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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 Texas based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise Applications 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.
Mark Haidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Vinli
Mark Haidar is a serial entrepreneur who combines advanced technological skills with astute business knowledge. Throughout his career, Mark was able to build more than 42 different notable products and grow several technology-based businesses. Mark started his first technology company in Lebanon at age 17. By the age of 21, he had built the first fully integrated web-based university management system in Lebanon, the first 3D game engine built locally in the Middle East, the first wireless application protocol based internet-to-home remote control system in Lebanon, and won a People’s Choice Award for Best Web Product in the Middle East for transforming municipality records from paper to digital. In 2006, Mark moved to the US and led the development of a state of the art research and development project for the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC). He was able to successfully create an original service-oriented intra and inter-vehicle communication system for transportation, robotic, and military systems that enhanced each vehicle’s situation assessment and awareness in military combats and have the potential to help create safer and more efficient highway systems. With a huge demand for innovative and scalable technology solutions, Mark co-founded Dialexa, a global product-focused technology innovation and development company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Dialexa has been growing at an exponential rate with clients ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 20 companies and governments around the world. In 2014, Dialexa started a division under the name of Dialexa Labs, a self-funded venture lab that develops internal products or services that spins out new companies. In September 2014, Dialexa Labs launched Vinli, the first connected car technology platform at Techcrunch Disrupt. Mark is currently serving as the CEO of Vinli. Mark also serves on the board of directors for Dialexa Labs portfolio companies Robin and Silvr. Mark has numerous journal publications, pending patents, and is a regular speaker at global technology conferences. Most recently Mark founded Peace.Report, an online news aggregator that focuses on current conflicts around the world. It collects news articles that promote peace. Peace.Report is scheduled to go live early 2015. Mark has also launched LISA (Levant International Startup Association), which helps startups in the Levant region to launch and scale their companies in international markets. Mark is trilingual and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
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About Dialexa, LISA, Robin Autopilot, Vinli: Vinli is a universal car-to-cloud data computing platform that turns any car into a connected car.
Rory Read
Chief Executive Officer of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Eric Elfman
Co-Founder and CEO of Onit
Eric is the co-founder and CEO of Onit and is passionate about building great software companies. Eric is a serial entrepreneur founding four companies in the last 25 years, two of which have been software startups. At Onit, Eric is responsible for overseeing the company’s overall strategic direction, planning and execution. Previously, he served as an entrepreneur in residence for the Houston Technology Center (HTC), a business accelerator for Houston-based emerging technology companies. Eric’s first software start-up, Datacert, Inc., is an industry-leading provider of corporate, legal and IP spend and matter management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. During his 10+ years serving as the CEO, president and chairman of the board he grew the company to $28 million in revenue and secured more than 100 Fortune 500 customers. Under his leadership, Datacert become one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America with three consecutive listings on the Inc. 500. Prior to Datacert, Eric co-founded PeerPoint Technologies, where his work helped identify new technology for e-invoice data management. Eric is a pioneer in the creation of the Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard (LEDES) and is an authority on the Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS). In 2002, he was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for emerging technology. Eric has an undergraduate degree in English literature and earned an MBA from Rice University. He is a member of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and serves as a board member for the Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, a non-profit organization that grants wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses.
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About Onit: Onit deploys Onit apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries.
Stephen Hebert
Founder & CEO of Nimbix
Steve started as a technical salesman in semiconductors with Texas Instruments after earning his degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Today, he is a technology industry veteran of over 20 years with a strong track record of operational execution and sales growth at both startup and large companies. Prior to Nimbix, he led a global sales team in the computing segment with programmable chip-maker, Altera. An entrepreneur, builder and inventor at heart, Steve’s vision is aimed at solving the world’s biggest challenges with supercomputing.
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About Agile Devices, Nimbix: Nimbix is an information technology company that provides cloud-based, high performance computing infrastructure and applications.
Bradley Nichols
CEO of automatize
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About automatize: Automatize is a P2P supply chain management & automation platform that seamlessly connects customers to a network of carriers.
Michael Breen
CEO of Treverity
Michael Breen. CEO of Treverity. Leveraging the 25+ years as company builder and capital markets focused professional to companies in Energy, Clean Tech and across an array of industries. As co-founder and CFO of Xtreme Power, Breen lead the company from it’s first invested dollar through more than 250 employees and a sales pipeline in excess of $100million. Breen brings deep experience with the Clean Energy Venture Capital and Industry and broad knowledge of the market dynamics across the entire Utility industry
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About Treverity: Treverity is a human integration software for utility operations.
