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 Advisor operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Danny Winokur
Executive Advisor of Adobe
Danny Winokur is the Executive Advisor of Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Travis Campbell
Principal Enterprise Value Advisor of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
David Jeske
Board Advisor of Asana
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About : Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Claudia Galvan
Technical Advisor of Microsoft
Claudia Galván is a strategic and technical leader who has led global product development at Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft reaching billions of people around the world where she has built global teams from the ground-up. In the last few years, she has focused on helping startups in Silicon Valley launch products internationally.
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About : Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Harish Kashyap
AI Developer Advisory Board Member of Microsoft
Harish Kashyap has a Masters from Northeastern University, Boston in Electrical Engineering. He received the Graduate Student Award, a research scholarship as a part of which he worked at the BBN Technologies in the area of Bayesian Machine Learning algorithms as applied to Speech Recognition. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Signal Processing and Software development. He has several publications and patents filed in the areas of ML. He has led various Data Analytics projects across US and Europe that led to organizational savings of $8M+. He has built out the curriculum for Machine Learning training platform, refactored.ai which is now part of SUNY Buffalo’s graduate ML course. He is currently the founder of Mysuru Consulting Group (MCG.ai) and Diagram.AI where he works on ML algorithms.
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About : Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jennifer Marie Stevens
Technical Advisor of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lisa Lee
Chief Security Advisor/Global Lead – Innovation in Vertical Industries for SCI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lauren Holland
WW Partner Marketing Advisor of Microsoft
Lauren Holland is a Partner Marketing Advisor in Worldwide OCP dedicated to driving Go-To-Market strategies with select global channel partners. Her current mission is to guide partners to differentiate with innovative “better together” solutions and launch offers in market in the GTM “fast lane.” With 7+ years in the technology industry and Microsoft partner ecosystem, Lauren has built and implemented global programs for accelerated growth and scale. Her experience spans across Microsoft’s three clouds- Modern Workplace, Azure, and Dynamics- with disciplines including Go-To-Market strategy, enablement, integrated digital, content, and creative ideation. Lauren is from Corona del Mar, CA, graduated from Duke University, and is currently working with global indirect provider partners around the world.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Matt Winkler
Group Engineering Manager, Azure Customer Advisory Team of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Siddharth Muzumdar
CIO Advisory Senior Director of Salesforce
“Business oriented technology leader. Extensive experience leading global cross-functional initiatives on multi-million dollar projects. Broad experience in Life Sciences, Financial Services and Publishing domains with organizations such as Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pearson, Citibank, and Fannie Mae. Experienced in envisioning and implementing customer facing and enterprise solutions using Mobile, Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Big Data and Data Warehousing.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Zach Frankel
Advisor of Mixhalo
Co-Founder of Better Mortgage
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About Goldman Sachs: Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Hans Zimmer
Advisor of Mixhalo
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About : Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Andrew Mametz
Sr. Advisory Solution Consultant of ServiceNow
Andrew joined Peak 10 in November of 2002. He is responsible for the structure and process improvement of Peak 10’s managed services. Prior to Peak 10, Andrew was a lead engineer for the Cisco Technical Assistance Center with a focus on Cisco’s full line of security products. He has extensive hands-on experience with network design, analysis, implementation and troubleshooting. He holds certifications in Microsoft (MCSE) and Cisco (CCNP). In addition to that, he has applicable knowledge of various other hardware and operating systems such as: Netscreen, Array, Linux, Dell, HP, and AdTran. Andrew earned his BS in Communications from the State University of New York College at Oneonta.
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About Cisco, Flexential, Peak 10 Data Center Solutions, Peak 10 Data Center Solutions, ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Frank Liberio
Executive Advisor of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Frank Liberio
Executive Advisor of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Paul Phillips
Advisor of C3 AI
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About : C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Jim DuBois
Venture Advisor of Ignition Partners
Appointed to CIO in January 2014, DuBois is responsible for Microsoft’s global security, infrastructure, IT messaging, and business applications. In this position, DuBois has acquired a keen level of understanding of how IT works within a broader technology organization. Additionally, his expertise in the public cloud market will serve as an asset to the TBM Council as IT leaders are increasingly called to demonstrate the value of cloud technology.
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About : Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Mark Derrenberger
Advisor and Investor of Skopenow
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About : Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Steve Julius
Advisor of Hyde Park Venture Partners
“Dr. J” advises senior executives of corporations, growth companies, professional service organizations and governmental agencies. Often called upon during times of transition or crisis, assignments include strategic planning, reorganization, culture transformation, succession planning, and executive development at the individual or team level. Until recently, Dr J was the team psychologist for the Chicago Bulls. He works with HPVP and portcos on talent identification and development.
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About : Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups.
Ben Sykes
Board of Advisors – User Experience of Samesurf
EXPERIENCE • 20+ Years of designing, building and launching digital products. FUN FACTS • I have taught and mentored over 600+ design students • Part of the camera crew for the Oscar Winning motion picture AMERICAN BEAUTY. • Marine Corps Veteran & former laundry room attendant at Saddam Hussein’s palace. • Personally, slurry yeasted all the Beringer ’95 Knights Valley Cabernet • Sous Cheff’d the Opus One Winery opening in Napa. • A lead designer for AdWords at Google with a filed patent. LEADERSHIP STYLE • Lead by example • Remove roadblocks • Set others up for success. • Empower others to be better than they are • Get out of the way
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About : Samesurf is a cobrowsing platform that provides the ability for screen sharing from anywhere.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Peter Hollens
Board Advisor of Tubular Labs
Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella cover artist. With 2.5 million subscribers, his videos have reached a quarter of a billion views on Facebook and YouTube since 2011. Hollens has collaborated and performed with several outstanding artists including Brian Wilson, Jason Mraz, Hunter Hayes, Gladys Knight, Lindsey Stirling, George Watsky, Jackie Evancho, and ThePianoGuys. He has released over 200+ digital singles to date and continues to release new music every other week. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he co-founded the University of Oregon’s male a cappella group On The Rocks. In 2010 he and the group were featured on NBC’s The Sing Off Season 2. Hollens also advises and consults many companies in the passion economy. More information can be found: https://peterhollens.com/press/
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About : Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Jonathan Kibera
Advisor of Pathover
Jonathan Kibera is the Co-Founder & Manager at SFR3 Fund.
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About SFR3 Fund: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Phil Young
Senior Advisor of U.S. Venture Partners
Prior to joining US Venture Partners, Phil Young was President & CEO of Oximetrix, a manufacturer of critical care instruments and disposables, where he spent 8 years growing the privately-held venture-backed company from $1 million in revenues to nearly $50 million. Prior to Oximetrix, Phil Young spent 6 years at New Court Securities in venture capital and corporate finance, 2 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., and 6 years on Admiral Rickover’s project management staff at the Atomic Energy Commission. Phil Young has represented US Venture Partners on the boards of Aerogen, CardioThoracic Systems, CardioVascular Imaging Systems, CoCensys, Compugen, FemRx, Penederm, 3Dfx Interactive, Vical and Xoma–all of which became public companies. Currently Phil Young sits on the boards of Zoran, a public company, as well as Aptus Endosystems, Bayhill Therapeutics, Caspian Networks, Claria, Dotomi, RelayHealth, Synarc, St. Francis Medical and Timi3 Systems.
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About : U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care.
Mike Maher
Senior Advisor of U.S. Venture Partners
Mike Maher joined U.S. Venture Partners as Chief Financial Officer in 1991. Mike is responsible for financial reporting, legal and tax matters, and general administration for USVP and its funds. Mike currently serves as a member of the IPEV Board, as a participating member of the National Venture Capital Association’s CFO Task Force, and from 2003 through 2011 as an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Investment Companies Expert Panel. Prior to joining USVP, Mike was an audit partner with Ernst & Young, serving E&Y clients for 17 years in a variety of industries including financial services, health care, manufacturing, and pension plans. Mike received his B.S.C., cum laude, from Santa Clara University.
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About : U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care.
Chuck Franzetta
Advisor of FourKites
Chuck Franzetta is Advisor at FourKites.
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About : FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
Chuck Franzetta
Advisor of FourKites
Chuck Franzetta is Advisor at FourKites.
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About : FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
Roy Rubin
Advisor of OroCommerce
Roy Rubin is the co-founder and was the Chief Operating Officer for Magento while the company was part of eBay. Roy directed the vision and goals for the company, leading the team every step of the way through growing the company’s customer base, as well as partner, developer and merchant integrations. He also works closely with the product and marketing teams, making sure that go-to-market plans are executed flawlessly. Prior to his position as COO, Roy founded Varien (the original company behind Magento) in 2001 as a consultancy and has since transformed the eCommerce platform market with the release of the Magento platform in 2007. A results-oriented executive with over 10 years of experience founding and building products and organizations, Roy is deeply entrenched in the eCommerce and open source markets and grew Magento to be a disruptive, global player.
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About : OroCommerce is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce and the OroPlatform.
Cecilia Stallsmith
Program Advisor of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Claire Hunsaker
Advisor of Heavybit
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About : Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Raymond Raven
Medical Advisor of AppliedVR
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About : AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
Phil Koen
Senior Advisor of Intermedia
Phil Koen is Intermedia’s Chairman and CEO. He joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company’s acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Koen brings more than 20 years of C-level industry expertise to Intermedia, most recently as CEO and director of Savvis [NASDAQ: SVVS], a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Equinix [NASDAQ: EQIX], the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services. Koen previously served as Equinix’s CFO and in a number of senior executive positions at other leading technology firms. Koen currently serves on the boards of Infinera Corp (NASDAQ: INFN), an optical networking company, and Proofpoint [NASDAQ: PFPT], a cloud-based email security company. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the University of Virginia. Koen also serves on the Board of Trustees at Webster University.
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About : Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Yaad Oren
Technical Advisor of SAP.iO
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About : SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP.
Tim Cabral
Advisor (Former CFO) of Veeva
As CFO, Tim is responsible for all aspects of financial management and G&A operations. He brings over 20 years of technology finance background and nearly 10 years of software finance and operations background. Prior to joining Veeva Systems, Tim served as CFO/COO for Walsh Wireless, a wireless solutions and services company and as CFO/CoFounder of Agistics, a start-up focused on employee management services. Tim also spent more than 7 years at PeopleSoft, Inc., where he held various positions, including VP of Products & Technology Finance and Senior Director of Corporate FP&A. During his tenure as VP of Finance, Tim created and built the Operational Controller team and developed an influential business partnership model with General Managers who owned business units driving upwards of $250m in revenue. Prior to PeopleSoft, Tim served in finance positions at Chiron Corporation and LSI Logic. Tim holds a MBA in Finance and a Bachelors degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Tom Edsall
Emeritus Advisor/Fellow of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
David Turanski
Spring Advisory Architect of Pivotal
David Turanski is a Senior Software Engineer with the Spring team at Pivotal. He is a committer on Spring XD and Spring Integration, and formerly project lead for Spring Data GemFire. Prior to joining the Spring team in 2010, David held various positions as Consultant, Enterprise Architect, and Software engineer, designing and developing distributed mission critical systems in various industries including transportation and logistics, aerospace, finance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and healthcare. David has extensive experience with Java, Spring and related technologies.
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About Pivotal, Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Jignesh Sheth
Advisory Platform Architect of Pivotal
I have a passion for helping my clients leverage technology to make world a better place. Prior to working at Pivotal, I have played various roles from Sr. Sales/Field Engineer, Sr. Solution/Platform Architect and Technical Lead in wide range of industries and solutions such as telecommunications, financials, insurance, education, retail and e-commerce. Outside of the daily grind, I enjoys spending time with my family of two boys as well as hobbies including biking, photography, and home remodeling.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
John Feminella
Advisor of Pivotal
John Feminella is an advocate for curiosity in all people and about all things. He serves as the advisory platform architect at Pivotal, where his daily goal is to transform how the world builds software. He’s also the author of several published research papers on software architecture, and the cofounder of an analytics startup called UpHex. He lives in Charlottesville, VA with his partner, where he likes milkshakes, meta-jokes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Jeff Cherng
Advisor of Pivotal
As a member of the Pivotal Data Engineering team, Jeff Cherng is responsible for working with customers to drive technical innovations on high performance data solutions. Jeff is very passionate about Spring Framework/Cloud Foundry and has worked on many distributed systems projects over the course of his career. His current focus is working on integrated solutions/patterns with Cloud Foundry, Spring, and Apache Geode (In-Memory Data Grid).
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Cory Jett
Advisor of Pivotal
Cory Jett is an Advisory Resident Platform Architect at Pivotal. After 18 years working in various roles (networking, storage, converged infrastructure, CI/CD, etc), dabbling in development, and most recently successfully bringing in OSS CF and later migrating to PCF while working for a Pivotal customer, Cory decided Pivotal was just too awesome not to work for and joined up in early 2018. Cory covers three large customers in the St. Louis area and specializes in Platform Operations/Automation, Kubernetes, and NSX.
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Bob Kruse
Investor, Advisor of Cyber Mentor Fund
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, Obsidian Security: Cyber Mentor Fund is a venture fund focusing on cybersecurity companies.
Paul Anderson
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Schrödinger
Paul Anderson currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. In 2009, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences. During his celebrated career at Merck, Anderson and coworkers developed TRUSOPT, the first topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor for treating glaucoma, and ZOCOR, a frequently prescribed drug for lowering cholesterol levels. Anderson has directed extensive medicinal chemistry efforts at Merck and DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company focused on new chemotherapy for AIDS, resulting in CRIXIVAN and SUSTIVA. Anderson is the recipient of countless awards, including in 2006 the American Chemical Society recognized Anderson with its highest honor, the Priestley Medal. In addition, Anderson has served as Chairman of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, Chairman of the NIH Study Section on Bioorganic Chemistry and Natural Products, as well as being a member of the National Advisory General Medicinal Sciences Council of the National Institutes of Health and the National Research Council, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.
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About : Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Scott Chanatry
Member of Advisory Board of Palantir Technologies
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About : Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud.
Franz Och
Advisor of Lilt
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About : Lilt powers the global experience across every step of the customer journey.
Jed Simmons
Advisor of Wochit
Jed Simmons is Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Next New Networks, overseeing day to day operations, administration and business developments. Jed has more than 20 years of experience in media, entertainment and consumer product businesses. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer of the Sundance Group. Before joining Sundance, Mr. Simmons helped launch a number of start-up internet and digital media companies in London including Excite, Inc, Sportal, Confetti, and eos Ventures (a London based early stage fund). Mr. Simmons was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Los Angeles based Hanna-Barbera, which was newly acquired by Turner Broadcasting. During his time at the legendary cartoon studio, the company created a number of hits, including the Power Puff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, and Jonny Bravo. via: [NextNewNetworks](http://www.nextnewnetworks.com/bio-simmons)
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About : Wochit is the complete enterprise-grade solution for video creation in the cloud. Power your organization with video creation.
Michael Bollinger
Global Vice President – Thought Leadership & Advisory Sales of Cornerstone OnDemand
Mike Bollinger is VP of Thought Leadership at Cornerstone OnDemand and is an accomplished executive with 25 years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility. Mike has the privilege of leading a transformation team of practitioners and domain experts in the Talent, Analytics and Risk & Compliance fields. Mike speaks regularly at HCM thought leadership events such as Evanta, Argyle, HCI, ICMI, and others on HR trends, transformation and culture, generations in the workplace and how to measure the impact of HR transitions. Prior to Cornerstone, Mike worked at Oracle for 5 years including the development of the HCM Value Consulting content, value analysis tools and management of a National Value Consulting practice before joining the Oracle HR transformation thought leadership team. Mike also worked at SAP for 7 years in their HCM Centre of Excellence. Mike has been formally trained and certified in a number of disciplines including Human Capital Strategy, Strategic Workforce Planning, Value Engineering, and Business Process Transformation. Mike’s areas of expertise include HCM Strategy, Analytics, Talent Development & Education, Shared Services, Recruiting, HRMS/Payroll, Finance, Procurement, Planning, and Budgeting. Mike is active in local hometown service as a former School Board Commissioner and City Administrative Review Board Member. He resides in Eau Claire, WI with his wife Robin. They have two children.
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About Cornerstone OnDemand: Cornerstone OnDemand offers talent management software that helps organizations in recruiting, training, and managing their people.
Peter Morris
Investment Advisory Board of Xfund
Peter is a member of Xfund’s Investment Advisory Board. He is the Founder/Managing Partner of Morris Investments. Formerly he was a General Partner and member of NEA’s Management Committee. Peter was ranked #10 on the Forbes Midas list and has been honored several times as one of the most successful venture capitalists in America. Past investments include Tele Atlas, Accelerated Networks (Occam), Alteon WebSystems (Nortel), Berkeley Networks (FORE Systems), Carrier Access, Clarify (Nortel), Cybermedia (Network Associates), Cyras Systems (CIENA), Fibex Systems (Cisco), Gadzoox, iAsiaWorks, IronPort Systems, Juniper Networks, Packeteer, Tasman Networks (Cisco), Troika Networks and Virata (Globespan). Prior to joining NEA in 1992, he was a General Manager at Telebit, and before that he was with Montgomery Securities and Bain and Company. Peter served for many years on the Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and currently is on the Council of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. Peter received his Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About : Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers.
Shane Wall
Special Advisor to the CEO of HP
Shane Wall is the science and technology advisor of the Hewlett-Packard.
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About Fusion Fund: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Harry Paul
Cyber Security Advisor of OSIsoft
Harry Paul is the Cyber Security Advisor for the Customer Success department at OSIsoft. He works closely with the organizations within Customer Success to advance the security of OSIsoft’s operations, products and services. Prior to his time with the Cyber Security Advisory Team, he worked in Technical Support as an escalation engineer for OSIsoft’s web applications. Harry has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Computational and Engineering Mechanics from Lehigh University.
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About : OSIsoft is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data infrastructure solutions.
Harry Paul
Cyber Security Advisor of OSIsoft
Harry Paul is the Cyber Security Advisor for the Customer Success department at OSIsoft. He works closely with the organizations within Customer Success to advance the security of OSIsoft’s operations, products and services. Prior to his time with the Cyber Security Advisory Team, he worked in Technical Support as an escalation engineer for OSIsoft’s web applications. Harry has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Computational and Engineering Mechanics from Lehigh University.
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About : OSIsoft is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data infrastructure solutions.
Patrick Yee
Advisor of friendbuy
Patrick is currently Executive Vice President of Marketing & Strategy at Refinery29, the largest independent fashion and style media brand in the United States. Patrick was formerly Co-Founder and President/COO of Shopflick, a venture-capital backed video-ecommerce marketplace which was sold to Sugar Publishing in 2009. Prior to Shopflick, he co-founded and served as VP of Marketing & Strategy at Rocket XL, a full service interactive marketing agency sold to Cossette Communications Group in 2008. Mr. Yee was an equity research analyst at Soros Fund Management where he covered the technology and telecommunications industries. He began his career at Wasserstein Perella & Co. (now Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), providing M&A and strategic advisory services to clients in the retail and consumer products industries.
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About : Powering referral marketing for the hottest companies in e-commerce.
Wayne Inouye
Advisor of Fuhu
Wayne Inouye is the former President and CEO of eMachines. During his tenure at eMachines, Wayne was credited with turning the fledgling company into one of the fastest growing PC companies in the Nation. In 2004, eMachines was acquired by Gateway Computers as a way to compliment its own strengths in consumer and business direct channels. After the acquisition, Wayne continued as CEO of Gateway. Prior to eMachinces, Wayne was Senior Vice President of Computer Merchandising at Best Buy.
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About : Fuhu is a designer and seller of cloud-served software, apps and products and services for children.
Paul Lee
Advisor of Fuhu
Paul Lee brings with him more than 20 years of experience in hardware and hardware manufacturing. Paul is the former Founder and Chairman of the Board of eMachines. Prior to eMachines, Paul joined Trigem, the first PC manufacturer in Korea, where he worked with many leading companies such as Intel, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Olivetti and Epson. In 1997, Paul became President of Trigem and increased sales revenue from $700M to $4B in three years by establishing eMachines and supplying computers to HP, Compaq and Gateway.
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About : Fuhu is a designer and seller of cloud-served software, apps and products and services for children.
Ilhan A. Aksay
Co-Founder , Advisor & Member of the Board of Directors of Vorbeck Materials
Dr. Aksay is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Aksay has published extensively on graphene and its applications, as well as on biologically inspired and self-assembling materials, ceramics, colloids, and electrohydrodynamic phenomena. Dr. Aksay has been internationally recognized with numerous honors including the Richard M. Fulrath Award (1987) and the Edward C. Henry Award (2000) of the American Ceramic Society, the Charles M.A. Stine Award (1997) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Turkish National Medal of Science (2001). Ilhan Aksay is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, an honorary member of the Japanese Materials Research Society, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He earned his B.Sc. in ceramic engineering at the University of Washington and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Erin Bank
Advisor, Engineering Program Management of CA Technologies
Erin Bank is an advisor to engineering program management for the CA Technologies Office of the CTO, where she built and currently drives the InnerSource program for CA product development. Erin also provides program management for the CA Accelerator program, where internal innovators receive support and funding to get new products into market. Erin has 20 years of experience in technical communications and engineering program management in North America and abroad. She is a contributing member of InnerSource Commons, committed to establishing inner source best practices with the community. Erin is also an elected member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence and holds Lean Six Sigma and Pragmatic certifications.
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About : CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Jeanne McCann
Executive Technology Advisor of Nuance Communications
Jeanne is the senior Nuance executive for Nuance’s IBM relationships and also works on matters of R&D strategy, prioritization, and operational excellence. Jeanne has been with Nuance for 10 years. Prior to joining Nuance, Jeanne led development programs at Lernout & Hauspie and before that Dragon Systems and Wang. Jeanne has over 30 years of experience in technology development leadership, and holds a B.A. from Simmons College and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Razmik Abnous
Advisor and Co-Founder of Vineti
Razmik Abnous is the President at Digital Insights. He was the CoFounder & Chief Technology Officer of Vineti before that.
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About Vineti: Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies.
Ophir Samson
Venture Advisor of Telegraph Hill Capital
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About : Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
Brian Rabben
Advisor of SafeChats
ex-Googler | Founder & CEO @ Growth🔮 Wizards | Mr. @WolfOfGrowth 🐺 • AngelList → http://bit.ly/Angel-Of-Growth 👼 • LinkedIn → https://bit.ly/Mister-Wolf 🐺 — 12+ years of ⤴ obsession… ⤴ is hard. Startup ⤴ is harder. 🏆 To win, you need a full tank of GaaS*⛽ 💡 Intrigued? Read the ↓↓↓ , connect with me, then message me. Urgent ⤴ problem? Request a call here → bit.ly/Call-The-Wolf 🐺 🤓 I science so good, you’ll swear it’s magic.✨ — ⤴Growth🔮 Wizards✨ can help you: 1.) Install & configure advanced multichannel analytics platforms 2.) Design & implement a growth experimentation framework that produces predictable, repeatable, scalable growth 3.) Select & prioritize the best short, medium, & long-term growth experiments to run within this framework 4.) Assemble & manage a team of growth experts (analysts, community managers, data scientists, distribution hackers, growth marketers, PR ninjas, social media mavens, & more) to execute the tactical building blocks of these experiments for you** 5.) Set & achieve realistic, data-driven growth targets 6.) Hire & train new & current team members 7.) Guide & optimize your first/next round of funding 😎 Or, all of the above. 🎓 Or, we’ll teach you and your team how to do any/all of the above. • We charge $150-500 per hour for all of the above (except SEO***) • Our hourly rate varies according to task complexity & project duration — *GaaS = “Growth As A Service” 🔥 ⛽️ 🔥 **We may offer a unique, pay-per-action pricing model to companies with significant historical performance data. ***Contact Brian for an SEO proposal.
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About : SafeChats is an ultra-secure communications solution for wealth managers, tax professionals, mortgage brokers, creative agencies and others.
Donald Hammons
Advisor of mxHero
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About : mxHero develops software applications that enable users, service providers, and companies to manage and analyze their email accounts.
Manmeet Singh Bhasin
Strategic Security Advisor of Miri Infotech
Manmeet brings 20 years of in-depth entrepreneurial and leadership experience which spans the technology industry to Dataguise. Manmeet has held strategic-level positions where he has been responsible for engineering, operations, and marketing. Before joining Dataguise, Manmeet has had a distinguished career with Oracle Corporation, Zeneb Inc., Miri Technologies and HCL, where he held senior executive positions in software and business development. Manmeet received a master’s degree in computer science from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India.
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About Miri Infotech: Miri Infotech is a one-stop solution for software-based solutions.
Chris Holmes
Advisor of Carto
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About Carto: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Chris Holmes
Advisor of Carto
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About Carto: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Brian Field
Senior Director of Advisory Services of ShopperTrak
Brian Field is the Senior Director of Advisory Services for ShopperTrak, where he oversees the application of ShopperTrak’s proprietary solutions to retailer-specific issues across different functional areas to drive top and bottom line store performance. Prior to joining ShopperTrak, Brian served in roles of increasing responsibility at Chico’s FAS Inc., including as the director of corporate store operations and finance. Brian has spent nearly four decades in the industry, and his experience includes: store sales and management, training, labor allocation, merchandising, strategic planning and analysis for brands as diverse as David’s Bridal, Circuit City, and Macy’s
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About : ShopperTrak is a provider of people counter technology and foot traffic analysis that improve retail profitability.
Abdul Popal
Investor, Advisory Board of 500Friends
Abdul Popal is the Investor at Density
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About : 500friend provides loyalty marketing solutions for internet retailers and brands.
Paul Clayton
Board Advisor of Index
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About : Index is a retail software company that brings the personalization and measurement of online commerce to the offline world.
Michael Bensacon
Board Advisor of Index
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About : Index is a retail software company that brings the personalization and measurement of online commerce to the offline world.
Timothy Ball
Board Advisor of Folsom Labs
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About : The new standard in solar design software
Aashish Chandarana
Advisor of Frame AI
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About Productiv: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Glenn Taylor
Member of the Board of Advisor of DAS Health
Glenn Taylor, is Group President, Key Accounts, where he is responsible for over half of the Fortune 50 company’s $50 billion in annual revenue.He formerly served as Senior Vice President, Account Management, and President of the Company’s UnitedHealth Group Division, among other positions. Glenn Taylor held previous positions as Executive Vice President for Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital in Chicago, and Group Vice President for Baxter Healthcare / American Hospital Supply.He has a BA in Economics and Mathematics from St. Olaf College and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School.
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About : DAS Health is a leading provider of Health IT and management solutions and a trusted consultant to many physician groups.
Wendy Nather
Head of Advisory CISOs of Duo Security
Wendy Nather is Head of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security, now part of Cisco. She was previously the Research Director at the Retail ISAC, as well as Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. Wendy led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), and served as CISO of the Texas Education Agency. She speaks regularly on topics ranging from threat intelligence to identity and access management, risk analysis, incident response, data security, and societal and privacy issues. Wendy is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, and was listed as one of SC Magazine’s Women in IT Security “Power Players” in 2014.
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About Duo Security, Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center: Duo Security provides security software products and services.
Brooke Partelow
Board Advisor of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Co-Founder of MNTN and Wunderkind. Founder of NeonPixel.
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About : Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Dave Cullinane
Co-Founder & Advisor of TruSTAR
Prior to TruSTAR, Dave served for more than five years as the Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Fraud, Risk and Security for eBay and its many global businesses (StubHub, InternetAuction.co, GSI Commerce). He has more than 30 years of professional security experience building and managing cyber security and incident response teams. He was the founder and president of the IT-ISAC and a founding member of the FS-ISAC, both organizations devoted to sharing cyber information among private companies in the information technology and financial services sectors respectively. He is currently the Chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance and continues to advise Fortune 500 companies on their cyber security posture.
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About ASIS, Cloud Security Alliance, Global Security Risk Management Alliance: GSRMA, Information Systems Security Association, TruSTAR: TruSTAR is a cloud native Intelligence Management platform that transforms and automates data for security operations.
Celeste Ford
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Celeste Ford is the Founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions. Stellar Solutions is a global provider of systems engineering, integration and program management expertise, and a recognized leader in government and commercial programs related to the aerospace field, focusing on high-impact projects and satisfying customer critical needs in alignment with employees’ dream jobs. Celeste is a proven leader of the Stellar constellation of companies, which includes Stellar Solutions, Inc. (aerospace engineering services), Stellar Solutions Aerospace Limited (UK-based affiliate), QuakeFinder (the humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions) and the Stellar Solutions Foundation. She is a valued member of the board of multiple organizations in the private and public sectors. She is a recognized and respected personality in her field; having served on congressional commissions as well as on panels focused on entrepreneurship and women in business. She is also an active advocate of community and charity outreach.
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Kathy Levinson
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Don Keller
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Don Keller is the Founder of Joinder. He attended Boston College Law School in 1979.
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About Joinder: Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Nancy Heinen
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Nancy Heinen joined SV2’s Board of Directors in 2009, became Vice Chair 2011, and became Chair in 2012. She has participated in the Education grant round and Partner Advisory Board, and served as Co-leader of this year’s International grant round. Nancy is an experienced corporate lawyer and senior executive in both small and multinational corporations. Most recently, Nancy was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple, Inc. In September 1997 Steve Jobs recruited Nancy as a key member of a small executive team at Apple focused on turning around Apple’s struggling computer business and leading its successful re-emergence as an industry leader and consumer product powerhouse. Nancy was the chief legal officer responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple worldwide until May 2006. In 1994, Nancy went to work for Steve Jobs as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NeXT Software, Inc. where she managed all legal matters and was a member of the executive management team and secretary to the Board of Directors. She was counsel for NeXT in its acquisition by Apple in February 1997. Before her work at NeXT, Nancy served as group counsel and assistant secretary at Tandem Computers Incorporated (prior to its acquisition by Compaq) where she managed legal affairs for US sales and marketing operations and various operating divisions. Previously, Nancy was in private law practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Following 25 years of corporate and law firm experience, Nancy is now focused on philanthropy and matters of social justice. She is particularly interested in access to quality education and the creation of economic opportunities for disadvantaged women. Nancy currently serves on several advisory boards including the Advisory Board of the University of California Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. She also consults with individuals, start-ups and nonprofit institutions looking to develop their organizational capacity for growth. Nancy received an B.A. with honors in Psychology and English from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Steve Strandberg
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Steve Strandberg
Business Advisory Council Member of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Judy O’Brien
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Nancy Heinen
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Nancy Heinen joined SV2’s Board of Directors in 2009, became Vice Chair 2011, and became Chair in 2012. She has participated in the Education grant round and Partner Advisory Board, and served as Co-leader of this year’s International grant round. Nancy is an experienced corporate lawyer and senior executive in both small and multinational corporations. Most recently, Nancy was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple, Inc. In September 1997 Steve Jobs recruited Nancy as a key member of a small executive team at Apple focused on turning around Apple’s struggling computer business and leading its successful re-emergence as an industry leader and consumer product powerhouse. Nancy was the chief legal officer responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple worldwide until May 2006. In 1994, Nancy went to work for Steve Jobs as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NeXT Software, Inc. where she managed all legal matters and was a member of the executive management team and secretary to the Board of Directors. She was counsel for NeXT in its acquisition by Apple in February 1997. Before her work at NeXT, Nancy served as group counsel and assistant secretary at Tandem Computers Incorporated (prior to its acquisition by Compaq) where she managed legal affairs for US sales and marketing operations and various operating divisions. Previously, Nancy was in private law practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Following 25 years of corporate and law firm experience, Nancy is now focused on philanthropy and matters of social justice. She is particularly interested in access to quality education and the creation of economic opportunities for disadvantaged women. Nancy currently serves on several advisory boards including the Advisory Board of the University of California Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. She also consults with individuals, start-ups and nonprofit institutions looking to develop their organizational capacity for growth. Nancy received an B.A. with honors in Psychology and English from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Yoav Shapira
Advisor of Mentor Collective
Director Of Engineering at Facebook.
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About Meta: Mentor Collective provides all students with a transformative mentoring experience
Alec Radford
Advisor of Indico Data
Alec is an avid scuba diver who spends most of his time trying to get computers to make pretty pictures. Otherwise, he is addicted to exploring datasets and building practical products out of them.
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About : Indico Data transforms unstructured data into actionable insights.
Noah Judson
Technical Advisor – Board of Directors of CoinBeyond
Founder at CoinBeyond
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About CoinBeyond: Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Dan Purdy
Director of Door to Discovery – WWU, MBA Professor, Board of Advisors of CoinBeyond
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About : Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Patrice Breton
Advisory Board Member of Calvin
Patrice Breton is a successful serial entrepreneur. He was co-founder and Vice-President Emerging Technologies of “Mediagrif Interactive Technologiesâ€, a publicly traded world leading developer and operator of business-to-business vertical maketplaces based in Montreal, Canada (TSX:MDF). Patrice was the original founder of Mediagrif and initiator of its first and most profitable B2B marketplace. Patrice also founded and operates inVin Wine Solutions, a Montreal based company specializing in wine industry business applications including inVinSys, a white-label wine warehouse management system which offers both client and corporate-side inventory management functionalities; and Wine Price Exchange, an online service for serious wine enthusiasts and professionals which allows users to organize, appraise and source wine on a single platform. Patrice also founded and operates a highly acclaimed small luxury winery (Vice Versa) in Napa Valley, California (www.viceversawine.com).
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About : Calvin is a planning tool to help people make plans more efficiently.
Peter Zugschwert
Advisor of Kaleidoscope
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About Yardstik: Kaleidoscope designs, administers, and hosts branded scholarship and grant programs on a cloud-based marketplace.
Allen Peeters
Advisor of Sales Layer
He has acted as president and CEO of top level multinationals such as Diageo, Guinness Brewing World Wide, Inbev and Grupo Cruzcampo.
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About : Sales Layer is an intelligent catalog management platform that synchronizes product information across mobile, web, and social media.
Zach Shelby
Advisor of CubiCasa
Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.
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About Arm Holdings, Edge Impulse: CubiCasa offers a scalable way to acquire property interior data, enabling any space to be indexed, searched, sorted, and understood.
Ted Sanford
Advisor of 1World Online
Ted Sanford is co-founder and CEO of FlashSoft. Ted has over twenty years of experience in high tech start-up sales, business development and strategic alliances. As CEO of Baccel, Ted had responsibility for planning and executing against all corporate goals. In his position as VP Business Development at Infravio (acquired by webMethods) he created and managed reseller relationships with IBM and BEA. As VP Business Development at Confluent (acquired by Oblix), he managed the BEA, TIBCO, Netegrity and Oblix relationships. While VP Strategic Alliances at AppStream (acquired by Symantec), Ted established and managed relationships with CA, Sun, IBM and Microsoft, delivering the majority of corporate revenue. As founder and VP Business Development at 3Cube (acquired by Oracle), Ted was instrumental in OEM relationships with Qwest and Netscape. Ted earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and his Juris Doctorate degree from San Francisco Law School.
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About : 1World Online is a blockchain-powered platform that unifies the values of data and advertising into an all-in-one engagement driven model.
Tom Schodorf
Strategic Advisor and Board Evangelist of Proof
Tom Schodorf is the ultimate sales leader. He believes in transformational leadership that aggressively builds for the long term while getting short-term results. He has focused on technology sales, sales management, and business leadership both domestically and internationally for more than 35 years in companies such as IBM, BMC Software and Splunk Inc. Tom considers himself a hands-on field manager with an emphasis on ethics, profitability, innovation and driving results. He uses effective sales processes and negotiation techniques for maximum value on all sides. Tom believes that what is right for the customer and the shareholders leads to the best decisions. Tom graduated from Ohio State University and holds an MBA from the University of Dayton.
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About : Proof is a powerful, specialized business analytics platform that enables you and your organization to prove and improve your value.
Jody Venturoni
Advisor / PR of Proof
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About : Proof is a powerful, specialized business analytics platform that enables you and your organization to prove and improve your value.
Keith Grassi
Advisor of Omega Grid
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About : Omega Grid is a blockchain local energy market platform
Lynne Kiesling
Advisor of Omega Grid
Lynne Kiesling is the Visting Professor, EPP; Co-Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics of Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Omega Grid, Purdue University: Omega Grid is a blockchain local energy market platform
Shawn McCarthy
Member of Technical Advisory Board of Apigee
Shawn McCarthy is Director, Omni-Channel Developer Platforms of Vantiv, LLC and has over 17 years of experience across many different platforms and technologies Z/OS Mainframe, Solaris, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, PDP-11s and AS/400s to Cloud technologies including PaaS utilizing the Apigee platform. A technologist at heart, his hobbies include developing massively-multiplayer games utilizing Web APIs and teaching a Web API Technologies class at the University of Colorado developing the next generation of API Engineers.
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About : Apigee is a digital business platform providing enterprise tools to help companies build and scale apps, APIs, and data.
Scott Weiss
Advisory Board Chair of Cerkl
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About : Cerkl’s is a leading digital employee experience SaaS provider.
Nuri Djavit
Advisor & Consultant CMO of Emotiv
As a strategic brand, product and marketing executive, I’ve helped more than 100 start-up to Fortune 500 company executive and senior management teams build or expand their businesses across EMEA, APAC and North and Latin America. As a first-mover in digital, I’ve also led the development, launch and marketing of 200+ retail, consumer and enterprise products—contributing to $2.5B+ in aggregate revenue and $8B in aggregate acquisitions across luxury, sports & entertainment, eCommerce, tech and automotive. Positioned in London, New York, Los Angeles, and now San Jose I’ve had a unique hand in globally shifting digital marketing from cost to profit-center—customizing and automating creative, operational and workforce processes and systems to meet the demands needs of today’s rapidly changing business. Awarded many times for creative/strategic digital marketing programs and campaigns, and recognized internationally for accelerating growth and change, I’ve been privileged to develop expertise across many industries, including entertainment and sports media, sports brands, beverages/spirits, automotive, retail, fashion and beauty, financial services, consulting and technology. SPECIALTIES: Strategic business development, brand strategy, AI / data and analytics, digital strategy, digital marketing, content strategy, marketing campaigns, CRM / marketing automation (Salesforce.com, Marketo, Hubspot), media optimization, budget management / P&L, team development, team management.
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About Coddle: Emotiv is engaged in developing products and research related to understanding of the human brain using electroencephalography.
Aubrey Anderson
Advisor of SupplyShift
Aubrey Anderson is the Founder, CEO at Monohm Inc.
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About Bunny & Boar, Monohm, Subatomic Systems: SupplyShift is a supply chain sustainability platform that offers supply chain solutions for customers and businesses.
