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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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Project 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.
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
Anil Dash
Chief Executive Officer of Glitch
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About Glitch, Monegraph, Stack Overflow: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
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.
Daniel Weisberg
Chief Executive Officer of TNTP
As TNTP’s Chief Executive Officer, Dan Weisberg oversees TNTP’s executive team, and all aspects of the organization’s operations, strategy and growth. Prior to becoming CEO in June 2015 as part of TNTP’s long-term growth strategy, Dan was the Executive Vice President for Performance Management and General Counsel. In this role, he built and led a 130-person team to support the efforts of school systems and states nationwide to recruit, develop and retain effective teachers and principals. Previously, as Vice President of Policy, Dan helped build TNTP into “a leading voice on teacher quality” and co-authored TNTP’s acclaimed study on the failures of the nation’s teacher evaluation systems, The Widget Effect, which has helped to catalyze evaluation reforms in more than 30 states since 2009. More recently, he participated in the writing of The Irreplaceables (2012), which explored the teacher retention crisis through the experience of the country’s best teachers. Before TNTP, Dan served as Chief Executive of Labor Policy and Implementation for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), the country’s largest public school system. In this role, he led negotiations between the Department and the United Federation of Teachers that resulted in a series of groundbreaking reforms, including the city’s highly-regarded “mutual consent” system, which gives teachers and schools the primary voice in school staffing. He also led a team that provided labor support to NYCDOE’s 1,700 principals and implemented a number of high-stakes talent initiatives. Before joining the NYCDOE, Dan was a Partner in the New York office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison where he led the firm’s east coast labor and employment practice. He holds a J.D. from New York University Law School and a BA in Political Science from Columbia College.
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About TNTP, TNTP: A national nonprofit founded by teachers, TNTP helps school systems end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students.
Justin Wenig
Co-Founder & CEO of Coursedog
Justin Wenig is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Coursedog.
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About Coursedog: Coursedog builds software that powers Higher Education.
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Alex Konanykhin
CEO of TransparentBusiness
Konanykhin was a whiz-kid physics student who became a pioneering Russian capitalist in early 1990s, building a banking and investment empire valued at an estimated $300 million, all by his mid-20s. He was a member of President Boris Yeltsin’s inner circle.””- The Wall Street Journal Alex Konanykhin controlled Russia’s largest commercial bank in the 1990s before it was seized by the KGB- CNN
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About Stock4Services, TransparentBusiness: TransparentBusiness is a SaaS platform designed to increase remote workforce and freelancer productivity.
Jason Field
CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked with over 350 corporations in the process of digital transformation, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.
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About BrainStation, BrainStation: BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age.
Walter Schindler
Chairman and CEO of Transformation
A member of the Forbes Business Council, Dr. Walter Schindler is a lawyer, strategic advisor and thought leader with over 38 years’ experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities and sustainability investing. The founder and a Managing Partner of Transformation Holdings LLC, he is currently focused on providing strategic advisory services, integrating legal, business, and sustainability factors. His goal is to provide clients with expertise in the best practices and strategies of sustainable investments and projects in the areas of energy, water, agriculture, and technology. Walter is a member of the Board of Directors of Xtreme Power Inc. and CNS Response Inc., as well as a member of the North American Advisory Board of The Cleantech Group, the Advisory Board of US Bank, and the Chief Executive Roundtable of the University of California at Irvine. He is on the Board of Directors of Fulbright Canada, the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America (www.fulbright.ca). Prior to his business ventures, Walter served as the Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Orange County, California office, one of the largest in its worldwide network. His 20-year career at this leading international law firm included advising on some of the most successful IPO’s and mergers in the US during that time, including work for Allergan, Callaway Golf, Fluor, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, PacifiCare, PIMCO, SafeGuard Health, and Ultrasystems. He was the lead strategic advisor in over 60 successful mergers, acquisitions, and IPO’s. His assignments included advising Pacific Mutual Life Insurance with regard to the creation and execution of the exit strategy for its investment in PIMCO and working on the IPO of Ultrasystems Inc., the first renewable power project developer to go public in the US. He has 30 years of broad and deep experience in energy and renewable power projects and related exit experience. Walter is a native of New Orleans, earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. with honors from Yale University and his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Italy. He is the author of a book of original poetry (The Napoleon House) and a book on the life and poetry of John Milton (Voice and Crisis: Invocation in Milton’s Poetry).
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About SAIL Capital Partners LLC, Transformation: Transformation combines strategic advisory services and project development to help family offices, sovereign funds, and private companies.
Walter Schindler
Chairman and CEO of Transformation
Walter Schindler is the chairman and CEO of Transformation.
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About Transformation: Transformation combines strategic advisory services and project development to help family offices, sovereign funds, and private companies.
Andrew Konya
Co-Founder, CEO of Remesh
Andrew is a physicist by training and began a Ph.D. program in Chemical Physics at Kent State University with a focus on theoretical modeling & supercomputing. Through his research, Andrew became interested in artificial intelligence and has spent the past eight years applying AI and machine learning algorithms to a wide range of problems from material science and bio-sensing to peacekeeping with the United Nations. In 2014 he co-founded Remesh with the goal of using AI to turn a live audience into a conversational representative intelligence.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Nick Sonnenberg
CEO / Co-founder of Leverage
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About Leverage: Assistants for any task, done efficiently. We combine the personalization of a lone assistant with the bandwidth of a dedicated team.
Francis Pedraza
CEO of Invisible Technologies
Francis Pedraza is the CEO at Invisible Technologies, Inc.
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About Invisible Technologies: Invisible provides custom operations support to scaling SMBs at a revolutionary price point.
Brandon Goon
CEO of Be Anything
Brandon Goon is the founder and CEO of Be Anything, a project management platform that enables students to define their learning and helps teachers provide just-in-time feedback. When Brandon was 16, he dropped out of high school. His lust to design and invent didn’t have a place in education. Now, Brandon’s mission is to reinvent education its self.
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About Be Anything: Project Management Platform for the Classroom
Neelesh Shah
President/CEO of Performance Logic
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About Performance Logic: Healthcare Project Management and Rounding Software in the cloud
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.
Shamoun Murtza
CEO – Founder of Buj
Shamoun Murtza is the founder and CEO of Buj Inc. Buj is the leader in new generation of enterprise collaboration platforms focused on delivering easy collaboration between both people and data resulting in higher productivity and a decrease in distractions commonly found in chat based solutions like Slack and MS Teams. By leveraging AI and using familiar usage patterns found in consumer platforms like Netflix, and Amazon, Buj delivers the experience a digital worker expects. Mr. Murtza saw the need for this solution specially for companies going through digital transformation and looking to be more data driven. Prior to Buj Mr. Murtza led the engineering team at Conductor as CTO. He was responsible for aligning Conductor’s technology and overall business strategy, increase development velocity, while increasing quality and delivering innovative features. Conductor was acquired in 2018. Before Conductor, Mr. Murtza held senior leadership positions at BMC Software, Register.com, and Time Inc. As the vice president of Architecture and Software Development at Register.com, he built out the first SaaS solution for domain name management, which at one time ran 20% of the world’s authoritative Domain Name Systems. After helping take the register.com public, he co-founded and was the chief technology officer at GridApp Systems. There, he built a model-based automation technology capable of deploying complex database clusters supporting enterprise database as a service offerings. The company was acquired by BMC software, where he assumed the role of CTO of financial services. At BMC, Mr. Murtza focused on big data and software automation strategies to help customers deliver digital services. He is a two-time CNN expert panelist, and an inventor with three SaaS solution patents. He built one of the first web apps that accepted credit cards in 1995 for Kaplan and graduated from Rutgers in computer science and applied physics.
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About Buj: SaaS Collaboration Platform
Robert Kennedy
Partner – Chief Executive Officer of Athlon
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About Athlon: Athlon helps global brands create products and services that build meaningful human connections and drive business success.
Daniel McCarthy
President & CEO of Dodge Data & Analytics
Data & digital services executive
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About Dodge Data & Analytics: Dodge Data & Analytics is a provider of data, analytics, news, and intelligence serving the North American commercial construction industry.
Kate Bradley Chernis
Co-Founder and CEO of Lately
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which re-purposes longform content using AI to generate high-performing social posts in your unique brand voice that are customized to target any audience.
As a former rock ‘n’ roll dj, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise. What she learned in radio about the neuroscience of music helps fuel Lately’s artificial intelligence.
Prior to founding Lately, Kate also owned a marketing agency which got Walmart a 130% ROI, YoY for three years.
In addition, Kate’s appeared as a guest speaker on hundreds of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial podcasts and has led presentations for Walmart, Ericsson, SAP, National Disability Institute, IRS, United Way Worldwide, SaaStr, SXSW, Content Marketing Institute, HubSpot, Hootsuite, Harvard University, Columbia University, NYU and others.
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About Lately: Lately is an AI-powered content generating, social publishing and employee advocacy platform that re-purposes longform text, video and podcasts into social posts. Our AI learns any brand or individual voice and pinpoints the ideas, words and phrases that will convert any target audience.
