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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 Productivity Tools 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.
Rahul Vohra
Founder & CEO of Superhuman
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost. Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University of Cambrigdge.
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About Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Rapportive, Superhuman, The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Evan Cummack
CEO of Fin.com
CEO @ Fin.com.
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Parker Conrad
Co-Founder and CEO of Rippling
Parker Conrad is co-founder and CEO of Zenefits, a free human resources platform that automates and eliminates all HR and benefits-related tasks for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing companies to focus on people, not paperwork. Parker has expanded Zenefits’ reach to more than 10,000 companies across 48 states, serving over 100,000 employees, and disrupting the $18 billion health insurance brokerage industry along the way. Ranked #1 on Forbes’ “Hottest Start-Ups of 2014” list, the New York Times calls Zenefits “one of the fastest-growing companies in recent Silicon Valley history.” Prior to Zenefits, Parker co-founded online stock research tools SigFig and Wikinvest. Parker graduated with a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University, where he was managing editor of the Crimson.
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About Rippling: Rippling is a human resource management company that offers an all-in-one platform to help manage HR and IT operations.
Joe Thomas
Co-founder and CEO of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Brian Shin
Co-founder & CEO of Searchable.ai
Brian Shin is co-founder and CEO of Searchable.ai, a new kind of work search engine. Previously, Brian was a co-founder or early team member of 8 startup companies, 7 of which exited. He was recently a managing director on the Providence Strategic Growth team of Providence Equity. Mr. Shin has 20 years of experience building high growth technology companies and 12 years as an angel investor or early shareholder in over 40 technology startup companies, including HubSpot, Drift, Vesper, Misfit, Kayak, Sirtris Pharma, Frequency Therapeutics and Atrium. Prior to joining Providence, Mr. Shin was a partner with In-Q-Tel, a strategic investment firm supporting the missions of the United States Intelligence Community. Before In-Q-Tel, Mr. Shin was founder and CEO of Visible Measures, a venture-backed video analytics company that was acquired in 2017, and founder and chairman of Mustbin, a venture-backed mobile security company that was also acquired in 2017. Mr. Shin received a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
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About Mustbin, Searchable.ai: Searchable.ai is a developer of a personalized semantic search engine used to improve work productivity.
Zeb Evans
Founder & CEO of ClickUp
Zeb Evans is a billionaire entrepreneur that’s started several software companies worth over $4 billion. He’s founder and CEO at ClickUp, a productivity platform that revolutionizes the way people work.
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Michael Boswell
Co-Founder, CEO of Cue
Co-Founder and CEO of Cue. Previously an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures; Design Lead at Facebook, Google and Coatue. Founding member of several products with successful exits including Jobr, Pagemodo, and ContactMe.
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About Cue: The world’s first social calendar
Vinay Patankar
Co-Founder and CEO of Process Street
Vinay Patankar is the co-founder and CEO of Process Street.
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About Process Street: Process Street is a SaaS platform that allows teams create, track, and optimize business process workflows.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Tom Griffiths
CEO and Co-founder of Hone
CEO and Co-founder, Hone. Passionate about growing the next generation of leaders with a product people love to use. Previously Chief Product Officer, Co-founder, FanDuel. Past life as PhD candidate in machine learning.
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About Hone: Hone provides effective, engaging, and scalable management training to help high-growth companies thrive.
Nikil Viswanathan
Co-founder and CEO of Alchemy
Nikil Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO at Alchemy.
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About Alchemy: Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Timothy Campos
Chief Executive Officer of Woven
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About JDSU (now Viavi Solutions), Rackspace, Woven: Woven is an intelligent calendar to manage your schedule and get the most out of your meetings.
Omer Perchik
Founder & CEO of Any.do
Omer Perchik is the Founder & CEO of Any.do . A passionate entrepreneur who loves putting simple yet effective products in the hands of millions. Fascinated with behavioral economics, neuroscience and people at large, Omer sought to explore new ways of how people interact with the world and those around them. As the Founder & CEO of Any.DO, he aims to revolutionize the way people get things done.
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About Any.do: Over 25M people rely on Any.do to stay organized and get more done.
Harry Qi
Co-Founder & CEO of Motion
Harry Qi is the co-founder and CEO of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Alfonso De los Rios
CEO & Co-Founder of Nowports
Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports.
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About Nowports: Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain processes of Latin American companies.
Geoffrey Tisserand
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Figure
Geoffrey Tisserand is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Figure.
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About Figure: Figure is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data driven decisions.
Matt Martin
Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise
Previously a civil litigator at an Am Law 100 firm in Minneapolis, founder of inbode, and founder MN Publius. Holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and a J.D. from UPenn in Philadelphia.
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About alesforce.com, Clockwise, LegalReach, RelateIQ: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
David Hsu
Founder, CEO of Retool
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About Retool: Build internal software fast.
Josh Lowy
CEO and Co-Founder of Hugo
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About Hugo: Hugo is a collaborative note-taking app focused on sharing meeting notes across teams within companies.
Quinn Morgan
Cofounder & CEO of Workona
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About Workona: Workona is the work management platform for teams who want to effortlessly pull together projects, documents, & apps in one place.
Ioan Iacob
Founder and CEO of FLOWX.AI
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About FLOWX.AI: FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it super fast for enterprises to create digital apps for mission-critical flows.
Joe Salesky
CEO, CRMNEXT, of CRMNEXT
Joseph (Joe) Salesky is the CEO at CRMNEXT Inc.
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About CRMNEXT: CRMNEXT provides CRM solutions to enterprise banks and financial service providers worldwide.
Daniel Kwak
Co-Founder & CEO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
May Habib
Co-founder and CEO of Writer
May Habib is the Co-founder and CEO at Writer.
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About Writer: Writer is an AI writing assistant that helps content teams keep their writing in line.
Chris Raethke
Founder & CEO of Notiv
Chris Raethke is the CEO and co-founder of Notiv. For more than 20 years, he has been an entrepreneur, designer, and technology leader, usually all at once. In 2018, Chris and Iain launched Notiv, an AI-based product thinking company that enables smart collaboration around meetings. Notiv started out of frustration from not having an ability to capture, store and recall information in the same way we access a word document. In 2012, Chris co-founded Bugcrowd Inc, the pioneer of crowdsourced security testing for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. As Co-founder and CTO, he led Bugcrowd’s engineering, product, and machine learning teams and set the technical vision for the company. Chris’s technical and business leadership was instrumental in building Bugcrowd into one of the largest security web services in the world. Chris continues to play a critical role in the strategic direction of the business. Chris believes that technology should allow humans to focus more and give us time back in our day. His projects do this by looking at our most important, but most inefficient daily experiences and making them better. Chris was studying a Bachelor of Computer Science and Bachelor of Microelectronic Engineering before being dragged into the world of startups.
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About Notiv: Notiv is the intelligent meeting assistant that turns all your important voice conversations into clever business outcomes.
Saje Sandhu
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
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About Bit.ai, elink.io: Next-Gen Document Collaboration Platform
Arian Nemati
Co-founder and CEO of ADEx
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About ADEx, Scopii: Purpose-Built Document Automation for Real Estate Industry
Kazuki Nakayashiki
Founder and CEO/CTO of Glasp
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About Glasp, Glasp: Social Web Highlighter, Social Annotation, Social Note Taking, Web App, SaaS, Browser Extension, Mobile App, Social Bookmarking
Gaurav Ragtah
Co-founder & CEO of CatalyzeX
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About CatalyzeX: Productivity tools for machine learning R&D
Alex Shevelenko
CEO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
/ Founder of RELAYTO ping [email protected] to discover the first experience platform for interactive documents. Not all docs are created equal. / MD of Glocal Partners: advisory for innovation across borders & incubating RELAYTO/ / Cloud Pioneer: pre-IPO at SuccessFactors (exit to SAP for $3.4B) & Salesforce.com / Advisor: growth & marketing projects leader @ Oliver Wyman / Student & Mentor: Stanford MBA, Penn BSE, BA, speaker on Idea Science™ method / Author (upcoming): The Experience Is The Message. How To Turn Ideas Into Conversations & Actions Why RELAYTO? “MEDIUM was the message” in the 60s. Now the digital noise is at an all-time high. So EXPERIENCE IS THE MESSAGE. And we created a new experience that helps your important business messages win. Learn more on http://RELAYTO.com or ✉ [email protected] Longer Story RELAYTO/ helps anyone unleash & measure their ideas. Everything changed during my career at fast-growing B2B organizations like SuccessFactors/SAP, Salesforce.com, Oliver Wyman & Microsoft Office … except for the print-optimized PDF. PDF is where your must-read publications, presentations & knowledge goes to die ☠ So I co-founded RELAYTO/ revolution to abolish static, pre-Internet & pre-mobile content on screens (see our rla.to/pitch – it’s a PDF we converted with our own product) RELAYTO/ clients at PwC, Mercedes Benz, Accenture, HYPERLOOP TT, Startupbootcamp already authored 50+ award-winning interactive experiences. And AI-powered platform gets smarter with every document. Join us. Oh. And if you want to create a Guttenberg moment for interactive communications — we are hiring at relayto.com/careers
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Neng Bing Doh
CEO of HealthCrowd
Bing is a pioneer in the area of mobile messaging for healthcare, with a special interest in underserved populations. Together with Bern Shen, MD, she founded HealthCrowd to apply behavioral change techniques mastered from her prior experience, to the healthcare industry. She was most recently VP & GM at Tribal Fusion, a top 5 global digital ad network, heading up their in-text advertising business. Previously, she served on the management team of consumer shopping start-up, iStorez (acquired). At Netblue (now Epic Media), she tripled their display advertising business to $25M+ while bringing it back into profitability, grew their affiliate revenue by over 10x and was responsible for building hundreds of compelling consumer experiences. In her free time, Bing advises early-stage media and healthcare IT start-ups. Bing started her career in software development at Hewlett Packard, holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and an MBA from Cornell, where she was an SC Johnson Merit Scholar. She is also a Springboard Enterprises Life Science entrepreneur.
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About HealthCrowd: HealthCrowd is an end-to-end communications platform for healthcare.
John C. Palmer
Founder/CEO of Hexel
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About Hexel: Hexel is a startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to use Ethereum-based tokens to engage their hyperlocal community.
Nikola Mijic
co-founder/CEO of Matik
Nikola Mijic is a co-founder and CEO at Matik.
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About Matik: Matik provides an online platform that generates personalized customer presentations in minutes.
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.
Daniel Li
Cofounder and CEO of Plus
Daniel joined Madrona in 2015 and works on identifying new investments and supporting the growth of Madrona’s portfolio companies. He is also actively engaged in the firm’s activities in the local startup community and serves as a volunteer and mentor for several local organizations. Daniel loves meeting entrepreneurs with deep experience in a specific problem and thinks that the Pacific Northwest is an incredible ecosystem for training experts in key technologies. “Seattle’s growth is creating many opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors, and it could not be a more exciting time to be at the center of innovation in cloud computing and ecommerce.”
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About Madrona Venture Group, Plus: The easiest way to capture and share data from any source
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.
Sehul Shah
Founder & CEO of DeciZone Inc.
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About DeciZone Inc.: DeciZone is a platform designed for streamlined decision making.
Navid Rastegar
CEO & Founder of FitBliss
Navid Rastegar, CEO & Founder of FitBliss, has set on the mission to prove that healthy workforces are productive workforces. Having over 10 years of corporate experience at Salesforce.com, Cisco Systems, & Intel, Navid has followed his passion to help employees live a healthier, happier, and more balanced lifestyle, together with the people we spend our waking hours with, our colleagues. FitBliss, a leading corporate wellness start-up based in San Jose, is a social health & wellness engagement platform, gamifying over 100+ fitness mobile-apps/wearables, and providing data-driven health education & coaching.
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About FitBliss: Optimize Health & Productivity for the Global Workforce
Jason Evanish
CEO & Co-founder & Head of Product of Get Lighthouse
Jason Evanish is the founder of GetLighthouse.com, which helps managers motivate and retain their teams by following best practices and building good habits. He previously was a product manager at the web analytics company KISSmetrics and ran his own business, Greenhorn Connect, which he sold to The Capital Network in August 2014. He has also worked at companies such as oneforty, Value Media Inc., E Ink, and Analog Devices. Evanish earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and master’s degree in technological entrepreneurship from Northeastern University.
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About Get Lighthouse: Lighthouse is software that makes better managers.
Alex Yaseen
Co-Founder and CEO of Parabola
Alex Yaseen is Co-Founder and CEO at Parabola.
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About Parabola: Parabola is a drag-and-drop visual programming platform that lets everyone create custom reports, workflows, integrations, and more.
Jonathan Aizen
Founder & CEO of Amitree
Jonathan has been founding and working for web companies since 1994. He has extensive experience with building solutions that touch on the intersection of technology and society, with particular focus on revolutionizing Internet advertising to bring value to consumers and advertisers. In 2006, he founded Dapper and as COO, he led the company’s efforts in transforming online advertising into a vehicle for a better experience of the Web. Dapper was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010. Prior to Dapper, he worked for Alexa Internet and help build the Internet Archive. He holds a degree in computer science from Cornell University. Jonathan is founder and CEO of Amitree, which aims to make complex life processes more manageable. Amitree’s product, Closing Time, helps home buyers navigate the process of buying a home, organizing the dozens of mission-critical tasks into a simple, easy-to-understand checklist that is customized for each buyer’s unique situation. Until October 2012, Jonathan was General Manager of Yahoo!’s market-leading dynamic advertising solution, Smart Ads. In this role, he was responsible for leading the Smart Ads senior leadership team to develop and execute a cohesive strategy, generate revenue growth, and ensure operational excellence. He also worked on helping key clients and internal stakeholders understand how to incorporate dynamic ads into their online marketing strategy, as well helping them make sense of the overall online advertising landscape.
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About Amitree: Amitree transforms the chaos of business email into an AI-powered deal organizer, project manager, and virtual assistant.
Xenia Muntean
CEO & Co-Founder of Planable
Xenia Muntean is a tech entrepreneur, passionate about all things social media. She is co-founder and CEO at Planable.
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About Planable: Planable is the command centre for social media teams to work together on content.
Nikhil Kundra
Co-founder & CEO of Partender
Founder & CEO of Partender. @500Startups alum w/ passions in UI/UX, design, marketing, efficiency & solving real-life problems. Previously @quilt. Thankful @Forbes #30under30 in Food & Bev
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About Partender: We help over 15,000 bar and restaurant operators do inventory, ordering, & accounting in 15 min (down from 6 hrs) using patented technology.
Omar Skalli
Co-Founder & CEO of Flowdash
Omar Skalli serves as a co-founder and CEO at Flowdash.
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About Flowdash: The most customizable work management platform for fast-growing companies.
Mo Seetubtim
Founder & CEO of The Happiness Planner
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About The Happiness Planner, Topside Wear: Our mission is to empower the world to heal and master their mind.
Jurgen Krehnke
Chief Executive Officer of Sunfolding
Jurgen Krehnke joined Sunfolding in August of 2017 as new CEO to lead the company into mass production and rapid business growth.
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About Sunfolding: Sunfolding develops new approaches to solar tracking for commercial and utility systems.
Steven Rempell
Founder, CEO and Director of Express Mobile
Steven H Rempell is the CEO and Director (Chairman) at Express Mobile. Steve is also the Founder of Express Mobile and led the development of its technology. He was also Founder and CEO of Akira Technologies, Beyond Words and MIcroPro Japan.
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About Express Mobile: Express Mobile is a technology company that specializes in developing enterprise mobility solutions.
Ganna Boiko
Co-Founder & CEO of RoundTeam
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About RoundTeam: RoundTeam is an online content discovery, recommendation and delivery platform that engages online audiences by delivering relevant content.
Vishnu Datla
CEO of AutoRABIT
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About AutoRABIT: AutoRABIT is a provider of the Salesforce release management platform for regulated industries.
Doug Marinaro
CEO of Riptide
Entrepreneur and executive with 25 years of experience in venture-backed startups and public companies including unique expertise in business development execution and market strategy for B2B mobile applications and Software-as-a-Service. Specialties:Business strategy and execution, angel & venture fund-raising, cash flow and P&L management, business restructuring, investor relations, business development, channel marketing and sales, new product development & market introduction, market strategy and positioning, platform and business ecosystem development. Industries: B2B Software-as-a-Service, location-based applications, mobile business software, wireless carriers, enterprise software
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About Riptide: Riptide is a cloud-based, customer engagement platform for brands that rely on local service providers.
Russ Thau
CEO & Founder of Redjay
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About Redjay: Redjay is intelligent one-on-one software for sales teams.
Craig Carpenter
CEO of X1 Discovery
Craig Carpenter is the CEO of X1. Craig has over 20 years of experience in the eDiscovery, compliance and cybersecurity spaces. He was most recently CEO of Fronteo, and previously held C-level positions at Kroll Ontrack, AccessData, Recommind, and Fortinet. He has also been an active leader in industry groups like the Sedona Conference (Working Group 1 and the Social Media Task Force), TREC, Black Hat, SANS, ISACA and CompTIA. Craig began his career as a practicing attorney at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley in Silicon Valley servicing multinational technology companies. He has a JD and MBA from Santa Clara University and BAs from UCLA where he played football and rowed crew.
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About X1 Discovery: X1 offers solutions that enable knowledge workers to access all forms of corporate data through a single interface.
Elina Elek
Founder & CEO of Timejoy
Elina Elek is Founder and CEO @ Timejoy.
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About Goodwillion, SunnyKarma, Timejoy: TimeJoy. Intelligent Personal Assistant for the overcommited and overscheduled.
Patrick Ewers
CEO and Founder of Mindmaven
Patrick is an executive coach and the founder of Mindmaven, a company that helps professionals generate break-through opportunities from your Network by introducing experience-based relationship marketing best practices. In short, Mindmaven helps professionals drive growth by increasing the overall mindshare they enjoy within their professional network. The more you are “Top of Mind”, the higher their ability to connect you with the right opportunities. Patrick was called Silicon Valley’s top relationship management expert by Forbes. He has had the privilege of working with some of the industry’s heaviest hitters: companies such as First Round Capital, SGI, Fenwick and West, Silicon Valley Bank.
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About Mindmaven: Mindmaven coaches professionals to generate break-through opportunities by introducing experience-based relationship marketing.
Jeremy Vandehey
Chief Executive Officer of Disco
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About Disco: Disco is a HR recogniion tool that offers products to promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture.
Jens Birnbaum
Founder & CEO of Otixo, Inc.
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About Otixo, Inc.: All your team collaboration and cloud management in one place
