Best Startup
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 CEO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Ryan Rzepecki
founder and CEO of Social Bicycles
Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities to more New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered “smart bike” technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders. In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
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About Social Bicycles: Social Bicycles provides a scalable bikeshare technology.
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Ajay Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michael Miebach
CPO & Chief Executive Officer of Mastercard
Michael Miebach is chief product officer for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development, commercialization and management of the company’s global core products offerings, which include consumer credit and debit, commercial, prepaid and loyalty solutions. Miebach is also a member of the company’s Management Committee. Prior to assuming this role in January 2016, Miebach was president of the company’s Middle East and Africa region, focused on driving the evolution of payments and delivering increased value to MasterCard stakeholders. He joined MasterCard in 2010 from Barclays Bank PLC, where he was the managing director for Middle East and North Africa, responsible for the bank’s corporate, commercial and consumer business in the region. He also served as managing director for Barclays Africa. Prior to Barclays, Miebach held several senior-level positions over 13 years at Citibank in Germany, Austria, UK and Turkey. His experience spanned cards and consumer finance, corporate and investment banking, operations and financial control. He is a member of the Accion board of directors, providing insight and guidance to the organization as it works to support the two billion adults across the world lacking access to formal financial services. Miebach also is a member of the G-20Y Association Advisory Board. Miebach holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Passau in Germany.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
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.
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.
Omri Lavie
CEO of Orchestra Group
Omri Lavie is a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, focused on technology.
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About CommuniTake Technologies, Founders Group, Kaymera, Orchestra Group: Orchestra have created a broad cyber security platform by acquiring a variety of cyber companies and rolling them up into a unified solution
Andrew Adams
CEO of Headway
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About Headway: Headway is a mental healthcare system provider that helps patients connect with therapists and submit insurance claims online.
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.
Stephen Murphy
CEO of Genesis Global
Stephen graduated with a 1st in BSc Computer Science and has held senior business & “C-level” technology positions for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC & BTG Pactual. During his career he has lived in São Paulo, New York, Hong Kong & London. Stephen has managed teams of over 250 people, technology budgets over $100 million and supported business lines with over $500 million of revenue. Stephen also led from a client perspective key multi-million dollar contracts negotiations with major software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SunGard, Murex, Calypso, Charles River and Fidessa.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Chris Beals
CEO and President of Weedmaps
Christopher Beals is the chief executive officer of Weedmaps. Prior to being CEO, he first serves as the company’s president and general counsel from 2015 until his appointment in March 2019.
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About Weedmaps, WM Technology: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
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.
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.
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
Gaurav Suri
CEO of Arcesium
Gaurav Suri is the CEO of Arcesium. Gaurav was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Information Technology and Software Development for the D. E. Shaw group. From 1996 until Arcesium’s launch in 2015, he focused on developing proprietary software associated with the D. E. Shaw group’s investment management activities and building out the firm’s software development operations in Hyderabad, India. He also oversaw the D. E. Shaw group’s office in Hyderabad.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
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.
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.
Amir Orad
CEO of Sisense
Amir Orad is the CEO of Sisense. He has held various executive roles for different companies including NICE Actimize, RSA Security, Cyota, and IDF. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science/management from Tel Aviv University and an MBA degree from Columbia University – Columbia Business School.
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About LimitScreen Inc, Sisense: Sisense is the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere.
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.
Josselyn Boudett
CEO of Telepathy Labs
Josselyn Boudett is founder and chief executive officer of Telepathy Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company delivering untapped levels of new operational capacities, across all business verticals, for global enterprises by transforming outdated infrastructures into adaptive, intelligent and predictive AI-powered systems. Josselyn founded the company in 2016 with a goal of building “an intelligent agent on top of a company” – an artificially intelligent framework built just for enterprises, in which it would bring instant and actionable knowledge to sales, workflow, and complex operations. Today, Telepathy Labs remains in stealth mode and is partnered with several of the world’s largest companies to deliver these frameworks – and with great success. With roots in technology, Josselyn brings decades of experience working in business development and intellectual property, helping software and technology companies drive innovation by building and transacting emerging tech – with a focus in data and artificial intelligence. Beginning her career at Lucent Technologies in 1997, Josselyn assisted with the company’s M&A strategies and founded a $40 million global business unit selling Lucent’s products and services in the emerging Data Networking Services (DNS) market, at the time. In 2003, Josselyn went on to start her own company, Bija Capital Advisors, a consulting firm helping private equity funds and mid-cap growth companies, especially software firms, to leverage patented and intellectual property to sell and transact with major corporations. Clients included emerging software firms, large cap private equity funds, and leading technology companies in Samsung, Asus, Acer, Hewlett Packard and Intel.
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About Telepathy Labs: Telepathy Labs develops and delivers chatbots and interactive voice technology to industrial and enterprise markets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Josh Lefkowitz
CEO of Flashpoint
Josh Lefkowitz executes the company’s strategic vision to illuminate the Deep and Dark Web and deliver unparalleled insights to customers, empowering them with the industry standard in intelligence from these areas of the Internet. He has worked extensively with federal, state,and local authorities to track and analyze terrorist groups. Mr. Lefkowitz also served as a consultant to the FBI’s senior management team and worked for a top tier, global investment bank, where he gained experience with Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
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.
Joseph Davi
Co-founder/President & CEO of Med-Metrix
Joe has over 20 years of demonstrated success in healthcare executive leadership. Together with other senior management, Joe directs and executes Med-Metrix’s primary corporate initiatives and actively implements our strategic plans. Prior to becoming Med-Metrix’s CEO, Joe most recently served as the President of Cobblestone Capital Associates, a private equity firm he founded. He has been an investor and board member in several acquisitions and portfolio companies. Previously, Joe was the President and co-founder of MD-X Solutions (acquired by MedAssets), a revenue cycle company named by Deloitte among the 100 fastest growing technology companies in North America. He later served as the President of MedAssets’ revenue cycle services division. Joe’s career also includes positions at Lehman Brothers, Bankers’ Trust, and NPPN, a national Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Princeton University and an M.B.A in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Joe is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA) and was named a Finalist by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
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About Med-Metrix: Med-Metrix provides Performance Management and Revenue Cycle solutions to the healthcare industry.
Moshe Bar
Chairman, CEO of CodeNotary
Moshe Bar is a general partner of Texas Atlantic Capital. Previously, he was a co-founder of Qumranet, sold to Red Hat. He previously co-founded software company XenSource which was sold to Citrix. Moshe has frequently acted as a private angel investor in leading high- tech companies. He is the author of several text books in computer science and also taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. Before entering the high‐tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously a board member/advisor of Hyper9 (sold to Solarwinds), of Qlayer (sold to Sun Microsystems), Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK), Zooppa, and of Zimory. Moshe is at this time a board member/advisory board member of tape.tv, Correlsense, GreenSQL, H-Farm, Amplidata, Racktivity, Neebula, and Squido GmbH.
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About CodeNotary, vChain: CodeNotary is a software company based on Taxes.
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.
Chaim Indig
Chief Executive Officer of Phreesia
Since co-founding Phreesia in 2005, Chaim Indig has helped to revolutionize the patient check-in experience. Under his leadership, Phreesia has established a broad national footprint, developed strategic partnerships with some of the world’s largest healthcare companies and earned accolades for its role in generating workplace efficiencies and improving clinical care. Phreesia has earned widespread recognition, most recently with the 2011 TripleTree I Award, and it was named Health Management Technology’s Coolest Product of 2010. Prior to founding Phreesia, Chaim led the successful introduction of high-end analytics software company Spotfire into the pharmaceutical marketing space. Chaim was also an integral member of the original team at Olap@Work, the leader in SQL server front-end tools. Chaim has become a trusted industry expert and speaker, and is recognized as a prominent business leader. In 2011, he was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and he was featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review as an innovator in the healthcare field.
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About Phreesia: Phreesia automates the patient check-in process by collecting personal health information on the PhreesiaPad.
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
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.
Mike Simmons
CEO & Founder of andros
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About andros: andros is a provider of network management solutions for healthcare organizations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mike Potter
CEO of Able
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About Able, Disrupto, Memberly: Able owns, operates, and invests in a portfolio of technology companies.
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.
Anuj Goel
Co-founder & CEO of Cyware
A security evangelist and innovator, Anuj is a strong proponent of cybersecurity and its advancements in today’s age. With more than 18 years of experience in the security industry, Anuj has a solid command in areas like critical infrastructure protection, threat intelligence sharing, threat modeling, and cyber fusion analysis. His wide range of expertise in technology blended with astute leadership skills has propelled large teams in cross-functional environments towards felicitous success. At Cyware, Anuj steers the strategic face of the company and oversees its strategic planning and growth initiatives. Prior to founding Cyware, Anuj served as the Head of Global Strategy and Planning covering information security and Chief of Staff to the CISO, Citigroup, New York. Anuj was also an executive committee member of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC) and has actively participated in information sharing initiatives.
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About Cyware: Cyware Labs provides cyber fusion solutions to help businesses detect and stop cyberattacks.
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.
Arnab Gupta
CEO of Opera Solutions
A strategy consultant by training and an entrepreneur by nature, Arnab Gupta has developed several successful software and consulting companies. He founded business consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group and Zeborg, a business intelligence company. Arnab founded Opera Solutions in 2004 and has guided the company in becoming a premier center of Big Data science and practice. Arnab believes the information explosion has created unprecedented opportunity for value creation, and companies combining superior talent with machine learning science can deliver dramatic productivity and profit improvement to customers. Since 2004, he has worked with the Gates Foundation on its India HIV-AIDS initiative, employing private sector approaches to help oversee the disbursement of $400MM in grants toward HIV-AIDS prevention. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, including SXSW Interactive, Strata, and Structure:Data. Arnab earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
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.
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.
Chief Executive Officer, Intellect SEEC of Intellect Design Arena
Pranav is the CEO of Intellect SEEC. He brings deep Insurance industry experience. Having been a very senior executive with QBE Insurance Group with exposure to Insurance markets across Australia, Asia Pacific and USA, he was responsible for Strategy, Technology and Operations for QBE. A recognized thought leader in the Insurance industry, he is widely consulted by our clients on both technology and operational matters across the globe. Pranav has also been a member of the Board of Austral Mercantile Collections and served on the Australian Advisory Committee of ACORD. Prior to QBE, Pranav worked across the Asia Pacific region with consulting firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton and A.T.Kearney, primarily on matters of corporate strategy and operational improvement in the Telecom sector. Pranav has a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA.
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
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.
Rodger Desai
CEO of Prove (formerly Payfone)
Rodger Desai is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Payfone, Inc. Previously, Rodger served as co-founder and CEO of Rave Wireless, Inc. Rave’s service is now deployed at over 300 universities. Prior to Rave Wireless, Rodger was co-founder and CEO of the Vettro Corp., an innovator in mobile banking and brokerage, LBS apps, and J2ME. Rodger started his career as an executive in Accenture’s telecom practice after engineering management positions at ExxonMobil and GE. He has also assisted in initiatives that leverage the use of mobile phones in emerging markets for social causes, such as disease surveillance in Iraq, and micro-financed village phone programs in Asia. Rodger graduated from RPI and attended the Harvard Business School.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone): Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
Daren Trousdell
Chairman and CEO of NowVertical Group
Daren Trousdell is the Chairman and CEO at NowVertical Group.
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About Clip Money Inc., NowVertical Group: NowVertical Group helps the world’s best businesses win in the digital economy through powerful data analytics software and services.
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.
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.
Johnny Chou
founder, Chairman & CEO of Best
Johnny Chou is Chairman and CEO of BEST Inc., a leading Smart Supply Chain company that he founded in 2007.With the belief that technology and business model innovation can transform China’s inefficient logistics and supply chain industry, Mr. Chou developed BEST Inc. into a multibillion-dollar giant and took it public in 2017. Prior to founding BEST Inc.,Mr. Chou served as Google’s Greater China president and had decades of management experience in global tech companies including UTStarcom and AT&T Bell Laboratory.
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About Best: Best Logistics is a logistics supply chain service provider.
Anthony Hayes
CEO of AIkido Pharma
Anthony C. Hayes is an attorney and former partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, an AMLaw 100 firm. Mr. Hayes has successfully monetized patents through a wide variety of monetization methods, including price arbitrage and litigation licensing brought against companies such as Cisco, Broadcom, Nokia, Ericsson, Tellabs, and Alcatel-Lucent. Mr. Hayes has received national recognition during his legal career, including: Special recognition by President George W. Bush, American Board of Trial Advocates Young Lawyer of the Year; and City of Columbia “20 Under 40.” Mr. Hayes earned a Juris Doctor from Tulane University School of Law in 1995 and his B.A. in Economics from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1990.
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About AIkido Pharma: AIkido Pharma develops drugs and supplements, and offers a commercialization platform for protected technologies.
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.
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.
Nadav Lidor
Co-founder & CEO of Weav
Nadav Lidor is a Co-founder & CEO at Weav.
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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.
Michael Twersky
CEO of Whyline
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About Whyline: Whyline offers a complete solution for all virtual queueing and appointment scheduling needs.
Raj Patil
Chief Executive Officer of Orion Innovation
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About Orion Innovation: Orion Innovation is a global IT services and solutions provider helping organizations with Digital Transformation services.
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.
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.
Bankim Brahmbhatt
President & CEO of Bankai Group
Bankim Brahmbhatt is President and CEO at Bankai Group.
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About Bankai Group, Panamax Inc.: Bankai Group is a telecommunications company specializing in billing, routing, and VoIP Solutions.
Aneto Okonkwo
Co-Founder & CEO of Chatdesk
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About Chatdesk: Supercharge your support team and transform customer service into sales
Jennifer Blumenthal
CEO and Co-Founder of OneRecord
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About CommonWell Health Alliance, OneRecord, The Sequoia Project: Your Health, Your Life, Your OneRecord.
Troy Bannister
Founder and CEO of Particle Health
10+ years in healthcare as an EMT, clinical researcher and innovations specialist. Focused on disruptive models and new digital technologies. Founded a company focused on breaking down barriers that make it difficult to share data between large healthcare organizations.
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About Particle Health: Particle Health is an API designed for healthcare innovators that gives access to vital medical data.
Rich Lesser
President and Chief Executive Officer , New York of The Boston Consulting Group
Rich became the sixth president and chief executive officer of BCG in January 2013. Based in New York and Beijing, he has been on the firm’s Executive Committee since 2006. Before becoming CEO, Rich was BCG’s chairman for North and South America since 2009 and head of the New York Metro office system starting in 2000. His client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry’s most influential consultants. Prior to joining BCG in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Read Rich’s recent “Boss Talk” interview with The Wall Street Journal.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Chetan Manikantan
Co-Founder & CEO of Tengu
Chet is a polymath, artist, designer, software engineer, inventor and a serial entrepreneur. He is currently the founder @gurug and @tenguID, President of Boston Blockchain Association, Director at MIT Bitcoin Club, Entrepreneur In Residence at UMass Boston, and ex Microsoft.
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About CornerTable, DeFacto Venture Partners, Guru-G Learning Labs, mySpark Technologies, Tengu: Tengu is transforming the financial services industry using blockchain technologies.
Denise L. Ramos
Chief Executive Officer of ITT Corporation
Ms. Denise L. Ramos serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of ITT Interconnect Solutions Corp. Ms. Ramos has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at ITT Corporation since 2011. She served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of ITT Corporation since July 1, 2007. She was responsible for all aspects of financial management and reporting for the global multi-industry company, as well as communication to the investment community at ITT Corp. As a member of the ITT’s Strategic Council, she also set the ITT’s strategic direction. She served as an Interim Treasurer at ITT Corporation from June 3, 2010 to August 2010. Ms. Ramos has broad industry and functional experience, with almost 30 years of financial assignments at several industry-leading companies. Prior to ITT, she served as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of FBI Wind Down, Inc. from February 7, 2005 to May 21, 2007 and was instrumental in designing corporate strategy and enhancing the planning process. Her previous experience included five years at Yum! Brands, Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Yum! and Chief Financial Officer for KFC. She served at Tricon from Atlantic Richfield Co. She began her career at Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) of Los Angeles, California since 1979, where she spent 21 years in a number of increasingly responsible finance positions, including Corporate Internal Auditor, Planning and Evaluation, Treasury and Banking, Controller, Corporate Finance, Profit Planning and Operations Analysis, and Assistant Treasurer, the position she held when Atlantic was acquired in 2000 by British Petroleum. She has been a Director of ITT Corporation since October 2011. She has been a Trustee of Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, Inc. (formerly, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, Inc.) since July 1, 2012. Ms. Ramos holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and attended Purdue University’s Economics Honors Program.
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About ITT Corporation: ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water
Adam Perold
Co-founder, President & CEO of Element
Adam Perold is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Element.
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About Element: Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity.
Prashant Bhuyan
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete
Founder, CEO and Chairman at Accrete.
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About Accrete, Shinrai: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Will Cohen
Founder and CEO of Top
An industry recognized, innovative business executive with extensive experience in digital, monetization, shopper marketing, retail advertising, product development; including a heavy focus on mobile and social media.
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About HuffPost, Top: Top is a multi-channel engagement platform for brands, giving them the chance to collect privacy-compliant data without the use of cookies.
Hassan Miah
CEO and Co-Founder of Robin8 Inc
Hassan Miah has nearly three decades of experience in the entertainment industry, which began when he was based in Los Angeles working as a Partner in KPMG Peat Marwick where he was an entertainment and business valuation consultant. He then moved to Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he served as the head of new media and began to expand into the digital space, which was still in its infancy. Since then Hassan Miah has been able to combine his passion for new media and entertainment to create services that help music and video fans. He was the CEO of Xing Technology Corporation, the first consumer MP3 recording company. He is the Founder and CEO of UrFilez (www.urfilez.com), a cloud-based digital music company with proprietary recommendations technology. He also spent time at the Intel Capital, where he was the Managing Director of Media & Entertainment.
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About One Llama Labs, Inc, Paybby, Radio One Llama, Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
Miranda Tan
CEO & Founder of Robin8 Inc
Tan has over 10 years experience in PR and marketing. Prior to MyPRGenie, Tan was the president of Excite Media Group, where she specialized in PR and marketing for start-ups and fast growth companies including McKinsey & Company, National Imaging Associates (acquired by Wellpoint), MindTree Consulting, Cognizant Technology Solutions, NYU, Opinion Research Corp and Peoplesoft (acquired by Oracle). Prior to Excite Media Group, Tan founded ExcitePR, a $2 MM hi-tech PR agency. Tan merged ExcitePR with a $15M PR and marketing firm in Silicon Valley. Tan has a BS from Cornell University and a JD from St. John’s University School of Law. She is admitted under the New York Bar.
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About Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
Kathryn Harrison
CEO and CoFounder of MAGPIE
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About DeepTrust Alliance, MAGPIE: MAGPIE is a technology platform to create and manage digital assets from real world collectibles.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Roey Dor
Co-founder & CEO of Obligo
Roey Dor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Obligo.
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About Obligo, Obligo: Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits.
Raad Ahmed
Founder and CEO of LawTrades
Raad Ahmed Born in New York City and spent most of my adolescent years in Long Island. At a young age He discovered that he loved music and all things creative. I am naturally an imaginative person -– produce videos, learned guitar and started a website in law school. Currently, I am the Founder/CEO at LawTrades. Our mission to improve access to legal services through really disruptive technology.
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About LawTrades: LawTrades is an online message-based platform that allows anyone to seamlessly find, hire, and work with lawyers.
Tim Attia
CEO of Slice Labs
Tim Attia is the cofounder and CEO of Slice Labs, a technology Startup providing on-demand insurance for the on-demand economy. Slice has reimagined and redesigned insurance by providing a straightforward, cost-effective, easy-to-use solution that provides coverage to on-demand workers on a transactional basis, so they’re only paying for coverage while they’re working. Tim began his career with a large technology and management consulting firm, and has since continued to worked with major global insurance carriers on technology and distribution. He is excited to use his background in insurance and financial technology to apply intelligent design, data and technology to solving the gaps and risks facing the growing on-demand workforce. Tim holds an Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University, and has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance technology industry.
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Andrew Stroup
Founder and CEO of Leverage
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About CommonKey, Leverage: Leverage delivers end-to-end supply chain management powered by artificial intelligence.
Jeremy Friedman
Founder, CEO of Spiral Connect
Jeremy is the Founder and CEO at Spiral Connect. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Schoology at PowerSchool and the Founder and CEO of Schoology. He is a recognized education technology thought leader and frequently sought speaker at industry events. Jeremy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Education. He co-founded Schoology while an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis earning his BA in Economics.
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About Spiral Connect: Spiral Connect is an app that is useful for stores a person’s personal information.
Fred D’Alessandro
Founder and CEO of Diversified Systems
Before founding Diversified, Fred worked as a broadcast engineer, and it was then that his fascination with technology and new applications began. This interest in applying technology to communications problems led him to seek a wide variety of projects that covered the full spectrum of needs in the communications industry. His vision was to build a world-class design and integration team that would offer a wide variety of experience from multiple disciplines. This is Diversified’s edge—using our varied experiences to design unique solutions for our clients’ unique needs, both nationally and internationally. Fred’s current responsibilities include corporate planning, strategic market development, creating and maintaining partnerships, overseeing operations, and managing customer and manufacturer relationships. With more than two decades of experience in the executive management of project system integration, Fred has the knowledge and skills needed to keep Diversified at the forefront of the systems integration industry.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
JT Kostman, PhD
Chief Executive Officer of ProtectedBy.AI
Data Scientist | Mathematician | Psychologist Dr. Kostman has been recognized by his peers, the press, and professional associations as one of the world’s leading experts in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing. A highly sought-after speaker, writer, and advisor, JT has earned a reputation for his ability to demystify frontier technologies, and for developing practical, actionable, cost-efficient data solutions. In the public sector, JT has hunted terrorists for U.S. Intelligence Agencies, tracked criminal networks for the FBI, advised on analytic strategies for the Department of Defense, and led social media analysis for the 2012 Obama Campaign. In his earlier life, he served as a Paramedic, Police Officer, Deep-Sea Rescue Diver, and as a team leader with the U.S. Army Special Forces. In the corporate sector, JT led the development of industry-changing solutions while serving as Chief Data Officer for Time Inc., Chief Data Scientist for Samsung, and as an advisor to organizations ranging from tech startups to the Fortune 500. In the financial sector, JT has guided substantial investments in frontier technologies while serving as a Board Member of a PE/VC fund and as an advisor to numerous hedge funds, family offices, and institutional investors. In the marketplace of ideas, JT has become one of the most prolific, prescient and valued voices on the near-term impact of AI and frontier technologies. The keynotes, presentations, press interviews, posts and articles he has shared with audiences around the world have contributed to making him a go-to expert for organizations including The National Association of Corporate Directors, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, U.S. Government Agencies, and dozens of others.
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About ProtectedBy.AI: Artificial Intelligence Software
Dov Biran
CEO of Fitango Health
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About Fitango Health: Fitango Health is a cloud based population health management platform integrating patient engagement and care management
John Buser
President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Solutions Plus
Health Solutions Plus was founded in 1996, by John Buser, founder and former COO and CIO of Centercare, a New York health plan. Before founding HSP, Mr. Buser spent 30 years in technology, software and operations management and served in senior leadership. Prior to joining the healthcare industry, Mr. Buser was the senior technical manager for international consulting firm Logica LLC. During his tenure at Logica, Mr. Buser was responsible for developing banking and telecommunications systems for such clients as Citibank, Chase, JP Morgan, Chemical, MHT, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of Boston and IBM.
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About Health Solutions Plus: Health Solutions Plus (HSP) is a U.S. based software provider of the most modern Payer administration solutions in the industry.
Mukesh Sehgal
Founder, President & CEO of RSG Media
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About RSG Media: RSG Media is a media-tech supplier specializing in rights management, whose customers include industry-leading TV networks, studios.
Raj Prakash G
Co-Founder & CEO of Zifo RnD Solutions
As Chairman and Managing Director of Zifo Technologies, Raj is responsible for guiding the overall strategic direction of the organization and managing the company’s growth into one of the leading technology companies in Life Sciences. He is one of the founding members and has around 15 years of experience in the field of technology service delivery in Life Sciences, Retail and Banking Domain. Raj has worked with one of the leading global Information Technology (IT) consulting and software services provider, prior to Zifo. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute, USA and is also a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), administered by the Quality Assurance Institute, USA. Raj is an active member of various Life Sciences industry forums. He plays an active role in Industry-Academy relationships affirming his passion for learning and development . He has served as a member on the advisory committee board for educational institutions and is a regular speaker at seminars in Engineering colleges.
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About TiE Chennai, Zifo RnD Solutions: Zifo Technologies offers research and development, and data management services for enterprise laboratories.
Germain Chastel
CEO, co-founder of NewtonX
Formerly Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company Acquisition Finance at Societe Generale Investment Banking Co-founder RasoirClub.com
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About NewtonX: NewtonX is the world’s leading B2B research company.
Alex Konanykhin
CEO of TransparentBusiness
Konanykhin was a whiz-kid physics student who became a pioneering Russian capitalist in early 1990s, building a banking and investment empire valued at an estimated $300 million, all by his mid-20s. He was a member of President Boris Yeltsin’s inner circle.””- The Wall Street Journal Alex Konanykhin controlled Russia’s largest commercial bank in the 1990s before it was seized by the KGB- CNN
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About Stock4Services, TransparentBusiness: TransparentBusiness is a SaaS platform designed to increase remote workforce and freelancer productivity.
Christopher Grewe
CEO & Founder of American Prison Data Systems
Chris is an entrepreneur with a passionate belief in the power of education to change lives for the better. Chris has more than 25 years of experience leading start-up, turnaround, and mature educational publishing businesses to substantial revenue growth and profitability. He co-founded and was CEO of the Princeton Review in Japan, and has worked since in senior business development and publishing roles at Scholastic, Kids Discover, Triumph Learning, Troll Communications, and MetaMetrics.
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About American Prison Data Systems: American Prison Data Systems utilizes advances in edtech to help make quality education more accessible to incarcerated learners.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Michael Gregoire
Chief Executive Officer of CA Technologies
Mike Gregoire is the Chairman Of The Board at Paradox.
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About Brighton Park Capital, CA Technologies, CA Technologies, Nimsoft, Smartsheet: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Richard Awdeh
CEO of CheckedUp
Richard Awdeh, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CheckedUp, is a dedicated medical technology entrepreneur & highly regarded surgical ophthalmologist who founded CheckedUp in 2012 to create a pathway of revolutionizing the way doctors care for their patients, and empowering patients’ decisions through point of care education. In addition to his work at CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh continues his surgical practice at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, as a Cornea-Refractive Surgeon and Professor. He also has served as Chairman of the FDA Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee. In 2010, he founded a medical technology incubator, Cirle, that develops state of the art medical devices for use in ophthalmic surgeries. The company maintains a robust research and development pipeline, and developed a 3-dimensional surgical navigation system for eye surgery, which has recently been registered with the U.S. FDA. Previous to CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh attended Emory University where he obtained his BBA in Finance and Computer Science. After completing business school, he went on to Yale University School of Medicine to obtain his M.D. He practiced medicine at Duke University as an Ophthalmologist before moving to Miami, FL to begin his practice at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the country’s #1 Eye Hospital by US News & World Report for 15 years. Dr. Awdeh serves on the Yale University CBIT Board of Directors and lectures at the Yale University School of Management on Healthcare Innovation and New Venture Creation. He is widely published and lectures around the world on ophthalmic disease and interventions. In his personal time, Dr Awdeh enjoys traveling, visiting his twin nephews, and supporting non-profit benefits such as St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Seed Global Health, and Amigos For Kids.
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About CheckedUp, Miami Marlins, University of Miami, University of Miami Health System: CheckedUp is a Health-decision technology and patient education platform.
Abel Mathew
CEO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Rohit Arora
CEO & Co-Founder of Biz2Credit
Rohit Arora is the co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit. He is known for his immense expertise in the field of small business finance. Under his tutelage, Biz2Credit has witnessed a stupendous growth since its inception. Rohit Arora was named Crain’s NY Business “Entrepreneur of the Year 2011.” due to his pioneering business model and entrepreneurial vision. His expert opinions on small business lending have been covered by major news media that include New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, American Banker, CNNMoney, MSNBC, Inc., and Washington Post. Besides, he is a frequent guest speaker for small business lending seminars and conferences. Rohit’s columns are published on SMB finance for FOX Small Business Center, SmallBizTrends, Franchise Handbook, NewJerseyNewsroom and New York Enterprise Report, just to name a few.
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About Biz2Credit: Biz2Credit is a digital-first provider of small business funding and offers its Biz2X Platform to help financial institutions manage risk.
David Mavashev
President and CEO, Founder of Nastel Technologies
David Mavashev is a leading expert on IT infrastructure, middleware and messaging technologies with over 25 years experience architecting systems and solutions. His areas of expertise encompass implementing middleware-centric architectures and the underlying infrastructure monitoring that is fundamental for its optimal performance, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring and managing integrated application processes and performance across the enterprise, and helping companies achieve business agility through effectively aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. A successful entrepreneur, David founded Nastel in 1994 and also served as the company’s CTO for many years. Prior to that, he was the technical manager of the messaging group at NYNEX, where he architected and managed the implementation of the first commercial transactional messaging product, which now forms the basis for IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ-Series). A pioneer in the early evolution of messaging technologies, David logged many years as an IT consultant working with some of the world’s foremost banks and financial institutions.
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About Elefund, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Jeffrey Najarian
President & Chief Executive Officer of Starpoint Solutions
Jeff Najarian founded Starpoint Solutions in 1982 and built it into one of the nation’s fastest-growing, privately held companies. He continues to set the company’s strategy for growth and innovation. As a result of his guidance and Starpoint’s success, Starpoint was named to the elite ranks of Inc. 500’s Hall of Fame, to the CRN Solution Provider 500 list for 15 years, to Crain’s New York Business’s coveted list of Top 200 Privately Held Companies, and to Deloitte & Touche’s prestigious “Fast 50” Program for the New York region. For nearly 35 years, Jeff has distinguished himself and Starpoint. With Starpoint for most of his professional career, he transformed Starpoint from a technology staffing firm into one of the most respected sources of human capital for staff and project augmentation nationwide. Jeff’s leadership style is a big reason why Starpoint succeeds – and why it has such a high retention rate with its employees. Jeff earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers University.
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About Starpoint Solutions: Starpoint Solutions is a Leading Provider of Software Development & Engineering Services Worldwide
