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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 United States based CTO’ operating in the CRM 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.
Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Steven Tamm
CTO of Salesforce
CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Charlie Isaacs
CTO for Customer Connection of Salesforce
Charlie Isaacs has a track record of R&D leadership, starting with GTE (Verizon) where he served as VP of Engineering/Operations and headed a group of over 200 engineers working on Government and commercial applications. Following GTE, Mr. Isaacs held R&D leadership positions at Answer Systems (acquired by Computer Associates), Broad Daylight (sold to Primus Knowledge, then ATG and then Oracle), and CTO and CCO at Kana Software, Inc. and then Alcatel-Lucent/Genesys Global Innovations Group where he filed several Mobile patents and guided several Customer Service applications. Charlie joined Salesforce in 2012 and is VP and CTO for Customer Connection. Charlie’s primary role is to incubate IoT projects for Salesforce Customers; he evangelizes and speaks worldwide about IoT and Customer Service. Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from California Lutheran University.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Dima Soroka
CTO of Oro Inc.
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About Oro Inc.: With a mission to connect and empower people in manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale, Oro provides best-of-breed software that helps B2B commerce companies digitize.
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Josh Curl
Founder & CTO of Hightouch
Josh Curl is the Co-Founder of Hightouch.
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About Hightouch: Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customer’s data from the data warehouse to their CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Brian O’Neal
Founder & CTO of CINC
Brian designed and launched the technology operations program for CINC. Prior to his role in founding the company, Brian was lead software architect and senior application developer at CDC Software and CareerBuilder.com. Previously, Brian worked with cutting edge mobile phone development for Panasonic in the late 1990s. He led teams that built and integrated contact management systems for mobile devices with client software such as Microsoft Outlook and other PIM software.
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About CINC: CINC provides an integrated buyer lead generation and management solution for top-producing real estate brokers and agents.
Tyler Brock
Co-founder and CTO of Hustle
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About Hustle: Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that enables personal conversations at scale.
Cyrus Karbassiyoon
CTO & Co-Founder of Scratchpad
CTO and Co-founder at Scratchpad .
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About Scratchpad: Scratchpad is an all-in-one sales efficiency toolkit that allows users to consolidate and streamline the different aspects of sales.
Alexander Yakunin
CTO of ServiceTitan
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Didier Baquier
CTO and Full Stack Software Engineer of OneUp
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About OneUp: OneUp is an online accounting software for small business owners and accountants.
Darren Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Thanx
Darren is a born-and-raised East-Coaster, currently enjoying the West Coast life. He joined Thanx as employee and engineer #1 in 2011 and has enjoyed cultivating the codebase from its inception to what it is now. Darren received his BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth.
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
Tim Marshall
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the technology team, Tim is responsible for defining the technological trail Neudesic blazes to empower organizations in understanding and leveraging business solutions using the Microsoft Technology Platform. Tim’s wealth of experience in different technologies, along with his extensive expertise across a wide breadth of vertical markets, enables him to assist organizations in making proper technical decisions that help them achieve their visions. His involvement with the technical aspect of the business is deep, as evidenced through his expert presentations at major industry events and his work with development teams nationally. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Tim was a well-respected software architect at Microsoft. His technical expertise has enabled many organizations in a wide variety of industries to execute their technical vision. Tim received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from California State University, Fullerton. He currently resides in Irvine, Calif.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Jasbir Singh
Founder, Head of Strategy, CTO & Growth Marketing of Wavespot
As a Founder and CTO, Jasbir manages Wavespot’s product roadmap.
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About Pronto Networks, Wavespot: Wavespot is a social relationship management service for local businesses.
Rich Green
CPO & CTO of SugarCRM
Rich Green leads SugarCRM’s engineering and product management teams and is responsible for the product vision and global strategy of the award-winning Sugar platform. Rich has more than 25 years of technology experience and has demonstrated success as part of both Fortune 500 and early-stage companies. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1989 where he held a variety of roles, ultimately serving as Executive Vice President of Software. As EVP of Software, he was responsible for Sun’s software products strategy and development, including the acquisition of MySQL, and driving Sun’s product, licensing and support businesses. His tenure also included roles as VP/GM of Solaris and Java, during which he led the invention, marketing and licensing of the enterprise and mobile versions of Java and was responsible for the release of Java as open source technology. After Sun, Green served as CTO of Nokia and Executive Vice President of the consumer and enterprise business at Nuance Communications. He most recently led Products and Technology at an early-stage Internet of Things company bringing connected sensors and data analytics to commercial-scale energy control.
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Matt Fischer
President and CTO of Bullhorn
Matt Fischer is the president and CTO at Bullhorn. Since joining Bullhorn in 2004, Matt has held a variety of strategic leadership positions managing the growth of various technical and services teams, including Vice President of Professional Services. Prior to Bullhorn, Matt worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers specializing in systems process assurance for such companies as Fidelity and State Street Global Advisors. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Boston University’s School of Management
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About Bullhorn: Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in business services industries.
Ken Tsui
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of PetDesk
Entrepreneur, Founder and CTO of Locai Inc.
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About PetDesk: PetDesk offers CRM software for pet care providers to promote pet health.
Brad Perry
CTO & Co-Founder of DealerSocket
Brad’s role is to help the company align our business and technology strategy to achieve our aggressive growth objectives. Prior to joining FreightPOP, Brad was the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DealerSocket.
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About DealerSocket, FreightPOP: DealerSocket is an industry leading automotive CRM–Customer Relationship Management and dealership training provider, serving auto dealers.
Sarath Bethapudi
Chief Technology Officer of Liaison International
Sarath, Liaison’s chief technology officer, has been at Liaison since 2013. He spearheaded the development and rollout of the company’s multi-tenant SaaS platform for graduate school admissions management and currently heads a cross-functional, globally distributed engineering team. Under his guidance, the team focuses on software development, data analytics, quality assurance and IT/Cloud ops. Before Liaison, Sarath served as the senior director and chief enterprise architect at the New England Journal of Medicine. In that role, he led technology initiatives to modernize and integrate various digital publications. Sarath has also worked as director of technology architecture at Accenture LLP and as a development manager at Ness Technologies, where he was responsible for delivering large-scale software developments, Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and enterprise systems integration solutions for Fortune 100 clients across North America. He holds a B. Tech in Computer Sciences Engineering from Mangalore University.
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About Liaison International: Liaison International helps higher education institutions better identify, recruit, enroll and retain best-fit students.
Nathan Krishnan
CTO of Apttus
Nathan Krishnan is the chief technology officer of [Apttus](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apttus), a SaaS application provider that renders enterprise class applications for end-to-end management of business functions. He was previously a senior principal scientist at Acesis. Krishnan holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Pune.
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About Apttus: Apttus, a SaaS application provider, renders enterprise class applications for end to end management of business functions.
Chad Ruff
CTO of Act!
Chad Ruff is the CTO at Act.
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About Act!: Act! offers hosting provides, marketing automation, outlook integration, and mobile app services.
Niranjan Nimkar
Chief Technology Officer of TalentQuest
As the CTO at TalentQuest, Niranjan leads Product Management, Software Development and Infrastructure. He is also responsible for the company’s information security policies and compliance. Niranjan joined TalentQuest in 2007. Niranjan has more than 20 years of experience leading and managing small and large-scale software solutions in several countries. He has an extensive background in business requirements analysis, IT budgeting, global sourcing, vendor management, product design and agile product development across many business verticals, including manufacturing, financial services, and human capital management (HCM). Niranjan has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science from the University of Pune, India. He enjoys playing guitar, NFL football and traveling. Niranjan and his wife, Eve, live in Sandy Springs, Ga.
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About TalentQuest: TalentQuest is a provider of comprehensive talent management software.
Vijay Jegan
SVP of Engineering & CTO of Tact.ai
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About Tact.ai: The customer engagement company for life sciences
Sean Pinegar
Co-Founder & Field CTO of Tenfold
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About Tenfold: Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting customer information into action on the phone.
Hugo Zanghi
CTO of Linkfluence
Hugo Zanghi is the CTO of Linkfluence. He specializes in web mining, machine learning, and distributed computing.
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About Linkfluence: Linkfluence is a media intelligence company that analyzes conversations on social networks to create business opportunities for brands.
Joe Schmid
Chief Technology Officer of SymphonyRM
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About SymphonyRM: SymphonyRM is a healthcare software platform designed for health CRM and AI for healthcare organizations.
Ray Leyendecker
Co-founder and CTO of LightArrow
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About LightArrow: Austin-based startup that builds next-gen mobile apps for business and productivity: Calendars, CRM, Big Data, Projects, Finance, and More.
Aditya Sanghi
Founder / CTO of Punchh
Aditya brings his technical expertise and diverse business experience to building enterprise-grade web and consumer-facing mobile applications that are stunningly easy to use. As a core contributor to RubyOnRails, an open source, full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language, he is well known among his international peers in the Ruby community for his efforts to make practical technologies accessible and useful. Aditya founded and led Rising Sun and Salaree.com. Aditya has worked with Accenture, ADC Telecom (now CSG Systems) to build large enterprise systems. He has lived and worked in several countries including Australia, Germany, India, and Sweden. He is fluent in English, Hindi and knows a bit of German and Thai. Aditya earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Aditya recently founded Godly. Godly is aggregating temples into one app for darshans, donations, commerce and engagement for devotees. Godly is defining digital devotion for a billion+ devotees.
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About Cospective, Godly, Punchh: Punchh is a company providing digital marketing products for brick and mortar retailers, combining AI and machine learning technologies.
Mike Moone
Founder, CTO of BrightReps
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About BrightReps: BrightReps is a customer support tool that helps teams build fast and functional workflows.
Jan Tkac
CTO and Co-Founder of PresentiGO
Jan Tkac is the CTO and Co-Founder of PresentiGO. He is an ambitious engineer and manager with strong vision, involved in mobile development and sales improvement with experience includes 10 years leading developer teams, software, and business analysis, architecture, design, development, customer support and consultancy.
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About AVE Soft s.r.o., PresentiGO: PresentiGOis a unique sales tool that makes life easier for salespeople in the field.
Andy Levi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Spiro.AI
Andy co-founded Spiro, fueled by a passion to radically improve the Sales Experience by reducing the friction between the users and the way they interact with their enterprise applications. Andy brings to Spiro deep experience in sales business processes and CRM implementations, expertly integrating technology, cloud solutions and sales effectiveness. He has a passion for staying abreast of cutting-edge tech and anticipating its impact on markets, business and society. A true visionary, Andy drives the company’s thought leadership, collaborating with the product team to translate his vision into a world-class product. Andy is a technologist with a background in sales and was originally from Venezuela although many people can’t place his accent. Follow Andy on Twitter @alevi
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About Spiro.AI: Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities.
Sunil Jagani
President and Chief Technology Officer of AllianceTek Inc.
Sunil Jagani joined President and Chief Technology Officer in 2004.
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About AllianceTek Inc.: Custom software, web development & IT business solutions provider company US, 14 years’ experience in building mobile, cloud & web solutions
Igor Fridman
Co-Founder & CTO of Performiture
Igor has over 15 years of experience leading engineering teams. Igor was one of the early engineers at Metareward, VP Engineering of Experian Interactive Innovation Center, Director of Technology at Movoto, among several others. At Performiture Igor is responsible for applying his current interests in machine learning, big data and distributed systems to deliver a platform that’s powerful, yet simple to use. Igor graduated with a Bachelor’s from UCLA in Computer Science.
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About Amazon, Performiture: Performiture is a cloud-based, predictive sales analytics and forecasting solution that helps fast-growing B2B companies improve sales.
Zulfikar Ramzan
CTO of RSA Insurance Group
Zulfikar Ramzan joined RSA as Chief Product and Technology Officer in 2021.
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About RSA Insurance Group, RSA Security, RSA Security: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
Serge Jorgensen
Founding Partner & CTO of Sylint Group
Serge Jorgensen is a founding partner in the Sylint Group, and provides technical development and guidance in the areas of Cyber Security, Counter Cyber-Warfare, eDiscovery, System Design and Incident Response. Serge Jorgensen holds various patents in engineering and math-related fields. He directed development of DNS (Dynamic Name Server) tracking applications, provided response and remediation guidance to multi-billion dollar international espionage and cyber-security attacks, and directed, tasked and managed multi-million dollar litigation, forensic and electronic discovery efforts. Prior to the Sylint Group, Serge Jorgensen ran the Research and Development Department for Locast Corporation developing a HIPAA-compliant patient location- and status-tracking device.
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About Sylint Group: Sylint is a nationally recognized leader in Cyber Security, Digital Data Forensics, eDiscovery and Compliance.
Michael Kuehl
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Losant
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About Losant: Losant is a developer platform designed to help people build complex connected solutions.
Ali Azarbayejani
Chief Technology Officer of Cogito
Dr. Azarbayejani has 18 years of commercial experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and designer of world-class computational technologies. His pioneering doctoral research at the MIT Media Lab in probabilistic modeling for 3-D vision was the basis for his first startup company Alchemy 3D Technology, which created the market in the film and video post-production industry for camera match-moving software. He has consulted in software development and business strategy and has been on the research staff at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs contributing to leading technologies focused on software-based digital signal processing and computational modeling and algorithms.
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About Cogito: Cogito enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence.
Matti Prasad
CTO of Amalgam Rx
Matti Prasad is the Chief Technology Officer at Amalgam Rx.
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About Amalgam Rx: Amalgam Rx is a digital health company that combines clinical and behavioral interventions to support patients, providers, & life sciences.
Spencer Pingry
CTO & Co-Founder of Zaius
Spencer Pingry is the CTO and Co-Founder of Zaius.
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About Zaius: Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers.
Hari Gutlapalli
Co-Founder and CTO of Audetemi Inc.
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About Audetemi Inc.: SaaS, Enterprise Mobility, CRM on Mobile, Cloud Data Federation, Customer Experience, Video Chat
Mario Lim
Founder and CTO of Openprise
Mario has led engineering teams for two successful start-ups which were later acquired by Entrust and Oracle. He has extensive experience in enterprise software as an architect, designer, and developer. Mario has also contributed to open-source software as a developer and co-owner.
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About Openprise: Openprise RevOps Automation Platform fuels company growth by automating hundreds of sales and marketing processes.
Mitch Moody
CTO of Anyone Home
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About Anyone Home: Anyone Home is a software and services company that focuses on engagement in the multi and single-family rental housing market.
Roey Chasman
Co-Founder and CTO of Lawmatics
Roey Chasman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lawmatics.
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About Lawmatics: Lawmatics is a full funnel CRM, client intake and marketing automation software designed for the modern law firm.
Cashman Andrus
Founder & CTO of Yesware
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About Yesware: All-in-one toolkit for sales professionals. Everything you need to prospect, schedule meetings and follow up.
Jason Parekh
CTO, Co-Founder of SalesWise
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About SalesWise: SalesWise provides leaders with real-time visibility into everything their team is doing to manage their accounts.
Prakash Mishra
Co-founder/CTO of Wyng
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About CVP, Wyng: Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles.
Tim Sherwood
Co-Founder & CTO of Partnered
Tim Sherwood currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for Partnered. He previously worked at DataRobot as the Domain Lead in Senior Software Engineer .
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About Partnered: Partnered is where you can connect your sales team with your partner sales teams to exchange customer introductions.
Jordan Gilman
CTO and Software Architect of PeopleVine
With nearly 20 years of building custom platforms and web sites, Jordan founded PeopleVine to help agencies, brands and marketers launch engaging campaigns and opportunities for their consumers with ease. Prior to starting PeopleVine, Jordan managed a team of 150 globally to help Whirlpool Corporation roll out their eCommerce vision across the world.
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About 1871, PeopleVine: PeopleVine was built for private clubs and member-based business looking to provide premier and elevated experiences for their members.
Peter Thompson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Bizible
Peter B. Thompson, also known as Pete, Co-founded Bizible, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Peter Thompson has been the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of TiVo Corporation. He manages a global organization of engineering, sales, marketing, operations and customer support teams defining the future of home entertainment through the development of television products that appeal to consumers, producers and carriers alike. He is also responsible for Ericsson’s portfolio of full-featured TV Platforms for managed networks including the Mediaroom, Multiscreen (MMP) and Content Management System (CMS) product lines.
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About Bizible: Bizible offers an integrated marketing analytics platform for marketers to optimize their campaigns.
T.K. Lakshman
CTO of MobileForce Software
TK is a technology leader, passionate about applying fundamentals of computer science to un(der)specified problems. His technical background includes mobile applications, enterprise software, infrastructure automation, compilers, and programming languages. He has previously held senior technical management and architect positions at VERITAS, Jareva Technologies, HP, SGI, and IBM. TK got his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Masters in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo, and a Bachelors degree in Physics from BITS Pilani. He has done research work at world-renowned research institutions such as TIFR, India, has numerous publications in ACM conferences and holds several patents in systems management. In his spare time, TK likes to bike and read (though not at the same time).
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About MobileForce Software: MobileForce is a transformative, cloud-based customer relationship optimization company.
Paul Stager
Principal and CTO of Market Builders
Paul Stager is the CTO and principal at Market Builders, Inc. Prior to joining Market Builders, Paul was the co-founder of Adelie Corporation. He holds a bachelor of science and engineering from the University of Michigan and a master of business administration from Boston College.
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About Market Builders: Market Builders provides a CRM solution for Institutional asset management.
Lionel Farr
Chief Technology Officer of Zift Solutions
Lionel Farr is responsible for the development of all Zift technologies, products, and services. Before Zift, at DoubleClick, he played a key role in a major product redesign to ensure quality and scalability for such online giants as eBay, AOL, and Orbitz.
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About Zift Solutions: Zift is the Channel Management leader ZiftONE delivers partner relationship management(PRM), channel marketing, and learning in ONE platform
Thomas Patros
Chief Technology Officer of Red Argyle
As the founder of Red Argyle, Tom oversees the direction and long-term growth strategy of the company. He’s a technology innovator with experience in Apex, Visualforce, PHP, Microsoft .NET, and countless other platforms. Tom’s big on delivering results and challenges his team to knock it out of the park on every project. He envisions and designs the framework for custom-tailored solutions to client needs, then gives his team the tools and the inspiration to bring those deliverables to life.
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About Red Argyle: Red Argyle provides consulting and development services for organizations using Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform.
Dave Craigmile
Chief Technology Officer of Revenova
As a Chief Technology Officer, David has specified, implemented, and deployed highly functional and reliable applications that supported 20,000,000 customer transactions and 500,000 users through web, telephony, and client-server channels. He has specified, built, and operated multi-million dollar data centers to host these applications. He is an issued software patent inventor.
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About Revenova: Revenova TMS is a 100% cloud CRM based transportation management system for shippers, brokers and third-party logistics (3PL) companies.
Mark Salpeter
CTO & Co-Founder of Dealyze
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About Dealyze: Dealyze is a customer loyalty and automated marketing platform for multi unit franchises and SMB’s.
Jim Thompson
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of GreatVines
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About GreatVines: GreatVines is an enterprise sales execution platform for beverage suppliers, distributors, retailers, and promotional agencies.
Andrey Stanovnov
CTO of IDScan.net
Andrey was born and raised in Siberia, Russia. He graduated with a Masters in Computer Science and a MBA in International Business and Information Systems. He has lived in New Orleans for 15+ years. Andrey received the Top 20 Database Administrators in the World Award and Top 5 Database Administrators in the U.S. Award from BrainBench. As the CTO of IDScan.net, he has implemented complex web based field time solutions for major oil and gas companies. When Andrey isn’t developing new ID scanning software, he likes to spend his time grilling for his wife, two children and friends.
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About IDScan.net: IDScan.net is the industry leader in ID scanning technology with over 13 years of experience in developing ID scanning software.
Ronald Brockmann
CTO of ActiveVideo Networks
Ronald is responsible for driving technology innovation for ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform. He has established himself as an industry leader in the creation of cloud-based solutions, and has been at the forefront of anticipating how HTML5 and the cloud enable consistent user experiences across any connected device. Ronald spearheaded the development of the CloudTV H5 platform that brings the flexibility and time-to-market advantages of HTML5 content development to television UXs. Ronald joined ActiveVideo in 2009 following the company’s acquisition of Avinity Systems, a leading developer of cloud-based platforms. As CEO and co-founder of Avinity, Ronald led a team that enabled rich interactive experiences across a wide range of devices, from low-power digital set-top boxes to CI Plus enabled TVs. Previously, Ronald pioneered WiFi technologies and contributed to several key IEEE 802.11 standards as CTO and co-founder of No Wires Needed, which was acquired by Intersil (NASDAQ: ISIL) in 2000 and ultimately became part of Conexant Systems (NASDAQ: CNXT). Ronald earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Twente in Enchede, The Netherlands. He is the holder of several patents.
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About ActiveVideo Networks, ActiveVideo Networks: ActiveVideo, a software company, uses cloud-based technology to bring advanced user interfaces to cable and IPTV set-top boxes.
Jack Angers
CTO & Co-founder of MacroTower
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About MacroTower: Measure the ROI of every marketing dollar
Geoff Revis
Chief Technology Officer of Lift Division
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About Lift Division: Lift Division helps good companies grow. We are experts in web design and lead generation via SEO, Paid Search, Content Marketing & more.
Jeff Claeson
CTO, Co-founder & Creator of Surgio Health
Jeff has been designing and building easy-to-use web apps for nearly 15 years. He is obsessive about making complex interfaces easy to use and it shows in Surg.io. Jeff works tirelessly to make Surg.io better each day and to help distributors be successful with it.
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About Surgio Health: Surgio Health is a surgical asset & logistics management technology platform for healthcare IDNs, hospitals and medical device manufacturers
Tom Saichek
CTO and Certified Level 1 Eloqua Consultant of 4Thought Marketing
I have over 20 years of expanded responsibility in Business Systems. I have been responsible for enterprise-wide project implementation as well as line level executive management. I have been at the forefront of marketing and sales automation and sales force productivity for over two decades. During that time, I have developed and successfully implemented a variety of customer and sales-centric systems designed to improve customer interaction and sales success. I bring a wealth of experience dealing on the business side of systems problems. I have been extremely successful bridging the gap between business needs and technical constraints. For the past 10 years I have been focused on the software industry, and have been involved on both the product development side as well as the enterprise implementation side of CRM initiatives.
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About 4Thought Marketing: 4Thought Marketing is an application development and privacy compliance services company founded in 2008.
Nathan Yergler
CTO & Co-Founder of Polytomic
Nathan Yergler is the CTO and Co-Founder at Polytomic.
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About Polytomic: Sync internal data to your business systems
Ken Bergmann
Chief Technology Officer of Liquid Perspective
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About Liquid Perspective: Technology services company focused on mobile applications and cloud enablement.
Luis Omar Rivera
CTO of WorldNet
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About WorldNet: WorldNet expanded to be the only local company offering a full range of Voice, Data, Internet and Cloud services.
Gary Scott
Co-founder & CTO of AGILIRON
As the Chief Technology Officer, Gary is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and cloud infrastructure direction along with leading the product design and development efforts. Gary brings 30+ years of experience in product development at Intel Corporation with a track record of leading and delivering several mission-critical projects. During this tenure, he held various responsibilities – Project manager at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, Program Manager for Tool Automation & Optimization and Engineering Manager leading multi-national product development teams. He brings a wealth of experience in product lifecycle management from inception to delivery and has spearheaded several initiatives and task forces around user interfaces, web based solutions, open source infrastructure technologies and development best practices. His areas of expertise include web application development, database technologies, workflow methodologies, software design patterns and best practices around iterative and component based development. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University.
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About AGILIRON: AGILIRON is a SaaS-based platform that provides e-commerce, retail, and wholesale solutions to its clients.
Zach Daniels
CTO of Digipharm
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About Digipharm: Bringing value-based healthcare to life using blockchain technology.
John Zhang
CTO of IngageApp
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About IngageApp: IngageApp (Xiaoshouyi) is a CRM company leveraging mobile social platforms and big data technology.
Jeremy Peacock
Chief Technology Officer of SMB Suite
Jeremy joined NextCorp from a $2 billion financial services corporation, where he served as a financial analyst, financial systems administrator, and information systems liaison. Highly adept at all functions of back office systems, he is proficient in the implementation and support of business and financial software applications, as well as systems customization, integration and internet-related technologies. Jeremy holds numerous Microsoft and industry-related certifications, and was primarily responsible for designing NextCorp’s business services platform to accommodate the broad spectrum of technical requirements needed to host enterprise applications over the internet.
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About SMB Suite: SMB Suite offers a fully-integrated, cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics ERP, CRM, and e-commerce solution for small and mid-market businesses.
Timothee Saumet
Co-Founder and CTO of Tilkee
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About Tilkee: Tilkee is a cloud based app that increases sales team’s closing rate and optimizes prospects follow-up by tracking business proposals.
Aziz Panjwani
Chief Technology Officer of CTL Global
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About CTL Global, Longtail: CTL Global is an industry leading Logistics, Transportation, and Technology Solutions provider for retail, financial, marketing
Jason Wicker
Chief Technology Officer/Director of Influence Technologies
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About Influence Technologies: Influence Technologies delivers WOW interactive video experiences that significantly improve results.
Trent Niemeyer
Chief Technology Officer of Brandcards Inc.
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About Brandcards Inc.: Where consumers find the brands they love and brands love them back
Trent Niemeyer
Chief Technology Officer of Brandcards Inc.
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About Brandcards Inc.: Where consumers find the brands they love and brands love them back
Charlie Hulcher
CTO & Co-Founder of AppCow
I’m Charlie Hulcher. I build things with code. Currently, CTO & Co-Founder at UpChannel. Studied Electrical Engineering for 4 years – on pause. Studied abroad in Shanghai, U.A.E., and Qatar. I’m into travel, hiking, photography, and now cooking.
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About AppCow, Subspace: Turning first time buyers into repeat customer throughout the smart-phone supply chain.
Mark Paquette
CTO & Co-founder of thedatabank, gbc
Mark has over 30 years experience developing nonprofit and educational software, including international best seller The Oregon Trail. Prior to founding thedatabank, he owned a company that developed e-commerce sites and web database applications. His interests include bicycling, cooking, music, and volunteering.
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About thedatabank, gbc: thedatabank provides custom information solutions and services for government and nonprofit organizations.
Josh Blauer
CTO of Calldrip
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About Calldrip: Connects online shopper with sales team in seconds of a digitial lead inquiry.
Atul Patel
Chief Technology Officer of Creedenz Solutions
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About Creedenz Solutions: Creedenz is a mid-market CRM company turning traditional CRM on its head.
Robin van der Zwan
Co-Founder & CTO of VirtualAPT
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About VirtualAPT: Digital visualization technology for built and virtual spaces
Bilal Muzaffar
CTO and Co-Founder of BuzzCentrum
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About BuzzCentrum: BuzzCentrum is an messaging platform.
Bill Gunther
CTO & Vice President of Development of Cima Group
Bill Gunther is currently serving as Chief Technology Officer for Auris and Vice President of Development for Cima Group, providing the technical and thought leadership behind new and innovative solutions. An accomplished, hands-on technical leader, Bill is recognized as a solutions visionary, technology innovator, and change agent who has successfully driven numerous large-scale, multi-million dollar initiatives from conception through implementation. Prior to joining Cima Group, Bill held several senior positions for large multi-billion dollar organizations such as NTT, AT&T, Computer Sciences Corporation/CSC, MaerskSealand, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Bill has more than 28 years of progressive experience in technology and large-scale enterprise systems. He holds a Computer Science Degree from Rutgers University.
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About Cima Group: Cima Group is a global telecommunications and digital solutions provider and integrator.
Trevor DeVore
Chief Technology Officer of ScreenSteps
Trevor has several years of experience developing media based training solutions. Prior to forming Blue Mango Learning Systems, he created e-learning solutions using technologies such as Director, Flash, Authorware, PHP, SQL Databases, QuickTime, and other multimedia authoring environments. It was his familiarity with the available authoring tools that made him aware of their weaknesses when creating e-learning solutions. Trevor focuses on developing software applications that hide complexity from the user. He speaks regularly on software development topics.
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About ScreenSteps: ScreenSteps simplifies the process of training others how to execute a process that takes place on a computer screen.
Trevor DeVore
Chief Technology Officer of ScreenSteps
Trevor has several years of experience developing media based training solutions. Prior to forming Blue Mango Learning Systems, he created e-learning solutions using technologies such as Director, Flash, Authorware, PHP, SQL Databases, QuickTime, and other multimedia authoring environments. It was his familiarity with the available authoring tools that made him aware of their weaknesses when creating e-learning solutions. Trevor focuses on developing software applications that hide complexity from the user. He speaks regularly on software development topics.
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About ScreenSteps: ScreenSteps simplifies the process of training others how to execute a process that takes place on a computer screen.
Alex Gebreamlak
CTO & Co-founder of Notice Enterprises, Inc.
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About Gobbiz, Notice Enterprises, Inc.: Notice is a cloud-based enterprise platform that allows businesses to communicate real-time ETA information to their customers.
Rian Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer of Rain the Growth Agency
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About Circinaut Technical Consulting Group, Leavened, Rain the Growth Agency: An independent and fully integrated direct-to-consumer advertising agency built to drive transformational growth for DTC brands.
Christopher Vermilion
Co – Founder & CTO of Roobiq
Chris Vermilion is founder and CTO at Roobiq, the first mobile-only CRM app that deeply integrates with Salesforce and is designed for customer-facing professionals and field sales reps. Roobiq combines multiple data sources, like calendar, location and email to create contextual reminders and automate manual-entry. Chris earned MA/PhD in particle physics from University of Washington and BA/BS in Physics/Electrical Engineering from Boston University. Chris spent six years writing software for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His specialities include data analysis, electronics design, computational physics, and natural language understanding.
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About Roobiq: Roobiq is a mobile sales platform that combines calendar, location, email, and CRM data to help manage a sales process.
Brian Kappus
President, CEO & CTO of CloudLink™
Brian Kappus has been making small business his priority since 1985. He is a past employee of Infusionsoft and has been an Infusionsoft Certified Partner and App Developer since February 2014. Helping align business owners with the right technology strategies for sustained business growth, scalability, and profitability and allowing them to get, give, and have freedom in their business and personal life is his passion. He’s a family man newly engaged to his fiancée Kristie, has 3 girls, ages 15, 17, and 22, and plays golf as often as he can. He is a Kidney Cancer Survivor and has completed three full marathons, the last of which he ran without training a single step.
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About CloudLink™: CloudLink offers a cloud-based software solution that enables businesses to manage their businesses in real time.
Pavan Kumar Ch
Co Founder, CTO of PrivMe
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About LAD Solutions, PrivMe: PrivMe provides a spending intelligence and customer engagement platform for merchants and consumers.
Steve Marsh
CTO – North America of Intraway Corp.
Before joining Intraway in 2015, Steve was Cbeyond’s Vice President, Platform Operations, responsible for Cbeyond’s customer facing support organizations. Prior to joining Cbeyond, Steve served as Vice President of Technology Operations at Cox Communications leading the technology teams that focus on service assurance and reliability and overseeing Cox’s 7×24 National Technical Operations Center and Tier IV operations functions supporting Cox Video, Cox High Speed Internet, Cox Digital Telephone, Cox Business Services and Cox’s wireless products. Before that, he spent nine years in western Europe with Infonet-Europe and 17 years with AT&T. Currently, Steve oversees Intraway’s portfolio of OSS solutions for the pay-TV and broadband industry and leads the business development team in North America, as well as the technology roadmap that enables CSPs/MSOs to offer and support Dynamic services with zero touch in real time.
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About Intraway Corp.: Intraway Corp is a communication service provider for customer experience and help achieve Operational Excellence.
Robert Dale
VP, CTO & Founder of StrikeIron
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About StrikeIron: StrikeIron offers a cloud-based data quality suite offering web-based infrastructure to deliver business data to internet-connected systems.
Robert Dale
VP, CTO & Founder of StrikeIron
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About StrikeIron: StrikeIron offers a cloud-based data quality suite offering web-based infrastructure to deliver business data to internet-connected systems.
Jordan Zommick
Co-Founder, CTO of DirecTech Labs
Visionary technology executive with expertise in empowering multi-billion dollar global companies, designing and implementing worldwide strategic plans, and leading multiple, geographically diverse, cross-functional teams (100+ FTE). Instrumental leader in building responsive IT organizations that align to business objectives and improve the delivery of the overall customer experience. Driving force in creating world class, distributed IT organization across US, Asia, and India resulting in 30% reduction in IT operational expenses and providing 24-7 support for critical applications. Extensive experience with Startups, SMBs, and fortune 500 public companies.
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About DirecTech Labs: DirecTech Labs is the first and only machine learning, predictive analytic, and BI platform for the $186B Direct Sales industry.
Drew Judkins
Co-Founder & CTO of CallCorp
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About CallCorp, CallCorp, OneSource Consulting: CallCorp specializes in a contact center as a service software with omnichannel experience, frameworks, and voice integration.
Bojan Zuzek
Founding Partner and CTO of Sintan
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About Sintan: Sintan is a solutions and consulting company dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of Sales, Marketing and Commercial operations of SMB.
Lovleen Soni
Co-Founder, CTO of TopNotepad, Inc
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About TopNotepad, Inc: Online invoicing, accounting and CRM software
Shiv Singh
Founder & CTO of ShutterNext
Shiv Singh is the Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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About FreshMeal.com, Microsoft, ShutterNext: ShutterNext is a one-stop platform that provides all the CRM tools required for successfully running a professional photography business.
Anthony X. Uliano
Founder & CTO of AMC Technology
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About AMC Technology: AMC Technology’s DaVinci is an open-architecture platform integrator that helps call centers easily blend the CTI solutions they choose.
Tony DeLollis
CTO & COO of Upland RO Innovation
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About Upland RO Innovation: Leading customer reference management solution, helping enterprises harness the voice of the customer in sales and marketing initiatives.
Sean Fielding
Chief Technology Officer / Consultant of GearsCRM
Sean Fielding is the Chief Technology Officer of GearsDesign.
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About GearsCRM, GearsDesign: Expert Salesforce consultants
John Gilham
Founder & CTO of Agile IT
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About Agile IT: Advanced Microsoft Technology Solutions
