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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 President operating in the Computer space. If you think a President 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.
Jennifer Esposito
Vice President & General Manager, Health of Magic Leap
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About Magic Leap: Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.
Allen Piscitello
Vice President Of Product Management of Blockstream
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
Praveen Vishakantaiah
Senior Vice President and CTO, Infrastructure Solutions Group of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jeff Clarke
President of Dell
Jeff Clarke serves as vice chairman, Operations and president, Client Solutions, for Dell. In this role, he is responsible for global manufacturing, procurement and supply chain activities worldwide, as well as the engineering, design and development of computer desktops, notebooks and workstations for customers ranging from consumers and small and medium businesses to large corporate enterprises. In addition, Jeff leads customer support, sales operations, commerce services functions, and IT planning and governance globally for Dell. Jeff joined Dell in 1987 as a quality engineer, and has served in a variety of engineering and management roles. He moved into product development in 1989 and was promoted to director of desktop development in 1995. In 1997, Jeff was responsible for launching the Dell Precision Workstation product line. Subsequently, Jeff was vice president and general manager, Relationship Product Group, including the OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision lines of business. Under his leadership, all three businesses achieved No. 1 worldwide share positions. Prior to joining Dell, Jeff was a reliability and product engineer at Motorola, Inc.Jeff serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Council for his alma mater, the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1986.
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About Dell, Dell Technologies: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Karen Quintos
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Dell
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About Dell, Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Brett Hansen
Vice President Client Software and General Manger Data Security of Dell
Brett is responsible for developing Dell Technologies solutions that enable customers to simplify and streamline their client lifecycle, secure their endpoints, and ultimately provide users with a more productive and modernized workspace environment. Brett joined Dell after 12 years with IBM Software Group. In his last position, he served as Director, IBM Tivoli Demand Systems Marketing where he held global responsibility for generating and managing the Tivoli pipeline.
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About Cigent Technology, Dell, Semarchy: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Scimone
Sr. Vice President, Chief Security Officer of Dell
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About Dell, Executive Women’s Forum: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Liam Quinn
Sr. Vice President, Sr. Fellow of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Neil Hand
Vice President & General Manager Tablet, Chrome, Workstations, Rugged and Alienware of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Liz Matthews
Senior Vice President Global Brand and Creative of Dell
Liz Matthews is the SVP of Global Brand and Creative & Executive Director – Consumer Marketing for Dell. Liz is responsible for building and running the new Dell Technologies brand and its family of brands. Additionally, Liz is responsible for driving Dell’s brand and purpose globally through advertising, messaging, digital, social, creative, corporate narrative, voice and visual identity, while at the same time, igniting Dell’s purpose internally. She has a plethora of technology marketing background from both large global brands and brazen start-ups including Sun Microsystems where she was fully integrated in the brand, product, and in house communications and ran end-to-end, integrated marketing for the software division. Liz sits on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council and is a LifeWorks Legacy Circle member, a non-profit dedicated to empowering homeless youth to self-sufficiency. Liz holds a B.A. in communications from California Polytechnic State University.
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About Dell, Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Moody
Vice President – Global Client Support & Deployment Services of Dell
John Moody serves as vice president of global client support and deployment services at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Brian Payne
Vice President, Product Management for Dell Technologies Cloud of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Aaron Chaisson
Vice President Dell Technologies Messaging of Dell
Aaron and his team are responsible for creating and socializing Dell EMC’s strategy and thought leadership messaging within the rapidly evolving IT landscape. Aaron has held a variety of roles in EMC and Dell Technologies over the past 20 years including Training & Education, Pre-Sales and marketing. Aaron was a founding member of the EMC vSpecialists program focusing on virtualization and cloud technologies and most recently he built the Dell Technologies Portfolio Messaging organization.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Manish Kothari
President, SRI of SRI International
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About SRI International, SRI International, SRI Ventures: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Stephen Ciesinski
President of SRI International
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About Kalele Partners, SRI International, SRI International, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
William Jeffrey
President and CEO of SRI International
William Jeffrey, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of SRI International, a leading research and development organization serving government and industry. Jeffrey joined SRI in 2014. From 2008 to 2014, Jeffrey was president and CEO of HRL Laboratories, a corporate R&D organization owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. Prior to joining HRL, Jeffrey served in the George W. Bush Administration as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeffrey also served in the Executive Office of the President as senior director for homeland and national security and as assistant director for space and aeronautics within the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Earlier in his career, Jeffrey was deputy director for the Advanced Technology Office and chief scientist for the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Jeffrey started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Jeffrey is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation, a recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award from the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Jeffrey is a member of the Board of Directors of TE Connectivity Ltd. Jeffrey received his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics is from MIT.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
John Prausa
Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Mission Solutions of SRI International
John Prausa became chief operating officer (COO) of SRI International in 2015, responsible for all activities in support of research and development operations including Contracting and Procurement; Human Resources; Security Operations; and Facilities, Property and Logistics. Prausa is also Vice President of Mission Solutions, which delivers technology and services in support U.S. government deployed systems. The division comprises two programs: Instrumentation and Simulation (I&S) and Intelligence and Information Systems (I2S). The I&S Program provides a full spectrum of support to clients in the military test and training and homeland defense communities, including technology R&D, system prototyping, instrumentation production, training exercise field support, and depot maintenance. I2S supports Army, Joint, and Coalition Operations software for electronic warfare (EW) and target sensing systems (TSS), including infrastructure and personnel for ground and air survivability systems. The program also enhances multi-spectral EW system capabilities through automated development, testing and distribution software tools. Prausa previously led SRI’s Engineering and Systems Group, at the time the largest R&D group at SRI, with staff distributed at fifteen regional offices and numerous operating locations. In that role, he directed 800 staff members conducting R&D, deployment and support of technologies and systems in ionospheric and space research, radar and remote sensing, signal processing and algorithm development, signals and electronic intelligence, test and training systems, wireless communications, robotics and autonomous systems, imaging technology and systems, force protection and situation awareness, and product development. Prausa has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and has done graduate course work in systems analysis at Stanford University.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
William Mark
President, Information and Computing Sciences; Vice President, SRI International of SRI International
William Mark leads SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which creates new technology in information security, system design, speech and natural language, vision and perception, planning and reasoning, and formal methods. The group’s leading-edge research is complemented with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. Projects include Internet interaction, intrusion detection software, physical and virtual information spaces, and technology for dynamic enterprise management. Prior to joining SRI in 1998, Mark headed the System Technology Group at National Semiconductor. The group focused on system-level design and implementation of the silicon-based systems of the future, including hardware/software co-design, integrated DSP solutions, and reconfigurable computing technology. Mark was formerly director of Information and Computing Sciences for the Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratories. Before joining Lockheed, he was a co-founder of Savoir, a company developing software tools for flexible manufacturing. He was a designer of the Flexis product, for which he holds a software patent. Previously, he held positions at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the General Motors Research Laboratories. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT. His personal research interests include system design and smart spaces.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Luther Lau
Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer of SRI International
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Michael Page
Vice President, Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer of SRI International
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Brian Rieger
President & Co-founder of Labelbox
Brian is an accomplished aerospace engineer, data scientist, and software developer turned serial entrepreneur. He is currently Co-founder and President of Labelbox, the leading training data software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He began his career in the aerodynamics, testing and flight certification of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Afterward, he built an Aerospace company that put hardware on the International Space Station and is recognized by Forbes 30 under 30 for transforming enterprise technology with machine intelligence. Brian loves understanding problems and is often heard saying: “A perfect formulation of a question is its own answer”. He’s also a lifelong hockey player and private pilot.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Mina Rezk
Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Aeva
Mina Rezk is a Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Aeva.
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About Aeva: Aeva develops a sensing and perception paradigm for autonomous machines.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Jamie Alders
Vice President of Product of Neurable
Jamie Alders is the vice president of product at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Jegan Candassamy
Vice President Of Software Engineering of Neurable
Jegan Candassamy is the vice president of software engineering at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Chris Wirth
Vice President, Marketing of AMP Robotics
Chris Wirth is the vice president of marketing at AMP Robotics.
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About AMP Robotics: AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
David Zinsner
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Micron Technology
David Zinsner is the senior vice president and chief financial officer at Micron Technology. Mr. Zinsner joined Micron in February 2018 with more than 20 years of financial and operations experience in the semiconductor and technology industry. Mr. Zinsner most recently served as president and chief operating officer at Affirmed Networks. Previously, he was senior vice president of finance and CFO at Analog Devices. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Intersil Corp. Mr. Zinsner holds a master’s degree in business administration, finance and accounting from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
April Arnzen
Senior Vice President, Human Resources of Micron Technology
April Arnzen is human resources senior vice president at Micron Technology. She is responsible for aligning team members to Micron’s business strategy. She was appointed to her current position in 2015. Since joining Micron in 1996, Ms. Arnzen has held various positions of increased responsibility and worked across many functions within the Human Resources department. She helped shape many of Micron’s team member programs, including performance management, human resources business partners, total rewards, leadership development, succession and integration. Prior to her current position, she was the global director of Micron’s human resources business partner organization. Ms. Arnzen earned a bachelor’s degree in human resources management and marketing from the University of Idaho.
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About Micron Technology, Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Jeff VerHeul
Senior Vice President, Nonvolatile Engineering of Micron Technology
Jeff VerHeul is the senior vice president for corporate engineering where he oversees the development of SanDisk’s growing portfolio of SSD, embedded and removable products and solutions. VerHeul brings 30 years of engineering and management experience to SanDisk where joined from Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), now a part of Microchip Technology. At SMSC he was senior vice president of engineering. Prior to that, he held executive roles at AMD in platform solutions engineering and silicon design. Verheul began his career at IBM where he spent 25 years in positions that included the vice president of server development, vice president of product development for microelectronics, and vice president of engineering and technology services. VerHeul holds a master’s degree in management of technology from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Su Murthy
Vice President Human Resources & Talent Acquisition of Egnyte
Su Murthy is the vice president of human resources at Egnyte and is responsible for global human resources management. Su brings over two decades of experience working with high growth technology startups. Previously leading HR at Actiance and Big Switch Networks, Su specializes in a winning-combination of People Analytics, Organization Network Analysis, and Psychology to build an engaged workforce. Su holds a bachelors in accounting from Bangalore University.
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About Egnyte: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Krunali Patel
Vice President Information Technology of Texas Instruments
Krunali Patel is Vice President Information Technology for Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). During her 21 years at TI, she has shown skilled leadership in negotiating complex business models, making strategic investment decisions and driving flawless execution in new product development. In her current role, she oversees a global team of 350 people who provide critical design tools and new product design support for TI. She is also the executive sponsor of TI’s New Product Development Execution initiative, and is instrumental in implementing and measuring product development best practices across the company. Additionally, Krunali serves as a member of the Executive Steering Team for TI’s Women for Technical Leadership (WTFL) program.
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About Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments develops semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors and analog semiconductors.
Terri West
Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments
Terri West is a senior vice president of TI and has global responsibility for the company’s communications, investor relations and public affairs functions. Before her current assignment, she was vice president and manager of strategic communications for TI, responsible for development of the key communications programs and leading cross-functional teams on critical projects. Earlier in her career, West managed the company’s media relations efforts. West joined TI in 1978 as a student intern while attending college. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The University of North Texas in 1982. West is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute and the Conference Board, and is a founding member of the Women of TI Fund. She also is vice president of the Texas Instruments Foundation.
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About Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments develops semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors and analog semiconductors.
Shankar Chandran
Vice President, Catalyst Fund of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Shankar Chandran is vice president at Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Catalyst Fund, at the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). The SSIC is based in Menlo Park, California and is focused on accelerating innovation for Samsung Electronics. Shankar is responsible for early stage and disruptive venture capital investments in technologies targeted at high growth sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile technology and security, digital health, next-generation user interfaces, and the internet of things. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Panorama Capital and has been an active venture investor for 12 years at Panorama Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Shankar has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He also serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, and has served as a director or observer on the boards of over ten companies. Shankar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India, an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Dan DeCloss
Founder, President and CEO of PlexTrac
Dan is the Founder and CEO of PlexTrac and has over 14 years of experience in Cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies including serving as Principal Consultant for Veracode. Aside from founding and running a security startup, Dan’s background and expertise is in application security and penetration testing, involving hacking networks, websites, and mobile applications for clients. He has also served as a Principal Security Engineer for the Mayo Clinic and a Sr. Security Advisor for Anthem – a Fortune 40 health insurance firm. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications. Dan has a passion for helping everyone understand cybersecurity at a practical level, ensuring that there is a good understanding of how to reduce their overall risk.
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About PlexTrac: PlexTrac is a cybersecurity platform for security teams of any size.
Robert Zhang
Co-founder & President of CloudMinds
Robert Zhang is a Co-Founder and President of CloudMinds Technology, where he is responsible for the company’s global business and product strategies, operations and strategic partnerships. Prior to co-founding CloudMinds, Robert was the Head of Service Strategy and Operations for Samsung Telecommunications America (2012-15). Previously (2011-12), he was Vice President of Product Management at Irdeto where he was responsible for global product strategy on broadband video, which included over-the-top, connected, social and Internet TV and next generation broadcasting. From 2009-11, he served as Vice President of Product Development at the Joint Innovation Lab. Prior to these senior executive roles, he was a Senior Program Manager for New Products Introduction, XBox 360 at Microsoft (2008-09) and as IPod Operations Program Manager (2004-08) and as Senior Engineering Scientist for CPU Software (2001-04) at Apple. Robert served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (2002-08) and as President of the Silicon Valley – China Wireless Technology (2004-05). Robert earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Mechanics and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Tongji University, China.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Joachim Klein
President & COO of ThreeKit
Joachim Klein is the President and COO at ThreeKit. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MS in Engineering (Diplomingenieur) from the Technical University of Berlin.
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About ThreeKit: ThreeKit is a 3D product configuration and visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage beautiful visuals at scale.
Cadir Lee
President & CTO of Ohmconnect
Cadir spent five years as CTO of Zynga, where he was responsible for the development and innovation of Zynga’s technology platforms, information technology, large-scale network operations, security, analytics, developer tools, and technology M&A. He managed teams, technology and infrastructure in over 30 offices around the world as Zynga grew from under 100 people to over 3000 and transitioned from a private to public company. In particular, Cadir was the original architect of Zynga’s big data analytics platform and managed the development and implementation of one of the world’s largest private cloud infrastructures. He also helped guide Zynga’s mobile business from zero presence to a top 10 IOS and Android game publisher. Most recently, Cadir has been exploring new business ideas in the area of sustainable energy as the founder of Steeltrap LLC. Prior to Zynga, he founded, took public, and spent eleven years as the CTO of Support.com, an online technology support company that deployed software to over 50 million PCs and devices. Cadir graduated from Stanford University, is on the board of NCWIT, and advises multiple startups in the San Francisco area including Opower and Choose Energy.
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About Ohmconnect: Our electricity grid operates under the antiquated assumption that the only thing that can change is turning on and off power plants.
Jon Rudolph
President and CEO of Action Fabricators
Jon represents the second generation of leadership at Action. His involvement with the company and the industry extends to the very beginning of the company’s manufacturing and converting operations. He has over 20 years of industry experience and extensive knowledge of materials, processes and industry standards. Jon holds an MBA from Western Michigan University and a BA in Business from Taylor University.
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About Action Fabricators: Action Fab provides custom-made tapes, adhesive and non-adhesive-backed foams, rubbers, plastics and other specialty materials.
Dhiraj Mallick
Vice President of Engineering and Business Development of Cerebras Systems
Dhiraj Mallick serves as vice president of engineering and business development at Cerebras Systems. Prior to joining Cerebras, Mallick served as the VP of architecture and CTO of Intel’s data center group. Dhiraj holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Rochester.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Nat Natraj
Co-founder & President of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies, AccuKnox: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Nate Ramanathan
Senior Vice President Operations of AEye
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Martin Frid-Nielsen
Vice President of Document Solutions of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Sastry Chilukuri
Executive Vice President, Digital and AI of Medidata Solutions
Sastry Chilukuri is responsible for accelerating the development, go-to-market and delivery of capabilities that help life science customers scale artificial intelligence across the enterprise. Sastry brings 19 years of experience in healthcare technology. He most recently was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 12 years advising bio-pharma, medical device, technology, public sector and regulatory clients around the world. Prior to that, he worked for GE Healthcare in software engineering, product development and operations. His perspectives have been widely disseminated, including in conferences, media and numerous publications on McKinsey Insights. Sastry holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; a Master of Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Michele Becci
Vice President of Customer Experience of Medidata Solutions
Michele Becci is the Vice President of Customer Experience at Medidata Solutions, a global life sciences technology company. Michele has spent over 18 years in the life sciences technology industry, with a focus on the sales and strategy that supports clinical trial and pharmacovigilance solutions. Prior to her current role, she held various management positions within Oracle Corporation’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Petro Estakhri
Founder, CEO, President & Board of Directors of Avalanche Technology
Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior Petro Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media is a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets and grew from a private start-up to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. From 1993 to 1996, Petro Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a supplier of semiconductors for Internet entertainment electronics, where he developed one of Cirrus Logic’s primary micro-controllers and co-founded the mass storage memory group. Petro Estakhri also worked at IBM and National Semiconductor. Petro Estakhri has served as a member of a number of boards, including Lexar Media’s as well as Silicon Stor, a company that Petro Estakhri co-founded in 2002. Petro Estakhri is a co-author of over 95 patents related to magnetic media, flash storage controller and systems architecture. Petro Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.
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About Avalanche Technology: Avalanche is developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays.
Ray Grady
President and Chief Executive Officer of Conexiom
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About Conexiom: Conexiom helps manufacturers and distributors lower their cost-to-serve and generate revenue through sales orders and AP Invoice automation.
Judd Marcello
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Conexiom
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About Conexiom: Conexiom helps manufacturers and distributors lower their cost-to-serve and generate revenue through sales orders and AP Invoice automation.
Jason Binder
Vice President HR & Talent Management of Delphix
Jason Binder serves as the Vice President of People. Prior to joining Delphix in January 2010, he was one of the first employees and served as the Senior Director of Business Operations at Xsigo Systems an I/O virtualization start-up acquired by Oracle. Prior to his 4 years with Xsigo, Jason worked with top tier venture capital firms performing retained searches and key human capital initiatives. Jason started his career in the networking arena working with Cisco and later Juniper Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Daniel Graves
Vice President, Global Product Ecosystem of Delphix
Daniel Graves is the vice president of global product ecosystem at Delphix.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Marc Aronson
Senior Vice-President of Engineering of Delphix
Marc Aronson is the senior vice president of engineering at [Zuora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zuora), a company that provides subscription billing as well as recurring revenue, payments, and billing solutions. He previously the same position at TeleNav. Before TeleNav, he held several VP positions at Oracle and CA Technologies. He also was employed as a director at Adobe and a senior systems analyst at Sperry Unicac. Aronson holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and applied math, and a master’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Tony Orlando
Senior Vice President of Delphix
Tony Orlando is a senior vice president at Delphix.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Catherine Lesjak
Executive Vice President & CFO of HP
Catherine Lesjak has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hewlett Packard Company (“HP”) since January 1, 2007 and was interim chief executive officer of HP from August 2010 through October 2010. As a 27-year veteran of the company, Lesjak has held a broad range of financial leadership roles across HP. Before being named CFO, she held the position of senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing HP’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Earlier in her career at HP, Lesjak managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Prior to that, she was group controller for HP’s Software Solutions Organization and managed HP’s global channel credit risk as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization. Lesjak earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Enrique Lores
President, Imaging & Printing Business of HP
Enrique Lores is the President of HP Inc.’s Imaging & Printing business, an over $20 billion business engineering ink and laser-based solutions that provide a faster, more affordable, exciting way to print, manage, and realize content. Within this business is the Solutions group. With a scalable, software-rich foundation, HP provides end-to-end solutions that tie products, services and software together. Throughout his 26 year tenure with HP, Enrique has held leadership positions across the organization. Most recently leading the Separation Management Office for HP Inc., he executed one of the largest and most complex corporate separations in history. Previously, Enrique was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Business Personal Systems, where he was responsible for the overall business, including defining product, marketing and sales strategies, end-to-end product development, and business execution worldwide. Before his Business Personal Systems role, Enrique was Senior Vice President of Customer Support & Services (CSS), providing industry-leading customer care to more than 150 million HP customers, and helping HP develop, build and provide industry-leading service offerings. Prior to his CSS role, Enrique was Senior Vice President of the Worldwide Customer Services & Sales organization where he defined the sales strategy across multiple sales channels for HP’s Personal Systems business. Enrique also served as Vice President and General Manager of HP’s Large Format Printer business. In this role, he was responsible for leading several mergers and acquisitions, including the acquisition of Scitex, a manufacturer of wide-format industrial printers. He has also held leadership positions internationally, including Vice President and General Manager of HP’s commercial products category for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Enrique holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University in Valencia and an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona. Enrique is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Anne Anderson
Vice President, Experience and Change Leadership of HP
Anne is a Senior Director in the worldwide Partner and Foundational Services organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. A highly experienced, global customer experience leader, Anne is dedicated to bringing an outside-in perspective into business initiatives. Her proven track record of innovation in internet marketing, eCommerce, lead generation, SEO and digital content is now focused on enabling Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners through high-value online engagements and conversion engines.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Ron Coughlin
President, Personal Systems Business of HP
Ron Coughlin is the President of HP Inc.’s Personal Systems Business. This group focuses on PCs, tablets, accessories and other related services for all customer segments and represents a $35 billion annual revenue business for HP. Ron joined HP in June 2007 as the Senior Vice President of the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) Worldwide Strategy and Marketing team. In this role, he was responsible for driving global strategy, marketing and planning across all customer segments and global business units. In 2010, Ron transitioned to lead the LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions global business unit – an organization that spanned consumer to enterprise. In this role, he was responsible for customer offerings that included HP LaserJet printers, supplies, managed print services and enterprise software solutions. Under his leadership, the business gained 4 points of HP share and expanded its Managed Services offering to the channel. Most recently, Ron ran Consumer Personal Systems where he was instrumental in turning the business around by redefining the strategy, re-engineering the cost structure, and re-invigorating innovation including creating the Immersive Computing category. Prior to joining HP, Ron spent 13 years with PepsiCo as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, he led the marketing function for PepsiCo’s International Beverage business with more than $10 billion in system sales – including the Pepsi, 7-up, Tropicana, Gatorade, Aquafina and Sobe brands. Ron holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Marketing from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Ron is based in San Diego, California.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Glenn Trout
President and CEO of VelocityEHS
Glenn Trout is President & CEO of VelocityEHS. Glenn has more than 20 years of experience in the EHS industry, which includes authoring articles for trade publications, serving on the VPPPA Region V board and participating in numerous panel discussions and webinars. He has spoken at more than 100 industry events on topics such as occupational health and safety, regulatory compliance and risk assessment. Prior to joining VelocityEHS in 2000, he gained management experience at Mead Paper and Ernst & Young. Glenn holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Miami University in Ohio and an MBA in Management and Strategy, Marketing and International Business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.
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About VelocityEHS: VelocityEHS is a new kind of EHS software company, helping you reach your environmental, health, safety and sustainability goals faster.
Roger Bottum
Vice President Of Product of VelocityEHS
Roger Bottum is Vice President of Strategy at VelocityEHS. Roger has over 25 years of experience in management, product strategy and marketing in cloud and enterprise software. He has spoken at hundreds of public and industry events on risk management and cloud technology. As an early evangelist of GRC, Roger helped launch the Open Compliance and Ethics Group. He was also an early proponent of enterprise cloud applications, participating in the first year of salesforce.com’s AppExchange launch. Prior to joining VelocityEHS in 2015, he led global product management for Enablon and served as an associate partner at Accenture. He is on the board of GT Schmidt and holds 2 patents. Roger holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Economics from Colorado College, attended and lectured at Accenture’s St. Charles training program and attended the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University Executive Program.
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About VelocityEHS: VelocityEHS is a new kind of EHS software company, helping you reach your environmental, health, safety and sustainability goals faster.
Sean Larkin
President of OnLogic
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About OnLogic: OnLogic designs highly-configurable computers engineered for reliability.
Daniel Bounds
Vice President, Marketing of VAST Data
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About Value Pro Partners, VAST Data: VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise.
Raluca Ada Popa
President of Opaque
Raluca Ada Popa is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Her research is in security and applied cryptography.Raluca has developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data as well as designed novel encryption schemes. Raluca received her PhD in computer security as well as two BS degrees, in computer science and in mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Johnson award for best CS Masters of Engineering thesis from MIT, and a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM.
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About Opaque, PreVeil: Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Timothy McGrath
President and Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection
Mr. Timothy McGrath is President, Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection Inc. Mr. McGrath has served as Chief Executive Officer since August 2011, and as President since May 2010. Mr. McGrath served as Chief Operating Officer from May 2010 to August 2011. Mr. McGrath also served as Executive Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from May 2007 to May 2010, as Senior Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from December 2006 to May 2007, and as President of PC Connection Sales Corporation, sales subsidiary, from August 2005 to December 2006.
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About PC Connection: PC Connection is a direct marketer of a range of information technology (IT) solutions.
Alexandre Elkrief
Co Founder & President of Knowhere
Alexandre Elkrief joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & President in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Gary Bradski
President of OpenCV
Gary Bradski is the Board Member at Occipital Inc. Gary is the creator (and active director) of OpenCV. He recently founded Industrial Perception, and has been involved in several other computer vision related companies in the past, including VideoSurf and Willow Garage. Gary has his finger on the pulse of everything computer vision related, which makes him an enormous technical asset.
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About Arraiy, Industrial Pereception Inc., OpenCV, Stanford University: OpenCV is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library.
Bruce Harrison
Vice President of Research of Malwarebytes
Bruce joined Malwarebytes in 2008 after his insightful malware expertise was displayed on a range of online security forums and direct experience as a computer technician. As Vice President of Research, Bruce now manages a team of handpicked security experts and researchers that span across the globe to ensure Malwarebytes Anti-Malware continues to offer industry leading protection against the latest and most advanced threats.
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Darren J. Milliken
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ForeScout Technologies
Darren J. Milliken Senior Vice President and General Counsel With over 20 years of legal, business and compliance experience, Darren leads global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining ForeScout, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Accuray Inc. Before Accuray, he held several senior level legal roles at Sanmina-SCI, Voyan Technology, and the law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Mary Jo Prigge
President, Service Operations of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Mary Jo leads CCC’s Valuescope Operations, Customer Service, Technical Support, Implementation and Field Training functions.
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About CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.: CCC Information Services help companies improve their claims management process through better decision-making.
Pete Morowski
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
Pete has responsibility for CCC product development, product management, architecture, IT operations & infrastructure, business applications, and product strategy and marketing.
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About CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.: CCC Information Services help companies improve their claims management process through better decision-making.
Ke Yin
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering of Blaize
Ke Yin is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk
President, CEO, and Co-Founder of SPARQ
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk is a President, CEO, and CO-Founder of SPARQ. He is also the President & CEO | Founder at Decision Point Global and serves as a Board Of Directors at Syngin Technology. Mr. Wojszczyk was the SVP & Chief Innovation Officer at MERALCO (First Pacific Company in Hong Kong). Dr. Bartosz graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with an MS an Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Power Systems.
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About SPARQ: SPARQ is a computer security service company specializing in building and integrating hardware systems and providing managed services.
Yogesh Gupta
President and CEO of Progress
Yogesh Gupta is President & CEO at Progress. A software industry veteran, Yogesh Gupta is the CEO of Kaseya, the world leading IT Management software provider for MSPs and mid-market enterprises. Yogesh has over two decades of experience in product development, marketing, strategy, planning and business development. Previously Yogesh was the CEO of FatWire Software, which was sold to Oracle after 4 years of significant revenue growth. Prior to FatWire, he held increasingly responsible senior management roles at CA (NYSE: CA) where he was Chief Technology Officer for over five years and, in 2004, was selected by InfoWorld as one of the 25 most influential CTO’s worldwide. As CTO he delivered double-digit annual revenue growth of a multi-billion dollar portfolio. He also led the acquisition of three public and fifteen private companies over a two-and-a-half year period. A recognized expert in emerging technologies and industry trends, he is a published author and much sought-after Speaker who regularly presents to audiences ranging from CIOs to CTOs, to industry analysts, financial investors and the media. Mr. Gupta holds a patent in the field of neural networks. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.
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About Progress: Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications.
Siva Sivaram
Executive Vice President and President of Western Digital
Dr. Siva Sivaram is founder and chief executive officer of Twin Creeks Technologies, to which he brings unrivaled experience running a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing business with outsourced fabrication. Siva began his career at Intel. There, his final position was general manager of the $1 billion IC Procurement and Enabling Division, where he was responsible for portions of Intel’s chipset design, all external integrated circuit procurement and the production of Intel chips that were not manufactured in Intel fabs. In that position, Siva was known worldwide as the world’s largest consumer of semiconductor foundry wafers. In 1999, he joined Matrix Semiconductor as COO and was instrumental in the development and mass production of the first monolithic 3-D memory card. SanDisk purchased Matrix in 2006, and Siva was appointed general manager of the Pre-recorded Content Division. From 2004 until 2008, Siva was a board member at Nanosolar. In August 2007, Siva left SanDisk to found and manage Twin Creeks Technologies as its CEO. Siva is the author of Chemical Vapor Deposition: Thermal and Plasma Deposition of Electronic Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995), and has published over 50 technical papers. He has also held positions as a research scholar at Matsushita Electric in Japan, a technologist at SEMATECH, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University.Siva received his doctorate in Materials Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Steffen Hellmold
Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives of Western Digital
Steffen Hellmold is the Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives at Western Digital.
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About Twist Bioscience, Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Dmitry Shevelenko
Co-founder & President of Tortoise
Dmitry Shevelenko is Co-Founder & President of Tortoise, an automated vehicle repositioning service for micromobility operators. Before starting Tortoise Dmitry was an adviser to leading mobility and future of work startups — Skip, SpotHero,Cargo, Superpedestrian, Remix, Payfare, and Codi. Prior to his advisory work, he took a 4-year ride at Uber as Director of Business Development. At Uber he initiated the company’s expansion into new mobility, including leadingthe JUMP partnership/ acquisition and Uber Transit. Dmitry spent time atFacebook, LinkedIn, and Pulse News earlier in his career. He is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in San Francisco with wife and 2 daughters.
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About Tortoise: Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries.
Aric Agmon
President & CEO of AOD Software
Under the leadership of Aric Agmon, President and CEO, AOD Software has become the leading provider of fully integrated software solutions for long term care communities, driven by his vision to help healthcare organizations improve business performance and deliver better resident care. Aric joined the company in 2000, and has been its CEO for over a decade while the company has grown more than 20 folds. He brings with him 25 years of software industry experience. He held senior international management positions with Hitachi Data Systems and IBM in Europe. Aric has led the acquisitions of 15 software companies. Aric has B.A. in Economics and Business Administration as well as an MBA from Jerusalem University.
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About AOD Software: A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based portfolio company of Primus Capital.
Charles George
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Research & Development of AOD Software
Charles George serves AOD Software as the CTO and VP of Research & Development, where he steers the overall technology direction and innovation, as well as provide support and guidance for the application development processes. AOD Software’s complete solution enables long term care communities to focus on what really benefits the resident. Charles has more than 20 years of software engineering experience and more than 15 years of healthcare industry experience; he is a leader in the LTPAC clinical informatics industry and an active Board Member of NASL; he also participates in many industry organizations including CCHIT, CAST, HIMSS, AHIMA and LeadingAge. Charles has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Kansas University.
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About AOD Software: A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based portfolio company of Primus Capital.
Mark Wade
President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs
Mark Wade is the Ayar Labs’ President, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder.
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About Ayar Labs: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Keith Bartlett
Vice President, Corporate Development of SevOne
Keith Bartlett is the vice president of corporate development at [SevOne, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sevone#/entity), a digital infrastructure management company that provides a network monitoring platform. Previously, Bartlett was the vice president of business development at Axeda Corporation.
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About SevOne: SevOne provides the only digital infrastructure monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s demanding.
Ed Meyercord
CEO & President of Extreme Networks
Meyercord serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015. Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company, that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously,, Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup). He previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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About Extreme Networks, Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Andreas Baumhof
Vice President Quantum Technologies of QuintessenceLabs
Andreas Baumhof is an internationally renowned cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. As the technology lead for ThreatMetrix, Baumhof delivers the data science innovations behind the company’s pioneering anonymized global shared intelligence model. He is responsible for threat intelligence and malware research, as well as delivering innovations, such as clear-box machine learning, which keep ThreatMetrix solutions on the cutting edge. Baumhof was Co-Founder and CEO of TrustDefender before its acquisition by ThreatMetrix in 2012. He was also Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Microdasys Inc. where he developed the first SSL proxy and has patents in Europe and the U.S.
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About QuintessenceLabs: QuintessenceLabs provides data security technology, products, and solutions to protect sensitive digital data.
Jack Rondoni
Vice President, Storage Networking of Brocade Communications Systems
As Vice President of the Storage Networking Business Unit, Jack Rondoni leads the strategy and execution of Brocade’s storage networking business. Jack is responsible for driving innovation in the company’s largest business, leading new product development, driving strategic storage initiatives and enabling advanced storage technologies such as Solid State Storage and Software Defined Storage. He joined Brocade in 2006 bringing over 20 years of experience in storage, networking, and technology. Prior to joining Brocade, Jack was a Segment Marketing leader at Agilent/Avago Technologies. He also held leadership roles in product management and marketing in a number of startups and he spent 9 years at Motorola driving new product development. Jack holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Brocade Communications Systems: Brocade Communications Systems Brocade offers data center networking solutions that enable organizations to manage information assets.
Mike Riegel
President of CloudFactory
Mike has spent 20 years driving revenue growth and industry innovation across cloud, SaaS, mobile, analytics, IOT, software and services. Previously, he served as CMO for Cisco Services division – Cisco’s largest single unit driving $11B in revenue and before that as CMO for IBM WebSphere – the world’s #1 middleware portfolio driving $6.0B in revenue. During his 14-year tenure at IBM he launched IBM Mobile First, created IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program to work with startups, technology incubators and venture capital firms, and led strategy and implementation for IBM’s On Demand and Utility Computing. He is a featured speaker on business development and sales, global marketing, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, business strategy and leadership. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Saint Anselm College and his master’s of business administration from the University of Notre Dame.
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About CloudFactory: CloudFactory helps tech teams train and sustain AI with humans-in-the-loop.
Justin Bailie
President, Co-Founder of Rose Rocket
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About Rose Rocket: Rose Rocket is ERP software for trucking companies.
Brandt Mackey
Vice President, Field Engineering of AttackIQ
Brandt Mackey serves as VP of field engineering at AttackIQ.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
Mark Balch
Vice President of Products of Diamanti
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About Diamanti: Diamanti is the technology leader in bare-metal container infrastructure, purpose-built for modern cloud and open-source environments.
Eugene Yu
President & CEO of Konnech
Eugene Yu is President & CEO at Konnech.
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About Konnech: Konnech is a leading edge provider of electionic management systems.
Michael A. Vesely
President and Co-Founder of Tanzle
Michael A. Vesely is the President and Co-Founder at Tanzle.
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About Tanzle: Tanzle is a computer software company that features information and communication platform for visualization, analysis, and training.
Ryan Loughin
President of NextGen Security
Ryan Loughin is president and co-founder of NextGen Security. Ryan has enjoyed a career in the physical security industry for over 15 years and has been around security nearly his entire life. Loughin grew up in a family of security professionals and knew it was a path he wanted to pursue at a relatively early age. Ryan began his professional career at Security Services & Technologies (SST), a well-respected regional integrator at the time, and grew with the company through their transformation into a national provider of higher end security solutions. During his 12 years with SST Ryan performed many different functions for the company but most notably was his founding of their Petrochemical & Energy Division. Ryan developed this specialized department within SST and grew it into a major security provider to some of the world’s largest chemical, energy and oil & gas companies.
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About NextGen Security: NextGen Security provides integrated physical and electronic solutions for regulated entities and facilities in key vertical markets.
Mark Watterson
President of iFit – fitness technology
Mark Watterson currently works as the President of iFit. He previously worked at Icon Health and Fitness as the Electronics Purchasing Manager.
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About iFit – fitness technology: The world leader in fitness technology, iFit® is pioneering the way people interact with exercise equipment and technology.
Dolly Wu
Vice President & General Manager, Datacenter/Cloud of Inspur Group
Dolly Wu is the VP/GM of Inspur Datacenter/Cloud Division, in charge of USA and Canada Markets for Inspur. Dolly has over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry working with Data Centers, CSPs, Direct End Customers (in Financial Services, Internet/Cloud, Life Sciences, and Media/Entertainment), VAR/SI, OEMs, Government and Education Customers with focus on AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, HPC and Storage Market.
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About Inspur Group: Inspur Group supplies computer platforms and solutions for various IT applications in China.
Shantanu Talapatra
CPO & President of Smash.gg
Shantanu Talapatra is Worked at @Zynga .
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About Smash.gg: Smash.gg provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators.
Rick Kauchak
Vice President, Sales of America II Electronics
Rick Kauchak joined America II in 1992 after serving two years in the U.S. Army. After working in distributor and OEM sales for three years, he was promoted to selling manager. Over the next few years, Mr. Kauchak maximized this role to enhance the selling capabilities of his team while continuing to conduct his own daily sales activities. In 1998, Mr. Kauchak called on this experience to step into the position of the first non-selling manager and trainer where he engineered the America II University, the company’s comprehensive training program. This positioned him as a mentor and manager to new America II personnel. In 2001, Mr. Kauchak was promoted to director of OEM sales, a position he held for 11 years while also recruiting for the company and maintaining the America II University. Over this time, Mr. Kauchak continued to help develop and grow the company’s OEM/EMS division. In August 2012, he was named vice president of sales, responsible for overseeing the entire America II inside sales team.
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About America II Electronics: America II Electronics is a semiconductors company specializing in semiconductors and electronic components.
Frank Adelman
Sr. Vice President, President & CEO of Pegasus TransTech
Sr. Vice President at Pegasus Transtech
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About Pegasus TransTech, Transflo: Pegasus TransTech is a computer software company specializing in document management services.
Grant Erickson
President of Thread Group
Grant Erickson is a principal engineer at Nest, where he oversees the technical development of software designed to support Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, WiFi, and Nest Weave. In his role, he was also an early contributor to the formation of the Thread Group and Thread networking protocol. He is currently a member of the Thread Group Board of Directors.
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About Nuovation System Designs, Thread Group: Thread Group is a non-profit organization that creates an innovative way to connect and control products in houses.
Mark Pittman
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Blyncsy
Mark Pittman is the Official Member at Forbes Technology Council.
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About Blyncsy, ClearWater Law & Governance Group, Forbes Technology Council, IBM, Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, WAVE (Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification): Founded in 2014, Blyncsy™ is the big data solution we have all been waiting for
Jim Jaeger
President & Chief Cyber Strategist of Arete Advisors
Jim Jaeger is the President and Cyber Strategist at Arete Advisors. In his role as Chief Cyber Services Strategist for General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Systems, Jim Jaeger is responsible for developing and evolving the company’s cyber services strategy while synchronizing it with product strategy. Jim previously managed the Network Defense and Forensics business unit, including the Digital Forensics Lab. He has led cyber forensics investigations into some of the largest network breaches impacting our industry. Jim Jaeger has also held a leadership role for a wide range of cyber programs including General Dynamics’ support for the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Computer Forensic Lab and the DefenseCyber Crime Institute. Previously, he created General Dynamics’ information assurance and critical infrastructure protection group, which has developed a wide variety of Information Assurance tools, ranging from the Air Force’s intrusion detection infrastructure to the only network based multi-level security (MLS) system accredited by the National Security Agency at Protection Level 4 without waivers. He is a former Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and his military service includes stints as the Director of Intelligence (J2) for the U.S. Atlantic Command, Assistant Deputy Director of Operations at the National Security Agency, and Commander of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. In these capacities, Jim Jaeger was responsible for the collection and reporting of intelligence to Theater Commanders and the National Command Authority. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Air Force Academy and his Master’s degree in Management & Supervision from Central Michigan University. He also completed the Executive Development Program at the Whitmore Graduate School of Business of the University of New Hampshire.
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About Arete Advisors, Fidelis Cybersecurity: Arete Advisors is a cybersecurity company providing an accelerated incident response for detecting and responding to cyber-attacks.
George Otte
President of Geeks On Site
George Otte is the Miami founder and chairman of the Otte Polo Group, a diversified firm that operates several subsidiaries both in the United States and internationally. Since founding his first company in the early 2000s, Otte has amassed more than a decade of hard-won, multi-faceted business operations experience. Otte got his start in the computer repair and technical support industry. In 2002, he founded a small operation called TSS near his South Florida home. While 21 years old at the time, George Otte was still attending college full-time and working with a local bank to cover his tuition costs. After enrolling in a business law class and filing his incorporation papers, he set about growing TSS into a vibrant company with more than 100 distinct clients. By 2005, Otte was recognized as the premier provider of boutique technical support and remote computer repair services in the Miami/Coral Gables area. George Otte implemented an expansion plan with the 2006 acquisition of Geeks on Site, an existing Dallas-based firm that Otte rapidly integrated into the TSS network. During the following decade, Otte built Geeks on Site into a coast-to-coast technical support and computer repair provider that served individuals and business clients alike. By the mid-2010s, Geeks on Site had built a network of local contract technicians covering 150 US metro areas. The company directly employed more than 100 people in the US and internationally, enjoying impressive year-after-year revenue growth. As George Otte grew the Otte Polo Group into a diversified holding company, he soon recognized the need to integrate superior customer service with flexible, on-demand product fulfillment. To support this aim, he launched Responsive Call Center, a geographically diverse call center and telephone answering service that serves clients across the United States with a wide range of live answering solutions, including: ● Appointment scheduling ● 24/7 live call answering ● Call screening services for business clients ● Dispatching services ● Multi-channel message delivery ● Business registration services ● Virtual receptionist services●Telesales and telemarketing●And much more! Responsive Call Center works with clients in healthcare, legal, property management, general contracting, and other industries. Responsive Call Center has grown rapidly. The company has a network of six independent answering businesses across several facilities in the United States. Otte continues to look for acquisition targets that will grow this network and fulfill his long-term vision of building Responsive Call Center into the United States’ top privately held callc enter and telephone answering service company. Soon after launching Responsive Call Center, George Otte acquired Fort Myers-based Phase V. The transaction provided the Otte Polo Group with an important foothold in the product fulfillment industry, earning the company access to a customer portfolio that includes work dating back to the early 1980s. Otte leveraged his deep well of business experience to grow Phase V into Florida’s top fulfillment and logistics company. The firm engages in a wide variety of critical business processes, including order processing and fulfillment, direct mail, contact services, and warehousing. Phase V is actively looking for targeted acquisition opportunities to further expand its geographical reach in the United States. In recent years, George Otte has created a new focus for the Otte Polo Group: real estate ventures under a newly created subsidiary known as Otte Real Estate. Although Otte’s primary business objectives revolve around Geeks on Site, Responsive Call Center, and Phase V, he looks forward to exploring diversification and partnership ventures in various US and international real estate markets.
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