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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based President operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kun Gao
Co-Founder, President & COO of GGWP
Kun Gao joined GGWP as Co-Founder, President & COO.
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About Crunchyroll, GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President 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.
Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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About : Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
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.
Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs 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.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, 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.
Matt Plank
Vice-President of Sales of Rippling
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About Rippling: Rippling is a human resource management company that offers an all-in-one platform to help manage HR and IT operations.
Erika Herrera
Vice President, Early Stage Investments of WndrCo
Erika Herrera is the Vice President, Early Stage Investments at WndrCo.
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About WndrCo: WndrCo is a holding company that invests in, acquires, develops, and operates consumer technology businesses for the long term.
Octavian Tanase
Senior Vice President ONTAP of NetApp
Octavian Tanase is the Senior Vice President ONTAP (ONTAP Software and Systems Group). Previously Octavian was the GM of the Cloud Appliance – AltaVault Group, which built the fabric to enable enterprises to operate in hybrid cloud environment to send their backups and archives to the cloud. Octavian started at NetApp as the Vice President of the Data Protection engineering team who shipped world-class data protection products such as SnapMirror, MetroCluster and SnapVault. Before joining NetApp in 2010, Octavian led the Java Platform engineering group at Sun Microsystems/Oracle. He has also held various engineering roles in several start-ups in Silicon Valley.
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About NetApp, NetApp, NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Roslyn Jones
Vice President Global Education of NetApp
Roslyn B. Jones is the Vice President Global Education at NetApp.
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About Apttus, CA Technologies, HP, NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Jim Kellner
President of Artizan Internet Services
Jim Kellner served as president of insurance software provider Applied Systems, Inc. since 1997, and was CEO until September 2011. He was instrumental in building Applied Systems to an acquisition exit value of $1.8B.
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About Artizan Internet Services: Artizan Internet Services, LLC is the leading provider of web-based solutions for the insurance industry.
Manu Gulati
Senior Vice-President of Silicon Engineering of Nuvia
Manu Gulati is the SVP of Silicon Engineering at NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, Manu was the lead SoC Architect for consumer hardware at Google, playing a key role in defining the company’s silicon and product roadmaps. Before joining Google, Manu spent eight years at Apple as the lead SoC architect responsible for numerous Apple leading-edge mobile SoCs across a range of devices. Before joining Apple, nearly a decade at Broadcom holding a range of senior SoC engineering roles. Manu started his career at AMD and 8×8 and has over 58 issued patents to date. Manu holds a BSEE from I.I.T. Dehli and an MCSE from UC Irvine.
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About Nuvia: Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
Robert Potter
Vice President, Signals and Ground System Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy 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.
Trevor Cornwell
President, Government Affairs of Merit
Trevor Cornwell is Merit’s President, Government Affairs, where he is responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy for new and existing government partnerships. Cornwell previously founded the business jet reservation network Skyjet which was acquired by Bombardier, Inc., as well as founded appbackr inc., an Intel Capital Portfolio Company and winner of the PayPal X Developer Challenge. He is also the President and Co-founder of Forum280, a nonprofit public benefit corporation which hosts the Summit.Ahead event on the future of work in partnership with the Reykjavik’s Mayor’s Office. Cornwell has served in positions of responsibility for political organizations, notably as Deputy Political Director for the U.S. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee under the Chairmanship of then-Senator John F. Kerry. He also served Secretary Colin Powell and has held leadership positions with several U.S. political campaigns. Cornwell has been featured or appeared in People magazine, Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, ABC News, MSNBC, and Fox News. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Tim Bajarin
President of Creative Strategies
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About Creative Strategies: Creative Strategies is a market research and advisory company.
Edward Chapman
Vice President Business Development and Alliances of Arista Networks
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Paul Turner
Vice President Product Management vSphere of VMware
Paul Turner is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian Inc. since January 2014. Paul is responsible for marketing, product planning and strategy at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, Paul previously led the Product Strategy Office at NetApp, where he guided their investments into FlashRay, Iongrid and CacheIQ. Prior to that role, Paul was the General Manager of the OnCommand Insight Business (which included Onaro and Akorri). Under his leadership this enterprise software business grew to more than $60M and was recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Storage Resource Management market. Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle where he led Oracle’s Technology Alliances Division and their Support Engineering Team. Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and is based out of Cloudian’s Foster City, Calif. headquarters.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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About Druva, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products 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.
Mark Chuang
Vice President, Product Management, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
Mark Chuang is the VP, Product Management for VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit. His team accelerates the adoption of the software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud, by defining plans for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs. He has over 20 years of product experience across enterprise SW, personal computers, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Mark graduated with High Honors from the UC, Berkeley with a BS in EECS and has been awarded 6 US patents.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Michelle Kley
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Maxar Technologies
Michelle Kley was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of SSL MDA Holdings, Inc., in July 2016. She is based in our office in San Francisco. Ms. Kley joined SSL in January 2012, serving as Associate General Counsel, Vice President, Legal at SSL. Previous to joining SSL MDA, Ms. Kley worked as a Corporate Associate for several top-tier law firms in San Francisco, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. and Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Kley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology (with honors) from Sonoma State University and a J.D. degree from University of California Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall). Ms. Kley is admitted to practice in the State of California and District of Columbia.
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About Maxar Technologies, Virgin Galactic: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Adam Gassin
Vice President of Spectrum Equity
Adam joined the firm in 2017 and is a Vice President. Prior to joining Spectrum, Adam worked in the technology practice at McKinsey & Company. He holds BS and BA degrees, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar.
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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.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Vaikom Krishnan
Vice President, Engineering of SnapLogic
Vaikom Krishnan is the vice president of engineering at [SnapLogic](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snaplogic), an enterprise integration Platform-as-a-Service built to connect big data, cloud, and on-premise apps. Previously, he worked as the VP of engineering at Informatica Corporation. Prior to Informatica, he was chief architect and director of development at Celequest, , and before that he was the director of engineering at Asera. Earlier in his career, Krishnan was a software engineer at Sybase.
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About SnapLogic, SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Mickey Kertesz
President, CPO & Co-Founder of Karius
Kertesz co-founded Karius in 2014 to bring the pathogen detection technology he and colleagues developed at Stanford closer to the bedside. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of Moleculo, a long-reads DNA sequencing company, which was acquired by Illumina in late 2012. Dr. Kertesz earned an MS in computer science from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in computational biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He went on to complete his postdoctoral work in bioengineering at Stanford University, where he developed novel methods for investigating the genetic diversity of human viruses.
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About Karius: Karius provides genomic insights for infectious diseases to enable clinicians to make life-saving treatment decisions.
Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Andy Scurto
President of ISCS
As president, Andy Scurto is responsible for ISCS’s corporate vision and strategic direction. The founder of ISCS, his deep understanding of both insurance and IT has led to SurePower Innovation’s incorporation of uniquely rich insurance flexibility and capabilities, over its three-generation development. Andy is a rarity among company presidents in reserving significant time to work in the trenches with customers. He notes, “If I weren’t solving client business challenges, I wouldn’t be in this business.” His strategic decisions for SurePower Innovation are informed by this continued customer contact and knowledge of both the large, strategic issues and the minutiae of the insurance business learned through more than 25 years working specifically with insurance industry systems. Andy is passionate about technology and continually exploring how the newest technology developments can provide practical benefits for the insurance industry. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and publishes in industry publications. Andy received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from San Jose State University. ISCS tenure: Since founding in 1994
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About Guidewire Software, ISCS: ISCS provides software and services to the P&C insurance industry.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Chi-Foon Chan
President and co-Chief Executive Officer of Synopsys
As Synopsys’ co-CEO, Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for crafting vision and strategy, leading the company, and ensuring execution excellence in support of our customers’ success. As the company’s President and COO, a role Dr. Chan held for 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment to President and co-CEO, he guided internal operations and worldwide field organizations. Dr. Chan’s joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services where he helped build the Technical Field organization. He has sponsored several key initiatives such as entering the IP market, and personally facilitated key acquisitions such as Avant!, Virage Logic, and most recently, Magma Design Automation. Prior to Synopsys, Dr. Chan contributed to industry leading companies like NEC Corporation, where he was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University; and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
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.
Lalit Singh
President & Co-Founder of Vareto
Founder, angel investor, and former COO at Udacity and HPE.
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About Vareto: Strategic Finance Platform for finance and executive teams
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
John Doyle
Co-CEO , President & COO of Castlight Health
John leads the finance, human resources and corporate development teams. John joined Castlight after serving as chief operating officer at Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company. In that role, John managed business development, finance, information technology, and business strategy. Previously, John was vice president of finance and corporate planning at Genentech, Inc. John received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Achoagen board of directors.
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About Castlight Health: Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
Jeff Sheldon
Vice President of Engineering of Recurly
Jeff Sheldon is the Vice President of Engineering at [Recurly](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recurly), a SaaS-based company that offers recurring billing management solutions as an outsourced service. He has previously held engineering leadership positions at Coupa Software, Life360, StumbleUpon, EmSense, and MICROS Systems.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Jennifer Hwang
Vice President of ManpowerGroup
Jennifer Hwang is Vice President at ManpowerGroup.
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About ManpowerGroup: ManpowerGroup is a multinational human resource consulting firm, providing recruitment and assessment, training and development, and more.
Andrew Kalinovsky
Senior Vice President of GlobalLogic
Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Andrew Kalinovsky has played key roles in the company’s sales operations, recruitment strategies, and customer relationships. Currently as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Andrew leads M&A activities and key internal initiatives within the company to connect market and operational strategies. He also manages the CEO office — including investor and board relations — and helps drive business growth. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Andrew co-founded and served as CEO of Validio Software, a product development services company that was later acquired by GlobalLogic. During his time with Validio, Andrew developed software products for emerging web ecosystems in the e-commerce, healthcare, and telecom industries. Before Validio, Andrew founded Alis Software, where he developed software and electronic equipment (including early smartphone technology) for small businesses. Andrew holds a Master’s degree in computer science, and he enjoys combining his structured and creative talents to tackle diverse problems. Outside of the office, his pastimes include athletics, community involvement, and continuing education.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Shailaja Shankar
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security of McAfee
Shailaja K. Shankar is the Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security at McAfee.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Naman Shah
Co-Founder & President of Sentieo
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About Sentieo: Sentieo provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors.
Sergio Letelier
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel – Corporate, Securities and M&A of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sergio is Vice President of the HPE Office of the General Counsel’s Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Ventures group. In this capacity, Sergio and his team are responsible for global M&A, Corporate Compliance and Governance matters, and support to HPE’s worldwide Tax Department around corporate restructurings. Sergio has held this position since May 2013. Prior to this, he led the International Operations team of HP’s Corporate Securities and M&A legal section, ensuring oversight and management of M&A transactions in EMEA, governance matters across HP’s subsidiary structure and support to HP Tax. Sergio joined HP France’s legal department in 2002 as corporate lawyer. He subsequently joined HP’s Corporate, Securities and M&A EMEA section in 2004 and worked on a variety of M&A transactions, integrations, restructurings and governance matters before assuming the role of Corporate, Securities and M&A International Operations Director in 2008. Sergio started his career as a tax lawyer in Paris, France and founded an advisory firm specializing in tax advice to small and medium-sized businesses. He earned a Master’s and a Postgraduate degree in Law from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, a Master of Laws from the University of Cologne in Germany, and a Postgraduate degree in taxes and international financial strategy from HEC Paris. Sergio is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. He is happily married to his wife Laure and has two children, Alice and Martin.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ie University: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Satish Iyer
Vice President, Products & Strategy, Hybrid Cloud 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.
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.
Kevin Barenblat
Co-founder and President of Fast Forward
Kevin Barenblat is an experienced software entrepreneur with a passion for applying technology for good. The inspiration for Fast Forward stems from Kevin’s hope that talented people can leverage technology to create scalable solutions to some of the world’s tough problems. Prior to founding Fast Forward, Kevin was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Matrix Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. Prior to Matrix he was a Senior Director in Adobe’s Strategy and Business Development group after the social marketing company he founded, Context Optional, was acquired by the firm. Barenblat holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Context Optional, Fast Forward: The first accelerator exclusively for tech nonprofits.
Michael Wistock
VSP Market Segment Vice President of Onvoy
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About Onvoy: Onvoy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC.
Anastasia Pavlova
Vice President, Growth and Demand Generation of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Raj Bhullar
Vice President of Manufacturing, Quality & Reliability of Quanergy Systems
Raj Bhullar serves as vice president of manufacturing. Bhullar has responsibility for global manufacturing and operations activities, along with overseeing the company’s supply chain efficiencies and logistics strategies. In addition to establishing the supplier management and distribution operations for the company’s LiDAR sensors, he also manages IT. Most recently, Bhullar was the vice president of manufacturing for Ultimate Solutions Corporation where he was responsible for the management of the entire manufacturing process and engineering teams, along with the design and development of new products. He also served as director of manufacturing and operations at Vitesse Semiconductor where he organized the manufacturing process, equipment and labor to meet a 300% growth in sales. Bhullar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Technology from GND University.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
John Donnelly
Vice President Of Worldwide Sales of CloudKnox Security
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Jerry Shen
President, Head of Sales, and Co-Founder of Welcome
Jerry Shen is the Co-Founder of Welcome. He serves as its President and Head of Sales.
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About Welcome: Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Pat Patnode
President of Licensing of GE Ventures
Patrick Patnode is the President of Licensing at GE Ventures.
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About GE Ventures: GE Ventures combines capital, expertise, infrastructure, and the GE global network to help accelerate the growth of businesses.
Sureel Choksi
President & Chief Executive Officer of Vantage Data Centers
Serving as President and Chief Executive Officer, Sureel has over 19 years of experience as an executive in the Internet infrastructure industry. He is also a member of Vantage’s board of directors. Sureel was previously an Operating Executive at Silver Lake Partners, and prior to that Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Data Centers, a private-equity backed roll-up vehicle. Sureel previously held several executive roles with Level 3 Communications, including Chief Marketing Officer, President of Wholesale Markets, Executive Vice President of Services, Chief Financial Officer, Group Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer. Before Level 3, Sureel worked in venture capital at TeleSoft Partners and investment banking at Gleacher & Company. Sureel received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School with concentrations in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurial Management, and a B.A.S. from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Vantage Data Centers: Vantage Data Centers is a company that provides data center solutions.
Jennifer Orser
Vice President, Head of Marketing and Ecommerce of HELIX
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About HELIX: HELIX RE is a platform for creating and delivering digital twins for buildings.
Mark Beebe
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Abnormal Security
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Vish Bhatia
Co-Founder & President of Hotelsoft
Vish has over 18 years of experience in revenue management and hospitality investments sectors. Prior to founding Hotelsoft Inc., Vish was the Vice President of Revenue Optimization at Aston Hotels & Resorts overseeing revenue management and distribution function for 29 hotels, resorts and condominium collection properties, with over 4,500 rooms in Hawaii and mainland USA. Previously, he held leadership positions in revenue management and distribution at Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, a 30 hotel luxury chain in Asia, Morgan’s Hotel Group, Miami and The Plaza Hotel, New York, a Fairmont managed hotel. He was also instrumental in raising a $585 million fund at Everstone Capital, a $1.7 billion private equity and real estate fund. Vish served on the Revenue Management Advisory Board of HSMAI and was a member of the Chief Revenue Officer roundtable from 2011-2013. Vish holds a Masters degree from Cornell-ESSEC university and enjoys painting and golf in his spare time.
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About Alpha Revenue Strategies, Hotelsoft, The New Amsterdam Group: Software solutions and services to independent and chain scale hotels.
Blair Crump
President of Sage Group
Blair Crump joined Sage in August 2016 in the newly-created position of President, leading on sales and customer service across the Group. Blair has significant leadership experience in the technology sector, joining Sage from Texas-based profit realization company PROS Holdings, where he was Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Blair led Salesforce.com’s Global Enterprise business, reporting into CEO Marc Benioff, and prior to this spent five years at Verizon Business, where he was appointed Group President. Blair was also at MCI Communications for 23 years, before its acquisition by Verizon in 2006. Blair has a strong background in sales, customer service and driving growth. Blair holds a BSc in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Michelle Wohl
Vice President Marketing of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Ed Chuang
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Kimberly Saunders
Vice President, People and Culture of 3D Robotics
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About 3D Robotics, MycoWorks: 3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis.
Brian D. Litman
President & CEO of PlayMedia Systems, Inc.
Brian D. Litman is a media and technology entrepreneur operating out of both the United States and Europe. He is currently the CEO of PlayMedia Systems, Inc. is a principal of the stealth investment entity Qontinuum™ developing media monetization project “Qovert™ | SPON™ and the advanced digital assets project “MediumRare™”. In 1997, Litman conceived and co-founded PlayMedia® Systems, Inc., the firm that developed the core AMP® MP3 technology used in WinAmp® and the original Napster®. Facebook’s co-founder Sean Parker and his partner Sean Fanning licensed Litman’s AMP for use in the massively popular Napster client of the late 1990’s through early 2000’s until the pioneering file sharing client failed to survive a strategic bankruptcy. PlayMedia “.nap” technology was core to the Bertelsmann’s planned acquisition of the digital media sharing platform. PlayMedia’ global technology footprint pivoted and became ever-wider when they were contracted by the dominant “background music” operator (currently known as Mood Media | Muzak) to develop the first Internet-based music playback system (PlayCore). PlayMedia’s strategic relationships have also include Intel, STMicro, France Telecom|Orange and the Hughes Corporation. Litman’s career has spanned the spectrum of media, including: Radio (Bonneville Broadcasting), journalism (Knight-Ridder’s Kansas City Star), Recorded Music (CBS Records Group), Cable Television (Time, Inc. and Hearst/ABC/NBC), Digital Telephony (AT&T spin-off US West), Russian Media Development (E.C.H.O.: Entertainment & Communications Holdings Group and Digital Music (Advanced Multimedia Products, PlayMedia Systems). In 1988 Litman served as the founding Chairman of the Cable Television Committee for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys) and also sat on the Emmy Awards Committee. Along with now-Chairman and CEO of Comcast / NBC / Universal Brian Roberts, Litman also served on the Board of Directors of the California Cable Television Association, (CCTA) from June 1987 – October 1990. In 1992, Litman negotiated the first intellectual property development agreement with the Soviet KGB pursuant to new material related to the Cold War and other topics. This included the release of the critical Soviet archives on JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The archives revealed hitherto unknown degree of violent psychopathology inherent to Oswald’s character. Litman also was a media consultant in the pre and post-perestroika eras to Soviet Central Television (Ostankino Teleradio), Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Moskovski Novosti. In 1993 he formed a brief business partnership with ex-Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov to create the “Ryzhkov Group”. Ryzhkov had been head of government under Mikhail Gorbachev and was massively connected in state industrial circles. Litman holds a Patent for the “System and Method for Advertisement Sponsored Content Distribution”. Litman also has investments outside of PlayMedia in the fintech project “Bitzerland” and stealth projects in artificial intelligence/machine learning. Litman travels frequently and is usually domiciled in Europe. In the US he maintains residences in the West.
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About MediumRare™, PlayMedia Systems, Inc., Qovert Systems, Qovert Systems: Digital Audiovisual Technologies, Background Music Playback Systems
Duane Yoslov
Senior Vice President, West Coast Operations of Diversified Systems
Duane manages and oversees all project managers, engineers, and project administration for Diversified Western Operations, and is actively involved in the daily project operations for many of Diversified projects. Duane has worked in nearly every capacity of integration; as an installation technician, design engineer, project manager and technical sales representative, taking on progressively more responsibility through the years. Prior to joining Diversified, Duane worked for Sony Systems Integration for nearly fourteen years as both a contractor and full time employee. During this time, Duane has been a part of many groundbreaking projects and intricately coordinated systems.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
Anthony Cuellar
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Diversified Systems
Anthony has a passion for people, technology and the innovation the two can create. As a business leader he has spent his entire career in sales, sales management and marketing. In his leadership roles he has been responsible for developing and executing sales and marketing business initiatives to drive revenue growth at every level. In his Marketing leadership role he is responsible for all global marketing necessary to develop comprehensive marketing and sales support strategies and executable plans to grow market awareness and customer satisfaction. He and his team also manage vendor relationships for joint marketing initiatives. Experience matters and with over two decades in the AV industry Anthony has consulted and implemented many changes in broadcast, AV and IT markets. The diversity of clients like Disney, DreamWorks, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Google and Cisco, both domestic and internationally, has prepared him for the unique challenges of navigating the market dynamics for integration, collaboration and managed services on a global scale.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
Anthony Cuellar
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Diversified Systems
Anthony has a passion for people, technology and the innovation the two can create. As a business leader he has spent his entire career in sales, sales management and marketing. In his leadership roles he has been responsible for developing and executing sales and marketing business initiatives to drive revenue growth at every level. In his Marketing leadership role he is responsible for all global marketing necessary to develop comprehensive marketing and sales support strategies and executable plans to grow market awareness and customer satisfaction. He and his team also manage vendor relationships for joint marketing initiatives. Experience matters and with over two decades in the AV industry Anthony has consulted and implemented many changes in broadcast, AV and IT markets. The diversity of clients like Disney, DreamWorks, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Google and Cisco, both domestic and internationally, has prepared him for the unique challenges of navigating the market dynamics for integration, collaboration and managed services on a global scale.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
Stephanie Pinto
Vice President Operations of Noyo
Stephanie Pinto currently works as Vice President of Operations at Noyo.
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About Noyo: Modern infrastructure for health insurance
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Basheer Janjua
Founder & President of CTO Forum
Basheer Janjua is the Founder and Chairman of the CTO Forum and the CIO Council. Janjua is also the Chairman and CEO of Integnology, with practice areas focused on the Internet, Business Intelligence, Software Engineering and Enterprise Applications. Janjua is a board member at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley.
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About Calculi, CTO Forum: The CTO Forum is a non-profit organization where the world’s business and technology leaders convene in a trusted, non-commercial
Sundar Kanthadai
Co-founder & Vice President, Engg of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
Sundar Kanthadai is a Co-founder and VP of Software Engineering at Pavilion Data Systems. Sundar is the Co-founder of Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 15 years of enterprise data center and software development expertise to the company. Prior to Pavilion Data, he was a founding engineer and Director of Engineering at SeaMicro (AMD) where he led the software development of the industry leading converged appliance products SM10000 and SM15000. Prior to SeaMicro, he held key engineering positions at successful startups Aruba Wireless Networks & ONI Systems. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Trichy.
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About Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.: Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Robert Cancilla
Executive Vice President of Business Development and Global Alliances of Infinidat
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About Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Frans van Rijn
Executive Vice President of Hitachi Vantara
Frans van Rijn leads improvements to the Hitachi Data Systems integrated supply chain, working with customers, partners, and factories. He joined Hitachi Data Systems in 1990 as the director of European logistics. He assumed responsibility for Global Logistics in 1998. Before joining Hitachi Data Systems, he held various positions in IT and logistics at 3M.
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About Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Vantara: Hitachi Vantara drives data to meaningful outcomes.
Aslan Noghre-kar
Vice President of Enterprise Communities of Change Healthcare
Aslan Noghre-kar is the VP of enterprise communities at Change Healthcare.
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About Change Healthcare: Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system.
Piyush Malik
Senior Vice President of SpringML
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About SpringML: SpringML is a data analytics company that helps its customers make informed decisions through seamless machine learning integrations.
Wei Zheng
Vice President of Product and Design of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
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.
Leonid Igolnik
Vice President of Engineering of CA Technologies
Leonid Igolnik is an enterprise application specialist with wide experience in leadership and management of all aspects of the software development lifecycle across the technology organization, including software engineering, quality assurance, and cloud operations. Igolnik’s areas of expertise are the setup and refactoring of software development teams; enterprise software design; high availability applications; technology due diligence and evaluation; and software as a service (SaaS).
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About CA Technologies, ClearLaw, Sand Hill Angels: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Hope Kragh
Vice President, Health Plan Solutions of Amwell
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About Amwell: Amwell is a telehealth platform that provides its patients with more affordable, higher quality health care.
David Drummond
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Alphabet
David Drummond joined Google in 2002, initially as vice president of corporate development. Today as senior vice president and chief legal officer, he leads Google’s global teams for legal, government relations, corporate development (M&A and investment projects) and new business development (strategic partnerships and licensing opportunities). David was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nation’s leading law firms representing technology businesses. He served as Google’s first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, David worked with a wide variety of technology companies to help them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings. David earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Santa Clara University and his JD from Stanford Law School.
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About Alphabet, Google: Alphabet is a holding company that provides projects with resources, freedom, and focus to make their ideas happen.
Yiyi Miao
Senior Vice President of Products of OPSWAT
Yiyi Miao joined OPSWAT in 2009 as a Software Engineer in the company’s Research Er Development Engineering Team. Yiyi started managing the Product Engineering and Product Management teams since 2017 and is responsible for the overall product design, engineering, and delivery processes. Yiyi earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai University in China and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from San Francisco State University.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Dan Lanir
Vice President of Customer Success of OPSWAT
Dan Lanir joined OPSWAT as Director of Professional Services and Support in early 2012. Dan is responsible for developing and growing the company’s global-class technical support and professional services business. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Dan worked at Oracle for 19 years, where he held leadership positions in both services and support with responsibilities that included running complex multi-location software deployment projects, directing global support desks, and managing domestic and international customer relationships. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Engineering.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Tom Mullen
Senior Vice President of Business Development of OPSWAT
Tom Mullen joined OPSWAT in 2004 and manages the company’s OEM sales and business development activities. Tom brings expertise in negotiating transactions with and managing programs for vendors, customers and alliance partners and is responsible for growing their business line for network management, system toolkits, and compliance detection technologies. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Tom practiced law and held management positions in sales, marketing and business development at Apple Computer, CNET Networks (now CBS Interactive) and GreenBorder Technologies (now Google). Tom earned a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Stephen Tsuchiyama
Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Customer Success of FortressIQ
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About FortressIQ, Pavilion: FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI.
Nataliya Anon
CEO , Founder & President of Svitla Systems Inc.
Nataliya Anon – a Stanford Business School graduate with Ukrainian heritage, entrepreneur, leader, and strategic implementer – is the Founder and CEO of Svitla Systems. Nataliya brings to Svitla extensive international business experience, keen cross-cultural knowledge and strong interpersonal skills. Her client-centric approach and relentless dedication to the highest standards have propelled Svitla’s success in the last decade. Prior to founding Svitla in 2003, Nataliya founded and served as CEO of Lohika Systems (acquired by Altran Solutions Corp.) Before that, she held management positions at Ernst & Young as well as received private equity and venture capital experience in the US and UK, where she made investments in various emerging technologies and manufacturing companies. Nataliya was a member of the Fourth Class of Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program administered by the Committee of 200. Nataliya was also the co-founder of Ukrainian Students Association at Stanford. She holds a Masters Degree in IT and Accounting from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Svitla Systems Inc.: Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Mark Wade
President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs
Mark Wade is the Ayar Labs’ President, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder.
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About Ayar Labs: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Josh Jaffe
President, Media of Ingenio
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About Ingenio: Ingenio is a knowledge-commerce platform, connecting customers and advisors through its proprietary web and telephony technology solutions.
Tyler Krueger
Vice President of Frontier Growth
Prior to joining FTV, Tyler was an investment banking analyst at Financial Technology Partners. At FT Partners, Tyler focused on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising transactions in verticals including enterprise software, payments, alternative lending and tech-enabled services. Tyler graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University, receiving his BS in business management with an emphasis in finance.
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About Frontier Growth: Frontier Growth is a growth equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled business services companies.
Edgard Capdevielle
President & CEO of Nozomi Networks
Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data security products leaders in their space. Prior to that he was a key executive at storage companies Data Domain and EMC. Focused on developing Nozomi Networks’ global business, Edgard’s tremendous passion, energy, vision and drive-to-win is being brought to bear on guiding Nozomi Networks to its next stage of development. Edgard has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About Nozomi Networks: Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity and operational visibility solutions for industrial control systems.
Janey Hoe
Vice President of Cisco
Janey Hoe is a vice president of Cisco Investments. Previously, she held multiple product management, technical marketing, and business development leadership roles at Cisco, operating multi-billion dollar product lines as well as pioneering new products in switching, security, data center, and video collaboration. Along with her team, she was recognized as a finalist for the Pioneer Award, the highest honor for innovation at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, Janey was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Before McKinsey, Janey worked on network protocol research with MIT LCS Laboratory, AT&T Laboratories, and HP Laboratories. Her work on TCP/IP performance improvements has been widely implemented and referenced. Janey holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U.C. Berkeley and MIT respectively.
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About Cisco: Cisco Investments is a corporate venture capital arm of Cisco that offers direct and fund of funds investments.
Frederic Servais
Vice President, Product Management of Comtech Telecommunications
Fred manages the roadmap and go-to-market strategy for ILP, Comtech’s IoT Location Platform targeted specifically to the unique needs of IoT. ILP leverages a wide variety of Signals of Opportunity including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, GNSS, and available sensors, all while remaining memory, bandwidth and power efficient and platform agnostic. He has more than 20 years of wireless and telecom experience, including 18 years focused on location technologies on mobile devices.
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About Comtech Telecommunications: Comtech Telecommunications designs, develops, produces and markets innovative products, systems and services for advanced
Frederic Servais
Vice President, Product Management of Comtech Telecommunications
Fred manages the roadmap and go-to-market strategy for ILP, Comtech’s IoT Location Platform targeted specifically to the unique needs of IoT. ILP leverages a wide variety of Signals of Opportunity including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, GNSS, and available sensors, all while remaining memory, bandwidth and power efficient and platform agnostic. He has more than 20 years of wireless and telecom experience, including 18 years focused on location technologies on mobile devices.
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About Comtech Telecommunications: Comtech Telecommunications designs, develops, produces and markets innovative products, systems and services for advanced
Jim Greenwell
President & CEO of Danal
James W. Greenwell is the Advisory Board Member at Prove
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About Danal: Danal, Inc. is a provider of mobile business solutions, enabling mobile payments, mobile commerce, marketing, and mobile wallet services.
Darren Mar-Elia
Vice President Of Products of Semperis
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About Semperis: Identity-driven cyber resilience and threat mitigation platform for cross-cloud and hybrid environments.
Darren Mar-Elia
Vice President Of Products of Semperis
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About Semperis: Identity-driven cyber resilience and threat mitigation platform for cross-cloud and hybrid environments.
Michael Bolcerek
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Aristotle
Michael Bolcerek serves Aristotle as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Integrity.Prior to joining Aristotle, Michael Bolcerek served as President of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA).Michael Bolcerek was also spokesperson for the PPA and appeared on CNN, CBS, CSPAN, CNBC and Fox. Michael Bolcerek has over 20 years of management experience in the tech industry with both large companies and startup firms. Michael Bolcerek has held top positions such as President, COO and CFO for companies such as Oracle, NeXT Computer, Nokia Display Products, MongoMusic and Liquid Audio. Prior to the PPA Michael Bolcerek was the co-founder and head executive of BionTTech, a homeland security start-up company.Michael Bolcerek is a graduate of Brown University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.
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About Aristotle: Aristotle is a political data-management software company that specializes in data-mining voter data for political campaigns.
Paul C. Julian
Executive Vice President and Group President of McKesson
Paul C. Julian is executive vice president and group president of McKesson Corporation. He has senior operating responsibility for McKesson’s domestic and international Distribution Solutions businesses, including pharmaceutical distribution, medical-surgical distribution, specialty health and retail pharmacy systems and automation. During his tenure as president of McKesson Pharmaceutical, the company’s largest operating business, McKesson re-gained its position as the largest North American pharmaceutical distributor, rising from the third largest to become the largest wholesaler over a three-year period. Julian oversaw the largest operations and technology upgrade in McKesson’s history, and spearheaded widespread company adoption of Six Sigma. Today, McKesson is often cited for its U.S. corporate productivity leadership. Additionally, he has helped bring new capabilities into the McKesson portfolio including acquisitions in specialty/oncology, pharmaceutical packaging, pharmaceutical and medical-surgical distribution, informatics and in medical products e-commerce. Julian has led many of McKesson’s progressive moves in recent years, including the development of the company’s Health Mart independent retail pharmacy franchise network. He also led the company’s creation of the TogetherRx and Rx Savings Access prescription drug discount cards, both innovative efforts to help seniors save money on their prescription medicines. After joining McKesson in 1996 as executive vice president of McKesson Health Systems, the company’s distribution business for hospitals, Julian went on to become president of McKesson’s medical-surgical business. From 1997-2000, he oversaw a 50 percent increase in medical-surgical distribution revenues and a doubling of operating profit. Also during that time, McKesson signed an unprecedented 20-year distribution agreement with Premier Provider Select for its non-acute care business. Julian became president of McKesson’s distribution, retail automation, pharmacy outsourcing and services for payers in 2000. A highlight of the period to follow was the 2003 decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to move its pharmaceutical distribution business away from another distributor to McKesson. In 2004, Julian was named to his current position as group president of the corporation. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions in health care companies, notably Owens & Minor and Stuart Medical, Inc. Within five years, he rose from Stuart Medical, Inc. sales manager to group vice president and chief operating officer. Julian serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW). He previously served as chairman of the board for the IFPW and the Healthcare Distribution Management Association. He is a 1978 graduate of Salem State College in Massachusetts, where he earned a B.S. degree
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Wendy Brauner
Senior Vice President of Marketing of McKesson
Wendy Brauner serves as senior vice president of marketing at McKesson.
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Jorge L. Figueredo
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of McKesson
Jorge L. Figueredo is Executive Vice President of Human Resources of McKesson Corporation. The responsibilities of this position include talent acquisition, training and organizational development, compensation and benefits, diversity, community relations, and corporate communications and branding. Prior to joining McKesson, Figueredo served as senior vice president of human resources at Dow Jones Inc., where he helped transform human resources into a strategic business function. He also played a leadership role in managing Dow Jones’ merger with News Corp. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Figueredo spent 22 years at Liz Claiborne, and concluded his tenure there as president of Liz Claiborne’s international division. Recognized as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine in 2004, Figueredo holds a B.A. from Fairfield University and an M.B.A from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Jorge L. Figueredo
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of McKesson
Jorge L. Figueredo is Executive Vice President of Human Resources of McKesson Corporation. The responsibilities of this position include talent acquisition, training and organizational development, compensation and benefits, diversity, community relations, and corporate communications and branding. Prior to joining McKesson, Figueredo served as senior vice president of human resources at Dow Jones Inc., where he helped transform human resources into a strategic business function. He also played a leadership role in managing Dow Jones’ merger with News Corp. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Figueredo spent 22 years at Liz Claiborne, and concluded his tenure there as president of Liz Claiborne’s international division. Recognized as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine in 2004, Figueredo holds a B.A. from Fairfield University and an M.B.A from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
