Great Entrepreneurs is pleased to announce The Top 25 Software Entrepreneurs of New York for 2025. New York continues to establish itself as a powerhouse in the tech world, ranking as the second-largest and second-most valuable tech hub globally, with over 25,000 tech-enabled startups. The entrepreneurs featured on this list are at the helm of some of the most innovative software companies, shaping industries like cybersecurity, AI, data management, and customer engagement. Their impact is felt both locally and globally, as their solutions scale to meet the needs of enterprises worldwide.
Atul Vashistha, Chairman and CEO of Aokah, is recognized for building an AI-powered platform that addresses global transformation challenges, combining AI and human insight to help companies scale with intelligence and resilience. Sina Chehrazi, Founder and CEO of Nayya, has transformed how individuals navigate healthcare and benefits decisions with an AI-driven platform that simplifies benefits experiences by integrating health and wealth data. Pete DeJoy, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Astronomer, is leading the development of a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®, enabling organizations to efficiently manage data workflows and unlock AI value. Together, these entrepreneurs are driving innovation in AI, data management, and employee benefits, each creating solutions that scale globally and solve complex industry problems.
As software continues to drive transformation across industries, these entrepreneurs have led the charge in developing innovative solutions that tackle complex challenges and create lasting impact. This year’s awardees were selected for their ability to build scalable platforms, lead impactful teams, and push the boundaries of technology. Please join us in recognizing the Top 25 Software Entrepreneurs of New York for 2025.
1. Ragy Thomas
Founder & Chairman of the Board, Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Sprinklr, an enterprise software company that provides a unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform. The platform integrates customer-facing functions across marketing, advertising, research, care, and engagement, enabling companies to deliver consistent, personalized experiences across channels. Using advanced AI models, augmented by generative AI, Sprinklr’s platform is powered by years of optimization, annotation, and feedback from customer experience data. With global reach and integration capabilities, Sprinklr supports major enterprises in managing and optimizing customer interactions.
Prior to joining Sprinklr, Thomas held various positions at Epsilon, a division of Alliance Data Systems Corp., now owned by Publicis Groupe, where he was most recently the president of interactive services. He was also the chief technology officer of Bigfoot Interactive, an email communications company acquired by Epsilon. Thomas is also the founder of Lyearn, a platform focused on employee success, offering tools for goal alignment, performance management, and employee engagement. He earned an MBA in finance and information systems from the New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering from Pondicherry University in India.
2. Bill Magnuson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Braze
Bill Magnuson is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and Co-Founder of Braze, a customer engagement platform that enables brands to deliver personalized messaging experiences across multiple channels, including push, email, in-app, and SMS. The platform allows marketers to collect and act on data in real time, facilitating cross-channel messaging, journey orchestration, and AI-powered experimentation. Braze helps companies build and maintain engaging relationships with their customers to drive growth and loyalty. Headquartered in New York, the company operates offices across multiple regions, including AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.
Magnuson brings 15 years of experience to his current role. Before joining Braze, he was a software engineer at Bridgewater Associates and was also previously a software engineering intern at Google. Magnuson graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
3. Raj Dutt
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Grafana Labs
Raj Dutt is the Co‑Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Grafana Labs, a provider of open-source observability tools designed to help organizations monitor and analyze systems, applications, and infrastructure at scale. The company’s core offering is Grafana, the leading open-source platform for visualizing time-series data. Grafana Labs also offers a composable observability stack built around Grafana for dashboards and visualization, along with Grafana Mimir for metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, and Grafana Tempo for traces. Additionally, Grafana Cloud provides fully managed observability solutions, including tools for Kubernetes and infrastructure monitoring, application observability, and incident response.
Dutt first got his start in 1998 as the VP of network at Aimster. From there, he went on to found Voxel dot Net, before rising to SVP of technology at Internap Network Services, his most recent position prior to founding Grafana Labs. Dutt graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in computer science and management.
4. Hande Cilingir
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Insider
Hande Cilingir is the Co‑Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Insider. Founded in 2012, Insider is a leading AI-powered omnichannel customer engagement platform built for enterprise brands. Its platform helps brands connect data, orchestrate personalized journeys, and engage customers seamlessly over natively supported channels—including WhatsApp, SMS, email, web, app, and site search. Today, the company serves more than 1,200 companies, including Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Toyota, New Balance, IKEA, GAP, L’Oreal, Samsung, Newsweek, Nissan, and many others.
As one of only a few women leaders to found and lead a B2B SaaS company to a one billion dollar valuation, Cilingir is a highly influential thought leader who is often sought after to speak at leading technology events to discuss the latest trends and advancements in the customer experience delivery space. Previously, Cilingir was the co-founder and managing partner of English&More International Learning Centre. Before that, she was a marketing manager at Starmall. Earlier in her career, she worked with Alarko Tourism Group in marketing. Cilingir earned a master’s degree in international Chinese culture and language from Shanghai Normal University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and management from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
5. Sagar Khatri
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Multiplier
Sagar Khatri is the Co‑Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Multiplier. Multiplier is a leading global employment platform that makes it easy for companies to employ teams internationally. Its proprietary technology simplifies the employment process by managing the complexities of local compliance, labor contracts, payroll, benefits, and taxes, enabling companies to manage their distributed teams via a simple dashboard.
Khatri has 12 years of experience in building and scaling HR‑tech platforms. Before joining Multiplier, Khatri was vice president of corporate development at Hmlet, and, before that, held a senior consultant position at Nomura. Earlier in his career, he worked with the Placement Office for IIT Bombay as a placement manager. Khatri earned a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
6. James Rosenthal
CEO and Co-Founder, BlueVoyant
James Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity company specializing in managed detection and response, third-party cyber risk management, digital risk protection, and professional cyber defense services. Its cloud-native Cyber Defense Platform (CDP) integrates internal, external, and third-party defense into a seamless, scalable solution, providing real-time threat monitoring across networks, endpoints, and supply chains, including the clear, deep, and dark web. By combining advanced AI technology with expert human insight, BlueVoyant offers robust protection and rapid threat mitigation to ensure comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity.
Rosenthal first got his start in 1986 as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. From there, he went on to Lehman Brothers, before eventually rising to executive vice president and chief operating officer at Morgan Stanley, his most recent position prior to joining BlueVoyant. Rosenthal graduated from Harvard Law School with a JD and from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree.
7. Pete DeJoy
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Astronomer
Pete DeJoy is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Astronomer. Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Trusted by over 700 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astro helps data teams build and manage reliable data products that unlock insights, drive AI value, and power data-driven applications. By simplifying data orchestration, Astronomer enables organizations to efficiently deliver mission-critical software, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
In addition to his current role, DeJoy also serves as a fellow at Venture for America. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Bowdoin College.
Pete DeJoy's Insight
“As foundation models become more commoditized, it’s becoming clear that the future doesn't belong to the organizations with the best AI, but rather it will belong to those with AI-ready data. At Astronomer, we are building towards that future. Our unified DataOps platform empowers teams to build, run, and observe mission-critical data workflows at enterprise scale, leading to clean, AI-ready datasets. With Astro, every organization is empowered to get the most out of AI by building on top of strong data foundations.”
8. Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO, YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is the CEO and Co-Founder of YipitData, a market-leading data and analytics firm. The company is a source of truth for actionable data, and analyzes billions of data points every day to provide accurate, timely insights on over 2,000 companies—helping investors make smarter decisions and enabling businesses to increase share, sales, and customers.
Previously, Vacanti was an associate at Quadrangle Group and, before that, an analyst in M&A advisory at The Blackstone Group. Vacanti earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
9. Michael Jais
CEO and Co-Founder, Launchmetrics
Michael Jais has been the CEO and Co-Founder of Launchmetrics since its establishment in 2016 following the merger of Augure (which he co-founded in 2002) and Fashion GPS. Launchmetrics is the market’s first AI-powered Brand Performance Cloud, providing more than 1,700 clients with the software and data they need to connect strategy with execution. Its Brand Performance Cloud helps executives launch campaigns, amplify reach, measure ROI, and benchmark brand performance. With tools for sample management, event organization, PR monitoring, and brand performance and voice analytics, the Launchmetrics Brand Performance Cloud enables brands to build a successful marketing strategy.
Throughout his career, Jais has held several management positions at leading firms such as Thomson Multimedia and Accenture, as well as other founder roles with companies like ETL leader Leonard's Logic, which was successfully sold to a subsidiary of OpenText. He holds a master's degree in economics and finance from Sciences Po Paris, where he served as a part-time adjunct marketing professor for their master's program, and sits on the academic board as the Programme Co-Director of MSC Affluencers and Luxury Business at the Université Côte D’Azur.
Michael Jais's Insight
“What helped me scale Launchmetrics was our unique position in the fashion, lifestyle, and beauty market, built by understanding specific, often overlooked industry challenges. Before our solution, brand performance was something immeasurable yet absolutely essential. We’ve always believed that a brand is the most valuable asset in today’s market, and understanding how it shifts over time is key for strategic decision-making. That belief led us to create Media Impact Value–an AI-powered metric that introduced an entirely new way to measure brand equity, outside of traditional performance marketing. We built it by staying close to the industry, growing through smart acquisitions and bringing together the right talent to turn insight into innovation, ultimately shaping Launchmetrics into the business it is today.”
10. Alina Vandenberghe
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Chili Piper
Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper. Chili Piper is an all-in-one demand conversion platform trusted by leading companies such as Intuit, Spotify, Airbnb, Gong, and others. It is the only platform that unifies form routing, chat, lead distribution, and scheduling—providing everything needed to boost conversion rates across the sales funnel and streamline lead handoff. Chili Piper enables seamless lead capture and transfer from a wide range of sources, including webforms, cold calls, G2 pages, in-product interactions, email campaigns, and virtually any inbound or outbound lead channel.
Vandenberghe first got her start in 2005 as a sales manager at Asesoft. From there, she went on to ITerating, before eventually co-founding KosmoTime and then Chili Piper. In addition to her current role, she also serves as the Co-Chair for Women in Tech for Harris, and is part of the CEO group at Pavilion. Vandernberghe graduated from Politehnique University with a master’s degree in computer science and telecom and earned a bachelor’s degree from the National College of Informatics in mathematics, physics, and computer science.
11. Shachar Orren
Co-Founder, CRO and CMO, EX.CO
Shachar Orren is the Co-Founder and CMO/CRO at EX.CO, a multichannel video technology platform that empowers media owners to monetize content across online video, CTV, and DOOH. The platform offers AI-driven solutions, including video management, monetization, content automation, and personalized video recommendations for online video, as well as an advanced ad server powered by machine learning for CTV and DOOH. The platform is trusted by global publishers like Advance Local, The Arena Group, Hearst Newspapers, and Nasdaq.
Shachar leads an international team of sales and marketing experts and is responsible for driving meaningful business growth. Prior to joining EX.CO in 2013, Orren spent nearly 10 years as a professional journalist and was senior editor at two of Israel’s largest daily newspapers. Orren first got her start in 2005 as a senior reporter at Maariv. From there, she went on to Yedioth Ahronoth - Pnai Plus, before eventually rising to chief storyteller at Playbuzz and founding member of Chief, her most recent position prior to co-founding EX.CO. Orren graduated from Tel Aviv University with a bachelor’s degree in film and psychology.
12. Sina Chehrazi
Founder & CEO, Nayya
Sina Chehrazi is the CEO and Founder of Nayya, an AI-powered platform that helps individuals make better healthcare and benefits decisions by providing personalized insights and data science. The platform integrates multiple sources of health and wealth data to simplify the benefits experience, making it easier for employees to navigate benefits and unlock their value when it matters most. Trusted by leading employers, Nayya transforms the open enrollment process and helps employees make more informed decisions for better health and financial outcomes.
Chehrazi first got his start in 2009 as the founder of Zeeba Investment Group. From there, he went on to Demyst, before eventually becoming the mentor and entrepreneur in residence at the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, his most recent position prior to founding Nayya. Chehrazi graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with a JD and from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in international business.
Sina Chehrazi's Insight
“As an entrepreneur, I’ve always believed that the most difficult problems are the ones most worth solving. Health and financial benefits deeply impact everyone, yet too many people are left confused about what’s available to them and how to make the right choices. At Nayya, we’ve worked to change that by connecting the data and intelligence needed to guide each person toward better health and wealth outcomes. Our platform helps employees make confident, personalized choices that support them throughout life’s most important moments.”
13. Sarosh Waghmar
Founder, Co-Chairman & Chief Product Officer, Spotnana
Sarosh Waghmar is the Founder, Co-Chairman, and Chief Product Officer of Spotnana, a travel technology company that is modernizing the infrastructure of the travel industry. Its cloud-based Travel-as-a-Service platform connects travel buyers, sellers, and providers, improving the travel experience for both corporate and leisure travelers. The platform helps travel management companies (TMCs) increase revenue and efficiency, enables travel providers to deliver personalized offers, and allows any company to sell travel to their customers.
Waghmar brings over two decades of experience to his current role. Before joining Spotnana, he founded and served as CEO of WTMC. Before that, he served as a board advisor at Mezi. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Seat 1A and Talenthill. Earlier in his career, he worked with Deloitte as a consultant. Waghmar graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in business economics.
14. Adrien Menard
CEO & Co-Founder, Botify
Adrien Menard is the CEO and Co-Founder of Botify. Botify is an enterprise software company that helps brands transform organic search into an efficient, measurable, and sustainable source of traffic and revenue. Powered by a unique unified data model, prescriptive insights, and automation, Botify delivers end-to-end SEO management solutions used by over 500 global brands, including Macy’s, Levi’s, Farfetch, the New York Times, and Marks & Spencer.
Menard first got his start in 2005 as a product manager at Cellfish Media. From there, he went on to TF1, before eventually rising to head of sales of iProspect France, his most recent position prior to founding Botify. Menard studied at ESSCA.
15. Atul Vashistha
Chairman and CEO, Aokah
Atul Vashistha is the Chairman and CEO of Aokah. Aokah is an AI+Human-powered platform designed to orchestrate Global Capability Centers (GCCs) with intelligence, speed, and resilience. By combining AI systems and human insight, Aokah addresses common challenges in global transformation, such as execution failure, program slippage, and misalignment. The platform unites five interconnected foundations—Program Wisdom, Talent Wisdom, Geo Wisdom, Ecosystem Wisdom, and Delivery Wisdom—delivering intelligence at the point of execution across the global services lifecycle.
Vashistha first got his start in 1991 as VP of marketing and business development at Rural Metro Corporation. From there, he went on to serve as an SVP at Cardinal Health, before eventually founding Neo Group, his most recent venture prior to founding Aokah. Vashistha graduated from Arizona State University with an MBA in international business and services marketing.
Atul Vashistha's Insight
"Entrepreneurship, for me, has always been about solving meaningful challenges with innovation and purpose. I founded Neo Group over two decades ago with the belief in ‘Talent Without Borders’—helping companies tap into global talent to drive competitive advantage. That journey led to Supply Wisdom, built on the conviction that companies need continuous, real-time risk intelligence to navigate today’s complex world. Now, with Aokah, we’re innovating how enterprises set up global capabilities—using AI to deliver this as a scalable, self-service platform. Each venture reflects a step forward in rethinking how organizations operate, stay resilient, and grow."
16. Eliot Horowitz
Founder and CEO, Viam
Eliot Horowitz is the Founder and CEO of Viam. Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data, and automation in the physical world. The company provides a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more.
A career software developer and technology leader, Horowitz previously co-founded MongoDB, writing the core code base for the pioneering database and leading the engineering and product teams for 13 years as CTO. Before that, he co-founded and served as CTO of ShopWiki, and earlier in his career, he worked with DoubleClick, Inc. as a software engineer.
Horowitz is passionate about using technology to address pressing societal issues, including working with WAVS to protect marine life in the North Atlantic and supporting Billion Oyster Project’s work to help restore New York Harbor’s ecosystem. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
17. Max Yankelevich
Founder and Board Member, WorkFusion
Max Yankelevich is the Founder and Board Member of WorkFusion. WorkFusion is a pioneer in AI agents for financial crime compliance. Its AI Digital Workers are purpose-built workers that augment compliance teams in level 1 analyst functions and alleviate the tedious tasks associated with anti-money laundering, adverse media monitoring, sanctions screening alert review, customer onboarding, Know Your Customer, transaction monitoring, and customer service. WorkFusion’s AI solutions are technology controls that mitigate risk, solve talent challenges, increase workforce capacity, save money, enhance employee and customer experience, and improve compliance posture.
Yankelevich first got his start in 1996 as a DART technology lead and founder at DoubleClick. From there, he went on to Deutsche Bank, before eventually rising to managing director and founder at Freedom OSS, his most recent position prior to founding WorkFusion. Yankelevich studied computer science and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
18. Siva Rajamani
Co-Founder & CEO, Everstage
Siva Rajamani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Everstage. Everstage is a leader in sales compensation software, helping enterprises turn incentives into a strategic lever for business growth. Everstage is trusted by Fortune 1000 companies and leading enterprises, including GrayTV, Wiley, Diligent, Trimble, and Paychex, to streamline commissions and maximize sales performance.
While leading global revenue operations at his previous organization, Rajamani observed the lack of intuitive and intelligent systems that could get their incentive program to drive the desired business outcomes. He brought together a team of core operations professionals with in-depth expertise in sales compensation to provide a solution that unlocked the revenue-generating potential of sales commissions.
Before joining Everstage, Rajamani was a founding member at Uncappd, and, before that, director and head of revenue operations at Freshworks. Earlier in his career, he worked with ACC Holcim as an assistant manager. Rajamani graduated from the Indian School of Business with an MBA.
19. Benjamin Fabre
Co-Founder and CEO, DataDome
Benjamin Fabre is DataDome’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, boasting nearly 20 years’ experience leading scalable cloud infrastructure, AI-powered data stream processing, and SaaS technologies. Through his leadership, DataDome has become the leader in cyberfraud protection, protecting over 300 enterprise customers globally. DataDome stops cyberfraud and bots in real time, outpacing AI-driven fraud from simple to sophisticated across sites, apps, and APIs. With thousands of AI models that adapt to every fraudulent click, signup, and login, DataDome blocks fraud in less than 2 milliseconds, without compromising performance, and stops over 350 billion attacks annually.
Before founding DataDome, Fabre co-founded and led TrendyBuzz to a successful exit, with the company being acquired by LinkFluence. He is also an active member of the Forbes Technology Council, serves on the Executive Board of La French Tech New York, and is an investor at Irregular Expressions. Earlier in his career, he founded Agence CD Net and served as its CTO. He studied management at KEDGE Business School.
20. Lakmini Wijesundera
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BoardPAC
Lakmini Wijesundera is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, a market leader in board management software, providing an AI-enabled corporate governance solution used by organizations worldwide. The platform is offered globally, with headquarters in New York and 9 global offices, and serves a host of Forbes Global 2000 companies across the world, with over 50,000 users across 40 countries.
Previously, Wijesundera co-founded and served as board director at IronOne Technologies. Before that, she founded and served as board advisor at ATrad. Earlier in her career, she worked with Ceycom Global Communications as a system engineer. Wijesundera graduated from Imperial College London with a master’s degree in engineering and from University College London with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and computer science.
21. Nelson Melo
Co-Founder, Head of Solutions Engineering, Beyond Identity
Nelson Melo is the Co-Founder and Head of Solutions Engineering at Beyond Identity, a leader in identity and access management (IAM), offering a platform specifically engineered to prevent unauthorized access. Unlike other IAM platforms that prioritize productivity and treat security as secondary, Beyond Identity is designed with security at its core, ensuring that only trusted users and secure devices can access critical systems. The platform is focused on safeguarding operations, allowing clients to concentrate on their primary objectives without the risks associated with vulnerabilities in traditional IAM solutions.
Melo first got his start in 2007 as a mobile developer and project server administrator at Studiocom. From there, he went on to serve as market program manager at Microsoft, before eventually rising to senior software engineer at CommandScape, his most recent position prior to co-founding Beyond Identity. Melo graduated from the University of Havana with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
22. Maja Schaefer
Co-Founder & CEO, Zowie
Maja Schaefer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zowie, an AI-powered customer service automation platform designed to help fast-growing businesses deliver instant, high-quality support while reducing operational costs. With its advanced AI engine, Zowie goes beyond simply handling inquiries by understanding customers, automating business processes, and creating exceptional customer experiences, all tailored to meet the specific needs of each client.
Previously, Schaefer co-founded and served as CEO of codeheroes. Before that, she was a software developer at Sabre Travel Network. Earlier in her career, she worked with IBM as a software engineer. Schaefer earned a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the AGH University of Krakow.
23. David Matalon
Founder & CEO, Venn
David Matalon is the Founder and CEO of Venn, a leader in BYOD security, offering a secure workspace platform designed for modern, hybrid workforces. Its Blue Border™ technology is the world’s first purpose-built solution to protect company data and applications on personal, unmanaged, or third-party computers. Venn enables secure and compliant access to work applications and data from BYOD devices, eliminating the need for costly corporate laptops or virtual desktops. The platform ensures that work applications run within a company-controlled Secure Enclave on users' devices, where data is encrypted and access is managed, all while preserving end-user privacy.
Matalon has dedicated his career to building technology that enables more flexible and productive workforces without compromising organizational security and compliance. Prior to Venn, Matalon co-founded OS33, a secure workspace solution for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and other SEC and FINRA-regulated financial firms. Before that, he co-founded and served as CEO of External IT and, earlier, co-founded and served as CEO of Offyx Corp. Matalon holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business and a master’s degree in American studies and civilization from Columbia University.
24. Bojan Simic
Co-Founder, CEO, HYPR
Bojan Simic is the Co-Founder and CEO of HYPR. HYPR, an identity assurance company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle. The HYPR solution provides the strongest end-to-end identity security, combining modern passwordless authentication with adaptive risk mitigation, automated identity verification, and a simple, intuitive user experience. With a third-party validated ROI of 324%, HYPR easily integrates with existing identity and security tools and can be rapidly deployed at scale in the most complex environments.
Simic’s vision for the elimination of shared secrets, combined with his expertise in authentication and cryptography, serves as the underlying foundation for HYPR technology and the company's strategy. Simic first got his start in 2006 as a web developer at Voltaic Commerce. From there, he went on to serve as an IT specialist at The Matrix Group, Inc., before eventually founding Bitcoin Security Project, his most recent position prior to co-founding HYPR. Simic graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a master’s degree in computer science and from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
25. David White
Co-Founder and President, Axio
David White is the Founder and President of Axio, a leader in SaaS-based cyber management software, which empowers security leaders to build and optimize security programs and quantify risk in financial terms. Axio360 is the only cyber risk management platform to align security leaders, business leaders, and boards of directors around a single source of truth about their most critical corporate risks. Since 2016, Axio has been a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and financial services companies, helping drive better visibility and decision-making about cybersecurity priorities and investments
Previously, White was the technical manager of the Software Engineering Institute’s Cybersecurity and Resilience Frameworks Portfolio, and, before that, a VP at RedZone Robotics, Inc. White earned a master’s degree in civil engineering and robotics as well as a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
