Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based VP’ operating in the SaaS 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.
Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Amit Ahuja
Vice President of Ecosystem Development of Adobe
Amit Ahuja is the Vice President of Ecosystem Development at Adobe where he is responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships and initiatives. Prior to this role, Amit was the Head of Emerging businesses and the GM of Adobe’s DMP business. Amit also spent 7 years in Adobe’s Corporate Development Group where he executed numerous transactions including acquisitions of Omniture, Scene7, Efficient Frontier, Demdex and Auditude. Amit joined Adobe via the acquisition of Macromedia where he was in the Corporate Development Group focusing on mobile and video. Amit began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a technology investment banker and also spent several years at a technology start up. Amit has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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About Adobe, Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Stefano Corazza
Fellow & Vice President of Adobe
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe’s Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo’s advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutions that support Mixamo. Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy. A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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About Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Marc Leibowitz
Global VP – Partnerships & Strategic Growth Initiatives of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Abhay Parasnis
CTO & EVP of Adobe
Abhay Parasnis is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems#/entity), a software company that provides digital marketing and media solutions. Previously, he was the senior vice president of the same company. Parasnis served as the president and chief operating officer of Kony before he joined Adobe. Parasnis holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adobe
Mike is anything but your typical general counsel. His distaste for acronym use and “legalese” drove him to rewrite Adobe’s contracts to plain English and develop a whole new writing style guide for the legal community. He oversees legal affairs, public policy, and compliance interests by day, but outside the office, he’s an avid blogger, writer, and adventurist. Given his love for writing, it may come as no surprise that Mike received bachelor’s degrees in communications and sociology from UC San Diego before getting his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Deepak Bharadwaj
Vice President of Product Management, Document Cloud of Adobe
Deepak Bharadwaj is the vice president and general manager of ServiceNow, where he is responsible for incubating, creating, and scaling new companies within the Employee Workflows product portfolio. He recently managed the company’s entry into the HR technology market, where he established a $200 million+ subscription revenue business in four years. Deepak was previously the VP of Product Management for Oracle’s Talent Acquisition and Talent Management products. He has also held roles of leadership in pre-sales and corporate development at Taleo, corporate strategy at SAP, and engineering at i2. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from India’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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About Adobe, Sand Hill Angels: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe, Stark Insider: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Gregory Chang
Vice President of Product of Carta
Gregory Chang is a product executive who helped lead two companies, YuMe and Zuora, to an IPO. He is currently Vice President for Product at Carta, where he oversees the core product, including cap table management and equity plan software. Greg is an angel investor focused on enterprise SaaS. His investments include Amplitude, Atrium, Ironclad, Gem, and Vanta among others. Greg is also a Sequoia scout, advisor at 8VC, Affinity and Qualia and previously served on the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council during the Obama Administration.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Christine Ngo
VP of Services, Investor Services of Carta
Christine Ngo serves as VP of investor services at Carta.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Ry Sullivan
VP Product Platform of Carta
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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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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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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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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.
Amit Vyas
Global Vice President, Inside Sales of Samsara
Amit is responsible for building and scaling a high-performance sales organization and driving all revenue growth. Known for his energy, motivating leadership style and sharp attire, Amit brings over 15 years of experience across IT, networking, direct and channel sales. Most recently, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the sales organization and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. When Amit’s not working, he can be found playing almost any competitive sport, doing Bikram yoga, riding his motorcycle, playing chess or hanging with his wife and son at Crissy Field.Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Meeten Bhavsar
SVP, Product Development of Oracle
Meeten Bhavsar is Senior Vice President, Product Development at Oracle. His key responsibilities include driving strategy, product management, and software development for the Oracle Service Cloud. In tandem, he ensures strategy alignment for the Oracle customer experience portfolio, consisting of sales, service, marketing, commerce, and social applications. A 24-year veteran of the technology industry, Meeten has been in various leadership roles at Oracle for 15 years spanning database development, cloud management systems, enterprise search, and CRM. Prior to Oracle, he was the VP of Software Development for CRM industry pioneers Broadbase Software and Kana Communications. Meeten earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from Caltech and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from UCLA. He has also been awarded over a dozen patents in the area of secure, scalable, enterprise search.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Wim Coekaerts
SVP Software Development of Oracle
Wim Coekaerts is senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle. Coekaerts is responsible for managing Oracle’s Linux and virtualization development for Oracle Cloud services, engineered systems, and software. He is a well-known developer in the open source community and serves as a board member of The Linux Foundation.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Catherine Blackmore
GVP NAA Customer Success & Renewals of Oracle
Catherine is a thought leader and innovator in the area of Customer Success, with over 20 years of experience helping a diverse list of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 clients achieve success. Prior to joining Bluenose, she served as VP of Customer Success at Badgeville responsible for the satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy of the company’s customer base. She has also held a number of senior leadership positions, including VP of Customer Success at Salesforce.com.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fadi Shamshikh
Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Georges Saab
Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group of Oracle
Georges Saab is responsible for Java Standard Edition (SE) including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. A veteran of programming language and platform development for more than 25 years, his work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java SE at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart. He also ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is also the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jon Mittelhauser
VP, Technical Architecture of Oracle
Jon Mittelhauser is the VP, Technical Architecture at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Aylin Uysal
VP of User Experience, Oracle Cloud Applications of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Maha Muzumdar
Vice President, Industry Strategy Group of Oracle
Maha Muzumdar is the Vice President, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Brendan Logan
Global VP Consulting of Oracle
Group VP at Oracle.
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Richard Bray
VP Finance and Operations of PandaDoc
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About PandaDoc: PandaDoc enables users to create, deliver, and manage their teams’ quotes, proposals, contracts, and other sales collateral.
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.
Mike McCann
VP of Government Finance Solutions of OpenGov
Mike McCann is the Vice President, Government Finance Solutions at OpenGov Inc. Before joining OpenGov, Mike served as the Finance Director of Ukiah, California, and the Assistant Finance Director of Monterey, California, where he was responsible for Budget, CAFR and operational reporting. Previously, he held CFO positions at a Silicon Valley start-up and a non-profit organization that provided federal- and state-funded job-training services. Mike has also held positions with Blue Shield of California, Wells Fargo and ADP. He holds an MS in Instructional Science and Technology from California State University Monterey Bay and a BS in Accounting from San Jose State University. He served with the U.S. Army Security Agency in Vietnam and Japan.
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About OpenGov: OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for our nation’s cities, counties, and state agencies.
Vijay Narayanan
Senior Vice President Of Engineering of ServiceNow
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Dean Robison
SVP, Global Technical Support of ServiceNow
Dean Robison is an SVP, Global Technical Support at ServiceNow . Dean brings more than 20 years of experience from Silicon Valley, including leadership roles with Salesforce, Aspect and Nortel. He spent 13 years in the SaaS (software-as-a-service) industry at Salesforce, most recently serving as senior vice president of M&A Integration. Dean splits his time between the company’s Provo, Utah, headquarters and its C9 offices in San Mateo, Calif. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 10 years.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Chris Bauschka
General Manager, AVP and Global Telecommunications Industry of ServiceNow
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Praful Shah
Senior Vice President Strategy of RingCentral
Praful Shah is responsible for defining the company’s business, product, and marketing strategy. Shah brings more than 20 years of experience with major technology companies in the software and cloud industries. Before joining RingCentral, he worked at WebEx from its founding days until its acquisition by Cisco in 2007. At WebEx, Shah held various executive management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Communications, Online Products, Product Marketing, and Business Development. Shah previously served as the Senior Director of Marketing for the database and internet products divisions at Oracle. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jeff Smits
VP, IT Infrastructure & Operations of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
David Lee
VP Platform Products of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Curtis Peterson
SVP Operations of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Keith Dennis
Regional Vice President, Enterprise West of RingCentral
Software as a Service (SaaS) sales leader with 16+ years experience rapidly building and scaling high performance teams in emerging markets. Industry specialization: Global Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service; Global Omni Channel Contact Center as a Service.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Mathew Spolin
SVP Engineering of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Andy Ellerhorst
Chief of Staff and VP of Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Lennart Lepner
VP of Finance of AppDirect
Before joining AppDirect, Lennart worked in New York as an investment banker advising financial service clients on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing transactions. Lennart holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and psychology from Amherst College. In his spare time, Lennart enjoys playing tennis and exploring the greater Bay Area with his wife.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Dave Lehman
EVP, Commercial Business Unit of Yext
Dave Lehman is the senior vice president of sales at [Campaign Monitor](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campaign-monitor#/entity). Previously, he held the same position at [Captora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/captora#/entity). Before joining Captora, Lehman was employed at [Salesforce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce#/entity), Puresense Environmental, and [Autonomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autonomy#/entity). Lehman obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit#/entity). He lives in San Mateo, California, United States.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Dave Garr
Co-Founder, SVP of Customer Experience of UserTesting
Specialties:A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, interactive marketing, market research, multivariate testing, product marketing, social networking, usability
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
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.
Henrik Ohlsson
Vice President, Data Science of C3 AI
Henrik Ohlsson is VP of data science at C3.ai. He has deep knowledge in machine learning, time series analysis, deep learning, and its applications. Henrik is also an assistant professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has both a Master of Science in electrical engineering and applied physics, and a Ph.D. in automatic control from Linkoping University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Jeff Hazard
VP Sales of Zenefits
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Colin Rogers
Vice President, Carrier Relations of Zenefits
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Rishi Mallik
VP, Growth of Workato
Rishi Mallik started his career in the consumer internet space at companies like Mozilla and Cooliris (acquired by Yahoo). Rishi transitioned into the mobile space in 2007 and joined the founding team of Qik at the age of 21. At Qik, Rishi led Business Development closing deals with 6 of the 7 top mobile handset manufactures and 3 of the 4 top US mobile carriers. He later became the Head of Product for Qik and led the development and launch of the first mobile video chat application in the US (16M users). Qik was acquired by Skype for $150M and Rishi became the Principal Program Manager of Mobile for Skype. At Skype, he led video initiatives across all platforms including the launch of Skype Video Messaging (>250M users). Skype was acquired by Microsoft for $8.5B. Rishi graduated from Stanford University where he was the VP of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students. He has three patents in the mobile space, is on the Board of Advisors for two companies, and is an avid Bhangra dancer.
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About HiFi Ventures, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
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.
Can Ozdoruk
VP Marketing of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Anant Verma
VP Engineering of Netomi
Engineering leader with expertise in software development and engineering management. I have personally managed and built many successful products that the customers love and built many happy teams on the way. I value principles such as simplicity, agility, building it right the first time and built in quality. Above all, I value individuals and how to draw on individuals’ strengths to build highly motivated, well-performing and results driven teams. I am a technology enthusiast and derive great pleasure in learning new technologies and skills. Expertise: People and technology management, Software delivery, Distributed Systems, Full-stack cloud based multi-tenant software, Data Analytics, Salesforce.com CRM and force.com platform.
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About Hired, Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Assaf Barnir
VP Customer Success of Netomi
Startups: eMeter, Zendesk, PubNub; Earlier: Amdocs, IAF, IBM
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Darren Hakeman
SVP, Strategy, Analytics & Corp Dev of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
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.
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.
Frannie Danzinger
Vice President of Strategic Business Development of Integrate
Frannie Danzinger is currently VP, Strategic Business Development for Integrate, a pioneer in demand orchestration software. Frannie works with hundreds of B2B marketing organizations to develop and scale their revenue-generating machines. Her passion is to fully understand a marketer’s business and help to build a high-impact strategy, with efficient process, data and technology, to bring the strategy to life. Having worked with smart marketers, savvy business pros and sharp technology professionals during her roles at 6sense, eXelate, a Nielsen Company and Bizo over the last five years, Frannie fell in love with MarTech. She’s experienced first-hand the power of MarTech and its ability to catapult – and hold back – marketing teams and business results. Coupled with 20+ years of agency media experience, it’s easy to get excited about the road ahead in marketing and technology. When not working with marketers, Frannie channels her personal passion to fitness. She is a Group Fitness Instructor, Boxing Trainer, Spinning Instructor and Personal Trainer. If you cannot find her at her desk, be sure to check the gym!
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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
Scott J Cooper
VP Marketing of Go1
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About Go1: GO1 allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform.
Richard Aberman
Founder & VP Product of WePay
Rich oversees the company’s product and marketing efforts. Before joining WePay, Rich briefly attended NYU Law in the Academic Scholars Program in Law and Business. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100. He is a prolific blogger and the co-curator of NextDigest Payments, a weekly newsletter about the payments industry.
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About WePay: WePay is an online payment service company that provides secure and comprehensive APIs designed for ISVs and SaaS providers.
Luke Swanek
Co-Founder & VP Sales of PartnerStack
Luke Swanek is CoFounder & VP of Sales at GrowSumo.
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About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Jeff Sheldon
Vice President of Engineering of Recurly
Jeff Sheldon is the Vice President of Engineering at [Recurly](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recurly), a SaaS-based company that offers recurring billing management solutions as an outsourced service. He has previously held engineering leadership positions at Coupa Software, Life360, StumbleUpon, EmSense, and MICROS Systems.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
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
Rolf Njor Jensen
SVP Engineering of Tradeshift
Rolf Njor Jensen is the senior vice president of engineering at [Tradeshift](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tradeshift#/entity), a global B2B platform that helps companies run more efficiently. Prior to that, he was the vice president of engineering at the same company. Jensen holds a master’s degree from Aalborg University. He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Tradeshift: Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers.
Sarah Wilson
VP, People of SmartRecruiters
Sarah Wilson is the VP, People at SmartRecruiters.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Dave Stevens
EVP Strategy of Forcepoint
Dave Stevens has been an investor, entrepreneur, and operating executive in the technology industry for more than 25 years. Dave was a co-founder of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2008. In that role, he developed the foundational vision and market entry strategy for the company’s transformative technology. Dave also served as a Venture Partner at Foundation Capital where he was responsible for investments in the communications, computing, storage and wireless sectors. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development for Brocade, where he led the company’s technology strategy, key business initiatives, M&A and investment portfolio as it focused on the evolving data center infrastructure within enterprises, cloud service providers and federal markets.Dave holds a BS, Electrical Engineering and a MS, Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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About Forcepoint, OnlineSoccerAcademy.com: Forcepoint empowers organizations to concentrate on what’s most important to them while automating routine security tasks.
Alex Limi
SVP Product of Highfive
Alex Limi is the Senior Vice President, Product at Highfive, a company that is transforming the way people work. Previously he served as the head of Firefox ux and product design strategy at Mozilla, designer at Google and co-founder of Plone. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.
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About Highfive: Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
