The Mass Technology Leadership Council just announced its pool of finalists for the 2017 MassTLC Technology Leadership Awards, the 20th edition of the award.
Quick takeaways: Cybersecurity startup Cybereason, which recently raised $100M from SoftBank, is nominated three times, in both the “Emerging” categories (Emerging executive of the year, Emerging company of the year) as well as for the Innovative Tech of the Year: Security.
Toast, the restaurant point-of-sale software company, will compete as “Emerging company of the year” and “Technology for a better tomorrow.” Wayfair could score prizes for two executives, CEO of the Year and Emerging executive of the year. Desktop Metal, Boston’s newest unicorn, is among the finalists in the “Cutting edge technology of the year” category
The pool of finalists will be further narrowed during the coming weeks. Winners will be announced at the MassTLC Leadership Awards Gala on September 14 at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center.
Finalists in each of the 14 categories include:
Individual Awards
CEO of the Year
- Mohamad Ali, Carbonite
- Udi Mokady, CyberArk
- Jaime Ellertson, Everbridge
- Peter Bauer, Mimecast
- Niraj Shah, Wayfair
CTO of the Year
- Wayne Whitcomb, Salesforce
- Kevin Riley, Sonus Networks
- Rob Sullivan, Symbotic
- Daniel Thoebald, Vecna
- Bobby Littrell, Vesper
Emerging Executive of the Year
- Mike Volpe, Cybereason
- Elizabeth Barno, Greentown Labs
- Katie Burke, HubSpot
- Sasha Hoffman, Piaggio Fast Forward
- Lindsey Bleimes, Wayfair
Company Awards
Company of the Year
Emerging Company of the Year
Building a Better Workforce
Innovative Tech of the Year: Consumer
- Agero, MileUp
- Franklin Robotics, Tertill
- iZotope, Inc., Neutron
- Rally Point Networks, RallyPoint
- Sheprd, Sheprd
Innovative Tech of the Year: Financial
- AnchorOps, Inc., AnchorOps ePay Politica
- Cantina, Empower Retirement Apple Watch App
- Elsen Inc., Elsen nPlatform
- Flywire, Flywire B2B
- Rate Gravity, Rate Gravity
Innovative Tech of the Year: IoT
- Acquia, Acquia Platform
- Attunity, Attunity Replicate
- Benu Networks, Virtual Service Edge (VSE)
- Elemental Machines, Elemental Machines Sensory Network
- PTC, ThingWorx Studio
Innovative Tech of the Year: Robotics
- 6 River Systems, Automation Solution
- Piaggio Fast Forward, Gita
- Riptide, Underwater Vehicle
- Soft Robotics, Grippers and Control Systems
- Veo Robotics, Veo System
Innovative Tech of the Year: Sales & Marketing
Innovative Tech of the Year: Security
- Arbor Networks, Arbor Networks Spectrum
- Cybereason, RansomFree
- GreatHorn, GreatHorn
- Lexumo, Inc., Lexumo
- Veridium, VeridiumAD
Cutting Edge Technology of the Year
- Analog Devices, Inc., ADXL1002 series
- Desktop Metal, DM Studio System
- Interactions, Interactions Voice Biometric
- Neurala, Neurala Brain
- Sea-Machine Robotics, Sea Machine
Technology for a Better Tomorrow
- IBM Watson Health, IBM Watson for Drug Discovery (WDD)
- Neuromotion, Neuromotion
- Sterilis, Sterilis
- Toast, Toast
- WeSpire, WeSpire Campaign Builder
