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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise Applications 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.

Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.

Quinlan Eddy
CEO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
Quinlan Eddy began his career in financial and consolidations systems at Citibank as a financial analyst in Singapore where he pioneered the use of Essbase for Citicorp as a corporate standard. He joined Arbor Software in 1994, prior to its IPO and subsequent merger with Hyperion Solutions. In 2004 he founded Star Analytics focused on the Oracle Hyperion product suite. In 2013, Star Analytics exited to IBM and in 2017, Quinlan co-founded OneCloud, an iPaaS technology delivering automation & integration solutions in the BI and EPM space. Quinlan holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.

David-Benjamin Brakha
Founder & CEO of Blackbell
Prior to founding Hotelcloud, David founded another startup known as ACstant in 2009, an email-based personal assistant and concierge service. ACstant has handled more than 5k requests, half of which were travel related. Hotelcloud was the next logical step in his vision. Often times qualified as a visionary and an out-of-the-box thinker, his ambition is to revolutionize the hospitality industry by making it more connected through technology.
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About Blackbell: Blackbell is a SaaS platform that integrates all processes to sell services.
Tim Castree
Global Chief Executive Officer of WaveMaker
Tim leads one of the world’s largest media agency networks, overseeing more than 8,500 people in 90 countries. With over 20 years of industry experience, Tim’s diverse management experience spans creative, media and integrated agencies.Prior to joining Wavemaker, Tim was Managing Director for Videology’s USA business where he developed the company’s strategy for providing cross-screen media technology solutions for advertisers, agencies and media companies. Previously, Tim was Chief Operating Officer for MediaVest US, running the business and leading major client accounts including American Honda Motor Company, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Sprint. He was also President, Global Managing Director for SMG, leading the global P&G business, spanning 160 assignments in 70 countries. Earlier in his career at SMG, Tim oversaw other clients such as Mars Wrigley, Wendy’s and Heineken. Tim began his career at Leo Burnett in Melbourne. He was the head of client management at BBH New York, before spending three years back in Australia as the CEO for Leo Burnett in Sydney, where under his leadership Leo Burnett was named Australia’s Agency of the Year.
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About WaveMaker: Build applications at lightning speed with the power of low-code development.

Tristan Louis
President and CEO of Casebook PBC
Tristan Louis is an American author, entrepreneur and blogger who has run the site TNL.net since 1994. A pioneer in the Internet industry, Mr. Louis has been involved as a founding member in 6 different companies (5 to exit) and has held senior executive positions at companies like HSBC and Deutsche Bank. An early blogger, Mr. Louis is often credited as one of the creators of podcasting.
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About Casebook PBC, TNL.net: Casebook PBC is the developer of the patented, award-winning Casebook SaaS platform for Human Services.

Dan Wagner
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudSmartz, Inc.
Dan Wagner is co-founder and CEO of CloudSmartz, Inc., a business transformation and IT services company that was recently established through merger of CloudSmartz LLC and IPLogic. The combined company provides a wide array of IT services all designed to help energize businesses, innovate through bundling of native and best in class IT solutions, create Cloud growth strategies, improve operating performance, and focus companies on actions that rapidly enhance enterprise value. Dan most recently held the position of President of XO Business Services, where he managed more than 1,800 finance, marketing, sales, care, and service delivery employees nationwide who interact daily with XO business customers. Prior to XO, Dan was an executive with Global Crossing (now Level 3), where he held several titles over his 14 years including Executive Vice President of Enterprise and Collaboration Services, President of Europe, and Chief Information Officer. He began his career with Accenture where he spent several years working in Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, and other high performing industries. Dan attended Cornell University where he earned his BS in Electrical Engineering.
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About CloudSmartz, Inc.: SDN/NFV Productization, Agile Development, Digital Transformation, DCX Portals, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO)
Amy Auton-Smith
CEO of FairFrame – acquired by ARC
Amy Auton-Smith is the Chief Executive Officer at FairFrame. Amy graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Southampton and received her MPA from the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Amy also holds a Diploma in legal practice management and a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence from MIT.
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About FairFrame – acquired by ARC: FairFrame takes D&I to the next level with an easy-to-use text analysis platform combining AI and decades of social science research.

Jonathan Doughty
Founder & CEO of Mentat
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About Mentat: Mentat is a cloud applications and services company delivering solutions across Azure, AWS, Google, and Private clouds.

Alexandre Strzelewicz
CEO of Keymetrics
Alexandre Strzelewicz is the Chief Executive Officer at Keymetrics.
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About Keymetrics: Keymetrics offers innovative monitoring for Node.js based on PM2.
Raymond Gordon
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Livid Mobile
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About Livid Mobile: LIVID Mobile is a social media application for fans and consumers to join or create communities tied to their interests.