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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 San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Hardware 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.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
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About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Jae Hoon Choi
CEO & Co-founder of Podo Labs
Jae Hoon Choi is Co-founder and CEO of Podo.
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About Exide Life Insurance, Podo Labs: We make Podo, Jack, Belle, and a whole lot more to come.
Rajiv Khemani
Co-founder & CEO of Innovium
Rajiv Khemani is Founder and CEO of Innovium, a venture funded startup based in Silicon Valley (www.innovium.com). As a partner at Moment Ventures, he is also an investor in several software-based infrastructure startups. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Cavium, a leading public semiconductor company that provides solutions for data-center, enterprise and mobile applications. Rajiv joined Cavium in 2003 and held senior executive roles leading marketing, sales, engineering and operations. He helped drive the company from an early startup stage to profitability, IPO and a valuation of over $2.5 billion. Prior to Cavium, Rajiv spent 5 years at Intel, where he was GM of the network processor business and led the business to achieve industry leading market share. He joined Intel as a result of acquisition of his startup company, Netboost. Before that, he held engineering and marketing management roles at Netapp and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Rajiv has also served on the Management Board of the Stanford Business School. He holds an MBA from Stanford University, a BS in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. His hobbies include golf, traveling and hiking.
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About Innovium: Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Kelly Peng
Founder, CEO & CTO (Electrical / Optical / Software Engineer) of Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Kura Technologies.
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About Greylock, Kura Technologies, Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab), Radio Astronomy Lab, Stanford University, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Kwindla Kramer
Co-founder & CEO of Daily.co
Kwindla Hultman Kramer is CEO of Oblong Industries, developer of the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. Oblong was responsible for the gestural interfaces in the film Minority Report, and the company’s current customers and partners include Boeing, GE, Saudi Aramco and others. Kwin’s background is in programming, hardware design, and the development of large-scale systems architectures. Before helping to start Oblong he served as the founding CTO of AllAfrica.com, one of the web’s largest content aggregators and a two-time webby award nominee. Kwin holds degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and Harvard College and lives in Los Angeles.
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About Daily.co: Daily.co offers video chat as an API.
Nicholas Woodman
Owner, CEO & Founder of GoPro
While the eight-person staff of GoPro was enjoying the success of their first HD HERO camera in 2009, founder and CEO Nick Woodman realized one thing: to support his vision, he was going to need a bigger staff. But before Woodman could think bigger, he had to start out small. After receiving a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Woodman founded an online promotions company, Fun Bug. In 2001, Woodman sold Fun Bug and took off surfing and traveling the world. The decision inspired more than the personal – Woodman’s passion for surfing sparked the idea to create the now-popular wearable and gear mountable camera and in 2002, Woodman founded GoPro. After years of research and planning, the company released its first product, the GoPro HERO, a 35mm film-based camera that was worn on the wrist. Made up of some of Woodman’s friends and family members, the early GoPro team established the company as a true innovator by continually iterating on the product, moving from a film-based camera to a digital still and video camera. A lifetime extreme sports enthusiast, Woodman was learning how to race cars when he was compelled to move the camera from his wrist to the top of his car. This simple idea led to an array of camera mounting devices – for everything from helmets to surfboards, and even dog collars.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Jeff Russakow
CEO of Boosted USA
Jeff Russakow is CEO of Boosted, a leading provider of lightweight, portable, high-performance electric vehicles, and an innovator in fast, fun, simple “last-mile” transportation. The company is well-known for it’s first commercial product, the Boosted Board, a premier electric longboard used by riders worldwide to speed their commutes and daily trips about town. The company is now navigating the dual challenges of extraordinary hyper-growth and international expansion, while continuing to explore new and innovative ways to get folks where they need to be. Jeff began his career as a PhD in robotics and autonomous systems; spent many formative years as a management consultant and then senior executive in large-scale tech companies including SAP, Adobe, Symantec, and Yahoo!; and in the last several years has been the CEO of three high-growth companies.
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About Boosted USA: Boosted USA builds and develops lightweight, wireless, and remote-controlled motorized electric longboards.
Usama Abid
Co-founder & CEO of Inventhub
Usama Abid is a technology entrepreneur. As an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, he has dedicated himself to improving the hardware design process, and is an active contributor to the open-source community. His company, InventHub, Inc., is founded on the idea that innovation can happen at scale if: one, engineers are provided with a new way to collaborate; and two, the open-source community is empowered with resources. Prior to InventHub, Usama founded DIY GEEKS, a startup that focuses on robotics education in his native Pakistan, where Usama helped cultivate the community and ushered in a love of making with his self-learning DIY kits, workshops and seminars. He was recognized by TechJuice in 2018 as one of Pakistan’s “25 Under 25” — an annual list of those helping to change the landscape in the country’s startup ecosystem. His work has been featured in numerous tech blogs and magazines, including TechJuice, StartUp Magazine, Geo TV.
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About Inventhub: Inventhub is an electronics design collaboration and data management platform that helps maximize product quality.
Renee James
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Ampere Computing
Renée James is President of Intel Corporation and is part of the company’s Executive Office. Renée has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, manufacturing, security, software and services, which she developed through product R&D leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel’s software subsidiaries. Renée has also been an overall leader in the development and implementation of the corporate strategy. During her 25 plus year career at Intel, Renée has spearheaded the company’s strategic expansion into providing proprietary and open source software and services for applications in enterprise, security and cloud-based computing. In her most recent role as executive vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group, she was responsible for Intel’s global software and services strategy, revenue, profit, and product R&D. In this role, Renée led Intel’s strategic relationships with the world’s leading device and enterprise operating systems companies. Previously, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Services, Intel’s datacenter services business. Early in her career Renée also served as chief of staff for former Intel CEO Andy Grove. Renée is Vice Chair of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. She served 7 years as independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a member of the C200 and a non-executive director of Sabre Corporation. Most recently Renée was nominated to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list, ranking 21st and was named on Forbes 100 list at number 37. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
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About Ampere Computing, Intel, The Carlyle Group: Ampere Computing develops data center processors for cloud servers.
Phillip Walker
CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Transcend Robotics
A serial entrepreneur who values hitting milestones for investors and producing scalable results.
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About Transcend Robotics: Transcend Robotics is a startup that develops ground-based mobile robots.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
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About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Jesper Andersen
CEO & President of Infoblox
A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Liam Casey
Founder & CEO of PCH International
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
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About PCH International: PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Bracken Darrell
CEO of Logitech
Bracken Darrell joined Logitech as president in 2012 and became chief executive officer a year later. In this role he has led a transformation of Logitech. He is a proponent of the importance of the liberal arts and design in business, especially of their role in innovating product experiences for consumers. He is an English major from Hendrix College. Bracken brings to Logitech experience in product and brand building through design. He has worked around the world on iconic brands like Old Spice, Gillette and Braun, for which he was president. He has spent time at P&G, GE, Gillette, and Whirlpool. Since he took over five years ago, Logitech has been a top performer on the SIX Swiss stock exchange and on the NASDAQ. The company’s stock price and profits have more than quadrupled in the same period.
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About Logitech: Logitech designs and manufactures personal peripherals for the needs of personal computer and laptop users.
Cedric Bru
CEO & President of Taulia
Cedric Bru is President and CEO of Taulia, the Fintech company revolutionizing cash flows and supplier financing. He has more than 20 years of experience and a proven executive management track in financial services and technology companies like Visa and Hewlett-Packard. Cedric holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In addition to his dedication to his career, Cedric is passionate about his family, art, and a good game of rugby, tennis, or golf.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Hugo de Gentile
Co-Founder & CEO of Willo
Hugo de Gentile is the Co-Founder and CEO at Willo
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About Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO of Fictiv
Dave Evans co-founded Fictiv and serves as its CEO in pursuit of his mission to democratize manufacturing. Fictiv’s virtual manufacturing platform pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Prior to Fictiv, Dave was the first hire at Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab which is part of Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering Division. While there, Dave was Lead Hardware Engineer on OpenXC, an open source software and hardware platform to extend customer’s vehicles with custom applications and pluggable modules. In this role, he manufactured hardware for 500+ unit production runs including injection molding, PCB fabrication, box design and assembly. He was also responsible for designing, prototyping, and sourcing hardware builds at the Lab. Dave also proudly led the Stanford University Affiliates project for Ford in the mechanical engineering senior design course.
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Dan Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of VergeSense
Dan Ryan is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VergeSense.
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About VergeSense: VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Marcus Gomez
CEO and Co-founder of Luminous Computing
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About Luminous Computing: Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
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About Breathometer, CMY Ventures, Cohabit Labs, Inc., Cointopia, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, VitaBowl, Walt Disney Television: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Rahul Dewan
Founder & CEO of Duet Display
Founder at Duet Display
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About Duet Display: Duet allows users to use their iDevice as an extra display for Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Veerbhan Kheterpal
Co-founder & CEO of quadric.io
Co-founder & CEO, quadric.io, Co-Founder, 21.co, Co-founder Fabbrix.
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About quadric.io: quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing.
Jeffrey O’Neill
Founder/CEO of Zephyr Aerospace
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About flyClever, Zephyr Aerospace: Zephyr Aerospace designs affordable lie-flat seating solutions for transportation companies.
Venkat Mattela
CEO of Redpine Signals
Venkat Mattela is Chief Executive Officer of Redpine Signals, Inc. He has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in the semiconductor industry and drives company’s strategy, execution and R&D. Prior to Redpine, he was at Network Media Platforms Group of Analog Devices as Director and was responsible for the product, strategy and business development for media wireless connectivity solutions (WLAN, WMAN). He also led the VLSI development from concept engineering to release of multiple industry leading networking silicon products resulting in a multi-million dollar product line. Prior to joining ADI, Mr. Mattela was at Infineon Technologies as Director and was responsible for micro-architecture and design of TriCore MCU-DSP processor. He led the team to take the architecture to multiple silicon implementations. Mr. Mattela started his career at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in January 1983 and held various engineering positions at LSI Logic, LMSI and CMC Ltd. Mr. Mattela has a Master’s Degree in Computer Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and holds 11 US patents.
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About Redpine Signals: Redpine Signals is a wireless systems company with unique chipset and system level products for wireless networks.
Roderick de Rode
Founder & CEO of Spinn
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About Spinn: Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Manik Suri
Founder & CEO of Therma
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About Therma, Truman National Security Project: Therma is combating climate change by eliminating waste from the global refrigeration system
Eric Sanchez
Co-Founder, CEO of Revl
Eric Sanchez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
John Gabriel
CEO of Autzu
John Gabriel is the CEO at Autzu.
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About Autzu: Introducing drivesharing – the future of sustainable and efficient urban transport
Nancy Xiao
CEO of Mason
Nancy Xiao is the President at Mason.
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
George Minassian
CO-Founder & CEO of Crossbar
Dr. George Minassian has been a co-founder and CEO of Crossbar since 2010.A seasoned veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, Dr. Minassian brings Crossbar 25 years of experience in systems, logic design, new business development, and product development. Over his extensive career, Dr. Minassian has a proven track record of developing commercially successful, leading-edge products. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Minassian held a variety of positions at Spansion, a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, most recently as vice president of System and Software Engineering where he led the $1.2 billion Flash Memory business targeting the cellular wireless market segment.While at Spansion, he developed and established new industry standards in emerging technologies such as PISMO and achieved a successful track record for large-scale product development and management. From 1999-2002, Dr. Minassian was director of Wireless Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, a microprocessor leader, where he developed the industry’s first CMOS RF process and complete 802.11b/a chipset and reference designs.Dr. Minassian holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Grace Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Common Networks
Grace is the CPO and co-founder of Common Networks. She was previously at Square, where she was the Director of Product on the flagship Square Register product and managed a team of 70+ engineers, product managers, and designers. She alo led teams responsible for the launches of Square Japan and Australia, Square Invoices, new Square card readers, Instant Deposits, and numerous retail, restaurants & services features.Before Square, Grace was at Google PMing the Offers product and working on Sales Strategy and Operations. She started her career as a Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Grace has a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
David Hughes
CEO & Founder of Silver Peak
David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc. Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Colin Billings
Founder and CEO of Orro
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About Orro: Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
Christopher Boone
CEO, Board Member of Coveroo
Christopher Boone is President & CEO of Cimbal, a software driven mobile promotion and payment network. His career includes senior executive positions in investment banking and operating roles leading software companies. Prior to Cimbal, Mr. Boone was President & CEO of Visuvi, an image initiated search engine and CEO of AppCentral, a desktop virtualization software company. He worked in management consulting as a technology, media and telecom advisor to leading asset management funds, law firms and technology companies and as a director of business and corporate development with Excite@Home. Mr. Boone was an investment banker with JPMorgan in New York where he managed a billion dollar derivatives portfolio. He began his career in corporate finance at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Boone is a recognized scholar with the Gerson Lehrman Group’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications council. He holds over a dozen US patents-pending in payment, authentication, virtualization and distributed networks. Mr. Boone is a graduate of JPMorgan’s Executive Finance Program which included graduate business school professors from Harvard, Wharton, Columbia and NY University. He holds a bachelor of science degree in medical physics from the University of Notre Dame where he was an Isko Foundation academic scholarship recipient and rowed varsity crew.
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About Cimbal, Coveroo, Visuvi: Coveroo is a software, printing and brand licensing platform that enables consumers and partners to create highly customized products.
Anush Elangovan
Founder & CEO of Nod
With over 15 years of experience building innovative products, 30 patents pending or issued, and a couple of legendary mountains climbed, Anush is one of those “impossible is nothing” types. Prior to founding Nod Labs, he was part of the original Chromebooks team at Google, and a lead engineer at Agnilux, FireEye and Cisco.
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About Nod: Nod seamlessly transforms your movements into commands. Nod accurately tracks your body and convey intent and identity to your environment.
Chris Barton
Founder and CEO of Guard
Chris Barton is the co-founder and a board director of Shazam, the music discovery company, which started as an idea he conceived in late 1999. With three other co-founders, Chris led the creation of Shazam from concept through inventing a new pattern recognition technology to building and launching the world’s first mobile music recognition service. Today Shazam has been downloaded more than 1 billion times around the world. Apple acquired Shazam for a speculated $400 million price tag in 2018. Chris previously worked at Dropbox where he led mobile operator partnerships and Google where he was head of North American Android partnerships. He has also worked at Microsoft, San Francisco Consulting Group, and LEK Consulting. Chris holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Finance from Cambridge University, and a BA from UC Berkeley. Chris is now working on his next startup focused on computer vision applications.
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About Guard: Guard is a computer vision to save lives.
Timothy Harris
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Swift Navigation
Timothy Harris, co-founder and CEO of Swift Navigation, is focused on building a world-class organization that will power the next generation of GPS-enabled robots and autonomous vehicles. A proven leader in the high-accuracy GPS industry, Tim leads teams that are excited to drive innovation and challenge each other to achieve visionary change. Prior to Swift, he worked in supply chain consulting for OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH in Halle, Germany, and in corporate finance for Emerge Digital Group, where he oversaw M&A and strategic partnerships for a digital media holding company. Tim holds a JD degree from Boston University and a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Swift Navigation: Swift Navigation offers hardware and software that makes GPS positioning technology available for autonomous vehicle and device guidance.
Kumar Srikantan
President & CEO of Pluribus Networks
Kumar Srikantan is the president and chief executive officer of [Pluribus Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pluribus-networks#/entity). Previously, he was the vice president and general manager of engineering at Cisco Systems. Srikantan obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and master’s degree in computer science from Rice University. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Pluribus Networks: Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software defined networking (SDN)
Sylvia Kang
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
Sylvia Kang is the founder and CEO of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
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About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Walter Berger
President and Co-CEO of Kymeta
Walter Berger is the President and Co-CEO of Kymeta Corporation.
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About Kymeta: Kymeta is a developer of hybrid satellite-cellular networks used to satisfy the demand for global ubiquitous mobile connectivity.
John Keagy
Founder, Chairman, & CEO of GoGrid
John Keagy is the Founder at SErtified.org.
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About charterdart, GoGrid, SErtified: GoGrid is an IaaS provider offering public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Thomas Lynch
CEO of TE Connectivity
Thomas Lynch has been a director of the Company since May 2009. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TE Connectivity Ltd. (formerly Tyco Electronics Ltd.), a global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, undersea telecommunication systems and specialty products. He joined Tyco International in 2004 as President of Tyco Engineered Products and Services and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2006, when Tyco Electronics was formed and later became an independent, separately traded entity. Thomas is also a director of TE Connectivity Ltd.
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About TE Connectivity: TE Connectivity is a company provides engineered electronic components, network solutions, specialty products, undersea telecommunication.
Ben Harris
Co-Founder & CEO of Drop
Ben was born into an entrepreneurial, food-industry family. As an industrial designer, he has brought countless components to mass production and market in Asia, the UK and Ireland; first making his mark at Lackey, a global leader in postural management products. Ben went on to establish Dublin product design consultancy White Zebra Studios, which was honored by the Institute of Designers Ireland in its very first year. Ben’s favorite creation to bake is a Rhubarb Orange and Ginger Crumble he’s made since he was a boy.
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About Drop: Drop is a smart kitchen platform specializing in recipe and kitchen appliance technology to connect the whole cooking journey.
Thibault Duchemin
Founder & CEO of Ava
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About Ava: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Brian Gannon
Founder & CEO of Loop
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About Loop: Private family network
Kevin Yeaman
President and Chief Executive Officer of Dolby Laboratories
Kevin Yeaman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Dolby Laboratories. Under his leadership, the company has built on its rich heritage of technologies that transform storytelling, expanding its focus to produce new sight and sound experiences that unleash the potential of entertainment and communications. Before being named CEO in 2009, Kevin served as Dolby’s Chief Financial Officer, developing the financial infrastructure to support growth and expansion. Prior to Dolby, Kevin was the Chief Financial Officer of E.piphany and Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Informix. Kevin was inducted as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2014. He holds a BS degree in commerce from Santa Clara University.
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About Dolby Laboratories: Dolby creates surround sound, imaging, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, games, and more.
Adam Weigold
CEO and Co-Founder of Cryptyk
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About Cryptyk, The SASM Institute: Decentralised Cloud Security & Storage
Stephen Svajian
CEO and Co-Founder of Anova Culinary
Steve is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anova. Since its founding in 2013, the company has become one of the most successful startup hardware brands in the Bay Area.
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About Anova Culinary: Anova is changing the way people cook, making it easy for everyone to create restaurant-like experiences, everyday.
Satoshi Sugie
Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of WHILL
After working at the NISSAN Technical Center, He co-founded the WHILL Project in 2011.World Economic Forum Davas Meeting and a GSC Japan member.
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About WHILL: WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications.
Daniel McCallum
Chief Executive Officer of nura
Daniel McCallum is the Chief Executive Officer at Nura.
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About nura, nura: nura, powered and operated by Nuraloop, is a manufacturing company that delivers perfect sound to every individual.
Mike Cordano
CEO of fabrik
Download High Res In July 2012, Mike Cordano became president of HGST, a Western Digital company. He is responsible for worldwide operations of HGST, reporting to Steve Milligan, Western Digital Corporation (WDC) president. A 20-year veteran of the storage industry, Mike previously was executive vice president of Sales and Marketing and president of Branded Business for HGST, where he led the external storage business in addition to the company’s worldwide sales and marketing organizations. In this capacity, Mike played a key role in architecting HGST’s corporate strategy and executing its successful financial turn-around. Western Digital acquired HGST in March 2012. Prior to HGST, Mike was CEO and co-founder of Fabrik, Inc., a leading provider of portable and external storage solutions, including the award-winning G-Technology™ and SimpleTech™ product lines. Fabrik, financed by top venture capital firms, including Intel Capital, was acquired by HGST in April 2009. Before co-founding Fabrik, Mike was executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Maxtor Corporation. At Maxtor, he formed and managed the Branded Products Business Unit, creating break-through product categories, such as the Maxtor OneTouch™ external storage and backup solution, which ultimately defined the category. Mike’s background also includes several regional and international management assignments. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Colorado.
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About fabrik, HGST: Fabrik provides online storage and hardware products allowing users to upload and share in digital media.
Pree Walia
CEO & Founder of Preemadonna
Founder at Preemadonna
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About Preemadonna: Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot, a patented nail robot and intelligent manicure product line disrupting the $15B nail care industry.
Andreas Glocker
CEO / Founder of Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP
– Founder & CEO: Fastmetrics, Inc. Bay Area Business Connectivity 2002 – Current – Founder & CEO: Sirius Connections (Regional ISP) 1994 – 1999 – CheckSum (Accounting Software): Sirius Solutions 1992 – 1994 SFSU – B.S. Computer Science 1989 – 1992 (https:
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About Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP: Specialist building & business ISP. Dedicated Ethernet, managed fiber, direct cloud connect, hosted voice, WiFi & network service solutions.
Tanuj Thapliyal
Founder & CEO of Spot AI
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About Spot AI: Spot AI is the simplest way to move your video security to the cloud. One dashboard for all your cameras.
Angus Pacala
Co-Founder/CEO of Ouster
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About Ouster: Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many other applications.
Romain Lacombe
Founder and CEO of Plume Labs
Romain Lacombe is the founder and CEO of Plume Labs. From 2011 to 2014, Romain was the head of innovation on the French Prime Minister’s Open Government task force [Etalab](http://data.gouv.fr), leading innovation policy delivery and international relations, including the negotiation of the G8 Open Data Charter signed by the joint Chiefs of State at the 2013 G8 Summit. He authored a seminal report on [the potential of Open Data for France](http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/114000407/index.shtml) in 2011. Romain previously co-founder of [Clixtr](http://www.clixtr.com), a location-based mobile startup launched in ’08, backed by DFJ in ’09 and acquired by RadiumOne in ’11. His prior work experience was with McKinsey & Co, the World Bank and Palantir Technologies. He holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Engineering Systems (Technology & Policy Program, ’08), and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (Applied maths, Physics and Economics, ’06).
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About Plume Labs: Plume Labs develops an app for personalized alerts and a personal air quality tracker.
Arch Rao
Founder & CEO of Span.IO
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About Span.IO: Span.IO develops products to enable rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home.
Philip Rosedale
Co-founder & CEO of High Fidelity
Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school.In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC’s, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For 3 1/2 years, Rosedale served at RealNetworks as Vice President and CTO, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo, RealSystem 5.0, and RealSystem G2.In 1999 Rosedale returned to San Francisco, joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab.Rosedale holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego.
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About High Fidelity, Second Life, SendLove: High Fidelity is an open source software for shared virtual reality.
Chris Zacharias
Founder & CEO of imgix
Christopher Zacharias joined imgix as Founder, CEO in 2011.
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About imgix: imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing and delivering your existing images, wherever they already live.
Dema Tio
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Vibease
Dema Tio is the founder of Vibease, the world’s first smart massager. Vibease brings fantasy to life by combining a smart massager that vibrates in sync with an audiobook. Vibease has gained recognition from the tech industry including Crunchies Awards 2013 nomination – a prestigious award for the tech startups in Silicon Valley, Best luxury toys of 2015 nomination and a runner-up winner at Dublin Web Summit.
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About Vibease: Vibease helps couples stay intimate by offering a wearable vibrator that can be controlled through a smartphone app.
Reda Dehy
CEO of Collimator
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About Collimator: Collimator is a developer of modern cloud-native engineering modeling and simulation software.
Andrew House
President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI)
Andrew House has been President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) since September 2011. Working closely with Sony Corporation’s senior management, as well as business units and regional management teams, he is responsible for the development and growth of the PlayStation business globally. Before that, Mr. House was President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), beginning in May 2009, and was responsible for the PlayStation business in nearly 100 territories across Europe, Africa, Australasia and the Middle East. Mr. House served as Chief Marketing Officer and Group Executive of Sony Corporation from 2005-2009, where he had global responsibility for corporate marketing across all of Sony’s businesses, with a primary emphasis on building value in the Sony brand. During his tenure, Mr. House led the effort to establish Sony’s first unified global brand message, “make.believe” (pronounced “make-dot-believe”). In July 2002, Mr. House was appointed Executive Vice President, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), responsible for publisher and developer relations and overall strategic product planning. He was instrumental in the creation and execution of the marketing strategy and award-winning advertising campaigns that transformed the PlayStation brand into a household name in North America. At that time, Mr. House also served as Corporate Executive officer of SCEI.
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About Merryck & Co, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI): Sony Computer Entertainment engages in the research and development of hardware and software related to PlayStation platforms.
Mohamed Mohamed
Founder and CEO of Linka
Founder at Velasso
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About Linka: Linka is a auto-unlocking bike lock to combine theft-tracking GPS and global tamper alerts.
Jim Cowie
Advisor to the CEO of Cadence Design Systems
Jim Cowie is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cadence. Cowie is responsible for Cadence® worldwide legal operations, covering matters such as commercial transactions, corporate governance, employment, export compliance, finance, government affairs, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and stock administration activities. Under his leadership, his organization deploys professionals in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Japan, and North America. Cowie, who has been with Cadence since 2000, most recently served as Corporate Vice President – Business Development and Associate General Counsel, a role in which he was responsible for the execution of Cadence’s acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions as well as being the company’s lead lawyer for corporate and securities matters. Before joining Cadence, Cowie was counsel for several divisions of National Data Corporation, a provider of health information services and electronic commerce solutions. Prior to that, he was an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta. Cowie received his undergraduate degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. Before law school, he served four years of active duty in the United States Navy, the last three years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, leaving active service as a Lieutenant.
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About Cadence Design Systems, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC: Cadence Design Systems develops electronic design automation, software, hardware and silicon intellectual property technologies.
Jimmy Chen
Co-founder, CEO of Prizm Labs
Founder at Prizm Labs.
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About Blok Party, Prizm Labs: Prizm Labs develops consumer products and software for tabletop gaming entertainment.
Ilya Rosenberg
Co-founder, CEO of Sensel
Ilya Rosenberg is the co-founder and CEO of Sensel.
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About Sensel: Building the next wave of touch, force, and haptics technologies to revolutionize interaction with the digital world.
Leor Stern
Co-founder, CEO of Cronologics Corporation
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About Cronologics Corporation: Cronologics Corporation is a software platform for high quality smart watches by Android and Google veterans.
Natasha Baker
Founder & CEO of SnapEDA
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About SnapEDA: Design electronics in a snap
Yaroslav Azhnyuk
CEO & co-founder of Petcube
Yaroslav is a co-founder and CEO of Petcube, a gadget for pet owners allowing to watch, talk and play with their pets from anywhere using the smartphone. In 2008, Yaroslav founded SM Digital – the first Ukrainian agency, specialized on social media. It later became a part of Prodigi – the largest internet marketing agency in Ukraine. At Prodigi Yaroslav developed SMM strategies for some of the largest Ukrainian and International brands, built a scalable SMM department and developed internal agency processes. He is interested in how technology changes society and in the potential of small communities collaborating via social media. His primary fields of interest in internet business currently are “the internet of things”, e-commerce and online education. Specialties: Business Development, Fundraising, Internet Marketing, Social Media, User Experience, Event Management, Web Development
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About Petcube: Petcube is a worldwide leader in pet cameras & software, connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
Eric Norman
Founder & CEO of Cinder
Eric Norman is the CEO of Cinder.
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About Cinder, Cinder Precision Grill: Cinder designs and manufactures smart cooking appliances that empower people who love food to evolve the way they cook and eat at home.
Conor Russomanno
Co-founder & CEO of OpenBCI
Conor Russomanno is the Director of Advanced Interfaces at Meta, one of the pioneering companies in Augmented Reality (AR). Conor is also the co-founder and CEO of OpenBCI, a company dedicated to open-source innovation of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies. Conor studied Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University and then went on to study Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design. After completing grad school, Conor taught graduate level courses in Creative Coding, Physical Computing, Philosophy of the Mind, and Human-Computer Interaction at Parsons School of Design’s MFA Design & Technology (MFADT) program, as well as New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Conor’s current career interests lie at the intersection of Augmented Reality, Brain-Computer Interfacing, and Artificial Intelligence.
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About OpenBCI: OpenBCI is a low-cost brain and body sensing equipment for education, research, and prototyping.
Anne-Sophie Le Bloas
Founder & CEO of Ravacan
Anne-Sophie has 13+ years of experience in sourcing and procurement of materials and goods. She worked in France, Spain, Germany, and the US for SNCF (railways), Engie (Energy), Reckitt-Benkiser (FMCG), Rolls-Royce (Aeronautics), Visteon (Automotive) and Fitbit (Wearables). She holds 2 Master’s degrees, included from the famous MAI Bordeaux, specialized in Sourcing. She is also a trained software engineer.
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About Ravacan: Ravacan is a Purchasing & Procurement software for commodity & supply managers, with a central place to analyze costs and manage suppliers.
Dan Gailey
Founder and CEO of Asteria
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About Asteria, RadBots, Synapse AI, Techendo: Asteria is hardware device host and interface to your personal artificial intelligent bot and connect with any bot,command any service.
John Erik Metcalf
Co-Founder & CEO of Upgraded Technologies
American technology entrepreneur living in San Francisco. Co-Founder & CEO at Upgraded Technologies. Global Shaper at World Economic Forum.
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About Upgraded Technologies: Upgraded sells and manages device subscription plans. Upgraded customers always own the latest and responsibly repurpose or recycle the old.
Lars Barfod
Founder & CEO of Vapore
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About Vapore: Vapore offers a proprietary germ-free water vapor technology for the therapeutic treatment of a variety of medical conditions.
E. Theodore L. Omtzigt
CEO of Stillwater Supercomputing
Dr. Theodore Omtzigt is the inventor of the Domain Flow Architecture and the Knowledge Processing Unit, a distributed data flow platform for low-power, high-performance applications to create intelligent systems.
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About Stillwater Supercomputing: Stillwater Supercomputing designs and markets a hardware accelerator synthesis platform to create workload optimized hardware.
Kentaro Miura
Founder and CEO of DouZen
Ken Miura is the Founder and CEO at DouZen. He is a former product manager at Sony Corp.
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About DouZen: DouZen specializes in the creation of highly dynamic, innovative user interaction or interface for any screen size and platform.
Simon Tchedikian
CEO & Founder of Sevenhugs
CEO, Founder at Sevenhugs.
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About Sevenhugs: Sevenhugs is a maker of smart remote.
Martin Gossner
CEO of Steiger Dynamics
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About Steiger Dynamics: Steiger Dynamics Living room PCs that deliver the ultimate entertainment experience to the audio, video, and gaming enthusiast.
Steve Yung
Chairman Of The Board & CEO of V5 Systems
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About V5 Systems: V5 Systems develops a self-powered outdoor security and computing platform for the Industrial IoT market.
Greg Tanaka
Founder & CEO of Percolata
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About Percolata: Percolata is an all-in-one hardware and software solution that helps retailers predict in-store traffic and staff employees accordingly.
Andy White
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Trilliant
Andy joined Trilliant in 2009, bringing more than 30 years of leadership and experience in the utility, energy, networks and communications industries. Prior to Trilliant, Andy served as a General Electric (GE) corporate officer and as President and CEO of several GE businesses. During his tenure, Andy has led businesses for major infrastructure and communications projects in Congo, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Dominican Republic and Algeria. He has served on two university advisory committees and ten boards. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bath University, specializing in Power Electronics.
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About Trilliant: Trilliant delivers intelligent networks that enable the energy industry’s transition to the smart grid.
AJ “Dr Doom” Shewki
Co-founder ,CEO & COO of LIV
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
Vedran Vukman
CEO of Vyoocam
CEO @ Vyoocam
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About Vyoocam: Mobile apps on the communication wearables
Thomas Sohmers
Co-Founder & CEO of REX Computing
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About REX Computing: REX Computing develops a range of massively parallel and high density computing systems.
Rajeev Gupta
CEO/CTO & Founder of DBSync
Rajeev Gupta is founder and CTO of Avankia LLC, which he led to rank among the “Inc. 500” Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2008. As CEO of DBSync, Rajeev has led the strategic emphasis on the integration space, while also ensuring alignment between customer needs and product development. He has extensive experience with application architecture and on-demand computing. He earned his MBA from Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University.
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About Avankia LLC, DBSync: DBSync: complete on-demand integration & replication provider that empowers companies to connect SaaS, cloud and on-prem apps with no coding
Hao Zhong
Co-Founder and CEO of ScaleFlux
Hao Zhong is a passionate technology innovator and entrepreneur that has been contributing numerous cutting edge technology and product in data storage and computing industry. Since Oct 2014, Hao, as the CEO, co-founded ScaleFlux that is leading the computational storage subsystem development in the industry. Prior to ScaleFlux, Hao was a Sr. Director at Fusion-io where he led the flash memory technology team and enabled LDPC technology in industry leading PCIe SSDs. Prior to Fusion-io, Hao was with SandForce as an engineering director working on SSD controller chips. Prior to SandForce, Hao was an architect at LSI working on hard disk drive read channel product and the key contributor to the industry first 40nm LDPC read channel chip in 2008. Hao received his Ph.D degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About ScaleFlux: ScaleFlux is a computer hardware company that delivers benefits to IT infrastructure, hybrid-cloud, or on-prem infrastructure.
David Hsieh
CEO of Kaptivo
David Hsieh is the vice president of marketing at [Instart Logic](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/instart-logic#/entity). Previously, he was the chief marketing officer of Ubiquiti Networks. With over 25 years of experience in tech industry marketing, Hsieh served as the vice president of marketing for video and emerging technologies at Cisco. In that role, he was responsible for marketing Cisco’s video portfolio to enterprises, service providers, and growing emerging technology businesses across multiple market segments including Cisco TelePresence. Prior to that, he served as the senior marketing officer at Evolve Software, LBMS, and WebEx, respectively. He has also provided his services as a senior executive at Sybase, FaceTime Communications, and Marrakech. Hsieh holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Northwestern University. He has also studied East Asian studies at the University of Illinois. Hsieh resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Kaptivo: Kaptivo is a whiteboard camera system that enables live-streaming content by browser, video conference, or lecture capture system.
Alina Adams
Founder and CEO of Artveoli, Inc.
Alina Adams is the Founder & CEO | Hardware | Biotech of Artveoli, Inc.
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About Artveoli, Inc., Management Consulting, Northeastern University, Santa Clara University: Carbon Capture Company
