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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 San Francisco, California based Director operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Director 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.
Craig Soules
Director – Product Management of Freshworks
Craig Soules is the Director of Product Management at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Garth Goodson
Director of Freshworks
Garth Goodson is Director at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Sudip Majumder
Senior Director – Industry Iot And Big Data Analytics Development of Oracle
An Oracle veteran of 17 years, Sudip heads up development and product management of cloud–native Industry Analytical product portfolio specific to Airlines & Transportation, Communications & Media, Retail & Consumer Goods , Utility & Energy industry. These products follow the DevOps and leverage the ecosystem of IOT data streams, Big Data platform, other Cloud Services , enterprise data warehouse and data discovery with advanced analytic to create PaaS cloud offering and a set of Micro services (Docker container). These products deliver a framework which is generic enough to be adapted x-industry and enable customers deriving the maximum insights hidden in massive volumes of data with extreme performance. As an early proponent of Blockchain technology and due to his long association with Industry standards body like IATA, TMF ; Sudip brings the early insight of industry trends into the product portfolio and combines the business-value driven expertise and technology reference architecture with IoT aspects to build products that can result in new insights, transform business model and deliver significant benefit to business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Amit Manghani
Senior Director, Product Management of Oracle
Amit P. Manghani has more than a decade of experience in the Information Technology domain dealing with Enterprise Information Management, Business Intelligence, Web Applications and Cloud Computing technologies at leading Information Management companies such as Oracle, Informatica and SAP. Prior to joining Oracle, Amit was focused on utilizing the power of emerging data integration technologies encompassing real-time data acquisition/ movement, event processing and agile data access within Big Data usage scenarios. Now as Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle, he is responsible for Outbound Product Management on the different facets of Oracle Sales Cloud ranging from Analytics to Mobile to Sales Prediction capabilities. He is an avid follower of technology trends and has published articles in leading online journals and has presented at several technology conferences.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Alden Timme
Director Data Science of Oracle
Alden holds a BA in Mathematical and Computational Sciences and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford. In addition to his expertise in computer science, statistics, and web development, he specializes in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Savita Raina
Director of Product Marketing 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.
Mark Friedler
Sr. Director Retail Marketing, Oracle Data Cloud of Oracle
Mark is a Senior Director at Oracle Marketing Cloud. He is a digital marketing and business development leader, online media executive and entrepreneur. Mark was most recently VP Business Development and Marketing at social data SaaS provider, Cubeyou. Previously he was Chief Strategy Officer at Admonsters, a leader in strategic insights on the future of digital media and advertising technology. He has founded, grown and sold several Internet companies including B2B content network IndustryGamers, GameDaily.com, one of world’s largest video games sites and ad networks that was acquired by TimeWarner AOL in 2006. Previously, he founded Gigex, the leading download service for game and software demos and Internet content delivery leader VCast, Inc. He served as VP Business Development for B2B Internet consulting company, Reach Networks, that was part of a Nasdaq IPO. He was President at Worlds and Games LLC, a digital marketing consultancy focused on advertising, games, mobile, SaaS services. Mark spent 6 years in Europe where he was Managing Director of Teleworld Sweden, a division of Philips Media, that operated voice response and interactive TV services with MTV. Mark’s first business introduced chocolate chip cookies to Sweden with its first chain of cookie stores. Mark is a frequently invited speaker to leading marketing, business and technology conferences including AdTech, CES, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, Enterpreneurs’ Organization, Game Developers Conference, E3, IMedia, Industry Insights Brand Summit, MobileBeat, OMMA, SIIA, VentureBeat.
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About Bridgepointe Technologies, CryptoMondays SF, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ananth Kini
Director of Oracle
Ananth Kini is director of central product management with Oracle, where he and his team help Oracle sales and partners understand and implement PaaS products and extend SaaS with PaaS.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro
Director of Product Management of Oracle
Aurelio is the Principal Product Manager in charge of Java SE since 2010. He has been involved in all JDK 7, 8, and soon-to-be-released JDK 9. He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne San Francisco and JavaOne Latinamerica, with Java User Groups, and Oracle Customers in the Americas and Europe. Aurelio joined Oracle in 2010 through the Sun Microsystems acquisition. He joined Sun in 2008.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Heather VanCura
Director of Oracle
Heather VanCura is Chair and Director of the JCP Program at Oracle. She is a leader of the global community driven adoption through the user group programs. Heather drives the efforts to transform the JCP and broaden participation and diversity in the community. Heather is passionate about Java, women in technology and developer communities, serving as an international speaker and community organizer of developer hack days around the world. Heather enjoys speaking at developer, diversity and open source conferences around the world, such as OSCON, Devoxx, FOSDEM, BuzzWords, Wonder Women Tech, and the JavaOne Conferences. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA and enjoys trying new sports and fitness activities in her free time.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Hermann Baer
Senior Director of Oracle
Hermann Baer is Senior Director at Oracle USA.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Michael Richter
Principal Director, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, IoT, Blockchain of Oracle
Michael Richter has always gravitated toward change, whether it is building new businesses, embracing new technologies or exploring and discovering new places. His career has included senior marketing roles at News Corporation, MGM, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Setanta Sports and MediaZone. He led the pioneering roll out of cable and satellite TV in Asia over a 10-year period in the 90’s followed by digital media and product management roles based in the US. Currently, he is at the forefront of the fast growing cloud services industry as Director Product Management for CX Sales at Oracle. He holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, Global School of Management in Alliance with ASU, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. He is a competitive outrigger canoeist residing in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he published a book titled “One Red Shirt” documenting his 10-year experience in the Asia Pacific region.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bidyut Sen
Director, Semiconductor Packaging & PCB Technology of Oracle
Bidyut Sen is a Principal Engineer with Unified Compute Server (UCS) Group at Cisco Systems inc. Bidyut has many years of experience in the computer industry and worked in several companies including Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu and LSI Logic. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY at Stony brook. Bidyut has several publications, presentations and Patents.
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About Cisco, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mayank Choudhary
Director, Product Marketing 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.
Kuassi Mensah
Director, Product Management of Oracle
Product Management at 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.
Garrett Harley
Director of Product Marketing 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.
Shay Shmeltzer
Director of Product Management – Cloud Development Tools of Oracle
Shay is director of product management for Oracle Development Tools and Frameworks. He is focused on helping developers leverage Oracle products to simplify and streamline their application development efforts. Shay frequently presents at industry events, publishes articles, and blogs regularly.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Suqiang Song
Director and Chapter Leader for Data Engineering and AI of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Rottenberg
Member of the Board of Directors of Wix
Erika Rottenberg has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2014. From July 2008 until September 2014, Erika was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional networking company on the internet. Prior to LinkedIn, Erika served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for SumTotal Systems, Inc., a talent management enterprise software company, from March 2004 to July 2008. Prior to SumTotal, Erika served in several roles, including most recently as Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, at Creative Labs, Inc., a computer peripheral and digital entertainment product company. Erika was also an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Cooley LLP and, prior to law school, was a school teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Erika serves on the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Northern California and the Silicon Valley Law Foundation. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a B.S. in Special and Elementary Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.
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About : Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Kittu Kolluri
Co-founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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About Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Amy Tenderich
Editorial Director, Diabetes & Patient Advocacy at Healthline.com of Healthline Media
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About DiabetesMine.com, DiabetesMine.com, Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Zivan Ori
Director of Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Mr. Zivan Ori is the co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage that provides the next generation of cost-effective rack-scale flash storage for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. Before founding E8 Storage, Zivan held the position of IBM-XIV R&D Manager, being responsible for developing the IBM XIV® high-end, grid-scale storage system, and served as Chief Architect at Stratoscale, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure. As a seasoned technological innovator, Zivan worked as the Wi-Fi Driver Architect at Envara Inc. (a fabless semiconductor company acquired by Intel) and as VP R&D at Onigma (an information security solution provider acquired by McAfee). Zivan Ori holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MA in Linguistics (with distinction) from University College London. His interests include storage (SAN, NAS), network protocols (IB, 40GE, FC), system programming and embedded programming, Linux, and distributed programming. An avid fan of the Japanese language and culture, with JLPT L3 proficiency, Zivan is a graduate of Talpiot.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Christie Smith
Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader of Accenture
Christie Smith is the Senior Managing Director, Global Talent & Organization/Human Potential Leader at Accenture
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ram Ramalingam
Managing Director of Accenture
Ram has over 25 years of technology leadership experience selling and delivering engineering projects across multiple industries around the globe. He is the Managing Director of Accenture’s Products and Platform Engineering Services practice. He specializes in innovative solutions that focus on bringing change, increasing productivity, and accelerating growth for customers. He enjoys applying his deep engineering experience in building modern platforms and facilitating client journeys to the Platform Economy.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Peters Suh
Managing Director, Communications Industry Lead & Network Practice Lead North America of Accenture
Peters Suh was the CEO of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of communications companies committed to building an open applications platform. WAC will deliver an open industry application development platform that will benefit the entire ecosystem. By providing a single route for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications, WAC will bring applications to more than three billion global mobile users. Previously, Peters was the CEO of JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), a joint venture with Vodafone, China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Softbank Mobile. Before joining JIL, Peters was President of Vodafone Global Enterprise Incorporated and Vodafone Ventures Limited. He was a managing director for Fremont Communications a private equity fund focusing on telecommunication investments. Peters was previously Vice President, Chief Technical Officer for Vodafone’s Global Internet Services group and also held a number of positions with AirTouch Cellular. Peters is a director of Vodafone Americas Foundation, Aspire Technologies, and the Diablo Regional Arts Association. Peters holds a B.A. and M.B.A., both from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
John Walsh
Senior Managing Director of Accenture
John Walsh is the Chief Sales Officer at Accenture.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Christopher Chu
Managing Director, Accenture Strategy of Accenture
Chris is a Managing Director from the Strategy practice based in the San Francisco office. He leads Accenture Strategy’s Talent and Organization Practice for the West Coast region, and the global Organization Design practice. Chris has been with Accenture for over two decades leading operating model and workforce transformation programs for clients in multiple industries in Canada, United States, Brazil, Mexico and Asia Pacific. Chris works with Fortune 100 companies to solve their most complex talent, leadership, organization and cultural challenges. His recent experiences include designing the operating model and workforces of the future resulting from digital disruption and new business strategies. These client engagements have included programs with a global telecommunications, semi-conductor manufacturer, oil and gas super major, and consumer packaged goods companies. Chris has served as an advisor and consultant for international clients including a State Owned Enterprise in China, the Brazilian Electricity Exchange, Canadian Energy Companies and a Mexican Retail Bank and Consumer Products and Goods company. Prior to arriving to the Bay Area, Chris had been based in the Accenture offices of Ottawa, New York, Florham Park, Vancouver and Seattle.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Brent Blum
Global Director of Wearable Technology of Accenture
Brent Blum leads day-to-day operations of Accenture’s Wearable Technology practice including oversight of R&D, business development, sales, delivery and thought leadership. Prior to starting Accenture’s Wearable Technology practice, Brent managed wearables R&D within Accenture Technology Labs and led the development of a ground-breaking Google Glass medical proof of concept with Philips. Brent began his career at IBM as a systems architect before joining Accenture in 2004, becoming a product manager with a focus in consumer-based social and mobile products. His experience spans both startups and the world’s biggest, most recognized brands. Brent co-authored a patent on Augmented Reality Safety Glasses and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Information Systems and Psychology from Wake Forest University.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jefferson Wang
Managing Director of Accenture
For nearly two decades, Jefferson has guided business & technology innovation at the convergence of the Communications, Media and Technology industries. As this convergence takes shape, he has been focused on the wireless and mobility industry, working with network operators, OEMs, content providers and emerging tech players to create executable growth strategies through the entire product life-cycle. Jefferson built businesses on his belief that success comes from big picture thinking, mixed with detail-oriented execution. His ability to identify new patterns in technology has helped his clients navigate complex landscapes. He works with global leaders to break down complex problems into compelling stories, define a roadmap of key use cases, create innovative biz models and identify new addressable markets. As the wireless industry reshapes lives, 5G mobility will infuse itself in new industries, enabling innovation. For the last five years, Jefferson has worked on the convergence of AR in a mobile lifestyle, VR in a nomadic setting, the enablement of AI and the collision course between smart homes, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Jefferson is a regular speaker at Mobile World Congress and CES and has appeared on CNN and Mobile World Live TV. His perspectives are featured regularly in publications that include The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Wired and BGR. Previously, Jefferson was a Senior Partner at IBB Consulting, acquired by Accenture Strategy in Oct. 2017. At IBB, Jefferson built and led IBB’s Global Wireless, Mobility & Innovation Group and owned the P&L. He assembled a world-class team of x-functional wireless experts and opened new tier 1 clients for IBB. His successful track record is complemented by a passionate focus on giving back to support youth education. Jefferson holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Craig Vaughan
Managing Director, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence of Accenture
Craig Vaughan is the Managing Director, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at Accenture.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jon Crawford
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Shyam Kota
Director, Product Management of Arista Networks
Shyam Kota is the director of the product management team at Arista Networks.
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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.
Tasha Drew
Director of Product Incubation of VMware
Tasha has been an innovative product leader in Silicon Valley for over a decade. She is Director of Product Incubation in the Office of the CTO’s Advanced Technology Group at VMware. She is co-chair of the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy and co-chair of the Kubernetes SIG Usability. Previously she launched VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere, and was a member of the team that launched Project Pacific, Tanzu for SDDC, and vSphere with Tanzu at VMware. Tasha has also held product roles at Chef, Rentlytics, Engine Yard and Lockheed Martin. She was a core maintainer of Chef Habitat. Tasha holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and an M.S. in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from RPI.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Kiran Rao
Senior Director of Product Management and Strategy of VMware
Kiran Rao is the VP Products and Strategy of Grainite.
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About Grainite, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nikhil Kelshikar
Sr. Director, NSX Product Management of VMware
Nikhil Kelshikar is a Sr. Director responsible for technical product management in VMware’s networking and security business unit. He has many years of experience in data center networking and virtualization space having worked on products such as VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus switching line. Prior to VMware, Nikhil was at Cisco Systems in the Data Center business unit. Nikhil has a MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Dhruv Jain
Sr. Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Dhruv Jain As the CEO and co-founder of OpsClarity, Dhruv Jain is passionate about transforming IT operations by bringing an intelligent approach to systems management and monitoring. Prior to founding OpsClarity, Dhruv ran Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Cisco Systems where he helped to drive technology and product strategy for the $7B+ Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud business. Dhruv holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Michael Gandy
Director Marketing and Business Development of VMware
Michael Gandy serves as director of marketing and business development at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Hemant Sahani
Director of Product Management of VMware
Hemant Sahani is a Director of Product Management at VMware, bringing over 15 years of expertise in enterprise mobility management, mobile apps/platforms, end-point data protection, software as a service and enterprise content management. Prior to joining VMware, Hemant held Product Management and Engineering roles at Good Technology, Iron Mountain Digital, and EMC Corp. Hemant holds an MBA from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree in Computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Larry McDonough
Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering of VMware
Larry McDonough is the Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Wendy Cartee
Senior Director, Cloud Networking Product Marketing of VMware
Wendy Cartee is VP of Product Management and Marketing at PLUMgrid, Inc., the leading innovator of secure cloud infrastructure for enterprises building private and public clouds. With over 15 years of product management and marketing experience at prior companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and HP Cloud, Wendy has defined solutions for data centers, WAN, Internet, and mobile infrastructure that generated billions in revenue. An avid technology and customer advocate, Wendy has 8 U.S. patents in networking technologies, all of which are deployed in some of the largest networks. Wendy is listed in the CCIE Hall of Fame as the first 100 CCIEs in the world. She has a BSEE from Cal Poly, MBA from Santa Clara University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program from the Graduate School of Business.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ken Lee
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Automation of VMware
Ken Lee is a senior director of product marketing at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Alain Debost
Director, Global Partner Development Funds of VMware
Alain Debost is the Director of World-Wide Development Funds at VMware. He is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in global IT companies in Finance, Marketing, Go-To-Market, Partner Sales roles to bring disruptive products and solutions, both hardware and software, and Programs to market.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Prab Kalra
Director of Product Management, VMware Cloud on AWS of VMware
Prab Kalra serves as director of product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simone Morellato
Director, Technical Product Management of VMware
Simone Morellato serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mark Schweighardt
Director of VMware
Mark Schweighardt works on the NSX Service Mesh product team, and works with enterprise customers on their service mesh related use cases and requirements.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Henry Robinson
Sr. Director, Product Management of VMware
Henry Robinson serves as senior director of product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Wik
Director SRE SDDCaaS of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amber Schmidt
Diversity and Inclusion Program Director of VMware
Amber brings a unique background and strong passion for driving inclusive workplaces. Her experience includes gender and diversity, organizational strategy and change, communications and program management. Prior to VMware, she worked at Deloitte, doing human capital consulting and operations, and at Catalyst, a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in business. Ms. Schmidt holds a M.Sc. in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Gender Politics from Yale University.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amber Schmidt
Diversity and Inclusion Program Director of VMware
Amber brings a unique background and strong passion for driving inclusive workplaces. Her experience includes gender and diversity, organizational strategy and change, communications and program management. Prior to VMware, she worked at Deloitte, doing human capital consulting and operations, and at Catalyst, a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in business. Ms. Schmidt holds a M.Sc. in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Gender Politics from Yale University.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ben Spero
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
John Connolly
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
John joined Spectrum in October 2009. Prior to joining Spectrum, he was an Investment Banking Associate with Credit Suisse in their Media and Telecommunications Group. While at Credit Suisse, John focused on a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings.
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Stephen M. LeSieur
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About GoodRx, Payer Compass, Spectrum Equity, Spectrum Equity, Teachers Pay Teachers: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Victor Parker
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About Agilis Systems, DispatchTrack, Prezi, Spectrum Equity, StoryCorps, Teachers Pay Teachers, Visual Lease, World Wildlife Fund: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Michael LaVance
Director & Business Development of Lively
Michael LaVance is the Director & Business Development at Lively.
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About Lively: Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals.
Joshua Perlow
Director of Sales of Restless Bandit
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About Restless Bandit: Restless Bandit transforms workforce data into workforce decisions.
David Fonkalsrud
Director, Global Public Relations of Equinix
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About Equinix, Racepoint Global: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Andrew Bruckner
Senior Director, Marketing Insights & Analytics of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Rao Lingampalli
Director, Global Network Architecture of Equinix
Rao Lingampalli is currently Director of Network Architecture at Equinix leading optical network architecture and solutions development for Equinix global data center network interconnection services. His group is responsible for inter data center optical connection networks architecture and designs, intra data center optical interconnects, submarine cable landing station termination solutions, and optical transport SDN. He has nearly 25 years of experience in service provider and optical networking industries. He is a frequent invited speaker and panelist at optical networking conferences and customer events. He holds Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology with fiber optical communications specialization and Executive MBA from Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Sunit Mukherjee
Managing Director of Symphony Technology Group
Sunit Mukherjee joined Symphony Technology Group in 2010 from Champlain Capital Partners. Sunit currently serves on the board of directors of ImpactRX. Sunit’s prior experience includes working in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Citigroup Investment Banking in New York, IL&FS Private Equity ($1.5B growth equity fund) in Mumbai and Deloitte Consulting in Atlanta, Georgia. Sunit’s industries of focus during his career include enterprise software, healthcare, and industrials. At Champlain, he has worked on financial transactions and strategic initiatives with several portfolio companies including CARSTAR, B27 LLC, Option One Home Medical, Freeman Beauty, Earth Tool Company and Bergensons Property Services. Sunit has a Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, a Masters from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Jobrapido, Symphony Technology Group: Symphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm that invests in and builds software and services companies.
J.T. Treadwell
Managing Director of Symphony Technology Group
J.T. is a Managing Director with Symphony Technology Group, where he has helped lead and manage Symphony`s investments in Shopzilla, ImpactRx, Sigma3, Teleca, IBS AB, Symphony Marketing Solutions, SymphonyIRI Group, Intentia AB (Lawson) and GERS Retail Systems. J.T. is currently a member of the boards of directors of Shopzilla, Teleca, ImpactRx, Sigma3, IBS AB and SAM. J.T. joined Symphony in 2003 from Qiva, a global logistics software company where he was Director of Marketing, and Director of Strategic Planning. Prior to Qiva, J.T. was the associate for the west coast enterprise software and services practice at Bessemer Venture Partners, helping create investments in companies like Worldchain, Nistevo and Trigo (acquired by IBM), where he served on the Board of Directors. Prior to Bessemer, J.T. was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group where he helped drive numerous strategic marketing and business development projects for clients in technology, consumer goods and finance. He holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Ethics, Politics and Economics and History from Yale University.
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About Connexity, Inc, Extenda Retail, RedSeal, SPH Analytics, Symphony Technology Group: Symphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm that invests in and builds software and services companies.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Andrei Soroker
Director of Product Strategy of 8×8
Andrei has a degree in computer science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He lives in Oakland with his wife and three kids. He wishes he could use his pilot’s license more often.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Maxam Yeung
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Moov
Maxam Yeung is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Moov.
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About Moov: Moov is a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment.
Mohitosh Negandhi
Director – Programmatic Business of FreakOut Holdings
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About FreakOut Holdings: FreakOut is marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms.
Christian Rohrer
Senior Director of Design of McAfee
Christian Rohrer is the Senior Director of Design at McAfee.
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About McAfee, Nielsen Norman Group, XDStrategy: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Sreenu Pillutla
Sr. Director, Software Engineering of McAfee
Sreenu is a Sr. Director of Software Engineering at McAfee, LLC. In this role, he leads Mobile and IoT security and mobile threat research. Prior to this, he managed different groups at McAfee that include Consumer SaaS, core products, data warehouse, product integrations and partner delivery. He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from India and MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Sunil James
Senior Director, Security Engineering of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Abhishek Shukla
Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Abhishek Shukla leads the team currently focused on finding investment and acquisition opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Enterprises, Big Data Analytics, Cloud and other technologies associated with GE Current portfolio. Prior to joining GE Ventures, Abhishek was a member of Cisco’s Corporate Development & Ventures Investments team leading Security and Services portfolio and was involved in multiple acquisitions & investments. In his earlier career, Abhishek has held leadership positions in M&A, Strategy and Sales in Agilent, Sony and SAP while living and working in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India and the US. Abhishek holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and a MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jack Acosta
Member of the Board of Directors of Rimini Street
Jack Acosta has served in a board role for multiple companies. Previously, Jack served as CFO and vice president of finance for Portal Software. Prior to Portal Software, Jack served as executive vice president and CFO as well as vice president, engineering services, integration, and business management for Sybase, Inc. Jack was also the president, COO, and a director of Tanon Manufacturing, Inc. Prior to these assignments, Jack held various management positions at Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Atari, Inc., Diablo Systems, Inc., and Ford Motor Company.
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About : Rimini Street is an independent provider of enterprise software support services for Oracle and SAP licensees.
Steve Capelli
Member of the Board of Directors of Rimini Street
Capelli has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2014. Previously, Capelli served in various management positions at Sybase, Inc. (acquired by SAP), from December 1997 to April 2011, most recently as President, Worldwide Field Operations, from August 2006 to April 2011. From August 1992 to December 1997, Capelli served in various management positions at Siemens-Pyramid, a subsidiary of Siemens Nixdorf, a computer and electronics company, including as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Inter-Continental Sales, and Director of Field Operations. From January 2005 to November 2005, Capelli served on the board of directors of Apropos Technology, Inc., a publicly traded business communication software firm. In addition, Capelli serves as a member of the Board of directors of various private companies. Capelli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from The College of New Jersey and a Masters of Business Administration from Rutgers University.
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About : Rimini Street is an independent provider of enterprise software support services for Oracle and SAP licensees.
Dan Ashton
Senior Director, Product Marketing of Rimini Street
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About Rimini Street: Rimini Street is an independent provider of enterprise software support services for Oracle and SAP licensees.
Shannon Farley
Co-founder and Executive Director of Fast Forward
Shannon is an experienced social entrepreneur. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Fast Forward. Shannon was also a Board Member at The Whitman Institute since May 2014. She is also co-founder and Executive Director of Spark. Prior to joining Spark, Shannon co-founded The W. Haywood Burns Institute, a MacArthur Award-winning juvenile justice reform organization. Shannon has been awarded the New Leader’s Council “Top 40 under 40 Award”, The Aspen Institute’s Ideas Scholar Fellowship, and The Women’s Funding Network’s Changing the Face of Philanthropy Award. Under her leadership, Spark won the 2010 Outstanding Foundation Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals and served in the Inaugural Congressional Conference on Philanthropy and Innovation. Shannon attained her BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and MS in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics.
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About Fast Forward: The first accelerator exclusively for tech nonprofits.
Jenny Barna
Director of Launch of Spire Global
Jenny is the Launch Manager at Spire, a satellite powered data company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Jenny comes to Spire from SSL, where she supported new business pursuits and programs, focused on smallsats and hosted payloads. Prior to joining SSL, Jenny spent almost 10 years as a launch vehicle propulsion engineer at Orbital in Chandler, Arizona, where she led an integrated propulsion team on many successful launches of the Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) and the development and qualification of propulsion subsystems for the two-stage variant of OBV. Jenny has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Arizona State University.
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About Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Matt Knopp
Director of infrastructure engineering of Mode Analytics
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Jonathan Bullock
Co-Founder & Managing Director of LX
Jonathan Bullock is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX. He is involved in business advisory projects focused on the tech and investment sectors, including supporting numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, either directly or through their VCs, PE, or corporate investors. He holds a BA and MEng from Cambridge University in Engineering and Management.
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About LX: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
John Offenhartz
Senior Director, Integrations of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Courtney Sato
Director of Community and Brand Marketing of Constellation Research
Courtney Sato is the Strategy and Operations at Basira
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About Basira, Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Dino Boukouris
Director & Founding Member of Momentum Cyber
Dino Boukouris has spent almost 14 years in the technology industry with expertise in cybersecurity, finance, strategy, operations, entrepreneurship, venture capital and engineering. Dino has been a speaker at Cybersecurity conferences across the country including Structure Security, Global Cyberspace Coop Summit, IoT Security Panel, M&A East 2017, as well as at numerous private events and corporate gatherings. Dino is a Founding Member & Director at Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Dave DeWalt, Michael Tedesco and Eric McAlpine. Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry, providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored senior-level access from incubation to exit. Prior to Momentum Cyber, Dino was a Founding Member & Director of Momentum Partners, the precursor to Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Eric McAlpine and Michael Tedesco. Prior to Momentum Partners, Dino spent much of his career working with and advising venture-backed and bootstrapped start-ups, including Cameron Health a medical device start-up which created the world’s first subcutaneous implantable defibrillator and was ultimately acquired by Boston Scientific for $1.35B. Prior to Cameron Health, Dino began his career with GKN, a multinational aerospace and automotive company, where he was one of ten graduates selected from across the United States for their International Leadership Development Program. Additionally, Dino is currently a top rated Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business. Since 2013 Dino has been a lecturer, GS instructor and mentor for the MBA, EWMBA and Executive MBA program for Venture Capital and Private Equity, Business Model Innovation, Entrepreneurial Strategy, and Managerial Economics. Dino has also served as an Advisor to a number of Bay Area accelerators such as the Alchemist Accelerator, Intel Technology to Market Accelerator, National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, and Lean Launchpad. In his “spare” time, Dino received his MBA with Honors from UC Berkeley, where he was President of his MBA program, a Haas Venture Fellow, a Turner Fellow, a Dean’s Scholar and chair of Venture Capital Connect. Dino also graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he entered the Honors Program and was a Lawrence D. Corlett Scholar, an Engelbrecht Scholar and a David Aspland Scholar. Dino lives in San Francisco, and when he is not busy working on or advising entrepreneurial ventures, he spends much of his time either in the kitchen or traveling the globe with his better half.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Endeavor, Momentum Cyber, Momentum Partners, RSA Conference, UC Berkeley, Haas Business School: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Keith Skirbe
Director & Founding Member of Momentum Cyber
Keith Skirbe is a seasoned M&A, strategy and operations professional with over 15 years experience in investment banking and 3 years experience as entrepreneur and Chief Operating Officer. Keith is highly passionate about Cybersecurity, having spent the past 10 years working with and advising founders, CEOs and Boards across the Cybersecurity industry. Keith is a Founding Member and Director at Momentum Cyber, alongside Founders Dave DeWalt, Michael Tedesco and Eric McAlpine. Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored senior-level access from incubation to exit. Keith has extensive M&A transaction experience advising on and executing transactions with ADT, Fortinet, Gigamon, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Juniper Networks, CenturyLink, AVG Technologies and many more. Prior to Momentum Cyber, Keith was a Founding Member and Director of Momentum Partners, the precursor firm to Momentum Cyber. Prior to Momentum Partners, Keith was a founding member of Bridge Street Advisors, a boutique M&A and strategic advisory firm focused on the Software sector, alongside his former colleagues from Bear Stearns’ Software Investment Banking Group. At Bridge Street, Keith advised and worked with private and public companies on corporate development and M&A initiatives, including corporate / M&A strategy development, M&A transaction execution and pre / post merger integration. Earlier in his career, Keith held investment banking positions at Bear Stearns, FT Partners and SG Cowen. Keith started his career on Wall Street at NationsBank/BofA in the Asset-Backed Securitizations and Global Debt Private Placement Groups. Keith was an entrepreneur and served as Chief Operating Officer of Orbis Payment Services, a merchant services startup. At Orbis, Keith led the company through a significant restructuring, managed an outside salesforce and was responsible for new business development efforts.
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About Momentum Cyber: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Chjango Unchained
Director of Community Development of Tendermint
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About Tendermint: Tendermint brings simplicity, security, and speed to the world’s blockchains.
Peter Watridge
Senior Director Analytics & Decision Science of Calix
VP, Strategic Alliances & Platform Peter’s role is to identify and develop relationships with key partners in the cloud software and hardware infrastructure ecosystem. The relationships support Joyent’s sales of SmartDataCenter cloud enabling software to telco’s and service providers globally. Focus of effort is in two main areas: 1) Relationships with hardware vendors in the compute, networking, and storage areas upon which the Joyent software runs; And 2) ISV’s that enable richer support for the Joyent software as the premier platform for providers to profitably sell IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products. Prior to taking on his current role Peter served as CFO during Joyent’s formative early stage start-up growth years. In his role as CFO, Peter help grow Joyent from a revenue funded company with an annualized revenue run rate in the hundreds of thousands per year to a venture backed company with a run rate in the tens of millions of dollars per year. Managed company growth from 14 employees to over 90 employees. Developed financial model that enabled Joyent to raise a round of funding led by Intel Capital. Continued to run Operations, Support, HR, IT and back office support teams until Joyent hired up. Expanded operations into Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. via: [Joyent](http://www.joyent.com)
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About Calix: Calix provides the cloud, software, systems and services for service providers to simplify business, excite subscribers and grow value
James Merson
Director of Product of ClearCare
James began advising ClearCare in 2010 while working for a Home Care and Care Management organization in the Bay Area. He formally joined as an employee in November of 2012 after ten years in the Home Care and Home Healthcare fields and leads the Customer Success team at ClearCare, the largest of its kind in the home care industry. He holds a BS in Industrial Technology and an MBA.
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Bobbi Jo Price
Sr. Director of U.S. Sales of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Dave Godin
Sr. Director of Customer Success of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Amber Grewal
Managing Director & Partner, Global Talent of The Boston Consulting Group
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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.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Richard Harroch
Managing Director of VantagePoint Capital Partners
Richard joined VantagePoint in 2003 from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, bringing with him an extensive body of transactional and business expertise.He is a successful entrepreneur, founder and Chairman of two companies: LawCommerce.com (sold to LexisNexis) and Allbusiness.com (sold to Dun and Bradstreet.) He is a noted author, having written and edited a number of legal and best-selling business books on start-up companies, partnerships, and joint ventures. Richard has been involved in negotiating or structuring more than 100 Internet related partnerships, financings, distribution deals, web content and license agreements and e-commerce contracts. Richard has also been involved in more than 250 mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and strategic alliances. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley (BA) and the University of California, Los Angeles (JD), where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review.
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About All Business, Evisionary Ventures, Talix, VantagePoint Capital Partners: VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management
Jim Marver
Co-Founder & Managing Director of VantagePoint Capital Partners
Jim co-founded VantagePoint in 1996 and is experienced in every element of venture fund management. Over the past three decades, Jim has worked closely with hundreds of public and private companies on all aspects of their operations, especially strategy and finance. He has run global technology practices at leading investment banks and has served as a senior consultant at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He is Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. And he is a member of the Board of Directors of The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Jim attended Williams College (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MPP, PhD).
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About VantagePoint Capital Partners: VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management
Thomas A. Bevilacqua
Managing Director & Group Co-leader of VantagePoint Capital Partners
Thomas A. Bevilacqua has served as a member of our Board since November 2009, as a member of our compensation committee since February 2010, as a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee since February 2011, and as Lead Independent Director since October 2018. Mr. Bevilacqua has served as a Managing Director with VantagePoint Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, since November 2007, where he focuses on investments in the Internet and information technology market. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Mr. Bevilacqua served as Executive Vice President of E*TRADE Financial from 1997 to 2002, where he served in a variety of operational roles and established E*TRADE’s acquisition and investment strategies. While at E*TRADE, Mr. Bevilacqua founded ArrowPath Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital fund that was later spun out from E*TRADE, and served as the Managing Partner of that firm from 1999 to November 2007. Mr. Bevilacqua was previously a partner at two leading Silicon Valley law firms, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Mr. Bevilacqua received a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.S. in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley. We believe that Mr. Bevilacqua possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a member of our board of directors and to serve as a member of our compensation committee and nominating and corporate governance committee, including his knowledge of technology investments and Internet services, his financial literacy and his general business and legal experience.
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About VantagePoint Capital Partners: VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management
Ellen Levy
Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect
Ellen Levy is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect.
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About Arizona State University, Arizona State University, Birdeye, Broadway Angels, Silicon Valley Connect: Silicon Valley Connect creates programs, services and initiatives meant to build bridges between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.
Mahendra Ramsinghani
Managing Director of Secure Octane
Investor / advisor in leading security startups such as Icebrg (backed by Madrona, Formation8) Kryptnostic (backed by Index Ventures, Harrison Metal, Felicis Ventures) and Attivo Networks (backed by Bain Capital). As seed investor, invested in over fifty seed startups. Led the efforts for development of Fund-of-Funds legislation which deployed $200 million in VC Funds. Author of two books: (1) “The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies” (Wiley Finance, 2011) (2) Co-author of “Startup Boards” with VC Brad Feld. (Wiley, 2014). Co-founder of 3D Biomatrix, a life sciences tools startup. Recognized by Wall Street Journal Technology 2012 Innovation Awards (chosen among 536 entries).
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About Accurics, CloudKnox Security, Cobalt, CyberGRX, CYRUS, DataDistillr, DeepSee.ai, Intrigue Corporation, NeuraLegion, PolyScale, Query.AI, Section, Secure Octane, Sevco Security, Strike Graph, Tigera: Secure Octane is a cybersecurity seed fund that introduces investors, security architects, and thought leaders to improve businesses.
Mahesh Naik
Director Technology of Publicis Sapient
Senior Information Technology Leader with 25+ years of experience in designing, building, implementing and supporting technology solutions to support technical and analytical needs of the business. A natural and influencing leader, relationship builder who combines a vast technical knowledge with an understanding of the people and processes affected by new technology implementations. Establishes critical vendor and partner relations while overseeing excellence in performance and delivery. Keeps abreast of new technology, and approaches all implementation with innovative solutions for optimum results.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Addison Nuding
Managing Director of WellDone International
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About WellDone International: WellDone International employs design, technology, and advocacy to empower communities that lack access to water and sanitation
Javier Rojas
Managing Director, Silicon Valley of Kennet Partners
Javier has a passionate belief in the power of the founder-entrepreneur to build market-leading companies. He is a specialist in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Internet business models, and an experienced coach to young companies as they seek to scale their market reach. Javier is an active speaker and lectures regularly on entrepreneurship and bootstrapping. Javier’s influence can be seen in the success of companies such as healthcare analytics business MedeAnalytics. He is on the boards of IntelePeer, AcademixDirect, and Revolution Prep. He has been instrumental in a number of successful exits for founder-led businesses including NetPro and Adviva. Since 2000, Javier has led Kennet’s US investment activities. Before joining Kennet, Javier led investment bank Broadview’s West Coast software and services practice, and specialized in helping founder-led, bootstrapped businesses achieve high exit values. Javier has also been an entrepreneur, having founded a software company targeting the financial services market. Previously, Javier gained international experience in corporate finance and capital markets at Morgan Stanley in New York and in London. Javier holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BS/BA in Finance and Computer Science from Georgetown University. He speaks fluent Spanish.
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About Kennet Partners: Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology and business services companies.
Eric Filipek
Managing Director, Silicon Valley of Kennet Partners
Eric Filipek is a Managing Director with Kennet Partners. Kennet is a leading international growth equity firm that supports entrepreneurial technology businesses with expansion capital to accelerate growth and build exceptional shareholder value. Since 2000, Eric has led Kennet’s investment efforts in vertical software and enterprise SaaS businesses. Before joining Kennet, Eric was a Principal at Broadview, a leading mid-market M&A advisory firm. Prior to joining Broadview in 1994, Eric worked as a product marketing engineer at Intel Corporation. He has a BS degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Eric is a board member of ThinkHR (HR SaaS); Conversica (AI-based sales and marketing SaaS); KEMP Technologies (software-based Application Distribution Controller); and Impartner (Partner Relationship Management SaaS). Former boards include: Recommind (e-discovery software company, acquired by OpenText); Schoolwires (K12 SaaS, acquired by Blackboard); Netpro (systems management software, acquired by Quest Software); Consul Risk Management (compliance software, acquired by IBM) and Aarohi (storage chip vendor, acquired by Emulex).
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About Kennet Partners: Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology and business services companies.
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Roger Magoulas
Senior Director Data Strategy of Astronomer
Roger Magoulas is the research director at O’Reilly Media and chair of Strata + Hadoop World conferences. Roger and his team build the analysis infrastructure, and provide analytic services and insights on technology adoption trends to business decision-makers at O’Reilly and beyond. We find what excites key innovators and use those insights to gather and analyze faint signals from various sources to make sense of what others may adopt and why.
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About Astronomer: Modern Data Orchestration
Alan Paller
Founder & Director of Research of SANS Institute
Alan Paller founded SANS, a college and training school that has trained more than 145,000 cybersecurity technologists in 72 countries. Paller oversees a global program that celebrates people responsible for remarkable improvement in cyber-risk reduction. He has testified before the Senate and House and was a charter member of the President’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council. In 2010, the Washington Post named Paller as one of seven people “worth knowing in cyber security.” He serves on the NASA Advisory Council, chaired the DHS 2012 Task Force on Cyber Skills and headed the FCC Task Force on Best Practices in Cybersecurity. Earlier, Paller helped build one of the first large software companies, took it public and merged it into a larger company listed on the NY Stock Exchange.
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About SANS Institute: SANS Institute is a research and education organization that provides education related to information security.
