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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 Software 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.
Dave Johnson
Director of Engineering, PhoneGap of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Rob Burgess
Member of the Board of Directors of Adobe
Burgess has served since 2005 as an independent investor and board member to technology companies. He was chief executive officer from 1996 to 2005 of Macromedia, Inc., a provider of internet and multimedia software, which was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.; he also served from 1996 to 2005 on its board of directors and was executive chairman for his final year. Previously, he held key executive positions from 1991 to 1995 at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a graphics and computing company; and, prior to its acquisition by SGI, was chief executive officer and a board member of Alias Research, Inc., a publicly traded 3D software company. Burgess serves on the board of Adobe Systems Inc., IMRIS, Inc. and several privately-held companies.He holds a BCom degree from McMaster University. He joined the NVIDIA board in 2011.
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Seth Berman
Senior Director, Performance Marketing of Adobe
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Matthew Purdon
Sr. Product Director, Creative Cloud for Enterprise & SMB of Adobe
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Ali Bohra
Director, Strategy & Product Marketing of Adobe
Ali Bohrai is the Director, Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe.
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Markus Spiering
Director Product of Adobe
At Adobe Markus is building beautiful and engaging products to help millions of people becoming better creators with Adobe’s Creative Cloud products. Prior to Adobe, Markus was the Vice President of Product and Design at Udacity and did oversee the online university’s student experience together with the product management, product design, data, service, community and operational teams in his business unit. In this capacity he lead a 100+ people organization, impacting all global students and is directly responsible for their success. Prior to his role at Udacity, Markus worked as the Chief Product Officer of EyeEm, a global community and marketplace for photography. Under his leadership the company transformed from a Berlin-based startup to a company with a world-class product and design and achieved global footprint. Before EyeEm, Markus lead Flickr as the Head of Product and managed the global product direction and product management team of Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service since 2011. As the head of product, Markus led the biggest redesign of Flickr in years, including significant updates for its iPhone and Android apps and one terabyte of free space to all Flickr users. Under his leadership, Flickr has reached about 100 million unique users and daily photo uploads have increased up to 7x across the company’s desktop and mobile experiences. Markus has published several books and articles about mobile development, HTML5 and photo-sharing. In late 2013 Markus was named as one of Silicon Valley’s top 40 under 40 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Prior to 2010 Markus worked in senior product management roles driving several mobile-focussed areas at Yahoo! since 2006. Markus joined Yahoo! after co-founding a Berlin, Germany based start-up focussing on mobile app distribution and development.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Tom Cignarella
Director of Security Coordination Center of Adobe
Tom Cignarella is the Director of Security Coordination Center for Adobe. In this position, he is responsible for security monitoring, incident response and threat intelligence for all Adobe products and services, as well as the Adobe enterprise. Tom sets the strategy and builds out the framework for day-to-day operations for how teams monitor environments, investigate incidents, and communicate with internal stakeholders and customers. He was formerly the Director of Product Operations for Adobe’s CloudOps group and technical operations for Adobe eSign (now part of Adobe Document Cloud). Tom brings more than 20 years of technology experience to this role. Prior to joining Adobe, Tom held Technical Operations leadership positions at Limelight Networks, Clickability, Symantec, BEA, Autodesk, Ariba and Excite.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Erica Larson
Associate Creative Director of Adobe
Erica Larson is a graphic artist, designer, and art director on Adobe Studio. Since joining Adobe she has discovered a fondness for illustration, volunteering, and teaching. She’s happiest when making work at the intersection of all three.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Tom Nguyen
Director of Product, Adobe Spark of Adobe
Tom Nguyen is Principal Product Manager and product lead for Adobe Voice, an award-winning storytelling app that lets anyone create engaging explainer videos in minutes. Its mission is to democratize storytelling, to help people make an impact by sharing stories that matter. Previously at Adobe, he managed gaming and video technology used by over 1 billion people, powering experiences from Angry Birds to Unreal Engine to the Olympics. Before Adobe, Tom managed new products at the Reuters Innovation Studio, teaching design thinking and launching the first user generated photography service for the world’s largest news agency. He was also selected as Primetime Emmy Award finalist for his work in interactive media. Tom holds MBA, M.A. in Education, and B.S. in Computer Science degrees from Stanford University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Jill Steinhour
Global Director, High Tech and B2B Industry Strategy & Marketing, Digital Strategy & Solutions of Adobe
Jill joined Adobe Systems in June 2011 as Director of High-Tech and B2B Strategy. In this capacity, she defines the marketing and go-to-market strategy and delivers sales enablement, demand generation and content/social marketing for the High-Tech industry and B2B. Jill leads strategic engagements with Adobe’s top tier clients in support of their efforts to develop and transform their digital strategies and is a contributor to Adobe thought leadership forums and frequent speaker at digital marketing conferences and High-Tech & B2B events. Prior to joining Adobe Systems, Jill held leadership positions at HP, Agilent and IBM. She has expertise in market research & sizing, customer insights & predictive model development and business performance management strategies for consumer & commercial markets. During her tenure at HP, Jill directed efforts to integrate & extract intelligence from large and diverse data stores to deliver HP’s first comprehensive data repositories that supported the development of addressable market & consumer predictive models.
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Lidia Lukianova
Senior Art Director & Adobe Studio of Adobe
Lidia Lukianova is the Senior Art Director & Adobe Studio at Adobe.
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Michael Klein
Global Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing- Retail, Travel & Consumer Goods of Adobe
Michael Klein is the Global Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing – Retail, Travel & Consumer Goods at Adobe Systems
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Josh Haftel
Director of Product Management of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Bryan O’Neil Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Bryan O’Neil Hughes is the Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Brian Glover
Director, Product Marketing of Adobe
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Inna Meklin
Director, GTM – Creative Cloud of Adobe
Inna Meklin is the Director, GTM – Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Tina Tran
Director Of Business Development of Microsoft
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Mandana Javaheri
Global Director, Business Development of Microsoft
With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and networking industries, Mandana Javaheri currently leads Microsoft Cybersecurity Business Development team. Before joining Microsoft, Mandana served as the CTO and head of technology alliances at Savvius, a network forensics company, where she defined product and technology directions as well as led strategic partnerships, product management and development. Mandana has a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MBA with concentration in finance and management. She also holds certifications in security, product management and leadership.
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Mikhail Prudnikov
Director, Business Strategy of Microsoft
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Max Wheeler
Engineering Director of Microsoft
Max Wheeler has been serving as Engineering Director at Microsoft since December 2015.
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Indranil Sircar
Director, Business Strategy of Microsoft
Indranil Sircar is a CTO for Microsoft Manufacturing Industry. Indranil is focused on shaping Microsoft’s industry solutions by driving the full value of product innovation and roadmap to accelerate digital transformation and value to customers and partners. Indranil joined Microsoft in 2012 and has been responsible for establishing and driving Microsoft’s strategy for high-tech, semiconductor industry and intelligent supply chain with focus on IoT, AI, Mixed Reality, Blockchain etc. Indranil brings with him more than 30 years of experience at strategy and technology leadership in developing industry solutions and processes.
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Scott Mauvais
Director, AI and Global Partnerships, Microsoft Philanthropies of Microsoft
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Tanumoy Ghosh
Director, Product Data Science, DSA of Salesforce
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Sanford Robertson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
Sandy Robertson is the Partner at Francisco partners.
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Mayukh Bhaowal
Director, Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Mayukh Bhaowal is a director of product management at Salesforce Einstein working on automated machine learning. Previously, Mayukh worked at startups in the domain of machine learning and analytics. He served as head of product of the ML platform startup Scaled Inference, backed by Khosla Ventures, and led product at the ecommerce startup Narvar, backed by Accel. He was also a principal product manager at Yahoo and Oracle. Mayukh holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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Tim Van Loan
Director of Product Marketing of Salesforce
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Leah McGowen-Hare
Senior Director of Salesforce
Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and Senior Director at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow using Trailhead. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Hidden Genius Project, Girls Who Code and Vetforce. Leah is married to Shane Hare and has 3 children. She enjoys working out, and traveling with her family.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pankaj Prasad
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Pankaj Prasad is the co-founder of DoubleDutch, a service that helps any company, brand, or organization deploy mobile apps enterprise wide. Their apps help companies gain insight through engagement
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Josh Schwartz
Director of Offensive Security of Salesforce
Josh Schwartz is a computer that knows how to computer. He leads the Red Team at Salesforce conducting high impact offensive security engagements and frequently creates propaganda memes.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Daniel Sonnenfeld
Accessibility Compliance Program Director of Salesforce
Daniel Sonnenfeld is a Technical Program Management Director at Salesforce where he leads complex cross-organizational technology initiatives. His professional experience spans the high tech industry, having worked with large enterprises and startups. After a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Computer Science. Born deaf, Daniel wore hearing aids most of his life and received cochlear implants 13 years ago. He is multilingual and fluent in English, American Sign Language and French.
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Wendy Smith
Senior Director, Salesforce Experience of Salesforce
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Cecilia Alvord
Director & Executive Search of Salesforce
Cecilia Alvord is the Director & Executive Search at Salesforce.
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Sarah Aerni
Director Of Data Science And Engineering of Salesforce
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Kelly Utley
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
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Cathy Daw
Director, Software Engineering of Salesforce
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Vikas Sangwan
Director Software Engineering of Salesforce
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Alexander Lovell
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Alexander Lovell is the director of product management at Salesforce and an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. Prior to that, Alexander co-founded Simpatic. .
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Kinjal Vora
Director, Business Value of Salesforce
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Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ian Dunckel
Senior Director, Product Marketing, CPQ & Billing of Salesforce
Ian Dunckel serves as the senior director of product marketing and CPQ & Billing at Salesforce.
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Tim Clarke
Senior Director, Product Marketing – Sales Cloud of Salesforce
Co-Founder & CEO @ UNCrushed.
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Fadi Mouallem
Director of Strategic Sourcing of Salesforce
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Cheryn Flanagan
Director of Experience Design of Salesforce
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Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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Sireesh Bodireddygari
Director of engineering: Analytics – Wave of Salesforce
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John Heywood
Director, Product Marketing – Service Cloud of Salesforce
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Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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George Bonaci
Director of Growth Marketing & Campaigns of Samsara
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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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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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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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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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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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Hermann Baer
Senior Director of Oracle
Hermann Baer is Senior Director at Oracle USA.
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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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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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Mayank Choudhary
Director, Product Marketing of Oracle
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Kuassi Mensah
Director, Product Management of Oracle
Product Management at Oracle.
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Garrett Harley
Director of Product Marketing of Oracle
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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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Rei-Ling Hudson
Director of Marketing of Fin.com
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Justin Appler
Director of Engineering, Applications of Crunchbase
Justin develops software mostly in JavaScript, often for the web, and sometimes in other languages. The challenges of building products that stand the test of time and effective software teams (from recruiting through to day-to-day engineering process) fascinate him.
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Danielle Ben-Gera
Director of Data Engineering of Crunchbase
Danielle Ben-Gera has been serving as Director of Data Engineering at Crunchbase since September 2018.
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Kevin Nanney
Senior Director of ServiceNow
Say hello to Kevin Nanney, a man with a deep technical background and understanding of product development and product life cycles. What was your first job ever? When I was 8, I worked on a dairy farm with my grandpa, fixing fences and taking care of the calves. It was really hard work for an 8-year-old, but I got to spend a lot of time with my grandpa. What do you love about Jobvite? I love the culture and the energy that drives everyone to the same goal. At Jobvite, we know who we are and what we want to become. It’s a very clear vision, and you don’t get that at just any company. Do you have any superpowers? Well I am really tall, so my superpower would have to be that I have the ability to hit my head on anything hanging in the 6’8″ zone. What’s your favorite road trip? Any road trip that takes me somewhere I have not been yet or to one of my favorite places, like Austin or Chicago. And any trip that takes me and my boat to a lake. Experience Taleo — Vice President of Product Management Navis — Senior Director of Product Management PeopleSoft — Director of Product Management PricewaterhouseCoopers — Senior SAP Functional/Technical Consultant Ernst & Young — Technical Consultant Education B.A. in Economics, Rice University B.A. in Business Management, Rice University B.A. in Sports Management, Rice University
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Baskar Jayaraman
Director, Platform Data Sciences of ServiceNow
Baskar Jayaraman is a Distinguished Engineer/Senior Director, Platform Data Sciences at ServiceNow.
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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.
Ashkan Marsh
Partner & Director of Research of Cota Capital
Ashkan Marsh joined Cota in 2019 as a Principal, where he focuses on sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring of public investments. Prior to Cota, Ashkan was an Investment Partner at Crimson Investment Partners making private equity investments in founder-led companies to accelerate growth through digital transformation and corporate processes. Prior to CIP, Ashkan was a public equity Investment Analyst at Newbrook Capital, a $1+ billion long/short equity fund. Previously, Ashkan was an Investment Analyst and Investment Associate at Goldman Sachs in private equity at the firm’s Special Situations Group, a $25 billion proprietary investment fund. Ashkan was Founder and CEO of SilverIP Communications, which became the leading gigabit internet service provider in Illinois and exited to private equity. Ashkan received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
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About Cota Capital: Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies.
Collin Whitehead
Senior Director of Central Design of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Deepak JeevanKumar is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he has investments in cybersecurity. Deepak’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments across a wide-spectrum of security technologies and solutions. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Deepak spent nearly 7 years at General Catalyst where he helped build the firm‘s west-coast presence and was closely involved in Push Computing (acquired by MobileIron), Altiscale (acquired by SAP), Illumio, Menlo Security, Anomali (FKA ThreatStream), Minio and RiskRecon investments. Deepak is a supercomputer designer turned venture capitalist, with 15 years of technology and investment experience. He gained his engineering expertise at Sun Microsystems where he started as a sales engineer and ended-up as a lead supercomputing architect. He was also an intern at the Yale Investments Office. He holds a B. Eng. from the National University of Singapore, an S.M. from the Singapore-MIT Alliance and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Deepak is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Raman Khanna
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Raman Khanna is The Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital.
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About Dell Technologies Capital, Onset: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Tyler Jewell
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Tyler is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. He previously founded Codenvy and was a partner with Toba Capital managing investments in middleware and application development. He sits on the board of WSO2, Sauce Labs, ShiftMobility and eXo Platform. He has investments in ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, SourceGraph, and AppHarbor and is an advisor for SD Elements. He is the author of three books on Java, including OReilly’s Java Web Services.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
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.
Mike Wanzong
Engagement Director of Guidewire Software
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About Guidewire Software: Guidewire Software provides core back-end systems software to the global property, casual and worker’s compensation insurance industry.
Niklas de Besche
Executive Director, Product of Meltwater
Niklas de Besche is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Products. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral role in building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Linda Walsh
Director of Communications of AppDirect
Creative ideas, innovative campaigns, and a relentless approach have defined Linda’s career in public relations. Linda’s aptitude for combining balance and risk has helped her reinvent conventional ideas to achieve results for her clients. Prior to joining InkHouse, Linda forged her professional path at the Horn Group where she worked with both public and private clients in the high tech sector. Her ability to promote highly technical concepts in national and industry trade publications resulted in bottom-line results for her clients. Linda then transitioned to a broader scope of work at The Castle Group where she continued to expand her expertise into the consumer PR market. Leading her accounts through a changing media landscape, Linda has made a name for herself with clients, media, bloggers and social media outlets.
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About AppDirect, InkHouse, InkHouse, SutherlandGold Group: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Prakash V
Director of Technical Program Management of AppDirect
Prakash Vippa is the Director of Technical Program management at [AppDirect](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appdirect), a cloud service marketplace and management company. He leads Outbound Product Management team and TPM teams. Prior to that, he was the Principal Product Manager at Big Air Studios and Oracle. Vippa holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Auburn University.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Rajeev Bansal
Sr. Director Product Management of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Vladimir Smirnov
Director, Technical Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Vladimir Smirnov
Director, Technical Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Theresa Bui Revon
Senior Director Growth Marketing of ASAPP
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About ASAPP: Breakthroughs are born out of research and ASAPP is advancing AI to drive greater human productivity and automating the world’s workflows
Albert Pereta
Executive Creative Director of Pinterest
Albert Pereta is a Creative Director of product design at Pinterest and a Creative Advisor for a few startups. He oversees design quality and leads innovation initiatives within the company. He’s originally from the beautiful town of Barcelona where he studied design and bounce between design studios and advertising agencies. He moved to New York to get his MFA Design as Entrepreneur at SVA. After returning to his hometown he founded UnitCo: a product design agency consulting for companies between NY and BCN. After a couple of years, he founded Icebergs: a visual organization app for creatives. Icebergs got acquired by Pinterest in 2014 and he moved to San Francisco to join the Product Design team. When he’s not working you can find him in the woods, baking bread or cooking a mean paella.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Tim Belonax
Design Director of Pinterest
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About Double Issue, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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.
Jim Quanci
Senior Director, Autodesk Developer Network of Autodesk
With more than 25 years of engineering and design experience, Jim Quanci has spent the past 20 years developing relationships for Autodesk with leading technology partners around the world. He oversees an international network of over 4000 software partners – third-parties who customize, complement and extend Autodesk Cloud, Mobile and Desktop technologies. Along with founding the “Autodesk Developer Network”, and current worldwide responsibility for software partnerships at Autodesk, Jim has experience partnering worldwide including stints directly managing partners in the Americas and Asia. Prior to Autodesk, Jim worked at Sun Microsystems and General Electric. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in International Marketing, Jim is a frequent presenter and consultant to leading design and engineering software firms on software development technologies applied to design and engineering.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Mike Haley
Senior Director, Machine Intelligence of Autodesk
Mike Haley is the VP, Research at Autodesk.
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About Autodesk, Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Kevin Halter
Director of AMER Named and Mid-Market Accounts, Autodesk Construction Solutions of Autodesk
Kevin Halter is the VP of Sales and co-Founder of Rentcycle. Kevin is passionate about people and his relationships with customers, colleagues, friends and family. Kevin has always been interested in improving the lives of others through innovation. Kevin is interested in utilizing the web to save people time and money, so they have more of both to spend with their families. Kevin is interested in using the web to improve efficiencies and increase transparency in markets, which have been resistant to change. Prior to Rentcycle, Kevin worked for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in their Institutional Sales and Community Sales Divisions. Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Tufts University. Kevin’s enjoys anything outdoors. He loves to cycle, run, swim, kayak, hike, scuba dive, ski, and go camping, which he does throughout Northern California.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Ben Cochran
Senior Director Of Engineering of Autodesk
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Joe Speicher
Executive Director of Autodesk
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Ravi Krishnaswamy
Director of Architecture, AutoCAD Product Line of Autodesk
Ravi Krishnaswamy is the director of architecture for AutoCAD product line at Autodesk.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Romain Serman
Executive Director Bpifrance USA of Bpifrance
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About Bpifrance: Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity.
Andrew Fenselau
Senior Director Of Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Christian Jensen
Director, Developer Experience of Sinch
Christian Jensen works as the Director of Developer Experience at Sinch.
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About Sinch: Sinch is a cloud communications company that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal engagement.
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.
