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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 Director operating in the Cloud Computing 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.
Jared Murrell
Director of GitHub
Jared Murrell is the Director 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.
Jeremy Adams
Director, Business Development – BD/Alliances of GitHub
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About Cellar Door Coffee Roasters, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Kyle Daigle
Senior Director, Strategic Programs of GitHub
Kyle Daigle is the Senior Director, Strategic Programs 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.
Jamie Jones
Director, Field Architecture of GitHub
Jamie Jones is the Global Head of Field Services at GitHub.
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About Dcode, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Nathan Henderson
Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East of GitHub
Nathan Henderson is the Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East 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.
Danielle Leong
Director Of Engineering of GitHub
Danielle Leong is the Director Of Engineering 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.
Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services 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.
Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services 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.
Shankar Pasupathy
Senior Director, AI and Data Engineering, Active IQ of NetApp
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Geoff Tudor
Sr. Director, Hyperscaler Cloud Solutions of NetApp
Geoff Tudor is the Sr. Director of Hyperscaler Cloud Solutions at NetApp.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Lee Howard
Director, GSI Solutions Engineering of NetApp
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Ralph Renne
Director of Site Operations of NetApp
Director, Workplace Resources – Real Estate and Facilities, Americas, Netapp.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Anna Schlegel
Sr. Director, Globalization Programs Strategy Office and Information Engineering of NetApp
Anna Schlegel is Senior Director of Information Engineering and Globalization at NetApp. Much of her time is spent focusing on the right content reaches the right people, when, where, and how they need it, in the language they prefer: Their own. Anna is the author of Truly Global, The Theory and Practice of Bringing Your Company to International Markets (2016, FriesenPress). She’s also the co-founder of Women in Localization and the Chair of Women in Technology at NetApp. She is the recipient of the 2017 Women Worth Watching in STEM Award by the Diversity Journal.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Vinod Kone
Senior Director Of Engineering of Segment
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About Segment, The Apache Software Foundation, The Apache Software Foundation: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Steven Nguyen
Director of GRC of Segment
Steven Nguyen currently serves as the Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) at Segment focused on enhancing security and privacy at Segment and for their customers. Prior to his role at Segment, he served in various security roles at a Fortune 7, including building out enterprise wide security and privacy programs and serving as information security officer for one of their major business units.
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Kelly L Campbell
Managing Director, Growth Marketing of Google Cloud
Kelly L Campbell is the President at Peacock TV.
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About Google Cloud, Peacock TV: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Jennifer Lin
Director and Security of Google Cloud
Jennifer Lin leads a team focused on Google Cloud’s security and privacy products. Prior to joining Google, Lin was on the founding team and led product management at Contrail Systems, an open-source cloud service automation startup which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2012. Prior to Juniper, Lin managed various product teams at Cisco focused on wireless sensor networks/IoT, wireless/mobility services and enterprise routing. Previously, she has led teams in technical, operational and strategic roles at Intel and web/software startups in Silicon Valley. Lin earned a BSE from Princeton University and an MSE from Stanford University.
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About Google, Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Jack Lo
Engineering Director of Google Cloud
Jack Lo is Sr. Director of Engineering for Core Compute in Google Cloud. He leads teams working on Google Compute Engine and compute infrastructure, as well as initiatives for enterprise migration, lift-and-shift, and High-Performance Computing/Big Compute. Prior to joining Google, Jack was Vice President R&D in the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware, and led engineering
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Mike Aiello
Director, Product Management of Google Cloud
Mike is the Director of Product Management for Google Cloud Security. Additionally, Mike serves as a Board Director or Board Advisor to cybersecurity, technology and investment companies. Mike’s security, risk management, data protection, and privacy products at Google help secure thousands of businesses and billions of people every day. Before joining Google, he served as Chief Information Security Officer at Goldman Sachs, where he helped secure the company’s digital retail bank and established the Consumer Trust and Technology Risk Committee.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Sudhir Hasbe
Director of Product Management of Google Cloud
Sr. Director of Product Mgmt at Google Cloud (Smart Analytics – BigQuery, Dataflow, DataProc, PubSub, Composer, Data Fusion, Catalog, Dataprep). Sudhir is an accomplished product management leader with over 20 years of experience building industry-leading products at various organizations. Prior to joining Google, Sudhir was Vice President of Product Mgmt & Software Engineering at zulily where he was responsible for building zulily’s data platform using GCP.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Jenn Bennett
Technical Director, Office of the CTO of Google Cloud
Jen inspires customers to transform their business through data, analytics and machine learning. The transformation of business models, product and operational excellence and innovation all depend on modern technology that empowers machines and people to make the right decisions at the right time
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Ulku Rowe
Technical Director & Financial Services of Google Cloud
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Gabriel Cheng
Director of Growth Marketing of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Sangeeta Walsh
Director of Partner/Platform and Analytics Product Marketing of RingCentral
Sangeeta Walsh is the director of partner and platform and analytics product marketing at RingCentral.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jitender Kumar
Director Application Development of RingCentral
Application Development is my passion. I enjoy every aspect of application development, be it abstract or detailed architecture, coding, project planning for quality software applications
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
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.
Robert Corbin
Director, Head of B2B Marketing Science and Infrastructure of Dell EMC
Rob Corbin leads Digital Marketing Analytics at EMC Corporation. With over 18 years of experience in marketing, sales, and consulting, he specializes in creating rapid time-to-value solutions for companies. His big data predictive analytics and decision systems experience spans the transportation, finance, and technology industries. Rob has a BSE in Operations Research from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
James DiStasio
Member of the Board of Directors of Dell EMC
DiStasio has been a director of EMC since March 2010. From January 2003 until his retirement in January 2007,DiStasio served as Senior Vice Chairman and Americas Chief Operating Officer of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services organization. He spent over 38 years at Ernst & Young in various management positions, having been elected as a partner in 1977. DiStasio is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northeast Utilities (d/b/a Eversource Energy) (where he is Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Executive Committee). DiStasio holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois. DiStasio brings to the Board extensive financial, accounting and consulting expertise, including a deep understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting rules and regulations, acquired over the course of his 38-year career at one of the world’s leading assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services firms. He has significant experience overseeing, from an independent auditor’s perspective, the financial reporting processes of large public companies in a variety of industries with a global presence. Through his leadership roles at E&Y, including as COO of the Americas,DiStasio gained substantial management and operational experience. In addition,DiStasio’s service on another public company board provides him with valuable experience.
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About : DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Jennifer Wemstrom
Senior Director of Life Sciences Product Management of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Andrew Fenselau
Senior Director Of Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Russ Greene
Senior Director, Channel Business Development and Productivity of Dell EMC
Responsible for channel pre and post sales technical enablement (resellers, distributors, alliances, service providers and OEM’s) customer education sell-through, Sales GTM programs and campaigns, Education Services strategy development, acquisition integration, and business analytics.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Shyam Kota
Director, Product Management of Arista Networks
Shyam Kota is the director of the product management team at Arista Networks.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
John Engerholm
Senior Managing Director of Globant
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About Globant, Virtusa: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Chris Brummel
Director of Design of Globant
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About Globant, L4 Digital: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Brian Spittler
Senior Director of Brand and Communications of Contentful
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About Contentful, Contentful, Podium: Contentful offers a headless content management system that helps organizations deliver content across channels.
Nick Sturiale
Managing Director of Ignition Partners
Nick Sturiale joined Ignition as managing partner in 2013, after more than 25 years of experience developing startups, both as venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Prior to Ignition, Nick spent three years at JAFCO Ventures as a general partner, where he invested in companies such as Reputation.com, Bill.com and Delphix. Prior to JAFCO, Nick spent eight years at Sevin Rosen Funds, where he incubated and led first investments in companies such as XenSource, which was acquired by Citrix Systems (CTXS) for $500 million; Splunk (SPLK), the leading public company in “big data”; and Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), a leading SaaS vendor in file collaboration. Nick also worked at The Carlyle Group as a managing director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office. Prior to venture capital, Nick spent twelve years as a software entrepreneur. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies, a manufacturing-analytics software company, which won the 1999 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and was acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million in 2001. Currently he serves on the board of directors of Splunk, Hightail, Vuclip, StrongLoop and BlueData. Nick holds a BS degree in economics from California State University, Chico, and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.
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About Ignition Partners: Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Claudine Emeott
Senior Director, Impact Investing of Salesforce Ventures
Claudine Emeott is the senior director of impact investing at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Scott Weinbrandt
Director Dell GAM Sell-in of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
John Yeoh
Director of Research, Americas of Cloud Security Alliance
With over 15 years of experience in research and technology, John has spent time as an analyst, researcher, and executive in academia and government. He is a technologist and published author with areas of expertise in cybersecurity, cloud computing, information security, and next generation technologies (IoT, Big Data, SecaaS, Quantum). His thought leadership has been presented in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, SC Magazine, USA today, Information Week, and others. John sits on numerous technology committees for government and industry with the FCC, NIST, ISO, CSA, and others in the development of cloud security standards, tools, and solutions.
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About Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, FCC: The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security.
Lin Sun
Director of Open Source of Solo.io
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About Istio, Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Chris Gaun
Director of Product of Solo.io
Physics nerd turned tech geek. Manage Gloo Platforms at Solo.io
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Dino Vendetti
Founder & Managing Director of Seven Peaks Ventures
Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and exec in leading technology companies and is focused on building and growing the tech eco-system in Oregon. He founded Seven Peaks Ventures in Bend OR to work with and support the most promising entrepreneurs throughout the northwest.
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About OSU-Cascades, Seven Peaks Ventures: Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on funding highly scalable software businesses.
Erik Benson
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Erik Benson is a General Partner with Voyager Capital, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to Voyager, Erik was an EIR for Seattle-based WRF Capital after leadership roles at Mimix Inc., a pioneer in the area of motion capture and animation software for the gaming industry. Erik started his career in New York City for a predecessor bank to JPMorgan Chase called Chemical Bank, advising and financing private equity clients.
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About Imperative, Lighter Capital, Rebellion Defense, Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Bill McAleer
Co-founder and Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Bill McAleer is the Co-founder and Managing Director at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Diane Fraiman
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
Diane Fraiman joined Voyager Capital Managing Director as in 2007.
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About Act-On Software, Syndio, Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
James Newell
Managing Director of Voyager Capital
James Newell is the Managing Director at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Bryan Friedman
Director of Product Marketing of Pivotal
Bryan Friedman is a director of product marketing for Pivotal. Previously, he spent over ten years working for a large enterprise biotech company in a number of various information technology areas including as an application developer, administrator, and architect. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a master’s degree in computer science from California Lutheran University.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
David Julia
Director of Pivotal
David Julia is a long-time Pivotal Labs consultant with experience writing, deploying, and supporting production systems in Ruby, Golang and Java in XP teams for startups, fortune 100 companies, and everything in between. Started the lattice.cf project. He’s currently focused on helping large enterprises transform their internal development teams to adopt modern agile development, agile software architecture, and a culture of continuous improvement.
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About Eagle.io – Environmental IoT, Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Mark Weislow
Engagement Director of Pivotal
Mark started his career in Software Engineering, helping to develop and support a C language cross-compiler for embedded devices, developed medical research applications and moved into Professional Services Management for multiple product companies. Mark now works at Pivotal, Inc, in the Customer Success team as an Engagement Director.
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About Pivotal, Tetrate: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Rodrigo Vaca
Managing Director, Zoho Brasil of Zoho
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About Qntrl, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Laura Burrus
Director- Enterprise Demand Gen and Customer Marketing of Zoho
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About Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Ryan Campbell
Director of Worldwide Support Delivery of CloudBees
Ryan Campbell is the director of worldwide support delivery and co-founder at CloudBees.
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About CloudBees: CloudBees develops a cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end automated software delivery.
David Da Silva
Global Director of Marketing Operations of Mapbox
David runs North America Marketing Operations at NewVoiceMedia. He is a Marketo Certified Expert, and focusses on maximizing process efficiencies to improve how Marketing and Sales interact.
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About Mapbox: Mapbox is a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
Ravi Yadav
Director – Ecosystem, Corp Dev & Strategy of D2iq
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Robert Stefanski
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Robert Stefanski is an entrepreneur with deep operational and board experience in the software, mobile and Internet markets. He was on the founding management team of TIBCO Software, where he served as the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary. As a member of TIBCO’s executive management team, Bob had broad responsibility for day to day business operations from its founding in 1997 to its emergence in the early 2000s as one of the leading enterprise infrastructure software companies in the world. TIBCO remains a world leader today in enterprise infrastructure software, with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion. Bob left TIBCO in 2008 to more actively pursue his passion as an advisor and board member for Silicon Valley early stage startups. He began his career as an attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City, where he represented technology, media and entertainment companies in a broad range of matters. He joined Reuters 1996 as Director of Intellectual Property. He has also been involved with the UM Center for Entrepreneurship since its inception in 2007 and currently serves on its Board of Directors as well as being a mentor at the student startup incubator, TechArb. In addition to his work with Michigan eLab, he is a partner with the international law firm Reed Smith in its Silicon Valley office. Bob is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Graduate School of Engineering. He has an undergraduate degree in computer science/mathematics from Northern Michigan
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Rick Bolander
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Rick Bolander is a General Partner at Michigan eLab Venture Fund. Rick has been a private investor since 1988 launching Blue Sky Ventures, a real estate investment firm, and entering the venture capital industry in 1994 at Apex Venture Partners where he was general partner. In 1999, he co-founded Gabriel Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in and assists information technology startups. Rick identifies the smartest entrepreneurs and works side-by-side with them to build highly successful companies from the ground up. Rick has been involved in more than 50 venture deals, and has led over $100 million in early-stage financings and has had over $200 million in realizations. Rick has served on the boards of AccessLine Communications (acquired by Telanetix), Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), Concord Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: CCRD), Exodus Communications (IPO – NASDAQ: EXDS, then acquired by Savvis), IPWireless (acquired by Nextwave), Jacked (acquired by Roundbox), Neopath (acquired by Cisco), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix Systems), Persistent Systems (IPO – BSE India: PER EQ), Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) Tut Systems (IPO – NASDAQ: TUTS), and Chegg (IPO – NYSE:CHGG). Education MBA – Harvard Business School MS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (full fellowship) BS – Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (with honors)
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Doug Neal
Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures
Doug Neal is Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures.
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About eLab Ventures, New Vital Signs: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Paul Brown
Managing Director of eLab Ventures
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About eLab Ventures: eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund.
Fernando Oliveira
Senior Director, Sales & Partnerships of Canonical
Fernando Oliveira is a Tech Entrepreneur with Global experience in U.S., Latin America and Emerging Markets He has developed new businesses in Cloud Computing, Networking and Data Center space. Actually, He is based on Silicon Valley in charge Sales & Partnership @ Canonical and Board Advisor @ BWGStrategy. Previously, Fernando Oliveira was Head of Cloud and Internet of Things Strategy at Cisco, also led various sales positions in his previous career at Cisco He is very passionate about change, innovation and start-ups which he has been very engaged with ventures in areas such as Cloud, OpenStack, SDN, Application Container, Object Storage and PaaS
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About BWG Strategy, Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Vijith Reddy Bheemireddi
Director of Customer Success and Support Engineering of Armory
Director of Customer Success and Support
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Chris Haines
Director of Business Operations of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Prateek Gupta
Director of Developer Content of Pusher
Director of Developer Content @Pusher, ex-Director @Pluralsight, Class 1 @mit Bootcamp, ex-COO @airpair, Board Member @TheStartupBus, @DEMO Alumni & family guy.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Go Urano
Director of Finance of Macrometa
Go Urano is the Director of Finance at Macrometa Corp.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
Boris Gueorguiev
Director of Engineering of Macrometa
Boris Gueorguiev is the Director of Engineering at Macrometa Corp.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
Josh Ellis
Director, Marketing and Customer Development of FluentStream
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About FluentStream: Your business phone system, service, and support in the cloud.
Angelique Medina
Director, Product Marketing of ThousandEyes
Angelique has worked in technical marketing roles related to network infrastructure and network visibility for the past ten years, most recently at ThousandEyes, where she works on multi-layer visibility spanning application, DNS, L3, and BGP. She’s particularly focused on performance monitoring for SD-WAN and cloud/SaaS adoption. In 2018, she served as the lead author of the Global DNS Performance Benchmark Report. Prior to joining ThousandEyes, she spent time working on data center networking at Big Switch Networks and visibility switching at VSS Monitoring.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Archana Kesavan
Director, Product Marketing of ThousandEyes
Archana Kesavan is a Director, Product Marketing at ThousandEyes, where she is responsible for product messaging, reporting on the health of the Internet, and digging into the causes of outages that impact critical services. Prior to ThousandEyes, she was a Product Manager at Cisco Systems and Brocade managing the service provider mobile portfolio. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Networking from NC State.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Jennifer Johnson
Director of Global Marketing Programs of Informatica
Jennifer P. Johnson is the Director of Global Marketing Programs at Informatic.
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About Informatica, San Jose State University: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Bikash Roy Choudhury
Technical Director of Pure Storage
Bikash is responsible for designing and architecting solutions for EDA and DevOps workflows across industry verticals including high-tech, financial services, and gaming. He has worked on validating solutions with RHOSP, Kubernetes, JFrog, Jenkins, and Perforce and integrating them with storage in private, hybrid, and public clouds.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Cody Hosterman
Technical Director, Virtualization of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Jonas Irwin
Director, Cloud Solutions Architects, Americas of Pure Storage
Jonas leads the team of Field Cloud Solutions Architects for the Americas. He meets with many enterprises that are adopting a cloud-first strategy but often aren’t quite sure where or how to start. His session covers critical capabilities for a successful cloud-first strategy and how Pure’s portfolio aligns with modern-enterprise needs.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Craig Halliwell
Director, Strategic Alliances of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Vanessa Wilson
Director Business Development, FlashBlade of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Radhakrishnan Manga
Sr. Director of Customer Solutions Group of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Rob Ludeman
Director, Solutions Marketing of Pure Storage
Rob joined Pure Storage in 2017 to lead Marketing for business applications solutions, focusing on promoting Pure solutions for Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. Rob came to Pure with more than 20 years of experience at Oracle and Sun Microsystems in a variety of product marketing, sales enablement, and product management roles.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Vipul Bhatnagar
Director, Subscription business & Operations of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Nurettin Dag
Director Of Engineering of Flatiron Health
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Julia Morton
Senior Director, Customer Success of Flatiron Health
Julia leads the Customer Success function at Flatiron Health. The Flatiron team is building a disruptive, oncology-specific software platform that connects cancer centers across the world on a common technology infrastructure to address key healthcare challenges, dramatically improving treatment and accelerating research. Julia’s team is responsible for helping oncologists be successful on Flatiron’s software and partnering with customers to achieve their strategic objectives around practice sustainability and growth. The Customer Success team delivers Account Management, Customer Support, Technical Support Engineering, Communications and Training & Content services to oncology practices nationwide. Prior to joining Flatiron, Julia led the Physician Onboarding function at ZocDoc, and worked as a consultant to healthcare and technology clients growing their businesses and improving customers’ experience. She holds a BA and an MBA from Harvard.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Evan Estola
Director of Engineering of Flatiron Health
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Lesley Plotkin
Director, Research Marketing of Flatiron Health
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About Flatiron Health, Flatiron Health, Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Carlos Aguilar
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering of Flatiron Health
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering at Flatiron Health.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Nathaniel Brown
Director of Product Marketing and Strategy of Flatiron Health
Nathaniel Brown is the director of product marketing and strategy at Flatiron Health.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Mike Devine
Member of the Board of Directors & Chairman of the Audit Committee of Appian
Mike chairs the Audit Committee of our Board. He was an audit partner at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Mike led Andersen’s efforts in working with technology companies in the Washington, D.C. area. He has assisted many software and telecommunication companies in their transitions from start-up to IPO and beyond. After retiring from the public accounting business, Mike was CFO of Secure Software from 2004 through 2007. Since then, Mike has been helping technology companies improve their finance and accounting functions. Mike also served on the Board of Directors and audit committee at Martek Biosciences from 2008 until its acquisition by DSM in 2011.
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About : Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Sanjeev Desai
Senior Director, Solutions Marketing of Cohesity
Sanjeev Desai is a global solutions marketing lead at Cohesity for data center alliances and service providers. He is a customer-centric and results-driven leader with expertise in driving transformative business solutions in Multi-Cloud/Hybrid IT.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
James Liu
Director — Demand Generation and Field Marketing of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
David K. Donovan
VP and Managing Director, Global Markets of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Max Kirby
Director, Cloud Solutions Practice of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Alex Toledo
Director of Technology of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Mahesh Naik
Director Technology of Publicis Sapient
Senior Information Technology Leader with 25+ years of experience in designing, building, implementing and supporting technology solutions to support technical and analytical needs of the business. A natural and influencing leader, relationship builder who combines a vast technical knowledge with an understanding of the people and processes affected by new technology implementations. Establishes critical vendor and partner relations while overseeing excellence in performance and delivery. Keeps abreast of new technology, and approaches all implementation with innovative solutions for optimum results.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Ankit Gupta
Sr Director, Digital Identity Product and Solution of Persistent Systems
Ankit Gupta is the director of engineering and architecture with Persistent Systems, a global software and technology company. He is an authority on information security and compliance, and has security solution implementation at both small and major corporations. He is also implementor of some of the largest identity management, access control and data security solutions. across verticals such as retail, financial services, energy and higher education.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Jeff Aucone
Director/Senior Consultant Worldwide Data & Insight of NetProspex
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About NetProspex: NetProspex is a provider of B2B marketing data services and data management.
Sage Weil
Co-founder & Managing Director of DreamHost
Sage Weil is Founder at DreamHost.
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About Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), Ceph Storage, DreamHost, Red Hat: DreamHost provides web hosting, domain registration, and cloud services for individuals, small businesses, and developers.
Frank Fanzilli
Corporate Director of iboss
Frank Fanzilli is an experienced corporate board member and advisor to both public and private companies in the enterprise software, cloud and big data industries. He spent 18 years at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and Credit Suisse, where he was global chief information officer, leading the company’s global IT strategy and operations. During his tenure at CSFB, Fanzilli had global responsibility for the firm’s extensive IT resources, managing more than 4,000 IT professionals and more than $2 billion in spending. He currently serves on the board of directors at Calypso Software, where he is lead director, CommVault (CVLT), and Enterprise DB. Previously, Frank has been on the board of many notable companies, including Interwoven (acquired by Autonomy), where he was chairman of the board, PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle), Avaya (acquired by Silverlake/TPG), and 1010Data (acquired by Advance Newhouse). Frank continues to be involved in a number of private software companies, venture firms, and incubators. He is also one of the longest serving independent directors at the The Linux Foundation, where he is chairman of the audit committee.
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About : iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Sara Liu Liang
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and Director of Supermicro
Chiu-Chu (Sara) Liu Liang co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1985 to 1993, Ms. Liang held finance and operational positions for several companies, including Micro Center Computer Inc. Ms. Liang holds a B.S. in Accounting from Providence University in Taiwan. Ms. Liang is married to Mr. Charles Liang.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Wally Liaw
Co-Founder, Vice President of International Sales, Secretary and Director of Supermicro
Yih-Shyan (Wally) Liaw co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of International Sales, Corporate Secretary and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Liaw was Vice President of Engineering at Great Tek, a computer company. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Sim Upadhyayula
Senior Director of Supermicro
Sim Upadhyayula serves as a senior director at Supermicro.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
