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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 Cloud Data Services 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 Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michael Miebach
CPO & Chief Executive Officer of Mastercard
Michael Miebach is chief product officer for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development, commercialization and management of the company’s global core products offerings, which include consumer credit and debit, commercial, prepaid and loyalty solutions. Miebach is also a member of the company’s Management Committee. Prior to assuming this role in January 2016, Miebach was president of the company’s Middle East and Africa region, focused on driving the evolution of payments and delivering increased value to MasterCard stakeholders. He joined MasterCard in 2010 from Barclays Bank PLC, where he was the managing director for Middle East and North Africa, responsible for the bank’s corporate, commercial and consumer business in the region. He also served as managing director for Barclays Africa. Prior to Barclays, Miebach held several senior-level positions over 13 years at Citibank in Germany, Austria, UK and Turkey. His experience spanned cards and consumer finance, corporate and investment banking, operations and financial control. He is a member of the Accion board of directors, providing insight and guidance to the organization as it works to support the two billion adults across the world lacking access to formal financial services. Miebach also is a member of the G-20Y Association Advisory Board. Miebach holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Passau in Germany.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Steinberger
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Comixology
David Steinberger is the co-founder and CEO of comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform that features content from Marvel, DC and 75 top comic book and graphic novel publishers. The comiXology platform includes a top ten grossing iPad app, as well as iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows 8 apps, and a web store and reader at www.comixology.com. He designed comiXology’s Guided View, the reading technology that transforms the comic book medium into an immersive and cinematic experience and defines the digital comic experience. A long time comic fan and passionate entrepreneur, David’s inspiration for comiXology was shaped at the NYU – Stern’s 2007 Business Plan competition while he pursued his MBA. David also holds a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music, and an Advanced Certificate from The Juilliard School. David’s currently reading Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness from IDW Publishing.
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About Amazon, Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Alex Collmer
Founder & CEO of VidMob
Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s largest video creation platform.As the web transitions to a video-driven medium, Collmer recognized the need for businesses to have access to the world’s best video creators who could produce quality content for a variety of platforms that was affordable. Since founding the company in 2015, Collmer has raised more than $13M and counts the leading brands and agencies as clients. Combing an elegant interface with a roster of more than 5000 video creators enables anyone to maximize their video presence and make a brand impact with video. An engineer by training, Collmer’s career has always been at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment as those sectors have evolved. Prior to founding VidMob, Collmer was the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Games, a premier publisher of video game franchises. Under his leadership, Autumn Games developed successful partnerships with such personalities as Jimmie Johnson, the 7-time NASCAR champion and companies like Def Jam, the leading urban culture brand, as well as the award-winning fighting game franchise, Skullgirls. Previously, Collmer was a founder and board member of the New York Video School, an online film school focused on empowering people all over the world to become “video literate” (www.nyvs.com). Collmer received a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Engineering and was a certified E.I.T. in the field of structural engineering in the state of New York. Collmer sits on the board of several technology and media companies and has spoken at numerous universities and conferences on entrepreneurship and media. In his spare time, he coaches little league soccer and baseball.
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Jay Jideliov
Founder & CEO of Callision
Jay Jideliov is the Founder & CEO of Callision.com
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About Callision: Callision is the world’s fist free business phone system.
Niall Murphy
CEO & Co-Founder of EVRYTHNG
Niall Murphy is a CEO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, the IoT Smart Products Platform connecting products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and experiences. He is also known as a technologist and serial entrepreneur. Niall co-founder pan European WiFi network The Cloud with George Polk, ultimately acquired by BSkyB in 2010. He founded one of the first ISPs in South Africa in a joint venture with Sprint, and three digital media businesses in South Africa. Niall co-founded Amsterdam-based scenario thinking consultancy The Digital Thinking Network in 1994 with Daniel Erasmus. He is a member of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom’s advisory board, and was a co-author of the Wi-Fi International Roaming Access Protocols Framework in 2005. Murphy completed his secondary education at Redhill High School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Witwatersrand. Murphy currently lives in New York, USA.
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About EVRYTHNG, Kubu Ventures: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Prashant Bhuyan
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete
Founder, CEO and Chairman at Accrete.
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About Accrete, Shinrai: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Jaswinder Chadha
President & CEO of Axtria
Jassi founded Axtria with the vision of building cutting-edge analytics and software solutions that will help global companies to effectively manage and get insights from big data. He is a pioneer in building advanced decision support software.He has worked closely with over 100 global companies to improve effectiveness of their commercial operations. Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) awarded Jassi with prestigious lifetime achievement award in 2014. This is among several other accolades. Jassi also serves on the Board of many diverse organizations like TIE Global, Ocular Therapeutics, SpectraMedix and others.
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About Axtria: Axtria is a big data analytics software and services company for the Life Sciences industry.
Nick Jordan
CEO / Co-Founder of Narrative
Nick Jordan is the Founder and CEO of Narrative I/O. He founded Narrative in March of 2016 to help organizations more efficiently acquire and monetize raw data sets. Previous to that he served as a Senior Vice President of Global Strategy of Tapad which was acquired by Telenor in early 2016. Mr. Jordan also served as Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Tapad. Prior to Tapad, Mr. Jordan served as Director of Product Management at Adobe, overseeing Adobe’s data management platform AudienceManager (formerly, Demdex). He served as Vice President of Partner Solutions at Demdex, Inc. since September 2010. Prior to Demdex, he served as a Senior Director at Yahoo!. At Yahoo!, he ran the non-guaranteed marketplace team of the North America Yahoo! Display Ad Network. He helped integrate both BlueLithium and Right Media after their acquisitions by Yahoo! At Demdex, Mr. Jordan ran partner management focusing on strategic and operational client-facing solutions.
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About Narrative: Narrative empowers participants in the data economy.
M. Sebastian Metti
Founder & CEO of Saturn Cloud
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About Saturn Cloud: A cloud workspace for the whole data science team, supporting Python & R. Collaborate with powerful resources, jobs, deployments, and more
Albert Gozzi
Co-Founder & CEO of Aleph
Albert Gozzi is a Co-Founder & CEO at Aleph.
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About Aleph: Aleph turns ordinary spreadsheets in Excel or Google Sheets to have specialized financial tools built right in and always up to date.
Paul Breitenbach
CEO of r4 Technologies
Paul Breitenbach is the founder and CEO of r4, the creators of a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Platform which enables global companies to drive dramatic increases in revenue and decreases in cost. Prior to r4, Paul was one of the founders of priceline.com. As its founding CMO, Paul was behind the development of the business model, strategy and execution that has created over $65 billion in shareholder value. Paul is a frequent keynote speaker on digital disruption, most recently at CES, MEDIENTAGEN and CeBit. He is a member of the Arts & Sciences Council at Cornell University, where he was awarded his BA in Sociology and MBA.
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About r4 Technologies: r4 is the pioneer of cross-enterprise AI, which unlocks growth from data trapped in and between enterprise silos, systems, and processes.
Charlie Tafoya
CEO + Co-Founder of Chronograph
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About Chronograph: Modern Technology for Private Capital Markets
Byran Dai
Co-Founder and CEO of Daivergent
CEO and Co-Founder of Daivergent Inc., a technology platform allowing companies to fulfill data requests at scale by matching to uniquely-suited adults on the autism spectrum. Our software allows autism talent to enter the remote workforce for the first time.
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About Daivergent: The Daivergent platform allows companies to fulfill data requests at scale by matching to the best workforce: adults with autism.
Paul Roberts
Founder, Chairman, CSO & CEO of Kubient
Paul Roberts is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Kubient.
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About Kubient: Kubient’s Audience Cloud marketplace is a single point of entry for advertisers and publishers to reach, monetize and connect audiences.
Brandon Schwarz
Chief Executive Officer of Indeavor
Brandon Schwarz is the Chief Executive Officer at Indeavor. He has been with the company since 2010, focusing on enterprise workforce management solutions, implementation, and support. Solving complex workforce management challenges through leading-class technology and building a culture of innovation and teamwork continues to be his driving force. Brandon is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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About Indeavor: Indeavor provides workforce management solutions.
John Galinski
Founder, CEO of Global Data Sentinel
John Galinski is CEO of Global Data Sentinel. John recently left a 13-year stint as the CIO of financial advisory firm Geller & Company to found Global Data Sentinel. He has 30 years of experience in the design, development and implementation of telecommunications, networking, router and server networks and hardware and in the development and implementation of proprietary commercial, enterprise-level software and financial systems for large international corporations. It was in working with those large corporations that John first came to realize the need for, and lack of good existing, security.
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About CyVolve, Global Data Sentinel: Global Data Sentinel provides data security for any cloud service provider, including private networks, making a truly agnostic platform.
Daniel Major
CEO Major Holdings of Associated Renewable
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About : Associated Renewable is a leading end-to-end, energy management company.
David Knox
CEO of Blazent
David Knox is the CEO at Blazent.
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About Blazent: Blazent redefines data quality, empowering enterprises & service providers to make critical decisions based 100% complete & accurate data
Jimmy Cooper
CEO, Lead Designer, Lead Programmer of Collexio
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About Collexio: Collexio enables its users to share ideas, stories, knowledge, and passions with their friends, family, clients, and social networks.
Ronak Patel
CEO/Co-Founder of Zairge
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About Zairge: A mobile property management system that simplifies and accelerates productivity for the owner, employee and guest.
Jason Albanese
Chief Executive Officer & Cofounder of Centric Digital
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About Centric Digital: Platform and solutions to measure and raise an organization’s digital intelligence.
Les Yeamans
CEO and Founder of RTInsights
Les Yeamans is the managing analyst and founder of RTInsights, a senior business and IT/Data community focused on AI, IoT and real-time analytics. Before RTInsights, Les founded ebizQ.net, an Internet portal specializing in the application of critical enterprise technologies including BPM, event-driven architectures, and event processing. Previously, Les started an enterprise software business called ezBridge which was licensed to IBM as the initial code base for IBM MQSeries. Les was also co-founder of the Message Oriented Middleware Association (MOMA). Les has worked extensively as an analyst and consultant for end users and vendors in this growing market. He started his career consulting at Accenture, providing end-user IT solutions.
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About RTInsights: Expert-driven web resource that sheds light on the business and technical impact of real-time analytics, IoT, AI/ML, cloud and big data
Graham Conran
CEO of SensorLogic
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About SensorLogic: Leading developer of remote sensing solutions that deliver actionable data
Joe Asady
Founder and CEO of Netfast Technology Solutions
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About Netfast Technology Solutions: Netfast is a Cloud Managed Services Provider for Mid-Market Businesses in the New York City Metro Area
Jan Umansky
CEO & Founder of Twizted Design
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About Twizted Design: Twizted Design is a software solutions company for graphics production in marketing, advertising, media, entertainment and beyond.
Tim Williams
Co-Founder and CEO of NanoThings
Tim Williams is the Co-Founder and CEO at NanoThings.
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About NanoThings: Contactless supply chain traceability from source to store
