At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million 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 Founder operating in the Search Engine space. If you think a Founder 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.
Alex Chung
Co-Founder & CEO of Giphy
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of GIPHY. His latest startups include Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays a GE venture developing GE’s next generation of HDTVs. He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast, Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen’s R&D lab. He was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel. He was named on Business Insider’s Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, electrical/computer engineering, and graphic design.
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About Giphy: Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
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Bryan McCann
CTO and Co-Founder of you.com
Bryan McCann is a Co-Founder and CTO of You.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
Gabriel Weinberg
Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers users take control of their personal information online, without any tradeoffs. DuckDuckGo offers online privacy tools including a non-tracking alternative to Google search, and a mobile privacy browser and desktop browser extension that allows you to search and browse the web without being tracked. Since 2008, Weinberg has grown DuckDuckGo from a self-funded operation out of his basement into a business with over $25 million in revenue and 50 employees across multiple continents. He’s the co-author of Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth and a forthcoming book on mental models. Weinberg has been profiled in The Washington Post and Fast Company, and is routinely quoted in publications such as The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He holds a B.S. with honors from MIT in Physics and an M.S. from the MIT Technology and Policy Program. He resides with his wife and kids in Valley Forge, PA and is on twitter @yegg.
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About DuckDuckGo: DuckDuckGo is the Internet privacy company for everyone who’s had enough of hidden online tracking.
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Jeff Zheng
Co Founder & CEO of NewsBreak
Jeff Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at NewsBreak.
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About NewsBreak: News Break is the Nation’s #1 Intelligent Local News Platform
David Filo
Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo of Yahoo
David Filo, a founder of Yahoo and Chief Yahoo, has served as an officer of Yahoo since March 1995, and as a member of our Board since June 2014. David also served as a Director of Yahoo from its founding through February 1996. David is involved in guiding Yahoo’s vision and in many key aspects of the business at a strategic and operational level, and is a stalwart of the company’s employee culture and morale. David co-developed Yahoo in 1994 while working towards his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and co-founded Yahoo in 1995.
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Greg Mercer
Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout
Greg Mercer is the Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout.
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About Downstream, Jungle Scout: Jungle Scout is a platform for finding, launching, and selling products on Amazon.
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Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
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Pavan Sondur
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unbxd
The co-founder and CEO of Unbxd, Pavan Sondur is the architect of its global growth story. Pavan was previously a developer at NetApp and Gluster, where he built GlusterFS, its multi-petabyte open source file storage system. Pavan is passionate about technology, the internet and consumer behavior. Pavan’s views on the e-Commerce industry are frequently covered in the international media.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
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Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Vikas Sehgal
Founder & CEO of hyperDart
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About hyperDart: Mobile search and navigation app
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Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
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Adam Lyons
Founder & Board of The Zebra
Adam Lyons is Founder & Executive Chairman at The Zebra, which he started in 2012 and has grown into the most visited insurance search engine in the U.S. Adam has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List in 2017, EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist 2016, Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2015, and received the 2014 Empact 100 Award at the United Nations.
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About The Zebra: The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace.
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder of AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is a visionary entrepreneur with a background in global financial services and a track record of delivering enabling technologies to demanding markets. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Silecs and a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley. He holds a Wharton MBA and a MSc. degree in engineering.
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Silas Hundt
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Alltuition
Silas Hundt is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Brilliant.
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About Alltuition, Brilliant.org: Alltuition is an online search engine that enables collage students to find sources for financial aid.
Gerald O’Dea
President, Co-Founder of Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.
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About Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.: We are a privately held Reno, Nevada based corporation with a rich history of search technology innovation, dating back to 1999.
Chad Castorina
VP, Co-Founder of Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.
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About Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.: We are a privately held Reno, Nevada based corporation with a rich history of search technology innovation, dating back to 1999.
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Jennifer George
Co-Founder & CEO of Envy.Social
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About Envy.Social: Envy is a visual search engine, based on your location.
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Jon Vlassopulos
Founder & CEO of Tribalist
Jon Vlassopulos is the founder and CEO of Trailerpop, where he leads a mission to revolutionize the way people discover entertainment and engage with advertising. Jon has spent the last 17 years building businesses in and around the mobile, entertainment and advertising industries and as a founder, senior executive, investor and advisor, his work has driven hundreds of millions of dollars worth of innovation and delighted tens of millions of consumers. Prior to founding Trailerpop, Jon has served as CEO of award winning mobile entertainment studio skyrockit, where he managed major US carrier content platforms for companies like Sprint and built innovative branded entertainment products and experiences for companies like GAP, Intel, Coca Cola, Kraft and Zippo. Dubbed a digital media and advertising visionary by The Hollywood Reporter, Jon has created successful industry firsts in the areas of mobile, games, advertising, TV and music. Before skyrockit, Jon was the SVP of digital media and branded entertainment for Endemol, the world’s largest independent production company, where he was responsible for its worldwide digital & advertising business. Jon is credited with launching interactive TV in the US with shows like Deal or no Deal and 1 vs. 100 and with creating some of the first live, multi-platform game formats for networks like BET and TBS. He also produced games that were successful on multiple platforms including Xbox, online, and mobile and sold and produced some of the first online web series. Jon served as senior director of business development & strategic partnerships at AT&T Wireless, establishing the first phase of messaging and mobile data. At AT&T Jon ran the mobile content business and mobile marketing where he established the first mobile marketing campaigns with major brands and led the youth marketing team responsible for tracking and implementing new applications and business models Early in his career Jon was at Bertelsmann, where he helped to create BMG’s global digital strategy and held multiple executive positions with other Bertelsmann divisions in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Jon has served on the board of NATPE, the Producer’s Guild and was a founding member of the Mobile Marketing Association. He holds a degree from Durham University and is fluent in French, Spanish and Mandarin. Jon got his start as a DJ and radio host, from where he nurtured his love of music & entertainment, building a career that blended interests in original content, emerging platforms and marketing innovation.
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About A-Force Ventures, Fabric, Roblox, Tastemates, Trailerpop, Tribalist: Tribalist is a site that offers the best entertainment & lifestyle lists from top publishers to help people discover new things to do.
Sahil Jain
Co-Founder and CEO of AdStage
Sahil Jain is the CEO and Co-founder of AdStage. Prior to founding AdStage in May 2012, Sahil co-founded his first company, Y-Combinator backed Trigger.io at 20. He dropped out of UC Berkeley, where he studied Philosophy and Econ, to join AOL Corp Devt. at 19, dropped out of High School to join Yahoo! Mobile as an automation engineer at 17 and worked in the professional video game industry before that.
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About AdStage, inresto: AdStage is an advertising technology startup powering paid marketers to understand the business impact of their campaigns.
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Ricardo Lasa
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of SiteWit
Ricardo L. joined Kliken as CEO in 2009.Ricardo is a hard working serial entrepreneur that is highly involved in the technology and business community in Tampa Bay. Prior to co-founding SiteWit, Ricardo started Web Piston Website Builder, one of early platforms for small businesses to build their website and market their products and services. Through running Web Piston Ricardo realized there had to be a better way to buy paid search and started to work on SiteWit with Don in 2009. Ricardo is focusing all his efforts now in growing SiteWit and helping Search Engine Marketing firms provide better online marketing for their clients through a simple and cost efficient mechanism. Ricardo holds a bachelors degree in Management information systems, a Master of Business Administration with emphasis in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and International Management, and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems with emphasis on Database Architecture and User Interface Design, all from the University of South Florida Business School. Ricardo also attended the Harvard Business School Launching New Ventures program in 2009 and is looking forward to joining the HBS Owner/President Management program in 2010. Ricardo sits on the board of directors of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, the advisory board of the Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida Business School, and the board of directors of Filasa, a real estate development firm headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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About Kliken, SiteWit: SiteWit is a platform for small business owners to market their website on Google, Bing, and Yahoo and generate leads.
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Rony Kahan
Chairman & Co-Founder of Indeed
Rony Kahan is the CEO and co-founder of Indeed, the world’s leading job site. More people get hired with Indeed than anywhere else. Rony previously co-founded jobsinthemoney.com, the leading job site for financial professionals in 1998 and sold it to Financial News in 2003. Rony’s background includes technology consulting at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and consumer goods product marketing. He holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and a BSc Honors in Economics from Texas A&M University.
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About Capital Factory, Indeed: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
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Jim Yu
Founder & CEO of BrightEdge
Jim Yu is the Founder & CEO of BrightEdge, the leading enterprise SEO Platform. He combines in-depth expertise in developing and marketing large on-demand software platforms with hands-on experience in advanced SEO practices. Prior to founding BrightEdge, Jim was at Salesforce.com where he led a core part of the platform products team that delivered the industry’s first cloud computing platform. At Aether Systems, Jim ran the Product Management Team responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the innovative Scoutware line of wireless products. At Mercator Software (now IBM), Jim directed the development of Mercator Integration Broker, an industry leading enterprise software product, generating over $100 million in revenue. Jim holds an MBA from Stanford University. Master’s of Engineering from the University of Virginia. Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of South Dakota.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Patrick Riley
Co-Founder of Ark
Patrick Riley is a Co-Founder at Ark.
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About Ark: Ark.com is a search engine enabling users to search for old classmates, new business contacts, and friends.
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Joey Rocco
Co-Founder and COO of InstantCheckmate
Joey Rocco is the Co-Founder and COO of both Instant Checkmate and The Control Group. Instant Checkmate is a consumer grade background check service that helps people to reconnect with others and check arrest records. The Control Group is the development company behind Instant Checkmate. The Control Group also has developed a handful of other useful B2B and B2C online products. He is an alumni of the University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated in 2006.
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About InstantCheckmate, The Control Group: InstantCheckmate is an online service that provides people finder, public record and criminal record information on a subscription basis.
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Justin Wohlstadter
Founder & CEO of Wonder
Justin is the Founder and CEO of Wonder (AskWonder.com), an on-demand research service with thousands of analysts around the world. Before founding Wonder, Justin served as the Director of Product Design for Divide (acquired by Google) out of their New York, Hong Kong, and London offices. Prior to that, Justin co-founded BOLDstart Ventures, where he led or co-led investments in Divide, GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce), Klout (acquired by Lithium), Rapportive (acquired by LinkedIn), Blaze (acquired by Akamai), ThinkNear (acquired by Telenav), IndieGoGo, and Yipit, among others. Justin attended Harvard University and Oxford University, writing his master’s dissertation on how the Internet will affect access to higher education.
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About Wonder: Wonder is a research service that provides access to the intellect and fact-finding skills of a network of analysts around the world.
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Jason Hanold
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner of Hanold Associates, LLC
The founder, Managing Partner, and CEO of Hanold Associates LLC, in Chicago, Jason Hanold possesses a track record of success in conducting executive talent searches for key global firms in a range of industries. Focusing his efforts on human resources leadership positions, Hanold has placed learning officers, division leaders, talent management directors, and more with small and large companies in the public and private spheres alike. Since launching his firm in 2010, his team has served clients including Fossil, PG&E, CDW, ServiceMaster, Carnival Corporation, and Google. Jason Hanold assists clients by drawing on both his education and his considerable experience with notable firms. He completed his undergraduate studies at Illinois State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Interpersonal Communications. He also enrolled in the School of Communications at Northwestern University, where he obtained his Master of Science in Leadership Interaction and Influence. Additionally, Jason Hanold studied advanced management principles at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before founding his company, Hanold gained experience in executive-level human resources roles with Whirlpool Corporation, McKinsey & Company, Deloitte Consulting, and Russell Reynolds Associates. Recognized in the industry for his expertise, Jason Hanold has shared his insights with others in several capacities. For instance, he contributed the article “Rigorous OnBoarding Can Help Win the War for Talent” to an issue of Recruiting Edge, published by Authoria, Inc. In the article, Hanold discusses the advantages inherent in close communication between recruiters and new hires within the first year of employment. He also examines the importance of highlighting career goals from the start, which help move both companies and employees forward.
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About Hanold Associates, LLC: HR executive search firm with the speed, agility, and adaptability with relationships, reach and sophistication of the major multinationals.
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Rand Fishkin
Founder & CEO of SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is CEO of SparkToro and author of Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. He previously co-founded Moz and Inbound.org. He enjoys pasta, cocktails, income equality, dismantling the patriarchy, and, most of all, his marriage to award-winning author Geraldine DeRuiter.
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About SparkToro: SparkToro is a software company offering a search engine to discover any target audience’s influential publications, channels, and people.
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Richard Granville
Founder,Chairman & CEO of Yippy
Richard Granville is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Yippy company.
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About Yippy: Yippy provides online web destinations and services for schools, educational companies, universities and libraries in North America.
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Zeus Peleuses
Co-Founder • Chief Growth Officer of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Andrew Bocskocsky
CEO, Co-Founder of Grata
Andrew Bocskocsky is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
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Nevin Raj
COO & Co-Founder of Grata
Nevin Raj is a co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
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Alec Slocum
CEO/Co-Founder of Rentable
Alec Slocum started his first company, ABODO.com, in 2013 after graduating from UW-Madison.
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About Rentable: Rentable offers a web-based platform that specializes in online apartment search.
John Kobs
CEO, Founder & Chairman of Apartment List
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About Apartment List: Apartment List is a smart, simple and seamless renting platform that’s dedicated to making the process fair and transparent for all.
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Jack Groetzinger
Founder of SeatGeek
Jack Groetzinger is the co-founder and CEO of SeatGeek. Prior to SeatGeek he specialized in writing code for IE7 compatibility mode, a skill he is sad to observe is no longer valued in the job market. Jack studied math and econ at Dartmouth College.
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About Founder Collective, SeatGeek: SeatGeek operates a mobile-focused ticket platform and search engine that lets fans buy and sell tickets for events.
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Russell D’Souza
Co-Founder of SeatGeek
Russell D’Souza is the co-founder of SeatGeek, a venture-backed company started with Jack Groetzinger in September 2009. SeatGeek is the largest ticket search engine and help hundreds of thousands of users each month find the best sports and concert tickets on the Internet. Russell runs SeatGeek’s marketing and user-acquisition efforts including business development partnerships with major media properties like Yahoo! Sports and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, he oversees innovative PR and SEO campaigns and has a strong understanding of how early-stage companies can get traction. Prior to SeatGeek, Russell co-founded Scribnia.com, a company that allowed users to rate and review bloggers and authors. Scribnia used these ratings with complex algorithms to suggest authors to users. Scribnia was acquired in 2009 and has since been rebranded as BlogDash. Russ is a Dartmouth College graduate with a B.A. in History and worked at Monitor Consulting Group prior to SeatGeek. A New Jersey native, Russ has a special place in his heart for the MTV’s Jersey shore.
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About SeatGeek: SeatGeek operates a mobile-focused ticket platform and search engine that lets fans buy and sell tickets for events.
Ed Walters
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fastcase
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About Cornell Tech, Fastcase, Georgetown Law School: Fastcase is the smarter alternative for legal research – using data visualization, citation analysis, and mobile apps to beautify the law.
Christopher Lindblad
Founder and Chief Architect of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Liat Oren
CEO & Co-Founder of AI Patents
Liat Oren is CEO & Co-Founder @ AI Patents.
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About AI Patents: AI Patents has developed a conceptual patent search engine that allows users to efficiently retrieve highly relevant patent information.
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Alison Raby
Founder & CEO of Mariposa Search
Alison Raby As Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Alchemist of Wisdompreneurs, Alison brings a compelling mindset and skill set to her responsibilities. Alison launched her first business at 21 and has since has founded and led several successful retail and service organizations. Currently, she heads two businesses that she created over a decade ago: Mariposa Search, a retained executive search firm with a dedication to diversity, inclusion and socially-conscious business; and LifeBeforeDeath, which provides seminars, individual guidance, and resources for personal development and the cultivation of increased aliveness. Her own wisdom practice began at 17 and includes a focus of nearly twenty years studying and teaching Gestalt Awareness Practice in the Bay Area and at Esalen Institute. She Co-Founded and administered the first degree-granting holistic health program in the United States and is a licensed Professional Development Counselor. She was the Volunteer Coordinator for Wisdom 2.0 in 2013, served on the board of Wisdom 2.0 Women and chairs one of the Bay Area’s largest association of search professionals. Alison also enjoys horseback riding, cuddling with her dog Linus, evangelizing about the importance of diversity and inclusion, facing death, and cultivating aliveness.
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About Digital Raign, Esalen Institute, Mariposa Search, Wisdompreneurs: Mariposa Search is a boutique executive search firm with expertise in a variety of industries including, but not limited to, life sciences.
Puneet Talwar
Founder, CEO & Director of Munch Ado
Founder, CEO & Director at Munch Ado.
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About AY Digital, Bravvura, Bravvura Ventures, Munch Ado: Munch Ado is a fully-managed marketing / e-commerce growth platform for restaurants.
Liat Zakay
CEO and Founder of Donde Search
Liat Zakay is the CEO and founder of Donde Search. Prior to founding Donde Search, Liat was the head of Computer Networks Course at Magshimim. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Donde Search: Transforming the online shopping experience using AI, Computer Vision and NLP to develop Intuitive Visual Discovery for Retailers
Stephen Estes
Co-Founder & CEO of Wendi
Stephen Estes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wendi, a digital assistant for healthcare providers that automates the front desk and back office of a medical practice.
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About Wendi, WeRecover: Wendi is a digital app for healthcare that automates patient screening, insurance verification, scheduling, paperwork, and communications.
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Edward Roberts
Co-Founder of Sohu.com
Edward Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, and the founder and chair of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an expert in advanced technology management and entrepreneurship, a serial high-tech entrepreneur, and a leading angel investor. Professor Roberts has literally written the book on high-tech business creation and growth. His Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 1991) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management. He has authored over 160 articles and 11 books, the most recent being Innovation: Driving Product, Process, and Market Change (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2002). His major 2009 report (updated in 2011), Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT, documents the history of entrepreneurship at MIT and demonstrates the enormous economic impact generated by companies founded by MIT alumni. His own entrepreneurship is as prolific in academia as in industry. Under the direction of Professor Jay Forrester, Roberts was a founding member of the MIT System Dynamics Group in 1958. In 1990 he founded the MIT Entrepreneurship Center (now renamed the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship), which he has since chaired. He was a founder of MIT Sloan’s Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, which he chaired for more than 30 years. During the 1970s Professor Roberts co-founded multiple MIT programs in health care delivery, including an interdisciplinary PhD program in Health Policy and Management. During that time he co-directed MIT’s extensive collaboration in management and organizational development with the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 1980 Roberts co-founded and chaired for nearly 20 years, the mid-career MIT Management of Technology (MOT) Program, MIT’s first advanced degree program offered by two Schools. Most recently, in 2006 he co-created and still chairs the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship & Innovation MBA Track. During the past 50 years, Roberts has become internationally known for his research, teaching, and active involvement in many aspects of technology management, including technology strategy, corporate venturing, product innovation management, and technology-based entrepreneurship. He served as co-director of the MIT International Center for Research on the Management of Technology. When not occupied with his MIT responsibilities, Roberts is actively involved as a co-founder, board member, and angel investor in many high-tech startups. He was the CEO and co-founder of Pugh-Roberts Associates, Inc. (1963), an international management consulting firm specializing in system dynamics, strategic planning, and technology management, sold in 1990 to PA Consulting Group. He is a director of Medical Information Technology, Inc. (Meditech)—a leading producer of healthcare information systems which he co-founded in 1969. He is also a co-founder and a director of Sohu.com, Inc. (1995), a leading Chinese Internet firm that was among the earliest in China. In addition, he co-founded and served for 18 years as a general partner of the Zero Stage Capital and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, a group of venture capital funds investing in early-stage technology-based firms. Later Roberts became a co-founding (and then the longest serving) member of CommonAngels, Inc., the largest angel group in Greater Boston. Over many years Dr. Roberts has been a director and co-founder of numerous emerging technology companies, including Advanced Magnetics (now AMAG Pharmaceuticals), Interactive SuperComputing (sold to Microsoft), InTouch Systems (sold to Comverse Technologies), Inverness Medical Technologies (now part of Johnson & Johnson), Pegasystems, and Tyco Laboratories (now Tyco International). In addition to Meditech and Sohu.com, Roberts’s current board memberships include Cooper Human Systems, Daktari Diagnostics, DynoMedia (Beijing), PR Restaurants, and Visible Measures. Professor Roberts also served on advisory boards for many companies and government agencies, including the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1967-1970) and the U.S. Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Board (1967-1972), as well as task forces of the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Research Council, and the White House. He has been involved for many years in efforts to stimulate the high-tech entrepreneurship of Israel. Roberts holds four degrees from MIT: an SB and SM in electrical engineering, an SM in management, and a PhD in economics.
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About Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, MIT – Sloan School of Management, Sohu.com: Sohu offers a network of web properties and community-based products and services for Chinese users.
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Bruce Ge
Founder & CEO of Jobs2Careers
Bruce Ge is the CEO and founder of Jobs2Careers, which he founded in 2010. Bruce leads branding, strategy, financing, recruiting, and training for the company. His innovative and forward-thinking approach to employee growth has lead to the implementation of weekly management training sessions for all staff who have the ambition to become leaders. This provides qualified management candidates to the company, as well as an excellent opportunity for employees to advance their careers. Under Bruce’s leadership, Jobs2Careers has had the honor of making the Inc. 5000 list two years in a row. Bruce is an engineer by trade, with 24 years in the software field, first with Siebel Systems, then Oracle. He enjoys studying history, and often incorporates lessons learned from history into his management training sessions. Bruce holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University and a M.S. from the University of Illinois, both in computer science.
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About Jobs2Careers, Talroo: Jobs2Careers is the leading programmatic marketplace to find talent.
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Frost Prioleau
President and CEO, Co-Founder of Simpli.fi
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About Simpli.fi: Simpli.fi is the leading advertising automation platform that provides workflow software and programmatic advertising solutions to over 1,500 agencies, advertisers, and media buying organizations.
Our solutions enable our customers to perform more effectively and efficiently, and maximize ROI on their advertising spend across CTV, mobile, display, and other media types.
Our platform delivers performance on budgets of all sizes, executing over 120,000 campaigns for 30,000 advertisers in a typical month. Simpli.fi’s investors include leading private equity firms Blackstone and GTCR.
Todd DiRoberto
Co-Founder and COO of Weedguide
Todd DiRoberto is the CEO at Atlas Investment Ventures, LLC.
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About Atlas Investment Ventures, Atlas Marketing Partners, Weedguide, Wge: Artificial Intelligence Driven Vertical Search Engine Platform for Cannabis
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Victor Penev
Founder & CEO of Edamam
Victor Penev is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Edamam. He is also a mentor and investor in food technology startups and advises early stage entrepreneurs. Previous to Edamam, Victor co-founded and sold Bulgaria’s largest Internet Company, NetInfo BG. Victor Penev also ran the international digital business of Playboy Enterprises, and was instrumental in starting the digital marketing efforts of BMG and in creating key e-commerce capability for Bertelsmann’s book clubs. Victor holds a MBA from Stanford.
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About Edamam: Edamam provides nutrition solutions to businesses in the food, health, and wellness sectors by leveraging its cloud-based structures.
Ahmed AbouElezz
CEO & Founder of FITT Finder
Founder & CEO at FITT Finder, Inc. | Top 50 innovative companies in the US | Winner of ATX hackfor4change 2018 | A fitness industry expert on a mission to democratize access to the world’s fitness information.
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About FITT Finder: FITT Finder is the world’s first search engine for fitness activities and services
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Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
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James Hu
Founder & CEO of Jobscan
Founded two companies. One in China and one in the U.S. Founder & CEO of Jobscan.co. Former co-founder of Wodache. Ex-Microsoft, Groupon, Kabam Games.
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About Boom Supersonic, Humanly.io, Jobscan: Building the best tools for job seekers with AI
Alex Simon
Co-Founder & CEO of Elude
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About Elude: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Frank Scerbo
Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Elude
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About Elude, EON Gaming: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Ivan Smirnov
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Elude
Ivan Smirnov is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Elude.
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About Elude: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
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Jeffrey Tinsley
Founder and CEO of MyLife
As a serial Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey founded MyLife.com in 2002 and is the company’s CEO and Chairman. He is responsible for the company’s overall direction and strategies toward building the leading social site to help members find and maintain personal AND work connections, all in one place as they define the Personal Relationship Management (PRM) category. Through his direction, MyLife.com has grown consistently to more than 60 million registered members, is adding more than 2 million per month, prompting VentureBeat to write the recent article entitled, “Is MyLife the biggest social site you’ve never heard of?” The company has received many accolades, and Jeffrey himself was recognized as Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009. Previously, Jeffrey was a founder and CEO of GreatDomains.com, the world’s leading secondary domain name marketplace. The company was acquired by publicly-traded VeriSign for $100 million. Jeffrey is also involved in a number of private Internet companies as an investor and advisor.
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About MediaPass, MyLife, MyLife: MyLife provides the leading Reputation Platform, making consumers safer & marketplaces more trusted.
Kathy Zhou
Founder of Queenly
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About Queenly: Queenly is a marketplace and search engine for the formalwear industry.
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Daniel Shaked
CEO & Founder of Home365
Daniel Shaked founder & CEO at Home365.
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About Home365: Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before.
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Matthew Craig
Co-Founder & CEO of Blink
Matt spent five years working as Page One Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Boston University and has worked for Harvard University, The Nieman Foundation and the VII Photo Agency. When he isn’t evangelizing about Blink, Matt can be found researching vintage Porsches or toting a Leica around Brooklyn with members of MJR, an international group of artists he founded in 2007.
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About Blink: Headquartered in New York, Blink is a platform that connects the world’s best storytellers to companies that have a story to tell.
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Dmitry Bokotey
Founder & CTO of nuPSYS
Dmitry founded nuPSYS as the CTO. He brings a multi-technology skill set and real-world experience having worked with a variety of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and public sector. Dmitry is a world-recognized technology leader with a proven track record as demonstrated by his 5 CCIE certifications. A feat few in the industry have accomplished. Dmitry is also an accomplished author, publishing several books in the technology area. Dmitry brings all of his expertise to nuPSYS not only as a highly-trained specialist but also as a leader who is in charge of staff’s technological development and application design. Dmitry is deeply involved with setting direction for nuPSYS and is largely responsible for creating the intuitive, compelling user experience.Prior to joining nuPSYS, Dmitry worked at Cisco for 12 years where he developed his skill set and expertise in networking protocols and isolating and solving highly complex issues. As a Senior Network Architect he became a leader in team building and the thought leadership process. He and his teams contributed to more than a billion dollars of worldwide revenue for Cisco and supported close to 200 networks for large enterprise and service provider customers. For many years, Dmitry has presented at Cisco Live speaking about Cisco’s new technological advancements. He is highly respected amongst his industry peers.Prior to joining Cisco, Dmitry worked at KPMG Consulting as Senior Network Architect. As part of one of the world’s largest technology consulting firms, Dmitry supported the most complex designs and served as a technical advisor for all service provider and enterprise projects involving Cisco products. At the time, Dmitry Bokotey was one of the youngest CCIE’s worldwide.
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About nuPSYS: nuPSYS offers technology solutions that focus on the visualization of data networks and centers, and video camera applications.
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Garrett Mehrguth
CEO & Co-Founder of Directive
Garrett Mehrguth is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Directive, a search marketing agency for enterprise brands headquartered in Irvine, California. Mehrguth, fascinated by the role search marketing plays in empowering companies and people to connect, has dedicated the past five years toward that passion. Since its establishment in 2014, Mehrguth has led Directive in its expansion of five new locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Texas; and London. Directive’s year-over-year growth rate has increased by 300 percent and now boasts a team of more than 50 people over nine nationalities from its headquarters and home of operations in Orange County. Additionally, he is committed to bridging the gender gap that plagues the marketing technology; currently, 25 percent of Directive’s leadership team is comprised of women. As a thought leader, Garrett has been published by Salesforce, Marketing Land, Moz, Marketo, Search Engine Land, Ahrefs, Convince & Convert, Search Engine Journal, and more. He also speaks at Digital Summit, State of Search, General Assembly, MozCon, etc. Additionally, he has been a guest speaker on the following podcasts: The DigitalMarketer Podcast, Salesforce, Mixergy – Startup Stories with 1000+ entrepreneurs and businesses, The Growth TL;DR, Edge of the Web and more. He earned a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from Azusa Pacific University and an MBA. Outside of work, when he’s not writing or reading up on digital marketing and the latest trends, Garrett spends his time indulging in his passion for the ocean, sailing, and fishing with his wife.
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About Directive: Directive is the leading B2B and enterprise search marketing agency that companies trust to scale their business.
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Kellee Khalil
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Lover.ly
Kellee Khalil, an Entrepreneurial Studies Graduate from USC, is Lover.ly’s fearless leader. Kellee started the company after realizing firsthand the inefficiencies of the wedding industry. She moved to NYC, invested her post-grad savings and launched Lover.ly in February of 2012. Prior to founding Lover.ly, Kellee ran Business Development at Be Inspired PR, the leading PR firm servicing the luxury wedding market. Kellee brings a high level of leadership, vision, and a strong understanding of the tech industry, while providing the team with instrumental enthusiasm and support.
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About Engage Media Group, Lover.ly: Loverly is an online media platform and free wedding planning newsletter helping savvy couples plan their dream wedding.
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Leila Khalil
Founder, CEO of Lover.ly
Leila Khalil is a Founder at Lover.ly
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About Engage Media Group, Lover.ly: Loverly is an online media platform and free wedding planning newsletter helping savvy couples plan their dream wedding.
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Scott Burkhead
Co-Founder of List It Local, Inc.
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About List It Local, Inc.: Buy, sell and donate in your community.
Lindsay Burkhead
Co-Founder of List It Local, Inc.
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About List It Local, Inc.: Buy, sell and donate in your community.
New Melchizedec S
Founder of Expertrec
Cloudinfra/Cloudbash is founded by Ex-Google guys, with immense experience handling big data and machine learning. CloudInfra builds soft infrastructure services on the cloud. Our flagship product helps users use linux power tools (grep, sed, awk, …) on their data stored on cloud. Imagine running a grep on Tbs of data stored on S3 with in few seconds. Not just that, we allow you to run map-reduce kind of operations all in your familiar linux commands, no java/pig scripts to learn.
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About cloudbash, Expertrec: Use machine learning to drive more sales through search , product recommendations and other customer interaction points
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Arvind Raichur
CEO & Co-Founder of MrOwl
Arvind is the CEO and co-founder of both the MrOwl and DrOwl companies. MrOwl is a Social Cloud Storage™ platform that brings together the best of search, social, and the cloud in one app. Consumers create public or private collections organized with subtopics, links, documents, and media. And, users can upload gigabytes of data with a few clicks and have it automatically organized into a collection that is shareable and searchable. It’s never been easier to connect and collaborate with endless communities and discover what others have shared. DrOwl is a medical platform built on patented technology, that provides a safe place to store your complete medical records. It was built to store, organize, search, and share your digital medical records on demand. Once a user securely stores their medical records, DrOwl uses AI and machine learning to provide the user with a patient portal that includes trusted, doctor-curated information that is customized for each user and makes their medical information easier to understand. DrOwl users can also share their customized patient portal with caregivers or family members to help participate in their healthcare decisions. DrOwl’s enables users to initiate telehealth sessions and allows their caregivers or family members to join in the secure telemedicine video call. DrOwl provides a free electronic screening and monitoring solution to help protect the residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and more. Arvind attended the University of New Mexico where he graduated with a double B.A. in economics and political science and a Juris Doctorate. He has been a frequent speaker on internet trends, and in 2012, he was honored as one of the Top Performing CEOs. With his commitment to superior service and a workplace culture that puts people first, Arvind has become a recognized leader in driving his companies to become one of New Mexico’s Best Places to Work.
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About DrOwl, Forbes San Francisco Business Council, MrOwl: MrOwl is a social cloud storage platform that brings together the best of search, social, and the cloud all in one app.
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Becky Raichur
CTO & Co-Founder of DrOwl and MrOwl
Becky Raichur is an innovative entrepreneur who has co-founded several companies including:
1. DrOwl is a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform built on patented technology that empowers people to access, understand, and share their medical records to help improve their care and outcomes.
Your health records belong to you, the patient. Access them for free on DrOwl and learn more about your health. Connect to thousands of medical providers, including the VA and Medicare, and receive a personalized Patient Portal that can be shared on-demand with caregivers, providers, and family members as needed.
DrOwl combines AI and machine learning to create a Patient Portal with your conditions, medications, and allergies in easy-to-understand language with physician-curated content from trusted resources. Making it easier than ever to understand more about your health.
Users can also save up to 80% on prescriptions and set medication and refill reminders.
One health record, infinite uses.
2. MrOwl, where she is the CTO. MrOwl is a Social Cloud Storage™ platform that allows people to store, share and simultaneously search their cloud, computer files, and the internet all together because they all belong in one search box. It’s never been easier to connect and collaborate with endless communities and discover what others have shared.
Becky Raichur has over 20 years of experience in the internet space including co-founding four technology companies. She previously served as a director for government contractors serving the US Department of Defense. Her graduate work focused on Applied Math and High-Speed Databases. Becky has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving ethical Internet use.
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About DrOwl: DrOwl is a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform built on patented technology that empowers people to access, understand, and share their medical records to help improve their care and outcomes.
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Wil Reynolds
Founder & Associate of SEER Interactive
Wil likes helping people and businesses grow. A former teacher with a knack for advising, he’s been helping Fortune 500 companies develop SEO strategies since 1999. Seeing the need for an agency that does good by its team, clients and community, Wil started Seer Interactive in 2002 as a one-man operation out of his living room. Today, Seer is home to over 100 employees across Philadelphia and San Diego. As Seer’s Director of Digital Strategy, Wil develops strategies and innovations to help clients build traffic and make money. His methods have shaped the search industry worldwide, and he speaks regularly at marketing conferences across the globe. In his free time, Wil hangs out with his wife Nora, son Rio and pup Coltrane. He also serves Philadelphia’s homeless and runaway youth at Covenant House, where he participates in a yearly sleep out.
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About SEER Interactive, SEER Interactive: SEER Interactive is an online marketing agency that helps clients with SEO ranking and analytics.
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Daniel Yomtobian
CEO & Founder of Advertise.com
As the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Advertise.com, Daniel Yomtobian is one of Internet advertising’s top innovators and is a recognized expert in online marketing. Daniel began founding successful Internet companies while still in college in the mid 1990’s. Daniel co-founded WayInternet and Findology, his first advertising companies, & sold his shares in 2001 to pioneer ABCSearch, which has since become the largest privately-owned pay-per-click search network. In 2008, Daniel expanded his search marketing expertise in a new direction with the launch of the exciting new social search engine; Scour.com. Scour has since gone on to win two prestigious awards: a Mashable Award & the CNET Webware 100 Award. Daniel’s vision of creating a comprehensive, one-stop solution for the Internet Advertiser has come closer in 2009 with the acquisition of the brand, Advertise.com. Daniel has since rebranded ABCSearch & is in the process of building up Advertise.com into the Internet’s premier marketing site. Currently, Advertise.com serves over 10 billion ad impressions each month, & is growing exponentially. Daniel is a driving force in the Internet space, & brings his cutting-edge expertise to shaping Internet advertising’s unlimited future.
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About Advertise.com, Bian Capital, YPO: Advertise.com is a platform that enables advertisers to reach a wider audience through search engines and publisher properties.
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Matan Gill
Co-Founder & CIO of LiveBy
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About LiveBy: LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content.
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Cory Scott
Founder & CEO of LiveBy
Cory founded LiveBy a new B2B Real Estate Technology company in 2015. Their products match consumers and professionals with the best locations to live, build and grow. Cory graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan and the NMotion accelerator.
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About LiveBy: LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content.
Devin Serago
Co-Founder of Thrill
Devin is an entrepreneur who re-located from the United States to India to pursue opportunities in emerging markets, especially in the mobile space. He is currently co-founder of Thrill, an exclusive, safe mobile dating platform aimed at India’s youth and backed by investors in India & Singapore.
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About Frivil, Hale Therapeutics, Hava Health, Pāpr, Thrill: Thrill is a software companies involved in the creation of several different social media applications.
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Ajit Gupta
Chairman and Founder of JantaKhoj
Ajit Gupta is a Silicon Valley entrepreneuer and founder of Aryaka Networks, AAyuja, JantaKhoj and Speedera Networks. Under his leadership, content delivery network Speedera became one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley and in the North American technology industry, as ranked by both Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) acquired Speedera in 2005 for a stock transaction worth more than $500 million within one year. He founded JantaKhoj in 2009, a premium background verification service provider that built the first and largest people search engine covering more than 500 million Indians. In the same year, he founded Aryaka, a Software Defined Network Platform and the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and Application Acceleration solution. He remains active as Chairman of AAyuja, a Sales and Marketing enablement and consulting firm he founded in 2006 for mid-sized technology companies. He has worked with premier global VC firms to raise more than $100 million to fund these successful ventures. Mr. Gupta holds 21 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management. He is a Notable Alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (IITR) and a Founding Board Member of IITR’s Heritage Fund.
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Andreas Reiffen
Founder and CEO of Crealytics
Andreas Reiffen is an entrepreneur, marketing technologist and an expert in data-driven advertising. Between 2006 and 2008 Andreas operated as a PPC super affiliate working for Zappos and other retailers. In 2008 he founded crealytics, the Berlin-based provider of camato, the leading PPC campaign management technology for search ads and Google Shopping. Crealytics has grown to service 4 of the top 10 European fashion retailers in 23 languages, generating over $750M in client revenue in 2014. This growth was recognized with a 3rd place finish in the 2014 Deloitte technology Fast 50.
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About Crealytics: Crealytics supports leading international eCommerce companies to drive performance in product advertising and paid search.
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Ali Behnam
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Riviera
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About Riviera: Riviera is an innovative Executive Recruiting firm focused exclusively on software Engineering, Product and Design executive search.
Nicolas Dupont
CEO, Executive Chairman, and Founder of Cyborg
I’m the founder of Cyborg Inc., a New York-based enterprise software firm. We develop encrypted data analytics solutions for companies in highly-regulated sectors. I’ve already told you more than I should have.
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HP Jin
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telenav
HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones and within vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America. Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
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About Telenav: Accelerating towards a connected car future with smarter, easier, safer innovation.
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Von Raees
CEO & Co-Founder of Kraver
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About Kraver: Kraver is the IBM Watson – powered food discovery engine.
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Stephen Scarr
CEO & Co-Founder of Info
A seasoned entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience managing businesses, Stephen Scarr leverages a strong track record of analytical and digital marketing expertise. As Chief Executive Officer of eContext, and parent company Info.com, Scarr directs strategic decision-making and oversees partnerships. Scarr co-founded Info.com in London in 1999 and helped grow the meta-search platform to more than 7 million unique users in 2012. Scarr leads his 50 strong Chicago-based team in the development of eContext, which offers the world’s first categorical repository of search engine marketing keywords.
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About Info: Info.com is a search engine portal that returns results from other search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.
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Otis Gospodnetic
Founder of Sematext
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About New York CTO Club, Sematext, The Apache Software Foundation: Sematext is an all-in-one observability solution that provides key insights into front-end and back-end performance.
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Quin Hoxie
Founder of Swiftype
Quin Hoxie is the founder of Swiftype, which is the easiest way to add great search to your website or mobile app.
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About Swiftype: Swiftype is a provider of SaaS-based site and enterprise search platform used to fully customize the search experience on websites.
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Andrew McKay
CEO, Co-Founder of Kona Search
Andrew is Co-Founder and CTO of Kona DataSearch. He has over 25 years’ experience in executive, marketing, sales, and engineering positions in the software industry. In the last 10 years Andrew has been active in the search industry, as an executive at Fast Search & Transfer, which sold to Microsoft in 2008, and as a Co-Founder of Attivio.
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About Kona Search: Kona Search develops advanced search and data access for Salesforce users, administrators, and sales executives.
Daniel Harman
Founder, Principal of Growth Friday
Strategic Product Leader with 12+ years of expertise in product management, strategy, innovation, process improvement and team development in startup environments. Founder of Digital Product Labs™, a Los Angeles product agency offering product leadership, strategy, and product management services to start-ups and early-stage businesses.
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About Digital Product Labs™, Growth Friday, Rebate, The Stable Experience, Toptal: Growth Friday is a digital marketing agency.
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Dai Truong
Founder / CEO of Upside Talent
Dai Truong serves as Manager, Investments for ZX Ventures (AB InBev’s venture arm) where he invests in innovative/disruptive companies in/around the beverage space. Before joining ZX Ventures, Dai served as Director of Business Development at Help.com – an Austin-based customer service software company. Previously, he was an Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures, Senior Analyst on the Technology Investment Banking team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Analyst on the Internet/Software team at Thomas Weisel Partners. Dai graduated from UCLA, where he received his BA in Economics and Southeast Asian Studies.
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About Upside Talent: Executive search marketplace
Alston Ghafourifar
CEO & Co-Founder of Entefy
Alston’s passion is creating solutions that improve lives. With the curiosity of a social scientist and an engineer’s precision, he loves pushing the status quo to solve the unsolvable. As Entefy’s CEO, Alston leads the charge toward the vision of a more meaningfully connected world. His thirst for problem-solving has led to groundbreaking innovations in communication, privacy, and security such as: Zero-knowledge Privacy with Server-side Encrypted Search, Static Server Authentication of Dynamic Client-side Hashing, Multi-Dimensional Adaptive Content Permissioning, and Multi-format Communication-based Social Distance. Alston graduated from UC Santa Cruz at age 17 with a B.A. in Politics. He finds it hard to imagine life without Swedish Fish and next-day shipping.
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About Entefy: Entefy is an advanced AI and process automation company.
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Brienne Ghafourifar
Co-Founder | Product & Operations Executive of Entefy
Brienne acknowledges that it might be physically impossible to meet every single person on the planet, but she’s willing to try. She excels at forging connections with strategic partners that help build and grow Entefy’s capacity to serve its customers. A leader among young entrepreneurs, her passion has galvanized support for Entefy at an inspiring rate. At age 17, she set the world record as the youngest college graduate to raise $1 million in venture funding; that figure has since grown to $17.7 million. Today, Entefy’s valuation has reached $150 million. She holds a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University. Covered by Forbes, Fast Company, CNN Money, NBC, and The Huffington Post. Being filmed for a documentary about women in technology, “She Started It.”
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About Entefy: Entefy is an advanced AI and process automation company.
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Joshua Blumenfeld
CEO and Founder of MyJobHelper.com
Josh Blumenfeld is a New York-based serial entrepreneur who has started multiple companies in the online marketing space. Josh is considered an expert in online customer acquisition, advertising, and opt-in email marketing. His most recent company MyJobHelper.com was named to the Inc. 500 as the 282nd fastest growing private company in America. In 2016, MyJobHelper was recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing tech companies in America.
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About HiredNurses.com, MyJobHelper.com: MyJobHelper.com is one of the fastest growing job sites in the world.
Jason Kintzler
Founder/CEO of Pitchengine
Jason Kintzler is the Founder and CEO of Lifekey, a new wearable technology company on a mission to connect people in new ways — starting with personal medical information. Lifekey gives instant, secure access to personal medical data and emergency contact notifications when its needed them most. Simply tap the device from any smartphone to check-in with family or access vital medical data. Jason also founded and is the CEO of Pitchengine, a PR software company whose products are used by more than 50,000 brands and small businesses worldwide. Best known for easy-to-use marketing software, Pitchengine is used by the world’s largest brands including Walmart, Pepsico, Budweiser and more. Jason is the author of “The New American Startup” which details the story of how western independence and self‐reliance led him to create a disruptive technology from the unlikeliest of places.
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About Lifekey, Pitchengine: PitchEngine is PR platform that enables businesses to create content to share via social networks, search engines and mobile devices.
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Grace Gee
Co-Founder & CEO of HoneyInsured
Founder at HoneyInsured.
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About HoneyInsured: Health Insurance Recommendation Engine
Eugene Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of HoneyInsured
Founder at HoneyInsured.
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About HoneyInsured: Health Insurance Recommendation Engine
Brandon Baker
Founder & CEO of HubTheme
Brandon Baker is the Founder and CEO of HubTheme and Hubly.io.
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About HubTheme, Truu Digital: HubSpot Custom Themes, Modules & Services
Eric Olson
Co-Founder & CEO of Consensus
Eric Olson is the Co-Founder and CEO at Consensus.
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About Consensus: Consensus is an ad-free, specialized search platform that delivers everyday people better scientific information using AI.
Christian Salem
Co-Founder and CPO of Consensus
Christian Salem is the Co-Founder and CPO at Consensus.
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About Consensus: Consensus is an ad-free, specialized search platform that delivers everyday people better scientific information using AI.
Jason Kulick
President, Co-Founder of Indiana Integrated Circuits
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About Indiana Integrated Circuits: IIC provides packaging technology that delivers monolithic-like device performance while achieving true heterogeneous integration.
Gary Bernstein
Co-Founder of Indiana Integrated Circuits
Gary H. Bernstein received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, with honors, in 1979 and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, in 1981. During the summers of 1979 and 1980, he was a graduate assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in the summer of 1983 interned at the Motorola Semiconductor Research and Development Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1987, after which he spent a year there as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined the department of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1988 as an assistant professor, and was the founding director of the Notre Dame Nanoelectronics Facility (NDNF) from 1989 to 1998. Dr. Bernstein received an NSF White House Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992. Promoted to rank of professor in 1998, he served as associate chairman from 1999 to 2006. Bernstein was named the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2010. Prof. Bernstein has authored or co-authored 13 patents and more than 275 publications in the areas of electron beam lithography, nanomagnetics, quantum electronics, high-speed integrated circuits, electromigration, MEMS, and electronics packaging. Bernstein was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006. As co-author, he received the Sensors and Transducers Journal 2006 award for Best Paper of the Year. As lead author for research on high-performance electronic packaging, he and his group received the 2007 award for Best Paper of the Year from IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging. In 2014, he received the inaugural Indiana Master of Innovation Award from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. and Forbes Inc., and in 2016 received the 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award, both for his “Quilt Packaging®” microchip packing technology. Bernstein is cofounder of Indiana Integrated Circuits, LLC based in South Bend, Indiana.
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About Indiana Integrated Circuits, University of Notre Dame: IIC provides packaging technology that delivers monolithic-like device performance while achieving true heterogeneous integration.
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William White
Co-Founder / CTO of Fluence
William White is a co-founder and chief technology officer at [Fluence, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fluence). Prior to this position, he worked as a senior technical manager at AOL. He was also employed at Yahoo! and Slacker Radio. White holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from [McGill University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mcgill-university) and a certificate in entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About Fluence: Helping curators and creators better connect.
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Emad Fanous
Co-Founder of YellowBot
Founder & CEO of Connectivity.
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About Connectivity, Control.My.ID, Weblocal.ca, YellowBot: YellowBot is a hyper-local search engine and community discussion resource.
Kieran Klaassen
Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering of Vinebase
Kieran Klaassen is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Vinebase.
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About Vinebase: Vinebase is building a DTC platform to connect wine lovers with small wineries.
Bob O’Donnell
Founder and Chief Analyst of TECHnalysis Research
Bob O’Donnell, the president, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research, has a lengthy, multi-faceted career in the technology business. He is widely regarded as an expert in the technology market research field and his original research and advice is used by executives in large technology firms all over the world. A little more than a year after the firm’s founding, O’Donnell made it onto AR Insight’s list of most influential analysts. The firm’s research has been cited many times by major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, Investor’s Business Daily and more. The Harvard Business Review recently partnered with the firm for a webinar on mobility trends in the enterprise. O’Donnell writes a weekly column/blog for Tech.pinions.com that’s also published on re/code, TechSpot, SeekingAlpha and LinkedIn, and writes a biweekly column for the Tech section of USAToday. He also occasionally writes additional guest columns for re/code and other digital publications. In addition, he participates in a weekly podcast for Tech.pinions. Prior to founding TECHnalysis Research, O’Donnell served as Program Vice President, Clients and Displays for industry research firm IDC. He spent 14+ years at IDC, rising from a Research Manager covering monitor and display technologies to a highly successful VP responsible for the company’s worldwide mobile phone, tablet, PC and thin client research, as well as the ODM production of notebooks. O’Donnell also led IDC’s display research program, which tracked both the sales and technology trends affecting the worldwide market for computer monitors, televisions and related technologies, as well as the market for large LCD panels, touch panels and ODM production of monitors and TVs. During his last five years there, O’Donnell worked extensively with sell side and buy side financial clients around the world through the company’s Investment Research Services (IRS) and Tech Investor groups and their partnerships with Instinet and Bloomberg TradeBook. O’Donnell is the author of “Personal Computer Secrets,” originally published by IDG Books, a 936-page reference volume on all aspects of computer technology and usage. For 10 ½ years, he also hosted “O’Donnell on Technology,” which was selected as the Best Computer Audio program in the country—either over the air or on the web—in the 15th Annual Computer Press Awards competition. The program was the #1-rated computer call-in talk show in Silicon Valley. Mr. O’Donnell is a highly regarded speaker and is regularly featured on CNBC (US and Asia), WSJ Digits and Bloomberg TV, and has done numerous appearances on CNN, Canada’s CBC and China’s CCTV. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and was featured at a USC School of Medicine conference on wearable computing trends. O’Donnell is widely quoted in the major press, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USAToday, Forbes, BusinessWeek and many more. O’Donnell began his work in the high-tech industry at Music Technology magazine, and then moved on to the editor role at Electronic Musician magazine. During his tenure there, the magazine was awarded a prestigious Western Publisher’s Association Maggie Award for Best Special Interest publication. After several years in the music industry, O’Donnell became Executive Editor/Reviews at MacWeek, where he helped create MacWeek’s lab facilities and was involved in the development of the MacBench benchmark. He also served as Features Editor at PC/Computing magazine and as Executive Editor of InfoWorld Electric/InfoWorld.com, the website for InfoWorld magazine. For 3+ years, O’Donnell wrote InfoWorld Electric’s popular “Plugged In” weekly column, which was featured numerous times at CNN.com. His writing has appeared in magazines all over the world. Other television work that O’Donnell has done includes serving as the computer expert for Knowledge TV’s “Meeting the Challenge” program. He also was a featured reporter on the nationally syndicated “Silicon Valley Business” program and was a frequent guest on several other shows, including TechTV’s (formerly ZDTV) “Silicon Spin” and “Call for Help” and BayTV’s “All Consuming.” O’Donnell is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, with a B.A. in the Program of Liberal Studies, an interdisciplinary humanities program based on the Great Books. Just for fun, O’Donnell started a horn-based band called The Headliners, for which he plays trombone and composes original songs.
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About TECHnalysis Research: TECHanalysis Research provides strategic consulting and market research services to technology vendors.
Sameer Maggon
Founder and CEO of SearchStax
Product and technology executive for high-tech companies. Proven track record of building teams, driving KPIs and creating shareholder value. Technology expertise in search, cloud, analytics and high scale architectures.
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About Productsy, SearchStax: SearchStax is powerful search made easy.