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This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Director 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.
Frank Savage
Member of the Board of Directors of Bloomberg
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About : Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Marie Forshaw
Director of Product Marketing of Gainsight
Marie Forshaw is a Director of Product Marketing at Gainsight, where she drives go-to-market strategy and competitive intelligence for Gainsight’s product and services. Prior to the Gainster life, she was a Strategy and Operations Consultant at Deloitte. Marie is an enthusiastic Georgetown Hoya, a polite midwesterner, and just a little bit snarky.
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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.
Minh Phan
Senior Director of Product Management of Gainsight
Minh Phan is a Senior Director of Product Management at Gainsight, the Customer Success company. Minh is designing new solutions that extend the reach of Customer Success to other teams for a seamless experience across a company. Minh joined Gainsight after roles in Product Management, Customer Experience, and Finance at Seagate Cloud, Symantec, and Oracle. Outside work, Minh has enjoyed being a guest at the Thai royal palace, dancing along with half-a-million Cubans at the Rolling Stones concert in Havana, and taking his parents to the peaks of Machu Picchu. Minh is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
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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.
Kate Peter
Client Outcomes Director of National Accounts of Gainsight
Kate Peter is a client outcomes director of national accounts 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.
Paul Drews
Managing Director, Salesforce Ventures of Salesforce
Paul is a Principal on the investment team of Tenaya Capital. He was an associate with Tenaya from 2007 until he went to business school in 2012. After business school, Paul was a Vice President at Battery Ventures from 2014 to 2016, where he focused on investments in enterprise infrastructure and software companies. Paul was involved in Battery’s investments in Cohesity, Outlyer, JFrog, OpsGenie and StreamSets. Paul holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Duke 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.
Tanumoy Ghosh
Director, Product Data Science, DSA 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.
Sanford Robertson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
Sandy Robertson is the Partner at Francisco partners.
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About Francisco Partners, Francisco Partners: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Justin Darcy
Director – ISV GTM of Salesforce
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About FundersClub, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mayukh Bhaowal
Director, Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Mayukh Bhaowal is a director of product management at Salesforce Einstein working on automated machine learning. Previously, Mayukh worked at startups in the domain of machine learning and analytics. He served as head of product of the ML platform startup Scaled Inference, backed by Khosla Ventures, and led product at the ecommerce startup Narvar, backed by Accel. He was also a principal product manager at Yahoo and Oracle. Mayukh holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford 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.
Ryan Donnelly
Senior Director of Network Engineering 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.
Tim Van Loan
Director of Product Marketing 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.
Asit Sharma
Senior Director, Lead Information Architect – Customer Success of Salesforce
Asit Sharma is the Senior Director & Lead Information Architect – Customer Success 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.
Leah McGowen-Hare
Senior Director of Salesforce
Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and Senior Director at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow using Trailhead. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Hidden Genius Project, Girls Who Code and Vetforce. Leah is married to Shane Hare and has 3 children. She enjoys working out, and traveling with her family.
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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.
Pankaj Prasad
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Pankaj Prasad is the co-founder of DoubleDutch, a service that helps any company, brand, or organization deploy mobile apps enterprise wide. Their apps help companies gain insight through engagement
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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.
Larry Tomlinson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
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About : Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mike Kreaden
Managing Director, Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate) 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.
Shankar Vedaraman
Sr. Director, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Craig Conway
Board of Directors of Salesforce
Craig Conway is the Board of Directors of Salesforce.
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About NomNommer: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Josh Schwartz
Director of Offensive Security of Salesforce
Josh Schwartz is a computer that knows how to computer. He leads the Red Team at Salesforce conducting high impact offensive security engagements and frequently creates propaganda memes.
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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.
Wenhao Liu
Director – Applied AI Research of Salesforce
Director – Applied AI Research at Salesforce (Hiring).
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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.
Daniel Sonnenfeld
Accessibility Compliance Program Director of Salesforce
Daniel Sonnenfeld is a Technical Program Management Director at Salesforce where he leads complex cross-organizational technology initiatives. His professional experience spans the high tech industry, having worked with large enterprises and startups. After a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Computer Science. Born deaf, Daniel wore hearing aids most of his life and received cochlear implants 13 years ago. He is multilingual and fluent in English, American Sign Language and French.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Wendy Smith
Senior Director, Salesforce Experience 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.
Cecilia Alvord
Director & Executive Search of Salesforce
Cecilia Alvord is the Director & Executive Search 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.
Amanda Nelson
Senior Director, AppExchange Community Marketing of Salesforce
Amanda is Senior Manager of AppExchange Content and Community at Salesforce. She is a conference speaker, published author, and a social media professor. Prior to content and social marketing, Amanda worked in account management for interactive and full service advertising agencies. In addition to marketing, Amanda is passionate about writing, public speaking, and border collies.
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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.
Sarah Aerni
Director Of Data Science And Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joshua Birk
Senior Director & Developer Evangelism of Salesforce
Joshua Birk is the Senior Director & Developer Evangelism 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.
Kelly Utley
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
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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.
Cathy Daw
Director, Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Vikas Sangwan
Director Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alexander Lovell
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Alexander Lovell is the director of product management at Salesforce and an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. Prior to that, Alexander co-founded Simpatic. .
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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.
Kinjal Vora
Director, Business Value 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 Flagg
Senior Director & Customer Success Executive of Salesforce
Joel Flagg is the Senior Director & Customer Success Executive 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.
Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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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.
Jason Briggs
Senior Director, Product Manager of Einstein Relationship Insights of Salesforce
Jason co-founded Meta Search in 2014 after watching his mom try, and fail, to find files on her computer. He launched Meta to thousands of beta users before merging with Diffeo in 2016. At Diffeo Jason focused on financial services customers (MassChallenge FinTech 100K Diamond Award 2019, FinTech Innovation Lab 2018) and leading partnerships with Salesforce (Salesforce Incubator 2017: AI Cohort) and other strategic partners. Diffeo was acquired by Salesforce in 2019 where Jason now leads product for the integrated Diffeo team.
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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.
Director, Industry Solutions, Higher Education 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.
William Clifford
Director of Technical Consulting of Salesforce
William Clifford is the Director Technical Consulting 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.
Ian Dunckel
Senior Director, Product Marketing, CPQ & Billing of Salesforce
Ian Dunckel serves as the senior director of product marketing and CPQ & Billing 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.
Tim Clarke
Senior Director, Product Marketing – Sales Cloud of Salesforce
Co-Founder & CEO @ UNCrushed.
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About Salesforce, UNCrushed: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Molly Ford
Director, Global Equality Programs of Salesforce
Molly Q. Ford is Senior Director of Global Equality Programs at Salesforce, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for eight years in a row. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s core value of Equality and evangelizing the Salesforce culture. Prior to making her passion for Equality a full-time job, Molly worked on the award-winning Salesforce Public Relations team. With more than 15 years of Public Relations experience, she was responsible for building awareness for Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service and support solution. Prior to joining Salesforce, she held positions at major technology companies including Cisco, Check Point Software, IBM and UMAX. Molly holds a B.S. in Public Relations from San Jose State University. She resides in Oakland, CA with her puppy Jackson, the amazing Maltese.
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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.
Mathew Sweezey
Director of Market Strategy of Salesforce
Mathew Sweezey is the HBR Author & The Context Marketing Revolution at Harvard Business Review.
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About Harvard Business Review, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Fadi Mouallem
Director of Strategic Sourcing 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.
Judi Sohn
Director, Customer Centric Engineering of Salesforce
Judi Sohn is the Senior Solution Architect at KELL Partners. A recognized Salesforce.com MVP and co-founder of the Colon Cancer Alliance and Fight Colorectal Cancer, Judi has deep experience in the nonprofit and technology space. Her puzzle-solving skills are unmatched and we love that Judi’s passion for nonprofits and Salesforce have found a home at KELL Partners. Judi earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
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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.
Kirupa Chinnathambi
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
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About KIRUPA, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Chris Lea
Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce
Chris Lea is the Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andres Ramirez
Director, Technical Architect 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.
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.
Cheryn Flanagan
Director of Experience Design 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.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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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.
Sireesh Bodireddygari
Director of engineering: Analytics – Wave 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.
John Heywood
Director, Product Marketing – Service Cloud 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.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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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.
Arvind Gopalan
Sr. Director of Product Management of Lookout
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Pritam Shah
Director of Platform Engineering of Lookout
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Rei-Ling Hudson
Director of Marketing of Fin.com
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Mark Sakurada
Director Customer Solutions of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
David Shedlarz
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
David Shedlarz, 65, retired vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. a pharmaceutical consumer and animal products health company. Formerly vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. 2005 – 2007; executive vice president and chief financial officer 1999 – 2005 Pfizer Inc. Director since 2001. (Also a director of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and The Hershey Company.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anna Alexander
Director, Market Analysis of Pitney Bowes
Anna Alexander is the Director, Market Analysis at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Sia Ea
Executive Creative Director, Global Ecommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anne Fuchs
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
Anne Sutherland Fuchs, 66, consultant to private equity firms. Formerly group president Growth Brands Division Digital Ventures a division of J. C. Penney Company Inc. a retailer November 2010 – April 2012; former Chair of the Commission on Women’s Issues for New York City 2002-2013. Director since 2005. (Also a director of Gartner Inc.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Greg Harden
Sr Director, Operations Support of Pitney Bowes
Greg Harden is the Sr Director, Operations Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Kanishk Parashar
Senior Director, Product -> Advisor of Addepar
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About Addepar, Square: Addepar is a wealth management platform that provides tools for data analytics and portfolio visuals.
Howard Penney
Managing Director of Hedgeye Risk Management
Howard’s research coverage focuses on the restaurant industry and other Consumer Staples sectors in the U.S. He has nearly two decades of experience following consumer related sectors including tobacco, beverage (including Latin America), gaming, and restaurants. Prior to Hedgeye Risk Management, Howard spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, including working on the Macro team covering small company strategy. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Howard was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor (Restaurants) and #1 in the WSJ poll (Tobacco). Following Morgan Stanley Howard worked at FBR and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
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About Hedgeye Risk Management: Hedgeye Risk Management is a web-based financial research and media company providing investment information.
Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales of Foursquare
Leah is Senior Regional Director of Brand Partnerships at Foursquare, where she oversees key strategic client initiatives for New York and various eastern regions. She has had a hand in many of Foursquare’s largest brand and agency partnerships and most exciting creative executions, as well as the launch of Foursquare’s media and analytics products, Pinpoint and Attribution. She leads the charge in Foursquare’s evolution from social-focused media to meaningful location intelligence partnerships on behalf of some of our largest clients. Don’t let her gentle and fun demeanor fool you — Leah knows a thing or two about toughness as a former nationally-traveling competitive Roller Girl, and co-owner and founder of Beverly’s dba Essex Café Group, LLC on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Foursquare, Foursquare, Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Sarah Spagnolo
Director, Communications and Editor-at-Large of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
John Box
Executive Director, APAC of Meltwater
John Box is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Asia Pacific (APAC) division. He oversees operations, client acquisition and client success, enterprise sales, and marketing for 12 offices across the region. John joined Meltwater in 2006 and has worked in sales management positions all over the globe. He’s well-known for pioneering and implementing new sales and management techniques to produce an unwavering success rate in revenue.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Niklas de Besche
Executive Director, Product of Meltwater
Niklas de Besche is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Products. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral role in building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Mike Ruggieri
Executive Director, Engineering of Meltwater
Mike Ruggieri is the Executive Director of Engineering at Meltwater. He’s responsible for leading a world-class, agile engineering organization across nine major development centers worldwide. As an engineering leader with a background in product management and user experience, as well as software development, Mike uses his blended perspective to keep the organization focused on creating great products for Meltwater’s customers. Along with an amazing team of senior engineering directors, Mike has helped to create a connected culture of team ownership and autonomy, while ensuring that all engineers – from support to development to quality assurance to DevOps and more – are able to grow their individual skills and knowledge in order to take on greater and varied opportunities within the organization.
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About EchoCurrent Software, Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Greg Lind
Director of Platform of Transparent Path spc
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About Buildly, Transparent Path spc: Real-time, end-to-end visibility for perishables — using IoT sensors, blockchain security, and predictive AI.
Geoffrey Harrison
Managing Director, Research of Boulder Equity Analytics
Geoffrey Harrison, Managing Director, Research – Geoff provides BEA with a deep background in equity research and an understanding in capital markets. His experience includes several years of personal investing, equity research for a long-short fund manager, and participating in the Chartered Financial Analyst Program, where he plans on writing his CFA Level 2 Exam in June. Geoff’s primary focus has been on the technology, consumer discretionary, and energy industries. He has experience in the Python programming language. Geoff graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with Distinction, with a BS in Business Administration, a minor in Economics, and membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, the highest honor for an undergraduate business school student at CU Boulder.
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About Boulder Equity Analytics: Boulder Equity Analytics was founded with a mission to bring better tools and services to the stakeholders in financial reporting.
Michael Gambacorta
Director, Product Management & Marketing Analytics of Central Park Digital
Over 15 years of experience in product management, digital marketing, programmatic advertising, data analytics, and strategic business planning. Bachelors Degree: Columbia University. Masters Programs in Computer Information Systems and Data Science. Areas of Expertise: Big Data Analysis, Product Management, Marketing Automation, Data Mining, Software Development Management, Statistical Analysis, Real-Time Reporting, Web & App User Tracking, Data Visualization, Database Management, Mobile Advertising, Google & Amazon Cloud Services.
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About Central Park Digital: Central Park Digital is New York City’s premier digital marketing, online advertising, & big data analytics firm.
Darren Kaplan
Co-founder and Board Director of hiQ Labs
Darren Kaplan is the co-founder and founding CEO of hiQ Labs (www.hiqlabs.com), a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. Mr. Kaplan is an Alchemist Accelerator mentor, working with Augmented Reality, Cyber Security, and HR enterprise SaaS startups. In 2012 I co-founded hiQ Labs a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital to make work better. We are the pioneers leading the way with a ground-breaking precedent for the entire Internet, and a global economy that depends on data. hiQ has a fast-paced culture that requires sound judgment and discretion when applying data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to publicly available data. We are customer-focused and innovate with feedback from our clients, prospects and partner community named Elevate. Follow our incredible story about how our idea of helping companies understand their workforce using publicly available data changed the world.
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About DataDistillr, EltonAI, hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Amir Ghodrati
Director of Market Insights of App Annie
Amir Ghodrati has been with App Annie since May 2013 and currently leads the Market Insights team. Previously, he worked in market research providing analysis services to digital media clients across a variety of industries, including search, advertising, and e-commerce. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Duke University.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
Ben Carlos Thypin
Managing Director of Quantierra
Mr. Thypin is currently the co-founder of Quantierra, a data driven real estate investment platform. Prior to founding Quantierra, Mr Thypin was Director of Market Analysis at Real Capital Analytics (“RCA”), the premier commercial property investment research firm in the world. At RCA, Mr Thypin was responsible for researching and analyzing commercial property investment and financing transactions on a global basis, helping institutional clients best make use of RCA’s data products and writing and editing macro reports on the commercial property capital markets. Most recently, Mr Thypin led the effort to build and launch RCA’s commercial real estate loan database, the largest in existence. Mr Thypin got his start in the real estate industry through his family’s real estate portfolio. After nearly a century of work building Thypin Steel Co. into one of the top stainless steel processing and distribution firms in the eastern United States, the Thypin-Oltchick family sold the firm to Ryerson Tull in 1997 and retained the nearly 1 million square feet of industrial real estate in 7 cities formerly occupied by Thypin Steel Co. Since the sale of Thypin Steel, Mr Thypin has played an active role in managing, redeveloping and expanding the family’s portfolio, most recently as Vice President of Bayard Street Properties – Murray Hill LLC, a multifamily investment in the Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City. Prior to working at RCA, Mr. Thypin held positions at Plaza Construction Co, LCOR Inc, and Toll Brothers Inc. Mr Thypin earned a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.
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About Quantierra: Quantierra provides real estate deal sourcing services intended to be offered through data and analytics.
Scherezade Momin
Managing Director of Quantierra
Scherry designs, codes, and hacks. She is an entrepreneur, scientist, designer, and avid fashion hobbyist, who is also passionate about real estate, data and the internet (especially hacking it). Currently, she is a co-founder of Quantierra, a data-driven real estate investment platform. They use data and algorithms to source commercial real estate investment deals in New York City.
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About Quantierra: Quantierra provides real estate deal sourcing services intended to be offered through data and analytics.
Sandip Trivedi
Managing Director of Quantierra
Sandip is always constantly learning and getting involved in new and interesting things. His goal is never to stop learning and never stop improving.
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About Quantierra: Quantierra provides real estate deal sourcing services intended to be offered through data and analytics.
Stephen Jacob Smith
Managing Director of Quantierra
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About Quantierra: Quantierra provides real estate deal sourcing services intended to be offered through data and analytics.
Laura Kholodenko
Managing Director of IHS Markit
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Jannes
Director, Head of Product and Trading Analytics of IHS Markit
John Jannes is a Director of Business Development for IHS Markit’s Trading Analytics product suite where he focuses on the creation of trading analytics solutions for trading compliance and transaction cost analysis. Prior to working at the firm John spent fifteen years working in electronic trading on the sell side. He has held a range of positions including trader, sales specialist, product manager, and execution consultant. John has extensive market structure experience including managing three different dark pools, creation of smart order routing strategies, and participation in best-ex committees. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 licenses.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Matt Short
Senior Research Director, IOT of IHS Markit
Matt Short is the research and analysis lead for Internet of Things (IOT) solutions within the Transformative Technology team at IHS Markit. As a Transformative Technologies lead, his role is to offer insights, data and strategic assistance to companies in their efforts to develop individual growth strategies, market-entry plans and competitive analysis in the disruptive world of IOT across different industries and levels in the supply chain. He has over 20 years of experience in applications engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture and product and segment marketing. Previously, he was a senior product line manager focused on storage for NXP’s Digital Networking business. Matt Short worked with key players in the industry to develop innovative new solutions. He has been a key figure in developing processors ranging from PowerQUICC I, the QorIQ PowerPC family of communications processors, Layerscape ARM based processors as well as specialty security ASSPs. As a customer liaison for Motorola, Freescale and NXP, he focused on a wide breadth of applications such as IOT and industrial, storage and datacenter, networking and communications, as well as security. He was the executive sponsor for NXP for the Multicore for Avionics working group that helped avionics companies achieve FAA and EASA certification and spent several years co-chairing that group. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Texas, US.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Liz Cruz
Associate Director, IoT & Smart Cities of IHS Markit
Liz Cruz manages the IoT and Smart Cities research portfolio within IHS Markit Technology. The group tracks IoT connectivity (cellular, WiFi, and low-power), platforms, cybersecurity, and smart cities. Her team provides companies with accurate market forecasts and share analyses that help clients to identify new market opportunities, make strategic product development decisions, and advise on M&A activity. During her tenure at IHS Markit she has launched numerous research areas and grown revenues significantly year-over-year. Prior to managing the IoT team, Liz’s research focused on how digitization, the outsourcing of data center management, economic factors, and a focus on sustainability is changing the physical infrastructure for data centers. She is a frequent commentator on industry trends, speaker at data center related events, and contributor to technology news publications.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Liz Cruz
Associate Director, IoT & Smart Cities of IHS Markit
Liz Cruz manages the IoT and Smart Cities research portfolio within IHS Markit Technology. The group tracks IoT connectivity (cellular, WiFi, and low-power), platforms, cybersecurity, and smart cities. Her team provides companies with accurate market forecasts and share analyses that help clients to identify new market opportunities, make strategic product development decisions, and advise on M&A activity. During her tenure at IHS Markit she has launched numerous research areas and grown revenues significantly year-over-year. Prior to managing the IoT team, Liz’s research focused on how digitization, the outsourcing of data center management, economic factors, and a focus on sustainability is changing the physical infrastructure for data centers. She is a frequent commentator on industry trends, speaker at data center related events, and contributor to technology news publications.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Matt Short
Senior Research Director, IOT of IHS Markit
Matt Short is the research and analysis lead for Internet of Things (IOT) solutions within the Transformative Technology team at IHS Markit. As a Transformative Technologies lead, his role is to offer insights, data and strategic assistance to companies in their efforts to develop individual growth strategies, market-entry plans and competitive analysis in the disruptive world of IOT across different industries and levels in the supply chain. He has over 20 years of experience in applications engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture and product and segment marketing. Previously, he was a senior product line manager focused on storage for NXP’s Digital Networking business. Matt Short worked with key players in the industry to develop innovative new solutions. He has been a key figure in developing processors ranging from PowerQUICC I, the QorIQ PowerPC family of communications processors, Layerscape ARM based processors as well as specialty security ASSPs. As a customer liaison for Motorola, Freescale and NXP, he focused on a wide breadth of applications such as IOT and industrial, storage and datacenter, networking and communications, as well as security. He was the executive sponsor for NXP for the Multicore for Avionics working group that helped avionics companies achieve FAA and EASA certification and spent several years co-chairing that group. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Texas, US.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Alexander Martin
Director, Professional Services of Grafana Labs
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About athletes.gg, Grafana Labs: Grafana Labs is an open source software platform for analytics and monitoring database.
Debra Walton
Global Managing Director, Customer Proposition of Thomson Reuters
Debra is Chief Content Officer for Thomson Reuters and a veteran of the financial services industry. She leads a team of 4,000+ Thomson Reuters employees globally. Her team has end‐to‐end responsibility for setting the strategy and managing the operations of Thomson Reuters’ world‐class information and analytics to power the world’s financial markets. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Debra held senior executive roles at Cantor Fitzgerald, Nucleus Financial and Dow Jones Telerate.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Richard H. King
Managing Director of Thomson Reuters
Rick joined the company in 2000 and has held a number of executive roles, including Chief Technology Officer of both the Professional division of Thomson Reuters and Thomson Reuters Legal. Prior to joining the company, he held executive positions at Ceridian Employer Services, Jostens Learning and WICAT Systems, Inc. Rick began his career as a teacher and coach. Rick earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Vermont.
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Thomas Pelletier
Senior Director & Sales Operations of Thomson Reuters
Thomas Pelletier is the Senior Director & Sales Operations at Thomson Reuters.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Myles Van Leuven
Director, Client Success of Thomson Reuters
Myles Van Leuven is the Director of Client Success for Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker, where he has worked for 8 years. He is responsible for managing a team of Client Success Managers and Operations professionals who ensure client retention and revenue growth. During his at Legal Tracker, the business has grown from a startup to the market leader in legal matter management and e-Billing. Myles holds a law degree and MBA from Seattle University and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Laura, are the parents of five amazing children.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Kate Boeckman
Director, Specialty Content Management & Global Content Operations of Thomson Reuters
Kate Boeckman is the Director, Specialty Content Management, Global Content Operations at Thomson Reuters.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Adam Schaffner
Director Solution Consulting, SMB of Thomson Reuters
Adam Schaffner is the Director Solution Consulting, SMB at Thomson Reuters.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Hannah Chaplin
Director of Product Management of Pendo
Founder of Receptive.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Laura Baverman
Director of Communications of Pendo
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About Pendo, The Business Journals: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Jasper Lenz Radeke
Sr. Director, Marketing, North America of AppsFlyer
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Javier Hasse
Managing Director, Benzinga Cannabis of Benzinga
Javier Hasse is a cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics-focused reporter, currently serving as: * Managing Director of Benzinga Cannabis. * CEO of Spanish-language news site El Planteo, a company he co-founded. * Senior Contributor at Forbes. His book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business,” was published by Entrepreneur Media in 2018 and hit the #1 Best-Seller spot on Amazon. As an award-winning reporter and editor, Javier’s had roughly 5,000 unique articles in multiple languages published across numerous mass media outlets including CNN, Forbes, MSN, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Houston Chronicle, The Street, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Playboy, Benzinga, MERRY JANE, High Times, and many others. Beyond cannabis, Javier is a published photographer and Billboard-charting rapper, featured on hip-hop albums that also included Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Inspectah Deck, Twista, Lil Windex, Riff Raff, Cyhi The Prynce, Yung Bleu, DJ Whoo Kid, Jonathan Hay, and others.
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About Benzinga, Billboard, El Planteo, Entrepreneur.com, Green Market Report, High Times, Playboy: Benzinga is a financial news and analysis service providing timely, actionable insights for investors.
Patrick Thompson
Director of Product of Amplitude
Patrick Thompson is the Director of Product at Amplitude. Before that, he was the Co-founder at Iteratively (acquired by 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.
Joshua Perlow
Director of Sales of Restless Bandit
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About Restless Bandit: Restless Bandit transforms workforce data into workforce decisions.
David Kroner
Managing Director, Financial Services of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Wilson Raj
Global Director, Customer Intelligence of SAS
Wilson Raj is the Global Director of Customer Intelligence at SAS. Collaborating with customers, industry influencers, partners, and product teams, Wilson drives the global marketing strategy of SAS solutions that give marketing organizations the ultimate analytical advantage—powered by AI and Machine Learning. With twenty years of experience in multiple industries, Wilson has built data-driven brand value, engagement, and loyalty through expertise in analytical marketing that integrates advertising, branding, digital marketing, social media, cross-channel relationship marketing and public relations. He has held global leadership positions in marketing at Fortune Global 500® companies such as Microsoft, Novell. Medtronic, and Philips. He also advised C-level executives on digital strategy while at leading agencies such as Publicis Groupe and also at VML and Wunderman—both of which are WPP-owned agencies in the Young & Rubicam Group. Wilson is often featured in global media outlets and major industry publications such as Adweek, CMSWire , CNBC.com, CRM Buyer, Direct Marketing News , eMarketer, InformationWeek, MarTech Advisor, MarketingProfs, ZDNet, and more. Wilson holds a B.A. in English and an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University, and a Certificate-in-Education from the Institute of Education in Singapore.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Steve Kearney
Medical Director of SAS
Steve Kearney is the Medical Director at SAS where he leads the organization’s focus on the future of digital health across Health Care, Life Sciences, Government, and Research and Development divisions. SAS’ world-renowned team helps solve the most complex healthcare challenges utilizing advanced analytical solutions, machine learning and artificial intelligence. An innovator in health outcomes and digital medicine, Dr. Kearney co-developed and implemented one of the first electronic disease registries at Duke Health where he practiced in both inpatient cardiology and outpatient internal medicine during his joint faculty appointment at Duke and UNC. Dr. Kearney then joined the Medical Outcomes group at Pfizer where he continued his practical actionable approach to data and the patient journey. He focused on health outcome insights from electronic medical record migrations, early personal digital assistants, novel health software programs and the first large patient claims databases. Prior to joining SAS in 2016, he led Pfizer’s ACO and PCMH initiatives while also working with national thought leaders on health policy for state and federal agencies. Dr. Kearney has received numerous national awards for health care quality and for excellence in teaching. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Governors Institute and is a past board member for the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP), Past Chair of the NCAP Professional Relations Committee, co-founder of the NCAP Residency Leadership Conference where he was recognized for 20 years of service in 2019, and a founding Board Member and past President of the Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Alumni Association. He has completed post-doctoral studies at both UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and Harvard School of Public Health.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Kimberly Nevala
Director – Business Strategies, SAS Best Practices of SAS
Kimberly Nevala is a director on the SAS Best Practices team where she is responsible for industry education, key client strategies, and market analysis in the areas of business intelligence and analytics, data governance, and master data management. Kimberly has over 15 years’ experience advising clients worldwide on sustainable business strategies, business-IT alignment and enterprise solution deployment. Her work has been featured by CIO Asia, Knowledge World, Network World and Datanami. Prior to joining SAS, Kimberly was a Principal Consultant with Baseline Consulting, the premier provider of specialty consulting for business analytics, data management, and data integration.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Thomas Kimner
Director, Head of Global Marketing and Operations, Risk Management of SAS
Thomas Kimner is the Head of Global Marketing & Operations, Risk Management at SAS Institute.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Nate Agrin
Director of Visualization of Looker
Nate Agrin is the director of visualization at [Looker](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/looker#/entity), a software company that employs business intelligence to make data accessible to organizations and analysts. He has also served as an engineer at Chartio. Agrin resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
