The 8th Annual
Timmy Awards
Recognizing the best tech startups, managers,
and employers across North America.
2023 NOMINATIONS OPEN
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Celebrating the Best in Tech
Each year, Tech in Motion’s Timmy Awards celebrate the best tech startups, managers, and employers for creating innovative products and fostering environments where tech professionals can thrive. With six coveted tech award categories across 14 major markets, the Timmy’s are a highly sought-after recognition for startups and the Fortune 500 alike.
Key Dates
06.5.23
Nomination Open
08.25.23
Nomination Deadline
09.18.23
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
10.9.23
Regional Winner Announcements
11.9.23
9th Annual Timmy Awards Ceremony
The Award Categories
Best Tech Startup
This award recognizes a startup built by forward-thinking leaders with a product or service that aims to disrupt the market. A 2022 Best Tech Startup exemplifies agility, innovation and resilience, as well as an ability to foster an outstanding work environment for its employees.
Learn MoreBest Tech Manager
A 2022 Best Tech Manager personifies leadership, innovation and positive influence. This award celebrates technology leaders and visionaries who go beyond the requisite duties of a manager to empower their team in a changing world.
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Best Tech for Good
The 2022 Best Tech for Good Award shines a light on the people and organizations leveraging technology to make the world a better place. This award recognizes a product, service, or individual using tech to tackle today’s most pressing social, global, and environmental challenges.
Learn MoreBest Tech Work Culture
This company offers more than great “perks”; it successfully unlocks employee potential through a shared mission and sense of community. Top work cultures actively promote technical creativity, inclusivity, learning, and meaningful recognition at every level of the team.
Learn MoreBest Tech Enterprise Employer
This award celebrates enterprise-level employers that foster technical growth, inclusion, and invention at all levels. Marked by a high volume of tech hiring, impressive retention rate, or world class employer satisfaction ratings – top enterprise employers go above and beyond to keep their tech talent engaged.
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Best Tech Workplace for Diversity
Recipients of this award build and sustain an inclusive culture from the top down, encouraging employees to bring their authentic selves to work every day. They implement strategic hiring practices, celebrate team member differences, and encourage diverse thinking to produce an innovative product.
Learn More2021 Awards Ceremony
Miss this past year's virtual awards ceremony? No problem! Stream the entire show to see leaders in our tech community recognized for their resilience, growth, and exceptional leadership in 2021.

Meet the Judges

Adam Cheyer
Co-Founder @ Siri & Change.org
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Adam O'Donnell
Startups Partnerships @ Zendesk
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Ana Chaud
CEO & Startup Advisor @ Lodestar
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Arylee McSweaney
Director of Engineering, Frontend Enablement & UX Foundation @ Etsy
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Benjamin David Novak
Angel Investor @ Delaware Crossing Investor Group
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Denise Reed Lamoreaux
Worldwide Learning Director of Customer Success @ Microsoft
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Dr. Anita Jindal
Senior Director of Engineering @ VMware
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Erin Liao
Vice President, E2E 5G Systems @ Ericsson
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Garima Dhingra
Group Product Manager @ Google
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Helen Liu
Venture Capitalist @ Seven Industries
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Jeremy Wight
VP, Engineering @ CareMessage
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Justin Michela
Vice President, Architecture @ Fidelity Investments
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Lindiwe Davis
Senior DEI Practitioner & Leader @ Google Cloud
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Mukul Joshi
Vice President of Engineering @ Thomson Reuters
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Nirmal Srinivasan
Senior Director of Engineering @ Chime
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Nitant Vaidya
Senior Director of Engineering @ Turing.com
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Pankaj Pilaniwala
Product Manager at Google
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Sandesh Achar
Director of Cloud Engineering @ Workday
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Stacey Yudin
President @ NEP Services
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Vish Srivastava
Director, Product Management @ Evidation
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Ziyun Liang
Senior Product Designer @ The New York Times
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Adam Cheyer
Co-Founder @ Siri & Change.org
Adam helped start four successful companies: co-founder of Siri (sold to Apple to build the Siri assistant, with 1B users), co-founder of Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, technology available on hundreds of millions of devices), co-founder of Sentient (a machine learning company), and founding member of Change.org (the world's largest petition platform with 400M+ members). Adam has more than 60 publications and 38 patents to his name, and has degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Brandeis University and UCLA.

Adam O'Donnell
Startups Partnerships @ Zendesk
Adam O'Donnell runs Startup Partnerships for North America at Zendesk. Previously he worked as an investment associate at a Silicon Valley VC (investors in Airbnb, Amplitude, etc.), where we reviewed 2000+ high-growth startups. Before investing, Adam founded 2x B2B SaaS companies (1 exit, 1 failed). Adam lives in San Francisco, and in his free time runs a podcast called TheTop.VC, where he has interviewed VCs from Mayfield, 500 Startups, Techstars, and more.

Ana Chaud
CEO & Startup Advisor @ Lodestar
Ana Chaud is CEO of Lodestar, a Bay Area based accelerator that helps startups scale, grow and raise capital effectively. She is also the Principal of Chaud &Co., where she helps founders become successful CEOs through leadership development and corporate strategy. Prior, she built a thriving management consulting practice in San Francisco, working with small and mid-sized companies to streamline Operations and Financial Management. In 2004, she started Garden Bar, the first fast casual salad concept in the NW. She grew, scaled and sold it, in a span of five years. Ana was a finalist for the OEN Tom Hulce Entrepreneurship Award, which recognizes the most influential entrepreneurs in Oregon.

Arylee McSweaney
Director of Engineering, Frontend Enablement & UX Foundation @ Etsy
Arylee McSweaney has an MBA in Information Systems from Baruch College. She is an experienced engineering leader with expertise in leading enablement and modernization efforts, software quality initiatives and transforming the dei landscape of an organization. Arylee believes that software and technology changes lives. For this reason, she is passionate about servant leadership and mentoring others on their leadership journey.

Benjamin David Novak
Angel Investor @ Delaware Crossing Investor Group
Benjamin David NovakâÂÂs corporate practice focuses on equity financings, debt financings, corporate governance, securities matters, and mergers and acquisitions. He represents emerging growth companies in the US and abroad in various industries including technology and life sciences, as well as, angel investors, private equity firms, and venture capital funds.

Denise Reed Lamoreaux
Worldwide Learning Director of Customer Success @ Microsoft

Dr. Anita Jindal
Senior Director of Engineering @ VMware
Dr. Anita Jindal is a Sr. Director at VMware, leading engineering for VMware Skyline product that provides proactive insights to drive intelligent customer actions. Prior to VMware, as Engineering leader at NetApp, she led strategy and execution of Active IQ product. AnitaÄËâÂŚâÂËs team developed data science, microservices, and API platforms using Big Data (Hadoop) and cloud technologies. Anita held various engineering leadership positions at Oracle and Sun. She worked as Resident Research Associate at Argonne National Lab, researching application of parallel computing to deduction systems, an area of AI. Anita has multiple software patents and publications. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Anita has been awarded IDG 2020 OneÄËâÂŚâÂËs to Watch, which honors rising technology leaders who have what it takes to become strategic, C-level business technology executives of tomorrow. She received the Bay Area Timmy Award 2019 for Best Technical Manager. Anita is a regular speaker and moderator to support STEM and Women in Technology (WIT) goals globally. She serves as a Board Member for STEMentors Silicon Valley (a California nonprofit) that promotes STEM for underrepresented children in Bay Area.

Erin Liao
Vice President, E2E 5G Systems @ Ericsson
Erin has twenty years of global R&D leadership and program management expertise in mobile communication industry. She is passionate about accelerating 5G innovation with strategic vision and flawless execution.

Garima Dhingra
Group Product Manager @ Google
Garima is a Group Product Manager at Google. In her current role, she is focused on transforming ads personalization solutions to be privacy-first. She has years of product transformation experience at big tech companies such as Google and Amazon, leading a variety of products such as retail subscriptions,ĘAmazon Alexa, display advertising etc. Garima holds an MBA degree from UC Berkeley and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from India. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

Helen Liu
Venture Capitalist @ Seven Industries
Helen Liu is a co-founder of Seven Industries Capital, a deep tech-focused venture fund. Ms. Liu is also a partner at Third Wave Ventures, where she has been responsible for investor relations, capital raising, and deal flow generation across technology sectors. Based in Los Angeles, Third Wave manages venture investments focused on deep tech companies in semiconductors, solid state display and lighting, solar energy and other clean energy, machine vision and AI, wireless communication and IoT. Helen has more than 20 years of combined experience in venture capital and large-scale software development. She is highly adept at sourcing/managing venture projects, recruiting/coaching top-talent and structuring strategic partnerships.

Jeremy Wight
VP, Engineering @ CareMessage
Jeremy Wight is an experienced Product and Engineering leader that is passionate about creating award-winning products that serve millions of users, and developing extremely high-functioning teams. Having spent the past 15+ years overseeing different stages of Engineering from early-to-mid-stage tech companies, Jeremy presently oversees Engineering at CareMessage, the leading patient engagement platform for underserved people groups. Having managed engineering organizations for many years, Jeremy is a passionate and sought after voice on the topics of leadership and management in the tech space.

Justin Michela
Vice President, Architecture @ Fidelity Investments
As a technical and business operations leader, Justin offers a substantive background in small to large team management, budget and vendor management, effective use of resources, project direction and management, and global infrastructure and enterprise software experience. His stellar management record is augmented by comprehensive Project Management using Agile methodologies; along with dual degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Management. His driving passion is to ensure significant improvement in all processes followed by expert implementation and execution. Being an astute senior director with the ability to analyze processes, increase efficiencies, and resolve customer issues, he revels in the challenges of accomplishing goals where others have failed. He understands the importance of results and effective team management. During his career, Justin has sought opportunities to accomplish cost-reduction goals, meet and exceed production targets, and motivate co-workers to perform at a high level. He has successfully worked with stakeholders across a diverse array of platforms in challenging environments while earning a reputation as a strong, empowering technology leader.

Lindiwe Davis
Senior DEI Practitioner & Leader @ Google Cloud
Lindiwe is a Senior DEI Practitioner and Leader, currently supporting Google Cloud. Over the past 27 years, she has tackled a number of roles in the marketing, financial, tech/media, and publishing industries, but it is the work she is doing in the DEI space that she is especially proud of. In her current role, Lindiwe is launching and overseeing DEI programs and events while building inclusive communities. She is also focused on driving awareness and education for an Engineering organization, boldly moving conversations from uncomfortable silence to data-driven ( inspired) action. LindiweĹs professional foundation is rooted in cultural development, DEI advocacy, branding/strategy, production, business operations, and project management. And she happens to be a podcaster(A Stranger Down The HallĹ) and public speaker. Throughout her professional career she's been a disrupter and at times a cultural change manager. She holds an M.S. degree in Publishing (Digital Media), a B.A. in Political Science, and a B.A. in English and considers herself to be a nerd with a biscuit fetish. Lindiwe lives in the NY/ NJ area- loves to travel and wherever there is good food, you will find her. She also enjoys spinning, kickboxing, and hanging with her "fambam" aka friends and family

Mukul Joshi
Vice President of Engineering @ Thomson Reuters
Mukul serves as Vice President, Head of Engineering for the Risk, Fraud & Compliance segment at Thomson Reuters overseeing the vision, strategy and execution of the Technology group in building out scalable, cloud optimized solutions that leverage machine learning and advanced analytics to investigate and prevent fraud in Government and Corporate markets. Much of his past-life was spent working at Disney/ESPN building digital property (web/mobile/API), followed by some time spent at a Big Data retail technology start-up in Toronto helping launch the first revenue generating product. He holds a BASc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Mukul has a proven track record in delivering high performance consumer and enterprise products at scale, along with experience in product growth strategies and M&A activity.

Nirmal Srinivasan
Senior Director of Engineering @ Chime
Nirmal is building high-performance engineering teams driven by the purpose of bringing great products to customers. Prior to PayPal she has spent close to two decades working in companies like Netflix and Apple. In her roles as an engineering leader she has led transformational initiatives such as migrating core products from on-prem to cloud, and create platforms enabling SAAS models. She takes great joy in building a culture where people are constantly learning, growing and innovating. She brings a mindset of simplifying process there by scaling remote teams with focus on diversity and work life balance.

Nitant Vaidya
Senior Director of Engineering @ Turing.com
Nitant is senior engineering leader with over 9 years of experience building Internet facing software products. Nitant has built and launched multiple AI, SaaS and Consumer products from scratch. In his current role as a Senior Director of Engineering at Turing.com, he leads a team of 40 software engineers and managers responsible for building the core AI product that matches customers with the most qualified pre-vetted software developers from Turing's 1.7 million-strong developer base. Turing was valued at 1.1 Billion dollars at its most recent funding round in 2021. At LinkedIn, he played multiple roles over 7 years starting in 2013. Notably, he led the engineering teams building LinkedIns global reverse-proxy infrastructure and server infrastructure. He also led the team responsible for the Search and Recommendations experience in Sales Navigator.

Pankaj Pilaniwala
Product Manager at Google
Pankaj Pilaniwala is a technology aficionado, tech entrepreneur, a coach and a product advisor. He has extensive experience in building data-driven, customer-centric, intelligent and aesthetic products, leveraging multidisciplinary perspectives in the work, bringing together an understanding of technology, a deep interest in people, a knack for managing complex projects, and a vision for creative and impactful product creation that can grow businesses and change lives. He is currently a Product Manager at Google. He is focussed on building great intuitive products and has a proven track record of delivering delightful product experiences. At a point in his career, he also had a startup where he built a novel ed-tech solution embedding concepts of Gamification.

Sandesh Achar
Director of Cloud Engineering @ Workday
Sandesh Achar is a Cloud distributed computing Architect and Technology leader with experience building, scaling, and managing a world-class Cloud Engineering team for leading Fortune 1000 organizations. He currently leads the Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Program management and Database Engineering teams, spread globally, for the fastest growing, Multi Million revenue product line at Workday Inc ( Director of Cloud Engineering). Sandesh in his past experience at Intuit Inc, has successfully led migration of 00+ enterprise systems to Multi-Cloud, while also responsible for building a global cloud engineering team from ground up. His most recent scholarly articles have been published in International Engineering journals, on Cloud Forensics, Greener Cloud, Cloud security, Artificial Intelligence and Observability.

Stacey Yudin
President @ NEP Services
Stacey Yudin is a driven entrepreneur & business consultant with experience in diverse markets including non-profits, fundraising, sales, international medicine, and small businesses. She currently works for New Equity Productions as President, as well as Cofounder of Yantra Beauty. Stacey's passion is solving problems. She finds enjoyment in inspiring even the most skeptical client to examine a new modus operandi. She is driven for professional success and has a track record to prove it. Stacey is the epitome of GRIT: A determined display of Passionate Perseverance that will lead her and others to success and fulfillment. Stacey is a leader and has a proven track record of success. Before leaving UCLA Department of Medicine to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, she was a junior founding member of the Global Health Education Program (GHEP) at the DGSOM and was apart of the team that developed the Center for World Health at UCLA.

Vish Srivastava
Director, Product Management @ Evidation
Vish leads product for Evidation's consumer platform with the mission to measure and improve health in everyday life. Prior to this, he built zero-to-one ventures at BCG Digital Ventures in healthtech, fintech, and social impact. He is deeply passionate about building products and teams that make the world a better place. Vish lives in sunny Los Angeles, and has degrees in Psychology, Business, and Design Engineering from Michigan and Harvard.

Ziyun Liang
Senior Product Designer @ The New York Times
Ziyun Liang is an innovative product design leader. In her ten years of practicing digital design, she has shipped products for renowned companies like Apple, Masterclass, and Discover, as well as many startups. As a senior product designer at The New York Times, she builds and shapes the future of premium ad experiences. Beyond work, she is passionate about W3 and blockchain technology.
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What people say about
the Timmy Awards
I totally enjoyed the engagement with the tech community through the Tech in Motion series and its very own Timmy Awards. They are great ways to connect, learn, expand our networks, and celebrate our collective success.

Erin Liao
Vice President, E2E 5G Systems @ Ericsson
Being recognized with a Timmy Award for Best Technology Work Culture in New York City was an exciting moment for us as validation that we are working hard to do right by our employees and making Venmo an amazing place to work.
Sue Choe
Head of People, Venmo
I was thoroughly impressed by the attention to detail and the thoughtfulness of all the templates provided during the Timmy Awards process. The content and comms team here at Xos really appreciated the work that went into all the suggested social media copy, press releases, and other guides. It was a great experience through and through.

CONTENT & COMMUNTY MANAGER
Xos, Inc.
The Timmy Awards are one of the nation’s most prestigious recognitions for up-and-coming tech companies and entrepreneurs. Receiving a Timmy Award is a badge of honor that can be worn proudly, and a signal to the market of future promise. It has been a pleasure serving as a judge and speaker for this illustrious program over the past five years.”

Benjamin David Novak
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLC
I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussing how top tech companies are addressing D&I. The conversation and insight shared among the panelists, as well as the engagement with those on the call, made for a very insightful and actionable conversation. Thank you, Tech in Motion, for creating these conversations around incredibly important topics that will shape the future of the tech industry.

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Program Manager, LinkedIn
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