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 SaaS 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.
Henock Gessesse
Vice President and General Counsel of Freshworks
Henock Gessesse is the General Counsel at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Shantanu Narayen
President and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe
Shantanu Narayen currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Adobe. He joined Adobe in January 1998 as Vice President and General Manager of our engineering technology group. In January 1999, he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Worldwide Products, and in March 2001 he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing and Development. In January 2005, Narayen was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer, and effective December 2007, he was appointed our Chief Executive Officer and joined our Board of Directors. Narayen serves on the board of directors of Pfizer Inc., a multinational pharmaceutical corporation. He previously served as a director of Dell Inc. from September 2009 to October 2013. Narayen holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Osmania University in India, a M.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Amit Ahuja
Vice President of Ecosystem Development of Adobe
Amit Ahuja is the Vice President of Ecosystem Development at Adobe where he is responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships and initiatives. Prior to this role, Amit was the Head of Emerging businesses and the GM of Adobe’s DMP business. Amit also spent 7 years in Adobe’s Corporate Development Group where he executed numerous transactions including acquisitions of Omniture, Scene7, Efficient Frontier, Demdex and Auditude. Amit joined Adobe via the acquisition of Macromedia where he was in the Corporate Development Group focusing on mobile and video. Amit began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a technology investment banker and also spent several years at a technology start up. Amit has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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About Adobe, Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Stefano Corazza
Fellow & Vice President of Adobe
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe’s Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo’s advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutions that support Mixamo. Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy. A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Rob Giglio
Senior Vice President and GTM & Sales – Digital Media of Adobe
As senior vice president of Adobe’s Digital Media (DMe) Go-to-Market & Sales organization, Rob Giglio is responsible for more than $5billion in global annual sales (FY18) of Adobe’s Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products and solutions to consumers and non-enterprise businesses. Key to the organization’s success is Rob’s efforts to improve customer purchasing and renewal experience, drive customer retention, reduce software piracy, and identify new market opportunities for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products. By focusing on all routes to market, including online sales via Adobe.com, direct phone and chat sales, as well as channel partner, retail and education offerings, Rob has transformed Adobe’s go-to-market efforts into a data-driven, growing revenue stream for the company. Before joining Adobe in 2009, Robserved aschief marketing officerat Art.com, where he owned all revenue-generation, growing the company to more than$200million in annual sales. He built a multi-functional team to deliver sales and earnings growth, improve margins, and expand productofferings and market penetrationfor the multi-channel/multi-brand business overall. Prior to that, Rob spent threeyears with Gap, Inc. as vice president & general manager for Old Navy Canada, leading a turnaround initiative to restore revenue and profit within the 65-store Old Navy Canada business. He led a team of 75 to deliver more than$300 million in revenue and increase website traffic by 25%. Rob also held senior-level positions in marketing and e-commerce at Williams-Sonoma,where he created the brand marketing organization to drive customer acquisition and loyalty and launchedthe $130M PotteryBarn.com business in 2000. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adobe
Mike is anything but your typical general counsel. His distaste for acronym use and “legalese” drove him to rewrite Adobe’s contracts to plain English and develop a whole new writing style guide for the legal community. He oversees legal affairs, public policy, and compliance interests by day, but outside the office, he’s an avid blogger, writer, and adventurist. Given his love for writing, it may come as no surprise that Mike received bachelor’s degrees in communications and sociology from UC San Diego before getting his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Deepak Bharadwaj
Vice President of Product Management, Document Cloud of Adobe
Deepak Bharadwaj is the vice president and general manager of ServiceNow, where he is responsible for incubating, creating, and scaling new companies within the Employee Workflows product portfolio. He recently managed the company’s entry into the HR technology market, where he established a $200 million+ subscription revenue business in four years. Deepak was previously the VP of Product Management for Oracle’s Talent Acquisition and Talent Management products. He has also held roles of leadership in pre-sales and corporate development at Taleo, corporate strategy at SAP, and engineering at i2. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from India’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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About Adobe, Sand Hill Angels: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Cynthia Stoddard
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, of Adobe
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Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe, Stark Insider: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Gregory Chang
Vice President of Product of Carta
Gregory Chang is a product executive who helped lead two companies, YuMe and Zuora, to an IPO. He is currently Vice President for Product at Carta, where he oversees the core product, including cap table management and equity plan software. Greg is an angel investor focused on enterprise SaaS. His investments include Amplitude, Atrium, Ironclad, Gem, and Vanta among others. Greg is also a Sequoia scout, advisor at 8VC, Affinity and Qualia and previously served on the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council during the Obama Administration.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Miranda
Executive Vice President, Application Development of Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle’s applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Douglas Kehring
Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations of Oracle
Douglas Kehring has served as the head of Oracle’s Corporate Development and Strategic Planning group since 2005, providing planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source code and object code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined Oracle after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Seoane
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Oracle
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Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Killian Evers
Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience of Oracle
Killian Evers is a Vice President on the Oracle Applications User Experience team. She leads a multifaceted team responsible for product design and usability for Sales, Engagement, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Procurement areas. The team also covers all product family areas for Setup, Extensibility, and Tooling for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.
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About Google, Oracle, Veritas Technologies: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Zivanic
Vice President, Storage Hardware Systems Business Group of Oracle
Steve Zivanic is the Global Vice President, Database & Autonomous Services Product Marketing at Oracle
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About Oracle, Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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Tracy Martin
Vice President, HCM Strategy of Oracle
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Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chad Arimura
Vice President of Oracle
Chad Arimura is an entrepreneur, programmer, and musician. He is currently CEO of [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io), a cloud application services platform, makers of IronWorker and IronMQ. Funded by Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners, Divergent Ventures, Cloud Capital Partners, and a handful of cloud angels, [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io) is quickly becoming the trusted messaging and workers platform for thousands of companies big and small. He was previously a co-founder and lead engineer at [Appoxy.com](http://www.appoxy.com), a consulting firm that specializes in scalable application design using the latest in Cloud-based technologies. Starting as a sophomore in college, Chad co-founded and acted as CTO for AllDorm Inc., a media/marketing service aimed at connecting fortune 1000 companies with the elusive collegiate market. AllDorm was acquired by University Pipeline in 2005. He is also an avid pianist, playing in a San Francisco cover band, and grew up playing tennis and soccer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jason Bryant
Vice President Nor1 – Oracle Hospitality of Oracle
Jason Bryant, Nor1 Founder and co-CEO, oversees day-to-day operations, provides visionary leadership and strategic direction for the upsell technology company. With Jason at the helm, Nor1 has quickly emerged as the technology leader in upsell solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Nor1 provides innovative revenue enhancement solutions to the hospitality industry. A seasoned entrepreneur, Mr. Bryant has over 20 years experience building and leading international software development and operations organizations. Prior to Nor1, he founded and grew DRCI into a world-class offshore software development organization which maintained facilities in India and Mexico. DRCI focused on providing services to the travel industry, specialized in both high-volume transaction systems and Internet technologies. Mr. Bryant is a frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at global events such as World Travel Market, the Hospitality Upgrade Vendor Summit, ITB Berlin, and many other industry events. He also volunteers his time to a number of non-profit organizations. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Chorley
Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Product Strategy of Oracle
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Vijay Narayanan
Senior Vice President Of Engineering of ServiceNow
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Vice-President of the Office of Public Sector and Education of RingCentral
Naveed Husain, Vice President Office Public Sector and Education is charged with developing the strategic alignment with industry trends. As a former customer of RingCentral, he is passionate about assisting new and existing customers adopt and leverage cloud-based Unified Communication as a Service and Contact Center as a Service. Formerly, he was the Chief Information Officer of Teachers College, Columbia University and had implemented RingCentral’s product suite, he has real world insights on the challenges and benefits of introducing a UCAAS/CCAAS solution. In his roles as a Chief Information Officer, he has empowered his teams to provide agile and consultative services using a cloud to deliver elegant solutions for research, teaching and learning that have resulted in business efficiencies and enhanced student experience. Naveed brings over 20 years of global professional experience in the private and public sectors, having served as the Chief Information Officer at Queens College, City University of New York where he aligned the technology departments goals to the College’s Strategic Plan. He has worked in challenging duty stations for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, like Mogadishu and Iraq and has led enterprise projects for multinational firms in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Praful Shah
Senior Vice President Strategy of RingCentral
Praful Shah is responsible for defining the company’s business, product, and marketing strategy. Shah brings more than 20 years of experience with major technology companies in the software and cloud industries. Before joining RingCentral, he worked at WebEx from its founding days until its acquisition by Cisco in 2007. At WebEx, Shah held various executive management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Communications, Online Products, Product Marketing, and Business Development. Shah previously served as the Senior Director of Marketing for the database and internet products divisions at Oracle. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jim Dvorkin
Senior Vice President, Customer Engagement of RingCentral
Jim Dvorkin has broad experience in building companies in software as a service (SaaS) technology space, including customer relationship management and call center technologies. Presently, as CTO of Five9 – a market-leading SaaS call center solutions company, Jim manages software development, data center operations, customer support and implementation. Previously, Jim started the call center initiative as VP of Technology for Salesforce.com – a leading SaaS customer relationship management company. Jim has also served as CTO at EchoPass, provider of hosted call center solutions, and as VP of Technology at HipBone, a hosted web collaboration company. His extensive experience also includes co-founding one of the first on-demand call center companies – WhitePJ (acquired by Contactual), as well as co-founding Next Age Technologies, leading provider of workforce management solutions (acquired by Genesys). Jim also held several key engineering roles at Genesys – a pioneer and worldwide leader of delivering complex premise-based call center solutions. Jim holds a Masters degree of Economics and Computer Science from State University of Lithuania, and fluently speaks Russian, Lithuanian and English.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Keith Dennis
Regional Vice President, Enterprise West of RingCentral
Software as a Service (SaaS) sales leader with 16+ years experience rapidly building and scaling high performance teams in emerging markets. Industry specialization: Global Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service; Global Omni Channel Contact Center as a Service.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Daniel Saks
Founder & Co-CEO & President of AppDirect
Daniel Saks is the Co-CEO of AppDirect, which he founded in 2009 with Nicolas Desmarais. Daniel plays a key role in the growth and development of AppDirect, from attracting a leading team, to nurturing relationships with customers and partners. Daniel’s presentation at the Under the Radar conference in the spring of 2011 resulted in AppDirect winning “Best in Show,” earning coverage in Wall Street Journal. Daniel received a BA in political science from McGill University then studied finance and accounting at Harvard. Prior to AppDirect, Daniel worked at Viant Capital, a boutique tech investment bank. In his free time, Daniel enjoys traveling, attending hockey games, and studying contemporary architecture and impressionist paintings.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Michael Cassin
Vice President of Product Management of AppDirect
Prior to his 5 years at Visa, Michael spent 6 years in product leadership roles at PayPal and, before that, 3 years in product at VeriSign. Michael holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering Technology from the State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking in and exploring the great outdoors with his wife and young daughter and honing his skills as an avid home chef.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
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.
Hans Guntren
Vice President, Product Design of C3 AI
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Houman Behzadi
President and Chief Product Officer of C3 AI
Houman Behzadi is President and Chief Product Officer at C3 AI (NYSE:AI), a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers the C3 AI® Suite for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications, in addition to an increasingly broad portfolio of turnkey AI applications. Mr. Behzadi leads C3.ai’s Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Global Services, and Hosting Operations functions. Prior to C3 AI, Mr. Behzadi was at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for product operations and release management for its application and business intelligence products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he held leadership roles in products, engineering, and strategy at Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI, C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Henrik Ohlsson
Vice President, Data Science of C3 AI
Henrik Ohlsson is VP of data science at C3.ai. He has deep knowledge in machine learning, time series analysis, deep learning, and its applications. Henrik is also an assistant professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has both a Master of Science in electrical engineering and applied physics, and a Ph.D. in automatic control from Linkoping University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Colin Rogers
Vice President, Carrier Relations of Zenefits
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Didi D’Erico
Vice President of Communications of Zenefits
Didi leads communications at Zenefits. She joins Zenefits with deep contextual insight about products, customers and influencers in Human Capital Management, Talent Management and Employee Assessment from her marketing leadership roles at companies including Taleo (acquired by Oracle), Saba and SuccessFinder. She’s also built brand messaging and visibility for companies ranging from emerging start ups to enterprise leaders such as Oracle, HP and Sony.
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Didi D’Erico
Vice President of Communications of Zenefits
Didi leads communications at Zenefits. She joins Zenefits with deep contextual insight about products, customers and influencers in Human Capital Management, Talent Management and Employee Assessment from her marketing leadership roles at companies including Taleo (acquired by Oracle), Saba and SuccessFinder. She’s also built brand messaging and visibility for companies ranging from emerging start ups to enterprise leaders such as Oracle, HP and Sony.
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Bharath Yadla
VicePresident of Workato
Seasoned Executive with 20+ years of experience in building Customer Success teams, Disruptive Products, Solutions & for Start-Up & high-growth companies. Key expertise includes building groundup & managing Customer Success, Product Management & Strategy, and Partner Enablement for StartUps & high-growth companies Key Technology & Domain expertise includes building solutions in the areas of SaaS / Cloud Integration, SOA & Middleware, Retail Bigdata Analytics, Relevance & Personalization technologies Read more: http://insights.wired.com/bharathyadla
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Ravishankar Gundlapalli
Founder, President & Chief Solutions Officer of MentorCloud
Ravishankar Gundlapalli is the Founder, Executive Chairman, President, and Chief Solutions Officer at MentorCloud.
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About Founder Institute, MentorCloud: MentorCloud is a cloud-based mentoring platform for enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, employee engagement and retention.
Lalit Singh
President & Co-Founder of Vareto
Founder, angel investor, and former COO at Udacity and HPE.
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About Vareto: Strategic Finance Platform for finance and executive teams
Wes Brummette
Vice President of Operations of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Frannie Danzinger
Vice President of Strategic Business Development of Integrate
Frannie Danzinger is currently VP, Strategic Business Development for Integrate, a pioneer in demand orchestration software. Frannie works with hundreds of B2B marketing organizations to develop and scale their revenue-generating machines. Her passion is to fully understand a marketer’s business and help to build a high-impact strategy, with efficient process, data and technology, to bring the strategy to life. Having worked with smart marketers, savvy business pros and sharp technology professionals during her roles at 6sense, eXelate, a Nielsen Company and Bizo over the last five years, Frannie fell in love with MarTech. She’s experienced first-hand the power of MarTech and its ability to catapult – and hold back – marketing teams and business results. Coupled with 20+ years of agency media experience, it’s easy to get excited about the road ahead in marketing and technology. When not working with marketers, Frannie channels her personal passion to fitness. She is a Group Fitness Instructor, Boxing Trainer, Spinning Instructor and Personal Trainer. If you cannot find her at her desk, be sure to check the gym!
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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
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.
Jeff Sheldon
Vice President of Engineering of Recurly
Jeff Sheldon is the Vice President of Engineering at [Recurly](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recurly), a SaaS-based company that offers recurring billing management solutions as an outsourced service. He has previously held engineering leadership positions at Coupa Software, Life360, StumbleUpon, EmSense, and MICROS Systems.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Rick McConnell
President and GM, Security Technology Group of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
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.
Jennifer Tyson
Senior Vice President of HappyCo
Jennifer (Llacera) Tyson is the Senior Vice President at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
Seth Knox
Vice President of Marketing of Agari
Seth helps customers around the world to understand new, internet scale, data driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks. He keeps tabs on the emails threat landscape and shares that with the industry analysts, press and IT Security professionals.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
David Rye
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development of Blue Yonder
As Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development, David Rye ensures that JDA is on point strategically and performing well operationally, while also exploring investment and partnership opportunities to accelerate the company’s growth. He is responsible for shaping JDA’s corporate strategy around its portfolio, services, cloud and go-to-market approach, and operationalizing this strategy cross-functionally. David joined JDA in April 2017 from Informatica Corporation, where he served as SVP of corporate development, responsible for strategy, corporate and business development, strategic investments, and operational transformation initiatives. At Informatica, he played a pivotal role in helping drive the company’s revenue growth from $390 million to $1.1 billion, overseeing the company’s organic growth strategies and the acquisition and integration of numerous companies. Prior to spending nine years in the software industry at Informatica and Hyperion Solutions, he spent over five years as a private equity investor at Thayer Capital Partners and Atlas Venture. David began his career in investment banking at Robertson Stephens & Co. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Princeton and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business. If not orchestrating game-changing deals with Blue Yonder and MuleSoft, David would be a helicopter ski guide. On the weekends, he can often be found with this family, coaching his kids’ sports and when time allows, either skiing or cycling.
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About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is a digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment platform.
Amardeep Jenkins
Vice President of Operations of ChargeNet Stations
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About ChargeNet Stations: ChargeNet Stations specializes in the fields of SaaS, cleantech, electric vehicle supply equipment, and distributed energy resources.
Mostafa Akbari-Hochberg
President & Founding CEO of HoloBuilder
Mr. Mostafa Akbari serves as President and Founder of HoloBuilder Inc. Mr. Akbari serves as Managing Director of bitstars GmbH. He started developing AR-Applications for Mac and PC. He contributes experience with start-ups as well as his network from the Web 2.0 and founding scene. Additionally he offers a wealth of experience regarding Multichannel-Marketing and Social Media. His knowledge from researching eLearning and Mobile Media were applied
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About HoloBuilder: HoloBuilder™ is an enterprise-ready Construction Progress Management solution for AEC firms to capture & control jobsite progress in 360°.
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.
Brad Brooks
President and Chief Executive Officer of OneLogin
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About Censys, OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Anastasia Pavlova
Vice President, Growth and Demand Generation of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Adam Hotchkiss
Vice-President of Product of Plume Design
Adam Hotchkiss is a co-founder at Plume Design Inc.
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About Plume Design: Plume is a SaaS platform that provides the delivery of technological services for connected homes.
Anders Wallgren
Vice President of Technology Strategy of CloudBees
Anders Wallgren is Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud. Anders brings with him over 15 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Anders held executive positions at Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award winning technologies such as Macromedia’s Director 7 and various Shockwave products. Anders holds a B.SC from MIT.
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About CloudBees, Electric Cloud: CloudBees develops a cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end automated software delivery.
Dan Wright
President & COO of DataRobot
Dan Wright is the Chief Executive Officer of DataRobot.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Cedric Bru
CEO & President of Taulia
Cedric Bru is President and CEO of Taulia, the Fintech company revolutionizing cash flows and supplier financing. He has more than 20 years of experience and a proven executive management track in financial services and technology companies like Visa and Hewlett-Packard. Cedric holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In addition to his dedication to his career, Cedric is passionate about his family, art, and a good game of rugby, tennis, or golf.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Dan Burkland
President of Five9
Dan is responsible for all sales and business development activities for the enterprise and mid-markets for Five9. He has a strong track-record and over 20 years of experience building successful sales organizations for contact center and other voice applications companies. Prior to Five 9, Dan was SVP of Sales at Transera Communications, an on-demand hosted contact center solution provider, where he and his team focused on enterprise and outsourcer sales. Before that, Dan ran world-wide sales for IP Unity, provider of carrier-hosted Unified Communications (UC) and conferencing solutions. Dan built and managed a world-wide sales team for direct and channels while growing the business 10-fold during his 4 years with the Company. Dan also held sales management positions at Cisco and GeoTel (prior to its acquisition by Cisco) focusing on their contact center applications and other VoIP solutions. He holds a BS in Business Administration and Marketing from California State University, Chico.
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About Five9: Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Mandy Jeffery
Vice President, People of Workday
Mandy Jeffery is the vice-president of people, international and operations at Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. With more than 20 years of experience, she has global responsibility for Workday’s HR operations and international business partnering and employee engagement. Previously, she served as the senior director of HR Operations at Verifone and was part of a team that successfully implemented Workday across 44 countries. Preceding Verifone, she was a HR consultant for Thames Water, and has also previously served as the HR director for EMEA at Allegis Group. She has also served on multiple boards across EMEA.
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About Workday, Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Tony Rizzo
Vice President Product Adoption of Workday
Tony Rizzo is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer at Tidemark, an enterprise performance management company that offers a unified application platform built for the cloud. He is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience in performance management consulting and services delivery. With a relentless focus on customer success and value, Rizzo has enabled some of the world’s leading companies to take advantage of software and technology to improve business performance. Prior to Tidemark, Rizzo was senior vice president at HCL Axon, where he established a new business unit focused on business analytics, which added the missing component to HCL Axon’s execution services portfolio. Prior to this, Rizzo was co-founder and vice president of services at OutlookSoft and was personally involved in successful implementations for hundreds of customers worldwide before leading its field services team through its acquisition by SAP. Rizzo began his career at IMRS, which later became Hyperion Solutions, and held a number of key roles in QA, product development, consulting, and consulting management.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Christine Cefalo
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of Workday
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
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
Lior Delgo
Co-Founder and President of Globality of Globality
Lior is an entrepreneur with a proven record of building disruptive technology and new business models. He was Co-Founder and CEO of FareChase (acquired by Yahoo) and VideoSurf (acquired by Microsoft). He loves leading product and technology teams, most recently as a Partner and GPM of Microsoft’s Xbox, and holds numerous technology patents.
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Stephen Horning
Vice President of Customer Success of Pantheon
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Matt Cornett
Vice President of Analytics & Insights of Pantheon
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Martin Frid-Nielsen
Vice President of Document Solutions of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Elad Horn
Vice President, Product Management of Proofpoint
Elad has 20 years of experience managing products and leading teams, and is currently VP of product management for Proofpoint’s CASB and Unified DLP. Before joining Proofpoint, he was enSilo’s VP of products. Prior to enSilo, Elad was a Principal Product Manager at EMC, responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and requirements of several products. Before that, Elad managed Imperva’s leading enterprise security product. Elad has also held engineering roles and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA in finance from IDC Herzliya, Israel, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In his spare time, you’ll find Elad competing in Ironman triathlons.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Carlos Sartorius
Executive Vice President – Worldwide Sales and Services of Citrix Systems
Carlos Sartorius is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services at Citrix. His team delivers market-leading virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services solutions to support the mobile workspace objectives of more than 400,000 customer organizations worldwide.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
