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This list showcases the top California based Vice President operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Vice 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.
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Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Miranda
Executive Vice President, Application Development of Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle’s applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Douglas Kehring
Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations of Oracle
Douglas Kehring has served as the head of Oracle’s Corporate Development and Strategic Planning group since 2005, providing planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source code and object code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined Oracle after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Seoane
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Killian Evers
Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience of Oracle
Killian Evers is a Vice President on the Oracle Applications User Experience team. She leads a multifaceted team responsible for product design and usability for Sales, Engagement, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Procurement areas. The team also covers all product family areas for Setup, Extensibility, and Tooling for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.
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About Google, Oracle, Veritas Technologies: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Zivanic
Vice President, Storage Hardware Systems Business Group of Oracle
Steve Zivanic is the Global Vice President, Database & Autonomous Services Product Marketing at Oracle
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About Oracle, Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tracy Martin
Vice President, HCM Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chad Arimura
Vice President of Oracle
Chad Arimura is an entrepreneur, programmer, and musician. He is currently CEO of [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io), a cloud application services platform, makers of IronWorker and IronMQ. Funded by Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners, Divergent Ventures, Cloud Capital Partners, and a handful of cloud angels, [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io) is quickly becoming the trusted messaging and workers platform for thousands of companies big and small. He was previously a co-founder and lead engineer at [Appoxy.com](http://www.appoxy.com), a consulting firm that specializes in scalable application design using the latest in Cloud-based technologies. Starting as a sophomore in college, Chad co-founded and acted as CTO for AllDorm Inc., a media/marketing service aimed at connecting fortune 1000 companies with the elusive collegiate market. AllDorm was acquired by University Pipeline in 2005. He is also an avid pianist, playing in a San Francisco cover band, and grew up playing tennis and soccer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jason Bryant
Vice President Nor1 – Oracle Hospitality of Oracle
Jason Bryant, Nor1 Founder and co-CEO, oversees day-to-day operations, provides visionary leadership and strategic direction for the upsell technology company. With Jason at the helm, Nor1 has quickly emerged as the technology leader in upsell solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Nor1 provides innovative revenue enhancement solutions to the hospitality industry. A seasoned entrepreneur, Mr. Bryant has over 20 years experience building and leading international software development and operations organizations. Prior to Nor1, he founded and grew DRCI into a world-class offshore software development organization which maintained facilities in India and Mexico. DRCI focused on providing services to the travel industry, specialized in both high-volume transaction systems and Internet technologies. Mr. Bryant is a frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at global events such as World Travel Market, the Hospitality Upgrade Vendor Summit, ITB Berlin, and many other industry events. He also volunteers his time to a number of non-profit organizations. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Chorley
Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Product Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Robert Potter
Vice President, Signals and Ground System Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Brian Murphy
Vice President Strategy of STRIVR
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About STRIVR: STRIVR is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Edward Chapman
Vice President Business Development and Alliances of Arista Networks
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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About Druva, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Michelle Kley
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Maxar Technologies
Michelle Kley was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of SSL MDA Holdings, Inc., in July 2016. She is based in our office in San Francisco. Ms. Kley joined SSL in January 2012, serving as Associate General Counsel, Vice President, Legal at SSL. Previous to joining SSL MDA, Ms. Kley worked as a Corporate Associate for several top-tier law firms in San Francisco, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. and Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Kley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology (with honors) from Sonoma State University and a J.D. degree from University of California Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall). Ms. Kley is admitted to practice in the State of California and District of Columbia.
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About Maxar Technologies, Virgin Galactic: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Adam Gassin
Vice President of Spectrum Equity
Adam joined the firm in 2017 and is a Vice President. Prior to joining Spectrum, Adam worked in the technology practice at McKinsey & Company. He holds BS and BA degrees, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar.
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
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.
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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Vaikom Krishnan
Vice President, Engineering of SnapLogic
Vaikom Krishnan is the vice president of engineering at [SnapLogic](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snaplogic), an enterprise integration Platform-as-a-Service built to connect big data, cloud, and on-premise apps. Previously, he worked as the VP of engineering at Informatica Corporation. Prior to Informatica, he was chief architect and director of development at Celequest, , and before that he was the director of engineering at Asera. Earlier in his career, Krishnan was a software engineer at Sybase.
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About SnapLogic, SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Manish Pandey
Vice President R&D of Synopsys
Manish Pandey is a Fellow at Synopsys, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently leads the R&D teams for Machine Learning and Systems, Formal Verification and Power Analysis at Synopsys. He previously led the development of several static and formal verification technologies at Verplex and Cadence. He also has extensive experience in distributed systems and computing infrastructure, leading the display advertising security group at Yahoo, and storage analytics systems at Nutanix. Dr. Pandey has been the recipient of the IEEE Transaction in CAD Outstanding author award, and holds over two dozen patents and referred publications. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Manoj Gandhi
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group at Synopsys of Synopsys
Manoj Gandhi joined Synopsys with the company’s merger with Viewlogic in December 1997. In his current position, Mr. Gandhi and his organization are responsible for Synopsys’ verification solutions, including simulation, testbench automation, hybrid formal verification, and system level design. Mr. Gandhi has over 15 years of HDL simulation and verification experience having begun his EDA career at Gateway Design Automation in 1986. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Burkhard Huhnke
Vice President of Synopsys
In his role as vice-president at Volkswagen’s North American Engineering and Planning Center (EPC), Burkhard Huhnke encourages innovation in the market, builds relationships with national R&D organisations and liaises with universities. Huhnke previously served as head of Product Engineering at VW’s Chattanooga plant, leading the product engineering teams for the Passat and mid-sized SUV projects. From 2006 to 2011 he was executive director of VW’s Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. His other achievements include helping to initiate the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Center (VAIL) at Stanford University and leading the Autonomous Car Project: Volkswagen Passat Junior.
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About Synopsys, Volkswagen Group: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Kurt Kalbfleisch
Senior Vice President and CFO of Sphere 3d
Kurt Kalbfleisch joined Sphere 3D as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2014. Prior to that, Kurt was with Overland Storage from December 1993 until November 2014 and served as Overland’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kurt is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, legal, and facilities operations. During his tenure at Overland, Kurt has also served in several key management roles in cost accounting and finance. Prior to joining Overland, Kurt was a manufacturing budget analyst for McDonnell Douglas Corp. Kurt earned his MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
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About Sphere 3d: Sphere 3D Corp. delivers data management, and desktop and application virtualization via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and on-premise implementations.
Anil Punyapu
Vice President of Enterprise Sales of Cvent
Today, Cvent is the leading SMM solution in the marketplace, helping many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, financial, technology and healthcare organizations centrally manage enterprise-wide meetings spend and streamline meetings processes. With his technology expertise combined with his deep knowledge of the meetings and events industry he continuously helps shape the development of the company’s SMM product. He also leads the division’s strategic marketing initiatives, sales processes and training programs. In addition, Anil oversees the management of Cvent’s relationships with industry-leading travel and meetings management companies across the globe and built the company’s partnership division, which currently includes Maritz Global Events, American Express Meetings & Incentives, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, BCD Meetings & Events, and HelmsBriscoe. Under his leadership, the partnership team has grown to manage 24 of the top 25 meetings management companies and 50 of the top 100 travel management companies in the U.S. Prior to his current role, he also built Cvent’s chapter sales division, which is focused on chapter-based associations, such as Meeting Professionals Internationals. Anil holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and a law degree – Juris Doctorate (J.D.) – from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he graduated with honors.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Mike Zilis
Executive Vice President and Group President of Asia Pacific of Ingram Micro
Michael Zilis serves as Ingram Micro Inc. executive vice president and group president of Asia Pacific. In this role he’s responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Ingram Micro’s operations in the Asia Pacific market. He was named to this position in August 2016 and is based in Irvine, Calif. Prior to this role, Zilis served from July 2015 through July 2016 as executive vice president and group president with oversight for the company’s operations in Latin American, Eastern European, ASEAN and Hong Kong markets. Zilis served as executive vice president and president of Ingram Micro’s Latin America Technology Solutions business from January 2014 through June 2015, where he presided over all aspects of the company’s core distribution business for the region. Before this, Zilis was executive vice president of Asia Pacific, where he was accountable for the region’s operations while also heading special projects, including the company’s recovery program in Australia and assisting with the integration of the company’s Middle East acquisition of Aptec. Zilis joined Ingram Micro in 2006 as senior vice president and corporate controller. In this capacity, he led the company’s financial planning and analysis, external and internal financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance efforts, long-term strategic planning, financial due diligence and merger and acquisition work. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Zilis was vice president and corporate controller for Avnet, Inc., where he was instrumental in leading the company’s cost-saving initiatives and efforts to streamline and add efficiency to ongoing processes. Zilis began his career with 10 years in the commercial audit practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College.
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About Ingram Micro: Ingram Micro is a provider of technology products and supply chain management services.
Augusto Aragone
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Ingram Micro
Augusto Aragone serves as executive vice president, secretary and general counsel for Ingram Micro Inc., a leader in delivering the full spectrum of global technology and supply-chain solutions to businesses around the world. Aragone is a multicultural business attorney with more than 15 years of experience in international corporate law practice as in-house counsel with multinational companies. He joined Ingram Micro in 2008 as regional counsel for Latin America and has successfully worked through a variety of increasingly complex legal leadership roles with the company, especially in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions. He rose to the level of vice president and associate general counsel prior to earning the promotion to his current position in December 2016. Before joining Ingram Micro, Aragone worked as legal director for Latin America in the law department of DHL in Plantation, Fla. A native of Uruguay, Aragone worked in several business roles in the international logistics industry in Latin America prior to embarking on his legal career. Aragone holds a juris doctor degree from Uruguay State University, a master’s degree from Bologna University in Italy and a master of laws degree from the University of Miami. He is admitted to the New York bar and is Registered In-House Counsel in California.
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About Ingram Micro: Ingram Micro is a provider of technology products and supply chain management services.
Jana Vondran
Senior Vice President Global Business Services of Ingram Micro
Jana Vondran serves as senior vice president of Global Business Services for Ingram Micro Inc., and is responsible for leading and overseeing the company’s worldwide shared services organization, including operations in Manila, Philippines and Sofia, Bulgaria. She also provides functional expertise for the company’s shared services centers in San José, Costa Rica and Egypt. In this role, Vondran is focused on developing and deploying strategies, best practices and lean programs to drive continual improvement, and optimization and standardization across Ingram Micro’s geographic and shared services operations. She works in close partnership with all lines of business, countries and group functions, with a focus on building on the company’s existing capabilities and streamlining the geographic and shared services commercial operations. Vondran’s efforts are instrumental in ensuring process improvements align with the company’s overall strategic objectives, while also delivering a compelling value proposition both internally and for external partners. Vondran joined Ingram Micro in November 2017, following 17 years at Siemens Corp., the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe and one of the biggest globally. Most recently, Vondran served as vice president, Supply Chain Management and Business Shared Services, where she oversaw multiple shared services locations across the Americas and was instrumental in driving process simplification and automation throughout all Siemens businesses. Her efforts led to a 45 percent operating cost reduction and a 20 percent spike in operational quality and client satisfaction across the company’s shared services function. Over the course of her tenure at Siemens, Vondran worked in both Germany and the U.S., holding several senior leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including senior director, Global Procurement Services, and director, Supply Chain Management Consulting. Vondran holds a dual degree in Business and Finance from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Berlin School of Economics, Germany, as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology.
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Scott Sherman
Executive Vice President and Human Resources of Ingram Micro
Scott Sherman is executive vice president of Human Resources for Ingram Micro Inc., with responsibilities including the identification, development and implementation of the company’s human resources strategies in support of the organization’s global objectives. Sherman oversees all aspects of human resources worldwide, including organization development and talent management, compensation and benefits, payroll, learning and development and the Human Resources Information Systems. He also oversees Corporate Communications and Brand for the company and has oversight for Business Intelligence. He joined Ingram Micro in May 2015. Sherman is a global human resources and business leader with deep compensation, benefits and HR Operations leadership experience. He has a successful track record of leading complex business initiatives, driving functional and operational excellence and building strong collaborative relationships. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Sherman served as executive vice president of Human Resources and a member of the Executive Committee at Allergan from September 2010 to March 2015. While in that role, he oversaw the global rewards programs, succession and talent development and planning, and significantly supported the organization’s global expansion. Before Allergan, Sherman worked at Medtronic, Inc., which he joined as Human Resources Manager, U.S. Cardiovascular Sales and Marketing in 1995. During his 15-year tenure, he held positions of increasing scope and responsibility, the last as vice president of Global Total Rewards and HR Operations, Corporate Staff. Earlier in his career, Sherman worked for Exxon Company U.S.A., Fuel Products Marketing, in various HR roles, and as a territory manager. He holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs with concentrations in International Economics and Labor Studies from the George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs. Sherman was recognized with the 2014 National Human Resources Association Executive of the Year award in Orange County, Calif.
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Jeff Sheldon
Vice President of Engineering of Recurly
Jeff Sheldon is the Vice President of Engineering at [Recurly](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recurly), a SaaS-based company that offers recurring billing management solutions as an outsourced service. He has previously held engineering leadership positions at Coupa Software, Life360, StumbleUpon, EmSense, and MICROS Systems.
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Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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Jennifer Hwang
Vice President of ManpowerGroup
Jennifer Hwang is Vice President at ManpowerGroup.
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Andrew Kalinovsky
Senior Vice President of GlobalLogic
Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Andrew Kalinovsky has played key roles in the company’s sales operations, recruitment strategies, and customer relationships. Currently as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Andrew leads M&A activities and key internal initiatives within the company to connect market and operational strategies. He also manages the CEO office — including investor and board relations — and helps drive business growth. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Andrew co-founded and served as CEO of Validio Software, a product development services company that was later acquired by GlobalLogic. During his time with Validio, Andrew developed software products for emerging web ecosystems in the e-commerce, healthcare, and telecom industries. Before Validio, Andrew founded Alis Software, where he developed software and electronic equipment (including early smartphone technology) for small businesses. Andrew holds a Master’s degree in computer science, and he enjoys combining his structured and creative talents to tackle diverse problems. Outside of the office, his pastimes include athletics, community involvement, and continuing education.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Chris Taylor
Vice President Global Sales Performance of Databricks
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Shailaja Shankar
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security of McAfee
Shailaja K. Shankar is the Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security at McAfee.
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Vincent Weafer
Vice President of Engineering, McAfee Labs of McAfee
Vincent Weafer is the Senior Vice President & Cyber Engineering at Capital One.
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Sergio Letelier
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel – Corporate, Securities and M&A of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sergio is Vice President of the HPE Office of the General Counsel’s Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Ventures group. In this capacity, Sergio and his team are responsible for global M&A, Corporate Compliance and Governance matters, and support to HPE’s worldwide Tax Department around corporate restructurings. Sergio has held this position since May 2013. Prior to this, he led the International Operations team of HP’s Corporate Securities and M&A legal section, ensuring oversight and management of M&A transactions in EMEA, governance matters across HP’s subsidiary structure and support to HP Tax. Sergio joined HP France’s legal department in 2002 as corporate lawyer. He subsequently joined HP’s Corporate, Securities and M&A EMEA section in 2004 and worked on a variety of M&A transactions, integrations, restructurings and governance matters before assuming the role of Corporate, Securities and M&A International Operations Director in 2008. Sergio started his career as a tax lawyer in Paris, France and founded an advisory firm specializing in tax advice to small and medium-sized businesses. He earned a Master’s and a Postgraduate degree in Law from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, a Master of Laws from the University of Cologne in Germany, and a Postgraduate degree in taxes and international financial strategy from HEC Paris. Sergio is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. He is happily married to his wife Laure and has two children, Alice and Martin.
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Eng Lim Goh
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Goh completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.
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Hedley Potts
Vice President, Strategic Customer Engagement of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hedley Potts is the Vice President leading Strategic Customer Engagement at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is charged with leading a pan-HPE effort to drive the executive dialogue and mutual value creation between HPE, its clients and partners, and ensure that HPE’s vast offerings are strongly positioned in the market. Prior to this position, he worked for two years in HP’s Office of the CEO, leading the transformation of the Strategic Customer Engagement program. He has worked closely with a number of startups and incubators, introducing HPE’s clients to the broader ecosystem and innovation engine found in Silicon Valley. Hedley joined HP in 2008 as part of their Strategic Business Development. He focused on expanding HP’s business in EMEA and created a multi-billion dollar pipeline, which has delivered some of HP’s largest client partnerships. Previously, Hedley served as Lead Technology Consultant for NM Financial Management, spearheading a number of technology and business workstreams throughout the acquisition of NM by Friends Provident. Prior to that, Hedley worked at Lloyds Bank for 16 years, holding a number of technology leadership roles including Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer. During this time, Hedley led the implementation of the bank’s first cloud service and worked to strengthen ties between the business and IT leaders. Hedley studied Geology at Portsmouth University before transitioning into Financial Services.
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Satish Iyer
Vice President, Products & Strategy, Hybrid Cloud of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Jeff Kyle
Vice President, Mission Critical Solutions of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Daryl Ganas
Vice President, Global Information Technology of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Daryl Ganas is Vice President for Enterprise Group Information Technology for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role he is responsible for all IT customer engagement and solutions for the Enterprise Group.
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Erik Vogel
Global Vice President, Customer Experience of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Randy Meyer
Vice President and General Manager, Mission Critical Systems of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Jesse Chavez
Vice President, WW Channels Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jesse Chavez is vice president of Worldwide Partner Programs and Operations with the charter to develop and enhance the Partner Ready program and aligning all partner programs under the Partner Ready umbrella. Jesse is responsible for overall channel strategy and driving the operational framework for key channel initiatives. Jesse is also responsible to drive growth in the channel by partnering closely with GEO channel leaders, the business units, and channel marketing. Jesse comes to HPE with more than 25 years of experience in sales and management, new market and channel development, and strategic planning. Prior to joining HP, Jesse was vice president of Worldwide Systems Channel at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for overseeing the Oracle/Sun channel integration. Before the Oracle/Sun merger, Jesse held various sales and executive positions during his tenure at Sun Microsystems. Jesse was vice president of Global Partner Sales, where he executed the Partner strategy for a $7.2B Sun channel and vice president of the Global Systems Integrator organization, where he drove the worldwide strategy, created go-to-market solutions, and strengthened strategic alliances. Jesse has also held various sales positions, from regional and district management roles to a sales representative in the field. Jesse holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
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Laurel Krieger
Vice President, Strategy and Operations, Chief of Staff for the CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Donna Grothjan
Vice President of WW Distribution, Enterprise Group of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Chuck Lukaszewski
Vice President, Wireless Strategy & Standards of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Utkarsh Contractor
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Aisera
Utkarsh Contractor is the Director of AI at Aisera, where he leads the data science team working on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Vision. He is also pursuing his graduate degree at Stanford University, focussing his research and experiments on computer vision, using CNNs to analyze surveillance scene imagery and footages. Utkarsh has a decade of industry experience in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning working at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
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.
Michael Wistock
VSP Market Segment Vice President of Onvoy
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Anastasia Pavlova
Vice President, Growth and Demand Generation of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Milind Karnik
Executive Vice President of Elementary Robotics
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About Elementary Robotics: Elementary Robotics is a robotics startup that built a platform for applying machine learning to the logistics industries.
Raj Bhullar
Vice President of Manufacturing, Quality & Reliability of Quanergy Systems
Raj Bhullar serves as vice president of manufacturing. Bhullar has responsibility for global manufacturing and operations activities, along with overseeing the company’s supply chain efficiencies and logistics strategies. In addition to establishing the supplier management and distribution operations for the company’s LiDAR sensors, he also manages IT. Most recently, Bhullar was the vice president of manufacturing for Ultimate Solutions Corporation where he was responsible for the management of the entire manufacturing process and engineering teams, along with the design and development of new products. He also served as director of manufacturing and operations at Vitesse Semiconductor where he organized the manufacturing process, equipment and labor to meet a 300% growth in sales. Bhullar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Technology from GND University.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
John Donnelly
Vice President Of Worldwide Sales of CloudKnox Security
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Gary Chen
Vice President of Data Infrastructure & Tech Operations of Vobile
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About Vobile: Vobile offers complete solutions to protect, measure, and monetize the best movies and TV content across the Internet and on all screens.
Jennifer Orser
Vice President, Head of Marketing and Ecommerce of HELIX
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About HELIX: HELIX RE is a platform for creating and delivering digital twins for buildings.
Mark Beebe
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Abnormal Security
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Ken Liao
Vice President of Marketing of Abnormal Security
Ken Liao is the VP of Marketing, bringing in over 13 years of information security experience. Ken spent nearly eight years leading product marketing efforts at Proofpoint, followed by executive roles at Malwarebytes and JASK.
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About Abnormal Security, Sevco Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Howard Dratler
Senior Vice President Of Sales of OpenText Corporation
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Madhu Ranganathan
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of OpenText Corporation
Madhu joined OpenText as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in April 2018. With more than 25 years of financial leadership experience, Madhu brings to OpenText a strategic mindset with global industry expertise and deep operational focus in software, hardware and tech-enabled services businesses, as well as a demonstrable track record of building shareholder value. Madhu is skilled at leading and supporting business transformation initiatives, strategic acquisitions and global capital raising. Prior to OpenText, Madhu served for more than 9 years as the Chief Financial Officer for [24]7.ai, a highly global, enterprise-class software and services company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to dramatically improve customer experience. At [24]7.ai, Madhu was responsible for worldwide finance, accounting, treasury, planning, tax, internal audit and procurement. During her tenure, Madhu worked closely with the CEO and management team to transform the company into a technology innovator. Madhu started her career with Liberty Mutual Financial Services and has held senior financial roles at Rackable Systems, which became SGI and is now part of HPE and Redback Networks, a telecommunications equipment company acquired by Ericsson, services platform Jamcracker, and e-Business software provider Backweb Technologies (IPO on NASDAQ). She also has public accounting experience with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC. Additionally, Madhu currently serves as Board Member and Audit Committee Chair for ServiceSource (Nasdaq: SREV) and previously served as a Board Member of Watermark, a Bay Area organization focused on professional development for women. Madhu holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, is a Certified Public Accountant in California and a Chartered Accountant from India.
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Elad Horn
Vice President, Product Management of Proofpoint
Elad has 20 years of experience managing products and leading teams, and is currently VP of product management for Proofpoint’s CASB and Unified DLP. Before joining Proofpoint, he was enSilo’s VP of products. Prior to enSilo, Elad was a Principal Product Manager at EMC, responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and requirements of several products. Before that, Elad managed Imperva’s leading enterprise security product. Elad has also held engineering roles and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA in finance from IDC Herzliya, Israel, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In his spare time, you’ll find Elad competing in Ironman triathlons.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Taira Hall
Senior Vice President of B2B & Strategic Innovation Executive of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Michelle Wohl
Vice President Marketing of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Ed Chuang
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
John Laino
Vice President, Customer Success of ServiceTitan
John Laino is the VP of Customer Success Management at ServiceTitan in Glendale, CA. With over 20 years of technology and relationship management expertise, he specializes in optimizing customer experience and fostering long-term relationships. Most recently, John led the Enterprise Account Management team at ZipRecruiter. He took on that role after being part of the leadership team at Velocify in El Segundo, a vertical SaaS company that was successfully acquired in October 2017. During his 3 years at Velocify, John drove the evolution of the Account Management & Customer Success organization that resulted in higher customer adoption of the solution, reduction in churn, and greater productivity for the team. Prior to ZipRecruiter and Velocify, John held various roles in Sales Operations, Services, and Account Management at NetApp, Cisco Systems, XM Sirius Satellite Radio, and Accenture. He has a degree in Economics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Originally an East Coaster, John moved to Northern California in 2002 and landed in Los Angeles in 2014. In his spare time, John likes to go for a run along the beach, jump on his bike for a ride, or take on another home renovation project that usually goes over budget.
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Kimberly Saunders
Vice President, People and Culture of 3D Robotics
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About 3D Robotics, MycoWorks: 3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis.
John Beritzhoff
Senior Vice President, West Coast Sales of Diversified Systems
John joined Diversified as part of the acquisition of Snader and Associates in February, 2013. After graduating from San Francisco State University’s Broadcast and Communication Arts program, John led a (slightly) more glamorous, though short-term, life on the pro tennis circuit before trading his racquet for a rolodex — and joining founder Bob Snader as employee #2 in 1979. John became a full partner in 1988, and President in 1999. During his tenure, John helped to guide Snader and Associates to a staff-level of over 60, in 4 offices throughout California, and sales in excess of $40 million. As Diversified’s Senior Vice President, John continues to guide corporate growth and to oversee all aspects of west coast AV marketing operations, including new business development. John is based in our San Rafael, California office.
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Duane Yoslov
Senior Vice President, West Coast Operations of Diversified Systems
Duane manages and oversees all project managers, engineers, and project administration for Diversified Western Operations, and is actively involved in the daily project operations for many of Diversified projects. Duane has worked in nearly every capacity of integration; as an installation technician, design engineer, project manager and technical sales representative, taking on progressively more responsibility through the years. Prior to joining Diversified, Duane worked for Sony Systems Integration for nearly fourteen years as both a contractor and full time employee. During this time, Duane has been a part of many groundbreaking projects and intricately coordinated systems.
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Anthony Cuellar
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Diversified Systems
Anthony has a passion for people, technology and the innovation the two can create. As a business leader he has spent his entire career in sales, sales management and marketing. In his leadership roles he has been responsible for developing and executing sales and marketing business initiatives to drive revenue growth at every level. In his Marketing leadership role he is responsible for all global marketing necessary to develop comprehensive marketing and sales support strategies and executable plans to grow market awareness and customer satisfaction. He and his team also manage vendor relationships for joint marketing initiatives. Experience matters and with over two decades in the AV industry Anthony has consulted and implemented many changes in broadcast, AV and IT markets. The diversity of clients like Disney, DreamWorks, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Google and Cisco, both domestic and internationally, has prepared him for the unique challenges of navigating the market dynamics for integration, collaboration and managed services on a global scale.
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Anthony Cuellar
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Diversified Systems
Anthony has a passion for people, technology and the innovation the two can create. As a business leader he has spent his entire career in sales, sales management and marketing. In his leadership roles he has been responsible for developing and executing sales and marketing business initiatives to drive revenue growth at every level. In his Marketing leadership role he is responsible for all global marketing necessary to develop comprehensive marketing and sales support strategies and executable plans to grow market awareness and customer satisfaction. He and his team also manage vendor relationships for joint marketing initiatives. Experience matters and with over two decades in the AV industry Anthony has consulted and implemented many changes in broadcast, AV and IT markets. The diversity of clients like Disney, DreamWorks, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Google and Cisco, both domestic and internationally, has prepared him for the unique challenges of navigating the market dynamics for integration, collaboration and managed services on a global scale.
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Stephanie Pinto
Vice President Operations of Noyo
Stephanie Pinto currently works as Vice President of Operations at Noyo.
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About Noyo: Modern infrastructure for health insurance
Raymond Liao
Managing Director & Vice President of Samsung NEXT
Raymond Liao is a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, with a special focus on Security, Big Data, Cloud, and AI. Previously Raymond was the founding CTO of Siemens Industrial Communications business in Germany. He started as an innovator at Siemens Berkeley to commercializing his PhD into a startup but failed post dot-com bubble, then as a spin-in and grew into the market-leading industrial WLAN business
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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