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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 Massachusetts based VP’ operating in the Software 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.
Courtney Ederle
VP, People of MainStreet
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Rob Garf
VP of Industry Strategy & Insights, Retail and Consumer Goods of Salesforce
Rob Garf is VP of Industry Strategy and Insights and the Chair of the Client Advisory Board at Salesforce Commerce. With 25 years of global retail experience as a practitioner (Lids, Marshalls, Hit or Miss), an industry analyst (AMR Research), a strategy consultant (IBM), and a software leader (Salesforce), he is no stranger to the industry and the challenges retailers face. He currently guides product strategy, develops industry research, and advises senior executives globally on unified commerce strategies. Rob is also a frequent industry speaker and a member of NRF’s Digital Council.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert DeSisto
Chief Value Officer, Senior Vice President of Salesforce
Robert DeSisto is Vice President of Global Customer Transformation at Salesforce. Previously, he was Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research where he was responsible for managing the software as a service (SaaS) research agenda, CRM sales agenda, and business application research community.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christophe Coenraets
VP, Developer Relations of Salesforce
Christophe Coenraets is a Developer Advocate for Salesforce.com where he focuses on mobile application development. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Christophe was a Developer Advocate for Adobe where he worked with the PhoneGap and Cordova team to help Enterprise customers design, architect and implement their strategic mobile applications. Prior to Adobe and Macromedia, Christophe managed Java and J2EE Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft, and held different software development and architecture positions.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Eric Domski
Vice President Edge Sales of Oracle
Eric has 22 years experience in information technologies providing full Enterprise and E-Business solutions from sales, presales, marketing, product management, partnering and implementation perspectives. He is currently managing sales team of 50 individuals consistently exceeding quota year over year. He has successfully developed, expanded, enabled the sales of supply chain solutions in various roles both across North America as well as globally. Have shown continuous professional growth through delivery oriented, entrepreneurial approach throughout his career.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Trynka Shineman
EVP & President, Vistaprint BU of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Don Nelson
EVP, Chief Operating Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Sean Quinn
SVP, Chief Financial Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Lawrence Gold
SVP, Chief Legal Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Ted Gillick
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dell Technologies Capital
Ted Gillick is Vice President, Corporate Development of EMC Corporation and is a senior member of EMC’s global mergers and acquisitions practice. Over the course of his career, Ted has worked with a variety of technology and media companies and executed over $30B worth of M&A transactions across those industries. Prior to joining EMC, Ted was a senior member of the Corporate Development team at Avid Technology and an M&A investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Ted holds a BBA from the College of William and Mary and is currently pursuing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Matt Kodama
VP Data Science of Recorded Future
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About Recorded Future: Recorded Future is the world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security.
Nicolas Mangon
Vice President AEC Strategy & Marketing of Autodesk
Nicolas Mangon, Vice President of AEC, Business Strategy and Marketing for Autodesk, is a leader of the global advancement of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Nicolas’ mission is to lead the industry transformation to BIM and the cloud. Educated at the world-renowned Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Public’s Institution for Civil and Structural Engineering, Nicolas brings deep industry expertise to the continued development of innovative solutions that address the AEC industry.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Lee Feigenbaum
EVP of Customer Success of Salsify
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Sharon Butler
EVP Global Education of Flywire
Sharon Butler has over 17 years experience in sales and service. Prior to joining peerTransfer Sharon was the North East Regional Sales Director for Tuition Management Systems, the leading provider of outsourced tuition planning, billing, and payment processing services in Higher Education. Sharon was also the District Sales Director for SkyTel a division of Verizon Business, a leading wireless technology provider. Sharon is a graduate of Bridgewater State University, with a BA in Communication and a Minor in Business Management.
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About Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Scott Harris
Co-Founder | VP. Product Definition & UX of Onshape
Scott Harris is a Co-founder and the vice president of product definition and user experience at [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. Previously,he co-founded and worked as the VP of new concepts at SolidWorks.
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About Onshape: Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics.
David Corcoran
Co-founder and VP of R&D of Onshape
David Corcoran is the vice president of research and development of [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. He previously co-founded and worked as the president of LC Design. Corcoran holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Brown University.
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About Onshape: Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics.
Hannah Budreski
Vice President Marketing Communications of Endurance International Group
Hannah Budreski is Vice President of Marketing at Endurance International Group, a technology company focused on helping small businesses around the world and whose family of brands includes Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, and Domain.com. During her 20 year career, Hannah has honed her skills at building brands, driving demand, and helping customers meet their milestones. Deeply passionate about small business, Hannah is accomplished at adding value for customers at all stages of their journey from those just starting out to established and expanding businesses.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Kevin Blankespoor
Vice President of Controls & Autonomy of Boston Dynamics
He is the Vice President of Product Engineering at Boston Dynamics.
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About Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Kamal Kirpalani
VP Sales, Americas of Mirakl
Kamal is responsible for Mirakl’s growth in North America. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kamal brings 18 years of experience in growing sales and business development operations for software companies. Before joining Mirakl, Kamal led the expansion of Workday in Southern Europe, and before that, served as the Vice President for EMEA for TouchCommerce. Prior to TouchCommerce, Kamal set up the continental European offices for Bazaarvoice. Previously, Kamal held various executive management roles at leading technology companies, including Lombardi (acquired by IBM), BetweenMarkets (acquired by Inovis), Motive (acquired by Alcatel) and Trilogy. Kamal began his career in the speech recognition industry at Voice Processing Corporation and Voice Control Systems (now part of Nuance Communications). A Norwegian citizen, Kamal speaks German, French and Norwegian. He has lived and worked in the USA, France, Germany, UK, Norway and Denmark. Kamal holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boston University.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Tom Click
VP Sales of Integrate
As VP of Sales, Tom Click holds direct responsibility for driving and supporting Integrate’s revenue growth. He leads all five of Integrate’s software sales divisions and is focused on establishing Integrate as the leading marketing software in its category. Tom has spent the entirety of his career in B2B sales and demand generation. He sold B2B solutions for Nextel prior to its merger with Sprint, and later spent 12 years with TechTarget, serving as sales director for the company’s $30m networking and security media business unit. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Isenberg School of Management.
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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
W. Sean Ford
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Integration Management Office of LogMeIn
W. Sean Ford is Chief Marketing Officer at LogMeIn.
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About Algorand, LogMeIn, PlanetWatch: LogMeIn provides SaaS-based remote connectivity, collaboration, and support solutions for businesses and consumers.
Leigh Merrigan
VP of Marketing of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Leigh Merrigan
VP of Marketing of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Jack Drew
VP, Sales of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Andrew Jacobus
Vice President – Global Insights and Data Science Leader of Virgin Pulse
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About Limeade, Virgin Pulse: Virgin Pulse, part of the famed Virgin Group, is passionate about inspiring and engaging employees to live better every day.
Jamie Alders
Vice President of Product of Neurable
Jamie Alders is the vice president of product at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Jegan Candassamy
Vice President Of Software Engineering of Neurable
Jegan Candassamy is the vice president of software engineering at Neurable.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Lior Netzer
VP and CTO IoT of Akamai Technologies
Lior Netzer is the Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Mobile Business at Akamai where he leads the formulation of Akamai’s edge strategy as it relates to cellular networks. Previously, Lior was AVP Corporate Development at Comverse Network Systems focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the mobile application space. Lior has also held various senior operational positions in early stage companies such as Voltaire, and advisory board positions with Metacafe. Lior holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the Technion Israel.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Craig Adams
SVP & GM, Security and Performance of Akamai Technologies
General Manager of Akamai’s Security and Performance Business Units, leading the teams responsible for the technology and solutions that enable Akamai customers to deliver exceptional, reliable, and secure experiences for their web and mobile applications, across all devices and networks, everywhere. Accomplished, transformational business and organizational leader with more than 20 years of experience in driving high performance, change and the development/delivery of elite solutions and services to organizations ranging from multinational Fortune 500s to startups and public sector agencies. In two decades with Akamai (and in leadership roles in sales, services and support, technical services delivery and country management), he has championed new programs and offerings that enable customers to meet their business objectives successfully. Under his leadership, Akamai adopted the use of the NetPromoter Score to monitor and increase customer satisfaction. He launched Akamai University for Customers, which has certified thousands of customers on Akamai solutions, and launched Akamai’s Customer Experience program. As a country manager, he established and expanded Akamai’s presence in Australia and Costa Rica. He has also been instrumental in leading internal integrations of several Akamai acquisitions. A native of the American Southwest, he graduated from Utah State University, lives in greater Boston with his wife, and is based at Akamai’s global headquarters in Cambridge.
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About Akamai Technologies, Recorded Future: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
George Hope
Vice President, WW Distribution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As the Vice President of Global Channels, George is responsible for building a loyal, motivated and self-sufficient ecosystems of partners to increase Simplivity’s market reach. George joined Simplivity from EMC, where he spent the last 17 years in a number of Sales and Channel Management roles. Most recently, he was the Sr. Director of Global Channels for EMC’s Isilon Division. Prior to that, he led the US Field Channel team for all product lines. George holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Simplivity: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jim O’Grady
Vice President HPEFS Global Asset Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jonathan Purnell
VP, Data Science of Spectrum Labs
Previously a Data Scientist for Salesforce DMP, Jon delivered Internet-scale distributed products using innovative machine learning techniques, including Deep Learning and NLP. Before that, he was an Applied Scientist at Bing Ads and a collaborative researcher with BBN Technologies (a division of Raytheon). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Pierre Bi
VP Air Quality of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Tim Saeger
Executive Vice President, Engineering of iRobot
Tim Saeger has served as executive vice president of engineering since March 2017. Mr. Saeger previously served as senior vice president of engineering from August 2015 until March 2017. Prior to iRobot, Mr. Saeger served in multiple roles at Bose Corporation from 2005 – 2015, including Vice President of Home Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saeger also served at Thomson, Inc., and General Dynamics, in a variety of engineering and engineering management positions. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Saeger also has been awarded 24 U.S. patents.
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About iRobot, iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Russell J. Campanello
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
John Grieci
Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Phil Shevrin
VP Technology of SoftBank Group
Phil joined SoftBank Capital in 2004 and brings 30 years of experience in the software and computer business. He offers a unique mix of technical and management backgrounds and has worked for both large companies and several start-ups. In his career, Phil has run both services and product groups. He has been a key member of industry bodies and presenter at numerous conferences, an executive of one of the ten largest software companies, run large distributed organizations, but has also raised venture capital to start new companies. On the technical side, Phil has always been on the leading edge of technology and his work has spanned all levels of systems and software. He has been the lead architect of a computer company, one of the earliest UNIX developers, pioneered distributed systems and operating systems, systems management, content management and collaboration tools and systems. Phil is also currently actively engaged in several strategic projects with SoftBank Corp. in support of the company’s initiatives in the Japanese broadband market.
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About SoftBank Group: SoftBank Group is a holding company focused on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Melanie Dyer
VP Fund Operations of SoftBank Group
Melanie joined SoftBank Capital in 2000 and has over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, investor relations and operations. Melanie is responsible for the financial oversight of SoftBank’s venture funds including the accounting, investor reporting and cash management functions for SoftBank’s partnerships and related entities. In previous positions with SoftBank, Melanie has been responsible for the accounting and reporting of SoftBank Group’s international subsidiaries and has assisted in the development of its foreign investment partnership structures. Prior to joining SoftBank, Melanie began her finance career with Arthur Andersen LLP where she spent four years in the audit practice. Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science, with honors, from Boston College’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About SoftBank Group: SoftBank Group is a holding company focused on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Daniel Winslow
EVP, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Rimini Street
Mr. Winslow, an accomplished lawyer with 30 years of experience, leads Rimini Street’s global legal team and provides legal support to the board of directors and all global business units. Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Winslow served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2011 – 2013. Mr. Winslow also served as counsel at the international law firm of Duane Morris LLP, where he assisted corporate clients in a wide variety of areas, including patent prosecution and litigation, trademark and copyright, regulatory compliance, telecommunications, investment banking, and internet and entertainment law. Prior to Duane Morris, Mr. Winslow was Chief Legal Counsel to then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, overseeing a team of more than 800 in-house and outside counsel, the largest legal practice in Massachusetts. Previously, he spent eight years as a presiding justice and appellate division justice in the Massachusetts Trial Court. Mr. Winslow, an accomplished lawyer with over 36 years of experience, leads Rimini Street’s global legal team and provides legal support to the board of directors and all global business units. Before joining Rimini Street, he served in the private sector and at a senior level in all three branches of state government. Before joining Rimini Street, Mr. Winslow served as Chief Legal Counsel to then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, overseeing a team of more than 800 in-house and outside counsel, the largest legal practice in Massachusetts. He also was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served on the Joint Committee on the Judiciary and the House Ethics Committee, among other assignments. Previously, he spent eight years as a judge in the Massachusetts Trial Court. Mr. Winslow’s private sector experience includes trial, appellate, and dispute resolution practice at the international law firms of Duane Morris LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP, where he served as principal trial counsel in a wide range of disputes including commercial litigation, trademark and copyright litigation, regulatory compliance, telecommunications, banking, insurance, and entertainment law. Mr. Winslow’s experience encompasses complex cases, including intellectual property, alternative resolution of commercial disputes, state and federal administrative law, corporate compliance, consumer protection, products liability, and procurement. Mr. Winslow has been cited by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newspaper as one of the 35 most influential lawyers in Massachusetts in the past 35 years. Recognized as a Super Lawyer in Massachusetts by Law & Politics magazine, Winslow also was named one of the nation’s Top 500 Trial Lawyers by Lawdragon Magazine. He has a AV rating from Mardindale-Hubbell. Mr. Winslow is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Society for Corporate Governance, among other professional organizations. Mr. Winslow received his B.A. from Tufts University magna cum laude with special honors, and graduated from Boston College Law School cum laude.
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About Rimini Street: Rimini Street is an independent provider of enterprise software support services for Oracle and SAP licensees.
Chris Lento
Vice President of Commercialization of Pear Therapeutics
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About Pear Therapeutics: Pear Therapeutics is a software-based digital therapeutics platform designed to treat disease and enhance the efficacy of pharmaceuticals.
Alok Tayi
VP of Life Sciences of Egnyte
Alok is the CEO and co-founder of TetraScience. Prior to TetraScience, he was a post-doctoral fellow in George Whitesides Lab at Harvard University. He also co-founded the open innovation platform, PreScouter. Alok has 15 years of research experience and has published numerous high-impact papers in journals like Nature and Nature Chemistry. He completed his B.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science at Cornell University and Northwestern University, respectively.
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About Egnyte: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Greg Johnson
Senior Vice President of Lightkeeper
Greg comes to Lightkeeper from the transaction services valuation group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in Boston. Greg focused on intangible asset valuation, performing purchase price allocations for several transactions over $1.0 billion. Greg also assisted in the annual impairment testing of goodwill and long-lived assets for several Fortune 500 companies. In addition to intangible asset valuation, Greg concentrated on common stock valuations as well as valuing options and other derivative securities. He was also involved in auditing third party valuation analyses for the inclusion in SEC filings and for other financial reporting purposes. Greg graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston College Carroll School of Management with concentrations in Finance and Economics. Originally from Lexington, MA, Greg currently lives in Boston’s North End. Outside of the finance world, he can be found on the golf course or the ski mountains of Maine.
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About Lightkeeper: Lightkeeper provides managers immediate and relevant information for making critical investment decisions .
Jennifer Linehan
Vice President, Network of High Alpha
Jennifer Linehan is the Vice President of Network at High Alpha.
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About High Alpha: High Alpha creates and funds companies through a new model for entrepreneurship that unites company building and venture capital.
Richard Hoyland
Vice President of Sales of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Jason Quinn
SVP of Finance of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Rob Hickey
Vice President of Engineering of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Razi Raziuddin
Vice President of Business Development & Marketing of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Chris Devaney
Vice President of Operations of DataRobot
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Ben Solari
Vice President, Inside Sales of DataRobot
Ben Solari is the VP of Global Inside Sales at DataRobot, where he leads a team of 30 Account Executives in offices in Boston, Singapore, and London with a focus on helping companies use accessible machine learning technology to solve practical business problems and improve their operations.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Brian Bell Jr.
VP, Engineering of DataRobot
Brian Bell is an engineer at DataRobot. He recently spent a year on the teaching staff for “Tackling the Challenges of Big Data,” a course offered by MIT Professional Education. Previously he was a researcher in Machine Learning with MIT’s Evolutionary Design and Optimization Group and worked as a data analyst in finance and medicine. He studied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at MIT.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Kevin McGowan
Vice President Of Product Management of HqO
Kevin McGowan is the Vice President of Product Management at HqO.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Manish Barmecha
VP Product of HqO
Manish Barmecha is WordStream’s Senior Vice President of Product. Manish is responsible for defining WordStream’s product strategy and for product management and design. Prior to joining WordStream, Manish was Head of Product Management in the Software as a Service (SaaS) unit at Infosys, where he helped build the eCommerce and Social Collaboration software businesses. Before that, Manish headed Product Management at Demandware, an eCommerce SaaS company, and held product leadership roles at Art Technology Group (ATG), where he managed multiple product lines, led entry into new markets, and led the integration of an acquisition. Prior to ATG, Manish was a Senior Associate with McKinsey & Company where he served Global 2000 clients on strategy and marketing issues. Manish holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA (summa cum laude) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lawrence University.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Mary Treseler
VP Strategic Content of O’Reilly
Mary Treseler is Director of Strategic Content at O’Reilly Media, Inc. She acquires, curates, and edits design content, when not writing about it herself. Her experience with design-related topics includes editing “Lean UX” and “Designing Interfaces” as well as launching “The Lean Series” with Eric Ries. Mary has more than 20 years of experience working in technology publishing; her introduction to the design discipline began in 1993 with Jakob Nielsen’s “Usability Engineering.” A Boston native, Mary lives by the ocean in South Dartmouth, MA.
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Larry Whitman
VP and CFO of AppNeta
Larry Whitman is a CFO at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Eva Maloney
Vice President of Business Operations of AppNeta
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Sean Armstrong
Vice President, Products of AppNeta
Sean Armstrong is a Vice President of Products at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Martin Forest
VP of Technology of Tive
CTO & Founder of BeON Home.
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
Andy Fercu
VP, Product of Tive
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
Ben Pring
Vice President and Director, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work of Cognizant
Ben Pring co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Ben is a co-author of the best-selling and award winning books, What To Do When Machines Do Everything (2017) and Code Halos; How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business (2014). He has authored numerous other white papers on areas such as the economics of Big Data and the primacy of the digital customer experience. Ben joined Cognizant from Gartner where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. Prior to Gartner Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand. At Gartner Ben was the lead analyst on all things “Cloud”; he wrote the industry’s first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997!), on Salesforce.com (in 2001) and became well known for providing provocative but accurate predictions about the future of IT. In 2007, Ben won Gartner’s prestigious annual Thought Leader Award. Ben was also heavily involved in tracking and analyzing the emergence of IT talent from outside western markets and the impact that globalization would have on business and IT strategies for organizations of all types. Ben’s expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable, and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences, took him to Cognizant where his charter is to research and analyze how clients can leverage the incredibly powerful new opportunities that are being created as new technologies make computing power more pervasive, more affordable, and more important, than ever before. Now based near Boston, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Philippe Dintrans
Senior Vice President of Cognizant
Philippe Dintrans is the Senior Vice-President and Global Consulting Leader of Cognizant Business Consulting’s Banking and Financial Services Practice. Philippe has led numerous consulting engagements covering business transformation, IT transformation and change management for marquee Cognizant clients. He holds a master’s of science degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Cognizant, Wipro Technologies: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Tony Gomes
Senior Vice President, General Counsel of Citrix Systems
Tony Gomes is senior vice president, general counsel and chief legal compliance officer at Citrix. The global legal team under his leadership is responsible for corporate governance, compliance, employee relations, intellectual property, litigation and legal support for Citrix’s commercial transactions, strategic acquisitions, investments, and licensing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Michael Heffner
Vice President — Solutions and Industry Go To Market of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
David K. Donovan
VP and Managing Director, Global Markets of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Maria Loughlin
VP of Engineering of Toast
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About MassVentures, Toast, Underscore VC: Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space.
Michael Panagakos
Vice President of Sales of Deltek
Michael J. Panagakos is the Vice President of Sales at Deltek.
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About Deltek: Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms and government contractors.
Brian Daniell
SVP, Customer Success of Deltek
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About Deltek: Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms and government contractors.
Tim Yeaton
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Red Hat
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About Monotype, Red Hat, Roger Williams University, Stonebridge Country Club: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Marco Bill-Peter
VP Customer Engagement and Experience of Red Hat
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About Red Hat, Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Tim Burke
VP, Cloud & Operating System Infrastructure of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Brad Terrell
Vice President, Product Management of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Brian Denenberg
Vice President, Global Sales of Einsights
Brian has more than twenty years of experience leading sales teams and driving revenue for start-ups, enterprises and consultancies worldwide. His broad experience includes complex technical sales, high volume sales to the SMB market, as well as sales to C-level executives. Prior to joining Einsights Brian was a Senior Consultant at Channel Partners where he advised leading technology vendors and cloud partners on how to improve their sales and Go-To-Market strategies. Prior to Channel Partners he was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales for the leading online parenting website in Southeast Asia, MumCentre.com, which partnered with 90% of the family oriented brands in Southeast Asia and over a thousand SMB customers. Brian received his BA degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington.
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About Einsights: Einsights develop the business analytics tool built for the inquisitive mind.
David Moreno
Vice President of Product Development of S2 Security Corporation
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About S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Steve Sullivan
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Americas of Infinidat
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About Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Amos T. Wasgatt
VP of Sales of LogRocket
Amos T. Wasgatt is the VP of sales at LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Bruce Harrison
Vice President of Research of Malwarebytes
Bruce joined Malwarebytes in 2008 after his insightful malware expertise was displayed on a range of online security forums and direct experience as a computer technician. As Vice President of Research, Bruce now manages a team of handpicked security experts and researchers that span across the globe to ensure Malwarebytes Anti-Malware continues to offer industry leading protection against the latest and most advanced threats.
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Dan Niemann
VP, Worldwide Field Operations of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Dan Tempesta
Chief Financial Officer and EVP of Nuance Communications
Dan Tempesta assumed the role of executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Nuance in July 2015. Since joining Nuance in 2008, Dan has held several senior finance roles, having most recently served as Nuance’s Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller, and Senior Vice President of Finance. Dan brings more than 20 years of experience to the role, including extensive financial and operational experience with publicly-held companies and accounting firms. During his time at Nuance, Dan has led the majority of Nuance’s finance and accounting operations, as well as tax, treasury, order management, and internal control activities. He received an accounting degree from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Lauren Kline
Vice President, Senior Strategist of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Alena Reva
Head of HR, Americas (VP) of Kaspersky Lab
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About Kaspersky Lab: Kaspersky Lab is a vendor of endpoint protection solutions for consumers, SMBs and enterprises.
Valerio Marra
VP of Marketing of Rescale
Valerio Marra is the VP of Sales and Marketing and General Manager of OnScale, a global cloud SaaS company backed by Intel Capital and Gradient Ventures. OnScale helps engineers access powerful engineering simulation tools in the cloud. Valerio is dual US and Italian citizen and has two decade’s worth of experience in business strategy, building and leading teams, high-tech engineering, and multiphysics simulation. He is an empathetic leader and persistent problem solver. Valerio responds quickly to shifts in technology and loves telling stories and simplifying complexity. As a young engineer, Valerio started as a business & CFD analyst in the oil & gas industry for Accenture and Saipem, respectively. Valerio then worked for Altran as a RAMS and V&V consultant, trainer, and project leader supporting clients with the design of safety-critical systems for the aerospace and railway industries. In his last appointments for OnScale and COMSOL, Valerio has been working in the high-tech engineering and CAE markets at the confluence of technology, business strategy, product & technical marketing, branding & communications, and creative. Valerio held roles also in applications and sales. Valerio is now focusing on further developing his executive & leadership skills in terms of strategic thinking and execution, team- and relationship-building, and change-management. Strategy, product marketing, SaaS, PLG, numerical simulation, engineering analysis, simplifying complexity, and customer empathy are his forte. Valerio is a Nuclear Engineer and holds a PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been in love with numerical simulation since his undergraduate studies. Most recently, he has become a machine learning enthusiast interested in its application to the modeling of physics-based systems. Valerio is also a US Sailing performance sailing and coastal navigation instructor.
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About OnScale, Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Peter Lyu
VP of Global Solutions and Customer Success of Rescale
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About Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Jeffrey Franklin
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development of TrueCommerce
Since co-founding RedTail in 2000, Jeff has played an integral part in the development of the RedTail’s flagship managed EDI service—from its design and development, to its implementation as part of a total electronic trading solution for middle-market businesses. He brings more than 25 years of expertise in the understanding of manufacturing systems that include electronic data interchange As Vice President, Sales for Sage / AccountMate, Jeff focuses on RedTail’s sales in those market segments. Earlier, Jeff transitioned from VP of Product Development Director of Sales and Business Development. Prior to founding RedTail Solutions, Jeff was IT Director for RBI, where he developed and implemented a collaborative system for new product development in addition to his general responsibilities for RBI’s IT strategy and systems. Jeff also started Electro-World and Boca Software, and wrote a full MRP system for electronics company Solitron. Jeff attended the University of Florida
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About TrueCommerce: TrueCommerce, Inc. provides electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions to small and mid-tier companies. Its end-to-end solution includes
Dan Germain
VP of Customer Success of Turbonomic
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About Turbonomic: Turbonomic develops tools that optimize application performance, compliance, and cost in real-time.
Chad Lovell
VP of P&C of ASSURANCE
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About ASSURANCE: ASSURANCE is a technology start-up passionately improving the personal insurance industry.
Kathleen Keenan
Vice President – Product Management of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
David Sweet
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development of Bottomline Technologies
David leads strategy and corporate development processes for Bottomline. As a globally oriented executive with 25 years of experience working with private and publicly traded technology companies, David has a unique set of experiences across the full life-cycle of the software industry: as a venture capital investor, an entrepreneur, a board member, and corporate development executive.
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About Bottomline Technologies: Bottomline Technologies provides corporations, financial institutions, and banks with e-payment, invoice, and document automation solutions.
Eric Morgan
EVP, Global Controller of Bottomline Technologies
Eric ensures Bottomline meets its reporting obligations as a global, public company for Bottomline’s accounting, tax, SEC reporting and internal control related functions. Eric encourages his team to work with and for each other and to remain focused on delighting Bottomline’s customers.
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About Bottomline Technologies: Bottomline Technologies provides corporations, financial institutions, and banks with e-payment, invoice, and document automation solutions.
Chris Sledz
Vice President of Account Management of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Kathleen Parrish
Vice President of Human Resources of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Matt McDonald
Vice President of Engineering of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Barrie Kuza
Vice President Of Product Management of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Joe Gately
EVP of Sales and Field Operations of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
