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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 Boston based President operating in the Software space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Robert DeSisto
Chief Value Officer, Senior Vice President of Salesforce
Robert DeSisto is Vice President of Global Customer Transformation at Salesforce. Previously, he was Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research where he was responsible for managing the software as a service (SaaS) research agenda, CRM sales agenda, and business application research community.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Eric Domski
Vice President Edge Sales of Oracle
Eric has 22 years experience in information technologies providing full Enterprise and E-Business solutions from sales, presales, marketing, product management, partnering and implementation perspectives. He is currently managing sales team of 50 individuals consistently exceeding quota year over year. He has successfully developed, expanded, enabled the sales of supply chain solutions in various roles both across North America as well as globally. Have shown continuous professional growth through delivery oriented, entrepreneurial approach throughout his career.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ted Gillick
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dell Technologies Capital
Ted Gillick is Vice President, Corporate Development of EMC Corporation and is a senior member of EMC’s global mergers and acquisitions practice. Over the course of his career, Ted has worked with a variety of technology and media companies and executed over $30B worth of M&A transactions across those industries. Prior to joining EMC, Ted was a senior member of the Corporate Development team at Avid Technology and an M&A investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Ted holds a BBA from the College of William and Mary and is currently pursuing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Nicolas Mangon
Vice President AEC Strategy & Marketing of Autodesk
Nicolas Mangon, Vice President of AEC, Business Strategy and Marketing for Autodesk, is a leader of the global advancement of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Nicolas’ mission is to lead the industry transformation to BIM and the cloud. Educated at the world-renowned Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Public’s Institution for Civil and Structural Engineering, Nicolas brings deep industry expertise to the continued development of innovative solutions that address the AEC industry.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Kevin Blankespoor
Vice President of Controls & Autonomy of Boston Dynamics
He is the Vice President of Product Engineering at Boston Dynamics.
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About Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Andrew Jacobus
Vice President – Global Insights and Data Science Leader of Virgin Pulse
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About Limeade, Virgin Pulse: Virgin Pulse, part of the famed Virgin Group, is passionate about inspiring and engaging employees to live better every day.
Jamie Alders
Vice President of Product of Neurable
Jamie Alders is the vice president of product at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Jegan Candassamy
Vice President Of Software Engineering of Neurable
Jegan Candassamy is the vice president of software engineering at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
George Hope
Vice President, WW Distribution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As the Vice President of Global Channels, George is responsible for building a loyal, motivated and self-sufficient ecosystems of partners to increase Simplivity’s market reach. George joined Simplivity from EMC, where he spent the last 17 years in a number of Sales and Channel Management roles. Most recently, he was the Sr. Director of Global Channels for EMC’s Isilon Division. Prior to that, he led the US Field Channel team for all product lines. George holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Simplivity: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Tim Saeger
Executive Vice President, Engineering of iRobot
Tim Saeger has served as executive vice president of engineering since March 2017. Mr. Saeger previously served as senior vice president of engineering from August 2015 until March 2017. Prior to iRobot, Mr. Saeger served in multiple roles at Bose Corporation from 2005 – 2015, including Vice President of Home Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saeger also served at Thomson, Inc., and General Dynamics, in a variety of engineering and engineering management positions. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Saeger also has been awarded 24 U.S. patents.
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About iRobot, iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Russell J. Campanello
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
John Grieci
Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Chris Lento
Vice President of Commercialization of Pear Therapeutics
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About Pear Therapeutics: Pear Therapeutics is a software-based digital therapeutics platform designed to treat disease and enhance the efficacy of pharmaceuticals.
Sergey Dmitriev
President and co-owner of JetBrains
Sergey Dmitriev is a President and co-owner at JetBrains.
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About JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Greg Johnson
Senior Vice President of Lightkeeper
Greg comes to Lightkeeper from the transaction services valuation group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in Boston. Greg focused on intangible asset valuation, performing purchase price allocations for several transactions over $1.0 billion. Greg also assisted in the annual impairment testing of goodwill and long-lived assets for several Fortune 500 companies. In addition to intangible asset valuation, Greg concentrated on common stock valuations as well as valuing options and other derivative securities. He was also involved in auditing third party valuation analyses for the inclusion in SEC filings and for other financial reporting purposes. Greg graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston College Carroll School of Management with concentrations in Finance and Economics. Originally from Lexington, MA, Greg currently lives in Boston’s North End. Outside of the finance world, he can be found on the golf course or the ski mountains of Maine.
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About Lightkeeper: Lightkeeper provides managers immediate and relevant information for making critical investment decisions .
Jennifer Linehan
Vice President, Network of High Alpha
Jennifer Linehan is the Vice President of Network at High Alpha.
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About High Alpha: High Alpha creates and funds companies through a new model for entrepreneurship that unites company building and venture capital.
Richard Hoyland
Vice President of Sales of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Rob Hickey
Vice President of Engineering of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Razi Raziuddin
Vice President of Business Development & Marketing of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Chris Devaney
Vice President of Operations of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Kevin McGowan
Vice President Of Product Management of HqO
Kevin McGowan is the Vice President of Product Management at HqO.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Matt Stevens
CEO and President of AppNeta
Matt Stevens is a CEO and President at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Eva Maloney
Vice President of Business Operations of AppNeta
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Sean Armstrong
Vice President, Products of AppNeta
Sean Armstrong is a Vice President of Products at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Philippe Dintrans
Senior Vice President of Cognizant
Philippe Dintrans is the Senior Vice-President and Global Consulting Leader of Cognizant Business Consulting’s Banking and Financial Services Practice. Philippe has led numerous consulting engagements covering business transformation, IT transformation and change management for marquee Cognizant clients. He holds a master’s of science degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Cognizant, Wipro Technologies: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Tony Gomes
Senior Vice President, General Counsel of Citrix Systems
Tony Gomes is senior vice president, general counsel and chief legal compliance officer at Citrix. The global legal team under his leadership is responsible for corporate governance, compliance, employee relations, intellectual property, litigation and legal support for Citrix’s commercial transactions, strategic acquisitions, investments, and licensing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Michael Heffner
Vice President — Solutions and Industry Go To Market of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Vance Loiselle
President & CEO of Boston Logic
President & CEO at Propertybase.
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About Boston Logic, Boston Logic, Propertybase: Boston Logic offers an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents.
Aman Narang
Co-Founder & President of Toast
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About Toast: Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space.
Steve Fredette
Co-Founder & President of Toast
Steve Fredette is President and co-founder of Toast, where he leads product and innovation initiatives. Prior to Toast, he worked on mobile app development before the iPhone came out, creating the first Flickr and Shoebuy.com apps. At Endeca, now Oracle, he co-founded their mobile commerce business, building the product team and driving sales, marketing, and services to over $10 million in revenue in two years. He also ran the Special Operations team at Endeca, creating new prototypes for various customer and business needs, including Endeca’s business intelligence platform. Steve holds a BS degree from MIT.
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About Toast: Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space.
Michael Panagakos
Vice President of Sales of Deltek
Michael J. Panagakos is the Vice President of Sales at Deltek.
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About Deltek: Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms and government contractors.
Tim Yeaton
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Red Hat
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About Monotype, Red Hat, Roger Williams University, Stonebridge Country Club: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Brad Terrell
Vice President, Product Management of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Brian Denenberg
Vice President, Global Sales of Einsights
Brian has more than twenty years of experience leading sales teams and driving revenue for start-ups, enterprises and consultancies worldwide. His broad experience includes complex technical sales, high volume sales to the SMB market, as well as sales to C-level executives. Prior to joining Einsights Brian was a Senior Consultant at Channel Partners where he advised leading technology vendors and cloud partners on how to improve their sales and Go-To-Market strategies. Prior to Channel Partners he was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales for the leading online parenting website in Southeast Asia, MumCentre.com, which partnered with 90% of the family oriented brands in Southeast Asia and over a thousand SMB customers. Brian received his BA degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington.
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About Einsights: Einsights develop the business analytics tool built for the inquisitive mind.
Janet Muto
President of WEVO
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About WEVO: WEVO is a customer experience company that offers a solution for pinpointing WHY visitors are not engaging.
David Moreno
Vice President of Product Development of S2 Security Corporation
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About S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Timothy McGrath
President and Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection
Mr. Timothy McGrath is President, Chief Executive Officer of PC Connection Inc. Mr. McGrath has served as Chief Executive Officer since August 2011, and as President since May 2010. Mr. McGrath served as Chief Operating Officer from May 2010 to August 2011. Mr. McGrath also served as Executive Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from May 2007 to May 2010, as Senior Vice President, PC Connection Enterprises from December 2006 to May 2007, and as President of PC Connection Sales Corporation, sales subsidiary, from August 2005 to December 2006.
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About PC Connection: PC Connection is a direct marketer of a range of information technology (IT) solutions.
Steve Sullivan
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Americas of Infinidat
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About Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Ash Ashutosh
Founder, President and CEO of Actifio
Ash joined Greylock in 2008. While being a recognized leader in the storage industry, Ash’s areas of interests include semiconductors, systems, storage, software and utility and cloud computing. As a serial entrepreneur, Ash has over two decades of operational and strategy experience in founding, building and advising companies. Ash was the founder of three companies in technologies ranging from semiconductors, systems and enterprise software, each of which led their respective markets and had successful exits. He also worked for and has been a member of the board or the advisory board of several large and small technology companies. Prior to joining Greylock, Ash was Vice President and the Chief Technologist at the storage business unit at HP, responsible for strategy and development of next-generation data center technologies. He joined HP as a result of the acquisition of AppIQ, a company he founded in 2001 that became a leader in standards-built Storage Resource Management (SRM) software. Ash currently serves on the board of Delphix, a company developing radically innovative database management solutions. He is also a charter member of TiE Boston.
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About Actifio, G20 Ventures: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Lauren Kline
Vice President, Senior Strategist of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Jeffrey Franklin
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development of TrueCommerce
Since co-founding RedTail in 2000, Jeff has played an integral part in the development of the RedTail’s flagship managed EDI service—from its design and development, to its implementation as part of a total electronic trading solution for middle-market businesses. He brings more than 25 years of expertise in the understanding of manufacturing systems that include electronic data interchange As Vice President, Sales for Sage / AccountMate, Jeff focuses on RedTail’s sales in those market segments. Earlier, Jeff transitioned from VP of Product Development Director of Sales and Business Development. Prior to founding RedTail Solutions, Jeff was IT Director for RBI, where he developed and implemented a collaborative system for new product development in addition to his general responsibilities for RBI’s IT strategy and systems. Jeff also started Electro-World and Boca Software, and wrote a full MRP system for electronics company Solitron. Jeff attended the University of Florida
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About TrueCommerce: TrueCommerce, Inc. provides electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions to small and mid-tier companies. Its end-to-end solution includes
Fred Shilmover
President & Founder of InsightSquared
Prior to InsightSquared Fred headed global IT and was an associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. His background includes an SMB consultancy he founded as well as corporate development at Salesforce.com.Fred has a B.A. from Tufts and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his off time Fred is an avid wakeboarder.
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About InsightSquared: InsightSquared is a revenue intelligence platform that provides sales intelligence solutions for forecasting, accuracy, and decision-making.
Donald Chapman
President & Managing Director of DNC Consulting
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About DNC Consulting, OV Loop: Boston based management and technology consultancy firm driving growth for client firms through a focus on execution.
Kathleen Keenan
Vice President – Product Management of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Josh Feinblum
President, Chief Operating Officer of Stavvy
Josh Feinblum is a Cofounder of Stavvy and currently operates as Stavvy’s the President & Chief Operating Officer.
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About F-Prime Capital, Stavvy: Stavvy is a modern lending platform designed to connect lenders with their title, settlement, and appraisal vendors.
David Sweet
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development of Bottomline Technologies
David leads strategy and corporate development processes for Bottomline. As a globally oriented executive with 25 years of experience working with private and publicly traded technology companies, David has a unique set of experiences across the full life-cycle of the software industry: as a venture capital investor, an entrepreneur, a board member, and corporate development executive.
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About Bottomline Technologies: Bottomline Technologies provides corporations, financial institutions, and banks with e-payment, invoice, and document automation solutions.
Paul Flanagan
President & CEO of Nasuni
Paul is the President & CEO at Nasuni.
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About Nasuni, Sigma Partners, Sigma Prime Ventures: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Chris Sledz
Vice President of Account Management of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Kathleen Parrish
Vice President of Human Resources of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Matt McDonald
Vice President of Engineering of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Barrie Kuza
Vice President Of Product Management of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
John Capello
Vice President of Product Strategy of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
John Capello
Vice President of Product Strategy of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Ray Hale
Vice President of Finance of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Deb Patsky
Senior Vice President – Human Resources of Global Imaging Systems
Deb Patsky joined Global Imaging Systems May 5th, 2014 and brings to GIS a professional background that is bolstered by over 25 years of HR functional and leadership experience. Deb served in the U.S. Air Force in Japan and Virginia from 1982-1987. In 1988 she joined International Paper where she held numerous positions of increased responsibility. During her 12 year tenure, she directed all aspects of Human Resources including Recruitment, Compensation & Benefits, and Employee Relations in both field and headquarter locations. In 2001, she joined Savin Corporation as the Director, Human Resources and in 2002 was promoted to Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development at Ricoh until 2008. She successfully led the implementation plan to merge two companies, Lanier and Ricoh U.S with a total of 8,000 employees. Since 2008 Deb has held the position of Vice President, Global Business HR for Sensata Technologies. She led a global HR team of over 90 people located in Asia, Europe, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico and the US. Deb holds a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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About Global Imaging Systems, Xerox: Global Imaging Systems Inc operates as a dealer in digital automated office equipment, network integration solutions, and electronic
Keith Bartlett
Vice President, Corporate Development of SevOne
Keith Bartlett is the vice president of corporate development at [SevOne, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sevone#/entity), a digital infrastructure management company that provides a network monitoring platform. Previously, Bartlett was the vice president of business development at Axeda Corporation.
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About SevOne: SevOne provides the only digital infrastructure monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s demanding.
Carolyn Pampino
Vice President of Design of Brightcove
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About Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Joseph Noonan
Founder, President & CEO of Revulytics
Joseph Noonan brings a wealth of expertise in guiding software companies to success. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Joe was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and business development at Authentica Inc. Before Authentica, Joe served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Eprise Corp., a publicly traded Web content management company, and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to Divine, Inc. Joseph Noonan was also president and CEO of Upspring Software, a software development tools company, and successfully completed the sale of the company to MKS Systems. Joseph Noonan also spent five years at Wall Data Inc., a highly regarded publicly traded software company. During his tenure at Wall Data, Joseph Noonan managed a sales team that grew sales from 35 million to 150 million and played a major role in the successful acquisition of Wall Data by Net Manage. Joseph Noonan has also held key management positions at both Memorex Telex Corp. and Burroughs Corp.
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About Revulytics, Vee24: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Jim McInerny
Vice President, Americas Sales of BitSight
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About BitSight: BitSight is a platform that rates companies’ security effectiveness on a daily basis using a data-driven, outside-in approach.
Craig Wright
Vice President, North America Sales of SugarCRM
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Ingo Mierswa
Founder & President of RapidMiner
Ingo Mierswa is an industry-veteran data scientist since starting to develop RapidMiner at the Artificial Intelligence Division of the TU Dortmund University in Germany. Mierswa, the scientist, has authored numerous award-winning publications about predictive analytics and big data. Mierswa, the entrepreneur, is the founder of RapidMiner. Under his leadership RapidMiner has grown up to 300% per year over the first seven years. In 2012, he spearheaded the go-international strategy with the opening of offices in the US as well as the UK and Hungary. After two rounds of fundraising, the acquisition of Radoop, and supporting the positioning of RapidMiner with leading analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester, Ingo takes a lot of pride in bringing the world’s best team to RapidMiner.
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About RapidMiner: RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.
Brian Stefano
Founder & President of Data Intensity
Brian Stefano is the Founder and President of Data Intensity. In this role, Brian is responsible for driving strategic business development initiatives, identifying and nurturing market opportunities, and working with key Data Intensity customers and partners worldwide. Prior to founding Data Intensity in 2001, Brian worked for Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for managing the company’s northeast region. While at Oracle, Brian was among the company’s top revenue producers globally, growing the business by more than $27 million annually. Brian began his career in technology as a corporate sales manager for Sybase, Inc. Brian received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bryant College.
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About Data Intensity: Solution Expertise. Boutique Service. Trusted Advisor.
James Lu Morrissey
Co-founder, President of Mentor Collective
James is Co-founder and President of Mentor Collective, the leading provider of research-backed mentoring programs. Mentor Collective (multi-year Inc 5000 company; ranked top 10 workplace in Boston for two years running) has created over 100,000 mentorships. MC partners with leading universities and companies to scale mentorship to all their students/employees. MC is actively growing their team – join us: https://angel.co/mentorcollective James is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, alumnus of the Techstars Boston accelerator program, and a mentor for Techstars Boston. He is also an active startup advisor and investor. Are you an angel investor? Join my angellist syndicate here: https://angel.co/s/james-lu-morrissey/pzvRR
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About Mentor Collective: Mentor Collective provides all students with a transformative mentoring experience
Jeff Yanagi
Sr. Vice President of Human Resources of Pegasystems
Jeff Yanagi is Pegasystems’ Vice President of Human Capital, responsible for all Human Resources functions of the organization, including employment, compensation and benefits, training and development, organizational development and employee relations. Jeff has more than 20 years of direct experience in Human Resources leading teams and managing operational functions for high tech companies such as Wang Laboratories, Lotus Development and CMGI Inc. Immediately prior to joining Pegasystems, Jeff served as Vice President of Administration and Finance for Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., where his responsibilities included oversight of Human Resources, Fiscal Affairs, Legal and other departments. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Rutgers University.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Max Mayer
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Pegasystems
Max Mayer is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Pegasystems, responsible for driving the company’s integrated strategy and development process. Max brings more than two decades of experience in successful executive management to Pegasystems, most recently as the head of The Mayer Group, which served as management consultants to more than a dozen technology companies. Max holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Boston University. He has also completed executive education at Insead in Fountainbleau, France.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Dan Nash
Vice President, Corporate Strategy of Pegasystems
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Leon Trefler
Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success of Pegasystems
Leon Trefler is the Senior Vice President of Global Client Success of Pegasystems.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Douglas Kra
Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of Pegasystems
Douglas Kra is Senior Vice President of Pega Consulting for Pegasystems, where he is responsible for managing the company’s Professional Services and Education Services groups. Douglas brings more than 20 years of successful services experience to Pegasystems, most recently as Vice President with eLoyalty. Prior to eLoyalty, he served as president of an Internet services company, Zefer, and prior to that spent more than nine years with Cambridge Technology Partners, where he built and managed both strategic account programs and held P&L responsibility for major CTP geographies. Douglas holds a B.A. in computer science from Brandeis University, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Steve Tentindo
President and CEO of Treeno Software
Before joining Treeno Software, Steve was the founder and CEO of the Chameleon Group which is an outsourced business development company. Steve has held executive positions in sales and sales support with Lucent Technologies and Avaya Inc. Prior to joining Lucent, Steve served in a variety of senior-level sales and sales operations positions, including eight years as the EVP of Sales Operations at Cabletron Systems. During Steve’s tenure at Cabletron he was also involved in the integration of products and services of multiple acquisitions made by Cabletron Systems. Steve brings a unique combination of strategic insight and senior-level sales experience to Treeno Software. He is responsible for the worldwide management of Treeno’s sales, marketing and business partner network.
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About Treeno Software: TS is an industry leading provider of Enterprise Document Management solutions including document, imaging and workflow management.
Matthew Bairos
President & Chief Executive Officer of XOS Digital
Matt Bairos was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of XOS Digital in 2013. He has dedicated his professional life to the sports technology industry. Beginning on the support team with Avid Sports in the early 2000’s, Bairos worked his way up the ranks to General Manager, where he oversaw the development and unprecedented growth of XOS’ flagship product, XOS Thunder. Bairos earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Salem State University and currently resides in Andover, MA with his wife Audra and daughter Ella. .
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About XOS Digital: XOS Digital provides video editing and data analysis software, and audio visual systems for the sports industry.
Michael Soja
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FusionStorm
Mike Soja has more than thirty years of varied experience as a senior financial executive. He is responsible for all financial matters including lender relationships, accounting, budgeting, planning, and taxes. Mr. Soja began his career with KPMG and later served as the Chief Financial Officer at XTRA Corporation, a publicly held transportation equipment leasing company for twenty years. He subsequently entered the life science sector, serving as the CFO of Control Delivery Systems, a privately held drug delivery development company. Mike later served as the CFO of pSivida, Inc, a publicly held company that developed proprietary drug delivery technologies. Mr. Soja holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from The College of The Holy Cross, Worcester MA, and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting with Honors from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a Masters in Business Administration, with High Honors from Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
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About FusionStorm: FusionStorm provides IT products, professional services, support contract services and managed services for enterprises.
Sean Lanagan
President, Enterprise Information Systems Division of CAMP
Sean Lanagan joined CAMP Systems International, Inc. as President, Enterprise Information Systems Division in 2016.
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About CAMP: CAMP is a provider of aviation management products and services including aircraft maintenance tracking and information.
Rich Caplow
Vice President, Products of PostProcess Technologies
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About PostProcess Technologies: PostProcess Technologies proprietary software along with patent-pending machines
Bill Bellissimo
Founder & President of CrunchTime!
Bill is the Founder and President of CrunchTime! Information Systems. Prior to founding CrunchTime in 1995, Bill was the President of a large restaurant chain in the northeastern United States. Prior to working in the foodservice industry, Bill was a banker on Wall Street. He has an Economics and Political Science degree from Yale University.
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About CrunchTime!: CrunchTime offers a cloud-based enterprise restaurant management platform.
James Krawczynski
Vice President of Product Development of CrunchTime!
James has been leading CrunchTime’s technical organizations since 2008 in various roles including Database Architect and Director of Product Development. As Vice President of Product Development, he leads business analysis, database development, application development, quality assurance, business intelligence and technical support. Prior to joining CrunchTime, James was the Director of O.B.A. Implementation Technology for Workscape, Inc. where he drove the technology that supported the online benefits enrollment of millions of employees across the United States and Canada. James is a graduate of Worcester State College and recipient of the 2012 American Business Awards Information Technology Executive of the Year Bronze Stevie.
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About CrunchTime!: CrunchTime offers a cloud-based enterprise restaurant management platform.
Vibhor Kumar
Vice President Performance Engineering of EDB
Vice President, Performance Engineering at EDB.
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About EDB: EDB is an open source-based data platform.
Karl Johnsen
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Aspen Technology
Karl Johnsen joined AspenTech in 2013 and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to becoming CFO, Johnsen served as Vice President, Corporate Controller bringing over twenty years of financial management and leadership experience to the company. Prior to AspenTech, Johnsen served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer for Avid Technology, a leading provider of digital media content-creation products and solutions for audio, film, video, and broadcast professionals. He has also held Finance leadership roles at a variety of public and private technology and software companies including Fusion Storm, a global value added reseller of technology products and provider of professional and cloud services; GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., a global provider of data center consulting, integration and managed services; Art Technology Group, a software provider of integrated Internet-based commerce applications; and ClickTactics, Inc., a software developer of a web-based direct marketing automation solutions. Johnsen is also a CPA and started his career at Arthur Andersen, LLP. Johnsen holds a B.S. in Accountancy from Bentley University and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Aspen Technology: Aspen Technology develops and supplies integrated software and services to optimize business processes.
Glover Lawrence
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Aspen Technology
Glover Lawrence is AspenTech’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and is responsible for the company’s corporate development and business planning processes. Previously, he held a variety of corporate development roles in investment banking and high technology environments, most recently at Avid Technology. At Avid he led acquisition strategy and managed the company’s strategic planning processes, working closely with Executive Management and the Board of Directors. Lawrence began his career with Morgan Stanley as a financial analyst where he performed mergers and acquisition analyses for a number of clients including companies in the Chemical and Manufacturing industries. At Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JPMorgan), he advised clients on strategic transactions including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, and he has served as a Managing Director in the Venture Fund at Oracle. He also co-founded and served for five years as a Managing Director with McNamee Lawrence & Co., an international investment banking advisory firm, before joining Avid. Lawrence holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Aspen Technology: Aspen Technology develops and supplies integrated software and services to optimize business processes.
Marshall Everson
Vice President, Investments of York IE
Marshall Everson is the Vice President, Investments of York IE.
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About York IE: York IE is an early-stage investment firm helping reshape the way companies are built, scaled, and monetized.
Ed Friedlander
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Vestmark
Mr. Friedlander joined Vestmark in 2005 and is responsible for business development across Vestmark’s target markets, including broker-dealers, banks, asset managers, and registered investment advisors. Mr. Friedlander’s tenure, deep product and industry knowledge, and consultative approach make him well suited to help existing clients and prospects achieve their business objectives and best leverage Vestmark’s broad suite of technology and services. Prior to joining Vestmark, Mr. Friedlander was Corporate Sales Director for Newmarket International, a leading global technology provider in the hotel and hospitality industry, where he was responsible for business development and ongoing relationship management with the world’s largest hotel firms. Mr. Friedlander holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.
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About Vestmark: Headquartered in Wakefield, MA, Vestmark has been a leading technology platform provider delivering wealth management and investment
Mark Peabody
Senior Vice President of Product Management of Vestmark
SVP of Products at Vestmark.
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About Vestmark: Headquartered in Wakefield, MA, Vestmark has been a leading technology platform provider delivering wealth management and investment
Kent Sahin
President & CEO of REAL Software Systems
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About REAL Software Systems: REAL Software Systems is an information technology company that provides enterprise software, collaborations, and IP management services.
David Oldershaw
Vice President of GTM Strategy, Operations, & Corporate of Litmus
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About Litmus: Litmus is a testing and QA service for email marketers.
Derckjan Kruit
Co-Founder and Vice President of Corporate Development of Mendix
Derckjan Kruit co-founded Mendix and has been instrumental in leading its growth across the company’s operational, financial, and customer-service operations. Today he spearheads a wide range of strategic initiatives and works closely with internal and external teams to ensure that Mendix continues to adapt, improve, and grow. Derckjan holds a Master of Science degree from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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About Mendix: Mendix is the fastest and easiest high-productivity platform to create and continuously improve multi-channel applications at scale.
Douglas Flood
President of Deque Systems Inc
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About Deque Systems Inc: Deque invents software that makes the web accessible.
Kent McCormick
President of Lattice Engines
Kent is the cofounder and President of Lattice Engines and is responsible for setting product direction and deployment activities. Before founding Lattice Engines, Kent served as director of business operations at EMC. In this role, he had been leading pricing and operational analytics for all of EMC. Before this, Kent was a consultant at McKinsey & Company – working with Fortune 5000 companies on product development, sales & marketing business problems.
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About Lattice Engines: Lattice Engines specializes in the fields of marketing, sales, data-driven business applications, and trigger events.
Colin Kingsbury
Co-Founder, President & Board Member of ClearCompany
Colin is the President and co-founder of ClearCompany. Prior to joining HRMDirect, Colin served as CTO for empolis North America, a division of Bertelsmann AG, where he helped direct the development of the empolis Knowledge Management Suite, one of the world’s first commercially-deployed applications based on Semantic Web technologies. Colin is an expert in knowledge automation, and designed custom knowledge solutions for some of the largest companies in the world including Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Electric, and the US intelligence community. Colin is a graduate of Tufts University with a B.A. in Economics, and holds a certificate in Mandarin from the College of Foreign Languages, Beijing. He is also an Alaska-trained seaplane pilot, and writes for several Boston-area publications.
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About ClearCompany: ClearCompany is a talent management software provider.
Stan Liachev
Co-Founder, President & Board Member of Form.com
Stan is the co-founder of WorldAPP and has over twenty years’ experience designing and developing client-server and web environment applications. Before founding WorldAPP, Stan was involved in a few start-up companies as a co-founder with development responsibilities. He was a software consultant to clients such as Fidelity Investments and American Stores Company. Stan received a Master’s Degree in applied mathematics from Moscow State University and earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Institute of Control Sciences RAS in Moscow.
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About APPINALL, INC., Form.com, Keysurvey, WorldAPP: Form.com is a flexible, integrated platform that rapidly deploys data collection and process improvement solutions to the enterprise.
Jens Hinrichsen
Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development of NuData Security a Mastercard company
Jens is SVP, Sales & Business Development at NuData, having most recently served as VP of Marketing & Business Development for Versafe (acquired by F5 Networks). His background in the online threats and fraud space includes having headed up global marketing for the FraudAction (Cyota) suite of services at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, during which time its Anti-Trojan and Intelligence were brought to market. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of malware, social engineering, and proactive security approaches across the web and mobile channels.
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About NuData Security a Mastercard company: NuData Security positively verifies users online through real-time passive biometrics and behavioral analytics.
Charles Curran
Co-founder & President of Armored Things
A leading venture investor / recruiter / partner with founders in game-changing data storage (and related) startups including LeftHand Networks (acq HP, $360m), Qumulo, and SolidFire. Also an investor in Jumptap, a tier-1 mobile marketing company. Have helped companies grow hundreds of millions of revenue, and grow by hundreds of employees. Invest nationally. 5-time assistant coach in youth baseball.
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About Armored Things, SolidFire: Armored Things delivers deep insights from powerful space analytics
John Paladino
Vice President of Client Services of Intersystems
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Dipankar Choudhury
Vice President, Research of ANSYS
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About ANSYS, ANSYS: ANSYS develops engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will behave and how manufacturing processes will operate.
Shahbaz Ali
President and CEO of Tarmin, Inc.
Shahbaz Ali is a visionary entrepreneur and strategic executive manager with more than 20 years’ experience creating dynamic solutions for enterprises. Shahbaz serves as the public face of Tarmin and brings the vigor and experience of a seasoned entrepreneur with a history of successful companies. Shahbaz today oversees all core business activities, including marketing, partnership development and sales at Tarmin. Shahbaz is the creator of the company’s award-winning GridBank product. Tarmin is an industry leader in the emerging category Data Defined Storage. Re-shaping the future of storage with its proprietary GridBank solution, Tarmin resolves modern day data challenges by delivering a comprehensive unified solution that focuses on data content over media type. By unifying application information and storage tiers, GridBank provides a content driven unrivaled strategy that modernizes the way organizations utilize, access, and control their information. Dr. Shahbaz Ali has over 20 year experience designing ground breaking enterprise technology. Currently, Shahbaz is Chief Executive of Tarmin, Inc. a leading provider of Data Defined Storage solutions. Data Defined Storage is focused on the critical role of Metadata management in addressing rapid proliferation of massive data volumes, particularly unstructured data. Recognized as a leader by numerous industry analysts, including Gartner, IDC, ESG, Taneja and Clipper, Tarmin’s Data Defined Storage solution, GridBank 3.0, is powerful infrastructure software that has the power to positively impact a broad base of organizational objectives. Data Defined Storage and Tarmin’s award winning GridBank technology are the results of Shahbaz’s commitment to solving previously intractable challenges through the innovative application of advanced software designs. Prior to Tarmin, Shahbaz served as Senior Director of Banking Systems at MasterCard International where he was responsible for overall digital content strategy. Shahbaz joined MasterCard through its acquisition of Mondex International where Shahbaz along with Tarmin co-founder Steve Simpson pioneered the Chip and PIN technology that is today a globally adopted standard in the banking industry. Previously, Shahbaz served as Senior Director at Lucent Technologies where he oversaw the entire FIFA World Cup Communications project. Leading a team of over 170 and having full P&L Responsibility,
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About Tarmin, Inc.: Tarmin delivers GridBank Data Management Platform the premier Data Defined Storage solution.
Moshe Dahan
Executive Vice President of Technical Sales & Services of Tarmin, Inc.
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About Tarmin, Inc.: Tarmin delivers GridBank Data Management Platform the premier Data Defined Storage solution.
Santhana Krishnan
President and CEO of The Business Information Company
Santhana Krishnan is the Managing Partner of Om Ventures.
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About American India Foundation, Asian Art Gallery, Om Ventures, The Business Information Company: The Business Information Company provides timely information and unparalleled insights on millions of businesses.
Matt Benati
Vice President Marketing of ClearGov
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About ClearGov, LeadGnome, Inc.: ClearGov provides local governments cloud-based Budget Cycle Management software for efficient budgeting and transparent civic engagement.
Sarah Dignan Whitman
Vice President & Head of Global E-Commerce of Workhuman
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About Workhuman: Workhuman® is the world’s fastest-growing integrated Social Recognition® and Continuous Performance Management platform.
