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 United States based CFO’ operating in the Developer Tools 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.
Mike Taylor
CFO of GitHub
Mike Taylor is CFO at GitHub, a web-based Git or version control repository and Internet hosting service. Prior to joining GitHub, Mike was VP Capital Markets and New Ventures at Tesla Motors, where he managed capital markets and new venture creation activities worldwide. In his prior roles as VP Finance and, later, Treasurer, he managed finance, treasury, investor relations, capital markets, and customer finance for the innovative electric vehicle company.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Amy Hood
Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft
As chief financial officer, Amy Hood is responsible for leading Microsoft’s worldwide finance organization, including acquisitions, treasury activities, tax planning, accounting and reporting, and internal audit and investor relations. Prior to this role, Hood was chief financial officer of Microsoft’s Business Division, responsible for the company’s productivity applications and services including Microsoft Office 365, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM. During her time in the Business Division, Hood helped lead the transition to the company’s Office 365 service, and she was deeply involved in the strategy development and overall execution of the company’s successful acquisitions of Skype and Yammer. Hood joined Microsoft in 2002 and previously held positions in the Server and Tools Business as well as the corporate finance organization. Prior to 2002, she worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in various investment banking and capital markets groups roles. Hood earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University. Hood lives in Seattle with her husband and daughters.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ashim Gupta
CFO of UiPath
The potential for enterprise automation is only going to increase. UiPath is at the forefront of this monumental change and I could not be more excited to lead our customers through their digital transformation journeys.
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About UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
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.
Nigel LeGresley
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Acumatica
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Jacob Shulman
CFO of JFrog
Jacob, Chief Financial Officer of JFrog, brings over 25 years of experience in building the financial infrastructure and driving growth of multinational enterprises. Prior to JFrog, Jacob was the CFO of Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage and hyper-converged infrastructure. Jacob also held key finance positions at Atrica, Thyssenkrupp AG, Matav Cable Systems and Ernst & Young. Jacob holds an MBA from the College of Academic Management Studies (Israel) and a BSc in accounting and economics from Tel-Aviv University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Anthony Chen
CFO and Executive Vice President of Borqs Technologies
Anthony K. Chan, is our CFO and Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and has joined our company since April 2015. Mr. Chan has over 30 years of experience in U.S. and China cross border investments and business operations. From July 2013 until March 2015, Mr. Chan served as the President of Asia Sourcing for Portables Unlimited in New York, a distributor of T-Mobile USA. From March 2009 until July 2013, he served as the CFO for Tianjin Tong Guang Digital Broadcasting Co. Ltd, a mobile communications products company. For the 20 years prior to that, he was involved in multiple investment and technology transfer projects between China, the U.S and Europe, in the areas of communication products, chemical fibers, textile machinery and medical equipment. Mr. Chan received both his bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Borqs Technologies: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.
Steve Webber
Chief Financial Officer of Quickbase
Steve Webber is the Chief Financial Officer of Virtustream with global responsibility for the accounting, finance, corporate development, security operations and IT activities for the company. Prior to joining Virtustream, Steve was the senior vice president of Finance and Operations at EMC Corporation, recently supporting the Global Enterprise Services organization. Steve spent over 19 years at EMC Corporation in various financial roles including Corporate Finance, International Finance, Sales Finance and Operations for Latin America and business partner roles supporting the Enterprise Software Division and Global Services. In his most recent role, the Global Services organization grew to $5B in revenue. Steve also spent four years at Deloitte & Touche LLP in Boston in the audit practice with a focus on public companies. He has both a Bachelor of Science degree and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Dave Miller
Chief Financial Officer of Sonatype
As CFO of Sonatype, Dave is chartered with managing corporate financial activities. Dave brings over 20 years of accounting, financial and strategic planning experience to his role as Sonatype’s CFO, including ten years with Ernst & Young, LLP as a senior manager. Prior to joining Sonatype, Dave was CFO of USinternetworking, a leading application service provider. He led USinternetworking’s financial efforts as it evolved from a start up to a $120 million entity acquired by AT&T. Dave holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Finance from James Madison University.
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About Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
Bryan LeBlanc
SVP, Chief Financial Officer of Wind River
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About Wind River: Wind River is a technology company that develops, runs, and manages device software.
Stephanie Hsiung
CFO of Duda
Stephanie is a seasoned finance professional with over a decade of management experience leading the scaling and development of finance and operations for fast-growing technology companies. Her previous work experience includes several years of banking as a Vice President at JP Morgan as well as public accounting experience as an auditor of tech firms at KPMG. Stephanie received her undergraduate degree in Business-Economics from UCLA and her MBA from Columbia University. She is a certified public accountant (CPA) in the state of California.
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About Duda: Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.
Oleg Demidov
CBDO and CFO of Navigine
Oleg Demidov is the CEO and Founder of CarbonSpace
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About CarbonSpaceTech, CrowdSpace, Navigine: Software platform for precise positioning and online-to-offline attribution.
Danny Krifcher
Chief Financial Officer of Audacious Inquiry
Danny Krifcher is Ai’s Chief Financial Officer and is leading our growth efforts. He is an experienced builder and leader of growth companies including Aledade, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer, leading efforts to expand commercial payer partnerships and other value-based care arrangements; and, Avalere Health, where he was EVP overseeing the company’s Data Analytics Practice, Sales Organization, and Business Intelligence Unit, as well as all corporate functions including Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Technology and Legal. For more than a decade, Danny was an executive at America Online, where he founded and led the first internet incubator, AOL Greenhouse, and also served as EVP/COO of the AOL Dial-Up business. A Pittsburgh native, Danny graduated from the Wharton School and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Audacious Inquiry, Legend Ventures: Audacious Inquiry is an industry-shaping health IT and policy company that’s leading the charge to make healthcare smarter
John Stromquist
CFO of Kimera Systems
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About Kimera Systems: Kimera Systems produces the world’s first human-like intelligence technology to make mobile devices and other networked devices smarter.
Patti Soch
CFO of Liquibase
Patti joined Datical in 2016 bringing over 25 years of financial and management experience to the company. Patti is responsible for the areas of finance, investor and banking relations, legal, HR, facilities and accounting. During her career, she has been directly involved in managing high growth operations, venture capital fundraising, enterprise and federal government contract negotiations, opening overseas operations, M&A and managing supplier relationships. Prior to Datical, she was the CFO at Gazzang, acquired by Cloudera in 2014, as well as the CFO of Phurnace Software, acquired by BMC Software in 2009. Patti is actively involved in the Austin community and is an advisory board member for the CFO Leadership Council and serves on the board of directors for [email protected]
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About Gazzang, Liquibase: Liquibase simplifies and automates database deployment and configuration for applications.
Jim Kennelly
Chief Financial Officer of The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)
Jim Kennelly currently works as Chief Financial Officer at The Climate Corporation. He previously worked at Bayer Thailand as Managing Director and CFO.
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About The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science): The Climate Corporation is a technology platform helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.
Mitch Federman
CFO of 180Fusion
As CFO and co-founder of 180fusion, Mitch applies his experience and breadth of skills to overseeing the company’s financial goals. Additionally, Mitch oversees the recruitment and retention of the company’s most valuable asset — the employees — and manages the technology and infrastructure supporting the company’s operations. Did we mention he also writes the checks? Mitch earned his MBA at Pepperdine University where he graduated number one in his class, and prior to 180fusion, he provided strategic direction and management of presales operations as worldwide director of presales for several Silicon Valley start-up software companies. Mitch also worked as a management consultant, designing and implementing financial systems for the SMB and Fortune 500 companies including Merrill Lynch, Deutshe Bank, Kaiser and ExxonMobil.
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About 180Fusion: 180Fusion, now a Deluxe Company, provides digital marketing products and services.
Jeff Davison
Chief Financial Officer of Mitek Systems
Jeff Davidson is the Chief Financial Officer of Mitek Systems. Previously he was the CFO of RightNow Technologies.
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About Mitek Systems: Mitek provides mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in AI and machine learning.
Dan Curtis
CFO of Codeship
Dan Curtis is the CFO of Codeship.
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About Codeship: Codeship is a hosted continuous delivery platform that helps software companies to develop better products faster.
William Larrenaga
CFO Advisor – Team of KinTrans
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About KinTrans, ParkWise: Collaborative machine learning platform offering access to 3D human movement datasets, and license KinTrans recognition APIs
