Boardroom Media (CTO News)
At CTO (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 Provo based CTO’ operating in the Software 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.
Zack Bomsta
Co-Founder & CTO of Owlet Baby Care
Zack Bomsta is Founder and CTO at Owlet Baby Care.
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About Owlet Baby Care: Owlet Baby Care offers a health monitor that allows parents to view their child’s vital signs in real-time.
Daren Thayne
CTO of Domo
Daren draws from more than 20 years of product and technology leadership to oversee all of Domo’s product development, technology and infrastructure — in addition to serving as the company’s chief apologist for the New York Yankees. Prior to Domo,Daren held the position of chief technology officer and senior vice president of development at the world’s largest online family history resource, Ancestry.com, where he built the site’s SaaS platform from the ground up. Daren has also served as chief information officer at Interbank FX; has managed virtually all engineering resources for WordPerfect during its heyday; and has overseen teams at Open Market, Corel and Novell.
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About Domo, Fownd: Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
David B. Jackson
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptive Computing
David Jackson is an established thought leader in adaptive enterprise data centers, cloud, and HPC environments. Over a period of sixteen years, David worked for several HPC centers, providing resource management and scheduling services to such leadership-class organizations as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, San Diego Supercomputer Center, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Maui High Performance Computing Center, and the Center for High Performance Computing. He also worked as a consultant at IBM’s AIX System Center. David is a founding member of the Global Grid Forum and a member of the Department of Energy’s Scalable System Software Initiative.
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About Adaptive Computing, Adaptive Computing, Next College Student Athlete: Adaptive Computing provides workload management software for high performance computing environments.
Dustin McCaffree
Co-Founder & CTO of Trolley
Entrepreneur, Builder, Tech Liaison, Co-Founder of Loyal. After being raised in California, Dustin headed to Utah. While pursuing an education in Marketing at Brigham Young University, he fell in love with code accidentally. Since then, Dustin has started a handful of companies. He’s built multiple design & development agencies and SaaS product companies from the ground up and gotten to profitability in each. Most recently before Loyal, Dustin single-handedly built a Chrome extension that garnered over 700 active users.
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About Trolley: Trolley is a platform for businesses to get all the functionality of a mobile app without the high costs and difficult systems integration.
Ryan Nelson
CTO of SOLO
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About Forbes Technology Council, SOLO: SOLO provides back-office solution for contractors and sales organizations.
Jeff Lockhart
CTO/Co-Founder of Sales Rabbit
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About Sales Rabbit: Sales Rabbit provides software mobile cloud based solution for field sales reps and sales organizations.
Merrill Hansen
Co-Founder & CTO of Icount.com
Merrill Hansen is Co-Founder and CTO at Icount.com.
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About Icount.com: Icount is a political website that empowers the public to enhance communication between elected officials and citizens.
