At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Rory Parness
Chief Financial Officer of Foursquare
As CFO, Rory leads the company’s financial planning, accounting and operations. Prior to joining Foursquare, Rory served as CFO at several companies in the technology, healthcare and music industries. He spent 13 years as a finance executive at Jive Records where it grew from a small boutique hip hop label to the world’s largest independent record company and a multi-billion dollar exit. He has extensive experience in finance and leadership in the technology, media, healthcare and entertainment industries.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Alan Fu
Chief Financial Officer of Civis Analytics
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About Civis Analytics: Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
John Adamovich
CFO of NowVertical Group
John Adamovich has 2 current jobs as CFO at NowVertical Group
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About NowVertical Group: NowVertical Group helps the world’s best businesses win in the digital economy through powerful data analytics software and services.
Jeffrey Robinson
Chief Financial Officer of Orion Innovation
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About Orion Innovation: Orion Innovation is a global IT services and solutions provider helping organizations with Digital Transformation services.
Ed Grieb
CFO of Market76, Inc.
CFO at Market76, Inc.
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About Market76, Inc.: Market76 makes financial services work better by empowering businesses to operate with the best, highest-quality data available.
Matt Novick
CFO of PlaceIQ (left in May 2022) Now CFO at Covera Health.
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About PlaceIQ, PlaceIQ: PlaceIQ provides location intelligence services that enable advertisers to reach mobile brand audiences for marketing activities.
Philippe Heilberg
Co-Founder, President, COO & CFO of Arbol
Philippe brings decades of senior executive experience in commodities and emerging markets. He has been investing in assets across emerging markets including Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union region since 2001. Philippe is an ex-partner at the commodities trading unit at AIG, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. He is a contributor to the discourse on blockchain technology including published articles. In addition, Philippe has been a member of the NY Board of Trade Commodity Exchange and is former President Circle member of Asia Society. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. Summa Cum Laude and MBA.
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About Arbol, dClimate: Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.
Steven Adler
CFO of Parrable
Steven Adler is the CEO at Financial Summit Ventures.
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About Financial Summit Ventures, Liquor.com, Parrable: Parrable is a privacy-friendly identification platform
Mark Finkel
CFO of Kapow Software
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About Kapow Software, OU Impact Accelerator, ServiceWare, Inc., SoftWorks: Kapow Software harnesses the power of legacy data and big data, making it actionable and accessible across organizations.
Scott Puma
CFO of Visible Alpha
As Chief Financial Officer, Scott Puma is responsible for CSI’s financial leadership and management of financial operations, including accounting, financing strategy, budgeting, financial reporting, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions. Scott brings over 20 years of experience at technology-focused, high-growth companies, as well as an established tracked record of growing enterprise value at numerous start-ups. Prior to joining CSI, he was Vice President of Finance at Axial, an online network for qualified professionals operating, advising, financing or acquiring private companies, where he presided over an eight-fold increase in the Company’s run-rate over his two years at the Company. Previously, Scott served as Vice President of Finance & Administration at TheMarkets.com, which provided institutional investors with real-time equity and fixed-income research. While there, Scott created a finance and operations group from inception; from 2002 to 2009, the business grew organically from $1 million to $51 million in revenue. Scott also served in senior financial and operational leadership positions at Vigilante, Mail.com and Geotek Communications.A CPA by training, Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Rutgers University.
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About Visible Alpha: Visible Alpha delivers a data and analytics platform with comparable forecast models and actuals from the world’s leading equity analysts.
Sona Banker
CFO of Lela
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About Lela: Lela Inc. is a cloud based marketing segmentation and content recommendation platform
Ryan Perfit
Chief Financial Officer of EON
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About EON, GoShare: One Digital ID – Infitine Possibilities
Ryan Knowles
CFO of Peeva
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About Peeva: Universal Pet Microchip Identification System, Central Pet Microchip Registry, and Pet Medical Records Pet Portal
Ryan Knowles
CFO of Peeva
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About Peeva: Universal Pet Microchip Identification System, Central Pet Microchip Registry, and Pet Medical Records Pet Portal