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 New Jersey based COO’ operating in the Enterprise Software 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.

Yuansong Liao
Co-COO/Chief Scientist/VP Analytics / Senior Analytics Manager of Opera Solutions
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Matt Patel
COO & Co-Founder of Malbek
Matt Patel in his career has enjoyed challenging roles focused on customer satisfaction, sales, and marketing, as well as leading product teams. Matt can best be described as a peaceful warrior, building trusted relationships with internal staff, channel partners, and customers as well as creating a highly collaborative and respectful environment where positive results are inevitable. As COO and co-founder at Malbek, Matt is focused on overall operational excellence across the departments, including sales, marketing, services, and support.
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About Malbek: Malbek is an AI platform that provides enterprise contract lifecycle management from request, redlining, signature, and commitment tracking.
John Earley
EVP & COO of Ceragon Networks
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About Ceragon Networks: Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) is the #1 wireless backhaul specialist.
Andrew Martin
COO, Co-Founder of viax.io
Andrew oversees the operations and financial planning at viax.io, driving both day-to-day and long-term strategic decisions. Andrew previously served in a similar capacity as managing partner at TMG.io, where he was responsible for organizational issues on a global scale, including business development, client and employee contract negotiation and human resources infrastructure. An astute and meticulous entrepreneur, Andrew previously held account executive positions for IT implementation and marketing firms. He holds a BA in Business from Calvin College.
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About Techmates Group, viax.io: A new and modern approach to B2B for Manufacturers and Distributors.

Ron Arden
Executive Vice President & COO of Fasoo
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About Fasoo: Data and Application Security Solutions Provider

Jane Miller
COO of Gold Group Enterprises
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About Gold Group Enterprises: Gold Group Enterprises operates in the business solutions arena.