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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 Information Technology 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.
Craig Soules
Director – Product Management of Freshworks
Craig Soules is the Director of Product Management at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Garth Goodson
Director of Freshworks
Garth Goodson is Director at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Sudip Majumder
Senior Director – Industry Iot And Big Data Analytics Development of Oracle
An Oracle veteran of 17 years, Sudip heads up development and product management of cloud–native Industry Analytical product portfolio specific to Airlines & Transportation, Communications & Media, Retail & Consumer Goods , Utility & Energy industry. These products follow the DevOps and leverage the ecosystem of IOT data streams, Big Data platform, other Cloud Services , enterprise data warehouse and data discovery with advanced analytic to create PaaS cloud offering and a set of Micro services (Docker container). These products deliver a framework which is generic enough to be adapted x-industry and enable customers deriving the maximum insights hidden in massive volumes of data with extreme performance. As an early proponent of Blockchain technology and due to his long association with Industry standards body like IATA, TMF ; Sudip brings the early insight of industry trends into the product portfolio and combines the business-value driven expertise and technology reference architecture with IoT aspects to build products that can result in new insights, transform business model and deliver significant benefit to business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Amit Manghani
Senior Director, Product Management of Oracle
Amit P. Manghani has more than a decade of experience in the Information Technology domain dealing with Enterprise Information Management, Business Intelligence, Web Applications and Cloud Computing technologies at leading Information Management companies such as Oracle, Informatica and SAP. Prior to joining Oracle, Amit was focused on utilizing the power of emerging data integration technologies encompassing real-time data acquisition/ movement, event processing and agile data access within Big Data usage scenarios. Now as Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle, he is responsible for Outbound Product Management on the different facets of Oracle Sales Cloud ranging from Analytics to Mobile to Sales Prediction capabilities. He is an avid follower of technology trends and has published articles in leading online journals and has presented at several technology conferences.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Alden Timme
Director Data Science of Oracle
Alden holds a BA in Mathematical and Computational Sciences and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford. In addition to his expertise in computer science, statistics, and web development, he specializes in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Savita Raina
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mark Friedler
Sr. Director Retail Marketing, Oracle Data Cloud of Oracle
Mark is a Senior Director at Oracle Marketing Cloud. He is a digital marketing and business development leader, online media executive and entrepreneur. Mark was most recently VP Business Development and Marketing at social data SaaS provider, Cubeyou. Previously he was Chief Strategy Officer at Admonsters, a leader in strategic insights on the future of digital media and advertising technology. He has founded, grown and sold several Internet companies including B2B content network IndustryGamers, GameDaily.com, one of world’s largest video games sites and ad networks that was acquired by TimeWarner AOL in 2006. Previously, he founded Gigex, the leading download service for game and software demos and Internet content delivery leader VCast, Inc. He served as VP Business Development for B2B Internet consulting company, Reach Networks, that was part of a Nasdaq IPO. He was President at Worlds and Games LLC, a digital marketing consultancy focused on advertising, games, mobile, SaaS services. Mark spent 6 years in Europe where he was Managing Director of Teleworld Sweden, a division of Philips Media, that operated voice response and interactive TV services with MTV. Mark’s first business introduced chocolate chip cookies to Sweden with its first chain of cookie stores. Mark is a frequently invited speaker to leading marketing, business and technology conferences including AdTech, CES, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, Enterpreneurs’ Organization, Game Developers Conference, E3, IMedia, Industry Insights Brand Summit, MobileBeat, OMMA, SIIA, VentureBeat.
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About Bridgepointe Technologies, CryptoMondays SF, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ananth Kini
Director of Oracle
Ananth Kini is director of central product management with Oracle, where he and his team help Oracle sales and partners understand and implement PaaS products and extend SaaS with PaaS.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro
Director of Product Management of Oracle
Aurelio is the Principal Product Manager in charge of Java SE since 2010. He has been involved in all JDK 7, 8, and soon-to-be-released JDK 9. He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne San Francisco and JavaOne Latinamerica, with Java User Groups, and Oracle Customers in the Americas and Europe. Aurelio joined Oracle in 2010 through the Sun Microsystems acquisition. He joined Sun in 2008.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Colin Schmidt
Senior Director Engineering – OCI Data Science Service of Oracle
Colin Schmidt is the Senior Director of Oracle Cloud.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Heather VanCura
Director of Oracle
Heather VanCura is Chair and Director of the JCP Program at Oracle. She is a leader of the global community driven adoption through the user group programs. Heather drives the efforts to transform the JCP and broaden participation and diversity in the community. Heather is passionate about Java, women in technology and developer communities, serving as an international speaker and community organizer of developer hack days around the world. Heather enjoys speaking at developer, diversity and open source conferences around the world, such as OSCON, Devoxx, FOSDEM, BuzzWords, Wonder Women Tech, and the JavaOne Conferences. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA and enjoys trying new sports and fitness activities in her free time.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Hermann Baer
Senior Director of Oracle
Hermann Baer is Senior Director at Oracle USA.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Michael Richter
Principal Director, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, IoT, Blockchain of Oracle
Michael Richter has always gravitated toward change, whether it is building new businesses, embracing new technologies or exploring and discovering new places. His career has included senior marketing roles at News Corporation, MGM, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Setanta Sports and MediaZone. He led the pioneering roll out of cable and satellite TV in Asia over a 10-year period in the 90’s followed by digital media and product management roles based in the US. Currently, he is at the forefront of the fast growing cloud services industry as Director Product Management for CX Sales at Oracle. He holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, Global School of Management in Alliance with ASU, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. He is a competitive outrigger canoeist residing in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he published a book titled “One Red Shirt” documenting his 10-year experience in the Asia Pacific region.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bidyut Sen
Director, Semiconductor Packaging & PCB Technology of Oracle
Bidyut Sen is a Principal Engineer with Unified Compute Server (UCS) Group at Cisco Systems inc. Bidyut has many years of experience in the computer industry and worked in several companies including Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu and LSI Logic. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY at Stony brook. Bidyut has several publications, presentations and Patents.
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About Cisco, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mayank Choudhary
Director, Product Marketing of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Kuassi Mensah
Director, Product Management of Oracle
Product Management at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Garrett Harley
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Andrea Canessa
Senior Director, Communications Industry Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Shay Shmeltzer
Director of Product Management – Cloud Development Tools of Oracle
Shay is director of product management for Oracle Development Tools and Frameworks. He is focused on helping developers leverage Oracle products to simplify and streamline their application development efforts. Shay frequently presents at industry events, publishes articles, and blogs regularly.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Suqiang Song
Director and Chapter Leader for Data Engineering and AI of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Rottenberg
Member of the Board of Directors of Wix
Erika Rottenberg has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2014. From July 2008 until September 2014, Erika was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional networking company on the internet. Prior to LinkedIn, Erika served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for SumTotal Systems, Inc., a talent management enterprise software company, from March 2004 to July 2008. Prior to SumTotal, Erika served in several roles, including most recently as Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, at Creative Labs, Inc., a computer peripheral and digital entertainment product company. Erika was also an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Cooley LLP and, prior to law school, was a school teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Erika serves on the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Northern California and the Silicon Valley Law Foundation. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a B.S. in Special and Elementary Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.
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About : Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ulu Ventures
Miriam co-founded Ulu Ventures, where she is the Managing Partner. Ulu is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.
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About Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs, Ulu Ventures: Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
Clint Korver
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ulu Ventures
Clint is a co-founding partner at Ulu Ventures where his investment interests include technology-enabled services, educational technology, and companies that turn data into actionable information. Along with Miriam, Clint is the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs a Stanford University alumni organization helping to build and connect Stanford’s entrepreneurial community. Prior to becoming a full-time investor, he co-founded and led four companies including Outcome Software, where he raised $10 million in venture capital to build web-based decision tools for large enterprises and was granted multiple patents in web-based decision analytics. He also co-founded Decision Quality International which trained over 1000 Fortune 500 executives in the principles of decision quality, licensed decision training programs to over 10,000 end users, and consulted to six of the largest financial institutions in the US. He also co-founded and led the consumer internet company, DecisionStreet and the analytics consulting firm, The Decision Company. Clint has a passion for teaching and regularly guest lectures at Stanford on entrepreneurship, decision-making, and ethics. He has taught courses in ethical decision-making at both Stanford and Grinnell College, and co-authored Ethics for the Real World (Harvard Business Press 2008) with Stanford professor Ron Howard. Clint is a Kauffman Fellow and Venture Partner at Crescendo Ventures and an advisory board member at the Decision Education Foundation. He holds a PhD and MS degree from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering with an emphasis in decision analysis and a BA with honors in mathematics from Grinnell College where he currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.
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About Ulu Ventures: Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
Kittu Kolluri
Co-founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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About Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Amy Tenderich
Editorial Director, Diabetes & Patient Advocacy at Healthline.com of Healthline Media
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About DiabetesMine.com, DiabetesMine.com, Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Molly Stevens
Director of User Experience Research of Booking.com
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About Booking.com: Founded in 1996, Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, available in 40+ languages and 155,000+ destinations.
Richard Halkett
Managing Director, Digital Innovation of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Arnaud Mauvais
Director, Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Arnaud is an experienced technology executive with more than 20 years of in-depth management experience in both large companies and start-ups in the mobile, video and internet spaces. Seasoned technical leader with responsibilities for globally distributed teams as large as 200 people and budget of $400 Million+, specialized in Cloud Computing Architecture, Engineering & Support (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rex Grignon
Director, WW BD of Amazon Web Services
Rex Grignon is the Director of Worldwide BD of Amazon Nimble Studio (AWS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Zivan Ori
Director of Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Mr. Zivan Ori is the co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage that provides the next generation of cost-effective rack-scale flash storage for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. Before founding E8 Storage, Zivan held the position of IBM-XIV R&D Manager, being responsible for developing the IBM XIV® high-end, grid-scale storage system, and served as Chief Architect at Stratoscale, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure. As a seasoned technological innovator, Zivan worked as the Wi-Fi Driver Architect at Envara Inc. (a fabless semiconductor company acquired by Intel) and as VP R&D at Onigma (an information security solution provider acquired by McAfee). Zivan Ori holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MA in Linguistics (with distinction) from University College London. His interests include storage (SAN, NAS), network protocols (IB, 40GE, FC), system programming and embedded programming, Linux, and distributed programming. An avid fan of the Japanese language and culture, with JLPT L3 proficiency, Zivan is a graduate of Talpiot.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Christie Smith
Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader of Accenture
Christie Smith is the Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader at Accenture
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ram Ramalingam
Managing Director of Accenture
Ram has over 25 years of technology leadership experience selling and delivering engineering projects across multiple industries around the globe. He is the Managing Director of Accenture’s Products and Platform Engineering Services practice. He specializes in innovative solutions that focus on bringing change, increasing productivity, and accelerating growth for customers. He enjoys applying his deep engineering experience in building modern platforms and facilitating client journeys to the Platform Economy.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Peters Suh
Managing Director, Communications Industry Lead & Network Practice Lead North America of Accenture
Peters Suh was the CEO of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of communications companies committed to building an open applications platform. WAC will deliver an open industry application development platform that will benefit the entire ecosystem. By providing a single route for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications, WAC will bring applications to more than three billion global mobile users. Previously, Peters was the CEO of JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), a joint venture with Vodafone, China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Softbank Mobile. Before joining JIL, Peters was President of Vodafone Global Enterprise Incorporated and Vodafone Ventures Limited. He was a managing director for Fremont Communications a private equity fund focusing on telecommunication investments. Peters was previously Vice President, Chief Technical Officer for Vodafone’s Global Internet Services group and also held a number of positions with AirTouch Cellular. Peters is a director of Vodafone Americas Foundation, Aspire Technologies, and the Diablo Regional Arts Association. Peters holds a B.A. and M.B.A., both from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jeff Scheel
Managing Director, Accenture Security of Accenture
Jeff Scheel is Mandiant’s Vice President of Business Development. He is responsible for building Mandiant’s relationships with technology alliance partners and global systems integrators while leading Mandiant’s corporate development and acquisition activities. He has more than twenty-five years of experience at enterprise software and security companies in sales, alliances, corporate development and executive leadership roles. Prior to joining Mandiant, Jeff served as vice president of business and corporate development for HP’s Enterprise Security Products business unit. He joined HP through its acquisition of ArcSight where he was senior vice president of business development and built alliance relationships with global systems integrators, ISVs and cloud security providers. Jeff has also held leadership roles at security and enterprise software companies including Damballa, PassMark Security (sold to RSA Security), Vocent Solutions (sold to PassMark Security), Siebel Systems and Oracle. Jeff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with honors from Stanford University and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
John Walsh
Senior Managing Director of Accenture
John Walsh is the Chief Sales Officer at Accenture.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jake Kaldenbaugh
Managing Director, Global Venture Investments of Accenture
Jake Kaldenbaugh is the Managing Director, Global Venture Investments at Accenture Ventures.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Christopher Chu
Managing Director, Accenture Strategy of Accenture
Chris is a Managing Director from the Strategy practice based in the San Francisco office. He leads Accenture Strategy’s Talent and Organization Practice for the West Coast region, and the global Organization Design practice. Chris has been with Accenture for over two decades leading operating model and workforce transformation programs for clients in multiple industries in Canada, United States, Brazil, Mexico and Asia Pacific. Chris works with Fortune 100 companies to solve their most complex talent, leadership, organization and cultural challenges. His recent experiences include designing the operating model and workforces of the future resulting from digital disruption and new business strategies. These client engagements have included programs with a global telecommunications, semi-conductor manufacturer, oil and gas super major, and consumer packaged goods companies. Chris has served as an advisor and consultant for international clients including a State Owned Enterprise in China, the Brazilian Electricity Exchange, Canadian Energy Companies and a Mexican Retail Bank and Consumer Products and Goods company. Prior to arriving to the Bay Area, Chris had been based in the Accenture offices of Ottawa, New York, Florham Park, Vancouver and Seattle.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Brent Blum
Global Director of Wearable Technology of Accenture
Brent Blum leads day-to-day operations of Accenture’s Wearable Technology practice including oversight of R&D, business development, sales, delivery and thought leadership. Prior to starting Accenture’s Wearable Technology practice, Brent managed wearables R&D within Accenture Technology Labs and led the development of a ground-breaking Google Glass medical proof of concept with Philips. Brent began his career at IBM as a systems architect before joining Accenture in 2004, becoming a product manager with a focus in consumer-based social and mobile products. His experience spans both startups and the world’s biggest, most recognized brands. Brent co-authored a patent on Augmented Reality Safety Glasses and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Information Systems and Psychology from Wake Forest University.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Diego Saenz
Managing Director of Accenture
Diego is a Managing Director with Accenture’s Digital Practice, my primary focus is on digital transformation and Artificial Intelligence. I lead global teams that deliver innovative digital solutions for some of the world’s biggest companies. I have worked in a variety of industries including high tech, consumer products travel, automotive and retail.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Horst Groesser
Managing Director of CMT Industry X.0 – Communications, Media, Technology of Accenture
Horst is responsible for growing Accenture’s Industry X.0 business in Internet, Social Media, Electronics and High Tech on the West Coast. He has 25+ years experience in the development of engineering strategies and the transformation of engineering, product development and PLM operations in discrete manufacturing industries, including High Tech, Consumer Products, Medical, Pharma and Automotive.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jefferson Wang
Managing Director of Accenture
For nearly two decades, Jefferson has guided business & technology innovation at the convergence of the Communications, Media and Technology industries. As this convergence takes shape, he has been focused on the wireless and mobility industry, working with network operators, OEMs, content providers and emerging tech players to create executable growth strategies through the entire product life-cycle. Jefferson built businesses on his belief that success comes from big picture thinking, mixed with detail-oriented execution. His ability to identify new patterns in technology has helped his clients navigate complex landscapes. He works with global leaders to break down complex problems into compelling stories, define a roadmap of key use cases, create innovative biz models and identify new addressable markets. As the wireless industry reshapes lives, 5G mobility will infuse itself in new industries, enabling innovation. For the last five years, Jefferson has worked on the convergence of AR in a mobile lifestyle, VR in a nomadic setting, the enablement of AI and the collision course between smart homes, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Jefferson is a regular speaker at Mobile World Congress and CES and has appeared on CNN and Mobile World Live TV. His perspectives are featured regularly in publications that include The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Wired and BGR. Previously, Jefferson was a Senior Partner at IBB Consulting, acquired by Accenture Strategy in Oct. 2017. At IBB, Jefferson built and led IBB’s Global Wireless, Mobility & Innovation Group and owned the P&L. He assembled a world-class team of x-functional wireless experts and opened new tier 1 clients for IBB. His successful track record is complemented by a passionate focus on giving back to support youth education. Jefferson holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Craig Vaughan
Managing Director, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence of Accenture
Craig Vaughan is the Managing Director, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at Accenture.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Eric Brown
Managing Director of Accenture
Eric Brown is a Manager Director at Accenture, responsible for the portfolio of Strategic Joint Initiatives. Eric manages teams across a broad variety of disciplines and geographies that are responsible for the strategic development of Solutions, Assets, and Go-To-Market activities which enable Accenture Industry and Cross Industry Offerings. Additionally, Eric also serves as the Global Lead and General Manager for the HP/ Accenture Joint Initiative. The primary goal of this team is to leverage HP products to grow Accenture’s services business, while increasing the market share of HP product globally. Eric has been with Accenture for 20+ years. He has a broad technology background with deep skills and experience in large scale transformation programs. Throughout his career, Eric served as a client facing Strategy and Delivery consultant in Financial Services, Products, and Resources industry groups.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jon Crawford
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
TJ Glazier
Principal Director of Accenture
TJ Glazier is a Senior Manager and Master Technology Architect in Big Data and Advanced Analytics. TJ has nearly 20 years’ experience designing, building and delivering large scale volume and high performance line of business and analytics applications using innovative software technologies for well-known Fortune companies. TJ holds a B.S. in Mathematics of Computation from UCLA, an M.S. in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University investigating automated tradeoff analysis in self-adaptive systems.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Shyam Kota
Director, Product Management of Arista Networks
Shyam Kota is the director of the product management team at Arista Networks.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Ramesh Rajagopalan
Executive Director of TTEC
Ramesh has over 18 years global experience leading and managing customer centric transformation initiatives aimed at improving customer experience, engagement and business performance across operations, sales and service functions. He is a leader in our AI/Bot practice, and advances thought leadership across business architecture, digital transformation, contact center optimization, customer experience strategy, and operational excellence. His experiences include Fortune 500 as well as small to medium size businesses in media & entertainment, healthcare, diversified industrial products, airline and retail.
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About TTEC: TTEC is one of the technology and services innovators that provides end-to-end, digital CX solutions.
Valentina Alaria
Director Product Management, Cloud Native Apps of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sumit Verdi
Director Product Strategy, Telco Cloud of VMware
Sumit is part of the VMware Telco NFV team leading Service Assurance strategy and architecture for telco providers; helping transition virtual network functions and solutions to modernized 5G-ready cloud platforms. He brings 15+ years of experience in telco solutions innovation. Prior, he spent 5+ years creating solutions for telco network intelligence and predictive analytics. At Vodafone he defined solutions, strategies, and architectures for handset, RAN, EPC, IMS, and Enterprise platforms.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tasha Drew
Director of Product Incubation of VMware
Tasha has been an innovative product leader in Silicon Valley for over a decade. She is Director of Product Incubation in the Office of the CTO’s Advanced Technology Group at VMware. She is co-chair of the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy and co-chair of the Kubernetes SIG Usability. Previously she launched VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere, and was a member of the team that launched Project Pacific, Tanzu for SDDC, and vSphere with Tanzu at VMware. Tasha has also held product roles at Chef, Rentlytics, Engine Yard and Lockheed Martin. She was a core maintainer of Chef Habitat. Tasha holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and an M.S. in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from RPI.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Guru Shashikumar
Director of Product Management of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jacob Rapp
Director & Lead Technologist, Networking and Security of VMware
Jacob Rapp is a director and lead technologist at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Krish Sivakumar
Senior Director of Product Management of VMware
Krish Sivakumar is a senior director of product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Hari Kannan
Director Product Management of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Kiran Rao
Senior Director of Product Management and Strategy of VMware
Kiran Rao is the VP Products and Strategy of Grainite.
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Shikha Mittal
Director, Product Management & Strategy of VMware
Shikha Mittal serves as director of product management and strategy at VMware.
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Pooja Patel
Director, Technical Product Management, NSX of VMware
Pooja Patel serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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Francis Chow
Sr. Director, Strategy, Planning & Operations, Chief of Staff, Storage & Availability Business Unit of VMware
Francis is the Sr. Director of Strategy, Planning and Operations of the Storage and Availability Business Unit (SABU) at VMware, responsible for GTM planning, business intelligence and business operations for SABU. He has been at VMware for 3 years. Previously he spent 20 years in the Semiconductor industry with leadership experience in engineering, marketing, sales and general management. He holds an MBA and an MSEE from UC Berkeley, and a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Nikhil Kelshikar
Sr. Director, NSX Product Management of VMware
Nikhil Kelshikar is a Sr. Director responsible for technical product management in VMware’s networking and security business unit. He has many years of experience in data center networking and virtualization space having worked on products such as VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus switching line. Prior to VMware, Nikhil was at Cisco Systems in the Data Center business unit. Nikhil has a MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida.
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Percy Wadia
Director Product Management of VMware
Percy Wadia serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Dhruv Jain
Sr. Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Dhruv Jain As the CEO and co-founder of OpsClarity, Dhruv Jain is passionate about transforming IT operations by bringing an intelligent approach to systems management and monitoring. Prior to founding OpsClarity, Dhruv ran Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Cisco Systems where he helped to drive technology and product strategy for the $7B+ Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud business. Dhruv holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton.
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Sheldon D’Paiva
Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Sheldon D’Paiva is a Director of Product Marketing at VMware where he is responsible for VMware Horizon. Previously, Sheldon has led product marketing and product management in the areas of virtualization, storage, and enterprise software. Sheldon is a regular speaker at industry events and conferences such as VMworld.
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Sachin Thakkar
Sr Director, R&D of VMware
Sachin Thakkar is the Sr Director of R&D who has helped design and build the vShield, NSX, HCX and Telco Cloud offerings over the last several years at VMware. Currently, Sachin’s role is focused on delivering a 5G cloud platform to provide secure pre-integrated 5G network services VMware clouds – public and private. Sachin has an intimate understanding of customer design best practices of VMware solutions and how they integrate into modern datacenter architectures.
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Tim Van Herck
Director of Technical Product Management of VMware
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Vamsi Gunturu
Sr. Director R&D of VMware
Vamsi Gunturu serves as a senior director of R&D at VMware.
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Rakesh Radhakrishnan Nair
Director, Product Management of VMware
Rakesh Radhakrishnan Nair has 15+ years of experience in product management, consulting and software development specializing in Software Defined Storage and Big Data. Rakesh currently focuses on product management of Virtual SAN. Rakesh was previously responsible for Big Data Analytics products at VMware and Pivotal. In the past, Rakesh has held various engineering leadership and product management positions at EMC and a series of storage startups in the Valley.
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Matt Dreyer
Director Product Management of VMware
Matt Dreyer serves as director product management at VMware.
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Michael Gandy
Director Marketing and Business Development of VMware
Michael Gandy serves as director of marketing and business development at VMware.
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Hemant Sahani
Director of Product Management of VMware
Hemant Sahani is a Director of Product Management at VMware, bringing over 15 years of expertise in enterprise mobility management, mobile apps/platforms, end-point data protection, software as a service and enterprise content management. Prior to joining VMware, Hemant held Product Management and Engineering roles at Good Technology, Iron Mountain Digital, and EMC Corp. Hemant holds an MBA from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree in Computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Madhup Gulati
Director of Product Management of VMware
Madhup Gulati serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Larry McDonough
Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering of VMware
Larry McDonough is the Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering at VMware.
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Salil Suri
Director, Product Management of VMware
Salil Suriserves as director of product management at VMware.
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Wendy Cartee
Senior Director, Cloud Networking Product Marketing of VMware
Wendy Cartee is VP of Product Management and Marketing at PLUMgrid, Inc., the leading innovator of secure cloud infrastructure for enterprises building private and public clouds. With over 15 years of product management and marketing experience at prior companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and HP Cloud, Wendy has defined solutions for data centers, WAN, Internet, and mobile infrastructure that generated billions in revenue. An avid technology and customer advocate, Wendy has 8 U.S. patents in networking technologies, all of which are deployed in some of the largest networks. Wendy is listed in the CCIE Hall of Fame as the first 100 CCIEs in the world. She has a BSEE from Cal Poly, MBA from Santa Clara University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program from the Graduate School of Business.
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Satish Katpally
Global Director of Product Management/Marketing Strategy of VMware
Satish is a technologist with an entrepreneurial soul. He is a patent holder with experience in the data-networking/telecom, data-center, Cloud/XaaS, IoT and clean-tech industries. He is interested in consulting, product strategy/marketing, business development, venture investing, private equity and M&A roles in hi-tech and clean-tech industries. Satish was a key contributor in R&D and product management at successful semiconductor startups, Sandburst ((acquired by Broadcom) and Maker Communications (acquired by Conexant/Mindspeed Technologies). Satish was also software architect at Juniper Networks developing broadband, data-center and cloud infrastructure products for service providers. He has a strong technical/engineering background in software, embedded computing and B2B product marketing. He is also experienced in data analytics and infrastructure for big-data analysis applied to marketing and strategic insights. He has experience as a strategy and marketing consultant working with Global Strategy teams in Fortune 100 firms such as Johnson Controls and Energy Conversion Devices. Satish also has investor experience at Frankel Commercialization Fund at the University of Michigan, evaluating and investing in startups. Satish’s clean-tech experience includes li-ion battery business models for consumer, stationary and automotive segments, electric vehicle market analysis for China and US at Johnson Controls and algal bio-fuel market analysis and business cases for startups. He also founded a research firm that focused on evaluating risk and opportunities in the water technologies and industry. Most recently, Satish was a Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco. He supported Cisco’s IoT (Internet of Things), SDN (Software Defined Networking) including the Enterprise switching, routing and mobility portfolio. Currently, he is a global director of product management/strategy/marketing at VMware focused on networking, security, SD-WAN, and containers for the cloud provider market segment. He holds B.E and M.S degrees in computer science and engineering, and an MBA with high distinction and a Zell Scholar award from the University of Michigan.
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Matthew Weiner
Director, Technology Partner Engagement Services of VMware
Matthew Weiner is an 8 year veteran at VMware and the leader of the Technology Alliance Partner program (TAP), the VMware PKS Solution Competency and the Master Services Competency – Cloud Native.
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Andrew Voltmer
Director of Product Management of VMware
Andrew Voltmer serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Terence Gleeson
Senior Director of VMware
Terence Gleeson recently joined CenturyLink’s Strategic Partnerships and Channel Operations Leadership Team as Vice President of Strategic Partner Alliances. An established sales leader, Terence brings more than 20 years of experience in various roles in sales and management supporting large business and government customers with advanced technology solutions. In his role, Terence and his organization work to deepen and expand the relationships with the industry-leading technology partners whose technology, software, and services support the CenturyLink solutions and platforms that we deliver to the marketplace. This includes working with CenturyLink’s partners and internal organizations to leverage and expand our reach into and across existing and new markets and channels. Terence joined CenturyLink in 2001 and served as a sales overlay for application development services. Most recently, he served as Director of Strategic Alliances for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). He lives in San Diego with his wife Candice.
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Alex Jauch
Director, Product Management of VMware
Alex Jauch serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Eric Nielsen
Sr Director, Social Media & Communities of VMware
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Cathal Cleary
Director, CPE Services Management of VMware
Cathal Cleary serves as director of service management at VMware.
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Ramkumar Venketaramani
Director of Product Management of VMware
Ramkumar Venketaramani is the Director of Product Management at VMware.
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Marcus Phipps
Director, Partner Go-to-Market and Sales Acceleration of VMware
Marcus Phipps serves as director of partner sales acceleration at VMware.
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Taruna Gandhi
Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Taruna Gandhi serves as director of product marketing at VMware.
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Ken Lee
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Automation of VMware
Ken Lee is a senior director of product marketing at VMware.
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Alain Debost
Director, Global Partner Development Funds of VMware
Alain Debost is the Director of World-Wide Development Funds at VMware. He is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in global IT companies in Finance, Marketing, Go-To-Market, Partner Sales roles to bring disruptive products and solutions, both hardware and software, and Programs to market.
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Ninad Desai
Director of Product Management, VMware Telco Cloud, 5G Infrastructure – Core and Edge/RAN of VMware
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Michael Haag
Director, Product Marketing – Cloud Software of VMware
Michael Haag serves as director of product marketing at VMware.
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Sesh Sayani
Product Management Director of VMware
Sesh Sayani serves as product management director at VMware.
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Prab Kalra
Director of Product Management, VMware Cloud on AWS of VMware
Prab Kalra serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Simone Morellato
Director, Technical Product Management of VMware
Simone Morellato serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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Jeff McGrath
Senior Director Product Marketing of VMware
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Mark Schweighardt
Director of VMware
Mark Schweighardt works on the NSX Service Mesh product team, and works with enterprise customers on their service mesh related use cases and requirements.
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Henry Robinson
Sr. Director, Product Management of VMware
Henry Robinson serves as senior director of product management at VMware.
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Shanky Chandra
Product Management Director of VMware
Shanky Chandra is a product management director at VMware.
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Bryan Hope
Director of Customer Intelligence of VMware
Bryan Hope is the Director of Customer Intelligence at VMware. As a momentum-building leader focused on transformational programs in the software and high-tech industries, Bryan encourages and enables others to tackle tough challenges thought to be impossible, while providing a platform for emerging leaders to rise up and shine. Fostering innovation and disruption, Bryan leverages technology to accelerate achievement of business and social outcomes. Every day Bryan seeks to incubate and work with like-minded champions to increase equality for all at VMware and beyond.
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Narayan Bharadwaj
Senior Director of Product Management of VMware
Narayan Bharadwaj serves as a senior director of product management at VMware.
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Jason Wik
Director SRE SDDCaaS of VMware
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Amber Schmidt
Diversity and Inclusion Program Director of VMware
Amber brings a unique background and strong passion for driving inclusive workplaces. Her experience includes gender and diversity, organizational strategy and change, communications and program management. Prior to VMware, she worked at Deloitte, doing human capital consulting and operations, and at Catalyst, a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in business. Ms. Schmidt holds a M.Sc. in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Gender Politics from Yale University.
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Kendra DeCoste
Director, Global Partner Marketing of VMware
Kendra DeCoste serves as director of global partner marketing at VMware.
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Steve DeJarnett
Director of Solution Architecture – Analytics of VMware
Steve DeJarnett serves as director of solution architecture at VMware.
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