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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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Smart Home 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.
John Andrew Entwistle
Founder, CEO of Wander
John Andrew Entwistle is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Coder.
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About Wander: Wander is a short-term luxury rental company that provides smart home travel services.
Dustin DeVan
CEO of AWAIR
Dustin D. is a Board Member / Investor and CEO for Awair since Mar-2021.
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About AWAIR: Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
Andreas Rudyk
Co-CEO of Smartfrog & Canary
Andreas is a serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company, the online gaming enabler lionix, at the age of fifteen. He then founded IM Trading, a stock market newsletter publishing business, later acquired by a Swiss private equity firm. Subsequently, Andreas bootstrapped and co-founded ewido networks, a consumer cyber security company. With over 7 million users worldwide, the business scaled rapidly to a category leader and was awarded, “Best newcomer of the year” by Digital River’s ICE. In 2006, ewido merged with AVG Technologies, a leading antivirus and cybersecurity provider where Andreas led business development and later corporate development of the group worldwide. Andreas helped to grow AVG from 40 to over 110 million customers, scaling the team from 100 to 800 employees (including 450 software engineers) and taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. Andreas co-founded Smartfrog as a consumer IoT SaaS pioneer in 2014. The company’s mission is making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe—providing IoT for everyone. In 2018, the company acquired the US-based Canary Connect Inc. The two businesses were later merged into Smartfrog & Canary, headquartered in NYC. Andreas leads the group as Co-CEO. To date, the business has raised over $100M in venture funding and has achieved a 2015–2020 CAGR of 322%, becoming one of the fastest-growing category leaders.
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About Canary, Smartfrog & Canary: Smartfrog is a camera that lets users see what’s happening in any place, at any time.
Yun Zhang
Co-founder & CEO of Wyze Labs
Yun Zhang is Co-founder and CEO at Wyze Labs. Prior Wyze, Yun Zhang was the CEO and Co-founded Launchworks E-commerce Partners.
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About Wyze Labs: Wyze Labs is a smart home device company that aims to make smart home tech accessible to everyone.
Trung Pham
Founder, CEO of RYSE
Co-founder of a rapidly growing entertainment app in Toronto, also part-time stunt double for Elon Musk.
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About RYSE: RYSE is an IoT company that develops smart shade solutions. We are the world’s most intelligent window shade automation platform.
Phil Dumas
Founder & CEO of UniKey Technologies
Phil Dumas is the Founder & CEO of UniKey Technologies. Phil is a driven innovator with in-depth experience in access control and launching disruptive technologies. He has a proven track record of successful product launches and profitability. Most notably, the technology behind the Kwikset Kevo, the first Smart Lock on the market with availability in Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, Amazon and Apple.com. Phil appeared on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank (Season 3 finale) to pitch UniKey, and was the first company to receive an offer from all five Sharks.
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About UniKey Technologies: UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key.
Matt Williams
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pro.com
Matt is a life-long entrepreneur with family roots in the construction industry. The son of an architect, Matt experienced the frustration around major home improvement projects from an early age. After a 10 year tenure as an executive at Amazon, Matt was inspired to build Pro.com — a company that could offer a more convenient, personal, and reliable construction experience to homeowners across the country.
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About Pro.com: Pro.com is a tech-enabled general contractor
Matt Van Horn
Co-founder & CEO of June
Matt is the co-founder & CEO at June. Previously Matt was the VP of business for Path, where he ran business operations and started the Path platform. Before Path he ran business development for Digg, where he led partnerships and started the publisher Digg button program. Matt also co-founded Zimride (well-known now as Lyft), the San Francisco based transportation company. Matt is a University of Arizona alum, where he was Apple’s higher education marketer for the school.
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About June, Lyft: June is a smart oven for your home that makes cooking perfectly easy.
David Zamir
CEO of Nana Academy
David Zamir is CEO and Founder of Nana Academy. David immigrated to the US from Israel in 2013. He learned how to fix appliances on youtube, then bootstrapped the company to $4M in revenue while fixing himself 2,500 appliances. With Nana — named after his mother —David aims to up-skill the 30M people who will lose their jobs because of tech automation with trade skills. Nana is a free online vocational school for appliance repair that gives graduates their first job and then helps them build their career through an AI-powered marketplace platform. Skilled trades are in high demand, but the current workforce isn’t equipped to meet it. At the same time, the U.S. is dealing with massive unemployment and underemployment caused by the pandemic. Nana is creating a pipeline of skilled tradespeople to meet the demand while also providing opportunity for millions of unemployed individuals across the country. We are backed by the Uber engineering founding team and other impressive investors. We’re excited to launch in new markets, make more investments in our in-person and online training efforts, and launch new verticals and product offerings. It’s a fun team as well — we have monthly BBQs with our technicians and are lucky to have an incredible office on the 11th floor of the beautiful and historic Oakland Tribune Tower (right off 12-street BART).
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Lucas Haldeman
Founder and CEO of SmartRent
Lucas Haldeman is the Founder and CEO at SmartRent.
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About SmartRent: SmartRent is an enterprise home automation and internet of things platform for the multifamily industry.
Alex Capecelatro
CEO of Josh.ai
Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice controlled home automation system focused on artificial intelligence for high-end homes. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products “At The Pool” and “Yeti” with members in more than 120 countries. Alex focuses on the intersection of cutting edge software and hardware to offer transformational experiences.
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About Hyphos, Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Aaron Rudenstine
CEO of ButterflyMX
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About 3L Capital, Bling Capital, ButterflyMX, Button, Clear Ballot Group, Inc., FilmRise, HENRY The Dentist, Omaze, Parallel Wireless, PINATA, Reddit: ButterflyMX develops property access solutions including video intercom systems and keypads that users can manage from a smartphone.
Aaron Emigh
Co-founder & CEO of Brilliant
Aaron Emigh is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant. He was previously co-founder and CTO of shopkick, EVP and GM of Technology at Six Apart, CTO of Rojo Networks, Managing Director of Radix Labs, and CEO of CommerceFlow. Aaron is a seasoned entrepreneur with four acquisitions and one IPO. He has over 90 issued US patents, has been named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has presented original research at numerous conferences and research colloquia, including RSA, APWG, DIMACS, TIPPI, SFECTF, ISSA, MAAWG, ITTC, and the AAAS. Aaron has served as a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US-DHS Infosec Technology Transition Council, a Research Fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and a technical advisor to the Financial Services Technology Consortium.
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About Brilliant: We make the Brilliant Control, a smart home control system that replaces an existing light switch.
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Fanyu Lin
Chief Executive Officer of FLUXUS
Fanyu Lin is an award-winning entrepreneur and architect, passionate about impact investing. She serves as CEO of Fluxus, a construction technology company committed to improving quality of life through delivering affordable, sustainable and smart homes. Fanyu founded the World Home Foundation to harness philanthropic power for tackling the global housing crisis – one of the biggest social, economic and moral challenges facing humanity today. The Foundation is creating a universal ESG standard for urban affordable housing sector to unlock global housing as a viable and fluid long-term impact investment asset. Fanyu serves on the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Connected World, to shape governance and innovation of the internet of things and related technologies in the global public interest. She serves on the Bloomberg New Economy Cities Council to collaborate on a methodical, citizen-centric approach to urbanization.
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About FLUXUS, The World Economic Forum: A real estate & infrastructure technology and consulting company, committed to sustainable way of building to improve quality of life.
Luke Schoenfelder
CEO & Co-Founder of Latch
Luke is passionate about great products and tough environments. He spent 2011–2013 developing emerging market technology products in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with support from the Clinton Global Initiative, Habitat for Humanity, and the Dell Social Innovation Fund.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
Christopher Klein
Cofounder & CEO of Rachio
Chris Klein is the co-founder and CEO of Rachio, the leading smart sprinkler controller that leverages IoT technology to intelligently manage home irrigation.He has experience leading a number of product development initiatives. Products include commercial construction buildings, B2B and B2C software, and consumer hardware.Chris has a background in project management in the commercial construction space, product management and development of B2B software, server and client side software engineering, and project management of hardware development. He holds an MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business, and a BS from Ohio State University.
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About Rachio: Rachio is a software and hardware company that focuses on improving the water efficiency of homes.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Allen Bolen
Chief Executive Officer of AMP Smart
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About AMP Smart: Smart home automation and security company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technology and peace of mind.
Honghao Deng
Chief Executive Officer of Butlr
Honghao Deng (zh:邓鸿浩) is an award-winning innovator and computational designer creating the field of responsive context-aware architecture with the integration of IoT and AI. He holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction at Harvard GSD. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Butlr Technologies Inc. He formerly was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab. Honghao has won multiple awards in the field of smart city technology, including Architizer A+ Award in Smart Building Technology, Time Magazine 100 Best Inventions, Red Dot Best of Best, Core77 Award, Gold and Platinum A’ Design Award, iF Design Award, Fast Compay Innovation by Design, World-Changing Ideas, and 1st Prize Future Cities Contest. His research is published on UIST, SIGGRAPH, CHI, TEI, DIS, and ISWC. His works have been covered by Financial Times, TechCrunch, World Economic Forum, Domus, CCTV, Wallpaper, and the National. He is recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 List 2022. https://www.forbes.com/profile/butlr/?list=30under30-manufacturing-industry&sh=1c1cf30c68e7
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About Butlr: AIoT intelligence Platform for People Sensing
Alex Kazerani
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Openpath
Alex is a proven tech entrepreneur, having started, led and sold multiple successful companies. Most recently he was the CEO & Co-Founder of EdgeCast Networks. EdgeCast became one of the leading global content delivery networks, carrying 5% of the Internet traffic, operating in 20 countries, while accelerating and delivering the largest and most demanding websites such as Twitter, Tumblr, Dell, Sony, and Hulu. In December 2013, Verizon acquired EdgeCast, and Alex now serves as the CTO of Verizon Digital Media Services. Prior to co-founding EdgeCast, he was a Co-Founder & CEO of KnowledgeBase, a SaaS based enterprise knowledge management company with many Fortune 1000 customers, which was acquired by Talisma Corporation in 2005. Before starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. In August 1999, Micron Electronics (MUEI) acquired HostPro. Alex was instrumental in helping HostPro grow organically and through acquisitions into one of the largest web hosting companies in the industry, with over 70,000 customers worldwide. With more than twenty years of leadership experience in information technology and business operations, Alex has successfully led a number of business initiatives that include developing core technology solutions and bringing them to market, as well as managing day-to-day business, marketing, sales and support operations. For his leadership he has received numerous awards including E&Y’s entrepreneur of the year award in 2014. Additionally, he has extensive application development, and internet infrastructure experience, for which he has been awarded 23 patents. In addition to his leadership position with Verizon, Alex is an active investor in several venture capital funds, and has served on boards of private and public companies such as Web.com (NASDAQ:WWWW). He graduated from Tufts University and lives in Santa Monica with his wife and children.
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About Openpath, Verizon Digital Media Services: Openpath Security offers a mobile and cloud enabled access control system for businesses and landlords.
Akshita Iyer
Co-Founder and CEO of Ome
Akshita Iyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inirv.
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About Ome: Ome reinvents the way people live through smart home technology.
Brett Jurgens
Co-Founder, CEO of Notion
Brett Jurgens Co-Founded Loop Labs, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Brett Jurgens served as Director of Operations at Breakthrough Products, Inc. He learned to focus his eye and energy for details in the Private Placements Group at investment bank Piper Jaffray where he helped raise $20-$100 million for private companies in the consumer products, healthcare, technology, energy, clean tech, and finance industries.He serves as a Director of Loop Labs, Inc. Brett Jurgens is logistics liberator, warehousing warrior, and master of all things manufacturing.
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Colin Billings
Founder and CEO of Orro
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About Orro: Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
Diego Pavía
Chief Executive Officer of InnoEnergy
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
Christian Müller
CEO of KIC InnoEnergy Germany of InnoEnergy
Christian Müller studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and at the University of California, Berkley, United States. In 1996, he received his PhD in technical thermodynamics.Christian then started working as a project manager in the corporate technology units of the former Hoechst AG, which was subsequently acquired by Siemens AG, in 2000. In several management functions at Hoechst, and respectively at Siemens, he was involved in the commercialisation of technologies and services, as well as in the creation of new businesses. From 2006 until 2009, Christian was responsible for the global business development of Siemens in the Food and Beverage industries. Other positions in Christian´s professional career included the management of the global Center of Excellence for Chemical industry at ABB, and the start-up of the business development department at Infraserv Höchst.Since 2013, he has been managing KIC InnoEnergy´s activities in Germany and holds the position of CEO, KIC InnoEnergy Germany.
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
Kenneth Johansson
CEO of KIC InnoEnergy Sweden of InnoEnergy
Kenneth Johansson holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as well as a BSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Uppsala University in Sweden.Kenneth has worked for over 20 years in high tech manufacturing industry areas such as telecommunication, power conversion and renewable energies, and he has gained an extensive experience in complex technical systems, development and business operation in international markets.He has held various executive management positions in listed SMEs as well as corporate organisations, focusing on operational efficiency, product and business development, strategy and people management.
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
Mark Palfreeman
CEO of Nixplay
CEO at Nixplay and Nixplay Signage.
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About Nixplay, Nixplay Signage: Nixplay is the no.1 selling Smart Photo Frame. Nixplay Signage is a complete Enterprise Digital Signage Solution.
Rahul Ranjan
Founder & CEO of Palacio Inc.
Former TP-LINK executive with career built around smart devices, Intelligent systems, Internet of things, smart buildings and industries, AI, computer vision and image processing industry. Prior to TP-LINK, Rahul worked in senior management roles at Qualcomm and Intel silicon valley offices.
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About Palacio Inc.: Arts, Content platform, Smart home
Kevin Yu
Founder & CEO of SideChef
Kevin Yu joined SideChef as Founder & CEO in 2013.
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About SideChef: SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Sundip Doshi
Founder & CEO of AerNos, Inc.
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About AerNos, Inc.: Develops application specific nano gas sensors based on its breakthrough and proprietary AerN2S Technology to detect harmful gases.
Alex Doubet
CEO of Door.com
Alex Doubet is the Chief Executive Officer at Door.
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About Door.com: A next-generation real estate transaction platform that leverages technology to provide home buyers and sellers a superior service.
Jiyan Wei
CEO and Co-Founder of BuildZoom
Jiyan Wei is the CEO and Co-Founder at BuildZoom.
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About BuildZoom: Buildzoom is enabling people to live and work in beautiful spaces by transforming construction into a delightful experience.
David Petersen
Co-Founder & CEO of BuildZoom
David Petersen is the Co-Founder and CEO at BuildZoom.
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About BuildZoom, Code Ninja Co., SwayChat: Buildzoom is enabling people to live and work in beautiful spaces by transforming construction into a delightful experience.
Emanuele Musini
CEO of Pillo Health
Emanuele Musini is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pillo Health.
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About Pillo Health: Pillo Health is a healthcare solutions provider that empowers organizations to deliver better care into the home.
Guillaume Laliberte
Founder & CEO of Setter
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About Setter: Setter is a home service that takes care of all your home maintenance and repairs.
Biren Gandhi
Founder & CEO of Speak To IoT
Biren Gandhi is an executive leader focused on identifying key technology trends and accelerating their adoption through acquisitions, development or partnering. He has built a successful track record of bringing innovation to life through strategic collaborations with startups, venture capital firms, universities and partner ecosystems. Recently, Biren spearheaded strategy & incubation for some highly disruptive technologies at Cisco. Few of them included the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, Drones/UAVs, Blockchain, Deep Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He combines his business and technology acumen to drive the co-creation of breakthrough business models using various external and internal innovation catalysts. Biren has nearly 20 years of leadership, strategic and tactical technology experience in diverse verticals like social networking, cloud, big data, mobile, telecom, social gaming and enterprise collaboration. Before joining Cisco in 2011, Biren was divisional CTO of a few gaming studios at Zynga and before that a Senior Architect at Facebook. He also co-founded AdMunity, a startup providing a collaborative social platform for the advertising community. While focusing on disruptive new frontier technologies, Biren actively engages as a keynote speaker, panel judge, mentor, investor or advisor with venture capital firms, startups, accelerators, and incubators. He regularly supports quite a few global and local non-profit organizations. You can discover his passions, interests, and insights at these blog platforms: http://thoughts.birengandhi.com/ or http://lnkd.in/biren.
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About Speak To IoT: A Simple, Secure, Software Platform to Connect Smart IoT Devices to All Intelligent Voice Assistants.
Harlan Byker
CEO of Pleotint LLC
• Co-founder of Pleotint • Discovered and developed Pleotint’s thermochromic technology • Inventor or co-inventor on 58 issued US patents • Sole inventor of the chemistry portion of the first commercially successful electrochromic device, the Gentex automatic dimming rear view mirror for motor vehicles
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About Pleotint LLC: Pleotint LLC is a leader in advanced glass technologies, with a special focus on its proprietary self-tinting Suntuitive® dynamic glass.
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.
Joachim Lohse
Founder & CEO of ampcontrol.io
Joachim Lohse worked as consultant at PwC to help utilities in their operations and in developing new products. We also hold workshops and events on how using emerging technologies in their business. He is engineer and coded for various projects and also worked for global companies such as Siemens, Daimler and Fraunhofer.
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About ampcontrol.io: ampcontrol.io is an AI-based optimization software for electric vehicle charging to build more charging stations at low costs.
Michael Lee
CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve Energy
Michael Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Evolve Energy.
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About Evolve Energy, Octopus Energy: Evolve Energy is an energy company that helps consumers save their energy costs through AI and IOT.
Mark Daniel
Founder & CEO of Estate
Mark Daniel is the CEO at The Human Development Company.
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About BAD DANCERS ONLY, Estate, Strut: Estate is a mobile web application that takes on household budgeting and automates it.
Max Goncharov
CEO and Co-founder of Cherry Labs
winner of TC Disrupt 2016 and AngelHack 16 hackathons. founded 33Bits, a publisher of augmented reality games for corporates
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About Cherry Labs: Cherry Labs works on the first human-centric AI home security system which protects people, not just homes.
Greg Kahn
CEO & President of Emerging Tech Exchange
Greg is President & CEO, Emerging Tech Exchange, which is comprised of leading hardware, software and analytics companies – in areas including home automation, wearables, virtual/augmented reality, connected cars, smart cities and 3D printing – dedicated to the growth and sustainability of the IoT marketplace. Greg is also founder and CEO of IoT strategic advisory firm GK Digital Ventures. A 20-year media industry veteran at companies such as Meredith, Viacom, Publicis Groupe, and Omnicom, Greg has been honored with both Advertising Age’s Media Maven and Mediaweek’s All-Star awards. He earned his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife and two children.
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About Emerging Tech Exchange: Premier IoT trade association connecting a global ecosystem of leading companies building the Internet of Things
Marc Minor
Founder & CEO of Higharc
Marc Minor is the Founder & CEO at Higharc.
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About Higharc: Radically simplifying the way we design, build and shop for homes.
Roel Peeters
Founder & CEO of Roost
Roel Peeters is the CEO & Co-founder of Roost. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of startup experience ranging from enterprise software to consumer electronics and semiconductors. Before starting Roost in 2014, he was the co-founder of Ozmo Devices, a pioneer in low-power Wi-Fi. Ozmo delivered the enabling technology for the world’s first WiFi mouse (marketed by HP) and the WiFi remote control shipping with the Roku 3 box.
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About Roost: Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of affordable smart home technology.
Eric Adler
CEO of Flume
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About Flume: Flume eliminates water waste and protects homes by helping homeowners and communities with real-time water usage data.
Moty Ginsburg
CEO of Treeium Inc.
Moty Ginsburg has built his entire executive career on the definition—”entrepreneur”. A high energy, fiscally conscious and goal-driven executive, Moty approaches each new business challenge with his natural flair for innovation, creative, problem-solving and measured risk-taking to drive consistent bottom-line improvements. He is presently overseeing an entire team of 150 people with offices throughout California. Born in Argentina, and having earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Moty’s goal was to complement his natural technical savvy with a strong foundation in business. The best way to do this, he felt, was to immigrate to the United States and in 1990 he accepted his first position with JMR Electronics where he gained extensive experience and earned promotions until he became the president of the company, managing 400 people and with worldwide offices. Intrigued by the “world” of construction and remodeling and being recognized as a high-potential executive, Moty’s career took a leap forward in 2004 when he has decided to open his own management firm. Moty built a new management company from the ground up, and provided fundamental leadership in building op corporate systems. In 2010, Moty’s career took another leap forward when he founded Tree Home Media, a social media and marketing firm focusing on the Green Movement and everyday implementation of eco-friendliness. Moty is deeply involved in driving both innovation and growth strategies of the company. Today, Moty resides with his wife in Woodland Hills, CA and his three grown children. He is actively seeking his next executive challenge.
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About Treeium Inc.: Eco-friendly home remodeling company that uses eco-conscious, sustainable building practices to remodel your home and protect the planet.
Dami Rafael Jegede
Founder & CEO of Roombus
In 2012, I founded Swipe, a SaaS and Product Design B2B company, powering some of the biggest banks across Africa. Swipe’s operational and monitoring products process over a combined value of USD $4 Billion in transactions yearly for the banking sector. I also co-founded Nairabox, a Lagos-based FinTech startup, with a few friends. Nairabox created the de facto standard of banking in Africa — Lifestyle Banking. Today, Nairabox powers 90% of the mobile banking apps in Nigeria — Africa’s largest market by volume and GDP. I am training to become a kick-ass Jazz Pianist.
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About Roombus: Building smarter cities – starting with fully autonomous and modular smart houses.
Utz Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of Plum
Utz is a senior executive with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience in the consumer electronics industry. Having led operational and strategic projects, Utz has built a reputation as a visionary leader who knows how to “connect-the-dots” and build consensus to innovate. His experience includes a thorough understanding of organizational decision-making and implementing strategic change while developing corporate momentum and operational success. He recently held the position of Chief Executive Officer at the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association and has been considered to be the voice and face of the connected home industry for the last decade.
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About Builders Digital Experience, Plum: The Plum Lightpad is the most advanced WiFi light dimmer available.
Sai-Wai Fu
Founder & CEO of Kuna
Sai-Wai Fu is the Founder & CEO at Kuna.
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About Kuna: Kuna is a smart Wi-Fi camera and intercom built into an outdoor light. It detects people at your door and lets you see and talk to them.
Yana Welinder
CEO & Co-Founder of Kraftful
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About Kraftful: Kraftful is the only analytics solution focused on making connected hardware delightful to use.
Christofer von Nagel
President and Co-CEO, North America of BSH Home Appliances
A seasoned leader with more than 27 years of experience within BSH, Christofer von Nagel is responsible for driving the company’s growth and managing business operations in North America. He oversees sales, marketing and service, all with a keen ability to transform ambitious goals into outstanding achievements. His work has guided Gaggenau, Thermador and Bosch to new heights in sales and profitability.
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About BSH Home Appliances: BSH Home Appliances is a home appliance manufacturer that produces cooking, dishwashing, washing, drying, and refrigeration products.
Joseph Kolchinsky
Founder, CEO of OneVision Resources
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About Jopeko LLC, OneVision Resources: Enabling and accelerating revenue growth through service for the smart-home professional.
Irad Straus
Co-Founder & CEO of Urbanr
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About Urbanr: Urbanr is a marketplace for multi-family apartment rentals.
Erick Eidus
CEO and Co-Founder of PupPod
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About PupPod: The Multispecies Gaming Platform for Pets and People
Ryan Prosser
CEO of Very
As CEO of Very, Ryan Prosser works with the leaders of their product, sales, and marketing teams to drive holistic company growth. Ryan believes in the mantra that “slow is steady, and steady is fast,” and he uses that approach to drive Very to become the best full-service IoT product development firm.
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About Very: Very is a product development firm with expertise in blockchain, IoT, and machine learning.
Jeremy Barker
Founder & CEO of The Murphy Door
Jeremy Barker is the Founder & CEO at The Murphy Door.
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About The Murphy Door: Murphy Door is the worlds largest builder of Hidden door systems, supplying Home Depot, Friedmans, Wurth, Amazon
James Bilodeau
Founder & CEO of Prefix
James Bilodeau is the Founder & CEO at PreFix Inc.
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About Prefix: PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.
Eric N. Shapiro
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ArcTouch
Eric N. Shapiro is the CEO at ArcTouch .
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About 4.0 Partners, ArcTouch: We design lovable apps and develop technology for the connected world.
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.
Einaras von Gravrock
CEO of CUJO AI
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About CUJO AI, CUJO AI: CUJO is an AI platform offering SaaS solutions to telecom operators and gateway manufacturers.
Yang Liu
CEO of RippleInfo
Yang Liu is the CEO at RippleInfo.
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About OncoImmune, RippleInfo: RippInfo focuses on the design of the best smart home security device at the most affordable price
Simon Tchedikian
CEO & Founder of Sevenhugs
CEO, Founder at Sevenhugs.
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About Sevenhugs: Sevenhugs is a maker of smart remote.
Arlen Nordhagen
CEO of National Storage Affiliates Trust
Arlen D. Nordhagen is a co-founder of NSA and serves as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Nordhagen has over 25 years of experience in the self storage industry. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NSA’s predecessor, SecurCare Self Storage, from 1999 to 2013. He co-founded SecurCare in 1988, is the majority owner and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board. In addition to SecurCare, Mr. Nordhagen was a founder of MMM Healthcare, Inc., the largest provider of Medicare Advantage health insurance in Puerto Rico. He has also served as managing member of various private investment funds and held various managerial positions at DuPont (NYSE: DD) and Synthetech, Inc. (NYSE: GRA). Mr. Nordhagen graduated with high distinction from Harvard University with a Masters in Business Administration and graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.
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About National Storage Affiliates Trust, SecurCare Self Storage: National Storage Affiliates is a self-administered real estate investment trust, dedicated to the ownership of self storage facilities.
Bruno M Lima
Co-Founder & CEO of Pura
Founder of Pura.
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About Pura: Keurig built a marketplace for coffee brands, Pura is doing that, but in home fragrance with the biggest brands people know and love.
Steven Welles
CEO & Co-Founder of Ikos
Steven Welles is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ikos Holdings.
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About Ikos: Ikos is delivering a flexible on-demand leasing service for investors and analyzing internal data to guide future client investments.
Kurt Swanson
CEO & Founder of Kapsul
Kurt Swanson is Co-founder and Mechanical Engineer at Noria Technologies.
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About Kapsul: Kapsul is reinventing home comfort with beautifully designed products that deliver better performance to both users and the grid.
Russell Grapes
CEO & Chairman of Zorachka Inc.
Russell Grapes si the CEO & Chairman at Zorachka Inc.
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About Zorachka Inc.: Zorachka is an innovator of disruptive technologies.
Nana Wilberforce
CoFounder & CEO of Akeptus
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About Akeptus, S.A.W. Capital Partners: Smart home automation software
Jean-Baptiste Duprieu
Founder & CEO of Çava Health
Jean-Baptiste (JB) is a former Sony Corporation and Ad agency Executive. As first Sony United Officer, JB led the global integration and monetization of Sony Music’s content within Sony’s hardware divisions and spearheaded various technology initiatives including consumer 3D. Member of Sony Corp Global Marketing Council, he also served on the board of executives of Sony Music’s Latin America region. Prior to joining Sony Music, JB held various managerial positions within Sony Consumer Electronics, leading extensive teams and award-winning marketing campaigns across Europe. In 2014, he joined NYC-based branding agency CASE as Chief Strategist, collaborating with global brands like Herman Miller, AMGEN Pharma, Clinique, Starwood Hotels and early stage startups. JB holds a B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France and a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Technology Management & Innovation from Grenoble Graduate School of Business (Grenoble, France).
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About Çava Health: Çava Health designs smart technologies and home devices centered on Personal Hygiene and Health Monitoring.
Emilio Vargas
Co-Founder, CEO and President of Intellecy Inc
Emilio previously led a business services company from start up to a successful exit 8 yeas later. He has over 10 years experience as a product manager of sensor and predictive maintenance technology. Emilio has extensive leadership and business management experience. He has worked in various business roles from marketing manager to executive for several distinguished companies including SKF, Delta Airlines, Marriott, UPS, ENCAD (A Kodak Company). Emilio is a U.S. Army Veteran (Colonel-retried) having served on active duty and reserves in the US, Europe and Southwest Asia.
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About Intellecy Inc: Intellecy: smart water system empowers homeowners and building managers to control their water in realtime and protect against leak damage
Robert Madonna
CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Savant Systems
Robert P. Madonna, also known as Bob, founded Savant Systems LLC and has been its Chief Executive Officer since. Robert Madonna served as the Chief Executive Officer of Savant Systems LLC. Robert Madonna founded Cantata Technology, Inc. (formerly Excel Switching Corp.). Robert Madonna served as President of Excel Switching Corporation. He has extensive and successful background in open, programmable, standards-based switching and processing systems is driving Savant to be a leader in the Audio/Video and Control Systems Industry. Robert Madonna also served as Excel Switching Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Clerk. Robert Madonna serves as the Chairman of Savant Systems LLC., Robert Madonna was Director of Hardware Engineering for Lan-Tel, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of PBX voice and data switches. Robert Madonna was a principal engineer at American Science and Engineering, Inc., a manufacturer of CAT scan and other medical imaging technology. He served as Chairman of Cantata Technology, Inc. and its Director. Robert Madonna was the 1999 National Finalist of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Robert Madonna is also a member of the University of Connecticut’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers and Hall of Fame. In addition, Robert Madonna holds more than a dozen engineering patents.
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About Savant Systems: Savant Systems, designs, develops and manufactures a complete suite of integrated solutions for home automation systems.
Aaron Holm
Co-CEO of Blokable
Aaron’s background is building businesses that transform industries and in 2016, he launched Blokable. Aaron has founded and led businesses and product teams, notably spearheading Amazon’s first two physical retail businesses, Amazon Go and Amazon Books. At Amazon, Aaron saw first-hand the opportunity to apply advanced technology, supply chain and logistics to enable innovative and integrated business models in the built environment. Prior to his time at Amazon, Aaron, among other projects, co-founded Mylio, a software startup that protected and organized large libraries of personal photographs and memories. Mylio has raised over $55M from technology industry leaders including Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Marc Benioff and others. He also co-founded Industrial Color, a global leader in digital media Software as a Service, where he built a world-class team and digital media infrastructure that serviced customers like NBC, Warner Bros, Victoria’s Secret, Sony Pictures, Gap/Old Navy, CBS and Publicis. Aaron was CTO and head of the software business. Industrial Color sold in successive private equity transactions for over $100M. Aaron has put his deep experience applying advanced technology to transform traditional industries to work at Blokable. He understands the complications inherent to the development of physical space and the opportunity to create the technology and logistics platform necessary to enable Blokable’s Housing Development-as-a-Service model.
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About Blokable: Blokable is a real estate company that reduces the cost and time required to create and operate new multi-family housing.
Ahmed Bouzid
Founder and CEO of Witlingo
Ahmed Bouzid is Co-Founder and CEO at Witlingo, a Washington DC based company focused on building products and tool that enables organizations to deliver Ubiquitous Voice conversations on platforms such as Amazon’s Alexa (Echo) and Google Home. Previously, Ahmed was Head of Product with Amazon.com’s Alexa/Echo group, and earlier VP of Strategy & Innovation at Genesys. Ahmed has over 15 years of experience in the fields of Speech Automation and Natural Language Processing and has written extensively on Voice Automation and Voice User Interface design. He is the recent author of “Don’t Make Me Tap: A Common Sense Approach to Voice Usability” and co-author of “The Elements of VUI Style.” Ahmed is a co-inventor on several patents, awarded and pending, relating to Natural Language Processing, Speech Automation, and Mobility. He is also founder of the Ubiquitous Voice Societty and co-Chair of the DC Chapter of the American Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS). Ahmed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in the Philosophy of Science, also from Virginia Tech. He can be followed in twitter @Didou.
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About Open Voice Network, Opus Research, The Ubiquitous Voice Society, Weber State University, Witlingo: Witlingo is a B2B SaaS company that helps companies launch Voice First Experiences on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby
Michael Mayer
Co-Founder and CEO of Windmill
Michael Mayer is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Windmill.
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About Windmill: Windmill is building a connected, tech-enabled suite of beautiful and eco-friendly air products, starting with the window AC.
Aaron Kc Hsu
Founder, CEO of Blerp
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About Blerp, Grace Foundry: Blerp makes it easy to discover, create and share short audio content to your messaging apps, live streams and voice assistants.
Richard Ginsburg
President/CEO of Alert 360
Richard Ginsburg is President and CEO @Alert360.
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About Alert 360, G3 Capital Partners: Alert 360, Inc. operates as a security company. It offers home and business security systems – monitoring services and smart automation.
Daniel Adler
Founder & CEO of WinkBeds
Daniel Adler is founder and CEO at WinkBeds.
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About WinkBeds: WinkBeds is a direct-to-consumer mattress company.
Michael Gilmore
Founder and CEO of Gilmore Homes – Gilmore Loans, LLC
See Profile Dossier on LinkedIn juxtaposed Gilmore Homes – Gilmore Loans, LLC., website: www.gilmorehomes.wix.com/atlanta.
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About Gilmore Homes – Gilmore Loans, LLC, Hattiesburg University Foundation – Atlanta: A SEC Qualified Regulation A+ Tier II Proptech, Fintech & Consumertech Company Incorporating Real Estate, Technology, Financial & Consumer
Michael Rovito
CEO of Dwelo
Michael Rovito is the CEO at Dwelo.
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About Dwelo: Dwelo is a Smart Device Management (SDM) platform built to increase multifamily owners’ Net Operating Income.
Scott Ford
Chief Executive Officer of Pepper
Scott Ford is a Managing Director of OPENAIR Ventures, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on the explosive growth of mobility and the associated industries impacted by wireless technology. OPENAIR Ventures is organized with seasoned wireless operating veterans who are adept in identifying and mentoring early and growth-stage wireless ventures in a highly complex industry. Employing an experiential lens of practicality and a vast global network, the firm is equipped to optimize high-potential opportunities operating to thrive within the Mobile Revolution. Scott is founder and former general manager of Sprint Nextel Ventures (SNV), Sprint’s corporate venture capital unit. During his time as leader of SNV, Scott and his team funded and managed direct investments in strategic wireless start-up companies. He also led business development efforts for Sprint, directing a team responsible for discovering, executing, and managing hundreds of partnerships delivering greater than $1B in contract value. Scott is recognized in the wireless industry as a knowledgeable industry influencer with the rare experience of carrier-side innovation realization coupled with a very solid venture and start-up market reputation and network Scott has been selected by the CTIA – The Wireless Association®, to serve on its VC Innovation Council. He and select venture industry colleagues communicate with CTIA on wireless innovation trends, best practices, and global developments that are affecting their investment choices, and the impact on the wireless industry. The Council serves to assist the CTIA in guiding the industry to enable innovation realization, a key driver of broad wireless growth into the future.
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About OPENAIR Equity Partners, Pepper: Pepper offers an operating system and service delivery platform to empower enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT marketplace solutions.
Nolan Mondrow
CEO of RemoteLock
Nolan Mondrow is a Founder & CEO at LockState.
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About RemoteLock: RemoteLock is the leader in universal access control.
Eugene You
President & CEO of Aqara
Eugene You is the president and CEO of Lumi United Technology.
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About Aqara: Aqara develops and designs hardware and software solutions for the home.
Lewis Brown
Chief Executive Officer of MiOS
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About MiOS, Motum: MiOS, LTD is a global software and hardware company.
Waseem Amer
Co Founder & CEO of Cielo WiGle
PhD Distributed Embedded Systems with 20 Years of experience in hardware and embedded systems. He is a technology expert with deep implementation experience. As a Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Waseem is responsible for helping to define the vision for Cielo WiGle Inc.’s technology services, identifying and communicating technology trends affecting clients’ businesses, and shaping the strategy for Cielo WiGle Inc.’s emerging services and offerings.
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About Cielo WiGle: Cielo WiGle provides next-generation Wi-Fi enabled smart AC controllers to convert any brand ductless air conditioner into a smart appliance
Daniel Greenshields
President and CEO of JetClosing
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About JetClosing: JetClosing is a digital real estate title and escrow company that aims to create a modern and user-friendly real estate closing experience.
Robertson James Orr
President and CEO of Trutankless
Robertson James Orr has served as CEO of Bollente Companies since May 2010. An energetic serial entrepreneur, Mr. Orr brings a wealth of strategic business development knowledge and expertise to Bollente Companies. In 1998, Mr. Orr became a founding partner of bluemedia, Inc., one of the nation’s leading signage and large-format graphics companies headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. As the company’s Sr. Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Mr. Orr has led bluemedia’s impressive 28% annual growth rate and fostered the recent acquisition of Skyline Signs. In 2005, Mr. Orr and his partners funded another venture, Blind Society, an award-winning advertising and branding agency in Scottsdale, Arizona. Blind Society boasts an impressive client roster which includes the Arizona Cardinals, AT&T, Phoenix Coyotes, Four Peaks Brewery, Warner Brothers, Pixar Entertainment and Mojo Yogurt.
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About Trutankless: Trutankless is a public company that manufactures electric tankless water heaters.
Bradley Simpson
CEO / Creator of Vection Group, Inc.
Brad has over 20 years in the software business with 15 years at Braxton Technologies, a government contractor specializing in satellite command and control software and currently seven years leading Vection Group. He is a senior software engineer and a technology futurist. With many years working in the Joint Domain Command & Control space. As well, he is a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on geospatial alerting of wearable data. Brad is the author of two very significant patents: Highly Efficient and Parallel Data Transfer and Display, USPTO No: 9,665,267 and Geospatial Alerting (Push-notifications), USPTO No: 9,910,561
His proven track record of pulling together the right talent to create the right team, from software and business-minded professionals to creative and financial gurus, shines with the success he experienced at Braxton Technologies. He’s carried the same style of talent acquisition to Vection where he’s assembled a top-tier group of tech and business executives with a single goal, to make VG and their products globally recognized and successful.
His entrepreneurial vision and technical DNA have merged beautifully into SmartSync. SmartSync, a OS agnostic data ingestion hub that passively uploads from data devices, no user button-pushing! With your data being pushed to a human performance data management software.
When not tethered to his digital device, which is rare, Brad scans the consumer landscape for needed innovation that he thinks is missing on the consumer front. He is always ready to pounce on opportunities to create products and technologies to fill pressing needs. Brad attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and the University of Southern California.
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About Vection Group, Inc.: Vection Group is an ongoing cloud based streaming API software company. We provide B2B, B2C and B2M SaaS for the IoT, Smart Cities & others
Rob Lilleness
CEO of Insteon
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About Insteon, Richmond Capital Partners, Smarthome, Smartlabs: Insteon transforms the “connected home” from a buzzword into reality. We make life simple by connecting you to the things that matter.
Robbie Cabral
Inventor, Founder & CEO of BenjiLock
Robbie Cabral is the CEO & Founder of BenjiLock, the world’s first traditional rechargeable padlock with fingerprint technology with the purpose to redefine the personal security experience using hybrid technology with the consumer in mind.
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About BenjiLock: BenjiLock’s purpose is to redefine the personal security experience using hybrid technology with the consumer in mind.
Takeshi (Ted) Homma
Founder and CEO of HOMMA
Takeshi (Ted) Homma is multicultural background internet native business person with strong entrepreneurship in nature. He has supported many big enterprises in Japan in early internet era to start internet business through his first startup Yellnet which he founded in 1995 in his early 20’s. After 8 years management of Yellent, he joined Sony HQ in Tokyo in 2003 with strong internet knowledge and entrepreneurship, he made a lot of changes in the big hardware oriented company both cultural and business perspective. He served for internet business strategy and spent a lot of time and energy to install internet oriented culture to the big company. He took a chief producer role at the global management conference for Sony internal management to educate them, and he launched the online video sharing service integrated with many Sony video related hardware in 2007. In 2008 he was transferred to California to join Sony US business as VP of new internet service, and after served eBook Business department as business strategy role, he joined Japanese #1 eCommerce company Rakuten to help their global digital content business expansion. in the meantime he was selected “Next Generation #100” by the Nikkei business magazine as volunteer supporter and mentor for Japanese entrepreneurs and startups who wants to come to Silicon Valley. He spent his spare time to support them to create new aspect of the future of Japan. and he spoke about this challenge at TEDx in Japan in 2013. After 13 years from his first startup in Tokyo, he has founded new startup in Silicon Valley to contribute to the society by innovation in smart home space.
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About Brangista, HOMMA: HOMMA is a start-up tech home builder that specializes in designing modern homes that improve the living experience.
Ben Rosner
Founder & CEO of e-Home
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About e-Home: e-home designs audio, video, and home automation systems for affluent homeowners.
Wilkinson Egwu
Co-founder & CEO of LawnTap
Co-Founder & CEO at LawnTap.
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About LawnTap: LawnTap is an on-demand and automated service for lawn care.
Kent Dickson
Co-founder & CEO of Yonomi
Kent Dickson is an experienced technology leader who enjoys building great teams and disruptive products. He is the co-founder and CEO of Yonomi, the IoT company creating a more connected smart home. Yonomi builds smart home solutions for people and companies to connect devices, integrate multiple platforms, and Bring the Home to LifeTM. Kent’s background includes serving as General Manager of GridMachine, a massive scale Grid Computing-as-a-Service operated as a business unit of Sentient AI. Prior to that Kent was CTO at Tendril where he led product development and strategy for a first of its kind Cloud platform for the Internet of Things with a focus on residential energy management use cases. Kent also spent 9 years at BEA Systems leading the teams for several market defining products in the WebLogic and AquaLogic lines. Kent has spent 10 years working on the Smart Home frontier, partnering with leading device makers, voice assistants, AI innovators, and service providers. Kent holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a father of three and loves cycling and skiing.
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About Yonomi: Yonomi provides an IoT platform, mobile app, and enterprise solutions that help integrate and automate connected devices.
Eugene Roytman
CEO of Myini
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About Myini: Myini hospitality solution enhances guest’s experiences and increases Vacation Rental hosts and hotel revenues at the same time
Brian McLaughlin
CEO of Alula Holdings
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About Alula Holdings: Alula Holdings is a smart security company dedicated to making smart security simple for dealers.
Chuck McArthur
CEO of Curb
Chris has over 13 years of experience in the solar power industry and 15 years in promotional management. Having consulted for private corporations, construction agencies, and municipalities interested in solar, Chris brings to Circular his first-hand experience at the center of major growth markets in the solar industry. He has served as Sales Manager for Clean Power Finance, providing solar financing and software solutions to thousands of solar contractors across the United States. Chris also founded Solar Marketing Group in 2008 and for the past 4 years he has been President of Municipal Solar Corporation, which assists government entities in securing solar energy. As an independent consultant, Chris has worked for top U.S. brands such as SolarCity, groSolar, Real Goods Solar, Perpetual Energy Systems, and HID Labs. He has implemented successful PR, promotional, and field marketing campaigns which have resulted in increased brand awareness and market saturation in each targeted area.
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About Curb: Curb specializes in the fields of energy engagement software and home energy management.
Patrick Zalupski
President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Dream Finders Homes
Patrick Zalupski is President, CEO, and Co-Founder at Dream Finders Homes.
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About Dream Finders Homes: Dream Finders Homes is a home builder company that buildsbuilding quality homes at an affordable price point.
Barnabas Helmy
President, CEO & Co-Founder of SmashToast
President, CEO & Co-Founder at SmashToast, Inc.
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About SmashToast: Control your home from your phone.
