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This list showcases the top California based President operating in the Analytics space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Karl Rumelhart
Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering of Gainsight
Karl will lead Gainsight’s expanded product vision and execution for a comprehensive customer success platform that help customers take action. Karl has held senior product and marketing roles as an early employee at VMware, leading product management for VirtualCenter, driving the acquisition of SpringSource, and leading the vFabric business unit. Karl has also run product teams at enterprise social pioneer, Jive, and predictive analytics pioneer Infer. Prior to his software career, Karl was an academic mathematician, lecturing at Stanford University after receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Sarah Franklin
President & CMO, Salesforce of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Adam Gilberd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales of Salesforce
Adam is Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce. In his eight years at the company, Gilberd has served in a variety of sales leadership roles, across multiple customer segments in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Amy Weaver
President & Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce
Amy Weaver is the President & Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lynne Zaledonis
Executive Vice President, Industry Marketing of Salesforce
Lynne is a former Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce who helps drive product marketing and sales enablement for Sales Cloud, the world’s leading sales app.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pascal Yammine
Senior Vice President & General Manager Salesforce CPQ + Billing of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Theresa Ludvigson
Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection of Salesforce
Theresa Ludvigson is the Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection at Salesforce.
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About Chief, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jim Green
Senior Vice President of Salesforce
Jim Green is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy forSalesforce. He oversees the company’s government relations and policy initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Salesforce in 2014, Jim founded T4A.org, a non-profit organization that works to create a network of entrepreneurs committed to redefining the public-private sector relationship. Jim has worked on four U.S. Presidential campaigns, including the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama. Jim founded and led Tech4Obama and organized the technology industry for the re-election campaign. Jim has more than 20 years of experience in bringing together politics, policy, technology and the non-profit sector. He resides in San Francisco with his wife Cammy, son James Jr., and daughter Mavis.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Raj Vemulapalli
Executive Vice President, Software Engineering of Salesforce
Senior Technology Executive with experience in leading and building award winning Consumer/Enterprise products and with expertise in IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Data Science, Search, Mobile, Large Scale, High Performing, Fault-Tolerant, Reliable Distributed systems, and Saas/PaaS * Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Search, Analytics, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning and Scalable Distributed Storage Systems at Salesforce.com * Led and built Mobile products and platforms that process $3.5+ Billions in transactions per year * Head of Engineering and one of the Co-Founders of Yahoo! Real Time Communications groups and the most used products in the world including Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Mobile Messaging, Yahoo! Real Time Notification Platform, Y! Voice and Video, Yahoo! IM Integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google Talk and Microsoft, and open APIs * Advisor at Salesforce Ventures and Limited Partner at Morado Ventures * Architected and built complex multi-tier distributed and scalable systems that handle 300+ million active users and deliver 300+ billion real time messages per month with 99.99% up-time * Filed 9 patents and published 3 papers in distributed systems, communications and social networking * Board of Director, Technology, Product and Strategic Advisor at technology startups * Experience in due diligence, acquisition and integration of companies to help accelerate the roadmap * Judge for TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 held in San Francisco (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/techcrunch-disrupt-hackathon-details/) * Company’s spokesperson for products. Widely interviewed and quoted in media, magazines and blogs * Won prestigious awards at Salesforce and Yahoo! Specialties: * Consumer Internet * Enterprise * Internet of Things (IoT) * Big Data and Analytics * Data Science and Machine Learning * SaaS/PaaS * Mobile * Search * Cloud computing * Large scale systems – Scalability and Reliability * Real Time Platforms
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About Morado Ventures, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kylie Fuentes
Vice President, Product of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Eric Loeb
Executive Vice President of Salesforce
Eric Loeb joined Salesforce as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs in July 2018. He was previously Senior Vice President, International External and Regulatory Affairs for AT&T, where he supported AT&T’s international external and regulatory affairs team, which is responsible for advocacy to international departments of the US government, and all branches of government outside the US, including executive, legislative and regulatory agencies, and for international external affairs affecting AT&T and its Affiliates.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert Amezaga
Vice President Product Marketing of Salesforce
Robert Amezaga is the Vice President Product Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jashojit Roy
Vice President, Innovation Consulting, Office of Innovation of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joel Martin
Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech of Salesforce
Joel Martin is the Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christian Posse
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning of Salesforce
Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Erica Schultz
President, Field Operations of Confluent
Erica Ruliffson Schultz is chief revenue officer at New Relic. In this role, she is responsible for leading the company’s go-to-market functions, including Marketing, Sales, Alliances, Customer Success and Services. Schultz previously served as executive vice president of Global Sales and Customer Success at LivePerson, a leader in digital engagement, and prior to joining LivePerson, Schultz had a 16-year tenure with Oracle Corporation, where she founded and led numerous teams, including pioneering the company’s cloud business. Schultz received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Dartmouth College, graduating with high honors. She also currently serves as a member of Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees.
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Hans Jespersen
Senior Vice President, WW Systems Engineering of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Levi Gundert
Vice President of Intelligence and Risk of Recorded Future
As Vice President of Intelligence & Strategy at Recorded Future, Levi Gundert leads the continuous effort to measurably decrease operational risk for customers. Previous industry roles include VP of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Fidelity Investments, Technical Leader at Cisco Talos, Principal Analyst at Team Cymru, and U.S. Secret Service Agent within the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF). Gundert is a prolific speaker, blogger, and columnist, writing articles for Dark Reading, InformationWeek, and SC Magazine.
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About Recorded Future: Recorded Future is the world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security.
Eoghan Geoghegan
Vice President of Business Development of MomentFeed
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About MomentFeed: MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.
Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Steve Fingerhut
President & Chief Business Officer of Pliops
Steve Fingerhut is the president and chief business officer at Pliops.
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About Pliops: Pliops is a creator of new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers.
Frank Bien
CEO & President of Looker
Frank Bien is the CEO and President at Looker. Frank brings more than 20 years of experience in business intelligence, big data, analytics, and data storage to expand Looker’s reach and capabilities. Frank is the former VP of Business Development for Greenplum (acquired by EMC) and former SVP for Virsto Software (acquired by VMware) and now serves as Looker’s President.
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About Google, Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Pedro Arellano
Vice President and Product Marketing of Looker
Pedro Arellano is Senior Director of Product Strategy at Birst. With more than 17 years of industry experience, Pedro has extensive expertise in business intelligence (BI), analytics technologies, and real-world customer implementations. He has appeared as a speaker at industry conferences and tradeshows across the US and Europe. Prior to Birst, he held positions at MicroStrategy as Director of Agile BI, Director of Professional Services and Senior Director of Worldwide Technical Support. Pedro holds a computer engineering degree from ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico.
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About Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Chris Bates
Global Vice President of Customer Success of Tableau
Chris Bates leads the global Customer Success organization at Tableau Software.Chris’ team is responsible for ensuring that Tableau’s 80,000+ customers are successfully onboarding, adopting, and renewing with Tableau.Chris has over 20 years of experience leading customer-facing organizations in high-growth technology companies.Prior to joining Tableau, Chris led Sales organizations at Dell, including living in London for 2 ½ years.For the last 8 years, Chris has led global Customer Success teams at both Salesforce.com and Clarizen.Chris started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he first developed his passion around customers.He received his undergraduate degree in Finance and Marketing at the University ofVirginia, and his MBA from Harvard Business School
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Roli Saxena
President, AdRoll Business of NextRoll
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About Cowboy Ventures, NextRoll, Neythri Futures Fund, OVO Fund: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Executive Vice President, Product of NextRoll
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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Christine Lemke
Co-Founder & President of Evidation Health
As Chief Product Officer, Christine leads product management and development at Evidation Health. Previously, Christine co-founded and led The Activity Exchange, an insight and personalization platform that helps healthcare companies deliver the right digital interventions and incentives to consumers to help them achieve sustainable behavior change. Prior to her work in healthcare, Christine was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsoft XBOX and co-founded Chicago-based Channel IQ, a product analytics platform. Christine has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from HEC Paris.
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About Evidation Health, Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Chris Taylor
Vice President Global Sales Performance of Databricks
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About Databricks, Successful Workplace: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Trevor Templar
Chief Executive Officer & President of Aviso
Trevor has a 22 year track record of executing rapid revenue growth for leaders in the SaaS and Enterprise software space. He has built high-performance teams that deliver customer value to the enterprise space. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Templar served as Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com where he led one of the company’s largest revenue-generating business groups with multiple years of 100% plus revenue growth. During this time, Salesforce.com’s revenue grew from $1B to over $4B. Trevor has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle, Baan and PTC where he led some of their largest enterprise relationships. Trevor has a dual masters in MIS and Accounting from Arizona State University. He also has a bachelors in mathematics and economics from St Xavier’s
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Ravi Suryanarayan
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Aviso
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Naman Shah
Co-Founder & President of Sentieo
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About Sentieo: Sentieo provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors.
Jonathan Rogin
Vice President Sales of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Barbara Massa
Executive Vice President & Chief of Business Operations of FireEye
Barbara is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and oversees the global human resource organization at FireEye. Before FireEye, Barbara was Vice President of Global Talent and Diversity at McAfee. She brings over 22 years of experience in high tech from roles at EMC, Documentum, and Cadence Design Systems. Barbara has led teams that delivered record numbers attracting and hiring top talent in high growth organizations. She is a recognized thought leader on global talent strategy and expansion. During her tenure at McAfee, Barbara helped found the first Women in Security affinity group. Barbara is also the recipient of YWCA’s Silicon Valley TWIN award for outstanding executive leadership.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Peter Bailey
Executive Vice President of FireEye
Executive Vice President at FireEye, Inc.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Ade Adesanya
Co-founder & President of Moving Analytics
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About Moving Analytics: Moving Analytics is a provider of turnkey and home-based post-acute care management solutions for cardiopulmonary disease.
Jasmine Nachtigall
Co-Founder & President of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Michael Sundareson
Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Strategic Growth of BrightEdge
Michael is BrightEdge’s Vice President of Strategic Growth. He is responsible for leading the relationship development and customer value for BrightEdge’s existing customers across the globe, focusing on the largest and most strategic customer relationships. He has extensive experience building and scaling renewal and growth business functions focused on maximizing customer success. Michael’s leadership has been instrumental in helping BrightEdge become the industry leader and gold standard for customer relationship management. He brings over 17 years of sales leadership and strategic consulting. Prior to joining BrightEdge, Michael spent 14 years working in management consulting with Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen. Michael focused on developing and implementing business strategies to drive performance improvement and business value for C-level executives. Michael holds a BS in Computer Information Systems and a minor in Accounting from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Michael DeCesare
CEO and President of Exabeam
Michael DeCesare is the CEO and president of Exabeam, a leading security analytics and automation company. Prior to Exabeam, he was CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies, a company that offers Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations the ability to see devices. He was previously the president at McAfee. DeCesare served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at EMC Software Group before which he held the same position at EMC Documentum. He also worked as the EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at Oracle. DeCesare holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
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About Exabeam, ForeScout Technologies: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Anukool Lakhina
Founder & President of Guavus
Anukool Lakhina founded Guavus, Inc. in February 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Anukool Lakhina has more than a decade of thought leadership in large-scale data analytics and has published more than a dozen papers on the subject. His Ph.D. dissertation put forth the theory and algorithms for streaming analytics on high-dimensional data, which forms the basis for the technology at Guavus. Prior to Guavus, he was at Intel Research and Sprint Labs. Anukool Lakhina serves as the Director at Guavus, Inc. He holds a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University.
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About Guavus: Guavus is a big data analytics company developing apps that allow companies to embed data driven-decisions into agile businesses processes.
Wen Miao
Senior Vice President, Global Client Technical Services of TIBCO
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Matt Quinn
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO of TIBCO
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO at Tibco software.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Shun Chen
Vice President, Products of Conviva
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Alpa Jain
Vice President, API Center of Excellence of Experian
Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support. Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America. Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Angela Granger
Vice President of Experian
Angela Granger is Vice President of Experian With over 20 years of experience in analytics, Angela Granger leads a team responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytical solutions which accelerate the profitable growth and market position of Experian clients. Since joining Experian in 1993, Granger has leveraged the latest statistical techniques in predictive modelling, data intelligence and business intelligence to maximise clients’ return on investment. She plays an instrumental role in analytics research and development, having participated in the design and commercial introduction of several advanced analytics products and services aimed at helping clients predict customer behaviour and effectively manage a wide range of decisions related to repayment of debt, account utilisation, default and fraud prevention. Prior to her current role at Experian, she was with HSBC where she was responsible for bankcard portfolio inbound call cross-sell strategies and acquisitions. Granger is named as an inventor on a US patent, Credit Portfolio Benchmarking, which defines a system and method for analysing massive amounts of current and historical trade data across financial institutions to allow peer group performance comparisons.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ansa Sekharan
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Success Officer of Informatica
Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president and Chief Customer Success Officer, leads Informatica’s Global Customer Support and Informatica University, where he is responsible for establishing Informatica as a trusted partner for customers worldwide by ensuring their success with Informatica’s products. Additionally, Ansa leads Informatica’s Education Services division, with a focus on role-based training programs to ensure the organization gets the most out of investment in Informatica products. Ansa was an early employee at Informatica starting in 1996. During his tenure, Informatica has received prestigious industry awards recognizing its support services, including being ranked number one in customer loyalty in the data integration enterprise software sector for 11 years in a row. Prior to joining Informatica, Ansa was a veteran of Sybase, where he held numerous customer services roles. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Technology, India.
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About Active Endpoints, Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Sally Taylor Shoff
Scores Vice President of FICO
Sally Taylor-Shoff is Scores Vice President, responsible for product management, marketing, analytic and software development, and analytic delivery for global syndicated FICO score products. Sally joined FICO (aka Fair Isaac) in 1987 as a data scientist, developing application scorecards for the consumer credit and utility industries. Subsequently she was the original product manager for the FICO Score product line, driving product launch and marketplace adoption including achieving endorsements for usage in the Mortgage industry. Sally has served FICO in other capacities including managing and growing the Marketing automation product line through both acquisition and new product development, and developing a new channel and business model by launching the FICO Analytic Cloud Marketplace. Sally holds a B.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Jeffrey Brewer
President & CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Jason Binder
Vice President HR & Talent Management of Delphix
Jason Binder serves as the Vice President of People. Prior to joining Delphix in January 2010, he was one of the first employees and served as the Senior Director of Business Operations at Xsigo Systems an I/O virtualization start-up acquired by Oracle. Prior to his 4 years with Xsigo, Jason worked with top tier venture capital firms performing retained searches and key human capital initiatives. Jason started his career in the networking arena working with Cisco and later Juniper Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Daniel Graves
Vice President, Global Product Ecosystem of Delphix
Daniel Graves is the vice president of global product ecosystem at Delphix.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Marc Aronson
Senior Vice-President of Engineering of Delphix
Marc Aronson is the senior vice president of engineering at [Zuora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zuora), a company that provides subscription billing as well as recurring revenue, payments, and billing solutions. He previously the same position at TeleNav. Before TeleNav, he held several VP positions at Oracle and CA Technologies. He also was employed as a director at Adobe and a senior systems analyst at Sperry Unicac. Aronson holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and applied math, and a master’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Tony Orlando
Senior Vice President of Delphix
Tony Orlando is a senior vice president at Delphix.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Louis Jonckheere
President, Chief Product Officer & Co-Fouder of Showpad
Louis co-founded Showpad in 2011 with PJ Bouten and Peter Minne. As Chief Product Officer, Louis is responsible for leading the product, design, and engineering teams that deliver the only sales enablement platform that combines sales content, readiness, and engagement. Showpad is the second company Louis has founded. Prior to founding Showpad, Louis and PJ founded In The Pocket, a leading mobile development agency. Louis continues to serve on the company’s board of directors. Prior to founding In The Pocket, Louis served as a Strategic Partnerships Manager at social media network Netlog, where he first met PJ. Louis holds master’s degrees in both law and business and serves on the board of directors of his alma mater — Vlerick Business School in Belgium.
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About InThePocket, Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Warren Jenson
President, CFO & Executive MD of International of LiveRamp
Warren brings a wealth of experience guiding companies through complex financial growth, global expansion and value creation. He has been recognized for his visionary leadership by Institutional Investor magazine having been named as one of the Best CFOs in America. Warren has served as CFO of Electronic Arts, Amazon.com and Delta Air Lines. Prior to that, he worked in several positions as part of the General Electric Company. Most notably, he served as CFO and Senior Vice President for the National Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of General Electric.
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About Acxiom, Acxiom Impact, Jenson Company, LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Anneka Gupta
President & Head of Products and Platforms of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
James Arra
President and Chief Commercial Officer of LiveRamp
James Arra is the president and chief commercial officer at LiveRamp. James joined LiveRamp in 2013 and has held several key leadership roles, building high-performing teams and driving growth. He served as Chief Operating Officer before becoming Co-President. Before joining LiveRamp, James was Vice President of worldwide sales at TRUSTe, where he helped grow the company from less than 1,000 customers to more than 6,000 customers in just over three years. James holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Quantitative Economics and Decision Theory from the University of California at San Diego.
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Piotr Gajos
Vice President of Brand Expression & Design of Persistent Systems
Piotr Gajos is the Vice President of Brand Expression and Design at Persistent Systems.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Vaidhi Nathan
Founder, President & CEO of Intelli-Vision
Vaidhi Nathan is the Founder, President & CEO of Intelli-Vision & he Attended Arizona State University.
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About Intelli-Vision, Nortek Control: Intelli-Vision is the market leader in Intelligent Video Analytics Software.
Krishna Khadloya
Vice President of Engineering and Products of Intelli-Vision
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About Intelli-Vision: Intelli-Vision is the market leader in Intelligent Video Analytics Software.
Dan Fishback
President & CEO of DemandTec
Dan Fishback has led several highly successful software startups which specialized in applying analytics to solve complex business problems (including DemandTec, Ariba, Trading Dynamics, Hyperion Software, Arbor Software, and Unisys). In addition to Moogsoft, Dan also serves on the Board of Quantum Retail Technology, Qumu and DemandHope.
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About DemandTec, UserZoom: DemandTec is an optimization app for retailers and companies providing cloud-based price, promotion and merchandizing analytics.
Dave Myron
Vice President Product Marketing of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Raluca Ada Popa
President of Opaque
Raluca Ada Popa is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Her research is in security and applied cryptography.Raluca has developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data as well as designed novel encryption schemes. Raluca received her PhD in computer security as well as two BS degrees, in computer science and in mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Johnson award for best CS Masters of Engineering thesis from MIT, and a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM.
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About Opaque, PreVeil: Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud.
Sonal Puri
CEO & President of Webscale
Sonal Puri serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Prior to Webscale, she was the Chief Marketing Officer at Aryaka Networks and led sales, marketing and alliances for the pioneer in SaaS for global enterprise networks. Sonal has more than 18 years of experience with Internet Infrastructure in sales, marketing, corporate and business development and channels. Previously, Sonal headed business development and corporate strategy for the Application Acceleration business unit, and the Western US Corporate Development team at Akamai Technologies working on partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. Sonal also ran global business operations, channels, business development and the acquisition for Speedera Networks (AKAM) and held key management roles in sales, marketing and IT at Inktomi, CAS and Euclid. Sonal holds a Master’s degree in Building Science from the University of Southern California, and an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Mumbai, India.
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About Webscale: Webscale is a multi-cloud SaaS tool that provides access to technology enabling e-commerce businesses to automate their processes.
Michael Guglielmi
Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development of Webscale
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About Webscale: Webscale is a multi-cloud SaaS tool that provides access to technology enabling e-commerce businesses to automate their processes.
Alex Choy
Executive Vice President R&D, CIO of Change Healthcare
Alex Choy is executive vice president of Research and Development and Information Technology and serves as the company’s chief information officer. Before joining Change Healthcare, Mr. Choy was global vice president, Product Development at Oracle Corporation, responsible for all research, development, and delivery of the Oracle healthcare and life sciences product portfolio. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Choy was vice president of Engineering for enterprise software products for Adobe Systems. There he brought in and cultivated an enterprise software culture and product discipline. He also was a key driver of its cloud transformation and key technology acquisitions, leading to the company’s digital marketing platform. Before joining Adobe, Mr. Choy held senior product and engineering positions, including founding team level, at Interwoven, Veritas Software, Tandem, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Choy holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Change Healthcare: Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system.
Aslan Noghre-kar
Vice President of Enterprise Communities of Change Healthcare
Aslan Noghre-kar is the VP of enterprise communities at Change Healthcare.
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About Change Healthcare: Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system.
Piyush Malik
Senior Vice President of SpringML
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About SpringML: SpringML is a data analytics company that helps its customers make informed decisions through seamless machine learning integrations.
Wei Zheng
Vice President of Product and Design of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Brian MacLeod
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Jon Pfortmiller
Founder & President of PriceSpider
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About PriceSpider: PriceSpider is a data company that helps brand manufacturers sell more online.
Christopher W. Cabrera
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Xactly
Mr. Cabrera is a noted industry expert in issues relating to motivation, sales performance management, sales compensation, and enterprise and on-demand/software-as-a-service delivery models. He was recently named the 2011 “Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the USC Marshall School of Business.
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About Xactly: Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensation software.
Erik Charles
Vice President, Solutions Evangelist of Xactly
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About Xactly: Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensation software.
Alex Kotowitz
Senior Vice President Product & Marketing of Enervee
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About Enervee, Three C Media: Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
Itai Gurari
Vice President Research And Development of Fastcase
Itai Gurari is the Vice President Research And Development at Fastcase
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About Fastcase, Judicata: Fastcase is the smarter alternative for legal research – using data visualization, citation analysis, and mobile apps to beautify the law.
Claudia Virgilio
Global Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth of Skai Israel
Claudia Virgilio has more than 23 years of revenue-generating experience that includes expertise in SAAS and Technology with a focus on SEM, SEO, Social, eCommerce, Consulting and CRM/loyalty channels. Claudia has been at Kenshoo for over 8 years initially headed up sales efforts with notable deals including Expedia, Hilton, Walmart, Shutterfly, HP, and more. She also led the Agency Team Globally and was been instrumental in developing Kenshoo agency solutions and partnerships. Currently she focuses on Global Strategic Partnerships including Amazon, Oath a Verizon Company, SAP, IBM and new emerging partnerships. Prior to Kenshoo, Claudia lead West Coast Sales for Performics/DoubleClick/Google/Publicis for 7 years, managing a team and instrumental in building the Western region, including accounts like HP, Patagonia, Norm Thompson, Safeway, Wells Fargo, Walmart, Disney, Countrywide, Adidas and more. Claudia has also held sales positions at Xpedite, Netcentives, Creditland, and Naviant.
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About Skai Israel: Skai Israel is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, and omnichannel media activation services.
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
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About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Karen Steele
Senior Vice President Marketing of Near
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About Alloy, Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Atakan Cetinsoy
Vice President – Predictive Applications of BigML
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About BigML: BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Jalal Nasir
Founder, President and CEO of Pixalate
Jalal Nasir serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Pixalate.
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About Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
Chandra Sekar
Vice President of Marketing of Avi Networks
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About Avi Networks: Avi Networks drives automation and intelligence across multi-cloud environments with intent-based application services.
Ashish Shah
Vice President Of Product Management of Avi Networks
Ashish Shah serves as VP of product management at Avi Networks.
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About Avi Networks: Avi Networks drives automation and intelligence across multi-cloud environments with intent-based application services.
Amit Vij
President of Kinetica
Amit has been developing software for over a decade most of which have been focused purely in the Geographic Information System (GIS) field. Amit has been lead developer for several DOD and DHS contracts some of which include the US Army, DTRA, DISA, CBP, and HSARPA. Previously, he was employed by a Fortune 500 consulting firms and frequently deployed to potential software engineering clients in order to generate new business for the firm. Amit Vij excels among his peers time and time again and has been recognized by several scholarly awards. Amit is also a web entrepreneur, having successfully created and sold a leading consumer website that has been featured in several television news broadcasts and printed publications. Amit received a B.S. In Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park with a concentration in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics.
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About Kinetica: Kinetica combines historical and streaming data analysis with powerful location intelligence and AI for instant results.
Doug Cassidy
Vice President of Deep 6 AI
Doug Cassidy is the vice president at Deep 6 AI.
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About Deep 6 AI: Deep 6 AI is an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people.
Eric Gildenhuys
Vice President and Business Development of Deep 6 AI
Eric Gildenhuys is the vice president in business development at Deep 6 AI.
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About Deep 6 AI: Deep 6 AI is an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people.
Brad O’Brien
Vice President of Social of 3Q Digital
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About 3Q Digital: 3Q Digital is a digital marketing agency catering to online advertising and mobile marketing.
Hugh Njemanze
President and Board Member of Anomali
Hugh Njemanze is Founder and CEO of ThreatStream. He was chief technology officer and vice president of Worldwide Research and Development for the HP Enterprise Security Products group. In this role, Njemanze served as the chief technologist, responsible for overseeing product strategy, development and support. Njemanze previously cofounded and served as chief technology officer and executive vice president of research and development for ArcSight, an HP company. Prior to ArcSight, Njemanze was chief technology officer of Verity Inc., a provider of knowledge retrieval software products. Njemanze is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Purdue University.
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About Anomali, HP Enterprise Services: Anomali is the leader in intelligence-driven extended detection (XDR) and response cybersecurity solutions.
Peter Kennedy
Founder & President of Tagger Media
Peter Kennedy is the Founder and President at Tagger.
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About Tagger Media: Tagger Media is an influencer marketing management platform helping brands through the planning, activation, and reporting phases.
Hichem Sellami
Co-Founder, Chief Solutions Architect & Vice President, Applications of Incorta
Hichem is a data warehouse and analytics expert and has design experience in a variety of industries, including project management, accounting, financial services, insurance, health services, pharmaceuticals, supply chain and human resources. Hichem spent nearly a decade at Oracle as an applications developer and software development director. Prior to Oracle, Hichem spent 7 years at Siebel and helped develop Siebel Analytics. He holds two master’s degrees and a PhD in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Incorta: Incorta develops an analytics platform designed to speed up business data ingestion.
Matthew Smith
Vice President of RealNex
An industry leader in commercial real estate technology solutions, Matthew Smith is VP of National Business Development at RealNex. Matt specializes in building relationships with potential and existing customers and educating commercial real estate brokers on how to use the RealNex Suite to win to more effectively win business. Prior to his role at RealNex, Matt was operations and sales director for Real Estate Assistant (REA). He helped grow the REA brand to worldwide status. He is also a published author and recognized leader is social media marketing.
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About RealNex: RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company focused on providing data management, and analytic.
