The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) has announced the recipients of three special award categories that will be presented during the organization’s 21st Annual Mass Technology Leadership Awards Gala on Wednesday, October 3rd, at the Seaport World Trade Center Boston. The Council also unveiled additional finalists in the individual categories of CEO of the Year, CMO of the Year, CTO of the Year, and Emerging Executive of the Year.
The organization’s highest honor, the Commonwealth Award, will be presented to John Landry, an angel investor, serial CTO, and software entrepreneur, for a lifetime of commitment to technology innovation and inclusion. Landry is the founder of Lead Dog Ventures, a business accelerator providing emerging technology enterprises access to a well-developed network of relationship, technology and financial capital with current investments in over 50 software-related companies and funds. He is also currently a Venture Partner and member of the Investment Committee of the Converge Venture Partners.
MassTLC’s Mosaic Award, for supporting inclusion and diversity in the Massachusetts tech ecosystem, will be presented to Jackie Glenn, former Vice President for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Dell EMC. A first-generation immigrant and EMC’s first Global Chief Diversity Officer, Glenn set the pace for global D&I across a global workforce of 145,000 employees in 180 countries, reshaping organizational policies relating to women, people of color, transgender, and other communities across the enterprise.
Jennifer Chayes, a Technical Fellow and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England, NYC, and Montreal, will be receiving the Council’s Distinguished Leadership Award. A former Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, she has authored more than 140 academic papers and is holder of over 30 patents. Her research areas include phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graph theory, graph algorithms, and computational biology. She is one of the inventors of the field of graphons, which are now widely used in the machine learning of massive networks.
“We are honored to have these amazing leaders and the companies they represent in our community,” said MassTLC CEO Tom Hopcroft. “John’s leadership over the past three decades has helped shape the Massachusetts tech economy. Jackie has worked tirelessly to champion an inclusive workforce. And Jennifer’s work advancing machine learning and computational biology is enabling innovations that will touch every corner of the world.”
MassTLC also announced additional finalists in the CEO of the Year, CMO of the Year, CTO of the Year, and Emerging Executive of the Year categories. MassTLC reopened the nominations submission process to broaden and diversify the pool of nominees, resulting in an additional 70+ nominations. The finalists in each category are as follows:
CEO of the Year
- Mohamad Ali, Carbonite
- Peter Bauer, Mimecast
- Jaime Ellertson, Everbridge
- Stefania Mallet, ezCater
- Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Care.com
- Jacqueline Moloney, UMass Lowell
- Nicole Sahin, Globalization Partners
- Bill Wagner, LogMeIn
- Rob Waldron, Curriculum Associates
- Mike Zani, The Predictive Index
CMO of the Year
- John Bigay, iZotope
- Monique Bonner, Akamai
- Jonathan Burg, Reward Gateway
- Gordon Burnes, Bullhorn
- Norman Guadagno, Carbonite
- Loren Jarrett, Progress
- Ed Macri, Wayfair
- Lawrence Schwartz, SoftwareONE
- Laura Taylor, WordStream
- Sarah Welch, CarGurus
CTO of the Year
- Anthony Accardi, Rue La La
- Teresa Arroyo Gallego, nQ Medical
- Stephen Boyer, BitSight Technologies
- Dan Bricklin, Alpha Software
- David Lakatos, Formlabs
- Amy Layous, Vecna
- Bill Ledingham, Black Duck Software
- Fidelma Russo, Iron Mountain
- Simeon Simeonov, Swoop
- Daniel Theobald, Vecna Robotics
Emerging Executive of the Year
- Gerald Beuchelt, LogMeIn
- Rob Gonzalez, Salsify
- Sarah Hodkinson, Smarter Travel
- Karen Hutchinson, Agero
- Jessica Meher, Notarize
- Ellie Mirman, Crayon
- Christopher O’Donnell, HubSpot
- Sunanda Parthasarathy, Wayfair
- Jane Price, Interactions
- Kim Walsh, HubSpot
In addition to the Council’s special awards and individual categories, MassTLC will name winners in 11 additional company and technology award categories. Finalists in each of these categories include:
Massachusetts Company of the Year
Massachusetts Emerging Company of the Year
Building a Better Workforce
Influential Consumer Tech of the Year
- Coravin for The Coravin Model Eleven
- Cybereason for RansomFree
- iZotope for Spire Studio
- Root Robotics for Root
- Sheprd for Sheprd
Machine Learning in Action
- Crimson Hexagon for BrightView
- DataRobot for DataRobot
- Edgewise for Edgewise
- Sophos for Intercept X
- Spotify for “This Is” Playlists
Connected Product of the Year
Innovative Tech of the Year: Robotics
- 6 River Systems for Chuck
- Ori for Ori
- Realtime Robotics for Rapid Plan MPA
- Vecna for Tote Retrieval System
- Waypoint Robotics for Vector
Innovative Tech of the Year: Sales & Marketing
- Allego for Allego
- clypd for clypd
- Crayon for Crayon
- Interactions for Interactions Digital Roots
- WEVO for WEVO Platform
Innovative Tech of the Year: Security
- Appsulate for Appsulate
- Edgewise for Edgewise
- IBM Resilient for IBM Resilient
- Mimecast for Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection
- ThreatStack for Threat Stack Cloud SecOps
Cutting Edge Technology of the Year
- Coravin for The Coravin Model Eleven
- iZotope for Spire Studio
- Formlabs for Form Cell
- Markforged for Metal X
- Vesper for VM1010
Technology for a Better Tomorrow
- Clear Ballot for ClearVote
- eMotionRX for EMotionRx
- The Learning Corp for The Constant Therapy
- LogicManager for LogicManager
- Wolters Kluwer for UpToDate® Pathways
Winners will be announced at the Mass Technology Leadership Awards Gala on October 3rd at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center. For more information or to attend, visit the Gala’s registration page.
MassTLC awards program Platinum Sponsors are Marsh & McLennan Agency; Microsoft; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; PwC; and Salesforce. The Gold Sponsor is Cisco.
