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This list showcases the top United States based Manager operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Manager 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.
Sergey Moliavko
Product Manager of Bolt
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About Bolt: Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services.
Roopak Venkatakrishnan
Engineering Manager of Bolt
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About Bolt: Bolt is developing a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert and retain more of their shoppers.
Nick Nagy
Lead Product Manager of Attentive
Nick Nagy is the Lead Product Manager at Attentive.
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About Attentive, Custora: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Taewon Yun
General Manager, Global Publishing of Super Evil Mega Corp
Taewon Yun is General Manager for Global Publishing at Super Evil Megacorp, the developers of the world’s leading mobile esport, Vainglory. Taewon is responsible for the global expansion and growth of Vainglory. Vainglory, now boasts more than 12 million registered accounts and 1 billion matches played worldwide. Vainglory experienced a monumental first year in esports in 2016, awarding the largest prize pool ever for a mobile esport at $120,000 and generating 25,000+ concurrent views for its inaugural World Championship. The community has welcomed some of the largest esports franchises in the world to the Vainglory lineup, including Misfits, Echo Fox, Fnatic, NRG, Immortals and Rogue. Taewon is a passionate gamer with over 18 years of experience in game and platform development, strategic planning and execution, business development and team building. Previously, Taewon was Managing Director at Wargaming Asia Pacific where he built up the company’s presence across the region and directed all aspects of growth for its flagship title, World of Tanks. He has also held positions at Blizzard Entertainment, Red 5 Studios and Electronic Arts. Taewon graduated from Seoul National University with a Masters of Science in Engineering.
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About Super Evil Mega Corp, Super Evil Mega Corp: Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Megan Colford
General Manager 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.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
David Rusenko
General Manager of E-Commerce of Square
David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Saumil Mehta
General Manager – Square Point of Sale, Customers of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Travis Raila
Lead Product Manager of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Salvatore Testa
Engineering Manager of Square
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About Persona, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Jason Sperling
Product Manager of Square
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About People Speak, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Sang Ahn
Vice President and General Manager, Samsung Pay of Samsung Electronics
Sang Ahn is the VP & General Manager of Samsung Pay, Inc., responsible for driving the business and operations of Samsung’s mobile wallet in the U.S. Sang Ahn has been involved in Samsung Pay from day one by leading the investment and then strategic acquisition of a proprietary technology that became the basis for Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). Today he leads teams in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City working closely with Samsung divisions in the U.S. and Korea. Sang Ahn also leads the commercialization of select Samsung services in the identity management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, and mobile browser spaces for the U.S. market. He reports to the Global SVP of Services at Samsung Electronics. Previously Sang Ahn was the Managing Director and Head of East Coast Investments for Samsung’s Global Innovation Center (GIC). GIC builds, buys, invests, and partners with innovative startups that can make a strategic impact for Samsung. At Samsung he invested in LoopPay (payments, acquired by Samsung), Automated Insights (language processing, acquired by Vista Equity) and Wevr (software and content for virtual reality). Prior to Samsung, Sang Ahn was a Principal at Dawntreader Ventures (a $300mm venture fund based in New York) where he served as a lead investor and Board Director of companies that have been acquired by leading technology companies such as Google, EMC, VeriSign, and IAC. As an entrepreneur, Sang Ahn was the founder and President of Glenkirk Advisors (technology advisory) and Founder & CEO of AhnWalker Therapeutics (novel drug development). Sang Ahn is a current Board Director of MarketFactory, an emerging financial technology company. Sang Ahn is a husband and father of two daughters and resides in Palo Alto, CA.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Bill Lee
Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Electronics Retail Operations 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.
Jennifer Arnold
Senior Manager, Product Marketing – AI & IoT 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.
Sungsoo Kim
Lead Product Manager of Samsung Electronics
Sungsoo is a business development and product management professional at Samsung Electronics. Recently, he has led the effort to launch Samsung Pass, which is an ‘identity management-as- a-service’ using iris technology. In the past, he has launched several products at Samsung and also worked at multiple Fortune 500 technology 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.
Gabriela Rojas
Sr. Technical Program Manager – Samsung Developer Program 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.
Sonji Thompson
Design Project Manager, Samsung Austin R&D Center of Samsung Electronics
Sonji Thompson is a Design Program Manager at Samsung Austin R&D Center whereshe is primarily responsible for removing road blocks and enabling teams to deliverIP for mobile and automotive Samsung products. She is a passionate advocate forwomen and has lead the SARC Women In Technology at Samsung EmployeeResource Group for the past 4 years. This year she is co-leading the ERG forsmoother transition out in 2020.Sonji has over 28 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, ranging fromproduct engineering, failure analysis, custom design and chip integrationengineering at Motorola/Freescale. She had been a manager for 10 of those yearsand transitioned to project and program management when joining Samsung in2010.Sonji also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin inElectrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NationalTechnology University through course and project work from several highlyrenowned universities. She has lived primarily in Texas, Houston and Austin. Shecurrently resides in Austin with her husband, their teenage son and daughter, anddog Bandit. She loves to travel, hike, and spend time with family and friends.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Mike Lytle
Product Manager, Content of Noom
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Tracy Sweetbaum
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Monetization of Unity Technologies
Tracy is a Senior Product Marketer at Unity, working across adaptive gaming and mobile business products. She focuses on innovative product solutions for both brand advertisers and game developers.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Lydia White
Sr. Partner Marketing Manager of Unity Technologies
In her role on the Unity team, Lydia administered Unity’s largest contest to date, bringing together major partners from across the industry to help guide, mentor, and enable the success of a worldwide team of finalists to make their vision come to life.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Charles Sanglimsuwan
Engineering Manager, Developer Relations of Unity Technologies
Charles helped unblock and accelerate Xbox game development across the industry. He now works with Unity’s Enterprise Support team, helping developers achieve their Unity performance goals.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Daniel Alam
Senior Software Engineering Manager of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Amit Jhawar
General Manager of Venmo
Amit Jhawar is COO at Braintree.
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About Venmo: Venmo offers an app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services.
Will Hughes
Senior Manager of Asurion
Will is focused on expanding the firm’s reach while cultivating the strong personal relationships that make wealth management not just productive, but meaningful. Will joined Revolution Partners with 20 years’ experience in finance and business development, and is passionate about discovering what drives clients and helping them realize their goals.
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About Asurion, Revolution Partners: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Abhilasha Shripat
Senior Product Manager 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.
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.
Jeffrey Donenfeld
Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
Jeffrey Donenfeld is an international business strategy advisor, investment manager, and startup venture mentor with experience in tech ideation, investment analysis and market positioning. Jeffrey is currently the Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators, and Director of Four North Media Group. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. He’s also worked internationally as a public speaker, photojournalist, and expedition technician. Connect at http://JeffreyDonenfeld.com.
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About Boomtown Accelerators, Four North: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Bryan Ingram
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division of Broadcom
Bryan Ingram is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Wireless Semiconductor Division (WSD). Mr. Ingram served as Chief Operating Officer of Avago Technologies from April 2013 until October 2015. In this role, he led all Avago product development and manufacturing. From 2007 to 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division where he oversaw the development, production and marketing of Avago RF and wireless components used in handsets, cellular infrastructure and satellite applications. From 2005 to 2007, he was Vice President of WSD. Prior to the founding of Avago from the Agilent Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) in 2005, Mr. Ingram was Vice President and General Manager of the SPG Wireless Semiconductor Division. Mr. Ingram holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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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.
Michael E. Hurlston
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division of Broadcom
Michael Hurlston is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division. He is responsible for the company’s mobility products. Prior to his current role, he held senior leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and General Management. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2001, Mr. Hurlston held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Micro Power Systems, Exar and IC Works. Mr. Hurlston earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom, Synaptics: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Lorenzo Longo
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Physical Layer Products Division of Broadcom
Lorenzo Longo is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Physical Layer Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s physical interconnect and automotive Ethernet products. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, Mr. Longo served as Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Newport Communications. He also held senior engineering positions at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Newbridge Networks and Bell-Northern Research. Mr. Longo earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University at Ottawa, Canada.
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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.
Hassan Hussain
Vice President and General Manager, Motion Control Products Division of Broadcom
Hassan Hussain is Vice President and General Manager of the Motion Control Products Division. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2006. He oversees the development, production, marketing and sales of motion control products used in factory, industrial and office automation. Prior to his current role, Mr. Hussain held a variety of management positions within the Optoelectronics and Disk Drive divisions at H-P and Agilent. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Hussain was a Process Engineer at Motorola Semiconductor.
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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.
Ed Redmond
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compute and Connectivity Division of Broadcom
Ed Redmond is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Compute and Connectivity (CCX) division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for Ethernet controllers, connectivity switches, Knowledge-Based Processors and ARM-based SoCs. Mr. Redmond joined Broadcom in 2010 after serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager at NextWave Wireless, where he led a merchant silicon chipset business unit delivering a leadership 4G wireless solution including a broadcast over WiMax service. Prior to joining NextWave he served in various engineering leadership roles at Intel in both wired and wireless networking, including where he delivered the first several products and customer programs for the launch and subsequent volume ramp of Intel’s Centrino Mobile Technology Wi-Fi modules. Mr. Redmond received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in Communications and Digital Signal Processing from Santa Clara University.
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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.
Rich Nelson
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division of Broadcom
Rich Nelson is Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for driving worldwide set-top box and cable modem strategies to enable services to and throughout the home, with system-on-a-chip solutions targeting end products and end markets. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1995, Mr. Nelson served as a U.S. consumer accounts sales manager at LSI. Mr. Nelson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University.
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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.
Weiying Ding
Senior Product Line Manager, Mixed Signal ASIC Products BU of Broadcom
Weiying is the Investment Partner at TEEC Angel Fund. She specializes in product designing, marketing, management and strategic partnerships. Also she instructs and supports startups with a focus in semiconductors and healthcare. Besides her role at TEEC, Weiying is a senior manager of product design and development at Altera for over 17 years. Weiying holds her MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School, M.S.E.E degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and her B.S. degree in Electronic, Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing.
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About Broadcom, TSVC: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Jim Bland
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Controller Division of Broadcom
Jim Bland is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Controller Division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for silicon solutions for the hard disk drive and custom solid-state drive (SSD) markets. Previously, he was vice president of sales and marketing for the Data Controller Division and Storage Peripherals Division at LSI, with responsibility for marketing and sales of LSI SoCs and preamplifiers to hard disk drive, tape storage and solid-state drive customers. Prior to joining LSI in 2005, Mr. Bland was senior vice president of sales and marketing, as well as a board member, for two European wireless startups, which were subsequently acquired. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Bland was vice president of sales and marketing for Siemens/Infineon HDD business unit based in Munich, Germany. Mr. Bland began his 40-year semiconductor career in operational roles with Intel, Amdahl and Zilog. From 1986 to 1996, he formed a sales representative company concentrating on custom semiconductors for the HDD business.
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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.
Greg Fischer
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Carrier Access Products Division of Broadcom
Greg Fischer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband Carrier Access Products Division. In this role, he is responsible for driving carrier access semiconductor solutions, enabling wireline and wireless broadband services to and throughout the home. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2004, Mr. Fischer served in various executive roles with Conexant Systems, including Vice President of Marketing and Vice President and General Manager of the Video Products Group. Mr. Fischer earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of Iowa.
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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.
Tom Swinford
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Group of Broadcom
Tom Swinford is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, responsible for developing and delivering silicon, software and adapters for data center storage solutions to cloud service providers, enterprise customers and embedded OEM systems. Prior to his current role, he was the general manager of the data center solutions group at LSI, responsible for PCIe Flash, hard disk drive and solid state drive adapters and associated software. Prior to joining LSI, Mr. Swinford was the Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity and Networking Group in Intel’s Data Center Group, providing Ethernet silicon, software, and adapters to data centers, OEMs and embedded customers. Mr. Swinford received a B.A. in mechanical engineering from Washington State University, and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
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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.
Mitchell Fields
Vice President and General Manager, Fiber Optics Products Division of Broadcom
Mitchell Fields is Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Fiber Optics Products Division (FOPD). In this role, Dr. Fields leads the business unit responsible for developing and manufacturing devices used in optical communications including lasers, detectors, integrated circuits, planar light circuits and diffractive optics. He has been at Avago Technologies, now Broadcom, for more than 10 years and has held various positions that include Field Applications Engineering, Strategic Marketing, and, most recently, Senior Director of Marketing for FOPD. Prior to joining Avago, Dr. Fields was an optical engineer at Sycamore Networks, architecting and designing optical interconnect solutions for the SN16000 core optical switch. Earlier, he was a staff scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he was Chief Scientist of the Advanced Concepts Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. Dr. Fields received his B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University.
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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.
Fatt Lun Ho
Vice President and General Manager, Optoelectronic Products Division of Broadcom
Fatt Lun Ho is Vice President and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Products Division at Broadcom. In this role, He oversees the overall development, marketing and sales of LED lighting products used in industrial, automotive and consumer applications. Based in Singapore, Mr. Ho began his career in 1977 as a Product Line Manager and has held a variety of management positions across several different product lines at H-P/Agilent/Avago. Most notably, he served as Manufacturing Manager from 1985 to 1998, and was SPG’s Operations Manager for many years until assuming his current position in 2008.
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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.
Patrick Henderson
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Patrick Henderson is Vice President, General Manager and Co-Leader of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for growing share and revenue in the high volume Mixed Signal ASIC market. Prior to his current role at Broadcom, he served in sales roles of increasing responsibility up to Senior Vice President of America Sales. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1998, Mr. Henderson held a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions at Integrated Device Technology and National Semiconductor. Mr. Henderson earned a B.S. 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.
Frank Ostojic
Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASIC Products Division of Broadcom
Frank Ostojic is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the ASIC Product Division (APD). He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2007. In this role, he is responsible for product strategy that enables APD to grow in market share and revenue in the Networking and Data Center ASIC market. He is also responsible for the development of IP design that enables APD to be the leader in SerDes-based ASICs. Mr. Ostojic came to Avago as a design engineer for computer ICs in 1996 through a series of acquisitions and roles with H-P and then Agilent. Mr. Ostojic has held a variety of senior research and development, and marketing management positions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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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.
Sally Doherty
Vice President and General Manager, PreAmp Components Division of Broadcom
Sally Doherty is Vice President and General Manager of the Preamp Components Division at Broadcom. In this role, Dr. Doherty leads the business unit responsible for developing analog and mixed signal products and technologies for storage markets. Dr. Doherty joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition where she served as Vice President of Research and Development for the Storage Peripherals Division. In that role, she was responsible for product development, silicon germanium technology development and led the LSI global expansion strategy in China. Since 2009, Dr. Doherty has been an inside Director for Silicon Manufacturing Partners Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Before joining LSI, Dr. Doherty worked at Lucent Technologies and its spinoff, Agere Systems, in a variety of engineering and management roles. Dr. Doherty received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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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.
Ran Soffer
General Manager, Microwave Products Division of Broadcom
Ran Soffer is the General Manager for the Microwave Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for all Microwave and Millimeter wave Baseband and RF solutions. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2011, Mr. Soffer served as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Provigent. Mr. Soffer also served as Director of Product Management for Metalink and in various engineering and leadership positions in Motorola, Redux and ECI. Mr. Soffer earned an M.B.A and an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.
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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.
Myles Wakayama
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Myles Wakayama is Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for developing Custom Mixed Signal ASICs. Prior to his current role, he held a variety of engineering design and management positions, including Senior Vice President of Central Engineering for all Mixed-Signal/RF and Library IP Development. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1996, Mr. Wakayama held research positions at Toshiba Research and Development Center and Hitachi Central Research Laboratory. Mr. Wakayama earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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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.
Ian Bone
Industrial Engineering Manager of Broadcom
Ian Bone has 15 years of smart manufacturing experience. He has been with Broadcom since 2014, joining them with 8 years of fully automated 300mm experience. His passion has been to apply automated smart solutions in legacy 150/200mm manufacturing. He is current the Industrial Engineering Manager at Broadcom’s Fort Collins, Co Fab.
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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.
Ian Bone
Industrial Engineering Manager of Broadcom
Ian Bone has 15 years of smart manufacturing experience. He has been with Broadcom since 2014, joining them with 8 years of fully automated 300mm experience. His passion has been to apply automated smart solutions in legacy 150/200mm manufacturing. He is current the Industrial Engineering Manager at Broadcom’s Fort Collins, Co Fab.
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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.
Mark Terrano
Vice President and General Manager, IP Licensing Division of Broadcom
Mark Terrano is Vice President and General Manager of the Intellectual Property Licensing Division, responsible for all worldwide outbound patent licensing programs. Mr. Terrano has more than 20 years of experience in the protection, licensing, and litigation of intellectual property in various technology areas. Mr. Terrano joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition, having served as Senior Director and Managing IP Counsel of the LSI IP litigation and licensing team. He joined LSI through its merger with Agere Systems in 2007. Prior to joining Agere in 2006 as a Senior IP Counsel, he was a Senior IP Counsel at Ericsson for eight years, where he was primarily responsible for managing the Ericsson IP litigation in North America. Before that, Mr. Terrano practiced IP litigation with the law firm of Fenwick & West in the Bay Area. He was also an electrical engineer at MCI Telecommunications prior to attending law school. Mr. Terrano holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire.
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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.
Yiyi Zeng
Senior Manager of Walmart Labs
Yiyi Zeng is a senior manager/principal data scientist at Wal-Mart Labs. She has 12 years of extensive experience in business analytics and intelligence, decision management, fraud detection, credit risk, online payment and e-commerce across various business domains including both Fortune 500 firms and startups. She and her team use supervised and unsupervised machine learning technics to detect frauds including stolen financial, account take over, identity fraud, promotion/return abuse & victim scam. She is enthusiastic about mining large-scale data and applying machine learning knowledge to improve business outcomes.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Imran Ansani
Principal Manager, Innovation of Walmart Labs
Imran Ansani works in Wal-Mart Global E-Commerce and has more than 15 years’ experience in e-commerce product management, content curation technology and omnichannel innovation across industry leading companies, including Wal-Mart, FedEx and HP. Imran holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of International Management, Arizona, and Economics and Engineering Degrees from BITS, Pilani, India. Imran is an avid golfer and sports enthusiast, having completed the Chicago International Triathlon in 2010, 2011 and 2014.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Kamiya Motwani
Senior Data Science Manager of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Senior Manager Software Engineering of Walmart Labs
Naveen is an Engineering Manager with 7+ Years of Data Engineering, Data Science & Analytics experience across Retail, Finance & Marketing industries. In his current role at WalmartLabs, Naveen leads Walmart’s Customer Experience and Store Marketing engineering team and one of his key initiatives in the last few months has been to bring all the various data assets at Walmart under one single data lake platform. He has worked across various database technologies throughout his career and has been extensively working on the entire Hadoop stack at WalmartLabs. Over the past few years, he led several teams building end to end data and visualization platforms and also worked on evaluating and implementing multiple query acceleration and SQL on Hadoop layers such as Druid, LLAP, Spark, Kinetica, SAP HANA etc. to power Walmart’s BI platforms.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Sridhar Leekkala
Senior Manager II Software Engineering of Walmart Labs
Sridhar is a technology leader and currently responsible for building a Finance data lake in Walmart. He is Sr Manager II Engineering, Global Data Analytics Platform, Walmart. Before working in the Data Analytics area, Sridhar led multiple HR implementations in Walmart. Previously, he worked in Deloitte Consulting, Hyderabad. Sridhar has 15+ years of IT experience in Retail, Healthcare and Finance domains.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Igor Savin
Group Product Manager – Business Analytics of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Michael Zeto
Vice President of IoT Solutions and General Manager of Smart Cities of AT&T
Michael leads Boingo’s corporate strategy and growth initiatives, responsible for capitalizing on the company’s unique position in the wireless industry. He is focused on driving new opportunities across 5G, CBRS, Wi-Fi 6, IoT and smart cities. A seasoned corporate executive, Michael has a successful track record for building new businesses and creating profitable growth. Prior to Boingo, he was Vice President, Internet of Things Solutions, and Founder and General Manager for AT&T’s Smart Cities and emerging IoT solutions. Before joining AT&T, Michael co-founded and served as CEO of Proximus Mobility and previously held leadership positions with top technology companies. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Technology Association of Georgia. He holds an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University and BA from Wilkes University.
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About AT&T, Boingo Wireless: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Shailesh Patkar
Techical Project Manager/Lead Systems Engineer of AT&T
Shailesh Patkar is a lead systems engineer and business analyst at AT&T. Shailesh is responsible for development of business and systems requirements, application interface designs, architectures, and workflow designs. In his current role, he is responsible for creating solutions for DIRECTV, Uverse, Gigapower orders, and GPON networks. Prior to this position, Shailesh managed AT&T applications and offshore teams of Amdocs, and IBM. Shailesh has extensive telecom and OSD experience. Shailesh holds Executive MBA from Georgia Tech in Management of Technology and BE in Computer Engineering from Bombay University. Shailesh has received 2015 AT&T Social Innovator Award.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Turan Sahinkaya
Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Global Mobility of AT&T
Turan Sahinkaya works for AT&T and resides in Texas. Turan Sahinkaya is a graduate of UC Berkeley and SMU. Turan Sahinkaya has four children and is married to Lori Sahinkaya. Turan Sahinkaya comes from a family of professional soccer players and he continues to be a big part of the best sport in the world.
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About AT&T, Fashion Institute of Technology, Miami Ad School: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
William Amores
Product Marketing Manager 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.
Emily Hughes
Digital Asset Manager of AT&T
Emily began her career in travel and hospitality nearly a decade ago working for Delta Airlines and later at the Gramercy Park Hotel (TripExpert Score: 93). A graduate of Fashion Institute of Technology, Emily has responsibility for product design and marketing.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Bruce Rose
Lead Product Development Manager 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.
Michael Cooper
Senior Application Sales Executive & Business Development Manager of AT&T
Michael T Cooper is Business Development Manager at 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.
Kendra Cox
Manager – Compliance & Outreach of AT&T
Kendra K. Cox is the Manager of Compliance and Outreach for the Corporate Accessibility Technology Office and the Corporate Operations – Privacy organization for AT&T. In addition, Kendra leads AT&T’s Accessibility Technology Training Program which was developed to provide educational information to people with disabilities about accessibility features that may benefit their work and daily life activities. Kendra joined AT&T in July 2013 as an Accessibility Solutions Engineer and worked with product teams to ensure that products and services were fully evaluated and implemented with accessible solutions. Kendra is dedicated to further exploring how technology can be modified and developed so that any person who has a disability can have equal access to resources and technology and live their life as independently and fully as possible. Workshop: Accessibility Features of Smartphones and Tablets.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
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.
Hadi Rashid
Co founder & Lead Customer Success Manager of Lunchbox Technologies
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
James Christopherson
Senior Account Manager of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Douglas Moore
General Manager, Portfolio Business Management of Toyota Motor
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About Toyota Motor: Toyota is an automotive company that manufactures and markets vehicles to over 170 countries and regions.
John Froschauer
Sr Manager Vehicle Services of Toyota Motor
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About Toyota Motor, Toyota Motor: Toyota is an automotive company that manufactures and markets vehicles to over 170 countries and regions.
Geri Yoza
National Manager of Toyota Motor
Geri Yoza is the Natinoal Manager of Fuel Cell Vehicles at Toyota North America.
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About Toyota Motor: Toyota is an automotive company that manufactures and markets vehicles to over 170 countries and regions.
Nilanjana Banerjee
Senior Manager in Software Engineering of T-Mobile
Nilanjana Banerjee is the senior manager in software engineering and quality assurance at T-Mobile.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
David Hale
Sr. Manager Marketing Sourcing of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile, T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Andrea Bonanomi
Sr Manager. E2E Network Performance of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Chris Spanton
Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Strategy of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Travis Bakeman
Senior Manager of T-Mobile
Travis Bakeman is a senior manager of systems design and strategy at T-Mobile, with a focus on network performance management and big data analytics, where he is responsible for multiple teams that deliver enterprise solutions leveraging off the shelf options such as Splunk, Oracle RAC, and open source technologies like Cloudera Hadoop. During his tenure with T-Mobile, he has worked in operational support, database administration, data mediation, report development, data enrichment, and frontend application design. Previously, Travis worked in military intelligence in the United States Army. He started his career in the telecom industry in data center operations.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Rohan Lam
General Manager – HCL Technologies (Digital & Analytics) of T-Mobile
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About LemonAid, T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Joel Taveras
Manager, Business Sales of T-Mobile
Joel Taveras is the Co-Founder and Deputy Editor at DualShockers. He’s both a lover and a fighter, and if you ask around, an incredible dancer. When he’s not at his day job, he’s busy annoying PR folks through harassing phone calls and emails all in the name of “content.”
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About DualShockers, T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Raymond Robertson
Senior Manager, West Region Operations of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
James Ellison
Sr. Manager of T-Mobile
James Ellison is a product leader focused on the customer care experience. As Sr. Manager for the AI practice at T-Mobile USA, James is leading the application and deployment of AI and machine learning to simplify and enhance the contact center experience, with an emphasis on humanizing care. Prior to T-Mobile, he landed digital marketing campaigns for Microsoft, MasterCard and Electronic Arts at a Seattle creative agency. Apart from tech, James is an early childhood ed advocate, serving as a non-profit board member developing an outdoor school and nature-based programming on Seattle’s Eastside. James is a University of Washington alum and mentor for UW’s Global Innovation Exchange program.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Senthil Velusamy
Sr Product Manager – Product Realization of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Pradeep Singh
Sr Product and Program Manager of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Amir Rassouli
Executive Manager of Strategic Accounts of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
John Charlton
Cyber Security Manager of T-Mobile
John has a wide range of experience, he led the team that built the first release of an integrated customer service agent experience (UI), architected a solution to map SOA dependancies by watching network traffic and helped design an analytics platform as an architect in the Enterprise Data Warehouse for a large travel group. He designed and led the team that developed next generation SEO tooling at scale for the largest office supplier in the country and is now working to help T-mobile rethink the way they secure their network by automating response to attacks and enable cyber incident responders to do their job with as little friction as possible.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Arlene Ramos
Manager, IaaS Enterprise Virtualization Team of T-Mobile
Arlene Ramos is a Manager of Architecture for our Enterprise Virtualization Practice at T-Mobile, part of the IaaS team. The Virtualization team builds/operates a resilient VMware platform supporting workloads in the data centers and other specialized locations. Arlene ensures standards are maintained and fosters communication between teams. She utilizes her project management background to deliver virtualization projects in a timely manner. Arlene is working towards her vCA-DBT certification.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Nicholas Criss
Sr. Manager, Digital Commerce of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Geoff Ansara
Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, IaaS Engineering Center of Excellence of T-Mobile
Geoff Ansara, Sr. Manager, Architecture, IaaS Engineering at T-Mobile. His team is responsible for providing simple, secure, self-service infrastructure enabling developers and app teams to rapidly build, test and deploy infrastructure and code in our Private Cloud. Additionally, Geoff has spent time building and managing teams responsible for IaaS services. Geoff serves as an evangelist for virtualization, automation, SDDC, DevOps, bare-metal provisioning and internal customer enablement.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Geoff Ansara
Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, IaaS Engineering Center of Excellence of T-Mobile
Geoff Ansara, Sr. Manager, Architecture, IaaS Engineering at T-Mobile. His team is responsible for providing simple, secure, self-service infrastructure enabling developers and app teams to rapidly build, test and deploy infrastructure and code in our Private Cloud. Additionally, Geoff has spent time building and managing teams responsible for IaaS services. Geoff serves as an evangelist for virtualization, automation, SDDC, DevOps, bare-metal provisioning and internal customer enablement.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Kevin Lau
Solutions Manager of Singtel
Kevin Lau has more than 15 years’ experience as an IT professional in networks and IT infrastructure for multinational companies. He is currently a Solutions Manager at Singtel USA in the heart of Silicon Valley. Singtel is Asia’s leading communication group, which is headquartered in Singapore. In his current role, Kevin develops and reviews technical designs and architecture proposals with clients, in the areas of WAN and integrated Infocomm solutions that covers voice and data infrastructure, SD-WAN, managed services and cloud computing.
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
Doug Brown
Global Account Sales Manager of Singtel
Doug Brown is a Global Account Sales Manager with Singtel (Singapore Telecom). He brings a business perspective that evokes an appreciation of business and technology – and how they are intertwined. His optimistic viewpoint of technology formed while working at US West Communications, EMC Corporation, CenturyLink Business and Singtel. By providing communications technology solutions with a global reach – Singtel enables Doug to collaborate with enterprise and global companies. He also utilizes his background in marketing, business development and business ownership to assist customers with their business initiatives. His goal is to help customers do great things!
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
Doug Brown
Global Account Sales Manager of Singtel
Doug Brown is a Global Account Sales Manager with Singtel (Singapore Telecom). He brings a business perspective that evokes an appreciation of business and technology – and how they are intertwined. His optimistic viewpoint of technology formed while working at US West Communications, EMC Corporation, CenturyLink Business and Singtel. By providing communications technology solutions with a global reach – Singtel enables Doug to collaborate with enterprise and global companies. He also utilizes his background in marketing, business development and business ownership to assist customers with their business initiatives. His goal is to help customers do great things!
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
Kristin Peterson
Project Manager of TheoremOne
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About TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Tilman Thederan
Engineering Manager of Life360
Tilman Thederan was Co-Founder & Vice President – Engineering at Volo.io, Co-Founder & Lead Engineer at Fyesta, and he is currently Engineering Manager at Life360.
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About Life360: Life360 creates a mobile app for families that helps families feel closer together.
Aashay Shah
Product Manager of Magic
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About Magic: Magic provides a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.
Mehdi Piraee
Product Manager of Urgently
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About Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Bartek Ringwelski
Product Manager of Instagram
Bartek Ringwelski is a VC turned Entrepreneur. SkillSlate empowers to the 16mm individual service providers in the US to market their services to consumers directly.
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About Instagram, Meta: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Brian Dalessandro
Data Science Manager of Instagram
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About Instagram, NYU Stern School of Business: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Lori Malahy
UX Research Manager of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Cemre Güngör
Manager, Product Management of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Pat Saxman
General Manager Health Systems of Zocdoc
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About Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Austin Sandmeyer
Sr. Marketing Manager of Beekeeper
Dedicated to achieving, willing to try, always passionate.
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About Beekeeper: Beekeeper is a workplace app that connects the non-desk workforce to operational systems and communication channels.
Peter Stradinger
Manager, Study Team of Evidation Health
Peter leads the technology and engineering teams at Evidation Health. Previously, he spent five years as a software engineer and team leader at RightScale Inc, a pioneering cloud computing management company where he implemented cloud support for AWS, OpenStack, GCE and Azure. Earlier in his career, Peter was a Senior Software Engineer at GreenSherpa, where he built the company’s financial management product from the ground up. Peter started his career as a production specialist responsible for database management at Warp9 and later as a data analyst for Callwave, one of the first internet-based unified communication networks. During this time, he was an instructor for database languages at UC Santa Barbara’s Extension Program. Peter has a BA in English Literature from Whitworth College.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Dhana Pawar
General Manager, New Initiatives of Viator
Dhana Pawar is the general manager for new initiatives at [Viator](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/viator#/entity), an online and mobile global marketplace for travelers to discover, research, and book curated tours and activities. She is also an advisory board member at [Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nasdaq-entrepreneurial-center#/entity), Float, and [Personalshopping.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/personalshopping-com#/entity). Prior to that, she served as the vice president for mobile partnerships at [Quotient Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coupons-com#/entity) for over 4 years. Pawar is an industry veteran with over 15 years of experience in leading product teams for startups and Fortune 500 companies. She is a regular speaker at tech events and has been quoted in a wide variety of leading media outlets, including [CNN](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cnn-com#/entity), [ABC News](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/abc-news#/entity), and All Things Digital. Pawar holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Fergusson College and master’s degree in user environment management from Asian Institute of Technology. She lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Viator: Viator is an online and mobile global marketplace for travelers to discover, research and book thousands of curated tours and activities.
Thomas Fattal
Engineering Manager of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
