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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 California based CEO’ operating in the Industrial Automation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Karan Talati
Co-Founder & CEO of First Resonance
Karan Talati is the CEO and Co-Founder of First Resonance, which has raised $20 million in capital since its founding in 2018. First Resonance builds a Factory OS for the aerospace, automotive, and robotics industries and now powers over 40 leading manufacturers. These companies are leaders in cutting-edge products like eVTOLs (air taxis), rockets, electric boats, and robotic construction products. Karan built his company in collaboration with the world’s best engineers from companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and Apple, and he is saving his clients countless hours and dollars with their innovative, flexible, and data-driven approach to modern manufacturing.
Karan created First Resonance after gaining valuable insight on the future from working at SpaceX. With his team at First Resonance, Karan has created the ION Factory OS, which optimizes manufacturing efficiency by 30% with the ability to build, iterate, and track processes throughout a dynamic factory workflow. Karan strives to make technology faster and more accessible, while revolutionizing the current systems at play. Beyond work, he maintains a witty Twitter presence with thousands of followers and a viral tweet with 12K retweets and 90K likes.
Accomplishments:
- Raising 20 million dollars in venture capital
- Worked at SpaceX to transform technology systems
- Creating a product now in use at over 40 manufacturing companies around the world
- Designing one product with the benefits of many to set the standard in production software
Features:
- PODCAST | Entrepreneur: Action & Ambition: Karan Talati Co-Founder, and CEO of First Resonance, is Transforming The Manufacturing World With The Next-Generation Software Platform ION
- PODCAST | The Roller Coaster Podcast: Karan Talati – CEO of First Resonance
- PODCAST | Agile Hardware Manufacturing: Meeting this Century’s Toughest Challenges with Karan Talati
- PODCAST | Venture Stories: Karan Talati and Keenan Johnson on the Future of Manufacturing
- ARTICLE | Cision: First Resonance Raises $14M Series A to Fuel Development of Factory Operating System to Help Manufacturers Navigate Unprecedented Supply Chain Challenges
- ARTICLE | dot.LA: Former SpaceX Engineer’s Platform for Makers of EV, Rockets and Air Taxis Raises $14M
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: First Resonance Raises $14M Series A, Plans to Triple Its Headcount
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance $14M for its Operating System for Factories That’s Helping Ease Supple Chain Woes
- ARTICLE | TechCrunch: First Resonance brings its space-scale manufacturing OS to hardware makers with $14M A round
- ARTICLE | VentureBeat: First Resonance snags $14M for an operating system designed for factories
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance Raises $3.5M to be the Operating System for Factories
- ARTICLE | LA Startups: First Resonance Raises Fresh Round Of Funding To Meet Growing Demand For Factory Operating System
- ARTICLE | Crunchbase News: First Resonance Raises New Round To Make Hardware Manufacturing Easier
- ARTICLE | dot.LA: First Resonance Lands $3.5M as Aerospace and EV Manufacturing Expand
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance Helps Manufacturing Move to an Operating System Rather Than an Assemble Line
- ARTICLE | Aviation Week: Manufacturing System Aims To Help Hardware Startups Move Faster
- ARTICLE | LA Startups: First Resonance Launches Next-Generation Manufacturing Software Platform For Aerospace, Robotics, And Automotive Industries
- ARTICLE | TechCrunch: Founded by former SpaceX engineers, First Resonance pitches tools to make things the SpaceX way
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: What’s Changed? 6 LA Companies Share How Their Tech Stacks Have Evolved
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: Built In LA’s 50 Startups to Watch
Contact Info:
Email – [email protected]
Website – https://www.firstresonance.io/
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/karan-talati/
Twitter – @karantalati
Facebook – facebook.com/firstresonance.io/
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About First Resonance: First Resonance builds ION, the Factory Operating System that manufacturers trust for speed, collaboration, and visibility.
Erik Palitsch
Co-Founder & CEO of Freeform
Erik Palitsch is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Freeform Future.
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About Freeform: Stealth-mode additive manufacturing company.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Paul Dabrowski
CEO of Synthego
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About Synthego: Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables access to CRISPR to accelerate life science research and development.
Jordan Kretchmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Rapid Robotics
Jordan Kretchmer is the Founder and CEO of Livefyre. Livefyre brings the social web right to any publisher or brand site to drive real-time conversations and community engagement. The company’s suite of real-time products include LiveComments, LiveBlogs, and social content curation, and Livefyre’s customers include FOX News, CBS, Dow Jones, AOL, TIME Magazine, and thousands of others. Kretchmer founded the San Francisco based startup in December 2009, and has overseen its growth to the 7th largest site network on the web, delivering 1 billion live content streams every month. Before launching Livefyre, Kretchmer was the Vice President of Brand at Current TV where he led brand redevelopment for the media company. Previously, he was the Digital Creative Director at Butler Shine Stern and Partners, and Vice President/Associate Creative Director at Mullen Advertising. Kretchmer lives in San Francisco.
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About Livefyre, Rapid Robotics: Rapid Robotics provides out-of-the-box automation for manufacturers.
Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Melonee Wise
CEO of Fetch Robotics
Melonee Wise is the CEO of Fetch Robotics, which is delivering collaborative robotic solutions robots for the logistics industry. Melonee was the second employee at Willow Garage, a research and development laboratory extremely influential in the advancement of robotics. While there, she led a team of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware and software, including ROS, the PR2 and TurtleBot. Melonee is a recipient of MIT Technology Review’s TR 35 award for technology innovators under the age of 35, and has been named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence and 40 under 40 lists. Under her leadership, the company won the MODEX Innovation award for the materials handling industry, as well as being named to RBR 50, a listing of the 50 most innovative robotics companies in the world.
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About Fetch Robotics: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
Bassem Hamdy
CEO & Co-Founder of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Michael Young
Founder & CEO of Photon Commerce
Founder of multiple venture-backed and exited tech startups. CEO of Photon Commerce: AI for invoices, receipts, and payments.
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About IBM, Photon Commerce, Smart Focus: AI for instant payments, invoices and receipts
Victor Darolfi
Founder & CEO of RoboTire
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About RoboTire: RoboTire automates vehicle maintenance by combining robots and computer vision.
Noah Ready-Campbell
Founder, CEO & Engineer of Built Robotics
Noah is the founder and CEO of Built Robotics, a company building automated guidance systems for heavy equipment. He founded the company in 2016, and has raised over $48 million from leading Silicon Valley investors including Founders Fund, NEA and Next47. Previously, Noah founded an ecommerce startup called Twice, which raised $23 million from Andreessen Horowitz before eBay acquired it in 2015. Noah began his career at Google, and he studied business and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, but his first job was working as a carpenter’s helper for his dad, helping to renovate old houses in rural New England.
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About Built Robotics: Built Robotics transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots for the $1 trillion earthmoving industry.
Jim Keravala
CEO & Cofounder of OffWorld
Jim is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OffWorld, building an industrial robotic workforce to undertake mining, manufacturing and construction on planetary surfaces and in space. The robotic workforce forms a solar system platform that will enable the construction of space based solar power stations, propellant depots and entire settlements. He brings 30 years of experience and visionary leadership in innovation in multidisciplinary areas such as aerospace engineering, space systems, robotics and machine intelligence, manufacturing and construction, computer science, synthetic biology and molecularly precise control systems. Jim is a prolific technologist and an accomplished entrepreneur able to constantly identify new acceleration ramps in the technological landscape. Jim started his career in the space launch industry managing launch programs overseeing over a dozen successful orbital launches on Russian, European and US launch vehicles. Modular satellite design, integration engineering and program management were part of this process.
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About OffWorld: OffWorld is developing a learning robotic workforce for heavy industrial jobs on Earth, Moon, asteroids & Mars.
Naganand Murty
Founder & CEO of Electric Sheep Robotics
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About Electric Sheep Robotics: Electric Sheep Robotics provides robotics and machinery solutions to industries needing mechanized solutions.
Maxwell Reynolds
Co-Founder & CEO of Symbio Robotics
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About Symbio Robotics: Symbio Robotics is developing robotic systems and software for advanced manufacturing.
Ikenna Nzewi
Co-founder & CEO of Releaf
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About Releaf: Releaf is an agriculture company that develops novel industrial processing technology in Africa’s sustainable oil palm sector.
Igino Cafiero
Founder, CEO of Bear Flag Robotics
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About Bear Flag Robotics: Bear Flag Robotics is an AgTech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.
Will Patrick
Co-Founder & CEO of Culture Biosciences
Will Patrick is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Culture Robotics.
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About Culture Biosciences: Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactors that help companies optimize their manufacturing processes.
Chris Nicholson
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pathmind
Chris Nicholson is the CEO of Skymind and co-creator of Deeplearning4j, the most popular open-source deep-learning framework on the JVM. In a prior life, Chris led communications and recruiting for FutureAdvisor, a Sequoia-backed YCombinator startup which was acquired by BlackRock in 2015. He also spent a decade reporting on tech and finance for The New York Times, Businessweek and Bloomberg, among others.
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About Pathmind: Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize industrial operations and supply chains with deep reinforcement learning.
Samuel Bertram
CEO and Co-Founder of OnePointOne
Robotics Engineer
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About OnePointOne: OPO has developed a fully automated vertical farming system to improve the health of humanity through plant-based foods and medicines.
Chris Prucha
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is an additive manufacturing platform designed for mass production
Lior Elazary
Founder / CEO of inVia Robotics
Lior is a serial entrepreneur with several companies under his belt, all with very successful exits. Along with his partners Alex Kazarani and Marc Afsharieh, Lior co-founded HostPro (now Web.com) which grew into a leading hosting provider in the industry with over 70,000 customers. After HostPro, Lior co-founded KnowledgeBase, and EdgeCast with Alex Kazarani, Phil Goldsmith, James Segil and Jay Sakata. At all three companies he has been the chief architect responsible for designing and implementing key patented technologies that are now critical to the backbone of the Internet and are used by many Fortune 500 customers. With more than twenty years of leadership and business experience bringing to market many of the systems that power the Internet, Lior has directed and guided teams developing everything from back-office systems to the core technologies of the business. While working on his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, Lior closely worked with inVia Robotics co-founders Dan and Rand on various robotics and neuroscience projects. These DARPA funded projects ranged from object recognition for drones, implementing the star-wars binoculars used to help soldiers in field, to the latest DARPA Robotic Challenge. Working on strict metrics and deadlines from DARPA, the projects often included implementations of massive parallel grid computing which were used to achieve the required results in real time. The development of these projects led to the Neuromorphic Robotics Toolkit (NRT) which has been designed to outperform the Robotic Operating System (ROS). Currently on a leave of absence from the Ph.D., Lior holds a Masters in Robotics from the University of Southern California and has several publications ranging from neuroscience to robotics.
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About inVia Robotics, Verizon Digital Media Services: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Vatsal Shah
Founder & CEO of Litmus Automation
Vatsal Shah is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Litmus Automation since July 2013, a startup with a vision of enabling things connectivity to business applications through an IoT platform ‘Loop’, a totally unexplored arena. Along with staying on toes with all tech movements in the valley, Vatsal plays several roles as a leader, engineer, strategist and always a learner. Previously, Vatsal has worked with Rockwell Automation as a Design Engineer, which became the cradle for this startup. Being a social enthusiast, Vatsal makes a point to attend events and meetups relating to opensource, M2M, connected solutions or Internet of Things. Vatsal earned his M.S. in Global Entrepreneurship from Em-Lyon (France), Zhejiang University (China) and Purdue University (USA) jointly and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Nirma University, India.
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About Litmus Automation: Litmus provides the solution to transform critical edge data into actionable intelligence that can power maintenance.
Aaron Nathan
Founder & CEO of Point One Navigation
A hands on technical leader with over a decade of experience in cutting edge robotics work and mission critical development in both software and hardware. Designed, built and deployed complex systems in financial tech, defense, research, and enterprise. A firm believer tightly coupled hardware and software solutions with a focus on the end user experience.
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About Point One Navigation: Point One Navigation is building a centimeter accurate localization service for the future of transportation.
DJ Kleinbaum
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Emerald Cloud Lab
D.J. Kleinbaum is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Emerald Therapeutics. D.J. received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he designed and synthesized new architectures for DNA-templated reactions that can be used to detect RNA in living cells under the direction of Professor Eric Kool. He is an inventor on five patents and has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Bioconjugate Chemistry, and Chemical Communications.
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About Emerald Cloud Lab: Emerald Cloud Lab is building technology platforms to drive the future of biotechnology innovation.
Brian Frezza
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Emerald Cloud Lab
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About Emerald Cloud Lab: Emerald Cloud Lab is building technology platforms to drive the future of biotechnology innovation.
Gal Garniek
President & CEO of GEMBO
Gal Garniek is the president and CEO at GEM.
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About GEMBO: GEM provides customized agents and machine models that enable streaming, analysis, and processing from any machine.
Biren Gandhi
Founder & CEO of Speak To IoT
Biren Gandhi is an executive leader focused on identifying key technology trends and accelerating their adoption through acquisitions, development or partnering. He has built a successful track record of bringing innovation to life through strategic collaborations with startups, venture capital firms, universities and partner ecosystems. Recently, Biren spearheaded strategy & incubation for some highly disruptive technologies at Cisco. Few of them included the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, Drones/UAVs, Blockchain, Deep Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He combines his business and technology acumen to drive the co-creation of breakthrough business models using various external and internal innovation catalysts. Biren has nearly 20 years of leadership, strategic and tactical technology experience in diverse verticals like social networking, cloud, big data, mobile, telecom, social gaming and enterprise collaboration. Before joining Cisco in 2011, Biren was divisional CTO of a few gaming studios at Zynga and before that a Senior Architect at Facebook. He also co-founded AdMunity, a startup providing a collaborative social platform for the advertising community. While focusing on disruptive new frontier technologies, Biren actively engages as a keynote speaker, panel judge, mentor, investor or advisor with venture capital firms, startups, accelerators, and incubators. He regularly supports quite a few global and local non-profit organizations. You can discover his passions, interests, and insights at these blog platforms: http://thoughts.birengandhi.com/ or http://lnkd.in/biren.
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About Speak To IoT: A Simple, Secure, Software Platform to Connect Smart IoT Devices to All Intelligent Voice Assistants.
Marco Mascorro
Founder, CEO of Fellow AI
Marco is an entrepreneur, roboticist, passionate about technology and innovation. He likes programming, robotics, Internet of things, virtual reality, artificial Intelligence, disruptive technologies, 3D printing, product design and startups. He loves starting new things, creating new stuff, exploring new cultures, has lived in 6 countries and is a passionate doer.
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About Fellow AI: Cloud-based Inventory Management and Supply Chain Solutions
Andrew Scheuermann
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Systems
Andrew Scheuermann is the Co-Founder of Arch Systems Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Scheuermann is an industrious and impassioned entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in energy and power devices. He is passionate for empowering hardware innovation and collectively making planetary ecology possible, quantifying, understanding and acting for a more sustainable earth. He earned a PhD from Stanford.
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About Arch Systems: Industry 4.0 machine data and AI platform for electronics manufacturers
Graham Hooper
President & Chief Executive Officer of Ellison Technologies
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About Ellison Technologies: Ellison Technologies has been a provider of advanced manufacturing solutions to its clients.
Jeremy Goodwin
Founder & CEO of SyncFab
Jeremy is an international fintech executive fluent in Chinese and French and social impact entrepreneur passionate about technologies improving on the human condition including Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, AI (artificial intelligence), Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cleantech, Crypto, Decentralization, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), Ethereum and ML (Machine Learning). Currently, Jeremy is CEO of SyncFab an IIoT Industry 4.0 Blockchain Manufacturing Industry Partner to the $140MM US D.O.E. & D.O.C. Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (CESMII) appointed by the White House and US Departments of Energy and Commerce National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). SyncFab is also the San Francisco Mayors Office of Civic Innovation – 2016 Startup in Residence (STIR) in partnership with the Cities of San Leandro, Oakland and West Sacramento. From 2008 to 2012, Jeremy served as Executive President and CFO of China Advanced Construction Materials Company leading it to peak performance of 2,000 employees and NASDAQ IPO. As the only bilingual member of the company board of directors, he was responsible for negotiating large international contracts, implementing SOX 404 compliance, managing international accounting audits, SEC and shareholder communications. Jeremy successfully clinched a $100M Private Equity investment offer in support of company expansion plans and NASDAQ listing before board decision to privatize.
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About Forbes Business Council, SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Andre Wegner
Founder & CEO of Authentise
Andre Wegner is founder and CEO of Authentise. Andre is a frequent speaker on emerging intellectual property issues in 3D Printing and opportunities of distributed manufacturing at events such as Singularity University, Rapid, Designer of Things, Inside 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, Pacific Crest & WIRED. He has been quoted in publications such as BBC News, MIT Tech Review, Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg. He is an expert in greenfield value chain creation, leading the development of a $300m low income gas distribution business for West Africa’s leading Oil and Gas company. Prior to founding Authentise Andre also managed a venture capital fund in Nigeria and advisory services in India. Andre is a graduate of St. Andrews University (M.A. – UK), ESSEC (M.Sc. – France) and Singularity University (California).
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About Authentise, Singularity University: Process Automation Software for Additive Manufacturing
Fred Parietti
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply Labs
Fred (Federico) Parietti is the Co-Founder & CEO at Multiply Labs.
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About Multiply Labs: Multiply Labs deploys advanced robotics technology to manufacture personalized pharmaceutical capsules.
Edward Miller
Founder & CEO of LumenVox
Edward Miller is the Founder and CEO of LumenVox and is responsible for developing the company’s strategic vision, technology and business strategies. Ed founded LumenVox after more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing multi-lingual and multi-currency accounting systems for worldwide corporations; including founding Progressive Computing LLC., where he oversees a telephony hosting facility with a carrier grade, state of the art voice over IP infrastructure to offer speech based applications in the cloud to service providers. Throughout his career, Ed has developed a comprehensive knowledge of human computer interaction, machine learning, networking, data handling theories and natural language processing. Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from Hillsdale College and holds 5 U.S. Speech Recognition patents.
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About LumenVox: LumenVox is a leading provider of speech enabling software.
Alok Gautam
CEO of OLBRAIN
Building Olbrain – The Machine Brain for the Space Robots of the Future Alok is a serial entrepreneur with an extensive understanding of Statistical Learning, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Physics & Gamification. He spent four years in the Himalayas observing the human brain in action, before pursuing his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. The last startup which he cofounded, hotify.ai, has recently been acquired by Sonasoft Corp. He regularly speaks at public forums on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and has been covered by various print/web mediums like Forbes.
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About Chillycon, OLBRAIN: The AGI Brain for Cognitive Automation
Mike Muench
CEO of Seek Thermal
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About Seek Thermal: Seek Thermal engineers, designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging products and sensors.
Moataz Rashad
Founder & CEO of DeepVu
Moataz is an AI/deep-learning entrepreneur. He’s currently the founder & CEO of DeepVu. Moataz was a PhD Student at Stanford’s Information Systems Lab, and dropped out in 1996. He earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, MS in Computer Science from University of Oregon, and a BS with Distinction & Honors in Computer Science and Control Systems from Alexandria University. Moataz is a named inventor on 21 issued patents.
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About DeepVu: DeepVu is the autonomous supply chain planning solution for optimizing efficiencies, sustainability and margins for manufacturers
Sean De La Pena
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of M-Form
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About M-Form: AFFORDABLE, HIGH RESOLUTION, SUSTAINABLE, CURVED ARCHITECTURAL PANELS
Lior Akavia
Co-Founder, CEO of Seebo
Co-Founder, CEO at Seebo
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About Seebo: The Predictive Quality and Yield solution – leading global manufacturers use Seebo to predict and prevent quality, yield and waste losses.
Ali Hasan Raza
CEO of ThroughPut.ai
Eliminating bottlenecks for over a decade.
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About RigBasket, ThroughPut.ai: Grow your bottom line with supply chain data orchestration
John Dogru
CEO / Chief Architect of 3DPrinterOS
Co-Founder of 3DPrinterOS
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About 3DPrinterOS, Secured 3d: 3DPrinterOS is the world’s first operating system for 3D printers.
Barbara Timm-Brock
CEO of eTrack Tech
Barbara Timm-Brock is the CEO of eTrack Tech.
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About eTrack Tech: eTrack Tech eliminates downtime, reduce repair costs, and get actionable BI for lift trucks and commercial equipment.
Jonathan Brossard
CEO of Moabi
Jonathan Brossard (endrazine) is a well known security expert based in San Francisco. For his first conference at DEF CON 16, he hacked Microsoft Bitlocker, McAffee Endpoint and a fair number of BIOS Firmwares. During his second presentation at DEF CON 20, he presented Rakshasa, a BIOS malware based on open source software, the MIT Technology review labeled “incurable and undetectable”. For his third DEFCON, he released at DEF CON 24 the Witchcraft Compiler Collection, a framework facilitating reverse engineering that has made its way into the arsenal of many Capture the Flag teams as well as mainstream distributions like Debian or Arch Linux. Prior to his role as Managing Director of the binary analysis firm Moabi, Jonathan held a number of Technical and Executive positions around the world, including Director of Offensive Security and Principal Engineer of Product Security at Salesforce, Director of Security at Change.org where he managed the security of the largest online platform for social change in the world, as well as Senior Security Expert in Australia and India among others. Jonathan holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science (CNAM/France).
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About Moabi: Moabi specializes in the fields of information security, IoT security, connected cars, and reverse engineering.
Matt Edwards
Co-Founder & CEO of nyfty.ai
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About nyfty.ai: Virtual workers for Construction
Ben Wynne
Co-Founder and CEO of Intrepid Automation
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About Intrepid Automation: Intrepid Automation, founded in 2017 is focused on solving big problems around next generation manufacturing platforms.
Marek Sadowski
CEO of Robotics Inventions
The founder of the Robotics Inventions; at RI Marek is responsible for business development and overall leadership; he manages investor relationships, answers RFIs and RFPs and supervises RI offerings; previously Marek worked at NASA Ames (Virtual Reality systems to control robots) and at NTT Tokyo Software Laboratories as a research engineer, for more than ten years he has worked at IBM, HP, AMS, and TPSA as an IT architect, Project Manager and salesman; graduated from The International Space University. In the free time Marek is a scuba diver, a snowboarder, a martial arts instructor, and finally a father and a husband.
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About Robotics Inventions: Cutting edge of the emerging automation industry, with leading R&D in artificial intelligence (AI), edge compute and robotic systems.
Ryohei Fujimaki
CEO & Founder of dotData
Ryohei Fujimaki is the founder and CEO of dotData. He is a data scientist, and the youngest research fellow ever appointed in the 119-year history of NEC. During his tenure at NEC, Ryohei was heavily involved in developing many cutting-edge data science solutions with NEC’s global business clients, and was instrumental in the successful delivery of several high-profile analytical solutions that are now widely used in industry. Ryohei received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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About dotData: DotData end-to-end data science automation platform accelerates, democratizes, and operationalizes the entire data science process.
Karthik Rau
Founder & CEO of Stoke Systems
Karthik Rau is the Founder and CEO of Stoke, an AI startup developing solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things. Stoke’s patented low-power architecture and algorithms make it easy to monitor the condition of remote industrial equipment, regardless of where they are located. Prior to founding Stoke in 2020, he was the Founder and CEO of Flicq, a pioneer in edge AI technology. As the Senior Director of Engineering at Atmel Corporation from 2010 to 2015, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the IoT market, he led the development of several processors that power many of today’s leading IoT hardware platforms including Arduino. He has also held senior management and engineering positions at Intel Corporation, Gainspan Corporation and Nortel Networks. He received his MBA from IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. Honors include a fellowship from IE Foundation and several patents and publications.
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About Stoke Systems: Asset monitoring made simple.
Behrokh Khoshnevis
President and CEO of Contour Crafting Corporation
Behrokh Khoshnevis is a professor of industrial and systems engineering, aerospace and mechanical engineering, astronautics engineering, biomedical engineering, and civil and environmental engineering; the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT); and the director of manufacturing engineering graduate program at University of Southern California. Khoshnevis is an inductee of the National Academy of Inventors, a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) fellow, a fellow member of the Society for Computer Simulation, and a fellow member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Khoshnevis is active in robotics and mechatronics related research and development projects that include the development of Additive Manufacturing processes called Contour Crafting, and SIS family of 3D Printing technologies as well as development of mechatronics systems for biomedical applications; autonomous mobile and modular robots for fabrication and assembly applications on Earth, in space, and on other planets; planetary construction of human settlements; and energy systems including wind energy and energy storage technologies and automated production equipment for oil and gas industries. He has several major inventions which have been commercialized. He routinely conducts lectures and seminars on the subjects of creativity and invention. He teaches a graduate course on Invention and Technology Development at USC. Behrokh Khoshnevis’ inventions have been featured in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Der Spiegel, New Scientist, and numerous national and international television and radio networks.
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About Contour Crafting Corporation, University of Southern California: Contour Crafting Corporation (CC Corp) is an early stage company with the mission to commercialize disruptive construction technologies.
Gary Kurek
Founder & CEO of Kügar
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About Kügar: Kügar is an industrial automation company that offers robotic automation solutions.
Andrew Miner
Founder and CEO of Mirada Technologies
Andrew Miner is the founder and CEO of Mirada Technologies.
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About Mirada Technologies: Mirada Technologies develops the enabling components for advanced LiDAR.
Rock Rockwell
CEO of eTurns
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About eTurns: ETurns is a provider of automated inventory management software.
Murali Srinivasa
CEO of EtaPro Technologies
Murali Srinivasa is the Founder and CEO at EtaPro Technologies.
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About EtaPro Technologies: AI driven manufacturing technology platform empowering manufactures to reduce time to market with high quality products.
Stephen Gaines
CEO of Obotics
The CEO of Obotics is Stephen Gaines. Stephen spent his last 45 years running high technology and aerospace businesses. One of his companies was part of the manufacturing team that brought the first online SPE processing instrument to market some 28 years ago. He sold his aerospace business two years ago and agreed to invest and dedicate his experience in manufacturing and executive management to Obotics and his long time business associate Lane Yago.
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About Obotics: Obotics is an intelligent robotic lab assistant.
Ryan Gray
Co-Founder & CEO of SGW Designworks
Specialties: Business management, business planning, problem solving, sales, opportunity analysis, design, idea / invention development, market research, product definition, driving innovation.
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About SGW Designworks: Product design and engineering, plus equipment / machine design.
Raf Peeters
CEO & Founder of Qcify
Raf Peeters is the CEO & Founder at Qcify.
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About Qcify: Qcify offers quality control solutions in the food industry.
Rania Hoteit
Founder and CEO of ID4A Technologies
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About ID4A Technologies: ID4A is a Global Design Technology company specialized in the development of automation technologies to accelerate manufacturing processes.
Zigmund Bluvband
President, CEO & Founder of ALD Advanced Logistics Developments
Zigmund Bluvband is the President, CEO, and Founder of ALD Group.
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About ALD Advanced Logistics Developments: ALD is a consulting firm and software company that provides Reliability Engineering, Safety, and Quality Solutions.
