Meet San Francisco's 101 Top VP's in the Mobile Space

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This list showcases the top San Francisco based VP’ operating in the Mobile 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.

Brian Grassadonia

Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square

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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.

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Nima Khajehnouri

Vice President of Engineering – Head of Monetization & Discover Engineering of Snap

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About Netseer, Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.

David Feller

VP, New Verticals of Gopuff

Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.

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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.

Sang Ahn

Vice President and General Manager, Samsung Pay of Samsung Electronics

Sang Ahn is the VP & General Manager of Samsung Pay, Inc., responsible for driving the business and operations of Samsung’s mobile wallet in the U.S. Sang Ahn has been involved in Samsung Pay from day one by leading the investment and then strategic acquisition of a proprietary technology that became the basis for Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). Today he leads teams in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City working closely with Samsung divisions in the U.S. and Korea. Sang Ahn also leads the commercialization of select Samsung services in the identity management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, and mobile browser spaces for the U.S. market. He reports to the Global SVP of Services at Samsung Electronics. Previously Sang Ahn was the Managing Director and Head of East Coast Investments for Samsung’s Global Innovation Center (GIC). GIC builds, buys, invests, and partners with innovative startups that can make a strategic impact for Samsung. At Samsung he invested in LoopPay (payments, acquired by Samsung), Automated Insights (language processing, acquired by Vista Equity) and Wevr (software and content for virtual reality). Prior to Samsung, Sang Ahn was a Principal at Dawntreader Ventures (a $300mm venture fund based in New York) where he served as a lead investor and Board Director of companies that have been acquired by leading technology companies such as Google, EMC, VeriSign, and IAC. As an entrepreneur, Sang Ahn was the founder and President of Glenkirk Advisors (technology advisory) and Founder & CEO of AhnWalker Therapeutics (novel drug development). Sang Ahn is a current Board Director of MarketFactory, an emerging financial technology company. Sang Ahn is a husband and father of two daughters and resides in Palo Alto, CA.

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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.

Steve Liu

VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics

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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.

Charles Migos

Vice President of Product Design of Unity Technologies

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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.

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.

Rob MacKethan

VP of Insurance of Zendrive

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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.

Fengmin Gong

VP and InfoSec Strategy of Didi

Fengmin Gong is a well-respected cybersecurity technologist with more than 30 years of industry experience. As head of DiDi Labs, Dr. Gong currently drives R&D innovation and strategy for safety, security and user experience on DiDi platforms, and works on developing the next generation of security tools He has held chief scientist and R&D VP roles in a variety of large security corporations, including McAfee and Symantec JV, and served as chief security content strategy officer for FireEye, where he led the development and management of the company’s security initiatives. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen startups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture, and M.S. in computer science.

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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.

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

Rob Greer

VP & GM of Broadcom

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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.

Kevin McIntire

SVP of Engineering of Remind

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About Remind: Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed.

Will Cathcart

Vice President of WhatsApp

Will Cathcart is the vice president of product management at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Prior to that, he served as a product manager at [Google](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google#/entity) from 2006 to 2010. Cathcart holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from [Colgate University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/colgate-university-hamilton#/entity). He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

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About Meta, WhatsApp: WhatsApp is a proprietary, cross-platform, free instant messaging subscription service for smartphones.

Christina Sawyer

VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts

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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.

Christina Sawyer

VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts

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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.

Christian V. Bergmann

Vice President of Partnerships of Migo

Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.

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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.

Jim Taschetta

SVP, Marketing Strategy & Planning of Visa

As a successful business executive and general manager with 25 years of experience across a combination of blue chip companies and start-ups, Jim Taschetta brings proven marketing, general management and leadership experience to organizations. Jim previously served as the CMO of Bare Escentuals, FreeMonee.com, FRS Healthy Energy and Yodlee.com. Additionally, he served in various executive positions leading brand management and marketing at The Procter & Gamble Co., The Coca- Cola Co. and Visa. Jim has extensive international experience having spent seven years living and working in Latin America while at P&G.

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About iHealth Labs, NexTag, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Oliver Jenkyn

EVP & Group Executive, North America of Visa

Oliver Jenkyn is Group Executive, North America, with responsibility for Visa’s business in the U.S. and Canada. Previously, Jenkyn was Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Visa. Before joining Visa in 2009, Jenkyn was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the San Francisco, New York, London and Toronto offices, and a leader of the firm’s North American retail banking practice and global payments practice. At McKinsey, Jenkyn led the firm’s relationship with Visa for five years, which included playing integral roles in Visa’s global restructuring and IPO. Previously, Jenkyn worked in private equity with Bain & Company. Jenkyn holds a B.A. in economics from McGill University, and master’s degrees in business and finance from Harvard University and Queen’s University. Jenkyn sits on the Board of Trustees at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Sam Hamilton

SVP, Technology of Visa

Sam Hamilton is SVP Data at Visa Inc.

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Cecilia Frew

SVP, Global Head of Visa Direct Sales of Visa

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Andrew Cohen

Vice President – Global Digital Product Marketing of Visa

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Tom Purves

Vice President, Product Architecture of Visa

Tom Purves is a Senior Director for Visa Inc. & V.me by Visa checkout product, where he is responsible for developing future of mobile and online form factors for credit and debit cards in the digital world. Previously, Tom was co-creator of Interac Email Money Transfers, used daily by millions of Canadians. Tom is also recognized as an international speaker, conference organizer and community leader in the tech/startup scene.

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About Interac, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Stephanie Ericksen

Senior Vice President, Operational Resilience of Visa

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Mike West

Vice President – Business and Government Disbursements of Visa

Mike West serves as vice president of business and government disbursements at Visa.

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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Simon Hurry

Vice President of Visa

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About Visa, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Archana Chattha

Partner and VP of Network of VSC

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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.

Greg Burrell

Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health

Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.

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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.

Eric Johnsen

VP Business Development, Consumer and Enterprise (Fractional) of Mojo Vision

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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing

Rob Hull

VP Consumer & Network Scouting, Technology, Service & Innovation of BT Global Services

Rob has been in Silicon Valley for 15 years heading up Global Scouting within BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify, qualify, then introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models into the BT Lines of Business. Notable projects include BT Sport on Chromecast, steamed gaming and fixed mobile convergence propositions. Before coming to the US, Rob worked in BT’s Group Strategy Department as well as heading up Marketing and Business Development for one of their global sales sectors, and prior to that held various sales and marketing roles. Rob has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.

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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.

Avnish Chauhan

Co-Founder, EVP, & Chief Technology Officer of Mobileum

Avnish is a co-founder of Roamware and is responsible for the company’s Roaming business, New Business Initiatives and the Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to Roamware, Avnish served as Vice President – Technology Solutions at US Interactive through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Avnish held cross-functional responsibilities helping design, build, sell and implement the Cross Roads 2001 award-winning solution across telecom service providers around the globe. Before SoftPlus, Avnish worked at Citicorp Software, where he led technology support teams for some of the projects in CitiGroup. He was also responsible for setting up and leading the Performance and Capacity Planning lab for Citicorp CEEMEA in London. Avnish has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry.

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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.

Bishal Bisht

Senior Vice President of Finance of Mobileum

Bishal Bisht is responsible for Roamware’s Accounting and Finance activities. Prior to Roamware, Bishal was at US Interactive, through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Bisht held the position of Financial Controller. Prior to SoftPlus, he served as Financial Controller at Digital Tools. He has over 18 years experience in the technology industry.

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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.

Madhavan Vasudevan

Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Mobileum

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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.

Brett Pitts

Executive Vice President, Digital Channels Group, Wells Fargo of clearXchange

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About : clearXchange is a digital payments network that allows its users to send money to anyone with a U.S. bank account.

Shawn Conly

Senior Vice President Marketing of GREE

Shawn Conly is a Vice President, Marketing at GREE.

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About GREE: Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.

Brian Levin

Co-Founder and VP of Global Sales of Swyft

Brian Levin is the Co-Founder and VP of Global Sales at Swyft

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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.

Jim Squires

VP, Business & Media of Instagram

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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.

Ted Bronstein

Vice President of Partnerships of Spin

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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.

Jay Vaishnav

Co-Founder & SVP Products of BlueStacks

Jay Vaishnav was most recently V.P. of Engineering for the Office of the CTO at Intel and has brought several Cloud-based services for consumers and large-scale Enterprise products to market. He arrived at Intel through its acquisition of Solidcore in June 2009. Jay co-founded Solidcore, where he led R&D and Product Development. Prior to Solidcore, Jay was VP of Engineering at Chingari, Inc., an web-based consumer research company. Prior to Chingari, Jay led the foundational effort at Amazon.com for their store’s product catalog. He arrived at Amazon.com through its acquisition of Junglee. At Junglee, Jay was Director of Technology and led the development of the company’s comparison shopping engine.Jay spent nearly 10 years at Tandem Computers as a key architect and technical leader for the NonStop SQL relational database management system. He began his career at ESVEL, a privately held database management startup, which was acquired by Cullinet Software.

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About BlueStacks: BlueStacks is the 2nd largest PC gaming platform in the world focused on bringing together PC gamers and the entire Android gaming library.

Mark Schulze

Co-Founder Clover, VP Business Development of Clover

Mark spent the first half of his career working for sexy consumer Internet and software products (AOL, Digital Cities, Intuit and AltaVista). The second half of his career has been dominated by unsexy enterprise companies — Mark was the first business person at Quantcast and was responsible for establishing their publisher network. He was also instrumental in helping to solidify Quantcast’s reputation in the advertising and publisher universe. More recently at Clover Network, Mark has been responsible for forging relationships with banks, credit card processors, and most importantly with developers. Cloud based, Clover is an open point of sale platform that is open to developers wanting to have tighter integration between their apps and brick and mortar customer experiences.

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About Clover, TSX Entertainment: Clover is a cloud-based open business operating system, powered by Android-based devices.

Michael Chang

SVP of Corporate Development of NCSOFT

Michael Chang is SVP Corporate Development for NCSoft West. Michael previously worked at Electronic Arts’ Corporate Development, leading EA’s acquisition / investment activity in F2P mobile and PC gaming, including the acquisitions of Bight Games (developer of The Simpsons: Tapped Out – EA’s most profitable F2P mobile game to date), KlickNation (developer of Heroes of Dragon Age), and ESN (developer of the Battlelog for Battlefield). Prior to EA, Michael worked in the venture capital and private equity industries (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, Apax Partners). He began his career in investment banking at Jefferies Broadview. Michael is also an angel investor / advisor to several private companies in mobile gaming, including Revenue Sciences, Survios, Pixelberry Studios, Omniata and Playnomics (acquired by Unity Technologies).

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About NCSOFT: NCSOFT is an online, video, and mobile game development company that develops massively multiplayer games.

Jesse Taylor

SVP, Mobile of NCSOFT

Jesse leads the mobile development team. Jesse has more than 27 years of experience in the video game industry, having held leadership positions at companies including Electronic Arts, Sega, Namco, Midway, and Glu Mobile. Most recently at Glu Mobile, Jesse was the senior vice president of game development where he oversaw operations at four studios located in Russia, China, India, and Brazil.

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About NCSOFT: NCSOFT is an online, video, and mobile game development company that develops massively multiplayer games.

Jeremy Horn

Vice President of Jam City

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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.

Jennifer Tyson

Senior Vice President of HappyCo

Jennifer (Llacera) Tyson is the Senior Vice President at HappyCo.

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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.

Chad Richard

SVP Business & Corporate Development of Yelp

Chad Richard joined Yelp as Senior Vice President, Business & Corporate Development in 2015.

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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.

Dan Kimball

SVP Marketing of Yelp

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About S-Docs Inc., Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.

Gurmeet Lamba

VP Engineering of Fetch Robotics

VP Engineering at Fetch Robotics – Autonomous Mobile Robotics. Previously COO & GM at Sentient Technologies – Artificial Intelligence (sold to Cognizant, Evolv). Also VP of Engineering at Sentient, executive engineering/product roles at Riverbed, Opnet (sold to Riverbed), Clarus Systems (sold to Opnet), head of engineering for Avaya’s Unified Communications BU, Bell Labs. Recipient of the Bell Labs President’s award). Attended IIT-Delhi (B.Tech, EE/Robotics), University of Florida (MS, EE/Robotics) and Stanford University (Executive Mgmt Program). Gurmeet is also an avid ceramics artist, and serves on the board of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation.

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About Fetch Robotics, Sentient Technologies: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.

Adrienne Horsley

VP of Content of Tapas Media

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About Tapas Media: Creator platform for “Daily Story Snacks” — bite-sized comics and novels

René Schmitz

Vice President IoT Products & Technology of Vodafone

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About Vodafone, Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.

Brian Li

VP Business Operations of Mezi

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About Mezi: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.

Dan Christman

Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell

Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.

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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.

Mitch Gaynor

Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell

Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.

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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.

Rujul Patel

VP New Business, Marketing & PMM of ironSource

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About ironSource: IronSource is a business platform enabling mobile content creators to prosper in the app economy.

Jeff Berezny

VP Marketing & Communications of Trōv

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About Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.

Alex Muresan

VP of Engineering of Foodsmart

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About Foodsmart: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.

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

Ruth Yankoupe

Vice President Customer Experience of Getaround

Ruth Yankoupe is Board of Directors at North Beach Citizens.

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About Getaround: Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.

George Thangadurai

Senior Vice President & Head of International Business of Borqs Technologies

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About Borqs Technologies, HEAL Software: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.

Eugenia Kovalenko

VP, Growth of Earnin

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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it

Kyle Jenke

SVP of Global Platform & Business Development of TSheets

Kyle Jenke is the Director, Partnerships at Facebook

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About Facebook AI, TSheets: Tsheets offers online timesheet and drag-and-drop scheduling technology that enables time tracking through a computer, mobile app, and text.

Anjali Peri

Vice President Business Development of SitterFriends

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About SitterFriends: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free

Andrew Higgins

Vice President, Marketing & GM of EMEA at Pixlee

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About Pixlee: Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.

Sebastien Taveau

VP DevX | API of Yodlee

2s read: Platform and product ecosystem executive. 5s read: A puzzle solver, a strategic thinker, a beyond-the-horizon watcher and a hands-on doer. Strongly believe in intelligent disruption, clear strategic vision and practical execution. 1min read: Sebastien’s technical and professional experience spans more than 25 years in various industries. He has shaped ecosystems and products around FinTech, mobile payment, mobile security, mobile identity and consumer solutions even when he was told it was not possible. As such, he has provided expert opinions for and has been quoted in the WSJ, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Mashable, USA Today, CNN, CBC, Forbes, Dark Reading, Digital Transactions, Newsweek, etc. on topics ranging from mobile payments to mobile identity, and consumer biometrics and security. Most recently MasterCard Chief Developer Evangelist, in that role, he launched the globally recognized program Masters of Code, one of the most successful developer engagements in the world of payment. Sebastien was Chief Technology Officer at Validity (acquired by Synaptics) with a particular focus on ecosystem strategy for its Human Interface technology. Prior to Validity, Sebastien led the Mobile Ecosystem and Technology Integration effort at PayPal. He was also a member of the exclusive eBay Inventors Club for his multiple contributions to the patent portfolio (13 granted, few more pending) as well as a 2-times recipient of the PayPalian Award.

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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Arun Anur

Senior Vice President of Yodlee

Arun Anur is the Chief Operating Officer at Envestnet | Yodlee.

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About Yodlee, Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Jeff Schulte

VP – Operations Scalability & Architecture of Yodlee

Jeff Schulte is the VP – Operations Scalability & Architecture at Yodlee.

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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Julie Solomon

SVP & Head of Sales (North America) of Yodlee

Julie Solomon is the SVP & Head of Sales (North America) at Yodlee.

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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Julie Solomon

SVP & Head of Sales (North America) of Yodlee

Julie Solomon is the SVP & Head of Sales (North America) at Yodlee.

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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Lisa Hingley

Senior Vice President, Strategic Account Management and Customer Experience of Yodlee

Lisa Hingley is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Account Management for the Americas at Envestnet | Yodlee. In this role, she leads the Account Management team in building and growing Yodlee’s financial institution and internet innovator client relationships. Lisa brings over 20 years of industry experience and client relationship management to her role. Prior to joining Envestnet | Yodlee, she was an Executive Vice President and GM at MasterCard Worldwide. She has also served in executive leadership roles at Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Boise State University and also volunteers with non-profits dedicated to women and children in need.

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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Michael Covington

VP of Product of Wandera

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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace

Chris Akhavan

SVP, Business Development, Corporate Development, & Advertising of Glu Mobile

Chris Akhavan oversees Glu’s worldwide business operations including user acquisition, marketing, advertising monetization, strategic partnerships, and international expansion. Chris brings to Glu a strong background in mobile monetization, advertising, and business development. Prior to joining Glu, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Partnerships for Tapjoy where he was a key early member of the team that built a leading mobile advertising and monetization platform. Chris was instrumental in building and scaling Tapjoy’s commercial operations globally, including establishing offices in Japan and Korea. Before joining Tapjoy, Chris held positions at RockYou!, VideoEgg and Yahoo!. Chris holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz

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About Glu Mobile: Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.

Mark Van Ryswyk

Executive Vice President of Glu Mobile

Mark Van Ryswyk is SVP at Glu Mobile. He was a former VP and General Manager at Electronic Arts.

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About Glu Mobile: Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.

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.

Nina Qi

VP, Finance & Strategy of VSCO

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About VSCO: VSCO is a creative channel that builds creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression.

Darren Hudgins

Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer

Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.

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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.

Jennifer Kyriakakis

Founder & VP Marketing of MATRIXX Software

MATRIXX Founder and Vice President of Marketing, Jennifer Kyriakakis, brings deep expertise in both telecoms and software with roles ranging from complex systems delivery to technical sales to strategic marketing. Her 20 plus years of experience helping Telcos reinvent themselves has propelled the growth of MATRIXX into markets all over the globe. In 2009, Jennifer co-founded MATRIXX Software with the vision of transforming how Telcos do in business in the digital economy. Jennifer is a Forbes contributor and is often recognized for her impact on the industry. Some of those acknowledgments include being named Women in IT Entrepreneur of the Year by Information Age, Women to Know in Mobile from Martech Executive, 2017 Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal, Gold Innovator of the Year and Silver Entrepreneur of the Year by Women World Awards and most recently a Women in Business Gold Stevie®. As a panelist and keynote speaker, she has shared her thoughts on the topics of leadership and technology at events including Mobile World Congress, Big Communications Event, TM Forum Live and Telecom Council Mobile Forum.

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About MATRIXX Software: Provider of a digital commerce platform designed to monetize 5G

Pam Gosal

VP – Worldwide Human Resources of Cloud Lending

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About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.

Chris Casey

VP, Engineering of Guidebook

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About Guidebook: Guidebook is a simple yet powerful mobile application builder that lets you create an app with no technical skills required.

Chris Casey

VP, Engineering of Guidebook

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About Guidebook: Guidebook is a simple yet powerful mobile application builder that lets you create an app with no technical skills required.

Marielle Price

VP of Construction & Customer Success of Fieldwire

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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.

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.

Albara Hakami

VP of Payments\Founding Team of Corpay One

Albara Hakami is the VP of payments and co-founder at Roger.

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About Corpay One: Corpay One is a leading company card and bill pay solution for small-and-medium-sized businesses.

Subbu Meiyappan

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of NextNav

Subbu Meiyappan is Co-Founder & VP Engineering (Hardware) at NextNav. With over 20 years of experience in design and development of complex hardware systems, Subbu was formerly a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm leading WLAN IC design teams. He also worked at Airgo Networks, Cisco Systems, Philips SemiConductors and VLSI Technology. He has 17 issued patents and several pending. Subbu holds dual Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and Tennessee Tech.

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About NextNav: NextNav operates a platform intended to offer indoor location services and applications.

John Glennon

SVP of Sales and Strategic Partnerships of Vibes

Having spent over a decade working with the industry’s largest mobile companies, John is one of the industry’s top messaging connectivity experts. John heads up sales, business development and our aggregation division Connect for Vibes. Over the last 17 years, he has run thousands of campaigns across dozens of countries, with everything from Jay Z text to screen in concert, through Frito-Lay on pack sweepstakes and just about every ringtone, video and social networking integration known to man under his belt. Outside of the office, John’s passions include coaching his son’s baseball team (not easy for a British guy!), cheering for Everton, his hometown soccer team and a love of cars after being in the auto industry before mobile, working for Mercedes and Audi.

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About Vibes: Vibes is a mobile marketing software platform.

Al Heshmati

Vice President of Systems & Software of InvenSense

Al Heshmati joined InvenSense in Dec 2012 and serves as Vice President of Systems & Software. Al has extensive commercial experience in development of location technology, motion sensing solutions, wireless, and SOC design. Prior to InvenSense, he was Vice President of Software at CSR (previously SIRF), and before that he held several engineering leadership roles at Qualcomm, SnapTrack, and Trimble Navigation. Al received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Cal State University, Fullerton. He has 20 US patents issued or pending.

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About InvenSense: InvenSense provides motion-tracking devices for consumer electronic products such as smartphones, tablets, game controllers, and others.

Nick Chavez

SVP Sales and Marketing of Nintendo

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About KFC, Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.

Eric Plam

Vice President & General Manager of Skyroam

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About Skyroam: Keeping people and things connected with fast, secure, cost-effective mobile Internet service around the globe.

Maher Hanafi

VP, Engineering of Thrive Global

Engineering executive with years of experience leading teams building world class full stack systems and native mobile applications with global reach and millions of users. Entrepreneur, Founder in Technology and Digital Marketing

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About Thrive Global: Thrive develops technology that help individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance.

Eddie Smith

Senior Vice President, Revenue of PlaceIQ

Eddie Smith, a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of expertise in data, sales and business development, is PlaceIQ’s VP of Data. Most recently, Eddie served as Head of Ads API at Twitter, where he was responsible for building a partner ecosystem that created significant value for advertisers. Previously, Eddie served as Chief Revenue Officer at Topsy Labs.

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About PlaceIQ: PlaceIQ provides location intelligence services that enable advertisers to reach mobile brand audiences for marketing activities.

Beau Lewis

Co-Founder and VP Content of GoldieBlox

Entrepreneur and Viral media expert with over 250 million earned views, an Emmy, and a free Super Bowl Ad. Producer of award-winning products (iOS app of the year, Toy of the Year) and content (Ad Age ad of the year, Best of fest Documentary). Stanford Engineer ’04. Oxford University.

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About GoldieBlox: GoldieBlox a children’s multimedia company out to show the world that girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses.

Geoff Dowd

Vice President of Design of TuneIn

Geoff Dowd is a designer, product developer and creative leader, dedicated to helping teams turn “What if?” ideas into 1.0 hits. He lives at the design intersection of hardware, software and services, believing that the holistic design effort is the toughest, but also the most rewarding. Knowing that the first step is prototyping – prototyping your idea in any way possible – Dowd has spoken and led workshops to hundreds of creative professionals and students, giving them tools to make their ideas happen. Most recently, Dowd served as Head of UX with Project Aura – a Google “bet”. His work there is secret for now. Before his time with Google, Dowd served as Director, Experience Design with Adobe. It is here that he oversaw the creation of Adobe’s Design and Drawing products – from nimble mobile apps that enable digital sampling of colors, shapes and brushes, to recharging Adobe’s flagship desktop products for the next generation of designers – including the new design and prototyping app, Adobe Experience Design CC. It is with Adobe that Dowd first discovered his love for hardware design as he led the conception, development, and launch of Adobe’s first-ever consumer electronic hardware product, Adobe Ink & Slide – real tools for drawing on the iPad.

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About TuneIn: From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.

Rahul Bindlish

VP of Sales of Grid Dynamics

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About Grid Dynamics: Grid Dynamics is a provider of in driving enterprise-level digital transformation solutions in Fortune 500 corporations.

Sameer Dixit

Vice President, Security Consulting of Spirent Communications

Sameer Dixit is a leader in cyber security with over 15 years of experience in penetration testing and security research. At Spirent, Sameer is leading the ethical hacking and security research team called Spirent Security Labs. Prior to Spirent, Sameer has worked for leading security companies such as Trustwave-SpiderLabs and Cenzic Inc. where he led the penetration testing, vulnerability scanning and managed security testing services team. Sameer has contributed research for OWASP, been quoted in various industry-leading security and business publications such as Security Week, Business Insider, ZDnet, SC Magazine, and more. Additionally, he has spoken at various Cyber Security Threat Summits, Universities, conducted webinars, and actively blogs on emerging Web & Mobile security trends.

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About Spirent Communications: Spirent Communications is a telecommunications company offering lab test solutions to evaluate the performance of the latest technologies.

Neven Haltmayer

Senior Vice President, Research and Development of Harmonic

Neven Haltmayer joined Harmonic in December of 2002 and was appointed Vice President of Research and Development in November 2005. Prior to this, Neven was Director of Engineering of Compression Systems and managed the development of Harmonic’s MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoder and Electra product lines. Prior to joining Harmonic, he held various key positions at Canal Plus Technologies, including Vice President of Engineering, and was responsible for system integration and development of STB middleware and interactive applications. Neven earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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