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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 CRM 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.
Craig Soules
Director – Product Management of Freshworks
Craig Soules is the Director of Product Management at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Alan Berkson
Global Director of Community Outreach/Analyst Relations of Freshworks
Alan Berkson is the Global Director of Community Outreach/Analyst Relations at [Freshdesk](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/freshdesk), a business software company. Prior to that, he founded Intelligist Group. Berkson holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from City University New York.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Garth Goodson
Director of Freshworks
Garth Goodson is Director at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Paul Drews
Managing Director, Salesforce Ventures of Salesforce
Paul is a Principal on the investment team of Tenaya Capital. He was an associate with Tenaya from 2007 until he went to business school in 2012. After business school, Paul was a Vice President at Battery Ventures from 2014 to 2016, where he focused on investments in enterprise infrastructure and software companies. Paul was involved in Battery’s investments in Cohesity, Outlyer, JFrog, OpsGenie and StreamSets. Paul holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Duke University.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tanumoy Ghosh
Director, Product Data Science, DSA of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sanford Robertson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
Sandy Robertson is the Partner at Francisco partners.
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About Francisco Partners, Francisco Partners: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Justin Darcy
Director – ISV GTM of Salesforce
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About FundersClub, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mayukh Bhaowal
Director, Product Management, Einstein of Salesforce
Mayukh Bhaowal is a director of product management at Salesforce Einstein working on automated machine learning. Previously, Mayukh worked at startups in the domain of machine learning and analytics. He served as head of product of the ML platform startup Scaled Inference, backed by Khosla Ventures, and led product at the ecommerce startup Narvar, backed by Accel. He was also a principal product manager at Yahoo and Oracle. Mayukh holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ryan Donnelly
Senior Director of Network Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tim Van Loan
Director of Product Marketing of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Asit Sharma
Senior Director, Lead Information Architect – Customer Success of Salesforce
Asit Sharma is the Senior Director & Lead Information Architect – Customer Success at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Leah McGowen-Hare
Senior Director of Salesforce
Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and Senior Director at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow using Trailhead. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Hidden Genius Project, Girls Who Code and Vetforce. Leah is married to Shane Hare and has 3 children. She enjoys working out, and traveling with her family.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pankaj Prasad
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Pankaj Prasad is the co-founder of DoubleDutch, a service that helps any company, brand, or organization deploy mobile apps enterprise wide. Their apps help companies gain insight through engagement
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Larry Tomlinson
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
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About : Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mike Kreaden
Managing Director, Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate) of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Shankar Vedaraman
Sr. Director, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Craig Conway
Board of Directors of Salesforce
Craig Conway is the Board of Directors of Salesforce.
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About NomNommer: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Josh Schwartz
Director of Offensive Security of Salesforce
Josh Schwartz is a computer that knows how to computer. He leads the Red Team at Salesforce conducting high impact offensive security engagements and frequently creates propaganda memes.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Wenhao Liu
Director – Applied AI Research of Salesforce
Director – Applied AI Research at Salesforce (Hiring).
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Daniel Sonnenfeld
Accessibility Compliance Program Director of Salesforce
Daniel Sonnenfeld is a Technical Program Management Director at Salesforce where he leads complex cross-organizational technology initiatives. His professional experience spans the high tech industry, having worked with large enterprises and startups. After a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Computer Science. Born deaf, Daniel wore hearing aids most of his life and received cochlear implants 13 years ago. He is multilingual and fluent in English, American Sign Language and French.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Wendy Smith
Senior Director, Salesforce Experience of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cecilia Alvord
Director & Executive Search of Salesforce
Cecilia Alvord is the Director & Executive Search at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Amanda Nelson
Senior Director, AppExchange Community Marketing of Salesforce
Amanda is Senior Manager of AppExchange Content and Community at Salesforce. She is a conference speaker, published author, and a social media professor. Prior to content and social marketing, Amanda worked in account management for interactive and full service advertising agencies. In addition to marketing, Amanda is passionate about writing, public speaking, and border collies.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sarah Aerni
Director Of Data Science And Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joshua Birk
Senior Director & Developer Evangelism of Salesforce
Joshua Birk is the Senior Director & Developer Evangelism at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kelly Utley
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cathy Daw
Director, Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Vikas Sangwan
Director Software Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alexander Lovell
Director of Product Management of Salesforce
Alexander Lovell is the director of product management at Salesforce and an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. Prior to that, Alexander co-founded Simpatic. .
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kinjal Vora
Director, Business Value of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joel Flagg
Senior Director & Customer Success Executive of Salesforce
Joel Flagg is the Senior Director & Customer Success Executive at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jason Briggs
Senior Director, Product Manager of Einstein Relationship Insights of Salesforce
Jason co-founded Meta Search in 2014 after watching his mom try, and fail, to find files on her computer. He launched Meta to thousands of beta users before merging with Diffeo in 2016. At Diffeo Jason focused on financial services customers (MassChallenge FinTech 100K Diamond Award 2019, FinTech Innovation Lab 2018) and leading partnerships with Salesforce (Salesforce Incubator 2017: AI Cohort) and other strategic partners. Diffeo was acquired by Salesforce in 2019 where Jason now leads product for the integrated Diffeo team.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Director, Industry Solutions, Higher Education of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
William Clifford
Director of Technical Consulting of Salesforce
William Clifford is the Director Technical Consulting at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ian Dunckel
Senior Director, Product Marketing, CPQ & Billing of Salesforce
Ian Dunckel serves as the senior director of product marketing and CPQ & Billing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tim Clarke
Senior Director, Product Marketing – Sales Cloud of Salesforce
Co-Founder & CEO @ UNCrushed.
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About Salesforce, UNCrushed: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Molly Ford
Director, Global Equality Programs of Salesforce
Molly Q. Ford is Senior Director of Global Equality Programs at Salesforce, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for eight years in a row. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s core value of Equality and evangelizing the Salesforce culture. Prior to making her passion for Equality a full-time job, Molly worked on the award-winning Salesforce Public Relations team. With more than 15 years of Public Relations experience, she was responsible for building awareness for Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service and support solution. Prior to joining Salesforce, she held positions at major technology companies including Cisco, Check Point Software, IBM and UMAX. Molly holds a B.S. in Public Relations from San Jose State University. She resides in Oakland, CA with her puppy Jackson, the amazing Maltese.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mathew Sweezey
Director of Market Strategy of Salesforce
Mathew Sweezey is the HBR Author & The Context Marketing Revolution at Harvard Business Review.
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About Harvard Business Review, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Fadi Mouallem
Director of Strategic Sourcing of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Judi Sohn
Director, Customer Centric Engineering of Salesforce
Judi Sohn is the Senior Solution Architect at KELL Partners. A recognized Salesforce.com MVP and co-founder of the Colon Cancer Alliance and Fight Colorectal Cancer, Judi has deep experience in the nonprofit and technology space. Her puzzle-solving skills are unmatched and we love that Judi’s passion for nonprofits and Salesforce have found a home at KELL Partners. Judi earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kirupa Chinnathambi
Senior Director Product Management of Salesforce
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About KIRUPA, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Chris Lea
Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce
Chris Lea is the Director of Software Engineering of Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andres Ramirez
Director, Technical Architect of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Siddharth Muzumdar
CIO Advisory Senior Director of Salesforce
“Business oriented technology leader. Extensive experience leading global cross-functional initiatives on multi-million dollar projects. Broad experience in Life Sciences, Financial Services and Publishing domains with organizations such as Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pearson, Citibank, and Fannie Mae. Experienced in envisioning and implementing customer facing and enterprise solutions using Mobile, Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Big Data and Data Warehousing.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cheryn Flanagan
Director of Experience Design of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sireesh Bodireddygari
Director of engineering: Analytics – Wave of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
John Heywood
Director, Product Marketing – Service Cloud of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
David Shedlarz
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
David Shedlarz, 65, retired vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. a pharmaceutical consumer and animal products health company. Formerly vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. 2005 – 2007; executive vice president and chief financial officer 1999 – 2005 Pfizer Inc. Director since 2001. (Also a director of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and The Hershey Company.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anna Alexander
Director, Market Analysis of Pitney Bowes
Anna Alexander is the Director, Market Analysis at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Sia Ea
Executive Creative Director, Global Ecommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anne Fuchs
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
Anne Sutherland Fuchs, 66, consultant to private equity firms. Formerly group president Growth Brands Division Digital Ventures a division of J. C. Penney Company Inc. a retailer November 2010 – April 2012; former Chair of the Commission on Women’s Issues for New York City 2002-2013. Director since 2005. (Also a director of Gartner Inc.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Greg Harden
Sr Director, Operations Support of Pitney Bowes
Greg Harden is the Sr Director, Operations Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Theresa Bui Revon
Senior Director Growth Marketing of ASAPP
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About ASAPP: Breakthroughs are born out of research and ASAPP is advancing AI to drive greater human productivity and automating the world’s workflows
Gregory Kotlar
Director of Product & IT Development of ProTrak
Gregory is ProTrak’s Director of Product Development and has been with the ProTrak team for the past 14 years. Greg has more than 20 years’ experience in commercial software development as a software engineer and consultant with special concentration in the areas of Statistics and Engineering models. Greg holds an M.S. degree in Mathematics from Kharkov State University. While at the University of Maryland at College Park studying for his Ph.D. degree, Greg was also a teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics.
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About ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
Hania Jacobson
Director of Consulting of ProTrak
Hania is ProTrak’s Director of Consulting Services and has been with the ProTrak team since the inception of the company. Hania has been instrumental in implementing ProTrak’s Data Conversion/Migration policies & procedures. Hania and her team have successfully completed every ProTrak Client’s migration from existing legacy systems to the ProTrak CRM platform. She works alongside the technical staff and provides operational support, new product design expertise and overall project management. Hania has more than 25 years of industry experience, working at major consulting and securities trading organizations, including Monchik-Weber. Prior to joining ProTrak, Hania was a Director of Pharos, Inc., where she played a key role in the design of a new options trading system. She later traded stock options and managed client portfolios using options as a hedging tool. Hania holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
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About ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
Brendan O’Kane
Managing Director of OtherLevels
Brendan O’Kane joined OtherLevels as Managing Director in 2011.
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About OtherLevels: Mobile marketing platform that includes sophisticated segmentation, targeting & retargeting tools across native App & mobile web platforms
Troy Morris
Director of US Operations and Strategic Services of OtherLevels
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About OtherLevels: Mobile marketing platform that includes sophisticated segmentation, targeting & retargeting tools across native App & mobile web platforms
Ville Nuuja
Director, Development & Technology of Visma
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About Visma: Visma provides business software and services for accounting and administration.
Justine Matison
Director, Customer Service and Support of Lever
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About Lever: Lever is a talent acquisition suite that provides talent leaders with the solutions they need to build strong relationships with candidates.
Todd Esenwein
Senior Director, Business Services of Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing
Todd Esenwein is the senior director of business services for CTAM (the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing). He provides leadership and direction to the CTAM Business Services Council, which addresses B2B growth initiatives and opportunities for the cable industry. He has over 20 years of sales and management experience in the cable and telecommunications industry, successfully managing programs that help business services stakeholders drive growth in this critical sector. Previous to CTAM, he served as the national channel manager at AB&T Telecommunications, responsible for the management and growth of their national partners. He spent 13 years at Comcast Corporation in marketing and sales. Todd holds a B.S. in business administration from Colorado State University and a M.B.A. in management from Strayer University.
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About Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing: CTAM is all about strengthening cable’s business by driving results through a mix of cooperative marketing, strategic collaboration
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.
Clement Bruneau
Director, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships of Aircall
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About Aircall: Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.
Dave Goldstein
Director of Business Development of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
James Merson
Director of Product of ClearCare
James began advising ClearCare in 2010 while working for a Home Care and Care Management organization in the Bay Area. He formally joined as an employee in November of 2012 after ten years in the Home Care and Home Healthcare fields and leads the Customer Success team at ClearCare, the largest of its kind in the home care industry. He holds a BS in Industrial Technology and an MBA.
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Bobbi Jo Price
Sr. Director of U.S. Sales of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Dave Godin
Sr. Director of Customer Success of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Ryan Thorpe
Director of Analytics and Data Science of Womply
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Sergey Pronin
Director of Trust and Security of Postclick
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About Instapage, Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Andrew Price
Co-Founder/Director of Outreach of Unite Us
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About Decisive Point, Unite Us: Unite Us provides a collaboration and coordination software, streamlining the delivery of health and social services.
Malia Supe
Senior Partner, Global Managing Director, WPP Team Lead of Ogilvy
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About Ogilvy, Ogilvy, WPP: Global brand Strategy, Advertising, Customer Engagement and Commerce, PR and Influence, Digital Transformation, and Partnerships.
Phil Freo
Director of Engineering & Product of Close
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About Close, Elastic: Close is the inside sales CRM of choice for startups and SMBs.
Jim Cupples
RunForOffice.org Director of NationBuilder
Jim Cupples is the director of NationBuilder’s RunForOffice.org project, which is a website that allows users to understand what they can run for, and how to get on the ballot, from local school boards and city council, to the United States Senate. Jim spends most of his time in Springfield, Oregon working with interns and volunteers from around the country.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Frank Veenendaal
Member of the Board of Directors of NewVoiceMedia
As vice chairman of salesforce.com, van Veenedaal leads the global sales, customer support, and consulting services organizations. He is responsible for growing the company’s global customer base and driving adoption and retention to create customers for life. van Veenendaal joined salesforce.com in August of 2001 and has served in a variety of executive management roles including president of global corporate sales, senior vice president of sales and services, and executive vice president of corporate sales and services. In these capacities he has been instrumental in the growth and evolution of the sales organization through the creation of innovative new compensation plans, pipeline development, sales segmentation, and growth strategies. van Veenendaal brings over 30 years of technology sales and executive management experience to his roles at salesforce.com. Previously, he served as senior vice president of Actuate, a enterprise reporting and performance management software company. Prior to joining Actuate, he spent six years with Interleaf, where he served in various roles including that of regional director of sales. In the early stages of his career, van Veenendaal held various sales and sales management positions for high-tech companies such as Integrated Solutions, Pyramid, and Harris Corporation. van Veenendaal holds bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About : NewVoiceMedia provides cloud technology that helps businesses sell more, serve better, and grow faster.
Jonathan Cronstedt
Board Director of Kajabi
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About Kajabi: Kajabi operates as an all-in-one knowledge commerce platform designed to help businesses achieve success online.
Art Wittmann
Content Director of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Kendall Weir
Director, NA Business Development of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Chad Kerby
Director Partner Programs and Partner Sales of Keap
Chad Kerby is Director Partner Programs and Partner Sales at Infusionsoft.
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About Keap: Keap helps small businesses get organized to deliver services and close more business.
Carey Ballard
Director of Content Marketing of Keap
Carey Ballard Director of Content Marketing, Infusionsoft As the Director of Content Marketing at Infusionsoft, Carey Ballard spends her time and energy creating content that helps small businesses reach their goals. In her first 6 months at Infusionsoft, she led an initiative to overhaul the blog, which resulted in 300% traffic growth. Prior to Infusionsoft, Carey was the content marketing account director at McMurry/TMG and worked with organizations large and small to create and implement content marketing strategies that drove positive results. She is passionate about the power of story and committed to changing the world through small business success.
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About Keap, Lumin Digital: Keap helps small businesses get organized to deliver services and close more business.
Michael Mitgang
Managing Director of WGD Partners, LLC
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About WGD Partners, LLC: Investor & advisor to emerging growth and middle-market technology companies
Jeff Richman
Director of Business Development of Arbor
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About Arbor, LiveRamp: Arbor operates the first marketplace for people-based data.
John Kent
Managing Director of Macquarie Infrastructure Co Trust
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About Macquarie Infrastructure Co Trust: Macquarie Infrastructure Company Owns, operates and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses.
John Kent
Managing Director of Macquarie Infrastructure Co Trust
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About Macquarie Infrastructure Co Trust: Macquarie Infrastructure Company Owns, operates and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses.
Kevin O’Leary
Senior Director of Marketing | Executive Team Member of PetDesk
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About PetDesk: PetDesk offers CRM software for pet care providers to promote pet health.
Shona Fenner
Director of Customer Success of PetDesk
Shona Fenner serves as a director of customer success at PetDesk.
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About PetDesk: PetDesk offers CRM software for pet care providers to promote pet health.
Steven Kaplan
Member of the Board of Directors of Pegasystems
Steven Kaplan has been a Director of Pegasystems since August 1999. In December 2000, he was elected a member of our Audit Committee, and in April 2004, he was elected a member of our Nominating Committee. Kaplan has served as a general partner of Riverside Partners, LLC, a private equity firm, since October 2006. He has been President of Kaplan Advisors LLC, a financial and strategy consulting firm, since January 2004. He was a Managing Director of The Audax Group, a private equity and venture capital firm, from January 2000 until December 2003. From 1998 to 2000, Kaplan was affiliated with Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm, and he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Favorite Brands International Holding Corp., a confectionery company controlled by Texas Pacific Group. From 1996 to 1997, Kaplan was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Coleman Company, Inc., an international manufacturer of camping, outdoor recreation and hardware equipment. Kaplan holds an M.S. in management, a B.S. in electrical engineering and, computer science and a B.S. in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We believe Kaplan’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his significant business and operational experience, including positions as a chief financial officer and director for several companies, as well as his experience with mergers and acquisitions.
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About : PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Vivek Saini
Director of Marketing & Business Development of REAN Cloud
Vivek Saini is the Director of Marketing & Partnerships at OpsMx.
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About OpsMx, REAN Cloud: REAN Cloud brings together a unique set of skills and expertise in cloud computing.
Chris Lucey
Sr. Director, Data Driven Innovation of LiveVox
As Vice President of Client Services, Chris brings over 20 years of online marketing and Information Technology consulting experience to ThoughtMatrix and its clients. Previously working with Extractable, Chris served as account director for two Fortune 50 accounts. Prior to that, with Avenue A | Razorfish, Chris managed multimillion-dollar global accounts for McKesson, Visa, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and AT&T Broadband. Chris provides senior-level program strategy and analysis with respect to direct consumer marketing programs (email, online surveys, application and website development) for a variety of clients, on both the creative and technical levels. Chris also served as an associate with the San Francisco office of Booz Allen Hamilton. Chris holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree from Notre Dame, along with a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Virginia. He also served the San Francisco chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training as a run team coach for six years (1997-2003).
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About LiveVox: LiveVox combines omnichannel communications, CRM, and WFO to provide an agent and customer experience.
Vianney Brandicourt
Director of Product of Pico
Director of Product @Pico. Most recently the co-founder and CEO of the venture-backed company Joinery, Vianney is a seasoned entrepreneur and product manager with more than a decade of experience working with and leading data-driven teams at companies like Google, Spotify, and Foursquare.
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About Pico: Pico is the business platform for creators.
Nandakumar Somasundaram
Managing Director of NDOT Technology Pvt Ltd
Nandakumar has experience in various sectors in IT like Web Startups, Web development services, Social Media, SMM, Business Development & Consulting. Nandakumar did some early stage web 2.0 startups in years 2006, 2007 & 08. Nandakumar is founder of NDOT, India. NDOT is an IT services company focusing on Startups, Web development Services, Outsourcing, Consulting and Social Media. Started in 2008 & now it has 25+ employees & providing services all around the world. NDOT has developed many products that meet small business needs, startups & Medium businesses. Nandakumar’s key focus areas are, • Developing NDOT on big scale • Starting up – new ventures / initiatives in different sectors • Identifying & formulizing new business opportunities • Actively participating & conducting meetups • To help education sector to satisfy Industry expectations Nandakumar is the right person to connect with when you looking for web development, IT services & Social Media support for your business needs.
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About MoveX, NDOT Technology Pvt Ltd, NDOT Technology Pvt Ltd, TaxiMobility: NDOT provides innovative enterprise mobility solutions that focus on enhancing the core businesses of enterprises.
Jim Prosser
Managing Director, Corporate Affairs & Advisory Services – U.S. Western Region of Edelman Digital
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About Edelman Digital: Edelman Digital, a public relations firm, offers analysis, advertising, marketing, branding, and content and strategy management services.
Laurel Butterfield
Director, Global Strategy & Operations, Health of Edelman Digital
Laurel Butterfield is Public Relations Director at Me So Far.
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About Edelman Digital, Me So Far: Edelman Digital, a public relations firm, offers analysis, advertising, marketing, branding, and content and strategy management services.
Shane Malach
Director of Content Strategy of Edelman Digital
Shane works to build connective tissue between brands, culture, and entertainment in video content.
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About Edelman Digital: Edelman Digital, a public relations firm, offers analysis, advertising, marketing, branding, and content and strategy management services.
Scott Peters
VP, Paid Media Director of Edelman Digital
Scott oversees Paid Media planning and activation in the Atlanta office. With over 16 years of experience helping large companies optimize paid investments, he is passionate about the power of media and data to amplify creative ideas. Scott has worked across traditional and digital channels to produce integrated campaigns, collaborating with creative and analytics teams in the process. He specializes in helping clients navigate the evolving media landscape and the emerging role of ad tech to enable relevant storytelling for consumers.
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About Edelman Digital: Edelman Digital, a public relations firm, offers analysis, advertising, marketing, branding, and content and strategy management services.
Sonam Dabholkar
Director, Customer Success Operations of Gong
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About Autodesk, Gong: Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential.
Chris Orlob
Director of Sales of Gong
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About Gong: Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential.
John Plishka
Director of Compliance of CMDI
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Susan Floyd
Director of Data Entry, Caging, and Scanning Services of CMDI
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