Best Startup
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 President operating in the Internet 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.
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.
Julia Hartz
Co-Founder & President of Eventbrite
Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world’s largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe. A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world. Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite’s award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.’s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013. Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.
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About Eventbrite, Eventbrite, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The Aspen Institute: Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Sumeet Singh
Vice President Big Data & AI and Location Platforms of Verizon Media
Sumeet Singh is the Vice President of Big Data, AI, and Location Platforms at Yahoo (now Verizon Media). Sumeet is considered an early leader of the big data movement, responsible for launching and scaling most services for Yahoo’s Hadoop platform since 2011. He has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech, media, and telecommunications industries. Connect with Sumeet on Twitter @sumeetksingh.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Amit Vyas
Global Vice President, Inside Sales of Samsara
Amit is responsible for building and scaling a high-performance sales organization and driving all revenue growth. Known for his energy, motivating leadership style and sharp attire, Amit brings over 15 years of experience across IT, networking, direct and channel sales. Most recently, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the sales organization and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. When Amit’s not working, he can be found playing almost any competitive sport, doing Bikram yoga, riding his motorcycle, playing chess or hanging with his wife and son at Crissy Field.Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Dan Greenberg
Founder & President of Sharethrough USA
Dan Greenberg is the founder and CEO of Sharethrough, a 150+ person SF-based software company that powers in-feed, native ads for premium publishers like Time Inc, Hearst, People and brand marketers like Pepsi and P&G. Dan also acts as the co-chair of the IAB Native Advertising Committee. Dan comes from a research background at Stanford in persuasive technology, and regularly teaches classes in brand content, modern monetization, and viral engineering. Dan was recently named to the Inc “35 Under 35” list, the Forbes “30 Under 30″ list and has been honored as an Ad Age Media Maven. He organizes and hosts the Sharethrough Native Ad Summits, is a regular speaker at advertising and technology conferences, and contributes to industry publications including Forbes, AdAge, and TechCrunch.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Jim Kellner
President of Artizan Internet Services
Jim Kellner served as president of insurance software provider Applied Systems, Inc. since 1997, and was CEO until September 2011. He was instrumental in building Applied Systems to an acquisition exit value of $1.8B.
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About Artizan Internet Services: Artizan Internet Services, LLC is the leading provider of web-based solutions for the insurance industry.
Steve Chazin
Vice President Of Products of Alarm.com
Steve is a Chief Product and Marketing Officer. He is equally adept at product strategy and tactics and has an excellent on-stage presence. He is a rare individual who has synthesized a stellar background in engineering, sales, marketing and management to become a true product leader.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Charles Meyers
Chief Executive Officer & President of Equinix
Charles J. Meyers is the President and the Chief Executive officer at Equinix. He joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success teams. For the past year, he was President, Strategy, Services, and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering. Under Mr. Meyers’ leadership, SSI worked to optimize the company’s position as a cloud enabler, identify key growth areas, and evolve our services portfolio in response to market, competitive and technology trends. Mr. Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Meyers served as Group President at Verisign where he led a P&L portfolio including the company’s Security, Communications and Mobile Messaging businesses. Prior to Verisign, Mr. Meyers held various executive positions at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Global Marketing, President of IP and Data Services, and Senior Vice President, Softswitch Services. During his tenure, Mr. Meyers helped Level 3 emerge as a premier global provider of Internet and VoIP services.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Paramesh Gopi
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
Dr. Paramesh Gopi joined us as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008 and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2009. On April 29, 2009, Dr. Gopi became a member of our Board of Directors. From September 2002 to June 2008, he was with Marvell Semiconductor, a provider of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits to broadband digital data networking markets, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit. At Marvell, Dr. Gopi held several executive-level positions including Chief Technology Officer of Embedded and Emerging Business Unit and Director of Technology Strategy. From June 2001 to August 2002, Dr. Gopi was Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications at Conexant Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal processing company. He joined Conexant Systems, Inc. as part of its acquisition of Entridia Corporation in 2001. Dr. Gopi founded Entridia, a provider of Network Processing ASICs for Optical Networks, in 1999. Prior to Entridia, Dr. Gopi held principal engineering positions at Western Digital and Texas Instruments where he was responsible for the development of key mixed signal networking products. Dr. Gopi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits, Starthub Nation: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
William Caraccio
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary; Chief Legal Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
L. William Caraccio joined us in June 2010 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. In December 2002, he was a co-founder of RMI Corporation (formerly Raza Microelectronics, Inc.), a privately held fabless semiconductor company where he was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and, following RMI Corporation’s acquisition by Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. in October 2009, he served a transition role at Netlogic as Senior Counsel until January 2010. From March 2000 to January 2003, he was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Foundry Holdings, Inc., a privately held investment firm and incubator of high technology companies. From June 1992 to March 2000, he was at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), an international law firm where he was most recently a Partner and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Securities and Technologies Group. Mr. Caraccio earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
Matt Wilson
Vice President, Politics of Brigade
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About Brigade, Causes: Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Shawn Conly
Senior Vice President Marketing of GREE
Shawn Conly is a Vice President, Marketing at GREE.
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About GREE: Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.
Pembe Candaner
Co-Founder & President of JobzMall
Pembe Candaner is the Founder & President of JobzMall Inc. Previously she served as the CEO of Adecco SA Turkey, General Manager of Lee Hecht Harrison, and CEO of Kariyer.net, the largest employment portal of Turkey. She is a member of TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association), the top business association of Turkey and Society for Human Resource Management. As a vocal activist of Women Rights, Candaner hosted her TV show at national ‘Artı Bir TV’ channel about Woman Leaders and Entrepreneurs. She has also lectured in Bogazici University (Bosphorus University) and UCI (University of California in Irvine) on Development of Woman Leaders, Talent Management, Protocol and Etiquette and Intercultural Relations. Additionally to her career in private sector, she authored 4 books. Candaner has been awarded as the Business Woman of the Year 2003.
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About JobzMall: JobzMall is a next-generation, cloud-based job finding platform empowering both the job seeker and employer with unprecedented innovations.
Steve Yankovich
Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures of eBay
Steve Yankovich joined HomeValet as Chief Experience Officer in 2020.Steve Yankovich, vice president of innovation and new ventures at eBay Inc., leads a newly formed team focused on future-looking technologies and experiences that will drive innovative new approaches to connecting retailers, merchants and sellers with consumers around the world. Steve is focused on creating the future – opportunities beyond core products from a business and technology perspective. From 2009 to 2012, Steve served as vice president of eBay mobile, responsible for eBay’s mobile business and product development worldwide on device platforms such as the iPhone, iPad, RIM, Android, Windows Phone, tablet and mobile web. Under Steve’s leadership, eBay mobile doubled its mobile commerce volume every year from 2008 through 2012, with $13 billion in mobile commerce volume in 2012 alone. eBay mobile is expected to generate $20 billion in 2013. Steve spearheaded the eBay Inc acquisitions of RedLaser and Critical Path Software. His patent portfolio consists of 29 leading technologies, four of which have been formally issued. Before eBay, Steve was Adobe’s Entrepreneur in Residence where he created an Adobe seed project targeted at knowledge and information workers. Before Adobe, he was the founder/CEO/CTO of Movaris Inc., an Enterprise BPM software company that was acquired by Adobe. When Steve isn’t busy tinkering with technology, he enjoys building and driving fast cars.
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About eBay, HALL Wines, HomeValet, Relay Ventures: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Alexander Stojanovic
Vice President, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Semantic Platform Engineering of eBay
Alexander is an executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as Managing Director of Adaptive Insight. Previously, he served as Vice President of Applied Research and Machine Learning at eBay, managing machine learning activities globally. He was the founding Vice President, CTO, and Chief Architect of the Cisco Cognitive Computing and Real-time Analytics SaaS platform – now a part of the Cisco Cloud Center product line. Prior to Cisco, Alexander was a Vice President and CTO at Oracle Corporation, working on design and strategy of Oracle’s public cloud platform offerings with an emphasis on machine learning-based SaaS offerings. He served as CTO for the Oracle Data Integration Cloud Services and founded both Oracle Data Catalogue and Big Data Preparation Cloud Services. Alexander has also held founder and leadership roles at MAANA. At Microsoft, Alexander founded and led Azure HDInsight, SQL Server Semantic Engine, and Microsoft Solver Foundation product lines. Alexander is an active angel investor and advisor to innovative AI and ML-driven start-ups, including: Kosmos AI, Wave Computing, Sapiens Data Science, Roambee, and DataRPM (acquired by Progress Software in 2017). A graduate of Santa Clara University, he resides in Los Gatos with his family – wife Tatjana and daughter Mina – enjoying electronic music composition, Leica photography, cinema, and sailing.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Jordan Sweetnam
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas Market of eBay
Jordan Sweetnam is the SVP and general manager for Americas Market at eBay. He was the vice president of customer experience for Walmart eCommerce. He brings rich e-commerce experience building differentiated products that delight customers and drive growth. He is responsible for leading a high-performance organization with Design, Analytics and Product Management teams that are focused on delivering an amazing customer experience when shopping Walmart.com at home, on their mobile devices or engaging digitally in the store. Jordan joined Walmart’s eCommerce team in 2016. He previously spent 12 years at eBay with his last two years as vice president of Seller Experience. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a specialization in finance from the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honors.
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About eBay, Walmart Labs: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Sanjeev Katariya
Vice President & Chief Architect of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Nick Bushak
Co-founder, President, and CTO of Gem
Nick Bushak is a Co-Founder, President, and CTO at Gem. Before starting Gem, Nick spent 6 years at Facebook, where he led various engineering teams for Facebook Pages, Ads, and Messenger.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Nidhi Gupta
Senior Vice President of Engineering of Hired
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About Hired: Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies.
Thanda Belker
Senior Vice President, Global Distribution of pocket.watch
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About pocket.watch: Pocket.watch is a new studio creating global franchises from the YouTube stars and characters loved by Generation Alpha.
Justin Norman
Vice President, Data Science of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Song Bac Toh
Vice President of Product Management of Tata Communications
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
Robert Brisco
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Internet Brands
Bob Brisco is the President & CEO at Internet Brands.
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About CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
James Keating
Division Head (Vice President): Apartments, Shopping, Careers, & Digital Marketing of Internet Brands
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About Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
René Schmitz
Vice President IoT Products & Technology of Vodafone
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About Vodafone, Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Jay Blazensky
Vice President of Business Development, Voice of LivePerson
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About LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
Weili Dai
Co-Founder & President of Marvell
Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world today. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she has helped Marvell’s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Mitch Gaynor
Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell
Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
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
Mehmet Akcin
President and CEO of EdgeUno
Customer first. Site up, Cost down, Agility. Save money, make impact, repeat.
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About EdgeUno, EdgeUno, Kapany Networks Inc.: EdgeUno is a Managed Services provider in Latin America
Shankar Chandran
Vice President, Catalyst Fund of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Shankar Chandran is vice president at Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Catalyst Fund, at the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). The SSIC is based in Menlo Park, California and is focused on accelerating innovation for Samsung Electronics. Shankar is responsible for early stage and disruptive venture capital investments in technologies targeted at high growth sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile technology and security, digital health, next-generation user interfaces, and the internet of things. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Panorama Capital and has been an active venture investor for 12 years at Panorama Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Shankar has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He also serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, and has served as a director or observer on the boards of over ten companies. Shankar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India, an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Narbeh Derhacobian
President & CEO of Parabellum Acquisition
Narbeh Derhacobian is a Co-Founder, President and CEO of Adesto Technologies.He has over 20 years of industry experience working on discrete and embedded memory technologies. He has held technical and managerial roles at SST, AMD, Virage Logic and Cswitch Corporations. Narbeh’s industrial experience includes development and commercialization of split-gate NOR flash, ETOX NOR and NAND flash as well as SONOS based MirrorBit NOR flash technologies. He has over 40 granted patents in various areas of semiconductor memories. Narbeh has a PhD in Solid State Physics from UCLA, and an MBA from San Jose State University.
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About Parabellum Acquisition: Parabellum Acquisition focuses on areas where management, the board of directors, and industry advisors have relevant experience.
Joseph Tou
Vice President / US Investment Manager of Sony Innovation Fund
Joseph Tou is Vice President / US Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund.
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About Sony Innovation Fund: Sony Innovation fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony that invests and engages in early-stage companies.
Eric Hauser
Vice President of Engineering of DroneDeploy
Eric Hauser is the VP of engineering at DroneDeploy.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Jerry Shen
President, Head of Sales, and Co-Founder of Welcome
Jerry Shen is the Co-Founder of Welcome. He serves as its President and Head of Sales.
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About Welcome: Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Tyler Raugh
Co-Founder & President of Booster
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About Booster: Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing last-mile delivery.
Vidya Subramanian
Vice President – Emerging Technologies of Roambee
An energetic leader and results driven executive with over 15 years of solution delivery experience, Vidya Subramanian is the Vice President of Products and Co-founder of Roambee. He is responsible for product strategy, product delivery, and product management with a singular focus on product-market fit. Prior to Roambee, Vidya was Co-Founder and VP Professional Services at KeyTone Technologies Inc, a RFID technology company focused on providing a technology enabled service for real time asset monitoring through an enterprise scale sensor based platform. KeyTone was successfully acquired by Global Asset Tracking UK Ltd. He has also held influential and leadership roles at Plexus Technologies Inc., KPMG Consulting, Unisys, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Vidya holds a Masters in Computer Science from Temple University and dual Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Calvin College, Michigan.
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About Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Sherwin Sheik
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of CareLinx
Sherwin Sheik is the Founder and CEO of CareLinx. CareLinx is a trusted nationwide home care platform with over 300,000 professional caregivers that help improve health outcomes while reducing cost of care. Our innovative approach amplifies the effectiveness of clinical teams by using tech-enabled caregivers who serve as their eyes, ears, and arms in the homes of patients and members. CareLinx was Acquired by Generali Global Assistance in Sep 2017. Generali is the 3rd largest insurance company in the world with global operations generating over $80b in annual revenue. CareLinx is continuing to operate under its own established brand with Sherwin Sheik continuing to lead the company as CEO. Prior to founding CareLinx, Sherwin worked and invested in the healthcare industry for over ten years. His business interests centered on large healthcare corporations while working as a healthcare trader and analyst for a $900 million Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund, and in Investment Banking & Global Capital Markets.
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About CareLinx: CareLinx is a nationwide tech-enabled caregiver marketplace.
Ed Chuang
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Krishna Srinivasan
Global President of Frost & Sullivan
Mr. Srinivasan, Global President and Managing Partner of Frost & Sullivan, has been with the company for over twenty five years. Over the years, he has held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility, culminating in the role of President in the year 2000. He has played a key role in reshaping the company from its early days as a market research company to a full-fledged global growth consulting company focused on solving client challenges with customized business intelligence, growth strategies and training & implementation support.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Emily Smith
President and GM, Media of Brit + Co
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About Brit + Co: Brit + Co is a media company that inspires, educates, and entertains real women with a creative spirit.
Darren Hudgins
Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer
Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.
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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
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.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Heather Friedland
Vice President Of Product Management of Ancestry
Heather Friedland is a Vice President Of Product Management at Ancestry. She is a former chief product officer of Glassdoor, a career marketplace that helps people search for jobs and companies recruit suitable individuals. Previously, she was the vice president for local and seller experience at [eBay](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ebay#/entity). Friedland served as a principal program manager at [Microsoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/microsoft#/entity) before she joined eBay. She has also been employed as a marketing manager at Jump.com. Friedland obtained her bachelor’s degree in communications from [Cornell University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cornell-university#/entity). She lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Ancestry: Ancestry is a web-based platform that helps its users to create their own family tree and help them preserve and share their family history.
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Automotive and Embedded Line of Business of Arm Holdings
Dipti Vachani is vice president in the Internet of Things Group and general manager of the Strategy and Solutions Engineering Division at Intel Corporation. Vachani’s organization is responsible for driving the overall strategy, technology direction, industry standards and IoT Edge product portfolio for IOTG.Prior to joining Intel, Vachani served as vice president and general manager of Power, Lighting and Display at Skyworks, maker of analog semiconductors. In that role, she managed product development, applications and operations.Before that, Vachani worked at Texas Instruments for 17 years, where her most recent position was vice president and general manager of the Single Core Processors group , a multinational business unit consisting of ARM MPU, video security and DSP. Also, while at Texas Instruments, Vachani led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of ARM MPUs.Vachani holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University and an executive MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a graduate of the executive education program at both the Harvard and Cambridge business schools.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Surajit Datta
Vice President of Arm Holdings
Surajit Datta is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Arm since 2017. His role includes leading merger and acquisitions transactions and investments across multiple sub-sectors in technology, including emerging memory, IoT and security. Prior to joining Arm, Surajit was Managing Director at Evercore Partners in New York. He has over 15 years of investment banking experience on Wall Street, leading origination and execution of advisory and capital raising transactions in technology, media and telecom sectors at JPMorgan and Evercore. He has closed over $100 billion of M&A and over $20 billion of financing transactions. Surajit has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelors of Technology (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Rene Haas
President Intellectual Property Group of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Raymond Liao
Managing Director & Vice President of Samsung NEXT
Raymond Liao is a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, with a special focus on Security, Big Data, Cloud, and AI. Previously Raymond was the founding CTO of Siemens Industrial Communications business in Germany. He started as an innovator at Siemens Berkeley to commercializing his PhD into a startup but failed post dot-com bubble, then as a spin-in and grew into the market-leading industrial WLAN business
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Pehong Chen
President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of BroadVision
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About BroadVision: BroadVision has been a global leader in providing organizations with the rules, tools and infrastructure for doing business on the Web.
Fellahi khalid
President, Global Head Consumer Money Transfer of Western Union
Fellahi khalid As Senior Vice President and General Manager for Western Union Digital, Khalid Fellahi is mainly responsible for ensuring the continued growth and expansion of Western Union in the digital space across the Americas and European Union. He is based in San Francisco. Fellahi, who joined Western Union in 2002 as Regional Director for North Africa, was previously head of the Mobile Transaction Services group (2010). He also held several senior regional positions at Western Union, including the role of Senior Vice President for Africa from 2005 to 2010, where he was responsible for 51 countries with more than 20,000 Agent locations. Prior to working at Western Union, Fellahi held roles within SIS-Groupe Compagnie Bancaire (Paribas) and Price Waterhouse Management Consultants. In addition, he has held senior leadership positions at small and medium enterprises in the service industry. A Moroccan-French national, Fellahi has an engineering degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in France (INSA-Lyon) with a major in Information Technology, and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Western Union, Western Union: Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world.
Joseph Essas
President and Chief Technology Officer of OpenTable
President and Chief Technology Officer at OpenTable.
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About FirstMark, OpenTable: OpenTable operates as an online restaurant booking service.
Avi Katz
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Gigpeak
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigOptix, Inc. Dr. Avi Katz has served as the Chairman of the board of directors, Chief Executive Officer & President of GigOptix LLC since inception in May 2007 and through its public offering in December 2007. Previously, Dr. Katz served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of iTerra Communications LLC, Intransa Inc., from 2003 to 2005, and Equator Technologies Inc., from 2000 to 2003. Earlier he served in various sales, marketing and operational executive positions following his tenure service as a Member of the Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, between 1988 and 1995. Dr. Katz is active in philanthropy and among others serves as a board member for the Israeli Venture Network (IVN), a NFP social philanthropy network. He holds more than 70 U.S. and international patents, has published approximately 300 technical papers and is the editor of a number of technical books. Dr. Katz received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technion-IIT, Israel, and is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy.
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About Gigpeak: GigOptix provides semiconductor and optical components that enable high-speed information streaming.
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.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Darren J. Milliken
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ForeScout Technologies
Darren J. Milliken Senior Vice President and General Counsel With over 20 years of legal, business and compliance experience, Darren leads global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining ForeScout, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Accuray Inc. Before Accuray, he held several senior level legal roles at Sanmina-SCI, Voyan Technology, and the law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Darin Buxbaum
Co-Founder, President & COO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Jon Pfortmiller
Founder & President of PriceSpider
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About PriceSpider: PriceSpider is a data company that helps brand manufacturers sell more online.
Jeffrey Greenstein
President of International Sales & Distribution of Millennium Entertainment
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About Millennium Entertainment, Millennium Media, Millennium Media: Millennium Entertainment – Theatrical Film/Movie Distribution Company based in Los Angeles, CA
Lonnie Ramati
Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs of Millennium Entertainment
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About Millennium Entertainment, Millennium Media: Millennium Entertainment – Theatrical Film/Movie Distribution Company based in Los Angeles, CA
Dave Sobieraj
President of North American Sales & Distribution of Millennium Entertainment
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About Millennium Entertainment, Millennium Media: Millennium Entertainment – Theatrical Film/Movie Distribution Company based in Los Angeles, CA
Guy Byington
Vice President, Store Development of Drybar
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About Drybar: Drybar is a retail chain exclusively for blow-drying hair for a reduced price compared to traditional salons.
Xueyan Wang
Senior Vice President Services of Coursera
Xueyan Wang is vice president of services at Coursera. In this role, she oversees program management, partner services, learner services, and community initiatives supporting online degrees and Coursera’s consumer and enterprise businesses.
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About Coursera, Coursera: Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
Tom Kovats
Vice President of Finance of Coursera
Tom Kovats is the Vice President of Finance at Coursera. Previously, he served as Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis at Financial Engines Inc, the largest registered investment advisor in the United States. During his tenure, Financial Engines grew its revenue from $30 million to $500 million and its market capitalization from $140 million to $2.5 billion. Tom partnered with executive management on corporate strategy and business operations as well as the company’s 2010 initial public offering and its 2016 acquisition of the Mutual Fund Store. Prior to his thirteen years at Financial Engines, Tom held various finance and accounting roles at technology and internet companies, including EMC and Oracle. Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. He is passionate about Coursera’s mission and enjoys acting and improv in his free time.
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About Coursera, SmartBeings: Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
Mahesh Veerina
President & CEO of Cloudleaf
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Matt Judge
President and Partner of Eight
I am a creative leader who thrives at the intersection between brand, business and design. Since graduating in 2003, my career has given me the opportunity to work across continents, categories and disciplines, delivering award winning work and experiencing both the client and agency side of the table in the process. At Apple, California, I worked in both the retail and product team, delivering Apple’s creative strategy and launching projects such as iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air. Prior to my American dream I worked at a number of respected brand and communications agencies, large and small, learning the power of both ideas and craft and working with the likes of Westfield, Sony, Burberry, Hewlett Packard and Rankin in the process. In 2009 I founded Design Assembly (.org), an online design forum gathering an audience of over 80,000 unique visitors each month to critically discuss design and its impact in the world. Sales from its published compendium, ‘DA3’, have raised over £14k for cancer charities worldwide. In 2013 the publication, which I wrote, edited and designed was recognised by The Creative Circle with a prestigious ‘Gold’ award for creative excellence. Interests… — Brand, marketing and communication design — Sociology and anthropology — Innovation and service design — Culture creation and organisational design — Change management — Social activism — Genomics and Healthcare innovation Recent speaking engagements… — Harvard Business Review ‘The CEO’ awards (Istanbul): ‘Designing Performance’ — Index Conference (Dubai): ‘Designing Performance’ — Citi Mobile Challenge (London): ‘Innovation at Scale’ — Imperial College (London): ‘Human Experience Design’ — Crystal Apple Creative Festival (Istanbul): ‘Fame’ — MasterCard StartPath (Berlin): ‘Lessons on ‘engaging”
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About Eight: We design meaningful experiences. Experiences with emotion and purpose that change the way people think, feel and do.
Andy Doraiswamy
President/CEO of Koya Medical
Andy is currently focused on advancing health and human life. He brings innovative teams together to ideate and transform healthcare. He is the founder and CEO of Koya Medical, a team dedicated to transforming chronic lymphatic and venous disease. He also serves as Chairman and board director with an eye-care and urology health venture. Previously, he led Oculeve, a first-in-class health venture funded by NEA, Kleiner Perkins, and Versant to treat ocular disorders with a revolutionary neuromodulation platform. The company was acquired by Allergan Plc. Prior to this, Andy invented sight-restoring intraocular implants, that have given sight to more than 6 million humans across the globe. This technology was acquired by Santen Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Bausch & Lomb (marketed as envista IOL). He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the School of Medicine at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, M.S. in materials science and engineering from University of Arizona, and Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Madras. He has numerous patents and publications in healthcare innovation. Additionally, Andy enjoys the benefits of meditation & the thrills and agonies of high-altitude mountaineering. He is on a quest to climb the tallest mountains in the world, though this has temporarily taken a back-seat to focus on healthcare. He is actively learning to master the mridangam and enjoys restoring and riding vintage motorcycles.
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About : Koya Medical is a transformative healthcare company developing breakthrough treatments for lymphedema and venous diseases.
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.
Joy Weiss
President & CEO of Tempo Automation
Joy Weiss, currently President of Dust Networks at Analog Devices, has held executive leadership positions over the past 35 years at a variety of private and public technology companies. Joy was CEO of Dust Networks, a pioneer in industrial wireless sensor networking, when it was acquired by Linear Technology in 2011, and she has served on the boards of several private companies in Silicon Valley. She is currently on the board of Vigilent and Tempo Automation. Joy is also the Chair of the board of Playworks, a national non-profit based in Oakland, CA. Joy holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Analog Devices, InkSpace Imaging, Tempo Automation: Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Amy Kao
Co-Founder & President / Chief Marketing Office of RxAll
Amy is a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She has +5 years of management consulting experience with global pharmaceutical companies in New York and Asia, and has a strong focus on go-to-market strategy in emerging markets.
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About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
Sylvain Dubois
Vice President Business Development and Marketing of Crossbar
Sylvain Dubois joined the Crossbar management team in 2013 as its senior director of strategic marketing and business development.With over 13 years of semiconductor experience in business development and strategic product marketing, he brings a proven ability to analyze market trends, identify new, profitable business opportunities and create precise product positioning that is in perfect sync with market demands to drive market share leadership and business results. Prior to joining Crossbar, Mr. Dubois led strategic product positioning and market engagement for developing new products at Spansion. Responsible for identifying new growth opportunities and expanding the product portfolio, Mr. Dubois was instrumental in defining the Spansion Flash memory product roadmap.From 2002-2006, Mr. Dubois was a System-on-Chip architect of OMAP application processors at Texas Instruments. Mr. Dubois was in charge of the architecture and technology roadmap of DRAM and Flash memory controllers, and developed strategic relationships with major DRAM and Flash memory suppliers.Sylvain Dubois holds a Master of Science in Microelectronics from E.S.I.E.E. (Paris), University of Southampton (UK) and Universidad Pontifica Comillas (Spain).
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Tobin Richardson
CEO & President of Zigbee Alliance
Tobin J. M. Richardson serves as President and CEO of the ZigBee Alliance, leading the Alliance’s efforts to develop and promote world-leading open, global IoT standards. In this role, he works closely with the Alliance Board of Directors to set strategy and to advance the adoption of ZigBee standards around the globe. Tobin has two decades of experience in strategic leadership and marketing for technology firms and organizations. His experience spans large-scale technology implementations, new service and product rollouts, and transformational change in Fortune 500 companies and world-leading organizations. He currently serves in a number of industry leadership roles, including Co-Chair of NAESB’s Energy Usage Information standard committee, and participates actively on NEMA’s Smart Grid Task Force and the CEA’s Smart Grid Working Group. He holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis.
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About Zigbee Alliance: Zigbee Alliance is the foundation and future of the IoT.
William Jenkins
President & CEO of Barracuda Networks
BJ joined Palo Alto Networks in August 2021. As president, BJ oversees the company’s go-to-market functions, including sales, support, consulting, business development and operations, and partnerships. Previously, BJ served as president and CEO of Barracuda Networks, leading the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the strategic acquisitions of SignNow, Intronis, Sonian and PhishLine. Prior to joining Barracuda, BJ held multiple business unit and sales and marketing leadership roles at EMC, including president of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division. BJ earned an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Barracuda Networks, Palo Alto Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
Josh Jaffe
President, Media of Ingenio
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About Ingenio: Ingenio is a knowledge-commerce platform, connecting customers and advisors through its proprietary web and telephony technology solutions.
Ed Meyercord
CEO & President of Extreme Networks
Meyercord serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015. Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company, that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously,, Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup). He previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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About Extreme Networks, Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Jia Li
Founder & President of Nonda
Founder at Nonda & Baixing.com.
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Ivan Chong
Vice President, Sales of Nonda
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Mark Young
Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Business Development of Fandango
Mark Young leads strategy and business development for Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. Mark is focused on providing insights into consumer and technology trends and capitalizing on them to grow all lines of Fandango’s businesses. Mark also oversees distribution and co-marketing of mobile services, commerce, and video with third-party partners such as mobile network providers, handset manufacturers, app stores and retailers. Mark joined NBCUniversal from Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) where he led mobile strategy and business development across a portfolio of digital properties, as well as co-lead the strategy and go-to-market launch of Xfinity’s initial video service on iOS (iPad & iPhone) and Android devices.
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About Fandango: Fandango is a corporation that sells movie tickets via telephone and Internet.
Tyler Krueger
Vice President of Frontier Growth
Prior to joining FTV, Tyler was an investment banking analyst at Financial Technology Partners. At FT Partners, Tyler focused on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising transactions in verticals including enterprise software, payments, alternative lending and tech-enabled services. Tyler graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University, receiving his BS in business management with an emphasis in finance.
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About Frontier Growth: Frontier Growth is a growth equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled business services companies.
Petros Giannikopoulos
Co-founder & President of Driver, Inc.
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About Driver, Inc.: Driver is a technology platform that connects people to treatments and knowledge, all over the world, to get more life.
Jill Springer
Vice President – Human Resources of Jasper Technologies
Jill Springer joined Jasper in 2014, overseeing human resources and talent acquisition. Over the past 25 years Jill has worked with companies in commercial, technical, and consumer businesses in the United States and around the world. She’s known for her well-grounded, clear, straightforward, and operationally focused plans in support of business strategies. Jill has provided executive leadership for numerous startups and small to mid-size pre-public and public companies on acquisitions and mergers, strategic planning, Human Resources operations, succession planning, and executive development. Jill has established a proven track record designing, implementing, and leading programs and processes for companies that include: Apple computer, Applied Materials, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, TSMC, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Illinois State University.
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About Jasper Technologies: Jasper Technologies develops cloud-based platforms.
Dan J. Poritzky
Vice President – Real Estate Development of LeEco
Dan Poritzky is Vice President of Real Estate Development, Head of Real Estate and Facilities, LeEco North America. Responsible for land development, leasing and workplace services, Dan leads the development for the 3.1 million-square-foot Santa Clara property acquired from Yahoo! for the company’s upcoming EcoCity campus. Dan is no stranger to Silicon Valley real estate, having worked in the Bay Area for more than 17 years for some of the most dynamic players in the region’s real estate market. Prior to joining LeEco, Dan served as managing director with MWest Properties, a joint venture between DivcoWest and TPG Real Estate. His experience also includes 7 years at Hines, the majority of which was spent on leasing and marketing deals in the Silicon Valley region, as well as tenures at Prologis and Eastdil. During the course of his career, Dan has worked with several of the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley. With extensive experience on the Landlord/Developer side, he has acquired, managed, leased, and sold over $10 billion in assets, with the vast majority located in Northern California. One of Dan’s primary priorities at LeEco is the development of its EcoCity campus. Last July, the company purchased 3.1 million square feet of entitled land from Yahoo! to build the future home of LeEco’s global headquarters. The space was previously approved for 13 buildings, enough to accommodate approximately 12,000 employees. EcoCity’s mission is to support and inspire staff members to innovate, while offering the public a communal gathering place to enjoy live music, play sports and collaborate with LeEco to build the next generation of products. Dan is responsible for ensuring this open EcoCity has a strong foundation to bring it to life.
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About LeEco: LeEco is a global internet company that offers video streaming services and technology devices.
Jim Greenwell
President & CEO of Danal
James W. Greenwell is the Advisory Board Member at Prove
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About Danal: Danal, Inc. is a provider of mobile business solutions, enabling mobile payments, mobile commerce, marketing, and mobile wallet services.
Christina Chan
President of StoryCloud, Inc
Christina Chan brings extensive experience in product development, product management, and operations. She is responsible for the product vision and implementation at StoryCloud. Prior to joining StoryCloud, she was VP of Program Implementation and Support at Barclaycard and VP of Account Management and Operations at Analog Analytics, where she was responsible for product development, and all client and customer management. Christina studied Communications and Visual Arts, graduating from the University of California, San Diego.
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About StoryCloud, Inc: StoryCloud is the leading provider of low cost deposition reporting and legal video services.
Graham Hine
President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant
Graham Hine is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
David Walker
Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant
David Walker is the Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
Eric Plam
Vice President & General Manager of Skyroam
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About Skyroam: Keeping people and things connected with fast, secure, cost-effective mobile Internet service around the globe.
Julia Slocombe
Vice President of Operations, West Region of SmartCity Networks
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
GARRY MARTIN
President of Locbit
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About Locbit: Locbit is a company that helps companies and people connect their devices inside their buildings.
