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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 Web Development 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.
George Ng
Director of Finance of Automattic
George started his career in investment banking, but six years in, he realized his clients were having way more fun at the other side of the table.He jumped to the dark side of technology start-ups, and hasn’t looked back since.He currently leads the finance team at Automattic, and spends his time engineering all things finance.He also is a recipient of Automattic’s Distinguished Janitor Award (true story). George is a native San Franciscan, so trust him when he says “don’t call it Frisco”.
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About Automattic: Automattic develops publishing platforms, including the WordPress.com website and the VIP WordPress.com cloud version.
Christa Garcia
Director of Agile Leadership of Three Five Two
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About Three Five Two: 352 is an innovation and growth firm.
Christa Garcia
Director of Agile Leadership of Three Five Two
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About Three Five Two: 352 is an innovation and growth firm.
Molly Stevens
Director of User Experience Research of Booking.com
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About Booking.com: Founded in 1996, Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, available in 40+ languages and 155,000+ destinations.
Terry Wise
Director of Business Development of Amazon Web Services
Terry Wise, Director of Business Development of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Scott Mullins
Managing Director, Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development of Amazon Web Services
Scott Mullins is the Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for leading the development and execution of AWS’s strategic initiatives in the financial services industry around the world. Prior to joining AWS in 2014, Scott’s 20 year career in financial services included roles at JPMorgan Chase, Nasdaq, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Scott is a subject matter expert quoted in industry media, a recognized speaker at industry events, and serves on the advisory board of the FinTech Sandbox.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Richard Halkett
Managing Director, Digital Innovation of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Arnaud Mauvais
Director, Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Arnaud is an experienced technology executive with more than 20 years of in-depth management experience in both large companies and start-ups in the mobile, video and internet spaces. Seasoned technical leader with responsibilities for globally distributed teams as large as 200 people and budget of $400 Million+, specialized in Cloud Computing Architecture, Engineering & Support (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mark Relph
Director – GTM and Specialist Sales – IoT, Robotics, and Kinesis Video of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Andy Troutman
Director of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rex Grignon
Director, WW BD of Amazon Web Services
Rex Grignon is the Director of Worldwide BD of Amazon Nimble Studio (AWS).
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
David Borland
Director of Engineering of Amazon Web Services
David Borland is Co-Founder and serves as VP Hardware Engineering. He has served in roles of VP and Director of Engineering at leading semiconductor companies such as Intel, AMD and Marvell and brings low power SoC architecture, design and high volume manufacturing leadership to Calxeda. Mr. Borland delivered innovative market leading Cellular and Application Processors to high volume mobile applications building a “ground up” business for Intel that was acquired by Marvell. Upon joining Intel in 1999, he led the ADI/Intel Joint Development that delivered a new DSP Core architecture and implementation with industry leading power/performance and effective C programming that is used by Analog Devices, Intel, Marvell and MediaTek. Mr. Borland was with AMD for 14 years, where he was the Product Line Manager of Cordless Telephones. He began his engineering career at AMD as a product and design engineer on single chip modems after earning a BSEE in 1984.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Eugene Kawamoto
Director of Product Management – Amazon Redshift of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Jason Schleifer
Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services
Jason Schleifer is the Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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About Amazon Web Services, Nimble Collective: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mark Ryland
Director, Office of the CISO of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Pope
Director of Product Management and UX of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Zivan Ori
Director of Software Development of Amazon Web Services
Mr. Zivan Ori is the co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage that provides the next generation of cost-effective rack-scale flash storage for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. Before founding E8 Storage, Zivan held the position of IBM-XIV R&D Manager, being responsible for developing the IBM XIV® high-end, grid-scale storage system, and served as Chief Architect at Stratoscale, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure. As a seasoned technological innovator, Zivan worked as the Wi-Fi Driver Architect at Envara Inc. (a fabless semiconductor company acquired by Intel) and as VP R&D at Onigma (an information security solution provider acquired by McAfee). Zivan Ori holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MA in Linguistics (with distinction) from University College London. His interests include storage (SAN, NAS), network protocols (IB, 40GE, FC), system programming and embedded programming, Linux, and distributed programming. An avid fan of the Japanese language and culture, with JLPT L3 proficiency, Zivan is a graduate of Talpiot.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Greg Khairallah
Director, Analytics of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Adrian Goh
Director, People Analytics of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Molly Mason Boulé
Development Director of Electronic Arts
Molly is currently the Vice-President of Content Production for Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios. Her team is located in five countries around the world touching EA’s product portfolio in the areas of CG / Animation, Sound, Motion Capture, Applied Research as well as Tools and Pipeline Engineering. Molly is also the current GM of EA Shanghai. Molly has been leading teams of Artists, Producers, Software Engineers, Designers and Management staff for the past 20 years in a variety of Entertainment Organizations. Her experience also includes evaluating and engaging companies for production and strategic partnership in China, India, Europe and South America. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Molly was a Broadcast, Live Action, Visual Effects and Animation Producer for Film, Television, Web and Print at companies such as DreamWorks Animation, Radium Inc. and for the global advertising and marketing firm Grey NY. Molly was born and raised in California and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. Molly holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from USC.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Denise Warren
Member of the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts
Denise Warren was named executive vice president of the Digital Products and Services Group in March 2013. As such, Warren oversees the operations, growth and development of The New York Times’s portfolio of digital products along with oversight of its subscriber relationships and digital subscription business. Previously Warren was general manager of NYTimes.com and senior vice president and chief advertising officer of the former New York Times Media Group, where she managed the daily operations of NYTimes.com, as well as other related digital and mobile products of The Times. In addition, she oversaw the advertising sales operation for all properties of The New York Times Media Group, which included print, digital and mobile products of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Warren was named chief advertising officer in 2005. In that year, she oversaw the print/digital integration of the advertising department’s sales staff, making The Times the first newspaper to do this. She also spearheaded the Times’s monetization efforts around unique product launches and investing in innovation, including its Idea Lab, which highlights innovation and collaboration between The Times and its advertising clients. In 2008, Warren added the role of general manager of NYTimes.com to her portfolio. In this position, she managed the business and technological operations for the largest individual newspaper Web site in the world. Under her direction, The Times launched a variety of new products including leading mobile and tablet apps, and it introduced a digital subscription model in 2011. Warren serves on the boards of The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She is a past president of New York Women in Communications and remains active in the organization. Warren joined The Times in 1988 as a financial analyst and has since served in a variety of strategic positions throughout the organization. She holds a B.S. and management degree from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in communications and media management from Fordham University. She lives with her family in Long Island.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Luis Ubinas
Lead Director of the Board of Electronic Arts
Luis Ubinas served as President of the Ford Foundation from January 2008 to September 2013. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Ubinas spent 18 years with McKinsey & Company, where he held various positions, including Managing Director of the firm’s west coast media practice working with technology, telecommunications and media companies. Ubinas serves on the U.S. Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation, the World Bank Advisory Council of Global Foundation Leaders, the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the boards of the New York Public Library and the Collegiate School for Boys. He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Evan Denbaum
Sr. Director & Competitive Gaming Commissioner of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Arif Gursel
Director, Ecosystem Partnerships of Heroku
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About Google, Heroku, Pan-African Center for Empowerment: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Robert Brisco
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Internet Brands
Bob Brisco is the President & CEO at Internet Brands.
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About CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
Senior Director, Business Operations of Internet Brands
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About Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
Tony Chang
Director of Project Management of EIGHT25MEDIA
Tony Chang is the director of project management at EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
Tony Chang
Director of Project Management of EIGHT25MEDIA
Tony Chang is the director of project management at EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
James Bao
Partner & Product Director of Pixel Digital Agency
James is a partner at Pixel, a digital agency that helps global brands (Heineken, Nerf, Pepsi) create digital experiences that resonate with Millennial consumers. Pixel features a collective of startup founders, engineers, and designers with deep experience in working with many of the world’s leading companies, including Hotmail, Google, Microsoft, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo, and the US State Department. James is also the founder of OneConnect, a Ford Foundation-funded startup that partnered with the US State Department to increase diaspora giving. James currently serves on the board of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the largest organization dedicated to the advancement of Asian Americans in media.
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About Pixel, Pixel Digital Agency: Pixel helps global brands create digital experiences that resonate with Millennial consumers.
Julie Kae
Executive Director of Qlik
Ms. Kae is currently serving as the Executive Director of Qlik.org and the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility at Qlik, where she leads the organization’s program towards globally sustainability and empowering nonprofits to effectively serve our planet and vulnerable populations. The program includes leading sustainability reporting best practices internally and externally; managing strategic partnerships with the United Nations, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, Private Sector Roundtable and other organizations; directing a successful grant program leveraging the Qlik software through Qlik.org; and directing employee engagement activities with partners, WeSeeHope and Medair, as well as many other global nonprofits. Ms. Kae is the Founder and President of “WeSeeHope USA Inc”, a not for profit supporting women and youth programs in Africa; serves as Board Member to the Friends of Dana Farber Cancer Institute; and is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Corporate Sustainability at Harvard University.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Dom Sagolla
Co-Founder, Executive Producer & Director of Developer Camp
Dom Sagolla is an entrepreneur and author in San Francisco. Dom helped create Twitter, the Obama ’08 iPhone App, and introduced the founding engineers at Square. He is co-founder of Developer Camp, a startup accelerator and hackathon event series. Dom is author of 140 Characters: A style guide for the short form (Wiley, 2009) and Tech Wild: Mapping the frontier of technology and youth (https://techwild.co).
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About Archipelo, Developer Camp, Kryptonic: Developer Camp is the world’s best hackathon, committed to inclusion, diversity, and equality in the tech sector.
W. Alan McCollough
Board Of Director of VF
W. Alan McCollough, former chairman and chief executive officer of Circuit City Stores Inc., was elected to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s board of directors on April 10, 2007 and currently serves as Lead Director. McCollough was elected chairman, president and chief executive officer of Circuit City in 2002 and served in that capacity until 2005. He remained chairman and chief executive officer until his retirement in 2006. He served as president and chief executive officer from 2000 to 2002 and as president and chief operating officer from 1997 to 2000. McCollough joined Circuit City in 1987 as general manager of corporate operations. He was named assistant vice president in 1989, president of central operations in 1991 and senior vice president of merchandising in 1994.
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About : VF offers a diverse portfolio of iconic outdoor and activity-based lifestyle and work-wear brands.
Steve Dawson
Director of Software Engineering of Alexa.com
Steve joined Alexa as a Data Mining Engineer in 2005. Prior to assuming his present role, he performed engineering duties for and was the technical lead on a variety of Alexa products. Steve received a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and his M.A. and Ph.D in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. Steve currently resides in Oakland, CA, where he enjoys scuba diving, rock and roll, and the pursuit of various adventures.
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About Alexa.com: Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon, provides brands, marketers, and agencies with a full suite of SEO and competitor analysis tools.
Greg Nist
Director of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Justin Makeig
Director, Product Management of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
James Punteney
Director of Emerging Projects of U.S. Digital Service
James is the Director of Emerging Projects for the Department of Homeland Security Digital Service. Since May 2017, he has led efforts to improve international travel, as well as modernize tools & techniques used to build software within the government. Most recently, he helped lead the relaunch of Customs & Border Protection’s Trusted Traveler Program, a program that enables its 6 million+ members to travel hassle-free in and out of the United States. With almost two decades of experience, James came to government from Manzama where he served as VP of Product & Engineering. Prior to that, he held senior executive positions at Genius Rocket, Transcendigital and various mid-late stage startups. James holds a Master’s degree from University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business, and a Bachelor’s in Information Systems Management from Washington State University.
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About U.S. Digital Service: USDS is a technology startup at The White House working to deliver better services to the American people.
Meenakshi Kumar
Director, Service Delivery of Miri Infotech
Meenakshi Kumar is the director of service delivery at Miri Technologies. She is a former manager of mortgage services at Ateev Inc.
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About Miri Infotech: Miri Infotech is a one-stop solution for software-based solutions.
Daniel Sussman
Project Director of Harmonix Music Systems
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About Harmonix Music Systems: Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America and more.
Krishna Veerareddy
Partner & Managing Director of Shore Group
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About Shore Group: Powerful data-driven solutions for the world’s most critical problems
Leonard Sherman
Board of Director of Interwise
Len Sherman brings over thirty years of business experience and academic research on growth strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship to Columbia Business School. At CBS, Professor Sherman teaches “Integrated Marketing Strategy” and “Entrepreneurship in Large Enterprises to MBA and EMBA students, earning the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Dr. Sherman was a Senior Partner at Accenture, where he served in a variety of positions including President of two Business Process Outsourcing units: Accenture Procurement Solutions and Accenture Learning. At Accenture, he also served as a founding General Partner of Accenture Technology Ventures, where he led Accenture’s investment activities in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and eLearning. He sat on the Boards of Directors of five technology-based firms in the procurement, supply chain and eLearning domains. Prior to these positions Dr. Sherman also led Accenture’s Global Strategic Services Practice covering client services in the Automotive & Industrial Equipment, Transportation & Travel Services, Food & Consumer Package Goods, Retail and Pharmaceuticals/Medical Products industries. Dr. Sherman joined Accenture in 1995 from J. D. Power and Associates where he had been managing partner of the firm’s management consulting practice and responsible for European business operations. Prior to that, he was a partner with Booz, Allen & Hamilton with responsibility for its U.S. automotive practice. Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Sherman taught “Innovation and Enterprise Growth” in Northeastern University’s MBA program. He has published and presented widely on automotive marketing and distribution strategy, customer satisfaction measurement and effective approaches to corporate education. Since joining CBS, Sherman has authored case studies in the automotive, retail, consumer packaged goods and hard goods industries. His book on growth strategy – If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth – will be published in January, 2017 by Columbia University Press. Dr. Sherman has a BS in aeronautical engineering, a MS in transportation systems and a Ph.D. in transportation economics, all from M.I.T.
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About : Interwise, a software-based company, offers AT&T Connect, an IP software that enables voice, web, and video conferencing.
Adam Bradley
Director Of Technology of Ionic
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About Ionic: Ionic is the leader in enterprise app development, powering 15%+ of all app store apps and thousands of critical enterprise apps.
Clint Walden
Executive Creative Director of Mindgruve
Clint is Cofounder and Executive Creative Director of Mindgruve where he leads the creative vision for the agency’s brand and plays a strategic role in defining how clients can best position their brand and customer experience for success. Over the past decade, he has led creative projects for some of the top consumer and B2B brands in America such as Procter & Gamble, Live Nation, Oracle and Qualcomm. Prior to Mindgruve, Clint spent more than a decade as founder of a leading design and brand consultancy shop. He also serves on several boards in the consumer, technology and B2B space. Clint is considered one of the top creative executives in the industry, with numerous industry awards spanning two decades of work.
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About Mindgruve: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
Michael Garten
Managing Director of Mindgruve
Michael is the Managing Director of Mindgruve Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is the lead for the agency’s client engagements as well as the Managing Director of Mindgruve’s client services capability on the west coast. Prior to Mindgruve, Michael was Director, Special Events at the NBA where he oversaw all global brand events namely the NBA All-Star Weekend and McDonald’s All American Championship games. Most recently he spent 10 years as Executive Director at the PGA Tour managing the west coast World Golf Championships. With over 20 years of marketing experience across advertising, media, marketing, and technology, Mike has successfully led teams where he drove strategy and value proposition development for several global brands. Specialties: Business Modeling Digital Marketing Event Management Event Marketing Ecommerce Social Media Marketing Mix Strategy Search Engine Optimization Sponsorships Sports Marketing Website Strategy, Design & Development
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About Mindgruve: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
Lesley Bearg
Director of Finance of Flatiron School
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About Flatiron School: The Flatiron School trains highly motivated individuals in web application development. They teach best practices in Ruby, Rails,
David Laprad
Director of U.S. Operations of Alawar Entertainment
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About Alawar Entertainment: Alawar Entertainment, based in Russia, develops and publishes casual and mini games for the web.
Brittany Kuehl
Director of Client Services of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Corrissa Gillan
Director, Native Rank Premier of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Corrissa Gillan
Director, Native Rank Premier of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Nate Manning
Director of Business Development of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Bing Chou
Managing Director, Boulder of MojoTech
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About MojoTech: Software Design and Development Agency
Michael Philippi
Sr. Director of Software Engineering of Mitchell International
Michael Phillippi is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Mitchell International. Michael has 25+ years of experience in various software engineering roles across various industries including finance, transportation, Internet commerce, insurance, manufacturing, and retail in North American and Western Europe. Michael currently manages 10 software engineering teams responsible for application and workflow solutions deployed at 25,000 stores in North America and Western Europe. These solutions are integrated with third-party application developers, customer partners, and customer applications. Michael is also a mentor for Java programming and robot design at The League of Amazing Programmers.
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About Mitchell International: Mitchell International provides technology that works with claim management and collision repair.
Lisa Black
Director, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts of Disney Interactive
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About Disney Interactive, Walt Disney World: Disney Interactive develops and distributes multi-platform video games.
Leslie Jones
Director of Music Recording and Scoring of Disney Interactive
Leslie Ann Jones has been a recording and mixing engineer for over 30 years. Starting her career at ABC Recording Studios in Los Angeles in 1975, she moved to Northern California in 1978 to accept a staff position with David Rubinson and Fred Catero at the legendary Automatt Recording Studios. There she worked with such artists as Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Holly Near, Angela Bofill, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Carlos Santana and Narada Michael Walden, and started her film score mixing career with “Apocalypse Now”. From 1987 to 1997 she was a staff engineer at Capitol Studios located in the historic Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood. She recorded projects with Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Michelle Shocked, BeBe & CeCe Winans, and Marcus Miller, as well as the scores for several feature films and television shows. In February of 1997 she returned to Northern California to accept a position as Director of Music Recording and Scoring with Skywalker Sound, where she continues her engineering career recording and mixing music for records, films, video games, television, and commercials. And she now adds Record Producer to her list of credits In 2003, Leslie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical, and received a Grammy Award for The Kronos Quartet’s recording of Berg: Lyric Suite, which won Best Chamber Music Album. In 2005 she received another Grammy Award for her work as engineer on Diane Reeves’ “Good Night and Good Luck” CD and in 2011 she won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical for Quincy Porter: Complete Viola Works by Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams. In 2014 she was also nominated for Best Engineered Recording-Non-Classical for her work with Madeleine Peyroux as well as for Best Surround Sound Album. Leslie is a past Chair of The Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Institute for Musical Arts, and Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and is an Artistic Advisor to the new Technology and Applied Composition degree program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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About Disney Interactive, Skywalker Sound: Disney Interactive develops and distributes multi-platform video games.
Kassia Shishkoff
Director of Communications of Anyone Can Learn To Code
Kassia is the Director of Communications with Anyone Can Learn To Code, a tech education company providing in-person training and workshops, online tutorials, and other resources for coding learners of all levels. ACLTC’s part-time coding bootcamp and apprenticeship program, Actualize, consists of four months of in-class training followed by guaranteed placement in the company’s web development agency, The Difference Engine. Learn more at http://www.anyonecanlearntocode.com
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About Anyone Can Learn To Code: ACLTC is a tech education co. w/ resources for learners of all levels. Actualize is our part-time coding bootcamp & apprenticeship program.
Kentaro Matsui
Representative Director / Founder of infinite loop
Born in 1977. Born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido. In July 2004, he launched a technical information site ke-tai.org for mobile phone programmers. Infinite Loop Co., Ltd. was established in June 2007. We develop browser games, including browser Kingdoms, and develop games for smartphones. Established Virtual Casts Co., Ltd. in July 2018. Using a 3D live-action model, also active as “Matsui Sha Cho” in VR space
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About infinite loop, SoftBank Vision Fund, Virtual Cast: infinite loop is a game development, application development, and web development company.
Andrew Howard
Senior Director of Sales – North America of Tuya
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About Tuya: Tuya is an IOT solutions provider that helps manufacturers develop their app and bring their product to market and at competitive prices.
Neo Ji
Overseas Sales Director of Tuya
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About Tuya: Tuya is an IOT solutions provider that helps manufacturers develop their app and bring their product to market and at competitive prices.
Mohib Zubairi
Director, Business Solutions of Model B
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About Model B: Model B delivers results through omnichannel intelligence and award-winning strategy, media buying, creative and web development.
Todd Lash
Managing Director – Owner of Tenaya Technology Partners
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About Tenaya Technology Partners: Tenaya Technology Partners is digital services firm that provides SEO, web designing, hosting and security management services.
Michael Angstadt
Director of Engineering of WP Engine
Michael Angstadt is a technology entrepreneur specializing in strategic web marketing & business process automation. Founding atomni LLC in late 2008, a data-driven web marketing firm in Philadelphia, PA – then M3thod LLC in early 2009 – Michael has continued to grow atomni into a boutique developer of proprietary code-based solutions for data integration, analysis, and decision support. Responsible for several other technology ventures, Michael focuses on building value-adding business tools and thoughtful strategies that improve the accessibility of information for business stakeholders.
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About E-Line Media, WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Dean Yao
Director of Marketing of Jinfonet Software
Dean brings over 10 years of experience in software marketing and product management. Previously, Dean was a senior product manager at cloud computing startup Nimbula (acquired by Oracle), where he focused on technical best practices, competitive marketing, and product strategy. Dean was also in technical marketing at VMware, specializing in virtualization clustering and resource management products. He started his career in hardware virtualization research at Intel Research Labs. Dean earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley.
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About Jinfonet Software: Reporting Software and Dashboards
Robin Davies
Director of Sales of Jinfonet Software
With over 10 years of sales, marketing and management experience with leading organizations, Mr. Davies is responsible for Jinfonet Software’s Worldwide sales operations including enterprise sales, channel sales, ISV sales, and professional services. Prior to joining Jinfonet in 2003, Mr. Davies held international sales and marketing positions with Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT). Mr. Davies holds a degree in Business Management from Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.
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About Jinfonet Software: Reporting Software and Dashboards
Donald Hanson
Director of Development of The Creative Momentum
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About The Creative Momentum: The Creative Momentum, based out of Atlanta, is a full-service creative and digital marketing agency specializing in custom web design
Bill Lanfri
Member of the Board of Directors of Jive Software
Bill has served on Jive’s board of directors for over six years and brings more than 30 years of experience building technology companies as both an investor and advisor. Bill previously served on the board of directors of Palo Alto Networks from 2006-2012. He was also an investor/advisor to Nicira Networks, acquired by VMWare in 2012 for $1.2 billion. Prior to this role, Bill was an Operating Partner at Accel Partners, CEO of Big Bear Networks and CEO of Avanex Corporation. Bill gained his operating experience in product management as a member of the senior management team of intelligent hub pioneer SynOptics Communications, where during his tenure the company grew to more than $700 million in annual revenue. SynOptics was a major part of Nortel’s $9.1 billion acquisition of Bay Networks in 1998. Bill is a graduate of University of California at Davis and holds a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
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About : Jive Software operates as an independent social business software vendor.
Jason Ramirez
Design Director of thoughtbot
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About thoughtbot: thoughtbot is a consulting firm that offers end-to-end web and mobile product development services.
Ronak Shah
Founder & Director of AgileInfoways
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About Agile Academy, AgileInfoways, Indimedi Solutions: An astonishing work towards Enterprise Level solutions – Mobile/Web App, ERP, Blockchain, AI, AR, VR, Odoo and other trending technologies.
Rhett Perry
Sales Director of Hungry Media
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About College Advertising Solutions, Hungry Media: Digital restaurant media company
Russell Miyaki
SVP Global Creative Director of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Russell Miyaki
SVP Global Creative Director of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Alana Range
CEO & Creative Director of Radish Lab
Alana is the founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Radish Lab, an interactive agency focused exclusively on social impact projects. An award-winning journalist turned digital media producer, storyteller, and project manager of all things pixelated, Alana’s been in the industry for over 12 years. She’s worked across three continents but is a Brooklyn girl at heart, not to mention a born-and-raised Canadian, which makes her really nice. Her work has been recognized internationally in publications like Fast Company, the Guardian, CBC, NPR, Discover Magazine, and Mashable. Radish Lab was founded in 2012 from a shared desire to work with excellent people on meaningful projects. They’ve built world-class interactive experiences for the American Museum of Natural History and designed international ad campaigns for the UN Foundation.
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About Radish Lab: Radish Lab is a full-service interactive creative agency focused on people and projects changing the world.
PJ McIntyre
Senior Director of Sales of Travel Tripper
Attracted to work for Travel Tripper because of the company slogan, ”Be Direct,” PJ has been with the company since 2010 and is responsible for leading the Sales and Business Development initiatives for Travel Tripper in the USA, across all business lines. He is a passionate believer in the enabling power of innovative distribution technologies to level the competitive playing field for independent hotels. PJ brings more than 15 years of broad experience in management, sales, strategy, business development and operations. In addition to managing the domestic North American Sales Team for Travel Tripper, he also manages teams of product resellers in key emerging markets in Latin America and Europe. Prior to joining Travel Tripper, PJ spent 11 years with TravelClick in the New York and New Jersey market and successfully led this sales territory to become one of the top producing for the company, earning Presidents Club Awards and recognition over successive years. During the course of his time with TravelClick, he also had the distinction of making the single largest individual sale for the company to date. Before TravelClick, PJ held sales positions with Utell International, Cahners Travel Group and hotel-based sales and marketing positions. He is a self-acknowledged high-energy individual, a competitive runner, and when time permits, an avid sailor. PJ holds a BA in Hospitality, Finance, Sales and Marketing from Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, in his native Ireland.
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About Travel Tripper: Travel Tripper is a global hotel technology provider providing reservation, distribution and e-commerce solutions.
Camille Baldwin
Director of Brand Development of Gin Lane
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About Gin Lane: At Gin Lane, we’re creating, growing, and guiding the next generation of consumer-facing companies.
Bill McGee
Senior Director of Marketing of Sauce Labs
Bill McGee is Director of Marketing @ Sauce Labs.
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About Sauce Labs: Sauce Labs provides cloud-based testing for mobile and web applications.
Sebastian Gunnewig
Executive Director Strategy and User Experience Design of AKQA
Sebastian Gunnewig is the Executive Director of Strategy and UX at AKQA’s San Francisco office, a leading brand experience agency with 21 studios and more than 2,000 staff globally. Sebastian leads a practice of more than 25 strategists, service and interaction designers creating user-centered products, service and brand experiences that deliver on business needs and facilitate the end-to-end customer journey. He also serves on the office’s Executive Leadership Team, overseeing output across all clients like Activision, Audi, Levi’s and Visa.
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About AKQA: AKQA is an ideas and innovation company that uses the imaginative application of art and science to create ideas, products, and services.
Will Rolloff
Practice Director, .NET of Productive Edge
Will Rolloff is the Director at Productive Edge.
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About Productive Edge: Productive Edge is a Chicago-based technology company that implements complex websites for enterprise clients.
Constance Ip
Commercial Director, North America of BSD CodeAways
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About BSD CodeAways: CodeAways is a study abroad program in Asia for all ages to learn Web Development, Graphic Design, Digital Media, and Tech Project Planning.
Kimberly Rottas
Operations Director of StartupStudios
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About StartupStudios: We’re like a Concierge for your startup!
Quinn Weaver
Managing Director of PostgreSQL Experts
Quinn Weaver is co-founder of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., a Bay Area database consulting firm.
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About PostgreSQL Experts: PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. is the companydedicated exclusively to professional services for PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL-backed applications.
Michael Hodgdon
Digital Marketing & SEO Director of Infront Webworks
20+ years demonstrated success running SEO and internet companies, with intimate knowledge of online advertising media, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Local SEO, Google My Business Listings/verification, website design and development, advertising and ecommerce. Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, NY Times, L.A. Times and C.S. Business Journal with solid business partnering skills and senior management abilities in focused entrepreneurial environments. ►►► mikeh@infront.com ◄◄◄ * Outstanding history of managing sales, marketing, SEO, content, site development and leading development strategies to increase and retain banner inventory. Noted for decisive ability to maintain the number one position in the recreational outdoors online space. * Core areas of expertise include SEO, cutting edge of Internet technologies, identify opportunities, expanding markets, negotiation, cross-functional team building/management, sales/business development, product management, and online marketing. * Record of contributions in strategic planning, integration, implementing improved strategies and developing strategic alliances with OEMs, Vendors, major television, radio and print publications. Specialties: Online Business Development, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), online advertising management, DFP, ad operations, internet marketing, branding and identity, online media sales, and management. * Specialize in fishing, hunting, sports and outdoors niche advertising, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and marketing online.
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About Infront Webworks: Colorado Springs SEO & Digital Marketing company also specializing in Web Design & Development.
Kristin Wagner
Director of Ops/HR of Clarity Ventures, Inc.
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About Clarity Ventures, Inc.: Web Development/Integration Company
Amy Kirk
Director, University Relations- Talent Aquisition of PAREXEL
Amy Kirk is a Director, University Relations – Talent Acquisition at Parexel International.
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About PAREXEL: PAREXEL is a biopharmaceutical services company that focuses on the development and commercialization of new medical therapies worldwide.
Mason Pelt
Founder, Managing Director of Push ROI
[Mason Pelt](https://www.masonpelt.com), is the founder of the ad agency [Push ROI](https://pushroi.com), and frequently writes about technology & business for a variety of media outlets. Pelt’s writings about technology, design, business, and marketing are featured in publications including [TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com/contributor/mason-pelt/), [Venture Beat](http://venturebeat.com/author/mason-pelt-push-ro/), [SiliconANGLE](http://siliconangle.com/blog/author/masonpelt/), Social Media Today, Business 2 Community, Tech.co, Social Media Week, Hacker Noon, Splice Today, Arc Digital, Daily Kos, and more found listined on Pelt’s [Muck Rack](https://muckrack.com/mason-pelt) profile. Before founding Push ROI, Pelt was a digital strategy & video production consultant for various startups, ad agencies, and media companies. Pelt later held leadership positions at Touchstorm, and Music Audience Exchange. As an early hire for Touchstorm’s YouTube services division, he managed the YouTube channel for COVERGIRL. At Music Audience Exchange pelt acted as the first head of digital strategy, executing the agency’s first three campaigns for Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and Chevy. Between 2012 – 2015 pelt was involved with the Dallas startup accelerators [Tech Wildcaters](https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2012/05/01/tech-wildcatters-makes-forbes-top-incubator-list/), and [Collide Village](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/collide-village-accelerator#section-overview) where he offered marketing, and product focused advice to founders.
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About Push ROI: Push ROI is a marketing agency. The company specialises in digital strategies focusing on content and advertising.
Harji Singh
Creative Director of Azai Studios
Harji oversees the strategy and systems that allow interdisciplinary teams to succeed, innovate, and produce world-class brands, digital products, and the technology that propel them to drive business. With the belief that fine-tuned design, technology, and digital marketing can make organizations stand out in their marketplace, he connects the people, processes, and partners to deliver results and innovation within agencies and their clients.
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About Azai Studios: We solve problems through strategy, design, technology, content production and digital marketing.
Jessica Boggs
Creative Director of AlphaZeta Interactive
For the past 10 years, Jessica has helmed all creative and strategic initiatives as Creative Director for AlphaZeta. Jessica’s proven mastery of graphic design and strategic digital marketing have fostered lasting partnerships with Fortune 500 clients. Technique Jessica’s creative approach is highly detailed and uniquely collaborative. She teams closely with every client to create the optimum solution in line with brand and business goals. Aon, Hyatt, Motorola, Bosch Tools, Chicago Tribune, OMD, Restaurant.com and United Airlines are just a few of the successful clients relationships Jessica has advanced. Foundations Prior to AlphaZeta, Jessica co-founded and led a graphic design studio in Charlotte, NC. For the past five years, she’s served on the board of the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communications Design from the University of Dayton.
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About AlphaZeta Interactive: AlphaZeta Interactive is a Chicago based full-service interactive agency that bridges technology and strategy for engagement driven results.
Subrat Acharya
Director & Co-Founder of Riaxe Systems
In 2006, I co-founded Riaxe Systems to provide creative solutions across all media platforms with a strong focus on the growth and development of emerging technologies and communications. Combining creative, strategy and passion Riaxe is focused on offering full service solutions for brands, businesses and people alike. My goals are to create global impact by developing and implementing innovative technologies and services. Specialties Interface design, analytics, business development, strategic growth, concept development, able to see the inside of the box from the outside and vice-versa.
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About Riaxe Systems: Riaxe Systems offers software and web development services and provides information technology outsourcing services.
Rachel Rothbart
Director of Operations of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
Sean Orelli
iOS Director of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
John Vaghi
Web Director of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
Caroline England
Director of Product of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
Caroline England
Director of Product of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
Cesar Aguilar
Android Director of Fuzz Productions
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About Fuzz Productions: Fuzz partners with world-class brands and early-stage disruptors to deliver heightened customer experiences that create meaning.
Pravin Vazirani
Director of Operations of Chetu
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About Chetu: Chetu offers custom software development services to the FinTech & payment industries.
Saul Sutton
Director of Operations of Ease
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About Ease: A cloud-based workforce solution that helps businesses connect with and manage their freelance workforce all in one place.
Taua Baccarin
Creative Director of Canvas
Taua Baccarin is Creative Director at Canvas.
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About Canvas: Canvas, a full-service digital agency, offers services such as mobile web development, interaction and user experience design, and more.
Christopher Calarco
Managing Director, Co-Founder of Canvas
Christopher Calarco is Founder & Senior Director at Canvas.
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About Canvas: Canvas, a full-service digital agency, offers services such as mobile web development, interaction and user experience design, and more.
Walt Wise
Creative Director & Partner of Arrae Creative
Walt handles the creative direction at arrae, along with managing operations, human resources and business development. His passion is simple, effective digital design and helping companies create or transform and update their brand identities. With over 20 years experience in the design community, working with the arrae creative staff continues to be the highlight of his long and diverse career path, that includes several startups and entrepreneurial pursuits.
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About Arrae Creative: Arrae Creative is a full service creative agency that handles a broad range of design and development services.
Kellie Stern
Art Director of Arrae Creative
Designing for 10 years, Kellie has been involved in many corporate design roles, small businesses, print marketing firms and interactive agencies. She is the perfect storm of optimism and sarcasm. From fine art to interior design and fashion, her love affair with art means she must put her artistic twist on anything that allows it.
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About Arrae Creative: Arrae Creative is a full service creative agency that handles a broad range of design and development services.
Jennifer Potts
Director of Business Development of Arrae Creative
Jennifer brings a solid background of business development to Arrae, ranging from owner/operator of an award winning retail store to B2B sales development for midsize to large companies. Earning several “Top Producing Sales” titles and awards, she has a proven track record of building and growing businesses. She contributes her success to her passion for helping people and companies succeed. After work, a perfect evening for Jennifer would include making dinner for her kids with food fresh from her garden, then watching a Quentin Tarantino movie.
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About Arrae Creative: Arrae Creative is a full service creative agency that handles a broad range of design and development services.
Brandon Whalen
Director of Digital Marketing & Partner of Arrae Creative
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About Arrae Creative, Substream Magazine: Arrae Creative is a full service creative agency that handles a broad range of design and development services.
Paul McConkey
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Imagen Ltd
Paul McConkey is Co-Founder & Technical Director at Imagen Ltd.
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About Cambridge Medical Communication, Imagen Ltd: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
Tony Blake
Founder Director of Imagen Ltd
Tony Blake is Co-Founder at Imagen Ltd.
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About Imagen Ltd, Screenocean: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
