanase
CEO & Founder of Ensocare
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About Ensocare: Ensocare provides customer services and care coordination facilities to healthcare organizations to maximize their patient care facilities.
Dean Phillips
President & Co-Founder of Aristotle
Dean Phillips serves as co-founder and President of Aristotle. Dean Phillips is responsible for the compliance, research, and development areas of Aristotle’s systems, while also overseeing day-to-day operations. Dean Phillips is a frequent presenter at leading industry conferences and graduate programs in political management. Dean Phillips has been involved in political and grassroots software and services for over twenty years and is recognized as one of the nation’s driving forces in the development of cutting-edge political, PAC, and grassroots software. Dean Phillips holds a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dean Phillips is the brother of John Phillips, Aristotle’s CEO.
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About Aristotle: Aristotle is a political data-management software company that specializes in data-mining voter data for political campaigns.
Vivek Bhatnagar
Founder & CTO of UnifyCloud LLC of UnifyCloud
Senior technical and solutions Strategy Leader with successful track record of building and operating world-class solutions, programs, and product sales teams. Strong business and technical acumen with the ability to execute on a wide range of business, technical, and product strategies designed to win in the global marketplace.
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About CloudAtlas, UnifyCloud: UnifyCloud ensures customers successfully migrate to the Cloud while maintaining Cost Control, Compliance and Cybersecurity.
Marc Pinotti
Co Founder & CEO @UnifyCloud LLC of UnifyCloud
VP – Business and Development with successful track record of launching numerous Startups, as well as rapidly growing businesses within Fortune 500 companies. Two of the startups were successfully acquired, spin-out was acquired, as well as multiple successful startups within Microsoft, Qualcomm and Lexmark International.
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About CloudAtlas, UnifyCloud: UnifyCloud ensures customers successfully migrate to the Cloud while maintaining Cost Control, Compliance and Cybersecurity.
Paul Siegel
Managing Director & Founder of Starweaver
Developing great strategies, teams, and products, Paul Siegel has been active in various roles in or related to international banking, private equity and management for many years. Paul holds a BA degree (honors in economics) from the University of Pennsylvania where he participated in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program; MBA from the NYU Graduate School of Business (International Business and Finance); and, a certificate from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. Specialties:””Blue Ocean”” strategies, product development, technology-based products and services, enterprise software, business process outsourcing, and, publishing. Paul has been instrumental in start-up businesses and product ideas (e.g., Epromos, Infosafe, Medivault), as well as early stage firms ($2-10 mm pa: e.g., American Life Resources, Ecologic, Movietime, iGain), and expansion stage or mature businesses ($25 mm – $2 bn pa: e.g., Nutriplus, Liberty Travel), and many others.
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About Starweaver: Starweaver is an edtech educational publishing, streaming, distribution & collaboration SaaS platform for serious enterprises & instructors.
Alan Meekins
Founder & CEO of RosHub Inc
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About RosHub Inc, Source Parts: The Robotics Cloud
Brandon Schulz
Co-Founder & CEO of Violet
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About Violet: Violet is a Commerce API Platform enabling any app to integrate universal checkout in weeks instead of years.
Sanjeev Kumar
Co-Founder, President, CEO of The Athene Group
Sanjeev’s passion for leveraging technology to solve business problems led him to form The Athene Group back in 2001. Over his extensive career in the IT business, he has witnessed the evolution from mainframe computers to client servers to the Internet age, and is excited that the Athene team can participate in the industry’s many ongoing advancements. Sanjeev has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, although he never saw himself in that industry! He found the world of technology to be much more challenging and fun. He was a developer and programmer before turning his talents to starting and running a business that has enabled him to build extensive relationships with financial services firms of all sizes, within the U.S. and abroad. While working with clients and thinking about new solutions are Sanjeev’s top priorities, he also has many hobbies, including biking, hiking, and eating great food—all which he enjoys with his wife and son. He also participates in fundraising bike rides each year, and sponsors education for several children who would not have the funds to go to school otherwise.
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About Skience, The Athene Group: The Athene Group was founded by individuals with significant experience in the Technology Services industry.
Evan Richman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SkyKick
Before SkyKick, Richman was at Microsoft for seven years where he held a number of product management leadership roles on the SharePoint and Office 365 businesses. Prior to Microsoft, Richman was the VP of Business Development for Digital Pipe, a Silicon Valley based networking startup and began his career as a consultant for Towers Perrin. Richman holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About SkyKick: SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
Todd Schwartz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SkyKick
Prior to SkyKick, Schwartz was Director of Product Management at Microsoft, where he held a number of leadership roles, including the launch and double-digit growth of Bing, AdCenter and Windows Live businesses. Before Microsoft, Schwartz worked as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and Accenture, and held roles in venture capital, startups, and as a Captain in the US Army. Schwartz holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A. in Economics from Colorado College.
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About SkyKick: SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
Sri Vasireddy
Co-Founder & CEO of REAN Cloud
Sri is responsible for driving the REAN Cloud Solutions roadmap along with the Consulting Practice. Sri Vasireddy is a leader in cloud computing security, solution architecture, and investment management. He has advised several government agencies and commercial organizations about their cloud computing strategies involving cloud migration, optimization, security, and compliance. During his career at the MITRE corporation, he was recognized as an expert in cloud computing and was put on strategic cloud computing initiatives in the federal government, including: Technical Lead advising GSA in developing the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA); Chief Engineer for Net Centric Enterprise Services, a Department of Defense web services initiative; Principal Architect for developing a cloud computing strategy for the US Courts Administrative Office; and Principal Architect for data center virtualization and wide area network modernization for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Mr. Vasireddy’s early involvement with federal cloud computing initiatives led him to be the first solutions and security architect on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector team. Mr. Vasireddy started a new venture to provide a delivery model for cloud-based solutions that democratizes access to computing and accelerates innovation. Since leaving AWS, he has worked closely with financial services and public sector customers such as Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC.gov) to secure their AWS environments. Mr. Vasireddy holds a Master’s in Computer Science from George Mason University and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Vasireddy plans to provide a delivery model for cloud based solutions that democratizes access to computing and accelerates innovation through his new venture. He is also the Founding Director of a non-profit, Asha-Jyothi, which provides education for underprivileged kids in India.
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About REAN Cloud, REAN Foundation: REAN Cloud brings together a unique set of skills and expertise in cloud computing.
Greg Deeds
Founder & CEO of Technology Exploration Group
Greg Deeds is a Founder & CEO at Technology Exploration Group.
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About Technology Exploration Group: The Technology Exploration Group was born out of a vision to provide customers with customized and comprehensive technology solutions.
Chao Liu
Founder and CEO of Tianyancha
Chao Liu is the founder and CEO of TianYanCha Inc. (www.tianyancha.com), which is the No. 1 Business Investigation Platform in China. Before founding the company, Chao Liu served as the Chief Scientist and director in Sogou and Tencent. Before going back to China, Chao Liu was a researcher at Microsoft Research at Redmond, and led the Data Intelligence Group. His research has been focused on Web services (e.g., search and ads) and data mining, with about 40 conference/journal publications in renowned conferences (e.g., ICML, KDD, SIGIR, FSE, etc) and journals (e.g., IEEE-TSE, IEEE-Computer and ACM TKDD). In addition, many of his research results have been transferred to Microsoft Bing search engine. Chao has been on the program and organizing committees of many conferences, and actively campaigns for the mutualism between academia and industry. He served on the funding review committee for the United States National Science Foundation (US-NSF) for the data mining track in Washington DC, 2011. Chao earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2003.
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About Microsoft Research, Tianyancha: Tianyancha is a business data search firm.
Geeman Yip
Founder & CEO of BitTitan
Geeman Yip is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BitTitan, guiding the aggressive growth and execution of all strategic company initiatives. Recognizing the limitless potential of the cloud but also the barriers confronting its adoption, Geeman founded BitTitan in 2007 to help IT service providers and businesses assess, deploy, and manage technology solutions in a rapidly changing cloud world. Prior to BitTitan, Geeman was a program manager and early member of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite team, architecting what would become the foundation for today’s Office 365 suite. He has over two decades’ worth of experience in the software and IT spaces, including email services, identity management, telephony systems, and business productivity applications. An active philanthropist, sailor, ballroom dancer, and mentor to young entrepreneurs in the Greater Seattle Area, Geeman holds a bachelor’s degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and is the author of multiple U.S. software patents.
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About BitTitan, MigrationWiz: BitTitan empowers IT service professionals to successfully deploy and manage cloud technologies through automation.
Juan Castrence
Co-Founder & Lead UX Designer of Grafiti
Juan Castrence is a Co-Founder and the Lead UX Designer at Grafiti.
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About Grafiti: Grafiti is a search engine for graphs, charts, facts, info-graphics, data, and insights.
Sheila Duffy
Founder and CEO of Greystones Group
Sheila Duffy is the founder and CEO of Greystones Group.
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About Greystones Group: Greystones Group provides expert technical support to the US warfighter.
Sureyya Ciliv
Founder and Chairman of Kuika
Süreyya Ciliv is the CEO of Turkcell since January 2007. Before joining Turkcell, he held executive positions in Microsoft Corporation. In 1997, Ciliv was appointed the Country Manager for Microsoft Turkey and in 2000 he was promoted to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, USA. He held executive positions in the Microsoft Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services Group from 2000 till 2007. Ciliv was the head of Field Readiness Strategy and Systems Division of Microsoft, before he joined Turkcell. Between 1988 and 1997, Ciliv served respectively as Vice President, President and Chairman of Novasoft Systems, an enterprise document and workflow management company he co-founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He started his business career as a software development engineer at Metagraphics in Massachusetts where he was later promoted to be the director of international sales and marketing. Ciliv has a MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1983 and BSE degrees in Computer Engineering and Industrial & Operations Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1981.
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About Kuika: Kuika turns an idea into an enterprise-level web and mobile application without coding.
Alexa Anthony
CEO, Co-Founder of Magic AI
Alexa Anthony is the CEO of Magic Ai Corp., a computer vision-based machine learning company that collects and analyzes data on animal behavior. Alexa is a passionate and driven entrepreneur with a successful track-record in fundraising and sales. As a former Division 1 athlete in Equestrian, Alexa trained and competed at the highest level of show jumping internationally. Prior to founding Magic AI, Alexa worked for the Intellectual Ventures Incubator where she sourced Entrepreneurs in Residence, and participated in the start-up and spin-out process of early-stage technology companies. Additionally, she worked on investor relations, corporate development projects, and licensing transactions. Alexa is passionate about networking, deal development, and creating strategic opportunities. Alexa has a B.A. from the University of South Carolina where she was an NCAA Division 1 athlete and holds four Division 1 championship rings in Equestrian
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About Magic AI: Magic AI is a platform that brings artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality to specific industries and verticals.
Michael Luciani
CEO and Co-Founder of The Tuesday Company
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About The Tuesday Company: The Tuesday Company builds software that helps organizations strengthen relationships with supporters to drive community, activism.
Azarias Reda
Founder and CEO of FreshCar
Co-founder at @Meritful • PhD Comp Sci from @UMich • Research Engineer at @LinkedIn, @Microsoft • NSF Research Fellow • Undergrad Biz Degree • On 2nd Startup
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About FreshCar: FreshCar specializes in vehicle subscriptions and they provide the most advanced software platform for car subscriptions.
Patrick Min
Co-Founder of FreshCar
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About FreshCar: FreshCar specializes in vehicle subscriptions and they provide the most advanced software platform for car subscriptions.
Yan Ke
Founder and CTO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Claire Chen
Founder and COO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Yossi Appleboum
CEO & Co-Founder of Sepio
As CEO of Sepio Systems, Inc., Yossi is responsible for North American operations at Sepio. He brings 25 years’ experience in security, networking, and computer science and control systems, along with a wide-angle perspective to cyber security threats and unique security solutions. In the early 1990s, Yossi joined the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps (Unit 8200). As team leader and chief architect, he focused on design and development of critical infrastructure network monitoring and security systems. In 1998, Yossi co-founded WebSilicon, a company dedicated to delivering advanced networking and security systems. As VP of research and development, Yossi was involved in the design and implementation of numerous systems for government agencies, integrators and vendors worldwide. In 2007, Yossi became the company’s CTO, responsible for North American business activities. In this role, he worked with key customers to develop next-generation network monitoring and security systems. In 2013, WebSilicon was acquired by Magal (NASDAQ: MAGS), one of the world’s largest physical security integration companies. After the acquisition, Yossi led the integration of the company into Magal and was instrumental in rebranding WebSilicon as CyberSeal. Yossi served as CTO for cyber security of Senstar, the North American division of Magal, and relocated to the United States to work closely with key customers and partners. As CTO, Yossi was involved in all phases of development of the Tungsten Cyber Security Appliance and the Rubidium Central Monitoring Systems. These solutions converge physical and logical security and introduced a higher echelon of cyber security to the market.
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About Sepio: Sepio helps enterprises managed hardware related risks using physical layer information.
Robert Barry
Co-Founder and Chairman of STASYS
Bob brings over 25 years of multifaceted experience in the medical device industry, from founding and funding novel inventions to designing and manufacturing to supporting clinical trials to finally commercializing and driving product adoption. Prior to founding Uptake Medical, he co-founded CoAptus Medical and served as Director of Product Development for Spiration (acquired by Olympus in 2010). Prior to those engagements, Bob spent 15 years in product development and manufacturing capacities with various medical technology firms, including Boston Scientific, Pfizer, Universal Medical Instruments, and Bausch & Lomb. He is an inventor on over 25 issued patents in the fields of cardiology, radiology, pulmonology and thoracic surgery, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Bausch & Lomb, Morair Medtech, LLC, STASYS, WINGS: Stasys Medical is a developer of a patient-focused test method for analyzing blood clotting disorders and platelet dysfunction.
Nathan White
Co-Founder and Clinical Consultant of STASYS
Nathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Bioengineering at the University of Washington. Dr. White is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, and completed training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He then completed post-doctoral research training in hemostasis and critical injury at the Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Shock Center. Dr. White is a practicing physician at the Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department, the region’s only major trauma center, and conducts an active research program focused on hemostasis during critical illness and injury.
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About STASYS, University of Washington, University of Washington School of Medicine: Stasys Medical is a developer of a patient-focused test method for analyzing blood clotting disorders and platelet dysfunction.
Tommy Stephenson
Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer of BLOCKStrain Technology Corp.
Stephenson is the co-founder of Spark. Since September 1998, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Heated Details Inc., a Seattle-based design and development agency he founded, which provides services to Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Google/YouTube, Starbucks and Mercedes Benz. Mr. Stephenson previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Ghost Group, a technology company that owns and manages a portfolio of advertising, Web, point-of-sale and logistics solutions for the cannabis industry (including its well-known flagship platform, Weedmaps), from September, 2014, to January, 2016.
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About BLOCKStrain Technology Corp.: Developer of the first integrated blockchain platform that registers and tracks intellectual property for the cannabis industry.
Sarah Haggard
Founder and CEO of Tribute
Sarah is a proven business leader who spent the last decade climbing the Corporate ladder in product marketing, sales and strategy. Her tenacity, drive and results led to her being widely recognized as a turnaround expert, new business incubator and compete strategist. Sarah’s leadership style is engaging and authentic. Her superpower is her ability to spot patterns, diagnose operational issues and activate the right people and resources to deliver results. Building high performing teams that have a high degree of trust and customer obsession. Sarah holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Business Administration from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. In her own words, “I’m founding Tribute because I’m passionate about the power of human connection, and using storytelling as a means to find that connection. When we feel connected, we feel empowered, supported, and most importantly, capable of achieving our most aspirational goals.” In her own words, “I’m founding Tribute because I’m passionate about the power of human connection, and using storytelling as a means to find that connection. When women feel connected, we feel empowered, supported, and most importantly, capable of achieving our most aspirational goals. Without sacrificing who we are, or what we believe in.”
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About Tribute: Tribute is a micro mentorship app, available in Slack and Teams, that enhances team collaboration, learning, and productivity.
Firoz H. Lalji
Co-Founder of Zones
Firoz H. Lalji has lived the ultimate American success story. Born of Indian ancestry in the East African country of Uganda, Lalji became the principal provider for his household at 24 when Idi Amin ousted his family from their home and their sugar-cane processing and coffee plantation business. Lalji immigrated with his family to Canada in 1971, completely impoverished. He banked on his finance skills honed while earning his degree at the London School of Economics to navigate the sea of obstacles in his entrepreneurial ambition. In Vancouver, BC, he swiftly built a life for his family, founding the successful Kits Cameras photographic retailer chain in 1973 that eventually numbered 225 locations in both Canada and the Unites States. Lalji moved to Washington state in 1981 and, following the sale of Kits in 1997, he co-founded Zones, Inc. in 1988–a nationwide provider of progressive technology solutions to business and public sectors. In 1989, he found the real estate investment company Fana Capital Corporation. Lalji had reinvented and revolutionized Zones, shaping the company into the fifth largest private company headquartered in Washington for 2013. In hopes of fueling success for other emerging minority entrepreneurs, Zones, under Lalji’s leadership, was a founding corporate partner of the University of Washington’s annual one-week immersive Minority Business Executive Program. Lalji additionally established the Program for African Leadership, a public charity which supports the development of the next generation of African leaders by providing funding for 15 participants at the London School of Economics annually, as well as other programs to benefit his home continent of Africa.
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About Zones: Zones simplifies information technology by providing end-to-end capabilities and acting as a singular point of contact for hardware
Tony Audino
Founder & Co-CEO of PeoplePath
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About PeoplePath: PeoplePath provides cloud-based platforms designed to engage and manage relationships with candidates, current and former employees.
Mahfuz Ahmed
Founder , CEO & Chairman of Disys
Mahfuz Ahmed is the principal founder of DISYS. He is currently the CEO, and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. From 1994 to present, Mr. Ahmed’s focus has been on strategic planning, new business development, financial management, operations, and overseeing DISYS services. Mr. Ahmed is an alumni of Harvard University. In addition to a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering, he has more than 15 years of Information Technology experience. Mr. Ahmed’s previous career experience at several companies, including ExxonMobil, gave him the foresight to create a company that could provide its clients with highly skilled consultants to complement their technology staff without the burden of long-term costs associated with hiring and training.
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About Disys: DISYS provides IT staffing and consulting, finance and professional services, ERP services, and infrastructure support services.
Ashish Gambhir
Co-Founder & President of ShiftOne
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About ShiftOne: ShiftOne is a mobile app that reduces turnover, drives incremental revenue, and makes work a better place for hourly employees and managers.
Kam Desai
CEO & Co-Founder of ShiftOne
Kam is a serial entrepreneur who’s obsessed with inventing and making products that don’t just speak to customers but kisses them on the lips. Once an operator one of the largest Aveda concept spas in the Bay Area, it comes naturally to him to think like a GM about improvements. Previously, Kam co-founded Conformia Software (acquired by Oracle), and developed web crawling technologies for AllWall.com.
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About newBrandAnalytics, ShiftOne: ShiftOne is a mobile app that reduces turnover, drives incremental revenue, and makes work a better place for hourly employees and managers.
Reginald Brothers
Chief Executive Officer&Founder of BigBear.ai
Dr. Reginald Brothers was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7, 2014, for the position of Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Dr. Brothers is the science adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and is responsible for oversight and management of the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Department’s primary research and development arm and technical core. Through his leadership of S&T, Dr. Brothers is responsible for a science and technology portfolio that includes basic and applied research, development, demonstration, testing, and evaluation with the purpose of helping DHS operational elements and the Nation’s first responders achieve their missions in the most effective, most efficient, and safest manner possible. From December 2011 until April 2014, Dr. Brothers served in the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research. In this position, he was responsible for policy and oversight of the Department’s science and technology programs from basic research through advanced technology development. Dr. Brothers was also responsible for the Department’s laboratories and, as architect of the long-term strategic direction of the Department’s science and technology programs, oversaw scientific advancements necessary for the continued technological superiority of U.S. Armed Forces. Dr. Brothers is a science and technology leader and expert with more than 20 years of demonstrated success across the private and public sectors. He has held a variety of positions within the scientific and technological community that demonstrate his leadership and technical aptitude. This includes his prior service as a Technical Fellow and Director for Mission Applications in the Communications and Networking Business Area at BAE Systems, as a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology within the National Academy of Sciences, and as a Program Manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This also includes his experience as a Group Leader at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and as Chief Architect at Envoy Networks, a successful 3G wireless start-up company. Dr. Brothers received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About BigBear.ai: BigBear.ai is a decision dominance serving the national defense and intelligence communities.
Rajeev Gupta
Founder and CEO of mElimu
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About mElimu: Cost Effective Digital University-in-a-Box Platform
Aaron Goldfeder
CEO & Co-Founder of Panda AI
Aaron Goldfeder is the CEO and Co-Founder at PANDA AI.
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About Panda AI: Panda AI develops a B2B artificial intelligence platform designed to simplify work and combine various tasks.
