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At COO (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 California based COO’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Steven Becker
President and COO of MakerDAO
Steven Becker is President and COO of the MakerDAO Foundation. MakerDAO is a unique dApp that generates Dai, the world’s first decentralized stablecoin that facilitates economic growth on the blockchain and economic empowerment with the blockchain. Steven is responsible for the strategic business operations, risk management, partnerships, and marketing. An alternative investment professional with 20 years of experience. Steven is Chartered as an Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) by the CAIA Association and certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is a member of both associations.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Spencer Punter
Partner, COO and CFO of DCVC
Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO/COO of venture-backed enterprise SaaS companies. He brings this diverse skill set to Data Collective where, as COO, he works on the internal operations of the firm and, as an operating partner, he assists the current portfolio with fund raising, FP&A, and M&A. Immediately prior to joining Data Collective, he was COO/CFO of Appcelerator, the maker of the leading cross-platform mobile application development suite, which was acquired by Axway. He has worked in various roles from Associate to General Partner at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Integral Capital Partners, Bowman Capital, Bay Partners, and Capital Dynamics.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Rebecca Ye
Co-founder & COO of Xcalar
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About Xcalar: Xcalar is a business analytics platform to discover meaningful insights from modern data.
Lillian Chou
Co-Founder and COO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Lillian Chou is the Co-Founder and COO of Second Measure. She is a former Manager, Data Systems & Analytics at Rumble and Product Manager, Analytics at Electronic Arts (EA). Ms. Chou graduated from the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School with a bachelor of science in Economics and concentration in Marketing.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
Cate Rung
COO of Pngme
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About Pngme: Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance.
Karl Hanson
COO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Karl Hanson is a Co-Founder and COO at Tonic. Throughout his career in data analytics, Karl has been inspired by the impact of hard work and powerful tooling. At Palantir, he was integral to the commercial leadership team, heading several of their early commercial enterprise engagements. As Head of Deployments at Segovia, he helped NGOs reach people in need in some of the most remote parts of the world. His vision in founding Tonic is to promote that win-win philosophy across all industries by advocating for the privacy of individuals while enabling companies to do their best work.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Joey Rocco
Co-Founder and COO of InstantCheckmate
Joey Rocco is the Co-Founder and COO of both Instant Checkmate and The Control Group. Instant Checkmate is a consumer grade background check service that helps people to reconnect with others and check arrest records. The Control Group is the development company behind Instant Checkmate. The Control Group also has developed a handful of other useful B2B and B2C online products. He is an alumni of the University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated in 2006.
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About InstantCheckmate, The Control Group: InstantCheckmate is an online service that provides people finder, public record and criminal record information on a subscription basis.
Mike Filliben
Chief Operating Officer of Ranker
Mike is a seasoned analyst and product manager with over seven years of experience solving problems, surfacing information, and guiding the data driven strategy of large online publisher properties. Mike possesses strong analytical and project management skill sets combined with a thorough understanding of the business needs and goals.
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About Ranker: Attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, Ranker is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything.
Kerry Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Dennis Kanemitsu
Chief Operating Officer of Constellation Research
Dennis Kanemitsu is the Chief Operating Officer at Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Ben Hsieh
Co-Founder and COO of Synapbox
Ben Hsieh is the co-founder and COO of Synapbox. He is a former director at Nest.vc.
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About Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Job Lam
COO & Founder of Credo Semiconductor
Job Lam has over 20 years background of IC industry. Prior to Credo, Job served as Senior Design Engineering Director for Marvell Read Channel Division and had been with Marvell from 1996 to 2008.
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
Beth Morgan
Chief Operating Officer of TrueData
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About TrueData: TrueData is a mobile data platform that works with app publishers who generate mobile data & the companies who need data for ad targeting
Clive Wu
Chief Operating and Technology Officer of HealthCrowd
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About HealthCrowd: HealthCrowd is an end-to-end communications platform for healthcare.
Juan Cruz Garzon
COO & Co-founder of Fligoo
Juan Cruz Garzón COO & Co-Founder at Fligoo.
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About Fligoo: Fligoo is a tech company from San Francisco, experts in AI, Big Data and Machine Learning with a focus on behavior analysis and prediction.
Anh Nguyen
Co-Founder & COO of Gummicube
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About Gummicube: Big Data Anlytics for Mobile & App Store Optimization
Sahar Arshad
Co-Founder & COO of CloudMedx
Sahar Arshad is Co-Founder & COO at CloudMedx.
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About CloudMedx: We collect and convert disparate data into holistic and actionable views of individuals and communities.
Peter Rieman
COO and CFO of Itembase
COO at Retail Solutions.
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About Itembase: Itembase is an e-commerce API integration platform that helps service providers connect with marketplaces.
Paul Friesen
COO of Panoply
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About Panoply: Panoply is a smart cloud data warehouse that automates the collection, modeling, and scaling of any data.
Sandy Huang
COO of R2.ai
Sandy Huang currently works as Chief Operating Officer at R2.AI.
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About R2.ai: R2.ai provides end-to-end AutoML product to develop and deploy machine learning applications in a fast, easy and affordable way.
Hosna Mogaddedi
Cofounder and COO of Jurni Inc.
Founder & COO at Jurni.
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About Jurni Inc.: Jurni is a positive and safe place where you can be yourself and talk about issues and topics that matter.
Krishna Subramanian
Founder, President & COO of Komprise
Krishna is passionate about creating business models that delight and deliver value to customers while being efficient to scale
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About Komprise: Komprise is a data management platform that analyzes, moves and manages unstructured data to reduce costs and increase data value.
Raj Joshi
President & COO of Noodle Analytics, Inc. (Noodle.ai)
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About Noodle Analytics, Inc. (Noodle.ai): Noodle.ai offers pioneering business solutions in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence.
Amanda Lettmann
COO & Co-Founder of Simple Disability Insurance
Amanda joined Simple Disability Insurance as COO & Co-Founder in 2015.Amanda brings over 19 years of global Business Operations and Transformation leadership to Simple. She has accelerated the adoption and benefits of advanced technological solutions in hi-tech and digital marketing, successfully executing and integrating over $3B in innovative tech programs at such companies as Adobe Systems, EMC, and the US Air Force (Active Duty). Leading Operations, HR, Accounts and teams, Amanda focuses on achieving strategic and tactical solutions for Simple’s clients.
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About 6Elements Consulting, Dexcom, Kardia Ventures, Simple Disability Insurance: We use technology and big data analytics to disrupt the way disability insurance is sold.
Brandon Simmons
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Tachyus
Brandon Simmons is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel at Tachyus and Advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck.
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About Tachyus: Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry.
Mike Zei
COO & Co-Founder of TenantBase
Mike Zei is the COO & Co-Founder at TenantBase
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About TenantBase: TenantBase is a technology-enabled commercial real estate platform built to revolutionize the leasing process for tenants and brokers.
Seth Page
COO | Board of Directors of ThroughPut.ai
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About ThroughPut.ai: Grow your bottom line with supply chain data orchestration
Naresh Venkat
COO of Osmos
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About Osmos: Osmos makes cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience.
Krassimir Piperkov
COO of Enview
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About Enview: Enview is a 3D geospatial analytics company providing automated data analytics to the energy industry and government agencies.
Anton Aksenov
COO of LevelNet
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About LevelNet: Network of collective information security. Revolutionary peer to peer cyber protection network growing stronger with every new member.
Burak Sefer
Co-Founder & COO of Reengen
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About Faradai, Reengen: Reengen Energy IoT Platform is a PaaS analytics solution for Global Energy & Utilities Industries
Sam Wilson
COO of AdGreetz
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About AdGreetz: AdGreetz Is The Industry’s Leading Ad-Tech/Martech DCO+ Platform Empowering Cross-Channel Personalization At Scale
Michelle Liu
COO of Piqed
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About Piqed: Reinventing personalized marketing for skincare
Christy Tomkins-Lane
Co-Founder and COO of Vivametrica
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About Stanford University School of Medicine, Vivametrica: Vivametrica analyzes data from wearable sensor devices for the assessment of health and wellness.
Douglas Egeth
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Webbula
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About Webbula: Email Hygiene and Verification, Data Enhancement, Audience Targeting
Ken Holt
Chief Operating Officer of Esgyn
Ken Holt is the Chief Operating Officer at Esgyn.
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About Esgyn: Esgyn’s mission is to empower organizations to deploy new kinds of Big Data solutions.
Pamela Lombardia
Co-Founder and COO of Wiibii Inc.
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About Wiibii Inc.: Wiibii Inc is a Silicon Valley based startup. Wiibii is the web platform that you were waiting for.
Zachary Lovenson
Co-Founder & COO of TickHIve
Co-Founder & CFO at TickHIve
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About TickHIve: Scan It, Live It, Relive It
Zachary Lovenson
Co-Founder & COO of TickHIve
Co-Founder & CFO at TickHIve
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About TickHIve: Scan It, Live It, Relive It
Stanley Whigham
Chief Operating Officer of UtilityWorks Consulting Inc
At UtilityWorks, we specialize in supplying Water and Wastewater Utility Professionals with business analytics and data solutions. We provide “cloud-based” Software as a Service (SaaS), enabling utility executives and board members to more effectively manage financial and operational performance. We recognize many utilities monitor the performance of certain key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding financial, operational, customer, and infrastructure information to measure performance across the enterprise. Our clients value the establishment of metrics to measure business processes each step of the way. Our system combines data from various IT systems into key performance measures on a graphic dashboard presentation, showing areas of emphasis for tangible performance improvement. UtilityWorks’ business analytics solution helps our clients tap into enterprise data to make better, more informed business decisions. With our business analytics in place, water and wastewater utility users can retrieve, combine, and explore data from a wide array of internal and external sources to uncover and interpret patterns, trends, relationships, and anomalies.
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About UtilityWorks Consulting Inc: SaaS Data Analytics software for the Utility Industry
Stanley Whigham
Chief Operating Officer of UtilityWorks Consulting Inc
At UtilityWorks, we specialize in supplying Water and Wastewater Utility Professionals with business analytics and data solutions. We provide “cloud-based” Software as a Service (SaaS), enabling utility executives and board members to more effectively manage financial and operational performance. We recognize many utilities monitor the performance of certain key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding financial, operational, customer, and infrastructure information to measure performance across the enterprise. Our clients value the establishment of metrics to measure business processes each step of the way. Our system combines data from various IT systems into key performance measures on a graphic dashboard presentation, showing areas of emphasis for tangible performance improvement. UtilityWorks’ business analytics solution helps our clients tap into enterprise data to make better, more informed business decisions. With our business analytics in place, water and wastewater utility users can retrieve, combine, and explore data from a wide array of internal and external sources to uncover and interpret patterns, trends, relationships, and anomalies.
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About UtilityWorks Consulting Inc: SaaS Data Analytics software for the Utility Industry
