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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 Director operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Director 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.
Craig Soules
Director – Product Management of Freshworks
Craig Soules is the Director of Product Management at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Alan Berkson
Global Director of Community Outreach/Analyst Relations of Freshworks
Alan Berkson is the Global Director of Community Outreach/Analyst Relations at [Freshdesk](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/freshdesk), a business software company. Prior to that, he founded Intelligist Group. Berkson holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from City University New York.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Garth Goodson
Director of Freshworks
Garth Goodson is Director at Freshworks.
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Karan Batta
Director, Product Management 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.
Sudip Majumder
Senior Director – Industry Iot And Big Data Analytics Development of Oracle
An Oracle veteran of 17 years, Sudip heads up development and product management of cloud–native Industry Analytical product portfolio specific to Airlines & Transportation, Communications & Media, Retail & Consumer Goods , Utility & Energy industry. These products follow the DevOps and leverage the ecosystem of IOT data streams, Big Data platform, other Cloud Services , enterprise data warehouse and data discovery with advanced analytic to create PaaS cloud offering and a set of Micro services (Docker container). These products deliver a framework which is generic enough to be adapted x-industry and enable customers deriving the maximum insights hidden in massive volumes of data with extreme performance. As an early proponent of Blockchain technology and due to his long association with Industry standards body like IATA, TMF ; Sudip brings the early insight of industry trends into the product portfolio and combines the business-value driven expertise and technology reference architecture with IoT aspects to build products that can result in new insights, transform business model and deliver significant benefit to 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.
Tom Plunkett
Consulting Solutions Director of Oracle
Tom has written books on big data and cloud computing and is the author of a forthcoming book on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Tom is a Consulting Solutions Director with Oracle and also volunteers for AtrocityWatch, a non-profit organization which uses Big Data to detect early warning signs of atrocities. Tom has given presentations at over sixty conferences and has taught computer science courses for Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Oracle, Tom practiced patent law with Fliesler Meyer in San Francisco, representing Oracle and other Silicon Valley companies. Tom has a B.A. and J.D. from George Mason University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and has completed graduate coursework in Cybersecurity and Management Science and Engineering 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.
Amit Manghani
Senior Director, Product Management of Oracle
Amit P. Manghani has more than a decade of experience in the Information Technology domain dealing with Enterprise Information Management, Business Intelligence, Web Applications and Cloud Computing technologies at leading Information Management companies such as Oracle, Informatica and SAP. Prior to joining Oracle, Amit was focused on utilizing the power of emerging data integration technologies encompassing real-time data acquisition/ movement, event processing and agile data access within Big Data usage scenarios. Now as Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle, he is responsible for Outbound Product Management on the different facets of Oracle Sales Cloud ranging from Analytics to Mobile to Sales Prediction capabilities. He is an avid follower of technology trends and has published articles in leading online journals and has presented at several technology conferences.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Alden Timme
Director Data Science of Oracle
Alden holds a BA in Mathematical and Computational Sciences and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford. In addition to his expertise in computer science, statistics, and web development, he specializes in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Savita Raina
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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Mark Friedler
Sr. Director Retail Marketing, Oracle Data Cloud of Oracle
Mark is a Senior Director at Oracle Marketing Cloud. He is a digital marketing and business development leader, online media executive and entrepreneur. Mark was most recently VP Business Development and Marketing at social data SaaS provider, Cubeyou. Previously he was Chief Strategy Officer at Admonsters, a leader in strategic insights on the future of digital media and advertising technology. He has founded, grown and sold several Internet companies including B2B content network IndustryGamers, GameDaily.com, one of world’s largest video games sites and ad networks that was acquired by TimeWarner AOL in 2006. Previously, he founded Gigex, the leading download service for game and software demos and Internet content delivery leader VCast, Inc. He served as VP Business Development for B2B Internet consulting company, Reach Networks, that was part of a Nasdaq IPO. He was President at Worlds and Games LLC, a digital marketing consultancy focused on advertising, games, mobile, SaaS services. Mark spent 6 years in Europe where he was Managing Director of Teleworld Sweden, a division of Philips Media, that operated voice response and interactive TV services with MTV. Mark’s first business introduced chocolate chip cookies to Sweden with its first chain of cookie stores. Mark is a frequently invited speaker to leading marketing, business and technology conferences including AdTech, CES, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, Enterpreneurs’ Organization, Game Developers Conference, E3, IMedia, Industry Insights Brand Summit, MobileBeat, OMMA, SIIA, VentureBeat.
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George Conrades
Director of Oracle
George Conrades is the Chairman Of The Board at LinkeDrive.
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About Longfellow Venture Partners, Oracle, The American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Krishna Mulukutla
Director, Product Strategy Fusion CRM of Oracle
Krishna Mulukutla is a proven CRM Software leader and visionary. Krishna is responsible for the strategy and go-to-market functions for Oracle Sales Applications whose portfolio includes Oracle Sales Cloud and CRM On-Demand products. Sales Cloud portfolio encompasses Sales Force Automation, Industry specific solutions, Sales Performance Management, Partner Relationship Management and Customer Data Management products. Krishna has designed and delivered innovative CRM, PRM and MDM solutions to millions of users globally. He started his career as a technology consultant specializing in CRM, ERP and BI enterprise integrations for various industries. While at Siebel/Oracle, Krishna was part of the product management team that developed industry specific solutions as well as Order Management capabilities. Krishna earned his engineering degree from Texas A&M 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.
Ester Frey
Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, North America 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.
Hector Rodriguez
Industry Executive Director, Healthcare of Oracle
Hector Rodriguez leads Microsoft’s work in health cloud compliance, health standards and cybersecurity. Hector works to ensure that healthcare security, privacy and compliance are foundational to Microsoft’s healthcare digital transformation strategy. He works extensively with industry and academic groups including WEDI-SNIP, HL/7, AHIP, HIMSS, HITRUST, and CAQH. He is currently a board advisor of the Samueli Institute for health research, a founding member of the HITRUST Business Associate Council. He is also a health industry and cybersecurity curriculum advisor for University of Connecticut and Seton Hall University. Hector is a notable speaker for Microsoft’s executive briefing center, partner conferences, and HIMSS on “Cybersecurity and the Trusted Healthcare Cloud” and “Healthcare Digital Transformation”. Hector began his career in 1982 as a software engineer at Bell Research Laboratories and has been in the IT business for over 30 years.
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About Microsoft, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Guy Waterman
Sr. Director Product Strategy of Oracle
Guy Waterman works directly with customers to better understand how Oracle cloud services can be leveraged across the enterprise to modernize and improve their performance. He uses this to provide input to the development process, resulting in more customer-focused cloud solutions.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ananth Kini
Director of Oracle
Ananth Kini is director of central product management with Oracle, where he and his team help Oracle sales and partners understand and implement PaaS products and extend SaaS with PaaS.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro
Director of Product Management of Oracle
Aurelio is the Principal Product Manager in charge of Java SE since 2010. He has been involved in all JDK 7, 8, and soon-to-be-released JDK 9. He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne San Francisco and JavaOne Latinamerica, with Java User Groups, and Oracle Customers in the Americas and Europe. Aurelio joined Oracle in 2010 through the Sun Microsystems acquisition. He joined Sun in 2008.
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Colin Schmidt
Senior Director Engineering – OCI Data Science Service of Oracle
Colin Schmidt is the Senior Director of Oracle Cloud.
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Tamara Prewitt
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Marketing Products of Oracle
Tamara Prewitt (formerly Gaffney) is Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Marketing Products Tamara’s specialty is turning data into insights, insights into information and information into decisions. Beyond scanning thousands of sources for new research findings every month she seems to have an endless supply of new research and insights. Tamara has been frequently quoted on television, radio and in thousands of press articles on a variety of data-oriented technology, and digital transformation topics where she uses big data to identify key trends and predict the future. Tamara was named one of the Top 20 Big Data Analysts in the US by Fortune Magazine and one of the Top 100 Data Influencers in the UK by DataIQ Magazine. Prior to joining Quantum Metric, Tamara founded the Adobe Digital Insights program which has become the leading source of Online Holiday Shopping data in the world. Tamara has also spent over two decades building data-oriented products at start-ups in Product Management where she has brought a number of new products to market and has been granted two patents for her work in mobile data collection processes. Tamara earned her MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and her BS in Business and minor in Computer Programming at the University of Southern California. Tamara describes herself as a futurist with love of data and passion for demonstrating how data turn data into insights to strengthen the impact on the bottom line.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Heather VanCura
Director of Oracle
Heather VanCura is Chair and Director of the JCP Program at Oracle. She is a leader of the global community driven adoption through the user group programs. Heather drives the efforts to transform the JCP and broaden participation and diversity in the community. Heather is passionate about Java, women in technology and developer communities, serving as an international speaker and community organizer of developer hack days around the world. Heather enjoys speaking at developer, diversity and open source conferences around the world, such as OSCON, Devoxx, FOSDEM, BuzzWords, Wonder Women Tech, and the JavaOne Conferences. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA and enjoys trying new sports and fitness activities in her free time.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mark Barry
Key Account Director of Oracle
Mark Barry is a Venture Partner at OpenView. A 25-year IT veteran, Mark brings extensive operating and business development experience to his work with venture capital backed businesses. Prior to OpenView, Mark spent 15 years at Microsoft in various executive positions in enterprise sales, channel development, consulting and support services. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for building and leading high performance teams and achieved several top revenue growth and other awards for his achievements. Prior to Microsoft, Mark held senior management positions in enterprise sales and marketing at Wang Laboratories and was the co-founder of a startup, CAS, Inc., focused on small business applications. Mark graduated from West Virginia University with a BS in Business Administration and has studied Graduate Business Management at Southern Methodist University. He is active on several advisory boards and is a former President of the Southeastern Software Association.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aashish Rangwalla
Senior Director | Oracle Data Cloud of Oracle
Aashish leads Client Strategy and Solutions for Oracle Data Cloud’s Retail & Restaurants vertical. He and his team helps the retail and restaurant industry clients develop and execute long-term strategic roadmaps on how to use Data as a Service and the Oracle DMP to conquer business objectives. His team will not rest easy until every retailer and restauranteur best understands their customers, measure each interaction with prospective and existing customers and rid the world of wasted media spend! Prior to joining Oracle Data Cloud, Aashish was at Sony Corporation of America where he led multichannel, integrated marketing strategy and execution for cross-Sony programs where he developed customer insights based on behaviors within and outside the Sony ecosystem to deliver innovative customer-centric activation that unlocked the full value of paid, owned and earned assets. He earned his undergraduate degree from Penn State and obtained a master’s degree from Temple 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.
Michael Meiner
Director Of Engineering, Product Management of Oracle
Michael Meiner is an Engineering Director at Oracle Corporation since 2010. Michael’s organization is responsible for lifecycle Quality Assurance of the Fusion Middleware Suite of products, including: installation, configuration, upgrade, test-to-production and interoperability on a range of computing platforms and Operating Systems. The Fusion Middleware product suite supports both On-Premise as well as Cloud offerings. Prior to his current role Michael was a Senior Software Development Manager at Oracle Corporation. Previously, Michael was the Senior Manager of Engineering at BEA Systems and a Software Engineer at Bellcore now Telcordia Technologies. Michael earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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Terry Melnik
Product Marketing Director of Oracle
Terry Melnik is the General Manager, Sales and Use Tax at Sovos
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About Oracle, Sovos: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Hermann Baer
Senior Director of Oracle
Hermann Baer is Senior Director at Oracle USA.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chris Murphy
Senior Content Director 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.
Wiekus Beukes
Software Development Director of Oracle
Senior Software Development Director 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.
Michael Richter
Principal Director, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, IoT, Blockchain of Oracle
Michael Richter has always gravitated toward change, whether it is building new businesses, embracing new technologies or exploring and discovering new places. His career has included senior marketing roles at News Corporation, MGM, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Setanta Sports and MediaZone. He led the pioneering roll out of cable and satellite TV in Asia over a 10-year period in the 90’s followed by digital media and product management roles based in the US. Currently, he is at the forefront of the fast growing cloud services industry as Director Product Management for CX Sales at Oracle. He holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, Global School of Management in Alliance with ASU, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. He is a competitive outrigger canoeist residing in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he published a book titled “One Red Shirt” documenting his 10-year experience in the Asia Pacific region.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bidyut Sen
Director, Semiconductor Packaging & PCB Technology of Oracle
Bidyut Sen is a Principal Engineer with Unified Compute Server (UCS) Group at Cisco Systems inc. Bidyut has many years of experience in the computer industry and worked in several companies including Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu and LSI Logic. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY at Stony brook. Bidyut has several publications, presentations and Patents.
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About Cisco, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Joel Kallman
Senior Director, Software Development of Oracle
Joel R. Kallman is senior director of software development for Oracle’s Server Technologies organization. He is responsible for the development and product management of Oracle Application Express. Joel has been at Oracle since 1996 and is the cocreator of Oracle Application Express. He is a contributing author of several books on Oracle technology, including Expert One-on-One Oracle, Beginning Oracle Programming, and Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Eric Rapisarda
Senior Director Product Management & Strategy of Oracle
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Douglas Tait
Director Communications Product Marketing of Oracle
Douglas Tait Setting the telecommunications marketing strategy for Oracle and the industry, Mr. Tait is accelerating Digital Transformation through Cloud Communications. As Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications, Mr. Tait is driving the strategy and tactics for Internet of Things, Digital Business, and Customer Experience. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Tait was the director for Global Telecom Markets at BEA and founded the JAIN initiative defining Java™ technology for communications at Sun. He organized international standards, community, and user group meetings for creating standards and driving the communications market toward standard based interfaces, platforms, and protocols.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Daryn McCool
Director of Cloud Engineering of Oracle
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Konrad Wilk
Software Director of Oracle
Konrad Wilk is a Software Director at Oracle. His group’s mission is to make Linux and Xen Project virtualization better and faster. As part of this work, Konrad has been the maintainer of the Xen Project subsystem in Linux kernel, Xen Project maintainer and had been the Release Manager for the 4.5 release of the Xen Project Hypervisor. Konrad has been active in the Linux and Xen Project communities for more than 7 years and was instrumental in adding Xen Project support to the Linux Kernel.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mayank Choudhary
Director, Product Marketing of Oracle
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Rajat Gopal
Senior Director Product Management and Strategy of Oracle
Rajat Gopal is the Director of Product Strategy in the Communications Global Business Unit (CGBU) at Oracle where his primary focus is on the Enterprise Cloud Communications market. He has 15+ years of experience in the Networking and Collaboration applications space. Prior to joining Oracle, Rajat has held various engineering and product management leadership positions at Radisys, Avaya, and Lucent.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Richard Johnson
Director of Security Research of Oracle
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Kuassi Mensah
Director, Product Management of Oracle
Product Management 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.
Garrett Harley
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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Andrea Canessa
Senior Director, Communications Industry Strategy of Oracle
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Shay Shmeltzer
Director of Product Management – Cloud Development Tools of Oracle
Shay is director of product management for Oracle Development Tools and Frameworks. He is focused on helping developers leverage Oracle products to simplify and streamline their application development efforts. Shay frequently presents at industry events, publishes articles, and blogs regularly.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Marc Sewtz
Director of Software Development of Oracle
Marc Sewtz is the Director of Software Development at Oracle.
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Shekhar Agrawal
Director Data Science of Oracle
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Preston So
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Oracle
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Rob Preston
Senior Director 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.
Travis Russell
Director, Cybersecurity, Service Provider Networks of Oracle
Travis Russell has been in telecommunications more than 35 years, with experience in radio, voice and data networking. As a cyber security professional and technologist, Mr. Russell has a long career focused in telecommunications cyber security and fraud, with expertise in SIP, SS7, and Diameter technologies. He participates in a number of standards bodies and trade associations, including the GSMA, IETF, CTIA, ATIS, and is currently the chair for the FCC Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) working group 3, focused on security. Mr. Russell has authored several technical books, including “Signaling System #7,” “Session Initiation Protocol,” “IP Multimedia Subsystem,” and “LTE Signaling With Diameter,” all published through McGraw-Hill. His book, “Telecommunications Protocols” is still used in colleges and universities today for teaching the fundamentals of telecommunications, and is printed in four languages.Mr. Russell holds several patents and patents pending focusing on cyber security and fraud solutions, and has lectured at colleges, universities, and industry events all over the world. He is currently Director of Cyber Security at Oracle Communications.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Rob Preston
Senior Director of Oracle
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Michael Hickins
Senior Director of Strategic Communications of Oracle
Michael Hickins is an American fiction writer, journalist, and former editor at The Wall Street Journal. He currently works at Oracle Corp. as director of strategic communications.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tina Joros
Director of Allscripts
In her role as Director of the Allscripts Developer Program, Tina is constantly organizing, marketing, and managing the sale of new applications and integrations built by her team of developers. This Fall Tina joins Health 20 to demo the numerous new tools that she has introduced to the Allscripts store.
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About Allscripts: Allscripts provides healthcare information technology solutions.
Federica Pelzel
Director of Data & Analytics Platforms of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Biser Dimitrov
Director, Product Development & Innovation of Mastercard
Biser is one of the veterans in the blockchain space with first-class expertise in Ethereum and Hyperledger. Previously he co-founded BlockEx, which creates an innovative digital asset exchange platform with bonds issuance capabilities. His capacities include developing, implementing, and supervising the entire life-cycle of blockchain-based digital assets, including origination, issuance, exchange, settlement, and redemption. Biser also provided professional enterprise blockchain consultancies for Fortune 500 banks and large corporations, among other initiatives.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Anand Menon
Director of Mastercard
Anand Menon is Director, New Consumers at Mastercard. In this role, he is responsible to drive the strategy and product roadmap to help MasterCard reach financial excluded and under-served consumers around the world. His focus areas are facilitating electronic/digital G2P payments, building partner propositions to capture key flows, and exploring alternative channels to increase product usage and allow for meaningful inclusion. Anand has spent much of the last decade focused on financial inclusion, first in microfinance and then with a focus on digital financial services. Prior to MasterCard, Anand was with Accion, where he worked with financial institutions and innovative fin-tech companies to help achieve financial inclusion through the smart use of digital technologies and distribution channels. Anand has also worked with Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA), where he provided strategic input to mobile operators, banks, insurers and payment providers on strategies to leverage digital channels to advance financial inclusion. Prior to BFA, Anand was the microfinance advisor to Graham Wrigley (Chairman of CDC, UK), cut his teeth on grassroots development finance issues at Intellecap, a microfinance advisory firm in India. Anand also had mainstream consulting stints with KPMG consulting, EY transaction advisory & the UBS corporate strategy team. His alma mater is the University of Mumbai, and graduated in 2002 with a degree in Management and a specialization in International Finance.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Mandar Kawle
Senior Director of Mastercard
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Suqiang Song
Director and Chapter Leader for Data Engineering and AI of Mastercard
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Maddie Callis
Director, City Possible of Mastercard
Maddie Callis leads Mastercard’s recently launched City Possible platform, a new partnership model formed to unite the private and public sectors to benefit cities and drive inclusive, sustainable growth.Maddie works closely with Mastercard’s regional teams, City governments and corporate partners to co-develop and scale urban solutions. Prior to joining Mastercard, Maddie worked at start-ups and nonprofits where she held leadership roles in operations and partnership development. She received a Master’s in Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and served as a Rotary International Fellow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she worked in favelas and pursued graduate studies.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rob Monroe
Director of Strategic Program Management of Mastercard
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Brett DeWitt
Director Of Public Policy of Mastercard
Brett DeWitt is the Director of Public Policy at Mastercard and oversees a broad range of technology policy issues, including cybersecurity, privacy, fintech, digital identity, and data protection.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Jennifer Dogin
Director Global Financial Inclusion of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Bharath Balasubramanian
Director, Digital Payments of Mastercard
Bharath has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras, India; a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago; and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Jennifer Dogin
Director Global Financial Inclusion of Mastercard
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Erika Rottenberg
Member of the Board of Directors of Wix
Erika Rottenberg has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2014. From July 2008 until September 2014, Erika was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional networking company on the internet. Prior to LinkedIn, Erika served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for SumTotal Systems, Inc., a talent management enterprise software company, from March 2004 to July 2008. Prior to SumTotal, Erika served in several roles, including most recently as Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, at Creative Labs, Inc., a computer peripheral and digital entertainment product company. Erika was also an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Cooley LLP and, prior to law school, was a school teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Erika serves on the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Northern California and the Silicon Valley Law Foundation. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a B.S. in Special and Elementary Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.
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Justin Kennedy
Director of Offsec & Red Team of NTT Communications
Justin Kennedy manages the Offensive Security Practice. His expertise lies in social engineering, physical security and other areas of penetration testing and offensive security. With an eye for detail and the ability to think outside of the box, Kennedy is able to identify problems which are commonly overlooked and solve those problems with innovative solutions. Kennedy’s background includes administration of Windows and UNIX systems, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, security appliances; incident response and handling for Fortune 100 companies; and high-level programming for rapid development. Kennedy is a tremendously skilled penetration tester and social engineer who has successfully penetrated several of the largest banks in the world.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ulu Ventures
Miriam co-founded Ulu Ventures, where she is the Managing Partner. Ulu is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.
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About Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs, Ulu Ventures: Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
Clint Korver
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ulu Ventures
Clint is a co-founding partner at Ulu Ventures where his investment interests include technology-enabled services, educational technology, and companies that turn data into actionable information. Along with Miriam, Clint is the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs a Stanford University alumni organization helping to build and connect Stanford’s entrepreneurial community. Prior to becoming a full-time investor, he co-founded and led four companies including Outcome Software, where he raised $10 million in venture capital to build web-based decision tools for large enterprises and was granted multiple patents in web-based decision analytics. He also co-founded Decision Quality International which trained over 1000 Fortune 500 executives in the principles of decision quality, licensed decision training programs to over 10,000 end users, and consulted to six of the largest financial institutions in the US. He also co-founded and led the consumer internet company, DecisionStreet and the analytics consulting firm, The Decision Company. Clint has a passion for teaching and regularly guest lectures at Stanford on entrepreneurship, decision-making, and ethics. He has taught courses in ethical decision-making at both Stanford and Grinnell College, and co-authored Ethics for the Real World (Harvard Business Press 2008) with Stanford professor Ron Howard. Clint is a Kauffman Fellow and Venture Partner at Crescendo Ventures and an advisory board member at the Decision Education Foundation. He holds a PhD and MS degree from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering with an emphasis in decision analysis and a BA with honors in mathematics from Grinnell College where he currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.
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About Ulu Ventures: Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
David Shedlarz
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
David Shedlarz, 65, retired vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. a pharmaceutical consumer and animal products health company. Formerly vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. 2005 – 2007; executive vice president and chief financial officer 1999 – 2005 Pfizer Inc. Director since 2001. (Also a director of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and The Hershey Company.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anna Alexander
Director, Market Analysis of Pitney Bowes
Anna Alexander is the Director, Market Analysis at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Sia Ea
Executive Creative Director, Global Ecommerce of 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.
Anne Fuchs
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
Anne Sutherland Fuchs, 66, consultant to private equity firms. Formerly group president Growth Brands Division Digital Ventures a division of J. C. Penney Company Inc. a retailer November 2010 – April 2012; former Chair of the Commission on Women’s Issues for New York City 2002-2013. Director since 2005. (Also a director of Gartner Inc.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Greg Harden
Sr Director, Operations Support of Pitney Bowes
Greg Harden is the Sr Director, Operations 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.
Megan Kaspar
Managing Director of Magnetic
Megan Kaspar is a co-founder and managing director of Magnetic, a blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm.
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About Magnetic: Crypto, Blockchain, FinTech
Kittu Kolluri
Co-founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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About Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Terry Growcock
Member of the Board of Directors of L3 Harris Technologies
Terry Growcock, 69, is retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., a diversified industrial manufacturer of cranes and foodservice equipment and a provider of ship building and ship repair services. He joined Manitowoc in 1994 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Manitowoc Ice.He became President of Manitowoc Foodservice Group in 1995 and served in that capacity until his promotion to President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. in 1998. He was named Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Manitowoc in October 2002. Terry Growcock retired as Chief Executive Officer of Manitowoc in May 2007 and as Chairman of the Board in December 2008. Terry Growcock has been a member of our Board since August 2005 and is Chairperson of our Business Conduct and Corporate Responsibility Committee and a member of our Audit Committee and Management Development and Compensation Committee. Terry Growcock also is a director of Carlisle Companies Incorporated (since 2008) and Harsco Corporation (since 2008) and an advisory member of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Terry Growcockserved as a director of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. from 1998 to 2008.
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About : L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Michelle Johnson
Director, 4G LTE Center of Excellence of L3 Harris Technologies
Michelle Johnson is director of the LTE Center of Excellence for Harris Corporation’s Communication Systems business segment. Her responsibilities include Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) infrastructure, devices, applications ecosystem and service, which provides end-to-end solutions to worldwide public safety, professional communications, and tactical military customers.
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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.
Gordon Bethune
Member of the Board of Directors of Honeywell
Bethune has been Managing Director of g-b1 Partners (a travel advisory firm) since January 2005. He was Chairman and CEO of Continental Airlines, Inc. from 1996 until his retirement in December 2004. Mr. Bethune was the President and CEO of Continental Airlines from November 1994 to 1996, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) from February 1994 to November 1994. Prior to joining Continental, Mr. Bethune held senior management positions with The Boeing Company, Piedmont Airlines, Western Air Lines, Inc. and Braniff Airlines.
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About : Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Pamela Ross
Director Operations OE of Honeywell
Pamela Ross is a Advisor at Lowell Observatory.
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About Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Don Harroll
Director of Sales, North America of Honeywell
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About Honeywell, NextNine, TIEMAC: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
John Hajdukiewicz
Senior Director User Experience Design, Offering Management of Honeywell
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About Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Shane Fazzio
Director, Product Management, IoT Platforms of Honeywell
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About Honeywell: Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company that offers energy, safety, and security solutions and technologies.
Amy Tenderich
Editorial Director, Diabetes & Patient Advocacy at Healthline.com of Healthline Media
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About DiabetesMine.com, DiabetesMine.com, Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Scott Marshall
Board Director of Simplebet
Scott was the Co-Founder & COO of ActionX, which was acquired by WPP in 2015. Prior to that, he was the COO & CFO of Thumbplay, which was acquired by Clear Channel in 2011 and is now iHeartRadio. Prior to that, he was the CFO of CSTV Networks, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Classic Sports Network, which was acquired by ESPN in 1997 and is now ESPN Classic.
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About ActionX, On Location Experiences: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Molly Stevens
Director of User Experience Research of Booking.com
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About Booking.com: Founded in 1996, Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, available in 40+ languages and 155,000+ destinations.
Marke Clinger
Strategic Account Director and Americas Sales Leader of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Marke Clinger is Director of Strategic Accounts and America Sales Leader at 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.
Terry Wise
Director of Business Development of Amazon Web Services
Terry Wise, Director of Business Development 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.
Scott Mullins
Managing Director, Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development of Amazon Web Services
Scott Mullins is the Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for leading the development and execution of AWS’s strategic initiatives in the financial services industry around the world. Prior to joining AWS in 2014, Scott’s 20 year career in financial services included roles at JPMorgan Chase, Nasdaq, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Scott is a subject matter expert quoted in industry media, a recognized speaker at industry events, and serves on the advisory board of the FinTech Sandbox.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Richard Halkett
Managing Director, Digital Innovation 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.
Arnaud Mauvais
Director, Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Arnaud is an experienced technology executive with more than 20 years of in-depth management experience in both large companies and start-ups in the mobile, video and internet spaces. Seasoned technical leader with responsibilities for globally distributed teams as large as 200 people and budget of $400 Million+, specialized in Cloud Computing Architecture, Engineering & Support (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mark Relph
Director – GTM and Specialist Sales – IoT, Robotics, and Kinesis Video 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.
Andy Troutman
Director of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rex Grignon
Director, WW BD of Amazon Web Services
Rex Grignon is the Director of Worldwide BD of Amazon Nimble Studio (AWS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
David Borland
Director of Engineering of Amazon Web Services
David Borland is Co-Founder and serves as VP Hardware Engineering. He has served in roles of VP and Director of Engineering at leading semiconductor companies such as Intel, AMD and Marvell and brings low power SoC architecture, design and high volume manufacturing leadership to Calxeda. Mr. Borland delivered innovative market leading Cellular and Application Processors to high volume mobile applications building a “ground up” business for Intel that was acquired by Marvell. Upon joining Intel in 1999, he led the ADI/Intel Joint Development that delivered a new DSP Core architecture and implementation with industry leading power/performance and effective C programming that is used by Analog Devices, Intel, Marvell and MediaTek. Mr. Borland was with AMD for 14 years, where he was the Product Line Manager of Cordless Telephones. He began his engineering career at AMD as a product and design engineer on single chip modems after earning a BSEE in 1984.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Eugene Kawamoto
Director of Product Management – Amazon Redshift 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.
Jason Schleifer
Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services
Jason Schleifer is the Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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About Amazon Web Services, Nimble Collective: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mark Ryland
Director, Office of the CISO 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.
Matt Pope
Director of Product Management and UX 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.
Zivan Ori
Director of Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Mr. Zivan Ori is the co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage that provides the next generation of cost-effective rack-scale flash storage for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. Before founding E8 Storage, Zivan held the position of IBM-XIV R&D Manager, being responsible for developing the IBM XIV® high-end, grid-scale storage system, and served as Chief Architect at Stratoscale, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure. As a seasoned technological innovator, Zivan worked as the Wi-Fi Driver Architect at Envara Inc. (a fabless semiconductor company acquired by Intel) and as VP R&D at Onigma (an information security solution provider acquired by McAfee). Zivan Ori holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MA in Linguistics (with distinction) from University College London. His interests include storage (SAN, NAS), network protocols (IB, 40GE, FC), system programming and embedded programming, Linux, and distributed programming. An avid fan of the Japanese language and culture, with JLPT L3 proficiency, Zivan is a graduate of Talpiot.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Greg Khairallah
Director, Analytics 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.
Christie Smith
Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader of Accenture
Christie Smith is the Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader at Accenture
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ram Ramalingam
Managing Director of Accenture
Ram has over 25 years of technology leadership experience selling and delivering engineering projects across multiple industries around the globe. He is the Managing Director of Accenture’s Products and Platform Engineering Services practice. He specializes in innovative solutions that focus on bringing change, increasing productivity, and accelerating growth for customers. He enjoys applying his deep engineering experience in building modern platforms and facilitating client journeys to the Platform Economy.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Christian Nahas
Managing Director of Accenture
Christian Nahas has 16 years of experience as a hands-on technology professional. He has built a career on a foundation of hard work and persistence and is known for his passion and drive to help businesses connect with their customers. He is currently the CEO of Salesfusion, a marketing automation company in Atlanta that empowers marketers to more effectively attract new opportunities, convert them into customers and nurture them into lifetime relationships.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Karen Voelker
Managing Director, Global Lead, Customer Innovation Network of Accenture
Karen Voelker is the Global Lead of Accenture’s Customer Innovation Network (ACIN), specializing in retail and the digital customer. She has 16 years of experience working in the retail and consumer packaged goods industries, focused on innovation, digital, merchandising, inventory optimization, and store operations. Karen’s current role takes her to Accenture’s innovation centers in Chicago, Milan, Singapore, Bangalore, Manila, Dublin and London. This network provides companies with access to the latest global innovations and emerging industry trends. During her work with ACIN, she has planned and facilitated more than 700 workshops with clients from across consumer-facing industries, which were focused on exploring consumer trends and defining the operational implications. Karen is passionate about helping support clients in the development of their innovation practices, processes, organization and showcases. Karen’s responsibilities also include contributing to Accenture’s research and thought leadership on consumer trends and the implications to consumer facing companies, and has published two points of view, Retail @ the Edge, and A New Era for Retail – Cloud Computing Changes the Game. Karen is based in Chicago, Illinois, and has a degree in Management Information Systems from Bradley University.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
