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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 Information Technology 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.
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Sriram Krishnan
SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships of HeadSpin
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Miranda
Executive Vice President, Application Development of Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle’s applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Douglas Kehring
Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations of Oracle
Douglas Kehring has served as the head of Oracle’s Corporate Development and Strategic Planning group since 2005, providing planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source code and object code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined Oracle after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Seoane
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Meeten Bhavsar
SVP, Product Development of Oracle
Meeten Bhavsar is Senior Vice President, Product Development at Oracle. His key responsibilities include driving strategy, product management, and software development for the Oracle Service Cloud. In tandem, he ensures strategy alignment for the Oracle customer experience portfolio, consisting of sales, service, marketing, commerce, and social applications. A 24-year veteran of the technology industry, Meeten has been in various leadership roles at Oracle for 15 years spanning database development, cloud management systems, enterprise search, and CRM. Prior to Oracle, he was the VP of Software Development for CRM industry pioneers Broadbase Software and Kana Communications. Meeten earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from Caltech and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from UCLA. He has also been awarded over a dozen patents in the area of secure, scalable, enterprise search.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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About : Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Wim Coekaerts
SVP Software Development of Oracle
Wim Coekaerts is senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle. Coekaerts is responsible for managing Oracle’s Linux and virtualization development for Oracle Cloud services, engineered systems, and software. He is a well-known developer in the open source community and serves as a board member of The Linux Foundation.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Killian Evers
Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience of Oracle
Killian Evers is a Vice President on the Oracle Applications User Experience team. She leads a multifaceted team responsible for product design and usability for Sales, Engagement, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Procurement areas. The team also covers all product family areas for Setup, Extensibility, and Tooling for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.
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About Google, Oracle, Veritas Technologies: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Steve Zivanic
Vice President, Storage Hardware Systems Business Group of Oracle
Steve Zivanic is the Global Vice President, Database & Autonomous Services Product Marketing at Oracle
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About Oracle, Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tracy Martin
Vice President, HCM Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Catherine Blackmore
GVP NAA Customer Success & Renewals of Oracle
Catherine is a thought leader and innovator in the area of Customer Success, with over 20 years of experience helping a diverse list of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 clients achieve success. Prior to joining Bluenose, she served as VP of Customer Success at Badgeville responsible for the satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy of the company’s customer base. She has also held a number of senior leadership positions, including VP of Customer Success at Salesforce.com.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Mittelhauser
VP, Technical Architecture of Oracle
Jon Mittelhauser is the VP, Technical Architecture at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aylin Uysal
VP of User Experience, Oracle Cloud Applications of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chad Arimura
Vice President of Oracle
Chad Arimura is an entrepreneur, programmer, and musician. He is currently CEO of [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io), a cloud application services platform, makers of IronWorker and IronMQ. Funded by Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners, Divergent Ventures, Cloud Capital Partners, and a handful of cloud angels, [Iron.io](http://www.iron.io) is quickly becoming the trusted messaging and workers platform for thousands of companies big and small. He was previously a co-founder and lead engineer at [Appoxy.com](http://www.appoxy.com), a consulting firm that specializes in scalable application design using the latest in Cloud-based technologies. Starting as a sophomore in college, Chad co-founded and acted as CTO for AllDorm Inc., a media/marketing service aimed at connecting fortune 1000 companies with the elusive collegiate market. AllDorm was acquired by University Pipeline in 2005. He is also an avid pianist, playing in a San Francisco cover band, and grew up playing tennis and soccer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jason Bryant
Vice President Nor1 – Oracle Hospitality of Oracle
Jason Bryant, Nor1 Founder and co-CEO, oversees day-to-day operations, provides visionary leadership and strategic direction for the upsell technology company. With Jason at the helm, Nor1 has quickly emerged as the technology leader in upsell solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Nor1 provides innovative revenue enhancement solutions to the hospitality industry. A seasoned entrepreneur, Mr. Bryant has over 20 years experience building and leading international software development and operations organizations. Prior to Nor1, he founded and grew DRCI into a world-class offshore software development organization which maintained facilities in India and Mexico. DRCI focused on providing services to the travel industry, specialized in both high-volume transaction systems and Internet technologies. Mr. Bryant is a frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at global events such as World Travel Market, the Hospitality Upgrade Vendor Summit, ITB Berlin, and many other industry events. He also volunteers his time to a number of non-profit organizations. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Chorley
Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Vice President, Supply Chain Management Product Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Brendan Logan
Global VP Consulting of Oracle
Group VP at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paco Aubrejuan
SVP Applications Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Raj Dhamodharan
EVP Blockchain / Digital Asset Products & Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Galvan
VP, Business Development and Strategic Alliances – US Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Leigh Amaro
SVP, Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
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.
Michael Perone
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
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About 345 Partners, Opensense, Switch9, Inc.: Everyday email, evolved.
Bobby Narang
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
Bobby co-founded SenderGen in 2013, where he led sales and marketing for the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where he serves as co-founder and VP, Sales. Prior to SenderGen, Bobby was sales lead at Intralinks (NYSE: IL), where he was responsible for sales to the largest firms in the financial services industry, as well as selling directly into the C-Suite at firms within the Fortune 1000. As a highlight, In 2013, Bobby secured Intralinks first full enterprise agreement at a major investment bank in New York, marking a significant win for the organization. Prior to Intralinks, was in sales at Yext, where he was responsible for generating new business within a dozen different SMB verticals. Additionally, he served in a Business Development role where he successfully spearheaded the launch of six new vertical-focused product lines. Bobby has a passion for evangelizing cutting-edge technology solutions that disrupt “the old way of doing things.” Bobby holds a BSBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University.
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Robert Potter
Vice President, Signals and Ground System Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Anita Pandey
VP Marketing of Cybera
Anita Pandey is the VP of Marketing for Cybera. She has over 20 years of experience as a marketing leader in networking, unified communications, wireless and cloud security. Before joining Cybera, she was the VP of marketing and business development for AirTight Networks, expanding their brand presence and boosting their footprint through their first channel program. Prior to that, Pandey was a marketing leader at Ruckus Wireless through a very high growth period, culminating in their IPO. A longtime networking veteran, she has also held a variety of marketing and business development positions at Cisco. She launched some of their most profitable channel & demand generation programs and developed several impactful partnerships, accelerating their wireless market share and diversifying their vertical industry presence. Pandey holds a master’s degree in business from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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About Cybera: Cybera is a provider of networking and security services for distributed enterprises.
Shaf Begen
VP Channel Sales of Cybera
Shaf Begen is the Vice President of Channel Sales for Cybera. He brings over 20 years of leadership and experience working with operators/carriers, channel partners and has delivered results across sales, pre-sales, marketing, and professional services. He has published articles and original content and he continually improves sales effectiveness, enablement, and on-boarding. Formerly with MobileIron, Begen created a robust channel with global carriers which subsequently led to a MobileIron IPO. He has also held positions at NEC, SAP, Oracle, Capgemini, and Exablox. Begen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University.
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About Cybera: Cybera is a provider of networking and security services for distributed enterprises.
John Brigden
VP, AWS Managed Services 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.
Alex Smola
Distinguished Scientist / VP 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.
Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy 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.
Nathan Winkel
VP Design of Merit
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About Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Brian Murphy
Vice President Strategy of STRIVR
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About STRIVR: STRIVR is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance.
Sajeev Menon
AVP and Head Oracle Practice of Infosys
Sajeev Menon is an Associate Vice President at Infosys Ltd. . sajeev Menon is a successful executive and corporate officer track with deep experience in Sales, Delivery and Practice Management. Managed revenue of over $150M with a TCV of over $400M, and lead a team of over 120 consultants. Sajeev Menon is highly experienced in selling services in all the Oracle products including Oracle ebusiness, Peoplesoft, JDE, Seibel, Oracle fusion and Oracle edge products. Excellent general management and leadership experience, strong communication and team-building skills; and the ability to generate significant growth. Sold complex global programs and projects, lead sales and business development, established and grew Oracle partnerships to deliver planned goals. Strong communicator who fosters team work, partnerships and collaboration.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Benoy Ojha
VP Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services of Infosys
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
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.
Jayanta Dey
VP Engineering, Cloud Foundation and Integrated Systems of VMware
Jayanta Dey serves as vice president of engineering for Cloud Foundation and Integrated Systems at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Uppal
VP & GM VeloCloud Business Unit of VMware
Sanjay is the CEO and co-founder of VeloCloud where he leads the team that is working to Re-Invent WAN and transform how businesses connect. Prior to VeloCloud, Sanjay ran publicly traded OnMobile Global, serving as its President and COO. Sanjay also spent time at Citrix through the acquisition he negotiated with Caymas where he was President and CEO. At Citrix, he defined the product strategy and go to market for the Access Management, Delivery Controller and WAN acceleration product lines. Prior, Sanjay served in executive roles at Webvan (Vice President of Engineering and Business Development) and at Hewlett-Packard where he initiated and rapidly grew Internet Infrastructure as a profitable new business for HP. He holds an MS from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tom Gillis
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network and Security of VMware
Tom Gillis is CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Gillis started Bracket with a vision to re-imagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. This Technology Group included the business units responsible for Cisco’s entire Network and Content Security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Tom was VP of Marketing and part if the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Before that, he held the position of VP/GM at iBEAM Broadcasting, an Internet start up that wentpublic on NASDAQ. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group, and Raytheon Corporation. Gillis received a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEEfrom Northwestern, and an MBA from Harvard.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Kathy Chou
VP, R&D Operations and Central Services of VMware
Kathy Chou is VP of Research & Development Operations and Central Services for VMware. Chou has more than 25 years of operations and management experience in the high-tech industry. Previously, she has served as SVP of Sales Strategy and Operations for Informatica, VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at Intuit and spent 18 years at HP in various management roles. Chou holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. She most recently served on the Stanford Presidential Search Committee, has chaired the Stanford Alumni Committee on Trustee Nominations and served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is currently Vice Chair for the Stanford Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRISS), development director for the Asian Pacific Fund, member of the Santa Clara University Board of Regents and Engineering Advisory Board. Kathy received the Stanford Medal in 2013, Wise Woman Award from Deloitte LLP in 2011, and was the Winner of the Franz Edelman Award for excellence in Operations Research in 2009. The Silicon Valley Business Journal selected her as one of the Top 100 most influential women in 2011. Chou lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and four sons.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Hüseyin Dursun
Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services of VMware
Hüseyin Dursun is the Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware
Mr. Rowe has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. Mr. Rowe has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware since March 2016. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DellEMC from October 2014 through February 2016. Prior to joining DellEMC, Mr. Rowe was Vice President of North American Sales of Apple Inc. from May 2012 to May 2014. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc., an airline holdings company, from October 2010 until April 2012 and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Continental Airlines from August 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Rowe currently serves on the board of directors of Sabre Corporation.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ajay Patel
SVP/GM Cloud Provider of VMware
Ajay Patel is senior vice president of Product Development, Cloud Services, responsible for all product development and operations for vCloud Air. Prior to VMware, Ajay led the core middleware business, Cloud Application Foundation, for Oracle. Under his leadership, Oracle Exalogic, a middleware engineered system, became the fastest-growing business and Oracle WebLogic, a Java EE Application Server, was #1 in the market during his entire tenure. He also launched Oracle Java Cloud Service and set the roadmap for Oracle’s private cloud solution. Ajay has over 20 years of enterprise software expertise and was also senior vice president at Apigee (Sonoa Systems) and general manager for BEA Systems, Data Services business. His prior experience includes management consulting and system integration with Price Waterhouse Coopers, EDS and AT&T. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and another Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine. He is also a technical adviser to venture funded software companies.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
June Yang
Vice President, Engineering and Product Management – VMware cloud on Dell EMC of VMware
June Yang serves as vice president of engineering and product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Lee Caswell
Vice President Marketing of VMware
General management and marketing for the storage, virtualization and digital video markets Specialties: Marketing, Strategy Development, Technology Alliances, OEM relationship management.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Paul Turner
Vice President Product Management vSphere of VMware
Paul Turner is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian Inc. since January 2014. Paul is responsible for marketing, product planning and strategy at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, Paul previously led the Product Strategy Office at NetApp, where he guided their investments into FlashRay, Iongrid and CacheIQ. Prior to that role, Paul was the General Manager of the OnCommand Insight Business (which included Onaro and Akorri). Under his leadership this enterprise software business grew to more than $60M and was recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Storage Resource Management market. Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle where he led Oracle’s Technology Alliances Division and their Support Engineering Team. Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and is based out of Cloudian’s Foster City, Calif. headquarters.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Umesh Mahajan
SVP, GM NSX Networking and Security (SDN) of VMware
A seasoned executive and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in tech industry, Umesh has helped develop the vision, strategy, and execution plan for several innovative technology products. Before co-founding Avi Networks, Umesh was the Vice President / General Manager for a $2B Data Center switching business at Cisco where he led engineering, product management, marketing and operations for Nexus 7000, MDS switching products, and the NX-OS operating system. Prior to his work at Cisco, Umesh led the software team at Andiamo in architecting and delivering SAN-OS. Umesh has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Duke, a Bachelor of Science degree from IIT Delhi, and has 29 patents to date.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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About Druva, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Alex Tosheff
VP, Chief Security Officer of VMware
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Allwyn Sequeira
SVP & GM, Hybrid Cloud Services BU of VMware
Allwyn Sequeira serves as senior vice president and general manager for Hybrid Cloud Services BU at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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Shankar Iyer
SVP & GM, End User Computing of VMware
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Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products at VMware.
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John Gilmartin
General Manager and Vice President, Integrated Systems of VMware
John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Ajay Singh
SVP / GM Cloud Management Business Unit of VMware
Ajay Singh serves as vice president and general manager of VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit.
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Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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Israel Cidon
VP Researcher of VMware
Technion EE professor and co-founder of Actona, (AKA Cisco WAAS) Viola (acquired by Fluke Networks) and Micronet (MCRNL:IT). Rock junky and espresso fanatic.
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Lily Chang
VP, XMO & SVM Project Office of VMware
Lily Chang is the VP, XMO & SVM Project Office at VMware.
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Mark Chuang
Vice President, Product Management, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
Mark Chuang is the VP, Product Management for VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit. His team accelerates the adoption of the software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud, by defining plans for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs. He has over 20 years of product experience across enterprise SW, personal computers, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Mark graduated with High Honors from the UC, Berkeley with a BS in EECS and has been awarded 6 US patents.
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Marjorie Young-Krauss
VP, Integrated Marketing of VMware
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Srinivasan Murari
VP Engineering, Storage and Availability of VMware
Srinivasan Murari serves an SVP of engineering, storage, and availability at VMware.
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Courtney Burry
VP Product Marketing of VMware
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Mark Lohmeyer
SVP/GM, Cloud Platform BU of VMware
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Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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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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Geoff Thompson
Vice President: VMware Cloud Provider Sales of VMware
Geoff Thompson is a Senior Director of vCloud Air Network Programs at VMware.
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Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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Paul Dul
VP Product Management – Cloud Native Applications of VMware
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Vijay Ramachandran
VP, Product Management of VMware
Vijay Ramachandran serves as vice president of product management at VMware.
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Michelle Kley
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Maxar Technologies
Michelle Kley was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of SSL MDA Holdings, Inc., in July 2016. She is based in our office in San Francisco. Ms. Kley joined SSL in January 2012, serving as Associate General Counsel, Vice President, Legal at SSL. Previous to joining SSL MDA, Ms. Kley worked as a Corporate Associate for several top-tier law firms in San Francisco, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. and Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Kley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology (with honors) from Sonoma State University and a J.D. degree from University of California Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall). Ms. Kley is admitted to practice in the State of California and District of Columbia.
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Mike Blacker
VP, Enterprise Business Development of The Trade Desk
Mike Blacker is the VP of Strategic Business Development at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side-platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role, Mike prospects for new strategic clients across various industries and works extensively with existing clients to further embed The Trade Desk platform into their business. Mike is an adtech veteran with a string of start-up including Infoseek, CBS SportsLine, Epylon/Accenture, ExpertCity/Citrix, AudienceScience, Feeva, Quova and Neustar. Mike was one of the first to sell online ads back in 1996 and has spent his entire career working in various roles around digital advertising, adtech and ad platforms. Mike graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and lives with his family in Ojai, CA.
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Adam Gassin
Vice President of Spectrum Equity
Adam joined the firm in 2017 and is a Vice President. Prior to joining Spectrum, Adam worked in the technology practice at McKinsey & Company. He holds BS and BA degrees, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar.
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Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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Milind Wagle
SVP & CIO of Equinix
Milind Wagle joined Equinix in April 2010 and serves as the Global CIO within the Customer Success Organization. Wagle leads the global IT team and oversees the solution delivery for enterprise applications, information security, and end-user technology infrastructure support for Equinix’s thousands of global employees. For the past six years, Wagle has served in various senior leadership roles within the IT team at Equinix, most recently as Vice President. In addition to managing the global IT applications portfolio, he has managed large-scale, cross-functional enterprise transformation programs for the company, including designing and deploying process, system and organizational standardization across the globe. Previously he has held leadership positions at VeriSign, KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint. Wagle holds a BS, Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai.
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Srinu Adira
VP Engineering of TigerConnect
Srinu Adira is the senior director of data engineering at [TigerText](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tigertext#/entity), a California-based company that offers secure, mobile, real-time messaging solutions for healthcare providers to communicate with their employees. Previously, he held managerial positions in data analytics and infrastructure at Yahoo! and LinkedIn. Adira holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from Osmania University, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Lamar University, and an MBA in business administration and management from the University of Phoenix.
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About TigerConnect: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Vaikom Krishnan
Vice President, Engineering of SnapLogic
Vaikom Krishnan is the vice president of engineering at [SnapLogic](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snaplogic), an enterprise integration Platform-as-a-Service built to connect big data, cloud, and on-premise apps. Previously, he worked as the VP of engineering at Informatica Corporation. Prior to Informatica, he was chief architect and director of development at Celequest, , and before that he was the director of engineering at Asera. Earlier in his career, Krishnan was a software engineer at Sybase.
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Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Rob Pilgrim
Global VP, Product Management & Business Applications of 8×8
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Darren Hakeman
SVP, Strategy, Analytics & Corp Dev of 8×8
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Mark Daughters
Co-Founder & VP Operations of Kandji
Founder & Head of Operations of Kandji.
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Manish Pandey
Vice President R&D of Synopsys
Manish Pandey is a Fellow at Synopsys, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently leads the R&D teams for Machine Learning and Systems, Formal Verification and Power Analysis at Synopsys. He previously led the development of several static and formal verification technologies at Verplex and Cadence. He also has extensive experience in distributed systems and computing infrastructure, leading the display advertising security group at Yahoo, and storage analytics systems at Nutanix. Dr. Pandey has been the recipient of the IEEE Transaction in CAD Outstanding author award, and holds over two dozen patents and referred publications. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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Manoj Gandhi
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group at Synopsys of Synopsys
Manoj Gandhi joined Synopsys with the company’s merger with Viewlogic in December 1997. In his current position, Mr. Gandhi and his organization are responsible for Synopsys’ verification solutions, including simulation, testbench automation, hybrid formal verification, and system level design. Mr. Gandhi has over 15 years of HDL simulation and verification experience having begun his EDA career at Gateway Design Automation in 1986. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Burkhard Huhnke
Vice President of Synopsys
In his role as vice-president at Volkswagen’s North American Engineering and Planning Center (EPC), Burkhard Huhnke encourages innovation in the market, builds relationships with national R&D organisations and liaises with universities. Huhnke previously served as head of Product Engineering at VW’s Chattanooga plant, leading the product engineering teams for the Passat and mid-sized SUV projects. From 2006 to 2011 he was executive director of VW’s Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. His other achievements include helping to initiate the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Center (VAIL) at Stanford University and leading the Autonomous Car Project: Volkswagen Passat Junior.
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Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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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.
