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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Ted Gillick
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dell Technologies Capital
Ted Gillick is Vice President, Corporate Development of EMC Corporation and is a senior member of EMC’s global mergers and acquisitions practice. Over the course of his career, Ted has worked with a variety of technology and media companies and executed over $30B worth of M&A transactions across those industries. Prior to joining EMC, Ted was a senior member of the Corporate Development team at Avid Technology and an M&A investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Ted holds a BBA from the College of William and Mary and is currently pursuing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
DANIEL ALONSO
Vice President of Business Development of IMS Corporate
Daniel Alonso is Vice President of Business Development, managing new business opportunities for the company. Daniel brings vast experience in sales and marketing, including extensive international, Hispanic, Fortune 500 and start-up experience, with previous roles as vice president of business development at Terra Networks and senior director of marketing at Univision Enterprises. Daniel holds both an MBA and a BA from the University of Miami. He is based in our Miami office.
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About IMS Corporate: IMS is a digital marketing & communications company that partners with businesses seeking to expand in Latin America
Stina Brock
SVP, North America of Electron
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Mary Kosten
Vice President Customer Service of Dell EMC
Mary Cay Kosten is vice president, customer service – field, for EMC Corporation. She is responsible for creating and driving field service strategy and programs, logistics, and escalation management for EMC’s 3,000-person global team supporting EMC’s customer base. Kosten has over 25 years of experience in service and supplier management, with a proven track record in building outstanding service delivery organizations. Prior to joining EMC, she was vice president of global customer services delivery for Oracle/Sun Microsystems, responsible for delivering all elements of Sun’s support services. At Sun Microsystems, she also served as vice president of customer services for the Americas region and vice president for the Americas Customer Care Center. Under her leadership, Sun achieved the prestigious J.D. Power Certified Technology Service and Support (CTSS) Award for “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience,” the TSIA Award for Excellence in Service Operations, and was inducted into the STAR Awards Hall of Fame. Kosten is a 2008 recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business (High Tech and Telecommunications) Award and a 2006 recipient of the Silicon Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. She also is on the steering committee for TSIA’s Women in Services community of interest. She holds an MS degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and a BS in marketing from the University of West Florida.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Joshua Bernstein
VP of Technology of Dell EMC
Joshua Bernstein recently joined EMC as the new VP of Technology for the Emerging Technologies Division. Prior to EMC, Joshua ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple for 4 1/2 years. As a member of the small team, Joshua and his colleagues successfully took Siri from launch to sixty thousand servers, deploying in seventeen locations worldwide. Prior to working at Apple, Joshua was the senior software engineer at Penguin Computing specializing in design and implementation of large scale distributed systems management software. In addition, he has worked on many high profile NASA missions, including the design for the image processing pipeline of the HiRISE Camera currently on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Joshua is a large contributor to the Open Source community, contributing to multiple projects including Mesos, HDFS, HBASE, Zookeeper, Samba, OpenMPI, Torque, and the Linux Infiniband Stack. Joshua studied computer engineering at the University of Arizona.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Chris Scollo
Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations, Customer Services of Dell EMC
Chris Scollo serves as the vice president of global strategy and operations for EMC Customer Support Services. In this role, he oversees the operation and evolution of EMC’s 7,000-person support organization—including a full range of programs and initiatives designed to meet new customer requirements, leverage new routes to market, and amplify EMC’s opportunities in cloud computing and big data. Scollo has over 19 years of experience in consulting, service delivery, and business operations. He joined EMC in 2011 from Oracle Corporation, where he was most recently vice president of Business Operations for the Global Systems Support organization. In this role, Scollo led the multi-year strategic planning process for customer services, acted as the support integration lead in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and drove management review processes, standardized metrics, and reporting. He has held previous leadership positions in Sun Microsystems’ Technical Support Services and Field Operations. Scollo holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross, an MA in economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Randy Bias
VP Technology, Emerging Technologies Division of Dell EMC
Randy Bias is the VP of technology of [EMC](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emc), a company that manufactures information management and storage software systems. He was previously a director at OpenStack. Before that, Bias was the VP of technology strategy at GoGrid.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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Jonathan Siegal
VP, Product Marketing of Dell EMC
Jon Siegal is currently the Vice President of Product Marketing, Dell EMC CI, HCI, Networking & Ready Solutions, which is leading the IT industry revolution in converged and hyper-converged infrastructure with its broad portfolio, including VxBlock, VxRail, VxRack, and XC Series. Prior to this, Jon led product marketing for EMC’s industry-leading VNX and VMAX product lines, where he spearheaded the market introductions of the award-winning VNX/VNXe in 2011, the follow-on VNX2 in 2013, and the VMAX3 launch in 2014. Jon has received several awards throughout his 14 year stint at Dell EMC, most notably the prestigious 2013 John Howard CMO award (top annual marketing leader award) and the 2011 EMC President’s Award. Prior to joining EMC, Jon led product marketing at two networked storage start-ups including Acopia Networks and Cereva Networks. He also previously served as a senior product manager at GE and as an account manager in the biotechnology industry. Jon holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and BA from the University of Vermont.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Jeffrey Boudreau
Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Dell EMC
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Ty Schmitt
Vice President / Fellow of Dell EMC
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Mahau Ma
SVP Corporate Strategy of MuleSoft
Mahau has over 15 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software space. Prior to joining MuleSoft in 2007, Mahau held various positions at TIBCO Software, including roles in sales enablement, customer marketing and partner marketing. Earlier, Mahau spent a number of years investing in enterprise software and networking startups at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Trinity Ventures. Mahau started his career at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Hayward
VP, Global Channels & Services of MuleSoft
Brent leads MuleSoft’s global channel and services organization, responsible for all aspects of customer and partner success. In this role, Brent leads our global services, support, training and channel organizations, working closely with our systems integration and reseller partners to deliver consistent, world-class solutions and enablement for our customers. Brent brings to MuleSoft over 16 years of experience in software sales and service delivery. Most recently at Oracle, he was Vice President of North America Application Sales for the Oracle Knowledge Product Portfolio where he was instrumental in rapidly expanding both the direct and channel sales operations. Previously, Brent was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at InQuira, where he drove top line growth through developing and operationalizing InQuira’s worldwide channel and alliances strategy. Brent began his career at Accenture, where he led teams serving Global 2000 clients in the communications, media & entertainment, and high tech industries. Brent holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Nima Asrar Haghighi
VP of Digital Demand Generation & Marketing Operations of MuleSoft
Nima Asrar Haghighi is VP of digital demand generation and marketing operations at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices. He was previously the head of internet marketing at eBay Advertising. During the course of his career, he took up several internet marketing roles at companies such as SEM SEO Expert, Refco, GAO Research, and VTRAC Consulting Corporation. Haghighi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in marketing.
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Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas of MuleSoft
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Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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Dan McAllister
SVP Global Alliances & Channels of MuleSoft
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Jayanta Dey
VP Engineering, Cloud Foundation and Integrated Systems of VMware
Jayanta Dey serves as vice president of engineering for Cloud Foundation and Integrated Systems at VMware.
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Sanjay Uppal
VP & GM VeloCloud Business Unit of VMware
Sanjay is the CEO and co-founder of VeloCloud where he leads the team that is working to Re-Invent WAN and transform how businesses connect. Prior to VeloCloud, Sanjay ran publicly traded OnMobile Global, serving as its President and COO. Sanjay also spent time at Citrix through the acquisition he negotiated with Caymas where he was President and CEO. At Citrix, he defined the product strategy and go to market for the Access Management, Delivery Controller and WAN acceleration product lines. Prior, Sanjay served in executive roles at Webvan (Vice President of Engineering and Business Development) and at Hewlett-Packard where he initiated and rapidly grew Internet Infrastructure as a profitable new business for HP. He holds an MS from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology
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Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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Tom Gillis
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network and Security of VMware
Tom Gillis is CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Gillis started Bracket with a vision to re-imagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. This Technology Group included the business units responsible for Cisco’s entire Network and Content Security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Tom was VP of Marketing and part if the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Before that, he held the position of VP/GM at iBEAM Broadcasting, an Internet start up that wentpublic on NASDAQ. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group, and Raytheon Corporation. Gillis received a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEEfrom Northwestern, and an MBA from Harvard.
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Kathy Chou
VP, R&D Operations and Central Services of VMware
Kathy Chou is VP of Research & Development Operations and Central Services for VMware. Chou has more than 25 years of operations and management experience in the high-tech industry. Previously, she has served as SVP of Sales Strategy and Operations for Informatica, VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at Intuit and spent 18 years at HP in various management roles. Chou holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. She most recently served on the Stanford Presidential Search Committee, has chaired the Stanford Alumni Committee on Trustee Nominations and served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is currently Vice Chair for the Stanford Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRISS), development director for the Asian Pacific Fund, member of the Santa Clara University Board of Regents and Engineering Advisory Board. Kathy received the Stanford Medal in 2013, Wise Woman Award from Deloitte LLP in 2011, and was the Winner of the Franz Edelman Award for excellence in Operations Research in 2009. The Silicon Valley Business Journal selected her as one of the Top 100 most influential women in 2011. Chou lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and four sons.
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Hüseyin Dursun
Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services of VMware
Hüseyin Dursun is the Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services at VMware.
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Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware
Mr. Rowe has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. Mr. Rowe has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware since March 2016. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DellEMC from October 2014 through February 2016. Prior to joining DellEMC, Mr. Rowe was Vice President of North American Sales of Apple Inc. from May 2012 to May 2014. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc., an airline holdings company, from October 2010 until April 2012 and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Continental Airlines from August 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Rowe currently serves on the board of directors of Sabre Corporation.
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Ajay Patel
SVP/GM Cloud Provider of VMware
Ajay Patel is senior vice president of Product Development, Cloud Services, responsible for all product development and operations for vCloud Air. Prior to VMware, Ajay led the core middleware business, Cloud Application Foundation, for Oracle. Under his leadership, Oracle Exalogic, a middleware engineered system, became the fastest-growing business and Oracle WebLogic, a Java EE Application Server, was #1 in the market during his entire tenure. He also launched Oracle Java Cloud Service and set the roadmap for Oracle’s private cloud solution. Ajay has over 20 years of enterprise software expertise and was also senior vice president at Apigee (Sonoa Systems) and general manager for BEA Systems, Data Services business. His prior experience includes management consulting and system integration with Price Waterhouse Coopers, EDS and AT&T. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and another Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine. He is also a technical adviser to venture funded software companies.
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June Yang
Vice President, Engineering and Product Management – VMware cloud on Dell EMC of VMware
June Yang serves as vice president of engineering and product management at VMware.
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Lee Caswell
Vice President Marketing of VMware
General management and marketing for the storage, virtualization and digital video markets Specialties: Marketing, Strategy Development, Technology Alliances, OEM relationship management.
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Paul Turner
Vice President Product Management vSphere of VMware
Paul Turner is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian Inc. since January 2014. Paul is responsible for marketing, product planning and strategy at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, Paul previously led the Product Strategy Office at NetApp, where he guided their investments into FlashRay, Iongrid and CacheIQ. Prior to that role, Paul was the General Manager of the OnCommand Insight Business (which included Onaro and Akorri). Under his leadership this enterprise software business grew to more than $60M and was recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Storage Resource Management market. Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle where he led Oracle’s Technology Alliances Division and their Support Engineering Team. Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and is based out of Cloudian’s Foster City, Calif. headquarters.
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Andy Banks
Vice President of Global Distribution of VMware
Andy Banks is a Vice President of Global Distribution at VMware.
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Umesh Mahajan
SVP, GM NSX Networking and Security (SDN) of VMware
A seasoned executive and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in tech industry, Umesh has helped develop the vision, strategy, and execution plan for several innovative technology products. Before co-founding Avi Networks, Umesh was the Vice President / General Manager for a $2B Data Center switching business at Cisco where he led engineering, product management, marketing and operations for Nexus 7000, MDS switching products, and the NX-OS operating system. Prior to his work at Cisco, Umesh led the software team at Andiamo in architecting and delivering SAN-OS. Umesh has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Duke, a Bachelor of Science degree from IIT Delhi, and has 29 patents to date.
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Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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Alex Tosheff
VP, Chief Security Officer of VMware
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Allwyn Sequeira
SVP & GM, Hybrid Cloud Services BU of VMware
Allwyn Sequeira serves as senior vice president and general manager for Hybrid Cloud Services BU at VMware.
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Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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Shankar Iyer
SVP & GM, End User Computing of VMware
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Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products at VMware.
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John Gilmartin
General Manager and Vice President, Integrated Systems of VMware
John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Ajay Singh
SVP / GM Cloud Management Business Unit of VMware
Ajay Singh serves as vice president and general manager of VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit.
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Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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Israel Cidon
VP Researcher of VMware
Technion EE professor and co-founder of Actona, (AKA Cisco WAAS) Viola (acquired by Fluke Networks) and Micronet (MCRNL:IT). Rock junky and espresso fanatic.
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Lakshmi Mandyam
VP Product Management Edge/IoT of VMware
Lakshmi Mandyam serves as vice president of product management at VMware.
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Lily Chang
VP, XMO & SVM Project Office of VMware
Lily Chang is the VP, XMO & SVM Project Office at VMware.
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Craig McLuckie
Vice President of VMware
Craig is the VP of R&D for VMware’s Cloud Native Applicationsbusiness unit. Craig arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a company that he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig spenttime in senior positions at Microsoft and Google; at the latter he made significant contributions to Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes. Craig also co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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Mark Chuang
Vice President, Product Management, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
Mark Chuang is the VP, Product Management for VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit. His team accelerates the adoption of the software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud, by defining plans for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs. He has over 20 years of product experience across enterprise SW, personal computers, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Mark graduated with High Honors from the UC, Berkeley with a BS in EECS and has been awarded 6 US patents.
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Marjorie Young-Krauss
VP, Integrated Marketing of VMware
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Srinivasan Murari
VP Engineering, Storage and Availability of VMware
Srinivasan Murari serves an SVP of engineering, storage, and availability at VMware.
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Courtney Burry
VP Product Marketing of VMware
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Mark Lohmeyer
SVP/GM, Cloud Platform BU of VMware
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Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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Mark Peek
VP, Principal Engineer of VMware
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF and OCI.
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Geoff Thompson
Vice President: VMware Cloud Provider Sales of VMware
Geoff Thompson is a Senior Director of vCloud Air Network Programs at VMware.
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Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Paul Dul
VP Product Management – Cloud Native Applications of VMware
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Teri Bruns
Vice President, Tanzu Partner Ecosystem of VMware
Teri Bruns is a Vice President – Partner Services at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Vijay Ramachandran
VP, Product Management of VMware
Vijay Ramachandran serves as vice president of product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jacob Smith
VP, Bare Metal Strategy & Marketing of Equinix
Jacob is co-founder of Packet and serves as CMO. His diverse background (which includes running a digital marketing agency, administering two national nonprofits, and ten years as a professional opera musician) informs a unique approach that has established Packet as a trusted infrastructure partner for today’s leading developers, SaaS companies and Fortune 100’s.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Raouf Abdel
EVP, Global Operations of Equinix
Raouf Abdel joined Equinix in 2012, and today he is head of Global Operations overseeing engineering, construction, and operations for the company. Previously he served as Regional Operating Chief, Americas where he successfully led IBX Operations through significant growth and expansion. Mr. Abdel has 30 years of experience in the datacenter, telecom, and construction industries. Prior to joining Equinix, he was President and CEO for OpTerra Energy Group where he was responsible for building the company’s business plan, securing funding and day to day operations. Before that Mr. Abdel was President, Business Markets Group, at Level 3 Communications where he led the company’s $1 Billion Enterprise business unit. He also held numerous leadership roles at Level 3 in network deployment, product development and M&A. Prior to Level 3, Mr. Abdel served as VP of Network Deployment at MFS Communications and was responsible for network and facility deployment throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Mr. Abdel holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Temple University in Philadelphia.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steven Smyser
VP, Bare Metal Finance & Commercial Solutions of Equinix
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About Equinix, GraniteShares: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jim Poole
Vice President, Ecosystem Business Development of Equinix
Jim Poole is the vice president of ecosystem development and global service providers at [Equinix](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/equinix). Prior to that, he was the general manager of global networks and mobility at the same company. He joined Equinix from Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, where he led business development and sales. Before Roundbox, he was vice president and general manager of network services at CenturyLink. He also held senior leadership positions at C&W Americas, dynamicsoft, American University Washington College of Law, and UUNET. Poole holds a bachelor’s degree from American University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Bill Long
Vice President- Interconnection Services of Equinix
Bill Long joined Equinix in 2013. He is responsible for the overall profitability and growth of Equinix interconnection products globally. This includes management of the existing portfolio and new product innovation. Prior to joining Equinix, Long served as Vice President of Voice Services at Level 3 Communications where held numerous product management, product develop and R&D related roles. He is a named inventor on five issued and pending patents.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Ryan Mallory
Senior Vice President Global Solutions Enablement of Equinix
Ryan Mallory serves as Equinix’s VP of Global Solutions Architects and is an active contributor in the IoT space. Sitting on multiple customer advisory boards and advising start-ups in Silicon Valley around the interconnect grid, city, home and person, his line of sight into emerging market trends and advanced execution is highly regarded. Key areas of expertise are the mobile integration point, edge access and aggregation point and core distribution infrastructure for IoT and the industrial internet. His guidance and recommendations have helped fortune 500 companies solidify their IoT roadmap and implement a comprehensive execution plan.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Milind Wagle
SVP & CIO of Equinix
Milind Wagle joined Equinix in April 2010 and serves as the Global CIO within the Customer Success Organization. Wagle leads the global IT team and oversees the solution delivery for enterprise applications, information security, and end-user technology infrastructure support for Equinix’s thousands of global employees. For the past six years, Wagle has served in various senior leadership roles within the IT team at Equinix, most recently as Vice President. In addition to managing the global IT applications portfolio, he has managed large-scale, cross-functional enterprise transformation programs for the company, including designing and deploying process, system and organizational standardization across the globe. Previously he has held leadership positions at VeriSign, KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint. Wagle holds a BS, Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jeremy Forest
VP, Strategy + M&A of The Heritage Group
Jeremy Forest is the Adjunct Professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law.
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About Biosynthetic Technologies, BlueAllele, The Heritage Group, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law: Privately owned large conglomerate in energy, refining, chemicals, construction, environmental and recycling sectors seeking opportunities
Mav Turner
VP, Product Management of SolarWinds
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About SolarWinds, SolarWinds: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Tim Brown
VP Security Architecture of SolarWinds
Tim Brown, VP of Security for SolarWinds® MSP, has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing security technology, including identity and access management, vulnerability assessment, security compliance, threat research, vulnerability management, encryption, managed security services, and cloud security. Tim’s experience has made him an in-demand expert on cybersecurity, and has taken him from meeting with members of Congress and the Senate to the Situation Room in the White House. Additionally, Tim has been central in driving advancements in identity frameworks, has worked with the US government on security initiatives, and holds 18 patents on security-related topics.
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About Nopsec, Nopsec, SolarWinds: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Saaya Nath
Vice President of Jump Capital
Saaya Nath currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Boston Consulting Group as an Associate.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Tarun Gupta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Tarun Gupta currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. He previously worked at Scientific Games as the Manager.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Vice President of Jump Capital
Shanav Mehta is the Vice President at Jump Capital.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Kirk Haslbeck
VP Data Quality of Collibra
Kirk Haslbeck is the VP Data Quality at Collibra.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Dmitry Shurygin
VP Operations of NFWare
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About NFWare: NFWare develops disruptive virtualized network software for operators and data-centers.
Jeff Aaron
VP Marketing of Mist Systems
Jeff Aaron serves as Mist’s Vice President of Marketing, where he is responsible for global promotion of the company’s groundbreaking wireless platform. Prior to Mist, Jeff was VP of marketing at PernixData (acquired by Nutanix), the leading storage acceleration and analytics company. Jeff has over 22 years of experience marketing in the high tech space, having worked at various software, networking and telecommunications companies including Silver Peak Systems, Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Turnstone Systems, and Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel). He began his career as a senior consultant at Ernst and Young where he counseled Fortune 100 companies with IT design and planning. Jeff earned his BA from Duke University with majors in Computer Science and Economics.
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About Juniper Networks, Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Sudheer Matta
VP of Product of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Edward Fox
CTO and VP Network Services of MetTel
Ed Fox is the CTO and VP of network services at MetTel.
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Max Silber
Vice President of Mobility of MetTel
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Baxtex McElroy
VP & General Manager of Jacobs
Baxtex McElroy is the VP and General Manager of Operations at Jacobs Engineering S.A. and brings over 45 years of experience in engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and government contingency operations. He has held other key responsibilities and roles at companies such as Fluor and Arabian American Oil Company, including positions on the executive, program & project management, construction, and the operations and maintenance of industrial and commercial facilities. In addition, Buck has managed supporting manpower, logistics development, and training. Baxter McElroy also brings experience in facilities design and specification, as design manager and coordinator, client representative and operability and maintainability consultant. Buck also served many roles in the United States Navy, including staff civil engineer and design engineer.
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About Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Pete Patel
Vice President of Operations of Coho Data
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About Coho Data: The Coho Data platform delivers Rack Scale Converged, Software-Defined Data Center solutions for the enterprise private cloud.
Tom Kurke
Vice President, Acceleration Ventures of Bentley Systems
Tom Kurke is the Vice President, Acceleration Ventures at Bentley Systems.
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About 3DSolver, Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Barry Bentley
Executive Vice President of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems, Bentley Systems Scandinavia: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Brian Robins
VP – Business Development of Bentley Systems
Brian Robins is an experienced B2B marketing executive specializing in enterprise software and IT services. Currently Brian is Vice President of Business Development at Bentley Systems, a provider of software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction. Brian was formerly Chief Marketing Officer at SunGard Data Systems Inc., the largest privately-held business software and IT services company. Between 1999 and 2011 Brian led SunGard’s worldwide marketing organization during which time the business grew from a $1 billion revenue company focused primarily on North America to a $5 billion revenue global Fortune 500 company with 20,000 employees serving 25,000 customers in 70 countries. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from New College, Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Jerry King
Vice President of Bentley Systems
Jerry King is Vice President of Strategic Alliances and is the alliance lead for Bentley’s partnership with Microsoft. While at Bentley, King has served as global vice president of business development for Asset Performance, global vice president of Utilities and Communications, vice president of Engineering Information Management and vice president of WorkPlace System Solutions, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate and product research and development startup. King contributed to the development, launch and progressive sales growth of ProjectWise®, the leading-edge engineering information management solution. Since its introduction in 1998, ProjectWise has been adopted by major engineering and infrastructure owner organizations worldwide and represents a huge technological and productivity-enhancing leap forward for organizations managing engineering projects. King is a registered engineer in the State of California and is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Association of Civil Engineers.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
George L. Pita
Executive Vice President and CFO of Mastec
George Pita became our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2014, upon the retirement of our previous Chief Financial Officer C. Robert Campbell. Mr. Pita joined MasTec in February 2013, as its CFO-Operations. From June 2007 until joining MasTec in 2013, Mr. Pita served as EVP and CFO to Stuart Weitzman Holdings, a manufacturer, designer and retailer of fine women’s footwear and accessories. From April 2002 to June 2007, Mr. Pita served in various capacities at Perry Ellis International, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2004 – 2007. From 1989 – 2002, Mr. Pita served in a variety of financial and operations positions at Sunglass Hut International, including Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pita earned his Bachelors in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Miami in 1983 and has been a certified public accountant for approximately 30 years. Mr. Pita also serves or has served in various charitable and other capacities, including current appointments at the University of Miami Accounting school advisory board, as well as a board member of Easter Seals of South Florida. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Pita served as a special advisor to Atlas Acquisition Holdings, Corp., a special purpose acquisition corporation.
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About Mastec: MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company.
Chary Mudumby
CTO & EVP of HTC Global Services Inc
A veteran in the Information Technology industry with more than 33 years of experience, Chary Mudumby has been with HTC since August 1994. As Chief Technology Officer, Chary leads the company’s efforts to keep pace with market and technology trends and support business units to open new avenues of growth. Earlier, as head of HTC’s offshore operations, Chary led multiple complex managed services engagements ranging from application development to business process outsourcing. He also spearheads HTC’s product development initiatives. Chary joined the Company as Director – Technical and also served as HTC’s Executive Vice President overseeing Technology Management and Global Development Centers. Chary earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India. He also holds an MSc. Tech. in Physics and Electronics (with a gold medal).
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Girish Arora
Vice President – Financial Services & Business Unit Head of HTC Global Services Inc
An accomplished IT industry business and sales leader with more than 25 years of comprehensive experience, Girish Arora has been managing the Financial Services vertical to accelerate growth in the Banking and Financial Services industry for IT and Business Process Outsourcing services. He has experience in leadership roles in the IT and BPO industry in the areas of Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Sales Management, Engagement Management, and Resource Management. Girish, with his strong business planning and execution experience, was responsible for starting, building, and growing the new business areas. He has been developing and managing senior level relationships with strategic customers, generating new business, managing engagements, and leading cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery and customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 companies. Girish has been creating and implementing Go-to-Market strategy, pursuit strategies for new and existing customers, managing overall relationship building process, ensuring customer satisfaction and successful delivery. He has been building and managing a world class Sales and Client relationship team for Onshore and Offshore Engagements providing direction, goal setting, mentoring, personal development, and performance management.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Prashant Kothari
Vice President and Practice Leader of HTC Global Services Inc
Prashant leads the effort for providing thought leadership in ECM, BPM, and Online Publishing domains. He is also responsible for the delivery of technology solutions for enabling digital transformation and driving operational efficiencies. Prashant has been instrumental in building strategic relationships with clients to provide IT services and manage large value IT projects delivery across business verticals. In his 20+ years of tenure at HTC, he has been consistently recognized for driving the company’s growth through strategic technology initiatives. Before joining HTC, Prashant was managing a company involved in developing Embedded Systems and Solutions for the Department of Defense agencies. Prashant holds a degree in Electronics Engineering.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Venu Vaishya
Executive Vice President – Operations of HTC Global Services Inc
As Executive Vice President, Operations, Venu is responsible for the US Business Operations. In this role he supports business development across all verticals, Global Strategic Sourcing, Human Resources Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. In addition, Venu heads the Human Resource function for CareTech Solutions, Inc also, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC Global Services. He joined HTC in December 2009. Venu brings over 41 years of diverse business leadership experience in the IT Industry. Prior to HTC, Venu was with Convansys / CSC and TCS. During his tenure at Covansys / CSC, he managed new business efforts, led the automotive business unit as the Head of Human Resources, played a vital role in the IPO and spearheaded the integration of several newly acquired companies. As Executive Vice President of Offshore Solutions, at Covansys/CSC, Venu played an integral role in driving growth, from overseeing contract negotiations, to executing a large contract for one of their top clients. In his 16 plus years at TCS, he performed in several different Technical roles. He was the Regional Manager in their New York office, during last three years of his tenure with TCS.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Vani Prasad
EVP – Insurance and Healthcare Services of HTC Global Services Inc
Vani Prasad has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology, as is a Vice President at HTC Global Services (HTC) since 2004. Vani joined HTC in 1996, and developed the Insurance Practice for HTC, one client at a time. As Vice President for Insurance and HealthCare Services, he has built a robust business unit having customers in many states across the US. He is a Business Management Professional with experience in leading complex business, project and program initiatives for Enterprise IT modernization. His current interest is in the digital transformation that is happening across all industries to improve customer engagement, derive operational performance, and drive cost savings through value driven solutions and services. Vani also manages a number of technology and solution partnerships, to position HTC well in the industry for tailored software implementations. Prior to joining HTC, Vani has led many projects in India, US and UK for various industries and involving a wide variety of technologies. Vani earned his Master’s Degree in Industrial Management with specializations in Operations Research and Organizational Behavior from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
James Joseph
Executive Vice President – Public Sector of HTC Global Services Inc
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Orli Remez
VP People and Culture of BigPanda
Orli Remez is the VP of people and culture at BigPanda.
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About BigPanda, Codefresh: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Eyal Efroni
VP Customer Success of BigPanda
Eyal Efroni is the VP of customer success at BigPanda.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
