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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 SaaS 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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Dave Johnson
Director of Engineering, PhoneGap of Adobe
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John Warnock
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe
Since John Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke, the two have worked closely together to develop a stream of pioneering software products that have established Adobe as a leader and innovator in digital experiences across every screen. For nearly three decades, Warnock’s vision and passion have been integral to Adobe’s success, building the company from a small start-up to one of the largest, most recognized software brands in the world. He was president of Adobe for the company’s first two years and CEO for the next 16 years. Warnock retired as CEO in 2000 and as the company’s CTO in 2001. Today, he is co-chairman of the board with Geschke, continuing to shape direction for the company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue. Before co-founding Adobe, Warnock was a principal scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to joining Xerox, he held key positions at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM and the University of Utah. Among many awards, Warnock, along with Geschke, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation’s highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors. Warnock holds a doctorate in electrical engineering (computer science), a master’s degree in mathematics and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He was also awarded an honorary degree in science from the University of Utah.
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About : Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Rob Burgess
Member of the Board of Directors of Adobe
Burgess has served since 2005 as an independent investor and board member to technology companies. He was chief executive officer from 1996 to 2005 of Macromedia, Inc., a provider of internet and multimedia software, which was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.; he also served from 1996 to 2005 on its board of directors and was executive chairman for his final year. Previously, he held key executive positions from 1991 to 1995 at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a graphics and computing company; and, prior to its acquisition by SGI, was chief executive officer and a board member of Alias Research, Inc., a publicly traded 3D software company. Burgess serves on the board of Adobe Systems Inc., IMRIS, Inc. and several privately-held companies.He holds a BCom degree from McMaster University. He joined the NVIDIA board in 2011.
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About : Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Charles Geschke
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Adobe
Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock, driving technology innovations that forever transformed how people create and consume content across every screen. A respected and inspiring industry leader, Geschke was instrumental in developing some of the software industry’s most pioneering technologies. Through his vision and passion, Geschke helped build Adobe from a start-up into one of the world’s largest software companies. Today, he and Warnock are co-chairmen of Adobe’s board of directors and continue to shape direction for the company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue. Geschke has served as chairman of the board with Warnock since September 1997. He was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 until July 1994 and president from April 1989 until his retirement in April 2000. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and was a principal scientist and researcher at Xerox PARC’s Computer Sciences Laboratory. Among many awards, Geschke, along with Warnock, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation’s highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors. Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a master’s degree in mathematics and an A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University.
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Seth Berman
Senior Director, Performance Marketing of Adobe
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Divya Jain
Director, Adobe Sensei of Adobe
Divya Jain is the Director, Adobe Sensei Platform at Adobe.
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Matthew Purdon
Sr. Product Director, Creative Cloud for Enterprise & SMB of Adobe
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Sridhar Mahadevan
Director of Adobe
Sridhar Mahadevan is currently Director of Data Science at Adobe Research in San Jose, and holds faculty appointments at Stanford Univeristy (visiting professor in the School of Engineering) and a Full Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), in recognition of his distinguished contributions to machine learning. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in AI and machine learning over a 30 year career. His most recent paper on Imagination Machines received the Blue Sky Best Paper Award at the AAAI Conference in New Orleans in February 2018. He has lectured widely on AI and machine learning in over three dozen countries and many leading industrial research laboratories, including Google Brain and Deep Mind, IBM Watson Research (Almaden Labs and Yorktown Heights), and Microsoft Research (Cambridge, Boston, and New York).
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Ali Bohra
Director, Strategy & Product Marketing of Adobe
Ali Bohrai is the Director, Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe.
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Markus Spiering
Director Product of Adobe
At Adobe Markus is building beautiful and engaging products to help millions of people becoming better creators with Adobe’s Creative Cloud products. Prior to Adobe, Markus was the Vice President of Product and Design at Udacity and did oversee the online university’s student experience together with the product management, product design, data, service, community and operational teams in his business unit. In this capacity he lead a 100+ people organization, impacting all global students and is directly responsible for their success. Prior to his role at Udacity, Markus worked as the Chief Product Officer of EyeEm, a global community and marketplace for photography. Under his leadership the company transformed from a Berlin-based startup to a company with a world-class product and design and achieved global footprint. Before EyeEm, Markus lead Flickr as the Head of Product and managed the global product direction and product management team of Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service since 2011. As the head of product, Markus led the biggest redesign of Flickr in years, including significant updates for its iPhone and Android apps and one terabyte of free space to all Flickr users. Under his leadership, Flickr has reached about 100 million unique users and daily photo uploads have increased up to 7x across the company’s desktop and mobile experiences. Markus has published several books and articles about mobile development, HTML5 and photo-sharing. In late 2013 Markus was named as one of Silicon Valley’s top 40 under 40 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Prior to 2010 Markus worked in senior product management roles driving several mobile-focussed areas at Yahoo! since 2006. Markus joined Yahoo! after co-founding a Berlin, Germany based start-up focussing on mobile app distribution and development.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Tom Cignarella
Director of Security Coordination Center of Adobe
Tom Cignarella is the Director of Security Coordination Center for Adobe. In this position, he is responsible for security monitoring, incident response and threat intelligence for all Adobe products and services, as well as the Adobe enterprise. Tom sets the strategy and builds out the framework for day-to-day operations for how teams monitor environments, investigate incidents, and communicate with internal stakeholders and customers. He was formerly the Director of Product Operations for Adobe’s CloudOps group and technical operations for Adobe eSign (now part of Adobe Document Cloud). Tom brings more than 20 years of technology experience to this role. Prior to joining Adobe, Tom held Technical Operations leadership positions at Limelight Networks, Clickability, Symantec, BEA, Autodesk, Ariba and Excite.
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Kendall Plant
Associate Creative Director – Engagement Design of Adobe
Kendall Plant is an art director and designer on the Adobe Studio team, where she creates inspirational and innovative learning experiences. Outside of work, she enjoys combining her love of photography with her passion for the outdoors and traveling.
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Erica Larson
Associate Creative Director of Adobe
Erica Larson is a graphic artist, designer, and art director on Adobe Studio. Since joining Adobe she has discovered a fondness for illustration, volunteering, and teaching. She’s happiest when making work at the intersection of all three.
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Tom Nguyen
Director of Product, Adobe Spark of Adobe
Tom Nguyen is Principal Product Manager and product lead for Adobe Voice, an award-winning storytelling app that lets anyone create engaging explainer videos in minutes. Its mission is to democratize storytelling, to help people make an impact by sharing stories that matter. Previously at Adobe, he managed gaming and video technology used by over 1 billion people, powering experiences from Angry Birds to Unreal Engine to the Olympics. Before Adobe, Tom managed new products at the Reuters Innovation Studio, teaching design thinking and launching the first user generated photography service for the world’s largest news agency. He was also selected as Primetime Emmy Award finalist for his work in interactive media. Tom holds MBA, M.A. in Education, and B.S. in Computer Science degrees from Stanford University.
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Jill Steinhour
Global Director, High Tech and B2B Industry Strategy & Marketing, Digital Strategy & Solutions of Adobe
Jill joined Adobe Systems in June 2011 as Director of High-Tech and B2B Strategy. In this capacity, she defines the marketing and go-to-market strategy and delivers sales enablement, demand generation and content/social marketing for the High-Tech industry and B2B. Jill leads strategic engagements with Adobe’s top tier clients in support of their efforts to develop and transform their digital strategies and is a contributor to Adobe thought leadership forums and frequent speaker at digital marketing conferences and High-Tech & B2B events. Prior to joining Adobe Systems, Jill held leadership positions at HP, Agilent and IBM. She has expertise in market research & sizing, customer insights & predictive model development and business performance management strategies for consumer & commercial markets. During her tenure at HP, Jill directed efforts to integrate & extract intelligence from large and diverse data stores to deliver HP’s first comprehensive data repositories that supported the development of addressable market & consumer predictive models.
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Colin Morris
Director, Product Management, Adobe Analytics Mobile of Adobe
Colin Morris is the director of product management for Adobe Analytics Mobile. Morris is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and solutions within Adobe’s app measurement space. He’s focused on helping customers surface critical insights for driving business outcomes, better user experiences, and cross-channel customer intelligence. Colin has spent the last 7-plus years in the mobile space, building and managing apps, analytics tools, and ad networks, at Flurry (now Yahoo) and Goodshop. Prior to his mobile experience Colin led product, content, and business development efforts across various startups in the ad tech, social networking and online media space.
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Lidia Lukianova
Senior Art Director & Adobe Studio of Adobe
Lidia Lukianova is the Senior Art Director & Adobe Studio at Adobe.
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Michael Klein
Global Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing- Retail, Travel & Consumer Goods of Adobe
Michael Klein is the Global Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing – Retail, Travel & Consumer Goods at Adobe Systems
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Josh Haftel
Director of Product Management of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Jeremie Noguer
Product Director – Substance 3D Ecosystem of Adobe
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Bryan O’Neil Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Bryan O’Neil Hughes is the Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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Brian Glover
Director, Product Marketing of Adobe
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Inna Meklin
Director, GTM – Creative Cloud of Adobe
Inna Meklin is the Director, GTM – Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Justin Patton
Lead Creative Director of Adobe
Lead Creative Director at Adobe.
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Nicolas Brousse
Director, Operations Engineering of Adobe
Nicolas Brousse manages and scales the Adobe Advertising Cloud Infrastructure. Previously senior director of operations engineering at TubeMogul and the company’s sixth employee, Nicolas has grown TubeMogul’s infrastructure over the past decade from several machines to a few thousands servers that handle hundreds of billions of requests per day for clients like Allstate, Chrysler, Heineken, and Hotels.com. Adept at adapting quickly to ongoing business needs and constraints, Nicolas leads a global team of site reliability engineers and database architects that monitors Adobe Advertising Cloud infrastructure 24-7 and adheres to DevOps methodology. Nicolas is a frequent speaker at top US technology conferences and regularly gives advice to other operations engineers. Before relocating to the US, Nicolas worked in technology for over 15 years, managing heavy traffic and large user databases for companies like MultiMania, Lycos, and Kewego.
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Vladimir Petkovic
Creative Director of Adobe
Vladimir Petkovic is a computer artist from Serbia, currently working as an Art Director of Project Phylo at Adobe Systems. He is specialized in various areas of 3D graphics: hard surface and organic modeling, texturing, rendering and lighting. During his carrier, he has gained advanced experience in art direction, streamlining workflows, UI/UX design and concept art, while working on diverse projects – motion pictures, video games, product visualization and software development. He had the privilege to work with companies like Adobe, Google, Facebook, Autodesk, Maxon and many more. He lives in San Francisco and travels the world in free time.
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Julieanne Kost
Digital Imaging Evangelist Director, Photoshop & Lightroom of Adobe
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Julieanne Kost
Digital Imaging Evangelist Director, Photoshop & Lightroom of Adobe
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Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Minh Phan
Senior Director of Product Management of Gainsight
Minh Phan is a Senior Director of Product Management at Gainsight, the Customer Success company. Minh is designing new solutions that extend the reach of Customer Success to other teams for a seamless experience across a company. Minh joined Gainsight after roles in Product Management, Customer Experience, and Finance at Seagate Cloud, Symantec, and Oracle. Outside work, Minh has enjoyed being a guest at the Thai royal palace, dancing along with half-a-million Cubans at the Rolling Stones concert in Havana, and taking his parents to the peaks of Machu Picchu. Minh is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
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Tanumoy Ghosh
Director, Product Data Science, DSA of Salesforce
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Sanford Robertson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
Sandy Robertson is the Partner at Francisco partners.
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Mayukh Bhaowal
Director, Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Mayukh Bhaowal is a director of product management at Salesforce Einstein working on automated machine learning. Previously, Mayukh worked at startups in the domain of machine learning and analytics. He served as head of product of the ML platform startup Scaled Inference, backed by Khosla Ventures, and led product at the ecommerce startup Narvar, backed by Accel. He was also a principal product manager at Yahoo and Oracle. Mayukh holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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Tim Van Loan
Director of Product Marketing of Salesforce
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Leah McGowen-Hare
Senior Director of Salesforce
Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and Senior Director at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow using Trailhead. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Hidden Genius Project, Girls Who Code and Vetforce. Leah is married to Shane Hare and has 3 children. She enjoys working out, and traveling with her family.
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Pankaj Prasad
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Pankaj Prasad is the co-founder of DoubleDutch, a service that helps any company, brand, or organization deploy mobile apps enterprise wide. Their apps help companies gain insight through engagement
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Larry Tomlinson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
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Mike Kreaden
Managing Director, Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate) of Salesforce
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Shankar Vedaraman
Sr. Director, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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Craig Conway
Board of Directors of Salesforce
Craig Conway is the Board of Directors of Salesforce.
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Josh Schwartz
Director of Offensive Security of Salesforce
Josh Schwartz is a computer that knows how to computer. He leads the Red Team at Salesforce conducting high impact offensive security engagements and frequently creates propaganda memes.
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Wenhao Liu
Director – Applied AI Research of Salesforce
Director – Applied AI Research at Salesforce (Hiring).
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Daniel Sonnenfeld
Accessibility Compliance Program Director of Salesforce
Daniel Sonnenfeld is a Technical Program Management Director at Salesforce where he leads complex cross-organizational technology initiatives. His professional experience spans the high tech industry, having worked with large enterprises and startups. After a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Computer Science. Born deaf, Daniel wore hearing aids most of his life and received cochlear implants 13 years ago. He is multilingual and fluent in English, American Sign Language and French.
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Wendy Smith
Senior Director, Salesforce Experience of Salesforce
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Cecilia Alvord
Director & Executive Search of Salesforce
Cecilia Alvord is the Director & Executive Search at Salesforce.
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Sarah Aerni
Director Of Data Science And Engineering of Salesforce
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Kelly Utley
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
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Cathy Daw
Director, Software Engineering of Salesforce
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Vikas Sangwan
Director Software Engineering of Salesforce
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Alexander Lovell
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Alexander Lovell is the director of product management at Salesforce and an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. Prior to that, Alexander co-founded Simpatic. .
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Kinjal Vora
Director, Business Value of Salesforce
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Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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Director, Industry Solutions, Higher Education of Salesforce
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William Clifford
Director of Technical Consulting of Salesforce
William Clifford is the Director Technical Consulting at Salesforce.
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Ian Dunckel
Senior Director, Product Marketing, CPQ & Billing of Salesforce
Ian Dunckel serves as the senior director of product marketing and CPQ & Billing at Salesforce.
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Tim Clarke
Senior Director, Product Marketing – Sales Cloud of Salesforce
Co-Founder & CEO @ UNCrushed.
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Molly Ford
Director, Global Equality Programs of Salesforce
Molly Q. Ford is Senior Director of Global Equality Programs at Salesforce, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for eight years in a row. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s core value of Equality and evangelizing the Salesforce culture. Prior to making her passion for Equality a full-time job, Molly worked on the award-winning Salesforce Public Relations team. With more than 15 years of Public Relations experience, she was responsible for building awareness for Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service and support solution. Prior to joining Salesforce, she held positions at major technology companies including Cisco, Check Point Software, IBM and UMAX. Molly holds a B.S. in Public Relations from San Jose State University. She resides in Oakland, CA with her puppy Jackson, the amazing Maltese.
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Fadi Mouallem
Director of Strategic Sourcing of Salesforce
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Chris Lea
Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce
Chris Lea is the Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce.
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Andres Ramirez
Director, Technical Architect of Salesforce
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Cheryn Flanagan
Director of Experience Design of Salesforce
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Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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Sireesh Bodireddygari
Director of engineering: Analytics – Wave of Salesforce
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John Heywood
Director, Product Marketing – Service Cloud of Salesforce
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Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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George Bonaci
Director of Growth Marketing & Campaigns of Samsara
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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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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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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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Savita Raina
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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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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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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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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Colin Schmidt
Senior Director Engineering – OCI Data Science Service of Oracle
Colin Schmidt is the Senior Director of Oracle Cloud.
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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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Hermann Baer
Senior Director of Oracle
Hermann Baer is Senior Director at Oracle USA.
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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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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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Mayank Choudhary
Director, Product Marketing of Oracle
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Kuassi Mensah
Director, Product Management of Oracle
Product Management at Oracle.
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Garrett Harley
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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Andrea Canessa
Senior Director, Communications Industry Strategy of Oracle
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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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Justin Appler
Director of Engineering, Applications of Crunchbase
Justin develops software mostly in JavaScript, often for the web, and sometimes in other languages. The challenges of building products that stand the test of time and effective software teams (from recruiting through to day-to-day engineering process) fascinate him.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Danielle Ben-Gera
Director of Data Engineering of Crunchbase
Danielle Ben-Gera has been serving as Director of Data Engineering at Crunchbase since September 2018.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Ashley Cravens
Director Of Operations & Head of Platform of Uncork Capital
Ashley is the operational lynchpin of Uncork Capital. She was the firm’s first employee, and helped establish all of its processes and systems. Her contributions and responsibilities touch every aspect of the business. For starters: She manages corporate accounting, developed and maintains the firm’s internal deal flow management system, oversees legal documentation, plans all events and manages the Uncork Platform. She gets a thrill from discovering the most efficient way to get from A to B, but her most treasured role at Uncork is fostering relationships. Ashley loves bringing people together, as seen by the passion she brings to planning our quarterly cocktail hours, partner-hosted dinners, the annual summer party and the Uncork Capital Summit — a 2-day event in which founders of Uncork companies come together to exchange ideas and learn from one another. As Head of Platform, Ashley focuses on providing Uncork portfolio companies the connections and resources necessary to achieve their goals. She finds and vet’s service providers and experts for our founders and stops at nothing until she secures a discount for our portfolio. She connects founders to our broader community, whether that’s a law firm that can handle an IP battle, a venue that can seat 1,000 people in downtown San Francisco, a branding agency that can craft a differentiated, memorable identity, or a recruiting firm that can help a startup fill out its initial team. Prior to joining Uncork, Ashley spent more than a dozen years in the finance industry. She was a marketing director and registered insurance and securities assistant at Rosenbaum Financial in Portland Oregon. Previously she was a licensed broker at Morgan Stanley, where she managed accounts for two vice presidents and was a client relationship manager. She started her career at Smith Barney, where she conducted due diligence on mutual funds and became a specialist in client relations, running marketing campaigns, and special events for elite clients. Ashley graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in business administration/marketing.
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About Uncork Capital: Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Fred Luddy
Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of ServiceNow
Fred founded Service-now.com in early 2004 and has served as Chief Executive and Technology Officer since inception. Prior to Service-now.com, Fred was employed at Peregrine Systems from 1990 to 2003 where he held the position of Chief Technology Officer (note that during that time Peregrine also owned the Remedy Corporation, subsequently sold to BMC). Prior to Peregrine, Fred founded Enterprise Software Associates (ESA), and worked at Boole and Babbage, and the Amdahl Corporation. His products are used by thousands of corporations worldwide and have generated revenue well in excess of one billion dollars. At the age of eighteen, his very first software program automated supply chain and maintenance purchasing processes for a business unit of American Standard. Later work involved writing an operating system competing with IBM’s mainframe offering, performance and management improvements to the IBM mainframe environment, a PC video conferencing / collaboration system, and UNIX / Linux based application development environments. Fred tried to attend Indiana University and Sir George Williams University, but found part-time programming for these institutions to be far more compelling than the classroom experience.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Kevin Nanney
Senior Director of ServiceNow
Say hello to Kevin Nanney, a man with a deep technical background and understanding of product development and product life cycles. What was your first job ever? When I was 8, I worked on a dairy farm with my grandpa, fixing fences and taking care of the calves. It was really hard work for an 8-year-old, but I got to spend a lot of time with my grandpa. What do you love about Jobvite? I love the culture and the energy that drives everyone to the same goal. At Jobvite, we know who we are and what we want to become. It’s a very clear vision, and you don’t get that at just any company. Do you have any superpowers? Well I am really tall, so my superpower would have to be that I have the ability to hit my head on anything hanging in the 6’8″ zone. What’s your favorite road trip? Any road trip that takes me somewhere I have not been yet or to one of my favorite places, like Austin or Chicago. And any trip that takes me and my boat to a lake. Experience Taleo — Vice President of Product Management Navis — Senior Director of Product Management PeopleSoft — Director of Product Management PricewaterhouseCoopers — Senior SAP Functional/Technical Consultant Ernst & Young — Technical Consultant Education B.A. in Economics, Rice University B.A. in Business Management, Rice University B.A. in Sports Management, Rice University
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Baskar Jayaraman
Director, Platform Data Sciences of ServiceNow
Baskar Jayaraman is a Distinguished Engineer/Senior Director, Platform Data Sciences at ServiceNow.
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Gerald Beaulieu
Director, Product Marketing of ServiceNow
IT Services and IT Operations are often seen as siloed departments that share little in systems and process. The fact of the matter is, they both share a common goal – to ensure the technology powering the business is running optimally and without interruption to users. Join Gerald as he explores and uses his life experiences to show how to combine IT Operations and Service Management to automate common processes, eliminate outages and increase user productivity.
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Kanishk Parashar
Senior Director, Product -> Advisor of Addepar
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About Addepar, Square: Addepar is a wealth management platform that provides tools for data analytics and portfolio visuals.
Sangeeta Walsh
Director of Partner/Platform and Analytics Product Marketing of RingCentral
Sangeeta Walsh is the director of partner and platform and analytics product marketing at RingCentral.
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Jitender Kumar
Director Application Development of RingCentral
Application Development is my passion. I enjoy every aspect of application development, be it abstract or detailed architecture, coding, project planning for quality software applications
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Niklas de Besche
Executive Director, Product of Meltwater
Niklas de Besche is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Products. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral role in building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Linda Walsh
Director of Communications of AppDirect
Creative ideas, innovative campaigns, and a relentless approach have defined Linda’s career in public relations. Linda’s aptitude for combining balance and risk has helped her reinvent conventional ideas to achieve results for her clients. Prior to joining InkHouse, Linda forged her professional path at the Horn Group where she worked with both public and private clients in the high tech sector. Her ability to promote highly technical concepts in national and industry trade publications resulted in bottom-line results for her clients. Linda then transitioned to a broader scope of work at The Castle Group where she continued to expand her expertise into the consumer PR market. Leading her accounts through a changing media landscape, Linda has made a name for herself with clients, media, bloggers and social media outlets.
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About AppDirect, InkHouse, InkHouse, SutherlandGold Group: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Prakash V
Director of Technical Program Management of AppDirect
Prakash Vippa is the Director of Technical Program management at [AppDirect](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appdirect), a cloud service marketplace and management company. He leads Outbound Product Management team and TPM teams. Prior to that, he was the Principal Product Manager at Big Air Studios and Oracle. Vippa holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Auburn University.
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Rajeev Bansal
Sr. Director Product Management of AppDirect
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Vladimir Smirnov
Director, Technical Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
