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Saeid Hejazi is the Co-Founder of Wally, a personal finance app that helps people worldwide track and manage their finances. The app is free to download and use, and it connects with 15,000 banks from 70 countries and has been lauded for giving people insights into their finances in a straightforward way. Saeid graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy and went to study computer science at York University in Canada. After winning a national business plan competition in his senior year, he turned the idea into a startup called Nahel which eventually became the "Amazon of the Middle East" and was later acquired by Aramex in 2013.1 Articles
Shimon Ben-David is the Chief Technology Officer at WEKA, where he is responsible for actively engaging with the company's customers and partners to track emerging trends and bring actionable feedback and insights to its engineering and product management teams. Prior to joining WEKA, Shimon ran Support Services for Primary Data, XtremIO, IBM, and XIV Storage. He met WEKA's leadership team when he managed IT at XIV, prior to the company being acquired by IBM in 2007. Shimon studied Computer Science and Philosophy at Ramat Gan University.1 Articles
Sid Lunawat is CEO and co-founder of Hammoq, a company that automates the reCommerce process for returned item resale and used goods. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Hammoq is leveraging technology to reimagine reCommerce by digitizing resale goods and automating the online marketplace process. In the face of an exploding recommerce market, where the fashion resale market alone is expected to reach $26 billion in 2022, Lunawat has taken his AI technology expertise to close the labor gap challenge which limits the product identification, valuation and marketplace listing process. Lunawat launched Hammoq following his founding of DataPure, a company that provides high-quality datasets for machine learning. He has also served as a product executive for The Boston Consulting Group’s BCG Digital Ventures, IBM and GE. Bilingual in English and Hindi, Lunawat holds a MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.1 Articles
Sidney Lara is currently the Service Principal at Aquant, a software company focused on bringing service intelligence to field service organizations through AI and data-powered platforms. With over 20 years of experience in operations and service leadership, Sidney is passionate about eliminating waste from business processes and focusing on the activities creating value for customers. Prior to joining Aquant, Sidney worked for RATIONAL USA as Vice President of North America Service.1 Articles
Steve Soukup has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2020 and in that role is responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s business. He is passionate about building a community of trust among our teams and with our customers while also enabling our customers to do the same with their accountholders. Steve joined us as Chief Revenue Officer in May 2017 with a charge to drive growth for the business while leveraging his extensive experience serving the banking vertical. He was promoted to President in October 2019 and then to CEO in April of 2020. Under his leadership, DefenseStorm has set the standard for cyber safety and soundness within the banking vertical. Steve has built world class customer-focused sales teams that have delivered double-digit year-over-year profitable revenue growth in fast paced and competitive environments. His background includes shaping a 100+ sales organization at e-banking leader Q2 to deliver 30% year-over year revenue growth, as well as leadership positions at Intuit, S1 Corporation and KPN. Steve also has direct banking experience through management positions at Key Bank, BankBoston and State Street Bank. Steve is a graduate of Boston College and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston University. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Steve and his family have called the Atlanta area home for over 10 years.1 Articles
Steve Tranchida is Vice President, Digital Architecture & Strategy for Forty8Fifty Labs, the company that innovates to create your differentiation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Verinext, the solution provider that delivers transformative business outcomes for everything that comes next. He is an expert at defining, architecting and delivering innovative solutions that transform companies into digital leaders.1 Articles
Sundeep V. Ravande is the CEO of Innovapptive Inc. He is responsible for driving the company's vision to become the #1 provider of Connected Worker experience software. Sundeep received a Master of Science degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering from the University of Mississippi.1 Articles
Tamas Cser is the founder, CEO, and Chief Evangelist at Functionize, the leading provider of AI-powered test automation. With over 15 years in the software industry, he launched Functionize after experiencing the painstaking bottlenecks with software testing at his previous consulting company. Tamas is a former child violin prodigy turned AI-powered software testing guru. He grew up under a communist regime in Hungary, and after studying the violin at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, toured the world playing violin. He was bitten by the tech bug and decided to shift his talents to coding, eventually starting a consulting company before Functionize. Tamas and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Articles
Tim Schreyack is the Director of Strategic Transformation at Network to Code. He spent years as a network engineer before transitioning to software development and network automation, and now helps organizations navigate their own automation journeys.1 Articles
Tom Brennan is Chairman of CREST USA, an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market. In this role, he works with government and commercial organizations to optimize the value of CREST as a cybersecurity accreditation body and industry standards advocate. Brennan also serves as an industry evangelist and educator on the value of using accredited cybersecurity products and professionals to improve consumer privacy, security and protections worldwide.1 Articles