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This list showcases the top San Francisco based VP’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Sriram Krishnan
SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships of HeadSpin
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
Maksim Ovsyannikov
EVP, Products and Design of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Denise Stokowski
VP Solutions, Product Management and Security of Gainsight
Denise leads all things related to creating solutions in the field with our customers. She believes in partnership with her customers and delivering expertise that leads to successful deployment of Gainsight’s solution.Denise has been implementing business software applications for over 20 years and built and led services teams at Marketo, Right90, and Epiphany.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Ciara Peter
VP Product, Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Ciara is best known for bringing consumer grade experiences to enterprise products at scale. As VP of Product at Gainsight, she leads vision and strategy for Gainsight PX, the Product Experience platform focused on delivering insights, enabling data driven in-app customer engagement, and instantly evaluating ROI of product investments. Prior to Gainsight, Ciara held Product & Design leadership positions at InVision, Box, BetterWorks, and Salesforce. She lives in downtown San Francisco with her Maine Coon cat, Wesley.
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About Gainsight, Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Mike Berger
VP, Product Marketing of Gainsight
Mike Berger is the VP of product marketing at Gainsight.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Greg Schott
EVP, Emerging API Initiatives of Salesforce
Greg Schott is the EVP of Emerging API Initiatives at Salesforce. Prior to that, Greg served as the chairman and CEO of MuleSoft Inc. He holds an MBA degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BS in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.
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About Salesforce, Spring: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Elizabeth Pinkham
EVP, Global Real Estate of Salesforce
Elizabeth Pinkham is the EVP, Global Real Estate at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Clarence So
EVP of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Adam Gilberd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales of Salesforce
Adam is Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce. In his eight years at the company, Gilberd has served in a variety of sales leadership roles, across multiple customer segments in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jessica Ross
EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer of Salesforce
Jessica Ross is the EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Bill Patterson
EVP & GM, CRM Applications of Salesforce
Bill Patterson is an EVP and General Manager, CRM Applications at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lynne Zaledonis
Executive Vice President, Industry Marketing of Salesforce
Lynne is a former Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce who helps drive product marketing and sales enablement for Sales Cloud, the world’s leading sales app.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robin Glinton
SVP & Data Intelligence of Salesforce
Robin Glinton is the SVP & Data Intelligence at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Thimaya Subaiya
SVP, Marketing & Operations of Salesforce
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About Cisco, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mike Rosenbaum
EVP Product of Salesforce
Mike Rosenbaum is the CEO at Guidewire Software.
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About Guidewire Software, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Theresa Ludvigson
Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection of Salesforce
Theresa Ludvigson is the Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection at Salesforce.
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About Chief, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sarah Patterson
SVP, Product Marketing & Strategy of Salesforce
Sarah Patterson leads the messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategy for Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and EMEA product marketing at Salesforce. Since joining Salesforce in 2008, Sarah has worked on several major initiatives including SMB product marketing and helping to launch Chatter. She started running Service Cloud Product Marketing in 2013, and took over responsibility for Sales Cloud and EMEA product marketing in 2018. Sarah brings more than 15 years of experience in IT consulting, M&A finance, research, and marketing to Salesforce and has held a variety of positions at McKinsey & Co., Broadview International, and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. Sarah holds a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, an MBA from Stanford
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Emma Chalwin
EVP & Global Field Marketing of Salesforce
Emma Chalwin is the Executive Vice President & Global Field Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ernest Ng
VP, Global ES Strategy and People Analytics of Salesforce
VP, Global ES Strategy and People Analytics at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, University of Southern California: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Raj Vemulapalli
Executive Vice President, Software Engineering of Salesforce
Senior Technology Executive with experience in leading and building award winning Consumer/Enterprise products and with expertise in IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Data Science, Search, Mobile, Large Scale, High Performing, Fault-Tolerant, Reliable Distributed systems, and Saas/PaaS * Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Search, Analytics, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning and Scalable Distributed Storage Systems at Salesforce.com * Led and built Mobile products and platforms that process $3.5+ Billions in transactions per year * Head of Engineering and one of the Co-Founders of Yahoo! Real Time Communications groups and the most used products in the world including Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Mobile Messaging, Yahoo! Real Time Notification Platform, Y! Voice and Video, Yahoo! IM Integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google Talk and Microsoft, and open APIs * Advisor at Salesforce Ventures and Limited Partner at Morado Ventures * Architected and built complex multi-tier distributed and scalable systems that handle 300+ million active users and deliver 300+ billion real time messages per month with 99.99% up-time * Filed 9 patents and published 3 papers in distributed systems, communications and social networking * Board of Director, Technology, Product and Strategic Advisor at technology startups * Experience in due diligence, acquisition and integration of companies to help accelerate the roadmap * Judge for TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 held in San Francisco (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/techcrunch-disrupt-hackathon-details/) * Company’s spokesperson for products. Widely interviewed and quoted in media, magazines and blogs * Won prestigious awards at Salesforce and Yahoo! Specialties: * Consumer Internet * Enterprise * Internet of Things (IoT) * Big Data and Analytics * Data Science and Machine Learning * SaaS/PaaS * Mobile * Search * Cloud computing * Large scale systems – Scalability and Reliability * Real Time Platforms
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About Morado Ventures, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kylie Fuentes
Vice President, Product of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Marco Casalaina
SVP Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Marco S. Casalaina is VP Product Management of Salesforce Einstein. His mission is to make complex products usable, and is currently focused on bringing the benefits of artificial intelligence to everyone. Marco is an expert in cloud computing, with years of experience bringing the power of the cloud to artificial intelligence, call center and unified communications applications. He was previously VP of Applications at RingCentral, where he ran RingCentral’s contact center and collaboration business units. Prior to that he was VP Products at machine learning startup KXEN, which was acquired by SAP AG in 2013. This is Marco’s second stint at Salesforce – during his first term at Salesforce, from 2005 to 2010, he was one of the original developers of the Service Cloud product and then its product manager. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Eric Loeb
Executive Vice President of Salesforce
Eric Loeb joined Salesforce as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs in July 2018. He was previously Senior Vice President, International External and Regulatory Affairs for AT&T, where he supported AT&T’s international external and regulatory affairs team, which is responsible for advocacy to international departments of the US government, and all branches of government outside the US, including executive, legislative and regulatory agencies, and for international external affairs affecting AT&T and its Affiliates.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert Amezaga
Vice President Product Marketing of Salesforce
Robert Amezaga is the Vice President Product Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jashojit Roy
Vice President, Innovation Consulting, Office of Innovation of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joel Martin
Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech of Salesforce
Joel Martin is the Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lars Hofhansl
Principal Architect, VP of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Nasi Jazayeri
EVP/GM – Next Generation Platform of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christian Posse
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning of Salesforce
Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Katrina Wong
VP Product Marketing & Demand Generation of Segment
Katrina Wong is currently the Head of Marketing for Stitch. Prior to Stitch, Katrina was a marketing strategist for SAP Ventures and VP of Marketing / head of marketing / corporate marketing for venture-backed Cloud / SaaS, B2B and Enterprise start-ups. Specifically, Katrina has helped Seed and Series A companies launch new products and Series B SaaS companies with a proven SMB product move into the Enterprise market. Katrina has also helped Series B and C SaaS companies enter new markets in Europe and vice versa. For Enterprise software companies, Katrina has created new market categories (or market entry) for strategic business units — either newly acquired start-ups and/or other existing business units in hyper growth.
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About Segment, Stitch: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Albert Strasheim
VP of Engineering of Segment
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
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.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Aswin Shibu
VP of Sales of MixRank
VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.
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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation
Rahul Jain
Founder & VP Business Development of Pendo
Rahul Jain is Founder & Biz Dev at Pendo.io.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Justin Bauer
SVP, Product of Amplitude
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Santosh Sharan
VP of Growth & Strategy of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Diarmuid Russell
SVP of Finance & Business Operations of Tubular Labs
Diarmuid Russell is the SVP, Finance & Business Operations at Tubular Labs. He is a former head of international at Glassdoor, a career marketplace that helps people search for jobs and companies recruit suitable individuals. Prior to that, he was the senior vice president and general manager for partner services at the same company. Russell is a skilled digital media executive with more than 10 years of experience in consumer internet businesses in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Before joining Glassdoor, he served as the vice president and general manager for consumer business at GlobalEnglish. Previously, he was employed at BBC Worldwide, where he advised on the acquisition of[Lonely Planet and subsequently became the commercial director for its digital division. He has also worked at Expedia and Marakon Associates Russell holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of St. Andrews and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Tubular Labs: Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Aaron Williams
VP Marketing of Civis Analytics
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About Civis Analytics: Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
Assaf Baciu
SVP of Products & co-founder of Persado
Assaf Baciu is the SVP of Products and co-founder of Persado. He was the Vice President of Product Management at Upstream before that. Assaf is responsible for driving the development of Upstream’s next-generation mobile marketing solutions and identifying new markets for expansion. Prior to joining Upstream, Assaf worked for speech and imaging solutions supplier Nuance Communications as a senior director of product strategy where he was responsible for developing on-demand and mobile solutions. Assaf joined Nuance from BeVocal, following its acquisition in 2007, where he led product management and developed innovative multi-channel mobile strategies and solutions. Assaf holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and he has a Masters in Social Psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Jason Finkelstein
SVP Global Marketing of NextRoll
Jason is SVP Global Marketing at AdRoll, a division of NextRoll. He advises Traitify, Disconnect and Swellbox. He was formerly Chief Revenue Officer at Traitify and before that Chief Marketing Officer at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), who was acquired by Avast Software in 2016 for $1.3B. Before AVG, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Location Labs which AVG acquired in 2014 for $220M. Prior to Location Labs, Jason served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Funambol, Vindigo and Millennium Technology Ventures. Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.
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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Raj Gossain
SVP Product of Alation
Raj Gossain is Vice President of Products at ClearSlide, Inc. since December 2014. Previously, Raj was Vice President of Products for Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group (CCATG) and was responsible for product strategy, planning and execution for Cisco’s cloud collaboration applications portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Raj was Vice President of Product Marketing for Yahoo!’s Communications and Communities properties. Raj earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Jad Naous
VP of Engineering & Product of Imply
Jad Naous is the VP of Engineering & Product at 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.
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.
Ralph Lafferty
VP & Head of Commercial Business of Orbital Insight
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering of Databricks
Patrick Wendell is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Databricks.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Nadim Hossain
VP, Product Management of Databricks
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
James White
VP Sales of Sentieo
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About Sentieo: Sentieo provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors.
Barbara Massa
Executive Vice President & Chief of Business Operations of FireEye
Barbara is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and oversees the global human resource organization at FireEye. Before FireEye, Barbara was Vice President of Global Talent and Diversity at McAfee. She brings over 22 years of experience in high tech from roles at EMC, Documentum, and Cadence Design Systems. Barbara has led teams that delivered record numbers attracting and hiring top talent in high growth organizations. She is a recognized thought leader on global talent strategy and expansion. During her tenure at McAfee, Barbara helped found the first Women in Security affinity group. Barbara is also the recipient of YWCA’s Silicon Valley TWIN award for outstanding executive leadership.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Jason Martin
EVP, Research & Engineering of FireEye
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About FireEye, Permiso Security: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Peter Bailey
Executive Vice President of FireEye
Executive Vice President at FireEye, Inc.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Alexa King
EVP, General Counsel and Secretary of FireEye
Heading up the FireEye legal team, Alexa is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. Before FireEye, Alexa was Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Aruba Networks, Inc., a provider of enterprise wireless networks. Her early career included working at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Fenwick & West. Additionally, Alexa served as founding director of Pathbrite, Inc. (formerly known as RippleSend, Inc.) from 2008 to 2009 and as advisor from 2009 to 2011. Alexa graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Eastern European Studies and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Malaikannan Sankarasubbu
VP, AI Research of Saama
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Jake Engwerda
SVP Global Sales & Partnerships of LISNR
Jacob Engwerda is the SVP Global Sales & Partnerships at LISNR.
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About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Sylvain Gil
Co-founder & VP Product Strategy of Exabeam
Sylvain brings 20 years of experience in building, deploying and supporting information security products for large and medium enterprises. Previously, Sylvain held senior-level roles at Imperva where he led product management and product marketing for application security, as well as Imperva’s worldwide customer support and professional services organization. Sylvain also led North American technical support and services for Solsoft (acquired by LogLogic). Sylvain has a software engineering degree from the Leonard de Vinci school of Melun, France.
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About Exabeam: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
John H. Mack
EVP, Marketing of Opera Solutions
John Mack serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for Zementis, and is responsible for all strategic and operational aspects of the marketing function. In his role, he strives to help Zementis’ customers and business partners understand the full range of capabilities that Zementis technologies offer, successfully integrate these technologies into their businesses and generate the maximum possible value from accelerated, dynamic predictive analytics capabilities. John also oversees strategic business development relationships with Zementis’ channel and technology partners and supports joint go-to-market efforts in collaboration with them. John brings to Zementis many years of technology industry experience, as an industry advisor, business practitioner and investor. His technology domain experience encompasses big data analytics, enterprise networking solutions, cloud computing, mobility and “The Internet of Things”. Prior to starting with Zementis, John was a Partner (Managing Director) in Accenture’s Management Consulting organization, where he was responsible for managing the firm’s consulting relationships with several key technology-sector clients, shaping and driving initiatives to help them achieve their business objectives. Earlier in his postgraduate career, John worked in Accenture’s strategy consulting organization, focusing on corporate strategy, M&A and business operations initiatives for the wireless industry, and then expanding that scope over time to encompass the broader high-technology sector. His prior professional experience spans management consulting (Aptos LLC, The Parthenon Group, Deloitte Consulting), investment banking (Morgan Stanley), corporate roles at Honeywell Aerospace and Cisco Systems and military leadership roles as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. John earned his MBA from Duke University and his BA in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College. He is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Chris Le Breton
SVP, Strategic Initiatives of Jobvite
Chris Le Breton is SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Jobvite. He studied at University College London and after graduation worked at Deutsche Bank. He was Co-founder & CEO of RolePoint, a Talent Acquisition platform founded in the Bay Area, focused on Internal Mobility and Employee Referral solutions, prior to its acquisition by Jobvite.
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About Jobvite, RolePoint: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Shun Chen
Vice President, Products of Conviva
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Bill Burns
Chief Trust Officer and VP, Cloud Business Transformation Strategy of Informatica
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About Informatica, RSA Conference: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Graeme Thompson
SVP & Chief Information Officer of Informatica
Graeme Thompson is the SVP & Chief Information Officer at Informatica.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Sally Taylor Shoff
Scores Vice President of FICO
Sally Taylor-Shoff is Scores Vice President, responsible for product management, marketing, analytic and software development, and analytic delivery for global syndicated FICO score products. Sally joined FICO (aka Fair Isaac) in 1987 as a data scientist, developing application scorecards for the consumer credit and utility industries. Subsequently she was the original product manager for the FICO Score product line, driving product launch and marketplace adoption including achieving endorsements for usage in the Mortgage industry. Sally has served FICO in other capacities including managing and growing the Marketing automation product line through both acquisition and new product development, and developing a new channel and business model by launching the FICO Analytic Cloud Marketplace. Sally holds a B.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Vidhya Ranganathan
VP of Engineering of MOJIO
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Joel Jewitt
VP of Strategic Partnerships of LiveRamp
Joel runs strategic partnerships for LiveRamp. He was previously co-founder and VP Business Development of Motorola/Good Technology Inc, and prior to that was EVP of Encompass. Joel was also co-founder of Adaptive Media and was the fourth member in the founding team of Palm Computing. Joel holds a B.A. in Physics from Amherst College and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Scott Ronay
VP – Publisher Business Development of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Noel McMichael
SVP Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Kent Hall
VP of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Kaitie Coghlan
VP, Data Partnerships of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Kaitie Coghlan
VP, Data Partnerships of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Min-Hank Ho
VP, Product Development of Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Dominik Facher
VP Product & Engineering of Chorus.ai
Dominik leads Product, Design and Engineering at Chorus.ai, a conversation intelligence company for sales teams. Previously, Dominik was a co-founder at Emplido (acq. by Experteer) and a consultant with Bain & Company’s technology practice. Dominik holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and Technical University of Munich and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Chorus.ai, Emplido: Chorus.ai is an AI conversation intelligence cloud platform for sales team that can transform conversations into data and insights.
Michael Guglielmi
Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development of Webscale
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About Webscale: Webscale is a multi-cloud SaaS tool that provides access to technology enabling e-commerce businesses to automate their processes.
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.
Stephani Martin
VP People of Affinity
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About Affinity: Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM.
Corey Burke
VP Engineering of Dialpad
Corey is a software engineer at Switch, and also the lead cat herder of the company — just ask his cat Skittles. Previously, he was a lead test architect for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft and helped develop the networking stack for the underlying real-time operating system. Corey holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology where he created an early version of the Amazing Race there involving deciphering clues from obscure Simpsons episodes. When not churning out high-quality code and listening to house music, Corey is an avid outdoors enthusiast and gamer, so try to avoid him on ski slopes and Halo alike.
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Jim Palmer
VP AI Engineering of Dialpad
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
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.
Myha Trieu
SVP, People & Operations of ShareThis
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About ShareThis: ShareThis has unlocked the power of global digital behavior by synthesizing social share, interest, and intent data since 2007
Cliel Schachter
VP, Technology of Upsight
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About Upsight: Upsight is a mobile analytics & marketing platform, handling 1000s of apps & 500+ billion data points monthly.
Jason Cook
VP Sales & Customer Successs of SafeGraph
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About SafeGraph: SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI.
Hendrik Bartel
SVP, Strategy of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Nitin Mathur
SVP Worldwide Services, Customer Support & IT of Xactly
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About Xactly: Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensation software.
Leanne Bernhardt
Chief Human Resource Officer and VP Human Resources of Xactly
A 15-year industry veteran coming from Brocade, Leanne will support Xactly’s rapid worldwide growth and continued focus on employee engagement.
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About Xactly: Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensation software.
Sami Akbay
Founder & EVP of Striim
Sami Akbay is a founder of Striim. Prior to Striim, he served as the CEO of Altibase, Inc. – an in-memory RDBMS company with customers in financial services, utilities, and telecommunications. Sami was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for GoldenGate Software from 2004 through its acquisition by Oracle. Prior to GoldenGate, he served in senior product marketing and business development roles at Embarcadero and AltoWeb. He spent his earlier career in technical and consulting roles working at Rabobank Nederlands, Hearst New Media, American Stock Exchange, MediaMetrix, OneMain.com (Earthlink), and ALK Associates. He is a graduate of Rutgers University.
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About Striim: Striim is an enterprise-grade streaming data integration and operational intelligence platform.
Alok Pareek
Founder & EVP Products of Striim
Alok Pareek is a founder of Striim (formerly WebAction), and head of product strategy and development. Prior to Striim, Alok served as Vice President at Oracle in the Server Technologies development organization where he had overall responsibility for product strategy, management, and vision for data integration, and data replication products. Alok also led the engineering and performance teams that collaborated on architecture, solutions, and future product functionality with global strategic customers. Alok was the Vice President of Technology at GoldenGate where he led the technology vision and strategy from 2004 through its acquisition by Oracle in 2009. He started his career as an engineer in Oracle’s kernel development team where he worked on redo generation, recovery, and high-speed data movement for over 10 years. He has multiple patents, has published several papers, and has presented at numerous academic and industry conferences. Alok holds a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Striim: Striim is an enterprise-grade streaming data integration and operational intelligence platform.
Kady Srinivasan
SVP Global Head of Marketing of Klaviyo
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About Klaviyo: Klaviyo is a marketing automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses.
Rutika Muchhala
VP, Technical Solutions, Customer Success & Product Strategy of Aible
SaaS go-to-market executive & venture-funded CEO with 10 years of experience growing revenue & scaling operations for startups, rapidly growing & large enterprises. Delivered multi-million dollar revenue by taking 13 first of their kind products to market, from vision to strategy, product, go-to-market, enterprise sales & operations. Built & managed 7 cross-functional teams including remote & globally distributed ones. Consulted for McKinsey, backed by Y Combinator, received a Harvard MBA & two EE degrees from IIT Bombay.
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About Aible, Scribe: Aible enables business people to create Real World AI that delivers measurable business impact in a way that’s simple, fast, and secure.
Amod Setlur
Co-Founder & VP of Products of Auryc
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About Auryc: Auryc’s visual intelligence platform empowers organizations to create exceptional customer journeys and increase revenue.
Karen Steele
Senior Vice President Marketing of Near
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About Alloy, Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Atakan Cetinsoy
Vice President – Predictive Applications of BigML
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About BigML: BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Murali Basavaiah
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Avi Networks
With over 20 years of expertise in Distributed Systems, Networking, and Storage, Murali was most recently the Vice President of Software Engineering for the Data Center group at Cisco, having joined through the acquisition of Andiamo. Prior to Cisco and Adiamo, Murali was an Architect at Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel), where he led the architecture for the innovative Shasta Broadband IP Services Platform – a distributed multi-subscriber services platform. Murali has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Arizona State University, a certificate from the Stanford Executive Program, and over 20 patents to date.
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About Avi Networks: Avi Networks drives automation and intelligence across multi-cloud environments with intent-based application services.
Drew Paroski
VP of Engineering of SingleStore
Drew oversees engineering development and operations at MemSQL. He previously served as architect and engineering manager, leading development of the new native SQL compilation architecture in MemSQL 5. Before MemSQL, Drew worked at Facebook where he co-founded HHVM, a JIT compiler for PHP used by a number of popular web properties including Facebook, Wikipedia, and Baidu. Drew holds a bachelor’s and master’s in Computer Science from State University of New York at Binghamton.
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About SingleStore: SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications.
Angela Moseyko
VP of Informatics Engineering of Talix
Angela Moseyko is VP of Informatics Engineering at Talix.
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About Healthline Media, Talix: Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
Tim England
VP of Product Engineering of Talix
Tim England is VP of Product Engineering at Talix.
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About Talix: Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
Derek Gordon
SVP of Sales & Marketing & Customer Success of Talix
Derek Gordon is the Interim CMO at Density.
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About Density, Talix: Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
