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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 Data Visualization 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.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Shawn Lewis
Founder, CTO of Weights & Biases
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Clark Richey
CTO of FactGem
Clark has over 20 years of software development experience with much of that time spent designing and implementing applications for use in the defense and intelligence sectors. Prior to co-founding FactGem, he spent five years at MarkLogic managing Public Sector Pre-Sales Engineering. Clark is a Java Champion and frequent conference speaker on topics ranging from big data to Java development and graph database technology. Clark has also taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science.
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About FactGem: FactGem is a next-generation data analytics company.
Alex Johnson
CTO & Co-Founder of Plotly
Alex is Plotly’s CTO and the instigator of Plotly.js. He also consults for Microsoft Research and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on data acquisition for quantum computing experiments. Alex holds a BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 20 peer reviewed publications, including 2006 paper of the year in Science, and other top journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Power Sources. He has previously worked in the fields of semiconductor optics, quantum information, magnetic resonance imaging, hydrogen fuel cells, and photovoltaic power.
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About Plotly: Plotly is a data science and AI company that makes it easy to create and deploy interactive web apps in any programming language.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Troy Astorino
Co-Founder & CTO of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Sadiq Samani
CTO of Autoagent Data Solutions
Sadiq, the CTO, handles the technology behind Autoagent, including heavy duty programming and day-to-day development support and operations.
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About Autoagent Data Solutions: Autoagent Data Solutions, a government organization, offers a system designed to help tax collectors simplify real estate tax processing.
Ian White
Founder, CEO and CTO of ChartHop
Ian White is the Founder, CEO, and CTO at ChartHop.
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About ChartHop: ChartHop brings disparate sources of people data together in a dynamic, visual, & actionable People Analytics platform.
Mike Kim
CTO of Outlier
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About Outlier: Outlier offers analytic solutions that enable businesses to make better decisions.
VR Satish
Co-Founder & CTO of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
VR Satish is the Chief Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise storage software products. Prior to joining Pavilion Data, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures.Satish was an early employee of Veritas and later served as the Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer for the Information & Availability Group at Symantec Corporation prior to joining Artiman. His current areas of interest include distributed computing, information-centric storage architectures and virtualization. Satish holds multiple patents in storage management, and earned his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida.
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About Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.: Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Jay Theodore
CTO of Esri
Jay Theodore is the CTO at Esri.
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About Esri, Esri UK: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Gavin Nicol
CTO of ContextLabs
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About ContextLabs: ContextLabs provides enterprise platform solutions that deliver trust and transparency for the digital and physical worlds.
Martijn van Berkum
CTO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Martijn brings to BlueConic a tremendous amount of experience and innovation in product management and business development, with an expert ability to integrate technology, the Internet and marketing. He has a passion for cutting-edge technology and its impact on markets, business and society. Martijn is a true visionary, driving the company’s thought leadership. In collaboration with R&D and marketing, he translates his vision into a world-class product.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Klaus Fabian
Co-Founder & CTO of Incorta
Klaus has more than two decades as a software developer and product manager. Klaus co-founded Incorta after more than a dozen years at Oracle where he was a director and developed Business Intelligence applications including BI Publisher. Klaus is a seasoned veteran of the analytics space. He started his career as a software developer in Germany. Klaus holds an advanced degree in computer science and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
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About Incorta: Incorta develops an analytics platform designed to speed up business data ingestion.
Ciro Donalek
CTO & Co-Founder of Virtualitics
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About Virtualitics: Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Isar Mostafanezhad
CTO of Smart Yields
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About Nalu Scientific, Smart Yields: Founded in 2015, Smart Yields connects farmers, researchers and their communities through real-time analytics from connected sensors.
Valerie R. Coffman
CTO and Co-Founder of Swayable
Valerie is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and received a PhD in Physics from Cornell where she wrote software for studying the fracture properties of materials. After graduation, she spent 5 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology writing open source software for materials science research. For the past three years she has been providing data science consulting to startups, specializing in natural language processing and search engine technology.
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About Swayable: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Dennis Khvostionov
CTO of TopHap
Dennis Khvostionov is Vice President of Software Platforms and Architecture at Acuity Brands. Dennis joined Acuity in 2016 to lead the architectual transformation of the technology that powers the Atrius IoT Platform which distributes software services throughout the IoT infrastructure, from the edge to the cloud. Most recently Dennis was appointed to lead Acuity’s software development organization which supports the solution innovation strategy of the Atrius product portfolio. Prior to joining Acuity through the acquisition of DGLogik where Dennis was the co-founder and CTO. Dennis was the visionary and inventor of DGLux, a “drag-and-drop” IoT application development and visualization platform utilized to design custom real-time, data applications and dashboards, and the Distributed Services Architecture (http://iot-dsa.org), an open-source IoT platform. Furthermore, Dennis filled Senior Strategic Management roles in User-Experience and Visualization for Cisco Systems.
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About TopHap: Proptech, SaaS, Real Estate Analytics
Ari Gesher
Chief Technology Officer of Kairos Aerospace
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About Kairos Aerospace: Kairos Aerospace combines innovative aerospace systems with advanced data science to solve pressing global problems
Chris Duesing
Cofounder & CTO of Mercaris
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About Mercaris: Mercaris is a provider of a subscription-based market data service and online trading platform.
Steve Kashishian
CTO & CoFounder of Native
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About Native: Native is an on-demand company enabling businesses to task trained locals to collect data on their behalf and analyze results in realtime
Arun Nair
Co-Founder & CTO of RetailNext
Arun Nair is the CTO, Head of Product & Co-Founder of RetailNext, the world’s first technology company dedicated to providing advanced in-store analytics for brick-and-mortar retail businesses.
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About RetailNext: RetailNext enables retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize data about in-store customer engagement.
Andrew Cardno
CTO & Founder of VizExplorer
Andrew is an established thought leader in visual analytics, with over 21 years of experience in the field. Andrew has led private Ph.D./Masters research teams in visualization/development for over 15 years, this leadership won Andrew two Smithsonian Laureates and more than 20 international and innovation awards. He is an inventor of over 80 patent applications. He has published over 100 industry and academic articles and is co-author of the books. In addition, Andrew provides expert consultation on high performance databases and data visualization, as well as software services to casinos in the United States.
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About Game Changing Technologies, VizExplorer: VizExplorer powers space and profit optimization, marketing intelligence, sales enablement, and real-time service automation solutions.
Joe Rzepiejewski
CTO of Daasity
Joe Rzepiejewski is the CTO of Daasity.
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About Daasity: Daasity enables Consumer Product Brands to make better data-driven decisions, leading to faster and more profitable growth.
Derek Barrera
Chief Technology Officer of Proof of Impact
Derek Barrera currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Proof of Impact. He attended Radford University.
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About Proof of Impact: Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company that bridges the gap in ESG and impact data.
Eric Ramseur
CTO, Partner of Anant Corporation
Eric Ramseur specializes in .NET 1.x-4.5 technologies with 13 years total experience in the field and has held Software Solution Architect and Team Lead titles. One intangible asset is his keen ability to think outside the box and contribute brilliant solutions to problems. He is currently a Microsoft Beta Tester and has beta tested such products as Visual Studio 2002/3, Visual Studio 2008, and the .NET 4.0 beta frameworks. He likes developing n-tier Applications on the .NET framework using Web Technologies that include but are not limited to: ASP.NET applications, Enterprise Portal Applications, ASP.NET Web Services, and Mainframe Applications. Eric’s primary roles include Remedy Developer, Software Development Lifecycle Administrator, and Architectural Advisor in a wide variety of business applications. He is particularly interested in client/server, internet application services and relational database design. A migration project through remedy development is also a strong focus in either updating your next big thing or applying maintenance through application integration. Specialties:.NET, C# , VB.NET, WCF Services, Remote .NET Developer, Component Design , Portal Systems, .NET Integration, ASP.NET 2.0-3.5, SQL Server, Oracle, Web Services, WSE 2.0,3.0, Report Writing, Agile Project Management, Enterprise Development, ASP to ASP.NET Migration, Extreme Programing (XP), Sharepoint 2007 develpment, MS Project 2007 Server development
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About Anant Corporation, Appleseed Portal: Business Platforms, SaaS, Cloud
Ravi Krishnan
Co-Founder & CTO of Boardwalktech
Ravi Ganesh krishnan is the CTO at Boardwalktech.
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About Boardwalktech: Boardwalktech provides patented digital ledger technology for enterprise applications
Paul Dix
Cofounder & CTO of InfluxData
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About Errplane, InfluxData: InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the open source time series database.
Sebastian Zontek
CEO , CTO & Co-Founder of Deep BI, Inc.
Sebastian Zontek is CEO/CTO at Deep BI.
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About Deep BI, Inc., International News Media Association: Predictive Customer Data Platform with real-time user scoring engine to power content, marketing and paywalls for publishers.
Kevin Hsu
Co-Founder & CTO of Tellus You Care
Prior to founding Tellus, Kevin worked at the Stanford Integrated Biomedical Systems Lab where he made circuit boards for pacemakers, neurostimulators, and other sensing devices. He has also designed medical device prototypes and products for large companies like St. Jude Medical and startups. His early work experience includes hardware engineering roles at Texas Instruments and Apple. He graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He is a fan of the manga Onepanman.
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About Tellus You Care: AT TELLUS, OUR VISION IS TO RADICALLY IMPROVE ELDERCARE WITH CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY.
Kateryna Sytnyk
CTO and Co-Founder of Fract
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About Fract: Business Intelligence Gone Spatial – GeoSpatial AI Data Analytics
Raj Kosuri
CEO and CTO of EcomNets
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About EcomNets: Leader in Global Green IT Solutions – Cloud Enablement | Data Center Solutions
Dharmesh Godha
President & Chief Technology Officer of Advaiya
Dharmesh is the President and CTO at Advaiya Solutions. He has 15+ years of experience in various technology platforms, solution design, and project implementations. In his current role, Dharmesh enjoys analyzing the direction of technology platforms and aligning Advaiya’s initiatives to the state-of-the-art in technology and business. He focuses on developing the vision and architecture for solutions on improving enterprise productivity and consumer experiences.
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About Advaiya: Making technology work
Tomer Borenstein
Co-Founder & CTO of BlastPoint
Tomer Borenstein is the Co-Founder & CTO at BlastPoint.
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About BlastPoint: BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth.
Blunt Jackson
CTO of ORA
Blunt is passionate about building the right product, in the right way, with the right tools, using the right materials. He has designed global-scale system architectures for massively concurrent systems such as Amazon and Zynga and also driven software design and delivery for early stage startups where ultra-rapid delivery and course correction are essential. Blunt specializes in api, sdk, and interface design and development for distributed systems architectures.
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About ORA: ORA is an interactive data management, navigation, and visualization system for B2B and B2C applications, offered as Saas and PaaS.
Zac Balson
Chief Technology Officer of Vivastream
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About Vivastream: Vivastream platform distills event data into relevant insights, making it easy for events, marketing, and sales teams to take action.
Srikanth Nagandla
CTO & Co-Founder of Arktan
Srikanth is a co-founder of Arktan and also serves as the CTO. Arktan’s products reflect his shared vision for multi-screen social and real-time fan engagement platforms for brands, celebrities and publishers. He has been instrumental in converting this vision into products that are deployed across a variety of top celebrities and brands including The X Factor, and publishers like The Washington Post. He is also involved in product and strategy at Arktan. Previously, Srikanth has worked with a number of startups as an early engineer and helped build highly scalable real-time systems serving millions of users. He has also been involved in building and leading high quality teams both at early-stage startups like Jaxtr and large companies like Motorola. While at Motorola, he was instrumental in building mission-critical mobile applications that are currently deployed across the globe. He had authored technical books on Numerical methods, Data Structures and Operating Systems and built immersive Virtual Reality systems for collaborative art during his Master’s in Human Computer Interaction at University of Bremen, Germany.
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About Arktan: Arktan is a a leading provider of innovative social curation and engagement products and solutions
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.
Brian Dailey
Founder, CTO of Stratasan
Brian Dailey is responsible for leading the development team in building and improving the Stratasan technology infrastructure to deliver actionable intelligence to our clients. Brian has worked in the healthcare technology industry for 15 years, developing a wide range of tools for electronic medical records, laboratory results, and medical equipment companies.He has also worked as a consultant on projects for Viacom, Best Buy, and NBC Universal.
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About Stratasan: Stratasan provides software suites and related services to healthcare systems, helping the users make decisions maximizing their growth.
Matt Schoch
CTO of Cloverleaf.me
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About Cloverleaf.me, Cloverleaf.me, Soundstr: Coaching for Everyone – Cloverleaf provides automated personal and team coaching delivered to the tools you work in every day.
Casey Henderson
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Centrifuge Systems
Casey Henderson has over 35 years of experience in software development specializing in artificial intelligence, complex information representation and visualization. He is the founder of Centrifuge. Mr. Henderson has played a key role in the design and development of several large scale systems critical to federal law enforcement, national security and the judiciary. Mr. Henderson’s career has included extensive experience in the Intelligence Community, and he is a highly respected authority on topics of information analysis. Complementing his technology background, Mr. Henderson has a JD from Georgetown University Law School.
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About Centrifuge Systems: Centrifuge Systems provides interactive analytics technology for analysts to explore and share data through collaborative analysis.
Eddie Obropta
Co-founder and CTO of Raptor Maps
Eddie Obropta is Raptor Maps Chief Technology Officer and Software Lead. Eddie is an avid entrepreneur and has co-founded multiple start-ups. He has a strong passion for software analytics and leads the Raptor Maps software development team.
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About Raptor Maps: Raptor Maps is a MIT-born startup that builds software to manage the solar lifecycle.
Mohit Jaggi
CTO of Guardx
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About Guardx, Uber: GuardX Inc is a Machine Learning startup that is focused on unstructured data extraction and data lifecycle.
Chris Gemignani
Founder and CTO of Juice Analytics
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About Juice Analytics: Juicebox is a no-code platform for creating interactive data presentations and reports
Frank Febbraro
Founder and CTO of Phase2
With over 2 decades of industry and open source experience, I am a leader in helping transform what the worlds most influential organizations can achieve using technology. I have built organizations and cultures around the focused use and contribution to open source technology and data. My passion lies at the intersection of business challenges and technology innovation. As a founding partner and CTO at Phase2, my combination of inherent understanding and real world experience enables me to attack challenges with a creative eye. I pride myself on innovation and a market-focused approach making my ideas a powerful tool for Phase2 clients. Additionally, I play a significant role in determining the company’s technology vision and strategy.
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About Phase2: Phase2 is a digital agency whose work unlock the potential for anyone, anywhere to engage with the world’s most impactful organizations
Haopeng Wang
Co-founder/CTO of BuildSim
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About BuildSim: BuildSimHub is a cloud-based building energy modeling automation and 3D visualization platform
James Abney
CTO of Knomos Knowledge Management
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About Knomos Knowledge Management: Knomos is an enhanced knowledge management platform for corporate legal departments leveraging data visualization and deep machine learning.
Cory Kim
Founder, CTO of PlusAMP
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About PlusAMP: Enabling the next generation of social and collaborative data analysis and visualization
Paul Fitzpatrick
Chief Technology Officer of Grist Labs
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About Grist Labs: Grist Labs is a New York-based startup reimagining software to manage data.
Geary Eppley
CTO of Point Inside
Mr. Eppley is CTO at Point Inside. He has spent more than 20 years managing the design and development of software products. He joined Point Inside from PayScale, Inc., where he was the 5th employee and helped build their SaaS compensation platform as VP of Business Products. Prior to that he spent time in Microsoft’s Developer Division working on web service standards and their .Net implementation. He survived the first dot-com boom designing and launching products at drugstore.com and at DirectSource Global Purchasing. Mr. Eppley has a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Whitman College.
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About Point Inside: Point Inside produces indoor maps to enable location-centric digital strategies across industries.
Barhat Mysore
CTO of Multilevers
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About Multilevers: Financial Literacy for everyone. Bring Big data, analytics and Data visualization to help consumers make sound financial decisions.
Chris Smith
CEO & CTO of Vizalytics Technology
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About Vizalytics Technology: Vizalytics creates location-specific business intelligence from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients.
Joey Wilson
CTO – Cofounder of 44LAB5
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About 44LAB5: 44LAB5 is a U.S.-based company that is involved with streamlining marketing with useful up to the second data.
Ryan Hickman
Chief Technology Officer of AllisonHouse
Chief Technology Officer at AllisonHouse
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About AllisonHouse: AllisonHouse is a data aggregation and integration company providing dependable high resolution weather data to everyone.
