Jack Porter
President and CEO at Cognizer
Livermore, California
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2018
President and CEO
2018
Cognizer 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.
2008
Founder and Managing Director
2008
Forward 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.
2006
Executive Chairman
2006
Executive 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.
2017 - 2020
Director and Chairman of Technology Board
2017 - 2020
GigCapital 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.
2018 - 2019
Executive Chairman
2018 - 2019
Sentienz 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.
2018 - 2019
Executive Chairman
2018 - 2019
Argoid 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.
2015 - 2017
President and CEO
2015 - 2017
Razorthink 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.
2003 - 2006
President/CEO
2003 - 2006
Develop strategy and manage the execution of operation. Decisionview Software develops advanced analytic systems for the Pharmaceutical industry. Decisionview was acquired by IMS in 2010.
1998 - 2003
President/CEO
1998 - 2003
Knowlegetrack developed a comprehensive Portal Platform for developing corporate portals. Knowledge Track was acquired by Enfish Technologies.
1995 - 2000
President/CEO
1995 - 2000
FrontOffice Technologies developed a sophisticated document management system based on Microsoft Exchange. FrontOffice was acquired by iManage.