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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 VP’ operating in the Hardware space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
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Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Shiro Kambe
Executive Vice President of Sony
Sachi Kambe is the Senior VP at Sony Pictures Entertainment
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About Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Hiroshi Kawano
SVP of Sony
Hiroshi Kawano is the SVP at Sony.
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About Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI): Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Edward Chapman
Vice President Business Development and Alliances of Arista Networks
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
John Taylor
Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications of LG Electronics
John I. Taylor is Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for LG Electronics USA, Inc. Active in ATSC activities for decades, Taylor currently serves as ATSC Communications Chairman in addition to his role as a member of the ATSC Board of Directors. He represents LG Electronics on the Video Division Board of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is Chairman of the CEA Communications Committee and co-Chair of the CEA 4K Ultra HD Working Group, and he serves on the CEA Foundation Board of Trustees. Taylor also is a member of the boards of directors of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, The Media Institute and the Library of American Broadcasting. His industry experience included serving as Chairman of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance public affairs group, past Chairman of the CEA Video Division and former Chairman of the CEA HDTV Promotion Committee.He co-founded the Digital TV Transition Coalition and Plasma Display Coalition and previously served on the boards of the ATSC Forum and the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Active in digital television since 1988, Taylor is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and recipient of its highest honor, the Industry Leadership Award. Among other industry honors, Taylor received the 2014 AHAM Distinguished Service Award and was inducted into the Dealerscope Hall of Fame in 2015, largely for his work related to digital television.Since 2000, he has served as LG’s senior U.S. industry relations and government affairs executive. Taylor represents the company before the U.S. government and in industry organizations. He also is chief media spokesman and public relations strategist for LG Electronics in the United States. Taylor joined Zenith in 1981 and was named the company’s senior public affairs executive in 1987 and a corporate officer in 1993. (Zenith merged with LG Electronics in 1999.)A former newspaper reporter, he earned an M.S. degree from the Medill Graduate School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and a B.A. from DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
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Samuel Chang
SVP LG electronics US / Corporate Vice President LG HQ of LG Electronics
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Mohak Shah
VP & AI and Machine Learning of LG Electronics
Mohak Shah is an analytics leader and research scientist with significant experience in organization formation, strategy, and end-to-end data science engagements. He has participated in functional and strategic capacity in developing high-performing organizations in the analytics space. As a scientist, Mohak has developed novel machine learning and statistical algorithms, with high impact application in industrial domains, healthcare, bioinformatics and neurosciences. He is co-author of “Evaluating Learning Algorithms: A Classification Perspective” (Cambridge), and has authored more than 35 articles in top conferences and journals in the analytics space. He currently leads Data Science at Bosch.
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Henry Chung
Vice President and Corporate Venture Capital of LG Electronics
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Archana Chattha
Partner and VP of Network of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
David Wahl
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Jabil Digital Office of Jabil
David Wahl is a VP Operations & General Manager at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Daniel Gamota
Vice President, Engineering & Technology Services of Jabil
Daniel Gamota is a Sr. Director Process Innovation, Engineering & Technology Services at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Ben Chostner
Vice President of Blue River Technology
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Scott Kimmel
VP Finance and Administration of Blue River Technology
Scott joined Blue River in 2016 and leads the Finance and Administrative functions for the company.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Mac Keely
Vice President Field Operations of Blue River Technology
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Brian McGee
EVP, COO & CFO of GoPro
Brian McGee is the senior vice president and chief financial officer of [GoPro](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gopro#/entity), a brand of high-definition personal cameras used in extreme action video photography. Previously, he was the vice president for finance at the same company. He has also served as the vice president for business operations at [Qualcomm](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qualcomm#/entity). McGee holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from [California Polytechnic State University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/california-polytechnic-state-university-san-luis-obispo#/entity). He lives in Los Gatos, California, United States.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Rick Loughery
Vice President Global Product Communications of GoPro
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About GoPro, GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Kurt Kalbfleisch
Senior Vice President and CFO of Sphere 3d
Kurt Kalbfleisch joined Sphere 3D as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2014. Prior to that, Kurt was with Overland Storage from December 1993 until November 2014 and served as Overland’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kurt is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, legal, and facilities operations. During his tenure at Overland, Kurt has also served in several key management roles in cost accounting and finance. Prior to joining Overland, Kurt was a manufacturing budget analyst for McDonnell Douglas Corp. Kurt earned his MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
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About Sphere 3d: Sphere 3D Corp. delivers data management, and desktop and application virtualization via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and on-premise implementations.
Joseph Macri
Vice President/CTO of AMD
Joseph Macri is Vice President at AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Patrick O’Malley
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Seagate Technology
Patrick O’Malley assumed the role of EVP & CFO effective August 25, 2008. In his previous role of SVP Finance & Treasurer, he was responsible for Corp. Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Credit & Collections and Risk Management along with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and support for our Business Unit GMs, Sales & other functions. In October 2005, he returned to Finance from the Sales Organization where he coordinated the Company’s activities surrounding the Consumer Electronics market as the SVP, Consumer Electronics Business Development from January 2004. O’Malley joined Seagate in 1988 & has held various management roles within the Finance organization including Manager of Consolidation & Cost Accounting, Director of Finance – Corporate FP&A, Sr. Director of Finance for Oklahoma City Operations, Sr. Director of Finance for Desktop Design, VP of Finance for Recording Media Operations & SVP of Finance for Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Seagate, he spent four years as a Sr. Staff Accountant for Arthur Young & Co. O’Malley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1984).
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About Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
B.S. Teh
Senior Vice President of Sales & Sales Operations of Seagate Technology
B.S. Teh is senior vice president of global sales and sales operations. He is responsible for Seagate’s worldwide sales and field marketing, with a focus on driving scale and breadth in customer and market coverage. Teh joined Seagate in 1989 as a field customer engineer. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with the company across multiple functions in California, Singapore and Shanghai, including sales, marketing, business operations and field technical support. Most recently, he was senior vice president of Asia-Pacific sales and marketing, based in Singapore. Teh holds an MBA from the University of South Australia and an EE degree from the National University of Singapore.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Joy Nyberg
Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Internal Communications of Seagate Technology
Joy Nyberg is responsible for leading Seagate’s global human resources efforts, including: compensation and benefits, leadership and learning, staffing and on-boarding, HR central transaction centers, HR compliance, internal communications and community engagement. Prior to joining Seagate in 2007, Nyberg was vice president of Compensation and Benefits at Maxtor Corporation. She has also held senior HR positions at KLA-Tencor and ESL/TRW. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Norma Lane
CHRO , Executive Vice President, People & Places, of Infoblox
Norma Lane is the CHRO, Executive Vice President, People & Places at Infoblox.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Craig Sanderson
Vice President of Infoblox
Craig Sanderson is the Senior Director of Product Management for Infoblox security solutions. Craig has been in the security industry for 19 years in a number of roles including Technical Consultant, Solution Architect, Product Manager and Business Development manager. Having worked on a range of security technologies, Craig is now focused on developing solutions that prevent the abuse of DNS and enabling customers to leverage their network infrastructure to better secure their data, assets and people.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Jeremy Werner
CVP & GM Storage Business Unit of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Christopher Moore
VP of Marketing,Mobile Business Unit of Micron Technology
Christopher Moore is the VP of Marketing (Mobile Business Unit) at Micron Technology. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in engineering, marketing, and operations at NASA, Intel, Matrix Semiconductor, SanDisk, and Micron.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Jeff VerHeul
Senior Vice President, Nonvolatile Engineering of Micron Technology
Jeff VerHeul is the senior vice president for corporate engineering where he oversees the development of SanDisk’s growing portfolio of SSD, embedded and removable products and solutions. VerHeul brings 30 years of engineering and management experience to SanDisk where joined from Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), now a part of Microchip Technology. At SMSC he was senior vice president of engineering. Prior to that, he held executive roles at AMD in platform solutions engineering and silicon design. Verheul began his career at IBM where he spent 25 years in positions that included the vice president of server development, vice president of product development for microelectronics, and vice president of engineering and technology services. VerHeul holds a master’s degree in management of technology from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Claudia Ceniceros
VP, Chief Communications Officer of PCH International
Before joining PCH, Claudia was senior director of strategic partnerships at One Kings Lane, an eCommerce site. Earlier, she held numerous positions at Cisco from 2000-2011, including senior director of strategic partnerships and business development, and senior director/head of corporate communications. Earlier she was VP of strategic communications at ABC Television Network, and VP at Robinson Lerer Montgomery. She holds a BA in philosophy and political science from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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About PCH International: PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Maria Martinez
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer of Cisco
Maria Martinez is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Cisco. As a member of the executive leadership team, Martinez oversees Cisco’s $12.5B Services and Customer Success organizations that are responsible for helping customers transform their businesses through Cisco’s broad portfolio of software, subscription, and services offerings. Under her leadership, Martinez is also helping to drive Cisco’s overall sales and go-to-market transformation to deliver greater business outcomes for customers as they transform their businesses. Martinez brings more than 35 years of leadership experience from a variety of technology sectors including software, services, networking technology and hardware to Cisco. Most recently, she served as President, Customer Success Group and Success Cloud, as well as General Manager for Latin America at Salesforce. In these roles, she was responsible for keeping Salesforce’s 100,000-plus customers across the globe happy, including the on-boarding, product usage, best practices, training, customer support, professional services, partner certification, and developing long-term relationships, while also looking after the firm’s operations in the emerging Latin America region. Prior to joining Salesforce, Martinez managed Microsoft’s global services business, including professional services and customer support for all products. During her six-year tenure, she led the business to outperform revenue targets and to significantly increase Microsoft’s customer satisfaction rating. Martinez has held a number of other leadership positions at Motorola and AT&T. She also served as the CEO of Embrace Networks where she led the development of the start-up’s technical strategy, launched its first software platform and developed its customer base. Martinez serves on the boards of directors for Genesys Works and Declara, Inc. Martinez has received several distinctions for her leadership, most recently being ranked No. 6 on Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Latinas. Martinez holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan and a Master’s of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University.
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Amy Chang
Executive Vice President, Collaboration Technology Group of Cisco
Amy serves on the board of directors for Disney, Procter & Gamble, Marqeta, SambaNova, Pragma and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk and Informatica, which encompass nearly a trillion dollars in total market cap. Post-acquisition of her startup Accompany by Cisco for $270M, she led Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business. As EVP and GM of this 6000 person team, she led the videoconferencing, cloud calling, contact center, video device and phones businesses. Accompany was an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends, and multichannel attribution for over 7 years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She previously led product for the paid search and affiliates channels at eBay, as well as worked in the semiconductor and software industries at McKinsey. She started her career in hardware with Intel, AMD and Motorola.She serves on the UCSF Hospital Executive Committee, the Stanford School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Board, and as an advisor to ID.me, DataChat, Snorkel.ai, PerfectDay, KatanaGraph, Prosimo.io, NoviConnect, Hubspot (now public), Datorama (acquired by Salesforce), Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee), Optimizely (acquired by Episerver), BloomReach, Origami Logic (acquired by Intuit). Amy holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a hardware subspecialty and an MS in Electrical Engineering with a network systems subspecialty, both from Stanford University.
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Grace Francisco
VP Developer Relations Strategy and Experience of Cisco
I’m a unicorn developer relations leader with 15+ years of experience across enterprise, smb, consumer, gaming and fintech. I’ve worked in the smallest startups to some of the biggest, global companies. Specialties: developer relations, web, cloud, open source.
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Yvette Kanouff
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Business of Cisco
Yvette Kanouff brings more than 20 years of service provider, media, and software experience to Sprinklr. Yvette has held various positions at Cisco Systems, including her most recent role as SVP/GM of the Service Provider Business, where she led a team of over 6,000 people. She also held the position of SVP/GM of Cisco’s Cloud and Virtualization Business and Service Provider Video Business. Prior to joining Cisco, she was Executive Vice President, Corporate Engineering and Technology at Cablevision, where she was responsible for the company’s strategic technology and critical engineering objectives, as well as identifying emerging technology opportunities. Previously she served as President of SeaChange, where she spearheaded its transition from a hardware company to a software-centric company. Earlier in her career, Kanouff played a key role at Time Warner Cable as Director of Interactive Technologies. Kanouff’s valuable leadership, deep commitment to mentorship and technical acumen have earned her numerous awards and accolades – including a Technical Emmy, patents for her work in digital technologies, the National Cable and Television Association Vanguard Award for Leadership in Science and Technology and the Multichannel News Wonder Woman award. Yvette has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics.
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About Cisco, JC2 Ventures: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Jie Xue
Vice President of Cisco
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Todd Nightingale
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco
Todd Nightingale is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki. Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012 and took over as GM in 2013. He has led Meraki to deepen its focus on simplicity and initiatives pulling powerful Cisco technologies into the Meraki platform. Nightingale has led the expansion of the Meraki team’s scope from cloud-managed wireless to cloud-managed networking to cloud-managed IT. In the process, the team has added enterprise mobility management, telephony, and video technology to the platform. This expansion has been driven by Meraki’s mission of simplicity and enabled by using cloud, open source, and a nimble engineering-led development model. In addition to product expansion, Nightingale and the team have globalized the Meraki portfolio, bringing simplified IT to more than 145 countries around the world.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Liz Centoni
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Cisco
Liz Centoni serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Computing Systems Product Group responsible for the Data Center compute P&L including the flagship UCS and Hyperflex product families. As SVP/GM, Liz runs a 1,000+ person global organization including engineering, product management and solutions. In this role, Liz sets the business and engineering direction, strategy, solutions and product priorities for the Datacenter compute business. Prior to her current role, Centoni served as Vice President, Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning and has also served as a Vice President/General Manager of the Service Provider Access Group where she set strategy, marketing direction and led engineering efforts to grow Cisco’s portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions. Since joining Cisco in 2000, Centoni has served in various engineering roles where she has been instrumental in building industry leading products, driving discipline, cadence, and structure to decision processes, portfolio planning and analytics to maximize profitable growth. Centoni brings over 20+ years of engineering, marketing and sales experience. She is an active mentor and actively supports under-represented minorities. She launched a “Women in Engineering Leadership” forum at Cisco, which now includes the entire Cisco engineering organization. She is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), a recipient of the YWCA 2015 TWIN Awards, Cloud NOW 2015 “Top 10 Women in Cloud” awards and Million Women Mentors 2015 “Mentor of the Year” Award.
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Rajat Mishra
VP Strategy & Innovation of Cisco
Rajat is a senior technology executive turned entrepreneur on a mission to automate presentations and democratize business communication. He and his team are building intelligent cost-effective software, services, and media to realize this mission. He is the founder and CEO of prezent.ai, the presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Individuals can now create hyper-personalized presentations in a fraction of the time. Teams can distribute standardized content instantly. It’s the only AI-powered platform that combines audience empathy, business understanding, and beautiful design. He serves as President of PREZENTIUM, a full-service presentation services company that specializes in designer quality presentations overnight for a fraction of the price of agencies. PREZENTIUM is the preferred enterprise partner for several Fortune 1000 companies. They have built 1M+ slides and 50K+ presentations. He is also the executive producer of the “Think Deeply. Speak Simply” podcast. A show about the art and science of business communication. And, how everyday leaders can accelerate their careers with great communication. Prior to prezent.ai, Rajat was a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems where he had P&L responsibility for Cisco’s $14B CX business, led a 1000+ person team and was responsible for the Strategy, Product Management and Marketing functions. He has served in leadership roles at Mu Sigma, McKinsey & Company, and Microsoft Corporation. An active philanthropist, he is on the leadership council of No Kid Hungry and advisory board of Adruta Children’s Home. He has spoken at CES, VentureBeat and Start Up Grind. He has been quoted in Forbes, Inc., Nasdaq, CRN, etc. He holds an MBA degree in strategic management from Wharton, achieving with Director’s List honors, and a BSc degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he achieved Dean’s List honors. Rajat has been named to Wharton Business School’s “40 under 40”, Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “40 under 40” and Cisco’s Amazing People. He holds two patents in AI and software automation.
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Darren Pleasance
SVP, Global Strategy, Planning and Operations of Cisco
Darren leads Google’s Global Customer Acquisition organization. Prior to joining Google, Darren was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Darren is active in the aviation community. In addition to his Board position with the EAA, he serves as an appointed Board member for the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA. As president of the Northern California Aerobatic Club, he led the Chapter to becoming the largest IAC chapter in the country. Darren has logged over 6,000 hours of flying time, holds an ATP certificate and is a current CFI, and owns several experimental and certified light aircraft.
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Dillard Myers
Vice President, Global Service Logistics and Operations Organization of Cisco
Dillard Myers has more than 25 years of demonstrated global logistics experience with various governmental and corporate organizations. Prior to Cisco, he held the Marine Corps senior logistics colonel’s position on the West Coast, providing total support to more than 45,000 Marines and sailors. He has had documented success in senior leadership positions, providing vision, focus, and development of supply chain strategies for service organizations having inventories exceeding $5 billion and annual budgets exceeding $700 million. Currently Dillard leads Cisco’s Global Service Supply Chain organization, supporting more than $8 billion in services revenue globally. He has designed, built, and deployed capabilities to support their customers in 128 countries with 1,100-plus distribution depots.
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Kaustubh Das
Vice President and General Manager, Cloud and Compute of Cisco
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Omar Tawakol
VP & GM Webex Growth of Cisco
Mr. Tawakol has served as VP/GM in Cisco’s Webex business unit since 2019. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in conversational intelligence, which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle as SVP/GM of Oracle’s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai’s acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Previously, Mr. Tawakol served as GM of Medio Systems (acquired by Nokia) and the CEO of CoRelation a SaaS product recommendations service. He currently serves on the board of LiveRamp.
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Paul Chapman
Vice President of Cisco
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Roland Acra
Senior Vice President and General Manager – Data Center Business Group of Cisco
Roland Acra serves as Strategic Advisor at Bidgely Inc. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Rock Corporation from December 2005 to September 2010. He served as an Executive Advisor of Cisco’s Smart Grid Business Unit until May 2012. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Procket Networks, Inc. since January, 2004, which he successfully led to an acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2004. From 1991 to 2003 he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco’s Service Provider business. Roland Acra served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the Public Carrier IP Group, General Manager of the Remote Access Business Unit where he provided leadership for the access server and access concentrator products and voice-over-IP technology to the rest of Cisco Systems. He served as Technical Director of Cisco in EMEA. At Cisco Systems, Roland Acra served as a Director of Dial Marketing for the Network to User Business Unit, responsible for defining and marketing Cisco’s dial access products and Director of Consulting Engineering in Europe, responsible for a team of consulting engineers for multiple disciplines and different market segments to address customers in network design. Roland Acra developed UNIX subsystems for Sun Microsystems served as a networking software development engineer at Interphase and held engineering development and technical leadership positions at Bridge Communications and 3Com Corporation from 1986 to 1988 and at Interphase Corporation from 1989 to 1991. Roland Acra serves as a Director of Arch Rock Corporation and U.S Telecommunications Training Institute. Roland Acra served as a Director of Procket Networks, Inc. since January 2004. Roland Acra holds Master of Science degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University, a Masters degree in Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superierue des Telecommunications in Paris and a degree in mathematics and physics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
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Brice Achkir
Cisco Fellow | VP Engineering | High-speed Electrical & Photonic Interconnect Technologies Inventor of Cisco
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Scott Harrell
SVP and GM Enterprise Networking of Cisco
Scott Harrell is Senior Vice President of Product Management for Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group. In this role, he is responsible for product management, user experience, and business development for all enterprise networking products and solutions. This multibillion-dollar portfolio consists of the industry’s broadest range of routers, switches, and wireless that span the campus, access, and wide area networks. Since joining Cisco in 2001, Harrell has held leadership roles in product management and engineering in the Enterprise Networking and Security businesses where he has helped define and build technology portfolios to meet the rapidly evolving demands of digital businesses. Most recently, Harrell led product management for Cisco’s security business where he helped transform Cisco’s world-class security portfolio and transition the business to a software led business model. In this role, he was also responsible for the product strategy and the integration of several successful acquisitions. Prior to Cisco, Harrell worked in a strategic planning role at Intel Corporation. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelors of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Sachin Gupta
SVP Product Management, Enterprise Networking of Cisco
Sachin Gupta is Vice President, Product Management, for Cisco Switching. Sachin leads business and product strategy, technical marketing, and product operations for the Cisco Data Center and Enterprise Switching portfolio. Sachin previously led the Market Strategy team for Enterprise Networks across switching, routing, and wireless. Prior to this, Sachin help leadership positions in Product Management, Technical Marketing, and Customer Support at Cisco. Sachin is a CCIE and has an MBA from Wharton and an MS in EE from Stanford University.
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Kip Compton
SVP/GM, Cloud Platform & Solutions of Cisco
Kip Compton is Vice President of Cisco’s Cloud Platform and Services organization. He is responsible for driving Cisco’s multicloud infrastructure strategy designed to help customers create and manage both public and private cloud environments. Kip’s team builds and delivers secure hybrid cloud infrastructure, platforms, and services that — together with our partners —offer customers the freedom to choose the best environments and consumption models for their traditional and cloud-native applications. Kip’s multicloud infrastructure focus is one of the core elements of Cisco’s cloud strategy that enables simple, intelligent, automated, and secure clouds.
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Jonathan Davidson
EVP/GM Massive-Scale Infrastructure Group of Cisco
Jonathan Davidson is an Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group, Cisco.
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Derek Idemoto
SVP, Corporate Development of Cisco
Derek Idemoto is the Director of Corporate Development at Cisco Systems, and is responsible for driving Cisco’s strategy, acquisitions and investments across the consumer and digital media markets. Prior to joining Cisco, Derek was Managing Director of Venture Investment for ITOCHU Technology, the Silicon Valley-based technology venture capital investment and business development arm of ITOCHU Corporation. Prior to joining ITOCHU Technology, Derek was Vice President of Corporate Development at Overture Services, the pioneer of commercial search services on the Internet. Derek received a B.S. in finance and marketing from U.C. Berkeley an M.B.A. from The Anderson School at UCLA where he was a Venture Fellow.
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Tae Yoo
SVP, Corporate Affairs of Cisco
Tae Yoo is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs at Cisco. The steward of Cisco’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) vision, Tae Yoo leads the company’s social investment programs in education, healthcare, critical human needs, and economic development. Yoo drives a strategy that engages public-private partnerships and leverages Cisco’s business, technical, and financial assets for sustainable social impact in communities around the world. In addition, she sits on several internal boards and councils at Cisco that help set the company’s strategy including the Emerging Countries Council, Global Public Sector Board, and Healthcare Board, for which she serves as cochair. As a 20-year veteran of Cisco, Yoo’s insight and business acumen have enabled Cisco to collaborate across government, business, and non-governmental organization (NGO) sectors for tangible social benefit. Her leadership has helped make Cisco Networking Academy one of the largest education programs in the world, recognized globally for its innovative approach to providing ICT skills education. Today, Networking Academy engages more than 1 million concurrent students in over 165 countries. Other programs under Yoo’s leadership include the Jordan Education Initiative, which the World Economic Forum called “one of the world’s largest successful working models of collaborative public-private sector partnership in education”; Connecting Sichuan, focused on strengthening education and healthcare systems in the Sichuan Province of China after the devastating 2008 earthquake; and our 21st Century Schools Initiative, designed to help transform communities in the United States through education. The impact from these initiatives has earned broad recognition over the years, among them the State Department’s Award for Corporate Excellence, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy’s Annual Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award, and the International Community Service Award given by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center. Previously at Cisco, Yoo was influential in creating new markets for Cisco by co-founding the Business Development group, where she was responsible for growing partnerships with other technology companies for joint product and market development. She also provided leadership to Cisco’s European based Global Distribution Channels. Yoo is a trustee of the Cisco Foundation, sits on the board of Business for Social Responsibility, and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education Systems. She has also served on the City Year National board and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History board, as well as the advisory boards of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Women’s Technology Cluster. Yoo holds a Degree in Communications from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Ted Hardie
Vice President of Cisco
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Bailey Szeto
Vice President – Sales, Channels, Marketing, and Services IT of Cisco
Bailey Szeto is the Vice President of Connected Selling Experience IT at Cisco. The goal of CSE-IT is to transform the selling experience by leveraging data, business process and a simplified user interface to connect Marketing, Sales, and Virtual Sales organizations. CSE-IT encompasses Marketing, Sales, Partner, Content &Search, Global Virtual Sales & Engineering, and Integrated Digital Experience services. Under Bailey’s leadership Cisco has leveraged Adobe’s portfolio to transform sales and marketing processes and experiences. Cisco.com is managed by AEM and is one of the largest B2B sites in the world (both size and revenue). Bailey has been with Cisco for over 25 years and has three patents. In his spare time he enjoys athletic challenges such as marathons and obstacle course racing.
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Mark Chandler
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Cisco
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Curtis Hill
Senior Vice President, Customer Assurance of Cisco
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Colin Kincaid
VP/CTO Service Provider Segment of Cisco
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JL Valente
VP/GM Service Provider Solutions and Cloud Platform & Solutions Group of Cisco
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Jeff Reed
SVP of Product for Cisco’s Security Business of Cisco
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John Manville
VP IT of Cisco
John Manville is Senior Vice President of the IT Global Infrastructure Services team at Cisco. In this role, Manville leads the strategy and operations for the networks and data centers that provide technology infrastructure services for Cisco’s global workforce of more than 65,000 people. His focus is on addressing critical business requirements while maintaining a balance of operational excellence and innovation. Among other achievements, Manville successfully led the transformation of his group to a lifecycle-based model, which improved a variety of operational metrics, increased service availability, and improved user experience. Manville, who joined Cisco in 2007, also plays a key role in establishing Cisco IT as a trusted advisor to business partners, both internal and external to Cisco. He collaborates with external partners to integrate their technologies with Cisco’s and demonstrate the value both provide as one solution. Prior to Cisco, Manville held a variety of positions in IT with several Wall Street financial companies. He began his career as a network engineer designing packet switching networks for customers in the UK.
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Anand Oswal
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Enterprise Networking Business of Cisco
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Shari Slate
Vice President, Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Officer of Cisco
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Vikas Butaney
VP Product Management IoT of Cisco
Vikas engages closely with leading customers, Eco-system and GTM partners as they transform into digital business leveraging IoT technologies. Vikas has global responsibility for product strategy, roadmaps, and partnerships for Cisco IoT portfolio including Edge Compute, IoT Security, IIoT Networking and Control Center the IoT Cellular Connection Management platform. Innovating at the tip of spear as customer adopt Edge, IoT Security, and Wireless technologies like 5G and Wi-Fi6. Vikas manages a global team of Product Managers, UX, Technical Marketing and Business Development professional who have enabled successful 70,000 Enterprise IoT deployments. Vikas has held leadership positions in large companies like Cisco and start-ups like Accelera and Mobile Iron. Cisco has delivered IT technologies to Enterprise, Small Business and Carriers while working across the entire IT stack. Vikas earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering focusing on Optical and Data Communications from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
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Jose Van Dijk
Vice President Operations and Partner Performance GPO of Cisco
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Sumeet Arora
SVP and General Manager, Service Provider Network Systems (Routing) of Cisco
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Susie Wee
SVP and CTO of Cisco DevNet of Cisco
Susie is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco’s developer program for infrastructure and application developers, which catalyzes innovation by the developer ecosystem. DevNet covers the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group where she was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco’s collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was the founding Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard, and Lab Director at HP Labs.
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Susie Wee
SVP and CTO of Cisco DevNet of Cisco
Susie is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco’s developer program for infrastructure and application developers, which catalyzes innovation by the developer ecosystem. DevNet covers the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group where she was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco’s collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was the founding Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard, and Lab Director at HP Labs.
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Scott Wharton
VP & General Manager, Video Collaboration Group of Logitech
Scott Wharton is the VP & General Manager, Video Collaboration Group at Logitech .
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About Bulldog Innovation Group LLC, Logitech: Logitech designs and manufactures personal peripherals for the needs of personal computer and laptop users.
Dhiraj Mallick
Vice President of Engineering and Business Development of Cerebras Systems
Dhiraj Mallick serves as vice president of engineering and business development at Cerebras Systems. Prior to joining Cerebras, Mallick served as the VP of architecture and CTO of Intel’s data center group. Dhiraj holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Rochester.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Reginald Ponsford
VP Sales of Spireon
Reggie Ponsford oversees sales for the vehicle finance market segment, including Buy Here Pay Here (BHPH), franchise, rental and power sports vehicle dealers, as well as direct and indirect lenders and strategic accounts.
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About Spireon: Spireon connects companies to their mobile assets and workforce through game-changing information platforms.
Jerry Miller
VP of Operations at ChargeLab
Jerry Miller, Fuqua MBA ’14, is a Tech Industry leader and currently serves as the VP of Operations at ChargeLab, a rapidly growing Electric Vehicle SAAS solution Start-up. Prior to ChargeLab having the honor of Jerry joining the team in April 2022; he had quite an impressive journey.
Jerry began his career after matriculating from the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Japanese Language and Cognitive Science. He has been the Head of Strategy and Operations at Particle, a Series-C Start-up in San Francisco. He has also spent a significant time at Apple for a sum of five years prior to joining Particle as a Business Operations Manager for Apple Watch and iPod, owning the relationship between the China-based factories and Apple. Prior to his MBA, Jerry was with Deloitte in San Francisco for over seven years as his service line’s lead Global Manager on the Oracle, Disney, HP, Intel, and Apple accounts.
Jerry is currently the CFO of the Board of Directors of Home for a Home, a 501c3 non-profit focused on providing homes for families in Guatemala. Jerry has been a musician since the 3rd grade and continues to artistically express himself as a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. Jerry hails from Compton, California and now calls the city of San Francisco his home.
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About ChargeLab: ChargeLab is the Android of EV charging. Our hardware-agnostic software runs on the world’s most popular EV chargers.
William Mintun
Co-Founder, EVP of Operations of b8ta
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About b8ta: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
Andy Sherman
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations of Fictiv
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Celina Mikolajczak
Vice President, Battery Technology, Panasonic Energy of North America of Panasonic
Celina Mikolajczak is the vice president of battery technology for Panasonic Energy of North America. In this role, Celina leads a team of more than 200 passionate engineers, analysts and other technical staff who work to continuously improve lithium-ion cell manufacturing and to bring the latest cell technologies to mass production for Tesla Motors, Inc. at the Gigafactory facility in Sparks, Nevada. Prior to joining Panasonic in 2019, she served as director of engineering focused on battery development for rideshare vehicles at Uber Technologies. There, she worked to develop battery packs for bicycles, scooters and aircraft. Before that, Celina worked at Tesla Motors as the senior manager for cell quality and materials engineering, helping to develop the battery cells and packs for Tesla’s Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Roadster Refresh. From 1999 to 2012 Celina developed a technical consulting practice at Exponent focusing on lithium-ion cell and battery safety and quality. She helped develop many safety and quality concepts that were initially applicable to consumer electronics battery packs but are now standard considerations for electric vehicle battery packs. Celina continues to be an active participant in development of fire codes and standards related to EVs, ESS, and battery production facilities. With more than 20 years of experience, Celina is a recognized leader in the lithium-ion industry. Her technological expertise, engineering background and leadership skills have been instrumental in ushering in milestones in battery technology production and efficiency. Celina is a member of the National Fire Protection Association and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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About Panasonic, Panasonic, Uber: Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
Bik Singh
VP, Software Engineering of HYLA Mobile
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About HYLA Mobile: HYLA Mobile is a provider of mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions it enables information access for new users.
Rebekah Griffiths
VP, Product Management of HYLA Mobile
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About HYLA Mobile: HYLA Mobile is a provider of mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions it enables information access for new users.
Darren Hudgins
Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer
Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.
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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Sonita Lontoh
SVP and Global Head of Marketing, 3D Print & Digital Manufacturing of HP
Public Company Board Director, Fortune 100 Executive, Advisor, Investor, Entrepreneur
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About HP, SVA Technology: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Catherine Lesjak
Executive Vice President & CFO of HP
Catherine Lesjak has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hewlett Packard Company (“HP”) since January 1, 2007 and was interim chief executive officer of HP from August 2010 through October 2010. As a 27-year veteran of the company, Lesjak has held a broad range of financial leadership roles across HP. Before being named CFO, she held the position of senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing HP’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Earlier in her career at HP, Lesjak managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Prior to that, she was group controller for HP’s Software Solutions Organization and managed HP’s global channel credit risk as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization. Lesjak earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Moe Khosravy
VP of SW/FW, 2D and 3D Print Platforms of HP
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About HP, RMS: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Mirjana Spasojevic
VP, Head of Immersive Experiences of HP
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About HP, Pivot Point Innovation: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Josh Brenkel
SVP WW of HP
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Ali Taslimi
EVP, Head Americas Sales and Marketing of Cambridge Industries Group
Ali Taslimi is Executive VP and Head of Americas Sales and Marketing at Cambridge Industries USA, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was Senior VP and Head of NA Carrier IP Networking Division at Hitachi responsible for introducing Hitachi’s flagship APRESIA® Carrier Ethernet product portfolio in NA. Mr. Taslimi has spent 20 years in various engineering and executive management roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories / Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Fujitsu. He has also co-founded two Silicon Valley startups. Mr. Taslimi received his Engineer EE and MSEE degrees from Columbia University in City of New York and BSEE from Ohio University. He is co-author of two pending patents.
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About Cambridge Industries Group: CIG can partner with your company to better serve your customer needs.
Sundar Kanthadai
Co-founder & Vice President, Engg of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
Sundar Kanthadai is a Co-founder and VP of Software Engineering at Pavilion Data Systems. Sundar is the Co-founder of Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 15 years of enterprise data center and software development expertise to the company. Prior to Pavilion Data, he was a founding engineer and Director of Engineering at SeaMicro (AMD) where he led the software development of the industry leading converged appliance products SM10000 and SM15000. Prior to SeaMicro, he held key engineering positions at successful startups Aruba Wireless Networks & ONI Systems. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Trichy.
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About Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.: Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Amir Mobayen
Vice President/General Manager of Arrow Electronics
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About Arrow Electronics: Arrow Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes electronic components for industrial and commercial sectors.
Dominic Pajak
VP Business Development of Arduino
Dominic is passionate about making IoT technology accessible to developers everywhere. Previously at ARM, he started as an engineer and later took the Cortex-M0 from concept to launch – a processor that has shipped in the billions alongside sensors and low-power radios in thousands of end applications. Dominic holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, England.
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About Arduino: Arduino is an open-source electronic prototyping platform allowing users to create interactive electronic objects.
Phillip Pyo
VP of Product Marketing & Product Management of NETGEAR
Phillip Pyo is the VP Product Marketing & Program Management at NETGEAR.
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About NETGEAR: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Richard Jonker
VP Business Development, AV over IP, EMEA of NETGEAR
Richard Jonker is the VP Business Development, AV over IP, EMEA at NETGEAR.
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About NETGEAR: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Chris Chin
VP of Immersive Technologies (XR/VR/AR & Training) of Axon
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About Axon: Axon provides electronic control devices to law enforcement and corrections agencies.
Sylvain Dubois
Vice President Business Development and Marketing of Crossbar
Sylvain Dubois joined the Crossbar management team in 2013 as its senior director of strategic marketing and business development.With over 13 years of semiconductor experience in business development and strategic product marketing, he brings a proven ability to analyze market trends, identify new, profitable business opportunities and create precise product positioning that is in perfect sync with market demands to drive market share leadership and business results. Prior to joining Crossbar, Mr. Dubois led strategic product positioning and market engagement for developing new products at Spansion. Responsible for identifying new growth opportunities and expanding the product portfolio, Mr. Dubois was instrumental in defining the Spansion Flash memory product roadmap.From 2002-2006, Mr. Dubois was a System-on-Chip architect of OMAP application processors at Texas Instruments. Mr. Dubois was in charge of the architecture and technology roadmap of DRAM and Flash memory controllers, and developed strategic relationships with major DRAM and Flash memory suppliers.Sylvain Dubois holds a Master of Science in Microelectronics from E.S.I.E.E. (Paris), University of Southampton (UK) and Universidad Pontifica Comillas (Spain).
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Zach Brock
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Common Networks
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Siva Sivaram
Executive Vice President and President of Western Digital
Dr. Siva Sivaram is founder and chief executive officer of Twin Creeks Technologies, to which he brings unrivaled experience running a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing business with outsourced fabrication. Siva began his career at Intel. There, his final position was general manager of the $1 billion IC Procurement and Enabling Division, where he was responsible for portions of Intel’s chipset design, all external integrated circuit procurement and the production of Intel chips that were not manufactured in Intel fabs. In that position, Siva was known worldwide as the world’s largest consumer of semiconductor foundry wafers. In 1999, he joined Matrix Semiconductor as COO and was instrumental in the development and mass production of the first monolithic 3-D memory card. SanDisk purchased Matrix in 2006, and Siva was appointed general manager of the Pre-recorded Content Division. From 2004 until 2008, Siva was a board member at Nanosolar. In August 2007, Siva left SanDisk to found and manage Twin Creeks Technologies as its CEO. Siva is the author of Chemical Vapor Deposition: Thermal and Plasma Deposition of Electronic Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995), and has published over 50 technical papers. He has also held positions as a research scholar at Matsushita Electric in Japan, a technologist at SEMATECH, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University.Siva received his doctorate in Materials Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Steffen Hellmold
Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives of Western Digital
Steffen Hellmold is the Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives at Western Digital.
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About Twist Bioscience, Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Phil Edge
Vice President, Growth Strategy of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
John Whelan
Vice President of Customer Experience of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Josephine Chan
Vice President of People of SquareTrade
Josephine is responsible for all things related to people at SquareTrade. That includes building and motivating a team of top talent, as well as nurturing the company’s unique culture. Prior to SquareTrade, she served as director of human resources at Nextag.com, the leading online comparison-shopping site with nearly half a billion visitors per year. In that role, she was responsible for driving global initiatives such as talent acquisition, employee engagement, and talent development. Josephine earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis.
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Michael Costanza
Vice President of Business Development of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Jason Siciliano
Vice President & Creative Director of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Chen Sun
VP of Silicon Engineering, Chief Scientist, and Co-founder of Ayar Labs
Chen Sun is the Vice President of Silicon Engineering, Chief Scientist, and Co-founder at Ayar Labs.
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About Ayar Labs: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Damon Ennis
Senior Vice President, Products of Silver Peak
Damon Ennis leads the strategy, design, and execution of Silver Peak products. Damon is responsible for the global product organization, including product management, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. Prior to Silver Peak, he served as senior director of systems engineering and chief technologist at CIENA. Before that, Damon was in senior management and technical roles at FORE Systems. Damon holds an MS in electrical engineering from Columbia University and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Steve Giusti
VP, Corporate Controller of Silver Peak
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
