Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology of 2021. The oldest higher education institution in the United States, Harvard University has been home to the nation’s best and brightest for centuries. Within all of its interdisciplinary and professional programs, the institution has focused its educational philosophy on producing leaders that are dedicated to bettering their communities and the world at large. With technology as their conduits, the alumni represented on this year’s award list have dedicated their lives and careers to that mission, working within their respective fields to develop innovative products and services to solve complex problems. Across software and hardware, life sciences, consumer services, educational platforms, digital banking, and other strategic areas, these awardees are pioneering technologies that will have a lasting global impact.
With many of these alumni acting as the chief executives of their organizations, they have also been instrumental in leading overall growth and direction through strategic investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and expansion. Serving ubiquitous industry leaders like Microsoft, Cognizant, Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, Intuit, and others, they are guiding highly effective teams, in some cases of thousands of employees, to ensure the best possible results for their customers. Even further deepening their dedication to their fields, these individuals are also committed to inspiring the next generation of technology innovators through capital investments, involvement in educational and philanthropic initiatives, donations and endowments, and other avenues to continue Harvard’s legacy of creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds. Please join us in honoring the accomplishments of The Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology of 2021.
1. Kumar Mahadeva
Company: Cognizant
Title: Former Chief Executive Officer
Kumar Mahadeva is the Former Chief Executive Officer of IT and tech security company Cognizant, first founding the firm in 1994 and priming it to take a position on the Fortune 500 in 2011. Since leaving leadership of Cognizant, Mahadeva took on a role as co-founder and managing partner of Indian private equity fund Kubera Partners as well as being CEO of private software and real estate investment firm Mahadeva Family Office. Additionally, Mahadeva has held executive roles at the BBC, AT&T, and McKinsey and Company. Mahadeva holds a master’s degree in physics and electrical engineering from Cambridge University.
2. Bill Gates
Company: Microsoft
Title: Co-Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer
Although perhaps the famed entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former wealthiest man alive needs no introduction, Bill Gates is best known as Co-Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. Since 2000, Gates and his wife Melinda have devoted a great deal of time to philanthropic activities via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, personally donating nearly $50 billion to advance the causes of global health and development. Although famously Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to found his first software company, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in 2007.
3. Meg Whitman
Company: HP (former), Quibi
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer of Quibi, Meg Whitman is renowned as an executive, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political candidate. Although Whitman made a name for herself in the 21st century in her ten years as president and CEO of eBay, growing the value of the company more than a thousandfold, she also served as CEO of HP and led a campaign for the governorship of California. In the 1980s and ‘90s, she held leadership positions with Disney, DreamWorks, Proctor & Gamble, and Hasbro. Whitman received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University.
4. Jay Y. Lee
Company: Samsung
Title: Vice Chairman
Referred to as the crown prince of Samsung by the media and named one of the world’s most powerful people by Forbes, Jay Y. Lee is the current Vice Chairman of Samsung and one of the main shareholders of the company’s financial services subsidiary. Under the period of Lee’s chairmanship Samsung exploded in scale, growing to dominate industries including biopharmaceuticals and electronics and becoming the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones. Lee received a bachelor’s degree in East Asian history from Seoul National University and a master’s degree in business administration from Keio University in Tokyo.
5. Susan Wojcicki
Company: YouTube
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Susan Wojcicki has been Chief Executive Officer of YouTube since 2014 and her work over the last seven years has led to her being named one of Time’s most influential people and “the most powerful woman on the internet.” Prior to her current position with YouTube, Wojcicki spent fourteen years as senior vice president of Google Adwords and AdSense, building Google’s game-changing advertising and analytics service from the ground up. Wojcicki received a master’s degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz as well as earning a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.
6. Mark Zuckerberg
Company: Facebook
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, it’s hard to imagine anyone who has changed how people interact through technology more than Mark Zuckerberg. In addition to building the archetypical social media platform of our time, Zuckerberg has also spearheaded other tech initiatives designed to foster connection and innovation around the world, including the internet connectivity program Internet.org. Zuckerberg has made waves with his extensive philanthropic activities with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among other partners. Though Zuckerberg initially did not complete his degree program, dropping out to complete what would become Facebook, he was later awarded an honorary doctorate in laws from Harvard.
7. Andrew Jassy
Company: Amazon Web Services
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Andy Jassy has served as Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services for more than two decades. Working with Jeff Bezos in the early 2000s, Jassy is responsible for building Amazon’s cloud computing platform into a titan in the world of technical infrastructure. Prior to launching Amazon Web Services, Jassy was a project manager for a collectibles company before building his own company. In addition to his achievements with Amazon, Jassy is a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken professional hockey team and is the current chair of Seattle-based charter school Rainier Prep. Jassy earned his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
8. Trip Hawkins
Company: Electronic Arts and The 3DO Company
Title: Founder
Trip Hawkins is the trailblazing Founder of Electronic Arts and The 3DO Company. For his achievements in the world of entertainment technology, Hawkins has been granted numerous honors over the years, being one of the first to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. He has also been active in sharing his expertise with the next generation of creators, teaching as a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and acting as a mentor and advisor to numerous CEOs in the field. Hawkins received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and at Harvard, he pioneered the world’s first major in games.
9. Robert Metcalfe
Company: University of Texas at Austin
Title: Professor and Inventor
Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and renowned inventor, Robert Metcalfe is a legend in the world of technology. The winner of the Bell, Hopper, and Marconi prizes among others, Metcalfe fosters the next generation of innovators as a professor and mentor as well as through commercialization grants that he personally offers to promising startups. Apart from his more recent ventures, Metcalfe’s reputation might best be understood by his pioneering work in laying the foundation of modern internet infrastructure with MIT, Harvard, and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. Metcalfe received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
10. Scott Cook
Company: Intuit
Title: Co-Founder
Scott Cook is recognized as Co-Founder of visionary personal finance software firm Intuit, and currently serves on the boards of eBay and Proctor & Gamble. Cook worked with Proctor & Gamble and Bain & Company before launching Intuit in Palo Alto. After completing his tenure as CEO and chairman of Intuit, Cook went on to found the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Brand and Product Management and has been listed on the Forbes 400 for his personal fortune. Cook received a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Southern California.
11. Scott McNealy
Company: Sun Microsystems
Title: Co-Founder
Though he has founded a wide variety of enterprises over the course of his multi-decade career, Scott McNealy is best known as the Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems. After successfully launching the illustrious software company as part of the first wave of Silicon Valley startups, McNealy served as CEO of the company for twenty years. McNealy’s penchant for fostering innovation manifested throughout his career—in 2004 he founded free online education service Curriki, and in 2011 he established social intelligence and visualization company Wayin. Among his other achievements as a leader, McNealy is credited with advancing the implementation of the networked environment that came to dominate contemporary consumer technology.
12. Steve Ballmer
Company: Microsoft
Title: Co-Founder
As Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer left an indelible mark on the company he helped build with Bill Gates since 1980. Doubling profits for the company during his fourteen-year tenure as CEO, Ballmer went on to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team and launch the nonprofit transparency organization USAFacts. In addition to being one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, Ballmer and his wife are avid philanthropists, donating considerable sums of money to the University of Oregon, Harvard’s computer science department, and the Jewish National Fund.
13. Jeremy Stoppelman
Company: Yelp
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
A standout figure in the worlds of management and tech, Jeremy Stoppelman is Co-Founder of Yelp and the company’s reigning Chief Executive Officer. Having founded Yelp in his first year after graduating from Harvard Business School, Stoppelman has since led the company to over a billion dollars in revenue as of 2019, ultimately accumulating $4 billion in market capitalization and more than 135 million user reviews. Previously Stoppelman worked with PayPal as vice president of engineering until it was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. Stoppelman received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.
14. Adam Selipsky
Company: Tableau
Title: Chief Executive Officer
For five years Adam Selipsky has served as Chief Executive Officer of Seattle-based data analytics giant Tableau, helping achieve this firm’s mission of making data more visible and accessible to the world. Among his many achievements at the helm of Tableau, Selipsky has quadrupled its value in three years and forged new partnerships with a vast array of private enterprises and government agencies. Selipsky was previously vice president of marketing, sales, and support for Amazon Web Services for more than a decade, growing the firm’s workforce more than a hundredfold, and worked as a vice president of RealNetworks and partner at Mercer Management Consulting.
15. Aaron Easterly
Company: Rover
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Aaron Easterly is responsible for pushing the world’s largest pet care marketplace into a new era of success as Chief Executive Officer of Rover. Under Easterly’s leadership, Rover has racked up an impressive collection of accolades. Apart from its continued expansion to five international offices, in 2019 Rover was named GeekWire’s Next Tech Titan and it has regularly been named one of the best workplaces in the Seattle area. Easterly is no stranger to effective leadership in the tech world, having previously worked as a general manager for Microsoft and holding various executive positions with internet firm Atlas.
16. Mark Pincus
Company: Zynga
Title: Founder
Founder of revolutionary social game developer Zynga, Mark Pincus has led the company since its inception in 2007. Today, under Pincus’ leadership, Zynga boasts nearly two thousand employees and total assets in excess of $2 billion. Pincus has a long history of work with software, entrepreneurship, and social networking—in addition to his current role as managing member and co-founder of the firm Reinvent Capital, before launching the pioneering software company Zynga Pincus served as CEO and co-founder of Tribe.net, SupportSoft, and FreeLoader. Pincus received a bachelor’s degree in finance and sociology from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
17. Dustin Moskovitz
Company: Asana
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Dustin Moskovitz is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of software firm Asana, a company that prides itself on helping people coordinate their work through technology. Before founding Asana, Moskovitz co-founded Facebook in 2004 in collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg and other Harvard students. Outside his responsibilities with Asana, Moskovitz sits on the boards of Victorious AI and ICONIQ Capital. He is also notable for his many philanthropic initiatives, having co-founded the Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures as well as serving on the boards of each of these organizations, the latter of which being responsible for more than $100 million in donations to effective altruistic causes.
18. Serge Saxonov
Company: 10X Genomics
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Genomicist and biotechnology guru Serge Saxonov is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 10X Genomics. 10X was created to deliver the medical and scientific advances promised by knowledge of the human genome and Saxonov has accomplished a great deal toward this goal judging by how many 10X products are in use by genetics research laboratories and pharmaceutical firms across the world. Famously, Saxonov began his career as the first employee of 23andMe, defining the genome mapping company’s initial concept and building the team that made their work possible at its inception. Saxonov received a doctorate in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.
19. James Park
Company: Fitbit
Title: Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer
In the almost decade and a half since Co-Founding Fitbit, James Park has continued to break barriers as the revolutionary health and wellness company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. In addition to launching the market for consumer health technology in the digital age, Park has used Fitbit as a Launchpad for countless wellness initiatives made possible with cutting-edge sensors and other wearable technology. Even before co-founding Fitbit, Park was a remarkable figure in the world of tech, acting as director of product development for CNET Networks and co-founding digital photo editing and P2P sharing startup Wind-Up Labs.
20. Sheryl Sandberg
Company: Facebook
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Billionaire philanthropist and executive Sheryl Sandberg is the founder of the Lean In Foundation and has been Chief Operating Officer for Facebook since 2008, increasing its profits by significant margins multiple times over. Previously Sandberg served as vice president of global sales and operations at Google and worked with Lawrence Summers for the World Bank and the United States Treasury. Sandberg has been repeatedly recognized for her leadership accomplishments by Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Business Week, and has authored numerous books and established foundations to advance causes of feminism and women’s empowerment.
21. Magnus Grimeland
Company: Antler
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
International early-stage venture capital investment firm Antler is led by its Founder and Chief Executive Officer Magnus Grimeland. With Grimeland at the helm, Antler has grown to have offices in more than a dozen cities on six continents, providing capital for disruptive academic and entrepreneurship projects. Before launching a VC firm of his own, Grimeland worked as managing director and COO of Global Fashion Group in Singapore and was co-founder and managing director of ZALORA Group. Grimeland first began his professional life with the special operations team of the Royal Norwegian Navy and a six-year tenure as a junior partner with McKinsey & Company.
22. Pasquale Romano
Company: ChargePoint
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
Pasquale Romano, President and Chief Executive Officer of electric vehicle charging company ChargePoint for more than a decade, is helping revolutionize sustainable transportation. An active participant in a variety of ventures to promote better transportation and health in surrounding communities, Romano has served on the boards of the Silicon Valley YMCA, the transportation nonprofit consortium CALSTART, as well as holding a continuing position on the board of advisors for Levitate Capital. Previously, Romano made waves as the founder and CEO of telecommunications firm 2Wire. Romano received a master’s degree in science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
23. Salman Khan
Company: Khan Academy
Title: Founder
Founder of popular online learning platform Khan Academy, Salman Khan is changing the game in online education. With millions of subscribers and billions of views, Khan Academy has become the world’s premier free video educational tool and has earned its creator recognition by Time and a photo on the cover of Forbes. Before founding the company that bears his name, Khan worked as a hedge fund analyst with Connective Capital Management and Wohl Capital Management. Khan earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer science and master’s degrees in engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
24. Daniel Saks
Company: AppDirect
Title: Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and President
A Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree and frequent guest speaker on the topic of cloud technology, Daniel Saks is Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and President of AppDirect. In addition to hosting a regular podcast designed to decode issues of technology and venture capital, Saks has directed AppDirect to great renown as an end-to-end cloud commerce platform, simplifying the digital supply chain and helping companies such as Jaguar and Comcast more effectively help their customers. Saks received a bachelor’s degree in political science from McGill University and has served on the Principal’s International Advisory Board of that institution since 2017.
25. Jeff Huber
Company: Grail
Title: Founding Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman of Board of Directors
Cancer screening firm Grail is helmed by Jeff Huber, its Founding Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Recently Huber co-founded nonprofit OpenCovidScreen in an effort to bring fast, cheap, and easy Covid testing to communities across the country. Among Huber’s other considerable achievements within the healthcare and technology industries are his continuing board membership at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and his stints on the boards of Electronic Arts, the Exploratorium, and Illumina. Huber received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
26. Stephanie Tilenius
Company: Vida Health
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Since 2014 Stephanie Tilenius has been Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of virtual health and wellness company Vida Health, bringing personalized remote chronic condition management to individuals around the country. In addition to her duties with Vida, Tilenius holds current or former board memberships with Wish, Seagate Technology, Tradesy, and other successful startups. As a former executive in residence with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tilenius has a record of stellar leadership in the tech worldIn addition to holding vice president positions with Google, eBay, and PayPal, as general manager of eBay Motors she doubled the company’s revenue within one year.
27. Will Marshall
Company: Planet
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
An industry leader in developing advanced technologies for space projects, Will Marshall is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of space exploration firm Planet Labs. Marshall has driven Planet to incredible achievements in earth-viewing satellite technology with two successful missions and two more upcoming ones. Marshall’s career in developing satellites and fusion propulsion systems has brought him to work numerous times with NASA as well as the Space Generation Advisory Council and the European Space Agency. Marshall received a master’s degree in physics from the University of Leicester and a doctorate in physics and quantum optics from the University of Oxford.
28. Michael Broukhim
Company: FabFitFun
Title: Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer
For more than a decade, women’s lifestyle membership firm FabFitFun has been headed by Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer Michael Broukhim. With his partners, Broukhim built FabFitFun into a membership of more than one million individuals who regularly enjoy receiving their flagship FabFitFun Box with curated beauty, home, and tech products. Before launching FabFitFun, Broukhim was founder and executive chairman of Los Angeles-based media company Charlie. He also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Broukhim received his Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford University Law School.
29. Brad Garlinghouse
Company: Ripple
Title: Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer of global payment and finance giant Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse is working to bring the cutting-edge benefits of blockchain technology to financial institutions around the world. Ripple remains the only enterprise blockchain company working with payment providers on six continents. Garlinghouse has served in executive positions in numerous top-tier tech companies including a five-year stint as senior vice president of Yahoo and president of commercial applications at AOL. He has also held board memberships of companies as diverse as Animoto, Tonic Health, and Ancestry.com. Garlinghouse received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Kansas.
30. Yong Kim
Company: Wonolo
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yong Kim holds the titles of Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and “Chief Servant” of on-demand staffing program Wonolo. Backed by capital giants like Sequoia and Bain, Wonolo is seeking to empower the on-demand workforce in the $100 billion contingent labor market. Kim continues to make strides with Wonolo thanks in part to his extensive experience in finance—he spent more than seven years working in technology investment banking with Deutsche Bank and was previously a Senior Analyst for Analysis Group. Kim earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Chicago and was recognized as a Leader in Tech Fellow in 2018.
31. Joe Zawadzki
Company: MediaMath
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and longtime Chief Executive Officer of independent advertising technology firm MediaMath, Joe Zawadzki has changed the game in how technology can inform marketing. Under Zawadzki’s guidance, MediaMath launched the world’s first software for real-time media buying and today the company sees over $100 million in annual revenue through its work with clients including a full third of Fortune 500 companies. In addition to his groundbreaking work in online marketing, Zawadzki has served on the board of critical global trade association DMA for nearly a decade and has seeded a vast array of investments in the ad tech world as a marketing manager for Porcellian Capital since 2005.
32. Jedidiah Yueh
Company: Delphix
Title: Founder, Executive Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
Data innovator and bestselling author Jedidiah Yueh is the Founder of data infrastructure giant Delphix and continues to lead the firm as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. A remarkable mind in the world of technology, Yueh has personally created software products that have driven more than $4 billion in sales and his book Disrupt or Die has inspired countless entrepreneurs to stay ahead of the coming automation revolution. Yueh has been honored as CEO of the Year by The San Francisco Times and is an official member of the Forbes Technology Council. His previous positions include a stint as founding CEO of Avamar.
33. Keller Rinaudo
Company: Zipline
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Keller Rinaudo is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of boundary-pushing logistics and supply chain firm Zipline, an entity that has made headlines and attracted top-tier investors for its work bringing blood and other medical supplies to remote parts of the world. Making use of his experience in medical research and logistics, Rinaudo has driven Zipline to devise a revolutionary delivery drone used to deliver essential medical supplies to underserved areas in Africa. In addition to his achievements as a professional rock climber, Rinaudo worked for three years in Harvard’s Bauer Genomics Lab, building cutting-edge molecular automata and becoming one of the youngest authors to publish research in Nature Biotechnology.
34. Nick Green
Company: Thrive Market
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Membership health and wellness platform Thrive Market is led by Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nick Green. Under Green’s leadership, Thrive has grown not only to achieve incredible revenues in the world of subscription-driven organic food retailing, but to extend its mission of delivering natural produce to the world by matching paid subscriptions with free memberships for families in need. Green was previously known for his work as entrepreneur in residence with Launchpad LA, his executive vice president position with Revolution Prep, and founding national education services company Ivy Insiders from his Harvard dorm room.
35. Will Ahmed
Company: WHOOP
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Will Ahmed has made waves in his nine-year tenure as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Boston-based consumer electronics firm WHOOP. Having raised more than $200 million in investments, WHOOP counts Fortune 500 companies and professional athletes among the users of its next-level wearable athletics technology products. Though the founding of WHOOP was Ahmed’s first professional position after graduating, he achieved a great deal in the world of finance and investment even during his studies at Harvard, holding analyst positions at Lindsay Goldberg and Allen & Company as well as a summer internship at A. J. Sloane Capital.
36. Manik Suri
Company: Therma
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Manik Suri is building a new level of security and reliability within the internet of things in his capacity as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IT firm Therma. Therma and Suri work to assist food industry leaders in maintaining a consistent supply chain with the latest advances in temperature monitoring and analytics. Making good use of his expertise in his field, Suri has been a fellow of the Truman National Security Project for more than a decade, co-founded strategic and business development center The Governance Lab, and was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study of India. Suri received a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge.
37. Justin Wohlstadter
Company: Wonder
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Research and fact-finding company Wonder is helmed by its Founder and Chief Executive Officer Justin Wohlstadter. An honoree of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and named one of the hundred most influential technology investors in Europe, Wohlstadter’s scalable research firm is trusted by diverse clients including GE, Staples, and the AARP. Wohlstadter’s reputation as an innovator and entrepreneur predates his founding of Wonder; before working as director of product design for Divide, he was a founding partner at seed fund Boldstart Ventures and he founded startup A Dozen Trees and web design firm Bluevolume. Wohlstadter received a master’s degree in comparative social policy from the University of Oxford.
38. Tim Hwang
Company: FiscalNote
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tim Hwang is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of norm-shattering information technology and services firm FiscalNote. Hwang has led FiscalNote to achieve remarkable things since its founding, raising over $230 million in capital and acquiring media and news company CQ Roll Call Group in 2018. In addition to his success with FiscalNote, Hwang is noted for his ongoing participation as a founding partner of TaeOne Group, executive chairman of Channel Cross Border, and technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum. Hwang received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
39. Ali Partovi
Company: Neo
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ali Partovi brings more than two decades of expertise in technology and finance to his position as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of mentorship community and revolutionary communal venture capital fund Neo. Neo was designed to bring opportunity and mentorship to tech innovators outside the “old boys’ club” networks and Partovi has driven this firm to new heights since its inception in 2017. Partovi is no stranger to sharing his expertise in technology with the world, having co-founded Code.org in 2013. Previous to founding Neo, Partovi worked in management and development with Dropbox, MySpace, and Microsoft, and has been an angel investor for startups including Zappos and Airbnb.
40. Hadi Partovi
Company: Code.org
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Hadi Partovi is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Code.org and founder of the famous Hour of Code campaign, working to bring computer science education to every school in the country. Partovi is also celebrated as an angel investor, funding a vast array of startups including SpaceX, IndieGogo, Change.org, and Uber, and he has served as an advisor to Dropbox and Facebook among others. Prior to founding his current nonprofit organization, Partovi worked as president and COO of music service iLike, before which he was a general manager and general project manager for Microsoft, working to grow MSN.com, as well as the ActiveX program.
41. Vivek Ramaswamy
Company: Roivant Sciences
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Vivek Ramaswamy served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roivant Sciences for more than seven years and is currently Executive Chairman of the biotechnology innovation firm. Under Ramaswamy’s leadership Roivant has gone on to develop cutting-edge therapies for diverse illnesses that are perceived as being underserved by industry investment relative to their societal impact including Parkinson’s disease, endometriosis, and diabetes. Ramaswamy is a proud board member of the Philanthropy Roundtable and think tank The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Ramaswamy received a Doctor of Law degree from Yale Law School.
42. Jody Glidden
Company: Introhive
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of relationship analytics firm Introhive, Jody Glidden has always sought to combine his passion for programming with his considerable leadership skills. Over the last decade, Glidden has built Introhive into the fastest growing B2B relationship intelligence service and data management platform. Under Glidden’s leadership, the company has racked up an impressive array of accolades including MarTech’s 2020 Breakthrough Award for Best CRM Innovation. Having served as COO for Chalk and worked with content information projects for Blackberry, Glidden has built a career on delivering software products that drive the market.
43. David S. Bennahum
Company: Ready
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Ready and its signature platform, Ready Makers, are designed by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder David S. Bennahum to empower young designers around the world to create and share their ideas for mobile games. Before founding Ready, Bennehum worked as an advisor with Alpha Venture Partners for six years. Bennehum has a long history of using technology to break down barriersHis first enterprise, the American Independent News Network, raised $15 million to advance grassroots investigative journalism through digital media, and Punch! Media was regarded as highly innovative in its user-friendly app building platform, later being purchased by Kandu.
44. Nick Elprin
Company: Domino Data Lab
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Domino Data Lab has achieved great things in sharing the benefits of data science with individuals and firms in a vast array of industries. The revolutionary data firm owes its success to its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nick Elprin. Domino’s achievements in this field has led to great outcomes: in addition to helping the world build better cars and create more powerful models to react to massive changes, Domino’s Enterprise MLOps platform fuels companies on the Fortune 100 and the firm is backed by Sequoia Capital and Bloomberg Beta among other firms. Before he founded Domino, Elprin worked for eight years as a senior application technologist with investment management firm Bridgewater Associates.
45. Andrei Cherny
Company: Aspiration
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Forward-thinking financial firm Aspiration is helmed by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Andrei Cherny. Cherny launched Aspiration to exploit the latest technological advances to grant increased access to financial management products while making space for personal ethics and sustainability in the world of asset management. A published author and former political platform writer, Cherny also served as a communications and strategic advisor to top companies with Burson-Marsteller and longtime president of ACE Strategies. He also served for eight years as a reserve intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. Cherny received a doctorate in law from the University of California, Berkeley.
46. Eric Dunn
Company: Quicken
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Eric Dunn has spent decades turning Quicken into the world’s premier money management software and he now serves as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the information technology services giant. Prior to his time with Quicken, Dunn was known for two decades of leadership with Quicken’s previous owner Intuit, working first as senior vice president and CFO before taking on more focused vice president positions in strategic payment initiatives and commerce solutions. Dunn also worked as an angel investor and a general partner at Cardinal Venture Capital and has held board positions with a wide array of public and private companies.
47. Matt McCambridge
Company: Eden Health
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eden Health, Matt McCambridge works to deliver concierge medical care to employers across the country. With more than $60 million in initial funding, Eden Health now brings improved healthcare security to the employees of companies including Harry’s and Emigrant Bank. McCambridge is also active in the world of education, serving on the board of Areté Education to deliver extended and enhanced learning opportunities to hundreds of students in the New York area, as well as co-founding nonprofit curriculum development firm Teamedup. Before his current position, McCambridge worked as an analyst for Insight Venture Partners and Shore Capital.
48. Michael Heinrich
Company: Garten (formerly Oh My Green)
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
With a stellar record as a leader and entrepreneur, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of health and wellness startup Garten (formerly Oh My Green). Michael Heinrich is changing how health is supported in the workplace. Michael has long been celebrated for his passion for sharing his expertise through his current post with leadership organization YPO and his ongoing role as an instructor and advisor at Stanford University, among others. He received degrees from Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley.
49. Alasdair McLean-Foreman
Company: Teikametrics
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Working with billions of transactions for retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Amazon, Teikametrics offers marketplace optimization solutions thanks to the effort of Alasdair McLean-Foreman, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. With the use of its AI-driven Teikametrics Flywheel platform, the firm leverages data technology to optimize market intelligence, advertising, marketing, and inventory, adding up to more than $7 billion in transactions every year. McLean-Foreman previously made a name for himself as the founder and CEO of popular digital health service Traineo, sold to the News Corporation to accumulate a base of more than 200,000 members through its unique freemium model.
50. Alap Shah
Company: Sentieo
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Financial corporate research platform Sentieo is led by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Alap Shah. Providing investment management advice to individual investors as well as financial institutions, Sentieo offers AI-driven products to facilitate informed investments by its users. Shah is also the co-founder and chairman of subscription-based healthy food startup Thistle and for more than a decade has been a managing partner at early-stage investment startup Digital Investments, boosting White Ops, Symmetry Labs, and Wiser among other projects. Before going into business for himself Shah worked as an analyst with Citadel, Viking Global Investors, Castanea Partners, and Novantas.
51. Omar Siddiqui
Company: Kiwi, Inc.
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
For nearly a decade Omar Siddiqui has worked to deliver the latest in mobile entertainment to the world as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of India-based software firm Kiwi, Inc. With Siddiqui’s guidance Kiwi offers a unique combination of rich media content and AI-driven game applications to users. He brings a great deal of experience in finance and design to the table, having been a partner at venture capital firm Graph Ventures for more than a decade after having previously worked with Playdom, Trippert, Bain Capital, and McKinsey & Company. Siddiqui received a master’s degree in business from Stanford University.
52. Hayley Barna
Company: Birchbox
Title: Co-Founder
Currently working as a Partner for First Round Capital and a Board Director with RAB Lighting, Hayley Barna is best known as Co-Founder of Birchbox. With nearly one million active monthly members, the online beauty and wellness subscription service was hailed as a landmark achievement in changing how people shop. Included among her many honors and distinctions are Barna’s recognition as one of CNBC’s disruptors, Forbes’ 30 under 30 and 40 under 40, and FashInvest’s Fashion Tech Innovator Award. Before her role in the founding of Birchbox, Barna worked as an angel investor and advisor, as a project manager with Amazon, and as a senior associate consultant with Bain and Company.
53. Katia Beauchamp
Company: Birchbox
Title: Co-Founder
Co-Founder of Birchbox, Katia Beauchamp has a well-earned reputation for excellence in business leadership, successfully raising millions in funding for the beauty subscription service over multiple rounds of investment. After working in structured finance and commercial real estate, Beauchamp held positions with NBC Universal, Eurohypo AG, and M&T Bank. In addition to being named one of Forbes’ and Inc.’s “30 Under 30,” Beauchamp received the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award and was listed on Advertising Age’s “Women to Watch” list. Beauchamp earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies and economics from Vassar College.
54. Mike Sha
Company: SigFig
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
In the worlds of consumer banking and wealth management, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Mike Sha’s financial services firm SigFig is democratizing access to critical investment information. Backed by top venture capital firms including Bain Capital, today SigFig’s proprietary Atlas and CoPilot platforms are utilized by some of the world’s top retail banks and international wealth management institutions. Sha previously worked to foster better knowledge about investing through his co-founding of Wikinvest, building on experience he acquired over three years in management with Amazon and his time as a consultant, analyst, and engineer with Sason Corporation.
55. Randy Nicolau
Company: Poppin
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
For the past decade, workspace furnishing retailer Poppin has been led by Randy Nicolau, the company’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. With furnishings sold in thousands of retail locations and provided to more than 20,000 offices including Fortune 500 companies, Poppin has been hailed as one of the fastest growing businesses in New York. Nicolau has established himself as an effective leader and innovator: he was CEO and founder of Demdex before it was acquired by Adobe in 2011, served as CEO and chairman of AzoogleAds for three years, and was formerly the president of Playboy Enterprises.
56. Andrew McCollum
Company: Philo
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Notable angel investor and Chief Executive officer of Philo, Andre McCollum has brought this outside-the-box media enterprise to the world of streaming to great acclaim. After McCollum joined the company in 2014, Philo launched a revolutionary streaming service that provides access to a variety of television channels outside traditional cable providers. Its subscribers now number more than three-quarters of a million. Among his achievements in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, McCollum founded resume preparation tool JobSpice and he continues to serve as entrepreneur in residence with New Enterprise Associates and Flybridge Capital Partners. McCollum is also recognized for his work in the co-founding of Facebook and file-sharing program Wirehog.
57. Kyna Fong
Company: Elation Health
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mission-driven healthcare startup Elation Health is led by its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kyna Fong. Co-founded by Fong in 2010, Elation Health is used by thousands of medical practitioners to streamline how patient records are used to better serve their clients. In addition to her experience working in the world of finance with UBS and JP Morgan, Fong has consistently worked to foster excellence in the worlds of healthcare and finance, teaching as an assistant professor of economics and holding a Robert Wood Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Fong earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
58. Jonathan Matus
Company: Zendrive
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Headed by eminent tech executive Jonathan Matus as Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Zendrive is a software firm that is changing roads to be safer and more efficiently used by commercial and autonomous vehicles. In his previous position at Facebook, Matus was responsible for launching a slew of game-changing features including mobile apps and payment integration, and four years of product marketing with Google allowed Matus to build Android into the best-selling smartphone platform in the United States. Matus received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Boston University and completed additional studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Wharton Business School.
59. Ryan Sandler
Company: Truework
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Truework, Ryan Sandler is helping to both simplify and secure the income and employment verification process for consumers during loans, rentals, and other transactions. Established by Sandler and others in 2017, Truework has earned capital backing from Sequoia and Founder Collective, and has earned positive attention from national news outlets for its dedication to empowering employees in modern credit and identity checking procedures. In his position at Truework, Sandler makes use of a career invested in employment and interpersonal relations, with the meat of his previous work taking place as a senior product manager for LinkedIn.
60. Jonathan Weiss
Company: HealthEngine
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
With nearly a decade spent as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based health and fitness company HealthEngine, Jonathan Weiss is transforming the consumer health insurance marketplace with striking results. Weiss also holds several additional positions in the world of entrepreneurship including entrepreneur in residence at Oxford University, co-founder and partner at Bridgeview Partners, and non-executive director of sports integrity agency International Doping Tests and Management. In addition to his studies at Harvard, Weiss earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Oxford, a Doctorate in medicine and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in health economics and policy from Stanford University.
61. Peter Bailis
Company: Sisu Data
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Peter Bailis is at the forefront of exploiting data to drive success in business as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sisu Data. The software firm makes use of a proprietary Augmented Analytics platform to help make metrics both relevant and visible in order to diagnose current or potential changes to businesses, fueled by the latest advances in machine learning. Previous to launching his latest venture, for three years Bailis contributed his knowledge to the next generation of innovators as an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Bailis received a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
62. Travis May
Company: Datavant
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Travis May is Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Datavant and works at the forefront of patient privacy and healthcare data connectivity. Under May’s guidance Datavant has led the charge in using technology to boost patient outcomes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. May is also known for his work with LiveRamp, growing the data connectivity firm in personnel and revenue several times over while rising from summer intern to CEO. May’s achievements have long been celebrated within the industry, having been recognized on Fortune’s “30 Under 30” list as well as one of its “40 Under 40.”
63. David Vivero
Company: Amino
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As Co-Founder and Chief Executive officer of digital health and wellness platform Amino, David Vivero is at the forefront of connecting employees and their families to quality healthcare. A previous honoree of Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” Vivero has been a leader in entrepreneurship since beginning his career as founder and CEO of Harvard Media Ventures in 2002. After spending time as an associate with the Mayfair Fund and IDG Communications, Vivero launched successful online disruptive platform RentJuice to great acclaim. Vivero is also an active volunteer in educational programs, having spent two years as board chair of literacy nonprofit Reading Partners.
64. Inder Singh
Company: Kinsa
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of health tech firm Kinsa, Inder Singh is spearheading a movement to track and stop the spread of disease. Kinsa’s work has been increasingly notable in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, providing data to help predict novel coronavirus surges up to two weeks before they occur. His work with Kinsa is the culmination of half a decade of work in the field of public health, having previously held the positions of executive vice president and director of drug access with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Singh received bachelor’s degrees in economics and engineering from the University of Michigan as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
65. Nitesh Banta
Company: B12
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Nitesh Banta Co-Founded software firm B12 six years ago and currently serves as B12’s Chief Executive Officer. In an effort to promote business development, Banta and B12 use the latest AI and automation advances to provide web services to growing businesses. Previous to his work with B12, Banta was an investor in educational startups including CoachUp, BigCommerce, and Handy HQ, and worked with the American Red Cross’s National Youth Council for three years before founding the educational enterprise Summer Workation. Banta continues to help young innovators through his angel investments with Stellar Capital and his work as an advisor and co-founder of Rough Draft Ventures.
66. Jordan Feldman
Company: Rightway Healthcare
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare technology and services firm Rightway Healthcare is led by its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jordan Feldman. Working to simplify the healthcare process for users across the nation, Rightway leverages analytics and an intelligent platform to make healthcare decisions more informed through its groundbreaking apps including RightwayRx. Prior to breaking into the world of healthcare, Feldman was lauded as a rising star in capital investments He worked for nearly three years as a senior associate at RedBird Capital Partners after three years at Goldman Sachs in investment banking and mortgage trading.
67. Alex Hoye
Company: The Faction Collective
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Alex Hoye launched disruptive snowsports and leisure startup The Faction Collective since 2006 and has served as its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer ever since. Previously Hoye made waves by co-founding both auction site GoIndustry and co-working business Runway East. Hoye is also an avid volunteer when it comes to fostering innovation in the next generation of leaders in technology, holding the office of chairman emeritus of the ICE List for tech entrepreneurs and boosting new opportunities in the field through angel investing and advising with equity fund Vitruvian Partners. Hoye received a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Stanford University.
68. Angie You
Company: Amunix
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer of biotech firm Amunix, Angie You has helped bring this company’s medical advances to labs and patients around the world. With more than $100 million in funding, Amunix has developed XTEN and Pro-XTEN to weaponize T cell engagers against tumors by making use of precision protein engineering. You has a vast amount of experience within the biotech world—not only did she hold the post of chief business and strategy officer of Sierra Oncology and chief business officer of Aragon Pharmaceuticals for nearly a decade, she also worked in executive roles at Ren Pharmaceuticals, Venrock Associates, and Exelixis.
69. Michael Faye
Company: Taptap Send
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Michael Faye is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of New York-based digital financial services enterprise Taptap Send. Taptap Send is a venture-backed startup based around an app that facilitates inexpensive, secure money transfers between Europe and seven African nations. Faye has a long history of breaking ground with revolutionary new advances in using software to share or transfer money. Before launching Taptap Send, he co-founded nonprofit organization management company GiveDirectly and still serves as its president. He also co-founded Segovia Technology, an enterprise built around facilitating sending payments to people living in extreme poverty.
70. Robert Nishihara
Company: Anyscale
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Robert Nishihara co-founded distributed computing platform Anyscale in 2019 and now acts as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of this remarkable digital tool. Built on the bones of the Berkeley open-source project Ray, Anyscale provides scalable app development and distribution tools to programmers working on projects of any size and recently raised $40 million in funding from NEA and A16Z. Though Nishihara is still early in his career as a leader in the tech world, he has already developed a name for himself as a top-level researcher, completing internships at Facebook and Microsoft among others. Nishihara earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
71. Noam Solomon
Company: Immunai
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
A powerful figure in the world of machine learning within medicine, Noam Solomon is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of New York-based biotechnology firm Immunai. In his current position, Solomon leverages his vast academic expertise and practical experience with data and AI—he previously worked as the head of data with Israeli information firm Gloat and as an independent big data consultant for six years. Solomon holds a doctorate in computer science from Tel Aviv University, another doctorate in Algebra and Number Theory from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and completed a postdoc fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
72. Ritesh Malik
Company: Innov8 Coworking
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Innov8 Coworking, India’s premier tech-driven workspace and coworking startup, is helmed by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ritesh Malik. Under Malik’s stewardship Innov8 has grown to offer workspace solutions to millions of individuals in nine major Indian cities, specializing in community-based startups and other enterprises. Before founding Innov8 Malik was house surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi and was co-founder of Adstuck Consulting Limited. Malik is still actively involved with Akancha Against Harassment, Nasdeep Trust, and Plaksha Technology University. Malik received a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery from Tamil Nadu Doctor M.G.R. Medical University.
73. Helen Adeosun
Company: CareAcademy
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Helen Adeosun is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CareAcademy, a revolutionary e-learning platform designed to provide straightforward, effective training to non-medical professionals and family caregivers. In her fight to educate America’s caregivers, Adeosun is armed with more than fifteen years of experience in teaching and education policy She has held numerous critical positions in the Boston area including assistant program manager for Boston Public Schools, community development projects director for the activism organization The New Organizing Institute, and volunteer director of Powershift 2011. Adeosun earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Arabic studies from Notre Dame University.
74. Jules Urbach
Company: OTOY
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jules Urbach is continuing to change the game with cutting-edge advances in 3D animation. In addition to leading online music store LightStage, he is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of cloud graphics company OTOY. Supported by top-tier advisors and investors, OTOY has won Academy Awards among other accolades for its achievements in delivering high-end graphics processing through cloud-based services. Urbach has a reputation as a pioneer with the world of 3D rendering in video games and animation. He is credited with having created the world’s first 3D game platform, software that has since been licensed to Disney, Microsoft, Warner Brothers, and other media titans.
75. Bill Shope
Company: Abound
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Abound, Bill Shope is raising the bar on the direct-to-consumer sales model. In just a few short years, he and the rest of the Abound team drove the market by offering a space for individuals and retailers to connect with small, unique brands at wholesale prices. This model has proven all the more important in the era of increased connectivity and social distancing, and under Shope’s leadership Abound has raised $23 million in funding in 2021 already. Before getting Abound off the ground in 2017, Shope worked for six years in a managing director position with investment giant Goldman Sachs.
76. Michel Feaster
Company: Usermind
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
With over two decades of experience in sales, marketing, and management, Michel Feaster is now pushing the boundaries of the enterprise software world as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Usermind. An industry leader in helping enterprises improve customer experiences, Usermind has broken new ground with the world’s first real-time experience orchestration platform, raising over $14 million in 2020 and winning the designation Innovator of the Year from Vation Ventures. Feaster previously worked as vice president of sales and strategy for Apptio and director of products for HP Software and she spent seven years rising through the ranks of Mercury Interactive.
77. Bryan O’Connell
Company: Huckleberry
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Huckleberry is a Nevada-based fully digital insurance firm headed by its Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Bryan O’Connell. In collaboration with their partner, insurance giant Markel, Huckleberry offers a streamlined, user-friendly insurance purchasing experience to individuals and small businesses nationwide, filling a critical niche in the insurance market and attracting considerable support from prominent venture capital investors. He is a longtime player in the world of finance, with previous positions held with E.ventures, Morgan Stanley, and McKinsey & Company. O’Connell received his bachelor’s degree in actuarial and financial studies from University College Dublin.
78. Divanny Lamas
Company: Transposit
Title: Chief Executive Officer
A project leader with a passion for facilitating entrepreneurship through technology, Divanny Lamas is Chief Executive Officer of process orchestration firm Transposit. Transposit brings a great deal of experience and funding—at least $135 million as of last November—to the task of rebuilding IT management and streamlining DevOps practices. Concurrent with her duties with Transposit, Lamas also helps build technology companies in her role as managing director for Sutter Hill Ventures. Her expertise in the industry shines throughout her career, having held leadership positions at Splunk for seven years after a year in technical accounts with Google.
79. Gabriela Orille
Company: MyInvestor
Title: Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
An innovator in banking with more than two decades of experience in finance, Gabriela Orille is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Madrid-based financial services firm MyInvestor. Orille brings a great deal of experience in both finance and teaching to the table, having previously taught as a professor at UNIR and IE Executive Education as well as spending eight years with Inversis Banco. In addition to her studies of global leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Orille has pursued continuing education at the ISDE Business School at the University of Navarra and the Frontiers in Education program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
80. Sevetri M. Wilson
Company: Resilia
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Venture-backed SaaS firm Resilia is led by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Sevetri M. Wilson, helping nonprofit organizations scale their missions from offices in New York and New Orleans. Wilson is also the owner of communications and management firm Solid Ground Innovations and she was a contributing writer to Entrepreneur and Inc magazines for several years. Wilson’s achievements in business have been recognized repeatedly throughout her career with her accolades including the National Nobel Prize for Public Service, making the Forbes Cloud 100 list in 2020, and being named the Louisiana Businesswoman of the Year. Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in mass communications from Louisiana State University.
81. Agneta Breitenstein
Company: FOLX Health
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of queer-focused digital health firm FOLX Health Agneta Breitenstein is known for breaking new ground in the healthcare industry. In addition to her significant advances in high-quality healthcare with FOLX, she has served on the boards of WellSky, Vim, Dublin-based LetsGetChecked, and Buoy Health. Breitenstein has a stellar record for launching new ventures in the world of healthcare, having personally founded companies including Humedica, the Institute for Health Metrics, PrivaSource, and JRI Health Law Institute. Breitenstein received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a doctorate in law from the University of Connecticut.
82. Ryan Leslie
Company: SuperPhone
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of digital marketing firm SuperPhone, Ryan Leslie has been blowing up the world of SMS marketing for hundreds of thousands of users. Integrating with thousands of smartphone applications, Leslie has created SuperPhone in the footsteps of legendary phone-driven marketing campaigns by high-profile individuals such as Zayn and Miley Cyrus. Leslie has built a career around launching such disruptive ventures: for seven years he has guided his personal brand through Black Phoenix Enterprises, developing technological innovations in the music industry, and as founder of NextSelection Lifestyle Group he has guided multiple successful musical ventures from inception to successful realization.
83. Jesse Zhang
Company: Lowkey
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Jesse Zhang is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Lowkey, a viral platform for automatically recording and sharing gaming videos with the world. A rising star in software engineering, Zhang has excelled in tech internships with top financial firms including Hudson River Trading and Intel, and worked in deep learning engineering with Google before beginning work as a trader for Citadel. Among the accolades he has accumulated over his career, Zhang has been recognized as a Research Science Institute Scholar, a participant of the USA Mathematical Talent Search, and has had his writing published in professional journals.
84. Jiwon Moon
Company: Vingle
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Interest network service Vingle, headed by Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jiwon Moon, is a global fan community and social network that consistently tops the list of most downloaded apps in Korea with over 10 million monthly active users. Moon is also a founding partner at Seoul’s startup incubator TheVentures, an investment firm with more than fifty blockchain and software venture projects. Previously Moon made a name for herself as the founder of community-based video service Viki, acquired in 2013 for $200 million. Moon earned a bachelor’s degrees in special education and teaching and fine arts from Ewha Womans University.
85. Britt Bunn
Company: The Inside
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Backed by top VC firms and recognized by Fast Company as one of its ten most innovative retailers of 2020, The Inside is led by its Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Britt Bunn. A rising star in the world of finance and retail with The Inside, Bunn has made inroads into the $150 billion furniture market by building a leading direct-to-customer home furnishings company. Prior to her time with The Inside, Bunn worked in early-stage ventures with Forerunner Ventures, spent three years in consumer insights and merchandising at One Kings Lane, and worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company. Bunn earned a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford Business School.
86. Nadia Genevieve Masri
Company: Perksy
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree and TEDx speaker Nadia Genevieve Masri is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of market research startup Perksy. Masri has driven Perksy to new heights in hyper-targeting users through a culture-driving app and the company was recognized in 2019 as one of CNBC’s top 100 startups. Masri’s track record for excellence in entrepreneurship extends to the beginning of her career—after founding Birdcage magazine in 2010 and building it into the Birdcage Media Group, Masri co-founded digital marketing platform Foursixty and served as the company’s chief marketing officer.
87. Chris Dixon
Company: SiteAdvisor and Hunch
Title: Co-Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer
In addition to his matchless reputation as a seed investor, Chris Dixon is known as Co-Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer of technology success stories SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor, a web-based security company, was acquired by McAfee in 2006, while Hunch was bought by eBay in 2011. Currently, Dixon continues to advance the frontiers of the digital world as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, taking charge of a $350 million cryptocurrency fund, in addition to serving on the boards of companies including BuzzFeed, Zipline, and Coinbase. Dixon received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia University.
88. Dylan Taylor
Company: Voyager Space Holdings
Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
In his capacity as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, for two years Dylan Taylor has helped Voyager Space Holdings develop vertically integrated holdings in the world of private space travel. Taylor is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a longtime member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, TIGER 21, and Morgan Brook Capital. He has shown tremendous dedication to fostering innovation in multiple areas, serving as a longtime mentor for the Techstars program as well as a young global leader with the World Economic Forum. Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Arizona and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.
89. Vladimir Novakovski
Company: Lunchclub
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lunchclub Vladimir Novakovski is at the forefront of bringing the latest advancements in AI to the consumer market. In an achievement that is all the more relevant in the socially distanced world of COVID-19, Lunchclub makes introductions for professional one-to-one video meetings using an AI-driven superconnector. Novakovski brings decades of experience within finance and machine learning to his current position with Lunchclub, having served as vice president of engineering with Addepar, head of machine learning for Quora, and portfolio manager and director for Graham Capital Management.
90. Daniel Demetri
Company: Trellis
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Founder of Trellis and its current Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Demetri has built Trellis to be a game-changing insurance selection platform. He has leveraged his decades of work in software and finance to attract top venture capitalists such as General Catalyst to catapult Trellis into a leading role in modern software-driven insurance sales. Demetri has built a considerable reputation for devising new methods for digitally delivering better consumer outcomes, having spent nearly a decade as webmaster of Sarcoma Federation of America, working as an analyst for Angelo, Gordon & Co, and as a product manager for Google.
91. Daniel Liss
Company: Dispo
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Though Daniel Liss has only served as Chief Executive Officer of photography startup Dispo for less than a year, already he has presided over a dramatic entry into the crowded world of social media photography. Harkening back to the simple pleasures of disposable camera photography, Dispo was the most-downloaded free app on the App Store and was recently valued at more than $200 million. Liss previously worked as co-founder and partner of venture capital firm Pilot Labs, co-founder and CEO of grassroots healthcare education nonprofit Bama Covered, and investment banking analysis for Deutsche Bank. Liss earned a doctorate in law from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
92. Gaurav Sharma
Company: Capitalize
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
With over $15 million raised in venture capital to support its mission to simplify the retirement savings process, financial services firm Capitalize is led by its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Gaurav Sharma. Capitalize represents a revolutionary position in the world of finance, offering to reunite individuals for free with $500 billion in funds rolled over in 401(k) accounts every year. Among his work history are stints as an investment analyst at Morgan Stanley, UBS, Highbridge Capital Management, and more than six years as an investor at Greenlight Capital focusing on technology and financial services. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of New South Wales.
93. Kevin Nazemi
Company: Renew Health
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Nazemi was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Renew Health until 2020, leading this disruptive health care firm to help hospitals and pharmaceutical providers eliminate mismanagement and prioritize health over profits. Nazemi is a board member with Premera Blue Cross and has been entrepreneur in residence and advisor with Expa for four years. Before entering the world of healthcare technology, he earned a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for his efforts at this time to advance his studies at Harvard and was notable for his tenure at Microsoft. Nazemi received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was class president of his graduating year at that university.
94. Adrianne Nickerson
Company: Oula Health
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Revolutionary maternity care center Oula Health is headed by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Adrianne Nickerson. Oula employs collaborative teams of professionals making use of evidence-based tools and a cutting-edge remote care platform, delivering improved results with more personalized care for mothers. Nickerson has worked in healthcare-related enterprises for her whole career, holding an advisory position with Tiller Partners and a manager at Northwell Ventures’ health division, and she also has volunteered as a program evaluation consultant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nickerson holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Columbia University in New York.
95. Joshua Lessing
Company: Root AI
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Joshua Lessing Co-Founded Root AI and served as its Chief Executive Officer for three years, helping to push the bounds of how farming could be achieved more efficiently and sustainably through the use of robotics and other advances in technology. When Root AI was acquired by AppHarvest in April 2021, Lessing was kept on as Chief Technology Officer at fellow technology-driven agriculture firm AppHarvest. His career has been built on leveraging tech to achieve better human outcomes, having conducted considerable academic research in the field at Harvard, MIT, and Brown. Lessing received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Brown University and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
96. Namrata Baral
Company: Harvest Platform
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
In its mission to help users reduce debt and achieve their financial goals as part of the Acorns family of products, Harvest Platform is headed by its Founder and Chief Executive officer Namrata Baral. Though Harvest is the first company Baral has founded, she is no stranger to the world of building revenue partnerships and strategies. After founding the leadership school The International Spark Program and working with investment bank Centerview Partners, Baral worked as product manager for MoPub until it was acquired by Twitter, at which point she spent five years as one of Twitter’s heads of revenue partnerships.
97. Felix Bustos III
Company: ZB Technologies, Inc.
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Synthesizing the latest advances in medicine, data management, and machine learning, Felix Bustos III is working to lead the fight against cancer and other diseases as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ZB Technologies. Bustos is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of science to solve critical problems, having worked for more than sixteen years with high-tech startups and institutions including the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, and Virgin Galactic. Bustos received a master’s degree in space science from the University of North Dakota and a bachelors’ degree in communication research from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
98. Marc Cohen
Company: Cobro Ventures
Title: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As Co-Founder and longtime Chief Executive Officer of Washington-based venture capital firm Cobro Ventures, Marc Cohen has dedicated his considerable leadership experience to forging new partnerships with investors and startups in the software and biotech industries. Cohen is also Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of C4 Therapeutics, a biotechnology company breaking new ground in eliminating disease-causing proteins. Before his time with Cobro and C4, Cohen headed Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and OPNET Technologies. He currently holds a chairman position with Frequency Therapeutics and Regenacy Pharmaceuticals. Cohen received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
99. Serge Kassardjian
Company: StayTuned
Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Serge Kassardjian launched the customer messaging platform StayTuned in 2018 and continues to lead the software firm as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. Kassardjian has acquired funding for StayTuned’s multichannel messaging platform from top-tier venture capital firms while personally serving as angel investor and advisor to ventures including Centricity Insights, Bowery Capital, and Medaptive Health. Prior to starting StayTuned Kassardjian co-founded VR/AR startup NextRev Commerce, and previously held the title of global head of media apps business development for Google Play. Kassardjian received a bachelor’s degree in math and mechanical engineering as well as a master’s degree in design from Stanford University.
100. Shironda A. White
Company: CauseEDU
Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
A veteran in the world of philanthropy and finance, Shironda A. White is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CauseEDU. Designed by White to democratize the financial planning process for university students in the United States, CauseEDU offers funding and advisement services with the help of numerous Boston-area institutions and education organizations. White is also co-founder and CEO of cupcake bakery Cupcake Therapy and was a manager for alumni relations and corporate programs at Harvard Law School for five years. White earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Spelman College and a master’s degree in business from Boston University with a focus on social impact and entrepreneurship.