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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 Natural Language Processing 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.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Wendi Sturgis
CEO Europe of Yext
Wendi Sturgis serves as an independent board member at Kustomer.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Blyth van Dam
Founder and CEO of Audtra
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About Audtra: Dictate the future on the first, social audio-transcription platform (patent-pending).
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
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
Aneto Okonkwo
Co-Founder & CEO of Chatdesk
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About Chatdesk: Supercharge your support team and transform customer service into sales
Brook Hazelton
President & Co-CEO of Digital Reasoning
Brook leads our company’s commercial operations, including scaling the organization, achieving revenue targets, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services, and fostering a strong and healthy culture. Prior to joining Digital Reasoning, Hazelton was President of North & South America at Christie’s, the world’s largest art company, where he led more than 700 employees based in 11 offices across six countries, driving growth and expanding market leadership. Previously, Hazelton acted as the global CEO of Phillips, the leading boutique auction house. Hazelton began his career in the finance sector, working internationally with Goldman Sachs and The Carlyle Group.
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About charity: water, Digital Reasoning, James D. Wolfensohn Inc: Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses.
Matthew Zeiler
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clarifai
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About Clarifai: Clarifai is a deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and data labeling.
Donald Leka
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jumptuit
Creator of Jumptuit and the Glide OS Donald Leka, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Jumptuit Group, is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience creating industry-changing and award-winning cloud and data service technologies including Jumptuit and Glide OS. The ethos underlying Mr. Leka’s career from exploration to innovation to market, from Glide through Jumptuit, has been one of creating value, empowering individuals and protecting the sanctity of data. Mr. Leka’s Jumptuit Data Science and Engineering Teams developed Jumptuit’s Nexus Framework that maintains dynamic awareness of activities and relevant events, understanding the associations between activities and events and the conditions in which they occur, autonomously providing highly nuanced and individualized relevant information, insights and predictions. Mr. Leka also created the Data Rights Matrix that autonomously enforces data privacy and market sector and jurisdictional regulations in data exchange. Mr. Leka led the Glide OS product team, commercializing cloud-based services in 2005 before any of the big tech companies offered such a platform or services with the Glide Operating System and its Productivity App Suite that competed effectively with Google Docs, Gmail and MS Office. Glide received numerous awards including PC World’s Top 100 Products and Laptop Magazine’s Top 50 Web Apps. Mr. Leka and his work have been featured in WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Forbes, CNET, PCWorld, etc., and on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. Mr. Leka is the co-author of the Amazon top selling book, “Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.” Mr. Leka has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, MIT, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TEDx, AllThingsD with Walt Mossberg, NYU, American U, U Miami, and most recently interviewed at Davos 2020 World Economic Forum. Mr. Leka ranked Number 51 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Professionals. (Onalytica, July 2015) Jumptuit ranked Number 29 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Brands. (Onalytica, July 2015)
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About Jumptuit: Tomorrow’s Intelligence Today
Saoud Khalifah
Chief Executive Officer of Fakespot
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About Fakespot: Fakespot determines the trustworthiness of reviews using artificial intelligence.
Li-ran Navon
CEO & Founder of Say2eat
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About Say2eat: Say2eat makes ordering food as easy as texting a friend or asking Alexa to play a song.
Israel Krush
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyro
CEO & Co-Founder @ Airbud
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About Hyro: Hyro is a plug & play conversational AI platform enabling enterprises to easily add voice & text capabilities to their digital channels.
Sharon Daniels
Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Arria NLG
Sharon Daniels is a member of the shareholder group that founded Arria NLG. She has over 20 years’ experience in branding and strategic business development. She also has extensive international experience with technology and financial service companies and has consulted to global giants including AIG, ConAgra and Flextronics. Sharon is a founder of Diligent and served on the Diligent board through 2010, where she also held an executive position as Chief Marketing Officer responsible for creating and maintaining the Diligent global brand and the Diligent Boardbooks graphical user interface. She was instrumental in developing and managing the strategic direct mail programme that substantially impacted the global expansion of Diligent. Prior to joining the Diligent Partners Consulting Group, Sharon was a vice president at the US-based company PaperDirect, Inc. where she was instrumental in growing sales from US$5 million to US$120 million within a 3-year period. This growth led to Deluxe Corporation acquiring PaperDirect for US$100 million.
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About Arria NLG: Arria NLG specializes in extracting information from complex data sources and communicating that information in natural language.
Wasim Khaled
CEO of BLACKBIRD.AI
Wasim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackbird.AI and brings with him a lifetime of entrepreneurial acumen combined with a background in computer science and human-interface design.
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About BLACKBIRD.AI: Early Warning Artificial Intelligence Platform surfacing manipulative disinformation campaigns, misinformation and propaganda.
Prashant Agrawal
Founder & CEO of Impact Analytics
Prashant Agrawal is the CEO & Founder at Impact Analytics.
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About Impact Analytics: Impact Analytics builds 360-degree data science solutions to empower enterprises to turn their data into dollars.
Paul Nemirovsky, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO of dMetrics
Paul Nemirovsky is the Co-Founder & CEO at dMetrics.
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About dMetrics: dMetrics makes deep NLP accessible to business analysts and other SMEs.
Shahar Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Aquant
Shahar is an entrepreneur with an innovative spirit and a passion for business and sales. Shahar brings more than 15 years of business and technical expertise in enterprise software, consulting for Fortune 500 companies on field service management, improving business processes, and implementing best practices. As an enterprise sales executive, Shahar has a proven track record of driving multi-million-dollar yearly sales in the field service and workforce management industries.
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About Aquant: Aquant is an enterprise AI platform that uses machine learning to learn the enterprise’s unique language and maximize equipment uptime.
Esteban Chaves
CEO of Appy
20+ years of IT experience, growth hacking, and serial entrepreneur. I’m a talented Executive Professional with wide experience in business management, entrepreneurship, project management, change management, functional and technical roles. I have extensive experience managing, designing, and implementing business and Supply Chain processes. I’ve established and directed highly successful ERP end-to-end roll-outs and several ventures. A natural leader known for his effective communication skills and his relentless propensity for the organization. Outside of technology, Esteban enjoys DJing and cooking. His mind is equally analytical and creative, lending itself well to situations that require sharp yet out-of-the-box thinking.
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About Appy: AI software tools to boost SMEs & freelancers growth
Maggie Stys
CEO & Co-Founder of dreyev
I am passionate about Human Centric Computing and delighted to live at a time when bots have finally graduated from being entertaining to becoming useful in people’s lives. Over the last 10 years, AI has experienced incredible growth and wide adoption in everyday applications. Dreyev (“drive”) is a prime example of AI technology integration. Telematics devices have been on the rise within the auto insurance industry. However, in-vehicle driver coaching is only just emerging. Most insurers use in-car sensors to collect driver data to incentivize certain behaviors or curate an insurance product. A system to monitor and correct driver behavior like the one dreyev offers can present carriers with the opportunity to take telematics into the realm of loss prevention and risk mitigation. IoT and sensors go beyond helping insurers reduce claims; they also provide opportunities for new forms of consumer engagement and ways of broadening the insurance product experience beyond covering losses. An entrepreneur at heart, Dr. Styś is interested in disruptive business models and emerging global markets. Over the last two decades, she has been leading high tech initiatives across industry and technology partners. Today she is on a mission to cut the number of preventable crashes. Co-Founder of Dreyev LLC Dreyev is a real-time driver attention monitoring, coaching and management system to prevent distracted and drowsy driving. Safer driving behavior prevents crashes and enables fairer and more accurate risk-based insurance policy pricing. Loss prevention, risk mitigation, driving coaching bot. Co-Founder of TeleLingo LLC Live interactive, remote one-on-one tutoring of foreign languages, English as a Second Language, pronunciation and negotiation skills refinement for business professionals). Smart videoconferencing, blended learning, tools for cadenced practice and automated progress monitoring. Co-Founder and CSO at Heliantus Empowering kids with K-12 education.
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About dreyev: Dreyev is n AI-powered Enterprise Safety Platform to manage attention of drivers and operators, currently offered to fleets and insurers.
Jose C. Gonzalez
CEO of MeaningCloud
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About MeaningCloud, Sngular: Company specialized in extracting meaning from unstructured content (text analytics, insights extraction, semantic processing)
Jim Tousignant
Founder & CEO of FinTech Studios
CEO and Founder at FinTech Studios .
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About FinTech Studios: AI-based market intelligence and regulatory intelligence platform for Wall Street
Rob Key
CEO of Converseon.AI
Rob Key joined Converseon as CEO in 2008.
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About Converseon.AI: Converseon.AI Provides Human-Centered MLaaS Solutions for Social and VoC Data and Insights to Leading Consumer-centric Brands
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.
Nathan Stevenson
CEO & Founder of ForwardLane
As a former hedge fund quantitative analyst, investment banker, and business architect, Nathan is a skilled real estate financier and property development professional with both commercial and residential experience. An entrepreneur himself, he has successfully raised capital for two entertainment start-ups. In recent years, he has consulted on a number of real estate developments located in growth markets across the United States, capitalizing on over 15 years of financial cross-discipline experience. As a partner to the founding team, Nathan is responsible for overseeing the financial and operational growth.
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About ForwardLane, Hotels By Day, Matchpoint, Yamani Healing: ForwardLane is the essential insights platform used by financial professionals for personalized conversations
David Berger
Co-Founder and CEO of Volara
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About Digital Currency Council, SABR, Volara: Volara is a provider of custom voice-based solutions to the hospitality industry.
Nathaniel Storch
CEO & Co-founder of Amenity Analytics
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About Amenity Analytics: Amenity Analytics provides next-generation Text-Mining AI Platform
Harald Collet
CEO of Alkymi
Harald Collet is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alkymi, the first data inbox for the enterprise. Harald has built businesses and products at Bloomberg LP, Autonomy, and Oracle Corporation.
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About Alkymi: Alkymi is delivering the first Data Inbox to the enterprise, freeing huge volumes of data from email and documents.
Jack Welde
Founder & CEO of Smartling
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About Smartling: Smartling is a language service and technology provider helping customers to localize content across devices and platforms.
Chris Sim
CEO of Kadaxis
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About Kadaxis: Kadaxis develops marketing software for self-published authors.
Ed Donner
Co-Founder and CEO of Untapt
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About Untapt: Untapt is a software company applying Deep Learning to the hardest problems in talent and recruitment.
Gautam Kanumuru
Co-Founder and CEO of Yogi
Gautam Kanumuru is the Co-Founder and CEO at Yogi.
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About Yogi: Yogi is an AI powered customer feedback analytics service that processes online and offline feedback sources.
Shea Gonyo
Chief Executive Officer of illcreative
Shea Gonyo is the founder and CEO at illcreative.
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About illcreative: Illcreative is an integrated digital agency specializing in strategy, design and development.
Chris Smith
CEO & CTO of Vizalytics Technology
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About Vizalytics Technology: Vizalytics creates location-specific business intelligence from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients.
