Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Elizabeth Pemmerl
Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector & Channels of GitHub
Elizabeth Pemmerl is the Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector and Alliances at GitHub.
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About Dcode, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Robert Enslin
President of Global Customer Operations of Google Cloud
Robert joined Google Cloud in April 2019. Prior to Google, Robert spent 27 years at SAP in leadership roles across sales and operations, most recently as president of the Cloud Business Group and executive board member. He developed and managed SAP’s entire cloud product portfolio, led the field revenue and enablement efforts across multiple geographies, and oversaw core functions including professional services, ecosystem, channel, and solutions. Before joining SAP, Robert spent 11 years in various roles in the IT industry. An avid supporter of youth advancement and development, he serves as the honorary global chairman of the Els for Autism Golf Challenge. Robert currently sits on the boards of Discovery Limited in South Africa and Docker in San Francisco, California.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Tariq Shaukat
President, Partner and Industry Platforms of Google Cloud
Tariq M. Shaukat is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Caesars Entertainment. In this role, Tariq oversees Marketing, Information Technology, Analytics, E-Commerce, Distribution, VIP Sales, and Gaming across all lines of business, including casino, hotel, restaurants, nightlife, and entertainment. He also oversees our Live Entertainment business and our award-winning loyalty program, Total Rewards. Tariq joined Caesars as Chief Marketing Officer in 2012 from McKinsey & Company, where he was a Partner. There, he led the Firm’s loyalty practice globally, and worked with clients across a range of consumer businesses, including travel, media, and financial services, on revenue stimulation, marketing and growth topics. Before McKinsey, he worked in the technology industry, co-founding a social media company, and leading business development for the consumer electronics and consumer products businesses at Trilogy, an enterprise software company. He was also a Principal at The McKenna Group, a Silicon Valley based consultancy. Tariq holds a bachelors and masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, respectively, and a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Three Square Food Bank and of The Smith Center for Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
David Friend
Co-founder, President & CEO of Wasabi Technologies
David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a revolutionary cloud storage company. David’s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind. Friend founded or co-founded five other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation – an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software – a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet – which became the world’s largest provider of fax-to-email services, Sonexis – a VoIP conferencing company, and immediately prior to Wasabi, what is now one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies, Carbonite. David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
Vice-President of the Office of Public Sector and Education of RingCentral
Naveed Husain, Vice President Office Public Sector and Education is charged with developing the strategic alignment with industry trends. As a former customer of RingCentral, he is passionate about assisting new and existing customers adopt and leverage cloud-based Unified Communication as a Service and Contact Center as a Service. Formerly, he was the Chief Information Officer of Teachers College, Columbia University and had implemented RingCentral’s product suite, he has real world insights on the challenges and benefits of introducing a UCAAS/CCAAS solution. In his roles as a Chief Information Officer, he has empowered his teams to provide agile and consultative services using a cloud to deliver elegant solutions for research, teaching and learning that have resulted in business efficiencies and enhanced student experience. Naveed brings over 20 years of global professional experience in the private and public sectors, having served as the Chief Information Officer at Queens College, City University of New York where he aligned the technology departments goals to the College’s Strategic Plan. He has worked in challenging duty stations for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, like Mogadishu and Iraq and has led enterprise projects for multinational firms in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Praful Shah
Senior Vice President Strategy of RingCentral
Praful Shah is responsible for defining the company’s business, product, and marketing strategy. Shah brings more than 20 years of experience with major technology companies in the software and cloud industries. Before joining RingCentral, he worked at WebEx from its founding days until its acquisition by Cisco in 2007. At WebEx, Shah held various executive management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Communications, Online Products, Product Marketing, and Business Development. Shah previously served as the Senior Director of Marketing for the database and internet products divisions at Oracle. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Tim Mund
Regional Vice President of Sales, Enterprise of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jim Dvorkin
Senior Vice President, Customer Engagement of RingCentral
Jim Dvorkin has broad experience in building companies in software as a service (SaaS) technology space, including customer relationship management and call center technologies. Presently, as CTO of Five9 – a market-leading SaaS call center solutions company, Jim manages software development, data center operations, customer support and implementation. Previously, Jim started the call center initiative as VP of Technology for Salesforce.com – a leading SaaS customer relationship management company. Jim has also served as CTO at EchoPass, provider of hosted call center solutions, and as VP of Technology at HipBone, a hosted web collaboration company. His extensive experience also includes co-founding one of the first on-demand call center companies – WhitePJ (acquired by Contactual), as well as co-founding Next Age Technologies, leading provider of workforce management solutions (acquired by Genesys). Jim also held several key engineering roles at Genesys – a pioneer and worldwide leader of delivering complex premise-based call center solutions. Jim holds a Masters degree of Economics and Computer Science from State University of Lithuania, and fluently speaks Russian, Lithuanian and English.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Keith Dennis
Regional Vice President, Enterprise West of RingCentral
Software as a Service (SaaS) sales leader with 16+ years experience rapidly building and scaling high performance teams in emerging markets. Industry specialization: Global Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service; Global Omni Channel Contact Center as a Service.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Amitabh Srivastava
President, Advanced Software Division of Dell EMC
Amitabh Srivastava is President, Advanced Software Division at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. In his role as President of EMC’s Advanced Software Division, Srivastava oversees all aspects of ASD’s business including product development, finance, marketing, sales, and product management. ASD is building innovative products that will help differentiate EMC storage products and expand them into new markets. Srivastava has more than 28 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining EMC in April 2011, Srivastava was Senior Vice President of Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for Windows Azure and Windows Server products. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Srivastava was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of TracePoint Technology Inc. He started his career in research in 1984, working at Texas Instruments Research Labs in Dallas, Texas and Digital’s Western Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. He holds 14 patents and has published a variety of papers. His paper on ATOM with Alan Eustace in PLDI 1994 received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in June 2005. Srivastava earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. A Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur awarded him a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004. The Pennsylvania State University named him an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus in 2004 and inducted him as an Alumni Fellow in 2009. Srivastava delivered the commencement address titled ‘Fourth and Goal’ in the College of Engineering graduation ceremonies at Pennsylvania State University in 2008.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Mary Kosten
Vice President Customer Service of Dell EMC
Mary Cay Kosten is vice president, customer service – field, for EMC Corporation. She is responsible for creating and driving field service strategy and programs, logistics, and escalation management for EMC’s 3,000-person global team supporting EMC’s customer base. Kosten has over 25 years of experience in service and supplier management, with a proven track record in building outstanding service delivery organizations. Prior to joining EMC, she was vice president of global customer services delivery for Oracle/Sun Microsystems, responsible for delivering all elements of Sun’s support services. At Sun Microsystems, she also served as vice president of customer services for the Americas region and vice president for the Americas Customer Care Center. Under her leadership, Sun achieved the prestigious J.D. Power Certified Technology Service and Support (CTSS) Award for “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience,” the TSIA Award for Excellence in Service Operations, and was inducted into the STAR Awards Hall of Fame. Kosten is a 2008 recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business (High Tech and Telecommunications) Award and a 2006 recipient of the Silicon Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. She also is on the steering committee for TSIA’s Women in Services community of interest. She holds an MS degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and a BS in marketing from the University of West Florida.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Chris Scollo
Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations, Customer Services of Dell EMC
Chris Scollo serves as the vice president of global strategy and operations for EMC Customer Support Services. In this role, he oversees the operation and evolution of EMC’s 7,000-person support organization—including a full range of programs and initiatives designed to meet new customer requirements, leverage new routes to market, and amplify EMC’s opportunities in cloud computing and big data. Scollo has over 19 years of experience in consulting, service delivery, and business operations. He joined EMC in 2011 from Oracle Corporation, where he was most recently vice president of Business Operations for the Global Systems Support organization. In this role, Scollo led the multi-year strategic planning process for customer services, acted as the support integration lead in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and drove management review processes, standardized metrics, and reporting. He has held previous leadership positions in Sun Microsystems’ Technical Support Services and Field Operations. Scollo holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross, an MA in economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
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.
Jayshree Ullal
President & CEO of Arista Networks
As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista’s business and thought leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015, Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and one of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019. Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.
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About Arista Networks, StorSimple: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Christian Martin
Vice President, Service Provider Customer Engineering of Arista Networks
Christian Martin has spent more than 20 years delivering advanced ICT solutions to enterprises, government and service providers. His career experience spans many areas. In his current role, he is responsible for defining and driving the execution of Arista’s strategy for its ongoing expansion into the service provider and MSO markets. Prior to his role at Arista, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco, reporting to the CAO/CTO Development. At Cisco, Christian was responsible for network architecture and strategic direction for major global carriers, large MSOs and large financial services organizations. Before Cisco, he held leadership roles in engineering at Juniper Networks and Teliris; co-founded and led a technology consultancy from inception to acquisition; and held leadership roles in technology, engineering and operations at Verizon.
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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.
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Platform Strategy of Acumatica
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy heads the Cloud xRP Division of Acumatica, a leading cloud ERP platform provider for mid-sized customers. In this role he is responsible for the Vertical ISV ecosystem, Platform business P&L and developer marketing. He is also responsible for strategic alliances and product incubation with strategic partners including DocuSign, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Prior to Acumatica, Ajoy spent 10 years at Microsoft driving business success across a wide range of product management, alliance and marketing roles. Ajoy has co-authored half a dozen books on various MS technologies including ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Ajoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Masters in Computer Science and also earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Bharath Yadla
VicePresident of Workato
Seasoned Executive with 20+ years of experience in building Customer Success teams, Disruptive Products, Solutions & for Start-Up & high-growth companies. Key expertise includes building groundup & managing Customer Success, Product Management & Strategy, and Partner Enablement for StartUps & high-growth companies Key Technology & Domain expertise includes building solutions in the areas of SaaS / Cloud Integration, SOA & Middleware, Retail Bigdata Analytics, Relevance & Personalization technologies Read more: http://insights.wired.com/bharathyadla
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
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.
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.
Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Paramesh Gopi
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
Dr. Paramesh Gopi joined us as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008 and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2009. On April 29, 2009, Dr. Gopi became a member of our Board of Directors. From September 2002 to June 2008, he was with Marvell Semiconductor, a provider of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits to broadband digital data networking markets, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit. At Marvell, Dr. Gopi held several executive-level positions including Chief Technology Officer of Embedded and Emerging Business Unit and Director of Technology Strategy. From June 2001 to August 2002, Dr. Gopi was Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications at Conexant Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal processing company. He joined Conexant Systems, Inc. as part of its acquisition of Entridia Corporation in 2001. Dr. Gopi founded Entridia, a provider of Network Processing ASICs for Optical Networks, in 1999. Prior to Entridia, Dr. Gopi held principal engineering positions at Western Digital and Texas Instruments where he was responsible for the development of key mixed signal networking products. Dr. Gopi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits, Starthub Nation: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
William Caraccio
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary; Chief Legal Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
L. William Caraccio joined us in June 2010 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. In December 2002, he was a co-founder of RMI Corporation (formerly Raza Microelectronics, Inc.), a privately held fabless semiconductor company where he was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and, following RMI Corporation’s acquisition by Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. in October 2009, he served a transition role at Netlogic as Senior Counsel until January 2010. From March 2000 to January 2003, he was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Foundry Holdings, Inc., a privately held investment firm and incubator of high technology companies. From June 1992 to March 2000, he was at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), an international law firm where he was most recently a Partner and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Securities and Technologies Group. Mr. Caraccio earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Joseph Macri
Vice President/CTO of AMD
Joseph Macri is Vice President at AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Raghunath Nambiar
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Pat Kelly
Vice President of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Illena Armstrong
President of Cloud Security Alliance
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About Cloud Security Alliance: The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Sheng Liang
President of Engineering & Innovation of SUSE
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About SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Keith Basil
Vice President of Product, Cloud Native Infrastructure of SUSE
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About Fourth Cloud, SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Lesly Mohr
Vice President of Finance of Voyager Capital
Lesly Mohr is the Vice President of Finance at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Anders Wallgren
Vice President of Technology Strategy of CloudBees
Anders Wallgren is Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud. Anders brings with him over 15 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Anders held executive positions at Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award winning technologies such as Macromedia’s Director 7 and various Shockwave products. Anders holds a B.SC from MIT.
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About CloudBees, Electric Cloud: CloudBees develops a cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end automated software delivery.
Robert Zhang
Co-founder & President of CloudMinds
Robert Zhang is a Co-Founder and President of CloudMinds Technology, where he is responsible for the company’s global business and product strategies, operations and strategic partnerships. Prior to co-founding CloudMinds, Robert was the Head of Service Strategy and Operations for Samsung Telecommunications America (2012-15). Previously (2011-12), he was Vice President of Product Management at Irdeto where he was responsible for global product strategy on broadband video, which included over-the-top, connected, social and Internet TV and next generation broadcasting. From 2009-11, he served as Vice President of Product Development at the Joint Innovation Lab. Prior to these senior executive roles, he was a Senior Program Manager for New Products Introduction, XBox 360 at Microsoft (2008-09) and as IPod Operations Program Manager (2004-08) and as Senior Engineering Scientist for CPU Software (2001-04) at Apple. Robert served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (2002-08) and as President of the Silicon Valley – China Wireless Technology (2004-05). Robert earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Mechanics and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Tongji University, China.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Colin Guinn
President and Founder of Hangar Technology
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About Guinn Partners, Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Joshua Elson
President of FluentStream
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About FluentStream: Your business phone system, service, and support in the cloud.
Jeffrey Jenkins
Vice President, R&D Americas of TeamViewer
Jeff brings nearly fifteen years of technology experience to APX Labs with a focus on creating and managing highly effective agile software engineering teams. Prior to co-founding APX, Jeff served as the Director of Core Networks at Battlefield Telecommunications Systems, overseeing the development of the company’s next generation cellular core network. Prior to that, Jeff served as the Vice President in charge of Solution Services at AETEA Information Technology where he led a division specializing in the development of bespoke enterprise software solutions for customers in a variety of verticals including healthcare, conservation, warehousing, and defense. A software engineer by trade, Jeff brings to bear experience gained in the architecture and development of enterprise-class software for Fortune 500 businesses to attack the challenges faced by APX Labs as it grows.
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About TeamViewer: TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution for remote access, support, collaboration and desktop sharing over the internet.
Alfredo Patron
Senior Vice President Business Development of TeamViewer
As TeamViewers Senior Vice President of Business Development, Alfredo oversees all global efforts focused on strategic partnerships that drive innovation and business growth. Partnerships span OEM hardware manufacturers, MDM and EMM platforms, ERP, CRM partners, IT services and IoT. Previously he was the Sr. Director of Business Development in Microsoft focusing in distribution partnerships for their top applications including Office, Skype, Onedrive, Onenote across cross platform partners, mobile operators and ISVs. He also held numerous roles across marketing and business development in the Microsoft Server business and Windows devices team having lived in Mexico, London and Seattle. He holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Anahuac del Sur
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About TeamViewer, TeamViewer: TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution for remote access, support, collaboration and desktop sharing over the internet.
Matt Stevens
CEO and President of AppNeta
Matt Stevens is a CEO and President at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Eva Maloney
Vice President of Business Operations of AppNeta
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Sean Armstrong
Vice President, Products of AppNeta
Sean Armstrong is a Vice President of Products at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Suresh Kuppahally
Executive Vice President, Engineering & Operations of Replicon
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About Replicon: We help businesses capture, manage and optimize their most underutilized asset – time.
Vien Nguyen-Vu
Vice President, Human Resources of Replicon
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About Replicon: We help businesses capture, manage and optimize their most underutilized asset – time.
Ansa Sekharan
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Success Officer of Informatica
Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president and Chief Customer Success Officer, leads Informatica’s Global Customer Support and Informatica University, where he is responsible for establishing Informatica as a trusted partner for customers worldwide by ensuring their success with Informatica’s products. Additionally, Ansa leads Informatica’s Education Services division, with a focus on role-based training programs to ensure the organization gets the most out of investment in Informatica products. Ansa was an early employee at Informatica starting in 1996. During his tenure, Informatica has received prestigious industry awards recognizing its support services, including being ranked number one in customer loyalty in the data integration enterprise software sector for 11 years in a row. Prior to joining Informatica, Ansa was a veteran of Sybase, where he held numerous customer services roles. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Technology, India.
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About Active Endpoints, Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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Murli Thirumale
Vice President / General Manager Cloud Native of Pure Storage
Murli Thirumale is the VP, GM of the Cloud-Native Business Unit at Pure Storage. Prior to that, he was the co-founder, VP, and General Manager of Portworx.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Pradeep Menon
Executive Vice President & Global head of delivery of Orion Innovation
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Neal Meropol
Vice President, Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs of Flatiron Health
Neal J. Meropol is a medical oncologist, clinical investigator and health outcomes researcher who serves as vice president of research oncology at Flatiron Health. In this role, he leads efforts to leverage Flatiron’s technology platforms and nationwide provider network to gain insights from real-world data that accelerate research and improve quality of care for cancer patients. Prior to joining Flatiron, Neal was professor and chief of the division of hematology and oncology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, and associate director for clinical research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Neal has a national reputation for his research contributions in gastrointestinal malignancies and health services research, including evaluation of new agents, predictors of response and outcome, development of tools to overcome barriers to clinical trial participation, and assessment of the economic impact of care. He currently serves as chair emeritus of the National Cancer Institute Gastrointestinal Cancer Steering Committee, which oversees the development of clinical trials in the publicly-funded clinical trials system. Neal recently completed a four-year term as an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Board of Directors. He has authored more than 250 manuscripts, book chapters, and editorials related to cancer prevention, treatment, decision making, and health economics. Neal received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton University and MD from Vanderbilt University. He was a resident in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and completed hematology and medical oncology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent a sabbatical at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Marta Bralic
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Flatiron Health
Marta Bralic Kerns is the Founder & CEO at Pomelo Care. She attended Harvard University.
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About Flatiron Health, Pomelo Care: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Marc Wilson
Co-Founder & Senior Vice President Global Partners & Industry Practices of Appian
Marc Wilson is a Co-Founder of Appian and is responsible for the company’s sales into Financial Services, Insurance, and Pharmaceuticals. Marc’s prior roles at Appian include building Appian’s Global Partnership Team and running Appian Professional Services. Marc received his B.A. in Government (International Relations) from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, Marc was recognized as one of the top ranked inter-collegiate debaters in the United States.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Medhat Galal
Vice President Of Software Development of Appian
Medhat Galal is a VP, Enablement at Appian.
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Michael Heffner
Vice President — Solutions and Industry Go To Market of Appian
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Lang Ly
Senior Vice President, Strategy of Appian
Lang Ly is a VP, Business Application at Appian.
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Marco Pescosolido
Vice President of Engineering of Appian
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David Metzger
Vice President, Talent of Appian
David Metzger is a VP, Talent Management at Appian.
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Suvajit Gupta
Senior ⇒ Executive Vice President Of Engineering of Appian
Suvajit Gupta is a VP, Engineering at Appian.
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Kevin Spurway
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Appian
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Kevin Spurway
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Appian
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Matthew McSweeney
Vice President Sales, Americas of Cohesity
Matthew McSweeney is the regional vice president of major and global accounts, East Region at Palo Alto Networks, as well as the vice president of worldwide sales at Emulex. He has experience in hiring, developing, motivating, and managing grown talented sales teams. Previously, McSweeney worked at [AppNeta](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appneta), [BMC Software](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bmc-software#/entity), [Coradiant](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coradiant), holding leadership positions in sales. Prior to that, he was the national sales and business development director at [RealMed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/realmed#/entity) McSweeney holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Nikolaus Oberhuber
Vice President Sales Eastern US, Canada, EMEA of Cohesity
Nikolaus, A perennially top performing sales leader, having successfully lead the top performing sales teams at 3PAR purchased by HP in 2010 and Actifio. He brings 16 years of start up sales leadership to Cohesity. Nikolaus Oberhuber joins Cohesity from Actifio, where he served as VP sales, East, for more than four years. At Actifio, he was responsible for leading the sales team, resulting in the highest performance of any region in the company. His team achieved over $50 million in total bookings across new accounts in the company.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Piotr Gajos
Vice President of Brand Expression & Design of Persistent Systems
Piotr Gajos is the Vice President of Brand Expression and Design at Persistent Systems.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Marcus Cohn
Vice President of Inbound Marketing of 2U
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
Andrew Hermalyn
President, Global Partnerships of 2U
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May Mitchell
Senior Vice President Marketing of iboss
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Dinesh Desai
President and CEO of Emtec
Dinesh Desai has been Emtec’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since August 2005. Prior to August 2005, Dinesh Desai was the Chairman and CEO of DARR Global Holdings, Inc., a management consulting firm. Prior to DARR, Dinesh Desai was President, CEO, Co-Chairman and an owner of Western Sky Industries, a privately-held manufacturer of proprietary component parts used primarily in aerospace applications. Western Sky grew from approximately $3 million in revenues to over $170 million prior to being sold to McKechnie in 1999. Before Western Sky, Dinesh Desai spent twelve years with American Can and Arco Chemical in various management positions. Dinesh Desai holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and a Masters of Science Degree in both chemical and industrial engineering from Montana State University. He earned a Masters in Business Administration from Temple University.
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About Emtec: Emtec is a global IT consultancy dedicated to helping organizations drive transformation and growth via innovative technology and processes.
Charles Liang
Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Supermicro
Charles Liang founded Supermicro and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for the past two decades. From July 1991 to August 1993, Mr. Liang was President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., a high-end motherboard design and manufacturing company. From January 1988 to April 1991, Mr. Liang was Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and Suntek Information International Group, a system and software development company. Mr. Liang has been granted many server technology patents. Mr. Liang holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Sara Liu Liang
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and Director of Supermicro
Chiu-Chu (Sara) Liu Liang co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1985 to 1993, Ms. Liang held finance and operational positions for several companies, including Micro Center Computer Inc. Ms. Liang holds a B.S. in Accounting from Providence University in Taiwan. Ms. Liang is married to Mr. Charles Liang.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Wally Liaw
Co-Founder, Vice President of International Sales, Secretary and Director of Supermicro
Yih-Shyan (Wally) Liaw co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of International Sales, Corporate Secretary and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Liaw was Vice President of Engineering at Great Tek, a computer company. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Matt Thauberger
Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Supermicro
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Raluca Ada Popa
President of Opaque
Raluca Ada Popa is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Her research is in security and applied cryptography.Raluca has developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data as well as designed novel encryption schemes. Raluca received her PhD in computer security as well as two BS degrees, in computer science and in mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Johnson award for best CS Masters of Engineering thesis from MIT, and a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM.
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About Opaque, PreVeil: Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud.
Fiona Gellatly
Vice President – Enterprise & Partner Accounts of Cloud Lending
Fiona is responsible for global account management for Cloud Lending Solutions. Her responsibilities include ensuring customer success for customers using the CLS products and services including banks, alternative financial institutions and leasing companies.Fiona comes to us with a broad background in the international payments ecosystem with both sales and marketing experience. Her leadership experience includes working for a variety of companies within payments including credit, lending, merchant acquiring, card issuer processing, fraud in both brick and mortar, ecommerce and working at the two largest global third-party distribution partners of prepaid cards, Blackhawk Network and InComm. Her knowledge of the digital payments ecosystem includes serving as a director for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, a global trade association serving the needs of the mobile industry world-wide.
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About Cloud Lending, Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Leonid Igolnik
Vice President of Engineering of CA Technologies
Leonid Igolnik is an enterprise application specialist with wide experience in leadership and management of all aspects of the software development lifecycle across the technology organization, including software engineering, quality assurance, and cloud operations. Igolnik’s areas of expertise are the setup and refactoring of software development teams; enterprise software design; high availability applications; technology due diligence and evaluation; and software as a service (SaaS).
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About CA Technologies, ClearLaw, Sand Hill Angels: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Jacob Lamm
Executive Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development of CA Technologies
Jacob Lamm is executive vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development, at CA Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating the company’s overall business strategy, as well as developing strategy for the selection, prioritization, and execution of acquisitions. In addition, Jacob is charged with exploring opportunities to build businesses in new markets. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team, which defines and executes business and technical strategies. Jacob has held various management positions since joining CA Technologies in 1998. Prior to assuming his current role he served as executive vice president of the company’s Governance Group, a collection of business units focused on delivering solutions that help organizations effectively govern all areas of operations. Earlier, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Business Service Optimization business unit at CA Technologies. Jacob has more than 20 years of industry experience covering a wide range of technologies and business applications. He joined CA Technologies with its acquisition of Professional Help Desk (PHD), where he was co-founder and served as executive vice president and chief technology officer. Under his leadership, PHD evolved into one of the strongest products on the market and gained industry recognition as having the most visionary service management solution. Prior to founding PHD, Jacob served as a senior manager at Con Edison in New York, where he was responsible for integrating new technologies into the company’s business systems, including wireless communications, data warehousing, imaging, and Internet solutions. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Jacob earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information science.
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Lauren Flaherty
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CA Technologies
Lauren is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CA Technologies, a market leader in enterprise software. She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks, and a 25-year marketing career at IBM®, where she held executive roles for over a decade. In addition to her role at CA, Lauren serves on the Board of Directors for Xactly Corporation, a market leader in SaaS-based tools for enterprise sales performance management and effectiveness. The scope of her expertise and experience covers a broad spectrum: corporate brand management, product marketing and portfolio management, and digitally driven customer engagement, experience and demand creation. Lauren is an experienced leader who has served a diverse profile of companies, from globally recognized technology leaders to high-growth, Silicon Valley innovators. At CA, Lauren is responsible for all facets of marketing. Since joining she has led a global initiative to recast the company’s reputation and positioning in the market via portfolio rationalization, brand marketing, strategic media and sports sponsorships. She’s also led the development of CA Technologies first integrated operating model for demand and opportunity management across sales and marketing. This work enables CA to measure market demand on a global basis, use analytics to gain insight on customer buying patterns, assess program ROI and sales conversion. Lauren has been recognized multiple times by BtoB Magazine as one of the World’s Top Marketers and was profiled in Secrets of the Marketing Masters, 2009. In 2010, she was named one of The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and in 2015 she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the 50 Most Powerful Woman in Technology. Lauren holds a BA from Syracuse University. She is married, has two children and lives in New York City.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Otto Berkes
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies
As executive vice president and chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets. Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft® and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU. Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD. An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines. Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.
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Adam Elster
President, Global Field Operations of CA Technologies
Adam is president of global field operations at CA Technologies. He is responsible for building and maintaining customer and partner relationships across large enterprises and fast-growing, emerging markets. In this role, Adam will leverage changing IT demands to drive new business opportunities for customers and partners. Adam has held various senior management positions since joining the company in 1999. Previously, he served as executive vice president and group executive, Mainframe and Customer Success where he led innovation and growth for the Mainframe business and Customer Success. In addition, he led a Business Transformation program that aligned organizational initiatives with the company’s business strategy to meet long term goals and objectives. Previously, as executive vice president of the company’s global business operations and business transformation, he managed all aspects of executing the company’s operating plan. Earlier on as general manager of CA Services, Support and Education sales, Adam led a global team that delivered strategic insight, implementations, support and education to enable customers to receive maximum value from their IT investments. He was also responsible for sales in the eastern U.S., with a primary focus on managing the company’s growth in established and emerging customer bases. Adam joined CA Technologies through the acquisition of PLATINUM technology, where he supported the company’s professional services focused on data warehousing, repository, and business intelligence. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and his Master of Sciences in management and information systems from New York University.
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Michael Bisignano
Executive Vice President, General Counsel of CA Technologies
Michael Bisignano is general counsel and executive vice president at CA Technologies. In his role, Michael is responsible for providing legal guidance to the company’s senior management and board of directors. He oversees CA Technologies legal organization, including corporate governance and compliance, contracts, securities, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and litigation. Michael has more than two decades of business experience. Most recently, he served as general counsel and chief legal officer of Blackboard, Inc., a global technology company with 2,600 employees and clients in 90 countries. Michael oversaw critical aspects of the $1.64 billion transaction that took Blackboard private in 2011. Earlier in his career, he was general counsel at Online Resources Corporation, a software and SaaS technology provider, and was special counsel at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, a full-service, general practice law firm with offices in the US, the UK, and in Israel. He started his legal career as an attorney in the Washington D.C. offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy, a leading international law firm. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Michael earned a Juris Doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in economics and finance from The Wharton School of Business. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
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Stan Brown
Vice President Global Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer of CA Technologies
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Fred Muller
Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Tom Maheras
Vice President of AHEAD
Tom joined AHEAD in 2010 with 20 years of experience in finance / operations. As finance director, Tom oversees AHEAD’s financial selling, contract, and credit efforts. He also develops and maintains relationships with lessors and OEMs. Prior to AHEAD, Tom worked for EMC, where he managed its financial services practice for the Midwest. He also worked as a portfolio manager for Comdisco. Tom received a BBA from Butler University and an MBA from DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
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About AHEAD: AHEAD is a solutions-based company that helps clients move to an optimized IT service delivery model.
Julie Drimel
Vice President, Global Business Development + Sales Productivity of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Brad Olson
President of Mezocliq LLC
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About Mezocliq LLC: Mezocliq offers a cloud-based enterprise technology solution to unify fragmented legacy data, and enable analytics & process transformation.
Hadi Chaudhry
CEO, President and Director of CareCloud
A. Hadi Chaudhry joined MTBC in October 2002 as Manager of IT, and later served as General Manager and Chief Information Officer through his appointment as Vice President of Global Operations in October 2016 and President in 2018. He has extensive healthcare IT experience and served in various roles in the banking and IT sector prior to joining MTBC. Mr. Chaudhry received his BS in Mathematics and Statistics and holds numerous information technology certifications.
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About CareCloud: CareCloud, Inc., formerly MTBC, provides cloud-based technology-enabled software and services for medical practices in the US.
Brendan Moore
Vice President of Enterprise Sales of Zipwhip
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About Zipwhip: Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers.
Harman Sandhu
President of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
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About Opmo, Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Tony Williams
Vice President of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
Tony Williams, Vice President of Mobile Workforce Solutions at SEW has over 25 years of experience working in the electric and gas utility. Tony brings a diverse set of skills and experiences to his role including utility strategy development, training and development and business process improvement. He has successfully helped utilities gain efficiencies and improve core operations throughout his career. Prior to joining SEW, Tony spent 3.5 years at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) as Director of Electric Operations Training where he was responsible for Training and Development for the Electric Operations organization. In this role, Tony successfully brought innovation to core training procesSEW that resulted in substantial cost efficiencies and improved workforce productivity year-over-year. Similarly, he led the implementation of mobile solutions for some of PG&E’s most critical job training procesSEW—including pre-apprentice lineman, apprentice lineman, and cable splicer—resulting in increased engagement and training efficiency. Prior to his tenure at PG&E Tony spent 23 years at Southern California Edison (SCE), many of which in leadership roles in support of Transmission and Distribution operations and learning and development. Tony is a graduate of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California where he received his MBA and has a BS in Marketing from California State University Chico.
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About Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Brad Adamske
Vice President Sales, Western Region of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
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Lance Brown
Vice President of Customer Solutions of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
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Ken Roberts
Senior Vice President of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
Ken Roberts, Vice President of Sales – International Market at SEW is responsible for developing, directing and executing the Firm’s overall strategic sales. Ken brings a diverse background and has more than 21 years of product marketing, channel marketing, product development, sales, engineering, technology, B2B and consumer marketing experience on a global scale. Ken has held a vice president of sales and marketing position as well as other senior management roles. Prior to joining Smart Energy Water, Ken spent 9 years at Samsung Corporation, where he held product marketing and engineering positions. At Hewlett Packard, he served as product manager responsible for $400M in sales. He oversaw the development of both of these product categories that resulted in exceeding Hewlett Packard’s sales goals and also being awarded the HP Star Award for a significant contribution to HP’s sales, revenue and profitability. Ken is a graduate of the University of Southern California and received a BA in Spanish and also graduated from California State University Long Beach where he received a BS in Quality Assurance Engineering.
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Glenn Pagan
Senior Vice President of Global Sales of Upstream Commerce
Glenn Pagan brings to Upstream Commerce more than 27 years of sales and business development leadership in the software industry. His results-driven and client-focused approach, paired with his deep understanding of the market, provide Glenn with the ability to help global retail and e-commerce companies drive revenues and increase profitability. Glenn has held various leadership roles with leading solution providers including Regional Director at IBM Retail, Director of Business Development at Time Warner, VP Global Sales at Idomoo and VP Sales at TruEffect. Throughout his career he has worked with prominent retailers and brands such as Macy’s, Sears, Ralph Lauren, Amazon, HP and Microsoft to understand their needs and help them find retail solutions on a global scale. Glenn earned his BA/BBA in Marketing and Political Science from Iona College.
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About Upstream Commerce: Upstream Commerce provides cloud-based, automated competitive pricing and product analytics solutions for online retailers.
Kevin Hendrick
Senior Vice President, Sales of Softchoice
As Senior Vice-President of Sales, Kevin Hendrick leads Softchoice’s sales organization of 600+ individuals across North America. He is responsible for the overall strategy, execution and mentorship of sales reps across Softchoice’s Outbound Sales, Telesales and Territory Sales channels, ensuring their success and the consistent delivery of outstanding customer service. Kevin has more than 25 years of sales leadership experience, many of which were with ADP, where he served in senior sales roles and drove record market share gains and revenue growth. Directly before joining Softchoice, he built a sales leadership, coaching, and Challenger selling consultancy, working with top firms across North America like Amex, UPS, and US Bank. His innovation in leadership, coaching, and training have been chronicled in the Harvard Business Review. Kevin resides in Alpharetta, GA with his wife Lisa, and works out of Softchoice’s Atlanta office.
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About Softchoice: Softchoice is one of North America’s leading IT solutions & managed service providers.
Carolyn Pampino
Vice President of Design of Brightcove
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About Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Ryan Robinson
Chairman & President of OnRamp
Ryan is responsible for OnRamp’s operations, finance and customer service. Ryan and Lucas Braun led a group of investors in acquiring OnRamp through Brown Robin Capital, a private investment firm formed to make long-term investments in established, profitable businesses in growing industries. Prior to founding Brown Robin Capital, Ryan worked for Aero Logistics, where he managed a wide variety of operational areas. Ryan also worked as an investment professional at Farallon Capital Management, where he managed $250 million of public and private investments in the energy and business services sectors, overseeing the investment process from investment sourcing to the eventual sale. Ryan holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He received a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About OnRamp: OnRamp is a HITRUST-certified hybrid cloud hosting company specializing in high security and compliance services
Jill Springer
Vice President – Human Resources of Jasper Technologies
Jill Springer joined Jasper in 2014, overseeing human resources and talent acquisition. Over the past 25 years Jill has worked with companies in commercial, technical, and consumer businesses in the United States and around the world. She’s known for her well-grounded, clear, straightforward, and operationally focused plans in support of business strategies. Jill has provided executive leadership for numerous startups and small to mid-size pre-public and public companies on acquisitions and mergers, strategic planning, Human Resources operations, succession planning, and executive development. Jill has established a proven track record designing, implementing, and leading programs and processes for companies that include: Apple computer, Applied Materials, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, TSMC, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Illinois State University.
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About Jasper Technologies: Jasper Technologies develops cloud-based platforms.
Craig Wright
Vice President, North America Sales of SugarCRM
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Jennifer Armstrong-Owen
Vice President, People of Chef Software
Jenny Armstrong-Owen comes to Chef with more than 25 years of experience in developing and aligning HR strategy to the business, having most recently served as vice president of people, environment and culture at Impinj. She previously served as chief human resources officer at both Branded Entertainment Network and Corbis, after serving in increasingly senior roles at RealNetworks and Group Health Cooperative. Armstrong-Owen holds a MBA from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a BA from The Evergreen State College.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
