Meet United States’s 100 Top COO’s in the Big Data Space

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.

Darren Morris

COO and Co-Founder of Gradient Cyber

Darren Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Gradient Cyber.

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About Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.

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.

Jessica Murphy

Co-Founder & COO of True Fit

Co-Founder | VP Operations at True Fit

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About True Fit: True Fit is a consumer experience platform leveraged by apparel and footwear retailers to decode fit and size and connect shoppers with only what they love. It has organized and connected the broadest footwear, apparel and shopper data in the world to provide best in class fit recommendations covering the industry’s brands and styles, driving shopper confidence and loyalty.

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.

Naveen Gattu

COO of Gramener

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About Gramener: Insights delivered as Data Stories : Analytical Custom Solutions delivered rapidly , Assets: Platform,Process & People.

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.

Brian Vargas

Co-Founder & COO of Fitted Laundry

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About Fitted Laundry: Fitted is bridging the gap between laundry and fashion.

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.

Stephen Coakley

COO & President of Babel Street

Stephen Coakley is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Babel Street, a company that provides actionable intelligence by persistently monitoring and analyzing a variety of data sources. Babel Street serves governments, higher education, and a wide spectrum of the business sector. Prior to Babel Street, Stephen was the Founder and Principal of Horizon Services, a government contractor that rose to #312 on the Inc 500 Fastest-Growing Companies List, with $8M in revenues and 150 employees. Steve’s philosophy is that he wants to work with very smart people doing something they all can be incredibly passionate about. Otherwise, it’s time to reinvent.

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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.

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.

Alessandro Prioni

COO of Measurence

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About Measurence: Measurence is an IoT platform that provides actionable analytics for the physical world

Kiryl Trembovolski

Co-Founder and COO of Behavox

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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.

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.

Sarah Sanders

Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Native

Sarah Sanders is a co-founder at Native AgTech, a B2B platform designed to democratize agricultural data. Previously, Sarah was a territory account executive at Toast. Sarah Sanders holds a bachelor of business administration degree in management from the University of Kentucky.

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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!

Tom Farasy

Chief Operating Officer of Corner Media, Inc.

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About Corner Media, Inc.: Platform Company with Location-Based Consumer Targeting

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

Matthew Senatore

COO & General Counsel of Earnest Research

Matthew Senatore is a COO and general counsel at Earnest Research.

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About Earnest Research: Earnest Research transforms raw data into a source for business and investment professionals to make better decisions.

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.

Brad Kayton

COO & Co founder of Zome Energy Networks, Inc

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About World Energy Consortium, Zome Energy Networks, Inc: We use machine learning algorithms to virtualize, control and scale device power loads on the energy grid.

Craig Dunn

COO of First Orion

Craig leads Sales, Human Resources and Business Data Products at First Orion. He has led several start-up ventures, characterizing his belief that “blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” Craig enjoyed a 10-year career at Acxiom Corporation where he found his calling combining financial acumen with a business development focus. Craig is flexible, passionate, fun, and can hold his breath for a really long time while he absorbs the wonder of nature and total “immersion” in the moment that scuba diving brings.

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About First Orion: First Orion allows businesses to brand communications, revealing the who and why behind the call to deliver enhanced customer experiences.

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.

Philippe Heilberg

Co-Founder, President, COO & CFO of Arbol

Philippe brings decades of senior executive experience in commodities and emerging markets. He has been investing in assets across emerging markets including Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union region since 2001. Philippe is an ex-partner at the commodities trading unit at AIG, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. He is a contributor to the discourse on blockchain technology including published articles. In addition, Philippe has been a member of the NY Board of Trade Commodity Exchange and is former President Circle member of Asia Society. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. Summa Cum Laude and MBA.

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About Arbol, dClimate: Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.

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.

Dede Houston

Co-founder and COO of Myxx

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About Myxx: Myxx is a shoppable marketing platform based on a proprietary personalized List-to-Cart technology with real-time store sales lift analytics

Matt Draper

Co-Founder and COO of Noble

Matt Draper is the co-founder and COO of Noble.

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About Noble: The first consumer-centric mobile ordering solution to make on-premise experiences better.

Steven Bitondo

COO & Co-Founder of Node Capital

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About Goodway Technologies, Node Capital: Node Capital is a technology development and data science company which provides data science solutions.

Nisha Shoukath

COO & Co-Founder of People10 Technologies

Nisha Shoukath is Co-Founder of Skyl.ai & People10

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About People10 Technologies, Skyl.ai: People10 Technologies Inc. provide Software Services like., Agile and Lean Product development, QA , Application management & many more.

Marie Crump

Chief Operating Officer of DATUM LLC

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About DATUM LLC: DATUM provides the first data governance and stewardship solution to visibly link the value of a data policy to its impact on the business.

Rob Saperstein

COO of SWAG’R Digital Media

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About SWAG’R Digital Media: SWAG’R Digital Media uses gamification, geolocation technologies, and augmented reality to drive real actions with brands.

Stuart Morstead

Co-Founder, President & COO of Arundo Analytics

A high tech entrepreneur and enterprise counselor, a co-founder of two high tech services companies, and most recently a partner at McKinsey & Company where he led McKinsey’s IT practice in the Southern US and Northern Latin America, Stuart brings hands-on experience and a deep appreciation of the challenges of managing complex enterprises.

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About Arundo Analytics: Arundo Analytics provides cloud-based and edge-enabled software for the deployment and management.

Joey Petracca

COO & Co-founder of Chicory

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About Chicory: Chicory is a technology company that connects recipe websites with online grocers so customers can order the ingredients.

Brian Jackson

President & COO of burstIQ

Brian has played a key role in the development of the BurstIQ platform, and leads network engineering and technical operations for the company. An expert in security and enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms, Brian has been published in numerous works and has mentored large-scale Engineering, DevOps, and Development teams. Prior to joining BurstIQ, Brian led Cloud Engineering for an enterprise healthcare solution provider and provided consulting expertise to numerous Fortune 500 companies. Brian has a B.S. in Information Technology from Kansas State University.

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About burstIQ: A health-focused enterprise enablement and global network that connects businesses and people through the power of blockchain.

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.

Jonathan Kanarek

Chief Operating Officer of BuildFax

Managing Director, BuildFax at Verisk.

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About BuildFax, Verisk: BuildFax is a property condition data service provider that provides timely and actionable information for its clients.

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.

Manan Shah

Co-founder & COO of Apteo

Manan Shah is the co-founder and COO of Apteo.

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About Apteo: Apteo is an automated predictive marketing tool that helps eCommerce brands to increase their repeat sales.

Evan Kroft

COO of Miro AI

As COO at Miro AI Evan leads operations, marketing, product management, and business development. Miro’s proprietary AI identifies athletes and gear in sports photography/video. Evan began his career in the entertainment industry, working for both CBS Radio and Viacom. Upon earning a master’s degree in Integrated Marketing from Northwestern University, he has put his stamp on digital efforts for some of the biggest brands, including McDonald’s, Nissan, and Sonic Drive-In. Having lived in a wide array of locations, from Nashville to Singapore, Evan and his wife now reside in his hometown outside of Chicago in Northwest Indiana.

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About Miro AI: Miro uses AI & computer vision to analyze bodies in motion.

Noah Levens

COO of HAAS Alert

COO at HAAS Alert.

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About HAAS Alert: Real-time automotive collision prevention SaaS for public safety and roadway fleets

James Dorman

COO of Hailify

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About GLG, Hailify: Hailify is a B2B dispatch software solution for the entire on-demand industry

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.

William Kent

Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer of MedAware Systems

William brings over 30 years of experience in both domestic and international business and market development, working with a broad range of technology and industrial companies, from start-ups to Fortune 200 companies. William has worked with leading companies from India, China, Japan, Canada, the US, and Western Europe to develop business models and marketing strategies in a wide range of geographic and vertical markets. William is passionate about pairing the right products in the right markets to position companies for growth and to bring value to consumers. As president of a mid-west based business practice consulting company, William successfully worked with his clients to define markets for their products, develop manufacturing and distribution practices, develop customer service strategies, define launch strategies, and grow market share. Most recently William worked as the Senior VP of Boulder Imaging. William led the product development and operational development for BI to transition the company from R&D to product manufacturing. Previously William led the development of a technology company in the electric vehicle market to design and develop state-of-the-art vehicle management systems.William has worked with a variety of companies to develop products and market strategies such as Liqui-Met, Novaflow Systems, Micro-Metal, Soujanya Enterprises, Parekh Group, Virttel and Motostorm. For each of these companies William defined vertical markets, created market development plans and built market share. William is an avid jogger, cyclist and golfer. William is a strong advocate of corporate social responsibility and is committed to building companies that make a positive contribution to the communities in which they operate.

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About MedAware Systems: MedAware Systems is a medical research data company delivering analysis of all available data on any medical topic.

Marty Deneroff

Chief Operating Officer of Lucata Corporation

Marty’s prior experience includes VP Server and Micro-Processor Engineering at SGI where he was responsible for delivering systems and VP Engineering at D.E. Shaw Research where he was chief architect of the Anton. Marty has 30+ yrs. experience in the industry in a variety of capacities.

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About Lucata Corporation: Lucata next-generation computing technology solves the performance and scale challenges of Big Data graph analytics, AI and machine learning

Tim Dahltorp

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of ClickFox

Tim Dahltorp is the CFO at ClickFox .

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About ClickFox: ClickFox offers customer journey solutions, enabling companies to tells the story of what customers are experiencing.

Danny Wajcman

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Lucky Orange

Danny is co-founder & COO of Lucky Orange, the conversion optimization suite responsible for helping 80,000+ websites turn more visitors into customers. With a background ranging in brand management to lead generation, he understands exactly what business, agencies, clients expect & demand. Danny has appeared in a variety of publications and can be found contributing regularly on Forbes.com.

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About Lucky Orange: See How Your Visitors Actually Use Your Website! Visitor Recordings.

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.

Rhett Rainen

COO of Cintric

CoFounder/CTO at Quack

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About Cintric, LookIt: Cintric turns existing mobile user-bases into location and consumer intelligence.

Robby Robertson

Chief Operating Officer of NLP Logix

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About NLP Logix: NLP Logix provides machine learning as a service by building predictive models for clients to identify trends and momentum within big data.

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

Andrey Teslenko

COO, Founder of Mishka AI

Andrey Teslenko is Founder & CEO at Labicom.

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About Mishka AI: Mishka AI is educational companion and kids content delivery platform in the shape of a traditional toy.

Jeff Cherry

COO of Happily

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About Happily: Each month we create you a fun & unique date and deliver you everything you need to enjoy it. Bring back date night.

Paul Rector

Chief Operating Officer of Lucid AI

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About Lucid AI: Lucid is a software and services company that uses causal reasoning AI for solving big data problems.

Paul Rector

Chief Operating Officer of Lucid AI

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About Lucid AI: Lucid is a software and services company that uses causal reasoning AI for solving big data problems.

Naresh Venkat

COO of Osmos

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About Osmos: Osmos makes cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience.

Peter Nabicht

COO/President and Co-Founder of 12Sided Technology

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About 12Sided Technology: 12Sided Technology provides a data capture and analytics platform.

Mark Mackowiak

COO of Intelligent Artifacts

Mark Mackowiak is the Chief Operating Officer at Intelligent Artifacts.

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About Intelligent Artifacts: Cognitive Computing using Artificial General Intelligence

Joan Carles Fonoll

COO of GFT Technologies

Joan Carles Fonoll stepped up to be the Group’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) in July 2018 and his appointment to the Group Executive Board followed on July 1st 2019. His career at GFT started in Spain when he joined in 2001 as a Project Manager. Today he is responsible for ensuring the execution of the Group’s strategy, delivering on key drivers such as agility, simplicity and accountability. In his former role as the Group Chief of Staff, he supported GFT’s CEO and his focus was on implementing group-wide strategic initiatives. Joan Carles also acted as liaison between the business units and group corporate services functions. This enabled him to gain in-depth knowledge of GFT and how the company enables clients’ digital transformation.

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About GFT Technologies: GFT develops, implements and maintains customized IT solutions and enables financial institutes to quickly and securely.

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.

Mark Gardner

COO of CargoSense

COO at CargoSense, Inc.

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About CargoSense: CargoSense provides data driven logistics to the healthcare industry utilizing a disruptive business model.

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.

Nikita Huang

COO of DataMesh

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About DataMesh: Digital Twin + XR platform

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

Gladys Alvarenga

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvadesh Technologies

With more than twenty years of experience in corporate financial management, Gladys E. Alvarenga has been serving as Co-Founder and CFO of three company. Gladys has extended her leadership skills, ambition, and insight to the community, serving on the boards of the Alvadesh Technologies Solutions LLC., JOYFULVALUES.COM LLC.

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About Alvadesh Technologies: We help our clients to maximize productivity and improve business performance by using intelligent and predictive data analysis.

Gladys Alvarenga

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvadesh Technologies

With more than twenty years of experience in corporate financial management, Gladys E. Alvarenga has been serving as Co-Founder and CFO of three company. Gladys has extended her leadership skills, ambition, and insight to the community, serving on the boards of the Alvadesh Technologies Solutions LLC., JOYFULVALUES.COM LLC.

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About Alvadesh Technologies: We help our clients to maximize productivity and improve business performance by using intelligent and predictive data analysis.

Dmitry Kroshka

Chief Operating Officer of Invisible Media

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About Invisible Media: Invisible Media is a mobile data, decision-making, marketing automation, and analytics platform for a mobile-first world.

Corey Smith

Chief Operating Officer of Metropia Inc.

If growing businesses was a sport, then Corey would be a gold medalist. Metropia’s VP of Corporate Development specializes in both taking established companies to the next level and raising new companies by building up their executive staff and strategic bases. He says that after achieving so much in his own career, he now finds it gratifying to see others achieve their dreams, thanks in small part to his involvement and encouragement in their ventures. Corey has helped several software companies achieve average annual growth rates above and beyond 50 percent by adding distribution channels, encouraging international expansion, and exploring ways of adding to the companies’ product lines. At Metropia, this experience allows us to help business partners get the most of their involvement. Alongside the long pedigree of businesses Corey has founded and fostered, he received his Business Administration from Oregon State University. When he isn’t working with entrepreneurial teams and experiencing the passion they bring to addressing the needs of new, emerging markets in innovative ways, Corey spends his free time thinking about and making plans to visit places where the pace is slower and the topic of the day is what to make for dinner with ingredients from small markets.

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About BioVidria, Grannus, Metropia Inc.: Metropia optimizes transportation systems by using behavioral economics to influence drivers to shift departure times, routes and modes.

Alexander Tolpygo

President & COO of SFL Scientific

Alexander Tolpygo joined SFL Scientific as President & COO in 2016.

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About SFL Scientific: Data science consulting & professional services firm solving complex and R&D type problems using data engineering, machine learning, and AI.

Santi Darmandrail

Chief Operating Officer of Retargetly

Entrepreneur since 2011, building companies in emerging markets scaling to global clients. Has expertise in the marketing technology industry. Attended college at UADE for a BA in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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About Retargetly: We organize consumer data and create high-value data solutions that change the way our clients make decisions.

Elise McVeigh

Chief Operating Officer of Cyndx

Elise McVeigh is the Chief Operating Officer at Cyndx.

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About Cyndx: Cyndx is an open technology platform that provides strategic advice and capital raising services to companies and investors.

Kathy MacDougall

COO & Founder of Zepheira LLC

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About Zepheira LLC: Putting library catalogs on the Web to make them more visible and improve the Web with new, credible, highly enriched information.

Clive Higgins

Chief Operating Officer of Exaptive

Clive Higgins is an accomplished informatics professional with over 25 years of experience in the Life Sciences and Informatics Fields. Prior to joining PerkinElmer from CambridgeSoft Corporation, Mr. Higgins had served as Director, Sales Operations at Beckman Coulter Genomics and General Manager, North America for Cogenics Inc. Previous to that, he held positions at Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly Thermo Electron) as General Manager for Biobanking, Director of Marketing for Life and Laboratory Sciences and President of Thermo Lab Systems. His professional experience also includes undergraduate work placements at 3M, the UK Ministry of Defence and the Freshwater Biological Association and after graduating, he worked in the photographic laboratories of Ilford Ltd. Mr. Higgins graduated in Applied Chemistry from Brunel University in London, UK and studied Strategic Marketing and Leadership in the 21st Century at Harvard Business School.

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About Exaptive: Exaptive is an ecosystem for creating knowledge from data that enables developers and facilitating innovation through cognitive networks.

Jennifer Chang

COO of Trendalytics Innovation Labs

Jen Chang serves as a product manager at Trendalytics Innovation Labs. Most recently, Jen served as VP of merchandise planning at Trinity Limited and a manager at Saks Fifth Avenue. Prior to these, she was part of Bloomingdales as a planner and of Abercombie as an associate merchant. Jen holds a degree in digital media design from the University of Pennsylvania.

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About Trendalytics Innovation Labs: Trendalytics Innovation Labs is a product intelligence engine that surfaces what consumers want today and tomorrow.

John Polo

COO of Essess, Inc

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About Essess, Inc, Strategic Directives, Inc., Top Flight Technologies: Essess provides Saas-based solutions that collects and analyzes building energy efficiency performance information on individual buildings.

Jay Clark

Co-Founder & COO of Mobilewalla

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About Mobilewalla: Mobilewalla is the world’s most trusted source for independent mobile audience data at scale.

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

Naser Tamimi

COO of NeuDax

Naser Tamimi is an experienced geophysicist, petroleum engineer and data scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. He received his PhD in geophysics from Colorado School of Mines.

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About NeuDax: Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Solutions for Upstream Oil and Gas. Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Reinforced Learning

Chris McIlroy

COO of PUNCH Cyber Analytic Group

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About PUNCH Cyber Analytic Group: Punch Cyber Corp is a company based out of 20319 Portsmouth Blvd, Ashburn, Virginia, United States.

Michelle Liu

COO of Piqed

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About Piqed: Reinventing personalized marketing for skincare

Armen Sovetkin

COO of Mycroft Business Solutions

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About Mycroft Business Solutions: Expert-class automatic purchasing and procurement platform. Business intelligence and business analytic system.

Lisette Rice

Co-Founder/COO of Freeing Returns

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About Freeing Returns: Freeing Returns is a mobile phone app that offers users a unique way to return bought items to stores.

Carl Bruggemeier

Chief Operating Officer of SteadyServ Technologies

Carl has over 35 years of management experience primarily in the Hospitality Industry with unique qualifications, including being a highly-skilled Corporate Executive, an Entrepreneur, a Culinarian and a student of Economics and Finance. In the course of his career he has directed several high profile restaurants including Tavern on the Green, Potomac, Commander’s Palace, The Phoenix and Norman’s at The Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lakes.

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About SteadyServ Technologies: SteadyServ Technologies is a developer of a revolutionary mobile, SaaS-based inventory, and order management system for the beer industry.

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.

Timothy Wolfe

COO & Senior Digital Analyst of Decision Data Corp

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About Decision Data Corp: Real-time intelligent feedback loops and scoring systems for enterprise websites and new media applications.

Aaron Westley

COO of Pattern

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About Pattern: Pattern is a versatile team of computing technologists helping smart companies solve challenging problems.

Douglas Egeth

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Webbula

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About Webbula: Email Hygiene and Verification, Data Enhancement, Audience Targeting

Bob Joyce

Chief Operating Officer of Renovare Environmental

Bob Joyce is the Chief Operating Officer at BioHitech America.

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About Renovare Environmental: Renovare Environmental uses Green Technology and Big Data to dispose of organic waste, cut costs, and drive sustainability.

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.

Jiayao Han

COO of Caicloud

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About Caicloud: Caicloud was founded by ex-Googlers and early Kubernetes contributors, provides container cluster-as-a-service and big data service.