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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 Massachusetts based CEO’ operating in the Big Data 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.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
Jeff Papows
CEO of ShopAdvisor
With more than 28 years of industry experience, Papows has a proven history of success in both emerging companies and global organizations. Most notably, Papows was president and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, where he is widely credited for taking Lotus Notes from its initial release to sales of more than 70 million copies worldwide, making it the leading collaboration platform. Upon the company’s acquisition, Papows helped steer the Lotus’ successful integration into IBM. Papows was also president of Cognos Corporation, taking the business intelligence software provider from its early stages to sustained profitability, a successful public offering, and years of continued growth that met or exceeded market expectations. Most recently, Papows was the president and CEO of Maptuit, a provider of real-time commercial navigation software. Having led Maptuit to profitability and a market leadership position, Papows continues as Chairman of the Board. Papows has been a frequent guest of CNN and Fox News. A successful author, Papows wrote “Enterprise.com: Information Leadership in the Digital Age,” which has sold more than 80,000 copies and has been reprinted multiple times in several languages, and “Glitch The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software.” Papows has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Norwich University, a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine University, and a doctorate in Business Administration from California Coast University.
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About ShopAdvisor, Silver Oak Jumper Tournament: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
William R. Adler
Co-Founder, CEO, and President of True Fit
William R. Adler, also known as Bill, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of True Fit Corporation and TrueFit Solutions, Inc. William Adler was a Timberland executive who has multiple generations of apparel leaders. He has 20+ years of leadership and general management experience. He successfully led True Fit’s pivot from direct retailer to a big data SaaS solution for major retailers and brands.
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
Marc Van Zadelhoff
CEO of Devo USA
Marc van Zadelhoff has nearly 20 years of experience in strategy, venture capital, business development and marketing in the IT and security space. Currently, Marc is the VP, Worldwide Strategy and Product Management for IBM Security Systems –responsible for overall product management, budget and positioning for IBM’s full software portfolio globally. Marc’s prior responsibilities at IBM have included leadership roles in M&A, product management and marketing in both software and services. Marc was a member of the executive team of Dutch-based Consul before it sold to IBM and spent the rest of his pre-IBM years in IT venture capital and strategy consulting. Marc lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
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About Devo USA: Devo is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-native logging and security analytics for organizations.
John Andrews
Chief Executive Officer of Celect
John has spent the last two decades helping retailers, distributors, and brands optimize their omni-channel strategies and operations. Prior to Celect, John was VP of Product Management & Strategy for Oracle Commerce, coming to Oracle via the Endeca acquisition where John was VP of Marketing & Product Management. John started his career within Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations practice. John holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Boston College and received his master’s degree from the Harvard Business School.
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About Celect: Celect is a cloud-based, predictive analytics SaaS platform that helps retailers optimize their overall inventory portfolios.
Shimon Elkabetz
CEO & Co-Founder of Tomorrow.io
Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for 11 years in several managerial and commanding positions. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his service stoked a fascination with the weather, that little thing that affects us all. He’s also passionate about soccer and can recall any statistic whether you ask him to or not. Shimon holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts.
Aaron Feuer
Co-Founder & CEO of Panorama Education
Aaron Feuer is CEO and Founder of Panorama Education, a data analytics company focused on collecting feedback to improve K-12 education. Aaron’s passion for computer programming and education inspired him to launch Panorama while attending Yale University.
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About Panorama Education: Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US.
Moshe Yanai
Founder & CEO of Infinidat
Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s, joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies.
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About IBM, Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Anthony Longo
Co-Founder & CEO of CO Everywhere
Anthony Longo is the VP of Marketing & Commercial Products at SIONYX.
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About CO Everywhere, CO Everywhere, Niche Collective, SiOnyx: CO Everywhere is a research and development lab and investment vehicle focused on building technology products and services.
Frederick Goff
Co-founder & CEO of Jobcase
Workers advocate and technology entrepreneur – founder and CEO of Jobcase, the only social media platform dedicated to empowering America’s workforce. Previously successfully managed up to $1billion as proprietary head trader running global EM trading and derivatives. Founder and managing partner of a machine learning based hedge fund which enjoyed successful transaction with Natixis among other highlights. In 2009, repurposed hedge fund team that was proficient in big data skills (machine learning predictive modeling, high dimension optimization, etc.) to focus on online media and career space while mother of all black swans flew over the markets. Now the team is perfectly happy with and committed to Jobcase as it is SOOO much fun measuring success 1 Jobcaser at a time and working with arguably one of the best big data teams in the country.
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About Jobcase: Jobcase is a social media platform dedicated to empowering America’s workforce.
Jana Eggers
CEO of Nara Logics
Jana is CEO of Nara Logics (naralogics.com), a neuroscience-based artificial intelligence company focused on turning big data into smart actions. Whether starting and growing companies, or leading large organizations within big companies, Jana focuses on understanding the customer needs and creating technology products that customers love and drive business growth. Her software and technology experience comes from technology and executive positions at Intuit (NASDAQ INTU), Blackbaud (NASDAQ BLKB), Lycos, American Airline’s Sabre, and as CEO of Spreadshirt. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science at Hendrix College, followed by graduate school at RPI and supercomputing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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About Blackbaud, Nara Logics, SureCruise.com: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Peter Hartzbech
Founder & CEO of iMotions A/S
Peter Hartzbech passion is global entrepreneurship and building companies. Driven by a desire to make a difference in the world, he embarked upon his entrepreneurial career by starting his first venture at the age of 25. Prior to founding iMotions, he worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues. In December 2006, Peter was appointed by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35, where the Magazine appoints Notable Entrepreneurs under 35. Peter’s positive attitude and global vision have been the main driving forces behind iMotions’ rapid growth and expansion.
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About iMotions A/S: iMotions A/S develops and provides biometric platforms, neuromarketing, psychology, VR, and engineering solutions.
Rich Gliklich
Founder and CEO of OM1
Rich Gliklich is the Founder and CEO at OM1.
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About Cyft, OM1: OM1 is a healthcare technology company that leverages real-world clinical data for medical research and personalized medicine.
Jonathan Hakim
Founder & CEO of Cignifi
Jonathan Hakim is the Founder & CEO at Cignifi.
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About Cignifi: Cignifi uses mobile behavior data in emerging markets to deliver credit scores and marketing tools to telecom and financial companies.
Sean Power
Founder & CEO of karmadata
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About karmadata, Power Fund Partners, PrescribeWellness, WIRB-Copernicus Group: Healthcare (Big) Data Simplified
Ryan Pijai
Co-Founder & CEO of Octant
Ryan Pijai is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Octant Technologies.
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About Octant: Octant is a developer of a platform used to video data collection services for autonomous vehicle developers.
Colin Hill
Chairman and CEO of GNS Healthcare
Colin Hill co-founded GNS Healthcare in 2000 and has served as Chairman & CEO since then. He brings impressive leadership experience and a solid track record in commercializing machine learning technology and precision medicine platforms in the biopharmaceutical and managed care industries. In 2016, he was appointed to the board of directors of a leading publically traded mobile health company that pioneered remote cardiac monitoring – Biotelemetry Inc. (formerly CardioNet) (NASDAQ: BEAT). He was appointed in 2015 by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to the board of directors of the Center for Health Information and Analysis. He is also a founding board member of Transforming Medicine: The Elizabeth Kauffman Institute, a non-profit foundation (501c3) dedicated to the advancement of personalized medicine. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of AesRx, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of new treatments for sickle cell disease (acquired by Baxter in 2014). Colin was the founding chairman of O’Reilly Media’s Strata Rx in 2012, the first healthcare big data conference in the industry. Colin was the founding chairman of big data quantitative trading firm Fina Technologies and served from 2008 to 2011. In 2004, Colin was named to MIT Technology Review’s TR100 list of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific and industry conferences including America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) annual meeting, the Pharmaceutical Researchers & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) annual meeting, and the Forbes Healthcare Summit, and has been quoted in and appeared in numerous publications and television programs, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Morning Call & SquawkBox, Nature, Boston Globe, Politico, Forbes, Wired, and The Economist. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and earned Master’s degrees in physics from both McGill University and Cornell University.
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About GNS Healthcare: GNS Healthcare is a big data analytics company focuses on discovering what works in the healthcare industry and for whom.
Matthew George
Founder & CEO of Bridj
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About Bridj: BRIDJ is an intelligent public transport service powered by a demand responsive technology platform.
Alexander Schwarzkopf
CEO of Pillar Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO at Pillar Technologies.
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About Pillar Technologies: Pillar is a real-time risk management platform for general contractors.
Karl Wirth
Founder & CEO of Evergage
Karl is the CEO and Co-founder of Evergage. Passionate about helping businesses improve conversion rates through relevant, in-context communication, Karl leverages his background to support leading companies in retail, financial services, technology, travel, media and gaming drive measurable benefits from real-time personalization.
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About Evergage: Evergage provides a platform that helps digital marketers increase engagement and conversions through real-time 1:1 personalization.
Peter Caputa
CEO of Databox
Peter Caputa IV is VP Sales at HubSpot. As HubSpot employee #15, Pete has played a pivotal role in helping to develop the people, processes and systems that have helped HubSpot scale to 1,000+ employees, 2300+ agency partners, 15,000+ customers and $115M in revenue. Pete now oversees teams across the sales department—including the media team, which he helped build from the ground up. An expert on the B2B media industry and inbound marketing, Pete has helped hundreds of companies transform the way they attract, convert, and close customers for both themselves and their advertisers.
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About Databox: Databox is an application that operates as a personal data assistant for businesses.
Phillip Ragon
Founder & CEO of Intersystems
Since founding InterSystems in 1978, Ragon has led the company to worldwide prominence in the database, interoperability, and healthcare application markets. Prior to starting InterSystems, Ragon co-founded a healthcare software company that became a leader in the U.S. and is now part of GE Healthcare. He has served as a healthcare IT consultant to academic and government institutions and received a prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in healthcare information technology. Ragon is a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also served as Honorary Co-Chair of the MGH Campaign. He is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. He is also a member of the MIT Corporation, the governing body of MIT, and chairs the Visiting Committee that reviews the Physics Department. In 2008, Ragon helped created the Ragon Institute, a joint research center of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. The vision of the Ragon Institute is to harness the immune system through science to prevent and cure disease, and its immediate objective is the creation of a vaccine for HIV. The son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Ragon was born in Arizona. He grew up in a variety of states and graduated from high school in Bogota, Colombia. He obtained an S.B. (B.S) in physics from MIT.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Harpreet Singh
Founder and Co-CEO of Experfy
Harvard-trained PhD. AI, Big Data and IoT thought leader recognized by The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/1G9pqBp), Forbes (http://onforb.es/PaJdJx), Mashable (http://on.mash.to/1rv9BK0), Techcrunch (http://tcrn.ch/1dO3M9D), and TechRepublic (http://tek.io/1MM78am). Harpreet Singh is the Founder and Co-CEO of Experfy, an AI and IoT consulting and training marketplace in the Harvard Innovation Lab. He works at the intersection of big data and IoT, developing strategy, roadmaps, advanced algorithms and data products. In the past he has served as a Chief Analytics Officer and has also led cross-functional teams in global execution of product development, business strategy, operations, and technology functions. With exceptional emphasis on structured governance, he managed the program management initiatives for sixty technology startups from Citigroup’s e-Citi Venture Portfolio Office. Harpreet subsequently established the Project Management Office (PMO) for FX Alliance, a global foreign exchange platform, where he was responsible for enabling project and risk management functions for New York, London and Tokyo locations. Harpreet earned Master’s and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he also served as a faculty member.
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About Expercoin, Experfy, Experfy Institute, Future of Work Pioneers, Masters of Blockchain: Experfy is an operator of a consulting and upskilling platform used to address the scarcity of talent in the data science space.
Andrew Kieve
CEO, Co-Founder of Tolemi
Co-founder of Tolemi
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About Tolemi: Turning government’s data into the information edge they require to lead in the 21st Century
Varun Pathak
CEO of Noble
Founder of LineJump.
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About Noble: The first consumer-centric mobile ordering solution to make on-premise experiences better.
Eliran Sapir
Founder CEO & President of Apptopia
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About Apptopia: Apptopia provides services in app analytics, data mining, and business intelligence for the mobile industry.
Le Zhang
Founder & CEO of Squadle
Founder of Squadle.
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About Squadle: Squadle’s digital checklists allow multi-unit operators to simplify complex operations and streamline food safety compliance.
Joerg Wiemer
Co-Founder & CEO of Treasury Intelligence Solutions
Joerg is CEO of TIS. He has 16 yrs. of experience in people management, finance, investor relations and project mgt. Joerg Wiemer (Dipl.-Kfm, CEFA, MBA) former Senior Vice President and Head of Global Treasury at SAP until August 2011, is co-founder and CEO of Treasury Intelligence Solutions GmbH. Joerg is a finance professional with 16 years of experience in treasury, B2B sales, finance, and investor relations. Prior to working for TIS and SAP, Joerg was head of Treasury and Investor Relations at Douglas Holding AG, a listed German mid-cap company. Joerg started his career at Deutsche Bank AG where he worked as credit analyst and relationship manager for corporate clients.
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About Treasury Intelligence Solutions: TIS is reimagining the world of enterprise payments through a cloud-based platform
Bianca Maxwell Harris
Founder & CEO of Skinary
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About Skinary: an integrative health tracking app for skin
Andrew McKay
CEO, Co-Founder of Kona Search
Andrew is Co-Founder and CTO of Kona DataSearch. He has over 25 years’ experience in executive, marketing, sales, and engineering positions in the software industry. In the last 10 years Andrew has been active in the search industry, as an executive at Fast Search & Transfer, which sold to Microsoft in 2008, and as a Co-Founder of Attivio.
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About Kona Search: Kona Search develops advanced search and data access for Salesforce users, administrators, and sales executives.
Russ D’Argento
Founder & CEO of FINTRX
Russ D’Argento serves as Founder & CEO of Cap Hedge Ventures, Inc and its flagship product – FINTRX Platform. In addition to his role at Cap Hedge Ventures, he also serves as Sr. Consultant of Family Office Marketing and introductions for Windham Capital Group – a 20+ year old Boston based placement firm in the hedge fund space. Russ holds a BA from the University of Connecticut (Storrs) where he was a four year standout on the Huskies baseball team.
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About FINTRX, Forbes Finance Council: FINTRX provides family office intelligence design to assist in the identification, access, and raising of family office capital.
Richard Baker
Chief Executive Officer of GeoSpock
Richard serves a Chief Executive Officer of Geospock, as well as serving as Non-Executive Director for Falcon Media House, a London Stock Exchange listed global Internet Media Group. He is the Chairman of TAB U.K. Ltd, a Data Science company based in Cambridge. Formerly, Richard was the joint founder and CEO of Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), incorporated in Singapore, an electronic execution exchange for cash-settled, cleared derivatives and futures contracts. CLTX is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Recognized Market Operator (RMO) and as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) in the USA by the CFTC. CLTX provides a specialized order matching engine giving access to an anonymous central limit order book and block traded futures across multiple asset classes and contracts. CLTX was subject to a 100% majority acquisition by the European Energy Exchange, a Deutsche Bourse company in late 2016. Richard has held several senior executive positions in technology, media and telecommunications. He has served as a non-executive board member in the internet technology solution sector and has directed and co-founded a digital media consulting services firm. Richard has a passion for people, innovation, driving high standards and achieving high results. Richard holds qualifications in technology and communications and is a frequent speaker at conferences and roundtables.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
James Bowen
Co-Founder & CEO of Energetic Insurance
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About Energetic Insurance: Energetic Insurance unlock solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
Colin MacNaught
CEO & Co-Founder of BondLink
Colin has more than 15 years of experience in the municipal bond market. Prior to BondLink, Colin managed the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ borrowing needs from 2008 to 2015, issuing close to $25 billion in bonds and notes. His work was distinguished for its innovation, lauded by groups such as the NFMA and SIFMA, and earned two national deal of the year awards from The Bond Buyer. A big focus of his time was on boosting the state’s transparency to investors. Colin studied public finance at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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About BondLink: BondLink builds technology products and tools to help modernize the municipal bond market.
Sanjay Mazumder
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Veristorm
Sanjay Mazumder is the Founder of Veristorm.
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About FS.AI, Veristorm: Veristorm offers a big data management platform that enables mainframe users to integrate their critical data.
Siddhartha Goyal
CEO of Nivi, Inc.
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About Nivi, Inc.: Putting people at the center of health care in our conversational marketplace
Ross Andrews
CEO & Founder of Proximate.io (Acquired)
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About Proximate.io (Acquired): Proximate provides sales Intelligence as a Service
Jose Morales
Founder & CEO of AI Ninja
Founder and CEO of AI Ninja! Passionate about finance, artificial intelligence and programming.
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About AI Ninja: We provide exciting Artificial Intelligence & Mixed Reality solutions to banks, hedge funds and financial firms!
Eddie Cogan
CEO & Founder of Catelas
Eddie Cogan is the CEO and founder of Catelas. He has studied behavior and its representative markers within digital communications for more than 15 years. As founder of Catelas, Eddie obtained his first patent, a technological process for identifying and measuring relationships & trust using electronic communications data. Catelas is currently leveraged by 3 of the Big 4, the NASDAQ OMX, technology, manufacturing, and financial services corporations for Information Security, Investigations, Legal and Regulatory Compliance Oversight.
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About Catelas: Catelas offers e-surveillance and risk analytics software that caters to the financial services industry.
Alicia Rouault
CEO and Founder of LocalData
Alicia Rouault, CEO + Founder Alicia Rouault is an urban planner, winner of the 2012 Knight News Data Challenge and former Code for America Fellow. Alicia has worked at the intersection of urban planning and technology with the Architectural League of NY Urban Ombibus, San Francisco’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development, City of Newark, and Pratt Center for Community Development. Alicia holds a B.A. in Political Science from University of Toronto and studied planning at the Masters level at Pratt Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About LocalData: LocalData makes digital tools to collect and analyze information about urban infrastructure.
Michael Segala
Chief Executive Officer of SFL Scientific
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About SFL Scientific: Data science consulting & professional services firm solving complex and R&D type problems using data engineering, machine learning, and AI.
Harjot Saluja
CEO of Datami
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About Datami: Datami enables enhanced mobile engagement for brands.
Martin Flusberg
CEO of Powerhouse Dynamics
Martin Flusberg is the CEO at Powerhouse Dynamics.
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About Powerhouse Dynamics, Powerhouse Dynamics: Powerhouse Dynamics’ SiteSage system delivers equipment-level enterprise energy and asset management to portfolios of small facilities.
Ishay Grinberg
Founder & CEO of Rental Beast
Ishay [pronounced ee-shy] is the Founder and President of Rental Beast. After spending 13 years working in the real estate industry, Ishay saw the need for a comprehensive online platform that would help tenants and landlords navigate the rental experience. Starting in Boston, Ishay spent over seven years perfecting the Rental Beast database, gathering over 300,000 listings and developing influential industry relationships to create a unique and tailored user experience for landlords, property managers, tenants and brokers. Today, Ishay guides the strategic direction of the organization, leading its expansion throughout the U.S. Prior to launching Rental Beast, Ishay worked as a real estate agent and then a sales manager for a boutique real estate firm in New York City. Ishay has experienced every facet of the residential real estate transaction firsthand and is all too familiar with the challenges faced by landlords and tenants at various stages of the rental experience. Ishay made his first real estate investment in South Boston, and later became a developer and a landlord in the area. Ishay served as a Combat Officer for the Israeli Defense Force, and it was there that he learned the importance of good decision making and developed his skills at formulating and executing great strategies. He spent the last 10 years involved in building and helping the Jewish community in Wellesley and Weston, Mass. as the president of the Wellesley Weston Chabad. He is also currently a member of the RHA, NAA, CAA, PAA, Greater Boston Real Estate Boston, Boston University Coalition and other associations. Ishay spent too much time over the past six years perfecting his golf game but it’s still far from perfect! He is an avid runner and to offset that habit, his drink of choice is good whiskey or scotch along with a great cigar. Ishay grew up in Haifa, Israel and currently resides in Natick, Mass.
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About Rental Beast: Rental Beast is a real estate SaaS company helping agents build a better business with a comprehensive set of real estate tools.
Fatima Manning
Founder/CEO of Dumpd
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About Dumpd: Dumpd is a social platform aiming to help people who are experiencing heartache.
Randy Bean
Founder & CEO of New Vantage Partners
Randy Bean is a CEO | Founder at New Vantage Partners.
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About New Vantage Partners: NVP is a world-class provider of data management and analytics-driven strategic consulting services to Fortune 1000 firms.
Derek Boyle
Founder & CEO of Empirical Synergies
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About Empirical Synergies: Market Research firm servicing sports & entertainment industry. Using Empirical Data To Rate The Compatibility of Brands & Endorsers
Leonard Grover
Founder/CEO of Screener.co
Lenny spent a year and half with the Corporate Executive Board and over three years as a junior VC investment professional before starting Screener.co. He enjoys trading and wanted to bring professional-caliber trading tools to individual investors.
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About Screener.co: Screener.co stock screener is the most powerful global stock screener available to individual investors.
Ram Pothula
CEO and Founder of Dragonfly Data Factory
Founder & CEO of Dragonfly Data Factory, Ram Pothula, brings more than 27 years of pure play Data and Information centric Global Management enterprise experience. He is a recognized leader and architect in the Enterprise Cloud & Data. Ram imparted his skills and knowledge in Big Data Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure Solutions, Information centric Hadoop architectures, Enterprise Data Center transformational services & technologies and Emerging Technologies for New Product Introductions to global enterprise clients in the USA, Australia, Singapore and India. He has designed Business, Financial & Supply Chain Dashboards with Analytic applications for CXOs of several large corporates. He holds a Bachelors Degree (Honors) from IIMC India, MBA from Andhra University India and Diplomas from Stanford University (Marketing Emerging Technology) & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Big Data). Prior to Dragonfly, Ram has held leadership roles with PwC, EMC, Hitachi and Computer Associates.
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About Dragonfly Data Factory: Dragonfly Data Factory is an online platform that enables its clients to mine, manage, and monetize big data.
Joan Bachenheimer
Founding Principal & CEO of BBK Worldwide
Joan is widely recognized for her work to establish the patient recruitment and engagement discipline. Her vision for the industry and expertise across many healthcare communication disciplines inform all of BBK’s work. She continues to lead BBK’s product and service innovation and remains steadfast in her commitment to the industry’s adoption of adaptive and patient-centric recruitment best practices. Recently honored by the Boston Globe Magazine with a Top 100 Women-led Business award, Joan coauthored the book “Reinventing Patient Recruitment: Revolutionary Ideas for Clinical Trial Success” and was selected by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the clinical R&D industry. She has taught healthcare marketing at Boston University’s College of Communication, and is currently serving on the Tufts University alumni board. Before co-founding BBK, Joan helped build Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s acclaimed public affairs division. Outside of work, Joan loves the theatre and spending quality time with friends and family.
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About BBK Worldwide: BBK Worldwide, a marketing consultancy, specializes in patient recruitment for the clinical R&D segments of biotech and medical industries.
Katie Robbert
Co-Founder and CEO of Trust Insights
Katie Robbert is an authority on compliance, governance, change management, agile methodologies, and dealing with high-stakes, “no mistakes” data. As CEO of BrainTrust Insights, she oversees the growth of the company, manages operations and product commercialization, and sets overall strategy. Her expertise includes strategic planning, marketing operations management, organizational behavior and market research and analysis. Prior to co-founding BrainTrust Insights, she built and grew multi-million dollar lines of business in the marketing technology, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. Ms. Robbert led teams of Microsoft Partner Software Engineers to build industry-leading research software to address and mitigate pharmaceutical abuse. Ms. Robbert is a Google Analytics Certified Professional, a Google AdWords Certified Professional, a Google Digital Sales Certified Professional, and holds a Master of Science degree in Marketing and Technological Innovation. She is a published researcher in the Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Journal.
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About Trust Insights: Trust Insights helps companies light up dark data and help you take action through analysis and insight.
Jereme Coste
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clyque
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About Clyque: Clyque is a location based social recruitment project network.
Chris Sowa
CEO of ToonCrier Inc.
Passionate about developing new ideas into reality. Creator of ToonCrier, a mobile social platform where people can leverage characters and voice to share emotions and ideas. ToonCrier will be continuing to rollout new emotive technologies including using artificial intelligence for motion capture on mobile devices to let people express their emotions and communicate far beyond text. I have a global track record of success developing omni channel customer strategies, marketing strategies, big data strategies, and operational models used successfully by multi-national companies in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. By implementing these strategies and solutions, these companies have seen substantial increases in revenue and market share. Specialties: Innovation, speaking, entrepreneurship, digital strategy, big data, customer experience, marketing, product marketing, mobile app creation, management consulting, business strategy consulting, M&A, return on investment analysis, enterprise strategy, cloud strategy, new product introductions, and go-to-market strategy.
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About ToonCrier Inc.: ToonCrier’s Emotional Virtual Reality increases user engagement by empowering them to share how they feel about digital content.
Chris Sowa
CEO of ToonCrier Inc.
Passionate about developing new ideas into reality. Creator of ToonCrier, a mobile social platform where people can leverage characters and voice to share emotions and ideas. ToonCrier will be continuing to rollout new emotive technologies including using artificial intelligence for motion capture on mobile devices to let people express their emotions and communicate far beyond text. I have a global track record of success developing omni channel customer strategies, marketing strategies, big data strategies, and operational models used successfully by multi-national companies in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. By implementing these strategies and solutions, these companies have seen substantial increases in revenue and market share. Specialties: Innovation, speaking, entrepreneurship, digital strategy, big data, customer experience, marketing, product marketing, mobile app creation, management consulting, business strategy consulting, M&A, return on investment analysis, enterprise strategy, cloud strategy, new product introductions, and go-to-market strategy.
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About ToonCrier Inc.: ToonCrier’s Emotional Virtual Reality increases user engagement by empowering them to share how they feel about digital content.
