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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 New York, New York based President operating in the Software space. If you think a President 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.
Scott Belsky
Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud of Adobe
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance’s acquisition, Scott served as Adobe’s Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe’s mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages. Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively). Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company’s list of “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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About Adobe, Benchmark, CapitalB: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Jennifer Wolf
President & Partner of Initialized Capital
I’m President and Partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with $1B assets under management. At Initialized I’m responsible for hiring and managing the team on both the investment and operations sides of the business. I invest in companies that have an intriguing product or design challenge, usually in the e-commerce marketplace, enterprise saas, and data science spaces. I also advise our portfolio companies on product strategy/roadmaps, product design and user research, how to build and manage teams, and how to resolve conflicts. I have been a product executive at several B2B and B2C startups, from early-stage to growth stage. Prior to Initialized I was Chief Product Officer at Reserve, an Expa-funded hospitality platform that connects restaurants and diners. I also founded a boutique consultancy where I delivered successful projects for companies like Apple, Twitter, Chase, Nordstrom and Starwood Hotels. Before that I helped create the User Experience practice at Sapient and helped open its Milan, Italy office.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Liam Doyle
Senior Vice President Product Management and GM, MuleSoft Composer of Salesforce
Senior Vice President Product Management, MuleSoft at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Michael Maoz
Senior Vice President, Innovation Strategy of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
AJ Kiefer
Vice President, Transformation Services International of Salesforce
AJ Kiefer is the Vice President, Transformation Services International at Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jacob Loewenstein
Vice President, Business Development and Strategy of Spatial
Jacob Loewenstein leads AR/VR business development and product strategy at Samsung Next, Samsung’s software and services innovation arm. He received his MBA at MIT Sloan, where he co-founded VR/AR@MIT, which is dedicated to fostering VR/AR/MR innovation. Additionally, he was a founding Co-Organizer of the Reality, Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab, the biggest VR/AR hackathon. Prior to MIT, he worked in revenue strategy and business development at BuzzFeed and as a internal management consultant at Bridgewater Associates. He received his BA, Cum Laude, from Princeton University, where he studied the intersection of Media Theory and Public Policy. Jacob is based in New York and has previously lectured on VR and AR at AWE, AR in Action at NYU/MIT, Illuminate Global at Harvard, and Hacking Arts at the MIT Media Lab. He has also lectured on digital media at Princeton. When not pontificating about AR, Jacob likes to sing Macy Gray at karaoke.
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About Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
Jeff Schick
Senior Vice President North America Cloud Sales of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nicole Engelbert
Vice President, Higher Education Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jeffrey Billingham
Vice President, Capital Markets of Chainalysis
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Kazushi Ambe
Senior Vice President of Sony
Kazushi Ambe is the Senior Vice President at Sony Corporation.
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Steven Green
Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer of Pitney Bowes
Steven Green is the VP Finance & CAO at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Phil Landler
Vice President Strategy of Pitney Bowes
Philip Landler is the Vice President Strategy at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Jason Dies
EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions of Pitney Bowes
Jason Dies is the EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Christoph Stehmann
EVP & President , Enterprise Solutions Group of Pitney Bowes
Christoph Stehmann is the Corporate Strategy & Corporate Development at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Ulf Zetterberg
Co-founder & President of Time is Ltd.
Ulf Zetterberg is the Co-founder & President at Time is Ltd.
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About Time is Ltd.: At Time is Ltd., we provide an advanced analytical SaaS platform that delivers a holistic view of an organization collaboration patterns.
Tim Mund
Regional Vice President of Sales, Enterprise of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Erick Schonfeld
President & Founding Partner of Traction Technology Partners
Erick has been discovering and working with startups his entire professional career as a technology journalist, startup event producer, and founder. Erick is President & Founding Partner at Traction Technology Partners. He is also a co-founder of TouchCast, the leading interactive video platform, and a partner at bMuse, a startup studio in New York City. He is the former Executive Producer of the DEMO conferences and former Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch (where he helped conceive, lead and select startups for the Disrupt conferences, among other duties). Prior to TechCrunch, which he joined as Co-Editor in 2007, Erick was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, and a senior writer at Fortune magazine covering technology. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. After founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor in Chief. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched the online video series “The Disruptors” with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences of industry luminaries. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993, where he was recognized with numerous journalism awards.
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About bMuse, Traction Technology Partners: Traction is a SaaS platform that automates the discovery and evaluation of emerging technologies across the enterprise.
Christian Martin
Vice President, Service Provider Customer Engineering of Arista Networks
Christian Martin has spent more than 20 years delivering advanced ICT solutions to enterprises, government and service providers. His career experience spans many areas. In his current role, he is responsible for defining and driving the execution of Arista’s strategy for its ongoing expansion into the service provider and MSO markets. Prior to his role at Arista, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco, reporting to the CAO/CTO Development. At Cisco, Christian was responsible for network architecture and strategic direction for major global carriers, large MSOs and large financial services organizations. Before Cisco, he held leadership roles in engineering at Juniper Networks and Teliris; co-founded and led a technology consultancy from inception to acquisition; and held leadership roles in technology, engineering and operations at Verizon.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Simon Koziel
President of ProTrak
Simon is the President and Founder of ProTrak International, Inc. and has over 30 years of experience in the investment management and consulting industries. He worked at several major investment management, banking and consulting firms, including J.P. Morgan Investments in New York City and Arthur D. Little in Boston. Prior to starting ProTrak, Simon was the President of a software consulting company that serviced the investment management community. Simon holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the City College of New York – School of Engineering.
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About Backstop Solutions Group, ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
Amy Stoldt
Vice President, People & Culture of Snappy
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About Snappy: Snappy is an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that allows companies to send gifts to their customers and team members.
Stephane Bello
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Thomson Reuters
Stephane Bello is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Thomson Reuters. He assumed this role on January 1, 2012 after recently serving as Chief Financial Officer of the company’s Professional division for four years. Bello joined the company in 2001 as a Senior Vice President and Treasurer of The Thomson Corporation where he was responsible for the company’s global treasury operations, risk management and capital markets activities. In addition to these responsibilities, he led the company’s business development activities which included the divestiture of the Thomson Learning business and the acquisition of the Reuters Group. Prior to joining the company, Bello held several positions at General Motors in its treasury division, including regional Treasurer of General Motors Europe and Assistant Treasurer of General Motors in New York. Bello holds degrees in Law and Economic Law from the Universite libre de Bruxelles and is fluent in French, Spanish and English.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
James Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters
James Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters. Jim began his career as a journalist and rose through the ranks at Thomson Newspapers to become responsible for operations in North America. Following the divesture of Thomson’s newspaper business in 2000, Jim moved to the professional publishing side of the company where he was responsible for a number of businesses serving the legal, regulatory and academic markets. He also served as global head of Human Resources before becoming Chief Operating Officer of The Thomson Corporation. Following the acquisition of Reuters in 2008, Jim ran the Professional Division of the combined company. He was named chief executive in January 2012. Jim is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum and the Board of Directors of the Brazil-US Business Council. He also serves on the International Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council. Jim graduated from Marshall University.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Marc Alvarez
Vice President, Data Management & Operations of Thomson Reuters
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Ishan Sinha
Vice President of Point72 Ventures
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About Point72 Ventures: Point72 Ventures is an every-stage global VC fund focused on fintech, deep tech, and enterprise investments led by Steven A. Cohen.
Laurel Hesch
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Operations of Arcesium
Laurel Hesch is a Senior Vice President and the Head of Business Operations for Arcesium. Prior to the formation of Arcesium, Laurel spent 11 years with the D. E. Shaw group in roles within the firm’s Treasury, Finance, and Operations departments. She also served as Head of Management Reporting for the D. E. Shaw group.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Curtis Lee
Chairman, President, and Cofounder of Pinwheel
Curtis Lee is a co-founder and CEO of Luxe, Founder of Pinwheel, Angel Investor, and Partner at Primary Venture Partners.
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About Pinwheel, Primary Venture Partners: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Daniel Friedman
Co-Founder & President of Thinkful
Dan co-founded Thinkful with the belief that great education is built on strong relationships between students and teachers and between peers. Prior to starting Thinkful, Dan was a product manager at Elm City Labs, where he helped entrepreneurs turn their ideas into products and find their first customers. He first started as an analyst at RRE Ventures, a venture capital firm in NYC (and now a Thinkful investor). Dan attended Yale University, but dropped out after two years to join the Thiel Fellowship, a program that pays 20 people each year to leave college and start a company.
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
James Moran
President/Co-Founder of YipitData
Jim is co-founder of YipitData.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Mark F. O’Neil
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dealertrack
Mark F. O’Neil is Chief Operating Officer of Cox Automotive, a position he has held since March 2016. Previously he served as Chief Executive Officer of Dealertrack, a position he had held since May 2005. From August 2001 to May 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Dealertrack. O’Neil began his career at Intel Corporation, where he first developed his knowledge of the technology industry. He subsequently worked for McKinsey & Co. before moving to the automotive industry in the late 1980s, where he was President of Ertley MotorWorld, a dealer group based in Pennsylvania. O’Neil went on to co-found and lead the development and rollout of CarMax, Inc. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Greenlight.com, an online automotive sales website, from June 2000 through January 2001. He currently serves as a Director of DealerTire LLC, a privately held company. O’Neil holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Dealertrack: DealerTrack is a provider of on-demand software for the automotive industry in the United States.
Rajesh Nair
President of Indegene Lifesystems
Dr Rajesh Nair is one of the cofounders of the company, and as the President, he is responsible for new strategic initiatives, especially as they relate to the company’s solutions in RWD-driven R&D for the life sciences. Prior to cofounding Indegene, Dr Nair headed the Biotech division of the Sarabhai Group. He is a physician by training, having earned the MBBS degree from GMC Trivandrum, India. He then pursued MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (1997), India.
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About Indegene, Indegene Lifesystems: Indegene helps global healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology.
Sanjay Virmani
Executive Vice President of Indegene Lifesystems
Sanjay Virmani is the CEO at Exeevo Inc.
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About Exeevo, Indegene Lifesystems: Indegene helps global healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology.
Sameer Lal
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Indegene Lifesystems
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About Indegene Lifesystems: Indegene helps global healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology.
Jason Wilcox
Executive Vice President, Product and Engineering of Dataminr
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Brian Lobdell
Vice President of Lead Edge Capital
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Chris Lucas
Vice President Of Product Management of Dun & Bradstreet
As Vice President, Solution Architecture for North America, Chris leads a team of Solution Architects and is responsible for customer requirements and solution design for D&B’s more complex integrated solutions. Chris has been with D&B for 16 years and prior to his current role, held leadership positions in Product Management and Product Strategy. Prior to joining D&B, Chris was at InfoGroup for 10 years in Sales and Sales Engineering roles. Chris brings over 25 years of business-to-business information and information technology experience and is considered a subject matter expert in the areas of CRM, MDM and Marketing Automation.
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About Dun & Bradstreet, Dun & Bradstreet: Dun & Bradstreet grows the most valuable relationships in business by uncovering truth and meaning from data.
Jason Heller
President of Persado
Jason Heller is the President at Persado
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Jonathan Hefter
Founder, President of Neverware
Jonathan Hefter is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Neverware, based in New York City. He is paving the way for innovative technologies that help solve the current business and educational computer procurement model by way of perpetually extending the life and performance of existing PCs, eliminating the need to purchase new hardware. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton with a degree in finance in 2009, Hefter spent a year teaching himself the basics of virtual computing while developing the Neverware’s prototype in his parents’ basement.
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About Neverware: Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability.
Joseph Davi
Co-founder/President & CEO of Med-Metrix
Joe has over 20 years of demonstrated success in healthcare executive leadership. Together with other senior management, Joe directs and executes Med-Metrix’s primary corporate initiatives and actively implements our strategic plans. Prior to becoming Med-Metrix’s CEO, Joe most recently served as the President of Cobblestone Capital Associates, a private equity firm he founded. He has been an investor and board member in several acquisitions and portfolio companies. Previously, Joe was the President and co-founder of MD-X Solutions (acquired by MedAssets), a revenue cycle company named by Deloitte among the 100 fastest growing technology companies in North America. He later served as the President of MedAssets’ revenue cycle services division. Joe’s career also includes positions at Lehman Brothers, Bankers’ Trust, and NPPN, a national Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Princeton University and an M.B.A in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Joe is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA) and was named a Finalist by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
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About Med-Metrix: Med-Metrix provides Performance Management and Revenue Cycle solutions to the healthcare industry.
Michael Tiffany
Cofounder & President of HUMAN
Michael Tiffany is co-founder and President of White Ops, where he focuses on product direction, strategic partnerships, and building teams that uphold the White Ops mission. His founding vision is to make everyday internet users more secure by disrupting the profit centers of cybercrime. Tiffany began his startup career before he could legally purchase alcohol as an executive at Western Integrated Networks, which started with an $889 million Series A round. Throughout Tiffany’s career, he has protected humans from bad actors using innovative security techniques. He is also a lifetime Technical Fellow of Critical Assets Labs, a DARPA-funded cybersecurity research lab, and a Subject Matter Advisor for the Signal Media Project, a nonprofit promoting the accurate portrayal of science, technology and history in popular media. Tiffany is a member of the old school white hat hacker collective ninjas.org.
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About HUMAN: HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects the internet and enterprises from fraud and sophisticated bot attacks.
Nick Illobre
Vice President Product Strategy, Crossix Analytics of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Miguel Burger-Calderon
Co-Founder and President of Ethyca
Miguel Burger-Calderon is the Co-Founder and President of Ethyca and BrandCommerce. He is a former Head of Global Business Development at Group Nine Media and President of Elite Daily. Mr. Burger-Calderon graduated from Bentley University with a bachelor of science in Economics-Finance.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Southard Jones
Vice President, Product Marketing of Celonis
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About Celonis: Celonis provides an Execution Management System that helps companies in running their business processes.
Duane Kotsen
Senior Vice President Professional Services of Blue Yonder
Behind every successful JDA go-live is a global team of expert consultants, strategists and education professionals led by Duane Kotsen, JDA’s Senior Vice President of Professional Services. His team solves some of the most complex supply chain challenges for some of the biggest companies in the world, making sure they get the most value out of their JDA software investments. His interest in solving tough business challenges – and learning about a variety of different industries, geographies and cultures – is what turned Duane’s first consulting job into a lifelong career. He joined JDA from Deltek, where he was SVP of Global Consulting Services, developing a tiered implementation methodology that significantly improved margins and customer outcomes. Prior to that, Duane spent four years as JDA’s SVP of America Services and SVP of Global Consulting Services, where in both roles he integrated sales and delivery models across the services teams, improving customer satisfaction and outcomes. He was SVP of Global Services at QAD and PeopleSoft and also held positions at Extraprise Group and Oracle. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and information sciences from Leigh University and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. If not successfully designing, launching and implementing software for JDA customers, Duane would be on the road as a professional athlete or an outdoor adventurist. In his downtime, he can often be found cheering on his four kids at their various activities.
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About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is a digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment platform.
Ankit Malhotra
Vice-President of Engineering of Welcome
Ankit Malhotra is the Director of Engineering at NewsCred since May 2017. Ankit was Team Lead at AppNexus from May 2013 to May 2017. Ankit Malhotra was the Chief Technology Officer at Buyou. Ankit earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science and his B.E. in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University.
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About Welcome: Welcome is a marketing orchestration platform used by brands to strategically align teams.
Shaun Zacharia
Co-Founder & President of TripleLift
Prior to founding Triple Lift, Shaun led custom engineering solutions at AppNexus for the industry’s largest marketers like eBay and WPP. At AppNexus, Shaun was also critical in consulting the industry’s largest media networks including Collective and Microsoft. Shaun graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Engineering.
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About TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Zeeshan Zaidi
Senior Vice President & General Manager of Artist Services of Ticketmaster
Zeeshan Zaidi is General Manager of Artist Services at Ticketmaster, a division of Live Nation Entertainment. His group works with artists, managers, agents, promoters and labels to help make tours more successful through leveraging Ticketmaster’s marketing reach, data insights, and commerce opportunities. Before joining Ticketmaster, Zaidi spent several years in the startup world in various capacities. He was CEO/co-founder of Host Committee, Inc., a social media and events startup. He also served as COO and Head of Global of LimeWire, the world’s largest file-sharing network, and COO of Selectable Media (formerly Nabbr), a video advertising network. He previously spent seven years in the recorded music industry at Sony BMG in numerous roles, including VP, Digital for RCA and Sr. Director, Marketing for Arista Records. There, he developed the careers of superstar artists such as Avril Lavigne, OutKast, Usher and Dido.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Arik Benzino
President of Hello Alfred
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About Hello Alfred, Memeni: Alfred is the largest and most advanced residential management platform.
Nicole Zheng
Founder and President of Minim
Nicole Zheng is the Co- founder and CMO of Minim (OTCQB: MINM), the creator of innovative internet access products under the globally-recognized Motorola brand. While at Minim, she has been recognized by Entrepreneur as a Top Female Founder in the United States (2020). Prior to Minim, Nicole held the position of Chief Marketing Officer at cloud software companies Antidote Technologies and OnSIP (ACQ: Intrado). She has served as a board member of Alliance of Channel Women, a nonprofit on a mission to advance careers for women in the communications technology sector through education, community, and advocacy. Nicole holds a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering and B.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as business certifications from The Wharton School. She currently resides in Southampton, NY.
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About Minim, Zoom Telephonics (now Minim): Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Ramy Farid
President & CEO of Schrödinger
Ramy Farid Co-founded Nimbus Discovery, LLC. in 2009 and served as its President and also serves as its Director. Farid has been at Nimbus Therapeutics, Inc. since 2002. Prior to joining Schrödinger, Faird was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University where his research focused on computational protein design, resulting in a number of high-profile publications. After joining Schrödinger, Farid rapidly rose through a series of leadership positions as well as led many research and development projects. He authored several highly-cited publications applying computational tools to drug discovery, including the innovative Induced-fit docking algorithm, which is the most cited article from the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry in 2006. Farid received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1991, and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. After joining Schrödinger, Ramy rapidly rose through a series of leadership positions as well as led many research and development projects; he also authored several highly-cited publications applying computational tools to drug discovery.
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About Nimbus Therapeutics, Schrödinger, Schrödinger: Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Tink Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Founder, and President of dotmailer Group
Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at the UK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.
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About dotAgency, dotmailer Group: dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Stacey Babson-Smith
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Terex
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About Terex: Terex Corportion is a set of manufacturing companies focusing on infrastructure support via their handling and lifting equipment.
Myles Kleeger
President & Chief Customer Officer of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Will Crocker
Vice President, Customer & Partner Marketing of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Rajiv Goyal
Executive Vice President of ThoughtFocus
Executive Vice President at ThoughtFocus .
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About ThoughtFocus, ThoughtFocus: ThoughtFocus is a US based, privately held consulting, software engineering and business process management company.
Nick Cicero
Vice President Strategy of Conviva
Nick is the founder of Delmondo, a creative studio and social video analytics software acquired by Conviva in 2018. He is a leader in building digital content initiatives with a proven ability to set vision, strategy, and execute on numerous innovative projects for some of the world’s largest brands and publishers like MTV, NBC Sports, Red Bull, L’Oreal, the UFC, Universal, Conde Nast, and Clear Channel. Prior to founding Delmondo he spent time building and implementing new enterprise social publishing and analytics tools with Livefyre, Expion and Percolate. He put the first Instagram Video on TV for Oprah and built an innovative social content experience for the PlayStation launch in North America, among other projects. Nick received his Master’s from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Sheila Cheston
Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of Northrop Grumman
Sheila C. Cheston is corporate vice president and general counsel for Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leader in global security. Cheston oversees all of Northrop Grumman’s legal matters. She is also a member of the company’s corporate policy council.Cheston joined Northrop Grumman from BAE Systems, Inc., where she was executive vice president responsible for strategy and planning, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and all legal matters associated with BAE Systems Inc.; She also served as a member of its board of directors. Previously, Cheston was a partner at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was chair of the firm’s International Aviation, Defense and Aerospace Group. She has held key leadership positions in the U.S. government, including general counsel of the United States Air Force where she oversaw approximately 1,500 lawyers stationed worldwide, and special associate counsel to the President of the United States. Cheston earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law. She is a fellow of the American Bar and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Cheston also serves on the Board of Advisors, National Military Family Association and the Board of Directors, Equal Justice Works.Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Isaac Buahnik
Senior Vice President, Business Operations and Growth of Bringg
Isaac has spent over a decade building the Sales and Business Operations teams at fast-growing startups including SimilarWeb, Yotpo and Wix. Currently, he leads Bringg’s operational growth to serve fortune 500 customers in various industries worldwide. Isaac holds an MBA from the Israel Institute of Technology, and a B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering and Finance from NYU.
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About Bringg: Bringg is a data-led delivery and fulfillment platform that offers last-mile delivery solutions for retailers and logistics providers.
Sastry Chilukuri
Executive Vice President, Digital and AI of Medidata Solutions
Sastry Chilukuri is responsible for accelerating the development, go-to-market and delivery of capabilities that help life science customers scale artificial intelligence across the enterprise. Sastry brings 19 years of experience in healthcare technology. He most recently was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 12 years advising bio-pharma, medical device, technology, public sector and regulatory clients around the world. Prior to that, he worked for GE Healthcare in software engineering, product development and operations. His perspectives have been widely disseminated, including in conferences, media and numerous publications on McKinsey Insights. Sastry holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; a Master of Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
David Bukovac
Co-Founder, President and Cheif Revenue Officer of CrossBorder Solutions
David co-founded the new CrossBorder Solutions in 2016 with Donald Scherer and serves as the Global CRO.
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About CrossBorder Solutions: CrossBorder Solutions is the global leader in technology-driven tax solutions.
Michael Kubin
Executive Vice President of INVIDI Technologies
Michael Kubin is the Executive Vice President at INVIDI Technologies.
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About INVIDI Technologies, Ionic Media: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Darcy Frisch
Managing Director & Vice President of Hearst Ventures
Darcy Frisch is vice president at Hearst Ventures, where she identifies, executes and oversees Hearst’s investments in early stage digital media and information businesses. Since joining Hearst Ventures in 2000, Ms. Frisch has been involved with many investments including drugstore.com, XM Satellite Radio, Circles and MobiTV. She currently is a board director at Nexage and board observer at RAMP. She previously served on the boards of Sphere (sold to AOL in 2008) and Voxpop.tv (sold to IAC in 2011). Prior to Hearst, Darcy was with the investment group E2Enet. She also held positions as a tax analyst at KPMG and as the legislative assistant for tax for U.S. Senator David Boren of Oklahoma. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and earned her MBA at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
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About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Adam Perold
Co-founder, President & CEO of Element
Adam Perold is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Element.
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About Element: Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity.
Arben Kane
Founder/President of Kontur Inc.
Arben Kane joined Kontur as Founder / CEO in 2017.
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About echoecho, Kontur Inc., Kontur Inc.: Integrated service technology that helps enterprises maximize their investments by processing customer relations
Chris Morgan
President and Chief Revenue Officer of Montauk Labs
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About Montauk Labs: Montauk Labs is an entrepreneurial venture for exploring new and impactful ideas and technologies.
Luke Weil
Vice President of International Business Development in Latin America of Scientific Games
Luke Weil is Vice President of International Business Development in Latin America for the Scientific Games Corporation. In addition to his work at SG, Luke’s professional life also includes a wide range of entrepreneurial and investing activities. Luke Weil sits on several boards of directors, including LW Air, an aviation holding and leasing company; Interactive Commerce Corp., an ecommerce and digital media company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA; and Andina Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company established to deploy equity capital in the Andean region of South America. Outside his professional life, Luke Weil serves on the board of the Fortune Society, a service organization as well as a public policy group based in New York.
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About Scientific Games: Scientific Games Corporation is a leading innovator in the global lottery and regulated gaming industries.
Michael P Conforti
President of Global Strategic Accounts of Scientific Games
Michael Conforti is the President of Global Strategic Accounts. Michael joined the company in 2011, initially serving as Vice President of International Business Development after spending several years assisting the Company in the development of its China business. Mr. Conforti previously served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of URU Technology Incorporated, a company that develops and commercializes proprietary biometric access control and identity management solutions. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Conforti was employed by GTECH Corporation as its Vice President of International Business Development, where his responsibilities extended to government relations and Asian operations. Prior to joining GTECH, Mr. Conforti was a Director of Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a leading Washington, D.C.-based public affairs company. Michael is an attorney and member of the Virginia State
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About Scientific Games: Scientific Games Corporation is a leading innovator in the global lottery and regulated gaming industries.
Mohsin Memon
Co-Founder, President, & COO of Sharebite
Mohsin Memon is a Co-Founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Zach Rosen
Vice President, Global Partner Development of Index Exchange
As Index Exchange’s first employee in the United States, Zach has made significant contributions to Index’s brand development and growth strategy in new markets. In his current role, Zach oversees the expansion of publisher and mass media company partnerships. He is passionate about how technology and automation is impacting the advertising industry, and lives to connect people with opportunities that drive their business goals forward. Before joining the team at Index Exchange, Zach consulted for a number of Bay Area startups in the digital media and entertainment space. Prior to that, he for Cox Enterprises in San Francisco, following their $300m acquisition of Adify. At Cox, Zach spearheaded the development of a new entertainment vertical spanning programmatic and branded content opportunities. Zach lives in New York City, he is an active consultant to early stage start ups in the media and entertainment space, and he regularly speaks on the emergence of automation and technology and how it impacts the ability for brands and media companies to shape their creative and storytelling experience.
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About Index Exchange, Yieldmo: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Jourdain-Alexander Casale
Vice President Product, Supply of Index Exchange
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Jordan Sumerlus
Vice President, Product Management of Two Sigma
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About Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Marcus Cohn
Vice President of Inbound Marketing of 2U
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
Andrew Hermalyn
President, Global Partnerships of 2U
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
Eric Ho
Founder, CTO & President of RippleMatch
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About RippleMatch: RippleMatch is a platform for early career hiring that helps build diverse teams and hire the right talent virtually.
John Buser
President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Solutions Plus
Health Solutions Plus was founded in 1996, by John Buser, founder and former COO and CIO of Centercare, a New York health plan. Before founding HSP, Mr. Buser spent 30 years in technology, software and operations management and served in senior leadership. Prior to joining the healthcare industry, Mr. Buser was the senior technical manager for international consulting firm Logica LLC. During his tenure at Logica, Mr. Buser was responsible for developing banking and telecommunications systems for such clients as Citibank, Chase, JP Morgan, Chemical, MHT, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of Boston and IBM.
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About Health Solutions Plus: Health Solutions Plus (HSP) is a U.S. based software provider of the most modern Payer administration solutions in the industry.
John Kilpatrick
Vice President – Global Head of Product & Experience of Samsung NEXT
John Kilpatrick is leading several new initiatives for Samsung that include: mobile, TV, Home Appliances and emerging new hardware. Before joining Samsung, John was the CEO of a mobile startup (www.cabinapp.com) that was acquired by Samsung’s MSCA division. The company was funded by The Samsung Accelerator in NYC and voted one of the best family app by Google Play in 2013. Prior to Cabin and Samsung, John was senior vice president and executive creative director at The Daily, a first-of-its-kind news publication built exclusively for the iPad. This app was developed hand-in-hand between Apple and News Corp., and the resulting publication had the aesthetics and readability of a digital magazine, the daily frequency of a newspaper, and the interactive experience of a tablet app. John built a world class product and design team and directly managed a team of 65+people. Some of the awards he received while at The Daily was one of the best news apps from Wired Magazine and a Webby award. He has spent his career spearheading digital products and teams for both start-ups and large-scale media organizations. Previously, Kilpatrick was vice president and group creative director for AOL Media, where he led the interactive design team, developing new digital media products and content for more than 80 websites that reached more than 100 million people. While at AOL, John earned over 30 design patents. Prior to joining AOL, he was a founding partner of the New York City design studio Double K Design, where he worked with Nike, Prada, Estée Lauder, Mercedes-Benz, Absolute Vodka, Razorfish, Honda, Versace, B&B Italia and several boutique hotels. Kilpatrick is an active “media board” member for the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City (Smithsonian National Design Museum) and is a mentor for RGA/Techstars Accelerator program.
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About Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Mukesh Sehgal
Founder, President & CEO of RSG Media
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About RSG Media: RSG Media is a media-tech supplier specializing in rights management, whose customers include industry-leading TV networks, studios.
Paul Kahn
Vice President of North America of Upfluence
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About Upfluence: Upfluence is a smarter influencer marketing platform that helps brands and agencies scaling influencer marketing worldwide.
Taylor Justice
Co-Founder & President of Unite Us
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About Unite Us: Unite Us provides a collaboration and coordination software, streamlining the delivery of health and social services.
Jaswinder Chadha
President & CEO of Axtria
Jassi founded Axtria with the vision of building cutting-edge analytics and software solutions that will help global companies to effectively manage and get insights from big data. He is a pioneer in building advanced decision support software.He has worked closely with over 100 global companies to improve effectiveness of their commercial operations. Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) awarded Jassi with prestigious lifetime achievement award in 2014. This is among several other accolades. Jassi also serves on the Board of many diverse organizations like TIE Global, Ocular Therapeutics, SpectraMedix and others.
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About Axtria: Axtria is a big data analytics software and services company for the Life Sciences industry.
Simon Moss
Vice President, Head of Industry Consulting and Solutions, The Americas of Teradata
Simon Moss is vice president of industry consulting and solutions for the Americas at Teradata. Simon has extensive leadership and entrepreneurial experience in banking and financial technology. Previously, he was a managing director at Grant Thornton responsible for FinTech in the Americas and was founder and chief executive officer for Mantas Corporation, leading the company to become a market leader in global anti-money laundering and compliance technology. Simon’s other experience includes founding the IBM Risk Management Practice, working as a partner at PWC, and serving on multiple technology company boards of directors.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Jacob Lamm
Executive Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development of CA Technologies
Jacob Lamm is executive vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development, at CA Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating the company’s overall business strategy, as well as developing strategy for the selection, prioritization, and execution of acquisitions. In addition, Jacob is charged with exploring opportunities to build businesses in new markets. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team, which defines and executes business and technical strategies. Jacob has held various management positions since joining CA Technologies in 1998. Prior to assuming his current role he served as executive vice president of the company’s Governance Group, a collection of business units focused on delivering solutions that help organizations effectively govern all areas of operations. Earlier, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Business Service Optimization business unit at CA Technologies. Jacob has more than 20 years of industry experience covering a wide range of technologies and business applications. He joined CA Technologies with its acquisition of Professional Help Desk (PHD), where he was co-founder and served as executive vice president and chief technology officer. Under his leadership, PHD evolved into one of the strongest products on the market and gained industry recognition as having the most visionary service management solution. Prior to founding PHD, Jacob served as a senior manager at Con Edison in New York, where he was responsible for integrating new technologies into the company’s business systems, including wireless communications, data warehousing, imaging, and Internet solutions. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Jacob earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information science.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Lauren Flaherty
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CA Technologies
Lauren is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CA Technologies, a market leader in enterprise software. She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks, and a 25-year marketing career at IBM®, where she held executive roles for over a decade. In addition to her role at CA, Lauren serves on the Board of Directors for Xactly Corporation, a market leader in SaaS-based tools for enterprise sales performance management and effectiveness. The scope of her expertise and experience covers a broad spectrum: corporate brand management, product marketing and portfolio management, and digitally driven customer engagement, experience and demand creation. Lauren is an experienced leader who has served a diverse profile of companies, from globally recognized technology leaders to high-growth, Silicon Valley innovators. At CA, Lauren is responsible for all facets of marketing. Since joining she has led a global initiative to recast the company’s reputation and positioning in the market via portfolio rationalization, brand marketing, strategic media and sports sponsorships. She’s also led the development of CA Technologies first integrated operating model for demand and opportunity management across sales and marketing. This work enables CA to measure market demand on a global basis, use analytics to gain insight on customer buying patterns, assess program ROI and sales conversion. Lauren has been recognized multiple times by BtoB Magazine as one of the World’s Top Marketers and was profiled in Secrets of the Marketing Masters, 2009. In 2010, she was named one of The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and in 2015 she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the 50 Most Powerful Woman in Technology. Lauren holds a BA from Syracuse University. She is married, has two children and lives in New York City.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Otto Berkes
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies
As executive vice president and chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets. Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft® and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU. Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD. An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines. Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Adam Elster
President, Global Field Operations of CA Technologies
Adam is president of global field operations at CA Technologies. He is responsible for building and maintaining customer and partner relationships across large enterprises and fast-growing, emerging markets. In this role, Adam will leverage changing IT demands to drive new business opportunities for customers and partners. Adam has held various senior management positions since joining the company in 1999. Previously, he served as executive vice president and group executive, Mainframe and Customer Success where he led innovation and growth for the Mainframe business and Customer Success. In addition, he led a Business Transformation program that aligned organizational initiatives with the company’s business strategy to meet long term goals and objectives. Previously, as executive vice president of the company’s global business operations and business transformation, he managed all aspects of executing the company’s operating plan. Earlier on as general manager of CA Services, Support and Education sales, Adam led a global team that delivered strategic insight, implementations, support and education to enable customers to receive maximum value from their IT investments. He was also responsible for sales in the eastern U.S., with a primary focus on managing the company’s growth in established and emerging customer bases. Adam joined CA Technologies through the acquisition of PLATINUM technology, where he supported the company’s professional services focused on data warehousing, repository, and business intelligence. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and his Master of Sciences in management and information systems from New York University.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Michael Bisignano
Executive Vice President, General Counsel of CA Technologies
Michael Bisignano is general counsel and executive vice president at CA Technologies. In his role, Michael is responsible for providing legal guidance to the company’s senior management and board of directors. He oversees CA Technologies legal organization, including corporate governance and compliance, contracts, securities, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and litigation. Michael has more than two decades of business experience. Most recently, he served as general counsel and chief legal officer of Blackboard, Inc., a global technology company with 2,600 employees and clients in 90 countries. Michael oversaw critical aspects of the $1.64 billion transaction that took Blackboard private in 2011. Earlier in his career, he was general counsel at Online Resources Corporation, a software and SaaS technology provider, and was special counsel at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, a full-service, general practice law firm with offices in the US, the UK, and in Israel. He started his legal career as an attorney in the Washington D.C. offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy, a leading international law firm. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Michael earned a Juris Doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in economics and finance from The Wharton School of Business. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Stan Brown
Vice President Global Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer of CA Technologies
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Thomas Brown
CIO and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services and Operations of Nuance Communications
Thomas “T” Brown is the senior vice president of Services and Operations within Nuance’s Enterprise Division, supporting customer self-service solutions that are used by leading organizations around the world to automate and optimize the customer care experience across all channels including phone, web, and mobile. In this role, Mr. Brown is responsible for leading the divisions’ global services organization, including the day-to-day operations and global strategy for Enterprise Professional Services, Network Services, Global Hosting and Infrastructure, and On-Demand teams and businesses. Prior to joining Nuance, Mr. Brown spent more than a decade in senior technical and management positions with Hughes Aircraft Company, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Brown holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Penn State University and a MS degree in Computer Science from UCLA.
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About : Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Ramit Arora
Co-Founder & President of Biz2Credit
Co-Founder & President at Biz2Credit
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About Biz2Credit: Biz2Credit is a digital-first provider of small business funding and offers its Biz2X Platform to help financial institutions manage risk.
David Mavashev
President and CEO, Founder of Nastel Technologies
David Mavashev is a leading expert on IT infrastructure, middleware and messaging technologies with over 25 years experience architecting systems and solutions. His areas of expertise encompass implementing middleware-centric architectures and the underlying infrastructure monitoring that is fundamental for its optimal performance, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring and managing integrated application processes and performance across the enterprise, and helping companies achieve business agility through effectively aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. A successful entrepreneur, David founded Nastel in 1994 and also served as the company’s CTO for many years. Prior to that, he was the technical manager of the messaging group at NYNEX, where he architected and managed the implementation of the first commercial transactional messaging product, which now forms the basis for IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ-Series). A pioneer in the early evolution of messaging technologies, David logged many years as an IT consultant working with some of the world’s foremost banks and financial institutions.
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About Elefund, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Jeffrey Najarian
President & Chief Executive Officer of Starpoint Solutions
Jeff Najarian founded Starpoint Solutions in 1982 and built it into one of the nation’s fastest-growing, privately held companies. He continues to set the company’s strategy for growth and innovation. As a result of his guidance and Starpoint’s success, Starpoint was named to the elite ranks of Inc. 500’s Hall of Fame, to the CRN Solution Provider 500 list for 15 years, to Crain’s New York Business’s coveted list of Top 200 Privately Held Companies, and to Deloitte & Touche’s prestigious “Fast 50” Program for the New York region. For nearly 35 years, Jeff has distinguished himself and Starpoint. With Starpoint for most of his professional career, he transformed Starpoint from a technology staffing firm into one of the most respected sources of human capital for staff and project augmentation nationwide. Jeff’s leadership style is a big reason why Starpoint succeeds – and why it has such a high retention rate with its employees. Jeff earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers University.
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About Starpoint Solutions: Starpoint Solutions is a Leading Provider of Software Development & Engineering Services Worldwide
Matt Light
Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development of Planisware
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About Planisware: Project Portfolio Management Software
Kam Attwal-Kaila
President of IT BY DESIGN
Kam Attwal-Kaila is a Partner and President of IT By Design. Having been with the company since 2000, Kam is ITBD’s Brand Ambassador and responsible for building the brand worldwide. She leads the company’s Community, Marketing, and Communication Teams, and executing on her vision has led to the company becoming a leader in the MSP Community. She has expertise in building partnerships with leading industry solutions providers, including becoming the official Helpdesk / NOC solution for ConnectWise. Kam is the inspiration and engine behind BuildIT; a first of its kind Channel Event, that facilitates sharing of knowledge by true channel educators through templates, tools and scorecards that will help MSPs grow. Along with being Co-Founder of ITBD, she is the recipient of numerous accolades for Channel excellence including multiple Woman of the Channel and Power 100 accolades and Influencer of the Year. She is a leader in providing educational content to the IT Channel at other events, webinars, and channel publications where she has created a true sphere of Influence. Kam lives each day with the “sharing is caring” mantra.
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About IT BY DESIGN: IT BY DESIGN is a full service IT consulting firm that offers engineering needs and white labeled help desk solutions.
Lyron Bentovim
President & CEO of The Glimpse Group
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About CEOWORLD Magazine, Fordham Graduate School of Business, J-Ventures, The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Vincent P. Endres
Senior Vice President of Sales of Veridium
Vincent Endres heads the portfolio management activities at SRI International. His responsibilities include the acquisition, merging, licensing, and sale of intellectual property. He is also responsible for the development of new and emerging products, new and existing businesses, and technology ventures. In addition, Endres is a member of the board of Locus Pharmaceuticals. Endres joined Sarnoff Corporation (now part of SRI) in 1989 as a business division manager. He led the business development effort that founded Sarnoff’s life sciences group, assuming progressively more responsible roles until being promoted to a venture partner position in 1999. He was also business lead and co-founder of four venture capital or corporate-backed healthcare companies, and interim manager of five pharmaceutical/biotech collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining Sarnoff, Endres worked as production supervisor at Rose Art Industries, in Marketing and Proposal Development at Frequency Engineering Labs, and at Singer Kearfott. He earned an MBA in marketing and accounting from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1987. He also holds a B.S. degree from Montclair State University.
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About Veridium: Veridium is a leading provider of strong digital authentication platform
Virgil Tornoreanu
Senior Vice President of Product Development of Veridium
Virgil Tornoreanu has over 25 years of experience developing software, first as a developer and then managing numerous multi-jurisdictional software development projects throughout Europe. For the past eight years, he has primarily focused on managing teams of iOS and Android mobile app software developers. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Computer Science from Hagen University, as well as a Master’s in Civil Engineering and Construction Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna.
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About Veridium: Veridium is a leading provider of strong digital authentication platform
Lyell Dampeer
Corporate Vice President of U.S. Investor Communication Solutions of Broadridge
Dampeer is our Corporate Vice President, U.S. Investor Communication Solutions. He is responsible for our U.S. regulatory communication services, and for our issuer and transfer agency services. Prior to the appointment to his current role in 2012, Dampeer served as the head of our U.S. regulatory communications services including post-sale fulfillment from 2009. Dampeer joined ADP’s Brokerage Services Group in 2000 as Vice President, Client Services. Prior to that, he held a variety of senior management positions at companies providing outsourcing services.
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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.
Christopher Perry
President and Chief Revenue Officer of Broadridge
Perry is our Corporate Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions. He joined Broadridge in September 2014 after more than 25 years of experience in banking, brokerage and financial information services. Most recently, he was Global Managing Director of Risk for the Financial & Risk division of Thomson Reuters. In this role, he was the general manager of a global segment which includes Governance, Risk, Compliance, Pricing, Valuation and Reference Services. Over the previous 14 years, Perry held numerous roles at Thomson Reuters and its predecessor, Thomson Financial. From 2011 to 2013, he was President, Global Sales & Account Management at the Financial & Risk division of Thomson Reuters. From 2006 to 2010, he served as President, Americas for Thomson Reuters and its predecessor, Thomson Financial. Earlier in his career, Perry worked for A-T Financial and PC Quote, after spending many years in institutional trading and retail brokerage with Kemper Financial’s Blunt Ellis & Loewi unit.
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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.
Robert Kalenka
Vice President, Global Procurement & Facilities. of Broadridge
Kalenka is our Corporate Vice President, Global Procurement and Facilities. He is responsible for global procurement, facilities, and the operations of our Investor Communication Solutions business. In July 2016, Kalenka’s responsibilities were expanded to include the role of Chief Operations Officer of the Broadridge Customer Communications business within the Investor Communication Solutions segment, where he will lead the Operations and Client Relations teams. Kalenka joined ADP’s Brokerage Services Group in 1992 in the Investor Communication Services Division as Director of Finance. He was promoted to Vice President of Operations of the Investor Communication Services Division in 1994, and again as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of the Investor Communication Services Division in 1999.
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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.
