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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 File Sharing 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.
Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turned his frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world’s leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
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About Dropbox, FWD.us: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
John R. Adler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Scribd
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Vineet Jain
Co-founder & CEO of Egnyte
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at KPMG and Bechtel. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About Egnyte, Valdero Corp.: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Peter Thompson
Co-founder and CEO of LucidLink
Cofounder and CEO at LucidLink.
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About LucidLink: LucidLink provides file storage as a service, transforming any cloud object store into a shared file space.
Anand Prahlad
Founder and CEO of Parablu
Anand is Founder & CEO at Parablu Inc. Anand has over 25 years of experience building Enterprise software solutions and has a unique mix of security and storage DNA. He was previously Head of McAfee’s R&D Center in India and served there as Managing Director while also leading Engineering for all of McAfee’s Data Center product engineering teams as Vice President. Previously, as Sr Vice President of Worldwide Product Development at Commvault, he was part of the management team that led Commvault to a successful public offering in 2006. Anand claims several patents relating to storage and data management.
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About Parablu: Parablu is a Secure Data Management solution for enterprises – with a focus on Data Privacy.
Ian Tien
CEO & Co-founder of Mattermost
Ian Tien is CEO and co-founder of Mattermost, and previously founded SpinPunch, Inc.’s indie video game business while in graduate school, growing the business to three title franchises. He was formerly VP Product at a movie streaming startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures. Before that, he ran product management for Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Windows Live Photos services, and was interim lead of Hotmail. Prior, he led engineering teams for Microsoft Office in its enterprise software business across SharePoint and Business Intelligence product lines. He holds several patents and is alumus of the University of Waterloo, where he worked at Trilogy Software during school, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as teaching assistant for Andy Grove and Myron Scholes. Ian grew up in suburban Toronto and freelanced as an illustrator before college.
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About Mattermost: Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
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.
Scott Smith
CEO of CloudApp
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About CloudApp: CloudApp is a visual work communication tool for organizations to easily create, upload, and manage visual content.
Andrew Coyle
Founder & CEO of MockVisual
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About MockVisual: MockVisual helps clients to capture screenshots, annotate, and share.
Jack McGannon
CEO of Canto
Jack McGannon has over 15 years of background within the technology world. Most recently, he was CEO for the US operations of Ein Sof, a Technology services provider. Prior to that, he was CEO at Document Sciences from September 1998 until it was purchased by EMC in 2008. Jack holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Proven value-creating executive with a track record of success in financial and operational roles.
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About Canto: A leader in Digital Asset Management Software with proven success providing professional software services and solutions for over 20 years.
Sudesh Kumar
Founder and CEO of Kapalya
Founder and CEO at Kapalya Inc.
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About Kapalya: Kapalya protects corporate data by encrypting files on end-points, corporate servers, and public cloud providers.
Nicole Hosun Kim
Founder and CEO of Sunshine
Founder and CEO at Sunshine
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About Sunshine, Sunshine App: Sunshine Contacts anticipates offering related products that help people with scheduling, event organization.
