As CEO of Cognizer, I have focused the company on developing enhanced AIs for business critical solutions like Box, Gmail, and Exchange. Our "Brain for Box" integrates with the Box UI and provides sophisticated AI capabilities to its enterprise content. We basically turn your documents into a queryable database of facts.I am serial entrepreneur and I have been the CEO of 10 successful software companies and enjoy leading great teams. I have a strong experience in advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies and have invested in several companies built on this business model.Specialties: My expertise includes understanding how to leverage complex mathematic models, visualizations, and analytics. I have extensive knowledge and contacts in the pharmaceutical industry and often consult with companies on how to penetrate this market.I have published 8 books on technology innovation and startups, often speak at conferences and trade events, and am a frequent writer for magazines such as Infoworld, CIO Magazine, and eWeek. I am also a featured speaker at the Gartner Group Research Board and specialize in showing senior executives how to leverage artificial intelligence and deep learning.
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President And CeoCognizer Aug 2018 - PresentPleasanton, California, UsCognizer is industries first Corporate Brain. Cognizer is deeply integrated into Box, GMail, and Exchange. It provides an augmented intelligence that massively increased the memory, computation, and cognitive abilities of corporations executives, knowledge workers, and experts. Cognizer has developed the most accurate Natural Language Intelligence platform available. The solution is based on an advanced meta deep learning model and its proprietary HyperFrame architecture. Cognizer has totally ingested all of Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBpedia, Freebase, CIA World Fact Book, and Wordnet and includes over 4.58 million facts. It then ingest all of the companies enterprise content including: email, documents from file systems or Box, intranet, or enterprise systems. Cognizer can then answer essentially any question. It becomes the most valuable information source in a company turning massive information exhaust into an incredible competitive advantage. Cognizer can also provide real time Brain Waves which provide a tile of basic information for every word said within a meeting, phone call, or personal discussion. Select a tile and a full page of detailed information is provided. It is like providing every person in the company perfect memory, Ph.D. level math, and a 180 IQ. -
Founder And Managing DirectorForward Accelerator Jan 2008 - PresentLivermore, Ca, UsForward Accelerator helps Startups start. We work with Founders to make their startup fundable and to structure their investment rounds. We then provide seed funding through our Forward Fund and over 150 Angel Investors. Our Forward Fund will make 30 $100K investments this year in very early stage companies. This is often with just the Founder, a great idea, and early customer validation. We will then invest $250K in 10 companies that are breakout companies from this group. -
Executive ChairmanExecutive Mindshare Jun 2006 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsExecutive Mindshare is the premier executive community for the Pharmaceutical industry. Mindshare provides a comprehensive Web community that includes: a social network, social ranking of content, blogging platform, and exclusive industry content. In addition, exclusive events such as our quarterly Meeting of the Minds and virtual conferences reach top pharma executives. -
Director And Chairman Of Technology BoardGigcapital Oct 2017 - Jul 2020Palo Alto, Ca, UsGigCapital is a Private to Public Equity Firm that is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (Gig). The specializes in acquisitions and equity investments in Technology, Media, and Telecom markets. -
Executive ChairmanSentienz Jul 2018 - Jul 2019Bangalore, Karnataka, InSentienz provides advanced data engineering and data science for some of the largest data platforms in the world. The team lead the platform group at FlipKart and is focused at the convergence of Big Data and AI. -
Executive ChairmanArgoid Apr 2018 - Jul 2019San Francisco, California, UsArgoid provides a Cognitive Big Data Platform that uses artificial intelligence to solve complex management of very large data sets. The AI is used to optimize data ingestion, transformation and optimization, model generations, and automatic development of business insights. -
President And CeoRazorthink Inc. Jan 2015 - Sep 2017Redwood City, California, UsRazorthink is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Data Science for the Enterprise and has created the first AI Data Scientist, Big Brain. Razorthink Big Brain is a Deep Learning AI that dramatically improves predictive customer insight beyond what is possible with human data scientists. Razorthink Big Brain generates Expert Deep Learning AIs that predict customer behavior for companies with millions customers with exceptionally high accuracy. Leading banking/financial services, retail and telecommunications companies across the globe rely on Razorthink Big Brain. Founded in 2011, Razorthink is privately held with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Research Lab in Bangalore, India. -
President/CeoDecisionview Software Jul 2003 - Jun 2006San Francisco, Ca, UsDevelop strategy and manage the execution of operation. Decisionview Software develops advanced analytic systems for the Pharmaceutical industry. Decisionview was acquired by IMS in 2010. -
President/CeoKnowledgetrack 1998 - 2003Knowlegetrack developed a comprehensive Portal Platform for developing corporate portals. Knowledge Track was acquired by Enfish Technologies.
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President/CeoFrontoffice Technology 1995 - 2000FrontOffice Technologies developed a sophisticated document management system based on Microsoft Exchange. FrontOffice was acquired by iManage.
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President/CeoParagon Technologies Jan 1990 - Jul 1995Paragon Technologies provided super computer analytics to the financial services industry. Advanced proprietary algorythms provided sophisticated portfolio management and predictive analytics. Paragon was acquired by Sybase.
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Managing PartnerAustin Venture Group 1990 - 1995Austin Venture Group financed startups companies in the technology industry.
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Founder And CtoTouchfax Jan 1985 - Jul 1990TouchFax provided Public Access Fax machines to the US Post Office, large hotel Chains, airports, and public facilities. The company won a $25M contract with the US Post Office in 1986 to equip all major post offices in the US with this service. The contract was completed as a joint venture with US Sprint.The company was acquired by AT&T in 1990.
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President/CeoDynamic Computing Jan 1981 - Oct 1984Dynamic Computing Platform was a high performance computing system. It included touch screen access, audio response, and advanced analytics. The company was acquired by Boston Based Computer in Medicine in October 1984.
Jack Porter Education Details
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Washburn University
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Jack Porter attended Washburn University.
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