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Stephen Goldberg, CEO of HarperDB Honored with 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award

Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.
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Stephen Goldberg, CEO of HarperDB Honored with 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award

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Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.
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[Denver, CO], [January 9, 2023] - Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, has been awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado Denver Business School. This prestigious recognition celebrates Goldberg's ethical leadership and commitment to integrity within the technology industry.

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Goldberg's extensive career in the technology industry, including roles as CTO and CEO. As the CEO of HarperDB, he fosters a culture of integrity, prioritizing trust, accountability, and transparency. Under his guidance, HarperDB has experienced remarkable 100% growth in the past year.

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Founded in 2017, HarperDB ground-breaking development platform for global enterprise customers, overcoming the complexities of distributed data, event streaming, and scalability. Goldberg's dedication to ethics and values has played a vital role in the company's success. He ensures employee well-being, promotes inclusion through company-wide meetings, and emphasizes core beliefs in decision-making processes.

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Expressing his gratitude for the award, Goldberg stated, "I am grateful and humbled to receive the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award. This award is extremely important to me because, in today’s business culture, nothing is more important than a strong sense of ethics and core values."

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The University of Colorado Denver Business School's recognition of Stephen Goldberg as the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year reinforces his outstanding commitment to ethics and the long-term success of HarperDB.

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About HarperDB

HarperDB is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade message queue into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. HarperDB simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying HarperDB on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.

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[Denver, CO], [January 9, 2023] - Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, has been awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado Denver Business School. This prestigious recognition celebrates Goldberg's ethical leadership and commitment to integrity within the technology industry.

‍

Goldberg's extensive career in the technology industry, including roles as CTO and CEO. As the CEO of HarperDB, he fosters a culture of integrity, prioritizing trust, accountability, and transparency. Under his guidance, HarperDB has experienced remarkable 100% growth in the past year.

‍

Founded in 2017, HarperDB ground-breaking development platform for global enterprise customers, overcoming the complexities of distributed data, event streaming, and scalability. Goldberg's dedication to ethics and values has played a vital role in the company's success. He ensures employee well-being, promotes inclusion through company-wide meetings, and emphasizes core beliefs in decision-making processes.

‍

Expressing his gratitude for the award, Goldberg stated, "I am grateful and humbled to receive the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award. This award is extremely important to me because, in today’s business culture, nothing is more important than a strong sense of ethics and core values."

‍

The University of Colorado Denver Business School's recognition of Stephen Goldberg as the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year reinforces his outstanding commitment to ethics and the long-term success of HarperDB.

‍

About HarperDB

HarperDB is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade message queue into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. HarperDB simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying HarperDB on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.

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Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.

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