50 Best Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022
CIO Bulletin
Company | Management | Description |
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Pomeroy | Bob Watts CEO & Member of the Board of Directors |
Bob Watts is Pomeroy’s Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors. With decades of leadership experience in the technology industry, Bob is responsible for the overall strategic direction and growth of Pomeroy. |
Omnex Inc | Chad Kymal Founder & CTO |
Chad Kymal is the CTO and Founder of Omnex and President of Omnex Systems. He is responsible for the strategic direction and focuses on Omnex and the EwQIMS software. His core beliefs include the importance of Collaboration and Digitalization, Virtual lifelong learning and AI in workflows. |
Enthought | Eric Jones Chairman & CEO |
Eric holds both a Ph.D. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Duke University and a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from Baylor University. Widely known as one of the founding fathers of Python’s scientific community, Eric drives business growth through digital transformation. |
Imprivata | Gus Malezis President & CEO |
Gus Malezis is widely recognized as a visionary leader in the information technology security industry where he brings more than 30 years of experience driving innovation and growth while building market leading organizations. |
Enfusion | Thomas Kim CEO |
Thomas Kim leads the company's global strategy and is advancing its mission to transform the world of investment management solutions and technology. |
LARES | Chris Nickerson Founding Partner & CEO |
Chris Nickerson, CEO of Lares, has spent the last 23 years of his career leading, inspiring, and sometimes irritating, the security industry. With Lares co-Founder Eric M. Smith, he created the unique methodology used at Lares to assess, implement, and manage information security realistically and effectively. |
Vidit | Rene Rodriguez Founder & CEO |
People would like to have the ability to see their favorite museums, places, parks, or let’s say, the Eiffel Tower. With VidIt’s augmented reality technology, we want to bring all that to them,” says Rene Rodriguez, Founder & CEO |
OpticWise | Bill Douglas CEO |
Bill Douglas is a lifetime entrepreneur, having started, sold, acquired and exited multiple businesses. He’s made the INC growth list, among many others, and has been awarded a US Patent, and is a mechanical engineering graduate of the prestigious Georgia Tech and of the Entrepreneurial Master’s Program at MIT. |
Jaguar Health, Inc | Lisa Conte, Founder President & CEO |
Over her 32-year career, Lisa Conte has taken three companies public, raised approximately $500 million, and successfully brought the first and only oral plant-based prescription drug approved under FDA Botanical Guidance to market. |
Exponential-e | Lee Wade CEO |
Lee Wade holds a Masters degree in Econometrics from UCL and is an IT specialist with over 15 years' experience in the Internet sector. As an advocate of innovation, Lee has lectured extensively on the subject. He is passionate about the monetisation of innovation. |
Fusion Telecom Ltd | Adam Norsworthy
Managing Director & Founder |
Adam Norsworthy founded and developed Fusion Telecom and its existing products through a vision to help organisations take simple secure and compliant payments through PayGuard and better communicate, understand and increase productivity through Transform. |
Barracuda | Hatem Naguib President & CEO |
Hatem Naguib brings more than 25 years of experience building and delivering innovative products in enterprise software, cloud services, data center virtualization, software defined networking, and security. Hatem has deep technical and domain expertise in security, and strong customer and operational focus. |
Project Hosts, Inc. | Scott Chapman President, CEO & Co-Founder |
Scott Chapman is the President/CEO and co-founder of Project Hosts. Scott defines the company’s vision and direction, sets strategy and drives overall business goals. In addition, he directs all sales, marketing, partner ecosystem and strategic relationships. |
Indellient Inc. | Adam Caromicoli President |
Adam Caromicoli's belief in the potential for cloud computing to provide dramatic increases in solution capability for the clients drives his passion for building the skills and experience necessary to provide industry leading capabilities in the space. |
iCRYO Franchise Systems LLC | Bill Jones CEO & Co-Founder Kyle Jones COO & Co-Founder |
Bill Jones is responsible for moving the iCRYO brand and vision forward, developing and implementing successful growth and marketing strategies, profit improvement methodologies, and best practice management standards. Kyle Jones oversees all center operations, including center set up, grand openings, training, and customer service for iCRYO. |
Mauka Digital | Jamie Sheppard CEO |
Jamie Sheppard has more than 20 years of experience in digital marketing. His expertise lies in understanding a company’s journey and helping them scale. He’s an advocate for helping brand new startups, providing guidance from the ground up, ensuring a good foundation for growth. |
TierPoint | Jerald L. Kent Chairman & CEO |
Jerald L. Kent is a recognized entrepreneur and trailblazer in the telecommunications and technology industries with an outstanding track record for customer service and delivering superior returns for investors. Prior to assuming the role of TierPoint’s CEO, he served as its chairman. He also serves as CEO of Cequel III, which he co-founded in January 2002. |
Prosperity Productions | Lori Hamilton Founder & President |
Lori Hamilton has worked as a marketing strategist, researcher, and creative consultant for more than 20 years. Her work has generated over $3 billion in incremental business for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. |
Fan'sGlobal SocialNGN LLC | Manoj Kumar Padhi Founder & CEO |
Manoj Kumar Padhi is the inventor and founder of three brands—the next generation social network- The Fansial® Network, the next generation spam-free secure communication platform- The LatterBox, and 4FANZ®- a subscription-driven website to create personal or business fan pages to connect and engage with your fans. |
cBEYONData | Dyson Richards CEO |
Dyson Richards applies three decades of experience and skills building federally focused IT and consulting companies to continue to enhance cBEYONData’s reputation as a leading product development and professional services firm. |
ThirdEye Data | Dj Das Founder & CEO |
Dj Das founded ThirdEye in 2010 because he believed that the world is ready for a 100% data-focused products & consulting services in the Big Data and Data Sciences marketplace. He brings in strategy, execution & operational values to ThirdEye. |
Coreix | Andy Roberts Managing Director |
With over 25 years experience in the finance sector – Andy Roberts brings extensive knowledge of the financial services sector, especially related to IT, Governance, Compliance and Risk Management. Andy has been an executive and non-executive director of a number of companies in a variety of industries. |
2U | Chip Paucek Co-Founder & CEO |
Christopher "Chip" Paucek is the co-founder and CEO of 2U, Inc., described by Forbes Magazine as the “nation’s leading provider of software for universities” delivering digital higher education at scale. |
Criteria Corp | Josh Millet Founder & CEO |
Josh Millet is the Founder and CEO of Criteria. He started the company in 2006 with a vision to create a SaaS-based pre-employment testing service that would make the highest quality employee assessment tools accessible to companies of all sizes. |
Abiquo | Xavier Fernandez Co-Founder & CEO |
Xavier Fernandez co-founded Abiquo in March 2006. Previously, he worked as a project manager, senior developer and Java developer for Everis Consulting Group. At Everis, he led teams that developed applications for large companies such as PepsiCo and Gas Natural. |
InterWorks | Behfar Jahanshahi CEO |
From an early age, Behfar Jahanshahi has always had a true passion for technology. His parents always made sure he had access to the latest gadgets, and he immersed himself in everything tech. |
White Cup | Brian Friedle Vice President of Business Development |
Matt Mullen has more than 20 years of experience leading businesses with a focus on go to market strategy, revenue growth, and shareholder value expansion. Prior to joining White Cup, Matt was President of ProShip – an enterprise software company serving the Retail, Distribution, Manufacturing and Healthcare industries. |
Raven.ai | Martin Cloake CEO |
Martin Cloake is an experienced executive and award winning technology entrepreneur with a background in Manufacturing, Data Science, IP and Operations Management. He holds multiple patents and is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from McGill university in Montreal, Quebec. |
ColorTokens Inc. | Rajesh Khazanchi CEO |
Rajesh Khazanchi is a cybersecurity pioneer who’s been on the front lines of the battle against cyberattacks for nearly three decades. As a security entrepreneur and executive, Rajesh is motivated by the ideal that no one – not businesses, not families, not individuals – should be forced to feel the pain of a cyberattack. |
Holm Security | Stefan Thelberg Founder & CEO |
Founder and CEO of Holm Security. Stefan Thelberg is one of Europe's most prominent cyber security entrepreneurs, previously founded the Swedish Webhosting Group and Stay Secure. |
Canalyst | Damir Hot CEO |
Damir Hot’s leadership of Canalyst is backed by over a decade of sales and product experience at high-growth technology ventures in several complex industries. Prior to founding Canalyst, Damir was VP Customer Development at Metafor Software, a machine learning startup. |
SapienceS2P |
Lovkesh Kapur Managing Director |
Lovkesh Kapur, Ravi Pachauri, and Emily Gray-Fow make up to the core management team, and all of them have made significant contributions since SapienceS2P was founded three years ago. The combination of Lovkesh and Ravi’s technical background with Emily’s business and communications experience inspired ideas like the extensible Sapience Satori chatbot for Slack and MS Teams. |
InfusionPoints, LLC | Gary Daemer Founder & CEO |
Gary Daemer strives for InfusionPoints to align customer business missions with available technology and security requirements. His teams are focused on driving cloud security solutions for commercial and government customers and maintain relationships with cloud partners like AWS, Azure, AlienVault, and others. |
BluePi | Pronam Chatterjee CEO |
Pronam Chatterjee is among the early pioneers in leveraging cloud and data for competitive advantage in India. With more than 2 decades of experience I helped businesses realise the value of data and use it as competitive advantage. |
EyeSouth Partners | Rex Adams CEO |
BeforeEyeSouth, Rex Adams was the CEO of Payspan, a leading healthcare technology company focused on healthcare reimbursement and payment automation. While CEO of Payspan, he was named a 2017 CEO Award winner by CEO Today magazine and named a 2017 CEO Award recipient by Finance Monthly. |
Cleerly | James K. Min MD Founder & CEO |
James K. Min, MD is a former Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Director of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging (ICI) at NewYork-Presbyterian. He is a board-certified cardiologist with a clinical focus on cardiovascular disease prevention and cardiovascular imaging. |
Awingu | Walter Van Uytven CEO |
Walter Van Uytven's passion has always been to develop such rough diamonds by streamlining their structure and commercial organisation and by doing so let them grow into an open network of other companies. |
Fortis Financial Group | Mike Boroughs Managing Partner |
Mike Boroughs oversees all aspects of the company's wealth management and financial planning business including maintaining ongoing relationships and developing holistic solutions for the clients. |
Modus Create | Patrick Sheridan Co-Founder & CEO |
Patrick Sheridan is focused on the intersection of design, technology, and business. He saw the need for a high-end product consulting firm built with open source team design and the concept for Modus was born. |
Aligned Data Centers | Frank Eagle SVP Partnerships & Alliances |
Andrew Schaap is a data center, IT, private equity and real estate executive with over 25 years of complex transactional experience and multi-disciplinary senior leadership. As CEO of Aligned, he is dedicated to accelerating business growth by driving the delivery of data center solutions with industry-leading technology and adaptive infrastructure. |
Eturi Corp eturi.com |
Amir Moussavian Founder & CEO |
Amir Moussavian is the Founder and CEO of Eturi Corp., a San Diego-based software company that develops essential cross-platform solutions for mobile devices, and is the visionary who created OurPact and Motiv. |
ServiceTitan | Ara Mahdessian CEO & Co-Founder |
Ara & Vahe, founders of ServiceTitan say, "At ServiceTitan, we judge our success by one metric: the success of our customers. Customer success drives every feature we create, every advancement we bring to the industry, every best practice we champion through our software." |
Mobomo | Barg Upender Founder |
Barg Upender is the Founder of Mobomo, with over twenty years of software development experience for federal and commercial customers. He specializes in mobile app development, user experience design, Web 2.0 designs, social media, cross-browser development, and Agile project management. |
Infraspeak infraspeak.com |
Felipe Ávila da Costa Founder & CEO |
Felipe Ávila da Costa's passion is to create, put ideas into action and get results from it. He is experienced in the Startup Development Life-Cycle, Managing Teams, Products and Services, Business Strategy, High-scale Event Organization, Software Engineering Life-Cycle, Creativity and Usability Consultancy. |
Quantexa | Vishal Marria CEO. |
Vishal Marria challenges organisations to rethink the way they understand their customers. With over 14 years’ experience, he is a globally recognised leader in solving financial crime, surveillance and customer insight issues. |
Chainalysis Inc. | Michael Gronager Co-Founder & CEO |
Michael Gronager was inspired to start Chainalysis when he saw how the cryptocurrency space was struggling to become part of the financial system. |
Disperse | Felix CEO |
Felix Neufeld was raised on construction sites from a young age and co-founded Disperse in 2015 as part of his masters at the London School of Economics in digital innovation, positioning him perfectly to solve construction's biggest challenges. |
Cloudbeds | Adam Harris CEO & Co-Founder |
Adam Harris has a diversified finance, transmedia marketing, and web technologies background ranging from being a technology investment banker, a technology consultant to emerging business, and the founder of numerous technology start-ups. Richard Castle spends most of my time scaling Cloudbeds and helping the company's leaders and team members be the best version of themselves they can be. |
Ordway | Sameer Gulati Founder & CEO |
After having launched several billion-dollar finance applications at some of the world’s leading ERP companies, Sameer Gulati founded Ordway in 2018 with the vision of building a more flexible billing and revenue automation platform. |
Further Advisory | Jeff Catalina Founder & CEO |
Jeff Catalina has over 20 years of experience and deep insight into the Financial Services industry, working extensively across the B2B, consumer payments, and merchant value chains. He has expertise in developing pragmatic, execution-ready strategies that leverage technology, data, and operational capabilities to unleash business value for clients. |
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