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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Open Source 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.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Cillian Kieran
Founder & CEO of Ethyca
Cillian Kieran is the Founder and CEO at Ethyca. Prior to joining Ethyca, he was a Founder & CEO of CKSK. Cillian is originally a Physics & Computer Science student who dropped out to work in the early 2000’s web application industry in data analysis and visualization tools.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Muneeb Ali
CEO & Co-founder of Stacks
Muneeb Ali received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University specializing in distributed systems.He went through Y Combinator, worked as a researcher at Princeton and PlanetLab—the world’s first and largest cloud computing testbed. He was awarded a J. William Fulbright Fellowship and gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton.
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About OneName, Stacks: Stacks is an app development company which builds bitcoin app, smart contracts, and digital assets.
Clay Williams
Founder & CEO of Medaptive Health
Entrepreneur, computer scientist, healthcare wonk, cyclist, dachshund lover.
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About Medaptive Health: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Clement Delangue
CEO & Co-Founder of Hugging Face
Clement Delangue is the Chief Executive Officer at Hugging Face.
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About Hugging Face, Milaap: Hugging Face is the leading ML platform
Luis Sanz
CEO of Carto
Based in Olapic’s New York headquarters, Sanz serves two roles as Chief Operating Officer and as head of technology and product development. Sanz’s deep technical background fueled the development of Olapic’s proprietary predictive algorithm, Photorank™ that analyzes dozens of different aspects of an image to determine its likelihood to trigger a purchase. Raised in Zaragoza, Spain, Sanz earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from University of Zaragoza, completing a thesis in Active Noise Control using Machine Learning. Sanz also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he co-founded Olapic in 2010. Prior to founding Olapic, Sanz was a consultant for Accenture, working for aerospace/defense projects in Europe and also worked for Ericsson, responsible for all support teams for the Billing Gateway and Service Provisioning departments across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sanz and his Olapic co-founders have been recognized by the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund at Columbia Business School and were recipients of the E-cademy Award. Sanz is sought after by media and conferences for his expertise in image recognition and digital imaging technologies.
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About Carto: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Peter Semmelhack
Founder & CEO of Bug Labs
Peter Semmelhack is the founder and CEO of Bug Labs, which develops open source web services platforms for IoT. Peter authored Social Machines, and as a founding member of the rapidly growing open source hardware movement, he is a frequent speaker at events around the world.
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About Bug Labs: Bug Labs is a hardware platform enabling tinkerers and engineers to create their own digital devices.
Nadav Goshen
President and CEO of MakerBot
Nadav Goshen is the Chief Executive Officer of MakerBot, oversees MakerBot’s corporate direction and strategy for global operations, including sales, marketing, technology, and products. Goshen has over 15 years of experience leading turnarounds at tech companies, and his expertise lies in defining new products and business models, as well as growing digital ecosystems. Prior to joining MakerBot, Goshen led private equity investments and served in various C-level roles at tech companies in Israel. Nadav’s experience comprises a unique mixture of profound customer understanding and overpowering technological talent. Added with proven expertise in brand and marketing management for both B2C and B2B. This unique blend enables him to drift easily between business, marketing, and technology to successfully manage companies in the ever-evolving technology business environment. Nadav is an angel investor in different startups. He currently serves as an advisor and board member for various fast growing companies in Israel and abroad. Nadav studied Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University. He likes to swim, photograph and build electronic embedded music gadgets.
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About MakerBot: MakerBot Industries creates open source 3D printers.
Simon Adar
CEO of Code Ocean
Simon Adar is the founder and CEO of Code Ocean, a Cornell Tech incubated company. He was a Runway postdoc awardee at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and holds a PhD from Tel-Aviv University in the field of Hyperspectral image processing. Simon previously collaborated with the DLR – the German Space Agency on the European FP7 funded EO-MINERS project to detect environmental changes from airborne and spaceborne sensors.
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About Code Ocean: Code Ocean is a computational research platform that aims to help researchers replicate data-heavy science.
Andres Gutierrez
Co-Founder & CEO of Comake
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About Comake: SaaS platform to consolidate & contextualize all your work.
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.
Jessica Sliwerski
Chief Executive Officer of Open Up Resources
Jessica Sliwerski is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Up Resources.
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About Open Up Resources: Open Up Resources was originally incubated by The Learning Accelerator
John Haller
Founder / CEO of PortableApps.com
John T. Haller is the founder and lead developer of PortableApps.com, the world’s most popular portable software platform allowing anyone to take their applications with them on a USB flash drive or other removable device and use them on any PC. Before creating PortableApps.com, he founded a web development firm, donated a kidney, worked in a tech startup, worked in a corporate bank, went to college and did various other things.
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About PortableApps.com: PortableApps develops portable media-related packaged software and applications for its clients.
