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Local / Featured 9. CHET KANOJIA Founder and CEO, Aereo Chet Kanojia’s company, Aereo, lets users stream live network TV (NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, etc.) to your computer, smartphone or tablet using an anttena for only $8 a month, much less than the cost of paying for cable. The company has raised about $97 million, but broadcasters hate it and are fighting Aereo at the Supreme Court level later this year. Previously, Chet was the founder and CEO of Navic Networks which gave TV networks real-time audience measurement tools to place ads. 10. RESHMA SAUJANI Founder and Executive Director, Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani founded the high school program Girls Who Code. Saujani launched Girls Who Code last summer as an eight-week intensive program where high school women learn the basics of Ruby, HTML, Java, and more. She’s working to close the gender gap in engineering and increase the number of women involved with software engineering. Girls Who Code’s partners include Goldman Sachs Group, Twitter, Intel, and eBay. 11. SHANTANU NARAYEN President and CEO, Adobe Before being named CEO of Adobe in 2007, Shantanu Narayen acted as the company’s executive vice president of worldwide products. He recently lead to Adobe’s push to bring its creative suite to the cloud. He first got his start at Adobe when he met an executive at a trade show back in the 90s. At the time, he was running the photo-sharing startup he founded, called Pictra. Adobe was about to launch its first image editing product and Narayen wanted Pictra’s technology integrated. The executive said that he would have to deliver a solution by the next week, assuming that the conversation was over for good. But, amazingly, Narayen ended up pulling it off, according to Barrons. In 2011, President Barack Obama has appointed Narayen as a member of his Management Advisory Board. 12. AMIT SINGHAL Senior Vice President, Google Amit Singhal, a software engineer, was honoured with the title “Go