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This list showcases the top California based VP’ operating in the Infrastructure 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.
Talha Tariq
VP and Chief Security Officer of HashiCorp
Talha Tariq is the Vice President & Chief Security Officer of HashiCorp.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Katrina Wong
VP Product Marketing & Demand Generation of Segment
Katrina Wong is currently the Head of Marketing for Stitch. Prior to Stitch, Katrina was a marketing strategist for SAP Ventures and VP of Marketing / head of marketing / corporate marketing for venture-backed Cloud / SaaS, B2B and Enterprise start-ups. Specifically, Katrina has helped Seed and Series A companies launch new products and Series B SaaS companies with a proven SMB product move into the Enterprise market. Katrina has also helped Series B and C SaaS companies enter new markets in Europe and vice versa. For Enterprise software companies, Katrina has created new market categories (or market entry) for strategic business units — either newly acquired start-ups and/or other existing business units in hyper growth.
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About Segment, Stitch: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Albert Strasheim
VP of Engineering of Segment
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Joshua Bernstein
VP of Technology of Dell EMC
Joshua Bernstein recently joined EMC as the new VP of Technology for the Emerging Technologies Division. Prior to EMC, Joshua ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple for 4 1/2 years. As a member of the small team, Joshua and his colleagues successfully took Siri from launch to sixty thousand servers, deploying in seventeen locations worldwide. Prior to working at Apple, Joshua was the senior software engineer at Penguin Computing specializing in design and implementation of large scale distributed systems management software. In addition, he has worked on many high profile NASA missions, including the design for the image processing pipeline of the HiRISE Camera currently on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Joshua is a large contributor to the Open Source community, contributing to multiple projects including Mesos, HDFS, HBASE, Zookeeper, Samba, OpenMPI, Torque, and the Linux Infiniband Stack. Joshua studied computer engineering at the University of Arizona.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Randy Bias
VP Technology, Emerging Technologies Division of Dell EMC
Randy Bias is the VP of technology of [EMC](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emc), a company that manufactures information management and storage software systems. He was previously a director at OpenStack. Before that, Bias was the VP of technology strategy at GoGrid.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Mahau Ma
SVP Corporate Strategy of MuleSoft
Mahau has over 15 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software space. Prior to joining MuleSoft in 2007, Mahau held various positions at TIBCO Software, including roles in sales enablement, customer marketing and partner marketing. Earlier, Mahau spent a number of years investing in enterprise software and networking startups at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Trinity Ventures. Mahau started his career at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Hayward
VP, Global Channels & Services of MuleSoft
Brent leads MuleSoft’s global channel and services organization, responsible for all aspects of customer and partner success. In this role, Brent leads our global services, support, training and channel organizations, working closely with our systems integration and reseller partners to deliver consistent, world-class solutions and enablement for our customers. Brent brings to MuleSoft over 16 years of experience in software sales and service delivery. Most recently at Oracle, he was Vice President of North America Application Sales for the Oracle Knowledge Product Portfolio where he was instrumental in rapidly expanding both the direct and channel sales operations. Previously, Brent was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at InQuira, where he drove top line growth through developing and operationalizing InQuira’s worldwide channel and alliances strategy. Brent began his career at Accenture, where he led teams serving Global 2000 clients in the communications, media & entertainment, and high tech industries. Brent holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Nima Asrar Haghighi
VP of Digital Demand Generation & Marketing Operations of MuleSoft
Nima Asrar Haghighi is VP of digital demand generation and marketing operations at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices. He was previously the head of internet marketing at eBay Advertising. During the course of his career, he took up several internet marketing roles at companies such as SEM SEO Expert, Refco, GAO Research, and VTRAC Consulting Corporation. Haghighi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in marketing.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, reef.ai: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
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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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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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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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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About Technion, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Lily Chang
VP, XMO & SVM Project Office of VMware
Lily Chang is the VP, XMO & SVM Project Office at VMware.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mark Peek
VP, Principal Engineer of VMware
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF and OCI.
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About FreeBSD, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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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Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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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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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jeremy Forest
VP, Strategy + M&A of The Heritage Group
Jeremy Forest is the Adjunct Professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law.
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About Biosynthetic Technologies, BlueAllele, The Heritage Group, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law: Privately owned large conglomerate in energy, refining, chemicals, construction, environmental and recycling sectors seeking opportunities
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Dmitry Shurygin
VP Operations of NFWare
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About NFWare: NFWare develops disruptive virtualized network software for operators and data-centers.
Jeff Aaron
VP Marketing of Mist Systems
Jeff Aaron serves as Mist’s Vice President of Marketing, where he is responsible for global promotion of the company’s groundbreaking wireless platform. Prior to Mist, Jeff was VP of marketing at PernixData (acquired by Nutanix), the leading storage acceleration and analytics company. Jeff has over 22 years of experience marketing in the high tech space, having worked at various software, networking and telecommunications companies including Silver Peak Systems, Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Turnstone Systems, and Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel). He began his career as a senior consultant at Ernst and Young where he counseled Fortune 100 companies with IT design and planning. Jeff earned his BA from Duke University with majors in Computer Science and Economics.
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About Juniper Networks, Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Sudheer Matta
VP of Product of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Pete Patel
Vice President of Operations of Coho Data
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About Coho Data: The Coho Data platform delivers Rack Scale Converged, Software-Defined Data Center solutions for the enterprise private cloud.
Brian Robins
VP – Business Development of Bentley Systems
Brian Robins is an experienced B2B marketing executive specializing in enterprise software and IT services. Currently Brian is Vice President of Business Development at Bentley Systems, a provider of software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction. Brian was formerly Chief Marketing Officer at SunGard Data Systems Inc., the largest privately-held business software and IT services company. Between 1999 and 2011 Brian led SunGard’s worldwide marketing organization during which time the business grew from a $1 billion revenue company focused primarily on North America to a $5 billion revenue global Fortune 500 company with 20,000 employees serving 25,000 customers in 70 countries. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from New College, Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Orli Remez
VP People and Culture of BigPanda
Orli Remez is the VP of people and culture at BigPanda.
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Eyal Efroni
VP Customer Success of BigPanda
Eyal Efroni is the VP of customer success at BigPanda.
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Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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Mitch Gaynor
Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell
Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ediz Ertekin
SVP of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Hedvig
Ediz is Vice President of Distribution, heads SnapLogic’s Sales operations. Ediz is a specialist in building sales and service operations and has quickly developed a team to grow SnapLogic’s footprint in Europe. Most recently he was General Manager and Vice President at Verix where worked with enterprise clients to develop sophisticated predictive analytic, monitoring and alerting solutions. He brings extensive integration and data management experience from his five year tenure as founding VP Sales Europe for Informatica, where he was the first European employee.Ediz holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a BS in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
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Darrell Billings
VP, Support of Hedvig
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Matt Johnson
VP, Engineering of Hedvig
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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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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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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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