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Leadership is a vital management function that helps to direct an organization's resources for improved efficiency and the achievement of goals. A good leader can inspire everyone in an organization to achieve their very best. Influential leaders provide clarity of purpose, motivate and guide the organization to realize its mission.
How a person presents him/herself in a leadership role affects the ability to successfully leverage authority and motivate others. True leadership applies influence rather than dictation to inspire a team to achieve more. These leaders can incite action in others simply by mastering the skills of communication and motivation tailored to individuals.
Artificial intelligence has seen increasing importance in Indian organizations, public and private, over the last decade. The government has also shown intent to leverage AI for the country's development through various initiatives. To drive AI growth successfully, people need leaders who are well-versed with the dynamic nature of the industry. Given the pace at which AI is moving, one needs top management that can come up with innovative strategies while overcoming multiple challenges.
Collaboration can lead to greater engagement, influence, and the cultivation of an organizational culture that encourages people to work towards a shared vision and goal. Influential leaders value and practice collaborative ways of working, intuitively using their influence to spark collaborative action among those they lead.
Analytics Insight brings to you the 'Top 100 Influential Leaders to follow in 2022'. Selected based on the expertise they in AI, big data analytics, augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, internet of things, and more. Leaders in this list have shown great ability to lead their teams to develop state-of-the-art solutions and support their companies or clients. Despite the pandemic, they have shown the potential in adapting to different circumstances to drive innovation and growth.
Company: DASCEQ
Designation: CEO and Founder and Consumer Behavior Expert
Abhishek led the development of analytical solutions for employers and clients that have saved or improved profit by more than US$3 billion. He has quite experience in working and providing consulting and strategy services to C-level executives of global financial institutions. Abhishek is passionate about giving back through teaching how to learn and apply data science.
Company: OfferUp
Designation: Vice President of Engineering
At OfferUp, Akhil is the Vice President of Engineering who is responsible for the engineering strategy, developer operations, and data science. His team includes a local group at the company's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and remote teams spread across multiple regions. Akhil is also a part of the executive team that manages OfferUp's business strategy and volunteers in company initiatives concerning diversity, inclusion, and hiring.
Company: IDBS
Designation: Director of Data Science and Analytics
Alberto Pascual is a doctor in bioinformatics with enhanced experience in data science and biomedical domains. After his doctorate, he joined the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), leading a bioinformatics research and core facility group. During that time, Alberto also co-founded Integromics, a bioinformatics start-up that started its operations in 2003. In September 2020, he joined IDBS (Danaher group) as the Director of data science and analytics.
Company: Numberals
Designation: CEO
Amresh Mathur is a digital transformation leader with a passion for bringing customer-focused experiences to market. He has more than 22 years of experience in the technology sector enabling business transformation and leading complex turnarounds. As a leader, his primary focus is to launch new products, build high-performing teams, develop talent and manage growth. In his current role at Numerals LLC, Amresh is focused on ideating and delivering solutions built around consumer centricity, agility, and technology-powered platforms across multiple countries.
Company: Accenture
Designation: Business and Technology Integration Leader
Angel Radcliffe is an MBA with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of finance and technology. Her role in Accenture entails client delivery with ERP projects, focusing on the financial and digital transformation of the company, along with other Fortune 100 and 500 companies that are primarily in the merger and acquisition phase. Ms. Radcliffe is also a community leader, author, public speaker, and financial educator.
Company: Rockwell Automation
Designation: Managing Director
Anoop Mohan is a hands-on technology and product executive with more than 20 years of experience and has held various executive positions. He is a result-oriented professional who has strategized, owned and built robust technology products with growing business applicability. Anoop is a well-known executive in the IoT domain and is highly experienced in identifying product-market fit.
Company: LogicPlum
Designation: CTO
Anoop Muraleedharan is the Chief Technology Officer of LogicPlum. He coded and released his first website when he was just fifteen. At eighteen, Anoop developed a unique software inventory and billing solution whose rights that later was bought by a company. That experience gave him the first experience at how profitable the tech space could be, as long as he was solving a customer's pain point.
Company: Fidelis Cybersecurity
Designation: CTO
Anubhav Arora is the Chief Technology Officer at Fidelis Cybersecurity. He began his journey with a Ph.D. in networking technology, specializing in switching and routing. Anubhav is responsible for the technology, product vision, and architecture of the company's cybersecurity solutions and works with his CISO to ensure the security of the company, its products, and cloud services.
Company: Ausenco
Designation: CIO
Anuj Anand is the CIO of Ausenco. He is a talented technology leader dedicated to maximizing the value of technology, processes, and people throughout the organization. His mantra is to always ensure the right synergy between technology and business, focusing IT around efficiency and productivity. With sound knowledge of key business drivers, he serves as a valued liaison between business and IT needs while effectively communicating a strong vision for the future.
Company: BayOne Solutions, Inc.
Designation: Vice President of Strategic Accounts
Anuj is well-known for empowering women in technology, innovating the relationship-building processes, and creating a robust environment for sharing ideas. He has ensured a focus on 36-degree engagement for the workforce with multiple variables for customers. Anuj has been working with BayOne Solutions since 2013 and plays a key role in expanding the customer base, ensuring cutting-edge processes, as well as building brand value with business development executives and account managers.
Company: FN MathLogic
Designation: Founder and CEO
Anurag has nearly 25years of experience in the analytics and consulting industry. Before starting MathLogic, he has worked for numerous multinational companies such as Accenture, PriceWaterhouseCooper, American Express, and Genpact across geographies. At MathLogic, Anurag is the key decision-maker along with the Co-founder Manu Chandra. As required in a small set-up, he often plays diverse roles being a CTO, recruiter, solution architect, and delivery manager. He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from IIM, Kolkata, and a Bachelor's degree from IIT, Kanpur.
Company: Indium Software
Designation: Principal Data Scientist
Ashish is an eminent principal data scientist with more than eight years of practical experience in data science and advanced analytics. He is focused on leading advanced analytics to drive machine learning-based business solutions like project delivery management, architecting machine learning solutions, and many more. He is responsible for developing an outstanding innovation regarding the NLP framework known as TeX.ai.
Company: Mobcoder Technologies
Designation: Co-founder and CEO
Ashutosh co-created Mobcoder Technologies in 2018 to revolutionize the education sector by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, and augmented reality. The company has launched a video bomb, Maro app, and many more products to scan and play popular products, share AR experiences, engage with mental health and sex education, and so on. It tries to promote a culture of learning through partnerships with Transcend 360.
Company: Digitate
Designation: Chief Marketing Officer
Avi Bhagtani is the Chief Marketing Officer of Digitate. Over the last decade, he has focused on the application of artificial intelligence and intelligent automation to address real-world problems, thereby helping enterprises through digital transformation. Avi leads a fast-growing marketing organization across four continents. His experience includes managing global product portfolios across enterprise solutions, automation, AI, and cloud organizations.
Company: Kofax
Designation: Vice President
Being a VP of Kofax, Ben helps organizations in achieving success through the deployment of cutting-edge technologies with over 15 years of real-world experience. He is known for delivering high performances as well as ensuring customer-centric strategies in alignment with the strategic agenda of clients. He has helped in automating entire business processes while driving revenue growth and authentic customer service.
Company: IntelyCare
Designation: Data Science Director
Benjamin Tengelsen leads a team of 10 amazing data analysts, scientists, and engineers, who use machine learning, experimentation, advanced statistics, and a whole lot of codes to support features in the apps related to pricing, recommendations, communications, customer service, recruiting, and marketing. He studied economics at Carnegie Mellon University and most of his research dealt with labor market search models, which he still thinks about very often while considering how to remove frictions from the labor market for nursing professionals.
Company: Simple SEO Group
Designation: Founder and CEO
Brendan M. Egan is the Founder and CEO of Simple SEO Group which he still owns and operates to date. Brendan has worked with over 500 clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, and has earned a reputation for delivering results-orientated, ROI-focused campaigns for every client. Brendan is also the Co-founder, Chief Technology, and Marketing Officer of Engage, an online platform disrupting the talent and entertainment booking industry. Brendan serves on the Board of Directors of ERI, the world's largest cybersecurity hardware destruction company, and is the chairman of ERI's technology committee.
Company: Asset Performance Networks (AP-Networks)
Designation: Co-Founder and Managing Director
Brett Schroeder is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of AP-Networks. Brett focuses on the business delivery of products and services to AP-Networks' global client base of more than 80 marquee companies. He shares responsibility for the management of AP-Networks with Co-Founder George DeBakey. Brett has over 25 years of work experience in the energy and petrochemical industries. He has a Master's Degree in Applied Economics and started his career in project and program evaluation for the US Department of Defense before making the shift to the energy sector.
Company: GridBeyond
Designation: CIO
Brian Gahan is the CIO of GridBeyond. He is an accomplished technology leader who is passionate about strategy development, digital transformation, customer experience innovation, and workplace transformation. Brian is also an expert in corporate finance and effective at bringing a customer-centric, commercially oriented, value-based approach to technology investment. Proficient at leading global technology transformation and streamlining IT operations.
Company: Torch.Ai
Designation: Founder and CEO
Brian Weaver is an active entrepreneur, investor, and creative problem solver with a passion for data. He has founded and operated numerous companies, serves on the board of three U.S.-based technology firms, is an active investor and advisor to technology and social impact ventures. As Chairman and CEO of Torch.AI, Brian is leading a team creating the world's most trusted and sophisticated platform for massively scaled, ultra-high performance data processing.
Company: SXiQ
Designation: CISO
Bruce is a CISO of SXiQ to steer cybersecurity solutions for combating potential cyberattacks with high-quality leadership qualities. He is known for writing articles for the US and Australian US Space journals on a diverse range of topics on cybersecurity. Bruce has helped in shaping the cybersecurity posture and protecting businesses from advanced global cyberattacks.
Company: Dell
Designation: Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Cameron Chehreh leads a team of passionate problem-solvers driving innovation to solve complex mission challenges. He has spent his whole career on the bleeding edge of technology and how it applies to working on the world's big problems. That's why his conversations move beyond simply looking at technology and instead look at how we can use that technology in a meaningful way.
Company: Antofagasta Minerals
Designation: Head of Data Science
Carlos Prades is the Head of Data Science at Antofagasta Minerals. He pursued Geology at the University of Chile Engineering School, which gave him a strong mathematical background. He joined Antofagasta Minerals in 2017 and began to apply data science to different and diverse mining problems, leading the data science path in the mining industry and demonstrating the power of machine learning techniques to make better decisions based on data.
Company: Ascention Services
Designation: CEO
Being the CEO of Ascention Services Pty Ltd, Daniel Cox always focuses on three issues— firstly, the outcomes for clients according to the CLEAN Data Experts; secondly, teaching the team of clients about the experience and know-how to take ownership in such collaborative work and thirdly, the ROIs (Return on Investment) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of clients to drive to multiple targets.
Company: Danilo
Designation: Market leader executive
Danilo is recognized internationally as a market leader executive in making companies more tech-enabled through digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and automation programs. His programs have gotten attention from The Times, InfoMoney Bloomberg, Techco, Ai Magazine, Computer Weekly – he is ranked top 10 in the world by research and consultancy firms in various tech domains. He has the extensive technical knowledge and people skills that he gained from managing key technology programs, some of which are the world's largest innovation and AI programs in blue-chip market-leading companies in various industries and countries.
Company: Upland Capital Group
Designation: Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Dave McKenna is the VP of Information Technology and Chief Information Security Officer with Upland Capital Group. With this role, he has full accountability for building the insurance technology, operational and regulatory, from the ground up. He has spent time in both government and private companies. Prior to Upland Capital Group, he was the Chief Technology Officer for the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission with full accountability of all systems and security for the commission. He has a Ph.D. in Information Technology with research focused on the security of IoT devices, MS in IT Management, and BS in Computer Info-Systems. Dave has various certifications, including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), and Project Management Professional (PMP).
Company: BizPay
Designation: CTO
David Huang is the CTO of BizPay. He visions to help businesses maximize their value from technology by establishing a clear roadmap for people and processes to foster a technological evolution. David has extensive experience in overarching technology strategy and information management strategy in large corporations and start-ups across investment, banking, FinTech, media, insurance, software, and health industries.
Company: TheXchange
Designation: Head of Capital Markets
David Hanegraaf's career has mainly consisted of behind-the-scenes roles that are focused on supporting tech founders and creative visionaries with getting their companies off the ground. This led him to co-found a Hong Kong tech consulting firm in 2015 with his good friend, Arif Maskatia (former CTO of Acer Group). Together, they have helped launch tech start-ups across many sectors including consumer electronics, IoT, and more recently blockchain. Prior to the pandemic, he had begun participating on judging panels alongside executives from the UN, MIT, and Sony for technology and innovation hackathons hosted by the United Nations operational arm UNOPS.
Company: RevBits
Designation: Co-Founder and CEO
Before co-founding RevBits, David Schiffer was the Founder and CEO of Safe Banking Systems, which was sold to Accuity / RELX after almost twenty-year in business. His main responsibilities at RevBits are setting the goals and defining the vision for the company's future. At present, he is also the sole investor and handles the financial and legal aspects too.
Company: LENS Corporation
Designation: CEO
Debayan is an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong research professional is skilled in C, C++, C#, Java, R, OpenCV, Python, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
Company: Aureus Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
Designation: Analytics Engineer-Machine Learning
Being an Analytics Engineer, Disha ensures artificial intelligence solutions to the insurance industry while offering customer intelligence efficiently. She is driving multiple innovations in her hand to solve crucial business problems. Disha has provided a competitive edge to manage large volumes of data points and a helping hand in the conversion of a few POCs, despite being facing challenges.
Company: Sage Dental Group
Designation: Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer
As a special area of interest, Cindy is one of the preeminent global leaders in the adoption of artificial intelligence to improve dentistry diagnosis and outcomes. She brings 20 years of private practice, non-profit, and DSO experience to Sage Dental Management. Sage Dental is a national leader in the dental services industry, recently highlighted for innovative performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In addition to owning a successful private practice in Massachusetts, she served as Clinical Officer at two national Dental Service Organizations and was formerly the Director of General Dentistry and Associate Professor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Company: Netzro SBC
Designation: Co-Founder and CSTO
Dr. Garrick Villaume has a rich background in high energy physics working with instrumentation, computational and analytics systems to test models and refine the understanding of energy and matter. With over 25 years of experience, he has worked in data storage and solar industries that deal with developing analytical decision support systems in this domain for global technology companies. He also strives to eliminate food wastage, transforming rural and urban worlds.
Company: NextGen Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.
Designation: CEO and Co-Founder
Dr. Nagma Abbasi leads NextGen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd since its inception in 2014. As the CEO, she aims to take the company into a global spectrum by developing and executing innovative and long-term strategies. She has a career spanning over a decade that includes handling and leading various positions at esteemed research institutes and MNCs. She possesses expertise in different verticals, including product management, brand building, customer segmentation, and strategic marketing.
Company: Open Source Evolution LLC
Designation: CTO
Eren Niazi is the CTO of Open Source Evolution LLC. He has proven leadership skills of development of OSS commitment, drive, productivity, unique incentive drivers, credible leadership, motivation training, and open-source culture. Eren is committed to further creating a world for open source software, where free-thinking open minds are encouraged and the reward is a better technological environment for everyone.
Company: DSP Mutual Fund
Designation: Vice President and CISO
Fal is an Information Security professional and VP of DSP Mutual Fund as an integral part of the Infosec team. He is solely responsible for the information and cybersecurity governance and policies of the company. He has shifted to the BFSI sector where cybersecurity measures are important to deal with disaster recovery drills, information security audits, and many more.
Company: Tillster
Designation: Head of the Data Science, Analytics, Engineering and Data Products Teams
Farzana Noorzay has become one of the best AI leaders because she had very similar roles in the last two positions. She is responsible for the data products, including actionable dashboards used by decision-makers to define the course of action for promotions based on consumer behavior trends. Farzana enjoys being responsible for the products that affect clients as well as the restaurant consumers. Farzana's career has always revolved around data from when she was an intern at the County of Santa Barbra as a college student.
Company: Retelit
Designation: CEO
The CEO of the company, Frederico Protto has an aim to develop further with an expectation of more convergence between connectivity and cloud solutions. This will integrate new services over the IP layer. Retelit has also created a voice platform to manage the needs and wants of customers post-pandemic.
Company: YSSY & Co
Designation: CEO
Frederico Samartini is the CEO of YSSY & Co. He is a leader in changing Brazilian enterprises through cutting-edge technology and by an innovative and ethical way of deploying services. He has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and also possesses three master's degrees: an MSC in operations research and neural networks, an MBA, and a master's in finance from the London Business School.
Company: Gematria Technologies
Designation: Co-Founder and CEO
Gary Becigneul is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gematria Technologies. He was an AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany. Gary pursued his Ph.D. in Machine Learning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Thomas Hofmann, and a master's in Mathematics from Cambridge University, UK. At Gematria, he is currently responsible for all the business-related matters, as well as for the tech relating to natural language processing (NLP).
Company: Astha IT
Designation: Founder and CEO
Hasnaeen Rizvi Rahman was born into a working-class family in the peaceful 80s in Dhaka. His early childhood passion included drawing, sketching, playing chess, and reading. He grew up to be an avid reader with a personal library of 3000+ books. With a quest of diving deep into the world of technologies, he built numerous software tools just out of sheer curiosity like the basic turn-based games, music players, video recorders, management tools, database applications, AI bots, physics simulations, etc.
Company: optimAIze Marketing Solutions
Designation: CEO and Co-Founder
Imre Szücs hails from the field of physics and astronomy, who later took a transition into the IT and business world. In the first half of his career, he was a data scientist who developed several machine learning models in the fields of financial risk management, customer churn, fraud detection, and analytical CRM. In the other half, he worked in more strategic positions, such as a data science leader.
Company: Renew IT
Designation: CEO
James Lancaster is the CEO of Renew IT. Seasoned IT hardware re-marketer of 27 years. Passionate about innovation around future sustainable e-waste solutions. CEO and Founder of SurfaceMine and Renew IT. He is a creative, forward-thinking, future-gazing leader. Passionate about innovation around future sustainable e-waste solutions. CEO and Founder of SurfaceMine and Renew IT.
Company: Fluid.Work
Designation: CEO
Jared Whitaker is the CEO of Fluid. work. He is a solution-driven commercial business leader, commanding a variety of expertise to drive organizational growth and motivate high-performance teams. He is the CEO of Fluid Business Solutions, a SaaS provider of the award-winning PPM solution Fluid. work. He also serves on the board of an educational trust of academies for pupils with learning and mental disabilities.
Company: Institute of Cancer Research
Designation: CISO
As a CISO, Jason helps to empower the cybersecurity ecosystem to safeguard confidential and sensitive data as a qualified software engineer. He has contributed a lot to ICR as well as owned information security by mitigating unique challenges efficiently and effectively. He has transformed the cybersecurity measures of ICR with his new initiatives. Jason is popular for designing a million-dollar improvement program with an MSSP.
Company: SmartCone Technologies
Designation: CEO and Founder
Jason Lee is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SmartCone Technologies. He has dedicated most of his professional life to developing new technologies that make the world a safer place, with applications in aviation, business intelligence, manufacturing, and software development. From the time he spent in Kuwait and Afghanistan researching and developing smart safety for military use, Jason received the Challenge Coin for his excellence. Jason's work has spun three award-winning products and has 14 intellectual property patent clusters. Jason plays an active role in pushing forward the company's technology stack and use case portfolio to include readying the company for expansion through its subsidiary business model.
Company: Anari AI
Designation: Co-founder and CEO
Jovan is a tech entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience in the field of software and AI-related products and services. Believer in hard work, creativity, and innovation. He has always tried to combine conventional things in a new impossible order. Joavn's passion for innovation, creativity, and difference lead him to his hobbies that reshaped my world, boxing and surrealism painting. Passion for creation always makes Joavn wonder how our future world will look like, and because of that he is learning, educating, and creating AI.
Company: Virtana
Designation: President and CEO
He joined the company in 2020 to launch their next-generation SaaS unified observability platform and prepare the go-to-market team to help customers along their journey to the cloud. Beyond the day-to-day, a large part of his role is to 'make the complex simple' for Virtana's customers, partners, and employees. It is Kash's job to ensure that every person has what they need to succeed and to lead them with a servant mindset. He is guiding Virtana as the leading cloud optimization platform for digital transformation with the mission to improve the quality of life for everyday people along the way.
Company: Momenta
Designation: Executive Director and Founder
Ken Forster is the Executive Director and Founder of Momenta. He is a digital industry veteran who has been building 'connected' products, services, and businesses for over 30 years, with senior leadership roles at Syngenta, Coca-Cola, and Altria. He founded Momenta in 2012 after co-founding several industrial automation companies.
Company: Koniag
Designation: CEO
Kevin Wideman is the CEO of Koniag Government Services. His extensive background includes nearly 30 years of experience in strategic planning, program management, information technology and development, and system engineering. Kevin was also responsible for the transformation of Vistronix, LLC as Chief Operating Officer, through its graduation from the 8(a) small business program, to a large competitive business with nearly US$200M in annual revenue.
Company: RoundSqr
Designation: CEO
Kiran Kuchimanchi, has over two decades of experience in the IT services and digital domain. He has been in multiple roles in technology and business settings. He has spearheaded country operations as well as global delivery. Kiran has also been instrumental in setting up a digital division encompassing big data, cloud, mobility, and analytics.
Company: Australian College of Nursing
Designation: CEO
Apart from being the CEO of the Australian College of Nursing, Kylie Ward is also a policy reformer, humanitarian, visionary, nurse, for-purpose leader, equality warrior, adjunct professor, executive coach, mum, and a transformation specialist. As the CEO of ACN, Kylie has led a program of transformation at the college, turning around membership numbers to increase revenue and tripling student numbers within five years.
Company: Brang
Designation: Co-founder and CEO
He is a Director at INK IT solutions, a leading technology consultancy, and provider of CX, ERP, and HCM solutions across various industries. He has a wide range of work experience in different industries. With a remarkable knowledge of CRM, Madhup passionately runs BRANG to eradicate the divide in the Australian consumer market.
Company: Acclivis Technologies and Solutions
Designation: Managing Director and CEO
Marcus is a Managing Director and CEO of an enterprise cloud provider with extensive experience in enterprise IT solutions. He co-founded the company in 2009 to power Asia's next-gen cloud with strong business acumen. Marcus has focused on making solutions to drive businesses to embark with the Acclivis Intelligence Visitor Management Solutions (AIVMS).
Company: Latium Technologies
Designation: CEO
Mark Bryant is the CEO of Latium Technologies. He is a dynamic and experienced executive with a strong track record of conceptualizing, developing, implementing, managing, and marketing technology-based business solutions. His superior innovation, analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with strong team leadership, passion to succeed, and technical knowledge has resulted in continuous success and accomplishments.
Company: Boston Consulting Group
Designation: Chief Information Security Officer
Mark Connelly has been immersed in the technology and computing industry for more than 30 years in a range of roles, from sales and support to IT operations and information security. After graduate school, where he studied electrical engineering, Mark joined the storied AT&T Bell Labs, where such luminaries as Arno Penzias, William Shockley, and his technology hero Claude Shannon were working. Sun Microsystems (SMI) gave Mark the opportunity to grow through the ranks in IT leadership to become their first-ever CISO.
Company: KYield, Inc.
Designation: Chairman, Founder, CEO
Mark was the originator of the theorem 'yield management of knowledge, and inventor of the now patented AI system (KOS) that serves as the foundation for KYield: 'Modular System for Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace', issued August 23, 2011. He also is the inventor of the patent-pending 'synthetic genius machine and knowledge creation system', filed in August of 2019. The SGM combines multiple technologies from KYield's extensive R&D, including multi-agent search, knowledge engineering, data physics, modeling, symbolic representation, neural networks, deep learning, and quantum computing.
Company: Fiserv Inc.
Designation: Chief Technology Officer
Marc Rind is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO)- Data at Fiserv. He leads the technical strategy and direction that empowers the company's development and product teams. Marc is driving the creation of a cloud-driven, enterprise-wide data platform to connect and democratize the myriad financial and merchant data that flows through Fiserv and partner systems. This provides financial institutions with a safe and compliant means to innovate with data, generate insights, and better understand and serve consumers and commercial customers.
Company: Powerhouse Dynamics
Designation: CEO
Martin Flusberg, CEO of Powerhouse Dynamics is an accidental serial entrepreneur. He joined an MIT faculty software start-up while on the faculty and ended up being the CEO several years later. Powerhouse Dynamics is his fourth start-up and represents his 3rd successful exit. Martin was not the original founder of Powerhouse Dynamics (Ph.D.) but he joined as CEO very early on and was responsible for developing and evolving the business plan and raising capital. He participates in all aspects of the company from finance to sales to product development.
Company: Sygic
Designation: CEO
Martin Strigac is the CEO of Sygic. He joined Sygic in 2015 as vice president of enterprise solutions from the international software company Asseco Central Europe. He has been involved in programming since childhood. He holds several globally-recognized management and professional certificates.
Company: NextgenID
Designation: Chief Technology Officer
With over 30 years of identity and strong authentication experience, Michael Harris has developed strong and deep knowledge in biometrics, smart cards, mobile devices, and credentialling. His career spans several executives and C-suite positions within the technology, sales, marketing, and product management operations for market-leading global identity providers. As the CTO of NextgenID, he applies technical and commercial insights to define and execute corporate operations.
Company: Ugam
Designation: Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer
As the Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Ugam, Mihir Kittur is responsible for business development and customer success. Mihir has worked with clients from across the globe for over 23 years to understand their needs and leverage analytics and technology to drive impact. His interest in data science emerged from his engineering dissertation which involved the usage of artificial neural networks to build a robotic arm.
Company: Economcom
Designation: Chief Technology Officer
A little more than20 years ago, Michel started his career as a developer (at the time when the internet did not exist) in a service company. After co-founding a web agency in the early 2000s, he spent a long time in a consulting company as a software architect and then as a solution architect. He specialized in Microsoft technologies. Michel has been the MVP since 2009 and played the role of Microsoft's Regional Director for 6 years. Currently, Michel is the CTO at Econocom in charge of strategy, offers, and is also the facilitator of technical communities to allow employees to develop their skills on technologies such as cloud, DevOps, automation, modern workplace, etc.
Company: Oliver Sanderson Group PLC
Designation: Group CEO and Founder
Natasha is a purpose-driven leader with a strong understanding of executive search and expertise in digital recruitment solutions. Being a pioneer in this field, she leads the creation of Oliver Sanderson's new executive apps and Snapp CV, which is the world's first mobile job board with voice technology capability and Amazon Alexa connectivity. Natasha is also passionate about tackling D&I challenges and addresses a range of issues related to race equality, disability, and gender.
Company: OSAI
Designation: Global Managing Director
Nish Sehgal leads the company from the front and has more than 19 years of varied global experience in mid to large-scale projects. He is a business management graduate, with certificates from Duke University and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been involved in launching new sports properties, opening up new market segments, creating new revenue streams, and developing successful new sports businesses.
Company: Excellent Brain
Designation: CEO
Ofer A. Lidsky has a specialization in software development in the fields of virtual reality, BCI, and cyber. He has more than 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship, which created an immense impact on him to grow and evolve with time. He is an innovative inventor of patents in various software fields. Some of the skills that Lidsky has are PHP, TCP/IP, strategic planning, cyber defense, brain research, blockchain, others.
Company: Samsung SDS, America
Destination: Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
Patrick started his career as an Assistant Professor of mathematics at a new university that had only existed one year before he started working there. There was no curriculum set up for the courses that he was supposed to teach. So, he started by putting together a coherent end-to-end program and then explaining it to a large audience of undergraduates. It was a difficult lesson that forced him to explain things in simple terms. The dual skill of making a complex subject accessible in simple terms and breaking it down into digestible pieces are crucial to leadership and inevitable sales and marketing function as a leader.
Company: Call Journey
Designation: CEO
Paul is a strategic leader: delivering and determining change management in a senior capacity, with solid P&L focus and a proven track record of building businesses and achievement. Over 25 years experience in financial markets: holding various global executive management positions in investment banking, stock exchange management, market data vendors, and brokerages. Experienced in creating, identifying, and extracting synergies and scaling growth from fintech companies, corporate acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
Company: MassMutual
Designation: Head of Data Engineering and Analytics
Peter aims to build scalable processes for automated auditing, enabling the auditors to access and analyze data by themselves without his team acting as an intermediary source by using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics in the audit process. Wrapping around these categories is a significant training component where the environment encompasses formal training, self-service training, and coaching to upskill auditors' capabilities in the area of analytics. To accomplish these goals, he works closely with his peers in the enterprise technology and experience area.
Company: Fornux
Designation: Chief Technology Officer
Phil Bouchard is the Founder and CTO of Fornux Inc. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics/computer science from the University of Sherbrooke. Phil has over 21-years of experience in the commercial industry where he worked for various companies in Montréal (QC), Ottawa (ON), San Diego (CA) and London (ON) in diverse areas including computer games, bioinformatics, and military defense. He is also the author of 'Finite Theory: Historical Milestone in Physics,' which was highly debated and defended in the field of research in astrophysics for over 10 years.
Company: Cloudstrats
Designation: CEO
Piyus is an IT business strategist and an avid technology lover with a career spanning 20+ years. He personifies Cloudstrat's commitment to customer-centricity, its reputation for high service quality and innovation. He has been instrumental in crafting restructuring deeper inside the company to help the company's next wave of growth. The Services portfolio has been rearchitected to enable faster growth in digital services, and align to the growth and transformation imperatives of clients. He has delivered an industry-leading performance and a collaborative and participatory leadership style with a razor-sharp focus on execution.
Company: SuccessKPI
Designation: Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Piyush Patel excels today as an experienced professional who leads a globally distributed and diverse team of technologists responsible for building, operating and securing the company's innovative, serverless, AI-driven products and platform. In addition to his work at SucessKPI, he also owns a Subway franchise, as well as an international school in India. Piyush believes in building successful relationships built on trust.
Company: Apolis
Designation: Director and Client Partner
Pradeep is a Director and Client Partner who is focused on strategizing unique IT consulting and investing in automation of IT workforce management, professional services, process improvement, and many more. His main responsibilities include managing mission-critical and complex workforce projects, HR automation, training and development, customer acquisition and retention, IT workforce strategies, and so on.
Company: SmartKarrot Inc.
Designation: Co-founder and CEO
You will currently find Prithvi focused on stabilizing SmartKarrot and its initial customer base. The added responsibility of practicing what they preach is challenging but very fruitful. Along with the responsibilities of being the Founder-CEO, he plays the role of being the Chief Success Partner to both their employees as well as their valued customers.
Company: NMITE
Designation: President and CEO
Elena started her career in 2001 as the Founder of the University of Sheffield Enterprise (USE); Institutional Director of Learning Inclusive Learning and Teaching; Director of Enterprise Education and Director of Women in Engineering. She also became the Director of Communications and External Relations of Engineering, whilst holding a Chair in Enterprise and Engineering Education. In 2012, she was awarded the status of Principal Fellow at the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) – one of the first ten in the UK. She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Chartered Management Institute.
Company: Workday
Designation: Director of enterprise data science and advanced analytics
Ravi Korlimarla has been interacting with data teams and leading data projects over the past 15 years, which has imbibed a certain interest and passion for data and analytics in him. Ravi hails from a computer engineering and ERP background. Therefore, he has ample exposure to these systems and processes that create these data structures. According to him, the next natural progression in the AI, MLand big data space would be to apply algorithms to predict, diagnose, and forecast.
Company: Blackdragon
Designation: CEO and Founder
Rob Rosenberger is the Founder and CEO of Blackdragon. Like CEOs of large companies who spend years being groomed and educated before taking the reins, he too gained leadership experience working across different departments of major corporations, receiving coaching and advice. Conversely, he is like most start-up founders who spearhead innovation by making a new technological discovery, identifying an underserved need, and having a great vision for how an industry can be improved.
Company: OSAI
Designation: CEO
Roman Garin, the CEO of OSAI, is focused on making sports better with his deep technology skills viz. development of neural networks and computer vision. Roman is focused on making sports better and from his experience. He would like to increase objectivity and enhance the sports industry with the power of artificial intelligence and computer vision.
Company: IGT Solutions
Designation: Vice President and CIO
Roman is a VP and CIO of IGT Solutions with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in IT and business process management. He has key roles in this company such as delivering end-to-end technology, security, and driving digital services across the world for the company, identifying automation opportunities, service quality improvement, implementing IT risk ad security strategy programs, and many more. There is a rapid pace of development in different aspects of a company with the contribution from Roman.
Company: SearchDigital
Designation: Founder and Group CEO
Ronald, the Founder and Group CEO of SearchDigital, began his journey in delivering digital solutions as an early adopter of the World Wide Web. He received his first paycheck as a programmer at the age of 12 for Future Plc. He acquired the label of "Computer Genius" at a very young age and emerged as the visionary of SearchDigital. He also published a computer magazine named "CAS" along with his three friends. Ronald released his first computer game at 14 in C++ and had one of his works featured in an art exhibition at 15. He received his Mensa certificate at 16. His passion for digital art grew from using Degas Elite on the Atari ST published by electronic arts.
Company: Retina
Designation: CEO
Ted has been focused on helping start-ups, non-profits and global enterprises activate their brands – telling their stories in meaningful and compelling ways to their most important audiences in order to accelerate awareness, interest, and action. Ted has been the brand steward for clients such as The US Department of State, Thermo Fisher Scientific, ADP, Boeing, Cisco, Oracle, Western Union, NCR, HP Enterprise, Republic Services, Tata Consultancy Services, Weight Watchers, and others. He serves on the ANA Business Marketing, Northern California chapter as their President.
Company: Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Designation: Vice President of Data Science
Tim Kao started working at CNA in 2015 and is currently the Vice President of Data Science. As the VP, he has the privilege of leading nearly 30 data scientists that are collaborative partners with Navy and Marine Corps sponsors and committed to supporting America's naval services. For Tim, the two most important characteristics data science leaders need to have are being curious and caring.
Company: diconium
Designation: Managing Director
Tobias has set up the core focus on data literacy and its multiplying effect as a Managing Director of diconium since 2017. His initiatives include setting a data competence and literacy unit to serve clients in achieving value creation across the world. The business has a focus on growth management and digital process automation with Tobias that includes data analytics, data engineering, and many more.
Company: Sequent Software, Inc.
Designation: CISO and Head of Cloud Operations
Sequent Software was founded in 2010 to be at the forefront of digital transformation as well a mobile security. Tony works as a CISO and Head of Cloud Operations to ensure the utmost protection from potential cyberattacks and mutated security threats with a strong knowledge of technical and non-technical audiences. He has track records of making security policies and operational controls as per the requirements of payment security compliance.
Company: NMS CONSULTING
Designation: Founding Managing Partner
Trevor is the founding Managing Partner of NMS Consulting, a global management consulting and strategic advisory firm based in the firm's Beverly Hills where he serves a global client base. Trevoris also Chairman and CEO of NMS Capital Group, global focused venture capital and private equity investment firm with investments across multiple asset classes including real estate, financial and business services, infrastructure and energy, consumer products, technology, and media.
Company: Thatware
Designation: CEO and Founder
With a bachelor's in technology, a master's degree in digital marketing, and a nano degree in artificial intelligence, Tuhin Banik has a strong technical foundation. He is a fantastic entrepreneur in digital marketing. He has employed his academic talents to cater to the market space in a praiseworthy manner due to his excellent technological understanding gained via academics. He has completed various certifications and licenses in the last years to get further expertise and stay up to speed with new advancements in the market arena, including, but not limited to, Google Analytics, SEMrush, and others. He has a degree in mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering and is a qualified programmer.
Company: Gofore Estonia
Designation: CEO
Tuuli Pärenson currently leading the subsidiary located in Estonia, but on a daily basis, her team works as a crew with the Gofore group. As the CEO of Gofore Estonia, Tuuli is responsible for international business development and aims at building an ethical digital world. She holds a Ph.D. in economics with an interest in sustainable business and social enterprises.
Company: Transaction Data Systems (TDS)
Designation: Chief Information Security Officer
As the CISO for TDS, Saeed Valian has been responsible for consolidating and establishing a world-class information security practice based on the right balance of effective security measures and meaningful compliance controls. Saeed is a highly regarded information security leader who is known for proactively confronting and resolving cybersecurity, compliance, and business risk challenges. Leveraging over 15 years of comprehensive information security and information technology experiences enables him to build and/or improve robust security practices by increasing business performance, integrity and scalability.
Company: MindMap Digital
Designation: Co-founder and CEO
Saurabh has co-founded MindMap Digital in 2019 to help organizations with the best digital transformation strategies after the assessment of processes for digital maturity. He has developed a unique framework called ROQS Framework or RPA Opportunity Qualification System— creating an accurate methodology for process mining with 2000 different business processes within three to four weeks for multiple industries. Saurabh is well-known for creating a digital skilling academy known as MindMap Learning to work on an EdTech platform.
Company: Digitain
Designation: CISO
Sergey is a CISO of Digitain with a Ph.D in Technical Sciences with main responsibilities including the description of structure as well as the behavior of Digitain's security processes, information security systems, organizational sub-units, and many more. His strategies are in alignment with the company's goals and missions with threat hunting and proactive security search through multiple networks and endpoints.
Company: Templegate Technologies
Designation: COO
The COO of Templegate Technologies, Shrinivas Kumar, has worked with major multinationals like Intentia, Oracle, Infor, and SAP as a business and sales leader. His past stints have given him an exhilarating experience and learning in terms of processes for business management. It helped him to be a consistent sales performer with multiple sales awards and a track record of achievement. His vision of providing an excellent user experience comes from his consistent focus on working effectively with customers and teams to deliver innovative solutions for customer ROI and great experience with software solutions.
Company: Tata America International Corporation
Designation: CTO
Spandan Mahapatra is the Chief Technology Officer, HiTech and Professional Services Industry and Global Head- Digital and Enterprise Transformation Unit at TCS. In his current role, he is responsible for all digital portfolios for the high-tech industry vertical, which is led by a senior management team that is focused on products, platform development, engineering, customer-centric innovation, enabling sales, delivery and competency, and leadership development with a digital revenue target.
Company: Lorgan Pty Ltd.
Designation: CEO and Founder
Srikanth Markonda, the founder of Lorgan Pty Ltd (www.lorganglobal.com), an enthusiastic Australia-based artificial intelligence, IoT, and digital organization – yet markedly different from any analytics, digital or AI company you've encountered previously. Lorgan's award-winning AI-powered platform, Enigma, consists of a "Behavioral Lake", built based on powerful server-less architecture performing everything from data ingestion with completely automated data quality framework to completely automated feature engineering (generating data science-related features).
Company: Voxco
Designation: CEO
Sumit aims to bring strong leadership to Voxco with his experience in establishing companies and working at some of the top-tier institutions. Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of technology, finance and data, in parallel. Sumit holds an MBA degree from the Yale School of Management, an MS in financial engineering from Claremont Colleges Consortium, and a BE in electrical engineering from Punjab Engineering College.
Company: Product10x
Designation: Founding Partner
Suresh Madhuvarsu has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise SaaS and mobile products that scaled over US$100 million in revenue in just 5 years. He was also part of acquisitions by Oracle and Software AG, and has built several emerging technologies, with a scaling group of engineers and product managers across the globe. These enterprise products leverage the technology of IoT, blockchain, AI, and chatbots.
Company: P3 Health Partners
Designation: Chief Technology Officer
Unmesh believes that technology can solve all major problems that exist in the modern world. While growing up, he was always fascinated by emerging trends which led him to pursue engineering. However, what pushed him towards healthcare was his experience. Unmesh was put through situations that made him realize that health is not to be played with. He understood that health is the only asset that keeps everyone going and when access to care is denied, it can cost people their lives.
Company: iManage LLC
Designation: CIO
Van Richardson is the CTO of iManage Chicago area. He is a results-driven, business and customer-focused global IT executive leader with demonstrated capacity to drive multi-disciplined resources and deliver advanced, cost-effective, and sustainable products and services in global networks and telecommunications. He is an expert in identifying opportunities, visualizing solutions, defining objectives, and developing teams to create a positive outlook.
Company: Oracle
Designation: Director of Data Science
Venkata Duvvuri is the Director of data science at Oracle, specializing in machine learning and data science. He is the leader of results-oriented data science, business, web, and marketing analytics with over 10 years of experience in data science, business analytics, digital media analytics, and web marketing optimization. Besides Oracle, he is also an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University teaching data analytics and machine learning in his free time. In addition, he serves as the Board of Data Science Advisors at a couple of startups, namely CIPIO and AIClub.
Company: Digital Glyde
Designation: Founder
Varun Garg is the Founder of Digital Glyde, who has created this company to bridge the technology gap for making business better with innovative and cutting-edge technologies. He is also the Founder of VercX and has specialized skills in business intelligence, software project management, SaaS, business analysis, IT strategy, SOA, and many more. Varun also has received four certifications from Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystem, and AWS.
Company: Vincix Group
Designation: RPA, AI Expert, and Chief Evangelist
Vincenzo has worked with many of the companies to introduce AI and RPA techniques for process optimization, operational excellence, and business efficiency. Over the past 13 years, he has worked with large companies where one can count millions in savings and work produced.
