At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 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 York 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.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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Jeffrey Zirlin
Co-Founder and Growth Lead of Sky Mavis
Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.
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About Axie Infinity, ResumeGem, Sky Mavis: Sky Mavis is a video game developer that brings the benefits of blockchain through fun and practical applications.
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Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Georgii Kesaev
Founder of Firld
Georgii Kesaev is a Russian sports agent specializing in athlete consulting, performance analysis, football scouting and player valuation. He is the founder of Firld, a sports company based in New York.
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About Firld: Fusing powerful data-driven processes, Firld is a sports company that specializes in helping athletes and teams maximize their potential
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Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
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Garret Vreeland
CCO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
After spending many years at advertising agencies, Garret moved into ad sales at about the time the internet was coming of age. He sold his first banner in 1996 on moneymagazine.com (part of Time Inc’s Pathfinder initiative), and has since led sales teams at some great companies. These include premium publishers (Time Inc), portals (Lycos, Yahoo!), search (Looksmart), and performance networks (24/7 Real Media, Right Media and most recently Akamai/Acerno).
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Kevin Chan
Co-Founder of Headway
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About Headway, Maderight: Headway is a mental healthcare system provider that helps patients connect with therapists and submit insurance claims online.
J. Todd Morley
Co-Founder of Y2X
Prior to founding Y2x and DIATOMS, J. Todd Morley co-founded investment firm Guggenheim Partners LLC, which now has over $310 billion in assets under management. Todd also co-founded G2 Investment Group and i(X) Investments, the first investment platform dedicated to social impact. Previously, Todd was CEO of Links Holdings LLC, founded Mortgages PLC, a London-based sub-prime mortgage lender, managing Director in mortgage sales at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Vice President in Lehman Brothers’ Taxable Fixed-Income Department. Todd is a lead investor and sits on the Advisory Board of a variety of e-commerce, blockchain, AI, infrastructure, biotech and media companies. He is a Board member and architect of Delaware Life, Rising Holdings, Forbes Private Capital Group, and the Newport Development Company, an organization focused in resilient infrastructure. He is also the author of several Op-Ed articles and academic white papers focused on structured finance, technology and “Peopleism,” and is publishing his first book, to be released in 2019, based on his new theory of financial return.
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About Y2X: Bridging the gap between the emerging digital economy and the regulated global financial markets.
Chris Bevilacqua
Co-Founder & CEO of Simplebet
Chris is the Co-Founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures and is a sports, media, and tech investor with investments in companies such as StubHub, ActionX, Viagogo, Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX, Unscriptd, and ThePostGame. He was previously the Chairman & CEO of CAA Sports Media Ventures, a joint venture between CAA and Evolution Media Capital. Prior to that, he was the Founder of CSTV, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Joey Levy
Co-Founder of Simplebet
Joey was a Co-Founder and CEO of Draftpot, a daily fantasy sports platform that was acquired in 2017. Joey was a Thiel Fellow and previously studied at Columbia University.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
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Michael Wuehler
Co-Founder of Infura
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About ConsenSys, Infura: We strive to deliver the best infrastructure and tools for developers to build amazing Web 3.0 applications.
Michael Blanche
Co-Founder of Surfside
Michael Blanche is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
Jon Lowen
Co-Founder of Surfside
Jon Lowen is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
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Roy Malkin
President & Founder of Venture Aviator
Roy Malkin have Fortune 500 experience in Developing and Managing Global Business across 20 markets – including USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Ukraine. He’s currently concentrating on global IT Development and company strategy. He’s also involved in launching multiple startups in big data, e-commerce, new media / internet markets.
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About OffrBox, Venture Aviator: Venture Aviator is a Custom Software Development Company based in New York and California, and specializes in web and app development.
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Antonio Molins
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Justos
Antonio Molins is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Justos.
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About Justos: Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
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Kuty Shalev
Founder of Clevertech
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About Clevertech: Clevertech is a custom software and app development company that solves hard problems. Business & systems integration.
Bradley Miles
CEO and Co-Founder of Roll
Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.
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About Roll, Techstars: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
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Matt Doherty
Founder & CTO of ResoluteAI
Matt Doherty is the Founder & CTO at ResoluteAI.
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About ResoluteAI: ResoluteAI makes information retrieval seamless, helping you to innovate smarter.
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Daniel Michaeli
Founder & CEO of Glia
Dan Michaeli is the CEO and Co-Founder of SaleMove, where he is responsible for everyday strategy and shaping business direction. A proponent for customer-centricity, Dan is the driving force behind SaleMove’s mission to meet or exceed the in-person customer experience online. Prior to SaleMove, he served as a consultant working with several top enterprises on pricing strategy. Dan is originally from Guatemala and is a proud graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
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Carlos Paniagua
CTO & Co-Founder of Glia
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
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Justin DiPietro
Co-Founder & COO of Glia
Justin DiPietro is Founder & COO at SaleMove.
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Mehmet Oz
Co-Founder of Sharecare
Dr. Oz has won Nine Daytime Emmy® Awards for “The Dr. Oz Show” and is an attending physician at NY Presbyterian- Columbia Medical Center. He still performs dozens of heart operations annually. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive surgery, alternative medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, has received numerous patents, and still performs heart surgery. He also authors a newspaper column syndicated by Hearst in 175 markets internationally. Dr. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Delaware and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He was awarded the Captain’s Athletic Award for leadership in college and elected Class President twice followed by President of the Student Body during medical school. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lisa of 32 years and their four children, Daphne, Arabella, Zoe and Oliver and three grandchildren Philomena, John and Domenica. Previously, Dr. Oz was a featured health expert on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for six seasons, spanning over 60 episodes. He also served as chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications, where his “Transplant!” series won both a Freddie and a Silver Telly award. He also served as medical director of Denzel Washington’s “John Q” and performed in the hip-hop video “Everybody” as part of the Let’s Move Campaign. Dr. Oz authored eight New York Times Best Sellers, including “Food Can Fix It”, “You: The Owner’s Manual”, “You: The Smart Patient”, “YOU: On a Diet”, “YOU: Staying Young”, “YOU: Being Beautiful”, “YOU: Having a Baby”, “YOU: The Owner’s Manual for Teens”, as well as the award-winning “Healing from the Heart”. He has a regular column in Oprah Magazine and his article “Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild” for Esquire magazine was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service. He co-founded Sharecare.com which won “Best Medical App” award for AskMD in 2014 and its DoctorOz app was nominated for an Emmy in 2017. In 2003, Dr Oz founded Healthcorps which emulates the Peacecorps by putting energetic recent college graduates into high schools around the country to reach diet, fitness, and mental resilience. Over a million teens have been influenced this nationwide program. In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz has been named Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Forbes’ most influential celebrity, Esquire magazine’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, Harvard’s 100 Most Influential Alumni, as well as receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and AARP 50 Influential people over 50. He won the prestigious Gross Surgical Research Scholarship, and he has received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University. He was voted “The Best and Brightest” by Esquire Magazine, a “Doctor of the Year” by Hippocrates magazine and “Healer of the Millennium” by Healthy Living magazine. Dr. Oz is annually elected as a highest quality physician by the Castle Connolly Guide as well as other major ranking groups. He is also an honorary police surgeon for New York City.
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About Sharecare: Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement platform providing consumers with information, programs and resources to improve their health.
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Serge Shilnov
CEO & Founder of reOrder Technologies
Sergey has been involved in digital development projects for more than 15 years. With a background in Fintech and Marketing, Sergey was an early adopter of technologies related to the Digital Securities space. Sergey has launched 2 software and infrastructure companies in the digital space in the past 5 years and has help roles in a New York based startup involved in the development of two distinct projects: a strategy & marketing platform for STO offerings that could be used as a mobile App by any individual; and the development of self-service POS terminal for restaurants and retail sector, for easy use by both vendors and consumers. For the past three years, Sergey has been particularly interested in developing a better on-line platform to bring better quality STO’s to market, and his passion has been in developing a crypto currency that could truly be used in place of fiat currency for day-to-day human transactions such as buying groceries and eating in restaurants. To this end, Sergey has developed a substantial amount of IP in the form of both detailed knowledge and planning, together with bringing a large number of low cost, high value programmers, to create both a complete STO underwriting platform, AND all of the required elements to launch a global “consumer coin” that could be used from a mobile-app between customers and vendors for multiple transaction in the same way we use cash, debit cards, or credit cards today.
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About DigiMax, NeuraLoom, reOrder Technologies: reOrder Technologies Inc is a US Company, aimed to automate the restaurant industry in order to increase the economic efficiency
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
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Nigel Kneafsey
CEO & Founder of Options Technology
Nigel Kneafsey is founder and CEO of Options. He first launched Options in 1993 to provide outsourced IT services to the investment banking industry in Europe. Options quickly expanded its client base to traditional and alternative asset management firms, and brokerages. In 2000, Nigel developed and launched of the Options PIPE platform, Options’ global private cloud services platform. Designed to minimise what he viewed as systemic inefficiencies in the financial sector’s IT implementation practices, the Options platform was the first, comprehensive infrastructure-as-a-service platform for financial services firms. Since 2000, Options has expanded into North America and Asia and now provides private cloud services to to over 200 firms globally.
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About Options Technology: Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products.
Brendan Weitz
Co-Founder & CBO of Journey
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Anil Sevim
Co-Founder & CTO of Journey
Director of Engineering @JUUL Labs, formerly founding engineer @Udemy, growth @Adroll
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
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Steven Gottfried
Founder & CEO of Equip ID
Steven Gottfried is a co-founder of ReTool Ventures, and EquipID. He is also the Chairman of UtilizeCore. Prior Steven was the CEO of ServiceChannel, and Executive Managing Director of ServiceChannel Ventures (SCV). Steven has more than three decades of experience in facilities maintenance-focused technology and entrepreneurship. Previous to founding ServiceChannel, Steven founded and sold, ServiceTechnologies Inc., an enterprise resource planning solution designed for service contractors. Steven was also CEO at Capital Electronics, Inc., another company he founded and sold to Emcor in the late 80s. Collaboratively, Steven and Serge have raised 100s of millions in capital from prestigious venture capital firms. Most recently, they raised 54m from Accel to fuel ServiceChannel and EquipID from Contour Ventures.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: Equip ID connects mechanical equipment to the digital world using NFC tags to deliver equipment-specific data and supportive content.
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Tiffany Pham
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mogul
Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning worldwide platform enabling women to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. A coder, she developed the first version of Mogul, which now reaches 18 million women per week from over 196 countries and 30,470 cities worldwide. Mogul was named one of the Most Exciting Startups of 2016 by Business Insider, one of the Top NYC Startups to Watch by Entrepreneur Magazine, named one of the Best Websites for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, one of the Top Websites for Marketing Your Company Online by Forbes, and has been honored and recognized by Bustle, City of Fort Worth, City of New York, City of Paris, and Harvard Business School. Tiffany was named one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in Media, Business Insider “30 Most Important Women Under 30” in Technology, ELLE Magazine “30 Women Under 30 Who Are Changing the World,” Good Housekeeping “Awesome Women Award” Winner, Alice Paul “Equality Award” Honoree, Cadillac “IVY Innovator” Award Winner, SmartCEO Magazine “Smart CEO Award” Winner, “Innovation & Inclusion Award” Winner for Social Entrepreneurship, NY Business Journal “Woman of Influence” Winner, Tribeca Film Festival “Innovation Award” Fellow, and SE “Top 100 Social Entrepreneur.”
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Discovery, Macmillan, Mogul, Mogul Global Fund, Simon & Schuster: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
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Ryan Denehy
Founder and CEO of Electric
Ryan Denehy is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Electric.
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About Electric: Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices in real-time.
Theodore Bailey
Founder & CEO, Chairman of Dataminr
Ted is the Chairman and CEO of Dataminr. Since founding the company in 2009, Ted has scaled the company to 250 employees, raised $180M in financing, and established Dataminr as the world’s real-time information discovery company, serving thousands of customers in over 40 countries. Ted has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s SquawkBox, CNBC’s Fast Money, BBC News, and Fox Business News. He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations and has been at speaker at Davos & the Aspen Ideas Festival. Ted was one of Crain’s 40 under 40 business leaders in 2017, Business Insider’s 40 under 40 Tech Entrepreneurs in 2015, and has been included numerous times in the Silicon Alley 100. Dataminr, considered one of the 50 most Disruptive private Technology Companies by CNBC in 2016, transforms public social media feeds into the earliest alerts on high impact events and critical breaking information for clients in Security, Government, News, Finance, and PR/Crisis Management. Ted earned a BA from Yale in 2004, where he focused on the impact of disruptive technologies on American Industry and Government.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
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Jeff Kinsey
Co-Founder & CTO of Dataminr
Jeff Kinsey is Chief Technology Officer at Dataminr. Prior to co-founding Dataminr in 2009,]eff worked as a Software Engineer at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he developed research software for the study and modeling of the micro-behaviors of language comprehension. Additionally, he was a Consulting Engineer at Market & Research Systems, where he built custom CRM and database tools for enterprise clients. Before UMASS,Jeff developed computational emulators of the human language acquisition process, leveraging large behavioral data sets.Jeff holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University, with a focus on computational linguistics. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Ashok Subramanian
Founder/CEO of Centivo
Ashok is a successful founder and CEO with significant expertise in HR and healthcare technology businesses. He is co-founder and CEO of Liazon, the nation’s leading private benefits exchange for active employees. In 2013, Liazon was acquired by Towers Watson. Ashok continues to serve as CEO of Liazon, as well as the Head of Willis Towers Watson’s Group Exchange business. Prior to Liazon, he worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Ashok is often sought out for his expert commentary on private and public exchanges, their role in the new healthcare landscape and their effect on businesses. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a Masters degree from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Centivo: Centivo offers a digital health plan aimed at self-funded employers looking to provide employees with quality care they can afford.
Alan Cohen
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of Centivo
Alan Cohen is the Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Centivo. He leads the development of Liazon’s award-winning Bright Choices® Exchange and has forged numerous partnerships with national and regional benefits providers. He knows the insurance and health care industry inside and out and is often called upon by the media for his expertise. Alan was the CEO and Co-Founder of Online Benefits, a benefits management and communication technology firm. He sold Online Benefits to A.D.A.M., and then served as President of that company. He also worked in the insurance industry for Prudential, Mass Mutual and CIGNA, and managed an insurance brokerage. Alan is a graduate of Cornell University, and earned MBAs from the Columbia Business School and the London Business School, where he won the Award for Academic Excellence.
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About Centivo: Centivo offers a digital health plan aimed at self-funded employers looking to provide employees with quality care they can afford.
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Marina Hadjipateras
Co-Founder and General Partner of TMV
Marina Hadjipateras is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Trail Mix Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund focussed on the future of living well. Prior to co-founding Trail Mix, Marina was VP of Investor Relations for Dorian LPG and a key figure in taking her family’s 200-year old shipping company public in 2014 (NYSE: LPG). She restructured Dorian and oversaw talent, PR and IR, accepting the Tanker Company of the Year award. Marina serves as vice chair of the INTERTANKO Environmental Committee. In 2018 Marina received the NYOT Innovators and Disruptors award for venture capital.
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About TMV: TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder and General Partner of TMV
Soraya is a General Partner and founder of TMV, an early-stage venture firm investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. TMV backs start-up companies focused on ideas that will reshape industries or inspire new ones. Fund I and Fund II investments focus on: frontier health organizations, marketplaces and design-driven technologies. Soraya is also the host of “Business Schooled – a Podcast by Synchrony,” – a “Top 20 Business Podcast” on Apple – for which she travels the United States interviewing persevering founders who have made it past their startup days. Soraya began her career as Manager of Digital Partnerships & Social Media at The New York Times, where she positioned the global news leader on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, partnered with startups large and small, and established award-winning campaigns. She went on to co-found the application Foodspotting, named by Apple and Wired Magazine as an “App of the Year,” later acquired by OpenTable, then Priceline. Then Poly & Co, a digital growth marketing agency based in Boston and New York. For her work at The Times and startups, Soraya has been featured on the cover of Fast Company Magazine’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” issue and on the cover of Brand Week’s “Digital Best” issue. Soraya was named an Inc. Magazine “30 Under 30” (2012), Fortune Magazine “40 Under 40: Women to Watch” (2015). She sat on the first digital advisory board of General Electric. She is a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” a six-time mentor to TechStars New York – three-times named a “Mentor of the Year.” Soraya graduated with honors from Georgetown University and completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century module at Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on the board of directors for the non-profit Yamba Malawi, her 12th year advising the organization.
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About TMV, Zady: TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
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Michael Oved
CEO, Co-Founder of Fluidity
Michael Oved is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fluidity and a Co-Founder at AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, Fluidity: Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure.
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Samir Housri
CEO & Co-Founder of The Mednet
Samir Housri the CEO & Co-founder of theMednet. Under his leadership theMednet has become the largest online physician network in Oncology and one of the fastest growing in medicine. Samir’s career spans nearly 20 years in digital media that spans operations, technology and strategy. Most recently he was part of the investment team at Rho Ventures where he sat on multiple boards and deployed over $50M in capital. Prior to that, he was part of EMI Music’s global business development team where he drove the launch of EMI’s ad-supported video platform. He was also involved in all aspects of digital content licensing and distribution, including contract negotiations, technical implementation and monetization. Prior to EMI, Samir served as a management consultant with Bain & Company where he worked on strategy for technology and media clients. He started his career as a software engineer for Major League Baseball and was a key member of the team that built MLB.com.
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About The Mednet: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
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Nadine Housri
Co Founder & Chief Medical Officer of The Mednet
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About The Mednet, Yale University School of Medicine: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
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Evan Kohlmann
Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer of Flashpoint
Evan Kohlmann is responsible for innovation and product development at Flashpoint. He has served as a private sector International Terrorism Consultant who has spent over a decade tracking Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. In addition to being an on-air terrorism anlayst for NBC, he has consulted on terrorism matters for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) at the Hague, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Scotland Yard’s SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command, the Central Scotland Police, West Yorkshire Police, and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
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Somak Chattopadhyay
Founder and Managing Partner of Armory Square Ventures
Somak Chattopadhyay has been operating and investing in early-stage startups in New York State and other emerging venture regions since 1999. Before launching ASV in 2014, he was a partner at Tribeca Venture Partners (formerly Greenhill SAVP, “Tribeca”), where he was instrumental in nearly every investment of its first fund and helped launch its second fund. As a venture capitalist at Edison Ventures, Somak sourced and evaluated investments in the tech-enabled service sectors, managed deal flow referral networks and identified emerging growth companies in under-venture-invested regions across the Northeast. Somak has also held senior marketing/business development roles at Medtower, a pharmaceutical IT software company; and DealTime, a comparison shopping company that went public (NASDAQ: SHOP) and was later acquired by eBay for $620 million. He has served on the boards of numerous companies, and is currently a board member of the Upstate Capital Association of New York.
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About Armory Square Ventures: Armory Square Ventures is an early-stage VC fund focused on B2B software, mobile, and technology-enabled services in under-ventured regions.
Alexey Girin
Founder, Partner of Starta VC
Alexey Girin is a Founder and General Partner at Starta VC (www.starta.vc). He has 15 years of experience in audit and finance and 10 years in the venture capital industry. His introduction to investment started in 1996 when he was the Chief Financial Officer for the Investment Company Dominanta. His success at Dominanta led to a new CFO role at FMGC where he stayed for several years. As an Entrepreneur, Alexey was the Co-Founder and Partner in AFD Consulting. AFD is an audit and accounting firm. Advancing from AFD in 2004, he began his Angel Investing work. In this capacity, which he still serves, Alexey functioned as an advisor and fundraiser for innovators and venture capital entities. In 2010, Alexey became the Co-Founder and General Partner of Starta Ventures. Starta Capital’s portfolio now includes a number of deep tech startup companies. In 2015, together with Ekaterina Dorozhkina, Starta Capital’s Managing Partner, they launched Starta Accelerator. Starta Accelerator is New York City-based program that aims to empower startups with Eastern European roots and frontier technology. Alexey earned his Master in Economics from the Russian State University of Trade and Economics.
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About Starta Accelerator, Starta VC: Starta is a venture ecosystem to find, foster and fund early stage talent in tech. We help startups gain traction in USA and scale globally.
Anand Gomes
Co-Founder of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
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Jonathan Hefter
Founder, President of Neverware
Jonathan Hefter is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Neverware, based in New York City. He is paving the way for innovative technologies that help solve the current business and educational computer procurement model by way of perpetually extending the life and performance of existing PCs, eliminating the need to purchase new hardware. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton with a degree in finance in 2009, Hefter spent a year teaching himself the basics of virtual computing while developing the Neverware’s prototype in his parents’ basement.
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About Neverware: Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability.
Arie Abecassis
Co-Founder of ICONYC labs
Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs.
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About Dreamit Ventures, ICONYC labs: ICONYC is a value-add investor and accelerator focused on helping early stage Israeli startups cut time to the US market.
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Alina Vandenberghe
Co-Founder and CPO of KosmoTime
Alina Vandenberghe is the CPO and Co-Founder at KosmoTime. She’s also the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Chili Piper.
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About Chili Piper, KosmoTime: KosmoTime focuses on the fields of calendar management, to-do list, batching, sprint tasks, and distraction blocking.
Zach Lloyd
Founder / CEO of Warp
Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of SelfMade.
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About Warp: Warp is a developer of a Rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development.
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Evan Roberts
Founder & COO of Phreesia
As VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder of Phreesia, Inc., Evan is the technical visionary responsible for driving Phreesia’s initiative to pioneer patient self-service registration and educational solutions, at a low cost to clinicians in their medical practices. Prior to founding Phreesia, Evan was a Senior Sales Engineer at Spotfire, a leading provider of interactive analytics software, where he helped to penetrate new markets including pharmaceutical sales and marketing, resulting in significant net new revenue. In that capacity he developed innovative applications, and trained and managed his team to support and nurture these new markets. He began his career at Spotfire as a member of the Professional Services team. Evan holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University.
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About Phreesia: Phreesia automates the patient check-in process by collecting personal health information on the PhreesiaPad.
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Satya Pemmaraju
CEO, Founder of Droit
Prior to co-founding Droit, Satya was a Managing Director of FICC Trading at UBS. Post 2008, he was instrumental in helping create UBS’s funding desk focused on aggregating, managing and optimizing secured and unsecured derivatives funding risk across FICC trading. Satya has held various cross-asset derivatives trading roles including structured/contingent repo, Latam derivatives and structured notes. Prior to trading, Satya was a fixed income derivatives quant building pricing and risk management systems. Satya has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Northwestern University and a B.S. from MIT.
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About Droit: The Operating System for Regulation
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Anup Menon
Founder of Droit
Investor in early stage and seed firms backing fantastic teams and firms. Currently Managing Director, Head of Strategy and Emerging Technology @BofA; Founder @Droit Financial Technologies
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About Bank of America, Droit: The Operating System for Regulation
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Michael Wong
CEO and Founder of Up&Up
Michael Wong is the Founder and CEO of Up&Up.
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About Up&Up: Up&Up is a tech-enabled real estate platform that allows renters to accumulate fractional ownership of the properties.
Ryan Brown
Head of Sales and Co-Founder of Up&Up
Ryan Brown is a Co-Founder of Up&Up.
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About Up&Up: Up&Up is a tech-enabled real estate platform that allows renters to accumulate fractional ownership of the properties.
Taimour Zaman
Co-Founder and Executive Producer of 8 Billion Acts of Innovation – Investment Firm
Taimour Zaman is the co-founder and executive producer of 8 Billion Acts of Innovation.
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About 8 Billion Acts of Innovation – Investment Firm, Line of Credit.ai, Line of Credit.AI: 8 Billion Acts of Innovations is an investment firm that invests $45 million + in various artificial intelligence and blockchain companies
Austin Ogilvie
Founder of Laika
Austin is a co-founder of Laika. Before Laika, Austin was the founder and CEO of Yhat, which was acquired by Alteryx. He attended the University of Virginia.
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About Laika: Our Compliance as-a-Service solution takes customers from onboarding through audit and beyond with the most efficient path to compliance.
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Greg Wolfond
Founder & Chairman of the Board of SecureKey Technologies
Greg has a successful track record of bringing innovative solutions to the financial industry. In 1997 Greg co-founded 724 Solutions Inc., a wireless software infrastructure provider. He served as the company’s chief executive officer and led its IPO in 2000.In 1983 he founded Footprint Software Inc., a financial software company, which he sold to IBM in 1995. While at Footprint Software, Greg won the 1994 award for Canada’s Best Managed Private Company. In 1995 he won the award for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and in 2000 was named Entrepreneur of the Year. Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and a double major, Biochemistry and Life Sciences from the University of Toronto.He sits on the boards of the Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN); NoNo Inc., a company specializing in post stroke neuroprotection; and YYZ Pharmatech, which develops tools, targets, and biomarkers for pharmaceutical companies.
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About Blue Sky Capital Corporation, Dream Payments, Kili, SecureKey Technologies: SecureKey is the identity and authentication service provider that gives consumers secure and convenient access to critical online services.
Mike Simmons
CEO & Founder of andros
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About andros: andros is a provider of network management solutions for healthcare organizations.
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Anthony Girand
CEO, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Anthony has over 15 years of experience as a Private Wealth advisor on Wall Street. He left Forbes Family Trust in 2014 to start VoyagerMed and has been spearheading the company’s digital operations ever since. Contact Anthony at anthony@voyagermed.com
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Struan Coleman
Chief Medical Adviser, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Struan Coleman MD, PhD, is a world-renowned, board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip preservation and sports medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia. Struan Coleman earned a medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and holds a D.Phil in Microbiology from Oxford University, England. He completed both his residency in Orthopedic Surgery and a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery. During his fellowship, Struan Coleman worked as an assistant physician for the New York Giants football team and is currently the Head Team Physician for the New York Mets baseball team. Struan Coleman focuses on the treatment and management of sports related injuries of the hip, knee, and shoulder, with a particular interest in hip arthroscopy and hip preservation. In his practice, he treats young, athletic patients with hip pathology; in addition, he has performed arthroscopic surgery on many high level athletes with hip problems, including NFL players from the Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders, and Washington Red Skins. Struan Coleman also combines his clinical practice with research relating to the fields of hip arthroscopy and sports medicine, and he has published numerous articles and written chapters in those fields. Struan Coleman holds numerous patents for technologies that are utilized by sports medicine physicians and surgeons. Most recently, he patented the technology behind the CyMedica QB1 Rehabilitation System, which is used to treat quadriceps atrophy. Struan Coleman is the founder of CyMedica Orthopedics and he is on the board of the company.
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About CyMedica, New York Mets, VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Stuart Popejoy
Founder and CEO of Kadena
Stuart Popejoy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kadena LLC. He was the Executive Director for the New Products Division at JP Morgan.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
William Martino
Founder & President of Kadena
Will Martino is the Founder and President of Kadena.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
Miguel Burger-Calderon
Co-Founder and President of Ethyca
Miguel Burger-Calderon is the Co-Founder and President of Ethyca and BrandCommerce. He is a former Head of Global Business Development at Group Nine Media and President of Elite Daily. Mr. Burger-Calderon graduated from Bentley University with a bachelor of science in Economics-Finance.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Cillian Kieran
Founder & CEO of Ethyca
Cillian Kieran is the Founder and CEO at Ethyca. Prior to joining Ethyca, he was a Founder & CEO of CKSK. Cillian is originally a Physics & Computer Science student who dropped out to work in the early 2000’s web application industry in data analysis and visualization tools.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Adam Singolda
Founder & CEO of Taboola
Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month. Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more. Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Zachary Hascoe
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Say
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About Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
Alex Lebow
Co-Founder of Say
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About Say, Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
Julio Fredes
Co-Founder & CFO of Say
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About Say: Say is a technology platform that empowers shareholders to access their full ownership rights.
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Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
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Adam R. Gerchen
Co-Founder of Heyday
Prior to its acquisition by Burford, Mr. Gerchen co-founded and was CEO of Gerchen Keller Capital, which grew to $1.3 billion in assets under management in three years. Before co-founding Gerchen Keller, Mr. Gerchen was a portfolio manager at Alyeska Investment Group, a Chicago-based market neutral hedge fund, where he specialized in risk arbitrage and event driven investing. He has also worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Company in the Industrials and Natural Resources Groups, focusing primarily on the transportation, metals and mining, paper and forest products, and regulated power industries. Mr. Gerchen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University and received his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Association of Law and Business.
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About Burford Capital, Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
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Frederic Chesnais
Founder & CEO of CBI
Frédéric Chesnais is a graduate of the French institute of political sciences (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) and holds degrees in Finance and in law. He started his career as a financial consultant and practised as a lawyer focused on merger and acquisitions. He then worked for Lazard from 1995 to 2000. From 2001 to 2007, he was part of the management team of the Atari Group, the videogame publisher, first as Deputy COO and Chief Financial Officer of the Group, and then as Chief Executive Officer of Atari Interactive. In 2007, he left Atari to create his own videogame production company. In 2013, he became a significant shareholder of the Atari group through the purchase of Atari securities held by BlueBay.
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About Atari, CBI: CBI is an IT company working to manage risk and keep businesses’ data secure.
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Zachary Sims
Co-Founder & CEO of Codecademy
Zach is the cofounder and CEO of Codecademy, the easiest way to learn to code. Since the company started in August of 2011, millions of people have begun learning to program using the site.Codecademy has worked with organizations like The White House, the Government of Colombia, American Express, Rakuten, and more. Zach and his cofounder Ryan have grown Codecademy to 18 full time employees in New York and have raised $12.5m in venture capital financing from top tier investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Yuri Milner, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, SV Angel, Richard Branson, Y Combinator, and more. Prior to founding Codecademy, Zach was a student at Columbia University. He has worked in product and business development/strategy capacities at startups including GroupMe (sold to Skype) and drop.io (sold to Facebook). He also has experience in the venture capital industry with AOL Ventures, the venture capital arm of AOL. Zach and Codecademy have been honored by many publications. TIME Magazine called Codecademy one of the “50 Best Websites of 2012,” while TechCrunch awarded Codecademy the “Best Education Startup” Crunchie Award in 2013. Zach has been named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list, along with Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list. The City of New York named him a New York City Venture Fellow in 2013.
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About Bowery Capital, Codecademy: Codecademy provides an online learning platform that teaches employable digital skills.
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Ryan Bubinski
Co-Founder of Codecademy
Ryan and Zach have been working together on Codecademy since 2011, back when they were students at Columbia.He started building web applications at age 13 and hasn’t stopped since, except for an occasional break to practice cooking or spend time with team members and friends.
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About Codecademy: Codecademy provides an online learning platform that teaches employable digital skills.
Dillon Chen
Founder of Commonwealth Labs
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About Commonwealth Labs: Commonwealth Labs is a governance startup offering a new twist on token airdrops.
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Stepan Pachikov
Founder, board member, СEO of Evernote
Stepan Pachikov is the Co-Founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies. From 1989 to 1997, Stepan worked at the ParaGraph Intl. in Moscow, Russia; a company which dealt with handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton. In 1992 Stepan opened the US branch of ParaGraph in Silicon Valley, CA, where he created and distributed software called Calligrapher for handwritten input on tablets and touchscreens. From 1997 to 1998 Stepan served as Vice President and established a Pen&Internet division of Silicon Graphics. Stepan earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 1975.
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About Evernote, Parascript: Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Kenan Saleh
Co-Founder and CEO of Halo Cars
Kenan Saleh is the co-founder and CEO of Halo Cars.
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About Halo Cars: Halo is an advertising technology company that allows rideshare drivers to earn additional income through rooftop digital advertising.
Faizan Bhatty
Co-Founder of Halo Cars
Faizan Bhatty is the co-founder of Halo Cars.
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About Halo Cars: Halo is an advertising technology company that allows rideshare drivers to earn additional income through rooftop digital advertising.
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Bharath Krishnamoorthy
Co-Founder & CEO of Axle
As CEO, Bharath applies his entrepreneurial intuition and enterprising spirit to oversee company sales, fundraising, and business expansion. He previously worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Funds lawyer at one of the top 10 firms in the world. Bharath led business development for a real estate investment firm, and graduated with honors from both Columbia Law School and James Madison University.
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About Axle, BusBot: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
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Shawn Vo
Co-Founder & CTO of Axle
As CTO, Shawn directs Axle’s technology strategy and develops the products that make up the company’s services. Additionally, Shawn is no stranger to working with financial technology. He previously worked for two other fintech startups: one that was acquired for over $1B and another where he reported directly to the CTO. Shawn graduated from the University of Virginia with two majors and three concentrations.
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About Axle, BusBot, Forbes Technology Council: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
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David Crawshaw
CTO and Co-Founder of Tailscale
David Crawshaw is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tailscale.
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About Tailscale: Tailscale is a developer of a corporate VPN alternative, aiming to make private networks easier to build and maintain.
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Tom Kielty
Founder, President & CEO of Connectivity
For the last 35 years Tom has held CEO, CIO and COO positions in large, global corporations as well as small, technology-driven venture backed companies. A seasoned, innovative executive and entrepreneur, Tom also has a successful track record of leading strategic change and turnaround initiatives. Tom is as strong in strategic assessment as he is in operational execution, while building trust and collaborative relationships along the way. Throughout his career Tom has repeatedly served as the trusted, senior point person for leading the charge in solving complex challenges, especially in technology and operations arenas. Tom is a high energy leader with a keen ability to assess businesses and do what’s required to catalyze growth.
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About Connectivity: A strong internal belief language service providers.
Jocelyn Simons
Co-Founder & COO of Clearfind
Jocelyn Simons is a CoFounder and COO at Clearfind.
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About Blackbox, Clearfind: Clearfind is a developer of a software management platform designed to provide data-driven insight.
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Hector Hoyos
Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO of Hoyos Corporation
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About Hoyos Corporation: Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on developing systems for access control and the identity market.
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Jake Duneier
Founder & CEO of Purple Technologies
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About Clyde Duneier, Inc., Purple Technologies: Purple Technologies creates beautiful products that enhance the human experience.
Arjun Rai
Founder + CEO of Woofy, Inc.
ON A MISSION TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE POWER OF VISUALIZED DATA SCIENCE FOR DIGITAL MARKETING AT HELLOWOOFY.COM AND WOOFY.AI. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. After interning at a PR and ad agency in the summer of 2012, Arjun quickly saw the need for yet another startup within the tech space and raised a seed investment round to build it out. That startup became Wrkbench.io which was a virtual collaboration space designed for creative and visual people (we liked to say we make visual conversations). After spending a few years and learning the ins and outs of running a venture backed startup, Rai set out to modernize another industry related to his former passion of social media. The startup would be known as Woofy which is a social media management driven by artificial intelligence to help small to medium sized businesses with digital marketing. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog. Arjun went to the NYIT School of Management (majoring in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). He also holds several notable awards and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. Professionally, Arjun is also a member of The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Advertising Club of NY, Social Media Marketing Society and the IVY Connect Club.
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About Woofy, Inc., wrkbench.io: Woofy is an online social media marketing platform.
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Elad Yoran
CEO and Founder of Security Growth Partners
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About Columbia University, KoolSpan, Security Growth Partners, Security Growth Partners: Security Growth Partners’ (SGP) mission is to support companies that provide security solutions for the security market.
Alexander Campbell
Founder & CEO of Rose Technology
CEO & Founder, Rose Technology
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About Rose Technology, Snow Ventures: Rose is a technology company that provides clients with a platform for managing, manipulating, and selling their data.
Ahmed Khattak
Founder & CEO of US Mobile
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About US Mobile: US Mobile builds a next-generation connectivity platform to connect the next billion wireless devices onto nationwide 4G and 5G networks.
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James Shinn
Co-Founder of Predata
James Shinn is the Advisor at Red Six Solutions.
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About Predata: Predata uncovers predictive behavior by applying machine learning techniques to online activity.
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Matthew Kalmans
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Applecart
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About Applecart, University of Pennsylvania: Applecart’s Social Graph technology allows customers to leverage interpersonal relationships to target and influence at scale.
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Charles Bonello
Co-Founder, CEO of Vivvi
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About RTP Ventures, Vivvi: Vivvi provides child care and early learning services for families and tools for recruitment, retention, and productivity to employers.
Ben Newton
COO and Co-Founder of Vivvi
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About Vivvi: Vivvi provides child care and early learning services for families and tools for recruitment, retention, and productivity to employers.
Avikam Agur
Co-Founder of Weav
Avikam Agur is a Co-Founder at Weav Inc.
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About Weav: Weav is an API for commerce platforms that allows its users to access their customers’ standardized transaction data in real-time.
David Bukovac
Co-Founder, President and Cheif Revenue Officer of CrossBorder Solutions
David co-founded the new CrossBorder Solutions in 2016 with Donald Scherer and serves as the Global CRO.
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About CrossBorder Solutions: CrossBorder Solutions is the global leader in technology-driven tax solutions.
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Josh Feder
Co-Founder of Cartwheel
Joshua Feder is Co-Founder at Cartwheel.
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About Cartwheel: Cartwheel provides full service technology support, systems management and consulting services for mid-sized businesses.
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Rafi Kronzon
Co-Founder & CEO of Cartwheel
Rafi Kronzon is the CEO and co-founder at Cartwheel. Prior to this, he founded Gotham Broadband and was once a consultant at Merrill Lynch. He bears a degree in computer science from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Cartwheel: Cartwheel provides full service technology support, systems management and consulting services for mid-sized businesses.
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Luke Fryer
Founder & CEO of Harri
Luke Fryer is a Founder & CEO of Harri.
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About Harri: Harri is an employee engagement platform that enables hospitality businesses with software to build, manage, and engage their teams.
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John Neamonitis
Founder of Lakehouse Ventures
John is Founder and Managing Partner of Lakehouse Ventures. Prior to founding Lakehouse, John spent 10 years in investment banking and portfolio management at Brown Brothers Harriman, Credit Suisse, GoldenTree Asset Management and Alliance Bernstein.
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About Lakehouse Ventures: Lakehouse is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology-enabled businesses.
Joseph Ohayon
Founder and Managing Director of OTCFin
Joseph Ohayon is the founder and managing director of OTCFin, directing business development activities and acting as an engagement manager on several projects. Mr. Ohayon has extensive experience in sales and trading and portfolio management technology working over 20 years in domestic and international capital markets. He is actively engaged in the design and development of the OTCFin risk and portfolio management products for traditional and alternative asset managers. Mr. Ohayon has written articles, performed product and company evaluations, and has been a guest speaker at numerous technology conferences. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Ecole Superieure d’Electricite in France, and an MBA in Finance from the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
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About OTCFin: OTCFin is a financial technology company providing risk management and investment decision support solutions.
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Dan McArdle
Founder of SABR
Dan McArdle is the Co-Founder at Messari.
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About Digital Currency Council, Messari, SABR, Volara: SABR monitors multiple blockchains to identify and locate criminal activity.
Aneto Okonkwo
Co-Founder & CEO of Chatdesk
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About Chatdesk: Supercharge your support team and transform customer service into sales