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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 Android 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.
Ajay Yadav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Roomi
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About Dada Room, Forbes, Forbes Real Estate Council, Roomi: Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
Bo Han
CEO of Buzzer
Bo led Twitter’s efforts in Global Live Sports Content Partnerships, and was responsible for driving partnerships with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, and PGA as well as with broadcasters – Disney/ESPN, FOX, NBC and Turner. Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Bo started in the industry as a Global Account Director at Microsoft Corporation in New York, working with key and strategic global partners. Bo received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and earned his MBA at Columbia Business School in New York, New York.
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About Buzzer: Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder & CEO of BEGiN
Neal Shenoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BEGiN. Neal manages BEGiN’s purpose and vision, sets its strategy and execution plan, recruits talent and manages strategic relationships with investors and partners. Neal has built a team with deep industry expertise across organizations such as Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Pearson and Mattel.He has helped guide BEGiN to be one of the largest, fastest growing and most promising platforms for early childhood literacy and language learning, earning recognition from the Aspen Institute, American Library Association, Education World and National Education Association. Neal is also a Co-Founder of SAAVN, the largest streaming service for South Asian music in the world, and a Founding Partner at [212]MEDIA, which builds consumer media ventures in fragmented markets alongside major media companies. Prior to [212]MEDIA, Neal was Co-Founder and President of Simile, a contextual advertising platform in media and publishing. With a B.S.F.S. in International Relations from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Neal began his career as an Investment Banker in an upstart unit of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette that advised media & telecom companies.
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About [212]Media, BEGiN, HOMER, Speakaboos: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Justin McLeod
Founder and CEO of Hinge
Founder and CEO of Hinge.
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About Hinge: Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Nikhil Chandhok
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bento Labs
Nikhil Chandhok was an Entrepreneur in Residence at GV. Nikhil Chandhok joined GV from YouTube, where he served as Director of Product Management and spent more than six years in a variety of roles. Nikhil Chandhok led YouTube’s music efforts for more than four years and helped make YouTube one of the most prominent destinations for music on the Internet. Under his leadership, many key capabilities were added to the YouTube platform, including mobile and device streaming, paid subscriptions, and live streaming. He also led YouTube’s TV advertising efforts and helped grow the business to be the TV ad network in the U.S. Prior to Google, Nikhil Chandhok helped create the enterprise storage and virtualization businesses as a product manager at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, he co-founded a telecom startup while in graduate school. Nikhil Chandhok has an M.S. in computer science from Ohio State University.
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About Bento Labs, Meta: Bento is an Intelligent Homescreen for Android that knows what you need and when you need it.
Kirill Suslov
Founder and CEO of TabTrader
Kirill Suslov is the Founder and CEO at TabTrader.
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Leonard Lekht
Founder, President and CEO of CyberVision
Leonard Lekht, Founder and a Chief Executive Officer at CyberVision. Leonard Lekht has built CyberVision into a successful IT company, trusted by dozens of clients globally. Under Leonard Lekht’s direction CyberVision has evolved to become the go to company for most complex development tasks and projects in mobility, telecom, consumer electronics, big data, and IoT. Prior of founding CyberVision Leonard Lekht worked for almost 15 years at the Chase Manhattan Bank as a Senior Technology Executive managing several major areas of the bank. Over the span of his career at Chase he had brought dozens of complex projects to completion, as well as being the catalyst for innovation and change. Leonard Lekht is regarded as one of the most innovative executives and a pioneer in the implementation of leading edge technologies and approaches.
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About CyberVision: CyberVision is a trusted global provider of software engineering services.
Ariel Michaeli
CEO of Appfigures
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About Appfigures: Appfigures is an insights and analytics platform for mobile apps
Sukhbir Dhillon
CEO & Founder of Addteq
CEO and founder, Sukhbir Dhillon started Addteq with the idea of automating software deployments and the future of running software shops as a crucial assembly line for manufacturing businesses. When Sukhbir isn’t coding, dreaming of automation or being the CEO of Addteq, he is at home playing with his three year old daughter.
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About Addteq: Addteq helps global organizations adopt DevOps maturity from inception to software release.
Reshan Richards
CEO, Chief Learning Officer, & Co-Founder of Explain Everything
Dr. Reshan Richards is an educator and researcher. Currently an instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University and serving as Chief Learning Officer for Explain Everything which he co-founded, Reshan is also the co-author of Blending Leadership (Wiley, in press) and Leading Online: Leading the Learning, Leading by Learning (Constructivist Toolkit, 2014). Reshan has led conversations and workshops around the world based on his 15+ experiences in K-20 education at gatherings including TEDxNYED, SXSWedu, ISTE, and AERA. An Apple Distinguished Educator and member of Mensa, Reshan has an Ed.D. in Instructional Technology & Media from Teachers College, Columbia University, an Ed.M in Learning and Teaching from Harvard University and a B.A. in Music from Columbia University.
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About Apple, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, Explain Everything, Teachers College, Columbia University: Explain Everything,Inc. are the makers of an award-winning educational technology application used by millions of teachers around the world.
Dom Tancredi
Co-Founder and CEO of Dom & Tom
CEO and CTO, Tom and I formed Dom & Tom in 2009. Dom & Tom is a mobile and web development studio specializing in emerging technologies. Established since 2009, Tom and I have expanded Dom & Tom over 3 major cities and to 40+ employees. Dom & Tom has grown into a full service design and development studio for mobile, web, social media, e-commerce, interactive, and internet of things application platforms. I love cutting edge technologies, techniques, and processes. Everything from Bitcoin to Raspberry Pi to Lean Process to NoSQL Big Data solution-sets. Experience: – Languages: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Actionscript (2 / 3), PHP, .NET / ASP, Java, Objective-C – Platforms: iOS, Android (Froyo, Jelly Bean, KitKat), Raspberry Pi, Arduino – CMS: WordPress / Drupal / Joomla / Expression Engine – Coding frameworks: PHP (Laravel, Symfony2), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), Java (Spring, Hibernate), node.js (Express, Meteor), HTML5 (Backbone, AngularJS) – Methodologies: Agile, Lean, and Waterfall Processes, – Experience with TDD and BDD, including Unit, Functional, and Acceptance Testing – Digital Product and Project Business Development
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About Dom & Tom: Dom & Tom is a product agency that helps Fortune 500 companies and next generation startups build the future of digital.
David Roberts
Founder & CEO of Green Mountain Digital, Inc.
David is CEO and co-founder of NatureShare (previously Green Mountain Digital). In this capacity he guided the company to a leadership position in the digital field guide market through 27 apps under the Audubon branding; oversaw the expansion to new partner relationships such as the Orvis Company and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; and played a lead role in raising over $5 million in investor capital. Mr. Roberts retired from Citibank/Citicorp/Citigroup after a 27 year career where he was active in global corporate banking, senior line management in overseas locations including CEO of Citibank’s businesses in the Indian sub-continent, strategic planning at the corporate level, and country risk management. He subsequently became involved as a founding shareholder and Board Member of Impax Corp, an e-learning company eventually sold to Nasdaq-listed Skillsoft. Roberts has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ; Vice Chair of the Board of Occidental College in Los Angeles; Board member of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation in Plymouth Notch, Vermont; and Board member of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges in Washington D.C. Mr. Roberts has served in the United States Air Force, is a graduate of Occidental College and holds a Masters degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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About Green Mountain Digital, Inc., Yonder: Yonder, a social platform that connects the global outdoor community is owned by Green Mountain Digital is social platform a
David Leibner
CEO of ItsOnMe
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About ItsOnMe: The Gift Card Reinvented. Discover, Purchase and Send gift cards on-demand to locally celebrated businesses even if your somewhere else.
Oliver Kray
CEO and Founder of MyPostcard
Oliver is the founder and CEO of MyPostcard.com. After founding MyPostcard.com in 2014 and growing rapidly in Germany and then across Europe, Oliver has come to New York City to oversee MyPostcard.com’s growth in the United States. November 2019: MyPostcard has been honored with the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award in Germany. The competition honors the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Germany, measured by their percentage revenue growth.
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About German Accelerator, MyPostcard: MyPostcard is a mobile app which allows users to send their photos as real customized postcards or greeting cards worldwide.
Christopher Miles
CEO of Ubiquitous Legal Technology
Mr. Miles’ background is in risk management and insurance. Prior to ULT, he was Vice President at American International Group. He started his career at Bankers Trust and has a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.
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About Ubiquitous Legal Technology: Our mission is to make quality legal representation fast and easy in a legal emergency.
David Becker
Co-Founder and CEO of zkipster
David is a former senior media consultant and executive producer at the Swiss National Radio and Television. David is based in New York City and heads partnerships, marketing, data science and the global team. Goal: Keep things simple and make them work.
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About zkipster: Guest list management software for live, virtual, and hybrid events.
Ricki Lee
CEO / Co-Founder of Aiir
Former radio program director, presenter and audio producer. Ricki co-founded Aiir with Gav Richards in 2003.
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About Aiir: The complete platform for audio content creators.
Geoff Warren-Boulton
Founder & CEO of Apptly
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About Apptly: Apptly publishes mobile entertainment Apps and games for iOS and Android.
