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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Manager operating in the Hardware space. If you think a Manager 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.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
David Rusenko
General Manager of E-Commerce of Square
David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Saumil Mehta
General Manager – Square Point of Sale, Customers of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Travis Raila
Lead Product Manager of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Salvatore Testa
Engineering Manager of Square
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About Persona, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Jason Sperling
Product Manager of Square
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About People Speak, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Brittany Domnie-Paul
Product Marketing Manager of Sony
Brittany Domnie-Paul is the Product Marketing Manager at Sony.
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Ralph Kasuba
Vice President & General Manager of Pitney Bowes
Ralph Kasuba is the Vice President & General Manager at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Mick Koster
Vice President and General Manager of Lowe’s Iris of Lowe’s
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About Lowe’s: Lowe’s provides the skills you need to manage your home, and offer the best customer services.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Jeffrey Donenfeld
Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
Jeffrey Donenfeld is an international business strategy advisor, investment manager, and startup venture mentor with experience in tech ideation, investment analysis and market positioning. Jeffrey is currently the Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators, and Director of Four North Media Group. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. He’s also worked internationally as a public speaker, photojournalist, and expedition technician. Connect at http://JeffreyDonenfeld.com.
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About Boomtown Accelerators, Four North: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Uzair Siddiqui
Senior Product and marketing Manager, IoT, and smart city solutions of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Vibhor Gupta
Analytics and Insights Manager of Verizon Wireless
Vibhor is a Analytics and Insights Manager at Verizon
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Mike Freiberger
Manager of Optical Business Intelligence of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Leonardo Gonzalez
Manager – Product Management/Product Development of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Neil Hand
Vice President & General Manager Tablet, Chrome, Workstations, Rugged and Alienware of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Irene Mwathi
Sr Product Manager of Dell
Irene has run her own IT consulting business for the last 4 years in Austin and has over 15 years of experience in Systems Analysis and Business development. Irene has worked with various private sector companies such DELL, 3M, Northrop Grumman, National Institutes of Health and American Express. Irene has also worked with startups as a mentor and has managed to earn a wealth of experience to develop a product that has been voted the best in the event venue business.
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About Dell, Spaces 2 Host: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Aditya Rao
Group Product Manager of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Roger Foreman
Systems Management Software/Firmware Product Marketing Manager of Dell
Roger Foreman is a senior product manager at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Andre Ortolon
eCommerce and Marketing Manager of Dell
Andre Ortolon is an e-commerce and marketing manager at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jane Wasson
Product Marketing Manager Dell Security of Dell
Jane Wasson is a product marketing manager at Dell focusing on mobile and email security products and solutions. Prior to Dell, Jane worked in product management and marketing roles for a number of next -gen technologies including broadband networking, media servers and digital home solutions. Jane is a UC Davis Alumni with a degree in Physics.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Corbin
Manager of Arista Networks
John Corbin brings over 30 years of server, storage, and network engineering experience working with large enterprise customers around the world. He is an author and inventor. Currently he leads the EOS+ Consulting Services team at Arista with a focus on applying DevOps principles towards building and operating hyper-scale data center infrastructures. John and his team work closely with Arista customers to transform strategic initiatives around network programability into tactical deployments, helping customers realize the benefits of operationalizing full stack, software-defined cloud networking solutions.
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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.
Joan Dowling
Senior Marketing Manager – Signature Kitchen Suite and Builder Channel of LG Electronics
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About LG Electronics: LG Electronics is a multinational company which includes LG Electronics.
James Christopherson
Senior Account Manager of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Girish Wable
Manager, Precision Engineering of Jabil
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
David Wahl
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Jabil Digital Office of Jabil
David Wahl is a VP Operations & General Manager at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Gordon Selley
Senior Manager (Software Engineering) of AMD
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About AMD, AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Michael Katz
Developer Alliance Manager, Radeon Technologies Group of AMD
Michael is a Developer Alliance Manager for the Radeon Technologies Group, and he works with software companies in the professional graphics market segment to enable, optimize, and promote AMD-based technologies. Michael earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and has worked in a wide variety of software segments, including: GIS, media delivery, consumer/gaming graphics, consumer & professional media editing, game engines & middleware, and most recently CAD. Michael is based in Bethesda, Maryland, where he is known personally as an avid runner, cyclist, and tree hugger.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Michael Detwiler
Senior Manager, Server Business Unit of AMD
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About AMD, AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Dean Putney
Software Engineering Manager of Glowforge
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About Glowforge: Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.
Lisa Freed
STEM Program Manager of iRobot
Lisa Freed is a LEED AP, STEM Program Manager at iRobot.
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Scott Stevelinck
Sr Manager of an Engineering Facility of Garmin
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About Garmin: Garmin manufactures marine, aviation, and consumer technologies suitable to run on global positioning systems.
Glenn Sullivan
Principal Product Manager of Infoblox
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Wil Florentino
Sr. Strategic Marketing Manager of Micron Technology
Wil Florentino is an Industrial Automation Segment Specialist at Renesas Electronics America, where he focuses on industrial networking, sensors, and Industrial IoT applications. He has 20 years of experience in industrial-focused technical marketing of processors, single board computers, and FPGAs. Prior to joining Renesas, he worked at Xilinx and Altera in strategic marketing roles related to industrial applications.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Shawn Adams
Senior Product Line Manager of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Yvette Kanouff
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Business of Cisco
Yvette Kanouff brings more than 20 years of service provider, media, and software experience to Sprinklr. Yvette has held various positions at Cisco Systems, including her most recent role as SVP/GM of the Service Provider Business, where she led a team of over 6,000 people. She also held the position of SVP/GM of Cisco’s Cloud and Virtualization Business and Service Provider Video Business. Prior to joining Cisco, she was Executive Vice President, Corporate Engineering and Technology at Cablevision, where she was responsible for the company’s strategic technology and critical engineering objectives, as well as identifying emerging technology opportunities. Previously she served as President of SeaChange, where she spearheaded its transition from a hardware company to a software-centric company. Earlier in her career, Kanouff played a key role at Time Warner Cable as Director of Interactive Technologies. Kanouff’s valuable leadership, deep commitment to mentorship and technical acumen have earned her numerous awards and accolades – including a Technical Emmy, patents for her work in digital technologies, the National Cable and Television Association Vanguard Award for Leadership in Science and Technology and the Multichannel News Wonder Woman award. Yvette has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics.
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About Cisco, JC2 Ventures: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Todd Nightingale
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco
Todd Nightingale is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki. Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012 and took over as GM in 2013. He has led Meraki to deepen its focus on simplicity and initiatives pulling powerful Cisco technologies into the Meraki platform. Nightingale has led the expansion of the Meraki team’s scope from cloud-managed wireless to cloud-managed networking to cloud-managed IT. In the process, the team has added enterprise mobility management, telephony, and video technology to the platform. This expansion has been driven by Meraki’s mission of simplicity and enabled by using cloud, open source, and a nimble engineering-led development model. In addition to product expansion, Nightingale and the team have globalized the Meraki portfolio, bringing simplified IT to more than 145 countries around the world.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Liz Centoni
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Cisco
Liz Centoni serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Computing Systems Product Group responsible for the Data Center compute P&L including the flagship UCS and Hyperflex product families. As SVP/GM, Liz runs a 1,000+ person global organization including engineering, product management and solutions. In this role, Liz sets the business and engineering direction, strategy, solutions and product priorities for the Datacenter compute business. Prior to her current role, Centoni served as Vice President, Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning and has also served as a Vice President/General Manager of the Service Provider Access Group where she set strategy, marketing direction and led engineering efforts to grow Cisco’s portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions. Since joining Cisco in 2000, Centoni has served in various engineering roles where she has been instrumental in building industry leading products, driving discipline, cadence, and structure to decision processes, portfolio planning and analytics to maximize profitable growth. Centoni brings over 20+ years of engineering, marketing and sales experience. She is an active mentor and actively supports under-represented minorities. She launched a “Women in Engineering Leadership” forum at Cisco, which now includes the entire Cisco engineering organization. She is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), a recipient of the YWCA 2015 TWIN Awards, Cloud NOW 2015 “Top 10 Women in Cloud” awards and Million Women Mentors 2015 “Mentor of the Year” Award.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Kaustubh Das
Vice President and General Manager, Cloud and Compute of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Pranjal Daga
Machine Learning Scientist/Product Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco, On Deck, Vonzos Partners: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Roland Acra
Senior Vice President and General Manager – Data Center Business Group of Cisco
Roland Acra serves as Strategic Advisor at Bidgely Inc. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Rock Corporation from December 2005 to September 2010. He served as an Executive Advisor of Cisco’s Smart Grid Business Unit until May 2012. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Procket Networks, Inc. since January, 2004, which he successfully led to an acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2004. From 1991 to 2003 he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco’s Service Provider business. Roland Acra served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the Public Carrier IP Group, General Manager of the Remote Access Business Unit where he provided leadership for the access server and access concentrator products and voice-over-IP technology to the rest of Cisco Systems. He served as Technical Director of Cisco in EMEA. At Cisco Systems, Roland Acra served as a Director of Dial Marketing for the Network to User Business Unit, responsible for defining and marketing Cisco’s dial access products and Director of Consulting Engineering in Europe, responsible for a team of consulting engineers for multiple disciplines and different market segments to address customers in network design. Roland Acra developed UNIX subsystems for Sun Microsystems served as a networking software development engineer at Interphase and held engineering development and technical leadership positions at Bridge Communications and 3Com Corporation from 1986 to 1988 and at Interphase Corporation from 1989 to 1991. Roland Acra serves as a Director of Arch Rock Corporation and U.S Telecommunications Training Institute. Roland Acra served as a Director of Procket Networks, Inc. since January 2004. Roland Acra holds Master of Science degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University, a Masters degree in Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superierue des Telecommunications in Paris and a degree in mathematics and physics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Arsenio Santos
Engineering Manager of Cisco
Arsenio Santos is a veteran of web software development and technical project management, having been involved with both since 1993.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Michael Auger
Manager, Advanced Threat Integrations at Cisco security of Cisco
Michael Auger has extensive experience in integrating and leveraging IT security tools to deliver leading-edge incident response and security operations capabilities. His 18+ year career includes supporting security incidents during the event and the subsequent remediation phases as well as implementing and managing IT security infrastructures for public and private F100 organisations.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Dennis Ives
Senior Account Manager- Southern California of Cisco
SENIOR SALES MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE Accomplished in driving revenues, growth, and profitability in a start-up environment. Selling to C Level / Consultative Sales / Strategic Account Management / New Market Development / Business Development / Hunter / Channel Sales Management / Relationship Building / Partnerships & Alliances / Marketing Current Position: Cisco Systems- Sales Manager for State & Local Government and Education, Southern California Metro Region. Startup background: 1.) Selectica- 3rd largest IPO in 2000 2.) Paisley- acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2007 3.) Omni Pros, Ltd. was acquired by e4e, Inc in 2006 Angel Investor: 1.) Cleantech America- acquired by Meridian Energy USA 2.) Ecomom
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Amanda Honas-Frias
Senior Application Security Manager of Cisco
Amanda Honea-Frias began her technical journey before the great malware invasions in the early 2000’s. She has worked in roles ranging from DevOps, Network Engineering, Technical Support, PenTesting all the way to building and evolving Application Security business units for several enterprise companies such as Belkin, Amazon Web Services and now finding her home with Cisco in the Duo Labs Research and Development team maturing Application Security for MFA service offerings and promoting 0 Trust and team diversity. In her spare time she loves hanging out with her soul-mutt Bolt, wife and two cats and of course VR Poker.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Peter Stone
Global Business Development Manager – Hyperflex/Data Center of Cisco
Stone holds a bachelor’s degree from the [University of California, Los Angeles](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-los-angeles#/entity) as well as multiple technical certifications. He lives in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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About Cisco, Stoneage Technologies: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Marc-Andre Oriani
System Engineering Manager of Cisco
Marc-Andre Oriani is a System Engineering Manager at Cisco.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Greg Mathison
Manager, Global Education Solutions of Cisco
Greg Mathison, M.S., Ph.D. currently serves as Cisco Systems’ Solutions Manager for Education. He helps K-12 and Higher Education institutions maximize leading-edge technologies that enhance teaching and learning, physical safety, cybersecurity, and operational effectiveness. He also manages Cisco’s relationships with Education Thought Leader/Partners, chairs the K-12 Schools Executive Exchanges comprised of 100+ District Superintendents and Leaders, and moderates Cisco’s Community and Technical Colleges Executive Symposia. Prof. Mathison has taught in several universities for more than 30 years. His daughter is a 3rd grade teacher and son is a high school principal.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Paul Maravei
General Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Punam Nagpal
Product Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Nayeem Khaja
Senior Program Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Andres Ruiz
IoT Sr Business Development Manager Global Partner Organization of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Stanley Tsao
Business Intelligence Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Ravi Jadhav
Product Manager – Enterprise SaaS of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Rick Hellmann
Senior Procurement Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco, Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Gyana Dash
Senior Manager Innovation and ML/AI R&D of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Sumeet Arora
SVP and General Manager, Service Provider Network Systems (Routing) of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Ankur Saxena
Manager of Cisco
Ankur is an Investment Manager at Cisco Investments, Cisco’s $2B global VC arm. He looks at investments and acquisitions in Industrial IoT, connected cars, IoT edge/ fog analytics, IoT security, AI, and machine learning. Prior to Cisco, Ankur worked in a variety of roles in venture capital and investment banking in Amazon’s Corporate Development team, The Carlyle Group, Helion Venture Partners and Avendus Capital in the US and India. Ankur earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago and also holds a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Wayne Cheung
Senior Strategy Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Viswanath Jakka
Product Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Gary Kinghorn
Senior Solution Marketing Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Viswanath Jakka
Product Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Gyana Dash
Senior Manager Innovation and ML/AI R&D of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Gary Kinghorn
Senior Solution Marketing Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Marc Blackmer
Project Manager of Cisco
Marc Blackmer is a technologist, blogger, and cybersecurity professional who has spent 20 years assisting some of the world’s top energy producers, financial institutions, and governments worldwide defend their critical assets from cyber threats. His background in threat intelligence, IT, industrial and Internet of Things cybersecurity, as well as IT governance, risk, and compliance, brings a unique perspective to addressing the threats facing businesses and governments today. Marc is also the founder of 1NTERRUPT, a non-profit program developed to introduce students to cybersecurity, hacking, and entrepreneurism.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Mike Brennan
Sr. Product Manager, Virtual Client Computing and Graphics Solutions of Cisco
Mike Brennan serves as senior product manager at Cisco Systems.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Neal Tilley
Manager, Higher Education, US Public Sector of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Ben Emmett
Technical Product Manager of Redgate Software
Ben is a technical product manager for Redgate’s developer tools. He spends his days digging into what makes applications grind to a halt, what makes them bloat and fall over, and what it takes to build something fast and scalable. When he’s not doing that, he’s probably messing with some electronics, cooking, or playing the violin.
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
David Chickanosky
Sr. Operations Manager of Toshiba Corporation
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About Toshiba Corporation: Toshiba Corporation manufactures and markets advanced electronic and electrical products.
Scott Wharton
VP & General Manager, Video Collaboration Group of Logitech
Scott Wharton is the VP & General Manager, Video Collaboration Group at Logitech .
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About Bulldog Innovation Group LLC, Logitech: Logitech designs and manufactures personal peripherals for the needs of personal computer and laptop users.
Eric Tooley
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Logitech
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About Logitech: Logitech designs and manufactures personal peripherals for the needs of personal computer and laptop users.
Rachel Schickowski
Manager, Employee Engagement of Rockwell Automation
We hear buzz on how Marketing continues to evolve. The way we shop has changed. Professionally, Rachel is determined to keep growing too. Over the past few years, Rachel held the role of Global Content Marketing Lead at Rockwell Automation. During this time she was responsible for the implementation and rollout of a company-wide content marketing platform. Rockwell Automation has a marketing team with more than 600 marketeers scattered around the globe, needless to say, having a platform to provide visibility, workflow efficiencies and eliminate duplicative efforts is critical. Recently, Rachel has taken on a new role as Senior Content Marketing Manager at Connecture. With a passion for content creation and telling a good story, switching to a smaller company with less silos felt right. She is eager to roll up her sleeves and get back to the work she loves. Her experience working with different size organizations provides a unique perspective on content creation and the technology needed to be successful.
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About Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation specializes in industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive.
Paula Puess
Global Market Development Manager of Rockwell Automation
Paula Puess is known for pushing boundaries and solving problems in new ways for over 20+ years in Sales and Marketing. Paula is currently the Global Market Development Manager for Rockwell Automation where she leads a global team career. Paula is often called a trusted advisor and leader amongst her peers. In today’s rapidly changing marketing landscape, she has the right mix of communications, sales operations, marketing and IT experience that make her a modern marketing leader. She greatly enjoys the diversity of her global position. Working on new business opportunities, market access models, channel engagement, and sales alignment through modern digital marketing approaches has provided views on all aspects of modern marketing.
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About Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation specializes in industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive.
Paula Puess
Global Market Development Manager of Rockwell Automation
Paula Puess is known for pushing boundaries and solving problems in new ways for over 20+ years in Sales and Marketing. Paula is currently the Global Market Development Manager for Rockwell Automation where she leads a global team career. Paula is often called a trusted advisor and leader amongst her peers. In today’s rapidly changing marketing landscape, she has the right mix of communications, sales operations, marketing and IT experience that make her a modern marketing leader. She greatly enjoys the diversity of her global position. Working on new business opportunities, market access models, channel engagement, and sales alignment through modern digital marketing approaches has provided views on all aspects of modern marketing.
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About Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation specializes in industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive.
John Easterling
Sr Mechanical Engineer and Product Manager of PassiveLogic
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About PassiveLogic: PassiveLogic – the world’s first fully autonomous buildings platform.
Marc Light
Manager Data Science of Facebook AI
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About Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Steve Gordon
Engineering Manager of Facebook AI
Steve Gordon is the Engineering Manager at Facebook
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About Eye GIFs, Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Edward Fagin
Engineering Manager of Facebook AI
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About Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Ethan Haigh
Program Manager of HAX
As Program Coordinator at HAX Growth in San Francisco, Ethan oversees logistics and delivery for the cohort, and assists with portfolio management, recruitment and due diligence on HAX Growth companies. Ethan has a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Spanish from Boston College. Ethan’s first exposure to the startup world came while he was studying in Buenos Aires, where he held an internship with goodpeople.com. Ethan also worked for the International Institute of Boston, a refugee resettlement agency, where he taught Cultural Orientation and aided recently-arrived refugees in their job search process. After graduating from BC, Ethan participated in a year of service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in Oregon. He worked in a bilingual elementary school, teaching literacy to students in both Spanish and English.
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About HAX: HAX is SOSV’s venture program for Hard Tech
Tully Foote
ROS Platform Manager of Open Robotics
Tully Foote is the ROS Platform Manager at the Open Source Robotics Foundation. His work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation is a continuation of his work at Willow Garage where he focused on ROS development, building core tools and libraries to support the ROS community. Prior to Willow Garage he worked on all three DARPA Grand Challenges, twice on the Caltech team and in the Urban Challenge on the University of Pennsylvania team. He is also the co-creator of the TurtleBot, a platform designed to expand the availability of robotics to new communities.
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About Open Robotics: Open Robotics support the development, distribution, and adoption of open software and hardware for use in robotics.
Michelle Esgar
Senior Group Manager, Marketing and Experience of Panasonic
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About Panasonic: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Andy Behr
Senior Technology Manager of Panasonic
Andy Behr is a Technology Manager with Panasonic Electronic Materials Division. He leads a research and marketing team based in Silicon Valley that that develops leading-edge materials for electronics and other emerging applications. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in business. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in material technologies such as photo resists, adhesives, encapsulants, conductive materials, fluoro-chemicals, abrasives, films and tapes. Andy began his career in research and has subsequently held positions in marketing and leadership.
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About Panasonic: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Mario Carrillo
Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions & Payment Technologies of Panasonic
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About Panasonic: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Mario Carrillo
Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions & Payment Technologies of Panasonic
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About Panasonic: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Mark Colaluca
Vp and General Manager Communication and Media Solutions of HP
Mark Colaluca is the Vice President, Global Support Delivery Americas, Enterprise Group, Technology Services within HP’s Technology Services (TS) business unit. As the leader of this function, his organization is responsible for all enterprise services spare parts operations. This includes – logistics, transportation, material sourcing, material repair, material availability, inventory planning and management, customer self-repair, return to HP repair and parts repair. Also included is our software supply chain and spare parts sales business unit. Colaluca joined HP in 1984, and has held numerous management and executive positions within customer support services and supply chain operations. He has been in his current role since November 2009. Prior to HP, he served in the United States Air Force. Colaluca currently lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife Sheri, and their two children, Nicholas and Kendall. He is very active in his children’s school and sports teams, coaching and leading special events.
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About HP, HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Doris Brown-McNally
WW Brands Business Development Manager, Graphic Solutions Business of HP
For close to 40 years Doris has been recognized in the printing, textile and plastics industries as one of the foremost experts on color, a crucial element in corporate branding and identity. Her greatest strengths are her passion, creativity, drive and leadership. She thrives on challenges, particularly those that expand the company’s reach. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry, she devises and presents motivating and educational presentations, sharing digital print capabilities and brand use stories worldwide.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Tim Stefl
Category Manager of HP
Tim Stefl is the Commercial Category Manager for HP Indigo 5xxx and 7xxx series presses. He has worked for the Indigo division since 1994, serving in a variety of roles. He writes the “Step-by-Step” series, an email newsletter designed to provide tips and tricks as well as other timely information to a worldwide community of HP Indigo press and production professionals. Tim began his career as a prepress operator at American Color in Phoenix, AZ after graduating from Arizona State University with a graphic communications degree. He’s been married to his beautiful wife Wavey since 2000, and has three children (ages 14, 13 and 8). When not working, Tim coachs all three kids in their respective sports (girls fastpitch softball, 8th grade football and 8u baseball).
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Owen Wright
Engineering Program Manager of HP
Owen is an engineering program manager for HP’s Developer Program which enables HP businesses to gain agility and efficiency in their software development practices by sharing their software resources. Open APIs and developer communities are part of the program’s core strategy. Owen’s previous positions in his 8 years at HP range from overseeing software quality for ecommerce web presences to leading print systems integration for retail photo-processing. His prior roles have involved management, SQA engineering, and project management for various businesses including a financial software development firm, a large medical clinic, and a healthcare insurance corporation. Owen holds a B.S. in music with a minor in psychology from the University of Oregon.
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Evan Scheessele
Sr. Manager, Cloud, API, & Developer Experience of HP
Evan is an HP platform architect and engineering-lead for cloud-computing practices and business delivery. In 15 years with HP Evan’s roles have varied greatly across new-business initiatives, from software designer for early cloud-services, engineering pre-sales, information-security governance, devops/test manger, to more recently leading development of cloud software platforms and automation for business-agility, and open-APIs platform strategy. Evan has had the privilege to work on HP products and initiatives ranging from telepresence studios to automated subscription-replenishment of print-supplies in the enterprise, to retail photo-processing fleet software and network optimization, and very early R&D into self-service cloud computing platforms for software R&D teams. Evan holds a B.S.E in electrical engineering and economics from Duke University.
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Lois Leslie
Senior Innovation Product Manager & Link Technology CMO of HP
Lois Leslie is the Senior Innovation Product Manager & Link Technology CMO at HP.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Lior Krasnovsky
Labels and Packaging Workflow and Partners Manager of HP
Lior Krasnovsky brings 10 years of experience in Print workflow and finishing production . Lior started at HP as a product manager for production management systems. He led the definition and introduction of multiple HP SmartStream products and managed some of the products from ideation to commercial release. He relocated from Israel to Atlanta in 2016 to expand Indigo NA Labels and Packaging eco system and holds the role of Category Manager for workflow and finishing partners.
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Sarah Wasson
Manager, Strategic Category and Operations Analytics of HP
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Bob Raus
Category Manager, Workflow and Partner Programs of HP
During his 25 year career in the graphic arts industry at HP Indigo, EFI-VUTEk, Oce, Xerox, and RISO, Bob has always focused on success beyond the press. As a self-proclaimed tempered radical, Bob believes that business success is the only measure of whether a technology investment has value, and the digital press – while critical – is only one element of a true business solution. When the digital press is combined with partnerships, workflow automation, targeted selling, the right finishing, supplies, and reliable service, the result is delivering more jobs, faster, with higher value and less touch points, to new and existing markets. In other words – profitable growth.
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William Hart
Sr. Director of Product and General Manager of Particle
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Tony Spencer
Business Development Manager of World Wide Technology
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About World Wide Technology: World Wide Technology is a systems integrator, provides information technology and supply chain solutions.
Brian Feldt
Content Marketing Manager of World Wide Technology
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About American City Business Journals, World Wide Technology: World Wide Technology is a systems integrator, provides information technology and supply chain solutions.
Amir Mobayen
Vice President/General Manager of Arrow Electronics
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About Arrow Electronics: Arrow Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes electronic components for industrial and commercial sectors.
Matthew Johnson
Portfolio Manager of Arrow Electronics
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About Arrow Electronics: Arrow Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes electronic components for industrial and commercial sectors.
Jeremy Borchardt
Development Manager of mHUB
Jeremy Borchardt is the Development Manager of mHUB.
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About mHUB, mHUB: mHUB is a hardtech innovation and manufacturing entrepreneurial center.
Tripp Burd
Manager, Strategic Application Engineering of Markforged
Tripp brings a dozen years of experience in all verticals of high performance manufacturing. Now leading a technical team of Markforged engineers, they advise the largest enterprise clients in areas of additive design, implementation, and strategy.
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About Markforged: Markforged is a manufacturing company that invents a new 3D printing process to build parts with the strength of Continuous Carbon Fiber.
