Boardroom Media (CFO News)
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 San Francisco 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.
Spencer Punter
Partner, COO and CFO of DCVC
Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO/COO of venture-backed enterprise SaaS companies. He brings this diverse skill set to Data Collective where, as COO, he works on the internal operations of the firm and, as an operating partner, he assists the current portfolio with fund raising, FP&A, and M&A. Immediately prior to joining Data Collective, he was COO/CFO of Appcelerator, the maker of the leading cross-platform mobile application development suite, which was acquired by Axway. He has worked in various roles from Associate to General Partner at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Integral Capital Partners, Bowman Capital, Bay Partners, and Capital Dynamics.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Peter Perrone
CFO of AtScale
Pete Perrone is the CFO. Prior to AtScale, Pete was CFO at Percolate and Limelight Networks.He also spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director in the Principal Investment Area, investing in and working with high growth technology leaders.
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About Artisan Bio, AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
Enakshi Singh
Chief Financial Officer of Zymergen
Prior to joining Zymergen, Ena was focused on semiconductor investments at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. She spent the previous seven years in investment banking, initially at Salomon Smith Barney’s Latin America Group, later working for Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking Group. Ena studied at Cornell University and received her graduate degree at MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Garima Kapoor
Co-Founder, CFO of MinIO
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About MinIO, MinIO: MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.
Eric Brown
Chief Financial Officer of Informatica
Eric Brown is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Tanium, where he leads all aspects of its financial, operations and administrative functions including finance, human resources, legal, IT and facilities. Eric brings 20 years of corporate financial and operational leadership and public company CFO experience to Tanium. Previously, Eric was CFO and COO of Polycom, a multinational corporation that develops video, voice and content collaboration and communication technology. Eric also previously served as CFO of Electronic Arts Inc., CFO and COO of McAfee, Inc. (now Intel Security) and President and CFO of MicroStrategy, Inc. Eric has also held senior international finance roles at Grand Metropolitan in addition to co-founding Datasage, a marketing and analytics software company. Eric currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committees for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. and International Game Technology. Eric has a B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
John McAdoo
CFO of Trifacta
John McAdoo is the chief financial officer of [Euclid Analytics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/euclid#/entity), a location analytics company. Prior to that, he held the same position at [Nanosolar](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nanosolar#/entity). McAdoo has also held executive positions in the field of finance at [Envivio](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/envivio#/entity) and [ARM Holdings](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arm#/entity). McAdoo holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the [University of Manchester](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-manchester#/entity). He has also studied at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. McAdoo resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Dean Neese
Chief Financial Officer of Qubole
In this role, Dean leads DocuSign’s M&A process, strategic planning, specific growth initiatives, and supports the CEO with stakeholder relations. Dean brings over 20 years of consulting and executive experience helping companies define and deliver accelerated growth. In his last executive role, Dean served as chief executive of an educational software company, Smarterville, and led the sale of the company. Prior to that, Dean served as VP corporate strategy and corporate development for Mead Johnson Nutrition during their IPO in 2009. While at Mead Johnson Nutrition, he established a new strategic planning process, defined the long-term growth strategy for the company, and originated and closed a JV in the Middle East. Previously, Dean held consultant roles with McKinsey & Co. and Marakon Associates where pursued technology assignments and worked with several notable companies including IBM, British Telecom, Lucent, Boeing’ s Space & Communications, and Packard Bell. Dean received his BA from Princeton University and MBA from Harvard.
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About HBS Alumni Angels, Qubole, TMD Ventures: Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics.
Giridhar Premsingh
Global Chief Financial Officer of DoiT International
Giridhar has held senior finance roles at both public and private technology companies including most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Onica, responsible for global financial and legal operations. As Chief Financial Officer at REAN Cloud, he led all aspects of accounting, corporate planning, financial reporting, tax, treasury, investor relations, and legal. As a senior finance leader at Virtustream Inc., he played an instrumental role in the company’s disruptive growth and ultimate sale to EMC Corporation in a $1.2 billion acquisition transaction. Giridhar began his career with Ernst & Young and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Colorado. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors in Accounting from Bangalore University, India.
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About DoiT International: We tackle complex problems of scale using our expertise in resolving problems, coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.
Andrew Preston
CFO of Deep North
Entrepreneurial executive skilled at working closely with the founder/CEO to manage and grow early stage technology companies and restructure underperforming companies. Assignments have combined vision and strategy with collaboration and execution to significantly improve performance and create shareholder value, culminating in successful liquidity events.
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About Deep North, OneTraction: Deep North is an Analytics and AI company focused on providing insights for the physical world.
Ed Salay
CFO of VoiceBase
Ed has over 20 years finance and operations experience, including Ford Motor, Polycom, and Applied Biosystems. He later served as CFO at several startups, and most recently at Jobscience which was acquired by Bullhorn in 2018.
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About VoiceBase: Speech Analytics for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Guru Sankararaman
Co-founder, CFO and VP of Ops of Tekion
Guru is an accomplished engineer & technology executive with 25 years of progressive experience and has a proven track record of successfully building, and managing Business and Technology Operations. He is a co-founder of Tekion Corp, which is building world’s best business applications on the cloud starting with the automotive retail industry by using cutting-edge technologies like big data, machine learning/AI, and human computer interaction. At Tekion, Guru oversees Finance, Operations, and Cloud Infrastructure. Prior to this, he was the VP of Information Technology at Tesla for over 4 years and was responsible for Tesla’s Global IT Infrastructure and Operations. Guru built a high performance global team and also led the team to build Tesla’s entire global IT Infrastructure & Private cloud supporting ERP / E-commerce Applications, Retail IT, Engineering, Vehicle Connectivity, and Factory systems. In prior roles, Guru has designed and implemented large global datacenter infrastructure and managed them. He has also championed the architecture and implementation of large private and public clouds across the globe. Guru is technically very savvy with modern cloud platforms, highly available & scalable application and collaboration platforms, information security, end-user computing and virtualization. He is a high energy, driven and results oriented leader and a recipient of many organizational awards in his successful career for leading, architecting and delivering on transformational initiatives. His vast knowledge and experience in infrastructure & business application use models across different industry verticals is a core strength of him.
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About Tekion: Tekion is a cloud-built platform with advanced machine learning and AI capabilities for a personalized and seamless consumer experience.
Eran Pilovsky
Chief Financial Officer of Splice Machine
Eran brings over 25 years of financial management experience to Splice Machine. Since 2008, Eran has been the CFO of companies in the SaaS, digital media, and cloud/internet services spaces including Grand Junction, Metacafe and SugarSync. From 2000 until 2008, Eran held senior executive positions with private and public companies in the communications and enterprise software industries including Roamware, Aperto Networks, Blue Martini Software, and Vyyo. Until 2000, Eran was a Partner with Ernst & Young. Eran is a cum laude graduate of the University of San Francisco, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
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About Neon Labs, Splice Machine, Xnor.ai: Splice Machine is a data platform that offers offline, and batch analysis, and powers intelligent applications for operational workflows.
Ash Sundar
Chief Financial Officer of Radius Intelligence
Prior to joining Radius, Ash was the Head of Finance at Instacart during the company’s rapid growth phase. Ash started his career with KPMG and holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Accounting from Wake Forest University.
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About Radius Intelligence: Radius Intelligence seeks to power data intelligence across all B2B applications, channels, and users.
Chris Seybold
Chief Financial Officer of Gemini Data Inc.
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About Gemini Data Inc.: Gemini Data provides Data Availability for AI/ML driven analysis and applications to enable unified enterprise knowledge and access.
Anton Gimmel
Partner & CFO of UnderBuilt
Strategic CFO
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About UnderBuilt: UnderBuilt aggregates zoning data to bring you instant property reports that show how much bigger a home can be.
