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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Principal operating in the Software space. If you think a Principal 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.
Yuki Ishioka
Principal Product Manager of Adobe
Yuki Ishioka is a Principal Product Manager at Adobe and is responsible for driving International product strategy across the company’s Creative Cloud products. Yuki is an Adobe veteran, with over 12 years of combined experience and was an original member of the InDesign J, an Adobe product well regarded for its highly culturalized features. Yuki’s passion is helping bridge Adobe’s product relate-ability and usability for users in the international markets.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Todd Burke
Principal Solutions Engineer of Adobe
Todd Burke, principal solutions consultant with Adobe Systems Inc., has been in the media workflow and content management business for over 15 years. He has helped many of the largest media companies in the world to optimize their media creation, management, delivery and monetization workflows on prem and in the cloud. He now works with various Adobe digital media, cloud solutions and metadata platforms to help enterprise creatives optimize various workflows. Todd is an avid photographer, practicing creative and huge fan of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Wayne Hoang
Principal Manager, Product Marketing of Adobe
Adobe Product Marketing.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Roy Fielding
Senior Principal Scientist of Adobe
Roy T. Fielding is a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Inc. Dr. Fielding is best known for his work in developing and defining the modern World Wide Web infrastructure. He is the primary architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), and URI Templates, and co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation. Dr. Fielding received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Adobe, Apache HTTP Server Project: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Peleus Uhley
Lead Security Strategist (Principal Scientist) of Adobe
Peleus Uhley has been a part of the security industry for more than 15 years. As the lead security strategist at Adobe, he assists the company with proactive and reactive security.He is a frequent blogger, presenter, and an active member of the security community. Prior to joining Adobe, Peleus was a senior developer at Anonymizer, and a security consultant for @stake and Symantec .
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ginna Baldassarre
Principal Product Manager, International Strategy for Creative Cloud of Adobe
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Sasha Pave
Principal, Growth Marketing of Adobe
Sasha Pave joined Adobe as Principal, Growth Marketing in 2015. Helping the world tell better stories and communicate with impact. Adobe Spark turns your ideas into beautiful, professional-looking social graphics, web pages, and animated videos – in just minutes. Check us out on the web at spark.adobe.com. Or download our iOS apps: Spark Post, Spark Video, and Spark Page.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Aaron Hertzmann
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research of Adobe
Aaron Hertzmann received a BA in computer science and art & art history from Rice University in 1996, and a PhD in computer science from New York University in 2001. He was a Professor at University of Toronto for 10 years, and has also worked at Pixar Animation Studios, University of Washington, Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, and Interval Research Corporation. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and IEEE Senior Member, and holds courtesy faculty appointments at University of Washington and University of Toronto.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Siri Srinivas
Principal of Draper Associates
Siri Srinivas is a Principal at Draper Associates.
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About Draper Associates: Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Abdul Ly
Principal of Initialized Capital
Abdul Ly serves as a Principal at Initialized Capital.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Bhairav Mehta
Principal Data Scientist Manager of Microsoft
Experienced engineer, entrepreneur and seasoned Statistician / programmer with 14 years of combined experience working on product service/ channel /warranty management in electronics consumer products industry at Apple Inc. (4 years), yield engineering in semiconductor manufacturing at Qualcomm (6 years) and quality engineering in automotive industry at Ford Motor Company (OEM, Tier2 Suppliers) (3 years). MBA from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, 3 Master of Science (MS) degrees in diverse engineering and mathematical sciences. Industrial Systems Engineering (Rochester ’02), Applied Statistics (Cornell ’04)..Developed skills in Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark for Scalability and implementation of big data solution for the enterprises. Cloudera certified Hadoop developer, Cloudera certified Data Scientist and Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate. Industry renowned ASQ certifications: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE ’06), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE ’07) and Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CSSBB ’09). Skills across hardware and software platforms. Naturalized US Citizen.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Idan Levin
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Idan Levin is Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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About Cyberstarts, Microsoft, YL Ventures: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Yoni Leibowitz
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
Yoni Leibowitz is a principal software engineer on the Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) team, which he joined back when the service was still in an early stage of incubation. While being very hands on and focusing on the platform’s data engine, Yoni maintains a customer-obsessed state of mind, works closely with customers at all scales, and supports the growing community of users of the service and the Kusto query language.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Barbara Stortz
Principal Applied Science Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rita Zhang
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Andreas Stolcke
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
Andreas Stolcke received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently worked as a Senior Research Engineer in the Speech Technology and Research Laboratory at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, and is currently a Principal Researcher with the Speech and Dialog Research Group at Microsoft Research in Sunnyvale, CA; he is also an External Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. Dr. Stolcke has done research in machine language learning, parsing, speech recognition, speaker recognition, and speech understanding, publishing more than 200 papers in these areas. He is also the author of a widely used open-source toolkit for statistical language modeling, and serves on the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
John Mark Agosta
Principal Applied Research Scientist of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Sean Knox
Principal Engineer of Microsoft
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Katie Kelly
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft / Product Owner, AltspaceVR of Microsoft
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Nate Yohannes, JD
Principal Product Leader – Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Kristina Williams
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure Engineering CXP of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Adam Tuliper
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
Adam is a Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering division. Adam lives in Southern California and helps others realize their technical vision across mixed reality, web, gaming, cloud, console, mobile, and desktop platform. He is heavily addicted to his HoloLens, .NET Core, bots, Unity, and most .NET based technologies. He co-runs the Orange County Unity and the LA Mixed Reality meetup. Prior to Microsoft he worked as a software architect in defense, finance, pharma, manufacturing, technology, and public sector fields over a span of 20+ years. Adam also has taught for several colleges. He presents nationwide at conferences such as //build & GDC, loves speaking at user groups and universities, is a pluralsight.com author and an MSDN Magazine author.
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About ERGO Capital, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Aaratee Rao
Principal Group Manager of Microsoft
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Mario Inchiosa
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Lachlan Evenson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Lachlan Evenson is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft since 2017. Lachlan Evenson is an evangelist passionate about open source projects and communities. He has presented at OpenStack Summit in Tokyo and Vancouver 2015, OpenStackSV 2015, KubeCon, Kubernetes v1 Launch and also at various community events relating to my field of experience. Lachlan is also a co-organizer of 900+ meetup group in the bay area, as well as a current member on the OpenContrail Advisory Board.
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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Derek Murray
Principal Architect of Microsoft
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Jeff Bennett
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research AI of Microsoft
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Jane Fang
Principal PM Lead – Cloud and AI of Microsoft
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Matt Usher
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Matt is a seasoned technologist having started as a consultant with Deloitte, ventured through several startups, and then landing at Microsoft in 2003. Matt currently works as a program manager in the SQL Server division working on Azure SQL Data Warehouse, PolyBase and the Appliance Platform System (APS). Matt is a Microsoft Engineering Excellence award winner.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Sarah Guthals
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Boris Lokhvitsky
Principal Consultant / Architect of Microsoft
Boris is a principal consultant / architect working for Microsoft Consulting Services since 2005. He is Microsoft Certified Master in Exchange. Before coming to Microsoft, he worked as an Exchange architect and administrator for Google. He came to the U.S. in 2000 from Siberia in Russia, where he was learning how to deploy SCUD missiles, leading Microsoft training and certification center, and teaching math at Tomsk Polytechnic University (Boris has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics).
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Cindy Alvarez
Principal Product Manager of Microsoft
Cindy Alvarez is the director of user experience at [Yammer](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yammer#/entity), an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies, and business applications. She also serves as a faculty advisor at Alchemist Accelerator. Previously, she was a mentor for Lean LaunchPad. Alvarez holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University. She lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Bryan Nyce
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Bryan has worked with Universal Communications for over 15 years, beginning with LCS through Skype for Business. He works directly with our partners to ensure readiness and quality for Skype deployments.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Konstantinos Karanasos
Principal Scientist of Microsoft
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Subramaniam Krishnan
Principal Architect of Microsoft
Subru Krishnan is a Principal Architect at Microsoft in the Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) currently focusing on YARN, specifically scaling it to 100K+ nodes and providing SLA guarantees. He has been working on the Hadoop ecosystem since 2007. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Yahoo! where he contributed to Oozie’s precursor, near real-time stream processing on Hadoop and HBase replication.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
David Chou
Principal Architect Lead – Cloud & AI of Microsoft
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Katie Schwartz
Principal, Salesforce Ventures of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Gurpreet Singh Multani
Principal Performance Engineer of Salesforce
Gurpreet Singh Multani is the Principal Performance Engineer 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.
Serena Cameirano
Principal Software Engineer of Salesforce
Principal Software Engineer at 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.
Amir Meimand
Principal Solution Engineer, Data Science and Machine Learning of Salesforce
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Jing Vergara
Principal Software Engineer of Salesforce
Jing Vergara is the Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce.com.
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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.
Lars Hofhansl
Principal Architect, VP of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Gavin Austin
Principal Technical Writer of Salesforce
Gavin Austin is a Principal Technical Writer at Salesforce, where he writes everything from UI text to API developer guides. He helped Salesforce radically change its content strategy in 2015, and he has delivered a number of highly-rated presentations at LavaCon, WritersUA, Agile 2013, Intelligent Content Conference, Society for Technical Communication Summit, and Content Management Strategies/DITA North America.
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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.
Manish Anand
Principal Software Engineer of Salesforce
Manish Anand is the Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce.
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Rohit Koul
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Rohit Koul has been working for BITSAA International Inc since 2010. Starting as a volunteer in Technology Team, he has been serving the community as the CEO since 2012. Among other things like starting multiple scholarships and awards, he and his team of “merry men” have been instrumental in raising a million dollars for BITSAA, getting BITSConnect 2.0 implemented, BITS’ partnership with Coursera/EdX, launching the concept of BITSians’ Day, Taking BITS/BITSAA to NASDAQ, Setting up a merchandise store, Career Center and Mentoring network for the alumni. In his day job, he works on securing cloud services. Rohit graduated in 2006 from BITS, Pilani (Computer Science); has a Masters in Computer Science(09-11) from University of Wisconsin-Madison, holds numerous patents and has been awarded at Oracle for special contribution and innovation.
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About BITSAA International, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jeewika Ranaweera
Principal Hardware Engineer of Oracle
Jeewika Ranaweera is a principal hardware engineer at Oracle. She received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from ISPJAE in Havana, Cuba; and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Oracle Semiconductor Engineering team that develops high-speed microprocessors. She is an IEEE Senior Member, an ABET program evaluator for IEEE, and a Sustainability Champion at Oracle. Jeewika authored an eBook about her engineering journey for IEEE Women in Engineering to inspire others to follow STEM careers and illustrated the 1st children’s book published by IEEE. She was a speaker at the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida on “High Performance Computing and Engineering track” and contributed to the development of the next generation of women in technology. She was a panelist at the 2017 IEEE Women in Computing Summit’s Innovation Panel on “How to stay ahead of the curve in technology”. As a judge for local and international science fairs, she gets to motivate and stimulate the interests of students in the fields of science and engineering. Through Oracle Women in Leadership, she networks with like-minded women who are committed, diverse and passionate while enhancing her leadership skills. As an ambassador for Oracle Diversity and Inclusion, she shared her experience and insight as an engineer at the “True Blue Inclusion Solutions Forum” to tackle head-on issues that so far have rebuffed the change essential to make engineering jobs rewarding for women. She also develops curriculums and deliver workshops surrounding wearable technology through the Oracle Education Foundation. Through ABET, she helps guide the content, quality and delivery of ECE degree programs around the world. She also makes a difference to the health and safety of employees by volunteering with Oracle’s Emergency Response Team. She has authored and co-authored many papers published in technical journals, or presented at international conferences. Jeewika holds four U.S. Patents.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Christian Shay
Principal Product Manager of Oracle
Christian Shay is a product manager in the Database Technologies group at Oracle. As a .NET and Oracle Database on Windows evangelist, he speaks to user groups, at Microsoft events and at Oracle events worldwide.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Michael Richter
Principal Director, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, IoT, Blockchain of Oracle
Michael Richter has always gravitated toward change, whether it is building new businesses, embracing new technologies or exploring and discovering new places. His career has included senior marketing roles at News Corporation, MGM, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Setanta Sports and MediaZone. He led the pioneering roll out of cable and satellite TV in Asia over a 10-year period in the 90’s followed by digital media and product management roles based in the US. Currently, he is at the forefront of the fast growing cloud services industry as Director Product Management for CX Sales at Oracle. He holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, Global School of Management in Alliance with ASU, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. He is a competitive outrigger canoeist residing in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he published a book titled “One Red Shirt” documenting his 10-year experience in the Asia Pacific region.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Stuart Marks
Principal Member of Technical Staff of Oracle
Stuart Marks is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in the Java Platform Group at Oracle. He is currently working on a variety of JDK core libraries projects, including Collections, Lambda, and Streams, as well as improving test quality and performance. As his alter ego “Dr Deprecator” he also works on the Java SE deprecation mechanism. He has previously worked on JavaFX and Java ME at Sun Microsystems. He has over twenty years of software platform product development experience in the areas of window systems, interactive graphics, and mobile and embedded systems. Stuart holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering 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.
Irfan Ahmed
Principal Member Technical Staff of Oracle
Irfan Ahmed is the Consulting Member Technical Staff at Oracle.
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Nicolas DeRico
Master Principal Solutions Engineer of Oracle
Nicolas has a passion for databases and statistics, and their application. Combining his experience with database development and business education, he advises and designs high-value solutions with customers, and supports the MySQL sales organization.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Christopher Jones
Senior Principal Product Manager of Oracle
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Sergey Kuksenko
Java Performance Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff of Oracle
Sergey works as Java Performance Engineer at Oracle. His primary goal is making Oracle JVM faster digging into JVM runtime, JIT compilers, class libraries and etc. His favorite area is an interaction of Java with modern hardware what he is doing since 2005 when he worked at Intel in Apache Harmony Performance team.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Andrew Manoske
Principal Product Manager – Cryptography and Security Products of HashiCorp
Andy is an experienced product leader whose career bridges across infrastructure technology and venture capital. At HashiCorp he manages product development for Vault, HashiCorp’s secrets management and cryptography suite. Previously he led the design and development of OTX (Open Threat Exchange), the world’s largest open-source threat intelligence network, at AlienVault and managed cryptography and product security at NetApp as the youngest product manager in the company’s history. He also formerly served on the investment teams of Amplify Partners as well as Shanghai/Sand Hill Road-based GGV Capital. Andy holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from San Jose State University.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Natasha Sharma
Principal of True Ventures
Natasha initially joined the True Ventures team in the summer of 2016 as a True Entrepreneur Corps fellow. During TEC, she worked with True portfolio company Helpshift, a SaaS company that makes it easy for businesses to care for their customers. In 2017, she joined True’s investment team. Having grown up in the Bay Area, she’s witnessed the burgeoning of Silicon Valley’s technology scene and now applies that lens in her associate role when vetting new ideas from today’s most imaginative founders and teams. Natasha is also a liaison for True’s fellowship programs, often mentoring students looking to build their own careers at high-growth technology startups. Natasha graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Smith College, where she braved one too many New England winters before returning to San Francisco. For more than a decade, she has been a member of The Art of Living Foundation, an organization that encourages mindfulness through meditation.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Natasha Sharma
Principal of True Ventures
Natasha initially joined the True Ventures team in the summer of 2016 as a True Entrepreneur Corps fellow. During TEC, she worked with True portfolio company Helpshift, a SaaS company that makes it easy for businesses to care for their customers. In 2017, she joined True’s investment team. Having grown up in the Bay Area, she’s witnessed the burgeoning of Silicon Valley’s technology scene and now applies that lens in her associate role when vetting new ideas from today’s most imaginative founders and teams. Natasha is also a liaison for True’s fellowship programs, often mentoring students looking to build their own careers at high-growth technology startups. Natasha graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Smith College, where she braved one too many New England winters before returning to San Francisco. For more than a decade, she has been a member of The Art of Living Foundation, an organization that encourages mindfulness through meditation.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Patrick Chang
Principal of Cota Capital
Patrick Chang is an early stage investor at Samsung NEXT Ventures. He primarily focuses on seed to series B enterprise / B2B investing and specializes in blockchain, security, edge computing, and more. Prior to Samsung, Patrick was at Foundation Capital with a focus on SaaS and enterprise software. He has over 12 years of experience investing in enterprise software including IT security, infrastructure, developer tools, business intelligence/analytics and more ranging in various stages from seed to growth equity at Bain Capital Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, New York Angels and Updata. Patrick is also a recovering tech investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers, where he helped public and venture backed technology companies raise capital and execute M&A transactions.
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About Cota Capital, Samsung NEXT: Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies.
Eric Lee
Principal of Cota Capital
Eric Lee joined Cota in 2019 as a Senior Associate on the investment team, where he focuses on sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring of public investments. Prior to Cota, Eric was an Analyst at Partner Fund Management and an Associate at The Capital Group covering investments in the technology sector. He also held a summer Analyst position at Whale Rock Capital, a technology-focused equity long/short hedge fund. Eric began his career as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Eric graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Minor in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Cota Capital: Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies.
Diego Oliveira
Principal of Cota Capital
Diego Oliveira is a Principal at Cota Capital.
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About Cota Capital: Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies.
Max Bélanger
Principal Software Engineer of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Gabby Contro
Principal of Crosslink Capital
Gabby Contro is a Principal at Crosslink Capital.
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About Crosslink Capital: Crosslink Capital partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators typically at the Seed-Series A stage.
Venkat Prasad
Principal Product Manager (Growth) of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Stefano Marzani
Principal Specialist SA, Autonomous Driving of Amazon Web Services
It’s more than 15 years that I develop Human-Machine Interaction systems. I create tools and methodologies to support HMI development and I contributed to HMI innovation, especially in the automotive sector. This is reflected in the projects and initiatives I contributed to: 20+ publications and patents, a team of 50+ people, 100+ globally distributed partners and clients, mostly in the automotive.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ali Arsanjani
TechSector Leader and Principal Architect, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architecture of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, San Diego Tech Hub, San Jose State University, University of California, San Diego: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Antonella Corno
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Jason Willig
Principal, Strategy & Business Operations of Amazon Web Services
Jason Willig is a consumer software executive, entrepreneur, and advisor. He is currently Principal, Strategy & Business Operations in the AWS division at Amazon. Jason is an advisor to Farside HR Solutions, an HR tech startup building a disruptive performance management platform, as well as VGMarket, a leading market research company. Previously, he was Vice President and Group General Manager and Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations at Electronic Arts. From 2011 to 2013 Willig served as COO and CEO of Booyah, Inc., a leading developer and publisher of location-based mobile games. Prior to joining Booyah, he spent four years at Electronic Arts as the Senior Director of Strategy & Business Operations for the Hasbro business unit. Jason has held executive & leadership positions at top interactive and media companies since 1998 including LucasFilm, Vivendi Games and BabyCenter.com. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in Chinese from the University of Massachusetts and an associate degree in Culinary Arts from the California Culinary Academy.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Harnish Patel
Principal PDM, Security of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Bretan
Principal Manager – Security & Infrastructure Practice of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Sergey Ermolin
Principal Solutions Architect, ML/DL/AI of Amazon Web Services
Sergey Ermolin is a technical program manager for deep learning, Spark analytics, and big data technologies at Intel. A Silicon Valley veteran with a passion for machine learning and artificial intelligence, Sergey has been interested in neural networks since 1996, when he used them to predict aging behavior of quartz crystals and cesium atomic clocks made by Hewlett-Packard. Sergey holds an MSEE and a certificate in mining massive datasets from Stanford and BS degrees in both physics and mechanical engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
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About Amazon Web Services, Intel: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Danny Yuan
Principal Software Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ashwin Bhat
Sr. Principal Engineer of Autodesk
Ashwin Bhat joined Autodesk as Senior Principal Engineer in 2000.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Gurdeep Kalra
Principal Consultant of Infosys
Gurdeep is a Principal consultant with Infosys with 20+ years of US experience in Hi-Tech Manufacturing Supply Chain and Bio-tech Pharma specializing in ERP & Big Data Analytics. He is passionate about solving tomorrow’s business challenges by applying cutting edge technologies. He is part of Infosys Block Chain Center of Excellence team for Supply chain functions and working on several initiatives within Infosys and outside that relate to applying Blockchain technology to the Supply Chain industry. Currently working Blockchain Supply Chain use case at a major Hitech company in San Jose for an End to End visibility of shipment and service around it, real time and secure exchange of data between partners and automation of invoicing payment thru smart contracts. Prior to Infosys, he was Director Systems for Quark city Chandigarh for building automation projects and prior to that he was Technical Lead at Stanford University, USA. He has been engaged with several bay area US companies as consulting/strategic partner roles mainly for technology ERP projects and Hadoop Data Lake implementations.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Manan Sanghvi
Principal Solutions Consultant of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ravi Soundararajan
Principal Engineer of VMware
Ravi Soundararajan is a Principal Engineer in the Performance Group at VMware. He works on vCenter performance and scalability, from the UI to the server to the database to the hypervisor management agents. He has been at VMware since 2003, and he has presented on the topic of vCenter Performance at VMworld from 2013-2017.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mark Peek
VP, Principal Engineer of VMware
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF and OCI.
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About FreeBSD, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Alex Rankov
Principal Enginer of VMware
Alex Rankov serves as principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Linus Bourque
Principal Instructor of VMware
Linus Bourque has been with VMware for nearly 14 years. He started his career with in GSS as a TSE/Escalation Engineer. After missing teaching for a while, he moved over to VMware’s Education team as a senior instructor and today is part of the Americas Education Tech Lead team, where he has been the lead instructor for a variety of End-User Computing courses over the last 8 years. Additionally, he has also been involved in the creation of various EUC certs and certifying new instructors (VCIs).
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
TJ Vatsa
Principal Consulting Architect, AMER of VMware
TJ Vatsa is a principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Roshni Patil
Principal Product Manager of VMware
Roshni Patil serves as principal product manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christian Dickmann
Principal Engineer of VMware
Christian Dickmann is the Principal Engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Cliff Lane
Principal System Engineer of VMware
Cliff Lane serves as principal system engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nate Franklin
Principal, Product Marketing of Amplitude
Nate Franklin is a principal product marketing manager at Amplitude.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
David Kellenberger
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
David focuses on investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest including software, information technology, business services, media, and consumer. He is actively involved with Norwest’s investment in WineAccess.Before joining Norwest, David was a technology investment banking analyst at William Blair in San Francisco. In this role, he focused on sell-side M&A execution as well as financing transactions for public and private companies across a wide range of technology segments.David holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Dartmouth College.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Spencer Chavez
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
Spencer Chavez is a principal at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Amy Tobey
Principal SRE of Equinix
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About Equinix, Tenable: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Purvish Purohit
Principal Software Architect of Equinix
Purvish is a technologist with successful track record of researching, prototyping and implementing applications and platforms in areas such as IOT, Scalable Web, Reactive Systems, Search and Big Data. He is leading API Management, Developer Platform and IOT initiatives at Equinix. He is coder at heart with long and varied history of working with different technology stacks, a passion for solving niche technology challenges and enjoys bringing new disruptive solutions and services to the organization.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jim Kelly
R&D Senior Principal Engineer of Quantcast
Jim Kelly leads Quantcast’s R&D team, which works on both adding computing capacity through cluster software innovations and using it up through new analytic and modeling products. Having been at Quantcast for thirteen years, he has seen its data volumes and processing challenges grow from zero to petabytes and led technical and organizational changes that have kept Quantcast a step ahead. Previously he held engineering leadership roles at Oracle, Kana, and Scopus Technology (acquired by Siebel). Jim holds a PhD in physics from Princeton
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Mike Demmer
Principal Engineer of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Jason Yates
Principal Software Engineer of Kandji
Jason is Chief Technology Officer of BrightScope and responsible for the technological strategy of the company, leading the development team, and overseeing all aspects of software development. He joined BrightScope in early 2010 and quickly displayed his capabilities as a developer and leader while working on several core systems. Jason has a demonstrated ability to bridge the spectrum of low-level implementation details and big picture vision. Previously, Jason worked at Parasoft in the areas of static code analysis, automated code refactoring, and metrics. He has participated in panels for undergraduate students entering STEM fields and is a frequent attendee of local technology events. Jason graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Shomik Ghosh
Principal of Boldstart Ventures
Shomik is the Principal of Boldstart Ventures and Angel Investor of Interview Schedule and Koyfin. Prior to joining Boldstart Ventures, Shomik was an associate at Ignite Advisors, focusing on helping early-stage startups scale. His previous experience includes venture debt & equity investing at WTI, tech investment banking at GCA Savvian, and debt capital markets sales & trading at PNC Financial Services. Shomik graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with honors with a B.S. in economics and a minor in statistics.
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About Boldstart Ventures: day one partner for developer first, SaaS, & crypto infrastructure founders
Archana Kataria
Principal Product Manager – Cloud Operations of Intuit
Archana Kataria serves as a principal product manager at Intuit.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Jason Webb
Principal Software Engineer of Intuit
Jason Webb is Services Fabric Chief Architect at Intuit, where he works on building tools and platforms to enable Intuit’s microservices ecosystem. Jason is passionate about cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools & experience, and open source. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northern Arizona University.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Scott Kennedy
Principal Engineer – Security Operations of Intuit
Scott Kennedy is the Chief Security Scientist on the Cloud Security Team at Intuit. He is a member of OpenInferno Hacker CTF Game toolkit team. His certifications are CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, GCIH, and GIAC. He has 23 years of experience as a Unix system administrator, including 10 years of dedicated security experience within commercial enterprises. Kennedy is an SME in fields including cloud security, virtualization, IT security, document retention, disaster recovery, IACNA/CND and forensics. As part of the Cloud Security Team, he is responsible for bringing scientific rigor and analysis to the decisions for cloud security. He is an active member of the Southern California IT Security scene.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Shrinand Javadekar
Principal Engineer of Intuit
Shrinand Javadekar is the Principal Engineer at Intuit.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Rehan Sheikh
Principal Engineer of Intuit
Rehan has 20 years of experience in Network and Security industry. Rehan has held various technical roles in building network and security solutions.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Wolf Paulus
Principal Software Engineer of Intuit
Wolf Paulus is the Principal Software Engineer at Intuit.
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About Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Avery Rosin
Principal of Lead Edge Capital
Avery Rosin is a Principal at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He joined the firm on July 05, 1995 and previously served as an Associate. Prior to that, he worked as an Analyst with the BRM Group in Tel Aviv and was involved in the start-up state.com. Avery Rosin holds a B.A. summa cum laude degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE Program) from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Jeremy Kaufmann
Principal of Scale Venture Partners
Jeremy focuses on investments across Scale’s technology portfolio with a primary focus on companies adding machine intelligence to business and vertical software, especially in industries untouched by the first decade of SaaS. As well, he is excited about frontier technologies including drones, robotics, and novel applications of AI across the IOT stack. His efforts have contributed to investments in KeepTruckin, Solvvy, and TechSee. Prior to joining Scale, Jeremy worked on the Sales Strategy and Business Operations team at Salesforce, where he drove initiatives in sales operations, partnerships, and growth, serving as the embedded strategy lead for the SMB business and the sales development organization. Additionally, he worked as a data scientist at Analysis Group, focused on health economics, healthcare outcomes research, and drug pricing. Jeremy started his career as a policy researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he concentrated on consumer credit, college loan accumulation, and education in the age of automation. Jeremy holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude. Outside of work, Jeremy enjoys cycling, tennis, and just about any outdoor adventure you can throw at him.
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About Scale Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners: Scale is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software.
Sam Baker
Principal of Scale Venture Partners
Sam joined Scale Venture Partners in early 2016 and focuses on opportunities in both business and infrastructure software, with particular interests in the next phase of workplace productivity tools, online marketplaces, cyber security, and frontier technologies. His efforts have contributed to the firm’s investments in Locus Robotics, CyberGRX, and PerimeterX. Prior to joining ScaleVP, Sam was a Growth Manager at Tilt.com (acquired by Airbnb) where he was responsible for building out the company’s user acquisition and retention programs. Beforehand, he worked for Box (NYSE: BOX) on the company’s SMB Sales and Strategic Planning & Analysis teams, concentrating on business development and go-to-market initiatives. Sam began his career at Permal Capital Management (now Glouston Capital Partners), a Boston-based investment firm focused on private equity and venture capital secondaries. Sam holds a B.A. from Brown University. He is a committed endurance athlete, completing thirteen marathons and qualifying for Boston on nine occasions.
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About Scale Venture Partners: Scale is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software.
