Boardroom Media (CEO News)
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 Chicago based CEO’ operating in the Computer 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.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Matt Gorniak
Chief Executive Officer of ThreeKit
Matt Gorniak is the Chief Executive Officer at Threekit.
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About ThreeKit: ThreeKit is a 3D product configuration and visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage beautiful visuals at scale.
Steve Olechowski
Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics
Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.
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About Blinkfire Analytics, Northwestern University: Blinkfire Analytics uses AI and computer vision to optimize the sponsorship marketplace between creators, and their sponsors.
Ray Grady
President and Chief Executive Officer of Conexiom
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About Conexiom: Conexiom helps manufacturers and distributors lower their cost-to-serve and generate revenue through sales orders and AP Invoice automation.
Glenn Trout
President and CEO of VelocityEHS
Glenn Trout is President & CEO of VelocityEHS. Glenn has more than 20 years of experience in the EHS industry, which includes authoring articles for trade publications, serving on the VPPPA Region V board and participating in numerous panel discussions and webinars. He has spoken at more than 100 industry events on topics such as occupational health and safety, regulatory compliance and risk assessment. Prior to joining VelocityEHS in 2000, he gained management experience at Mead Paper and Ernst & Young. Glenn holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Miami University in Ohio and an MBA in Management and Strategy, Marketing and International Business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.
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About VelocityEHS: VelocityEHS is a new kind of EHS software company, helping you reach your environmental, health, safety and sustainability goals faster.
Chris Gladwin
Co-Founder and CEO of Ocient
Chris Gladwin founded Cleversafe in 2004, bringing to the company the same innovative and entrepreneurial approach that has signified his executive leadership throughout his career. Chris, who was previously the creator of the first workgroup storage server at Zenith Data Systems and was a Manager of Corporate Storage Standards at Lockheed Martin, also created and managed a number of successful new technology start-ups, including MusicNow, which was acquired by Circuit City. Chris has been the creative force behind the development of the first Dispersed Storage system to solve the growing global problem of Big Data storage. Chris Gladwin has created over 300 issued and pending patents related to Dispersed Storage technology. Cleversafe, inspired by Chris, continues to be one of the most patenting U.S. companies per employee. Chris Gladwin holds a degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Ocient: Ocient is a startup building a near-real time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets.
Adam Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO of Cultivate Labs
Adam is a founder of Inkling and as CEO is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company and assisting in business development and client service. Before founding Inkling, Adam spent 10 years as a consultant at Accenture, working with a long list of Fortune 100 and Government Agencies and also leading up research initiatives around next generation user experiences. Adam has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Indiana University.
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About Cultivate Labs, Federis Group: Cultivate Labs use crowdsourcing their best thinking to guide your most important decisions.
Charles Kwon
Co-Founder & CEO of OmniSparx
Charles Kwon has over 30 years of experience in transforming companies by leveraging disruptive technologies. He has built and sold multiple startups and helped companies such as Microsoft, Dell, HP, and Dropbox.
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About OmniSparx: OmniSparx is a premier collaboration platform for crypto organizations to create and share value within their communities.
Kwaku Owusu
Co-Founder & CEO of Drugviu
Kwaku Owusu is a co-founder at Ilerasoft.
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About Drugviu: Drugviu is a population health platform that is expanding the data set in health and medication outcomes for non-white populations.
Kwaku Owusu
Co-Founder & CEO of Drugviu
Kwaku Owusu is a co-founder at Ilerasoft.
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About Drugviu: Drugviu is a population health platform that is expanding the data set in health and medication outcomes for non-white populations.
Ablorde Ashigbi
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 4Degrees
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About 4Degrees, The World Economic Forum: AI-enabled relationship management platform, built for relationship driven industries.
Andi Hadisutjipto
CEO and Co-founder of Riviter
Founder at Riviter
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About Riviter, Xapix: Riviter helps brands see and serve the people who love them with AI- and visual search-powered intelligence from social images and video.
John K Feldman
Founder & CEO of Applied Pathways LLC
John’s 25-year track record in healthcare has revolved around building companies with information products and services designed for healthcare consumers and professionals. Prior to founding Applied Pathways, he has participated in the launch and growth of several highly successful healthcare companies including Access Health, Informed Access Systems, Careinsite and WebMD. John’s various management roles in product development, product management, sales, marketing and business development have imparted a deep understanding of the business of healthcare and growth strategies for healthcare service and software companies. John received his B.A. degree from the University of Colorado.
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About Applied Pathways LLC: Applied Pathways provides a cloud-based visual development platform for clinical innovation
Nico Aguilar
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Speeko
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About Speeko: Automated voice analytics and digital communication coaching
Orlando Saez
CEO & Co-Founder of Aker Technologies
Growth executive with experience in business development, product marketing and operations. Successful planning and launching large-scale product development initiatives from concept to commercial deployment. Highlights: (1) Led companies with two successful exits over $50M valuation. (2) Experience at all stages, including startups, buyouts, and established companies. (3) Managed a $78M state-sponsored early stage venture capital fund.
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About Aker Technologies: Aker is an agriculture data company providing crop intelligence and in-season analytics.
Nick Florek
CEO of General Lattice
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About General Lattice: General Lattice specializes in developing CAD software solutions that help manufacturing businesses.
Ravi Bhatt
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Branchfire
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About Branchfire: Branchfire designs software that enhances productivity and communication.
Jason Cohen
Co-founder & CEO of Big Data Block
Jason has worked as a technology leader for over 20 years. His experience ranges from leading small teams as CTO to leading large scale development organizations of over 100 people. His focus has been on software and big data development technologies. He is a passionate technologist with a heavy focus on open source development utilizing the most current tools. Managing large scale data environments has been a particular focus area going all the way back to his software company consulting days. His more recent focus on blockchain has allowed him to rethink how Big Data is managed leading to his current role as CEO/CTO of Big Data Block.
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About Big Data Block: BIG DATA BLOCK™ (BDB™) Makes Big Data Computational Analysis Accessible, Affordable, And Secure, For Everyone.
Dick Burke
Chief Executive Officer of Envoy Global
Dick Burke is the president and chief executive officer of VISANOW Inc. He is responsible for the development of the overall company strategy, marketing, sales, finance, business development and technology, while managing day-to-day operations. He has vast growth business and management experience as well as legal services insight. Prior to VISANOW, Burke served as president of Apartments.com, where he managed its business operations, including sales, marketing, product development, production, customer service and technology. During his tenure, the business attained record numbers in customers, traffic and revenues. Previously, Burke served as senior vice president of administration and corporate development for Classified Ventures LLC. In this capacity, he oversaw Homegain.com, the company’s online real estate business. In addition, he led the company’s corporate services division, comprised of corporate technology, legal, human resources, communications, facilities and corporate development. He played an integral role in successful acquisitions, including Apartment Home Living. Burke signed the papers that formed Classified Ventures LLC in 1997 and represented the company the same year in its acquisition of Visual Properties LLC, the predecessor of Apartments.com. Burke joined the organization in October 1998 as chief legal officer. Earlier in his career, he practiced law at Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella P.C. and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Burke received a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
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About Envoy Global: Computer Software, SaaS
Christopher Oechsel
President/CEO of Zethcon
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About Zethcon: Zethcon is a supply chain execution software and services provider.
Marc Gyongyosi
Founder & CEO of Intelligent Flying Machines, Inc.
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About Intelligent Flying Machines, Inc.: Intelligent Flying Machines develops systems that maximize inventory accuracy and unleash productivity in the workforce.
AMY ROSENOW
CEO & Co-Founder of Jugl LLC
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About Jugl LLC: We’re building software to make it easier to be a working parent. Sign up to be part of our pre-release community at www.getjugl.com!
Charlie Connor
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Heretik
Charlie Connor is a Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Heretik.
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About Heretik: Heretik is a Chicago-based software company using machine learning to make the contract review process easier and smarter.
Parker Schmitt
CEO of NetThunder
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About NetThunder: NetThunder is an on-premise private cloud solution that is easy to setup and includes services that keep companies running.
Christopher Wilson
CEO & President of EDGe Surgical
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About EDGe Surgical: EDGe Surgical is a medical device company that offers innovative precision measurement solutions for orthopedic surgery.
Jeffrey Dann
President and Chief Executive Officer of RJ2 Technologies
Jeffrey Dann is a President and Chief Executive Officer at RJ2 Technologies.
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About RJ2 Technologies: RJ2 Technologies delivers quality business solutions for customers’ technology.
Lewis A. Mitchell
CEO of Physician Software Systems
Lewis A. Mitchell is the CEO at Physician Software Systems.
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About Physician Software Systems: Physician Software Systems commercializes a method of managing the anemia for hemodialysis patients.
