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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 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.
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.
Chris Hohorst
VP of Sales 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.
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.
Katrin Ribant
SVP product Management of Salesforce
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About Datorama, 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.
Peter Johnson
VP of Product of Kustomer
Peter Johnson is a product innovator that is passionate about crafting beautiful, intuitive products. PJ was previously a Product Manager for Airtime, a video social network founded by Sean Parker.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
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.
Michael Frey
Executive VP of Sony
Michael Frey serves as the President of New Media Solutions for Sony DADC, a position he assumed in 2010. In this role, he is responsible for the development, implementation and execution of innovative Digital Supply Chain solutions for customers across the media and entertainment industry. Drawing on his vast supply chain expertise and knowledge of the global media marketplace, Mr. Frey leads a best-in-class team focused on developing uniquely advanced digital solutions that allow content owners and distributors to capitalize on surging consumer demand for music, video, games, software, and other emerging media content. Mr. Frey joined Sony in 2004 as President of Sony DADC Americas, where he directed all product lines for both physical and digital media and leveraged his industry expertise to grow Sony DADC’s business by more than 30 percent. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Frey served as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations for Technicolor, spearheading supply chain operations for its Home Entertainment Services Division. Specifically, he was responsible for building and expanding distribution and end-to-end supply chain capabilities to support customer demands, and developed services and systems to enhance customers’ operational performance in a cost-effective manner. Prior to joining Technicolor, Mr. Frey was Senior Vice President, Customer Fulfillment Operations and iMusic for EMI Music Distribution. In this position, he headed EMI Music’s manufacturing and distribution operations. In addition, he led initiatives to build the company’s time-sensitive digital infrastructure, restructured commercial trading terms, created strategic account teams to service top customers and developed a commercial service organization to support sales.
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
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.
Joseph Schmitt
SVP & Chief Information Officer of Pitney Bowes
Joe Schmitt is the SVP & Chief Information Officer 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.
Johnna Torsone
EVP, HR of Pitney Bowes
Johnna Torsone is the EVP, HR 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.
Daniel Goldstein
EVP, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Pitney Bowes
Daniel Goldstein is the EVP, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer 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.
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.
Scott Murtaugh
VP, Data Partnerships of Yext
Scott Murtaugh is the Vice President, Data Partnerships at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Jonathan Kennell
VP Product of Yext
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About 212 Labs, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Lauren Crocetti
VP Client Services of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ramin Abtahi
VP Client Services of Yext
Ramin Abtahi is the Vice President of Client Services at Yext and leads the Account Management team for Yext’s US East and Canada accounts totaling >130 of their enterprise accounts. Ramin joined Yext in 2015. Prior to Yext, Ramin served as the Market Development Leader for Financial Services at IBM. Ramin was responsible for identifying, marketing and implementing innovative solutions for their top accounts. Ramin joined IBM in 2009 to lead IBM’s Value Proposition Practice. Prior to IBM, Ramin was a Director at American Express, where he managed multiple strategic partnerships and led the development and launch of new products/services for both the Consumer and Small Business card portfolios. Ramin joined American Express in 2002 after gaining his MBA from Yale. Prior to business school, Ramin was a Senior Consultant at Accenture and attended Carnegie Mellon where he received a BS in Economics and Industrial Management in 1996. Ramin lives in New Canaan, CT with his wife Kerry and two sons.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Joseph Henaan
VP of Engineering of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
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.
Jay Alson
VP Sales 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.
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.
Yoav Rand
VP Operations 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.
Matthew Toback
VP, Customer Experience of Grafana Labs
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About Grafana Labs: Grafana Labs is an open source software platform for analytics and monitoring database.
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.
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.
Dan Bratone
VP, Head of North American Business Development of The Trade Desk
Dan Bratone is the VP, Head of North American Business Development overseeing the development and management of The Trade Desk’s domestic new business teams, go to market strategies and sales operations. Dan’s career has spanned from entertainment to enterprise software with operational and leadership experience across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Product Development and Project Management with the last decade focused on building high performance revenue generation organizations for media focused SAAS platforms. Dan’s a recognized industry expert on digital marketing best practices in channels such as Programmatic media, SEM/SEO, and Social Media. Prior to the Trade Desk, Dan held sales leadership positions as the SVP, Americas at TBG Digital and as the VP of Sales for Efficient Frontier. At EF Dan built and led the sales teams focused on the Eastern Region and LATAM until its acquisition by Adobe Systems in 2011. Dan is a graduate of Syracuse University with an MBA from Fordham University.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
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.
Steven Smyser
VP, Bare Metal Finance & Commercial Solutions of Equinix
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About Equinix, GraniteShares: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jason Scheckner
SVP of Sales & Customer Success of HiredScore
CRO @HiredScore based in NYC area. Dad of daughters and lucky husband. StartUps, Builder, Investor. I’m also Co-author of “Cutting Edge Sales.”
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Andrew Bolton
SVP, Global Partnerships of Knotch
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About Knotch: Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time.
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.
David Beatus
VP, Digital Integrated Marketing & Product Marketing of Dataminr
David Beatus is the VP of Digital Integrated Marketing and Product Marketing at Dataminr.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Alejandro Jaimes
Chief Scientist & SVP of AI of Dataminr
Alex is Chief Scientist & SVP of AI at Dataminr. Alex is a scientist, keynote speaker, and engineering executive with 15+ years of intl. experience in research (Columbia U., KAIST) and product impact at scale (Nauto, DigitalOcean, Yahoo, Telefónica, IDIAP-EPFL, Fuji Xerox, IBM, Siemens, and AT&T Bell Labs) in the USA, Japan, Chile, Switzerland, Spain, and South Korea. He has published 100+ technical papers in top-tier conferences and journals in diverse topics in AI and has been featured widely in the press (MIT Tech review, CNBC, Vice, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, etc.). He has given 50+ invited talks all over the world, incl. talks at several O’Reilly conferences (AI, Strata, Velocity), the Deep Learning Summit (Re-Work), Tech Open Air, and Stanford, Cornell, & Columbia Universities. Alex was an early voice in Human-Centered AI (Computing)- his technical work focuses on machine learning, mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to gain insights on user behavior for product innovation. He’s been a professor (KAIST), and an executive at Yahoo, and at several startup companies. Alex holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
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.
Jean-Christophe Hermann
EVP, global retailing & consumer goods of Valtech
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About Valtech: Valtech is a pioneering company in the technology and digital space, listed on Euronext in Paris.
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.
MaryAnn Bekkedahl
SVP, Global Business Development of BigCommerce
MaryAnn Bekkedahl is the SVP & Global Business Development at BigCommerce.
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About BigCommerce, Keep Holdings: BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
Simon Kirk
VP Sales Development, Strategy, & Sales Enablement of Culture Amp
Sales + Customer Success strategy for growing startups. Co-founder of RaisedBy.Us, which has raised over $3,000,000 for thousands of charities.
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About Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics.
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.
Anudit Vikram
SVP – Audience Solutions of Dun & Bradstreet
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About Dun & Bradstreet: Dun & Bradstreet grows the most valuable relationships in business by uncovering truth and meaning from data.
Michael Sullivan
VP Engineering of Landit
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About Landit: Landit is a personalized career pathing platform that enables women and diverse groups to succeed in the workplace.
Goutam Nadella
EVP of Client Solutions of Symphony Communication Services
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About Symphony Communication Services: Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform.
Abdus Salaam Muwwakkil
VP, Enterprise Partnerships of Thinknum
Abdus is a creative self-starter with effective communication, organizational, and project management skills. He’s adept at key roles and activities required by fast-paced startups with proven experience across product/business development, operations, and regulatory affairs. 7+ years helping founders build long-standing relationships by delivering quality products/services. Abdus works in emerging markets across medical devices, wearables, third-party marketplaces, FinTech, knowledge graphs and BI tools. His work ethic, intrinsic motivation, and bold creativity gives him the singular ability to help organizations differentiate, gain, and win. Abdus’ activity and results have positively affected fundraising and sales generation, creating a tremendous amount of value for those he works with.
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About Thinknum: Thinknum is a web platform that allows investors to get data driven investment ideas by monitoring companies’ websites.
James Turnbull
VP of Engineering of Glitch
James is an experienced engineering leader who has previously worked at Microsoft, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, and Puppet. He was one of the founders of the non-profit educational platform Empatico. He is also the author of a number of technical books and chair of the Velocity conference series.
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About Glitch: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Valerie Coghill
VP of Finance of goTenna
Valerie Coghill serves as VP of finance at goTenna.
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About goTenna: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
Bill Wheaton
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Akamai Technologies
Bill Wheaton is Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Media Division at Akamai. Mr. Wheaton leads the Akamai team responsible for products and solutions that make video and software applications accessible, and complex media content easy to use. Mr. Wheaton’s service at Akamai includes roles as Vice President of Digital Media Solutions, supporting key digital media customers and driving innovation at Akamai to help customers take advantage of emerging opportunities. Mr. Wheaton has also served as the Director of Streaming Sales at Akamai, overseeing streaming sales efforts including partnership programs. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Wheaton worked at Intervu, where he managed the Business Communications Sales Group supporting customers like CCBN, MCI, AT&T, Sprint and others. He has started and sold several businesses including VCS Technologies, which he sold to Intervu in 1999. Mr. Wheaton started his career at Procter & Gamble and moved to Pfizer before starting his entrepreneurial ventures. He has a B.S. degree from WPI and a MBA from NYU.
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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.
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.
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.
Matthew Gelb
VP of Finance & Operations of Ceros
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About Ceros: Ceros is a cloud-based interactive content creation platform for marketers and designers.
Matt Wellschlager
VP of Marketing of Ceros
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About Ceros: Ceros is a cloud-based interactive content creation platform for marketers and designers.
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.
Ed Lopez
Senior VP of Sales of Broadlume (formerly AdHawk)
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About Broadlume (formerly AdHawk): Broadlume is the world’s largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry.
Carol Altarescu
EVP of Special Projects & Events of Privacy Vaults Online, Inc., d/b/a PRIVO
Carol Altarescu has been involved with PRIVO since 2004 overseeing special projects, marketing efforts and client relations. Carol also worked with AllyKatzz.com overseeing their client relations for its Tween Summits, helping to bring on Disney, DOVE, PBTeens, Electronic Arts, Women’s Sports Foundation, Broadcom and more. She went on to be the Executive Producer for the United Nations International Year of Youth Celebration bringing together hundreds of girls and women professionals. Prior to PRIVO and AllyKatzz, Carol co-founded EcomWorks Inc., an early Internet start-up focused on affiliate network management, working with an assortment of Fortune 500 companies. Carol has an extensive knowledge of the many market segments of the Internet and the target audiences within each segment. She holds a BS from Boston University and a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Education from Antioch College. Carol also volunteers as the tutoring Program Director and Mentor at Renaissance Youth Center,a nonprofit organization located in the South Bronx that serves inner city youths from the ages of 6 – 19. Mother of three grown children, Carol and her husband Howard split their time between NYC and Chappaqua, New York.
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About Privacy Vaults Online, Inc., d/b/a PRIVO: The leader in minors privacy, customer identity and permission management.
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.
Mikhail Abramchyk
SVP and Product of WorkFusion
Mikhail leads Product Management at WorkFusion. Mikhail oversees research and development and strategic automation goals for charter customers and strategic partners. Prior to joining WorkFusion as its first employee, Mikhail spent 10 years in the consulting industry, focusing on technology solutions in banking and financial informational services.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Vadim Axelrod
VP of Integration and Security of Lark
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About Lark: Lark is a digital health startup that provides virtual care through AI coaching, smart devices, and tele-monitoring.
Spencer Burke
VP of Growth 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.
Marissa Aydlett
SVP, 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.
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.
Cristian Felix
VP of Product of Accern
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About Accern: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
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.
Benjamin Flammang
VP Enterprise Sales of Bringg
VP Business Development at Bringg.
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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.
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.
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.
Lloyd Peterson
VP System Architecture of INVIDI Technologies
Lloyd Peterson is the VP System Architecture at INVIDI Technologies.
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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Tom Murphy
VP Operations and Marketing of Harri
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About Harri: Harri is an employee engagement platform that enables hospitality businesses with software to build, manage, and engage their teams.
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
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.
Ahsen Saber
Co-Founder & VP, Business Operations & Customer Success of Sharebite
Ahsen Saber is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Operations and Customer Success at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Josh Halickman
SVP, Product Development of Emburse
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
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.
Zach Davis
Co-Founder & VP Business Development of Stylitics
Zach Davis is the Co-founder at Stylitics .
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About InOurBuilding, Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Ahmed Haque
SVP of Innovation of 2U
Ahmed Haque is the Senior Vice President of Innovation at 2U Inc, a leading education technology company that powers graduate degree and skill-based certificate programs. Before his role at 2U, Ahmed was the Chief Academic Officer at Trilogy Education, where he oversaw product strategy, curriculum development, instructional management, and program analytics. Under Ahmed’s leadership, Trilogy developed a fleet of programs in software development, data analytics, ux/ui, cybersecurity, and financial technology taught to over 40,000 students at 50+ universities. Since creation, these programs have generated over $200M in total revenue and led to tens of thousands of adults transitioning into highly-paid careers in the tech sector. As a member of the starting executive team, Ahmed helped scale Trilogy from its initial 20 person staff to a 2,500+ workforce and through its acquisition by 2U, Inc. for $750M in 2019. He is also an investor and advisor focused on mission-driven companies in the education, health, wellness, and social impact sectors.
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
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.
Venkat Malla
Co-Founder and VP, Product Management of Volante Technologies
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About Volante Technologies: Volante help clients integrate and manage the diverse and complex data message formats and protocols for firms in the financial 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.
Emily Becher
SVP MD Head of Samsung Next Global of Samsung NEXT
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About Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
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.
Ella Davidson
VP Global Human Resource of Centrical
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About Centrical: Centrical is an employee-centric success platform that enables employee engagement, development, and performance management.
Brian Rifkin
Co-Founder and SVP Strategic Partnerships of JW Player
At JW Player Brian is focused on driving growth through strategic partnerships and leads the JW Player Demand team, working with publishers and brands to maximize advertising revenue. He has worked in the online space since 1997, and until 2007 served as president of A Simple Internet, a media services firm he founded in 2001 specializing in performance-based marketing. Previously, he was senior vice president of Business Development at About.com. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Si Dhanak
VP of Product of Latch
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
David Israel
VP of Strategy and Operations of TytoCare
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About TytoCare: TytoCare is a telehealth platform for AI-powered and on-demand remote medical examinations.
Abhi Sharma
VP Product of Loyal
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About Loyal: AI-driven digital patient experience platform.
