Editor’s List: Authority Magazine’s Favorite ‘Five Things Videos’ About How Their Technological Innovation Will Shake Up How We Connect and Communicate With Each Other (Part One)
Shane Neman, Neman Ventures
Shane prides himself on being a problem solver and a consummate optimist which are traits that have been significant advantages in his life as a serial entrepreneur. His experience and expertise in business span many industries from technology and telecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After earning a computer science degree from NYU, Shane started three tech startups (two of them — EZ Texting and JoonBug — were acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. He’s a prolific backer of startups and late stage companies including Impossible Foods, Convoy, Prose, and Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair, TeamFlow, Hyperice, ResiDesk and many more. Shane’s also a real estate investor and developer who owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. ranging from commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings.
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Edward McGovern, CERA
Edward McGovern is the founder & CEO of CERA Software, Inc. and the creator of CERA-Critical Event Response Applications. He is a retired Law Enforcement Major and tactical commander from South Florida.
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Pete Erickson, Modev
Pete Erickson believes that human connection is vital in the era of digital transformation. Over the past decade he has turned that belief into a mission of finding creative ways to bring the tech industry together. Under Pete’s leadership, Modev organizes some of the world’s top events, including VOICE Summit, VOICE Global and VOICE Talks with more than 100,000 attendees annually. Modev is a global team of more than 40 creatives, marketers and producers.
Pete contributes regularly to national news outlets, including NPR, CBS, NBC. He serves as the on-air “Tech Expert” for Fox 5 DC where he provides commentary on technology news that impacts consumers.
Modev is based in Arlington, Va. where Pete resides with his wife, two kids, and dog Maisey.
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Shana Opperman, Pluto
Shana Opperman, CEO & Co-Founder of Pluto who was motivated by her graduate research at MIT on tech’s impact on human connection when she formed Pluto. She’s both an MIT graduate and MIT drop-out, completing her MIT MBA & MIT Media Lab research, and leaving her MIT M.S Engineering to focus on Pluto. Previously, she led technical and creative production for an experimental adtech team at Google, bringing new ideas from concept to final product. Pre-Google, she was a digital producer at Saatchi & Saatchi NY, gaining experience in consumer marketing. She builds humane AI to amplify vs replace our own humanity, as she fundamentally believes that all you really are is a collection of your memories and who you make them with. Shana is a middle sister, astronomy enthusiast, 60s/70s/80s music fan, and sans-recipes cooker/baker (except when it comes to making her Yiayia’s 30-layer baklava!).
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