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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Advisor operating in the Software space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Danny Winokur
Executive Advisor of Adobe
Danny Winokur is the Executive Advisor of Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Travis Campbell
Principal Enterprise Value Advisor of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Omoju Miller
Technical Advisor to the CEO of GitHub
Omoju Miller is the Technical Advisor to the CEO at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Greg Lazarus
GTM Advisor of Initialized Capital
Greg has 10+ years as an operator at high-growth startups in SF and NYC. Most recently Greg was the Chief Revenue Officer at Returnly where he built the GTM function from the ground up and helped increase the company valuation 12x over the 3 years he was there. Prior to Returnly, Greg was one of the first employees at Optimizely where he built the SMB, MM, and Corporate sales teams on both the West and East Coast. During his time at Optimizely he helped revenue grow from $3 to $70 million.
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About Initialized Capital, Lathrop Consulting Group, Polychrome: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
David Rust
Co-Founder & Advisor of Lively
David is a seasoned operator who helped scale Lyft from 25 to 1,600 employees and an $11B+ valuation. He launched Lyft’s first markets across the US and translated these learnings into the company’s national expansion playbook. David then went on to build and lead Lyft’s internal strategy team, reporting to Lyft’s COO. This team was responsible for leading high-priority strategic initiatives, from Lyft’s partnership with General Motors to its first self-driving car implementations. Prior to Lyft, David led market expansion and local marketing for one of the early pioneers in the car sharing industry, Wheelz, which was acquired by RelayRides (not Turo). David graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Engineering and was named as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2017.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
David Jeske
Board Advisor of Asana
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About : Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Claudia Galvan
Technical Advisor of Microsoft
Claudia Galván is a strategic and technical leader who has led global product development at Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft reaching billions of people around the world where she has built global teams from the ground-up. In the last few years, she has focused on helping startups in Silicon Valley launch products internationally.
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About : Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Harish Kashyap
AI Developer Advisory Board Member of Microsoft
Harish Kashyap has a Masters from Northeastern University, Boston in Electrical Engineering. He received the Graduate Student Award, a research scholarship as a part of which he worked at the BBN Technologies in the area of Bayesian Machine Learning algorithms as applied to Speech Recognition. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Signal Processing and Software development. He has several publications and patents filed in the areas of ML. He has led various Data Analytics projects across US and Europe that led to organizational savings of $8M+. He has built out the curriculum for Machine Learning training platform, refactored.ai which is now part of SUNY Buffalo’s graduate ML course. He is currently the founder of Mysuru Consulting Group (MCG.ai) and Diagram.AI where he works on ML algorithms.
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About : Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jennifer Marie Stevens
Technical Advisor of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lisa Lee
Chief Security Advisor/Global Lead – Innovation in Vertical Industries for SCI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lauren Holland
WW Partner Marketing Advisor of Microsoft
Lauren Holland is a Partner Marketing Advisor in Worldwide OCP dedicated to driving Go-To-Market strategies with select global channel partners. Her current mission is to guide partners to differentiate with innovative “better together” solutions and launch offers in market in the GTM “fast lane.” With 7+ years in the technology industry and Microsoft partner ecosystem, Lauren has built and implemented global programs for accelerated growth and scale. Her experience spans across Microsoft’s three clouds- Modern Workplace, Azure, and Dynamics- with disciplines including Go-To-Market strategy, enablement, integrated digital, content, and creative ideation. Lauren is from Corona del Mar, CA, graduated from Duke University, and is currently working with global indirect provider partners around the world.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Matt Winkler
Group Engineering Manager, Azure Customer Advisory Team of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Siddharth Muzumdar
CIO Advisory Senior Director of Salesforce
“Business oriented technology leader. Extensive experience leading global cross-functional initiatives on multi-million dollar projects. Broad experience in Life Sciences, Financial Services and Publishing domains with organizations such as Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pearson, Citibank, and Fannie Mae. Experienced in envisioning and implementing customer facing and enterprise solutions using Mobile, Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Big Data and Data Warehousing.
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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.
Yuval Ariav
Founder and Advisor of Fundbox
Yuval Ariav is a financial technology and data science entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience operating large, complex, cross-geo operations in both startup and corporate environments. He is currently a General Partner at LionBird Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in digital health and digital business services. Yuval is the Founder of Fundbox, one of the most successful Fintech startups to emerge in recent years, and was the head of its operations office in Tel Aviv. Before Fundbox, Yuval was a founding team member and Director of Product at Onavo, a mobile analytics company acquired by Facebook. Yuval is a Professor at Columbia Business School in New York City.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Micah Avni
Advisor & Board Members of Fundbox
Micah Avni is Advisors & Board Members at Fundbox.
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About : Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Ron Bekkerman
Advisor & Board Members of Fundbox
Ron joined Carmel in October 2012 as Chief Data OfficerRon brings over 12 years of experience in Big Data and intelligent software applications At Carmel, Ron takes part in the investment process while focusing on data-driven technologies, performing technical due diligence, and consulting Carmel’s portfolio companies on Big Data related strategic initiatives Ron served as a Senior Research Scientist at LinkedIn, where he was responsible for data analytics that affect LinkedIn’s product and marketing strategyPrior to that, Ron worked in R&D positions at large high-tech companies, including HP and Motorola
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About Cherre: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Andrew Mametz
Sr. Advisory Solution Consultant of ServiceNow
Andrew joined Peak 10 in November of 2002. He is responsible for the structure and process improvement of Peak 10’s managed services. Prior to Peak 10, Andrew was a lead engineer for the Cisco Technical Assistance Center with a focus on Cisco’s full line of security products. He has extensive hands-on experience with network design, analysis, implementation and troubleshooting. He holds certifications in Microsoft (MCSE) and Cisco (CCNP). In addition to that, he has applicable knowledge of various other hardware and operating systems such as: Netscreen, Array, Linux, Dell, HP, and AdTran. Andrew earned his BS in Communications from the State University of New York College at Oneonta.
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About Cisco, Flexential, Peak 10 Data Center Solutions, Peak 10 Data Center Solutions, ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
Jan Uddenfeldt
Senior Advisor of Sony
Jan Uddenfeldt joined the board of GLO AB in 2012. He is one of the inventors and industry drivers for wireless GSM as well as 3G and 4G mobile broadband technology. He is currently Senior Advisor to the Corporate Executive Officer of R&D at Sony Corporation. During 2010-2012 he was Chief Technology Officer at Sony Mobile Communications (previously Sony Ericsson) based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held various roles at Ericsson in Stockholm where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for many years. From 1990 – 2008, he was responsible for taking several mobile communication technologies such as GSM and 3G from early research stage into commercial success. In 2008 in his position as Senior Advisor to the CEO of Ericsson, he relocated to Silicon Valley to drive Internet network strategies. He is engaged on several boards and advisory boards of startup companies in Silicon Valley as well as the non-profits boards e.g., Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Uddenfeldt got his MSc and PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE and member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in Sweden. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes for his achievements e.g., the German Edward Rhein Foundation Technology Prize, the Swedish Grand KTH Prize, and the Gold Medal from Royal Engineering Sciences.
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About Ericsson: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Noah Shanok
Advisor of Rev.com
Noah is furthering the movement to bring personalized, on-demand, quality, and always-current audio content to listeners everywhere. He was the founding VP of Sales for StubHub, an online ticket market- place that sold to eBay in January 2007. Noah also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a fixed-income trader at JP Morgan Chase & Co. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Skidmore College. In his spare time, Noah enjoys youth mentoring, mountain biking, skiing, golf (even though he is terrible!) and things that go fast.
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About : Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Josh Puckett
Advisor of Framer
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About : Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web.
David Bauer
Board Advisor of Digital Asset
Dave is a Managing Partner at Sand Hill East, a firm that specializes in strategic advice for technology companies. He has also served as first VP and Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for Merrill Lynch, in addition to Global Head of Engineering at Deutsche Bank, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Internet Services for Morgan Stanley, and Director of Computer Security Technology for Bell Communications Research. Prior to Sand Hill East, Dave held numerous executive positions at Asurion in Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing and Seoul.
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About : Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Barbara Siverts
HR & Process Advisor of ASANA TECHNOLOGY (ISRAEL) LTD
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About ASANA TECHNOLOGY (ISRAEL) LTD: An Israeli automotive software company, founded by a team of Cisco and BMW veterans to provide an operating system for the smart-car.
Huyen Bui
Advisory and IT Transformation Consultant of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, Houston Health Ventures: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Michael Dobe
Senior Consultant, Advisory Services of Amazon Web Services
Michael Dobe is working as a Senior Consultant, Advisory Services since 2016, June for the past 4 years.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
April Reeve
Advisory Consultant of Dell EMC
April Reeve has spent the last 25 years working as an enterprise architect and program manager. Currently she is working for EMC Consulting as an Advisory Consultant in the Enterprise Information Management practice. April is an expert in multiple Data Management disciplines including Data Integration, Big Data, Data Conversion, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and Data Governance.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
April Reeve
Advisory Consultant of Dell EMC
April Reeve has spent the last 25 years working as an enterprise architect and program manager. Currently she is working for EMC Consulting as an Advisory Consultant in the Enterprise Information Management practice. April is an expert in multiple Data Management disciplines including Data Integration, Big Data, Data Conversion, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and Data Governance.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Stuart Benington
SDN/NFV Advisory Practice of Dell EMC
SDN/NFV Advisory Practice at EMC.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Jill Sommers
Advisory Board Member of Green Key Technologies
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About : GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Frank Liberio
Executive Advisor of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Frank Liberio
Executive Advisor of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Paul Phillips
Advisor of C3 AI
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About : C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Jeff Carr
Advisory Board Member of Zenefits
Jeff leads Zenefits’ go-to-market functions including sales, service, support, channels, alliances and growth organizations. Jeff is a technology veteran with an extensive Cloud HCM background and more than 20 years experience leading a variety of venture-backed startups and successful public companies.Prior to Zenefits, he was CEO at PeopleFluent, President of Saba, COO at Taleo, CEO at Motiva, President at RightWorks (President) and EVP at PeopleSoft.
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About Inkling Systems: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Peter Hershberg
Member of the Advisory Board of The Trade Desk
Peter Hershberg is an entrepreneur, company advisor, and active angel investor, who has successfully founded, funded, and exited several start-ups over more than twenty years in online advertising and technology. Peter Co-Founded leading search and social media marketing firm, Reprise Media, in February, 2003 and served as Co-Chief Executive Officer until December, 2009. The company was acquired by Interpublic Group (IPG) in April, 2007. From April, 1999 to February, 2002, Peter served as the Vice President of Strategic Development at Ask.com. In this role, he created long-term strategies and functioned as a key decision maker in the company’s new business ventures. He was also the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rotomedia, a consulting and advertising firm for web marketers and publishers. Rotomedia was acquired by Ask Jeeves in April, 1999. Peter was named as a finalist at Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005 and 2007.
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About : The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Andy Goldstein
ICO Advisor of Zap
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About : Zap is a marketplace and a toolkit that enables developers to create Ðapps and smart contracts that incorporate real world (off-chain) data.
Jim DuBois
Venture Advisor of Ignition Partners
Appointed to CIO in January 2014, DuBois is responsible for Microsoft’s global security, infrastructure, IT messaging, and business applications. In this position, DuBois has acquired a keen level of understanding of how IT works within a broader technology organization. Additionally, his expertise in the public cloud market will serve as an asset to the TBM Council as IT leaders are increasingly called to demonstrate the value of cloud technology.
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About : Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Mark Derrenberger
Advisor and Investor of Skopenow
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About : Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Steve Julius
Advisor of Hyde Park Venture Partners
“Dr. J” advises senior executives of corporations, growth companies, professional service organizations and governmental agencies. Often called upon during times of transition or crisis, assignments include strategic planning, reorganization, culture transformation, succession planning, and executive development at the individual or team level. Until recently, Dr J was the team psychologist for the Chicago Bulls. He works with HPVP and portcos on talent identification and development.
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About : Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups.
Stanley Kim
Advisor of Pinscreen
Stanley Kim is co-founder of Pinscreen. Prior in founding Pinscreen, he was Executive-in-Residence of Shasta Ventures. He became CEO of Trickplay for five years and in 2009, he was a Principal at Samsung. He also worked as Vice President of Broadbase Software and CEO and founder of PANOP ($110M M&A exit). Stanley studied at Stanford University and was currently residing at San Francisco, California.
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About : Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
Amos Ben-Meir
Advisor of Ceqoo
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About : Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Mark Newman
Advisor of VaultRMS
Mark Newman is the Founder & CEO at Nomi Health.
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About Hunter Public Relations, Nectar HR, Nomi Health, Videra Health, Wooly: VaultRMS is a cloud-based technology platform for public safety agencies.
Andy Coughlin
Advisor of Teikametrics
Andy joined Teikametrics after spending 4 years as the US Country Director for Sonos. Prior to Sonos, Andy spent 12 years with Microsoft in Sales and Marketing roles, most recently leading the Consumer business across Australia and New Zealand. He is proud to be part of the team that launched Microsoft’s Xbox business.
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About : Teikametrics is an e-commerce optimization platform designed for retailers on online marketplaces.
Ben Sykes
Board of Advisors – User Experience of Samesurf
EXPERIENCE • 20+ Years of designing, building and launching digital products. FUN FACTS • I have taught and mentored over 600+ design students • Part of the camera crew for the Oscar Winning motion picture AMERICAN BEAUTY. • Marine Corps Veteran & former laundry room attendant at Saddam Hussein’s palace. • Personally, slurry yeasted all the Beringer ’95 Knights Valley Cabernet • Sous Cheff’d the Opus One Winery opening in Napa. • A lead designer for AdWords at Google with a filed patent. LEADERSHIP STYLE • Lead by example • Remove roadblocks • Set others up for success. • Empower others to be better than they are • Get out of the way
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About : Samesurf is a cobrowsing platform that provides the ability for screen sharing from anywhere.
Ann Sarnoff
Advisor of Mogul
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About Warner Bros. Entertainment: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Chris Stolte
Board Member, and Technical Advisor of Tableau
Chris Stolte is Tableau Software’s Chief Development Officer and is responsible for product strategy, product design and engineering. Prior to co-founding Tableau, Chris spent six years researching the analysis and exploration of multidimensional databases at Stanford University, culminating in the Polaris system which was the basis for Tableau’s first products. This research resulted in fourteen landmark research publications and two large-scale visualization systems. Chris was also the CTO and co-founder of BeeLine Systems, a visualization software company that developed a revolutionary map rendering system and was purchased by Vicinity Corporation (NASDAQ: VCNT). Chris is a co-inventor on five software patents related to information visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Dan Cory
Principal Technical Advisor of Tableau
Dan is a Technical Advisor to the Tableau Development leadership team, improving our products and planning the future. Before joining Tableau in 2010, he worked on a variety of data visualization products including ESRI’s ArcView, Microsoft MapPoint, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, and Microsoft Excel.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Marc Frons
Advisory Board of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Peter Hollens
Board Advisor of Tubular Labs
Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella cover artist. With 2.5 million subscribers, his videos have reached a quarter of a billion views on Facebook and YouTube since 2011. Hollens has collaborated and performed with several outstanding artists including Brian Wilson, Jason Mraz, Hunter Hayes, Gladys Knight, Lindsey Stirling, George Watsky, Jackie Evancho, and ThePianoGuys. He has released over 200+ digital singles to date and continues to release new music every other week. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he co-founded the University of Oregon’s male a cappella group On The Rocks. In 2010 he and the group were featured on NBC’s The Sing Off Season 2. Hollens also advises and consults many companies in the passion economy. More information can be found: https://peterhollens.com/press/
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About : Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Bryce Forney
ProAdvisor of Intuit
A past member of the Accountant Advisory Council for Intuit, Bryce is an Advanced Certified ProAdvisor, a CPA and Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. More than all of that, he is an understandable, likeable, down-to-earth proponent of outstanding accounting and tax returns. An avid disciple of the Intuit philosophy of listening to customers, and a fanatic of the benefits of an open exchange with clients on product and workflow improvement, Bryce began his practice many years ago, and operates as much virtually, as from my home office.
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About : Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Hector Garcia
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor / Contracted Trainer of Intuit
Ultra-passionate about small business success via real-time accurate accounting information and “”cloudmatization””. Graduate Degree in Accounting, Masters in Taxation, and Masters in Finance from Florida International University. CPA since 2014, ProAdvisor since 2008, YouTubber since 2011, and computer-nerd since 1991.
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About : Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Jonathan Kibera
Advisor of Pathover
Jonathan Kibera is the Co-Founder & Manager at SFR3 Fund.
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About SFR3 Fund: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Mike Foreman
Advisor of Pathover
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About : Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Alex Turkeltaub
Co-Founder & Senior Advisor of Roam Analytics
Alex is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Roam. Before Roam, Alex co-founded and served as Chief Executive of Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), a venture-backed data and analytics company focused on emerging markets that currently serves more than 250 leading multinationals. Alex and his family immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1988. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations from Stanford University and a J.D. from the Yale Law School.
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About Roam Analytics: Roam transforms patient and physician pathway analysis through a proprietary artificial intelligence platform built for the healthcare.
Josh Eikov
Advisor of Invisu.me
Mr. L. Joshua Eikov is a visionary and dynamic leader with a unique blend of strategic finance, business and technological management experiences across the telecommunications, Internet, real estate, entertainment and consumer electronics industries within entrepreneurial and venture-based private and public corporations. Mr. Eikov is the Managing Director of Baron General Capital LLC a merchant banking and corporate consultancy. Previous to Baron General Josh helped clients such as Target Email Direct a provider of interactive and email marketing products and services in a turnaround and expansion program as their Interim CTO and he was the Chief Strategist at eBRANDsolutions, a branding and marketing firm that consulted to the Global 1000 on issues of eBusiness, product design, digital marketing and branding and international brand expansion. Josh was the Founder and CEO of i-Titan Communications Networks, a manufacturer and designer of wireless broadband products. Josh served as President and Chief Executive Officer of DigiCon Technologies, Inc., a CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) based systems integration Company that was sold to a publicly traded Company in 1998. DigiCon created and developed a global systems architecture that allowed a user to access their email text-to-speech via any touch-tone or cellular telephone. The Company also developed an international data network that had an emphasis in telemedicine, which was accessible via telephone. Prior to founding DigiCon he founded Faceted Information Systems. The Company provided consulting services in information technology and financial information systems including, LAN/WAN systems design to Wall Street and institutional clients. Josh was also instrumental in the design and construction of FIS-Tech Computers. The Company was sold in 1995. Josh attended East Stroudsburg University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University and the Executive Compliance Program at Tulane Law School . Josh has also received a certificate in Negotiation from the University of Windsor Law School and is a Web of Culture Certified Web Globalist. He is a Member of The Council of Communications Advisors, the Society for Competitive Intelligence, the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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About Invisu.me: invisu is a storytelling wizard that enables startups to develop effective output material for investor meetings.
Phil Young
Senior Advisor of U.S. Venture Partners
Prior to joining US Venture Partners, Phil Young was President & CEO of Oximetrix, a manufacturer of critical care instruments and disposables, where he spent 8 years growing the privately-held venture-backed company from $1 million in revenues to nearly $50 million. Prior to Oximetrix, Phil Young spent 6 years at New Court Securities in venture capital and corporate finance, 2 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., and 6 years on Admiral Rickover’s project management staff at the Atomic Energy Commission. Phil Young has represented US Venture Partners on the boards of Aerogen, CardioThoracic Systems, CardioVascular Imaging Systems, CoCensys, Compugen, FemRx, Penederm, 3Dfx Interactive, Vical and Xoma–all of which became public companies. Currently Phil Young sits on the boards of Zoran, a public company, as well as Aptus Endosystems, Bayhill Therapeutics, Caspian Networks, Claria, Dotomi, RelayHealth, Synarc, St. Francis Medical and Timi3 Systems.
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About : U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care.
Mike Maher
Senior Advisor of U.S. Venture Partners
Mike Maher joined U.S. Venture Partners as Chief Financial Officer in 1991. Mike is responsible for financial reporting, legal and tax matters, and general administration for USVP and its funds. Mike currently serves as a member of the IPEV Board, as a participating member of the National Venture Capital Association’s CFO Task Force, and from 2003 through 2011 as an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Investment Companies Expert Panel. Prior to joining USVP, Mike was an audit partner with Ernst & Young, serving E&Y clients for 17 years in a variety of industries including financial services, health care, manufacturing, and pension plans. Mike received his B.S.C., cum laude, from Santa Clara University.
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About : U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care.
Lynn Salo
Advisor, Former VP of Facial Aesthetics Allergan Medical of TRUINJECT
Lynn Salo is a 25-year veteran of Allergan whose career has provided her with strong strategic and commercial experience across global healthcare pharmaceutical, biologic, and device markets in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Formerly the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Facial Aesthetic Division of Allergan Medical, Lynn led a growth strategy through strategic business development acquisitions. Prior to her current position, Lynn has held various business unit leadership positions throughout her years at Allergan. Highlights include leading the 250-person U.S. Neurosciences Division as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, overseeing BOTOX® therapeutic applications for patients with neurologic conditions resulting in movement disorders and upper limb spasticity, spearheading the creation and expansion of a new 226-person Urology business vertical as Vice President of Sales and Marketing – U.S. Urologics, developing the Glaucoma Ophthalmic commercial strategy for Europe, Middle East, and Africa as Strategic Marketing Director EMEA, and leading Allergan’s commercial UK/Eire organization as Business Unit Head of Allergan Ophthalmics. Lynn has launched several important products for Allergan including BOTOX®, Vectra®XT, ALPHAGAN®, LUMIGAN®, SANCTURA XR®, and numerous dry eye products. Lynn sits on the Boards of the Medical Device Manufacturer’s Association, Girls Inc. Orange County, and is a member of Orange County United Way Women’s Philanthropy Society. Lynn was recently nominated for an Orange County Business Journal ‘Women in Business’ Award, and is now the recipient of Girls Inc. Member of the Year Award for her philanthropic contributions. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About : TRUINJECT™ is a software company focused on the innovation, development & commercialization of medical products for the injectable market.
Steve Carlson
Advisor, Former CEO Obagi Medical of TRUINJECT
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About : TRUINJECT™ is a software company focused on the innovation, development & commercialization of medical products for the injectable market.
Vibha Sazawal
Board Advisor of Wonder Workshop
Vibha Sazawal is Advisor at Play-i.
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About : Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Scott Gifis
Advisor of NextRoll
Scott is President of AdRoll, a Growth Platform focused on connecting and intelligently orchestrating advertising and marketing technology for 10s of 1,000s of ambitious ecommerce brands in over 100 countries around the world.
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About First Round Capital: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Rudy Rigot
Advisor & Mentor of Holberton School
After years of consulting and consulting management in France for the French web agency Clever Age (working with clients like Chanel, LVMH, Orange, BNP Paribas, L’Élysée, …), Rudy was first the managing director of the Paris-based startup Steerious, before being the Developer Evangelist for prismic.io, and then a Localisation Automation Engineer for Apple. Most recently, he co-founded Holberton School, a tuition-free project-based alternative to college to train software engineers. Rigot is also known for writing numerous articles and giving numerous conference talks, in French and in English, mostly around cross-device matters, like responsive web design. He is the co-author of the French-speaking book “Projet Responsive Web Design”, published by Eyrolles (the biggest IT publisher in France). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About : Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers.
Chuck Franzetta
Advisor of FourKites
Chuck Franzetta is Advisor at FourKites.
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About : FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
Chuck Franzetta
Advisor of FourKites
Chuck Franzetta is Advisor at FourKites.
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About : FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform designed for transportation into yards, warehouses, and stores.
Graham Weston
Advisor of Promoter.io
Graham Weston is one of the founders of Rackspace and now serves as Chairman of the Board. Graham has been a part of Rackspace from the beginning. Born and raised in the San Antonio area, he saw entrepreneurial opportunities in everything around him. He launched his first business venture as a seventh grader, marketing organic pork in newspaper ads that read “Go Hog Wild!” In high school, he built another business that took photos at livestock shows and sold them to contestants. He attended Texas A&M, where—you guessed it—he launched another business. This one was inspired by his successful appeal of his father’s property tax bills, and led him to help other property owners appeal their bills.Graham went into the real estate business, and led his family to buy and develop the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio. At the same time, he developed a keen interest in the possibilities of the Internet. In 1998, he and a partner provided the original capital for a business idea pitched by three local Trinity University students. They called it “Rackspace.com.” Graham joined the enterprise as CEO and remained in that position until 2006, when he became chairman. In 2005, Graham was honored by the City of San Antonio for converting one of his vacant properties into a temporary shelter for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Nicknamed the “Hilton of Shelters,” by the Denver Post, it housed more than 2,500 refugees. Graham was named a 2006 “Best Boss” by Fortune Small Business magazine and was recognized as regional Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young,” from Rackspace.com.
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Roy Rubin
Advisor of OroCommerce
Roy Rubin is the co-founder and was the Chief Operating Officer for Magento while the company was part of eBay. Roy directed the vision and goals for the company, leading the team every step of the way through growing the company’s customer base, as well as partner, developer and merchant integrations. He also works closely with the product and marketing teams, making sure that go-to-market plans are executed flawlessly. Prior to his position as COO, Roy founded Varien (the original company behind Magento) in 2001 as a consultancy and has since transformed the eCommerce platform market with the release of the Magento platform in 2007. A results-oriented executive with over 10 years of experience founding and building products and organizations, Roy is deeply entrenched in the eCommerce and open source markets and grew Magento to be a disruptive, global player.
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About : OroCommerce is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce and the OroPlatform.
Monte Stettin
Advisor of doc.ai
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About : doc.ai is a digital health company designed for a new generation of medical research.
Cecilia Stallsmith
Program Advisor of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Claire Hunsaker
Advisor of Heavybit
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About : Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Raymond Raven
Medical Advisor of AppliedVR
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About : AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
Michael Coles
Senior Advisor of Orbital Insight
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About : Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Phil Koen
Senior Advisor of Intermedia
Phil Koen is Intermedia’s Chairman and CEO. He joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company’s acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Koen brings more than 20 years of C-level industry expertise to Intermedia, most recently as CEO and director of Savvis [NASDAQ: SVVS], a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Equinix [NASDAQ: EQIX], the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services. Koen previously served as Equinix’s CFO and in a number of senior executive positions at other leading technology firms. Koen currently serves on the boards of Infinera Corp (NASDAQ: INFN), an optical networking company, and Proofpoint [NASDAQ: PFPT], a cloud-based email security company. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the University of Virginia. Koen also serves on the Board of Trustees at Webster University.
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About : Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Jude Allred
Chief Technical Advisor & Co-founder of HASH
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About : HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Monique Bonner
Executive Advisor of Akamai Technologies
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About : Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Yaad Oren
Technical Advisor of SAP.iO
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About : SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP.
Geert Weening
Technical Advisor of Proper
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About : Proper provides AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping services to property managers and asset managers.
Kartik Hosanagar
Advisory & Mentorship of Cinqo
Kartik Hosanagar is a tenured Associate Professor of Internet Commerce at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik is a cofounder of Yodle Inc and helped develop the firm’s IP and operational strategy. Yodle was listed in INC’s 2010 list of the top 50 fastest growing private firms in the US. Kartik has served on the advisory board of Milo Inc (acq by eBay) and ClickEquations (acq by Channel Intelligence). He is an investor in Homeboodle and NyooTV. Kartik is one of the youngest professors to be tenured at Wharton. He has been recognized by Poets&Quants as one of the world’s top 40 business professors under 40. He has received Wharton’s MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching awards. His research has received several awards, including the William Cooper award for best thesis in Management Science.
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Lev Walkin
Member of the Advisory Board of Trucker Path
Lev Walkin is Sr. Director of Platform Technology at Machine Zone.
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About : Trucker Path provides a software platform designed for the trucking industry.
Rebecca Kush
Life Sciences Advisor of Saama
Rebecca Daniels Kush is President of Catalysis, Inc. a consulting company founded in 1997 with a vision to apply enterprising solutions to transform clinical research and accelerate a learning health system. She is the Chief Innovation Officer for Elligo Health Research, which is dedicated to engaging physicians and patients who may not otherwise have access to research and transforming the research process using eSource and improved data flow techniques. She also consults for the Translational Research Informatics Institute (TRI Japan) working to expand the International Academic Research Organization (iARO) Council activities globally. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Learning Health Community. Dr. Kush was previously the Founder, President and CEO of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). After 20 years, this standards development organization (SDO) now offers a suite of data standards that support clinical research in therapeutic areas that affect over 1.5 billion lives. These standards are now required for submissions for new drug applications by FDA and PMDA. Dr. Kush has over 30 years of experience in clinical research, including positions with academia, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a global CRO and biopharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and Japan. She wrote the chapter on Data Sharing in Clinical Research Informatics (ed. Springer), was the lead author of eClinical Trials: Planning and Implementation (a CenterWatch publication) and has written numerous publications for journals including New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine. She is currently an Associate Editor for Wiley’s open access journal on Learning Health Systems. Dr. Kush earned her Doctorate in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of New Mexico.
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About : Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Tim Cabral
Advisor (Former CFO) of Veeva
As CFO, Tim is responsible for all aspects of financial management and G&A operations. He brings over 20 years of technology finance background and nearly 10 years of software finance and operations background. Prior to joining Veeva Systems, Tim served as CFO/COO for Walsh Wireless, a wireless solutions and services company and as CFO/CoFounder of Agistics, a start-up focused on employee management services. Tim also spent more than 7 years at PeopleSoft, Inc., where he held various positions, including VP of Products & Technology Finance and Senior Director of Corporate FP&A. During his tenure as VP of Finance, Tim created and built the Operational Controller team and developed an influential business partnership model with General Managers who owned business units driving upwards of $250m in revenue. Prior to PeopleSoft, Tim served in finance positions at Chiron Corporation and LSI Logic. Tim holds a MBA in Finance and a Bachelors degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Ullas Shah
Advisor of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Ullas has 20+ year of experience in field of international taxation, transfer pricing, IFRS consulting. Ullas is a commerce graduate and a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (AICPA-USA). Presently, he is associated with a renowned auditing firm. Apart from conventional areas of professional practice, he is also involved in nonconventional aspects of advisory and assurance like merger and amalgamations, system audits, risk management, valuation etc. Ullas holds degree of CA from ICAI-INDIA and CPA from AICPA-USA.
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About : VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Peter Callahan
Advisor of Quad Analytix
Peter Callahan is Founder of Arkle Advisors LLC, a startup accelerator. A results-oriented, senior-level executive with 20+ years of sales, marketing, business development and general management success. Entrepreneurial-minded with a consistent track record for private to public company exits. Outstanding people management skills with a proven ability to foster enterprise client relationships and motivate high-performing teams. Expert in CRM Solutions including personalized data management, web analytics and brand marketing solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Specialties: – Sales, Sales Management, Marketing Strategy – Digital marketing and technology, analytics – eCommerce, Advertising, CRM, audience/personalization strategy – Business Development, consulting – Fostering valuable relationships across ecosystem – Building for growth and success – ALL THINGS DIGITAL. Peter held senior sales roles driving large customer relationships at ADS/Conversant (formerly ValueClick/Dotomi) and at Omniture (now Adobe Marketing Cloud), as well as business development roles for Razorfish, Carat Interactive and other digital marketing firms that pioneered the internet age.
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About : Quad Analytix specializes in delivering market intelligence solutions.
Anthony Deighton
Special Advisor of Celonis
Anthony Deighton is responsible for product marketing and strategy at QlikTech. Most recently, Anthony was the General Manager of Siebel System’s Employee Relationship Management (ERM) business unit. Anthony help found the ERM business at Siebel and it grew to over 300 customers, $20 million a year in license revenue, was recognized as Siebel’s fastest-growing product line and named Product Line of the Year. Prior to joining Siebel, Anthony worked as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney in Chicago. Deighton holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Celonis, Qlik, Rekener Inc.: Celonis provides an Execution Management System that helps companies in running their business processes.
Tom Edsall
Emeritus Advisor/Fellow of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Curtis Feeny
Venture Advisor of Voyager Capital
Curtis F. Feeny is a Venture Advisor at Voyager Capital who invests in enterprise software, data center systems, wireless infrastructure and clean IT technologies. Before joining Voyager, Curtis was the first Executive Vice President of the newly formed Stanford Management Company, helping oversee the University’s endowment from 1992 to 2000, when assets under management grew from $1.5 billion to $9 billion. He was responsible for investing and managing real estate and other asset classes including private equity and venture capital. Before joining Stanford, Curtis was managing partner for Trammell Crow in Seattle, with $700 million of assets under management. Previously, he worked in energy R&D and the semiconductor industry. Curtis has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in mechanical engineering, magna cum laude, from Texas A&M University.
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About Khan Lab School, Peterson Partners, Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Frank Gill
Advisor of Voyager Capital
Frank C. Gill served as an Executive Vice President of Intel Corporation since 1988. Frank Gill was employed with Intel Corp. in a variety of Sales, Marketing, Product Development and Manufacturing positions. In 1998, he served as Senior Vice President in charge of worldwide sales and marketing operations and served as General Manager of the Intel Systems Group and the Internet and Communications Group.
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About : Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Jesse Berst
Advisor of Voyager Capital
Jesse Berst serves as the Managing Director at Global Smart Energy (GSE) and the Founding Editor at SmartGridNews.com. Jesse Berst provides strategic consulting to corporations, startups and investment firms looking to target their smart grid activities. He is a founder and Chief Analyst at SmartGridNews.com. He served as an Advisor of V2Green, Inc. He served as a Vice President and “intrapraneur“ of Ziff-Davis, where he conceived and founded AnchorDesk.
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About : Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Ernest M. Ankrim
Advisor of Voyager Capital
Ernest M. Ankrim, also known as Ernie, Ph.D. is a Senior Markets Advisor at Russell Investment Group. Ernest Ankrim focuses on markets, portfolio strategies, and institutional and individual investor behavior. He also served as the Chief Investment Strategist of the Russell Investment Group. He joined Russell in 1990 first as a member of the capital markets research group, later as Director of Portfolio Strategy and finally as Chief Investment Strategist for the last six years before retiring prior to 2009.
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About : Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
John DeFeo
Advisor of Voyager Capital
John E. DeFeo serves as Chief Executive Officer of OpenRoute, Inc. John DeFeo served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at CoCo Communications Corporation since June 2007. John DeFeo is a seasoned Chief Executive Officer with more than 30 years of broad senior management experience in strategic planning, marketing, customer care, six Sigma methodologies, manufacturing, and product/business development. John DeFeo has over 25 years of experience building wireless and telecommunication companies. John DeFeo’s experience touches nearly every facet of the telecommunications and medical device industries, including start-ups, managing hyper-growth, restructurings, global partnerships, turnarounds, and mergers and acquisitions and has extensive experience in complex capital financings, having raised more than $1 billion in private, venture, and public markets.
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About : Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Andy Bryant
Advisor of Voyager Capital
Andy D. Bryant has been Executive Chairman of Intel Corporation since May 01, 2012. Andy Bryant served as the Chief Administrative Officer of Intel Corporation. Andy Bryant served as an Executive Vice President of Technology, Manufacturing & Enterprise Services at Intel Corporation and was responsible for technology development and manufacturing, financial operations, human resources, information technology and e-business functions and activities. In 2009, his responsibilities expanded to include the Technology and Manufacturing Group. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Intel Corporation from February 1994 to October 2007, Executive Vice President of Finance & Enterprise since January 2001 and Enterprise Services Officer since December 1999. He served as an Executive Vice President at Intel Corporation.
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About : Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
David Turanski
Spring Advisory Architect of Pivotal
David Turanski is a Senior Software Engineer with the Spring team at Pivotal. He is a committer on Spring XD and Spring Integration, and formerly project lead for Spring Data GemFire. Prior to joining the Spring team in 2010, David held various positions as Consultant, Enterprise Architect, and Software engineer, designing and developing distributed mission critical systems in various industries including transportation and logistics, aerospace, finance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and healthcare. David has extensive experience with Java, Spring and related technologies.
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About Pivotal, Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Jignesh Sheth
Advisory Platform Architect of Pivotal
I have a passion for helping my clients leverage technology to make world a better place. Prior to working at Pivotal, I have played various roles from Sr. Sales/Field Engineer, Sr. Solution/Platform Architect and Technical Lead in wide range of industries and solutions such as telecommunications, financials, insurance, education, retail and e-commerce. Outside of the daily grind, I enjoys spending time with my family of two boys as well as hobbies including biking, photography, and home remodeling.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
John Feminella
Advisor of Pivotal
John Feminella is an advocate for curiosity in all people and about all things. He serves as the advisory platform architect at Pivotal, where his daily goal is to transform how the world builds software. He’s also the author of several published research papers on software architecture, and the cofounder of an analytics startup called UpHex. He lives in Charlottesville, VA with his partner, where he likes milkshakes, meta-jokes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Jeff Cherng
Advisor of Pivotal
As a member of the Pivotal Data Engineering team, Jeff Cherng is responsible for working with customers to drive technical innovations on high performance data solutions. Jeff is very passionate about Spring Framework/Cloud Foundry and has worked on many distributed systems projects over the course of his career. His current focus is working on integrated solutions/patterns with Cloud Foundry, Spring, and Apache Geode (In-Memory Data Grid).
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Cory Jett
Advisor of Pivotal
Cory Jett is an Advisory Resident Platform Architect at Pivotal. After 18 years working in various roles (networking, storage, converged infrastructure, CI/CD, etc), dabbling in development, and most recently successfully bringing in OSS CF and later migrating to PCF while working for a Pivotal customer, Cory decided Pivotal was just too awesome not to work for and joined up in early 2018. Cory covers three large customers in the St. Louis area and specializes in Platform Operations/Automation, Kubernetes, and NSX.
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About : Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Bob Kruse
Investor, Advisor of Cyber Mentor Fund
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About Cyber Mentor Fund, Obsidian Security: Cyber Mentor Fund is a venture fund focusing on cybersecurity companies.
Paul Anderson
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Schrödinger
Paul Anderson currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. In 2009, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences. During his celebrated career at Merck, Anderson and coworkers developed TRUSOPT, the first topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor for treating glaucoma, and ZOCOR, a frequently prescribed drug for lowering cholesterol levels. Anderson has directed extensive medicinal chemistry efforts at Merck and DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company focused on new chemotherapy for AIDS, resulting in CRIXIVAN and SUSTIVA. Anderson is the recipient of countless awards, including in 2006 the American Chemical Society recognized Anderson with its highest honor, the Priestley Medal. In addition, Anderson has served as Chairman of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, Chairman of the NIH Study Section on Bioorganic Chemistry and Natural Products, as well as being a member of the National Advisory General Medicinal Sciences Council of the National Institutes of Health and the National Research Council, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.
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About : Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Walter Balmas
Advisor of Informed.IQ
Walter passionately believes in expanding accessible and affordable credit opportunities for thin file credit consumers and the underbanked. Previously Vice President of Strategic Services (product, loan originations, and servicing operations) for SoFi. Walter is an alumnus of the University of Southern California and has worked for Access to Loans for Learning, Cardtronics, Xerox and MRU Holdings (“MyRichUncle”).
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About SimpleFi: Informed is a developer of a consumer auto financing platform designed to collect and analyze loan documents.
Paul Royal
Board Advisor of ZeroFOX
Paul Royal is a world-renowned Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he engages in collaborative research on various facets of the online criminal ecosystem. Prior to joining the team at Georgia Tech, Mr. Royal served as a Principal Researcher at Purewire, Inc., where he worked with other researchers to identify threats and design methods that enhanced the company’s web security service. Mr. Royal often focuses on research topics interesting to both academics and industry practitioners. He has published his research countless times, has been quoted in Forbes, The Washington Post, USA Today and was a distinguished speaker at all of the BlackHat conferences in 2012.
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About Georgia Institute of Technology: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Stefan Savage
Board Advisor of ZeroFOX
Dr. Stefan Savage joined the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Computer Science and Engineering in 2001 and specializes in computer security issues (especially worms, viruses, botnets, intrusion detection and denial-of-service attacks), wireless networking, and operating system kernel design. He also serves as director of the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED), a collaboration between UCSD and the International Computer Science Institute, one of four federally funded NSF CyberTrust Research Centers. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where he focused both on network protocol design and operating system structuring. Savage was a co-founder of Seattle-based startup Asta Networks, which specialized in denial-of-service defenses, and of San Diego-based NetSift Inc, which developed high-speed network-based worm defenses (recently acquired by Cisco Systems). His current research interests include automated network monitoring and defenses and a variety of problems related to 802.11-based wireless network design.
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About : ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Vaibhav Nivargi
Advisor of Element Analytics
Vaibhav is an expert in query optimization, high performance data processing and distributed systems. He was one of the first engineers at Aster Data, developing key areas of the Aster MapReduce Platform. At NetApp, he contributed to patent-pending technology for the WAFL filesystem, significantly boosting boot times. His prior experience includes optimizing the Linux kernel for multi-core processors and distributed file systems. Vaibhav graduated from Stanford University with a Masters in Computer Science and a specialization in distributed systems and machine learning.
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About Moveworks: SaaS provider transforming IT/OT data into contextualized, graph-based models to support diverse analytical workloads and data governance.
