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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 based President operating in the Information Technology 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.
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.
Ajay Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Mastercard
Rohit Chauhan is the EVP of artificial intelligence at MasterCard Worldwide.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andreas Spengel
Vice President International Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Russ Barenboym
Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Zahir Khoja
Executive Vice President, Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Gary Flood
President of Global Products & Solutions of Mastercard
Gary Flood is President of Global Products and Solutions for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development of innovative products and services that benefit consumers, merchants, business partners and governments around the world. Flood has responsibility for Global Network Products, MasterCard Labs, Emerging Payments, Core Products, MasterCard Advisors, and Worldwide Marketing and Communications. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to his current position, Flood was Executive Vice President of Global Account Management for MasterCard. In this capacity, Flood oversaw all of the company’s efforts to support its largest global customers. This included managing the customer relations staff, whose representatives work directly with customers on a variety of bankcard initiatives, such as account acquisition, portfolio acquisition, account retention, portfolio profitability and competitive positioning, as well as co-branding and affinity opportunities. His efforts, as well as those of his team, greatly contributed to the company’s significant increases in customer satisfaction and volume growth. Previously, Flood was Senior Vice President of Consumer Card Product Management and Development, where he spent four years directing all MasterCard consumer credit programs in the United States. During this time, he developed the MasterCard premium card platform; initiated programs in secured, college, and Hispanic segments; and developed and managed enhancement support and services for credit products. Since joining MasterCard in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director, Flood has consistently earned positions of increasing responsibility both in the customer management and the product management and development areas. Before joining MasterCard, he was National Sales Manager for Citicorp’s Merchant Business. Flood holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from St. John’s University.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Linda Kirkpatrick
President, US Issuers of Mastercard
Linda Kirkpatrick works as a President, US Issuers from Jan 2016 at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ranjita Iyer
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sherri Haymond
Executive Vice President, Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lance Gruner
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Care of Mastercard
Lance Gruner is an executive vice president at MasterCard focused on global customer care.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
James Anderson
Executive Vice President – Commercial and B2B Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sadiq Mohammed
Vice President, Mobile Payments of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shubhra Srivastava
Vice President, Global Product Management of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Trisha Asgeirsson
Senior Vice President, Global Retail and Commerce Loyalty Lead of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Matt Miller
Vice President – Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shari Krikorian
Senior Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Craig Vosburg
President, North America of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shamina Singh
President and Center for Inclusive Growth of Mastercard
Shamina Singh has been on the frontlines of developing and implementing solutions to make the global economy work for everyone, everywhere Shamina is the Founder and President of the Center for Inclusive Growth, the philanthropic hub of Mastercard. She also serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sustainability. Since 2014, Shamina has led the Center with a remit to leverage Mastercard’s data, technology, capital and expertise for social impact. In her role as EVP for Sustainability, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the environmental, social and governance strategy across the company as well as integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into Mastercard’s core objectives. In 2018, Mastercard pledged $500 million to advance inclusive growth around the world. Shamina is charged with activating those philanthropic dollars through the newly-created, non-profit Mastercard Impact Fund. Deeply committed to public service, Shamina has held senior positions in the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2015, Shamina was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a six-year term on the Board of the Corporation for National and Community Service. She is a graduate of the Presidential Leadership Fellows program, an alum of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Brown Lee
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Mastercard
Manage team responsible for working with business units to enable product development while ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s products and services, including payment processing, data analytics, marketing, digital payments, and fraud-related activities for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct regulatory engagement and monitor and analyze pending legislation. Partner with Information Security to revise, update, and execute incident response program.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Amyn Dhala
Vice President Global Head of Product of Mastercard
Amyn Dhala is currently Vice President, AI Express in the Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team at Mastercard. He launched and manages the Mastercard AI Express program in which Mastercard enables Financial Institutions, Merchants and other verticals, adopt AI swiftly and smartly. In his current role, Amyn leads AI Express Product Strategy and AI Express engagements where he collaborates with the AI Express team of product managers and data scientists – right from problem identification for customers to developing production-ready AI models for them which can be deployed. Prior to this, Amyn has over fifteen years in leading Product and Sales Teams globally across Financial Services, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Before joining Mastercard, Amyn launched products such as Amazon Pay and Amazon Prime on Your Site at Amazon. Amyn has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale and his bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris McWilton
President of North America of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
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.
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.
Roy Malkin
President & Founder of Venture Aviator
Roy Malkin have Fortune 500 experience in Developing and Managing Global Business across 20 markets – including USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Ukraine. He’s currently concentrating on global IT Development and company strategy. He’s also involved in launching multiple startups in big data, e-commerce, new media / internet markets.
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About OffrBox, Venture Aviator: Venture Aviator is a Custom Software Development Company based in New York and California, and specializes in web and app development.
Chris Beals
CEO and President of Weedmaps
Christopher Beals is the chief executive officer of Weedmaps. Prior to being CEO, he first serves as the company’s president and general counsel from 2015 until his appointment in March 2019.
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About Weedmaps, WM Technology: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
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.
Trabue Bland
President, ICE Futures of IntercontinentalExchange
Trabue Bland is President, ICE Futures U.S., a regulated futures exchange subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). Prior to joining ICE, Bland was Legal Counsel to Acting Chairman Walter Lukken at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He was also a trial attorney in the Division of Enforcement and an attorney in the Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight. Before joining the Commission, Bland was in private practice at Balch and Bingham, LLP. He served on the staff of Senator Thad Cochran before attending law school.
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About IntercontinentalExchange, IntercontinentalExchange: Intercontinental Exchange is an operator of regulated exchanges and clearing houses serving the risk management needs of global markets.
Neeraj Sahni
Senior Vice President, Cyber Risk of Willis Towers Watson
Neeraj is a national cyber resource for Willis Tower Watson’s efforts on Network Security, Privacy and emerging Technology risks using Blockchain and Crypto assets. With broad understanding of enterprise security and knowledge of evolving regulatory laws pertaining to data privacy, he aligns very closely with the insurance markets who understand the complexities within Cyber and Tech E&O risk providing optimal risk transfer solutions for his clients. He was formally Director of Insurance at Kroll and Cyber Underwriter at AIG. Named a 2015 Power Broker by Risk and Insurance Magazine, Neeraj is a frequent speaker at cyber conferences and contributes on data security issues via social media and publications. He holds a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and received his Masters in Business Administration from Loyola University Chicago.
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About Willis Towers Watson: Willis Towers Watson is a global advisory and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
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.
Edward Oliver
Vice President, Customer Success – Strategic Accounts of Dataminr
Edward Oliver is the Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Dataminr. Edward has over nineteen years of experience in financial services and fintech. At Dataminr he has been responsible for content analysis for the finance vertical and currently helps lead the finance vertical sales team. Prior to his role at Dataminr, he was a trader in the equities division at Citigroup where he traded NYSE and NASDAQ companies across a variety of sectors. Edward holds a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke 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.
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.
William Martino
Founder & President of Kadena
Will Martino is the Founder and President of Kadena.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
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.
Oliver Plattner
Vice President of Engineering of Codecademy
Vice President of Engineering at Codecademy
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About Codecademy: Codecademy provides an online learning platform that teaches employable digital skills.
Sanjeev Khati
Vice President and Market Unit Lead of Tata Consultancy Services
Sanjeev Khati is the Vice President and Market Unit Lead and he is the former Head of Business Development for Banking and Financial Services USA at Tata Consultancy Services, Sanjeev is responsible for driving the unit’s business development vision, strategy and targets, leading the sales force to structure and shape deals that deliver value and sustainable outcomes for clients. Sanjeev also heads the Capital Markets Unit for TCS USA, responsible for guiding the development of client relationships, driving overall unit strategy, customer centric offering development and fostering industry partnerships. Sanjeev specializes in envisioning and delivering large scale Technology and Business change programs for clients in the Financial Services Industry. With more than 19 years of experience and a proven track record, he has overseen many large transformation programs encompassing Application and bespoke Software development, Package Implementations & Reengineering, Systems Integrations, Operations & Infrastructure Outsourcing and Consulting engagements for his clients. His work experience has spanned across clients from various industry sub segments viz. Payments, Core Banking, Wealth and Asset Management, Capital markets and Market Infrastructure firms. In his previous roles as Senior Client Partner, Sanjeev has led TCS’s relationship with some of the world’s largest investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, clearing houses and exchanges to deliver results in the areas of business planning and process optimization, business and IT architecture, application management, IT and Infrastructure outsourcing and business process outsourcing. Sanjeev is an avid business reader and golfer. He has a passion for sustainability and supports multiple non-profit organizations. He has completed an Executive Leadership Program from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, and he is based in New Jersey.
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About Tata Consultancy Services: Tata Consultancy Services is a multinational information technology services, business solutions and consulting company based in India.
Jason Gray
Vice President of Portfolio Operations of LaunchCapital
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About LaunchCapital: LaunchCapital was founded in January 2008 with a mission to help entrepreneurs gain quick access to seed capital and mentorship.
Tom Kielty
Founder, President & CEO of Connectivity
For the last 35 years Tom has held CEO, CIO and COO positions in large, global corporations as well as small, technology-driven venture backed companies. A seasoned, innovative executive and entrepreneur, Tom also has a successful track record of leading strategic change and turnaround initiatives. Tom is as strong in strategic assessment as he is in operational execution, while building trust and collaborative relationships along the way. Throughout his career Tom has repeatedly served as the trusted, senior point person for leading the charge in solving complex challenges, especially in technology and operations arenas. Tom is a high energy leader with a keen ability to assess businesses and do what’s required to catalyze growth.
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About Connectivity: A strong internal belief language service providers.
Kate Flanagan
Vice President of 3i Group
Kate joined 3i’s New York Infrastructure team as a Vice President in 2018. Her role is principally focused on the evaluation of infrastructure opportunities in North America and asset management support to 3i’s North American infrastructure assets. Kate has over 9 years’ experience in the infrastructure investment community. Prior to joining 3i, Kate worked at QIC in their newly established North American office for two and a half years where she managed the transport sector for QIC’s North American activities across both business development and asset management. Previously, Kate ran an independent consulting business providing support to equity investors on global transport assets and had a six-year career with Cintra in Texas and Sydney. She was a founding member of Cintra’s Sydney office in her role as Technical Manager, undertaking corporate and business development activities in Australia and Southeast Asia. Her other roles at Cintra included being Traffic and Revenue Manager for Cintra’s North American market. Key responsibilities in these prior roles included deal origination, transaction due diligence, and asset portfolio management. Kate holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Hons) and Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Transportation (Hons), both from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Steve Dorsey
Vice President of 3i Group
Steve joined 3i in 2017 as a Vice President in the North American Infrastructure team. Prior to joining 3i, Steve was an Associate Director at Hastings Funds Management where he was responsible for the origination, execution and management of infrastructure equity investments in the energy, utilities and transportation sectors. Steve began his career as an investment banker at BNP Paribas, where he focused on project finance and advisory in the infrastructure, power and energy sectors. Steve holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Bucknell University.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
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.
Gerard Guillemot
President of Longtail Studios
Gérard Guillemot is the President and CEO of Longtail Studios, which he founded in 2003. Longtail Studios develops console games for a family-oriented audience. In 2000, Gérard founded the game developer Gameloft, whose initial focus was to operate a platform for the emerging PC online gaming community. When Ubisoft was created, Gérard led its editorial content and managed the development teams. He actively encouraged the company to create its own franchises – now a key differentiator for Ubisoft, which offers long-term visibility and security to shareholders. He was also responsible for Ubisoft’s expansion into North America, one of the world’s biggest video-game markets. Gérard Guillemot co-founded Ubisoft in 1986. He sits on the Board of Directors as Executive Vice President of Publishing and Marketing. He brings to the Board 30 years of experience in the videogame industry. Deeply rooted in the USA, he brings to the Board his understanding of emerging opportunities such as social media and online communities. Gérard Guillemot graduated from EDHEC business school. He is a French national and has been living in New York City for over 15 years.
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About Longtail Studios, Ubisoft: Longtail Studios is a company which has developed gaming applications like Football
Srinivas Kode
Vice President of Techwave
Srinivas is an accomplished professional with over 17 years of experience in Information Technology sector focusing on Business Intelligence and Business Solutions for the past 15 years. He has a clear understanding of the methodologies and processes that are required for a sustainable and scalable solutions in large scale complex implementations. Srinivas has the immense ability to roll-up the sleeves to focus on detail to come up with reliable and effective resolutions to hard pressed issues and challenges in fast-paced environments. He is pro-active and outspoken in bringing the attention of the senior executive management to make an informed decision with respect to concerns and challenges impacting the strategic objectives of a project/engagement. Srinivas has a proven track record of managing, implementing and delivering complex and challenging projects/engagement on time and budget for Fortune 500 clients in Aerospace & Defense, Consumer products, Retail and Pharmaceutical industry sectors.
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About Sysco, Techwave, Techwave, Techwave: Techwave is a US-based IT services and solutions company.
Mike Nusser
Senior Vice President of Techwave
Mike Nusser is a global consulting executive with 25 years of experience in building and managing companies and helping them reach their full potential. He is a part ofthe North America leadership team and is responsible for developing strategic relationships with key prospects and clients through definition of solution offerings that enable Techwave to widen customer base in North America and also expand AMS service offering across all the practice areas. Mike is a visionary leader who highly values creating a great customer experience, delivering solutions with integrity, helping people realize their highest potential and providing all involved with the right environment to succeed. Mike previously served as the Sr. Vice President at GROM Associates and Managing Director of Intelligroup Inc.
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About Techwave: Techwave is a US-based IT services and solutions company.
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.
Pradeep Menon
Executive Vice President & Global head of delivery of Orion Innovation
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About Orion Innovation: Orion Innovation is a global IT services and solutions provider helping organizations with Digital Transformation services.
Brett Weiss
Senior Vice President of Avaap
Brett Weiss joined Apex Systems as Managing Director in 2021.
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About Apex Systems, Avaap: It provides full end-to-end Infor Lawson implementation services in all the Lawson core modules as well as the extended products
Aaron Gerdeman
Senior Vice President, Development of FIS
Aaron Gerdeman is a senior vice president at FIS in Jersey City, NJ. He manages product development for an FIS solution that leverages SQL Server to provide financial market data and analytics to the securities lending industry.
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Bankim Brahmbhatt
President & CEO of Bankai Group
Bankim Brahmbhatt is President and CEO at Bankai Group.
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About Bankai Group, Panamax Inc.: Bankai Group is a telecommunications company specializing in billing, routing, and VoIP Solutions.
Edward Stern
President of Hartz Mountain Industries
Edward Stern is President at Hartz Capital.
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About Hartz Mountain Industries: Hartz Mountain Industries is a company that provides office space rental services.
Rich Lesser
President and Chief Executive Officer , New York of The Boston Consulting Group
Rich became the sixth president and chief executive officer of BCG in January 2013. Based in New York and Beijing, he has been on the firm’s Executive Committee since 2006. Before becoming CEO, Rich was BCG’s chairman for North and South America since 2009 and head of the New York Metro office system starting in 2000. His client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry’s most influential consultants. Prior to joining BCG in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Read Rich’s recent “Boss Talk” interview with The Wall Street Journal.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Nikolaus Oberhuber
Vice President Sales Eastern US, Canada, EMEA of Cohesity
Nikolaus, A perennially top performing sales leader, having successfully lead the top performing sales teams at 3PAR purchased by HP in 2010 and Actifio. He brings 16 years of start up sales leadership to Cohesity. Nikolaus Oberhuber joins Cohesity from Actifio, where he served as VP sales, East, for more than four years. At Actifio, he was responsible for leading the sales team, resulting in the highest performance of any region in the company. His team achieved over $50 million in total bookings across new accounts in the company.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Mary Beth Gustafsson
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of ITT Corporation
Mary Beth Gustafsson is general counsel and chief compliance officer at ITT. She joined ITT in 2014 having previously served as general counsel and secretary and chief compliance officer for First Solar. She formerly held senior legal leadership positions at Trane Inc. (formerly American Standard Companies Inc.), including general counsel and secretary, as well as at Honeywell International Inc. Gustafsson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Boston University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan.
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About ITT Corporation: ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water
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
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.
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.
Ernest Hursh
Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Slice Labs
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Kevin Collins
President – Global of Diversified Systems
Kevin has amassed three decades of experience in the turnkey broadcast media and AV systems integration profession. He has worked in and around the professional services industry for broadcast, AV presentation and/or collaboration solutions since 1986. Kevin started working at Diversified in 1993. As a startup enterprise, he was one of the first ten employees at Diversified. During his tenure Kevin has held various key positions inside Diversified in both sales and operations. In 2005 he became the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. During his career he has participated in hundreds of projects directly and has had management responsibility for over 1000 major installations across the U.S. and globally with an aggregate value of over 900 million dollars in revenue. At Diversified he holds direct P&L responsibility for the development of the short and long term business plans, business development overall, employee recruiting/retention, process development and cost control. Specialties include: client focused team building, compliance, recruiting, HR, business plan development and implementation.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
John Melillo
President, Media Group of Diversified Systems
John Melillo has more than three decades of experience in corporate communications and electronic network management. He was the leading architect for several corporate network designs before joining Diversified Systems in 2001. John has been involved at the senior level in strategic internal communications planning as well as external branding and marketing. He also won numerous creative awards in electronic and print communications, and has produced and directed hundreds of hours of live multi-camera productions and film-style training and marketing productions. During his time at the helm of Diversified Media Division, he has been actively involved in developing managed-network services for brand development, advertising sales and internal enterprise communications in various business sectors, including sports/entertainment, financial, transportation, retail and QSR. Under his leadership, the Media Division has fostered industry and client partnerships that have led to the company’s current steady growth, year after year. The managed services concept behind our business model, along with initiatives in IPTV, cellular and Wi-Fi transmission, plus unique experiential designs for digital out-of-home networks have all been nurtured during his tenure. John is most proud of his work with members of the IT and A/V departments developing a cross-use platform that combines live and video-on-demand elements for the sports and entertainment industry.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
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.
Robert Moore
Vice President – Transition and Business Insights of Sutherland
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About Sutherland: Sutherland is a digital transformation company.
Osmar Olivo
Vice President Of Product Management of Inrupt
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About Inrupt: Inrupt is delivering Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of a web of shared benefit, for everyone.
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.
James Furey
Owner, President & General Manager of PendoTECH
Jim Furey is the Founder and General Manager at PendoTECH and he holds a BS Degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia and an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and over 20 years experience in the biotechnology/bioprocess industry in both upstream and downstream processing technology. This includes defining of user requirements, defining functional specifications, design, testing, validation, evaluation, cost of goods estimation, and product management of single use manufacturing technology. And he has been closely involved with micro-controller based system engineering, project management and validation. He has several technology patents and patents pending in the area of bioprocess technology.
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About PendoTECH: PendoTECH offers low-cost, single use in-line sensors for pressure, temperature, conductivity, UV Absorbance & flow.
Leyton Perris
Vice President of Global Sales & Solutions of OLR
Leyton oversees OLR’s global services portfolio. Understanding the mission-critical demands of retail, he’s an expert at designing solutions to meet our clients’ diverse business needs.
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About MindBridge AI, MindBridge AI, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
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.
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.
Jack Lefkowitz
CEO and President of Care to Care LLC
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About Care to Care LLC: Care To Care provides specialty benefits and utilization management services to managed care organizations and other healthcare payers.
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.
Bob Santangelo
Sr. Vice President-Sales of Broadridge
Santangelo is our Senior Vice President, Global Head Bank and Broker Dealer Sales. He is responsible for our global bank broker-dealer distribution channel, including global sales management, business development and strategic client initiatives. His experience spans all aspects of capital markets, wealth management and investment management technology, operations and communications. Santangelo plays a lead role enabling significant efficiencies in securities operations and enabled a center of excellence driving scale and mutualization of costs amongst our global bank and broker-dealer client base. Santangelo joined Broadridge in 1992, when it was a division of ADP, and has served in various roles of increasing responsibility within our Global Sales and Marketing organization.
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About Broadridge, Broadridge, Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Michael Novodvorskiy
Vice President Product Management of Broadridge
Michael Novodvorskiy is Vice President Product Management at Broadridge Financial Solutions. Since 1995, Michael has been helping to grow the M&O platform by providing leadership in the areas of development and client implementation. Michael Novodvorskiy grew up in Moscow, Russia, and holds a Master’s diploma in Systems Engineering (Cybernetics) from Moscow University of Transport Engineering (MIIT). “For almost 20 years I have enjoyed working with a great team and great clients. This is the inspiration for all of us each day to build better products and offer better service.”
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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.
Charlie Marchesani
President, Global Technology & Operations of Broadridge
Marchesani is our Corporate Vice President, Global Technology and Operations. He is the President of the Global Technology and Operations business and is responsible for all aspects of that business. In 2013, his role was expanded to include responsibility for our international securities processing solutions and business process outsourcing solutions businesses. Prior to his current role, Marchesani was responsible for the U.S. securities processing solutions business. Marchesani joined ADP’s Brokerage Services Group in 1992 in the Market Data Services division as Director of the Help Desk and served in various roles of increasing responsibility within the Brokerage Processing Services business until he was promoted to General Manager of the Brokerage Processing Services business in 2005.
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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 1Schifellite
Senior Vice President Of Investor Communication Solutions of Broadridge
Schifellite is our Corporate Senior Vice President, Investor Communication Solutions. He is the President of the bank, broker-dealer and corporate issuer solutions businesses of our Investor Communication Solutions segment and is responsible for all aspects of those businesses. Schifellite joined ADP’s Brokerage Services Group in 1992 as Vice President, Client Services. In 1996, he was promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Investor Communication Services. In 2011, Schifellite’s title was changed from Corporate Vice President to Corporate Senior Vice President of Broadridge.
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Michael Liberatore
President, Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions of Broadridge
Liberatore is our Corporate Vice President, Investor Communication Solutions – Mutual Funds. He is the President of the Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions business within our Investor Communication Solutions segment and is responsible for all aspects of that business. Prior to assuming this role in August 2015, Liberatore was responsible for the finance functions of the Company’s two business segments, as well as its corporate financial planning and analysis function, and treasury operations. In 2014, Liberatore served as Broadridge’s Acting Principal Financial Officer during a six month period prior to Young joining the Company. Previously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions business from 2011 to 2013, and was responsible for all operations of the business, including technology and financial results. Liberatore joined ADP’s Brokerage Services Group in 2004, as Assistant Controller of the Investor Communication Solutions business, and held several finance roles with increasing responsibility, including Chief Financial Officer of the Investor Communication Solutions business from 2008 to 2011.
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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.
Brian Korchin
Managing Director and Vice President of Sales of Ontra
Brian Korchin is a Managing Director and Vice President of Sales at InCloudCounsel. He is a former Senior Counsel at Orchard Platform and Vice President & Counsel at Jefferies Finance LLC. Mr. Korchin studied at Yale University with a bachelor of arts.
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About Ontra: Ontra is a provider of technology and services for contract automation and intelligence.
Lynn Crowe
Senior Vice President, Member Advocacy of Livongo
With over 20 years as a healthcare professional focused in diabetes, Lynn has successfully led programs to reduce barriers to proper care for people with diabetes. Starting her career with the American Diabetes Association, Lynn developed programs that were adopted as national prototypes, some of which are still in place today. Upon obtaining her Masters degree in counseling, Lynn joined Sanofi’s diabetes division where she honed her insights into the person with diabetes. She led programs with proven success addressing the psychological challenges of the diseases. Lynn has been recognized as an innovator in the diabetes space receiving numerous awards. In 2011, she co-authored and published “The Diabetes Manifesto: Take Control of Your Life”, a book that has been well received by the community. Upon joining Livongo in 2013, she has helped build Livongo’s client experience and now primarily focuses on member advocacy, ensuring the “Member First” philosophy is incorporated in all we do. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Master of Science in Counseling from the University of Scranton.
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About Livongo: Livongo provides a data science and technology enabled platform for detection of diabetes.
