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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 CTO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Justin J. Moses
CTO of Synthetix
Justin is a software engineer from Australia, having moved to NYC back in 2010. He’s been working as a software engineer since the Dotcom days, most recently as Director of Engineering at MongoDB before joining Synthetix as CTO full time in 2018.
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About Synthetix: A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets.
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Adam Marcus
Co-Founder and CTO of B12
Adam is a co-founder and CTO of B12. Previously, he was Director of Data at Locu, a startup that was acquired by GoDaddy. He has written widely on crowdsourcing and data management and processing, including co-authoring a book, “Crowdsourced Data Management: Industry and Academic Perspectives.” Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. His dissertation is on database systems and human computation. He is a recipient of the NSF and NDSEG fellowships, and has previously worked at ITA, Google, IBM, and FactSet. In his free time, he builds course content to get people excited about data and programming.
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About B12: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Elad Kolet
Co-Founder & CTO of Lively
Elad is a technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Most recently Elad ran the North America Solutions Engineering team at Facebook where he managed a team of 32 full-stack engineers responsible for building Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to working at Facebook, Elad worked as an Engineering Lead at Microsoft, driving the development of Windows Azure. Before Microsoft, Elad was a Senior Software Engineer at RiT technologies LTD., where he designed and built network products used by large corporate clients including Goldman Sachs UK and Morgan Stanley UK. Elad was raised in Israel and spent four years as a software engineer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200, an incubator of tech talent whose alumni have gone on to found numerous technology companies. Elad earned his BS in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Peter Mattis
CTO and VP of Engineering of Cockroach Labs
I am a cofounder of Cockroach Labs where I work on a bit of everything, from low level optimization of code to refining the overall design. I was thrust into file systems early in my career at Inktomi and then learned the true meaning of scalability while working on Gmail and Colossus at Google. Before stepping into the office in the morning I will have nursed my CrossFit addiction and dealt with the chaos of a three kid morning routine. You can set your watch by my daily departure at 5:30 pm to have dinner with my family.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Shlomo Dalezman
CTO/Co-Founder of Intello
Shlomo is CTO/Co-founder of PlatformWatch. He previously was a Senior Full Stack Engineer at The Muse.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Eric Tang
Chief Technology Officer of Livepeer
Co-founder and CTO at Wildcard
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About Groupon, Hyperpublic, Livepeer, Wildcard: Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Nisim Tal
Chief Technology Officer of DoubleVerify
Nisim is responsible for DoubleVerify’s global technology, software engineering, information security, infrastructure and corporate IT. Prior to joining DV, Nisim led global R&D teams for the Nielsen Company and built data mining, machine learning, content classification, reporting and analytics products to measure social presence for brands. Previously, he held key leadership positions at Buzzmetrics (acquired by Nielsen), as well as SAP, Cadence and Bullunz. Nisim brings over 15 years of online media, marketing and advertising experience, through a variety of technology leadership roles. Nisim obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel Aviv, where he graduated cum laude.
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Tom Dixon
CTO of Yext
Tom serves as Yext’s Chief Operating Officer, supervising engineering and development of the company’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Yext, Tom founded justatip.com and co-founded Intwine. He also served as CIO of Datran Media during its acquisition of Intwine. Tom holds a degree in philosophy from Princeton University.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Raaj Rajmangal
Chief Technology Officer of RelPro Inc.
Raaj Rajmangal is a Chief Technology Officer at RelPro, Inc
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About RelPro Inc.: RelPro offers businesses with leads, insights, and advisory services to establish and develop professional relationships.
Dario Vergara
CTO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Formerly SVP of technology for OnDeck. Most recently, VP of Technology for Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the US.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
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.
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.
Mark Jacoub
CTO of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Saul Diez-Guerra
CTO of Thinkful
Saul leads the engineering team at Thinkful to build simple solutions that help deliver a learning experience worthy of the digital age, while keeping the humans at the center of it. He started his career doing social network R&D at Telefónica, the world’s 10th largest telco. After a stint working on his own education startup, he enlisted in Ampush in San Francisco, where he built ad bidding systems. A tinfoil-hat privacy nut, micro-targeting finally creeped him out enough to jump back from ad-tech to ed-tech, joining Thinkful. Born with Dilbert’s Knack and raised with a computer as a perpetual roommate, Saul started coding and playing with electronics early. Having earned both a BEng in Computer Science as well as a BSc in Telecommunications, he still learns best by breaking things.
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
Steve Pulec
CTO of YipitData
Previously worked at CUNA Mutual Group. Graduated from University of Wisconsin – Madison with a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
David Pham
Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer of Mogul
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Mogul: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Stijn Christiaens
Co-founder & CTO of Collibra
Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
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.
Jeff Schvey
Chief Technology Officer of Axoni
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About Axoni: Axoni offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Mark Herschberg
Chief Technology Officer of Averon
Mark “Hershey” Herschberg is the CTO of Averon. He is a cryptographer, university instructor, and champion ballroom dancer. Hershey chairs the IEEE standards committee on HTTPSi and serves on the board of TechieYouth. After graduating from MIT with degrees in physics and EE/CS, he then continued his graduate work at MIT on cryptography. His master’s thesis, “Secure Electronic Voting over the World Wide Web,” created the first online voting system. He subsequently worked in Fortune 500s and startups to track down cybercriminals, terrorists and extremists on the dark web. Hershey’s range of other work includes big data tools, lead generation, media, enterprise mobile platforms, and he was brought in as the turn-around technical lead on an NBC business unit that was relaunched as Hulu. A part time academic, he has taught at MIT for almost two decades where he helped create MIT’s seminal Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program. He also created the Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School, he annually lectures at NYU, USC and elsewhere, and he enjoys speaking regularly on cybersecurity, technology, and entrepreneurship at conferences around the world. Although now retired from dance competitions, Hershey was a top, nationally-ranked ballroom dancer. He is passionate about helping others improve their personal and professional efficacy and for many years has been an active volunteer with Streetwise Partners, Futures & Options, TapRoot, and has successfully helped run CodeRanch for nearly a decade.
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About Averon, MIT Media Lab: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Jonathan Levine
Chief Technology Officer of Intermedia
Jonathan Levine joined Intermedia in 2015, bringing with him 25+ years of experience in information technology, cloud operations, data analytics, software development and corporate strategy. Levine is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, ensuring that Intermedia continues to deliver the security, availability, and value that customers and partners depend on. Prior to Intermedia, Levine served in a wide variety of senior leadership roles at Japanese leading e-commerce and internet service company, Rakuten. Most recently, he was the Vice Managing Director of Rakuten Group’s Development Unit, where he was responsible for global technology and corporate infrastructure and established Rakuten’s Next Generation Data Center, Private Cloud, Backbone Network and Global Development and Operation Center. Levine was also a board member of Fusion Communications, Rakuten’s telecommunications carrier, ISP and public cloud subsidiary. Previously, he served as Board Director, Chief Operating Officer, co-President and CTO of Rakuten’s Online Advertising Subsidiary LinkShare. During his tenure, Rakuten expanded from fewer than 50 employees to more than 10,000. Prior to his long career at Rakuten, Levine was co-founder and VP of Engineering at ePhysician. Levine has also held management positions at PointCast, IBM, and Lotus Development. Levine holds a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is the Board Director for the New York Theatre Ballet. He has five online marketing and database technology patents and is the co-author of two books on e-commerce and Java technology.
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
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.
Raphael Davison
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PRINCIPAL of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Anthony Caiafa
Chief Technology Officer of SS&C Technologies
Anthony Caiafa is the Chief Technology Officer at SS&C Technologies.
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About SS&C Technologies: SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software focused exclusively on the global financial
Lampros Kalampoukas
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Alphonso
Lampros Kalampoukas is the Co-Founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, Lucent: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
Terry Taber
Kodak CTO, VP, Kodak & SVP, Advanced Materials & Chemicals of Kodak
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About Kodak: Kodak is a technology company that provides imaging solutions and services for enterprises and consumers.
Pat Lorton
CTO of Schrödinger
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About Schrödinger: Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Roman Zaks
Co-founder and CTO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
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.
Andrew Volkov
Co-founder and CTO of WorkFusion
Andrew founded WorkFusion along with Max in 2010. As CTO, he oversees the WorkFusion’s technology strategy as well as development of its flagship products, WorkFusion™ and CrowdVirtualizer™. Prior to founding WorkFusion, Andrew was VP Technology at Freedom OSS, one of the first cloud computing consultancies and an early partner of Amazon Web Services. Andrew has held technology leadership and software architectural positions since 1997, ranging from Fortune 500 companies, such as Deutsche Bank, Motorola, Dun & Bradstreet, Bellcore (Telcordia) to not-for-profit entities, such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Andrew has BS degree in Math and Physics and MS degree in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Marc Aché
CTO of WorkFusion
Marc leads engineering at WorkFusion. He was most recently SVP of Technology at Viacom, where he managed and architected brand properties such as MTV, The VMAs, South Park, Comedy Central, VH1 and Logo. He first joined MTV in 2005 to build and launch its music service Urge, and the Zune service for Microsoft. Before that, Marc headed up R&D for Universal Music, Pressplay, and Napster. For more than 25 years, Marc has been a leader and evangelist for the importance of modern engineering practices such as DevOps, CI/CD, end-to-end test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud native systems.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Peter Swartz
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Peter Swartz is the CTO and co-founder of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Eric Typaldos
Co-Founder & CTO of Hive
Eric Typaldos is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Hive.
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About Hive: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Rob Platzer
CTO of Syndio
Rob Platzer is a Chief Technology Officer at Bitly.
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About Syndio: Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.
Patrick Vatterott
Co-Founder & CTO of Vitally
Patrick Vatterott serves as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Vitally.
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About Vitally: Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn.
Anshul Vikram Pandey
Co-Founder & CTO of Accern
Anshul Vikram Pandey is the Co-Founder and CTO of Accern.
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About Accern, Forbes Technology Council: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Joel Stein
CTO and Cofounder of Arch
Joel Stein is the CTO and Co-Founder of Arch.
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About Arch: Arch digitally manages private investment operations for investors and investment advisors.
Sek Chai
Co-Founder and CTO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
John Canosa
CTO and Co-Founder of Augmentir
John Canosa is an experienced and driven entrepreneur with over 30 years in the hardware/software and embedded systems industry including 25 years, multiple startups, and several patents in the imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) arenas. He is currently the CTO and a Co-Founder of Augmentir.
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About Augmentir: Augmentir enables rapid and sustainable digital transformation for industrial companies.
Bruce J. Anderson
Co-CEO & Global CTO of INVIDI Technologies
Bruce Anderson is the Co-CEO & Global CTO at INVIDI Technologies.
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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Aaron Henshaw
CTO & Co-Founder of Bison Trails
Aaron is a Grand St. Co-Founder and application engineer. He handles back-ends and makes the company’s websites look exactly like they’re designed. He always makes my day by saying, “I don’t know whether I’m looking at the test build, or your Illustrator file.” Sailing from Miami, Aaron brought beach chillax and warm sunshine with him. A renowned chef (at least in the office), Aaron hosts numerous dinner feasts for friends and families. He’s good at all sports but pool (Shocking!), and boasts that he could easily beat Dustin at ping pong. He delights in kale juice, Brooklyn Kitchen, and plans parties that the cops even love when they show up
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Scott Mercer
CTO of Torch
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About Torch: Torch is a leadership development platform that provides coaching, software, and feedback to raise performers to the next level.
Patrick Wilbur
Co-founder & CTO of Hologram
Patrick Wilbur is CTO @ Konekt.
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About Hologram: Hologram provides a platform to connect devices to any network with cellular connectivity, and offers software for monitoring an IoT fleet.
Randy Jimenez
CTO and Co-Founder of StayTuned
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About StayTuned: StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster.
Randy De Meno
VP/CTO: Microsoft Practice & Solutions of Commvault
Randy De Meno joined Commvault as VP/CTO: Microsoft Practice & Solutions in 2020.Randy De Meno joined Commvault in 1994 and initiated Commvault’s direction into the heterogeneous Data Management segment of the industry. Randy holds dozens patents on a number of CommVault’s technologies including the Granular Application Integration and E-Discovery capabilities. Randy led Commvault’s direction towards what is today’s Commvault’s Windows Centric Simpana solution and spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999. Randy continues to manage the overall strategic relationship with Microsoft. Randy leads Commvault’s application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, SQL, Azure as well as other Windows based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the Commvault Ice Hockey team which has enabled Commvault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children’s charities over the years.
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About Commvault, Commvault: Commvault provides a data and enterprise backup software.
Michael Rudman
Co-Founder & CTO of Jones
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About Jones: Jones offers independent contractors a Pay-As-You-Go solution to end the hassle of liability insurance.
Mauricio Giordano
Chief Technology Officer of InEvent
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About InEvent: Virtual and in-person corporate events, meetings and conferences
Anand Purusothaman
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AppViewX
Anand has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specifically in product design and development. Prior to founding AppViewX, he was a key technologist in various startups, notably the online trading platform Tradeweb, where he spearheaded product development of trading and post-trade systems. The platform saw a total trade volume that surpassed $100 trillion, and later Tradeweb was acquired by Thomson Financials. Beyond product engineering experience, Anand is a visionary leader and has mentored and groomed various teams in multiple business practice areas. He travels globally and builds relationships, promoting the business and conducting socioeconomic reforms. He actively engages in corporate social responsibility initiatives, adopts villages, and drives the villages toward a self-sufficiency model. Anand holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering – Human Factors from Clemson University.
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About AppViewX, Payoda Technologies: AppViewX is a Certificate Lifecycle Management and Network Automation Company.
James Kenigsberg
Chief Technology Officer – Founding Team of 2U
I am an entrepreneur and technology evangelist who finds the passion and fun in using technology to improve education.As a member of the founding team at 2U, Inc. and Chief Technology Officer, I was given an amazing opportunity to transform my passion for how technology can change the world into creating award-winning learning management platforms, client relationship management systems, mobile applications, and cloud-based architectures from scratch. That said, I take the most pride in building the most impressive and driven technology team in the industry. In the past, I led the technology and product team at The Princeton Review where I created and managed the company’s award-winning assessment products. Previous to that I was a part of technology and product development at Thomson Financial and Ogilvy & Mathers. I take pride in hard work, fun, and the art of creating and delivering technology solutions that work with ease. I also take great pride in my heritage, my family, learning, and being a self-pronounced meat-a-terian. And while you might not expect to beat me in a push up contest, you can rest assured that the technologies I deliver will be innovative, efficient, and high quality. Specialties Education Technology, Cloud-Computing (EC2), Salesforce CRM, Student Information Systems, Strategy, Technology and Business Partnership, Customer-Focus, Rapid Turnarounds and Reengineering, Quality Assurance, Technical Innovation, Budget Management, Risk Management, Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile Techniques, Vendor Management and Building and Managing Teams
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
Nicholas Diao
CTO & Co-Founder of Coursedog
Nicholas Diao is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Coursedog.
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About Coursedog: Coursedog builds software that powers Higher Education.
Eric Ho
Founder, CTO & President of RippleMatch
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About RippleMatch: RippleMatch is a platform for early career hiring that helps build diverse teams and hire the right talent virtually.
Jim Basile
CTO of Health Solutions Plus
Dr. Basile is a principal and cofounder of Health Solutions Plus. Prior to cofounding HSP, Dr. Basile served as a database architect at Reuters Information Technology. His responsibilities there included design and implementation of high performance transaction processing systems for foreign exchange trading, managing data warehouses for quality reporting, development of an organization-wide entity-relationship model, and capacity planning for international transaction networks supporting millions of transactions per week. Before joining Reuters, Dr. Basile led the development of a variety of systems including an integrated system for claims processing and Medicaid billing, a consolidated time and expense overview (HSP’s expense overview), and real time neural networks for data analysis. In addition, he has been responsible for statistical analysis and quality control of several process-engineering efforts. At Health Solutions Plus, Dr. Basile leads the development team and serves as chief architect across all products. He has also engineered several data conversion efforts involving accessing legacy data and transforming it to meet new system data models as well as warehouse models.
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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.
Uday Thakur
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Volante Technologies
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About Volante Technologies: Volante help clients integrate and manage the diverse and complex data message formats and protocols for firms in the financial industry.
Stephane Guez
CTO and Co-Founder of Dalet
Stephane Guez is the CTO and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Vishal Singh
Co-Founder & CTO of LINK3D
Vishal is a computer scientist with nearly 15 years of combined research and software development experience. He has led the development of several products both in enterprise and startup environments focused on security, analytics, and machine learning. He previously co-founded 2 technology startups in New York City focused on networks and big data analytics. He is also an accomplished researcher and has authored several approved US patents and scholarly papers in different top-notch conferences. Vishal’s passion lies in applying the research and growth in software technology to the Additive Manufacturing industry.
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About Dualities Inc., InnCreTech, LINK3D, MyLegalCoverage: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Nima Tayebi
Chief Technology Officer of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Josh Holat
CTO of Cube
Josh Holat is the CTO at Cube.
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About Cube, StageBloc: Cube is a real-time FP&A platform that helps strategic finance professionals move from numbers to narrative in record time.
Mark Christie
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Piksel
As Chief Technology Officer, Mark Christie is responsible for Piksel Group’s client solutions including product strategy, innovation, and management, solution deployment, research and development, and global network infrastructure. Mark joined Piksel Group in April 2011, after the acquisition of IP video solutions provider ioko, where he was CEO and co-founder, growing the company over fifteen years from a UK-based business with two employees to an international business with 350 staff and operations worldwide. In addition to leading ioko’s management team and overseeing its client accounts, business development, and operational support organization, Mark built the managed service infrastructure to support tier-one customers like ITV, Channel 4, the BBC, and AT&T. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Robert Powers
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of OneStream Software
Bob started at Hyperion Solutions in 1995 when it was still IMRS and advanced from Senior Software Engineer to Vice President of Software Development in a 12 year period. Initially, Bob worked on Hyperion Enterprise and built the Hyperion Schedules Module. In 1996, he managed Hyperion’s first OLAP product and gained expertise in OLAP technologies giving him the idea for Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). This was the first product with an OLAP engine designed specifically for Financial Reporting and Consolidation. Over the next several years, Bob invented, architected, implemented and led the development organization for HFM. He was later responsible for Hyperion Strategic Finance and assimilating the newly acquired MDM and UpStream/FDM organizations into Hyperion. After a long period of working to integrate multiple incompatible products, Bob was convinced there must be a better way to help businesses manage their CPM activities. Bob is an original founder of OneStream Software and an original architect of OneStream XF. His goal is to allow modern technologies to allow simplification of complex the complex business problems solved by CPM solutions. Bob invented Extensible Dimensionality™ and joined forces with Tom Shea to design and architect OneStream XF.
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About OneStream Software: OneStream Software is an independent software company that develops a financial planning and analysis software.
Brian Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Latch
Brian is a full stack hardware engineer with experience building remote data acquisition systems that have been deployed in some of the world’s most challenging environments. From smart grid monitoring in Haiti to remote soil sensing in rural Mexico, Brian has built products that capture, synthesize, and present data to enterprise customers of all sorts. Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
Ben Magolan
Co-Founder & CTO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Christoph Oberhofe
CTO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Cesar Devers
CTO of Bowery Valuation
Cesar Devers is the Chief Technology Officer of Bowery Valuation.
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About Bowery Valuation: Bowery Valuation is a technology-enabled commercial real estate appraisal that powers appraisers with cutting edge software.
Otto Berkes
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies
As executive vice president and chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets. Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft® and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU. Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD. An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines. Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Samy Bahra
CTO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Samy Bahra is the CTO and Co-Founder at Backtrace.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Albert Mavashev
CTO of Nastel Technologies
Albert Mavashev is Chief Technology Officer for Nastel. As the chief architect of Nastel’s suite of products, Albert is instrumental in the creation of some of the most comprehensive and advanced tools for monitoring, managing and performance analysis of complex transactions and integrated application processes. Albert is an expert in Java and middleware, including IBM’s WebSphere family of products, and in implementing middleware-centric architectures, helping companies achieve business agility through technology and aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. Albert is a sought-after speaker and author of numerous articles and white papers.
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About CyBench.io, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Nazario Parsacala
Founder and CTO of TrueFort
Nazario brings more than 20 years of system engineering, security, and development experience to TrueFort. He is responsible for TrueFort’s technology vision, platform architecture, and development. Prior to TrueFort, Nazario worked at top global investment banks and Fortune 100 companies serving as chief architect and designer, and managing global development teams in technology core platform engineering, domain engineering, and global services engineering.
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About TrueFort: TrueFort brings zero trust to application environments to detect and contain critical security risks before they impact your business.
Stas Nikiforov
CTO of Bite
Stas Nikiforov is the CTO at Bite.
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About Bite: The most powerful software for guest experience in restaurants.
Gary Foreman
Co-Founder & CTO of Stakester
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About NextWave Safety Solutions, Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Wei Wei
Co-Founder, CTO of Flux
Wei Wei is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Flux. He was the Vice President of Engineering at FreeWheel before that.
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About Flux: Flux’s internal mobility platform connects employees looking to grow their careers with the most impactful work at the company.
Howard Olah-Reiken
CTO Foretell Studios and CTO of Adept Reality of The Glimpse Group
Howard Olah-Reiken is CTO of Immersive Health Group and Foretell Studios at the Glimpse Group. He is also president of Preferred App Consulting, who advise and mentor companies looking to incorporate Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Digital Eyewear and other emerging technology into their enterprise. He builds prototypes and leads engineering teams in solution development. Howard, a member of the VR/AR Association Enterprise Committee, works actively to build the AR/VR community. He participates in hackathons for fun and growth, where he’s been on several award winning teams.
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About The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Pierre Drescher
CTO & Co-Founder of BentoBox
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About BentoBox: BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits, and relationships, directly through their website.
John Callahan
Chief Technology Officer of Veridium
Dr. John Callahan is responsible for the development of the company’s world class enterprise-ready biometric solutions, leading a global team of software developers, computer vision scientists and sales engineers. He has previously served as the Associate Director for Information Dominance at the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research Global, London UK office, via an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. John completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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About Veridium: Veridium is a leading provider of strong digital authentication platform
Byron Antoniadis
CTO of Seafair
Byron Antoniadis is the CTO at Seafair.
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About Seafair: Seafair connects leading shipping companies with qualified seafarers across the world.
Saswat Panda
Co-Founder, CTO, Head of Product of Livelike
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About Livelike: LiveLike is an entertainment company that provides on-demand sports VR media content.
Damion Hankejh
CTO of HRDN
Smithsonian Laureate CTO @HRDNlabs / InstantService (acq @Oracle) / Virtual OR (acq Swedish) / @IBMWatson Developer Challenge winner (FANG AI)
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About amfAR, FANG Labs, HRDN, OnApproval: Security beyond encryption for High Risk Data Networking in cyber, geo and space security
DJ Kunovac
Co-Founder & CTO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.
Scotte Barkan
CTO & Co-Founder of Catchpoint
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Raj Kolluri
CTO of Linear
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About Linear: Linear is a financial infrastructure and insights company, providing SaaS solutions for customer onboarding and credit origination.
Cavan Klinsky
Co Founder & CTO of Healthie
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About First Round Fast Track, Healthie: Healthie is a comprehensive software for health and wellness organizations to deliver preventative, longitudinal care.
Satwik Seshasai
Chief Technology Officer of Aurea Software
Satwik Seshasai is the Chief Technology Officer of Clearco. He has a doctor’s degree in Philosophy Engineering Systems , Technology, Management, and Policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Aurea Software: Aurea helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation through unlimited access to the world’s first business software library.
Leah Kolben
Co-founder & CTO of cnvrg.io
Leah developed her passion for technology at a very young age. By High School, she had already completed a BSc in Mathematics and Physics. She continued serving in the Israel Defense Force Intelligence unit for 3 years as an electrical engineer. Following her service in the IDF, Leah advanced her learning, earning a BSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while simultaneously working as a software team leader at WatchDox, which was later acquired by Blackberry. In her last position, she lead the startup, Appoint, as CTO – and has followed her career consulting enterprises on AI and Machine Learning. After 3 years of consulting, Leah along with Co-founder Yochay Ettun decided to create a tool to help data scientists and companies scale their AI and Machine Learning with cnvrg.io.
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About cnvrg.io: cnvrg.io is a full stack data science platform that helps teams manage models, and build auto-adaptive machine learning pipelines
Laurent Sigal
Co-founder & CTO of Waldo
Laurent Sigal is a Co-founder & CTO at Waldo.io.
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About Waldo: Waldo creates software to help iOS and Android mobile application teams deliver mobile UX perfection.
Sasha Caskey
CTO & Co-Founder of Kasisto
Sasha is the CTO & Co-Founder at Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for the finance industry. Kasisto counts DBS Bank, JP Morgan, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo among its customers as well as other leading financial institutions who are changing the face of banking with KAI to create engaging consumer experiences and drive business results. As CTO, Sasha drove the architectural direction and software development of the KAI platform since it spun out from SRI International. He leads the design and development of integrating KAI’s industry-agnostic, full stack AI technologies – Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, AI Reasoning, Natural Language Generation – with prepackaged banking knowledge. He created an API-centric architecture that is optimized for performance, scalability, security and compliance. He also leads the design of KAI’s combination hypothesis approach which enables the platform to take advantage of the latest AI technologies as they become available. Sasha has spent his entire career passionately teaching computers to communicate with humans. As a Software Leader and Engineer, Sasha has over 15 years of experience inventing and transitioning breakthrough technology into applications and products. Before founding Kasisto, he was a member of the IBM TJ Watson research team responsible for real-time translation technology and conversational architecture for cars and mobile devices. Sasha’s passion for conversational systems started at The MITRE corporation, soon after he joined his first startup Speechworks Intl. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and M.A. from Columbia University.
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About Kasisto, Kasisto: Kasisto’s enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers.
Rafael Gonzaque
CTO and Co-Founder of Minerva
Rafael Gonzaque is a Co-Founder and CTO at Minerva.
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About Minerva: Minerva is a platform enabling anyone to create and sharing clickable instructions for anything on the internet.
Alexander Hudek
CTO & Co-Founder of Kira Systems
Alex holds Ph.D and M.Math degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in Physics and Computer Science. His past research in the field of bioinformatics focused on finding similarities between DNA sequences. He has also worked in the areas of proof systems and database query compilation.
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About Kira Systems: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
David Villano
Chief Technology Officer of Operative
Dave Villano has over 20 years of IT experience across multiple industry sector (financial, pharmaceutical and media). Dave joined Cablevision in November of 1999, and, prior to his current role, served as SVP of Advertising Technology and Operations for Cablevision Media Sales, focused on leading application integration and the development of a business intelligence platform to drive advertising revenue. Prior to his role with CMS, Dave spent over ten years with the EIT organization in various senior management roles, which included leading infrastructure, architecture, operations and application development functions. During this time, he was responsible for establishing many of Cablevision’s core technology standards, processes and methodologies. Previous to his tenure with Cablevision, Dave held multiple senior management positions with Chase, Citicorp and Merck, heading the development, deployment and operations of global technology standards.
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About Operative: Operative offers a SaaS-based platform and technology-enabled services to help media industry leaders balance operational efficiency.
Sascha Simon
Founder, President & CTO of Sfara
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About Apio Systems, Sfara: A mobile revolution in safety and control.
Nicholas Greenwood
Chief Technology Officer of Appraisal Scope
Nick is truly passionate about technology and programming. This desire to be constantly engrossed in the industry and always expanding his knowledge base is what makes him thrive in his position at Appraisal Scope. He aims to push the limits of Appraisal Scope’s technology and always looks into the future. When he is not focused on technology he enjoys spending time with his family and talking with other automobile enthusiasts like himself.
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About Appraisal Scope: Appraisal Scope is responsible for managing successful transactions in both the residential and commercial sectors.
Ofir Shalom
Chief Technology Officer of Ordergroove
Ofir is leading Ordergroove’s technology team to build world-class subscription commerce products. Prior to Ordergroove, Ofir was the CTO at GroupCommerce, building a SaaS based eCommerce platform for audience owners. Before his time at GroupCommerce, Ofir was the Vice President of Engineering at TheLadders.com, the leading +$100K online recruitment service. In this position he grew the engineering team from 15 to 65 engineers over the course of five years. Before coming to NYC Ofir spent nine years working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent six years building automated testing and monitoring products at Mercury, which got acquired by HP for a $4.5B. He spent three years working for Checkpoint Technology, the leading Internet Security software. Prior to that, had Ofir co-founded an offshore development center in Russia which was sold after three years to a leading IT consulting firm based in Germany. Originally from Israel, Ofir now lives in NJ with his wife Laili and 2 boys Emanuel and Gabriel. In his free time he enjoys any form of aqua sports and playing basketball with the local league.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Alon Cohen
EVP & CTO of Phone.com
EVP at Phone.com.
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About Phone.com: Phone.com is the modern, work-from-anywhere solution for today’s agile, mobile, and always-on entrepreneurs and growing businesses.
Allon Rauer
Co-Founder & CTO of Aetion
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About Aetion: Aetion provides real-world evidence (RWE) and outcomes-based analytics solutions to life science companies and payers.
