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 Business Intelligence 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.
Paul Keary
Founder & COO of Teneo
Paul Keary is a co-founder of Teneo and COO of the company’s 12 operating divisions globally. Prior to Teneo, Mr. Keary ran a business and communications strategy consultancy where he advised some of the largest companies in the world on reputational, operational and strategic challenges and opportunities. Mr. Keary previously served as Senior Managing Director and Director of Business Integration at FTI Consulting (FTI), one of the world’s leading international consulting companies. He also served with the Company’s Executive Committee. FTI, then a 3,500-person-strong consulting firm, advises companies and intermediaries on investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, reputation management and restructuring. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Keary ran the North American business of Financial Dynamics (FD), the world’s largest business communications consultancy. Mr. Keary was instrumental in growing the business through a strategy of acquisition and organic-based growth, and also advised Fortune 500 companies, governments and industry organizations on positioning strategy, reputation management, capital market communications and crisis management strategies. Prior to joining FD, Mr. Keary held a senior management position for a leading global communications agency and worked extensively in Europe, Middle East and the Americas, advising a wide number of blue chip technology companies on communications strategy surrounding IPOs and M&A activity. Mr. Keary was also previously Head of Communications for Xerox Europe Ltd. during a time of significant restructuring and realignment for the company.
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About Teneo: A New York-based corporate advisory firm
Josh Devon
Chief Operating Officer of Flashpoint
Josh Devon focuses on operations at Flashpoint, working to ensure that the company’s departments function synergistically and effectively during its rapid growth to ensure customers continue to receive best-in-class products, services, and support. Prior to joining Flashpoint in 2013,Mr. Devon co-founded the SITE Intelligence Group in June 2002 where he served as Assistant Director. Spending more than a decade researching the contemporary state of terrorism in the world, with an emphasis on jihadist use of the internet, he has assisted and consulted governments and non-governmental organizations in studying and monitoring terrorists and their supporters. Mr. Devon has published numerous articles intended to educate the public on issues surrounding terrorism. He speaks, reads, and writes Arabic.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Bill Burkart
President & Chief Operating Officer of KBM Group
As president and chief operating officer, Bill Burkart oversees KBM Group’s operations, including data and consumer engagement services, analytics and customer insights, business development, and organizational alignment across all business units, including data services, health services, and client solution delivery services. Bill Burkart is responsible for the delivery of KBM Group’s integrated marketing strategies and solutions, including orchestration of data-driven platforms and technology partnerships, product and service innovation, IT operations and data security. In addition to being responsible for day-to-day operations, Bill Burkart sets the company’s direction and growth strategy, participating in planning, acquisitions and other leadership activities as part of the company’s Executive Management Board. Bill Burkart has deep experience in data, analytics, technology and customer engagement, the pillars of KBM Group’s service offerings. Coupled with CRM, digital, agency, and consulting services, his background has prepared him to address the many challenges our clients face to stay competitive in today’s marketing landscape. Bill Burkart understands clients’ business challenges, having delivered marketing solutions to industries that include telecommunications, technology, health insurance, automotive, financial services and retail. A strong and inspirational leader, Bill Burkart has helped world-class brands deploy data, technology and insight-driven marketing to achieve a competitive advantage. Prior to joining KBM Group, Bill Burkart was Vice President of Acxiom’s Global Agency, where Bill Burkart was responsible for the firm’s digital agency and email/SMS platforms and led the global servicing teams. Previously, Bill Burkart was group vice president at MarketBridge, where Bill Burkart launched a marketing services practice to complement the firm’s consulting services. Earlier, Bill Burkart was a managing partner at the San Francisco office of Grey, where Bill Burkart launched an integrated advertising, digital and media business unit. Originally from St. Louis, Bill Burkart has a B.S. in Commerce (Marketing) and M.B.A. with a specialty in integrated marketing from Saint Louis University.
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About KBM Group, Wunderman Thompson: KBM Group is a data analysis group that helps identify trends and teaches how to engage customers.
Dave Koslow
Co-founder & COO of Dropbox DocSend
Dave Koslow built the foundation of the native mobile rich media ad platform at Greystripe. While there he also built the mobile ad products team charged with creating new cross-platform mobile ad formats. Dave loves foreign languages and soup. Dave received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
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About Dropbox DocSend: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
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.
Kevin Ott
COO and SVP Product Development of Formation
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About Formation: Formation distills customer data into uniquely tailored experiences; we orchestrate physical & digital exchanges into one seamless journey.
Jonathan Wright
COO/GC of Endurance Companies
Jonathan is the COO and General Counsel of Endurance Companies. He is also the founder of Opya. His passion for solving difficult problems combined with a deep commitment to helping others continue to drive him to do work that significantly impacts people’s lives. He previously served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Kosan Biosciences (Nasdaq: KOSN – acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb). He has also served as the General Counsel of Dexterra, Inc. (acquired by Antenna Software), Targeted Genetics Corporation (Nasdaq: TGEN – acquired by Ampliphi Biosciences), Widevine Technologies (acquired by Google). Jonathan has founded companies and been actively involved in the venture capital community including previously as a member of the Sand Hill Angels Fund. Mr. Wright has also served as mentor in The Cleantech Open. He has a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and B.A. in Geography from the University of Washington.
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About Endurance Companies, Opya: Endurance Companies is a holding company that builds new ventures and solves meaningful problems.
Juan Jorquera
Founder & COO of Vagabond Vending
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Vincent Luciani
Co-Founder and Global COO of Artefact
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About Artefact: Artefact is a digital agency celebrating the long overdue marriage of marketers and engineers.
Nitzan Cohen Arazi
Co Founder and COO of Jolt
Nitzan is a life long learner, passionate about using technology to connect people, ideas and cultures. Investor turned entrepreneur, Nitzan is the co founder of Jolt, with the mission to disrupt adult education. Prior to Jolt, Nitzan was the investment manager at the early stage venture arm of Deutsche Telekom in Tel-Aviv, and Managing Director of “The Junction”, Israel’s first start-up accelerator. In 2016, Nitzan was named Forbes 30 under 30.
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About Jolt: Jolt is a network of learning spaces curated for people in the workforce seeking to gain a competitive business edge.
Gary Ellis
Co-Founder, President & COO of Remesh
Gary Ellis serves as a co-founder and COO at Remesh.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Robert Ford
COO of Aidentified
Rob is a leader in driving technology adoption and commercialization processes for growth stage companies. He is versatile as a chief operating officer in orchestrating support for all aspects of operational roadmaps and strategic finance. Most recently, he developed and executed global roll out and markets expansion strategies for two companies in the fintech sector. Prior to that, Rob assembled a founding team and built from scratch an investment bank focused on emerging technology sectors. As COO, he oversaw his firm’s profitable growth to $90 million in annual revenues by year five, leading all aspects of operations, international strategy, and market development while also serving as President for the company’s NASDAQ listed parent. He also was President and COO of JobDirect.com, the Web’s first job matching subscription-based service for university students (exited to Korn Ferry International).
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About Aidentified: Aidentified identifies wealth events across millions of executives and surfaces these insights through the M2 Platform in real time.
Aigars Pavlovics
COO & Executive Partner of Scandiweb
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About Scandiweb: Scandiweb – full stack vertically integrated agency.
Dana Arnold
Chief Operating Officer of Measurabl
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About Measurabl: Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) data management solution for commercial real estate.
Mike Morello
Chief Operating Officer, Digital of Inc.com
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About Inc.com: Everything you need to know to start and grow your business now.
Joe Healey
Chief Operating Officer of InsightSoftware
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About InsightSoftware: insightsoftware is a provider of financial reporting and enterprise performance management software.
Prateek Sachdeva
Co-Founder & COO of Invisible AI
Before launching Invisible AI, Prateek led the Data Infrastructure team at Luminar Technologies. Prateek deployed the infrastructure necessary to support a fleet of self-driving cars and filed five patents in the process. He previously graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Learn More | https://invisible.ai
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About Invisible AI: Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
Steve Thornton
Chief Operating Officer of FlightStats
Steve Thornton joined FlightStats in 2012. As Chief Operating Officer, Steve is responsible for Operations, Product Support, Professional Services, and Program Management functions. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, including program and engineering management experience spanning 20 years with Intel, Steve has held key roles in engineering, factory support, field service, program & project management, training, technology development, new product introduction, and business process development. Steve served as the President of the Board of Directors for the Project Management Institute in Portland Oregon, and was a Senior Instructor in Corporate Management Development programs.
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About FlightStats: FlightStats is a smart data and advanced analytics company that provides global flight tracking and travel planning services.
Carl Cornilsen
Co-Founder & COO of Citiesense
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About Citiesense: Citiesense is the Neighborhood Knowledge Platform. Citiesense creates data-driven maps and dashboards that strengthen community knowledge.
Derek Curtis
Chief Operating Officer of SmarterTools
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About SmarterTools: SmarterTools Inc. builds applications to help companies communicate, measure, and support their worldwide business operations.
Ravi Obbu
Co-Founder & COO of Hexplora
Ravi has over two decades of extensive experience in IT Management and Operations and was responsible for Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, IT consulting and Resource Management. Ravi is also Vice President of Operations at Infowave Systems. Prior to joining Infowave, Ravi worked as a Projects Manager for DuPont USA where he was a key player in setting up a state-of-the-art system for a polymer compounding plant. Prior to DuPont, Ravi was with the Engineering Branch of the Indian Air Force (I A F). Ravi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from JNTU, Anantapur, India.
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About Hexplora, Infowave Systems: Hexplora offers a comprehensive, end-to-end data warehousing and business intelligence solution.
Ed Rerisi
Chief Operating Officer of ABI Research
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About ABI Research: ABI Research is a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies.
Adam Walton
Chief Operating Officer of CallMiner
As Chief Operating Officer, Adam Walton oversees CallMiner’s services, development, and support teams in the U.S. and U.K. and will be based at the company’s Boston, Massachusetts, office. After training as an accountant, Walton has 20 years of experience in the software application sector. He joined CallMiner from Ingres, the open source relational database company where he was Director responsible for the Benelux region. Prior to Ingres, he was founder and managing director of an on-line performance management software company. From 1994 to 2001, Walton was Head of Sales and then Director of Acquisitions for fast-growing software company, the Cedar Group, where he led the negotiation and integration of a number of successful corporate acquisitions. Walton holds a BSc Honours degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Bristol.
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About CallMiner: CallMiner provides artificial intelligence-enabled speech and customer interaction analytics.
Guy Avigdor
Founder & COO of Klear
Guy Avigdor is Founder & COO at Klear.
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About Klear: Klear is a social intelligence platform that helps you do smarter marketing.
Tim Mohler
COO of Lexalytics
COO at Lexalytics
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About Lexalytics, Lexalytics: Lexalytics’ text analysis platforms process billions of unstructured data pieces, translating thoughts & feelings into profitable decisions.
Brett Allred
Chief Operating Officer of Nuvi
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About Nuvi: Nuvi provides marketing & management tools to Listen, Plan, Publish, Engage, Analyze, Locate, Review, and Capture to create better cx!
Alexander Ball
Founder & COO of Flye
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About Flye: AI marketing platform that gives brands the power to build and understand their audiences, then activate targeted personalized campaigns
Rajani Ramanathan
Former COO, Salesforce & Advisor Relatas of Relatas – Sales AI
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About : Relatas is Sales AI to help sales professionals sell better and faster
Paul Dunlop
COO of Fraud Doctor
Paul Dunlop, MPS, CAMS is the COO of Fraud Doctor LLC. He specializes in making fraud, cyber & financial crimes programs a business competitive advantage, synthesizing complex regulatory requirements and frameworks into integrated value-add strategies, programs, and solutions. Dunlop uses advisory expertise, thought leadership, and broad collaboration to create industry-leading achievements for his clients, their partners and customers across fraud, cyber and financial crime risk management.
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About Fraud Doctor: Early warning of financial fraud & mismanagement risk.
Nour Lake
Co-Founder and COO of Anasen
Nour Lake studied engineering and entrepreneurship, but just can’t be pigeonholed. He is passionate about hard sciences, including data science, but also has a strong interest in business management, cognitive psychology, graphic design and art in general. He is responsible for the design of Vize’s user experience and graphical interface. He is also responsible for the marketing & communication operations, and the business strategy.
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About Anasen: Anasen is inventing the human-data interface of the future
Jason Smith
COO & Co-Founder of PA & Associates Healthcare
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About PA & Associates Healthcare: PA & Associates Healthcare is a provider of a cloud-based spend management application.
Abhishek Pakhira
Chief Operating Officer of Aureus Tech Systems
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About Aureus Tech Systems, CommonSource: Aureus Tech Systems is a technology solutions partner in mobility, cloud transformations, enterprise content management, and collaboration.
Daman Wood
Chief Operating Officer of Trax Technologies
Daman Wood is the Chief Operating Officer at Trax Technologies.
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About Trax Technologies: Trax is the global leader in Transportation Spend Management.
Evan Shoemaker
Chief Operating Officer of en*theos Enterprises, Public Benefit Corporation
Ninjabot + COO @ en*theos.
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About en*theos Enterprises, Public Benefit Corporation, Student Loan Hero: en*theos helps people optimize their lives so they can change the world together.
Ryan Kissell
COO, VP Engineering of Symmetric Health Solutions
Ryan Kissell is the managing principal at Symmetric Health Solutions.
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About Symmetric Health Solutions: Symmetric Health Solutions provides a healthcare supply and analytics platform for medical supplies.
Julie Baker
Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Ursa Space Systems
Julie Baker is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at Ursa Space.
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About Ursa Space Systems: Ursa helps traders and analysts in the finance and energy industries make more informed decisions.
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.
Orazio Pater
COO of GTreasury
Orazio Pater has been a recognized leader in the treasury management industry for over 40 years. As head of GTreasury, he manages one of the leading providers of treasury management systems in the world. Mr. Pater founded Gateway Systems in 1986, initially offering a MS-DOS product that evolved through the MS-Windows® Client-Server architecture to the current cloud-based solution. Prior to founding the Gateway and GTreasury companies, Pater led the National Data Corporation – Cash Management Division from 1974 to 1984. He was instrumental in developing the automated cash and treasury management industry. Under his leadership, the NDC Cash Management Division served over 12,000 corporations and 200 major banks that used NDC to monitor balances and concentrate cash globally. During that period, the NDC Cash Management Division became the leading provider of treasury and funds transfer systems worldwide, with over $40 million in annual revenues and very substantial profits. Prior to NDC, Orazio was a cash manager at Honeywell, Inc., where he designed and implemented one of the first automated treasury management systems in the world.
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About GTreasury: Fully integrated cash and risk management solution to streamline processes and take your treasury functions from operational to strategic
Tom Cumbo
Chief Operating Officer of STA Group
Tom brings more than 20 years of management and technical consulting experience to Dillon Kane Group. With Deloitte Consulting, Tom managed systems development and integration engagements with large financial exchanges and a wide range of other companies and industries. In his 6 years as a principal with the Boston Consulting Group, Tom focused on strategic IT issues for clients, including IT portfolio management and alignment, value management, organizational redesign, mergers and acquisitions, and enterprise architectural alternatives.
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About Dillon Kane Group, ExtendedCare, STA Group: STA Digital creates clean user experiences and creative structured content that serves the business goals of each of its clients.
Mark Hinkle
Co-Founder, President, and COO of Manzama
Mark Hinkle is the co-founder, president, and COO at Manzama.
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About Manzama: Manzama is a provider of social media listening and monitoring platforms for service professionals.
Craig Nealy
Chief Operating Officer of miiddle
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About miiddle: miiddle is a telecommunications company that provides businesses with automated voice messages that can be sent to their customers.
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.
Bobby Lincoln
Founder and COO of PeakMetrics
Robert (Bobby) Lincoln is the COO and Co-Founder at PeakMetrics.
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About PeakMetrics: PeakMetrics extracts insights and creates actionable data from millions of unstructured, cross-channel media datasets in real-time.
Joe Giles
President and Chief Operating Officer of H&C Animal Health
Joe Giles is the President and Chief Operating Officer at H&C Animal Health.
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About H&C Animal Health: H&C is a Sales and Marketing agency dedicated to bringing Animal Health Products to the Pet Specialty consumer through retail channels.
Tom Donohue
Founder, COO of Trendrr
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About Trendrr: Trendrr is a category-defining platform exploiting the value of real-time social data to provide media and advertising solutions.
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.
Chase Towery
Chief Operating Officer of Cultivera
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About Cultivera: Cultivera is a team of top software talent coupled with deep experience in the legal cannabis industry.
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.
William Reau
Chief Operating Officer/Principal of Einstein II
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About : Einstein II (E2) is an intelligent workforce scheduling solution that thinks for itself, according to rules you define.
Zachary Schmidt
COO of Looplist
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About : Looplist is an AI-driven Social Marketplace that provides each user with a uniquely tailored shopping experience.