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 Computing 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.
Erica Brescia
Chief Operating Officer of GitHub
Erica Brescia is the co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1 million deployments per month, Bitnami provides the largest source of applications and development environments to the world’s leading cloud service providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Platform, and Oracle Cloud Platform. Bitnami-packaged apps are consistent, secure, up-to-date, and can be deployed with a single click, either locally, in a virtual machine, in the cloud, or in a Docker container. Erica is a recipient of the Top 10 Women in Cloud award and serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About GitHub, XFactor Ventures: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Nigel LeGresley
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Acumatica
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Sasha Pesic
Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of RapidAPI
As VP General Counsel at Airware, Sasha manages all legal matters. Sasha has more than 19 years of legal and business experience at public and private technology companies managing legal affairs as well as corporate strategy, capital financings, and business development. He has served as General Counsel for over 10 years and as COO for over 3 years. He has worked at a range of companies including CNET Networks,LeapFrog, Lexar, and Livescribe. Prior to moving in house, Sasha worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto and at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco. Sasha has a JD from UCLA School of Law. In his free time, Sasha enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and three children.
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About RapidAPI: RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables developers to find, manage, and connect to thousands of APIs.
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.
Chris Aniszczyk
Chief Operating Officer of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Chris Aniszczyk is Chief Technology Officer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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About Capital Factory, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Linux Foundation, Open Container Initiative (OCI), TODO Group: CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Chris Brown
Chief Operating Officer of hc1
In addition to leading the daily operations of hc1.com, Chris oversees the finance, administrative and legal teams. Chris is a veteran of the software and telecommunications industries and spent the last 5 years as President and CFO of ChaCha. At ChaCha Chris launched the mobile products and guided the company’s growth to the #1 answers service worldwide, answering over 2 Billion questions since its launch in 2008. Prior to ChaCha Chris spent 20 years in the wireless sector where he held a variety of leadership roles in sales operations, finance, customer care, and strategic planning for Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications. At Nextel Chris led the customer lifecycle improvements that led to Nextel achieving the #1 rank from JD Powers in wireless customer satisfaction. Chris helped Nextel grow from $80M to over $15B in annual revenue during his tenure there. In 2005-2006 he led the planning and implementation of the Sprint – Nextel merger, one of the largest U.S. mergers in history. Chris started his career at Deloitte Haskins and Sells and is a CPA. He has a B.A. from Moravian College and a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Business Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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About hc1: Hc1 enables real-time lab stewardship and precision prescribing for health systems, laboratories and physicians.
Miten Mehta
Co-Founder & COO of KloudData Inc.
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About Fractal Analytics, KloudData Inc., Xoogler: KloudData is providing software solutions and services.
Kit Merker
COO of Nobl9
Kit Merker is COO of Nobl9 where he is focused on serving the growing Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform customer, community, and employee base. In his 20+ years of experience in large-scale software development projects, he has worked in a variety of roles from coding to engineering manager, evangelism to product management. Prior to Nobl9, Kit helped grow JFrog into a multi-billion-dollar company and worked as a product manager for Kubernetes and related container initiatives for Google Cloud. Before that he spent 10 years at Microsoft, where he worked on several products – Windows, Azure, Office 365, & Bing.
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About Nobl9: Nobl9 is a service level objective platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow.
Josh Schwartz
Chief Operating Officer of Curv
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About Curv: Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.
Brent Daily
Chief Operating Officer of Apto
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About Apto, Boomtown Accelerators: Apto is a web-based broker software for managing contacts, properties, listings, and deals.
Darren Raiguel
Chief Operating Officer of ePlus
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About ePlus: ePlus is an technology solutions provider of professional & managed services for cloud, security, data center, and digital infrastructure.
Keith Loggie
Co-Founder and COO of MerQube
Keith Loggie is the Co-Founder and COO at MerQube.
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About MerQube: Cloud-native financial indexing platform
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.
James Barsimantov
Co-Founder and COO of SupplyShift
James (Principal, Founding Member) received his doctorate in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz with a focus on environmental economics and resource management. James has extensive experience in greenhouse gas emissions quantification, climate action strategy, and supply chain sustainability. He has developed sustainability rating systems, methodologies to quantify GHG emissions, and multiple client-specific tools for GHG emissions, energy usage, and financial analysis. James has provided expert witness testimony in multiple cases on energy and climate policy and speaks frequently in both academic and corporate sustainability venues on sustainability measurement, life cycle analysis, and environmental policy. He also teaches in the Electrical Engineering and Environmental Studies Departments at UCSC.
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About EcoShift Consulting, SupplyShift: SupplyShift is a supply chain sustainability platform that offers supply chain solutions for customers and businesses.
Renaud de Viel Castel
Chief Operating Officer of Rubicon
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About Rubicon: Rubicon is a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.
Melissa Jankans
Co-Founder, COO of Launchpad
Melissa Jankans (cousin) is the COO for Launchpad and co-founder, and oversees daily operations and management of staff. Previously VP with Fidelity National Financial, she spent 17 years managing portfolios, staff, building and maintaining relationships while exceeding corporate goals and initiatives. Melissa brings her management experience with the ability to oversee multiple projects, provide strategies to achieve pivotal operational business decisions, meet project deadlines, analyze risks, develop budgets and view the overall operational and revenue goals for the company and its Stakeholders. Melissa studied at Portland State University.
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About Launchpad: Launchpad provides industry specific applications for public sector and nonprofit organizations.
Shane Means
COO of Merus
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About Merus: Merus helps attorneys, paralegals, and legal staff provide better results to their clientele.
Kevin Bong
Chief Operating Officer / Founder of AuditFile
Kevin founded AuditFile.com while he was a senior at UCLA. His brother, Steven, convinced him to turn down job offers and move back home to start the company. Prior to founding AuditFile, he worked at Deloitte and Luminous Capital. He attended UCLA and studied accounting and computer science. At AuditFile.com, Kevin runs the day to day operations of the company. Kevin is an avid mountain biker and crossfitter.
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About AuditFile: AuditFile is an information technology company that offers cloud-based auditing solutions for CPA firms.
Christopher Blisard
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Circadence
Christopher T. Blisard has led Circadence as COO since 1999. He manages day-to-day operations and is a fundamental force in creating major OEM, partnership, and cooperative technology agreements with corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Network Equipment Technologies, Accenture, Dell, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, and others.
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About Circadence: Circadence offers cyber range solutions and cybersecurity learning platforms, running on Microsoft Azure.
Martin Flom
COO of Eloquent Cloud
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About Eloquent Cloud: Cloud Services Provider
Chris Bassolino
Co-founder / COO of Zype
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About Zype: The most connected and scalable Video API. Zype is the infrastructure for digital video.
David Herr
Chief Operating Officer of Opus-3
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About Opus-3: Opus-3 is a full service Tier 3 data center headquartered in the heart of Dallas and four other global locations.
David Herr
Chief Operating Officer of Opus-3
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About Opus-3: Opus-3 is a full service Tier 3 data center headquartered in the heart of Dallas and four other global locations.
Cory Sytsma
COO of Assemble
Operations professional with a broad IT background, recognized for excellent analytical and objective problem solving skills, with the initiative and courage to drive change, while building and maintaining consensus.
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About Assemble: Assemble provides software services that deliver delightful customer experiences.
Maximilian Schuetz
Co-Founder & COO of Kisi Security
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About Kisi Security: Kisi is a unified access control system for physical spaces
Elaine Lu
Co-Founder & COO of Visbit
Elaine Lu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Visbit Inc.
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About Visbit, Visbit: Smart transmission and playback of premium quality immersive media across headsets, mobile, and web.
David Reid
Chief Operating Officer of Computer Design & Integration
Since joining Computer Design & Integration LLC in 1999, Dave Reid has built the company’s operational infrastructure from the ground up — including the design and implementation of key business systems and the establishment of operating policies and procedures. His expertise in accounting, corporate finance and operations has proven invaluable to CDI and its customers, as the company has grown from $15M to $300M+ during Dave’s tenure. Relying on the assistance and expertise of his finance/operations staff, Dave’s strength lies in facilitating the financial and business-objective aspects of the customer relationship – ensuring that each alliance is a mutually beneficial one. In addition, Dave manages the business-critical functions of Human Resources, Administrative and Sales Support and Distributor Relationships. He also is a member of Avnet’s HP Partner Council, an advocacy and education group comprised of 11 prominent IT executives from the U.S. and Canada. Dave earned his Bachelors degree in accounting and his MBA in finance from St. John’s University in New York, and spent the first 10 years of his career in various accounting, finance and operations roles with several entrepreneurial firms. During this time, Dave was instrumental in implementing the systems, processes and controls that helped these organizations achieve extraordinary revenue growth up to 600%. In Dave’s own words, “My goal is to maximize the benefits of the entrepreneurial spirit here at CDI, while providing key balance and structure for the growth that results from it”.
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About Computer Design & Integration: Computer Design & Integration providers offerings clients and businesses of all sizes the most upto date hybrid IT technology solutions.
Salil Amonkar
COO of Planning In A Box
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About Planning In A Box: Planning In A Box is a SaaS and Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI based tool to automate your supply chain planning.
Yossi Fishler
COO & Founder of Andy OS
Senior sales individual with solid ability to drive revenue growth, increase bottom line profits and assure customer satisfaction in competitive markets. Possesses the ability to thrive in challenging environments and use superb critical thinking and analytical skills in providing innovative solutions to existing or emerging problems. Versatile professional with strong leadership capabilities to effectively produce market share capture and support overall organisational goals for growth and profitability. Expertise leading sales activities within a technology environment delivering comprehensive sales presentations to various executives including Product Developers, Engineering, Operations, Product Management and CIO’s.
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About Andy OS: An Android operating system for PC and Cloud
Narinder Chabra
COO of ASI System Integration
Narinder Chabra received his Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering in India and a Master of Engineering Degree from Concordia University – Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Narinder has nearly 28 years of experience working with multinational engineering firms at various project sites. He has managed numerous large-scale, enterprise level projects responsible for implementations of new technologies, purchasing and order processing and managed inventory processes. Narinder held management positions in India, Iraq, Kuwait, and Canada. Prior to positions in the system integration sector, Narinder was the Operations Director for Frontnac Industries in Montreal, Canada. In July 2005, Narinder co-founded ASI System Integration, Inc. with his brother, Sonny Chabra. Narinder oversees procurement, warehouse operations, order processing, logistics, budgeting and infrastructure.
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About ASI System Integration: ASI System Integration provides IT services and solutions for businesses.
Erin Lewis
COO / CFO of mTusker
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About mTusker: mTusker offers businesses with a software program that enables them to manage sales, data, and production.
Lokesh Taneja
Co-Founder and COO/Sales of Cloudshim
Lokesh Taneja is the Co-Founder and COO/Sales at Cloudshim.
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About Cloudshim: Cloudshim is a one-stop shop for cloud management needs, helping users take control of their cloud.
Andrea Lagan
Chief Operating Officer of FinancialForce
Andrea Lagan is the Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at FinancialForce. As a customer experience veteran with more than 25 years of management experience, she has successfully led customer-focused teams responsible for driving business growth, customer retention and exceptional, award-winning customer experiences. Prior to FinancialForce, she was responsible for all services delivery and customer renewals and retention at Alfresco Software, as their Chief Customer Officer. Prior to that, Andrea held senior leadership positions in Customer Support, Services, and Renewal Operations for Oracle, RightNow Technologies, and NetScout Systems, and is a frequent speaker at customer experience events.
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About Betterworks, FinancialForce: FinancialForce develops cloud back-office applications for salesforce CRM.
Mike Connolly
President & Chief Operating Officer of OpenTech Alliance, Inc.
Mike Connolly is Chief Operating Officer at OpenTech Alliance, Inc
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About OpenTech Alliance, Inc.: Automation solutions for the self storage industry
Arti Devaki
COO of Mansa Systems
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About Mansa Systems: Enterprise Cloud Solutions and Services Company
Dijam Panigrahi
Co-Founder/COO of Grid Raster
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About Grid Raster: Grid Raster is a provider of cloud-based XR platforms that powers high-performance and scalable AR/VR/MR experiences on mobile devices.
Lisa Cook
COO of Cien
Lisa Cook is the COO at Cien.
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About Cien: Cien helps technology sales leaders to understand the cause of low quota attainment.
Jason Atwood
Chief Operating Officer of Arkus
One of the founding members of Arkus, Inc after over 20+ years in technology and business development in the Financial Services industry.
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About Arkus: Arkus provides ethical and fiscally responsible business services to organizations of any size.
Moshe Milman
Co-Founder and COO of Applitools
Moshe brings over 15 years of experience in leadership, engineering and operational roles in public and private companies. Prior to founding Applitools, Moshe held leadership roles at Wave Systems Corp., Safend, Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) and Sat-Smart Ltd. Moshe holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from the Technion Israel’s Institute of Technology and MBA from IDC (Wharton Business School GCP program)
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About Applitools: Applitools developed the first cloud-based software testing tool that automatically validates all the visual aspects of any web.
Barima Kwarteng
COO/Co-Founder of Sales Rabbit
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About Sales Rabbit: Sales Rabbit provides software mobile cloud based solution for field sales reps and sales organizations.
Christopher Port
Chief Operating Officer of Boomi
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About Boomi: Boomi provides cloud integration solutions via a SaaS-based platform for providers to stay connected with their consumers.
Rob Ossian
VP & Chief Operating Officer of Codero
As VP and COO, Rob Ossian leads Codero’s world-class operations, platforms, support, and data center teams. With more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in the hosting and managed services industry, Rob is driven by a passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences through business Intelligence, process simplification, and omnichannel engagement. Before joining Codero, Rob led the digital transformation of National Instruments’ online and in-product Software User Experience, in support of over $1.24 Billion in annual revenue. During his 7 years with Dell Cloud Services, Rob created an international ‘Follow-The-Sun’ network of high-complexity Support, Data Center and Operations teams in Brazil, Mexico, Ireland, Malaysia, and the United States. Most recently, Rob was integral to the creation of Codero’s globally distributed Service Delivery teams and ensuring their alignment into a World-Class Center of Excellence, unanimously focused on delivering industry-leading Managed Services experiences through data-driven and predictive AI strategies, and architect of Codero’s innovative real-time enterprise monitoring platform ‘Codero Active Monitoring’ and ‘Codero Essential Backup’ solutions.
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About Codero: Codero Hosting delivers world-class dedicated, managed, cloud hybrid hosting solutions on-demand to businesses of all sizes around the world
Bryce Chicoyne
COO and CFO of SmartBear
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About SmartBear: SmartBear is a developer of enterprise-class software development and testing tools.
Marsha Osborn
COO of Costa Coffee BaristaBot
Marsha Osborn serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Briggo.
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About Costa Coffee BaristaBot: Costa Coffee BaristaBot is an automatic coffee-dispensing machine developed using robotic technology.
Dana Berg
COO of SADA
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About SADA: At SADA, they’re all about making IT easy to understand and easy to use for everyone – and frankly, they love doing it.
Paul Benati
Chief Operating Officer of MacStadium
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About MacStadium: MacStadium provides enterprise-class Apple Mac infrastructure providing scalable, reliable, and secure private clouds.
Vinay Khosla
Chief Operating Officer of Zenyx Inc.
Vinay has over twenty-four years proven business leadership experience. Founder of two successful Enterprise SaaS businesses with a track record of driving operations, productivity, and cost control. Vinay has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Information Systems Design from Kingston University, UK.
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About Zenyx Inc.: Smart Workrooms in the Cloud for Enterprise Teams
Perry Sweet
COO of Recondo
Perry Sweet is Recondo’s Chief Client Officer and oversees global customer operations including professional services and education. Perry brings to Recondo decades of proven experience leading professional services units that break records in revenue and customer satisfaction. He joined Recondo from Allscripts, where he was Vice President of Services, Support, and Account Management for the company’s Population Health and Community Solutions. Previous to that role and Allscripts’ acquisition of Eclipsys, Perry was responsible for the growth of Professional Services at Eclipsys, including the Electronic Health Record, Revenue Cycle, and Decision Support businesses. As Vice President of First Consulting Group’s Midwest division, Perry grew services revenue by 300 percent over a four-year period. He began his career at IBM, where he held a series of progressively more senior leadership roles over 16 years including Healthcare Channel Business Unit Executive. Perry holds a BS and MS in engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
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About Recondo: Recondo connects providers, payers and patients via cloud computing solutions throughout the healthcare revenue cycle.
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.
Mischa Armada
COO of Imonggo
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About Imonggo, Lightr: Imonggo is a cloud-based POS for SMBs to manage their store inventory and the first retail solutions offered as a SaaS for free.
Steven Wang
Co-Founder & COO of RillaMarks
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About RillaMarks: RillaMarks redefines the creative process by delivering creator-focused solutions to empower the creative community.
Michael Ferneman
Co-CEO / COO of Orange Marmalade
A math wiz adept at seeing patterns develop. Mike oversees the daily operations of Orange Marmalade. Mike’s previous E-commerce accomplishments include being the co-founder of a bootstrap startup that reached #427 on the Inc. 500 list and remained on the list for 3 years running. Mike presently resides in Boulder City, Nevada and when not working he enjoys Tournament Poker, a good meal and exploring the surrounding areas.
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About Orange Marmalade: Orange Marmalade operates Orange Mailer – The Virtual Post Office.
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.
Ridley Ruth
COO of DropSuite
Ridley Ruth is currently the COO of Dropsuite and brings 20 years of industry experience to the Dropsuite team. His previous experiences are in the areas of sales, marketing, business development, and operations, where he specialized in search engine optimization. website marketing, website security, and hard drive and software computer forensic duplication. Prior to joining Dropsuite, Ridley was Vice President of Sales for StopTheHacker. a leading website security company which was acquired by CloudFlare. After the acquisition. Ridley continued with CloudFlare. running StopTheHacker as General Manager.
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About DropSuite: Dropsuite is a software platform that enables small and medium enterprises to easily backup, recover and protect their digital assets.
Ridley Ruth
COO of DropSuite
Ridley Ruth is currently the COO of Dropsuite and brings 20 years of industry experience to the Dropsuite team. His previous experiences are in the areas of sales, marketing, business development, and operations, where he specialized in search engine optimization. website marketing, website security, and hard drive and software computer forensic duplication. Prior to joining Dropsuite, Ridley was Vice President of Sales for StopTheHacker. a leading website security company which was acquired by CloudFlare. After the acquisition. Ridley continued with CloudFlare. running StopTheHacker as General Manager.
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About DropSuite: Dropsuite is a software platform that enables small and medium enterprises to easily backup, recover and protect their digital assets.
Leonard Lee
Co-Founder & COO of Dispatchr
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About Dispatchr: Dispatchr is an enterprise mobile workforce management start-up that provides sophisticated predictive workforce management system.
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.
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.
Derek Distenfield
Co-founder and COO of GSD Venture Studios
Derek Distenfield is the COO, CFO, and Co-founder of GSD Venture Studios. For over 15 years, he has blazed high impact careers in startups, corporate, and nonprofit organizations. Most recently, he launched and subsequently sold Cult Following, a successful growth marketing and brand building agency. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Operating Officer for 360 Payments, driving the people, processes, technology, marketing & finance for a $2 billion payments company. As the growth strategist behind Bunker Labs USA, he transformed a nonprofit serving veteran entrepreneurs into a premier national brand. He also ignited immediate growth in a highly regulated industry as CEO of NextGenJustice, a social enterprise startup that served as an alternative to traditional legal venues. As a founding visionary and chief evangelist, he developed a product that grew its consumer base 50% 17 of 18 months in business. Derek has been a keynote speaker at the Military Defense and Veterans Opportunities Summit, One Spark Innovation Conference, and International Conference on Business Incubation. He is also a mentor and startup business advisor for GrowthX, Google Pioneer Accelerator, and LifeFlip Media as well as a columnist for Forbes and a college lecturer at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Derek Distenfield is passionate about breaking barriers, leading innovation, and inspiring people to believe they can achieve. Known for bringing revolutionary new ideas to organizations that deliver explosive growth and for being efficient with limited resources, Derek’s high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity makes him an invaluable source of inspiration and advice for growth-oriented startups and founders. At GSD, Derek is the operational mastermind who brings a variety of resources together to best serve each portfolio company. Derek lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two children, and travels frequently to Russia to work with GSD’s international client base.
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About GSD Venture Studios, Varwin: Venture studio specializing in helping resilient entrepreneurs #GoGlobal
Jermaine Jones
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and CISO of Ostendio
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About Ostendio: Ostendio is integrated risk management platform that makes it easier to build, operate, and showcase cybersecurity programs.
Kevin Ledford
Chief Operating Officer of CloudGenera, Inc.
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About CloudGenera, Inc.: CloudGenera is a SaaS technology company specializing in decision analytics.
Mark Collier
Chief Operating Officer of OpenStack
Mark Collier joined OpenStack as Chief Operating Officer in 2012.
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About OpenStack, OpenStack: OpenStack is the most widely used open source software for building public and private clouds.
Hunter Smith
COO of MaxPlay
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About MaxPlay: MaxPlay is a game technology solutions and services provider focused on advancing game development tools for game developers of all sizes.
Phil Richardson
COO & Co- Founder of Atlas Cloud
Phil is an innovative, results-driven professional with more than 25 years’ experience providing technological solutions combined with strategic planning, project management, and the ability to lead international teams effectively. Phil has been a founding member of Atlas since summer 2010. He is the forefront behind building the management team, raising finance, leading the team to create business plans, and developing customer relationships. Before founding Atlas, he has previously worked as Senior Manager for Acxiom, Team Leader for Siemens, System Administrator for The European Commission and graduated with an MBA from Durham University Business School.
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About Atlas Cloud: Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle.
Christian Suttner
COO & CFO of Corpus.e
Christian is an expert for business development and operational excellence. He worked 4 years as management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, 2 years for a global VC, 5 years as Vice President for Infineon Technologies (Emerging Business / Strategy / Global Sales) and has been self-employed management consultant and founder/investor for 8 years.
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About Corpus.e: Corpus.e enables shoe retailers to significantly increase revenues and reduce inventory and process cost.
Nancy Murray
COO North America of WorkBook Software
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About WorkBook Software: WorkBook is a SaaS web based system including CRM, project and resource management and accounting.
Barbara Smith
Chief Operating Officer of Zen Cloud
Barbara Smith has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Zen Cloud since May 2015.
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About Zen Cloud: Zen Cloud specializes in building customized and dedicated offshore development and QA teams for companies.
Mike Lisenby
COO of CloudeAssurance
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About CloudeAssurance: First and Most comprehensive Cyber Security Rating Services (SRS) platform focused on cloud security assessments, scoring & benchmarking.
Scott Jenkins
COO of ThinkSmart
Scott joined the ThinkSmart team in 2013 as an advisor prior to coming on-board as COO. Scott brings experience of international finance and operations gained from over 20 years in technology. Originally from the UK, Scott gained a degree in Biotechnology before moving into finance with Hitachi, Sony followed by a number of high growth software product and service companies.
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About ThinkSmart: ThinkSmart is a provider of a SaaS solution that automates and digitizes business processes.
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.
Marie Taylor
COO CFO of Matter Technology Ltd
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About Matter Technology Ltd: Matter Technology provides the benefits of distributed solar to tenants through the sharing of power.
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.
Harald Weiss
President – COO of Wappwolf
Harald Weiss is the Member at zero21
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About makerSQR, MeinController, startup300, Techbold, Wappwolf, zero21: Wappwolf offers a virtual file system that automatically converts and syncs the user files with a predefined folder in Dropbox.
David Campbell
COO of Optimal Networks, Inc.
David Campbell is the Chief Operating Officer at Optimal Networks. In this role, David works closely with the CEO on strategic decisions and development and profit/loss analyses. He also manages the organization’s client relationships, professional development opportunities, and employee retention and development programs. David’s passion for service and thorough understanding of technology is evident in his professional history. He was a senior support specialist at the American Red Cross and, prior to joining Optimal, was the technical relationship manager for Computer Associates. David Campbel received his B.A. in English Literature from East Carolina University and his M.S. in Management from the University of Maryland. He has spoken at The Entrepreneurship Institute’s annual “President’s Forum,” and is actively involved in several community organizations. David Campbelis the recipient of SmartCEO’s CXO award and has contributed regularly to that publication. He is a member of the Vistage network of C-level executives and also contributes to The Common Man, Optimal’s service and technology blog.
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About Optimal Networks, Inc.: Optimal Networks provides computer and network support services to small and mid-sized businesses, associations, and law firms.
Dhaval Patel
COO of Sunflower Lab
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About Sunflower Lab: Your Partner For Custom Mobile & Web Aplication Development
David Villarina
COO of Montclare
David joined Montclare in 2012. He started his career at Ingres and later leveraged his marketing expertise and industry relationships to create Fathom Group, a marketing agency specializing in the technology industry. As Founder and President, David and his company served many of Silicon Valley’s most recognizable names. The award-winning agency was responsible for launching some of the most successful companies and products in the industry. David later ran marketing at NextWindow, a New Zealand-based touch-screen developer and manufacturer. After taking the company from obscurity to market dominance in 2 years, the company was acquired by interactive solutions provider SMART Technologies. Shortly after the company went public, David became responsible for global brands at SMART, impacting the company’s 40 million users globally.
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About Montclare: Montclare offers companies with research and consulting on the use of SaaS technology to develop their businesses.
Jason Garber
COO and Co-founder of PromptWorks
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About PromptWorks: PromptWorks develops customized web and mobile applications for remarkable companies—ranging from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises.