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 Quality Assurance 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.
Ram Siddarth Radhakrishnan
Founder & CEO of SILQ
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About SILQ: Delivering in-line intelligence online.

Christian Wiklund
Founder & CEO of unitQ
Christian Wiklund is the Founder and CEO at unitQ.
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About unitQ: unitQ is a product quality platform that helps companies drive growth and retention by fixing the right quality issues faster.
Sandeep Johri
CEO of Tricentis
As the CEO of Tricentis, Sandeep brings over 25 years of enterprise software experience. He manages all business-related functions including business strategy, products, services, sales, marketing, and operations to achieve business profit and sales objectives. Sandeep most recently served as the COO of Appcelerator, the leading open source mobile application development platform. He was Vice President of Strategy and Industry Solutions at HP, where he also served as Vice President of Corporate Development. There, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the growth strategy that resulted in the software business growing 2X market over the last four years. Sandeep was instrumental in the formation of two startups, Determina (VMware) and Bluelane (VMware). He was also the CEO and founder of Oblix (Oracle), and co-founded eBoodle (EW Scripps), one of the first ecommerce comparison shopping services. Sandeep has an MBA from Stanford University, a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India. Sandeep is involved as an advisor and investor in various startups in Silicon Valley and India.
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About eyeson, Tricentis: Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks.
Robert Fenton
Founder & CEO of Qualio
Robert Fenton is the Founder and CEO at Qualio.
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About Qualio: Qualio is a quality management system helping life sciences companies bring quality products to the market.

Fred Stevens-Smith
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rainforest QA
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About Rainforest QA: Rainforest QA offers modern testing for web and mobile apps.
Artem Golubev
Co-Founder & CEO of testRigor
Artem Golubev is the co-founder and CEO of TestRigor. Prior to that, Artem served as a senior engineering manager at Salesforce.
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About testRigor: testRigor uses AI to help its customers to decrease test maintenance 200X, speed up test creation 20X and empower manual QA to create tests

Jonathan Friedman
Co-Founder, CEO of Assembly
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About Assembly: Assembly helps high quality Chinese manufacturers document their effectiveness and win new foreign business.
Kemal Levi
CEO & Founder of Relimetrics
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About Relimetrics: Relimetrics develops full stack computer vision and machine learning software for QA and process control in Industry 4.0 applications.
Matevz Petek
Founder, CEO of Povio
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About Povio: Design and software development company.

Chris Moustakas
President & CEO of DevonWay
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About DevonWay: DevonWay is a leading software provider of Quality, Safety, Work, and Asset Management solutions (EHSQ, QMS, EHS, EAM)
Sofia Palamarchuk
CEO/Co-founder of Apptim
CEO/Co-founder at Apptim
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About Apptim: Apptim empowers mobile teams to easily measure and improve mobile performance, without the need to install SDKs or extra libraries.