Participating Company Profiles - Day Two
For brands seeking to understand consumer behavior, PlaceIQ connects physical and digital activities across time, space, and mobile devices to uncover opportunities to learn and con- nect with audiences. PlaceIQ is a powerful, location-based audience and insights platform that organizes a wide variety of consumer activity data around a targeted precise location base map at massive scale. PlaceIQ uses its detailed understanding of location and consum- er activity to reach a targeted audience, and also to derive powerful insights about consumer behavior to inform market and business strategies for national brands.
5 Bryant Park, 18th Floor New York , NY 10018
Company Representative: Duncan McCall, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Currently CEO and Co-Founder of PlaceIQ – at the intersection of advertising, location and big data – Duncan has a passion for and background in early stage companies. Prior to PlaceIQ, Duncan founded and led a venture backed consumer Internet business with the goal of enabling and empowering users of location aware devices. His time spent working on RFID and universal positioning startups would later be the foundation on which PlaceIQ was built. Before that Duncan led the operations of a rapidly growing retail organization, and also built and led IS Solutions INC, a premier Silicon Valley based System Integrator. Outside of the startup Duncan has also made an impact for one of the world’s largest organizations in working for ExxonMobil, in the UK and Asia.
Platform9 provides open source-as-a-service for enterprises that need faster and easier ways to manage cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. Unlike do-it-yourself or legacy solutions, Platform9 delivers best-of-breed cloud infrastructure like OpenStack and Kuber- netes as SaaS-managed solutions to reduce cost and time to value, all while avoiding being locked in to a single vendor ecosystem. Platform9 helps DevOps and IT teams focus on solv- ing core business problems while automating much of the set-up and management process on the back end. It has enabled customers like Box, Blue Cross Blue Shield and PlayStation to realize a greater than 99 percent success rate with OpenStack projects. Founded in 2013 by a team of early VMware engineers, Platform9 is backed by Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, and headquarted in Sunnyvale, Calif.
350 Altair Way Sunnyvale , CA 94086
Company Representative: Sirish Raghuram, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Sirish is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Platfrom where he has worked since 2013. Sirish quarterbacks the team at Platform9 in realizing thier vision. On a given day, this can range from strategy and roadmap, to shipping code and running tests. Before Platform9, Sirish was an early engineer at VMware, where he held technical and management leadership roles and helped ship multiple vSphere products. Sirish’s work was reflected in several patents, VMworld talks and internal product innovations within VMware Engineering. He also worked at CalSoft and Selectica India.
Point Inside empowers retailers with a complete cloud-based solution to bring brick-and- mortar stores into the digital world. By providing the necessary foundational infrastructure for future digital initiatives such as AR/VR, BLE and VLC location services, Point Inside’s Store- mode™ is the essential first step retailers must to take to succeed in today’s omnichannel world. Point Inside's Storemode™ platform combines the physical location of in-store prod- ucts with enterprise and shopper data to “digitize” a retailer’s physical brick-and-mortar busi- ness. The result is the unique ability for the retailer to deliver more personalized and contex- tually-aware engagements on their proprietary digital properties. These enhanced engage- ments are proven to drive more trips, grow basket sizes, and incremental advertising dollars, while positioning the retailer for omnichannel success.
500 108th Ave NE Bellevue , WA 98004
Company Representative: Brandon Ferguson, Chief Finance Officer
Brandon is the Chief Finical Officer at Pont Inside where he has worked since 2016. Brandon is responsible for the company’s financ- es and plays a role in consumer analytics. Brandon is also currently a Principal at Ferguson Tax. Prior to his current positions, Bran- don worked at PicMonkey where he was the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations. He has been involved in the Seattle start-up community in a variety of roles, and provided advisory roles for technology companies in stages ranging from that initial light bulb moment in a founders head through mergers and acquisitions. He is the Treasurer of local non-profit WeCount and is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Washington State Society of Public Accounts and the Washington State Board of Accountancy.
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