Best Startup
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 Manager operating in the Software space. If you think a Manager 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.
Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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About Adobe, Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Yuki Ishioka
Principal Product Manager of Adobe
Yuki Ishioka is a Principal Product Manager at Adobe and is responsible for driving International product strategy across the company’s Creative Cloud products. Yuki is an Adobe veteran, with over 12 years of combined experience and was an original member of the InDesign J, an Adobe product well regarded for its highly culturalized features. Yuki’s passion is helping bridge Adobe’s product relate-ability and usability for users in the international markets.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Sonja Hernandez
Senior Experience Design Manager 2, Brand, Icons, and EGD of Adobe
Sonja Hernandez is a Lead Senior Experience Designer in Adobe’s Experience Design organization. Sonja works on the Brand team where she creates the logos, screens, and other visual stylings that form Adobe’s brand. Sonja has worked on the packaging for Adobe’s first hardware, Ink & Slide; creates environmental graphics for Adobe’s offices; and volunteers for Adobe’s pro-bono projects. Outside of the office, she teaches in the Graphic Design department at California College of the Arts. She is an avid typography and lettering enthusiast, and can often be found bicycling around the Bay Area in search of the perfect cup of coffee.
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About Adobe, Adobe, Adobe, Adobe, California College of the Arts: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Agatha Yu
Senior Design Manager: 3D & Mixed Reality of Adobe
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Rohit Kumar
Senior Manager – Enterprise & SMB Retention Strategy of Adobe
Rohit Kumar is an experienced customer retention and business strategy professional with more than 15 years of experience. He is responsible for driving customer success and engagement strategy for Adobe’s most scaled and fastest growing Creative Cloud subscription business. Been with Adobe for more than 10 years, Rohit has played a pivotal role in migration from perpetual to subscription model, establishing customer success teams and developing pre-emptive and reactive retention tactics. Rohit holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in business administration.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Alex Filipkowski
Senior Manager of Product Management – Applied Science and Machine Learning of Adobe
Alex Filipkowski is the Senior Manager of Product Management – Applied Science & Machine Learning at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Lindsey Wallace
Design Research Manager- Enterprise and Teams of Adobe
Lindsey is an Experience Researcher with Adobe Design Research. Anthropologist turned experience researcher, she uses expertise in observational and qualitative methods to make the voice of our users count in our product development process.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Veronica Belmont
Product Manager of Adobe
Veronica Belmont is a product manager and evangelist on the Adobe Spark team, where she works to help social media creators, marketers, and influencers bring their brands and creative ideas to the masses. As an online media content producer and personality, she has worked for the last twelve years to inform audiences about the latest tech trends and news, while also advising startups on social strategy and product market fit.
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About Adobe, Betaworks, Sword & Laser: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Demian Borba
Product Manager, APIs and developer tools, Adobe XD of Adobe
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About Adobe, Lynda: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Chris Nguyen
Group Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
As a group product marketing manager on the Adobe Experience Manager team, Chris Nguyen is responsible for go-to-market strategy and field readiness for Adobe Experience Manager’s cloud deployment product offerings. Prior to joining Adobe, he served as manager of product marketing for TIBCO Software’s Service Oriented Architecture platform, focusing on application development, governance, and integration and product management at BEA Systems (Oracle).
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About Adobe, Naviga: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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Amanda Fetterly
Senior Experience Design Manager of Adobe
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Ginna Baldassarre
Principal Product Manager, International Strategy for Creative Cloud of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Tom Silverstrim
Sr. Manager of Analytics and Monitoring of Adobe
Sr. Manager of Analytics and Monitoring at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Julia Knecht
Manager, Security & Privacy Architecture of Adobe
Julia Knecht manages Product Security and Privacy Engineering at Adobe. She created and is responsible for the Secure Product Lifecycle of Adobe’s Digital Experience Business.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Andy Welfle
Senior Experience Content Design Manager of Adobe
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Jonathan Pimento
Group Product Manager of Adobe
Jonathan Pimento is a Product Manager working on Adobe XD. He focuses on the design workflow for XD. Prior to joining the XD team he worked as an experience designer on Adobe Web.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Pierre Tapia
Senior Manager, Product Management of Adobe
Pierre is Entrepreneur in Residence at The Angels’ Forum. and former Vice President of Product for eFolder. Pierre specializes in the development of high-performing product teams and co-founded the first channel-exclusive enterprise file sync and share solution, Anchor, which was acquired by eFolder in 2013. Prior to eFolder, Pierre served as a co-founder and Vice President of Product at Anchor, where he was responsible for owning the product roadmap until the company’s acquisition.
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Jeanette Matthews
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Jeanette is a creative chameleon whose skills run the line of 3D modeling, digital illustration, and video game design. As part of the Project Felix product team, she interacts with the community through the Prerelease program, forums and authoring of the Coffee Break video series, gathering insights from customers to help guide product discussions.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Matthew Aune
Senior Design Manager of Adobe
Matt Aune is a Senior Product Manager for Creative Cloud libraries. With a long-held passion for design and digital imaging, he has been a designer at various creative agencies and startups over his 20-year career. Matt Joined Adobe in 2012 and built a high performing design team charged with designing the future of the Experience Cloud. Since moving to product management, he has been focused on how teams work and how their systems of tools and assets enable high capacity creativity.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Carmen Sutter
Group Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem of Adobe
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Andersen Yu
Customer Success Manager of Front
1st Customer Success Manager at FrontApp.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Nadia Gathers
Communications Program Manager / Producer of GitHub
Nadia is the Internal Communications Manager at Github and an intersectional design thinking facilitator hailing from the d.school. In their spare time, they are a mental health advocate, occasional stage-talker, and aspiring novelist. Nadia helps people talk to each other.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Traci Coffman
Product Marketing Manager of GitHub
Traci Coffman is one of GitHub’s Product Marketing Managers. She is an advocate for the coding community and has a heart for women in tech. In her spare time, she dabbles in excelorating her coding skills, converting her agile knowledge into GitHub flow and teaching ballroom dance. Traci holds an undergraduate degree in Public Relations from the University of Oklahoma. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and is working on her PMP certification.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Ryan Johnson
Sr. Account Manager, Investor Services Team of Carta
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Sajad Ghanizada
Senior Demand Generation Manager of Carta
FinTech and Blockchain
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Jessica Aguilar
Office Manager of Initialized Capital
Jessica is the Office Manager and the EA to the CFO & Operating Partners; she also supports Initialized’s event program. She was previously the Office Manager/Executive Assistant at a travel start-up. With over four years of experience working as an OM/EA in several different industries including insurance, tax, and cosmetic/healthcare, she is ready to take on the VC Industry.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Nicolas Ritz
Product Manager of Asana
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Greg Slovacek
Engineering Manager of Asana
Greg Slovacek is an engineer at [Asana](/organization/asana). Greg Slovacek worked at [Google](/organization/google). on vertical search experiences within Calendar and Maps, in addition to working on Flu Trends and the accounts system. He was previously an engineer at There.com and studied computer science at Brown University.
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Terri Lomax Burden
Asana’s Dedicated Customer Success Manager of Asana
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Bhairav Mehta
Principal Data Scientist Manager of Microsoft
Experienced engineer, entrepreneur and seasoned Statistician / programmer with 14 years of combined experience working on product service/ channel /warranty management in electronics consumer products industry at Apple Inc. (4 years), yield engineering in semiconductor manufacturing at Qualcomm (6 years) and quality engineering in automotive industry at Ford Motor Company (OEM, Tier2 Suppliers) (3 years). MBA from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, 3 Master of Science (MS) degrees in diverse engineering and mathematical sciences. Industrial Systems Engineering (Rochester ’02), Applied Statistics (Cornell ’04)..Developed skills in Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark for Scalability and implementation of big data solution for the enterprises. Cloudera certified Hadoop developer, Cloudera certified Data Scientist and Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate. Industry renowned ASQ certifications: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE ’06), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE ’07) and Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CSSBB ’09). Skills across hardware and software platforms. Naturalized US Citizen.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jill Braff
General Manager, Strategy, Xbox Game Studios of Microsoft
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Keith Ballinger
General Manager of Microsoft
Keith Ballinger is the General Manager of Developer Services at Microsoft, where he drives the mission to engage developers with services they love, make Azure the most developer-friendly cloud, and make 1ES the best engineering system in the world. Before returning to Microsoft, Ballinger was the VP of Product for Xamarin, which Microsoft acquired in March of 2016. Ballinger has a strong background in entrepreneurship, engineering, and product management, dating back to his time as a project manager on the original .NET team. In 2007, he left Microsoft to co-found several startups. Previous to Xamarin, Ballinger was the Chief Architect at the YC-backed startup Standard Treasury, building an API-first bank. He’s the author of two books on programming.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Idan Levin
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Idan Levin is Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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About Cyberstarts, Microsoft, YL Ventures: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Taimoor Husain
Global Business Manager of Microsoft
Taimoor has been with Microsoft for 8 years, working primarily on Communications with Skype/Lync/OCS, helping the largest customers and partners be successful in their Communications strategy.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Nathaniel Robinson
General Manager of IQ Products of Microsoft
Nathaniel Robinson is the Founder & CEO of Trustworthy.He attend to the WelTec.
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About Microsoft, Trustworthy.: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Principal Applied Science Manager of Microsoft
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Karen Chu
Community Program Manager of Microsoft
Karen Chu is a Community Manager at Azure, with a focus on Azure Container Services (AKS) and open source container-native developer tools, such as Helm, Draft, and Brigade. When she’s not helping connect dots in the community, you can find her traveling and pursuing photography.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Andrew Taber
Program Manager of Microsoft
Andrew Taber is Founder, Product Manager @ Brothers Magoo.
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Katie Kelly
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft / Product Owner, AltspaceVR of Microsoft
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Keith Mercier
General Manager of Microsoft
Entrepreneurial executive with proven talent launching, growing and operating omni-channel businesses. Expertise in driving for results, taking risks, and making bold decisions to profitably exceed strategic and financial objectives. Demonstrated skills in leadership, strategy, general management, and building successful teams. Specialties: Ecommerce, marketing, omni-channel retailing, general management, strategy, catalog, wholesale
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Steve Sullivan
Partner & General Manager, Mixed Reality Capture Studios of Microsoft
Steve Sullivan serves as a Partner and General Manager of Mixed Reality Capture Studios at Microsoft.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Aaratee Rao
Principal Group Manager of Microsoft
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Lachlan Evenson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Lachlan Evenson is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft since 2017. Lachlan Evenson is an evangelist passionate about open source projects and communities. He has presented at OpenStack Summit in Tokyo and Vancouver 2015, OpenStackSV 2015, KubeCon, Kubernetes v1 Launch and also at various community events relating to my field of experience. Lachlan is also a co-organizer of 900+ meetup group in the bay area, as well as a current member on the OpenContrail Advisory Board.
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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ash Cortez-Taylor
Technical Program Manager, Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
Ash Cortez-Taylor is passionately working with several programs to help advance the careers of underrepresented groups in tech. As a board member for HOLA, Microsoft’s Latinx and Hispanic serving employee resource group, she is working to launch a nationally connected mentorship program for Microsoft employees. She also engages with multiple internal workplace and community groups to address Diversity and Inclusion candidate outreach and hiring, and has mentored several early-career level engineers as they make their transitions to the professional tech world. Ash is currently a software engineer for the Yammer mobile product, specializing in iOS development.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stephen Wu
Program Manager2 of Microsoft
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About Looped, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Katherine Styponias
General Manager for the Media & Entertainment Group of Microsoft
General Manager for the Media & Entertainment Group at Microsoft SVP and the senior cable, entertainment & satellite equity analyst, Prudential.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Cindy Alvarez
Principal Product Manager of Microsoft
Cindy Alvarez is the director of user experience at [Yammer](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yammer#/entity), an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies, and business applications. She also serves as a faculty advisor at Alchemist Accelerator. Previously, she was a mentor for Lean LaunchPad. Alvarez holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University. She lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Tony Xing
Senior Product Manager of Microsoft
Tony Xing is a senior product manager on the Shared Data team within Microsoft’s Application and Service group. Previously, he was a senior product manager on the Skype data team within Microsoft’s Application and Service group. Tony recently gave a talk at Strata + Hadoop World in Beijing.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Beth Massi
Senior Product Marketing Manager .NET of Microsoft
Beth is the Product Marketing Manager for .NET Platform and Languages (C#, F#, VB) and a long-time community champion for .NET developers. Beth joined Microsoft in 2007 in the Visual Studio engineering group. She was the community manager for the .NET team for many years and a frequent speaker at software events. Prior to Microsoft, she was a .NET software architect, technical consultant, and Microsoft MVP.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Bruno Terkaly
Manager – Commercial Software Engineering of Microsoft
Skilled at taking established and well-known startups in Silicon Valley and bringing them to the public cloud. I engage with them mostly on the technical level, but also dive deep into company’s business models, taking into account future goals, not just current technical requirements. Also skilled at looking for additional ways for companies to leverage the cloud to grow top line revenue. My technical background includes solving deep technical challenges with open source software as well as various proprietary platforms. Skilled at writing code against the entire Azure platform in both Java and C#, and to a lesser degree, Node.js and JavaScript, and C/C++. I deeply integrate with Microsoft engineering teams to identify gaps and bridge relationships with customers and partners to fill them. Consistent engagement across all the modern challenges facing enterprises and startups – IoT, Machine Learning, Big Data, DevOps, Compute, Storage, Search, Containerization.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Meaghan Lewis
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
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Brigid Hughes
Senior Program Manager of Salesforce
Brigid received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s College of California and a Master’s Degree from the University of San Francisco. She has several years of experience in the US and Europe in operations and program management.
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About Amazon, Novo Ventures, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ceverly Strand
Product Marketing Manager of Salesforce
Cev’s experience has allowed her to become a leader who isn’t afraid to ask tough questions of those around her. She is focused on supporting team members who are just as excited and passionate about each other’s growth as their own. Her goal is to grow businesses from the inside out and foster work environments where every voice has the opportunity to be heard. Cev believes in changing traditional companies into connected companies. And this will be accomplished with Salesforce Einstein, which allows customers to make decisions faster, make employees more productive, and make customers happier using AI-powered predictions and recommendations. And, with Einstein Voice, customers can do more with the power of their voice and the intelligence of Einstein – now in pilot.
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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.
Ranjeeth Kathiresan
Senior Engineering Manager of Salesforce
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Frederik Pedersen
Finance Database Manager of Salesforce
Frederik Pedersen’s main responsibility is in the running and development of the SFDC Com & Ben sub-ledger together with a team of two based in Indianapolis and Singapore. Before joining Salesforce’s EMEA Comp & Ben Team back in Apr 2012, Fred worked in various roles in Finance, Accounting, and Payroll through his engagement with major Blue Chip companies in EMEA. Frederik’s core competencies are rooted deep in Business Application Finance Development and have numerous times been involved in large payroll data migration projects. Frederik has lived in multiple places around the world since childhood and grabs any opportunity he can to travel the world.
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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.
Frederik Pedersen
Finance Database Manager of Salesforce
Frederik Pedersen’s main responsibility is in the running and development of the SFDC Com & Ben sub-ledger together with a team of two based in Indianapolis and Singapore. Before joining Salesforce’s EMEA Comp & Ben Team back in Apr 2012, Fred worked in various roles in Finance, Accounting, and Payroll through his engagement with major Blue Chip companies in EMEA. Frederik’s core competencies are rooted deep in Business Application Finance Development and have numerous times been involved in large payroll data migration projects. Frederik has lived in multiple places around the world since childhood and grabs any opportunity he can to travel the world.
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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.
Stephen Valenta
Sr. Product Manager of Samsara
Product at Samsara. GSB ’17.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Kate Heddleston
Senior Engineering Manager of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ken Kazama
Product Operations Manager of Samsara
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Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services 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.
Tisha Bocian
Strategic Program Manager of Oracle
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About Apttus, Global Paradise LLC, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Christian Shay
Principal Product Manager of Oracle
Christian Shay is a product manager in the Database Technologies group at Oracle. As a .NET and Oracle Database on Windows evangelist, he speaks to user groups, at Microsoft events and at Oracle events worldwide.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Christopher Jones
Senior Principal Product Manager of Oracle
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Karen Ding
Revenue Partner Manager of Crunchbase
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Kiran Goraya
Customer Success Manager of Crunchbase
Kiran has been serving as Custom Success Manager at Crunchbase since April 2018.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Will Hughes
Product Manager of Crunchbase
Will N. Hughes is data-savvy product manager with experience in product development on a variety B2B, B2C, and internal-use products.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Susana Chicano
Data Project Manager of Crunchbase
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Martin Guelck
Product Manager of Crunchbase
Martin is a Product Manager at Crunchbase. Previously, he worked at Quantcast, VMware, and The Boston Consulting Group.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Shamus Noonan
Sales Manager of Crunchbase
Shamus Noonan served as Account Executive at Crunchbase from September 2016 to June 2019, since which he has been serving as its sales manager.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
JD Battles
Product Design Manager of Crunchbase
JD Battles is the Lead Designer at Crunchbase & creator of the iconic crunchbase corgi.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Monique Nguyen
Project Manager, Customer Experience of Crunchbase
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Kate Ebneter
Manager, Build and Release Engineering of ServiceNow
Kate Ebneter has been a professional build and release engineer for more than 25 years. She is currently manager of the Build and Release Engineering Team at ServiceNow.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Chris Bauschka
General Manager, AVP and Global Telecommunications Industry of ServiceNow
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Derek Nelson
Product Manager of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Lauren Oesterle
Accounting Manager of True Ventures
Lauren joined True Ventures’ finance team in 2013. She kicked off her career at Ernst & Young and then spent a number of years as an accounting consultant for Bay Area technology companies spanning social media and software. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Miami University and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder. On the weekends, Lauren spends time with her family, hikes, cooks, and plays board games. When she is not in the Bay Area, she’s usually on the farm with her extended family in the great state of Ohio.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Lauren Oesterle
Accounting Manager of True Ventures
Lauren joined True Ventures’ finance team in 2013. She kicked off her career at Ernst & Young and then spent a number of years as an accounting consultant for Bay Area technology companies spanning social media and software. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Miami University and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder. On the weekends, Lauren spends time with her family, hikes, cooks, and plays board games. When she is not in the Bay Area, she’s usually on the farm with her extended family in the great state of Ohio.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Steve Marx
Product Manager of Dropbox
Steve Marx is a Product Manager for Dropbox, helping developers make better applications with the power of Dropbox’s platform. Prior to joining Dropbox, Steve founded Webscript.io and Site44, which uses Dropbox’s API to turn Dropbox folders into websites. Previously, Steve spent 10 years at Microsoft working on developer platforms and Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure.
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Carolyn Shmunis
Marketing Manager of RingCentral
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About RingCentral, RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Arjun Krishna
Senior Staff Product Manager 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.
Madhu Punjabi
Product Manager of Pinterest
Madhu is an Entrepreneur in Residence. Madhu worked as a product manager at Pinterest, Facebook, and TellApart. Prior to that, she spent 6 years at Google in Partnerships and Finance on the Google Shopping team.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Vahid Kazemi
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Leslie Nguyen
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Clara Timpe
Talent Brand Manager of Pinterest
Clara Timpe is a talent brand manager at Pinterest.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Dmitry Kislyuk
Engineering Manager, Computer Vision of Pinterest
Dmitry Kislyuk leads Visual Search at Pinterest, where he has worked on applied computer vision and deep learning for over four years. Most recently, he led the launch of Pinterest Lens, allowing your phone camera to function as a search input to find out more about anything you see, a technology which was subsequently adopted for the Bixby AI assistant. Dmitry studied AI at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University, and his work is focused on solving practical problems in for novel visual search systems, including visual object detection, and image embeddings for fast and large-scale retrieval.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Nancy Wang
Senior Manager for EC2 Product Management of Amazon Web Services
Nancy is an experienced enterprise software product manager and VC, currently a Senior Product Management Manager at Amazon Web Services. She is a passionate advocate for diversity and is an avid supporter of women empowerment in STEM through founding Advancing Women in Product, a non-profit dedicated to providing equal opportunities in tech for men and women. She was a Trustee Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Honor Scholar.
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About Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, California Technology Ventures, Forbes, Rubrik, Rubrik: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ankur Srivastava
Sr. Business Development Manager – AWS Marketplace of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, SwarmSales, Inc.: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Sameer Kalburgi
Software Development Manager of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Aarthi Raju
Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matthew Chwastek
Senior Product Manager – AWS AI of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Oliver Cockcroft
Senior Customer Solution Manager – Outcome Driven Engineering of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Antonella Corno
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Liv Erickson
Senior Product Manager, Technical of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Justin Forth
Senior Business Development Manager – VC & PE Lead, AWS Marketplace of Amazon Web Services
Justin Forth is working as a Venture Capital & Private Equity Lead at AWS Marketplace and previously a startup partnerships manager at Amazon Web Services, working with venture-backed startups building on AWS to accelerate their growth. Previously, he was the Director of Business Development at THX Ltd. since March 2016. Prior to joining THX, he worked as director of business development at PubNative, senior manager for US business development at AppLift, and account executive at Sharp Electronics. Forth finished his Bachelor of Arts at International Relations and Political Science at the University of California in Davis.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matthieu Fuzellier
Practice Manager, IoT Data Services, Professional Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Cindy Zhou
Sr. Product Manager – Technical | AWS Marketing Analytics of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, LinkedIn: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Cindy Zhou
Sr. Product Manager – Technical | AWS Marketing Analytics of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, LinkedIn: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Megan Roth
Sr. Field Marketing Manager, Autodesk Construction Solutions of Autodesk
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Brandon Leach
Sr. Engineering Manager of Autodesk
Brandon Leach is currently working at Autodesk as a Sr. Engineering Manager.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
