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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 Mobile 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.
Nikesh Arora
Member of the Board of Directors of Sprint
Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002. Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate-Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.
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About LightCyber: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Kotesh Mukkamala
Director of Data and Platforms of Samsung Electronics
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About Kissaan, Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Max Min
Director, Foundry Package and SI/PI Architect of Samsung Electronics
Max Min is a Director from Samsung Foundry in San Jose. He is working on Package and Signal and Power Integrity for 10 years. He was with R&D and Sales and is now with Foundry Marketing. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2004.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sarah Peach
Senior Director, Product Management of Samsung Electronics
Prior to joining Samsung, Sarah Peach was Senior Director at Siemens Technology-to-Business in Berkeley, CA. At Siemens Sarah was responsible for turning early-stage innovations from start-ups into viable business opportunities for Siemens’ industrial business units. Her focus included all aspects of industrial product design and manufacturing, factory automation and control, and industrial services. Sarah has worked at the Office of the President, University of California system, and directed business development at two startups. She started her career in Germany at BASF. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University (UK) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, both in physics.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jun Alex Gao
Sr. Director, Head of Digital Health Lab, Samsung Research America of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Siva Boggala
Senior Director, Software Engineering (AR/VR and AI Platforms) of Samsung Electronics
Siva Boggala is a Senior Director for AR/VR software in Samsung Research America. He has 20+ years of experience in mobile technologies. Currently Siva is leading teams in 3D Avatar (AR Emoji), face and body tracking technologies, stereoscopic rendering, 6-DoF/3-DoF head, controller and hand tracking technologies. He led teams across full stack of mobile technologies from boot loaders to UX/UI applications for Samsung’s Android phones/tablets/watches, Windows Mobile phones, Symbian and feature phones. During his 16+ years in Samsung, Siva was involved in the development of 3D Graphics, System Software, Multimedia Technologies, IP Multimedia Subsystem (SIP/SDP/RTP/RTCP/GSMA) and modem protocol stacks. Siva holds a Masters in Computer Science from Andhra University and Bachelors in EE from Osmania University.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Christopher Buchanan
Director, Business Development of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Farshid Fallah
Director of Developer Relations, XR and Gaming of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Pierre Couteau
Senior Director Business Development of Samsung Electronics
Pierre Couteau, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Samsung Electronics America. Pierre Couteau is responsible for Samsung Mobile B2B strategic alliances. He focuses on bringing to market innovative solutions based on Samsung portfolio of smartphones, tablets, and wearables integrated with products and services from partners. His key focus has been on Public Safety solutions recently. He is a seasoned business development and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in high tech companies such as Samsung, Philips, NXP, and 2 start-ups. Over the last 15 years he has focused on the mobile industry, taking to market innovations such as Wireless connectivity, a mobile framework for smartphone applications, and a mobile application for note-taking and collaboration. His specialties are in B2B business development and marketing in the mobile industry. He has generated multi million dollars businesses by partnering with leading carriers, OEMs, and software companies.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Niklas Lyback
Director, Developer Success of Samsung Electronics
Niklas Lyback heads the Developer Success team and manages complementary developer services within the Samsung Developer Program, which are intended to make developers successful. For example, promotion requests and Galaxy Badges services help developers to be featured in the store with banners and outside the store, developers can provide a simple one-click solution for their loyal customers to be sent to the Galaxy Apps or Theme store, as well as can save money and improve their productivity by remote testing their Android APKs with the Cloud Device Farm.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Marvin Storey
Director – Customer Experience and Developer Ecosystem; Multiscreen Services of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Nikao Yang
Director, Global Business Solutions of TikTok
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About Opera Mediaworks, TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
Greg Kruczek
Director of New Ventures and Corporate Strategy of Asurion
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About Asurion: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Spencer Rosen
Director of Global Business Development of Zendrive
Spencer Rosen helps executive teams make decisions about strategic partnerships and investments to drive exponential revenue growth and enhance product market fit. Over the past two years he has supported the launch and dramatic growth of Verizon Telematics’ connected car consumer aftermarket product, Hum — which now counts more U.S. subscribers, miles traveled, and driver behavior data points than all competitors combined. Rosen has thrived as an automotive/mobility industry specialist with Verizon for the past 8 years by applying his prior experience and ongoing passion for helping tech startups grow. He loves working with top talent from across the auto-tech ecosystem, from start-ups to multinationals, to solve hard problems while bridging the adoption of technology for safer driving today to driverless vehicles in the future. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their six year old son.
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About Verizon Telematics, Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Marissa Bowman
Senior Director, Customer Success of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Jay Harris
Director of Product Management of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Ryan Bell
Marketing Director at Comcast SportsTech of Boomtown Accelerators
Ryan A Bell is recipient of the Presidential Award for his volunteer work with Special Olympics and the youth in Oakland. He is a writer for The Good Men Project and a branding/marketing specialist for companies of all sizes. He also happens to be the most connected man on Periscope.
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Romain Serman
Executive Director Bpifrance USA of Bpifrance
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About Bpifrance: Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity.
Christian Jensen
Director, Developer Experience of Sinch
Christian Jensen works as the Director of Developer Experience at Sinch.
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About Sinch: Sinch is a cloud communications company that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal engagement.
Jordan Maron
Co-Founder, Creative Director of XREAL, Inc.
Jordan Maron, known to many by the alias “CaptainSparklez”, has been producing web video content for the last six years. His work, most of which is focused on gaming, has amassed over 2.5 billion views. He served as the creative directory for the mobile game Fortress Fury, which has amassed over 2 million downloads.
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About XREAL, Inc.: Building the Future of Competitive Mobile Gaming
Brian Bedrosian
Director of Marketing of Broadcom
Brian Bedrosian has over 20 years experience in digital communications and wireless technologies including mobile satellite, terrestrial microwave radio, DSL, and 802.11x. As Director of Marketing for Broadcom’s Wireless LAN business unit, Brian Bedrosian is responsible for its emerging deeply embedded Wi-Fi business that spans several segments, including health care, smart power and industrial. In this capacity he has been responsible for strategy, market development, and staffing and led an important acquisition supporting his line of business. Prior to this role, he was responsible for leading Broadcom’s Wi-Fi product development for PC, broadband and gaming and was instrumental in driving the company to its current position as a market share leader. Prior to joining Broadcom, Brian Bedrosian was Director of Applications and New Product Introduction at Virata (which was acquired by Globespan/Conexant) where he was involved in DSL convergence products for both consumer and business products. He also held several development and marketing management positions at Applied Signal Technology during his career. He has co-authored several papers on digital receivers and spectrum management tools, and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Christopher Abel
Director of SerDes Analog Design, Data Controller Division of Broadcom
Director of Engineering at Broadcom.
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About : Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Cathy Liu
Director of Broadcom
Cathy Ye Liu, the R&D director, currently heads up Broadcom SerDes architecture and modeling group. Previously she worked as R&D director and distinguished engineer in Avago/LSI which acquired Broadcom in 2016. Since 2002, she has been working on high speed transceiver solutions. Previously she has developed read channel and mobile digital TV receiver solutions. Her technical interests are signal processing, FEC, and modeling in high-speed optical and electrical transceiver solutions. She has published many journal and conference papers and holds 20+ US patents. Cathy has demonstrated her leadership roles in industry standard bodies and forums. Currently she serves as a member of the board director of Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the co-chair of the DesignCon technical track of high speed signal processing, equalization and coding. She received her B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1995 and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Hawaii in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
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About Broadcom, Broadcom, Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Haitao Xia
Director of Data Storage System Architecture of Broadcom
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About Broadcom, Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Alex Grigoryan
Director of Engineering of Walmart Labs
Alex Grigoryan is the director of engineering of WalmartLabs. Alex builds application platform at WalmartLabs. He focuses on customer experience, fan of python, Node.js, and react.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
James Zhang
Sr. Director of Marketing of Walmart Labs
James Zhang is Sr. Director of Marketing at Walmart Media Group. He was previously Head of Rakuten Interactive, a Rakuten USA executive, and a member of Rakuten’s CEO Office. He was China CEO and Global Head of R&D at London-based Powa Technologies, once Europe’s largest startup by capitalization. James’s career spans 9 countries as a country manager and consultant for Samsung Electronics and KPMG. James is a mentor for Techstars, Plug & Play Tech Accelerator, and a Judge for the MIT 100K.
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About Blue Tornado, Red Jasper Worldwide, Splunk, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Or Zelig
Director of Product Management of Walmart Labs
Or is an experienced product manager and a serial entrepreneur. Or’s greatest passion is technology, and his mind is constantly brimming with new ideas. After his graduation from the IDF, where he lead the development of the next-generation of military data security devices, Or worked as a consultant and later as an entrepreneur; SlickLogin was his second venture in the field of cyber security that was acquired by Google. Today he a lead at Google Accelerators program.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Gerald Bothello
Director Of Cloud of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Brendan Wright
Director – International mobile products of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
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.
Ryan Stevens
Director of Product of Mayvenn
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About Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
Sinan Akkaya
Director of RAN Engineering of AT&T
Sinan Akkaya is a technology leader specialized in Telecommunications and Wireless Industry. He has +15 years of engineering and management experience at various levels in the global telecom space with significant practice on operations and strategic issues. He is an expert in wireless network operations, capital investment and operational budget planning as well as organizational transformation. He is currently living in the Bay Area. He has a MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering. Sinan is presently the Director of RAN Engineering in AT&T.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Geoffrey Yang
Board Of Directors of AT&T
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About : AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Ruben Quinonez
Associate Director, Advanced Analytics of AT&T
Ruben Quinonez is the Associate Director, Advanced Analytics at AT&T
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About AT&T, Claremont Graduate University: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Molly Mason Boulé
Development Director of Electronic Arts
Molly is currently the Vice-President of Content Production for Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios. Her team is located in five countries around the world touching EA’s product portfolio in the areas of CG / Animation, Sound, Motion Capture, Applied Research as well as Tools and Pipeline Engineering. Molly is also the current GM of EA Shanghai. Molly has been leading teams of Artists, Producers, Software Engineers, Designers and Management staff for the past 20 years in a variety of Entertainment Organizations. Her experience also includes evaluating and engaging companies for production and strategic partnership in China, India, Europe and South America. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Molly was a Broadcast, Live Action, Visual Effects and Animation Producer for Film, Television, Web and Print at companies such as DreamWorks Animation, Radium Inc. and for the global advertising and marketing firm Grey NY. Molly was born and raised in California and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. Molly holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from USC.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Evan Denbaum
Sr. Director & Competitive Gaming Commissioner of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
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.
Kieran Campbell
Managing Director of Wilbur Labs
Managing Director at Wilbur Labs
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About Wilbur Labs: Wilbur Labs is a startup studio that builds companies and helps teams to accelerate their growth.
John Lagerling
Director and CBO of Mercari
John Lagerling is the Director, Android Global Partnerships at Google.
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About Mercari: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Kiran Lokeswarappa
Director of Machine Learning & Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Rainer Leeb
Senior Director, Growth of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Alexei Ilinykh
Director Product & Engineering of VentureBeat
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About Condorly, VentureBeat: VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Mary Cranston
Director/ Chair of the Audit Committee of Visa
Mary B. Cranston is a Retired Senior Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, an international law firm. She was the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Pillsbury from January 1999 until April 2006, and continued to serve as Chair of the firm until December 2006. She was Firm Senior Partner until January 2012. Mary Cranston also serves as a director of the Chemours Company. She previously served as a member of the boards of Juniper Networks, Inc. until May 2015, International Rectifier Corporation until January 2015 and of Exponent, Inc. and GrafTech International, Inc., until May 2014. Ms. Cranston holds an A.B. degree in Political Science from Stanford University, a Juris Doctor degree
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About Broadway Angels, MyoKardia, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Abhishek Guglani
Director of Product Management of Visa
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About Product School, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Tia Ilori
Senior Director – Global Fraud and Breach Investigations of Visa
Tia Ilori leads Global Fraud and Breach Investigations at Visa and has served in various roles across Visa over the last 20 years. During this time, she has helped protect the safety, soundness and integrity of Visa’s operating environment and the broader payments ecosystem. In partnership with financial institutions, merchants, service providers, law enforcement and other key industry stakeholders, Ilori works to anticipate risks, investigate cybercrime and prevent fraud. Additionally, Ilori participates in a number of cyber-investigation associations and speaks frequently before industry and trade groups to promote sound cyber-security practices.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Gavin Shenker
Senior Director of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Eric S. Quon-Lee
Director, Visa Performance Solutions of Visa
Eric Quon-Lee is a founding director of Leaders For Non Profits (VolunteerPath). Eric has worked for some of Canada’s leading companies in a variety of accounting and consulting roles. Eric is currently at Detecon Inc., focusing on strategy and innovation where he acts as an intermediary between startups engaged in disruptive change and corporations trying to navigate these changes.
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About StepOne Ventures, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Brian Kuwahara
Senior Director, Visa Ventures (Corporate Venture Capital) of Visa
Brian Kuwahara has over twenty years of experience in the Financial Services industry. Brian is responsible for evaluating startup companies and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for Visa to invest and/or form strategic partnerships. Visa Ventures focus areas include, ID&V, authentication, biometrics, fraud detection, risk scoring, device fingerprinting and geolocation solutions that provide or support the authentication and security of financial transactions. Prior to his current role, Brian led Visa’s Technology Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture teams. Before joining Visa, Brian was a Partner at Accenture, specializing in Technology Strategy and IT Transformation Consulting for Financial Services clients.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Shane McLaughlin
Director, Content Strategy and Lead Writer of Visa
Shane is currently Global Director, Innovation, Product & Solutions Comms at Visa. Previously, he lead content and social strategy for interactive platform connecting 1.3M associates in 4,000 Walmart Stores.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Jessica Williams
Senior Director Global Brand Innovation Marketing of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Glen Jones
Director of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Tam Hulusi
Member of Board Director of UniKey Technologies
Tam Hulusi is a principal of Mycroft LLC, a technology strategy and innovation consulting group. Tam most recently served as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation at HID Global. He previously served as President of SMF Systems Technology Corp., a leading small-business Federal Government IT services provider and President of Newmark Technology Inc., an early stage RFID asset tracking company. Tam is an inventor with nine patents. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Polymer Science, University of Essex, and M.Sc. in Quantum Mechanics from the University of Sussex. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s International Senior Management Program.
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About : UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key.
Trina Cooley
Director of Talent and Growth, HR of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Julia Konstantinovsky
Director, Client Strategy of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Maggie Philbin
Associate Director of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Gwyn Stahlhut
Director of Operations and Finance of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Gwyn Stahlhut
Director of Operations and Finance of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Charles Prober
CEO, Board of Directors of Tile
Charles “CJ” Prober is CEO of Tile. He is an entrepreneurial leader who has a broad mix of operational, strategic and transactional experience with a strong track record of success over the past 20 years. I have a passion for building and operating consumer experiences that are at the cutting edge of hardware, media and technology.
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About Tile: Tile creates devices connected to a mobile app, helping users locate their personal items.
Alex Milligan
Co-founder & Marketing Director of Nugg
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About Nugg: Nugg allows mmj patients to find and order cannabis-based products from nearby collectives that deliver or offer pickup.
Bubba Murarka
Director of Twin Prime
Bubba Murarka is a partner at DFJ, where his current responsibilities include leading early stage investments in consumer internet and mobile technology companies. Bubba currently serves on the boards of Circle CI, Highlight, Kiwi, and Twin Prime. Prior to joining DFJ, Bubba led product development for Facebook for Android and started the Facebook Home project. At Facebook, Bubba also led business development deals with key strategic partners including Microsoft, Netflix,Yahoo, Dentsu and Terra Networks. Previously, Bubba spent seven years in technical and product roles at Microsoft, where he acted as group program manager for Bing’s Bay Area development team, delivering components of Windows, MSN Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and early versions of Bing Social. He started his career at Microsoft in Seattle as part of the original threedegrees team focused on social products. Bubba holds BS and MS in computer science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he served as the sole student member of the California State University Board of Trustees, and he continues to focus philanthropic efforts on increasing access to education.
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About : Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
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
Andrew Swerdlow
Director of Engineering of Instagram
Director of software engineering @ Google
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Susan Buckner Rose
Director, Head of Business and Creator Product Marketing of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Corey Lewis
Regional Sales Director – West of Beekeeper
Corey Lewis is the Regional Sales Director – West at Beekeper.
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About Beekeeper: Beekeeper is a workplace app that connects the non-desk workforce to operational systems and communication channels.
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.
Alex Kuzmin
Quality Director of Clover
Alex recently joined Clover from Zynga where he ran mobile QA. Alex came to Zynga through the acquisition of his company HipLogic. Prior to HipLogic Alex spent eight years at Sun working on several of the original Java releases. Alex did doctoral work at the St. Petersburg State University in Computer Science and Math.
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About Clover: Clover is a cloud-based open business operating system, powered by Android-based devices.
Arik Crissi
Director of Operations of Elefund
Arik Crissi carries the entrepreneurial spirit and conceptually draws out the values and embedded principles of sustainability in business; from economics to social and environmental traits. Arik takes a hand on approach to analysis by literally dissecting gizmos and business models seeking fundamental principles and competitive advantages of innovative technologies and approaches.
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About Elefund: Elefund is a thesis-driven, micro venture capital focused on investments in early-stage technology companies.
Darnell Holloway
Senior Enterprise Account Director of Yelp
Darnell Holloway is Director of Local Business Outreach at Yelp.
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About Yelp, Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Karthik Raghunathan
Director of Research of MindMeld
Karthik Raghunathan is the Director of Machine Learning for Webex Intelligence, which is the team responsible for building machine learning-driven intelligent experiences across all of Cisco’s collaboration products. Karthik used to be the Director of Research at MindMeld, a leading AI company that powered conversational interfaces for some of the world’s largest retailers, media companies, government agencies, and automotive manufacturers. MindMeld was acquired by Cisco in May 2017. Karthik has more than 10 years of combined experience working at reputed academic and industry research labs on the problems of speech, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Prior to joining MindMeld, he was a Senior Scientist in the Microsoft AI & Research Group, where he worked on conversational interfaces such as the Cortana digital assistant and voice search on Bing and Xbox. Karthik holds an MS in Computer Science with Distinction in Research in Natural Language Processing from Stanford University. He was co-advised by professors Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, and his graduate research focused on the problems of Coreference Resolution, Spoken Dialogue Systems, and Statistical Machine Translation. Karthik is a co-inventor on two US patents and has publications in leading AI conferences such as EMNLP, SIGIR, and AAAI.
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About Cisco, MindMeld: MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces.
Angel Hernández
International Business Director of Fetch Robotics
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About Fetch Robotics: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
David Dymesich
Creative / Design Director of Fetch Robotics
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About Fetch Robotics: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
Russell Toris
Director of Robotics of Fetch Robotics
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About Fetch Robotics: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
Yaniv Kopelman
Networking CTO, Sr. Director of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Jamie Fiore
Sr. Director, Marketing of Match Group
Jamie Fiore is the Sr. Director of Marketing at Match.com.
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Ramanand Reddi
Senior Director of Product Management of Match Group
Ramanand Reddi is the Senior Director of Product Management at Match.com.
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Chris Hughes
President of Enhance, Director of MobileFuse
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About Enhance, FGL.com, MobileFuse: MobileFuse is a mobile-first ad network offering advanced targeting and ad serving solutions to marketers.
Craig Klemp
Senior Director of Global Partnerships of Evernote
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About Evernote, EZ Texting: Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Gabriel Ionita
Director, Group Partnering and Business Development, US of Deutsche Telekom
Director, Group Partnering and Business Development at Deutsche Telekom Inc.
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About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company that offers a range of fixed-network services.
Aaina Sharma
Creative Director of HelloSign
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About HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Aaina Sharma
Creative Director of HelloSign
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About HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Vanessa Chang
Director, Performance Marketing of Earnin
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Cassie Phillipps
Director of Story, Episode of Pocket Gems
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About Failcon, Pocket Gems: Pocket Gems’ mission is to be one of the world’s great creators of innovative interactive entertainment on mobile.
Shintaro Asako
Executive Officer, CFO, Strategic Investment Director Commerce and Incubation Business Division of DeNA
Shintaro Asako is the CEO of the West Region business unit at DeNA, a global leader in developing and publishing mobile games. He leads the company’s operations and corporate strategy in North America, Europe and the rest of the West. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, DeNA has offices and studios in 12 cities across eight countries with over 2,000 employees and has delivered nearly a dozen titles that hit the top 30 grossing charts on US App Store and US Google Play. In addition to launching hits such as Blood Brothers and Rage of Bahamut, DeNA currently develops and publishes mobile games for popular entertainment franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers and Final Fantasy. DeNA reported revenue of 1.8 billion dollars and operating profit of 524 million dollars in the fiscal year ending March 2014. Shintaro joined DeNA West in 2011 serving as Chief Financial Officer before moving to the role of CEO in 2013. Previously, Shintaro was Chief Financial Officer at MediciNova, Inc. from 2005 to 2011. Prior to MediciNova, Shintaro worked at KPMG LLP and Arthur Anderson LLP.
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About DeNA: DeNA is a platform providing social games, e-commerce, and other web services for PCs and mobile devices.
Ron Barasch
Sr. Director, Product and Brand Marketing of Yodlee
Ron Barasch is the senior director of product and brand marketing at [Yodlee](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yodlee#/entity), a provider of financial applications which offer solutions for banks, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Prior to that, he was a brand strategy consultant at Crawford Communications. Barasch holds an associate degree in social and behavioral sciences from Saddleback College. He has also studied sociology and psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Barasch lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.
Michael Sherrill
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Machine Zone
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
David McLaughlin
Director, Global Developer Ecosystem, Developer Relations of Google Launchpad Accelerator
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About Google Launchpad Accelerator: Launchpad Accelerator helps startups from around the world in developing the world’s greatest apps.
Matt Vlasach
Director of Product of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Brian Kealer
Sr. Director, Ad Monetization & Product of Glu Mobile
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About Glu Mobile: Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.
Doug Hickey
Member of the Board of Directors of Hightail
Doug is a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Doug has more than 20 years of operational experience holding senior-level positions in the telecom, Internet and technology space. Most recently Doug was CEO of Critical Path. Prior to Critical Path, Doug was President and CEO of Global Center. Global Center became one of the first and largest providers of advanced web hosting. After selling Global Center to Frontier Communications in 1998, Doug was named President of Frontier Global Center and Executive Vice President of Frontier Communications Corporation. Doug also held the position of president and CEO of MFS Datanet, the Internet and data arm of MFS communications. MFS Datanet grew to more than $200 million in revenues and became widely recognized as the leading bandwidth and connectivity provider to more than 3000 ISPs and leading corporations worldwide. Doug was a key member of the team that negotiated the purchase of UUNET, positioning MFS as the world leader in Internet data traffic. Prior to this, Doug held several other senior-level management positions including general manager of North America at Ardis, a Motorola company. Doug received a B.S. in economics from Siena College. Currently Doug sits on the Boards of Move Networks, Martin Dawes Systems, Yosemite Technologies, Scalent Systems, InMage Systems, SignalDemand, Success Metrics, CITTIO, and Communicado. Doug founded the Douglas T. Hickey Chair in Business at Siena College and serves on Siena’s board of directors.
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About : Hightail is a cloud service that lets users send, receive, digitally sign, and synchronize files.
Mari Baker
Member of the Board of Directors of John Wiley & Sons
Mari Baker is the Director of Blue Shield of California.
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About Blue Shield of California, Young Presidents Organization (YPO): John Wiley & Sons is a provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions.
Hakan Kostepen
Executive Director – Product Planning Strategy & Innovation of Panasonic
Hakan Kostepen is an “Executive” Director at Panasonic Silicon Valley Center in Cupertino, CA and responsible for Product Planning Strategy & Innovation for Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America. Panasonic Automotive “Global” Product Planning Strategy & Innovation group leads Panasonic Connected LifeStyle Strategy & Innovation Concepts around Panasonic B2B2C touch points with emerging concepts such as Internet of Things – Connected Car. Kostepen has broad Systems & Software Engineering and Advanced Product Development experience with Panasonic, Ford Motor Company, Visteon, EDS, and US Air Force along with various Automotive “Real Time” Embedded Systems Applications and Advanced Automotive Infotainment Systems & Software Development for connected devices.
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About Panasonic: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Michael Raftery
Senior Director of Manufacturing and Quality of Breathometer
Mike has over 20 years’ experience in engineering and management. His roles have spanned a variety of areas including engineering, quality, operations, product development, and customer support.
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About Breathometer: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Mikael Hed
Board of Directors of Rovio Entertainment
Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.
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About Evli Growth Partners, Kaiken Entertainment Ltd., Rovio Entertainment: Rovio Entertainment is an entertainment media company that develops, publishes, and distributes video games.
Michael Elhadad
R&D Director and Co-Founder of Dalet
Michael Elhadad works as R and D Director and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Luke D’Angelo
Chair Of The Board Of Directors/ Executive Director of AppTech Corp.
Mr. D’Angelo has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking, real estate, venture capital, and capital markets. In 2006, he founded a merchant services company, Transcendent One, Inc. which became an Inc. 500 fastest growing company, ranked at #105. The company was the first “Merchant Owned” company in the United States, offering ownership in the company for customers based on their monthly credit card processing volumes. In 2009, he founded TransTech One, a subsidiary to Transcendent One that had a focus on the bill payment and technology industries. With TransTech One, significant business relationships with utilities, including Sempra Energy were formed. In 2013, AppTech Corp. acquired Transcendent One and TransTech One. Where he currently resides as Chairman of the Board, Executive Director, and Chief Investment Officer.
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About AppTech Corp.: AppTech is a fintech company utilizing innovative payment processing and digital banking technologies to complement core merchant services.
Shankar Narayan
Sr. Director of Product Management of Western Union
Shankar Narayan is a sr. director of product management at Western Union.
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About Western Union: Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world.
Francisco Almendares
Director of Customer Success of Events.com
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About Events.com: Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.
Steve Mazza
Director of US Sales of Events.com
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About Events.com: Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.
Ian Kennedy
Director of Media-Technology Partnerships of SmartNews
Director, Media-Technology Partnerships
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About SmartNews: SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.
Stephane Denerolle
Director of Product of Fieldwire
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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.
