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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 Director operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Director 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.
Minh Phan
Senior Director of Product Management of Gainsight
Minh Phan is a Senior Director of Product Management at Gainsight, the Customer Success company. Minh is designing new solutions that extend the reach of Customer Success to other teams for a seamless experience across a company. Minh joined Gainsight after roles in Product Management, Customer Experience, and Finance at Seagate Cloud, Symantec, and Oracle. Outside work, Minh has enjoyed being a guest at the Thai royal palace, dancing along with half-a-million Cubans at the Rolling Stones concert in Havana, and taking his parents to the peaks of Machu Picchu. Minh is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Tanumoy Ghosh
Director, Product Data Science, DSA of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sanford Robertson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
Sandy Robertson is the Partner at Francisco partners.
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About Francisco Partners, Francisco Partners: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mayukh Bhaowal
Director, Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Mayukh Bhaowal is a director of product management at Salesforce Einstein working on automated machine learning. Previously, Mayukh worked at startups in the domain of machine learning and analytics. He served as head of product of the ML platform startup Scaled Inference, backed by Khosla Ventures, and led product at the ecommerce startup Narvar, backed by Accel. He was also a principal product manager at Yahoo and Oracle. Mayukh holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tim Van Loan
Director of Product Marketing of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Leah McGowen-Hare
Senior Director of Salesforce
Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and Senior Director at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow using Trailhead. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Hidden Genius Project, Girls Who Code and Vetforce. Leah is married to Shane Hare and has 3 children. She enjoys working out, and traveling with her family.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pankaj Prasad
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Pankaj Prasad is the co-founder of DoubleDutch, a service that helps any company, brand, or organization deploy mobile apps enterprise wide. Their apps help companies gain insight through engagement
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Larry Tomlinson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
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About : Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mike Kreaden
Managing Director, Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate) of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Shankar Vedaraman
Sr. Director, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Craig Conway
Board of Directors of Salesforce
Craig Conway is the Board of Directors of Salesforce.
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About NomNommer: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Josh Schwartz
Director of Offensive Security of Salesforce
Josh Schwartz is a computer that knows how to computer. He leads the Red Team at Salesforce conducting high impact offensive security engagements and frequently creates propaganda memes.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Wenhao Liu
Director – Applied AI Research of Salesforce
Director – Applied AI Research at Salesforce (Hiring).
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Daniel Sonnenfeld
Accessibility Compliance Program Director of Salesforce
Daniel Sonnenfeld is a Technical Program Management Director at Salesforce where he leads complex cross-organizational technology initiatives. His professional experience spans the high tech industry, having worked with large enterprises and startups. After a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Computer Science. Born deaf, Daniel wore hearing aids most of his life and received cochlear implants 13 years ago. He is multilingual and fluent in English, American Sign Language and French.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Wendy Smith
Senior Director, Salesforce Experience of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cecilia Alvord
Director & Executive Search of Salesforce
Cecilia Alvord is the Director & Executive Search at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sarah Aerni
Director Of Data Science And Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kelly Utley
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cathy Daw
Director, Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Vikas Sangwan
Director Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alexander Lovell
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Alexander Lovell is the director of product management at Salesforce and an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. Prior to that, Alexander co-founded Simpatic. .
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kinjal Vora
Director, Business Value of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Director, Industry Solutions, Higher Education of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
William Clifford
Director of Technical Consulting of Salesforce
William Clifford is the Director Technical Consulting at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ian Dunckel
Senior Director, Product Marketing, CPQ & Billing of Salesforce
Ian Dunckel serves as the senior director of product marketing and CPQ & Billing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tim Clarke
Senior Director, Product Marketing – Sales Cloud of Salesforce
Co-Founder & CEO @ UNCrushed.
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About Salesforce, UNCrushed: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Molly Ford
Director, Global Equality Programs of Salesforce
Molly Q. Ford is Senior Director of Global Equality Programs at Salesforce, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for eight years in a row. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s core value of Equality and evangelizing the Salesforce culture. Prior to making her passion for Equality a full-time job, Molly worked on the award-winning Salesforce Public Relations team. With more than 15 years of Public Relations experience, she was responsible for building awareness for Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service and support solution. Prior to joining Salesforce, she held positions at major technology companies including Cisco, Check Point Software, IBM and UMAX. Molly holds a B.S. in Public Relations from San Jose State University. She resides in Oakland, CA with her puppy Jackson, the amazing Maltese.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Fadi Mouallem
Director of Strategic Sourcing of Salesforce
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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.
Chris Lea
Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce
Chris Lea is the Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andres Ramirez
Director, Technical Architect of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cheryn Flanagan
Director of Experience Design of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sireesh Bodireddygari
Director of engineering: Analytics – Wave of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
John Heywood
Director, Product Marketing – Service Cloud of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Arvind Gopalan
Sr. Director of Product Management of Lookout
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Pritam Shah
Director of Platform Engineering of Lookout
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Rei-Ling Hudson
Director of Marketing of Fin.com
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Vinod Kone
Senior Director Of Engineering of Segment
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About Segment, The Apache Software Foundation, The Apache Software Foundation: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Steven Nguyen
Director of GRC of Segment
Steven Nguyen currently serves as the Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) at Segment focused on enhancing security and privacy at Segment and for their customers. Prior to his role at Segment, he served in various security roles at a Fortune 7, including building out enterprise wide security and privacy programs and serving as information security officer for one of their major business units.
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Kanishk Parashar
Senior Director, Product -> Advisor of Addepar
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About Addepar, Square: Addepar is a wealth management platform that provides tools for data analytics and portfolio visuals.
Niklas de Besche
Executive Director, Product of Meltwater
Niklas de Besche is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Products. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral role in building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Darren Kaplan
Co-founder and Board Director of hiQ Labs
Darren Kaplan is the co-founder and founding CEO of hiQ Labs (www.hiqlabs.com), a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. Mr. Kaplan is an Alchemist Accelerator mentor, working with Augmented Reality, Cyber Security, and HR enterprise SaaS startups. In 2012 I co-founded hiQ Labs a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. We are the pioneers leading the way with a ground-breaking precedent for the entire Internet, and a global economy that depends on data. hiQ has a fast-paced culture that requires sound judgment and discretion when applying data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to publicly available data. We are customer-focused and innovate with feedback from our clients, prospects and partner community named Elevate. Follow our incredible story about how our idea of helping companies understand their workforce using publicly available data changed the world.
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About DataDistillr, EltonAI, hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Amir Ghodrati
Director of Market Insights of App Annie
Amir Ghodrati has been with App Annie since May 2013 and currently leads the Market Insights team. Previously, he worked in market research providing analysis services to digital media clients across a variety of industries, including search, advertising, and e-commerce. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Duke University.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
Hannah Chaplin
Director of Product Management of Pendo
Founder of Receptive.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Jasper Lenz Radeke
Sr. Director, Marketing, North America of AppsFlyer
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Patrick Thompson
Director of Product of Amplitude
Patrick Thompson is the Director of Product at Amplitude. Before that, he was the Co-founder at Iteratively (acquired by Amplitude).
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Joshua Perlow
Director of Sales of Restless Bandit
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About Restless Bandit: Restless Bandit transforms workforce data into workforce decisions.
Nate Agrin
Director of Visualization of Looker
Nate Agrin is the director of visualization at [Looker](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/looker#/entity), a software company that employs business intelligence to make data accessible to organizations and analysts. He has also served as an engineer at Chartio. Agrin resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Mayank Kohaley
Director of Engineering of Zeta Global
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Aubrey Blanche
Director of Equitable Design & Impact of Culture Amp
Aubrey Blanche is The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), Director of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp, and a startup investor and advisor. Through all her work, she seeks to question, reimagine, and redesign the systems and practices that surround us to ensure that all people can access equitable opportunities and build a better world. Her work is undergirded by her training in social scientific methods and grounded in the fundamental dignity and value of every person. Her professional expertise covers a broad range of equitable enterprise operations, from talent lifecycle programs and accessible product development to event design and communications & media. She is the inventor of the balanced teams approach to building proportional representation and a culture of belonging in the workplace, as well as the Balanced Teams Diversity Assessment in the Atlassian Team Playbook. She works to open source these methods for all practitioners and business leaders, and releases thought leadership and tools to create positive change at aubreyblanche.com. She is an advisor to a variety of groups seeking to build a more just world, including Joonko, Seed & Spark, and On Ramp. Her work has been featured in Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the Australian Financial Review, USA Today, Re/Code, First Round Review, and more. She also has previous academic affiliations with Stanford and Northwestern, and an appointment at the Equity by Design Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Despite the accolades listed here, she asks that you engage with her work to judge her competence: traditional proxies of merit and/or competence help reinforce the systems that keep incredible people from the opportunities they deserve.
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About Culture Amp, The Mathpath: Culture Amp is an employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics.
Bronwen Clune
Editorial Director of Culture Amp
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About Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics.
Matar Haller
Director of Algorithmic AI of SparkBeyond
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About SparkBeyond: At SparkBeyond, we unleash AI for Business and Social impact
Brendan O’Kane
Managing Director of OtherLevels
Brendan O’Kane joined OtherLevels as Managing Director in 2011.
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About OtherLevels: Mobile marketing platform that includes sophisticated segmentation, targeting & retargeting tools across native App & mobile web platforms
Bray Patrick-Lake
Director, Strategic Partnerships of Evidation Health
Bray is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Evidation Health. She develops collaborations to support the design and implementation of participant-centered studies, and serves on the All of Us National Advisory Panel, the Digital Medicine Society Scientific Leadership Board, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Health Science Policy Board. Previously, Bray led engagement for the Duke Clinical Research Institute Project Baseline Study Coordinating Center and served as co-chair on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director that authored the Precision Medicine Initiative’s Cohort Program. Bray holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia, and an MFS degree from National University.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Howard Rosen
Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure of Dremio
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About Dremio: Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data.
Mike Kim
Director of Sales, APAC of Orbital Insight
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Bryan Ngo
Director of Sales Operations of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Jennifer Aden
Director of Sales of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Zack Boone
Senior Director, Accounts and Integrated Marketing of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Kimberly Alexy
Member of the Board of Directors of FireEye
Kimberly has served as a member of the board of directors since January 2015. She has served as the principal of Alexy Capital Management, a private investment management firm that she founded, since June 2005. Kimberly has served on the board of directors of CalAmp Corp. since May 2008 and the board of directors of Five9, Inc. since October 2013. She previously served on the board of directors of SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. from September 2009 to August 2011, the board of directors of SouthWest Water Company from August 2009 to September 2010, the board of directors of Dot Hill Systems Corp. from December 2005 to May 2010, and the board of directors of Maxtor Corporation from June 2005 to May 2006. From 2012 to 2014, Kimberly served as an adjunct lecturer at San Diego State University in the Graduate School of Business. From 1998 to 2003, she served as senior vice president and managing director of equity research for Prudential Securities, where she served as principal technology hardware analyst for the firm. Prior to joining Prudential, Kimberly served as vice president of equity research at Lehman Brothers, where she covered the computer hardware sector, and assistant vice president of corporate finance at Wachovia Bank. Kimberly is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds a B.A. in psychology from Emory University and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance and accounting from the College of William and Mary.
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About Alexy Capital Management: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Barry Vengerik
Technical Director of FireEye
Barry Vengerik is a Principal Threat Analyst with FireEye iSight Intelligence. With over a decade of experience investigating nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threat activity, as well as some of the most advanced financial motivated threats encountered by Mandiant incident responders. Barry has contributed to research on FIN4, a threat group targeting non-public financial information for insider trading advantage, FIN5, attackers targeting the hospitality industry using the RawPOS malware suite to steal over 200,000 credit cards, and now FIN7 – one of the most advanced and successful financially motivated attackers identified by Mandiant and FireEye iSight Intelligence. He is based in California.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Gillian Hanson
Director, Data & Informatics of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Jenny Barna
Director of Launch of Spire Global
Jenny is the Launch Manager at Spire, a satellite powered data company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Jenny comes to Spire from SSL, where she supported new business pursuits and programs, focused on smallsats and hosted payloads. Prior to joining SSL, Jenny spent almost 10 years as a launch vehicle propulsion engineer at Orbital in Chandler, Arizona, where she led an integrated propulsion team on many successful launches of the Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) and the development and qualification of propulsion subsystems for the two-stage variant of OBV. Jenny has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Arizona State University.
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About Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Matt Knopp
Director of infrastructure engineering of Mode Analytics
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Michael Kirchhoff
Senior Director – Content of BrightEdge
Michael has been a Digital Media technology Professional since 1996. Michael’s emphasis has been to create websites that build and engage audiences and produce revenue. As a hands-on executive, Michael has extensive experience bridging the gap between marketing and technology. In his career, Michael has led global SEO, PPC, Content Marketing and Social Media strategies to achieve a companies audience and revenue goals. His experience with numerous Content Management Systems and his thirst for technology has enabled him to build taxonomies and intelligent content strategies and solutions that served as a foundation for scaling organic search traffic, improved on-site visits, CTR and user experiences for personalization and semantic display. Outside of Michael’s geeky goodness, he is active in exercise, travel, speaking engagements and family.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Hardika Narula
Director of Product Management of Involve.ai
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About Involve.ai: involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Lauren Kennedy
Director, Customer Success of Productiv
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About Productiv: Productiv is a real-time engagement data and insights platform used to manage SaaS applications.
Yan Li
Director Of Engineering of Conviva
Yan is an Engineering Manager at Conviva, where she has been working on various projects in the area of Internet video streaming, and has built several products used by content publishers and ecosystem partners to monitor and optimize the experience of millions of end viewers. Yan holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Alex Marquez
Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Alex launched Experian Ventures in 2016 and is currently the Global Managing Director and a member of Experians Investment Committee. As a leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world, we invest in data/analytics, information security, healthcare, automotive and the broader financial services ecosystem. The Experian Ventures portfolio of investments includes AireLabs, AxiaMed (acq), BankBazaar, Hyphen, Bonify, C88, Canopy, Cazana, Grab, InfoSum, Madaket Health, Finicity (acq), Grab (GRAB), Jirnexu, Infosum, Machinify, Nav, PlaceIQ, RecargaPay, Salary Finance, Stackin, TrueData, and TrueAccord. We have invested more than $225m across the globe since inception in 2016. Previously, Alex served as Executive Vice President at Nantmobile, part of the Nantworks family of companies, building novel consumer mobile applications in health, wellness, and computer vision. Alex was Managing Director with USAA’s Corporate Development Group and a member of USAA’s Executive Management team and built USAA Ventures into one of the most active FinTech CVC after his first year. Alex created USAA’s Blockchain Working Group and investment thesis in blockchain [according to CBInsights, USAA was recognized as the first bank/insurance company to invest in blockchain technologies] and was responsible for the groups investments in Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Saffron (acq by Intel), and CafeX, ExpectLabs (acq by Cisco), while establishing USAA’s venture brand in Silicon Valley. Alex was a Director with Intel Capital, the world’s largest corporate venture group having invested over $14B globally. During his tenure with Intel Capital, Alex managed or co-managed investments in Atom Entertainment (acquired by Viacom), BlackArrow (acquired by Cross Mediaworks), ChannelM (acquired by PlayNetwork), Gametrust (acquired by Real Networks), Gaikai (acquired by Sony), Envivio (Nasdaq: ENVI), Kabam (acquired by Netmarble), K2 Network (acquired by RHI), Trymedia (acquired by Macrovision), The Generations Network (Nasdaq: ACOM), SixApart (acquired by SayMedia), and Synacor (Nasdaq: SYNC). In addition, Alex was co-founder and CEO of AppScotch, which brought transparency to paid mobile advertising. AppScotch was acquired by AppAnnie in 2016. Alex has served as a mentor to Plug&Play Silicon Valley and numerous other startups and accelerators/incubators. Alex has served as an advisor to ProSieben – the second largest media company in Germany; supports Purdue University mentorship program (SV BIG); and was a member of UNLV’s Engineering Advisory Board. Alex has served as an advisor to Gamestop Corporation, Playspan (acquired by Visa), and he has also served as an advisor and mentor to dozens of early stage companies and global corporate venture groups. Alex was previously an advisor to the NVCA’s Corporate Venture working group.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Karim Chehade
Investment Director, Experian Ventures of Experian
Karim Chehadé is an Investment Director at Experian Ventures, where he is responsible for identifying, sourcing, and investing in companies developing innovative consumer and business solutions for data creation, analytics and machine learning and information security. Prior to his role on the venture team, Karim was the Director of Small Business and Transactional Services for Experian’s Business Information Services unit, where he held responsibility over Experian BIS’ small business platforms, products, and services, and managed products and partnerships involving user-permissioned data. Prior to joining Experian, Karim held product management, strategy, and management consulting roles at Disneyland.com, Google, and Accenture, respectively. He has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and degrees in Economics and Spanish from Cal State University, Northridge.
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About Experian, Experian Ventures: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Steve Wagner
Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics of Experian
Steve Wagner is Global Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics. Steve joined Experian in 2005 and has led a wide range of businesses including Consumer Information Services in North America, Credit Services, Marketing Services, and Consumer Services in Brazil and the now divested global Cross Channel Marketing business. Steve represents Experian on the board of the US Data and Marketing Association, and serves as Chairman of the Experian social innovation fund. Prior to joining Experian, Steve was General Counsel of ERisk, a risk and capital management software company owned by JP Morgan Partners. Before that, Steve was a corporate transactional lawyer in New York and London with the global firm of Clifford Chance. Steve has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Aaron Suplizio
Director, Online Lending & Fintech of Experian
Aaron is responsible for leading go-to-market strategy and operations for Experian’s Fintech and Insurance verticals. He works closely with online lending startups, the venture capital community and Experian’s sales, product and marketing teams to fuel innovation and growth for companies building exciting new businesses within Financial Services. Before joining Experian, Aaron spent 5 years at Line 6, a venture-backed music technology firm where he held various leadership positions in product and marketing. Prior to that, Aaron worked at Analysis Group, one of the largest privately-held economic consulting firms where he supported top academic experts in the areas of intellectual property, securities fraud, and antitrust litigation in the software and pharmaceutical industries.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Michael Delgado
Director of Social Media & Community Engagement of Experian
Michael is the senior manager of social media and public relations at Experian, North America, and teaches social media courses at the University of California Irvine extension school. He leads content strategy and community building efforts on Experian social channels and loves using live-streaming social platforms (Periscope, G+ Hangouts) to help consumers and businesses.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Jennifer Johnson
Director of Global Marketing Programs of Informatica
Jennifer P. Johnson is the Director of Global Marketing Programs at Informatic.
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About Informatica, San Jose State University: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Courtney Sato
Director of Community and Brand Marketing of Constellation Research
Courtney Sato is the Strategy and Operations at Basira
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About Basira, Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Braden Kelly
Chairman of the Board of Directors of FICO
Braden Kelly has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Censeo Health, LLC since 2013. Braden is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors at FICO since February 2016 and has served as a Member of the Board of Directors since February 12, 2013. While a Partner and Managing Director at General Atlantic, a global $17 billion private equity investment firm, Braden originated and ran the firm’s global health care practice; founded the firm’s Silicon Valley office; and was on the firm’s investment committee. During his 12 year tenure, Braden was responsible for managing investments in the U.S., Europe and India. At Morgan Stanley & Co., Braden was an Investment Banker in the mergers, acquisitions and restructuring department.
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About : Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Supriti Singh
Director, Analytic Science of FICO
Supriti Singh is currently serving as a Principal Analytics Consultant for FICO’s Fraud, Cyber, and Compliance solutions. Supriti has worked on a variety of projects using her expertise in advanced analytics, data modeling, and research across various domains including finance, healthcare, and insurance. She has over sixteen years of professional experience in developing and refining fraud predictive models across FICO’s multiple verticals. Singh is a subject matter expert in advanced fraud detection analytics, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Supriti Singh has a Master’s degree in Statistics from San Diego State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Mathematics, and Quantitative Business Analysis from Louisiana State University
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Hunter Gehlbach
Director of Research of Panorama Education
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About Johns Hopkins University, Panorama Education: Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Pamela Magie
Director Of Operations of Costanoa Ventures
Director Of Operations at Costanoa Ventures.
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About Costanoa Ventures: Costanoa Ventures leads seed and series A investments in companies that change the way business is done.
Peter Rip
Board of Director of GAIN Credit
Focus: Peter joined Crosslink in 2006 to focus on Digital Media & Internet Services and Software & Business Services. Experience: Peter brings over 25 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur, venture investor, and institutional investor. He has focused exclusively on early stage technology companies. Before becoming a venture investor, Peter co-founded Silicon Compiler Systems, a major IC design automation software company acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1991. He began venture investing in 1992. He has specialized in investing in early stage companies, several of which have been acquired by AOL, CA, HP, Microsoft and others. Prior to joining Crosslink, Peter was a Managing Director at Leapfrog Ventures and the Managing Director of Knight Ridder Ventures. Education: BA, Brandeis University Ph.D. (Marketing) Stanford Graduate School of Business Peter’s blog can be accessed at EarlyStageVC.typepad.com
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About : GAIN Credit is a fintech company dedicated to providing credit for people who are underserved by mainstream financial service companies.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Sanjeev Desai
Senior Director, Solutions Marketing of Cohesity
Sanjeev Desai is a global solutions marketing lead at Cohesity for data center alliances and service providers. He is a customer-centric and results-driven leader with expertise in driving transformative business solutions in Multi-Cloud/Hybrid IT.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
David Bishop Media
Board of Directors of Parrot Analytics
David Bishop is a visionary entertainment and digital media industry leader, adept at building customer-centric organizations to high levels of employee engagement and profits. David has a proud history of success anticipating market demands and launching new products to maximize revenue. He claims a substantial talent for devising solutions to complicated challenges. David Bishop is passionate about identifying and creating new distribution technologies and highly successful business models. He is articulate, analytical, and intuitive.
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About : Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
Eve Alexander
Sr. Director, Product Marketing 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.
Kiran Matty
Director of product management of Aerospike
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Roger Magoulas
Senior Director Data Strategy of Astronomer
Roger Magoulas is the research director at O’Reilly Media and chair of Strata + Hadoop World conferences. Roger and his team build the analysis infrastructure, and provide analytic services and insights on technology adoption trends to business decision-makers at O’Reilly and beyond. We find what excites key innovators and use those insights to gather and analyze faint signals from various sources to make sense of what others may adopt and why.
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About Astronomer: Modern Data Orchestration
Jennifer Payne
Director of Sales of Miles
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About Miles: Miles is a startup that offers rewards for traveling, regardless of the mode of transportation.
Alex Ermolaev
Director Of AI of Change Healthcare
AI applications on and off ever since he got his original degree in this subject more than 20 years. His experience includes enterprise AI, AI platforms/tools, NLP, imaging and self-driving cars. Alex currently works as Director of AI for Change Healthcare – one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the world.
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About Change Healthcare: Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system.
Javier Godinez
Director of Application Security of Teradata
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Mark Shainman
Director of Research and Development of Teradata
Matt is presently the Director of Research and Development for Think Big Analytics, A Teradata Company He directs software engineering for the best-in-class big data and analytics division of Teradata. . Notably leading product vision, implementation, release and ongoing development of the industry leading open-source Kylo data lake management platform (http://kylo.io) on Hadoop and Spark generating tens of millions of services and support revenue. He previously held the position of applications architect and manager of IT Application Development for the National Ignition Facility at Livermore National Labs. He led a large team that undertook diverse engineering around: petascale data science platforms, product data management, project controls, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning, laser operations, and laser shot setup and visualization.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Russell Tillitt
Director, Market Research Operations of SimilarWeb
Mobile technologist Co-Author, J2ME & OpenMAX APIs VP Engineering, Beatnik; Jupiter Research Foundation MBA UC Berkeley, B.Sc. Mathematics, Univ Florida.
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Jared Kopf
Member of Board of Directors of Bazaarvoice
Jared Kopf has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2015 and has been a private investor in technology companies since 2009. Previously he was the Vice President in Product Innovation and Corporate Strategy for Rearden Commerce, Inc., a provider of online consumer and business-oriented commerce services, from September 2011 to May 2012 and the Founder and CEO of HomeRun.com, a members-only online social buying club, from November 2009 through August 2011. Prior to founding HomeRun.com, Kopf co-founded AdRoll, Inc., an advertising technology company, in 2006, where he served as CEO from March 2006 to March 2009 and President from March 2009 to January 2010. Kopf also served as a co-founder of Slide, Inc., a social media application developer, from 2005 to 2006. Kopf received a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently serves on the board and is Chairman of AdRoll.
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About : Bazaarvoice helps brands capture, analyze and act upon social data, and enables authentic customer-powered marketing.
Dana OMalley
Senior Director of Sales, West of LoopMe
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About LoopMe, Ranker: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Wes Wasson
Member of the Board of Directors of Marketo
Wes Wasson is the former senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Citrix, an industry leader in mobility, collaboration and cloud computing, and one of the top ten SaaS vendors in the world. During his tenure at Citrix, Wes was a key driver of the business, product and go-to-market strategy that helped Citrix grow from a single-product company, to a multi-billion dollar industry leader. A frequent keynote speaker who consistently ranked among the top CMOs in high tech, Wes has also been recognized by the Bay Area News Group as the top executive leader in Silicon Valley based on surveys of Silicon Valley companies and their employees. The former Sun Microsystems and Network Associates executive brings an extensive track record of success to the Marketo board, with nearly 20 years of experience building and growing enterprise software companies. At Sun, Wes served as vice president in the Java Enterprise System line of business, where he helped Sun achieve number one market share positions across several industry segments. Prior to Sun, he held several senior leadership positions at Network Associates, where he helped them grow from a $200M single product company into a $1B industry leader in networking and security in just under four years.
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About : Marketo develops marketing automation software that provides inbound marketing, social marketing, CRM, and other related services.
James Hitchcock
CCO / Director of Esri
James Hitchcock is the CCO and Director of Esri.
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About Esri, The Wall Street Journal: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
