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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 California based VP’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Caroline Savello
VP of Commercial of Color
Caroline Savello is the VP of commercial at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Wendy Mckennon
VP of Design of Color
Wendy Mckennon is the VP of Design at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Emily Reuter
Vice President of Strategy and Operations of Color
Emily Reuter is the Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Alicia Zhou
VP of Research and Scientific Affairs of Color
Alicia Zhou is the VP of Research and Scientific Affairs at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Fatima Sabar
VP of People of Color
Fatima Sabar is the VP of people at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Ashley Chandler
VP of Marketing of Color
Ashley Chandler is the VP of Marketing at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Jonathan Wilner
VP, Product, Software & Services of Fitbit
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Shelten Yuen
VP Research of Fitbit
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Mahesh Vellanki
Co-Founder & VP, Growth of Rally
Mahesh Vellanki is an Associate with Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on early-growth investment opportunities in the internet, digital media, mobile, e-commerce, gaming and online education sectors. Prior to joining Redpoint, Mahesh was an Analyst in the technology investment banking division of Citigroup where he focused on internet, digital media, software, hardware and semiconductor companies. He advised a variety of clients on equity and debt financings, as well as strategic business development, M&A and LBO transactions. At Citigroup, Mahesh worked with companies such as Zillow, Groupon, AutoTrader, Synacor and Equinix. Mahesh earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance with honors from the University of Maryland.
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About Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Andrew Savage
VP Head of Sustainability of Lime
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Nima Khajehnouri
Vice President of Engineering – Head of Monetization & Discover Engineering of Snap
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About Netseer, Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Eitan Pilipski
SVP of Snap
itan Pilipski is VP, Camera Platform at Snap Inc., where he leads the company’s team of designers and engineers building and scaling Snap’s augmented reality platform. Previously, Eitan served as VP, Engineering at Vuforia where he assembled a world class team to build the company’s AR and VR platforms. Under his leadership, the team spearheaded new capabilities in the fields of 3D reconstruction, sensor fusion and image recognition which were incorporated into partnerships with Lego, BMW and Mattel. From 1999 to 2010, Eitan was Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm leading the commercialization of innovative R&D projects in mobile video and 4G wireless.
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Luke Kallis
VP, US Advertiser Solutions of Snap
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Radhika Kakkar
VP, Global Operations of Snap
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Robyn Thomas
VP Legal and HR of Snap
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Jeff Birkeland
Vice President of Product, Consumer Experience of Headspace
director of product @ facebook video focused on building for creators and publishers. formerly led the Feed team at LinkedIn. Before that built a publishing startup, and multiple news and media products at Yahoo! former television producer. drinks coffee. bald.
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About Headspace, High Gear Media, LinkedIn: Headspace is a digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
David Feller
VP, New Verticals of Gopuff
Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Charles Migos
Vice President of Product Design of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Mike Acton
VP DOTS (Data-Oriented Technology Stack) Architecture and Runtime of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Laura Palmer
VP of Sales, Americas and EMEA of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Kris Brkljac
VP Of Sales of DisputeSuite
From living on the streets and being homeless as a 21 year old in New York City Kris Brkljac knows the meaning of rags to riches.. Coming from Sydney Australia with a Communication Media Law background Kris was always seeking adventure and a challenge. Being the architect of change Kris took himself from the streets to selling his own company in the span of 5 years. “ It’s all about who is directing your movie and my movie was about being successful without any excuses”. This included being an independent consultant for fortune 500 Companies as head executive strategist Kris changed his direction in a new and unknown field, credit. ” It was new and unchartered waters for me. I was talking to people everyday who were struggling to develop an effective an relevant strategy. It was a perfect fit and I was excited to help”. Chris joined forces with Robert Ellerman and Jim Rivette and they become the Nikola Tesla’s of the credit repair field (the forefront thinkers and innovators of the industry). Kris’s hobbies include Martial Arts,Cultural Anthropology, Health Wellness,Culinary Magic, Hiking, International affairs and enjoying/appreciating life everyday. “ Enjoy your movie” KB.
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About DisputeSuite: DisputeSuite was founded in 2006. At DisputeSuite, our vision is clear: to revolutionize the credit repair industry by creating an
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Mike DeLaet
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships of Scopely
Mike DeLaet is currently the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Scopely. Prior to Scopely, Mike was the Founder & CEO of Rogue Games, Inc. based in Los Angeles. Prior to Rogue, he was the SVP of WW BD & Licensing at Kabam and SVP of Global Publishing at Glu Mobile.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Eric Ma
Senior Vice President, User Acquisition of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Christina Dunbar
Vice President, Global Talent of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Mathew Spolin
SVP Engineering of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Andy Ellerhorst
Chief of Staff and VP of Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jonathan Reid
SVP Global Sales & Business Development of AppDirect
rior to AppDirect, Jonathan was Worldwide Managing Director for Cloud and Hosted Sales at Cisco Systems, following Cisco’s acquisition of BroadSoft, the global leader in Cloud Unified Communications. Jonathan has held senior management positions at other successful start-ups including Sylantro Systems and Syndeo Corporation, and performed venture capital and strategy consulting at Accenture. Jonathan holds a 1st class bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University and MBA from Europe’s leading business school, INSEAD.
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About AppDirect, BroadSoft: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Renee Bergeron
Senior VP & General Manager of Agent Services of AppDirect
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About AppDirect, Ingram Micro: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Joshua Schnoll
VP of Marketing of AppDirect
Previous to AppDirect, Joshua led Product Marketing at FICO and held a variety of marketing, product and strategy roles at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. He has a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he was also an International Management Fellow.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jerry Sherman
VP, User Experience of AppDirect
Jerry spent over 10 years at Salesforce, starting as the company’s first program manager, building the user experience team, and managing a variety of teams in the R&D and product organizations. He has also spent 12 years in management and individual contributor roles at DoubleClick, NetGravity, Netscape, Oracle, and IBM. Jerry holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor’s in English from Santa Clara University. In his spare time, he enjoys running, hiking, cooking, and keeping his 1970 Ford pickup truck running.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Michael Cassin
Vice President of Product Management of AppDirect
Prior to his 5 years at Visa, Michael spent 6 years in product leadership roles at PayPal and, before that, 3 years in product at VeriSign. Michael holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering Technology from the State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking in and exploring the great outdoors with his wife and young daughter and honing his skills as an avid home chef.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Lennart Lepner
VP of Finance of AppDirect
Before joining AppDirect, Lennart worked in New York as an investment banker advising financial service clients on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing transactions. Lennart holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and psychology from Amherst College. In his spare time, Lennart enjoys playing tennis and exploring the greater Bay Area with his wife.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Fengmin Gong
VP and InfoSec Strategy of Didi
Fengmin Gong is a well-respected cybersecurity technologist with more than 30 years of industry experience. As head of DiDi Labs, Dr. Gong currently drives R&D innovation and strategy for safety, security and user experience on DiDi platforms, and works on developing the next generation of security tools He has held chief scientist and R&D VP roles in a variety of large security corporations, including McAfee and Symantec JV, and served as chief security content strategy officer for FireEye, where he led the development and management of the company’s security initiatives. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen startups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture, and M.S. in computer science.
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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Mahau Ma
SVP Corporate Strategy of MuleSoft
Mahau has over 15 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software space. Prior to joining MuleSoft in 2007, Mahau held various positions at TIBCO Software, including roles in sales enablement, customer marketing and partner marketing. Earlier, Mahau spent a number of years investing in enterprise software and networking startups at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Trinity Ventures. Mahau started his career at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
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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.
Brent Hayward
VP, Global Channels & Services of MuleSoft
Brent leads MuleSoft’s global channel and services organization, responsible for all aspects of customer and partner success. In this role, Brent leads our global services, support, training and channel organizations, working closely with our systems integration and reseller partners to deliver consistent, world-class solutions and enablement for our customers. Brent brings to MuleSoft over 16 years of experience in software sales and service delivery. Most recently at Oracle, he was Vice President of North America Application Sales for the Oracle Knowledge Product Portfolio where he was instrumental in rapidly expanding both the direct and channel sales operations. Previously, Brent was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at InQuira, where he drove top line growth through developing and operationalizing InQuira’s worldwide channel and alliances strategy. Brent began his career at Accenture, where he led teams serving Global 2000 clients in the communications, media & entertainment, and high tech industries. Brent holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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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.
Nima Asrar Haghighi
VP of Digital Demand Generation & Marketing Operations of MuleSoft
Nima Asrar Haghighi is VP of digital demand generation and marketing operations at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices. He was previously the head of internet marketing at eBay Advertising. During the course of his career, he took up several internet marketing roles at companies such as SEM SEO Expert, Refco, GAO Research, and VTRAC Consulting Corporation. Haghighi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in marketing.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas 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.
Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, reef.ai: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Joe Ross
VP, Content of theScore
Joe is responsible for theScore’s content strategy and execution, and oversaw the creation of the company’s innovative ‘mobile first’ newsroom. He began his career with theScore Television Network in 2000, and worked in a variety roles including live television hosting, announcing highlights and writing for theScore.com before moving into content development.
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About theScore, theScore: TheScore creates mobile-first sports experiences through real-time news, scores, fantasy information, and alerts.
Brian Hanley
VP, Mobile Advertising of LionShare Media
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Ashwin Pushpala
SVP of OneDrop
Ashwin Pushpala is the SVP at One Drop
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About OneDrop: One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together.
Wes Brummette
Vice President of Operations of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Brendon Thomas
VP, Distribution of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV, ViacomCBS: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Ted Bronstein
Vice President of Partnerships of Spin
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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Co-Founder & SVP Products of BlueStacks
Jay Vaishnav was most recently V.P. of Engineering for the Office of the CTO at Intel and has brought several Cloud-based services for consumers and large-scale Enterprise products to market. He arrived at Intel through its acquisition of Solidcore in June 2009. Jay co-founded Solidcore, where he led R&D and Product Development. Prior to Solidcore, Jay was VP of Engineering at Chingari, Inc., an web-based consumer research company. Prior to Chingari, Jay led the foundational effort at Amazon.com for their store’s product catalog. He arrived at Amazon.com through its acquisition of Junglee. At Junglee, Jay was Director of Technology and led the development of the company’s comparison shopping engine.Jay spent nearly 10 years at Tandem Computers as a key architect and technical leader for the NonStop SQL relational database management system. He began his career at ESVEL, a privately held database management startup, which was acquired by Cullinet Software.
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About BlueStacks: BlueStacks is the 2nd largest PC gaming platform in the world focused on bringing together PC gamers and the entire Android gaming library.
Hanumantha Kavuluru
Co-founder & VP of Engineering of Rafay Systems
Hanumantha(Hemanth) Kavuluru is the Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Rafay Systems.
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About Rafay Systems: Rafay enables enterprise Platform teams to manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters and modern applications with ease at any scale.
Matt Pillar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Jam City
Matt Pillar is an accomplished executive with more than twenty-five years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Asia and the United States. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at leading mobile gaming company Jam City, formerly SGN Games; Founder and Managing Director at Fire Dragon Enterprises, a global strategic advisory firm; and Senior Fellow with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches a graduate/MBA course on “Doing Business in China/Asia.” In addition to his service on a number of Boards of Directors of consumer-facing media and technology companies over the years, Matt has been a major fundraiser on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of From the Top and on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in East Asian Studies from Brown University and received a Master in Business Administration degree with Honors from Harvard University, where case studies and lecture material which he co-authored and published have been taught in both the Harvard Business School executive education program and second-year MBA curriculum. He currently writes about China business and strategy at http://www.climbingthegreatwall.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/firedragonllc.
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About Fire Dragon Enterprises, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Robert Zakari
EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel of Jam City
Rob Zakari is EVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at Jam City, where he helps direct its mergers and acquisitions strategy and advises its executives on critical company priorities. A native of Los Angeles, Rob has held leadership positions at many of its e-commerce companies over the last two decades. Before joining Jam City, he was EVP and General Counsel at e-commerce company The Lucky Group. As founding manager of early-stage venture fund Global Agora, Rob became acting CEO of SUP ATX, guiding its relationships with offshore manufacturers and overseeing its expansion from 2010 to 2012 from a startup to the world’s largest seller of stand-up paddleboards. In 2002, Rob co-founded Zaba Inc. (formerly PeopleData), an online public record search engine that he led as president for seven years until its 2009 acquisition by Intelius. Prior to this, Rob was a VP at early online storage company Xdrive and VP and General Counsel at direct-to-consumer public records reseller US Search before and during its 1999 IPO. A graduate of UCLA and New York Law School, Rob lives in Los Angeles with his family, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a BMW motorcycle.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Brooks
Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jeremy Horn
Vice President of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jennifer Tyson
Senior Vice President of HappyCo
Jennifer (Llacera) Tyson is the Senior Vice President at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
Chad Richard
SVP Business & Corporate Development of Yelp
Chad Richard joined Yelp as Senior Vice President, Business & Corporate Development in 2015.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Justin Norman
Vice President, Data Science of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Dan Kimball
SVP Marketing of Yelp
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About S-Docs Inc., Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Ken Mallon
SVP & Head of Data Products of Samba TV
Digital advertising product leader making insights, targeting and measurement products at scale for both the hand-sold and programmatic world. Held leadership roles in this space since 2000 at top publishers (Microsoft, Yahoo!) and research companies (Dynamic Logic/Millward Brown, Ipsos ASI). Highly trained at top universities (Stanford, Johns Hopkins) in mathematical sciences, extensive experience working with and managing engineers, product/program managers, marketers and various sales roles. Career has been characterized by high-impact innovations in behavioral targeting, closed looped targeting/measurement systems and deep consumer insights products. Rapid prototyping, customer input and iteration development style. Leveraging 15+ year experience in targeting, measurement and insights innovation, combined with 4INFO’s unique secret sauce, to bring industry-leading, closed-loop targeting and sales lift measurement to mobile and cross-screen advertisers. As CPO, I manage both the Data Science and Product Teams at 4INFO. In addition to our science and data driven targeting and measurement solutions for advertisers, we are also building out Platform-as-a-Service solutions for DMPs, data partners, publishers and major advertisers. Our unique ability to make nearly all US smart devices addressable, means our match key can power the future of Martech in amazing ways.
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About Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.
Brian Li
VP Business Operations of Mezi
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About Mezi: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Rujul Patel
VP New Business, Marketing & PMM of ironSource
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About ironSource: IronSource is a business platform enabling mobile content creators to prosper in the app economy.
Alex Muresan
VP of Engineering of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Derek Perez
VP of Marketing of Zeality Inc.
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About Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
Anjali Peri
Vice President Business Development of SitterFriends
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About SitterFriends: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free
Sharon Rechter
EVP of Business Development and Marketing of BabyFirstTV
Sharon Rechter, along with business partner, Guy Oranim, conceptualized and co-founded BabyFirstTV. In her role as executive vice president, she leads the business development and marketing activities for the company – with a clear passion to bring quality, new educational programming to families of babies and toddlers. Rechter has a broad background in television programming and recently served as the vice president and head of operations for The Israeli Network (the Israeli television channel in the U.S.). She was responsible for the general management of the network, and focused on areas including business development, advertising and subscriptions. Before entering the television broadcast industry, Rechter headed the strategic planning department at GNS Advertising in Israel where she was responsible for developing strategic plans for a variety of lifestyle brands. Rechter received her B.A. in business administration from the Arison School of Business and her L.L.B in law from the Radziner School of Law, both at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
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About BabyFirstTV, First Media: BabyFirstTV is an online platform offering satellite TV, games, and smartphone apps for infants, toddlers, and parents.
Vidhya Ranganathan
VP of Engineering of MOJIO
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Kyle MacDonald
VP of Marketing of MOJIO
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Joshua Feldman
VP of Product of Raya
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About Raya: Raya is an online membership-based community for dating, networking, and making new friends.
Adam Bayaa
Vice President of IT & Security of Heal
Adam is Vice President of IT & Security at Heal, and has over 15 years’ experience in the retail, hospitality and healthcare industries.
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About Heal: Heal is an in-home primary care practice that offers modern doctor house calls, one-touch telemedicine and remote monitoring for seniors.
Mike Jensen
Senior Vice President of Operations of Heal
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About Heal: Heal is an in-home primary care practice that offers modern doctor house calls, one-touch telemedicine and remote monitoring for seniors.
Maggie Mesa
SVP, Global Supply and Partnerships of Chartboost
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About Chartboost: Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
Josh Goines
SVP, Strategic Partnerships and Business Development of Bill.com
Josh Goines is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at Bill.com. He leads the strategy and execution of Bill.com’s collaboration with key ecosystem partners, such as Intuit, JPMorgan Chase, and American Express. Josh has more than 20 years’ experience establishing and growing innovative new businesses related to payments and mobile technology, most recently serving as the Senior Director of Global Partnerships at PayPal. During his tenure at PayPal, he spearheaded the transformation of PayPal’s customer experiences to offer greater choice in how customers pay when using PayPal. He also led the strategy and execution of partnerships with key payment networks and financial institutions including Visa, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and Capital One. Josh holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in economics and Spanish from Claremont McKenna College.
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Bora Chung
SVP of Product of Bill.com
Bora Chung is an experienced fintech product executive with a strong innovation and design background. As the Senior Vice President of Product at Bill.com, Bora brings her international expertise in product development from her previous roles at eBay, Apple, and PayPal to drive the company’s product strategy, user experience innovation and roadmap execution. Previously, she was the Chief Product Officer at eBay Korea leading engineering, product and UX/UI design teams for the country’s leading ecommerce company. While at eBay, she also held the roles of VP of Payments and VP of New Product Development. Prior to that, Bora worked as a Director at Apple where she led worldwide payments and financing programs for online stores, emphasizing emerging market growth. Earlier, at PayPal, she held leadership roles within product management and business unit teams covering cross-border transactions, international expansion, and checkout products. In 2015, Fast Company included Bora in its list of The Most Creative People in Business. She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in economics from Harvard University.
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Randy Von Feldt
VP of Strategic Partnerships of Bill.com
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Jacqueline Hendy
SVP People of Bill.com
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Vinay Pai
SVP of Engineering of Bill.com
Vinay Pai is an experienced technology executive with a track record of leading high-performing international organizations and driving technology transformation at scale and business growth globally. As the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Bill.com, Vinay leads the technology teams that develop and deliver the Bill.com product portfolio. Prior to joining Bill.com, he was SVP of Engineering at First Data, where he led Engineering for the Clover point of sale product line. Earlier, he held several leadership roles in the small business group during his eight years at Intuit, which he joined as part of the PayCycle acquisition. Most recently, as VP for Intuit Developer Platform, Vinay led the business segment responsible for the QuickBooks ecosystem of third-party applications and developers. He has also held engineering leadership roles at Cassatt, Sun Microsystems and Schlumberger, and founded a startup on the Apple platform that delivered three products. Vinay has an M.S. in electrical engineering, B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in computer science from Rice University.
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Mark Salvador
Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis of Bill.com
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Cliel Schachter
VP, Technology of Upsight
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About Upsight: Upsight is a mobile analytics & marketing platform, handling 1000s of apps & 500+ billion data points monthly.
Ben Vinegar
VP of Engineering of Sentry
Ben Vinegar is a Front-end Engineer at Sentry. He is a contributor to O’Reilly’s “Beautiful JavaScript”, and the co-author of “Third-party JavaScript”.
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About Guestlist, Sentry: Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real time to catch bugs early.
Jonas Gray
VP of Business Development of PubNub
Head of Strategic Partnerships at PubNub.
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About PubNub: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Jared Waxman
VP Growth of PubNub
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About PubNub, TVLP Institute Silicon Valley, Yahoo: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Ling Xiao
VP Engineering, Co-Founder of Playdom
Ling founded Playdom as a Stanford PhD candidate in computer science. Before Playdom, Ling puzzled over data anomalies at Google and researched the scalable visual analysis of large datasets at Stanford. Ling has an MS in computer science from Stanford and a BS in electrical engineering from Berkeley—both accomplishments squeezed in between marathon sessions of Counter-Strike. A literal student of the world, Ling lived in Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and Vienna before moving to the Bay Area to “study” his two favorite things: CS and gaming.
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About GGWP, Green Chef, Playdom: Playdom is an online social network of game developers.
Falko Buttler
VP of Engineering of PlushCare
VP of Engineering at PlushCare. • 8+ years of interdisciplinary, global software development team leadership experience • Proven track record to deliver on time with high quality; experience to achieve project goals even within tight project constraints • Significant experience scaling engineering teams, recruiting and retaining exceptional talent in very competitive markets
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About Free Agent, PlushCare: PlushCare is a tech-enabled concierge primary care practice built for the healthcare industry.
Joe Iuliano
VP Sales and Business Development of SweetLabs
Joe Iuliano currently works as vice president of sales and business development at SweetLabs. He also used to work for Vivendi Universal and mp3.com as the company’s vice president of sales. In 2007, he worked for FreeConference.com as VP of sales and business development. He attended University of Vermont and took BA Economics.
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About SweetLabs: SweetLabs provides app distribution solutions for app developers and device makers.
Scott Kinzie
VP of Marketing and Business Development of SmugMug
A driven, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and proven marketing leader with years of senior level marketing, brand, and creative management experience. I’m an visionary brand strategist and brand equity architect with a strong bias for action. Passionate about developing audience and objective centric messaging and creative. Vision, Mission and Culture matter. Bold ideas and clever solutions win.
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About SmugMug: SmugMug is a photo sharing website that allows its users to store, share and sell their photos online. They also own & operate Flickr.
Ivan Makarov
VP of Finance of SmugMug
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About SmugMug: SmugMug is a photo sharing website that allows its users to store, share and sell their photos online. They also own & operate Flickr.
Fej Shmuelevitz
VP Community & Operations of Waze
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About Waze: Waze is a mobile navigation app that enables drivers to use live maps, and get real-time traffic updates and other road data.
Stephen Philip
VP of Marketing of AppDome
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About AppDome: AppDome allows mobile developers and enterprise mobility professionals to rapidly integrate mobile apps and services without coding.
Kathleen Jordan
Senior VP of Medical Affairs of Tia
Dr. Kathleen Jordan serves as the Senior VP of Medical Affairs at Tia. Born in Cleveland to Irish immigrants and a part of a large crazy family, Kathleen went to California to complete her undergraduate degree at Stanford. After another decade of education and receiving her M.D. at UCLA, training in internal medicine and infectious disease, and adventures around the US and globe, she returned to San Francisco and ran her own practice for more than 15 years. Most recently, Dr. Jordan served as the Chief Medical Officer at Saint Francis Memorial, a Dignity Health hospital, working to improve the health of a complex community, starting new programs in use disorders, mental health, and gender health. At Tia, Dr. Kathleen Jordan is responsible for scaling Tia’s distinct “whole women’s health” clinical model across new markets and partnerships, and establishing Tis as a beacon for physician recruitment and excellence.
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About Tia: At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind.
Jessica Horwitz
VP of Virtual Care and Clinical Operations of Tia
Jessica Horwitz serves as the VP of Virtual Care and Clinical Operations at Tia. Prior to Tia, Jessica ran clinical operations and clinical strategy for Nurx, a digital medicine company providing contraception, PrEP, sexual health services, and HIV care. Jessica has experience leading all things clinical and clinical operations including providers, nurses, clinical development, clinical compliance, and clinical strategy. She is a family nurse practitioner and MPH by training and has a deep commitment to healthcare access and re-shaping what healthcare means for patients and clinicians whether it is in the exam room or the board room. At Tia, Jessica is responsible for operationalizing Tia’s hybrid in-person and virtual care platform to enable clinical quality control at scale. As a dual clinician-operator, she manages Tia’s virtual care team and facilitates a seamless patient and provider experience across the care continuum.
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About Tia: At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind.
Andy Rankin
VP of Partnerships – Investor of Sapho
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About Array, Exit13 Ventures, Sapho, Wish: Sapho provides employees a quick view into the important information they need to excel at work.
Maher Hanafi
VP, Engineering of Thrive Global
Engineering executive with years of experience leading teams building world class full stack systems and native mobile applications with global reach and millions of users. Entrepreneur, Founder in Technology and Digital Marketing
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About Thrive Global: Thrive develops technology that help individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance.
San Wai Oo
VP Engineering of Astro Technology
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About Astro Technology: Astro has been acquired by Slack! We’ve shut down our apps, but you can find us at Slack making email and channels work better together
Alex Wu
Vice President, Marketing and Partnerships of HomeCourt
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About HomeCourt: HomeCourt is an interactive basketball app that acts as a personal skills trainer for basketball players.
Rahul Bindlish
VP of Sales of Grid Dynamics
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About Grid Dynamics: Grid Dynamics is a provider of in driving enterprise-level digital transformation solutions in Fortune 500 corporations.
