Mark Smith
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 CTO’ operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Peter Ludwig
CTO and Co-founder of Applied Intuition
Peter Ludwig is the co-founder and CTO of Applied Intuition.
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About Applied Intuition: Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Armon Dadgar
Co-Founder & CTO of HashiCorp
Armon (@armon) has a passion for distributed systems and their application to real world problems. He is currently the CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings distributed systems into the world of DevOps tooling. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Konstantin Vilk
CTO of QuSecure
Konstantin Vilk has a passion for making a difference using advances in technology. He has over 15 years of experience in cyber security, technology infrastructure, product design and development. He has worked with some of the best-recognized names in Biotechnology, US government, Consumer Goods and Financial Services sectors over the course of his career. Currently he is fueling his passion for developing new practices and approaches to Cyber Security.
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About Gimmel Entrepreneurs Fund, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Said Tabet
Senior Technology Strategist, Corporate CTO Office of Dell EMC
Said Tabet is the Lead Technologist for IoT Strategy at DellEMC. Tabet is a member of the Object Management Group Board of Directors, Principal EMC Representative to the Industrial Internet Consortium and member of its steering committee. Tabet is Chair of INCITS Secure Cloud Computing Group, ISO Editor of Cloud Security SLA. Tabet is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance International Standardization Council. With over two and a half decades in the industry, Tabet played the role of a Technology Advisor to large multinational companies. He contributes to technology innovation forums, guides startups through mentorship and coaching. Tabet works on challenges around Industrial IoT, connected vehicles, AI/deep learning, Big Data analytics and security, risk management and semantic data.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Balachandran Rajendran
CTO, EDA of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Flavio Devide
IOT Edge CTO & GTM Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Paul Warren
CTO, Cloud Platform Team of Dell EMC
Paul is the CTO of Dell EMC’s Cloud Platform Team. With over 20 years experience in the software industry most of which has been spent working on APIs, frameworks and tooling for Developers. He is a proponent of Cloud Foundry and Spring and an advocate for open source software in general. He is the creator of the open source libraries Spring Content and Ginkgo4j (for test-driven development). He is a committer on several CloudFoundry projects including UAA and Volume Services and helped design the Cloud Foundry Certification program. He is also a member of the Container Storage Interface working group helping to design the interface for storage for the Cloud.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Anirudh Pandit
Head of Americas Communication, Media and Technology Solution Engineering| Office of CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Rupesh Ramachandran
Regional Executive – Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Jake Morgan
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering – RCG – North America; Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, Open Web Application Security Project: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tom Hite
Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO of VMware
Tom Hite is the Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Hsieh
IT CTO of VMware
Jason Hsieh is the IT CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joe Kinsella
CTO, CloudHealth of VMware
In his role as Chief Technology Officer and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, Joe Kinsella focuses on CloudHealth’s vision to enable organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing without having to sacrifice cost, availability, continuity, or service level. He sees CloudHealth bringing the cloud to the enterprise in a new paradigm of cloud adoption with IT service management for the cloud. Joe has 20+ years of experience in delivering commercial software for both startups and large enterprises. He was previously VP of Engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he developed and managed large scale cloud infrastructure spanning multiple public clouds. He was also a managing director at Dell, where he led global engineering teams delivering multiple software as a service (SaaS) products. Joe was also Vice President of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies, where he helped pioneer remote management software, acquired by Dell in 2007. He is an advisor to the University of Massachusetts Boston Entrepreneur Center, and blogs at High Tech in the Hub.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Marc Fleischmann
CTO of VMware
Marc Fleischmann is the CTO at VMware.
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Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Dennis Moreau
Senior Engineering Architect for CyberSecurity and Compliance – OCTO of VMware
Dennis Moreau is a Senior Engineering Architect at VMware, focusing on security innovation in highly dynamic utility computing environments. Moreau has over three decades of experience in the representation, visualization, analysis and control of complex system behavior and security. He has been a Sr. Technology Strategist at EMC/RSA, a founder/CTO of Configuresoft (now a VMware technology), the CTO Baylor College of Medicine, and a tenured Computer Science faculty member, with research sponsored by NASA/Jet Propoulsion Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, IBM, the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine and the National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at security conferences worldwide.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amanda Blevins
Sr. Director & Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO of VMware
Amanda Blevins, Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware, ensures the success of customers and partners through customer intimacy, field engagement, and unifying R&D. She leads the Office of the CTO Global Field and CTO Ambassador Programs to bring innovation and change to VMware. She has successfully run programs that develop stronger partnerships with VMware customers and programs that enable VMware employees on technology, trends, and customer experiences.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simon Kofkin-Hansen
CTO, IBM Cloud of VMware
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About IBM, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Brunner
CTO, Server Platform Technologies of VMware
Richard Brunner is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christos Karamanolis
Fellow, CTO Storage & Availability of VMware
Christos Karamanolis joined VMware in 2005. He was appointed as a VMware Fellow in 2016 for his overall contributions to storage virtualization. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of the Storage and Availability Business Unit where he is in charge of strategy and technical product roadmap. Christos was one of the original vSAN architects who envisioned and developed the product, currently the fastest growing business in VMware’s product portfolio. He is still actively involved in the architecture and development of the product. During his tenure with VMware, he has worked on the ESXi storage stack and led a number of projects including VMware’s vSphere Replication, Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. He also works with strategic industry partners to architect storage and data protection features and APIs that enable a rich product ecosystem for VMware customers.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jad El-Zein
Principal Architect, CMBU Office of the CTO of VMware
Jad is a Principal Architect in VMware’s CMBU’s Office of the CTO. As Principal Architect, Jad focuses on driving strategy and vision of VMware’s Cloud Management and emerging technologies. Jad has over 19 years of experience in IT, including an 11-year tenure with Lockheed Martin Corp, and has spent much of the last 9 years focusing on datacenter optimization and emerging cloud technologies.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anoop Jalan
Staff SE, CTO Ambassador of VMware
Anoop Jalan is a Staff SE, Team Lead, and CTO Ambassador with VMware, and has been with VMware for more than ten years. Anoop has more than 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an architect, a consultant, an engineer, a trainer, developer, an author, and probably a few other things that he has since forgotten (including a VERY brief stint as a sports writer). Anoop holds a number of industry certifications and speaks regularly at local regional and national events.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joel Leichnetz
Director, Business Development; Office of the CTO of VMware
Joel Leichnetz serves as director of business development at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Salim AbiEzzi
Director R&D, IoT OCTO of VMware
Salim AbiEzzi, Ph.D., is Director of R&D in the Industrial Standards Office (INSO) at VMware. Salim represents VMware on IoT consortia and standard groups. He is a founding member of the EdgeX Foundry and a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In his 34+ year career, Salim led a wide variety of technology development projects including at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft with dozens of publications and patents. Related to IoT, Salim was the founding chairman of the UPnP consortium in the fall of ‘99, leading it for four years into a successful international organization, today with more than two billion certified devices.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Chris Gully
Staff System Engineer, Office of the CTO of VMware
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Rafael Brito
Application Platform Architect – Office of CTO of VMware
Rafael Brito serves as an application platform architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nathan Hudson
Office of the CTO, Ambassador of VMware
Nate Hudson serves as an ambassador at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Shawn Bass
CTO – End-User Computing of VMware
Shawn Bass serves as CTO of End-User Computing at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Steve Tilkens
Staff Technical Account Manager, Lead & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Steve Tilkens serves as a staff technical account manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Stijn Christiaens
Co-founder & CTO of Collibra
Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Bob Friday
CTO / Co-Founder of Mist Systems
Bob is CTO and co-founder of Mist, a pioneer in smart wireless networking for the smart device era.Bob started his career in wireless at Metricom (Ricochet wireless network) developing and deploying wireless mesh networks across the country to connect the first generation of Internet browsers. Following Metricom,Bob co-founded Airespace, a start-up focused on helping enterprises manage the flood of employees bringing unlicensed Wi-Fi technology into their businesses. Following Cisco’s acquisition of Airespace in 2005, Bob became the VP/CTO of Cisco enterprise mobility and drove mobility strategy and investments in the wireless business (e.g. Navini, Cognio, ThinkSmart, Phunware, Wilocity, Meraki). He also drove industry standards such as Hot Spot 2.0 and market efforts such as Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience. He holds more than 15 patents.
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Edward Fox
CTO and VP Network Services of MetTel
Ed Fox is the CTO and VP of network services at MetTel.
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Matthieu Riou
Founder & CTO of BlockCypher
Co-founder of BlockCypher and software architect with 15+ years of experience working on complex platforms at banking, software and Saas companies. Former Apache Software Foundation member and VP with extensive open source development experience. He’s founded and mentored various open source projects, from distributed databases to build tools. Matthieu has developed many software systems at MommaZoo, C3, Intalio, BEA, Reef, BNP, and Societe Generale. Matthieu knows 10+ programming languages and all tools ranging from Lisp to Java and Node.js. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Ecole des Mines d’Ales.
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About BlockCypher, Joyent, MommaZoo, The Apache Software Foundation: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Hans Lee
CTO and Co-founder of Freedom Robotics
Hans Lee is the CTO and Co-Founder of Freedom Robotics. He is also the Startup advisor, architect, and developer-in-residence at Innovativelee. Hans is a former CEO and CTO (Acquired by Tobii) at Sticky.ai and was Location-Aware API Lead at Fitbit. Mr. Lee graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a concentration in AI.
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About Freedom Robotics: Freedom Robotics is a software company that creates powerful control and monitoring software for modern robotics companies.
Keith Bentley
Chief Technology Officer of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Chary Mudumby
CTO & EVP of HTC Global Services Inc
A veteran in the Information Technology industry with more than 33 years of experience, Chary Mudumby has been with HTC since August 1994. As Chief Technology Officer, Chary leads the company’s efforts to keep pace with market and technology trends and support business units to open new avenues of growth. Earlier, as head of HTC’s offshore operations, Chary led multiple complex managed services engagements ranging from application development to business process outsourcing. He also spearheads HTC’s product development initiatives. Chary joined the Company as Director – Technical and also served as HTC’s Executive Vice President overseeing Technology Management and Global Development Centers. Chary earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India. He also holds an MSc. Tech. in Physics and Electronics (with a gold medal).
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Yaniv Kopelman
Networking CTO, Sr. Director of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
David Hill
Global Technologist (Field CTO) – Product Strategy Group of Veeam Software
Experienced Cloud Evangelist, Strategist and Technologist. Previous lives as an entrepreneur and business leader. Currently working for Veeam Software as a Global Technologist and Field CTO in the Product Strategy group, building and defining Veeam’s Cloud Native Strategy. Worked in the IT Sector for 18 years, including eight years self-employed as an IT and Business Management Consultant.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
David Wiener
Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence – CTO Team of Cisco
David Wiener runs Product at Workfit. Before co-founding Workfit, he was a Vice President at Oracle, where he oversaw Product, globally for the Oracle Data Cloud. During his tenure at Oracle he was responsible for pulling together the acquisitions of BlueKai, Datalogix, AddThis, and Crosswise. He ran 75+ person global team (US, UK, Israel), directing the work of 500+ engineers and data-scientists. Prior to Oracle, he oversaw Product at BlueKai (acquired by Oracle). Wiener makes sure that business is in check, that products ship, and that engineering keeps their house in order. Sometimes he makes a joke or two. He also gets pretty crafty when he needs a hotfix pushed out, and from time to time has a good idea.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
John Restrick
CTO Webex Devices of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Colin Kincaid
VP/CTO Service Provider Segment of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
John Chapman
CTO Broadband Technologies of Cisco
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About Cisco, Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Morteza Ansari
Distinguished Engineer – office of security CTO of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Susie Wee
SVP and CTO of Cisco DevNet of Cisco
Susie is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco’s developer program for infrastructure and application developers, which catalyzes innovation by the developer ecosystem. DevNet covers the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group where she was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco’s collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was the founding Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard, and Lab Director at HP Labs.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Susie Wee
SVP and CTO of Cisco DevNet of Cisco
Susie is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco’s developer program for infrastructure and application developers, which catalyzes innovation by the developer ecosystem. DevNet covers the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group where she was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco’s collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was the founding Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard, and Lab Director at HP Labs.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
David Mallory
CTO , Learning of Cisco
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Vahid Kowsari
Founder & CTO of ixlayer
Vahid Kowsari is the Co-Founder and CTO at ixLayer Inc.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Lee Liu
CTO & Co-Founder of LogDNA
Lee Liu is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at LogDNA. Prior to founding LogDNA, he was a Co-founder and CTO of TeamSave, where he developed the core web architect that handled over 4 million monthly visitors, 500K+ eCommerce transactions, and was responsible in sending over 1 billion+ campaign emails. Before co-founding TeamSave, he also held leadership positions at onTargetjobs with responsibilities of Vice President of Research and Development and Vice President of Information Technology at portfolio company Hospitality Careers. He was also a Co-Founder and CTO at JobLoft, a unique approach to location-based job mapping along with SMS-based push notification that was acquired by onTargetjobs in 2007. Lee filed a technology patent for his location based mapping algorithm. Lee received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from Ryerson University with a major in Information Technology Management. Lee has received Ryerson University’s Isadore Sharp Alumni Achievement Awards.
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About LogDNA: LogDNA offers a log management solution that provides DevOps teams an aggregation of all their system and application logs on one platform.
David Crawshaw
CTO and Co-Founder of Tailscale
David Crawshaw is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tailscale.
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About Tailscale: Tailscale is a developer of a corporate VPN alternative, aiming to make private networks easier to build and maintain.
David Casper
CTO, Americas and CISO of Moogsoft
He is a CTO | CISO at Moogsoft.
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About Moogsoft, Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Richard Whitehead
Evangelist In Chief & CTO of Moogsoft
Richard Whitehead is chief evangelist at Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter and is responsible for the successful introduction of products and technologies to the market. Previously, Richard was a consultant at JRW Strategies, where he provided product strategy, new market introduction, and competitive analysis advice to the software industry. Richard is the cochair of the monitoring and analytics working group at ONUG.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Deepak Goel
Chief Technology Officer of D2iq
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Nigel Kersten
Field CTO of Puppet
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Deepak Giridharagopal
CTO of Puppet
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Isaac Mosquera
Chief Technology Officer of Armory
Isaac has been architecting large-scale systems for the past 13 years. Isaac co-founded FamilyOven.com, the top recipe oriented social networking site. Isaac brings extensive experience in online publisher content and high scalability/load websites from FamilyOven.com and XM Radio, as well as a background in user acquisition and retention strategies, and has created high scalability/load websites for brands such as Games Radar by Future Publishing (topping 100MM page views monthly).
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Matt Quinn
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO of TIBCO
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO at Tibco software.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Durga Gokina
CTO, Co-Founder of Macrometa
Building innovative products and teams.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
Kevin McGrath
CTO of Spot.io
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Ricardo Oliveira
Co-Founder & CTO of ThousandEyes
Ricardo is the co-founder and CTO of ThousandEyes (www.thousandeyes.com), a network intelligence startup based in San Francisco. Ricardo is also the creator of Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu), a platform to detect attacks to the Internet routing infrastructure, like the one that brought youtube.com down in Pakistan in 2008. Ricardo is a technologist at heart and a believer in the importance of simplicity and good design in any product. He is also a caffeine junkie. Ricardo received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University (FEUP), Portugal in 2001, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2009. During his PhD he did several internships, including AT&T Labs, Thomson and Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. During his PhD he developed research in inter-domain routing, network security and Internet topology. He is the main author of several patents and dozens of papers in international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE Transactions on Networking. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Ben Longmier
Co-founder & CTO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Ben Longmier was previously the Founder and CEO of Aether Industries (acquired by Apple in 2015). While at Apple, Ben led an Aerospace R&D effort for several company objectives. Prior to working at Apple, Ben was a tenure track Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Ben holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA-JSC.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Rafael Schloming
CTO & Chief Architect of Ambassador Labs
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About Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Alexander Klizhentas
Co-Founder & CTO of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
David Timothy Strauss
Co-Founder & CTO of Pantheon
Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. If you’ve ever deployed an enterprise website, chances are you’ve benefited from one of the tools he’s developed. After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, David found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions. Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. Now he wanted to use this expertise to improve websites for everyone. When the opportunity to build an all-in-one website platform came along, he knew he needed to be a part of it. In addition to his role as Pantheon CTO, David also co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs on most of the world’s Linux systems, serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and leads the development of Pressflow.
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About Pantheon, The Fedora Project: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Halbert Nakagawa
CTO & Co-Founder of Machine Zone
Founder and CTO (Games) at MZ (Machine Zone, Inc.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Aaron Henshaw
CTO & Co-Founder of Bison Trails
Aaron is a Grand St. Co-Founder and application engineer. He handles back-ends and makes the company’s websites look exactly like they’re designed. He always makes my day by saying, “I don’t know whether I’m looking at the test build, or your Illustrator file.” Sailing from Miami, Aaron brought beach chillax and warm sunshine with him. A renowned chef (at least in the office), Aaron hosts numerous dinner feasts for friends and families. He’s good at all sports but pool (Shocking!), and boasts that he could easily beat Dustin at ping pong. He delights in kale juice, Brooklyn Kitchen, and plans parties that the cops even love when they show up
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Jeremy Baker
Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline
Jeremy Baker is a developer and entrepreneur who has been involved in web design, online product development, and technology startups since 1997. He has designed and developed a wide range of projects — from small, innovative sites and tools to high-traffic business applications, from the server level all the way up to the business design level. As a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo! Inc., he developed tools and programs across the company, including an innovative Prototyping and Experimentation tool that was subsequently pushed out to nearly every Yahoo! property, and which won him the Yahoo! SuperStar award in 2010. Jeremy was also a regular guest speaker at universities worldwide as part of Yahoo!’s HackU program. Jeremy is a regular speaker on topics surrounding innovation and creativity. And his work and ideas have been featured on TechCrunch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com, and other high profile publications. He is currently a co-founder of a well-funded enterprise software company based in San Francisco, CA. He also runs SupporterWall.com, an innovative online fundraising tool. Jeremy speaks English, French, and Spanish and has lived in Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, and Mexico City. He and his wife currently call Vancouver, Canada home.
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About SupporterWall, Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Brad Powers
Chief Technology Officer of Passport
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About Passport: Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Edward Churchward
CTO & Co-Founder of Arch Platform Technologies
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About Arch Platform Technologies, Solstice Studios: Plug and play creative facilities as a service. The Arch SaaS Platform creates cloud infrastructure for collaborative teams in all markets.
Gabriel Monroy
CTO of Engine Yard
Gabe Monroy joined Microsoft as Vice President Of Product Management in 2021.
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About Engine Yard, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft: Engine Yard is Platform-as-a-Service providing tools for creating software applications.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Mark Jen
CTO of Common Networks
Mark is the CTO and co-founder of Common Networks. Prior to Common Networks,he worked at Square where he helped launch Square in Japan, and then started and led the developer platform team. Mark has a long track record of building and managing high-performance engineering and product teams; he was the VP of Engineering and first employee at Airtime, served as the Director of Engineering at Tagged / Ifwe, and led the Product Management team at Plaxo. Mark started his career at IBM and Microsoft, after graduating from University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering. He is an inventor on 6 issued patents and has multiple pending. His daughter, Riley, is three years old and his son, Zachary, is 9 months.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Justin McCarthy
Co-Founder & CTO of strongDM
Co-Founder & CTO at strongDM.
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About Less Neglect, strongDM: strongDM manages and audits access to infrastructure.
James Cundle
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Mio
Technical Co-Founder of Y-Combinator backed Mio, Full Stack Engineer with broad DevOps experience. Founder of UK tech consultancy company Blue World Media Limited.
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About Blue World Media Limited, Mio: Chat better, together. Mio powers seamless intercompany communication across Slack, Microsoft Teams, & Webex Teams.
Lawrence Cheng
CTO & FOUNDER of Credo Semiconductor
Lawrence Cheng has over 20 years experience in Analog Design. Prior to Credo, Lawrence served as Engineering Director of Analog Design for Marvell Storage Products from 1997 to 2008. He designed the Analog Frontend for Credo’s 28G and 56G Serdes in various process nodes since 2008.
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
Manoj Chaudhary
CTO & SVP of Engineering of Jitterbit
Manoj Chaudhary is the CTO and SVP of Engineering of Jitterbit.
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About Jitterbit: Jitterbit is an API transformation company helping businesses to exploit data from any source.
David Brenegan
Regional CTO/Lead technologist of Jitterbit
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About Jitterbit: Jitterbit is an API transformation company helping businesses to exploit data from any source.
Igor Savchenko
Co-Founder, CTO of Scalr
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About Scalr: Scalr is a cloud management platform that empowers enterprises to deliver and consume cloud in a secure and cost-efficient manner.
Daniel Duenkel
CTO of Knight Point Systems
Dan Duenkel is a founding member of Knight Point Systems and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Duenkel is responsible for defining KPS’ Cloud offerings that include on premises ‘as a Service’ strategies as well as off premises private cloud environments and developing new tools that differentiate KPS from other companies. He oversees KPS’ IT Strategy and stays informed of new technologies to keep KPS on the leading edge of Cloud and ‘as a Service’ providers. Mr. Duenkel is also responsible for the oversight and management of the DISA Capacity Services contract, a $200M Communications aaS contract.
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About Knight Point Systems: Knight Point Systems provides IT services and solutions to federal and commercial clients.
Dillon Woods
Co-Founder and CTO of Tackle
Dillon Woods is the Co-Founder and CTO at Tackle.io.
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About Tackle: Tackle.io operates as a cloud marketplace subscription platform that helps software providers generate revenue.
Corey Scobie
Chief Technology Officer of Chef Software
Corey is a software expert with 25+ years of global experience with top enterprise technologies and Fortune 500 companies.
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About Chef Software, Symend: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Jason McKay
SVP & CTO of Logicworks
Jason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including our software and DevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support trenches at Panix (Public Access Networks). Jason graduated Bard College with a Bachelor of Art and holds all five AWS associate and professional-level certifications.
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About Logicworks: Logicworks provides cloud computing and managed hosting solutions for private, public and hybrid clouds.
Daniel Larimer
Chief Technology Officer of Block.one
Daniel Larimer is the Founder & CEO of Bitshares & he attended Virginia Tech in 2000.
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About Block.one: Block.one is a software company specializing in high-performance blockchain technologies.
Emon Haider
Co-Founder & CTO of TargetDocs
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About TargetDocs: The communication workspace that connects general contractors to their vendors in one place.
Kurt Schaubach
Chief Technology Officer of Federated Wireless
Kurt Schaubach brings 25 years of wireless industry experience to Federated Wireless where he plays a key role in developing technologies and new business strategies to create the next-generation architecture of broadband wireless. Previously, Kurt served in various engineering roles at the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), NextWave Wireless, LCC International, and Southwestern Bell. He has also served as a technology consultant to wireless network operators, equipment manufacturers, and semiconductor suppliers. Kurt was a founding member of a publicly traded wireless broadband and multimedia software company and led the acquisition and integration of two wireless infrastructure companies. Kurt has been active in spectrum development, management, and policy matters throughout his career. He currently serves on the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) and has spoken at the International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) events, among many others. Kurt received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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About Federated Wireless: Federated Wireless develops a spectrum controller for wireless networks and communication intended to revolutionize the wireless industry.
Robert Martinsen
CTO of nLIGHT
Robert Martinsen is the CTO at nLIGHT.
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About nLIGHT, nLIGHT: nLIGHT is a technology company that manufactures a range of fiber lasers based on diode and fiber technology.
