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 Document Management 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.

John Xie
Co-Founder & CEO of Taskade
John Xie is the Co-Founder & CEO at Taskade.
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About Forem, GitStart, Laserfocus, Outlier, Taskade: Taskade is a real-time organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Salim Elkhou
CEO and Founder of Onna
Salim Elkhou is the Founder and CEO at Onna. He was the Founder of eStet (Acquired by EY).
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About Onna: Onna is a data integration platform that enables companies to integrate their workplace knowledge-based apps together into one system.

Noah Waisberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Kira Systems
Prior to founding Kira, Noah was an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where he focused on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. in Political Science from Brown University (where he completed the coursework and comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D), and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.
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About Kira Systems, Zuva: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.

Daniel DiSano
President & Chief Executive Officer of Axispoint
Daniel DiSano, President and CEO, is a technology executive and entrepreneur and has been a force of change in many companies and organizations. He helped grow HQ Global Workplaces from $40 to $600 million in sales in less than 4 years. His success led him to serving and helping write policy on President Barack Obama’s Technology, Media and Telecom Committee. He has led Axispoint since June 2002 and is past Chairman of YPO Metro NY. Prior to Axispoint, Mr. DiSano served as an officer at HQ Global Workplaces, the world’s leading provider of serviced offices. Mr. DiSano helped grow the company from $40 million to over $600 million in sales in less than four years, expanding the business from 40 to over 500 locations in 26 countries. Regus purchased HQ and is now the global leader in serviced offices and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange. Prior to HQ, Mr. DiSano was Senior Vice President of Operations at FrontLine Capital Group, a technology-related operating and venture capital firm, serving as interim CEO and Board Director for FrontLine entities. Mr. DiSano assisted in raising over $500 million in capital across multiple entities; helped roll-up the serviced offices industry; and designed, implemented and integrated several successful organizations. Mr. DiSano earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and received the prestigious Martin Trust Fellowship award for academic and service excellence. He was valedictorian at Clark University.
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About Axispoint: Axispoint is a global software development company providing robust custom software solutions.
Sanjay Jain
Founder & CEO of Seva
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About Seva: Seva is a unified search platform that helps knowledge workers discover and organize the information they need at work.

Craig Tashman
Founder and CEO of LiquidText
Founder and user experience designer. Comfortable in the complete life cycle of interactive technology creation, from initial requirements gathering and design, to technology transfer, business model development, and customer development. PhD from Georgia Tech in human computer interaction.
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About LiquidText: LiquidText improves the reading experience by allowing users to better understand, synthesize, visualize, and collaborate over digital text.
Alexander Irschenberger
Co-Founder and CEO of Archii
Shaping the future of documents with AI and building a healthy world with personal supplements
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About Archii, NJORD Nutrition: Archii is an AI powered document assistant that automatically identifies and sorts your company’s most important documents.
Hori Koji
CEO of Precisely
Hori Koji is the CEO at Precisely.
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About Precisely: Precisely delivers solutions for data integration, content management, document migration and project management.

Tej Prakash
Co-CEO/Co-Founder of Should I Sign
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About Should I Sign: Should I Sign improves the way individuals and SMBs find, evaluate, communicate and transact with attorneys.

JP Midgley
CEO of Avalon Document Services
JP Midgley, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Avalon Document Services, started in an entry-level position with the company in 2004 and became the Director of Client Services within 6 months. In 2005, he launched Avalon’s Document Imaging Division and, in 2006, the eDiscovery Division. In 2008, he opened Avalon’s Buffalo office, and became the location’s Managing Partner. In 2011, JP purchased Avalon with his partner, Shawn Thrall, and became Avalon’s CEO. JP has been the primary driver of business growth at Avalon in the last 12 years, growing the company from 26 employees in 2 cities in 2004, to more than 120 employees in 7 cities across 3 states today. JP has years of experience in sales, marketing, operations, financial management, and growth leadership. With over 10 years of experience in the eDiscovery field, JP is known nationwide for his expertise in the field. He has created internal leadership development programs at Avalon to promote continuous learning. For a number of years, he has also been a guest lecturer each semester for SUNY Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Management Computer Forensics course. Additionally, JP is very involved in the business community as a board member for private companies and a mentor to businesses through SUNY Buffalo’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership program. He is also on the board of directors for the Western New York Chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Buffalo Executives Association.
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About Avalon Document Services, Entrepreneurs’ Organization: Avalon Document Services, a national provider of eDiscovery, managed services, and traditional litigation support services.

Rami Cohen
Founder & CEO of Telesofia Medical
Rami founded Telesofia Medical (MyOp.md), combining his passions to medicine and technology. He has over 14 years of experience in the Internet industry. He started his career in 1997 at ICQ (formerly Mirabilis, acquired by AOL in 1998, for US$407 million) in various roles including Director of Web Operations. Since 2001, he helped several companies and start-ups with product development, launching and marketing in the online world. As VP Operations at Novawind, he provided Hands-On marketing, business development and innovation management services for leading companies. Rami also holds a medical doctor degree from the Tel Aviv University, and worked at the Vascular Surgery department in Tel-Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center and Assaf Harofeh Medical Center.
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About Telesofia Medical, Vertical Engine: Telesofia is an early stage start-up, enabling personalized, clear, concise, and interactive patient educational videos on any device.

Ernie Bruno
CEO of LT Online Corporation
CEO at LT Online Corporation
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About LT Online Corporation: LT Online Corporation provides legal management software solutions for corporate in-house legal departments.