
Some sectors froze in 2020 but technology wasn’t one of them. As tech proved its value in keeping people connected, working, and even well, the leaders of some of those fast-growing companies stood out. Five in particular caught our eye:

As chairman and CEO of Datastax, Chet Kapoor has proven himself as both a leader and innovator in the tech industry. After nearly 20 years of experience accumulated from the top software and cloud companies such as Google and IBM, he spearheaded company-wide initiatives as CEO of Apigee that turned the company into the primary technology provider for digital businesses before being acquired by Google in 2016. Will he be able to make Datastax, a distributor of cloud services and data management products, equally sought after?

Leveraging 15 years of experience in clinical research with both pharmaceutical companies and other service providers, Anca Maria Copaescu stands firmly in her position as the founder and CEO of Strategikon Pharma. With a keen mind for clinical business operations, Anca has been a prominent reason Strategikon Pharma has been able to develop tools that change the very nature of how clinical trials are planned, budgeted, and outsourced.

Transforming data into knowledge through intuitive data modelling, mapping, graphing, and analysis is the chief aim of Golden Software. CEO Blakelee Mills’s unique understanding of both the scientific and technical aspects of her company, has helped her establish Golden Software as a leading developer of scientific graphics software.

Having held leadership positions in both big and small organizations for consulting, telecommunications and software, Bruce Ballengee brought a range of experiences to his current post as CEO of Pariveda Solutions. Pariveda’s specialty: solving complex and ambiguous analytical problems to help improve their clients’ overall performance and enhance their growth

Over the span of a 30-year-career, Mike Walton spent the first half gaining insights from major IT and software companies and the second half, dedicated towards building high growth businesses and startups in prominent leadership positions. His focus on raising all aspects of company operations through strategic guidance has given Opsview the capacity to provide consolidated insights into dynamic IT operations across a variety of mediums – insights that have gained the company the trust of hundreds of businesses, government organizations and service providers on a global scale.