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Tasso Argyros
Founder of ActionIQ
New York, New York
Overview
Tasso Argyros is the Founder and CEO of ActionIQ, a prominent role where he leads the company's growth and strategic direction. With a background that includes serving as the Founder and CTO of Aster Data and holding senior positions at Teradata, Argyros has a proven track record of success in the technology and data services industry.
Argyros has made significant contributions to the tech industry, including founding successful companies, serving in leadership roles at major corporations, and investing in innovative startups such as Espresso AI and DataHero. His current position as CEO at ActionIQ showcases his expertise in driving business growth and innovation within the sector.
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2015 - Current
ActionIQ proudly partners with Global 1000 brands such as Albertson's, News Corp., Atlassian, Doordash, Hertz, Dell, Northwestern Mutual and many others, helping them offer a more engaging and useful experience to their customer base.
ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Raised $144,700,000.00 from Balius Partners, March Capital, FirstMark, Bowery Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, March Capital, Sequoia Capital and FirstMark.
Board Director
2018
Bayesian Health is a Johns Hopkins spinoff developing the next generation of AI diagnostics for inpatient care. Currently working with the top health systems in North America to revolutionize in-patient care to provably save lives & improve patient outcomes.
Bayesian Health is an adaptive AI platform that offers health systems through clinical AI.
Raised $15,225,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Health2047 Capital Partners, Lifeforce Capital and Catalio Capital Management.
Investor and Board Director
2015
Velos Rotors produces the leading mid-size electric UAV drone for mission-critical industrial, public safety and defense applications. Among other use cases, our UAVs have been used for ground-breaking human organ transportation flights, transporting medicines in remote islands, inspections of infrastructure and search & rescue missions.
Velos Rotors offers and develops UAV, helicopters, and drones.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from Marathon Venture Capital.
Member of the Board of Directors
2022
Volunteer position helping to strengthen ties between government and tech companies in NYC and the tri-state area.
Member of the Leadership Council
2015 - 2022
Board Member
2017 - 2022
Workspan is revolutionizing the way the technology ecosystem is collaborating. Members of the Workspan Ecosystem Cloud include Google, Microsoft, SAP, Accenture and others.
WorkSpan is the #1 ecosystem management network that empowers companies to turbocharge and scale their co-sell revenue growth.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Milliways Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Senior Vice President, Global Product Deployment & Strategy
2013 - 2014
Owned global sales and product strategy for Teradata’s Big Data BU as well as supporting major deals globally.
Co-President
2011 - 2013
Co-President of Teradata's Big Data products division. Directly managed product, marketing, demand generation & strategy for Teradata's Aster, Hadoop and 1XXX product lines. Helped align Aster's product roadmap, marketing & sales in Teradata's Americas, EMEA and ROW regions. Drove ~300% YoY revenue growth for the division in FY2013 (this information was publicly disclosed in Teradata's quarterly earnings call.)
Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Venture Partner
2013 - 2014
FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs making their mark on the world.
Founder, CTO, Board Member
2006 - 2011
Created the first massively parallel database technology for enterprise companies after dropping out of the PhD program at Stanford. Acquired by Teradata in 2011 for approximately $325M.