Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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Kun Gao
Co-Founder, President & COO of GGWP
Kun Gao joined GGWP as Co-Founder, President & COO.
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About Crunchyroll, GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
Jeff Schick
Senior Vice President North America Cloud Sales of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Miranda
Executive Vice President, Application Development of Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle’s applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Reggie Bradford
Senior Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
Founder and CEO Reggie Bradford brings nearly two decades of experience as an industry pioneer, having blazed a successful path for technology companies under his leadership. With funding from General Catalyst Partners and later from Comcast Interactive Capital and Turner Broadcasting-Bradford founded Vitrue in 2006 to help brands and consumers connect more meaningfully with each other through online social networking and user-generated video. The company currently boasts a growing roster of customers that represent some of the world’s leading media companies and consumer brands. Most recently, Vitrue was named to Business 2.0’s “Next Net” Top 25 for 2007. Bradford’s leadership experience spans 16 years in the consumer packaged goods, Internet and television industries. Prior to Vitrue, he was President and a member of the board at TANDBERG Television, an organization of more than 400 employees and over $100 million in revenues. In his 14-month tenure, he led the company to a 40% annual growth rate, successfully integrated two major acquisitions and led the global repositioning of the re-launched brand. Bradford also served as President and CEO of N2 Broadband, the leading provider of open-platform, on-demand entertainment solutions. During his tenure, N2 Broadband grew annual revenues from less than $1 million to more than $35 million in just under five years. The company, which achieved cash-flow profitability during the same period, boasts a customer roster that includes the world’s top 10 cable operators and the world’s leading entertainment companies Bradford was named one of Television Week’s “10 to Watch” for 2005. Prior to joining N2 Broadband, Bradford served as Chief Marketing Officer at WebMD from 1998 to 2000. During his tenure there, the company grew from 40 to 4,000 employees and received more than $2 billion in funding. While at WebMD, Reggie was instrumental in defining interactivity on the web as an early pioneer of social communities. WebMD later became one of the world’s leading Internet destinations with over 38 million unique visitors a month. He previously held various marketing and management positions with Miller Brewing Company, a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. Bradford received a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University. He and his wife Holly have six children.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Douglas Kehring
Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations of Oracle
Douglas Kehring has served as the head of Oracle’s Corporate Development and Strategic Planning group since 2005, providing planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source code and object code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined Oracle after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Keith Stanback
Vice President of Oracle
Keith Stanback is the vice president of North America Systems Support Services for Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for over 1,100 hardware field service delivery employees and oversees Oracle’s Premier Support customer base. He has been in the computer industry for over 30 years and has over 26 years of management experience. Prior to joining Oracle, Stanback held senior leadership roles at Sun Microsystems, including senior director for the Western and Southern Areas in the United States. He managed Sun’s support services business for four different vertical markets. As a senior leader for Sun, Stanback established a reputation of driving revenue and shareholder value while improving Sun’s overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. In 2002, Stanback accepted a two year international assignment in Asia Pacific as the managing director of Sun Support Services for Australia and New Zealand. Under his leadership the support services business achieved very strong operational performance, record service revenues and record maintenance contract penetration rates. Prior to moving to Sydney, Stanback was director for Strategic Account Services in the United States, where he helped develop, market, and manage the newly enhanced service delivery model that was specifically designed for Sun’s top customers around the globe. Earlier in his career, Stanback held several key senior management roles at Wang Laboratories and Delta Data Systems. As a leader in the Federal Systems Divisions of both companies, he played a big role in winning and managing several multimillion dollar US Federal Government service contracts.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Seoane
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Oracle
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Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Jason Williamson
Vice President – Startup Ecosystem of Oracle
Jason Williamson is the VP of the Startup Ecosystem at Oracle. He leads Oracle’s collaboration with the VC and PE communities and their portfolio companies around the globe. Prior to Oracle, Jason was at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created and led several key initiatives within the investment community including Amazon’s Private Equity Program and Management Consulting efforts. He has a background in both Fortune 500 firms (Amazon, Capital One, GE) and the startup world. Among his startup efforts, he co-founded the construction industry’s first CRM SaaS offering, a faith-based NGO for entrepreneurial development based in Latin America, and is currently launching a company in the pediatric healthcare space. In addition to his work in the commercial sector, Jason served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and now works part time in academia in home state of North Carolina. He has authored three books on Data Integration and Migration and Big Data. Jason also served his country as a United States Marine and lives in North Carolina with his wife and four children where he coaches High School Girls Basketball, drinks sweat tea and eats barbecue as much as possible.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Vinay Kumar
Senior Vice President, Cloud Engineering of Oracle
Vinay Kumar is Sr. Director Product Management at Oracle, responsible for Oracle Infrastructure product strategy. He leads product teams focused on compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an expanding set of foundational services. He has wide range experience in building distributed systems, and specializes in building V1.0 products. Before joining Oracle, he led product teams at Amazon S3 and EBS, where he built multiple new services including EBS GP2 and S3 IA. He has held various product management and engineering roles at Akamai, EMC, and Wipro. He holds MBA from Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Killian Evers
Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience of Oracle
Killian Evers is a Vice President on the Oracle Applications User Experience team. She leads a multifaceted team responsible for product design and usability for Sales, Engagement, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Procurement areas. The team also covers all product family areas for Setup, Extensibility, and Tooling for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.
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About Google, Oracle, Veritas Technologies: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
JJ Jagannathan
Vice President of Engineering – Oracle Cloud of Oracle
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Steve Zivanic
Vice President, Storage Hardware Systems Business Group of Oracle
Steve Zivanic is the Global Vice President, Database & Autonomous Services Product Marketing at Oracle
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Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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Tracy Martin
Vice President, HCM Strategy of Oracle
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Don Johnson
Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
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Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Cindy Reese
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations of Oracle
Cindy Reese is Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations. Ms. Reese joined Oracle in 2010, when the company acquired Sun. Before that, Ms. Reese was with Sun for more than 10 years, where she was Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations, responsible for running Sun’s supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics programs, which were recognized by the industry for delivering high-quality and cost-effective product execution to Sun’s global customer base. While at Sun, she held numerous leadership roles, including Senior Vice President for Systems Operations, Vice President for Storage Operations, Vice President for Scalable Systems Manufacturing Operations, Vice President for High End Operations, and Executive Lead for the StorageTek integration. Overall, Ms. Reese’s career spans more than 25 years in operations, with experience in procurement, strategic materials management, manufacturing, distribution, and logistics.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nicole Engelbert
Vice President, Higher Education Development of Oracle
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Eric Domski
Vice President Edge Sales of Oracle
Eric has 22 years experience in information technologies providing full Enterprise and E-Business solutions from sales, presales, marketing, product management, partnering and implementation perspectives. He is currently managing sales team of 50 individuals consistently exceeding quota year over year. He has successfully developed, expanded, enabled the sales of supply chain solutions in various roles both across North America as well as globally. Have shown continuous professional growth through delivery oriented, entrepreneurial approach throughout his career.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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Jeffrey T. Pollock
Vice President of Product Management of Oracle
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Rajan Krishnan
Group Vice President, Oracle Product Development of Oracle
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Chad Arimura
Vice President of Oracle
Chad Arimura is an entrepreneur, programmer, and musician. He is currently CEO of [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io), a cloud application services platform, makers of IronWorker and IronMQ. Funded by Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners, Divergent Ventures, Cloud Capital Partners, and a handful of cloud angels, [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io) is quickly becoming the trusted messaging and workers platform for thousands of companies big and small. He was previously a co-founder and lead engineer at [Appoxy.com](http://www.appoxy.com), a consulting firm that specializes in scalable application design using the latest in Cloud-based technologies. Starting as a sophomore in college, Chad co-founded and acted as CTO for AllDorm Inc., a media/marketing service aimed at connecting fortune 1000 companies with the elusive collegiate market. AllDorm was acquired by University Pipeline in 2005. He is also an avid pianist, playing in a San Francisco cover band, and grew up playing tennis and soccer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jason Bryant
Vice President Nor1 – Oracle Hospitality of Oracle
Jason Bryant, Nor1 Founder and co-CEO, oversees day-to-day operations, provides visionary leadership and strategic direction for the upsell technology company. With Jason at the helm, Nor1 has quickly emerged as the technology leader in upsell solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Nor1 provides innovative revenue enhancement solutions to the hospitality industry. A seasoned entrepreneur, Mr. Bryant has over 20 years experience building and leading international software development and operations organizations. Prior to Nor1, he founded and grew DRCI into a world-class offshore software development organization which maintained facilities in India and Mexico. DRCI focused on providing services to the travel industry, specialized in both high-volume transaction systems and Internet technologies. Mr. Bryant is a frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at global events such as World Travel Market, the Hospitality Upgrade Vendor Summit, ITB Berlin, and many other industry events. He also volunteers his time to a number of non-profit organizations. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Chorley
Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Product Strategy of Oracle
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Daniel Ingevaldson
Vice President of TechOperators
Daniel Ingevaldson is a Vice President at TechOperators and he has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.
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About TechOperators: TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.
Rick Poulton
President of Allscripts
Rick Poulton is responsible for all financial operations at Allscripts. Poulton also oversees Legal, Compliance, Business Development and Strategy for the company. He has more than 18 years of experience working in public companies. Prior to joining Allscripts, Poulton served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for AAR Corp. He joined AAR in 2006 and served as Vice President of Acquisitions and Strategic Investment prior to becoming CFO and Treasurer. Prior to his tenure with AAR, Poulton spent more than ten years at UAL Corporation in a variety of financial and business development roles including Senior Vice President of Business Development as well as President and CFO of the company’s client-focused Loyalty Services subsidiary. Poulton also served as Vice President of Finance for online retailer Ourhouse.com from 1999 to 2000. Poulton began his career in the audit practice of Arthur Andersen & Co., LLP, where he held multiple positions of increasing responsibility. Poulton has served as a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Poulton received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, with honors, from Marquette University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in strategy and finance, from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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About Allscripts, Arthur Andersen LLP: Allscripts provides healthcare information technology solutions.
Ajay Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Charles Walton
Senior Vice President, Digital Identity Products of Mastercard
Charlie has been involved in the information security industry for more than 30 years, currently responsible for digital identity services within Morpho’s Government Identity Solutions division. Prior he was CEO of Toronto-based SecureKey and responsible for the launch and growth of the SecureKey Concierge Network. As COO and General Manager for Aix-en-Provence based INSIDE Secure, he was responsible for defining business strategy, driving product strategy and development, and leading the launch of new semi-conductor products. His early career included the founding of Caradas which was a security services company in the bankcard industry, COO at Certco which was the founding ground for Identrus, the founder of GTE Cybertrust, and multiple roles in large-scale secure system development at GTE for the defense industry.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Mastercard
Rohit Chauhan is the EVP of artificial intelligence at MasterCard Worldwide.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andreas Spengel
Vice President International Markets of Mastercard
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Russ Barenboym
Vice President of Mastercard
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Zahir Khoja
Executive Vice President, Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Gary Flood
President of Global Products & Solutions of Mastercard
Gary Flood is President of Global Products and Solutions for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development of innovative products and services that benefit consumers, merchants, business partners and governments around the world. Flood has responsibility for Global Network Products, MasterCard Labs, Emerging Payments, Core Products, MasterCard Advisors, and Worldwide Marketing and Communications. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to his current position, Flood was Executive Vice President of Global Account Management for MasterCard. In this capacity, Flood oversaw all of the company’s efforts to support its largest global customers. This included managing the customer relations staff, whose representatives work directly with customers on a variety of bankcard initiatives, such as account acquisition, portfolio acquisition, account retention, portfolio profitability and competitive positioning, as well as co-branding and affinity opportunities. His efforts, as well as those of his team, greatly contributed to the company’s significant increases in customer satisfaction and volume growth. Previously, Flood was Senior Vice President of Consumer Card Product Management and Development, where he spent four years directing all MasterCard consumer credit programs in the United States. During this time, he developed the MasterCard premium card platform; initiated programs in secured, college, and Hispanic segments; and developed and managed enhancement support and services for credit products. Since joining MasterCard in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director, Flood has consistently earned positions of increasing responsibility both in the customer management and the product management and development areas. Before joining MasterCard, he was National Sales Manager for Citicorp’s Merchant Business. Flood holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from St. John’s University.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Linda Kirkpatrick
President, US Issuers of Mastercard
Linda Kirkpatrick works as a President, US Issuers from Jan 2016 at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Daniel Ruggeri
Vice President Of Software Engineering – Middleware of Mastercard
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Ranjita Iyer
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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Sherri Haymond
Executive Vice President, Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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Cathy Baker
Executive Vice President of Mastercard
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Lance Gruner
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Care of Mastercard
Lance Gruner is an executive vice president at MasterCard focused on global customer care.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Sanker
Senior Vice President (SVP) Software Engineering, Cyber & Intelligence of Mastercard
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James Anderson
Executive Vice President – Commercial and B2B Solutions of Mastercard
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Sadiq Mohammed
Vice President, Mobile Payments of Mastercard
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Shubhra Srivastava
Vice President, Global Product Management of Mastercard
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Francis Hondal
President, Loyalty, Marketing and Digital Services of Mastercard
Francis Hondal is President of Loyalty & Engagement at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee. Francis oversees Mastercard’s robust loyalty platforms and products as well as its agile implementation team focused on high-impact marketing programs and rapid product design services. With over 25 years of experience in consumer marketing, finance and management, Francis has spent her career in the payments and financial services industries. Francis is a first generation Cuban-American and has been named amongst Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Latina Women in corporate America the past two years. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and International Business and an MBA from Florida International University (FIU). A Board Member of FIU’s Chapman School of Business, she was inducted to the College of Business Administration Hall of Fame and received its Global Leadership Award.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Trisha Asgeirsson
Senior Vice President, Global Retail and Commerce Loyalty Lead of Mastercard
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Chris Merz
Vice President, Security and Decision Products of Mastercard
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Matt Miller
Vice President – Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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Shari Krikorian
Senior Vice President of Mastercard
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Michelle Hafner
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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Stuart Vaeth
Vice President, Digital Identity of Mastercard
“Stuart Vaeth joined Diversinet in 2004 and is responsible for product strategy, strategic partnerships, and directing Diversinet’s industry standards activities. Mr. Vaeth has 20 years experience in the information security industry, specializing in encryption and authentication technologies. Prior to Diversinet, he was director of product marketing with nCipher, a leading cryptographic hardware provider. Mr. Vaeth spent the first 12 years of his career with GTE, where he was chief architect for the CyberTrust PKI product line. Mr. Vaeth received a BSEE degree from Bucknell University and earned his MBA at the Boston University School of Management. He is a frequent speaker at wireless and security industry conferences and is co-chair of the OATH (Initiative for Open Authentication) Technology Group.” (Source: [Diversinet](http://www.diversinet.com/html/organization/managementteam.html))
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Craig Vosburg
President, North America of Mastercard
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Shamina Singh
President and Center for Inclusive Growth of Mastercard
Shamina Singh has been on the frontlines of developing and implementing solutions to make the global economy work for everyone, everywhere Shamina is the Founder and President of the Center for Inclusive Growth, the philanthropic hub of Mastercard. She also serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sustainability. Since 2014, Shamina has led the Center with a remit to leverage Mastercard’s data, technology, capital and expertise for social impact. In her role as EVP for Sustainability, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the environmental, social and governance strategy across the company as well as integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into Mastercard’s core objectives. In 2018, Mastercard pledged $500 million to advance inclusive growth around the world. Shamina is charged with activating those philanthropic dollars through the newly-created, non-profit Mastercard Impact Fund. Deeply committed to public service, Shamina has held senior positions in the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2015, Shamina was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a six-year term on the Board of the Corporation for National and Community Service. She is a graduate of the Presidential Leadership Fellows program, an alum of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ronald Green
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer of Mastercard
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About Financial Services Council, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Brown Lee
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Mastercard
Manage team responsible for working with business units to enable product development while ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s products and services, including payment processing, data analytics, marketing, digital payments, and fraud-related activities for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct regulatory engagement and monitor and analyze pending legislation. Partner with Information Security to revise, update, and execute incident response program.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Amyn Dhala
Vice President Global Head of Product of Mastercard
Amyn Dhala is currently Vice President, AI Express in the Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team at Mastercard. He launched and manages the Mastercard AI Express program in which Mastercard enables Financial Institutions, Merchants and other verticals, adopt AI swiftly and smartly. In his current role, Amyn leads AI Express Product Strategy and AI Express engagements where he collaborates with the AI Express team of product managers and data scientists – right from problem identification for customers to developing production-ready AI models for them which can be deployed. Prior to this, Amyn has over fifteen years in leading Product and Sales Teams globally across Financial Services, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Before joining Mastercard, Amyn launched products such as Amazon Pay and Amazon Prime on Your Site at Amazon. Amyn has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale and his bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michael Froman
Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth of Mastercard
1985, Bachelor’s in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Doctorate in International Relations, University of Oxford; law degree, Harvard Law School. Formerly: 1993-95, Director, International Economic Affairs, National Economic Council and National Security Council; with US Department of the Treasury, including Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary and, 1997-99, Chief of Staff; President and Chief Executive Officer, CitiInsurance; Managing Director and Head, Infrastructure and Sustainable Development, Citi Alternative Investments Institutional Clients Group, Citigroup; also Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, held jointly at National Security Council and National Economic Council, responsibilities included serving as White House liaison to G7, G8 and G20 summits. Former Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stefany Bello
Vice President- Digital Partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris McWilton
President of North America of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Gary Johnson
Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support of Pitney Bowes
Gary Johnson is the Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Manish Choudhary
Senior Vice President, Global Product Management & Strategy of Pitney Bowes
As the SVP for SMB Products & Strategy at Pitney Bowes, Manish has responsibilities of the SMB Shipping & Mailing portfolio that generates over $1.7B in annual revenues. He is responsible for product and market positioning & strategy including equipment and SaaS offerings, SMB financial results, customer experience, driving market competitiveness and delivering client value to a base of 700k clients globally. He is leading a team that is at the center of transformation of the legacy mailing business of PB and is responsible to drive new value offerings with capabilities in IOT, cloud, data & analytics & AI. He is also building domain-relevant developer communities, ecosystem & partner marketplaces in shipping, mailing and ecommerce industry. Manish has held a variety of leadership roles in his 17 years at Pitney Bowes. Most recently, Manish was the SVP for Global Innovation where he led a global team of over 900 people, across 5 countries, 12 locations to create products and technologies for driving digital and physical commerce for Pitney Bowes clients worldwide. He founded PB Bowes India office in 2007, moving from Albany NY, as the first employee and grew it to 800 people. Pitney Bowes has been named one of India’s Top Workplaces consistently for the past 6 years. Manish also launched the Pitney Bowes Startup Accelerator Program in 2014 that has incubated 23 starts up and has been named one of Top 15 Startup incubators. He regularly participates in policy and decision making with Indian and US business councils evangelizing Pitney Bowes brand and solutions in the global ecosystem. He is also one of the key founding Board Members of Catalyst, a global nonprofit organization that promotes inclusive workplaces for women. Manish is an MBA from the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, an MS from Ohio and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He also has an executive MBA from NUS Business School, Singapore and received executive education at Harvard Business School and MIT.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Steven Green
Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer of Pitney Bowes
Steven Green is the VP Finance & CAO at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Ralph Kasuba
Vice President & General Manager of Pitney Bowes
Ralph Kasuba is the Vice President & General Manager at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Debbie Salce
Vice President & Treasurer of Pitney Bowes
Debbie Salce is the Vice President & Treasurer at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Phil Landler
Vice President Strategy of Pitney Bowes
Philip Landler is the Vice President Strategy at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Jason Dies
EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions of Pitney Bowes
Jason Dies is the EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael Fellers
Vice President of Sales, Global eCommerce of Pitney Bowes
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Debbie Pfeiffer
President of Pitney Bowes
Debbie Pfeiffer is the President at Pitney Bowes Presort Services.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Christoph Stehmann
EVP & President , Enterprise Solutions Group of Pitney Bowes
Christoph Stehmann is the Corporate Strategy & Corporate Development at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
David Friend
Co-founder, President & CEO of Wasabi Technologies
David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a revolutionary cloud storage company. David’s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind. Friend founded or co-founded five other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation – an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software – a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet – which became the world’s largest provider of fax-to-email services, Sonexis – a VoIP conferencing company, and immediately prior to Wasabi, what is now one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies, Carbonite. David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
Dan Hopkins
Vice President, Applied A.I. of Eightfold
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Ulf Zetterberg
Co-founder & President of Time is Ltd.
Ulf Zetterberg is the Co-founder & President at Time is Ltd.
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About Time is Ltd.: At Time is Ltd., we provide an advanced analytical SaaS platform that delivers a holistic view of an organization collaboration patterns.
Jim Kellner
President of Artizan Internet Services
Jim Kellner served as president of insurance software provider Applied Systems, Inc. since 1997, and was CEO until September 2011. He was instrumental in building Applied Systems to an acquisition exit value of $1.8B.
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About Artizan Internet Services: Artizan Internet Services, LLC is the leading provider of web-based solutions for the insurance industry.
Manu Gulati
Senior Vice-President of Silicon Engineering of Nuvia
Manu Gulati is the SVP of Silicon Engineering at NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, Manu was the lead SoC Architect for consumer hardware at Google, playing a key role in defining the company’s silicon and product roadmaps. Before joining Google, Manu spent eight years at Apple as the lead SoC architect responsible for numerous Apple leading-edge mobile SoCs across a range of devices. Before joining Apple, nearly a decade at Broadcom holding a range of senior SoC engineering roles. Manu started his career at AMD and 8×8 and has over 58 issued patents to date. Manu holds a BSEE from I.I.T. Dehli and an MCSE from UC Irvine.
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About Nuvia: Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
John Bruno
Senior Vice-President of System Engineering of Nuvia
John Bruno is the SVP of System Engineering at NUVIA and has over 23 years of industry experience. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a System Architect at Google, driving such areas as SoC definition and competitive performance and power analysis. Before joining Google, John spent five years at Apple in a similar role in the company’s platform architecture group where he founded Apple’s silicon competitive analysis team. John started his career in 1996 as an ASIC designer at ATI Technologies Inc. where he climbed the ranks to become the ASIC team leader responsible for multiple mobile GPUs and integrated chipsets. After AMD’s acquisition of ATI, John became the Chief Engineer for the Trinity Fusion APU. John has a BaSC in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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About Nuvia: Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
Bill Gattle
President, Space and Intelligence Systems of L3 Harris Technologies
William (Bill) Gattle is president of Harris Corporation’s Space and Intelligence Systems segment. In this role, he has primary responsibility for the business strategy, financial performance, and successful execution of all programs within Space and Intelligence. This segment offers complete earth observation, weather, geospatial, space protection and intelligence solutions from advanced sensors and payloads, ground processing and information analytics. Prior to being named to his current position, Gattle was vice president and general manager of Harris’ National Systems business unit, which focused on the U.S. intelligence community and the worldwide space market, providing end-to-end mission solutions for intelligence collection, analysis, and distribution, as well as enabling technologies for space. Previously, he served as vice president of Aerospace Systems, which encompassed space-based payloads, electronics, and structures for commercial and government markets, including military avionics and electronics, as well as programs of record for strategic and tactical terminals and networks. Before that, he was vice president of Space Communication Systems, which provided key enabling payload and precision structures capability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, commercial enterprises, and the intelligence community. Under his leadership, the Space business revenue grew 30 percent per year. Previously, he held positions as the program director of the Commercial Reflector Enterprise and Mobile Satellite Ventures (Lightsquared) reflector program, program director of DoD Terrestrial Communications, and director of Engineering for Defense Programs. Gattle holds a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida. In addition, he is a graduate of the Harris Leadership Directions program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Gattle is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Space Florida Aviation and Aerospace Task Force, and the Space Supplier Council (SSC). He is a board member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame. He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Florida. Harris Corporation is a leading technology innovator that creates mission-critical solutions that connect, inform and protect the world. The company’s advanced technology provides information and insight to customers operating in demanding environments from ocean to orbit and everywhere in between. Harris has approximately $8 billion in annualized revenue and supports customers in 125 countries through four customer-focused business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronic Systems, and Critical Networks.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
William Brown
President & CEO of L3 Harris Technologies
William Brown, 52, is our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. William Brown joined Harris in November 2011 as President and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman in April 2014. Prior to joining Harris, William Brown was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, of United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”). Earlier, he served five years as President of UTC’s Fire & Security Division. In all, William Brown spent 14 years with UTC, holding U.S. and international roles at various divisions, including Carrier Corporation’s Asia Pacific Operations and the Carrier Transicold division. Before joining UTC in 1997, he worked for McKinsey & Company as a senior engagement manager. He began his career as a project engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. William Brown has been a member of our Board since December 2011. William Brown serves on the board of directors of the Fire Department of NYC Foundation and the board of trustees of both the Florida Institute of Technology and Florida Polytechnic University. He is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and is an appointee of the United States-Brazil CEO Forum.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Robert Duffy
Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration of L3 Harris Technologies
Robert L. (Bob) Duffy is senior vice president of Human Resources and Administration for Harris Corporation. Duffy is responsible for planning and implementing Harris’ Human Resources and Administrative organizations’ global strategy. He directs the development of the company’s workforce, including talent acquisition, leadership development and training, employee relations, and compensation as well as benefits. He has oversight of real estate; environmental, health, and safety; corporate relations; communications/public relations; and global security. Mr. Duffy possesses over 25 years of human resources leadership experience. He came to Harris in 2012 from United Technologies Corporation (UTC) where he held domestic and international leadership positions of increasing responsibility since joining the company in 1998. He most recently served as vice president of Human Resources for the company’s $7 billion Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Previously he served in similar roles within the company’s Fire & Security, Carrier, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Pratt & Whitney operations. Prior to joining UTC, Duffy held human resources management positions with Royal Dutch Shell and the James River Corporation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in human resources management from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in management and technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Harris Corporation is a leading technology innovator, solving our customers’ toughest mission-critical challenges by providing solutions that connect, inform and protect. Harris supports customers in more than 125 countries, has approximately $8 billion in annual revenue and 22,000 employees worldwide. The company is organized into four business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronic Systems, and Critical Networks.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Ed Zoiss
President, Space and Airborne Systems of L3 Harris Technologies
Edward J. (Ed) Zoiss is president of Harris Corporation’s Electronic Systems segment. In this role, he is responsible for business strategy, financial performance, successful execution and growth for Electronic Systems, which covers an extensive portfolio of solutions in electronic warfare, avionics (including carriage and release systems), wireless solutions, C4I systems, undersea systems and aerostructures. Previously, Zoiss was vice president and general manager of the Defense business unit within Harris Government Communications Systems. This business served U.S. and international customers with critical military interoperable communication products, as well as Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions for protecting national security and aiding public safety agencies. Prior to that role, he served as vice president of C4ISR Electronics, which provided specialized solutions to defense, intelligence, and public safety agencies. Before assuming responsibility for the C4ISR business, Zoiss was vice president of Advanced Programs and Technology, where he led the division strategy, business development, marketing, and all internal research and development. Joining Harris in 1995 as a principal mechanical engineer, Zoiss assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including director of Research and Development and vice president of Business Development for National Programs. He is the recipient of 13 patents. Zoiss received his undergraduate degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, and his master’s in mechanical engineering from California State University at Northridge. In addition, he received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant. He is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is also a member of the Georgia Institute of Technology Advisory Board on Engineering. Harris Corporation is a leading technology innovator that creates mission-critical solutions that connect, inform and protect the world. The company’s advanced technology provides information and insight to customers operating in demanding environments from ocean to orbit and everywhere in between. Harris has approximately $8 billion in annualized revenue and supports customers in 125 countries through four customer-focused business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronic Systems, and Critical Networks.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Carl D’Alessandro
President, Critical Networks of L3 Harris Technologies
Carl D’Alessandro is president of Harris Corporation’s Critical Networks segment. In this role, he is responsible for business strategy, financial performance, successful execution and growth for Critical Networks, which provides managed services supporting air traffic management, energy and maritime communications, ground network operation and sustainment, and highvalue engineering services. Prior to being named to his current position, D’Alessandro was vice president and general manager of Harris’ Civil business unit, supporting missioncritical communications and information solutions for the global air traffic management, weather, and energy resource extraction markets. Previously, D’Alessandro was vice president of Advanced Programs and Technology, responsible for sales, marketing, business development, strategy, and research and development. He supported all customers including the Intelligence Community, Defense, and Civil agencies of the U.S. government and their international counterparts. Prior to that, D’Alessandro led growth activities for the Civil business unit and before that he was corporate vice president of Technology and Government Segment Growth Programs, responsible for technology development and coordination, commercialization of government-funded technology, and corporate growth initiatives. D’Alessandro joined Harris in 1984 as an integration and test engineer. After a brief departure to ARINC Research from 1989 to 1992, he rejoined Harris and went on to hold positions of increasing responsibility in development engineering, engineering management, and program management. D’Alessandro has a bachelor of engineering degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College. He is also a graduate of The Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the Harris Leadership Directions program at Darden. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the Air Traffic Control Association, the NextGen Advisory Committee, and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science. Harris Corporation is a leading technology innovator that creates mission-critical solutions that connect, inform and protect the world. The company’s advanced technology provides information and insight to customers operating in demanding environments from ocean to orbit and everywhere in between. Harris has approximately $8 billion in annualized revenue and supports customers in 125 countries through four customer-focused business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronic Systems, and Critical Networks.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Suresh Venkatarayalu
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer – Safety & Productivity Solutions of Honeywell
Suresh Venkatarayalu is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Safety & Productivity Solutions (SPS). Suresh is responsible for driving New Product Introduction, Innovation, Technology Roadmaps, Mid-segment Offerings, Internet of Things, and fueling Breakthrough Initiatives. Most recently, he was VP & Chief Technology Officer, Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) leading global technology and engineering organization fueling growth & innovation. Prior to leading technology agenda for ACS, Suresh was President, Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), leading more than 50% of Honeywell’s global technology design centers across India, China, and Czech Republic. Suresh has 23 years of technology & IT leadership experience, beginning his career in the aerospace industry with India’s Aeronautical Development Agency. At Honeywell, he contributed to number of avionics products & platforms in Aerospace; strategically applied his business and technical expertise across businesses turning IT into a transformational growth driver; managed technology development and engineering driving and impacting Honeywell businesses and their customers globally He received Honeywell’s 2009 Senior Leadership Award and the 2011 Aerospace Leadership Award for his outstanding and exceptional contributions to the organization. A graduate in Computer Science Engineering from Bharathidasan University (India), he has completed his post-graduation in General Management from IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Kozhikode (India).
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About Honeywell, Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Rhonda Germany
Corporate Vice President, Chief Strategy andMarketing Officer of Honeywell
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About Booz Allen Hamilton, Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Matthew Bohne
Vice President, Chief Product Security Officer of Honeywell
Matthew Bohne is the VP & Chief Product Security Officer at Honeywell Buildings responsible for leading the product cyber security program and strategy for the company. He leads a global talented team of security professionals focused on enhancing security in the company’s products. Matthew has over 15+ years’ experience developing and leading product cyber programs & teams in the Buildings, Consumer, Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Industrial and Pharma sectors.
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About Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Vivek Kumar
Co-Founder and President of ProKarma
Vivek Kumar serves as the President of Prokarma, Inc. Mr. Kumar has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has provided leadership in the management, and delivery of e-Business technology, and services. He is involved with building e-procurement solutions since the last 7 years, and has tremendous knowledge of procurement functions. Mr. Kumar is responsible for leading the growth of the organization through revenue improvement with existing customers, increased market penetration, and development of new products and markets. He is ultimately responsible for corporate profitability and establishing policies, procedures and strategies consistent with the values and integrity of the organization.
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About PK Global, ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Eric DeMarco
President & CEO of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Eric DeMarco is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS). Eric DeMarco joined the Company in November 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and assumed the role of CEO in April 2004. Since joining Kratos, Eric DeMarco has been instrumental in leading the Company’s efforts to grow and build, both organically and through strategic acquisition, a leading Product and Technology Based National Security focused business. Prior to Kratos, Eric DeMarco was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Titan Corporation, which was later acquired by L-3. Under his leadership, Titan grew from approximately $150 million in annualized revenue to $1.5 billion, with a backlog of over $4 billion. Eric DeMarco efforts were instrumental in creating one of the largest government information technology companies in the United States. Before Titan, Eric DeMarco served in a variety of public accounting positions primarily focusing on large multinational corporations and publicly traded companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Stuart Daughtridge
Vice President Advanced Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Robert Potter
Vice President, Signals and Ground System Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Deepak Singh
Vice President, Compute Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President and General Manager, Amazon S3 of Amazon Web Services
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is the Vice President and General Manager of Amazon S3, the object storage service of Amazon Web Services. Mai-Lan has been on Amazon Web Services since 2010. During her tenure at Amazon Web Services, Mai-Lan has also been General Manager of AWS computing services, such as Amazon Simple Workflow, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Wood
Vice President of Amazon Web Services
Matt Wood works at Amazon Web Services, pulling from over a decade of expertise in distributed systems, architecture, web-scale analytics, big data, machine learning and high performance computing to help customers bring their ideas to life through technology. After medical school, Dr. Wood completed his PhD in machine learning and bioinformatics, joined Cornell as a research fellow, and contributed to the next generation DNA sequencing platform at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Since joining Amazon Web Services in early 2010, he has played a role in introducing many significant new features and services to customers on the AWS Cloud, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Machine Learning.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
