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 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.
Dan Kaltenbach
CFO of Owl.co
Dan Kaltenbach is the Chief Financial Officer of owl.co.
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About Owl.co: Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform that detects non-eligible claims through evidence and facts with an audit trail.
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.
Todd Hyatt
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Todd Hyatt is executive vice president and chief financial officer of IHS Markit. Todd served in those same roles at IHS after previously serving as chief information officer, senior vice president of FP&A, and leading the finance organization for the company’s engineering segment. He also worked for LoneTree Capital, US WEST/MediaOne, AT&T, Arthur Young and Arthur Andersen. He holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in management from Purdue University.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jonathan Gear
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Jonathan Gear is president of resources, transportation and CMS for IHS Markit, including business lines supporting the automotive, energy, chemicals, maritime and aerospace industries. Earlier, he served in multiple senior vice president positions and as president/COO of IHS CERA. Jonathan previously held leadership positions at Activant Solutions, smarterwork.com and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Phil Davis
Chief Financial Officer of Afiniti
Phil is the Chief Financial Officer of Afiniti. Prior to joining Afiniti, Phil was a senior executive in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs where he advised clients on corporate finance, risk management and mergers and acquisitions. Phil was also a consultant with McKinsey & Co. where he oversaw consulting teams in the TMT sector on strategy, operations and corporate finance related topics. Earlier in his career, Phil worked as a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and MIT Lincoln Laboratory developing artificial intelligence algorithms for a variety of different applications, including emotion and personality recognition.
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Steven Hill
CFO of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Brian Kinard
CFO and Legal Counsel of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
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.
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.
Jim Cook
Chief Financial Officer of Orbital Insight
Jim is CFO at Mozilla. Over the last 20+ years in Silicon Valley, Jim has has helped build the financial and operational foundations for a few brand name, multi-billion dollar companies. As one of NetFlix’s six co-founders, Jim built and managed all financial and operational functions from the company’s founding in 1997 until 1999. His public company experience includes Intuit where he worked closely with the original founders from 1991-1996 including driving several M&A’s, the company’s 1993 IPO, and as Divisional Controller for the $100M Small Business Division (QuickBooks) Since 2005, Jim has been CFO for Mozilla (Firefox) and has led the worldwide effort to grow the Mozilla team and operational infrastructure from less than 25 employees in Mtn. View to a worldwide operation of >850 employees in 11 offices on 4 different continents. Jim currently serves as an advisor to several venture backed companies, VC’s, Silicon Valley Bank’s CFO Advisory Group and as a Director for the Alliance of CEO’s. Jim graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Bus. Admin (Finance) and a minor in Biology after initially pursuing becoming an Aerospace Engr/Space Doctor. Jim has lived in Portola Valley for the past 20 yrs with his wife Lissa and his two children, Trevor and Claire and two dogs. Jim and his family enjoys any kind of outdoor activity and looks forward to family traditions and annual vacations (Kirkwood skiing, New Hampshire summers, various camping adventures)
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Brian Cohen
CFO of Logz.io
Brian Cohen 30-year career features a wide variety of technology leadership roles and entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently, he was Vice President of Sales Strategy & Operations at Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for driving the Americas regional sales coverage and compensation, sales process management, sales productivity and sales readiness programs within HP’s Enterprise Group. In this effort, he worked closely with the Worldwide and Regional Business Units, Sales Finance, Human Resources, and Country-based Sales Operations teams. Prior to joining HP in August 2010, he was a Fellow in the 2009 New England Clean Energy Fellowship, an MIT program designed to prepare serial entrepreneurs for leadership roles in the clean technology industry. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of Steelbox Networks, developing technology for the next wave in video switching. As President and CEO of SPI Dynamics, Cohen led the company through its acquisition by HP in August 2007 when its application security software became a key part of the application management solution in the HP Software line. Under Cohen’s leadership, SPI Dynamics was recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte for four consecutive years starting in 2003. Cohen has also founded and served as President and CEO of Technologic, Inc. (sold to eSoft, Inc. in 1999), and in executive management positions with Management Matters, Inc., a private investment and consulting company, and Dun & Bradstreet Software (aka Management Science America). He has a BA from the University of Florida and began his technology career as a systems engineer with Electronic Data Systems. Cohen also serves as Chairman of the Board of Lancope, Inc., a network security and network performance optimization company, as an advisor to Bluebox Security, a mobile security platform company, and is the proud father of two beautiful daughters.
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About Logz.io, QASymphony: Logz.io provides a scalable and intelligent machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana for monitoring modern applications.
Bill Hughlett
CFO of Voyager Capital
Bill joined Voyager Capital as Chief Financial Officer in 2000. He brings over 25 years of industry and public accounting experience to the team, most of which has been focused on the technology industry. Prior to joining Voyager in 2000, Bill was a Senior Manager in Arthur Andersen’s High Technology practice, serving companies such as aQuantive, Blue Nile, BSQUARE Corporation, and Loudeye Technologies. At Arthur Andersen, Bill specialized in planning and execution of corporate transactions and equity compensation strategies for his clients. Prior to rejoining Arthur Andersen in 1998, Bill had responsibility for strategic planning, corporate development, and the worldwide tax function of Spacelabs Medical, a public medical device company.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Doug Osrow
CFO of Remark Holdings
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About Remark Holdings: Remark Holdings is a global digital media company focused on creating destinations that merge engaging content with social interactions.
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.
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.
Thomas Berquist
CFO of TIBCO
Tom Berquist is the Chief Financial Officer at Tibco Software Inc. since October 2015. Tom is responsible for worldwide financial operations and reporting, as well as investor relations. Tom was an Operating Partner at Vector Capital where he partners with Vector’s portfolio companies to create shareholder value. Tom is currently a Member of the Board of Directors at Saba and is a past Member of the Board of Directors of Corel. Previously Tom was Chief Executive Officer at Corel, a global consumer software and hardware company based in Ottawa, Canada, with major offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, China, and Japan. Tom joined the company as Chief Financial Officer in September 2009 and helped take the company private with the backing of Vector Capital. Prior to joining Corel, Tom was Chief Financial Officer at Ingres (now Actian), a private open source software company based in Redwood City, CA. Before entering the software industry in 2006, Tom spent ten years as a Managing Director of Software Equity Research for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Piper Jaffray where he covered most of the world’s top software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Intuit, Nuance Communications, Symantec, and Autodesk. Previously, as a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, Tom was responsible for selling and managing large enterprise software implementation projects for customers including Liberty Mutual Insurance, the City of Chicago, GMAC, Tyco International, US Bancorp, and Honeywell. Tom holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Rick Smith
Chief Financial Officer of Parchment
Rick Smith is the CFO of Parchment. He was the Chief Financial Officer at Solera Health before that.
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About Parchment: Parchment enables learners, educators, associations, and employers to securely send and receive academic credentials online.
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.
Doug Barnett
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Informatica
Doug Barnett is the EVP & CFO at Sabre Corporation.
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About Informatica, Sabre Corporation: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
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.
Wendy Loundermon
CFO of Inpixon
A financial management leader with 20 years of expertise, Wendy Loundermon guides Inpixon’s critical back-end mechanics of the finance, HR, and operations departments. In 2002, Ms. Loundermon entered Sysorex Government Services Inc. (now Inpixon) as Controller, then Director of Finance and HR, and in 2008 attained Vice President of Finance. Additionally, she acted as interim CFO in 2015. As Vice President of Finance, she prepares and files all financial statements, reports, and tax returns, as well as negotiates vendor credit terms and banking relationships. Ms. Loundermon attended George Mason University, where she spent her college career attaining a BS degree in Accounting and MS degree in Taxation.
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About Inpixon: Inpixon, an indoor data company, specializes in capturing, interpreting and giving context to indoor data to deliver actionable intelligence
Christopher McCleary
CFO of Blue Chip Venture Company
Chris founded and served as CEO of Evergreen Assurance, which recently completed a merger with MessageOne, a complementary company in the disaster recovery market. Prior to founding Evergreen, Mr. McCleary was co-founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Executive Committee of USinternetworking, Inc. (USi) and served as CEO until July 2000. Mr. McCleary founded USi to deliver enhanced web-enabled business process functionality to enterprise customers worldwide through a global network of mission-critical Enterprise Data Centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. McCleary led USi through a very successful initial public offering in April 1999, a short 14 months after inception. Before launching USi, Mr. McCleary was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DIGEX, Incorporated. DIGEX grew from 60 to 600 employees, completed an initial public offering, and merged into Intermedia Communications, Incorporated in less than 20 months with Mr. McCleary as CEO.
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About Blue Chip Venture Company, Digex: Blue Chip Venture Company is a venture fund focusing on technology companies serving the digital media and big data industries
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.
Stephen Scheppmann
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Teradata
Steve Scheppmann is executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) for Teradata, reporting to Vic Lund. In addition to leading the financial organization, Steve has responsibility for IT services and global operations. Prior to joining Teradata in September 2007, Steve had 20 years of experience as a CFO and more than 10 years in public accounting. He was executive vice president and CFO of Per-Se Technologies, Inc. Steve was executive vice president and CFO for NOVA Information Systems, Inc. from 2000 to 2006 and senior vice president and CFO for Larson-Juhl, Inc. from 1988 to 2000. He held senior auditing positions with Arthur Andersen & Company from 1978 through 1988. He was a member of the board of directors of eResearch Technology, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnical services and technology company, where he also served as the chair of its audit committee from 2006 – 2012. Steve grew up in the Midwest and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor’s degree in business administration – accounting.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
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.
Neel Dev
CFO of CenturyLink
Neel Dev is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for CenturyLink and has global responsibility for CenturyLink’s financial planning, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement and supply chain management and real estate portfolio. Neel previously served as CenturyLink’s group vice president of finance and was with Level 3 for 13 years prior to the CenturyLink acquisition. In 2016, Neel was named Level 3’s integration team lead for the Level 3 and CenturyLink transaction, accountable for working to maximize the value of the transaction and capturing integration synergies. Neel has more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience in both operational and financial roles. Prior to joining Level 3, he held leadership positions with MCI (now Verizon Business) and MFS Communications with both financial and operating responsibilities. He holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Mathematics from the University of Delhi (India) and an MBA from the University of Arizona. He also is a CFA charter holder.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
David Lewis
Co-Founder & CFO of LunaDNA
David Lewis is a Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer at LunaDNA and LunaPBC.
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About Ganley Investment Group, LunaDNA, LunaPBC: The first and largest health and DNA research platform owned by its community.
Prakash Ramachandran
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Digital Reasoning
Prakash ensures that the financial resources of the company are used wisely. He has more than 25 years of experience as a finance professional, much of which has been with venture-funded startups. Prior CFO positions, including with Polyera, Nordic Wind Power, Novariant, and Sonicity have seen him assist with multiple rounds of funding, acquisitions, business growth, and international expansion. Prakash qualified as a Chartered Accountant in India (he scored 13th highest in the country) and holds a masters degree in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. When he’s not balancing the books Prakash enjoys traveling with his wife and two children, although he wishes he’d tried bungee jumping before they came into his life as his wife won’t allow him to take the risk!
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About Digital Reasoning: Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses.
Cameron Way
CFO of Onvia
Cameron Way joined Onvia in August, 1999, became Chief Accounting Officer in 2003 and was named Chief Financial Officer in 2008. At Onvia, Way provides financial and operational leadership in growth management, corporate development and strategic planning. Prior to Onvia, his early career was spent with the public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from September, 1994, to August, 1999. His professional focus was on companies in the high tech and investment services industries, and he was involved in a number of initial public offerings. Way holds a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
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About Onvia: Onvia is the leading provider of sales intelligence and acceleration technologies for the business-to-government (B2G) marketplace.
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.
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.
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
Paul E Blondin
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EDB
Paul Blondin is EDB’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Paul works closely with the senior executive team and board of directors to participate in strategic planning and forecasting. Paul oversees EDB’s financial controls and processes, which gives him unique insight into how and when EDB can penetrate new markets. Paul has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in enterprise software. Before joining EDB, Paul was Managing Partner of KickStart Partners, LLC, a business advisory group to private equity investors and CEOs. Paul was previously an entrepreneur, having co-founded and led Pactolus Communication Software, which was sold in 2010. He held executive posts at IPHighway Ltd; Open Development Corp; and was President and CEO of the network security company Netect Ltd. until he engineered its sale in 1999. Paul also served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Open Development Corporation, which was sold in 1997, and CFO of Cascade Communications Corp. Paul earned his MBA from Babson College and a BS in accounting from Boston College.
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About EDB: EDB is an open source-based data platform.
Tiffany Childers
Chief Financial Officer of First Orion
Tiffany oversees all finance, facility and legal teams for First Orion, providing financial leadership and guidance to the entire organization. Her vast experience in the finance field includes executive positions with both Leisure Arts and Acxiom Corporation where she served multiple top tier clients across the insurance, media, retail and automotive industries. Tiffany is loyal, hardworking and determined—all traits that encompass her working, playing golf, travelling, or supporting the Ozark Mission Project. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, whether that’s on a beach, in her church, or on a soccer field watching her son.
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About First Orion: First Orion allows businesses to brand communications, revealing the who and why behind the call to deliver enhanced customer experiences.
John Neale
Chief Financial Officer of Retail Solutions
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About Retail Solutions: Retail Solutions is a software firm providing SaaS products for data management, business intelligence, and point of sale applications.
Patrick Gildea
CFO of GumGum
Patrick Gildea serves as the Chief Financial Officer at GumGum. Prior to joining GumGum, he worked as a CFO of Gracenote where he was responsible for leading the finance and accounting teams and overseeing all finance functions including strategy and planning across the company’s business verticals. Prior to joining Gracenote, he served as VP and Head of Business Operations at NBC Universal’s FandangoNOW where he led the formation of the company’s new Home Video division, which grew from Fandango’s acquisition of M-GO, a digital TV and streaming movie service. Patrick was responsible for the business operations of the division, which included oversight of the roadmap, content acquisition and merchandising, business development and strategy. Patrick earned a Bachelor of Science, Accounting from The Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California and a master’s equivalent Certificate in Japanese from the School of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Patrick is a licensed CPA (inactive) in the State of California.
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About GumGum: GumGum is an Artificial Intelligence company that uses machine learning to extract value from digital content.
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.
Peter Rieman
COO and CFO of Itembase
COO at Retail Solutions.
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About Itembase: Itembase is an e-commerce API integration platform that helps service providers connect with marketplaces.
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.
Naresh Bansal
Chief Financial Officer of AppZen
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About AppZen: AppZen is an artificial intelligence platform for modern finance teams.
Kevin McFarland
CFO and Co-Founder of Formative
Kevin McFarland is the CFO and Co-Founder at Formative.
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About Formative: Formative is an ed-tech company that offers a real-time assessment platform.
Luke Batman
Chief Financial Officer of Impact Analytics
Licensed CPA with ten years experience in public financial reporting, software revenue recognition, cost accounting, forensic accounting and financial modeling. Currently, Luke is the Vice President of Finance & Administration for BuyerQuest, the most powerful eProcurement solution in the market.
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About Impact Analytics: Impact Analytics builds 360-degree data science solutions to empower enterprises to turn their data into dollars.
Caitlin Fiordirosa
Chief Financial Officer of Path Robotics
Caitlin Fiordirosa is the Chief Financial Officer at Path Robotics.
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About Path Robotics: Path Robotics is a developer of fully autonomous and intelligent robotic welding cells.
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 Lewis
Chief Financial Officer of LockerDome
Mark Lewis joined LockerDome in late 2012 to direct the company’s financial and strategic development while leading select business functions. Prior to LockerDome, Lewis served as a Principal at Advantage Capital Partners, one of the country’s leading venture capital and small business finance companies. Lewis’ 15+ year career in the venture capital and private equity sector has focused on building high-impact, technology-driven businesses. He has provided financing, realized liquidity events, and sat on the boards of over 40 private companies.
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About LockerDome: Decide (fka LockerDome) powers the future of advertising on the open web and automates decisions for the real world.
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.
Wisdom Lu
SVP, Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation
Wisdom Lu serves as Senior Vice President, General Manager for D&B DataWorks at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Prior to joining the company, Lu worked for Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., where she served as the Chief Financial Officer and oversaw Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, as well as Legal and Investor Relations. She also served as Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer at Health Net, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies. Before that, Lu served as Treasury Officer, Fixed Income Sales & Trading with National Westminster Bank, USA, and as Management Associate, Fixed Income Sales & Trading with Citicorp Securities, Inc. Ms. Lu graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, with a minor in Economics. Lu earned her Master of Business Administration in Finance & International Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Lu holds professional designations of Chartered Financial Analyst and Professional Engineer in New York.
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About Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation: Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. considers itself a 175 year-old startup.
Nick Currier
CoFounder & CFO of Packback
Nick Currier joined Packback as Co-Founder/ Chief Financial Officer in 2012.
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About Packback: Packback is a Q&A learning platform powered by a proprietary A.I. to quantify and improve critical thinking skills in college students.
Neil A. Cox
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of MedAware Systems
Neil has more than three decades experience in the securities and financial industry. He brings enthusiasm, energy and a solid base of understanding in acquisitions, strategic planning, private and public financing. He has been instrumental in helping dozens of companies secure early stage financing. Neil is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors for Rare Green, Inc., a mineral resource focused exploration company. He recently served as the Vice-President of Finance and on the audit committee for Boulder Imaging, a leading machine vision products company. Prior to Boulder Imaging, Mr. Cox was the founder and served as CFO for Tombstone Technologies, a publicly traded software company developing SaaS software systems for the printing industry and acquired by Hunt Global Resources in 2010. Neil founded IDMedical.com, served as CFO and was instrumental in the financing and guidance process in making the company become publicly traded. The software company helped pioneer computerized medical records on the Internet. Its software was leading edge by using an interactive website that allowed for developing complete medical histories viewable on demand by health care providers. Mr. Cox worked as an Investment Banker and was a registered principal and owner of Rocky Mountain Securities & Investments, Inc. for over 20 years. He served as a Lieutenant in the US Army, is a licensed insurance broker and enjoys hiking and basketball.
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About MedAware Systems: MedAware Systems is a medical research data company delivering analysis of all available data on any medical topic.
Stefan Schulz
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PROS Holdings
Stefan Schulz is an EVP & CFO at PROS.
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About PROS Holdings: PROS Holdings, Inc. is a provider of pricing and margin optimization software. Its software products provide customers gain insight into
Tim Dahltorp
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of ClickFox
Tim Dahltorp is the CFO at ClickFox .
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About ClickFox: ClickFox offers customer journey solutions, enabling companies to tells the story of what customers are experiencing.
Scott Baumgartner
Chief Financial Officer of SmartZip
Scott Baumgartner, Chief Financial Officer. Baumgartner’s career history includes a 14-year stint at CallidusCloud. Most recently, Baumgartner was the Vice President of Finance at Accela. He started his finance career at KPMG and has also held leadership roles at Read-Rite Corp and Merant Software.
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About SmartZip: SmartZip offers innovative and effective predictive marketing solutions to help real estate agents get more listings and lenders more leads.
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.
Robert Bales
EVP/CFO of Quaero
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About Quaero: Empowering enterprises to integrate, discover and democratize their customer data
John Pitstick
Chief Financial Officer of Seven Lakes Technologies
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About Seven Lakes Technologies: Seven Lakes Technologies is an enterprise software company focused on the upstream oil and gas segment
Jim Christensen
Chief Financial Officer of PurePredictive
Jim Christensen is currently a Director and the CFO of PurePredictive. He has been involved with the Company since its inception. He has worked in the software and technology space since 1995. His career began as an Accounting Manager at Rocky Mountain Water Co. He joined Callware Technologies, a voicemail and unified messaging software company in 1995 and has served in various positions in the Finance and Operations, most recently as the Chief Operating and Financial Officer . He graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 1994 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
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About PurePredictive: A software platform using AI for advanced predictive modeling exponentially increasing the insights that businesses gain from their data.
Chirravuri Subrahmanya Leeladhar
Chief Financial Officer of Cambridge Technology Enterprises
Chirravuri Subrahmanya Leeladhar joining the team, as CFO. He is a qualified accountant with over 25 years of experience in logistics, petroleum, EPC, IT, ITES, manufacturing, and trading sectors. His Areas of expertise are corporate finance, IPO, Mergers & acquisitions, MIS, US GAAP, and taxation.
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About Cambridge Technology Enterprises: Cambridge Technology Enterprises is an IT services leader focused on the convergence of big data and cloud.
Michelle Yek
Chief Financial Officer of Trufa
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About Simpplr, Trufa: Trufa delivers True Finance Applications, employing big data and predictive analytics to help companies unlock cash.
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.
Chris Gummer
Chief Financial Officer of HAWK Network Defense
Chris Gummer joined HAWK in March 2016.. Chris has a broad range of accounting and financial experience as an operator and consultant to clients for over 15 years. In 2000, Chris joined Financial Computer Software where he spent 7 years helping build the world leader in Asset Management Software and Leverage Loan Data. Through those years Mr. Gummer worked in a variety of roles, often consulting with CFOs and their accounting departments on how to improve their processes, create efficiencies and reduce costs through the use of technology. His experience includes being CFO of a steel construction company where he transformed the administration of the company, revamping the financial processes of the company decreased collection times, increased recognized revenue, and resolved several regulatory issues. Chris graduated from SMU with a BBA in Accounting.
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About HAWK Network Defense: HAWK Network Defense provides an innovative Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) platform.
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.
Philip Hardin
Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of YouScience
Philip Hardin has been growing and operating emerging technology enterprises for his entire career. Prior to YouScience, Mr. Hardin spent 17 years building Emdeon (formerly ActaMed, Healtheon, and WebMD) from pre-revenue to $1.3 Billion in revenue with more than a $3 Billion market value.
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About YouScience: YouScience revolutionizes how students, educators, and employers connect and succeed by starting with aptitude-based career guidance.
Eric Moxham
Chief Financial Officer and Head of Sales of Bractlet
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About Bractlet: Bractlet specializes in providing building energy modeling, mesh networks, building operations, and big data.
Eric Moxham
Chief Financial Officer and Head of Sales of Bractlet
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About Bractlet: Bractlet specializes in providing building energy modeling, mesh networks, building operations, and big data.
Mark Brady
CFO of Powerlytics
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About Powerlytics: Powerlytics helps organizations address significant risk and compliance-related challenges.
Mark Brady
CFO of Powerlytics
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About Powerlytics: Powerlytics helps organizations address significant risk and compliance-related challenges.
Steven Varela
CFO & General Counsel of NectarOM
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About NectarOM: We make it easy for Enterprises to build, operate, and scale their omnichannel personalization capability
Rob Gannaway
Co-Founder & CFO of Steppingblocks
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About Steppingblocks: Steppingblocks is a data analytics platform that uses big data to help users make intelligent decisions.
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.
Lawrence Cowan
Senior Partner & CFO of Cicero Group
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About Cicero Group, Cicero Group: Data-driven strategy consulting
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
Jim Young
Chief Financial Officer of Pinnacle Business Systems
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About Pinnacle Business Systems: For over two decades Pinnacle Business Systems, Inc. (PBS) has been designing and implementing technology solutions for customers across
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.
Luis Borjas
CFO of Stockpulp
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About Stockpulp: We are a financial tool that helps investors make data driven decisions. The evolution of investment decision making
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
Jay Cheung
CFO of Tom Sawyer Software
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About Tom Sawyer Software: Tom Sawyer Software provides software that enables organizations to build scalable data visualization and social network analysis apps.