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 United States based COO’ operating in the Cloud Data Services 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.
Bobby Jaros
Co-founder and COO of Oasis Labs
Bobby is co-founder and COO of Oasis Labs and was the previous CEO of Lookflow, which he founded out of the Stanford PhD program to commercialize deep learning. Lookflow was acquired by Yahoo in 2013 to power image search at Flickr. Bobby has worked in machine learning research at Yahoo Labs, principal investing at Goldman Sachs, and strategy at Nokia. He earned a bachelor’s degree (Terman Scholar) and a master’s degree (Mayfield Fellow) in electrical engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Oasis Labs: Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.
Eric Crane
Co-Founder & COO of Flatfile
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About Flatfile: Flatfile is the premier data onboarding platform for businesses. Built for your customer, Flatfile is already trusted by hundreds of teams.
Jonathan McCormick
Chief Operating Officer of Intermedia
As COO, Jonathan McCormick manages all Intermedia hosting operations and operations staff. With the company since 2007, McCormick has played an integral role in bringing a number of industry firsts to market for the company including the launch of the company’s first in-country UK datacenter. McCormick creates a positive environment heading Intermedia’s Sunnyvale, CA office where inter-department collaboration and teaming is a strong focus. Prior to joining the team at Intermedia, McCormick was employed as the SVP of operations and client services for Savvis, the global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities. In this capacity he was responsible for the management of all operations and customer service organizations globally. McCormick is frequently sought after as a thought leader in the business communications space to add commentary on industry trends and events. He has been published in such outlets as EWeek, Network World and SC Magazine. He received a double major in Psychology and Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Jason Donnell
COO & Co-Founder of VidMob
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Matt Laessig
COO & Co-Founder of Data.world
Matt Laessig is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of [Data.World](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/data-world#/entity), the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world. He is an executive with over 18 years of experience in growing technology and internet businesses. Previously, Laessig held various leadership roles as Vice President at [HomeAway](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homeaway#/entity) and Bazaarvoice. He was also the general manager of BedandBreakfast.com. Laessig holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton Business School.
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About Data.world: Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
John Tran
CFO & COO of Backblaze
John H. Tran is the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Backblaze. Most recently, John was the chief operating officer for ImmunGene, Inc.; a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel cancer immunotherapy. John also held executive leadership roles in various private and public companies, including companies that went through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he was an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. John received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biology and Business Economics, with an emphasis on Accounting, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. John is a certified public accountant with the State of California (inactive).
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Taylor Wakefield
COO & Co-Founder of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
James Felton Keith
COO of Accrue
James Felton Keith is currently President of The Data Union. Affectionately known as JFK, he is an award winning engineer and serial-entrepreneur that defined data as a natural resource in the book Personal Data: The People’s Asset Class. JFK has incubated the data industry via his founding of the Data Trade Association and Personal Data Week conferences. He has either written or influenced all of the global cyber policy over the past 10 years. A serial-entrepreneur, he has founded 12 companies of which 5 were successful. Most notably: Cyberfense, Accrue.com, Slay TV, and the LGBT Chamber. His expertise is in the ethnography of technology, or the study of the culture of tech. Over the past 20 years between 4 continents he has been obsessing about economic inclusion, and how to get equity in the hands of the people who have increasingly less, while the world becomes more productive from their input. JFK was the 1st Black representative of the LGBT community to run for US Congress. He says “it’s necessary to have the mind of a CEO and the heart of a Social Worker to solve real people problems”. James has been appointed to the cabinet of Elected Officials, taken over for and advised CEOs, Academics, and Non-profiteers. Keith currently serves on advisory boards at Rutgers University and the Democratic National Committee. He is a frequent keynote at global venues like the United Nations, Future Tech Congress, Money 20/20, and Hope Global Forums to name a few. Most recently he was honored as an IBM Global Entrepreneur, one of the UN’s International Young Leaders Assembly members, the United Kingdom’s Technology & Investment Financial Technology Delegation, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Commitment to Diversity, and multiple 40 under 40 notices.
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About Accrue, Cyberfense, NTGR8, nuOctave, Stall Talk: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Yash Prakash
COO of Saviynt
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About Saviynt: Saviynt provides intelligent identity and access governance solutions to let enterprises secure applications in a single platform for cloud.
Alex Dunlap
Chief Operating Officer of AWS Elemental
As chief operating officer at AWS Elemental, Alex Dunlap is responsible for the product development, product management, and support organizations. He joined Amazon Web Services in 2007, and most recently served as the General Manager of Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network. Prior to his work at Amazon, Alex co-founded start-up ClaimIQ and was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting. He has a BA in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AWS Elemental: AWS Elemental combines deep video expertise with the power of the AWS cloud.
Tim Mattox
President & Chief Operating Officer of Upland Software
Tim Mattox oversees Upland’s sales, marketing, development, operations, human resources and product areas, helping the company grow more effectively and efficiently. He also leads our GM’s, who run Upland’s various lines of business. Before joining Upland in 2014, Tim was at Dell, Inc. for approximately 15 years, holding executive roles in strategy, operations and marketing. He ran worldwide enterprise product management including pricing, demand/supply and financial forecasting, and product launch operations. He also ran Dell’s corporate strategy, reporting to the CEO for two years as part of the executive leadership team. Prior to this role, Tim led B2B marketing for Dell’s Americas region corporate business group, helping Dell achieve #1 share position in commercial notebooks, desktops and workstations. He also led worldwide product marketing for all of Dell’s desktops, notebooks and workstations for both the corporate and consumer market. Prior to this role, Tim started and ran DellHost, Dell’s entry into the web hosting business. He joined Dell to start and run the strategy team for Dell’s enterprise systems group. Preceding Dell, Tim worked for Bain & Company and Oracle Corporation. He sits on the board of the National Center for Arts and Technology, an innovative educational nonprofit. Tim holds BS/MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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About Upland Software: Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) is a leader in cloud-based tools for digital transformation.
Hatem Naguib
Chief Operating Officer of Barracuda Networks
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About Barracuda Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
Colm Bergin
Chief Operating Officer of Modo
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About Modo: Modo is the payments orchestration platform for enterprises.
Robb Ellis
Chief Operating Officer of AbacusNext
Robb Ellis is a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Operational Consultant with proven track record of providing leadership and strategic vision on a global level to public & private software, manufacturing and services companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $1 billion. He has strategic focus in assisting Companies in growing annual recurring revenue, improving customer satisfaction, investing through M&A initiatives…all while growing the bottom line. He delivers tactical corporate services expertise (including legal, finance, tax, human resources, internal infrastructure) with an operational focus. He has skills at negotiating contracts for corporate development initiatives, divestitures, debt facilities, customers and vendors. He is an effective decision maker and business partner with a record of reversing companies’ financial losses to profitability through cost savings initiatives while driving a focused growth & innovation strategy. He has involvements in several Company transformations that have resulted in successful exits that provided Shareholders with exceptional IRR returns.
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About AbacusNext: AbacusNext is a technology-as-a-service provider for the professional services industry.
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.
Geoffrey Willison
COO of ConnectWise
Geoffrey Willison is the COO at ConnectWise.
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About ConnectWise, Continuum Managed Services: ConnectWise is a software company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses.
Rick Hanson
Chief Operating Officer of Onapsis
Executive sales leader, building and developing high performing teams. Strong focus on key sales methodologies that enhance the sales culture and effectiveness. Experienced leader with many Cyber security and Identity Management technologies, Big Data, Application Delivery and IT Operations. . Results driven executive focused on key deliverables and metrics to drive optimal behaviors.
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About Onapsis: Onapsis provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and on-premise ERP and business-critical applications.
Rick Hanson
Chief Operating Officer of Onapsis
Executive sales leader, building and developing high performing teams. Strong focus on key sales methodologies that enhance the sales culture and effectiveness. Experienced leader with many Cyber security and Identity Management technologies, Big Data, Application Delivery and IT Operations. . Results driven executive focused on key deliverables and metrics to drive optimal behaviors.
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About Onapsis: Onapsis provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and on-premise ERP and business-critical applications.
Devika Darbari
Chief Operating Officer of Knoema
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About Knoema: Knoema is an integrated data management platform and AI toolkit for enterprises and data professionals.
Matthew Brisch
Co-founder and COO of GoNation
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About GoNation: GoNation helps small businesses easily update their information online and transforms how people discover them.
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.
Lori Brown
Chief Operating Officer of PayNorthwest
Lori Brown has been serving as chief operating officer of PayNorthwest since March 2017.
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About PayNorthwest: PayNorthwest operates a cloud based platform for workforce management.
Hans Witt
COO of Attensa
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About Attensa: Attensa is a developer of an information management platform used to focus on streams of targeted information to users and relevant content.
Pamela Hynes
COO of Sharpen Technologies
Pamela Hynes is the COO at Sharpen Technologies.
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About Sharpen Technologies: Sharpen is an agent-first omnichannel cloud contact center platform that offers voice and software solutions.
Dan Otto
COO/Co-Founder of Zairge
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About Zairge: A mobile property management system that simplifies and accelerates productivity for the owner, employee and guest.
Hyuk Lee
COO of Velocidi
Hyuk Lee is the leading force behind Velocidi’s decisions and operations. Most recently, Hyuk was a key member of Samsung Ads US management team, responsible for leading the sales analytics practice focused on business performance and sales strategy. Prior to joining Samsung, as VP of Marketing Intelligence at Time Warner Cable, he helped advertisers reach target audiences across media platforms via data-driven insights. His background also includes 20 years of in-house and agency experience with Unilever, JP Morgan Chase, IPG, Publicis and DentsuAegis agencies, providing customer insights and strategic direction based on integrated data analysis.
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About Velocidi: Velocidi is a Private Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Hyuk Lee
COO of Velocidi
Hyuk Lee is the leading force behind Velocidi’s decisions and operations. Most recently, Hyuk was a key member of Samsung Ads US management team, responsible for leading the sales analytics practice focused on business performance and sales strategy. Prior to joining Samsung, as VP of Marketing Intelligence at Time Warner Cable, he helped advertisers reach target audiences across media platforms via data-driven insights. His background also includes 20 years of in-house and agency experience with Unilever, JP Morgan Chase, IPG, Publicis and DentsuAegis agencies, providing customer insights and strategic direction based on integrated data analysis.
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About Velocidi: Velocidi is a Private Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Andrew Bochantin
COO of EMPIST
Andrew Bochantin serves as COO at EMPIST.
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About EMPIST: EMPIST is a full-service technology company that covers the spectrum of the digital landscape.
Vish Chatterji
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Openversa.com
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About Daimler, Openversa.com: Operational Intelligence for IoT / Connected Device
Shane Jelks
Chief Operating Officer of Fostering
Shane Jelks is the Chief Operating Officer of Fostering.
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About Fostering: Fostering is a CRM company that promotes growth and development for organizations.
Eric Shuss
Chief Operating Officer of BitSpeed
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About 4th Law, LLC, Avantiico, BitSpeed, iWithin: BitSpeed offers XFT and security software solution for moving big files through over-taxed global networks.
Pete Furness
Chief Operating Officer of ACI Solutions
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About ACI Solutions: Founded in 2001, AfGlobe Communications Inc. (doing business as ACI Solutions Inc.) is a Secure Cloud and Infrastructure Service.
Jonathan Halstuch
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Racktop Systems
Jonathan Halstuch is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering as well as a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from George Washington University. With over 15-years of experience working for the federal government as an engineer, technologist, and manager he has a broad range of experience. Jonathan hopes to help all organizations and their customers by providing them efficient and effective IT solutions that meet the organization’s operational need and serve that purpose better than any other solution available.
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About Racktop Systems: Racktop Systems is a data storage and data management.
Brian Hellman
COO of LINBIT
Brian is the leader of the Americas region. With over 15 years in the computing industry, Brian brings invaluable technical expertise to LINBIT. He studied Computer Science at Indiana University where he fueled his ongoing interest in Linux and OSS technology. Brian has designed and implemented multiple IT infrastructures while maintaining industry compliance, client satisfaction and application/server uptimes even in the most complex and challenging situations. When you are looking for someone to take charge, and deliver with a high level of professionalism, Brian is there to answer the call. LINBIT is proud to have Brian Hellman on the team
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About LINBIT: LINBIT is the author of DRBD®, DRBD4Cloud and LINSTOR® and provides worldwide development, 24×7 phone and email support for users.
Cari Harty
COO of Tintri
Cari Harty is the Coo at Tintri.
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About Tintri: Tintri is an IT company which provides products designed for enterprise cloud, virtual machines, and containers.
Don Burke
COO of Transflo
Don Burke is the COO at Transflo.
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About Transflo: Transflo develops software applications and services that deliver mobility, acceleration, and intelligent business processes.
Gary Massey
Chief Operating Officer of AlgoValue
Chief Operating Officer at AlgoValue.
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About AlgoValue: AlgoValue is a technology company providing cloud-based software to facilitate the valuation of equity securities of private companies.
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.
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.
Don Wolf
COO of B2B Technologies
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About B2B Technologies: B2B Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing in Cloud Solutions (Office 365 & Azure), SharePoint and Business Intelligence.
David Gruber
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of NanoThings
David Gruber is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at NanoThings.
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About NanoThings: Contactless supply chain traceability from source to store
Jane Miller
COO of Gold Group Enterprises
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About Gold Group Enterprises: Gold Group Enterprises operates in the business solutions arena.