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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 San Francisco, California based VP’ operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Amit Ahuja
Vice President of Ecosystem Development of Adobe
Amit Ahuja is the Vice President of Ecosystem Development at Adobe where he is responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships and initiatives. Prior to this role, Amit was the Head of Emerging businesses and the GM of Adobe’s DMP business. Amit also spent 7 years in Adobe’s Corporate Development Group where he executed numerous transactions including acquisitions of Omniture, Scene7, Efficient Frontier, Demdex and Auditude. Amit joined Adobe via the acquisition of Macromedia where he was in the Corporate Development Group focusing on mobile and video. Amit began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a technology investment banker and also spent several years at a technology start up. Amit has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Stefano Corazza
Fellow & Vice President of Adobe
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe’s Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo’s advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutions that support Mixamo. Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy. A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Marc Leibowitz
Global VP – Partnerships & Strategic Growth Initiatives of Adobe
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Abhay Parasnis
CTO & EVP of Adobe
Abhay Parasnis is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems#/entity), a software company that provides digital marketing and media solutions. Previously, he was the senior vice president of the same company. Parasnis served as the president and chief operating officer of Kony before he joined Adobe. Parasnis holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adobe
Mike is anything but your typical general counsel. His distaste for acronym use and “legalese” drove him to rewrite Adobe’s contracts to plain English and develop a whole new writing style guide for the legal community. He oversees legal affairs, public policy, and compliance interests by day, but outside the office, he’s an avid blogger, writer, and adventurist. Given his love for writing, it may come as no surprise that Mike received bachelor’s degrees in communications and sociology from UC San Diego before getting his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Deepak Bharadwaj
Vice President of Product Management, Document Cloud of Adobe
Deepak Bharadwaj is the vice president and general manager of ServiceNow, where he is responsible for incubating, creating, and scaling new companies within the Employee Workflows product portfolio. He recently managed the company’s entry into the HR technology market, where he established a $200 million+ subscription revenue business in four years. Deepak was previously the VP of Product Management for Oracle’s Talent Acquisition and Talent Management products. He has also held roles of leadership in pre-sales and corporate development at Taleo, corporate strategy at SAP, and engineering at i2. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from India’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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About Adobe, Sand Hill Angels: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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Maksim Ovsyannikov
EVP, Products and Design of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Denise Stokowski
VP Solutions, Product Management and Security of Gainsight
Denise leads all things related to creating solutions in the field with our customers. She believes in partnership with her customers and delivering expertise that leads to successful deployment of Gainsight’s solution.Denise has been implementing business software applications for over 20 years and built and led services teams at Marketo, Right90, and Epiphany.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Ciara Peter
VP Product, Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Ciara is best known for bringing consumer grade experiences to enterprise products at scale. As VP of Product at Gainsight, she leads vision and strategy for Gainsight PX, the Product Experience platform focused on delivering insights, enabling data driven in-app customer engagement, and instantly evaluating ROI of product investments. Prior to Gainsight, Ciara held Product & Design leadership positions at InVision, Box, BetterWorks, and Salesforce. She lives in downtown San Francisco with her Maine Coon cat, Wesley.
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Mike Berger
VP, Product Marketing of Gainsight
Mike Berger is the VP of product marketing at Gainsight.
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Mark Stanley
Vice President, Gaming Platform Growth of Microsoft
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Stephen Harris
Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Data Science & Growth Analytics (Cloud + AI) of Microsoft
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Lisa Maki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next of Microsoft
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next at Microsoft.
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Richard Borenstein
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of MURAL
Richard Borenstein is the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and is responsible for accelerating MURAL’s revenue growth and market penetration, forming deep, integrated partnerships with enterprise brands, and leading a highly skilled sales team bringing visual collaboration to the enterprise collaboration toolkit. A SaaS veteran with a passion for recruiting and team building, Richard has built an extensive, worldwide executive network and has a proven track record of creating mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships. He recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), where he led the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Previously, he held sales management positions at RingCentral, Zong (acquired by PayPal), Baynote Inc., and Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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About MURAL: MURAL is a digital workspace that provides a visual collaboration platform that enables teams to work remotely and efficiently.
Greg Schott
EVP, Emerging API Initiatives of Salesforce
Greg Schott is the EVP of Emerging API Initiatives at Salesforce. Prior to that, Greg served as the chairman and CEO of MuleSoft Inc. He holds an MBA degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BS in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.
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About Salesforce, Spring: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Elizabeth Pinkham
EVP, Global Real Estate of Salesforce
Elizabeth Pinkham is the EVP, Global Real Estate at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Clarence So
EVP of Salesforce
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Adam Gilberd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales of Salesforce
Adam is Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce. In his eight years at the company, Gilberd has served in a variety of sales leadership roles, across multiple customer segments in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jessica Ross
EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer of Salesforce
Jessica Ross is the EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Bill Patterson
EVP & GM, CRM Applications of Salesforce
Bill Patterson is an EVP and General Manager, CRM Applications at Salesforce.
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Lynne Zaledonis
Executive Vice President, Industry Marketing of Salesforce
Lynne is a former Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce who helps drive product marketing and sales enablement for Sales Cloud, the world’s leading sales app.
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Robin Glinton
SVP & Data Intelligence of Salesforce
Robin Glinton is the SVP & Data Intelligence at Salesforce.
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Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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Thimaya Subaiya
SVP, Marketing & Operations of Salesforce
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Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mike Rosenbaum
EVP Product of Salesforce
Mike Rosenbaum is the CEO at Guidewire Software.
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Theresa Ludvigson
Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection of Salesforce
Theresa Ludvigson is the Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection at Salesforce.
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Sarah Patterson
SVP, Product Marketing & Strategy of Salesforce
Sarah Patterson leads the messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategy for Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and EMEA product marketing at Salesforce. Since joining Salesforce in 2008, Sarah has worked on several major initiatives including SMB product marketing and helping to launch Chatter. She started running Service Cloud Product Marketing in 2013, and took over responsibility for Sales Cloud and EMEA product marketing in 2018. Sarah brings more than 15 years of experience in IT consulting, M&A finance, research, and marketing to Salesforce and has held a variety of positions at McKinsey & Co., Broadview International, and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. Sarah holds a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, an MBA from Stanford
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Emma Chalwin
EVP & Global Field Marketing of Salesforce
Emma Chalwin is the Executive Vice President & Global Field Marketing at Salesforce.
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Ernest Ng
VP, Global ES Strategy and People Analytics of Salesforce
VP, Global ES Strategy and People Analytics at Salesforce.
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Raj Vemulapalli
Executive Vice President, Software Engineering of Salesforce
Senior Technology Executive with experience in leading and building award winning Consumer/Enterprise products and with expertise in IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Data Science, Search, Mobile, Large Scale, High Performing, Fault-Tolerant, Reliable Distributed systems, and Saas/PaaS * Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Search, Analytics, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning and Scalable Distributed Storage Systems at Salesforce.com * Led and built Mobile products and platforms that process $3.5+ Billions in transactions per year * Head of Engineering and one of the Co-Founders of Yahoo! Real Time Communications groups and the most used products in the world including Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Mobile Messaging, Yahoo! Real Time Notification Platform, Y! Voice and Video, Yahoo! IM Integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google Talk and Microsoft, and open APIs * Advisor at Salesforce Ventures and Limited Partner at Morado Ventures * Architected and built complex multi-tier distributed and scalable systems that handle 300+ million active users and deliver 300+ billion real time messages per month with 99.99% up-time * Filed 9 patents and published 3 papers in distributed systems, communications and social networking * Board of Director, Technology, Product and Strategic Advisor at technology startups * Experience in due diligence, acquisition and integration of companies to help accelerate the roadmap * Judge for TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 held in San Francisco (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/techcrunch-disrupt-hackathon-details/) * Company’s spokesperson for products. Widely interviewed and quoted in media, magazines and blogs * Won prestigious awards at Salesforce and Yahoo! Specialties: * Consumer Internet * Enterprise * Internet of Things (IoT) * Big Data and Analytics * Data Science and Machine Learning * SaaS/PaaS * Mobile * Search * Cloud computing * Large scale systems – Scalability and Reliability * Real Time Platforms
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Kylie Fuentes
Vice President, Product of Salesforce
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Marco Casalaina
SVP Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Marco S. Casalaina is VP Product Management of Salesforce Einstein. His mission is to make complex products usable, and is currently focused on bringing the benefits of artificial intelligence to everyone. Marco is an expert in cloud computing, with years of experience bringing the power of the cloud to artificial intelligence, call center and unified communications applications. He was previously VP of Applications at RingCentral, where he ran RingCentral’s contact center and collaboration business units. Prior to that he was VP Products at machine learning startup KXEN, which was acquired by SAP AG in 2013. This is Marco’s second stint at Salesforce – during his first term at Salesforce, from 2005 to 2010, he was one of the original developers of the Service Cloud product and then its product manager. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Eric Loeb
Executive Vice President of Salesforce
Eric Loeb joined Salesforce as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs in July 2018. He was previously Senior Vice President, International External and Regulatory Affairs for AT&T, where he supported AT&T’s international external and regulatory affairs team, which is responsible for advocacy to international departments of the US government, and all branches of government outside the US, including executive, legislative and regulatory agencies, and for international external affairs affecting AT&T and its Affiliates.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert Amezaga
Vice President Product Marketing of Salesforce
Robert Amezaga is the Vice President Product Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jashojit Roy
Vice President, Innovation Consulting, Office of Innovation of Salesforce
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Joel Martin
Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech of Salesforce
Joel Martin is the Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lars Hofhansl
Principal Architect, VP of Salesforce
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Nasi Jazayeri
EVP/GM – Next Generation Platform of Salesforce
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Christian Posse
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning of Salesforce
Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
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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.
Meeten Bhavsar
SVP, Product Development of Oracle
Meeten Bhavsar is Senior Vice President, Product Development at Oracle. His key responsibilities include driving strategy, product management, and software development for the Oracle Service Cloud. In tandem, he ensures strategy alignment for the Oracle customer experience portfolio, consisting of sales, service, marketing, commerce, and social applications. A 24-year veteran of the technology industry, Meeten has been in various leadership roles at Oracle for 15 years spanning database development, cloud management systems, enterprise search, and CRM. Prior to Oracle, he was the VP of Software Development for CRM industry pioneers Broadbase Software and Kana Communications. Meeten earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from Caltech and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from UCLA. He has also been awarded over a dozen patents in the area of secure, scalable, enterprise search.
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Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Wim Coekaerts
SVP Software Development of Oracle
Wim Coekaerts is senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle. Coekaerts is responsible for managing Oracle’s Linux and virtualization development for Oracle Cloud services, engineered systems, and software. He is a well-known developer in the open source community and serves as a board member of The Linux Foundation.
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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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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.
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.
Catherine Blackmore
GVP NAA Customer Success & Renewals of Oracle
Catherine is a thought leader and innovator in the area of Customer Success, with over 20 years of experience helping a diverse list of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 clients achieve success. Prior to joining Bluenose, she served as VP of Customer Success at Badgeville responsible for the satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy of the company’s customer base. She has also held a number of senior leadership positions, including VP of Customer Success at Salesforce.com.
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Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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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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Jon Mittelhauser
VP, Technical Architecture of Oracle
Jon Mittelhauser is the VP, Technical Architecture at Oracle.
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Aylin Uysal
VP of User Experience, Oracle Cloud Applications of Oracle
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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.
Brendan Logan
Global VP Consulting of Oracle
Group VP at Oracle.
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Vijay Narayanan
Senior Vice President Of Engineering of ServiceNow
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Dean Robison
SVP, Global Technical Support of ServiceNow
Dean Robison is an SVP, Global Technical Support at ServiceNow . Dean brings more than 20 years of experience from Silicon Valley, including leadership roles with Salesforce, Aspect and Nortel. He spent 13 years in the SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry at Salesforce, most recently serving as senior vice president of M&A Integration. Dean splits his time between the company’s Provo, Utah, headquarters and its C9 offices in San Mateo, Calif. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 10 years.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Chris Bauschka
General Manager, AVP and Global Telecommunications Industry of ServiceNow
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Bryan Mason
Vice President and Head of Network of True Ventures
Bryan is the Chief Business Officer at VSCO, working to grow VSCO next lines of revenue. He’s an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor – putting time and money into companies like About.me, Medium, Blue Bottle, Lumi, and Matilda. He started Typekit in 2009. Adobe bought it in 2011. While at Adobe, he managed business operations for the launch of Creative Cloud. He was the Chief Operating Officer Adaptive Path, a user experience firm (acquired by Capital One). At Adaptive Path, they made the analytics tool Measure Map, which sold to Google. He’s worked with smart people in all kinds of settings, like the Salt Lake Olympics, The White House, Lincoln Center Theater, Blogger and Twitter.
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Bryan Mason
Vice President and Head of Network of True Ventures
Bryan is the Chief Business Officer at VSCO, working to grow VSCO next lines of revenue. He’s an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor – putting time and money into companies like About.me, Medium, Blue Bottle, Lumi, and Matilda. He started Typekit in 2009. Adobe bought it in 2011. While at Adobe, he managed business operations for the launch of Creative Cloud. He was the Chief Operating Officer Adaptive Path, a user experience firm (acquired by Capital One). At Adaptive Path, they made the analytics tool Measure Map, which sold to Google. He’s worked with smart people in all kinds of settings, like the Salt Lake Olympics, The White House, Lincoln Center Theater, Blogger and Twitter.
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About True Ventures, VSCO: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Christiaan Vorkink
Vice President of Platform of True Ventures
Christiaan joined True in 2008 and today manages the True network, including all services, resources, and events that support and connect founders and employees in the True portfolio. Previously, he was a senior analyst in the venture research group at Cambridge Associates and worked in network development at BrightRoll, an early True portfolio company. His first full-time job after college was teaching junior high and high school history. While he is no longer teaching in the traditional context, he has maintained lifelong interests in education, collaboration, and helping others be the best versions of themselves. Outside of the office, Christiaan is a proud husband and father of two, an enthusiastic creator and consumer of plant-based food, and an avid supporter of three of four of Boston’s major pro sports teams. He is a graduate of Yale and MIT. Christiaan also serves on the board of trustees of YMCA Camp Belknap, a summer camp for boys which he attended and where he worked for a dozen years as a young adult. Robert Fulghum says he learned all he really needed to know in kindergarten; Christiaan says the same about Belknap.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Christiaan Vorkink
Vice President of Platform of True Ventures
Christiaan joined True in 2008 and today manages the True network, including all services, resources, and events that support and connect founders and employees in the True portfolio. Previously, he was a senior analyst in the venture research group at Cambridge Associates and worked in network development at BrightRoll, an early True portfolio company. His first full-time job after college was teaching junior high and high school history. While he is no longer teaching in the traditional context, he has maintained lifelong interests in education, collaboration, and helping others be the best versions of themselves. Outside of the office, Christiaan is a proud husband and father of two, an enthusiastic creator and consumer of plant-based food, and an avid supporter of three of four of Boston’s major pro sports teams. He is a graduate of Yale and MIT. Christiaan also serves on the board of trustees of YMCA Camp Belknap, a summer camp for boys which he attended and where he worked for a dozen years as a young adult. Robert Fulghum says he learned all he really needed to know in kindergarten; Christiaan says the same about Belknap.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Madeline Kolbe Saltzman
VP of Culture of True Ventures
Madeline Kolbe Saltzman is the Vice President of Culture at True Ventures.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Madeline Kolbe Saltzman
VP of Culture of True Ventures
Madeline Kolbe Saltzman is the Vice President of Culture at True Ventures.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Amanda Lincoln Mann
Vice President of Finance of True Ventures
Amanda Lincoln Mann joined the True Ventures finance team in 2015 as Controller. Previously, Amanda spent over six years in Ernst & Young’s assurance practice, where she served clients primarily in the technology and retail industry. She is a Certified Public Accountant, has a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting from Seattle University, and has a Master’s Degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband and twin daughters, crafting, and planning her next trip to visit her family in Alaska.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Amanda Lincoln Mann
Vice President of Finance of True Ventures
Amanda Lincoln Mann joined the True Ventures finance team in 2015 as Controller. Previously, Amanda spent over six years in Ernst & Young’s assurance practice, where she served clients primarily in the technology and retail industry. She is a Certified Public Accountant, has a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting from Seattle University, and has a Master’s Degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband and twin daughters, crafting, and planning her next trip to visit her family in Alaska.
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Arvind Parthasarathi
Senior Vice President, Cyence Risk Analytics of Guidewire Software
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About Guidewire Software: Guidewire Software provides core back-end systems software to the global property, casual and worker’s compensation insurance industry.
Tao Ma
VP of Language Technology Group of ASAPP
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Dave Lehman
EVP, Commercial Business Unit of Yext
Dave Lehman is the senior vice president of sales at [Campaign Monitor](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campaign-monitor#/entity). Previously, he held the same position at [Captora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/captora#/entity). Before joining Captora, Lehman was employed at [Salesforce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce#/entity), Puresense Environmental, and [Autonomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autonomy#/entity). Lehman obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit#/entity). He lives in San Mateo, California, United States.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Aswin Shibu
VP of Sales of MixRank
VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.
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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation
Nima Asrar Haghighi
VP of Digital Demand Generation & Marketing Operations of MuleSoft
Nima Asrar Haghighi is VP of digital demand generation and marketing operations at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices. He was previously the head of internet marketing at eBay Advertising. During the course of his career, he took up several internet marketing roles at companies such as SEM SEO Expert, Refco, GAO Research, and VTRAC Consulting Corporation. Haghighi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in marketing.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas of MuleSoft
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Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, reef.ai: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ajay Patel
SVP/GM Cloud Provider of VMware
Ajay Patel is senior vice president of Product Development, Cloud Services, responsible for all product development and operations for vCloud Air. Prior to VMware, Ajay led the core middleware business, Cloud Application Foundation, for Oracle. Under his leadership, Oracle Exalogic, a middleware engineered system, became the fastest-growing business and Oracle WebLogic, a Java EE Application Server, was #1 in the market during his entire tenure. He also launched Oracle Java Cloud Service and set the roadmap for Oracle’s private cloud solution. Ajay has over 20 years of enterprise software expertise and was also senior vice president at Apigee (Sonoa Systems) and general manager for BEA Systems, Data Services business. His prior experience includes management consulting and system integration with Price Waterhouse Coopers, EDS and AT&T. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and another Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine. He is also a technical adviser to venture funded software companies.
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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.
Umesh Mahajan
SVP, GM NSX Networking and Security (SDN) of VMware
A seasoned executive and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in tech industry, Umesh has helped develop the vision, strategy, and execution plan for several innovative technology products. Before co-founding Avi Networks, Umesh was the Vice President / General Manager for a $2B Data Center switching business at Cisco where he led engineering, product management, marketing and operations for Nexus 7000, MDS switching products, and the NX-OS operating system. Prior to his work at Cisco, Umesh led the software team at Andiamo in architecting and delivering SAN-OS. Umesh has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Duke, a Bachelor of Science degree from IIT Delhi, and has 29 patents to date.
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Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Shankar Iyer
SVP & GM, End User Computing of VMware
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Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products at VMware.
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John Gilmartin
General Manager and Vice President, Integrated Systems of VMware
John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Israel Cidon
VP Researcher of VMware
Technion EE professor and co-founder of Actona, (AKA Cisco WAAS) Viola (acquired by Fluke Networks) and Micronet (MCRNL:IT). Rock junky and espresso fanatic.
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Lily Chang
VP, XMO & SVM Project Office of VMware
Lily Chang is the VP, XMO & SVM Project Office at VMware.
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Mark Chuang
Vice President, Product Management, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
Mark Chuang is the VP, Product Management for VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit. His team accelerates the adoption of the software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud, by defining plans for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs. He has over 20 years of product experience across enterprise SW, personal computers, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Mark graduated with High Honors from the UC, Berkeley with a BS in EECS and has been awarded 6 US patents.
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Mark Peek
VP, Principal Engineer of VMware
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF and OCI.
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About FreeBSD, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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Paul Dul
VP Product Management – Cloud Native Applications of VMware
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Rahul Jain
Founder & VP Business Development of Pendo
Rahul Jain is Founder & Biz Dev at Pendo.io.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Henrik Ohlsson
Vice President, Data Science of C3 AI
Henrik Ohlsson is VP of data science at C3.ai. He has deep knowledge in machine learning, time series analysis, deep learning, and its applications. Henrik is also an assistant professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has both a Master of Science in electrical engineering and applied physics, and a Ph.D. in automatic control from Linkoping University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Salesforce Ventures
John Somorjai is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Salesforce Ventures at salesforce.com. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of mergers and acquisitions, and investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas through acquisitions including Exact Target, Radian6, Buddy Media, Heroku, Jigsaw, Instranet, and Rypple, and also brought onboard a number of key leaders. In addition, his team has made investments in more than 100 technology companies located in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, China, and Israel.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Kevin Egan
VP, North America Sales of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Bradley Armstrong
VP, Business Development & Corporate Development of Slack
Brad Armstrong leads global business and corporate development and is responsible for partnerships, alliances, the Slack Fund and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Prior to Slack, Brad was a Vice President at Salesforce, leading strategic business development. He was a founding member of the Salesforce AppExchange partner programme and held a range of leadership roles during his eight years at Salesforce. Earlier in his career, Brad practised law at international law firms where he focused on emerging companies, venture capital and M&A. Brad has a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated summa cum laude, and a law degree from USC’s Gould School of Law.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Noah Weiss
VP of Product of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
