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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 Partner operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a Partner 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.
Marc Leibowitz
Global VP – Partnerships & Strategic Growth Initiatives of Adobe
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Bryan O’Neil Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Bryan O’Neil Hughes is the Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Clive Henry
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Lead of Adobe
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Clive Henry
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Lead of Adobe
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Leader | @Adobe.
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Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Mahendra Sekaran
Partner Director of PM – Skype and Teams Services of Microsoft
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Allison Saltzer
Partner Sales Director of Microsoft
Allison Saltzer has spent the last 13 years at Microsoft, where she is the IOT Partner Director for the Americas in the Global Black Belt Sales Team. Prior to this role, Allison was the Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R) focused on Microsoft’s newest innovations in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing.
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Zhong Wu
Partner Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Eric Kamont
Mixed Reality Strategic Partnerships of Microsoft
Celebrating his 15th year with Microsoft, Eric Kamont has established a reputation for working on cutting edge technology, startup businesses, and shaping the strategy to align to partners and customers around the world. With successful endeavors such as Mixed Reality and IOT, grounded industry experience in manufacturing and retail, Kamont brings to bear a point of view that crosses both the technical and business landscape. Prior, he spent time in the engineering and construction, and gas turbine industries, embracing startup mindsets to push the envelope on technology in both. Self-funding his collegiate pursuits, Kamont holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
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Deanna Hearns
Partner Engineering General Manager, Minecraft Marketplace Creator Program of Microsoft
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Mira Lane
Partner Director, Ethics & Society – Cloud & Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
Mira Lane is the Partner Director of Ethics & Society within Cloud & AI at Microsoft. Mira runs a multidisciplinary team within an engineering context that is responsible for guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible, and sustainable outcomes. The technology areas of interest to her team include speech & language, computer vision, ambient devices, intelligent meetings, intelligent agents, and mixed reality (AR, VR, HoloLens). Mira’s history at Microsoft has focused on experience strategy, incubation of new product concepts, and bringing products to market. She holds numerous patents across platforms and collaborative interfaces. She has held various roles through her technology career in development, product management, UX architect and design. Mira has a background in art, computer science, and mathematics. Her video art has been featured in film festivals and galleries.
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Felicia Gardner
Partner Sales Executive of Microsoft
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Lisa Maki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next of Microsoft
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next at Microsoft.
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Russell Wilson
Partner Director of Microsoft
Russ Wilson joined Microsoft in December 2014 as a Partner Director and Head of Design for Business Intelligence, a collection of features and services that enable you to visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways. Prior to Microsoft, Russ was the founder and Director of IBM’s Mobile Innovation Lab. The mission of the lab is to identify disruptive mobile technologies and trends and transform them into new products and solutions that deliver significant value to individuals and companies. Russ also served as the Head of Design for IBM’s Application and Integration Middleware business unit, providing design leadership for Websphere, MobileFirst, Pure, IoT, and SmarterProcess. As one of IBM’s new Design Executives, Russ helped to teach and evangelize design thinking throughout IBM, and influence a new era in software product development. Prior to IBM, Russ was the worldwide Senior Vice President of User Experience at CA Technologies where he led the development of an enterprise-wide design language and a common application platform. Russ joined CA as part of the acquisition of NetQoS, where Russell was one of the original executives. Russ is a serial entrepreneur, an experienced executive, and has proven success in both startups and large companies. His interests include approaches to innovation, user experience design, rapid prototyping, and team building.
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Charlie Miller
Partner GM of Microsoft
Dr. Charlie Miller is Cofounder and Chief Design Officer of Vidku. Charlie is also the Founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Design Innovation at the University of Minnesota (UMN), and an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at UMN.
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Nick Parker
Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions of Microsoft
Nick Parker serves as a Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft.
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Anila Baseel
Sr. Partner Programs Manager of Microsoft
Responsible for driving horizontal and industry scenarios through Partner-to-Partner (P2P) Go-to-Market engine, including P2P Collaborative Platform optimizing through existing and new partnerships. Over 15 years of specialized experience across multiple marketing organizations including Field Marketing, Lead Generation, Account Base Marketing, Strategic Account Management, Small Business Marketing, Channel Programs, User Groups and Alliances.
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Bert Van Hoof
Partner, Group Program Manager Azure IoT of Microsoft
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Paul R. Nash
Partner PM Manager, Azure Compute of Microsoft
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Sally Ann Frank
Senior Partner Industry Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Sally helps healthcare companies use IoT to improve patient outcomes and efficiency. With more than 20 years in the technology industry, she helps providers, payers, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies use IoT, machine learning, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to meet the changing demands of the healthcare industry. Focused on business outcomes, Sally has been advising customers about IoT for more than 5 years, starting in the manufacturing sector before focusing on healthcare. She holds an MBA from The George Washington University (Washington, DC), an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Marketing and Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
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Matt Augustine
Partner Architect of Microsoft
Matt Augustine is a Partner Architect at Microsoft. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Co-founder at PlayFab (acquired by Microsoft).
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Pete Bernard
Principal Group Program Manager – Silicon and 5G Connectivity Partners of Microsoft
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Boris Scholl
Partner Product Architect @Microsoft Cloud&AI RnD of Microsoft
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Lauren Holland
WW Partner Marketing Advisor of Microsoft
Lauren Holland is a Partner Marketing Advisor in Worldwide OCP dedicated to driving Go-To-Market strategies with select global channel partners. Her current mission is to guide partners to differentiate with innovative “better together” solutions and launch offers in market in the GTM “fast lane.” With 7+ years in the technology industry and Microsoft partner ecosystem, Lauren has built and implemented global programs for accelerated growth and scale. Her experience spans across Microsoft’s three clouds- Modern Workplace, Azure, and Dynamics- with disciplines including Go-To-Market strategy, enablement, integrated digital, content, and creative ideation. Lauren is from Corona del Mar, CA, graduated from Duke University, and is currently working with global indirect provider partners around the world.
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Sarah Fender
Partner Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Julie Strauss
Partner PM Director of Microsoft
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Emily Hendrickson
Partner Content Strategist of Microsoft
As Partner Content Strategist, Emily drives content strategy across to-partner communications channels to help Microsoft partners grow their businesses. Prior to joining Microsoft in July 2018 Emily worked at Insights, a learning and development company, for over five years. Emily held a variety of roles at Insights her last being Field Marketing Manager. In this role she led an award-winning, global team to develop and execute innovative and targeted marketing strategies. Emily has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a Marketing Concentration from Western Washington University and is currently pursuing her MBA at Seattle University.
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Kevin Chan
Director, Global Partners of Microsoft
Kevin Chan leads the development & business transformation of key global partners across Microsoft’s products and cloud services. Kevin has being with Microsoft for over 20 years.
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Dan Greenawalt
Partner, Creative Director of Microsoft
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Chung Webster
Partner Director of Software Engineering – Modern and Government Commerce, Cloud+AI of Microsoft
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Girish Chander
Partner Group Program Manager, Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Full-time of Microsoft
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Dan Rippey
Director of Engineering, One Commercial Partner of Microsoft
Dan Rippey is the Director of Engineering for Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner organization, leading a team of engineers that power digital experiences across partner.microsoft.com
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Hardik Mehta
Global Lead, WW Partner Strategy of Microsoft
Hardik Mehta is WW Partner Strategy lead for Microsoft’s IoT business. He is responsible for building IoT partner strategy, leading initiatives and programs globally that enable partners to build edge to cloud IP, services and profitable businesses, and deliver solutions that empower customers to digitally transform their companies and realize greater business value through the use of technology. Earlier, Hardik led cloud partner programs strategy and launched new construct: advanced specializations. Prior to Microsoft, Hardik worked at Amazon where he led international expansion for ecommerce business and grew B2C cloud adoption through strategic partnerships. Earlier, he helped TIBCO launch and commercialize new products. He holds MBA from Cornell and Masters in Info systems from Carnegie Mellon.
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Dalip Tyagi
Global Head of Partner Marketing, Bing Ads of Microsoft
Global Head of Partner Strategy and Marketing for Bing Ads at Microsoft Corporations. More details are available at official blog at www.aka.ms/dtyagi
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Steve Sullivan
Partner & General Manager, Mixed Reality Capture Studios of Microsoft
Steve Sullivan serves as a Partner and General Manager of Mixed Reality Capture Studios at Microsoft.
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Cecilia Flombaum
Business Applications Partner Lead of Microsoft
Cecilia Flombaum has been in the Microsoft for 18 years and in the Business Applications space for about 12 years in different capacities. She assumed the lead role in the Business Application Strategy team as part of the One Commercial with worldwide responsibility in August 2017. In this role she is responsible for capacity planning, capability and growth strategies as well as worldwide field execution; all aimed at the development and health of Microsoft’s Business Applications partner ecosystem and co-selling success.
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Christoph Berlin
Partner Group Program Manager, Azure Industrial IoT/Manufacturing of Microsoft
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Jianfeng Gao
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
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Ankur Arora
Director, WW Partner Strategy: Security & Compliance of Microsoft
Cybersecurity and Compliance are top-of-mind board level conversations today. Gartner predicts customer spend to the tune of $153B by 2021. As customers embrace cybersecurity and compliance as an integral part of their digital transformation, they look upon Microsoft partners to simplify this journey for them. Ankur’s goal is to be able to engage with OCP Field teams and Microsoft partners to capitalize on this opportunity and ultimately align the right partner with the right skill set for the right customer opportunity.
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Johan Jonsson
Director Dynamics Partner Incentives of Microsoft
Mr. Jonsson is a 25-year veteran with Microsoft. A native of Sweden, he has worked for Microsoft in several capacities in the Nordics, Ireland and in the US, where he currently is a Director on the Incentives team in the One Commercial Partner (OCP) organization. Mr. Jonsson is focused on Usage and Dynamics incentives, and he is responsible for Design and Go-To-Market for incentives relating to the following partner incentive programs: Online Services Usage, Online Software Advisor Sell, Certified Software Advisor incentive and the SPA agreement.
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Chris Boar
Director ISV Partner Experience of Microsoft
Chris leads the partner execution and go to market strategy for Applications and Infrastructure on Azure. Chris is extremely passionate about helping our partners accelerate our customers migration to Azure and driving advanced innovation into their critical applications.
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Gavriella Schuster
Corporate Vice President, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs of Microsoft
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Steven Abrahams
Partnerships for Teams in Education, Healthcare, Financial Services and Government. of Microsoft
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Dianne O’Brien
Sr. Director, Azure Partner Strategy of Microsoft
Dianne O’Brien is the Azure Partner Strategy Lead for the One Commercial Partner organization of Microsoft responsible for developing and landing the Azure partner strategy with our field and partners. Prior to this, she was Chief of Staff for Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business Development. In this role, Dianne is responsible for managing the office of the EVP, including setting and managing the long term organization strategy, developing and executing our communications strategy, and setting policies and processes for managing the organization. Prior to this role, Dianne was Senior Director of Business Development for Cloud & Enterprise. In this role Dianne was responsible for developing the Cloud & Enterprise business development strategy for commercial deals that fill key technology or business gaps that will help accelerate the C&E business growth, with a particular focus on realizing our Cloud OS vision and the success of Microsoft Azure and Dynamics. Prior to moving into Business Development for C&E, Dianne was a part of the Microsoft Azure business team, joining as its third member in 2008 as the Senior Director for Business Planning and Operations, responsible for all long-term business planning, offer and channel strategy, business desk, and performance management. During her nearly nineteen-year Microsoft tenure she has held senior leadership positions in the corporate planning and finance functions including leading the Global R&D finance team and serving as IT Controller. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dianne owned a private CPA practice, and was the Assistant General Manager of a public utility service in San Diego County where she was responsible for the implementation of several major technology initiatives. Dianne holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of San Diego. She lives with her husband and on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and enjoys fishing and watching baseball.
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Jay Schmelzer
Partner Director of Program Management of Microsoft
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DeAnna Paddleford
Senior Partner Channel Marketing Manager, One Commercial Partner Team of Microsoft
Sr. Marketing Manager OCP Digital Engines at Microsoft.
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Yuxiong He
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
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Brad Larsen
Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Co-Sell Programs of Microsoft
Larsen is a long-time Microsoft leader and currently serves as Senior Director of the company’s Partner Co-Sell Programs within the One Commercial Partner organization. In this role, he leads a team to define the strategy and program development to accelerate how Microsoft and its commercial business partners engage to sell industry-aligned cloud-based solutions to our mutual customers. This approach accelerates time to customer success in digital transformation scenarios, grows partner revenue, and deepens Microsoft’s role as a trusted technology advisor. Prior to this role, Larsen held positions leading Microsoft’s partner enablement and readiness efforts, and in various commercial marketing and operational roles at the company.
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Don McCormick
WW Director of Cloud Solutions, One Commercial Partner Group of Microsoft
Don McCormick WW Director, SAP Partner Development One Commercial Partner Microsoft Corporation With over 30 years’ experience in Partner Development and Sales Leadership, Don McCormick is responsible for managing the SAP focused partner ecosystem within the One Commercial Partner team at Microsoft. As an SAP WW Director, Don is responsible for driving adoption of Microsoft Azure, associated with Mission Critical SAP workloads, by enabling a strong partner ecosystem. Don also provides SAP workload focused solution sales support through strategy, envisioning, proof of concepts consultation and product evangelism to support Microsoft’s business for SAP strategy. Don’s expertise covers the Microsoft Cloud Platform for SAP, Analytics and Productivity integration with SAP. Previously Don held a variety of leadership roles within Microsoft as the Americas Director for the Cloud & Enterprise Global Black Belt Team, and the Americas Director for Platform Modernization, providing Cloud Enablement for traditional on-premise workloads.
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Amanda Whaley
Partner Director of Product, Azure Programmability, Management, and Automation Developer Experience of Microsoft
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Catherine Brown
Senior Partner/Channel Marketing Manager, WW Business Planning & Commercial Licensing of Microsoft
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Ginny Hoban
Partner Channel Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Ginny has 10 years’ experience working in Marketing, focused on building strong, mutually beneficial partnerships. She currently works in the Microsoft 365 Partner Marketing team leading Modern Workplace fundamentals, focusing on driving Adoption and Change Management capability for profitable Partner businesses. Previously, Ginny worked with Microsoft Partners in the US market supporting their journey to success with Cloud solution offerings and profitable practice growth.
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Geoffrey Hirsch
Head of Partner Channel, WW Learning & Readiness of Microsoft
Geoff Hirsch is Senior Director of Microsoft’s Worldwide Learning (WWL) Partner Channel. In this role, he is responsible for Channel Strategy and overall Learning Partner engagement. Geoff’s team works closely with Learning Partners to increase skills and adoption of Microsoft technologies globally, with a core focus on how Microsoft and Learning Partners can help consumers and enterprises achieve their goals. Prior to WWL he led Microsoft’s Media & Entertainment team responsible for working with global media companies to drive Cloud, App, and Content based partnerships. Geoff started with Microsoft in 1992 after graduating from the University of Washington, and has held a variety of leadership positions across Microsoft’s Enterprise Sales, Partner, and Business Development organizations.
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Hannibal Scipio
Partner Go-to-market Capability Lead of Microsoft
Hannibal Scipio is the global strategy and execution lead for the partner-to-partner motion in the GTM and Programs team at Microsoft. He is focused on enabling, empowering and activating Microsoft partners to build and strengthen connections that drive digital transformation for both themselves and their customers. With more than 15 years of technology and leadership experience, he has received numerous awards for improving partner experiences, has developed high-value partner programs, and has driven critical partner sales activities. A transformational business leader, he is always up for the challenge to solve problems and support partners’ success.
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Analisa Roberts
Director, Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing Team of Microsoft
As the Director of Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing at Microsoft, my mission is to build a team poised to break new ground and recruit, educate and assist potential partners about the power of Azure, Azure Sphere, Windows IoT,Cloud-based business solutions and Intelligent Edge device design. The energy around the Intelligent Edge allows me to be in a constant state of learning and evolution, adapting marketing and sales to customers based on the changing technologies available and partnering with them to create something revolutionary. I help partners build out custom Cloud products, identifying where to build, how to build it, and who their potential customers may be. My experience as a hands-on leader allows me to develop valuable correlations across the Microsoft landscape, helping inter-related programs and partners find the leading-edge Cloud-based resources they seek to benefit their business and scale their IoT solution.
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Claudia Rössler
Agriculture – Strategic Partnerships, Principle Program Manager Azure Global Engineering of Microsoft
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Jenny Leahy
Director of Advertising for Social and Media Partnerships Creative of Microsoft
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Scott Mauvais
Director, AI and Global Partnerships, Microsoft Philanthropies of Microsoft
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Jo Amato-Tuck
Global Partner Development Manager of Microsoft
Jo Amato-Tuck’s experience covers channel expertise and technology leader, with technology journalism as well as being a high-achieving mum. Her experience lends her ability to uniquely explore the status quo and then challenge it where appropriate to drive innovation to make technology accessible to all. She is known and respected for setting high expectations and a tough, reasonable approach to maximizing sales results. Her strength in relationship-building stems from a mix of empathy and strategy to enable outcomes with a growth mindset. As well as her current role as the Lead to a large global enterprise account driving Hybrid Cloud and Intelligent Edge soltuions on Azure, her journalism background enables her to tap into stories of changemakers that inspire, that enable diversity and inclusivity with high performance. Her inspiration comes from engineers and non-engineer technologists alike, plus motorsports racers, creatives, mold-breaking political leaders and others who challenge and change the status quo by outperforming.
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Oliver Schulz
Director Global Partner Development of Microsoft
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Dan Driscoll
Partner Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Jose Gomez Cueto
Director – SMB Partners Go To Market – US Subsidiary of Microsoft
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Karen Fassio
Director, One Commercial Partner group of Microsoft
Karen leads the strategy for digital marketing engagement that serves the global Microsoft partner ecosystem. Karen has held multiple marketing roles over her 20 years at Microsoft including work in global technical readiness, licensing, sales excellence, audience and channel marketing. Karen also leads OCP Change Management and Microsoft’s Channel Inclusion strategy. She is also co-founder and steering chair of Women In Cloud, a community-centered organization focused on helping female entrepreneurs lead and grow their business in the cloud.
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Derek Cheshire
Business Strategist, Unified Partner Experience of Microsoft
Building a unified partner experience to help partners find new ways to grow their business and save time navigating Microsoft.
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Laura Padley
Sr. Partner Dev Manager, Services Growth Specialist Team and WW AI Lead of Microsoft
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Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
Sumit is a Research manager at Microsoft, leading the PROSE research and engineering team that develops APIs for program synthesis (programming by examples and natural language) and incorporates them into real products. He is the inventor of the popular Flash Fill feature in Microsoft Excel used by hundreds of millions of people. He has published 110+ peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences/journals across multiple computer science areas. He is a recipient of the prestigious ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the President’s Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur.
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Derek Cheshire
Business Strategist, Unified Partner Experience of Microsoft
Building a unified partner experience to help partners find new ways to grow their business and save time navigating Microsoft.
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Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
Sumit is a Research manager at Microsoft, leading the PROSE research and engineering team that develops APIs for program synthesis (programming by examples and natural language) and incorporates them into real products. He is the inventor of the popular Flash Fill feature in Microsoft Excel used by hundreds of millions of people. He has published 110+ peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences/journals across multiple computer science areas. He is a recipient of the prestigious ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the President’s Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur.
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Barnaby Jeans
Senior Partner Development Manager of Microsoft
Global Growth specialist working with partners who are transforming to deliver cloud managed Services. #AzureExpertMSP #AzureStack #Azure #PartnerTransformation
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Paul Maher
Partner, General Manager – Industry Experiences of Microsoft
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Ryen White
Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI of Microsoft
Ryen White is a Partner Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research. Recently, White led the applied science organization for Cortana, served as chief scientist at Microsoft Health, and was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
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Richard Borenstein
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of MURAL
Richard Borenstein is the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and is responsible for accelerating MURAL’s revenue growth and market penetration, forming deep, integrated partnerships with enterprise brands, and leading a highly skilled sales team bringing visual collaboration to the enterprise collaboration toolkit. A SaaS veteran with a passion for recruiting and team building, Richard has built an extensive, worldwide executive network and has a proven track record of creating mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships. He recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), where he led the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Previously, he held sales management positions at RingCentral, Zong (acquired by PayPal), Baynote Inc., and Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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Larry N. Feinberg
Partner of Oracle
Larry Neil Feinberg serves as the President at Oracle Investment Management, Inc. Feinberg founded the firm in 1993. He is a Managing Partner at Oracle Partners, L.P. Feinberg founded the firm in 1993. He has been serving as the Founder, Chairman, and Director of Oracle Healthcare Acquisition Corp. since September 2005. Feinberg serves as the Managing Partner at Oracle Partners, L.L.C. He is the President at Oracle Associates, LLC. Feinberg was a Principal at Odyssey Partners, L.P. from 1989 to 1993, where he directed the firm’s private and public healthcare investing activities. Feinberg served as a Senior Vice President at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., where he had begun working as a Healthcare Research Analyst in 1980. From 1986 to 1987 Feinberg was the First Vice President of the healthcare group of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. He was elected to the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for seven consecutive years from 1982 to 1988. Feinberg served as a Director of Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Inc. Feinberg has been one of Wall Street’s leading healthcare industry figures and over the course of his career, had served as an Analyst, Investment Banker, Merchant Banker, and Portfolio Manager. Feinberg received an M.B.A. from New York University in 1980 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Vermont in 1978.
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Carina Namih
Partner of Episode 1
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Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.
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James Hardiman
Partner of DCVC
James has more than five years of experience advising both Fortune 50 and pre-revenue healthcare and biotech companies on their sales and marketing strategy. Previously, he was a consultant at ZS Associates where he advised management teams using insights gained from the analysis of large amounts of healthcare data. Most recently, while at Booth, James worked with technology executives during a stint in The Blackstone Group’s M&A Advisory Practice. James holds a BS in Engineering Physics from the University Of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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John Hamer
Managing Partner of DCVC
John is a Managing Partner at DCVC Bio. Prior to DCVC Bio, John was an Investment Director for Monsanto Growth Ventures. Monsanto is a leading global, agricultural company providing products to growers worldwide. Monsanto Growth Ventures, through investment and partnership encourages entrepreneurs, and innovative start-up companies, to take on the challenge of a more sustainable future for world food production. John Hamer’s career spans more than three decades of research, senior management and investment experience in the life sciences. Prior to joining Monsanto, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence and later Managing Director and General Partner at Burrill & Company, a San Francisco-based life sciences merchant bank with activities in venture capital, merchant banking and media. John Hamer led investments in numerous of Ag-related start-ups in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining Burrill, John Hamer was the CSO and later CEO of Paradigm Genetics/ICORIA, a leading genomics and ag-biotechnology company that completed its IPO on NASDAQ in 2000 and was later acquired by Monsanto. John Hamer received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis and was a Visiting Scientist in Dupont’s Central Research & Development Group. He later joined Purdue University and rose to the rank of full Professor and was the recipient of several national awards including the David Lucille Packard Award, and The National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship. At Purdue, John Hamer’s research focused on crop diseases, where he pioneered molecular approaches to disease management and control and worked with numerous international agencies in China, the Philippines and South America. John Hamer lectures widely on innovation, agriculture and venture capital and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and serves on the Board of Directors for Golden Pine Ventures, a microVC fund in RTP, North Carolina. He is a passionate believer in new growth opportunities that are emerging in the agricultural value chain in food, health, energy, materials and chemicals.
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Alan Cohen
Partner of DCVC
Alan Cohen Is The Partner at DCVC.
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Bruno Bowden
Equity Partner of DCVC
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Michael Driscoll
Founding Partner of DCVC
Mike Driscoll founded Metamarkets in 2010 after spending more than a decade developing data analytics solutions for online retail, life sciences, digital media, insurance, and banking. Prior to Metamarkets, Mike successfully founded and sold two companies: Dataspora, a life science analytics company, and CustomInk, an early pioneer in customized apparel. He began his career as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project. Mike holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University.
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Armen A. Vidian
Partner of DCVC
For the entire length of his career, Armen has worked at the intersection of data and decision-making, primarily in Product Marketing roles. He has a long track record of successfully launching first-in-class products globally and accessing new markets. Armen has an M.S. in Management Science from Stanford University, and an S.B. in Applied Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in French Language and Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also advises numerous technology startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kiersten Stead
Managing Partner – DCVC Bio of DCVC
Kiersten is a Managing Partner at DCVC Bio. Prior to DCVC Bio, Kiersten was an Investment Director at Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the Venture Capital arm of Monsanto, which was one of the most active investors globally in agriculture. Kiersten has over 15 years of experience in Biotechnology. Prior to joining MGV, Kiersten worked at Burrill & Company, which invested broadly in Life Sciences and Industrial Biotechnology. Kiersten is a co-founder and Director of Pairwise, is on the Board of Atomwise, Farmlead, Plant Response Biotech, VitalFields (acquired), Understory Weather and Blue River Technology (acquired). She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Genome Canada GAAP, The Keystone Symposia Scientific Advisory Board, and the EULC, a sport-not-for-profit.
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Zachary Bogue
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs. He was previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a law partner at Virtual Law Partners, where he worked with numerous start-ups and their founders, and developed expertise in technology law and Silicon Valley business practices.
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Chris Boshuizen
Operating Partner of DCVC
Dr. Chris Boshuizen is an Operating Partner at DCVC.
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Jason Pontin
Partner of DCVC
Jason Pontin FRSA is the editor in chief and publisher of M.I.T.’s Technology Review. He was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August 2005 was named publisher. From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring, a business and technology publication that was popular during the dot-com boom. From 2002 to 2004, he was the editor of The Acumen Journal, a now-defunct magazine about the life sciences that he founded. Pontin has written for a number of national and international magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Believer Magazine, and Wired. He is also a frequent guest on broadcast, public, and cable television news. Finally, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
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Gloria Lau
Equity Partner of DCVC
Gloria Lau joined Alpha Medical as Cofounder/CEO in 2017.Gloria Lau is the cofounder of Unity Medical, which brings AI to healthcare for improved clinical workflow. Previously, she headed up data products at Linkedin, and was VP of Data at Timeful which was acquired by Google. She is also a consulting faculty at Stanford.
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Ali Tamaseb
Partner of DCVC
Ali Tamaseb is a partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a highly reputable early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with about $2 billion under management. He holds several leadership and board positions at companies across the U.S. and globally. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Ali was a successful entrepreneur. He holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and studied General Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ali was an honoree of the British Alumni Award of 2018 by the British Council, and Imperial College President’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Ali and his work has been featured in BBC, Guardian, Forbes, The Telegraph, among others, and he has given talks and appeared on panels at major events and conferences, including two TEDx talks. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kelly Chen
Partner of DCVC
Kelly’s interest has always been how to use data and optimization to push boundaries, faster. From her career running a fixed income trading desk to building out a new quant product line for a global investment bank, she has focused closely on building the best models, structuring, and sales teams to optimize outcomes. At DCVC, she enjoys working on problems arising from fundamental population and labor driven shifts. She spends the majority of her time in hardware, where she believes we will see a massive transformation in the next 5-10 years. She is especially excited about teams building revolutionary tech in AI, robotics, manufacturing, and future of work. Kelly received a joint BS/MS in Financial Engineering and Operations Research with honors from Columbia University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Wharton, where she served as President of the Entrepreneurship Club.
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Todd Papaioannou
Equity Partner of DCVC
Todd Papaioannou is one of the co-founders of portfolio company Continuuity, a result of his tenure as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery, where he worked alongside the Enterprise IT investment team to evaluate investments in Big Data, Analytics, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Todd has more than 15 years of Internet and Enterprise software experience covering a variety of senior leadership roles in R&D, product and corporate strategy, marketing and professional services. Prior to joining Battery, Todd was most recently VP, Distinguished Fellow and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo!. There, he was responsible for driving the technical and strategic direction of the Yahoo! Cloud and Hadoop teams, and was identified as one of the Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders of 2011 by TechTarget. Additionally, Todd was responsible for leading and defining the overall Yahoo! corporate technology strategy. Prior to Yahoo!, Todd held a series of increasingly senior leadership roles at Teradata including CTO, Client Software and VP, Architecture and Emerging Technologies. Over the course of five years he was responsible for transforming the Teradata client software portfolio, conceiving and launching the overall Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud computing program, and played an instrumental role in evolving Teradata’s corporate product and M&A strategy. Earlier in his career, Todd was an early employee at Greenplum Inc. (formerly Metapa Inc.) serving as Chief Architect and Director of Engineering, where he initially built and led the early Engineering team before running the Field Services group. Before that, Todd was Co-Founder and CEO of DALi, Inc, an early stage distributed social gaming company. Todd holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and distributed systems.
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Spencer Punter
Partner, COO and CFO of DCVC
Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO/COO of venture-backed enterprise SaaS companies. He brings this diverse skill set to Data Collective where, as COO, he works on the internal operations of the firm and, as an operating partner, he assists the current portfolio with fund raising, FP&A, and M&A. Immediately prior to joining Data Collective, he was COO/CFO of Appcelerator, the maker of the leading cross-platform mobile application development suite, which was acquired by Axway. He has worked in various roles from Associate to General Partner at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Integral Capital Partners, Bowman Capital, Bay Partners, and Capital Dynamics.
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Andrew Gershfeld
General Partner of Flint Capital
Andrew Gershfeld is the General Partner at Flint Capital.
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About Flint Capital, Job Today, Kauffman Fellows: Flint Capital is an international venture capital fund investing in technology-driven companies.
Dmitry Smirnov
General Partner of Flint Capital
General Partner at Flint Capital investment fund
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Sergey Gribov
General Partner of Flint Capital
Sergey Gribov is a General Partner at Flint Capital.
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Ido Mart
Global Head of Agency Partnerships of Wix
A versatile business leader with extensive experience building and leading revenue generating organizations, combining marketing, sales, partnerships and customer success expertise to drive market penetration and top‐line growth.
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About Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Kevin Rose
Partner of True Ventures
Kevin Rose is a partner at True and serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting. In addition to serving on the boards of True portfolio companies, he is a board member for the Tony Hawk Foundation and Harlan Estate. Prior to joining True Ventures, he was an advisor to and general partner at Google Ventures. He has been featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and RedHerring in addition to others. Kevin was named in “Top 25 Angel Investors” by Bloomberg, “Top 25 Web Celebrities” by Forbes, “Top 35 Innovators” by MIT, and “Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web” by Time and Businessweek magazines. He has also appeared on ABC Nightline News, The Jimmy Fallon Show (2011, 2012), and the Charlie Rose show. Kevin interviews experts of all types to learn how to reach peak personal and professional performance while living a minimal and balanced life for his podcast, The Kevin Rose Show.
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About True Ventures, Watchville, Zero: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Kevin Rose
Partner of True Ventures
Kevin Rose is a partner at True and serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting. In addition to serving on the boards of True portfolio companies, he is a board member for the Tony Hawk Foundation and Harlan Estate. Prior to joining True Ventures, he was an advisor to and general partner at Google Ventures. He has been featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and RedHerring in addition to others. Kevin was named in “Top 25 Angel Investors” by Bloomberg, “Top 25 Web Celebrities” by Forbes, “Top 35 Innovators” by MIT, and “Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web” by Time and Businessweek magazines. He has also appeared on ABC Nightline News, The Jimmy Fallon Show (2011, 2012), and the Charlie Rose show. Kevin interviews experts of all types to learn how to reach peak personal and professional performance while living a minimal and balanced life for his podcast, The Kevin Rose Show.
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Adam D’Augelli
Partner of True Ventures
Adam is a partner at True Ventures. He previously worked with True portfolio company B-Stock, an online marketplace for liquidating excess inventory, and initially joined the True Ventures team as an analyst in 2010. Adam graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in science and a master’s degree in finance. As an undergraduate, he launched and ran an independent, donation-based record label and later created “Digital Frontiers,” a course exploring how the internet and technology are changing the global business landscape, which he taught at the University of Florida. He shares his thoughts on his blog, Life in Beta.
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Adam D’Augelli
Partner of True Ventures
Adam is a partner at True Ventures. He previously worked with True portfolio company B-Stock, an online marketplace for liquidating excess inventory, and initially joined the True Ventures team as an analyst in 2010. Adam graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in science and a master’s degree in finance. As an undergraduate, he launched and ran an independent, donation-based record label and later created “Digital Frontiers,” a course exploring how the internet and technology are changing the global business landscape, which he taught at the University of Florida. He shares his thoughts on his blog, Life in Beta.
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