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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 Consumer 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.
Aya Miyaguchi
Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation
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About Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that helps developers to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.
William Colombo
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
William J. Colombo became our Vice Chairman in 2008. Previously, Mr. William Colombo was President & Chief Operating Officer since 2002, and a member of our Board since 2002. From late in 1998 to 2001, Mr. William Colombo served as President of dsports.com LLC, our internet commerce subsidiary. Mr. Colombo served as Chief Operating Officer and an Executive Vice President from 1995 to 1998. Mr. William Colombo joined us in 1988. From 1977 to 1988, he held various field and corporate management positions with J.C. Penney.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Lawrence Schorr
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Lawrence J. Schorr has served on the Board since 1985. Mr. Lawrence Schorr currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Empire Plastics, Inc. (a privately owned plastics manufacturing company) and as co-managing partner of the law firm of Levene, Gouldin and Thompson LLP. Mr. Lawrence Schorr has held both of these positions for the last five years. He previously was President of RRT-Recycle America, a subsidiary of WMX Technologies, Inc. He formerly served in the same position for Resource Recycling Technologies, Inc. (a solid waste material management company). Prior to that he served as a partner in the law firm of Levene, Gouldin and Thompson LLP.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Larry Stone
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Larry D. Stone has served on the Board since 2007. Mr. Larry Stone is formerly the President and Chief Operating Officer at Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW), a home improvement retailer. Mr. Larry Stone was responsible for store operations, merchandising, marketing, logistics, distribution, store support, and Lowe’s Canadian operations. He also serves on the Board of General Parts International, Inc., a private company in the auto parts retail and distribution business.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Allen Weiss
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Allen R. Weiss is a member of the Board of Directors of Alticor, parent company of Amway, one of the world’s largest direct selling companies. Weiss joined the board in 2012 and is the former president of worldwide operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a $10+ billion business with 95,000 employees. He managed operations at the company’s theme parks and resorts, including the Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club and “Adventures by Disney.” He began his 39-year Disney career as a teenager in cash control and rose steadily through the ranks. Prior to his role as president of worldwide operations, Weiss served as president of Walt Disney World Resort. He led the company to its largest expansion — including double-digit revenue growth, seven consecutive years of record revenues and profit and worldwide expansion — through challenging global recession. Weiss also spent more than 20 years holding various executive positions in the areas of finance, marketing and sales, entertainment and operations. Weiss is an active community leader, serving on the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission Governor’s Council; the Give Kids the World Executive Advisory Council; and the Board of Directors for the Dr. P. Phillips Performing Arts Center and SunTrust Bank Central Florida. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Apollo Group, Inc. and Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc., Great Wolf Resorts and a National Board Member for the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. Weiss earned an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, a BSBA from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and earned his CPA certification. He has been named a distinguished alumnus by the UCF and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame by Rollins College and UCF.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Vincent Byrd
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Vincent C. Byrd joined the Board in January 2013. Mr. Vincent Byrd has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM), a manufacturer and marketer of branded food products (“J. M. Smucker”), since May 2011. Prior to that time, he served as President, U.S. Retail — Coffee of J. M. Smucker since August 2008, and Senior Vice President, Consumer Market, since February 2004. Mr. Vincent Byrd also serves as a director of J. M. Smucker and a director and the chair of the compensation committee of Myers Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MYE), an international manufacturer of polymer products for industrial, agricultural, automotive, commercial, and consumer markets. He also served as a director of Spangler Candy Company, a private company that manufactures confectionery products, from 1998 to 2008.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Emanuel Chirico
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Emanuel Chirico joined the Board in 2003. In 2007, Mr. Emanuel Chirico was named Chairman of the Board of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, an apparel and footwear company. He was named its Chief Executive Officer in 2006. Previously, Mr. Emanuel Chirico had been President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation since 2005 and its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2005. From 1993 until 1999, Mr. Emanuel Chirico was the Company’s Controller. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young, LLC.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Paloma DeNardis
Director of Executive Search and Head of Diversity and Inclusion of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Paloma DeNardis is the director of executive search and head of diversity and inclusion at DICK’S Sporting Goods.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Jay Brown
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Marcy Venture Partners
Jay Brown has served as a member of our Board since January 2014. Jay Brown, a 20-year music industry executive veteran, fostered the careers and discovered countless superstars including Rihanna and Ne-Yo and worked with artists such as NAS. Jay Brown is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roc Nation, a full-service entertainment company started in 2008. Mr. Brown currently overseas the careers of a diverse Roc Nation roster comprised of Grammy award winning and critically acclaimed recording artists, writers and producers including Rihanna, Shakira, Timbaland, Kylie Minogue and Santigold. Prior to Roc Nation, Mr. Brown served as Executive Vice President for Def Jam Recordings from 2005 to 2008 and as Senior Vice President of Elektra Records from 1999 to 2004. Our Board has concluded that Mr. Brown should serve on the Board based upon his experience as an entrepreneur and senior executive and his broad knowledge of the music and entertainment industries.
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About Marcy Venture Partners, Roc Nation: Marcy Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing on consumer, culture, and mass-market brands.
Larry Marcus
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Marcy Venture Partners
Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital Investments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor – IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, Hatch Baby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.
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About Marcy Venture Partners, Scientific Revenue, TouchBistro, Walden Venture Capital: Marcy Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing on consumer, culture, and mass-market brands.
Suk Lee
Senior Director of Design Infrastructure Management Division of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Suk Lee works as a senior director of design infrastructure management division at TSMC.
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About Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: TSMC is a semiconductor foundry that offers wafer production processes and unparalleled manufacturing efficiency.
Thomas Quan
Director of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Tom Quan joined TSMC in 2007 as Deputy Director of Design Methodology and Services Marketing. Currently he is the director of Open Innovation Platform Marketing. Prior to joining TSMC, he was the Vice President of Marketing at Applied Wave Research, Inc., and held senior management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He began his career at Intel Corporation as an IC designer and has decades of chip design, technical/product marketing, strategic planning and business development experience. Tom holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: TSMC is a semiconductor foundry that offers wafer production processes and unparalleled manufacturing efficiency.
Ashley Cravens
Director Of Operations & Head of Platform of Uncork Capital
Ashley is the operational lynchpin of Uncork Capital. She was the firm’s first employee, and helped establish all of its processes and systems. Her contributions and responsibilities touch every aspect of the business. For starters: She manages corporate accounting, developed and maintains the firm’s internal deal flow management system, oversees legal documentation, plans all events and manages the Uncork Platform. She gets a thrill from discovering the most efficient way to get from A to B, but her most treasured role at Uncork is fostering relationships. Ashley loves bringing people together, as seen by the passion she brings to planning our quarterly cocktail hours, partner-hosted dinners, the annual summer party and the Uncork Capital Summit — a 2-day event in which founders of Uncork companies come together to exchange ideas and learn from one another. As Head of Platform, Ashley focuses on providing Uncork portfolio companies the connections and resources necessary to achieve their goals. She finds and vet’s service providers and experts for our founders and stops at nothing until she secures a discount for our portfolio. She connects founders to our broader community, whether that’s a law firm that can handle an IP battle, a venue that can seat 1,000 people in downtown San Francisco, a branding agency that can craft a differentiated, memorable identity, or a recruiting firm that can help a startup fill out its initial team. Prior to joining Uncork, Ashley spent more than a dozen years in the finance industry. She was a marketing director and registered insurance and securities assistant at Rosenbaum Financial in Portland Oregon. Previously she was a licensed broker at Morgan Stanley, where she managed accounts for two vice presidents and was a client relationship manager. She started her career at Smith Barney, where she conducted due diligence on mutual funds and became a specialist in client relations, running marketing campaigns, and special events for elite clients. Ashley graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in business administration/marketing.
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About Uncork Capital: Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Marcus Chan
Director of Content of NerdWallet
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About NerdWallet: NerdWallet develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates.
Kotesh Mukkamala
Director of Data and Platforms of Samsung Electronics
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About Kissaan, Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Max Min
Director, Foundry Package and SI/PI Architect of Samsung Electronics
Max Min is a Director from Samsung Foundry in San Jose. He is working on Package and Signal and Power Integrity for 10 years. He was with R&D and Sales and is now with Foundry Marketing. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2004.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sarah Peach
Senior Director, Product Management of Samsung Electronics
Prior to joining Samsung, Sarah Peach was Senior Director at Siemens Technology-to-Business in Berkeley, CA. At Siemens Sarah was responsible for turning early-stage innovations from start-ups into viable business opportunities for Siemens’ industrial business units. Her focus included all aspects of industrial product design and manufacturing, factory automation and control, and industrial services. Sarah has worked at the Office of the President, University of California system, and directed business development at two startups. She started her career in Germany at BASF. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University (UK) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, both in physics.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jae Young Shin
Business Director of Samsung Electronics
Jae-Young Shin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2015 and 2017 from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. In 2017, He joined Samsung Electronics as an Engineer, where he works on power integrity(PI) methodology development.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jun Alex Gao
Sr. Director, Head of Digital Health Lab, Samsung Research America of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Siva Boggala
Senior Director, Software Engineering (AR/VR and AI Platforms) of Samsung Electronics
Siva Boggala is a Senior Director for AR/VR software in Samsung Research America. He has 20+ years of experience in mobile technologies. Currently Siva is leading teams in 3D Avatar (AR Emoji), face and body tracking technologies, stereoscopic rendering, 6-DoF/3-DoF head, controller and hand tracking technologies. He led teams across full stack of mobile technologies from boot loaders to UX/UI applications for Samsung’s Android phones/tablets/watches, Windows Mobile phones, Symbian and feature phones. During his 16+ years in Samsung, Siva was involved in the development of 3D Graphics, System Software, Multimedia Technologies, IP Multimedia Subsystem (SIP/SDP/RTP/RTCP/GSMA) and modem protocol stacks. Siva holds a Masters in Computer Science from Andhra University and Bachelors in EE from Osmania University.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Christopher Buchanan
Director, Business Development of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Farshid Fallah
Director of Developer Relations, XR and Gaming of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Pierre Couteau
Senior Director Business Development of Samsung Electronics
Pierre Couteau, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Samsung Electronics America. Pierre Couteau is responsible for Samsung Mobile B2B strategic alliances. He focuses on bringing to market innovative solutions based on Samsung portfolio of smartphones, tablets, and wearables integrated with products and services from partners. His key focus has been on Public Safety solutions recently. He is a seasoned business development and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in high tech companies such as Samsung, Philips, NXP, and 2 start-ups. Over the last 15 years he has focused on the mobile industry, taking to market innovations such as Wireless connectivity, a mobile framework for smartphone applications, and a mobile application for note-taking and collaboration. His specialties are in B2B business development and marketing in the mobile industry. He has generated multi million dollars businesses by partnering with leading carriers, OEMs, and software companies.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Niklas Lyback
Director, Developer Success of Samsung Electronics
Niklas Lyback heads the Developer Success team and manages complementary developer services within the Samsung Developer Program, which are intended to make developers successful. For example, promotion requests and Galaxy Badges services help developers to be featured in the store with banners and outside the store, developers can provide a simple one-click solution for their loyal customers to be sent to the Galaxy Apps or Theme store, as well as can save money and improve their productivity by remote testing their Android APKs with the Cloud Device Farm.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Marvin Storey
Director – Customer Experience and Developer Ecosystem; Multiscreen Services of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Michelle Harper
US Director of Sales for Healthcare, Samsung Business of Samsung Electronics
Michelle Harper is a US Director of Sales for Healthcare, Samsung Business at Samsung Electronics.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Tim Schaaff
Member of the Board of Directors of Sony
Timothy Schaaff joined Sony Corporation of America in 2005 in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Software Development. In 2007 he was appointed President, Sony Media Software and Services, and in 2010 he assumed the role of President, Sony Network Entertainment. Schaaff is responsible for the development of Sony’s digital services businesses and infrastructure. He has global responsibility for strategy and business development related to network services, alignment of Sony-wide network services activities, and delivery of network services to all relevant Sony product platforms. Prior to joining Sony, Schaaff spent more than 14 years with Apple Computer, where he was responsible for development of a broad range of Apple’s media technologies including 2D- and 3D-graphics, audio and video platforms, print and digital imaging technologies, and real-time communications. He also led development of Apple’s QuickTime platform.
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About Intertrust: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Pete Wurman
Director, Sony AI America of Sony
Peter Wurman is the Director, Sony AI America
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About Acsibi Studios, Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Sheila Bair
Independent Director of Avant
Sheila was appointed President of Washington College in August 2015 and also serves as Senior Advisor to DLA Piper, an international law firm. Prior to her appointment, she was Senior Advisor to The Pew Charitable Trusts for four years and the Chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006-2011. Earlier, Sheila was the Dean’s Professor of Financial Regulatory Policy for the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She also served in various roles such as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Senior Vice President for Government Relations at the New York Stock Exchange, and Commissioner and Acting Chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Sheila is a director of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and Banco Santander, SA. She has a BA and law degree from the University of Kansas.
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About Fannie Mae, Washington College: Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Ashley Mitchell
Director of Marketing of New Enterprise Associates
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Shanna Hendriks
Director, Portfolio Services – Business Development of New Enterprise Associates
Shanna joined NEA as a Director, Portfolio Services – Business Development in 2014. She focuses on communications and marketing support for the portfolio which includes supporting the PR needs of early-stage companies, acting as a resource to later-stage companies, and developing educational programs and events at NEA for portfolio companies of all levels of growth. She also supports the portfolio through business development and executive briefings. Shanna brings more than eight years of PR agency work at some of the leading PR agencies in the Bay Area to her role with NEA. She was one of the first hires at LaunchSquad where she learned the ropes of emerging tech PR. She then worked with a boutique firm where she represented some of the most well-known winter sport brands doing consumer PR. Realizing that she missed crafting the story that has become so important for technology companies, she went on to join Hill & Knowlton’s tech practice working with Fortune 500 companies such as Qualcomm, HP, and Yahoo!. Shanna then transitioned in-house to communications at Shutterfly working on corporate communications and the company’s photobooks and share site products. In 2012, Shanna joined Tesla Motors where she among other things, launched Model S, the Supercharger network, and provided comms support to the company’s retail rollout. Shanna moved to the Bay Area from Canada in 2004. Prior to that move, Shanna worked in PR at Ottawa’s famous Fairmont Chateau Laurier. She attended Algonquin College for Public Relations in Ottawa, Ontario.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Panpan Wang
Co-Founder & Board of Directors of The Flex Co.
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About The Flex Co.: The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating a more comfortable period for everyone.
Managing Director of Mayfield Fund
Navin Chaddha is the Board Of Directors of HashiCorp.
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About Balbix, HashiCorp, Mayfield Fund, Nuvia, Poshmark, SecuritAi, WorkSpan: Mayfield is a global VC firm focusing on inception and early-stage investing in enterprise, consumer, and engineering biology companies.
Zach Lev
Director of Bullish
Zach Lev is a unique blend of strategic planning and client services. Prior to joining The King’s Indian, Zach was both a Senior Account Planner and a Account Supervisor at Deutsch Inc. in New York. There Zach led strategic development for PNC’s retail banking and business banking initiatives, together with Ari and Dawn. He developed the go-to-market strategy for PNC’s flagship checking/savings product, Virtual Wallet. He also co-led strategic development for Microsoft Cloud. He has also provided strategic leadership to Consigliere and The Bindery. Zach is a native in Philadelphia and hails from Boston University. He also attended Miami Ad School.
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About Bullish: Bullish is an early-stage consumer investment firm and strategy-led brand agency.
Bryan Elliott
Digital Marketing & CRM Director of Gildan
As the Director of Digital Marketing & CRM at Gildan, Bryan oversees all direct response marketing efforts including email, search, affiliate and display programs as well as CRM, loyalty and catalog strategy. Bryan employs a big-picture thought process thanks to a vast range of omnichannel fashion retail experience over the last 17+ years, including key roles in marketing, e-commerce, art direction & design, media production, business development and merchandising.
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About Gildan: Gildan Activewear Inc. is a marketer and vertically-integrated global manufacturer of basic, non-fashion apparel products for customers.
Nancy Satur
Medical Director & Dermatologist of Curology
Nancy Satur, MD is a licensed physician and a board-certified dermatologist based in San Diego, CA. Dr. Satur completed her undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University, graduating magna cum laude, and received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia as part of a 5-year accelerated medical program. Following an internal medicine internship and a year of specialty training in pathology, Dr. Satur completed her residency in dermatology at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where she had the honor of serving as Chief Resident. Having practiced medicine in the San Diego area since 1984, Dr. Satur maintains membership in professional societies including the American Academy of Dermatology, the San Diego Dermatological Society, the American Telemedicine Association, and the American Acne and Rosacea Society. Highly regarded for her expertise and dedication in caring for her patients of all ages in her private practice in the San Diego area, Dr. Satur now enjoys helping patients across the country attain and keep healthy skin.
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About Curology: Curology is a cosmetic company that provides actual prescription skincare customized for their skin and delivered to their door.
Khadija Ali
Director of Product Management and Consumer Experience of Better.com
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About Better.com: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Victor Quinn
Director of Engineering of Better.com
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About Better.com: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Malcom Glenn
Director of Public Affairs of Better.com
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About Better.com, Center for Workforce Inclusion: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Javed Hussain
Director of Global Technology Planning, Delivery and Governance of PepsiCo
Senior technology executive with 20 years of global SAP business transformation, delivery and operations experience. Responsible for collaborating across PepsiCo functions to identify and evaluate key business/IT demands and metrics versus current process and technology capabilities. Then develop transformation strategies and plans to meet future demands, and finally to own the delivery of those global transformations through new processes and/or technology solutions, including SAP HANA.
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About PepsiCo, PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Henry Mori
Engineering Director, B2B & D2C eCommerce of PepsiCo
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Jenny Tran
Title Director of Brand Strategy and Design, Global Innovation of PepsiCo
Jenny Tran is a Creative Lead in Experience Design across various new brands across the PepsicCo Portfolio including Lemon Lemon , IZZE, and is Global Design Lead for LIFEWTR. She is part of the PepsiCo Design and Innovation team based in Manhattan, New York.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Christine Johnson
Senior Director Global Business Solutions Supply Chain Planning of PepsiCo
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Cory Notric
Senior Director of Global Brand Protection of PepsiCo
Cory Notrica is a senior director of global brand protection at PepsiCo.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Anne Wyrick
Senior Director of PepsiCo
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Kanwaljit S Bombra
Program Management Director of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Ujwal Rajbhandari
IT Director, Infrastructure Automation & Cloud Engineering of Dell
Ujjwal Rajbhandari is an IT director at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Gary Radburn
Director of Virtually eVeRything of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jason Chan
Sr. Director, Global Network Services of Dell
Jason Chan serves as a senior director at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Todd Edmunds
Director Industrial IoT Strategy and Solution Architecture of Dell
Todd Edmunds is the Director of Industrial IoT Strategy and Solution Architecture at Dell Technologies where he has global responsibility for digital manufacturing solution development across the seven strategically aligned companies that make up Dell Technologies. Todd is an industry expert with 20+ years’ experience in industrial IoT and Edge Computing having worked for Cisco, Rockwell Automation and a leading nationwide solution integrator. Todd currently chairs the Edge Computing TG for the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) where he led the recent publication of the “Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT” whitepaper and is heading up work on a more detailed technical report to be published later this year.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Kirsten Billhardt
Marketing Director, Internet of Things of Dell
Kirsten Billhardt has been part of Dell’s IoT business since before there was a formal IoT business. Over the past five years, Kirsten has been listening, learning, writing and speaking about the evolution of IoT with our customers, partners and with Dell Technologies itself. Kirsten leads the team responsible for the global marketing campaign that supports the Dell Technologies IoT/Edge division. Kirsten has engineering degrees from Kettering University and Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard. She resides in Austin, TX with her husband and three children.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
David Bohl
Director Global Services Delivery Social Media Support of Dell
David Bohl serves as director of global services delivery social media support at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Whittaker
Executive Director Product Marketing of Dell
John Whittaker is the executive director of marketing for Dell Software’s Information Management group, where he oversees marketing activities for a diverse portfolio of solutions spanning database management, data integration, business intelligence and big data analytics. Prior to joining Dell, he was the director of product marketing for Quest Software’s database management business. Whittaker has more than 20 years of experience with a variety of technology companies, including leadership positions with companies such as AlertSource, Trinent Internet Solutions and KnowledgeCentrix, among others. His areas of expertise include database management, business intelligence, advanced analytics, information security, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, managed services and E-Commerce.
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About Dell, Persistent Systems, SmartBear: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jack McMichael
Director, Service Delivery, Mobile of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Amy Labroo
Director, Digital Marketing & OmniChannel of GSK
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About GSK: GSK Venture Fund is a Massachusetts-based venture capital fund focused on investments within the area of bioelectronics.
Michelle Andino
Director of Merchandising of Hollar
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Ashlyn Gentry
Managing Director, NewCo of Human Ventures
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About Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Adam Nelson
Managing Director of FirstMark
Adam is a Partner at Social Capital where he focuses on early stage venture investing in enterprise SaaS and marketplaces. He brings experience in building and executing go-to-market strategies in both SMB and Enterprise, most recently at Dropbox. Prior to that, Adam was a Private Equity investor at Lindsay Goldberg, an investment firm in New York.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Rick Heitzmann
Founder, Partner, and Managing Director of FirstMark
Rick Heitzmann is a Founder and Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. Mr. Heitzmann focuses on investments in emerging media, advertising, data, and information services. Rick has led or co-led many investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (Tapad), media (Pinterest), and more. Previously, Rick was a Managing Director at Pequot Ventures, and a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV). At US Search, Rick, as the Senior Vice President of corporate development and member of the Board of Directors, led the public company turnaround. Mr. Heitzmann graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration and earned his M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School. Rick sits on the Board of Directors of Pinterest, Dashlane, Omaze, and Hubble Contacts among others. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Tim Alessi
Director of New Products of LG Electronics
Tim Alessi is Director of New Products at LG.
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About LG Electronics: LG Electronics is a multinational company which includes LG Electronics.
Lokesh Goel
Director of Platform Engineering & Core Technologies of LG Electronics
Lokesh Kumar Goel leads the webOS platform team at LG Electronics’s Silicon Valley Lab, where he and his team are responsible for delivering webOS platform and application frameworks for LG products as well as open source versions including the browser stack and web application runtime that are the heart of webOS and make HTML5 apps look, feel, and perform like native applications.
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About LG Electronics: LG Electronics is a multinational company which includes LG Electronics.
David VanderWaal
Senior Director of Marketing of LG Electronics
David VanderWaal is Senior Director of Marketing at LG.
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About LG Electronics: LG Electronics is a multinational company which includes LG Electronics.
Michael Loth
Director Technical Support and Service NA of Bosch
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About Bosch, Navistar Inc, Provisur Technologies, Siemens: The Bosch Group is a global supplier of technology and services.
Marcellino Gemelli
Director of Business Development of Bosch
Marcellino Gemelli is currently based in Sunnyvale (CA) responsible for business development of Bosch Sensortec’s MEMS product portfolio. He received the ‘Laurea’ degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy while in the Italian Army and an MBA from MIP, the Milano (Italy) Polytechnic business school. He previously held various engineering and product management positions at STMicroelectronics from 1995 to 2011 in the fields of MEMS, electronic design automation and data storage. He was contract professor for the Microelectronics course at the Milano (Italy) Polytechnic from 2000 to 2002.
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About Bosch: The Bosch Group is a global supplier of technology and services.
Beth Kaplan
Member of the Board of Directors of Rent the Runway
Beth Kaplan is the chief operating officer and strategic advisor of [Rent the Runway](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rent-the-runway), an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories. She was previously a managing member of Axcel Partners. Kaplan holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Axcel Partners: Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Carley Roney
Member of the Board of Directors of Rent the Runway
Carley Roney is a co-founder of [The Knot](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theknot), a wedding planning solution for couples. She previously co-founded XO Group. Roney holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New York University.
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About : Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Mark Tan
Director of Product of Wyze Labs
Mark Tan is the Director of Product Development at Wyze Labs, Inc, a smart home startup focusing on consumer IoT. He leads the app platform, digital products, content and community growth. Previously, he was at Amazon retail and Prime Video, focusing on user experience and digital platforms. His work spans across different categories, which includes video games, electronics, and movies. Prior to this, he worked as Product Manager for Quixey, a mobile app search and discovery startup based in California, establishing the groundwork for deep-linking and integrating with partners such as Alibaba. He started his career at Procter & Gamble leading data analytics.
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About Wyze Labs: Wyze Labs is a smart home device company that aims to make smart home tech accessible to everyone.
Rajeev Venkitaraman
Director of Digital Technology & Architecture of Michelin
Rajeev Venkitaraman has been part of the technological journey for the last 18 years. From hands on development to simplification do complex architectures and business processes, Rajeev has gained expertise across different technologies and platforms with a focus on manufacturing and automotive industries. In his present role of Chief Digital Architect at Michelin Tyres, he is responsible for Global Digital Transformation driven by a non siloed architecture and design. His primary expertise areas are APIs, enterprise integration, digital strategy and CRM. In his prior stint, Rajeev was part of the strategic advisory architects team of Salesforce , helping their biggest global customers.
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About Michelin: Michelin is a tire company dedicated to sustainably improve the mobility of goods and people by manufacturing and marketing.
Donovan Pepper
National Director, Local Goverment Relations of Walgreens
Donovan is the National Director of Local Government Relations for Walgreen Co. Prior to this position, Donovan served as the Director of Government Relations for the Illinois Restaurant Association. He has worked for SBC, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Appropriations in Political Studies from Univ. of Illinois-Springfield and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Sangamon State.
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About Walgreens: Walgreens provides multi-channel access to consumer goods and cost-effective pharmacy, health, and wellness services.
Abey Koshy
Director of Data & Corporate Technologies ,Principal Architect of Walgreens
Abey Koshy is the Director of Data & Corporate Technologies ,Principal Architect at Walgreens.
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About Walgreens, Walgreens: Walgreens provides multi-channel access to consumer goods and cost-effective pharmacy, health, and wellness services.
Kurt Erchinger
Sr. Director, Online Technology, Digital Engineering & Mobile Solutions of Walgreens
Kurt Erchinger is the Sr. Director, Online Technology, Digital Engineering & Mobile Solutions at Walgreens.
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About Walgreens: Walgreens provides multi-channel access to consumer goods and cost-effective pharmacy, health, and wellness services.
Kurt Erchinger
Sr. Director, Online Technology, Digital Engineering & Mobile Solutions of Walgreens
Kurt Erchinger is the Sr. Director, Online Technology, Digital Engineering & Mobile Solutions at Walgreens.
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About Walgreens: Walgreens provides multi-channel access to consumer goods and cost-effective pharmacy, health, and wellness services.
Raju Panjwani
Member of Board of Directors of Cemtrex
Raju is an accomplished executive with over 35 years of experience, including 20 years on Wall Street, and 20 years as an entrepreneur and business builder. Raju was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley, where he spent 18 years in several senior roles in risk management, audit, strategy and being the Chief Operating Officer and Country Head for the Firm’s India office. Since leaving Morgan Stanley in 2005, Raju has considerable experience in emerging Asian markets, with a reputation built on focused execution, high integrity and strong relationships. He has excellent connectivity in US and India with a proven track record in negotiating complex joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and capital raises, particularly within the technology sector. Raju is a CPA in New York State and spent several years with Price Waterhouse and other accounting firms prior to joining Morgan Stanley.
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About : Cemtrex drives innovation in many sectors, including smart tech, VR & AR, advanced electronic systems, and intelligent security systems.
Tam Hulusi
Member of Board Director of UniKey Technologies
Tam Hulusi is a principal of Mycroft LLC, a technology strategy and innovation consulting group. Tam most recently served as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation at HID Global. He previously served as President of SMF Systems Technology Corp., a leading small-business Federal Government IT services provider and President of Newmark Technology Inc., an early stage RFID asset tracking company. Tam is an inventor with nine patents. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Polymer Science, University of Essex, and M.Sc. in Quantum Mechanics from the University of Sussex. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s International Senior Management Program.
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About : UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key.
Jason Duff
Associate Marketing Director, Health Care Ventures of Procter & Gamble Company
Jason Duff leads Oral Care Ventures at Procter & Gamble, an organization charged with creating start-ups, partnering with start-ups, and helping the entire business operate more like a start-up. He received degrees in Political Science, Marketing, and Economics from The Ohio State University, and then moved to Hollywood to become a sitcom writer. There, he discovered he was not funny enough to be a sitcom writer, but just funny enough to work at Procter & Gamble. Over the last 17 years, Jason has served as a marketing leader on brands such as Old Spice, Pantene, Secret, and Olay. While working on Crest and Oral-B, Jason created the first in-house agency team at Procter & Gamble, charged with performance marketing and building direct-to-consumer businesses. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife and two daughters.
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About Procter & Gamble Company: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Chris Boeckerman
Director, Innovation Capability of Procter & Gamble Company
Chris Boeckerman is a “Change Agent” (a.k.a. Innovation Capability Leader) at Procter & Gamble (P&G) and founder of P&G’s Lean Innovation movement (GrowthWorks). She is a chemical engineer with a degree from the University of Cincinnati and has 27-years of experience at P&G leading global and regional innovation programs. Chris specializes in developing dynamic teams worldwide to take on challenging innovation breakthroughs. Before this role, Chris spent 23 years in Global Fabric Care working on breakthrough innovation both upstream and downstream on such iconic brands as Tide, Ariel, Downy, Gain, and Bounce.
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About Procter & Gamble Company: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Frauke Neuser
Senior Director Scientific Communications of Procter & Gamble Company
Dr Frauke Neuser is the Senior Director Scientific Communications at Procter & Gamble.
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About Procter & Gamble Company: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Mark Lewindowski
Director – Robotics Innovation of Procter & Gamble Company
Mark Lewindowski is Machine Controls Technology Leader at Procter & Gamble.
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About Procter & Gamble Company, Procter & Gamble Company, Robotic Industries Association: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Robert Bollinger
Technical Director – Applied Robotics Innovation of Procter & Gamble Company
Robert Bollinger is the Technical Director – Applied Robotics Innovation at Procter & Gamble.
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About Procter & Gamble Company: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Robert Bollinger
Technical Director – Applied Robotics Innovation of Procter & Gamble Company
Robert Bollinger is the Technical Director – Applied Robotics Innovation at Procter & Gamble.
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About Procter & Gamble Company: Procter & Gamble Company offers variety of consumer goods products.
Mary Laschinger
Board of Director of Kellogg’s
Mary Laschinger has been a member of Kellogg Company’s Board of Directors since 2012. Ms. Laschinger serves on the Nominating & Governance Committee, Manufacturing Committee, and Audit Committee. Ms. Laschinger is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veritiv Corporation, a leading North American distribution solutions company. Previously, Ms. Laschinger was Senior Vice President at International Paper and President of xpedx, International Paper’s former distribution division, a position she held for four years. During her career at International Paper, Ms. Laschinger held other leadership positions including Senior Vice President and President of International Paper Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia; Vice President and General Manager of Wood Products; Vice President of Pulp businesses, as well as other senior leadership roles in sales, marketing, manufacturing, and supply chain. Prior to joining International Paper in 1992, Ms. Laschinger held various positions in product management and distribution at James River Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Ms. Laschinger serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and is a former Lead Director of Ilim Group, Russia’s largest pulp and paper company. Ms. Laschinger holds a Bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut. Ms. Laschinger also completed postgraduate studies in executive management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Xpedx: Kellogg’s is a cereal company, and a major producer of convenience foods.
Donald Knauss
Member of the Board of Directors of Kellogg’s
Donald Knauss retired from The Clorox Company in 2015, having served as Executive Chairman of the Board from November 2014 until July 2015 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from October 2006 until November 2014. He was Executive Vice President of The Coca-Cola Company and President and Chief Operating Officer for Coca-Cola North America from February 2004 until September 2006. Prior to his employment with The Coca-Cola Company, he held various positions in marketing and sales with PepsiCo, Inc. and Procter & Gamble and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He is also a director of the Kellogg Company and Target Corporation. He was formerly a director of URS Corporation. Donald Knauss has been a director of the Company since October 2014. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Governance Committee
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About : Kellogg’s is a cereal company, and a major producer of convenience foods.
Cynthia H. Milligan
Board of Director of Kellogg’s
Ms. Milligan served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, from June 1998 until May 2009, when she was named Dean Emeritus of the College of Business Administration. Before joining the University of Nebraska, Ms. Milligan served as president of Cynthia Milligan & Associates, a consulting firm for financial institutions, and before that was a senior partner of a law firm in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is the former Director of Banking and Finance for the State of Nebraska. Ms. Milligan holds a J.D. with honors from George Washington University National Law Center, and a B.A. with honors from the University of Kansas. Ms. Milligan is a director of Calvert Funds, Kellogg Company, and Raven Industries, Inc. She is also a member of the board of directors of The Gallup Organization, Teammates Foundation, Teammates Mentoring Program, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is a trustee of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, University of Nebraska Foundation, and Nebraska Humanities Council Foundation
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About : Kellogg’s is a cereal company, and a major producer of convenience foods.
Paul Bernard
Director of Amazon Alexa Fund
Paul Bernard is the Director, Worldwide Corporate Development – Alexa Fund Lead at Amazon.
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About Amazon, Amazon Alexa Fund: Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health.
Chris Schoppa
Sr. Director Smart Device Solutions and Strategy of Harman International Industries
Chris Schoppa has spent his career working at the intersection of hardware and software, whether delivering big-iron solutions for ISV’s, leading the transformation to virtualized hosted services or creating system solutions that encapsulate edge device interaction, edge analytics and cloud-based solutions. Throughout this work, Chris’s approach is to create an encapsulating abstraction that encourages differentiated product/solution concepts to be developed – or leveraged – from different industry verticals and applications. That abstraction can then be opened up to derive practical approaches that exploit technology usage in novel ways.
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About Harman International Industries, Harman International Industries, Harman International Industries: Harman International Industries engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of audio products and electronic systems.
David Glaubke
Director of Corporate Communications of Harman International Industries
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About Harman International Industries: Harman International Industries engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of audio products and electronic systems.
Jason Johnson
Director of User Experience Design & Detroit Studio Lead of Harman International Industries
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About Harman International Industries: Harman International Industries engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of audio products and electronic systems.
Charles Prober
CEO, Board of Directors of Tile
Charles “CJ” Prober is CEO of Tile. He is an entrepreneurial leader who has a broad mix of operational, strategic and transactional experience with a strong track record of success over the past 20 years. I have a passion for building and operating consumer experiences that are at the cutting edge of hardware, media and technology.
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About Tile: Tile creates devices connected to a mobile app, helping users locate their personal items.
Marta Dalton
Global eCommerce Director of Unilever
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Jules Malin
Director, Data Science & Analytics of GoPro
Jules Malin is a manager of product analytics and data science at GoPro, where he leads a team responsible for discovering product and behavioral insights from GoPro’s growing family and ecosystem of smart devices and driving product and user experience improvements, including influencing and refining data pipelines in Hadoop/Spark and developing scalable machine learning data products, metrics, and visualizations that produce actionable insights. Previously, Jules worked in product management and analytics engineering at Intel and Shutterfly. He holds a master’s degree in predictive analytics from Northwestern University.
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About GoPro, University of San Diego: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Abe Kislevitz
Senior Creative Director of GoPro
Abe Kislevitz is Senior Creative Director at GoPro where he’s worked in media production for the past 8+ years. He’s a media creator, tech geek, and an outdoor enthusiast. He spends his weekends in the mountains skiing or in the ocean surfing creating content for his social channels along the way.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Dan Larsen
Director of Software Engineering of GoPro
Dan Larsen is the Director of Software Engineering at GoPro.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Tannia Hernandez
Assistant Director Of Operations of Good Eggs
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About Good Eggs: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Jere Doyle
Managing Director of Sigma Prime Ventures
Jere Doyle is an adviser, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He helps people grow their companies and nurture success—which he defines broadly as “living the life you want to live.” His basic message is that people can do this by learning how to leverage five personal assets, five ingredients of a truly successful life. He calls these the “Five Ps”—Passion, Patience, Persistence, Principles, and Pride. As an entrepreneur, Doyle has built two startup companies—Prospectiv and Global Marketing—into recognized industry leaders. Now, as a consultant, he is helping to build winning teams, launch innovative products, and spearhead effective marketing strategies. And, he is inspiring audiences with stories of how those five personal qualities can drive success in any project, career, or venture.
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About Boston College, Doyle Enterprises, Oyster Angel Fund, Sigma Prime Ventures: Sigma Prime Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on SaaS, Cloud Mobile and technology enabled services.
John Simon
Managing Director of Sigma Prime Ventures
John joined Sigma Prime in November of 2012 to help build the firm and help invest in great entrepreneurs. He focuses on software-based businesses and disruptive technology businesses, often getting involved in businesses at their formation or earliest stages.
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About GreenLight Fund, Sigma Prime Ventures: Sigma Prime Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on SaaS, Cloud Mobile and technology enabled services.
Shawn Hurt
Director, Channel Partners of goTenna
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About goTenna: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
Dave Lyons
Managing Director, Resharp of The Hillman Group
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About Clover, The Hillman Group: The Hillman Group is a provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 26,000 customers.
Jonathan Seiffer
Board Of Director of Whole Foods Market
Jonathan A. Seiffer has been a Partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. since 1999 and joined Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. in 1994. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is an affiliate of Green Equity Investors V, L.P.
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About : Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
Tanya Seber
Whole Body (Director) Senior Coordinator of Whole Foods Market
Tanya Seber is the Whole Body (Director) Senior Coordinator at Whole Foods Market
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About Whole Foods Market: Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
Christian Rohrer
Senior Director of Design of McAfee
Christian Rohrer is the Senior Director of Design at McAfee.
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About McAfee, Nielsen Norman Group, XDStrategy: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
