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This list showcases the top San Francisco based Manager operating in the Information Technology 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.
Ryan Tong
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances of Zoom
Ryan Tong is working as the Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances of Zoom.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
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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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Andrew Manoske
Principal Product Manager – Cryptography and Security Products of HashiCorp
Andy is an experienced product leader whose career bridges across infrastructure technology and venture capital. At HashiCorp he manages product development for Vault, HashiCorp’s secrets management and cryptography suite. Previously he led the design and development of OTX (Open Threat Exchange), the world’s largest open-source threat intelligence network, at AlienVault and managed cryptography and product security at NetApp as the youngest product manager in the company’s history. He also formerly served on the investment teams of Amplify Partners as well as Shanghai/Sand Hill Road-based GGV Capital. Andy holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from San Jose State University.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Tom Komuro
Sr Manager of NTT Communications
Tom is in charge of making good relationships with startups to do business globally with strength of both of startups and NTT Communications. In order to achieve it, Tom facilitates the startups’ business. Currently, Tom focuses on emerging technologies like SD-WAN, AI, Robotics, Healthcare, IoT (Smart home, Connected Car), AR/VR.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
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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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
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.
Jordan Baucke
Senior Manager of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ali Adabi
AI Manager of Accenture
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About Accenture, University of California, Santa Cruz: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jeff Brandt
Manager, Digital Architecture, Healthcare & IoT of Accenture
Jeff Brandt is the Sailboat Captain at Conscience VC.
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About Accenture, Conscience VC, Conscience VC: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Jane Wasson
Product Marketing Manager Dell Security of Dell
Jane Wasson is a product marketing manager at Dell focusing on mobile and email security products and solutions. Prior to Dell, Jane worked in product management and marketing roles for a number of next -gen technologies including broadband networking, media servers and digital home solutions. Jane is a UC Davis Alumni with a degree in Physics.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Sanmeet Jasuja
Product Strategy and Operations Manager of VMware
Sanmeet Jasuja is the Product Marketing Manager for vSphere in the Cloud Platform Business Unit.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Manish Bhuptani
Head of Operations & Chief of Staff to General Manager, Cloud Subscription Business of VMware
Manish Bhuptani is a Director, Cloud Programs and Alliances at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nisha Rai
Product Manager of VMware
Nisha Rai is a product manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
John Gilmartin
General Manager and Vice President, Integrated Systems of VMware
John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anant Kumar
Product Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Eric Brown
Open Source Engineering Manager of VMware
Eric is a Staff Open Source Engineer at VMware where he has been solidly contributing to open source the last four years. He has 20 years experience in the software development industry. The bulk of his experience has been with security, protocols, configuration and systems management. Much of his time at VMware has been working on OpenStack as part of the VMware Integrated OpenStack product. But he now leads a team within the Open Source Technology Center focusing on open source contributions to security related projects.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Geetika Jain
Product Manager of VMware
Geetika Jain is a Product Manager with the vSAN Product Management Team. She is responsible for product analytics for vSAN.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nolan Karpinski
Senior Product Manager of VMware
Nolan Karpinski is a Product Manager at Immutable Systems, focusing on server immutability. He is responsible for bringing Immutable Systems’s Server Guard product to market. Immutable Systems was founded with a big goal: To deliver enterprise grade security controls without impacting the speed and agility of the self-service cloud. Prior to Immutable Sytems, Nolan worked on the Advanced Malware Protection team at Cisco. Nolan has an engineering degree from Tufts University.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Dan Florea
Product Line Manager of VMware
Dan Florea, Director of Product Management at Tintri, is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran. He has worked in VMware and Cisco before joining Tintri to spearhead the efforts on OpenStack and Cloud. He received an MBA from University of Pennsylvania – Wharton business school and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Stacy Ozorio
Product Marketing Manager of VMware
Stacy works in hyper-converged infrastructure product marketing and the cloud provider platform at VMware, with a focus on digital marketing of service providers operating in public and private cloud market segments.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christophe Briguet
Product Line Manager ML/Data Science of VMware
Christophe has over 17 years of experience using security information to build cyber security services and products for enterprises. As CTO and Product Manager at various companies, he has led design and product definition of world-class security monitoring solutions, including SIEM (Security Information & Event Management), compliance and log management products. His personal mantra is “Good design can change the world.” Christophe has also founded two French security start-ups, Exaprobe (acquired by Devoteam in 2007) and Exaprotect (acquired by LogLogic / Tibco Software in 2009).
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tej Cheema
Social Media Marketing Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Maya Shiran
Product Line Marketing Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rajiv Thakkar
Senior Product Marketing Manager of VMware
Rajiv Thakkar serves as a senior product marketing manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Cloud Product Line Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Iris Avidan
Staff Engineering Program Manager of VMware
Iris Avidan is part of the Ecosystem Services team at VMware. She manages the Networking and Security NSX Partner program that enables technology partners integrate their solutions with the VMware NSX platform.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Karthik Narayan
Senior Product Line Manager of VMware
Karthik Narayan is a senior product line manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Chaudhary
Product Line Manager of VMware
Sanjay Chaudhary is a Product Line Manager in the Cloud Management Business Unit. Prior to VMware, he worked on IT Operations products at HP.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Susan Wu
Senior Product Marketing Manager of VMware
Susan is the Director of Technical Marketing at Midokura. Susan previously led product positions for Oracle/Sun, Citrix, AMD and Docker. She is a frequent speaker for industry conferences like OSCON, OpenStack Summit, Container World, All Things Open, Linuxcon/CloudOpen/Containercon, Interzone, Data360/Cloudcon and Data Storage Innovation. Honored by the Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW) organization as one of the Top Women in Cloud for 2013, Susan is passionate about advancing womens’ contribution to the cloud industry and serves on the Board of Directors for CloudNOW.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sushil Suvarna
Product Line Manager, vSphere Hybrid Cloud of VMware
Sushil is a Product Line Manager at VMware focusing on hybrid management solutions for vSphere. Prior to VMware, Sushil was at Riverbed Technologies Systems delivering application and network performance solutions as part of the SteelCentral product line. Sushil holds a Masters of Science degree from North Carolina State University.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Meng Chow
Staff Program Manager of VMware
Meng Chow is the Staff Program Manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Angela Ge
Product Line Manager of VMware
Angela Ge is a product line manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Shaw Zhang
Product Line Manager – vRealize Operations of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Boskey Savla
Technical Product Line Marketing Manager, Modern Apps of VMware
Boskey Savla is Product Marketing Manager at VMware focusing on Cloud Native Applications, she has 15 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Automation and Dev-ops.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nabil Quadri
Product Line Manager of VMware
Nabil Quadri is a product line manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Gurusimran Khalsa
Senior Technical Marketing Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Samuel Kommu
Technical Product Manager of VMware
Samuel Kommu serves as a technical product manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Michael Roy
Product Line Manager of VMware
Michael Roy is a product line manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Samuel Kommu
Technical Product Manager of VMware
Samuel Kommu serves as a technical product manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Boskey Savla
Technical Product Line Marketing Manager, Modern Apps of VMware
Boskey Savla is Product Marketing Manager at VMware focusing on Cloud Native Applications, she has 15 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Automation and Dev-ops.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Gurusimran Khalsa
Senior Technical Marketing Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Pashmeen Mistry
Senior Product Line Manager of VMware
Pashmeen leads the overall strategy and direction for the product. His focus is on developing solutions that help address customer challenges with the goal to provide a delightful end-user experience. He has an established track record of taking products from conception to launch to scale. Prior to VMware, he was heading two product lines at BlueJeans Network, a leading video conferencing startup. He also has a passion for teaching & is an instructor at ‘The Product School’.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Kathy Yager
Manager Investor Services of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Dorothy Lee
Tax Manager of Spectrum Equity
Dorothy joined Spectrum as Tax Senior in June 2005. She focuses on tax compliance and planning. Prior to joining Spectrum, she was with Deloitte & Touche in San Francisco and has experience in the real estate, venture capital and private equity industries.
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Manoj Gandhi
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group at Synopsys of Synopsys
Manoj Gandhi joined Synopsys with the company’s merger with Viewlogic in December 1997. In his current position, Mr. Gandhi and his organization are responsible for Synopsys’ verification solutions, including simulation, testbench automation, hybrid formal verification, and system level design. Mr. Gandhi has over 15 years of HDL simulation and verification experience having begun his EDA career at Gateway Design Automation in 1986. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Licinio Sousa
Sr Staff Product Marketing Manager of Synopsys
Licinio Sousa joined Synopsys in 2009 and is currently a Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Synopsys responsible for its DesignWare MIPI and Mobile Storage IP Solutions. Mr. Sousa brings more than 14 years of experience in Semiconductor, IP and EDA companies focusing on software and hardware design. He has also held various R&D and application consultant positions at Synopsys. Mr. Sousa holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Porto in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA from Porto Business School.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Brett van Zuiden
Product Manager of Outschool
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About Outschool: Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Blaine Kaho`onei
Sr. Business Development Manager of Heroku
Blaine Kaho`onei A technology professional with 12 plus years experience around Internet, Mobile, CRM, Cloud and Social Enterprise Technologies. Blaine has worked with CRM as one of the first customers of salesforce.com. An avid user and worked for one of the first partners of salesforce.com to offer mobile CRM on a handheld device (AvantGo). Then he was recruited to work in direct sales for 3 years before helping launch the AppExchange ISV community playing a variety of front and back-of-house roles.
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About Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Prakash Chockalingam
Product Manager of Databricks
Prakash is currently a Product Manager at Databricks. Prior to joining Databricks, he was building the personalization infrastructure at Netflix.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Kartik Mathur
Engineering Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Randy Meyer
Vice President and General Manager, Mission Critical Systems of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jihong Kim
Senior Manager of Samsung Ventures
Jihong Kim is a Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America. He joined SVA in 2012 and focuses on mobile, digital media, software and services companies. His most recent exits include Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo). Prior to joining Samsung Ventures, Jihong worked at a global long short equity fund as a research analyst (SFG), in investment banking (HSBC, JMP) as well as in management consulting (PwC). He started his career as a software engineer at Lucent Technologies and had also worked as an early member of start-ups at nDosa and CommASIC (acquired by Freescale). Jihong received an MBA as well as B.S. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Samsung Ventures, Samsung Ventures America: Samsung Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up companies.
Rachel Wang
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Geoff Smith
Manager of GE Ventures
Geoff Smith is the Director & Customer Technical Support at Cepheid.
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About Cepheid, GE Ventures: GE Ventures combines capital, expertise, infrastructure, and the GE global network to help accelerate the growth of businesses.
Neil Patel
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Tanium
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Belle Lee
Korea Country Manager of Cambly
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About Cambly: On-demand access to English tutors over video chat.
Clement Tam
Recruiting and HR Manager of Ditto
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About Ditto: Ditto licenses virtual try-on and frame recommendation technology to the world’s best eyewear retailers.
Radhika Krishnan
Chief Product Officer and General Manager of Hitachi Vantara
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About Hitachi Vantara: Hitachi Vantara drives data to meaningful outcomes.
Elad Ferber
Vice President and General Manager of ZOLL Medical Corporation
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About ZOLL Medical Corporation: ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions.
Elise Brownell
Manager of The Angels’ Forum
Elise Brownell, PhD. has spent the last 32 years in the bio/pharmaceutical arena where she has played key roles in Discovery, Development and Opportunity Assessment to drive innovation. After completing her doctorate, Elise’s career started at SUNY Stony Brook where she made discoveries relating to genetic evolution in the great apes. She continued her interest in comparative molecular biology during her tenure at Frederick Cancer Research Facility where she discovered a gene that is a human counterpart to a gene which, in some lower animal species, can become highly cancerous. Elise expanded her facility with molecular genetics while in various functions at Bayer Healthcare. She played a pivotal role in directing discovery research in the areas of asthma, allergy, and immunology and continued her dedication to innovation by managing extramural collaborations for Bayer’s Biotechnology unit. Her efforts were widely recognized by promotion to Director, Project Management, where she led global cross-functional teams to bring several of Bayer’s biopharmaceuticals from bench to clinic. Her award winning performance at Bayer was followed by becoming a member of the founding team of a venture-backed spin out (Aerovance, Inc), where she became head of project management. During her tenure as Senior Director, Aerovance garnered over $ 60 MUSD, completed six clinical trials in 3.5 years, and built a right-sized matrixed organization. In 2008, she co-founded ZephyrBiotech, LLC, a consulting practice that provides project leadership, management and planning to entrepreneurial life science companies, especially those that are early-stage, venture-backed entities. She is also the publisher of ZephyrScope, a weekly report that distills global investment activity in the life sciences into actionable information. Under her guidance, ZephyrBiotech has completed assignments both domestically and internationally. Elise serves as committee Chair for several organizations including VC Task Force, Women in Consulting and Women in Bio (San Francisco Chapter). She is a highly regarded mentor/advisor for entrepreneurial programs conducted through Astia, UC Berkeley BPlan and the NCI/SBIR Investor Forum. Elise received her MS, MPhil and PhD from Yale University, and her BS from Allegheny College. She is particularly proud of her Preparatory Diploma from Eastman School of Music in piano.
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About The Angels’ Forum: The Angels’ Forum is a hybrid venture/angel firm that invests in Software, Technology, and Life Sciences.
Elise Brownell
Manager of The Angels’ Forum
Elise Brownell, PhD. has spent the last 32 years in the bio/pharmaceutical arena where she has played key roles in Discovery, Development and Opportunity Assessment to drive innovation. After completing her doctorate, Elise’s career started at SUNY Stony Brook where she made discoveries relating to genetic evolution in the great apes. She continued her interest in comparative molecular biology during her tenure at Frederick Cancer Research Facility where she discovered a gene that is a human counterpart to a gene which, in some lower animal species, can become highly cancerous. Elise expanded her facility with molecular genetics while in various functions at Bayer Healthcare. She played a pivotal role in directing discovery research in the areas of asthma, allergy, and immunology and continued her dedication to innovation by managing extramural collaborations for Bayer’s Biotechnology unit. Her efforts were widely recognized by promotion to Director, Project Management, where she led global cross-functional teams to bring several of Bayer’s biopharmaceuticals from bench to clinic. Her award winning performance at Bayer was followed by becoming a member of the founding team of a venture-backed spin out (Aerovance, Inc), where she became head of project management. During her tenure as Senior Director, Aerovance garnered over $ 60 MUSD, completed six clinical trials in 3.5 years, and built a right-sized matrixed organization. In 2008, she co-founded ZephyrBiotech, LLC, a consulting practice that provides project leadership, management and planning to entrepreneurial life science companies, especially those that are early-stage, venture-backed entities. She is also the publisher of ZephyrScope, a weekly report that distills global investment activity in the life sciences into actionable information. Under her guidance, ZephyrBiotech has completed assignments both domestically and internationally. Elise serves as committee Chair for several organizations including VC Task Force, Women in Consulting and Women in Bio (San Francisco Chapter). She is a highly regarded mentor/advisor for entrepreneurial programs conducted through Astia, UC Berkeley BPlan and the NCI/SBIR Investor Forum. Elise received her MS, MPhil and PhD from Yale University, and her BS from Allegheny College. She is particularly proud of her Preparatory Diploma from Eastman School of Music in piano.
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About The Angels’ Forum: The Angels’ Forum is a hybrid venture/angel firm that invests in Software, Technology, and Life Sciences.
Cyril Dorsaz
Principal Product Manager of Porsche Digital
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About Porsche Digital: Porsche Digital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG and serves as its digital competence center.
Ryan Pei
Principal Product Manager of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Ganesh Walavalkar
Technical Product Manager of L&T Infotech
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About L&T Infotech: LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 250 clients succeed in a converging world.
Elena Elkina
Sr. Manager, Global Privacy Office of McKesson
Elena Elkina is Sr. Manager, Global Privacy Office at McKesson.
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About McKesson, Women in Security and Privacy (WISP): McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Dolly Wu
Vice President & General Manager, Datacenter/Cloud of Inspur Group
Dolly Wu is the VP/GM of Inspur Datacenter/Cloud Division, in charge of USA and Canada Markets for Inspur. Dolly has over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry working with Data Centers, CSPs, Direct End Customers (in Financial Services, Internet/Cloud, Life Sciences, and Media/Entertainment), VAR/SI, OEMs, Government and Education Customers with focus on AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, HPC and Storage Market.
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About Inspur Group: Inspur Group supplies computer platforms and solutions for various IT applications in China.
Shanna Nasiri
Fund Manager of The Nasiri Foundation
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About The Nasiri Foundation: The Nasiri Foundation supports innovative non-profit organizations by leveraging technology platforms to alleviate global social problems.
Rajesh Venkatasubbu
Product Manager & Consulting Architect of Agile 3 Solutions
Rajesh Venkatasubbu is a Product Manager and Consulting Architect at Agile 3 Solutions.
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About Agile 3 Solutions: Agile 3 Solutions builds products to aid clients in transforming their business operations.
CJ Miller
Marketing Manager of Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP
– Marketing Manager for Fastmetrics, since 2008. – Strong focus on inbound marketing campaigns with proven ROI. – YOY growth to leads, sales and revenue, attributed to marketing campaigns under my leadership. – Main competitors are two of the largest com
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About Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP: Specialist building & business ISP. Dedicated Ethernet, managed fiber, direct cloud connect, hosted voice, WiFi & network service solutions.
Dimitri Perret
Marketing Manager of Vade Secure
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About Vade Secure: Vade Secure offers an email filtering service against phishing, malware, spear phishing, and spam.
Karthik Srinivasan
Corporate Application Engineer Manager, Analog & Mixed Signal of ANSYS
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About ANSYS: ANSYS develops engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will behave and how manufacturing processes will operate.
Jennifer M Wang
Data Analytics Manager of Cape Analytics
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About Cape Analytics: Cape Analytics provides AI and analytics services for properties.
Sharath Beedu
General Manager, Elevate Products of Elevate Services
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About Elevate Services: Elevate Services is a law company that offers consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms.
Gillian Clowes
Senior Product Manager of SocialChorus
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About SocialChorus: SocialChorus is the workforce communication platform that transforms the digital workplace to mobilize the enterprise.
Daniel Ben Yosef
Solutions Engineering Manager of Alooma
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About Alooma: Alooma is a real-time data pipeline as a service that allows the integration of any data source like databases, applications, and any API.
Anne Wilks
Account Manager of MightyHive
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About MightyHive: MightyHive is a programmatic solutions provider that simplifies complicated programmatic media buying for advertising organizations.
Alanna Iverson
Account Manager of MightyHive
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About MightyHive: MightyHive is a programmatic solutions provider that simplifies complicated programmatic media buying for advertising organizations.
Renzo Traverso
Marketing Manager of MBF Global Inc.
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About MBF Global Inc.: MBF (formerly Mobile BigFoot) is a Wireless as a Service (WaaS) company that provides FREE Wi-Fi connectivity
David Brown
Operations Manager, USA of Upwire
Accomplished professional with a successful entrepreneurial background establishing, launching, growing and running businesses and brands. Experienced transaction lawyer with a demonstrated history of working on complex corporate transactions at top tier firms in Sydney and London. Degrees in Business and Law (Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
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About Upwire: Global cloud communications platform with a drag and drop interface.
John Kenney
Director & Principal Researcher/Senior Research Manager of Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Dr. John Kenney is Director of networking research and a Principal Researcher at the Toyota InfoTechnology Center in Mountain View, California. He represents Toyota in international standards organizations and industry research consortia, including SAE, IEEE, ETSI and the Car2Car Communications Consortium. He also represents Toyota in DSRC Spectrum Sharing discussions with the US Government and the Wi-Fi industry. His research focuses on DSRC performance, congestion control, and standardization. Prior to his work with Toyota, John was a member of the Tellabs Research Center and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has graduate degrees from Stanford and Notre Dame.
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About Toyota InfoTechnology Center: Find and create information technology discoveries and business models for toyota.
Mark Schaeffer
Sr. Principle Security Architect & Security Operations Manager of Infinera
Mark Schaeffer is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Security Solutions for the Synergy IoT Platform Business Division at Renesas Electronics Inc. With more than 20 years of experience in the security space, Mark has worked with applications for financial transactions, identity, anti-counterfeiting of equipment and peripherals, medical devices, machine-to-machine security/IoT, web security, border security, and secure computing. He has led global teams of engineers in both enterprise and startups and is well versed at multiple levels in security. Mark has spoken at numerous industry events, produced several security conferences, and written many security-related papers and documents. He is also active in standards, public policy, and lobbying within the Cybersecurity practice.
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About Infinera: Infinera Corporation provides optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the United States.
Jay Gill
Principal Cloud Marketing Manager of Infinera
Jay Gill is a principal manager at Infinera responsible for marketing strategy and development in cloud networking and open optical networks. Prior to Infinera, he was at Cisco for over 10 years in a variety of positions focused on growing Cisco’s service provider business, from strategy and product management to strategic customer engagements. Earlier in his career, Jay worked in engineering and product development at several service providers including both incumbents and startups. Jay holds a BSEE and MSEE from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
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About Infinera: Infinera Corporation provides optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the United States.
David W Roudebush
Executive Vice President & General Manager of Oxygen Finance
David Roudebush joined Oxygen Finance Americas as its Senior Vice President of Sales for North and South America in November 2012. David is a 25-year Sales and General Management executive with a successful track record delivering innovative go-to-market strategies and explosive revenue production. His past roles included positions as Vice President of Sales and Services for Peregrine Systems (sold to HP), Business Resource Group and Promisec. David also served as COO of Planet Associates. David served in the US Navy for 5-years and brings a career that spans all aspects of discipline, business consulting, sales, marketing and general management.
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About Oxygen Finance: Oxygen Finance brings innovation to early payment solutions, generating a new source of income for companies
Maritza Quintanilla
Strategic Account Manager of iTalent Digital
Maritza has more than 15 years of experience working in the high-tech industry at companies such as Cisco and Network Appliance. Her expertise and passion lie in business process re-engineering, where her ability to streamline processes and design systems, tools and automation has resulted in dramatic improvements in accuracy, productivity and customer satisfaction. Maritza has participated in a broad scope of business and IT projects providing exposure to numerous processes, applications and technologies. Her background in various customer service environments allows her to implement scalable solutions that benefit both customers and internal users. She has implemented numerous automation, online service, Internet commerce and technical support solutions in addition to implementing and driving major enhancements to CRM and ERP systems. Maritza holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and Spanish from UC Santa Barbara.
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About iTalent Digital: iTalent Digital is an innovative global woman- and minority-owned SaaS software products company and digital transformation consultancy.
Roman Smolgovsky
Solutions Architect, Sr. Engineering Manager of Satori
Roman Smolgovsky is a Solutions Architect at Satori, a division of MZ, building smart city solutions. Prior to Satori, Roman was a Director of Product Innovation at Kaazing Corporation, the inventors of WebSockets technology. There, his role was to work with the developers and customers to rapidly adopt the technologies, increase the product value, and minimize the time from initial engagement to full production deployment. Prior to Kaazing, Roman was Vice President of Engineering and Operations at ShowEvidence, a startup that provides a SaaS solution to educational institutions to allow their students a more holistic grading experience. Roman also led the creation and deployment of a flight tracking system used by the U.S. Secret Service and Federal Air Marshals post-9/11 subsequently extending the offering to track land-based objects that is used by a number of law enforcement agencies and fire departments across the country.
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About Satori: Satori is a fully managed platform-as-a-service that lets you connect, process and react to streaming live data.
Marcela Miranda Schlaepfer
Senior Product Manager of Cortex
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About Cortex: Cortex Intelligence is a data analytics platform for marketing and sales which allows clients to produce the simplest analysis on demand.
Elizabeth Scott
Social Media Marketing Manager of YI Technology
Social Media Marketing Manager at YI Technology.
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About Startup Drugz, YI Technology: YI is the leading provider of advanced video, imaging and computer vision technologies.
Anand Mazumdar
Tech Lead Manager of Citadel Services, LLC
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About Citadel Services, LLC: Security consulting firm
