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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 Mobile 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.
Dev Patel
Director of Strategic Growth of Infobip
Dev Patel has been serving as Director of Strategic Growth at Infobip since January 2019.
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
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Allie Donovan
Senior Director of CRM & Retention of Boxed
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Shari Shapiro
Senior Director, Global Fleet Expansion & Regulatory Excellence of Lime
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About Lime, Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Maggie Gendron
Director, Strategic Development of Lime
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Nikesh Arora
Member of the Board of Directors of Sprint
Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002. Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate-Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.
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About LightCyber: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Will Fraley
Director Digital Marketing Technology of Sprint
Will Fraley With over 15 years’ experience spanning digital IT and digital marketing, Will Fraley leads teams that cover the marketing technology space across Sprint, Boost Mobile, and Virgin Mobile. Will is passionate about technology, meeting the needs of his customers, and building great teams that build great products. His teams oversee definition, implementation, and collection of digital data, audience management technology and strategy, A/B testing and optimization, data distribution governance, enterprise tag management, and multi-channel analytics. Always looking to innovate, Will encourages creative and scalable problem-solving and discipline from his teams. Separate from Sprint, Will began his career as a civil and environmental engineer and later was an executive manager of an offshore software development start-up.
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About Sprint, T-Mobile: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Seth Bravin
Director of Strategic Alliances of Sprint
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Eric Jones
Director Corporate Development of Gopuff
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Lisa Besserman
Managing Director and Head of Innovation at JP Morgan Chase
Lisa Besserman, Founder of Startup Buenos Aires accelerator, has been named as Business Insider’s “Top 100 Most Influential Women in Tech”, and the “Business Innovator of Latin America” by the Council of the Americas. She has also been credited as “The Woman Behind Argentina’s Startup Revolution”. Lisa is a Google Mentor and has been a judge for dozens of startup competitions around the world. She was recognized as a successful entrepreneur in Forbes magazine and an International spotlight entrepreneur from the U.S Department of State. Lisa has been featured in prominent publications such as Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, TechCrunch and Fortune as a startup expert. Currently, Lisa serves as the Managing Director at Expa VC, focusing on pre-seed investments. Prior to Expa, she was the Head of Indeed’s global corporate Incubator in Austin, Texas.
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About Expa: Expa supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.
Heather Jo Gorius
National Sales Director of The Black Sheep
Heather Jo graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and oversees the all local sales operations for The Black Sheep. Go-to karaoke song: “I Will Survive,” by Gloria Gayner.
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About The Black Sheep: We’re a college newspaper that’s actually about college! We post drinking games, college recipes and more!
Kotesh Mukkamala
Director of Data and Platforms of Samsung Electronics
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About Kissaan, Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Max Min
Director, Foundry Package and SI/PI Architect of Samsung Electronics
Max Min is a Director from Samsung Foundry in San Jose. He is working on Package and Signal and Power Integrity for 10 years. He was with R&D and Sales and is now with Foundry Marketing. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2004.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sarah Peach
Senior Director, Product Management of Samsung Electronics
Prior to joining Samsung, Sarah Peach was Senior Director at Siemens Technology-to-Business in Berkeley, CA. At Siemens Sarah was responsible for turning early-stage innovations from start-ups into viable business opportunities for Siemens’ industrial business units. Her focus included all aspects of industrial product design and manufacturing, factory automation and control, and industrial services. Sarah has worked at the Office of the President, University of California system, and directed business development at two startups. She started her career in Germany at BASF. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University (UK) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, both in physics.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jae Young Shin
Business Director of Samsung Electronics
Jae-Young Shin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2015 and 2017 from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. In 2017, He joined Samsung Electronics as an Engineer, where he works on power integrity(PI) methodology development.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jun Alex Gao
Sr. Director, Head of Digital Health Lab, Samsung Research America of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Siva Boggala
Senior Director, Software Engineering (AR/VR and AI Platforms) of Samsung Electronics
Siva Boggala is a Senior Director for AR/VR software in Samsung Research America. He has 20+ years of experience in mobile technologies. Currently Siva is leading teams in 3D Avatar (AR Emoji), face and body tracking technologies, stereoscopic rendering, 6-DoF/3-DoF head, controller and hand tracking technologies. He led teams across full stack of mobile technologies from boot loaders to UX/UI applications for Samsung’s Android phones/tablets/watches, Windows Mobile phones, Symbian and feature phones. During his 16+ years in Samsung, Siva was involved in the development of 3D Graphics, System Software, Multimedia Technologies, IP Multimedia Subsystem (SIP/SDP/RTP/RTCP/GSMA) and modem protocol stacks. Siva holds a Masters in Computer Science from Andhra University and Bachelors in EE from Osmania University.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Christopher Buchanan
Director, Business Development of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Farshid Fallah
Director of Developer Relations, XR and Gaming of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Pierre Couteau
Senior Director Business Development of Samsung Electronics
Pierre Couteau, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Samsung Electronics America. Pierre Couteau is responsible for Samsung Mobile B2B strategic alliances. He focuses on bringing to market innovative solutions based on Samsung portfolio of smartphones, tablets, and wearables integrated with products and services from partners. His key focus has been on Public Safety solutions recently. He is a seasoned business development and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in high tech companies such as Samsung, Philips, NXP, and 2 start-ups. Over the last 15 years he has focused on the mobile industry, taking to market innovations such as Wireless connectivity, a mobile framework for smartphone applications, and a mobile application for note-taking and collaboration. His specialties are in B2B business development and marketing in the mobile industry. He has generated multi million dollars businesses by partnering with leading carriers, OEMs, and software companies.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Niklas Lyback
Director, Developer Success of Samsung Electronics
Niklas Lyback heads the Developer Success team and manages complementary developer services within the Samsung Developer Program, which are intended to make developers successful. For example, promotion requests and Galaxy Badges services help developers to be featured in the store with banners and outside the store, developers can provide a simple one-click solution for their loyal customers to be sent to the Galaxy Apps or Theme store, as well as can save money and improve their productivity by remote testing their Android APKs with the Cloud Device Farm.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Marvin Storey
Director – Customer Experience and Developer Ecosystem; Multiscreen Services of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Michelle Harper
US Director of Sales for Healthcare, Samsung Business of Samsung Electronics
Michelle Harper is a US Director of Sales for Healthcare, Samsung Business at Samsung Electronics.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Boo Wong
Director, Live Entertainment of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Stephen Palmer
Development Director of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Nikao Yang
Director, Global Business Solutions of TikTok
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About Opera Mediaworks, TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
David Lieber
Director, Privacy Policy Counsel of TikTok
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About TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
Ganesan Rathinam
Founder, Executive Director, Chain-Sys Corporation of Chain Sys
Ganesan is a post graduate from Electrical Engineering department of IIT Chennai with his bachelors from Electronics and Communications Department of AC College of Engineering and Technology. He has extensive experience in VLSI design, Software Systems Design and Development, Project Management, Marketing, Business Administration, Contracts. Currently is the Executive Director of Chain-Sys Corporation, USA. Before his current role with Chain-Sys, he was associated with Unisys Corporation, DSRC, Tata Unisys and Bharat Electronics. Presented a paper on “Test Patterns” at the First International Conference on VLSI Design held in IIT Chennai (1984). He has traveled widely in the USA, India, Canada, Europe, Singapore and the Middle East. His other interests are Story Telling, Creative Design, Painting, Swimming, Hiking, Canoeing and Kayaking. He speaks Tamil, English, Hindi and a little Telugu and Kannada.
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About : Offers ChainSys Smart Data Platform for data migration, integration, quality and analytics and Smart BOTs for testing automation.
Sage Durain
Art Director of Bright Star Studios
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About Bright Star Studios, Ember Sword: Bright Star Studios is an international independent video games development studio working on next generation MMO experiences.
Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales of Foursquare
Leah is Senior Regional Director of Brand Partnerships at Foursquare, where she oversees key strategic client initiatives for New York and various eastern regions. She has had a hand in many of Foursquare’s largest brand and agency partnerships and most exciting creative executions, as well as the launch of Foursquare’s media and analytics products, Pinpoint and Attribution. She leads the charge in Foursquare’s evolution from social-focused media to meaningful location intelligence partnerships on behalf of some of our largest clients. Don’t let her gentle and fun demeanor fool you — Leah knows a thing or two about toughness as a former nationally-traveling competitive Roller Girl, and co-owner and founder of Beverly’s dba Essex Café Group, LLC on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Foursquare, Foursquare, Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Sarah Spagnolo
Director, Communications and Editor-at-Large of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Greg Kruczek
Director of New Ventures and Corporate Strategy of Asurion
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About Asurion: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Spencer Rosen
Director of Global Business Development of Zendrive
Spencer Rosen helps executive teams make decisions about strategic partnerships and investments to drive exponential revenue growth and enhance product market fit. Over the past two years he has supported the launch and dramatic growth of Verizon Telematics’ connected car consumer aftermarket product, Hum — which now counts more U.S. subscribers, miles traveled, and driver behavior data points than all competitors combined. Rosen has thrived as an automotive/mobility industry specialist with Verizon for the past 8 years by applying his prior experience and ongoing passion for helping tech startups grow. He loves working with top talent from across the auto-tech ecosystem, from start-ups to multinationals, to solve hard problems while bridging the adoption of technology for safer driving today to driverless vehicles in the future. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their six year old son.
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About Verizon Telematics, Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Marissa Bowman
Senior Director, Customer Success of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Jay Harris
Director of Product Management of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Ryan Bell
Marketing Director at Comcast SportsTech of Boomtown Accelerators
Ryan A Bell is recipient of the Presidential Award for his volunteer work with Special Olympics and the youth in Oakland. He is a writer for The Good Men Project and a branding/marketing specialist for companies of all sizes. He also happens to be the most connected man on Periscope.
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Romain Serman
Executive Director Bpifrance USA of Bpifrance
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About Bpifrance: Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity.
Christian Jensen
Director, Developer Experience of Sinch
Christian Jensen works as the Director of Developer Experience at Sinch.
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About Sinch: Sinch is a cloud communications company that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal engagement.
Heidi Kimble
Director Analytics and Insight of Sinch
Heidi is passionate about teaching brands how to have conversations with their customers through the discipline of analytics. As an analytics and marketing practitioner for over two decades, Heidi has applied her expertise in analytics across hospitality, casino and console gaming, telecom, retail and technology brands, including both CRM focused and advertising programs within both digital and traditional channels.
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About Sinch: Sinch is a cloud communications company that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal engagement.
Jordan Maron
Co-Founder, Creative Director of XREAL, Inc.
Jordan Maron, known to many by the alias “CaptainSparklez”, has been producing web video content for the last six years. His work, most of which is focused on gaming, has amassed over 2.5 billion views. He served as the creative directory for the mobile game Fortress Fury, which has amassed over 2 million downloads.
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About XREAL, Inc.: Building the Future of Competitive Mobile Gaming
Brian Bedrosian
Director of Marketing of Broadcom
Brian Bedrosian has over 20 years experience in digital communications and wireless technologies including mobile satellite, terrestrial microwave radio, DSL, and 802.11x. As Director of Marketing for Broadcom’s Wireless LAN business unit, Brian Bedrosian is responsible for its emerging deeply embedded Wi-Fi business that spans several segments, including health care, smart power and industrial. In this capacity he has been responsible for strategy, market development, and staffing and led an important acquisition supporting his line of business. Prior to this role, he was responsible for leading Broadcom’s Wi-Fi product development for PC, broadband and gaming and was instrumental in driving the company to its current position as a market share leader. Prior to joining Broadcom, Brian Bedrosian was Director of Applications and New Product Introduction at Virata (which was acquired by Globespan/Conexant) where he was involved in DSL convergence products for both consumer and business products. He also held several development and marketing management positions at Applied Signal Technology during his career. He has co-authored several papers on digital receivers and spectrum management tools, and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Christopher Abel
Director of SerDes Analog Design, Data Controller Division of Broadcom
Director of Engineering at Broadcom.
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About : Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Cathy Liu
Director of Broadcom
Cathy Ye Liu, the R&D director, currently heads up Broadcom SerDes architecture and modeling group. Previously she worked as R&D director and distinguished engineer in Avago/LSI which acquired Broadcom in 2016. Since 2002, she has been working on high speed transceiver solutions. Previously she has developed read channel and mobile digital TV receiver solutions. Her technical interests are signal processing, FEC, and modeling in high-speed optical and electrical transceiver solutions. She has published many journal and conference papers and holds 20+ US patents. Cathy has demonstrated her leadership roles in industry standard bodies and forums. Currently she serves as a member of the board director of Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the co-chair of the DesignCon technical track of high speed signal processing, equalization and coding. She received her B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1995 and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Hawaii in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
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About Broadcom, Broadcom, Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Bret Jordan
Technical Director & Master Engineer, Office of the CTO of Broadcom
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About Broadcom, Cyber Resilience Institute, OASIS, OASIS: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Haitao Xia
Director of Data Storage System Architecture of Broadcom
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About Broadcom, Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Josh Hoye
Creative Director and Product Design of Relevnt, Inc.
In the past, Josh has created solutions for clients like: Volcom, Live Like Sion, Delta Fountains, Mondo Medina, Folio Weekly, Great HealthWorks Inc., Image Comics, Sandy Beach Productions, Downtown Vision Inc., Monster UK, EYE Productions (CBS) and way too many more. His surf art has been exhibited at numerous fine art galleries in Hawaii, Australia, and Florida. Josh is full of passion for the outdoors, surfing and the ocean, which feeds an ever growing wanderlust to experience this beautiful world we live in. Josh is a graduate from Ringling College of Art and Design, and has a BFA in Illustration and Graphic Design.
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About Relevnt, Inc.: Relevnt is a live audio chat network centered real-time, authentic connection.
Alex Grigoryan
Director of Engineering of Walmart Labs
Alex Grigoryan is the director of engineering of WalmartLabs. Alex builds application platform at WalmartLabs. He focuses on customer experience, fan of python, Node.js, and react.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
James Zhang
Sr. Director of Marketing of Walmart Labs
James Zhang is Sr. Director of Marketing at Walmart Media Group. He was previously Head of Rakuten Interactive, a Rakuten USA executive, and a member of Rakuten’s CEO Office. He was China CEO and Global Head of R&D at London-based Powa Technologies, once Europe’s largest startup by capitalization. James’s career spans 9 countries as a country manager and consultant for Samsung Electronics and KPMG. James is a mentor for Techstars, Plug & Play Tech Accelerator, and a Judge for the MIT 100K.
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About Blue Tornado, Red Jasper Worldwide, Splunk, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Or Zelig
Director of Product Management of Walmart Labs
Or is an experienced product manager and a serial entrepreneur. Or’s greatest passion is technology, and his mind is constantly brimming with new ideas. After his graduation from the IDF, where he lead the development of the next-generation of military data security devices, Or worked as a consultant and later as an entrepreneur; SlickLogin was his second venture in the field of cyber security that was acquired by Google. Today he a lead at Google Accelerators program.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Gerald Bothello
Director Of Cloud of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Brendan Wright
Director – International mobile products of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
John Engerholm
Senior Managing Director of Globant
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About Globant, Virtusa: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Chris Brummel
Director of Design of Globant
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About Globant, L4 Digital: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Amir Ghodrati
Director of Market Insights of App Annie
Amir Ghodrati has been with App Annie since May 2013 and currently leads the Market Insights team. Previously, he worked in market research providing analysis services to digital media clients across a variety of industries, including search, advertising, and e-commerce. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Duke University.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
Prateek Saxena
Director of Appinventiv
Prateek Saxena is the Director of AppInventiv, one of the fastest-growing mobile application development companies, based in Noida, India. With extensive experience in sales, he has established himself as a highly-focused user experience expert and product strategist, and as one who is always ready to take the new challenge to drive value to the company.
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About Appinventiv: A leading global Mobile App Development Firm empowering startups & Fortune 500 Companies to bridge the gap between ideas and reality.””
Ryan Stevens
Director of Product of Mayvenn
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About Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
Art Pregler
Director, National Mobility Systems of AT&T
Art Pregler is AT&T’s UAS Program Director responsible for nationwide oversight and internal implementation of drones. He is also Director of National Mobility Systems, responsible for development of enterprise data systems. Prior to AT&T, Art served DOD, NASA, DARPA, and other technology-focused agencies as a Command & Control Officer, Air Traffic Controller, Air Weapons Controller, and Mission Control Specialist. Art is a member of the joint FAA/drone industry Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team (UAST); and RTCA Special Committee 228 (Minimum Operational Performance Standards for Unmanned Aircraft Systems); and the NATE UAS Committee; the FAA’s 2016 mUAS Aviation Rule-Making Committee (ARC) for flight over people; and the Washington Governor’s Unmanned Systems Industry Council.
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About AT&T, AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Brian Greaves
Director – Product Development of AT&T
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Vikram Taneja
Senior Director, M&A / Equity Investments of AT&T
Vikram is a Senior Director of Corporate Development at AT&T, where he focuses on mergers & acquisitions and equity investments across media, adtech, IOT and sports. Previously, Vikram worked at ORIX Ventures and focused on equity and debt investments across digital media, big data and consumer internet companies. He also has prior experience as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan in its Consumer/Retail coverage group and in business strategy at the New York-based digital media startup, CreativeHub. Vikram received his bachelor of business administration in information systems from Texas A&M University and hisMBA in finance and entrepreneurship from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Ganeshkumar Natarajan
Director Member of Technical Staff of AT&T
Ganeshkumar Natarajan (ganeshkumar.natarajan@att.com) works at AT&T Inc. USA, as Director – Software Design and Development. He is one of the lead Cloud solution architect currently working on ATT Integrated Cloud (AIC). AIC is AT&T’s largest enterprise cloud built on Openstack that serves all AT&T traffic for mobility, IT workloads and Network Functions. His broad experience includes solution architecture, design, and development of the product all the way to production deployment. Before AIC work, he was lead developer for ATT CDN Cache and Streaming platforms and has also successfully developed and deployed many Enterprise Android Mobile Cloud based application products for AT&T.
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About AT&T, AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Samuel DiPiazza
Member of the Board of Directors of AT&T
Samuel served as Global Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited from 2002 until his retirement in 2009. Di Piazza began his 36-year career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (then Coopers & Lybrand) in 1973 and was named Partner in 1979. From 1979 to 2002, Di Piazza held various regional leadership positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor firm). After his retirement from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Di Piazza joined Citigroup where he served as Vice Chairman of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank from 2011 until 2014. Since 2010, Di Piazza has served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Mayo Clinic. He received his B.S. in accounting from the University of Alabama and earned his M.S. in tax accounting from the University of Houston. Di Piazza was elected a Director of AT&T in July 2015. He served as a Director of DIRECTV from 2010 until the company was acquired by AT&T Inc. in July 2015. He is a member of the Audit Committee. Di Piazza is a Director of ProAssurance Corporation and Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. He previously served as a Director of DIRECTV (2010-2015) and Apollo Group, Inc. (2009-2011).
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About : AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Jason Inskeep
Director | 5G Center of Excellence of AT&T
Jason Inskeep is on AT&T’s Emerging Network Strategy team based out of AT&T’s Plano Foundry. In this role he works across enterprise product and technology partners as well as external customers to plot AT&T’s network evolution impacts on enterprise solutions. In 2016 his role was focused on creating synergy between AT&T solutions and for his efforts was recognized with a Visionary Award for his Innovation through Integration initiative. This balance between technical and business acumen made him a natural fit within the Emerging Network Strategy Team. Jason has served in multiple roles at AT&T including sales management, mobile application consulting, IoT business development, product marketing and innovation. In each of these roles Jason has been a proven leader by being selected to and participating in Executive Regional and National Advisory Committees ideating and executing on ways to improve the organization in key functional areas. As a result of his diligence and work, Jason was recognized as an AT&T Diamond Club member in 2013. Further he was one 5 leaders across AT&T selected for the inaugural Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) – a rotational experience designed to develop high potential employees who have leadership aspiration and technical competence to advance emerging technologies.Jason obtained his BBA in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University where he was also 2-time All-Conference and Co-Captain of the football team.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Sinan Akkaya
Director of RAN Engineering of AT&T
Sinan Akkaya is a technology leader specialized in Telecommunications and Wireless Industry. He has +15 years of engineering and management experience at various levels in the global telecom space with significant practice on operations and strategic issues. He is an expert in wireless network operations, capital investment and operational budget planning as well as organizational transformation. He is currently living in the Bay Area. He has a MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering. Sinan is presently the Director of RAN Engineering in AT&T.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Rodney Brandenburgh
Director User Experience – Concept Development and Innovation (CDI) of AT&T
Lead user experience strategist for Concept Development and Implementation (CDI) at ATT. Rod runs the user experience arm of an agency model, multi-disciplinary innovation practice within AT&T. His team is responsible for developing game-changing innovations across the enterprise. Focus includes redesign and enhancement of existing platforms as well as new application development and innovation. Rod uses a holistic and organic perspective to determine how new and emerging technologies can best serve end users. He has been involved with nearly every customer touch point including: Web, Mobile, IVR, tablet interfaces, as well as the design of physical space.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Lisl Brunner
Director of Global Public Policy of AT&T
Lisl Brunner is a Director of Global Public Policy at AT&T Services, Inc., where she supports the development and coordination of AT&T’s policy positions on privacy, online safety, and Internet issues. Lisl previously served as Policy Director and facilitator for the Telecommunications Industry Dialogue at the Global Network Initiative, an international multistakeholder initiative that seeks to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT sector. She also held several positions at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where she worked on cases dealing with counterterrorism and the protection of journalists, as well as projects to define Inter-American standards on freedom of expression and the Internet. Lisl has taught a Human Rights Practicum at Georgetown University Law Center and has published several articles on human rights issues. She recently contributed a chapter on the right to privacy to the forthcoming publication, New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, from Cambridge University Press. Lisl holds a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
David Orloff
Director, RAN Product Introduction of AT&T
David Orloff is currently the Director of AT&T’s RAN Product Introduction group with responsibility for delivery of RAN Infrastructure products and functionality including Macrocells, Consumer Femtocells, Outdoor and Indoor Metrocells, and Mutli-Standard Metrocells. He supports the strategic direction for new technology and novel network implementations managing the vendor relationships for product introduction into the AT&T network. David is Chair of the Small Cell Forum having represented AT&T on the Small Cell Forum Board since September, 2013. David has over 20 years if experience in the communications industry with leadership roles including Indoor RF Systems, Macrosystem RAN delivery, Small Cells delivery, and RAN optimization. David has a BS, Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and joined AT&T in 1996.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Lisa Riachi
Director, Strategy & Innovation of AT&T
Lisa Riachi is a Director of Strategy & Innovation at AT&T, Lisa Riachi is responsible for bringing advanced mobile and emerging technology solutions including cloud, big data, IoT and Security to AT&T’s top tier accounts in the Midwest. She is also responsible for bringing AT&T’s world of Innovation to her clients such as AT&T Foundry and AT&T Labs to help clients solve business transformation challenges. Lisa brings more than 19 years of technical sales and solutions experience developing innovative and custom solutions for Fortune 500 Enterprise clients across multiple industries including retail, financial and manufacturing.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Geoffrey Yang
Board Of Directors of AT&T
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About : AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Ruben Quinonez
Associate Director, Advanced Analytics of AT&T
Ruben Quinonez is the Associate Director, Advanced Analytics at AT&T
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About AT&T, Claremont Graduate University: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Ed Hope
Director – New Technology Product Development Engineering of AT&T
Ed Hope is a Lead Security Technology Engineer with AT&T’s Chief Security Office, chartered with protecting one of the largest networks and enterprises in the world. In his role, Ed provides thought leadership in cloud and virtual technology security supporting AT&T’s strategic migration to a virtualized network infrastructure. He is currently focused on security considerations of OpenStack and public cloud.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Adrian Goh
Director, People Analytics of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Molly Mason Boulé
Development Director of Electronic Arts
Molly is currently the Vice-President of Content Production for Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios. Her team is located in five countries around the world touching EA’s product portfolio in the areas of CG / Animation, Sound, Motion Capture, Applied Research as well as Tools and Pipeline Engineering. Molly is also the current GM of EA Shanghai. Molly has been leading teams of Artists, Producers, Software Engineers, Designers and Management staff for the past 20 years in a variety of Entertainment Organizations. Her experience also includes evaluating and engaging companies for production and strategic partnership in China, India, Europe and South America. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Molly was a Broadcast, Live Action, Visual Effects and Animation Producer for Film, Television, Web and Print at companies such as DreamWorks Animation, Radium Inc. and for the global advertising and marketing firm Grey NY. Molly was born and raised in California and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. Molly holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from USC.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Denise Warren
Member of the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts
Denise Warren was named executive vice president of the Digital Products and Services Group in March 2013. As such, Warren oversees the operations, growth and development of The New York Times’s portfolio of digital products along with oversight of its subscriber relationships and digital subscription business. Previously Warren was general manager of NYTimes.com and senior vice president and chief advertising officer of the former New York Times Media Group, where she managed the daily operations of NYTimes.com, as well as other related digital and mobile products of The Times. In addition, she oversaw the advertising sales operation for all properties of The New York Times Media Group, which included print, digital and mobile products of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Warren was named chief advertising officer in 2005. In that year, she oversaw the print/digital integration of the advertising department’s sales staff, making The Times the first newspaper to do this. She also spearheaded the Times’s monetization efforts around unique product launches and investing in innovation, including its Idea Lab, which highlights innovation and collaboration between The Times and its advertising clients. In 2008, Warren added the role of general manager of NYTimes.com to her portfolio. In this position, she managed the business and technological operations for the largest individual newspaper Web site in the world. Under her direction, The Times launched a variety of new products including leading mobile and tablet apps, and it introduced a digital subscription model in 2011. Warren serves on the boards of The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She is a past president of New York Women in Communications and remains active in the organization. Warren joined The Times in 1988 as a financial analyst and has since served in a variety of strategic positions throughout the organization. She holds a B.S. and management degree from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in communications and media management from Fordham University. She lives with her family in Long Island.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Luis Ubinas
Lead Director of the Board of Electronic Arts
Luis Ubinas served as President of the Ford Foundation from January 2008 to September 2013. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Ubinas spent 18 years with McKinsey & Company, where he held various positions, including Managing Director of the firm’s west coast media practice working with technology, telecommunications and media companies. Ubinas serves on the U.S. Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation, the World Bank Advisory Council of Global Foundation Leaders, the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the boards of the New York Public Library and the Collegiate School for Boys. He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Evan Denbaum
Sr. Director & Competitive Gaming Commissioner of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Jasper Lenz Radeke
Sr. Director, Marketing, North America of AppsFlyer
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Kieran Campbell
Managing Director of Wilbur Labs
Managing Director at Wilbur Labs
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About Wilbur Labs: Wilbur Labs is a startup studio that builds companies and helps teams to accelerate their growth.
John Lagerling
Director and CBO of Mercari
John Lagerling is the Director, Android Global Partnerships at Google.
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About Mercari: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Masumi Nakamura
Senior Director / Engineering Manager of Mercari
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About Mercari, Techstars: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Tamara Greasby
Director & Data Science of The Trade Desk
Tammy Greasby is Director of Data Science at The Trade Desk where she and her team build scalable data science products to make the internet better. Despite having access to half a petabyte of new data every day (the platform sees about nine million queries every second!), they also spend a lot of time thinking about missing data problems. Tamara has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and in her free time, loves to trail run. Prior to The Trade Desk she has worked on related problems at Facebook, Snapchat, and Oracle Data Cloud.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Bennett Crumbling
Director – TV of The Trade Desk
Bennett Crumbling leads The Trade Desk’s strategy & business development within the $300B TV advertising ecosystem. Bennett is an angel investor in early stage companies. He is especially interested in data-centric companies that solve logical problems for consumers & knowledge workers inside of industries such as marketing & advertising, media, ecommerce & consumer services and real estate
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Kiran Lokeswarappa
Director of Machine Learning & Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Rainer Leeb
Senior Director, Growth of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Alexei Ilinykh
Director Product & Engineering of VentureBeat
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About Condorly, VentureBeat: VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Mary Cranston
Director/ Chair of the Audit Committee of Visa
Mary B. Cranston is a Retired Senior Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, an international law firm. She was the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Pillsbury from January 1999 until April 2006, and continued to serve as Chair of the firm until December 2006. She was Firm Senior Partner until January 2012. Mary Cranston also serves as a director of the Chemours Company. She previously served as a member of the boards of Juniper Networks, Inc. until May 2015, International Rectifier Corporation until January 2015 and of Exponent, Inc. and GrafTech International, Inc., until May 2014. Ms. Cranston holds an A.B. degree in Political Science from Stanford University, a Juris Doctor degree
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About Broadway Angels, MyoKardia, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Abhishek Guglani
Director of Product Management of Visa
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About Product School, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Peter Wexler
Senior Director of Business Development of Visa
Former security hacker turned BD exec with experience in successful tech, payments and marketing start-ups. Unhealthy relationship with pretzels.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Tia Ilori
Senior Director – Global Fraud and Breach Investigations of Visa
Tia Ilori leads Global Fraud and Breach Investigations at Visa and has served in various roles across Visa over the last 20 years. During this time, she has helped protect the safety, soundness and integrity of Visa’s operating environment and the broader payments ecosystem. In partnership with financial institutions, merchants, service providers, law enforcement and other key industry stakeholders, Ilori works to anticipate risks, investigate cybercrime and prevent fraud. Additionally, Ilori participates in a number of cyber-investigation associations and speaks frequently before industry and trade groups to promote sound cyber-security practices.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Gavin Shenker
Senior Director of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Eric S. Quon-Lee
Director, Visa Performance Solutions of Visa
Eric Quon-Lee is a founding director of Leaders For Non Profits (VolunteerPath). Eric has worked for some of Canada’s leading companies in a variety of accounting and consulting roles. Eric is currently at Detecon Inc., focusing on strategy and innovation where he acts as an intermediary between startups engaged in disruptive change and corporations trying to navigate these changes.
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About StepOne Ventures, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Brian Kuwahara
Senior Director, Visa Ventures (Corporate Venture Capital) of Visa
Brian Kuwahara has over twenty years of experience in the Financial Services industry. Brian is responsible for evaluating startup companies and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for Visa to invest and/or form strategic partnerships. Visa Ventures focus areas include, ID&V, authentication, biometrics, fraud detection, risk scoring, device fingerprinting and geolocation solutions that provide or support the authentication and security of financial transactions. Prior to his current role, Brian led Visa’s Technology Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture teams. Before joining Visa, Brian was a Partner at Accenture, specializing in Technology Strategy and IT Transformation Consulting for Financial Services clients.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Shane McLaughlin
Director, Content Strategy and Lead Writer of Visa
Shane is currently Global Director, Innovation, Product & Solutions Comms at Visa. Previously, he lead content and social strategy for interactive platform connecting 1.3M associates in 4,000 Walmart Stores.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Jessica Williams
Senior Director Global Brand Innovation Marketing of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Glen Jones
Director of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Celinda Appleby
Global Talent Attraction Director of Visa
Celinda Appleby is the global talent attraction director at Visa.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Mike Galgon
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Mike Galgon is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely. Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the Pacific Northwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals. Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network). Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Ben Gilbert
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
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About Acquired.FM, Glow, Iteratively, Pioneer Square Labs, Taunt: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Geoff Entress
Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades. Geoff represents PSL on the Board of Directors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner. Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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About Judys Book, Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Julie Sandler
Co-founding General Partner and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Presidential Leadership Scholar at Presidential Leadership Scholars.
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About Pioneer Square Labs, Presidential Leadership Scholars, PSL Ventures, University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Greg Gottesman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also co-founded and led Madrona Venture Labs. Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Cash, LumaTax, and NextStep. He is also the founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.com. “Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”
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About Boltive, Pioneer Square Labs, Rover: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
