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This list showcases the top United States based Manager operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Manager 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.
Margaret Wylie
Information Security Project Manager of Bloomberg
Margaret Wylie is an Information Security Project Manager with Bloomberg’s Global Security Architecture team, which focuses on information and data security and technology risk management. She manages a portfolio of projects within the information systems, network infrastructure, network engineering and technology offices. Projects span multiple domains and systems ranging from host security, network design, software applications and threat vulnerability management. She double-majored in Early Childhood Education/Special Education at the University of Scranton. She has obtained the GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF) certification from the Global Information Assurance Organization (GIAC). She has also earned the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification from the Scrum Alliance, and has a background in, and exposure to, various project management methodologies.
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Lakshmi Munnangi
Product Manager of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Meenal Shukla
Senior Client Outcomes Manager of Gainsight
Meenal Shukla is a Client Outcomes Manager for mid-market and SMB customers at Gainsight. She is responsible for driving long term customer success & value for Gainsight’s customers. Throughout her career, Meenal has led cross-functional efforts across sales, services, marketing and product to systematize success towards retention, upsell and advocacy goals.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Dan Ahrens
Senior Manager, Product Operations of Gainsight
Dan Ahrens is Senior Manager, Product Operations at Gainsight, which involves product outreach, enablement, reporting, as well as managing the tools and processes used by the Product Management team. Prior to joining Gainsight, Dan managed customer success and support teams at both enterprise and boutique software companies. When he’s not solving product challenges you might find Dan swinging a golf club, playing guitar, solving a Rubik’s cube, or going on a hike with his family.
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Angelo Matheou
Sr. Product Manager of Gainsight
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About Gainsight, MyRace: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Daniel Levine
Sr. Manager, Solution Architecture of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Steve Davis
Sr. Manager Global Enterprise Support of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Steve Davis
Sr. Manager Global Enterprise Support of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Devin Stevens
Manager Solutions Consulting of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Ayori Selassie
Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Platform, Heroku, Einstein of Salesforce
Ayori is an AI/Data, and Enterprise SaaS/PaaS Product leader and investor cultivating community for wellness, wealth building, wisdom, and world-shaping web3 innovation through Life Model Ventures. She’s driven business, impact and change at Salesforce for 14 years, launched Einstein Prediction Builder, Salesforce’s AI Platform, and was an early evangelist for ethical AI at Salesforce where she currently leads product marketing for Data Services. She founded BOLDforce, the black employee network at Salesforce, and was a key figure to influence equality initiatives across the company.
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About BOLDforce, Pitch Mixer, Salesforce, Salesforce, Selfpreneur: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pascal Yammine
Senior Vice President & General Manager Salesforce CPQ + Billing 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.
Vera Serdiukova
Senior AI Product Manager of Salesforce
Vera Serdiukova is the Senior AI Product Manager 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.
Regina Burkebile
Sr. Manager, Tech Marketing and Branding of Salesforce
With almost two decades in tech, Regina Burkebile is a marketing maven by day and a baby burper by night. She is the Director of Engineering Marketing at Salesforce, where she helped launch the Open Source virtual team in addition to leading efforts that encourage engineers to share more about their innovations with the industry through events, blogs, and social media.
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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.
Brigid Hughes
Senior Program Manager of Salesforce
Brigid received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s College of California and a Master’s Degree from the University of San Francisco. She has several years of experience in the US and Europe in operations and program management.
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About Amazon, Novo Ventures, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Emily Johnson
Senior Manager, 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.
Jeff Maddocks
Manager 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.
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.
Blake Baxley
Software Engineering Manager 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 Coppedge
Senior Principal Portfolio Success Manager 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.
Ceverly Strand
Product Marketing Manager of Salesforce
Cev’s experience has allowed her to become a leader who isn’t afraid to ask tough questions of those around her. She is focused on supporting team members who are just as excited and passionate about each other’s growth as their own. Her goal is to grow businesses from the inside out and foster work environments where every voice has the opportunity to be heard. Cev believes in changing traditional companies into connected companies. And this will be accomplished with Salesforce Einstein, which allows customers to make decisions faster, make employees more productive, and make customers happier using AI-powered predictions and recommendations. And, with Einstein Voice, customers can do more with the power of their voice and the intelligence of Einstein – now in pilot.
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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.
Ranjeeth Kathiresan
Senior Engineering Manager 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.
Laura Lindeman
Program Manager – Technology, People, Innovation, and Learning of Salesforce
Laura Lindeman manages employee engagement programs for the Tech and Products organization at Salesforce in Atlanta. She works hard to build community and to bring people together around their shared love of using technology to solve problems. She believes that words matter and is passionate about crafting them. Laura is always reading a book and also enjoys hiking and backpacking with her husband. She takes far too many pictures of her cat, who you can follow on Twitter at @LilKiratheCat. Talk to her about the Oxford comma if you want to hear her hop onto a soapbox.
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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.
Frederik Pedersen
Finance Database Manager of Salesforce
Frederik Pedersen’s main responsibility is in the running and development of the SFDC Com & Ben sub-ledger together with a team of two based in Indianapolis and Singapore. Before joining Salesforce’s EMEA Comp & Ben Team back in Apr 2012, Fred worked in various roles in Finance, Accounting, and Payroll through his engagement with major Blue Chip companies in EMEA. Frederik’s core competencies are rooted deep in Business Application Finance Development and have numerous times been involved in large payroll data migration projects. Frederik has lived in multiple places around the world since childhood and grabs any opportunity he can to travel the world.
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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.
Guilda Hilaire
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Salesforce
Guilda Hilaire is the Senior Product Marketing Manager 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.
Laura Lindeman
Program Manager – Technology, People, Innovation, and Learning of Salesforce
Laura Lindeman manages employee engagement programs for the Tech and Products organization at Salesforce in Atlanta. She works hard to build community and to bring people together around their shared love of using technology to solve problems. She believes that words matter and is passionate about crafting them. Laura is always reading a book and also enjoys hiking and backpacking with her husband. She takes far too many pictures of her cat, who you can follow on Twitter at @LilKiratheCat. Talk to her about the Oxford comma if you want to hear her hop onto a soapbox.
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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.
Frederik Pedersen
Finance Database Manager of Salesforce
Frederik Pedersen’s main responsibility is in the running and development of the SFDC Com & Ben sub-ledger together with a team of two based in Indianapolis and Singapore. Before joining Salesforce’s EMEA Comp & Ben Team back in Apr 2012, Fred worked in various roles in Finance, Accounting, and Payroll through his engagement with major Blue Chip companies in EMEA. Frederik’s core competencies are rooted deep in Business Application Finance Development and have numerous times been involved in large payroll data migration projects. Frederik has lived in multiple places around the world since childhood and grabs any opportunity he can to travel the world.
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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.
Guilda Hilaire
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Salesforce
Guilda Hilaire is the Senior Product Marketing Manager 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.
Aliya Dossa
Product Manager of Segment
Aliya Dossa is a Product Manager for Segment’s Privacy Products, helping customers respect end-user privacy and adapt to the changing regulatory landscape. Prior to Segment, she was working on Canadian immigration policy and her own environmental biotech startup. Outside of work you can find her hip hop dancing or talking to strangers.
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Francisco Alberini
Product Manager of Segment
Francisco Alberini is a Product Manager at Segment focused on Protocols, a suite of features to help Segment customers improve their data quality. Prior to joining the Product team, Francisco built and lead Segment’s Solutions Architecture team, and before that managed Segment’s Success Engineering team. Francisco spent his early career in Social Media and Direct marketing in New York before moving to San Francisco, learning to code, and transitioning into tech.
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About Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Derek Nelson
Product Manager of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Dan Rosanova
Group Product Manager of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Ralph Kasuba
Vice President & General Manager of Pitney Bowes
Ralph Kasuba is the Vice President & General Manager 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.
Tyler Bradshaw
TitleSenior Product Manager, Growth of Recorded Future
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About Recorded Future: Recorded Future is the world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security.
Harindra de Silva
Portfolio Manager of Analytic Investors
Harindra (“Harin”) de Silva is responsible for the firm’s strategic direction and the ongoing development of its investment processes. As a portfolio manager, Harin focuses on the ongoing research effort for equity and factor based asset allocation strategies. Harin has authored several articles and studies on finance-related topics including stock market anomalies, market volatility and asset valuation. He, along with his colleagues Roger Clarke and Stephen Thorley, was recognized with the prestigious Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence for their research published in the Financial Analysts Journal in 2002 and 2005. Prior to joining Analytic Investors, Harin was a Principal at Analysis Group, Inc., where he was responsible for providing economic research services to institutional investors including investment managers, large pension funds, and endowments. Harin received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Irvine. He holds a M.S. in Econometrics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
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About Analytic Investors: Analytic Investors is an independent, employee-owned boutique, our culture is rooted in our continuous focus on providing its clients.
David Krider
Portfolio Manager of Analytic Investors
David Krider is a Portfolio Manager responsible for the ongoing research and development of global equity-based investment strategies as well as the day-to-day trading of global portfolios. Prior to joining the firm, David was founder and Chief Technology Officer of Visualize, Inc., a firm that specializes in financial visualization and analytic software. He was a Research Associate at First Quadrant before leaving to start his own firm. David received a BS in Economics and Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Analytic Investors: Analytic Investors is an independent, employee-owned boutique, our culture is rooted in our continuous focus on providing its clients.
Ryan Brown
Portfolio Manager of Analytic Investors
As a Portfolio Manager on the equity team, Ryan Brown is responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management and trading for U.S. equity-based investment strategies. Ryan also contributes to the ongoing research efforts of these strategies. Prior to joining Analytic, Ryan worked for Beekman Capital Management, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was responsible for selecting stocks within the financial services sector. Ryan received a B.S. in Economics at Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Finance at the University of Utah.
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About Analytic Investors, Analytic Investors: Analytic Investors is an independent, employee-owned boutique, our culture is rooted in our continuous focus on providing its clients.
Dennis Bein Bein
Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager of Analytic Investors
As Chief Investment Officer, Dennis Bein oversees the implementation of the firm’s investment strategies. He is a major contributor to the firm’s ongoing research efforts as well as new product development and strategy applications. As a portfolio manager, Dennis focuses on day-to-day portfolio management and research related to equity-based investment strategies. Prior to joining Analytic Investors, Dennis was a Senior Consultant for Analysis Group, Inc., where he provided investment consulting services for institutional investors and plan sponsors. He advised pension fund managers on topics such as investment objective definition, asset allocation analysis, manager selection and manager performance evaluation. Dennis received an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside. He completed his undergraduate studies in Business Administration at the University of California, Riverside. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFA) and the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts (LASFA).
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About Analytic Investors: Analytic Investors is an independent, employee-owned boutique, our culture is rooted in our continuous focus on providing its clients.
Megan Miller
Portfolio Manager of Analytic Investors
Megan plays an important role in the investment decision making process for Analytic’s options strategies. Megan is involved in both research and the portfolio construction of client portfolios. Specifically, she researches new models and ways to enhance existing models used in the investment process, develops and maintains optimization inputs and volatility forecasts, and develops and maintains optimization frameworks used to create client portfolios. She received a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Analytic Investors: Analytic Investors is an independent, employee-owned boutique, our culture is rooted in our continuous focus on providing its clients.
Sambhav Galada
Senior Technical Product Manager of Bluecore
Sambhav Galada is the Senior Technical Product Manager of Bluecore.
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About Bluecore, Loopd: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Josh Lemaitre
Data Science Manager of Thomson Reuters
Josh has been involved in data since the days before it was “big”. His career has evolved from marketing to operations research to product management to consulting, all with a heavy analytics bent. Most recently, he has served as a founding member of Thomson Reuters Labs, an innovation-driven data science group focused on proof of concept development for finance, risk and legal industries. Prior to joining TR Labs, Josh built and cultivated the data science function at a Bay Area start-up, focused on delivering business value to retailers and brands through data product development and advanced analysis techniques. His current primary analysis toolkit includes Python, UNIX, RDBMSs, the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark), and R. Josh holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University and a Master of Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an avid MOOC-er and has spoken at major industry events, including Strata/Hadoop World, eTail, Shop.org, and INFORMS.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Daniel DiBono
High Yield Municipal Evaluations Manager of Thomson Reuters
As Manager of High Yield Municipal Evaluations for Thomson Reuters Pricing Service, Dan is responsible for a group of Evaluators and Credit Analysts who help price over 1.1 million Municipal securities on a daily basis. His team focuses on evaluating all bonds that are non-rated or rated below investment grade, as well as all distressed and defaulted bonds. Prior to entering the evaluated pricing business in 2015, Dan spent 10 years on the buy side with Tiptree Financial, Tricadia Capital, and Cohen & Company. In his role as a High Yield Muni Analyst and Portfolio Manager, Dan focused on private placements in the healthcare, education, and project finance sectors. He was part of a team to successfully build and manage a portfolio of nearly $700 million high yield bonds, including the first tax-exempt municipal bond CDO, Non-Profit Preferred Funding. Dan has a B.S. from the University at Albany, SUNY and is a member of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.
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About Refinitiv, Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Bryan Saunders
Senior Manager, Industry Consulting & Enablement of SAS
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Brent Laster
Senior Manager, Research and Development of SAS
Brent Laster is a global trainer, presenter, and author. In his day job, he is a senior manager, software development, in the Research and Development Division at SAS in Cary, North Carolina, where he manages several groups involved with release engineering processes and internal tooling. He also serves as a resource for the use of open source technologies and conducts internal training classes in technologies such as Git, Gerrit, Gradle, and Jenkins, both in the US and abroad. In addition to corporate training, Brent creates and presents workshops for a wide variety of technical conferences. His workshops and informational sessions on open source technologies (and how to apply them) have been presented at such conferences as the Rich Web Experience/Continuous Delivery Experience, UberConf, OSCON, and others. Brent is the author of the upcoming release Professional Git from WROX, and he is also a contributor to publications such as the No Fluff, Just Stuff magazine. Brent also conducts live web training from time to time. Brent’s passion is teaching and doing so in a way that makes difficult concepts relatable to all. He has been involved in technical training for over 25 years and continues to seek out ways to show others how technology can be used to simplify and automate. You can learn more about Brent and his work on LinkedIn or find him on Twitter at @BrentCLaster.
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About O’Reilly, SAS, SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Sarah Gates
Global Product Marketing Manager – SAS Platform of SAS
Sarah Gates is the Global Product Marketing Manager – SAS Platform at SAS.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Nancy Rausch
Sr. Software Development Manager of SAS
Nancy Rausch is a senior software manager at SAS Institute.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Sarah Gates
Global Product Marketing Manager – SAS Platform of SAS
Sarah Gates is the Global Product Marketing Manager – SAS Platform at SAS.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Chris Hemedinger
Senior Manager of SAS Online Communities of SAS
Chris Hemedinger is the senior manager of SAS online communities at SAS.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Joshua Moskovitz
Senior Manager – Customer Success Analytics of Looker
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About Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Mark Huber
Senior Manager, Marketing Operations of Uptake Technologies
Founding Member and Digital Marketing Manager for Symbiont Group, Mark Huber brings 3+ years of digital marketing experience for Fortune 500 B2B and B2C clients. Mark comes to the Symbiont team from Acquity Group, where he consulted for clients including Coca-Cola, United Airlines, AT&T, Biogen Idec, Grupo Bimbo, Airgas, and Univar. Mark received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Mark enjoys playing hockey, watching the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team, and letting the Chicago Cubs break his heart year after year.
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About Uptake Technologies: Uptake Technologies designs and develops enterprise software.
Megan Parker
Manager, Communications of Uptake Technologies
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About Uptake Technologies: Uptake Technologies designs and develops enterprise software.
Andrew Barker
Manager of Product Consulting of Tableau
Andrew serves as a technical resource for the sales team. Andrew holds degrees in economics and international relations, with minors in mathematics and music. He is a classically trained pianist, and has a lovely group of students he teaches when he’s not at Tableau.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Anushka Anand
Senior Product Manager of Tableau
Anushka Anand is a Senior Product Manager on Project Maestro helping build Tableau’s new data preparation product. She is leading the team’s efforts in augmented data preparation as they work to help customers understand data quality issues, clean and combine data with the use of Machine Learning (ML) methods. Anushka was a member of the Tableau Research team from 2012-2017 working on visualization recommendation with projects such as Voyager and Auto-Partitioner, actively publishing in the VIS community. She led the creation of a Recommendations engineering team and helped shape the server-based recommendation features available in Tableau 10.3 and 10.4. Anushka earned her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago actively publishing in the VIS and KDD communities. On the side, Anushka serves on the Program Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and helped found the Fremont Womxn in Technology group.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Steve Burger
Manager of Product Consulting, Enterprise & LATAM of Tableau
Steve is a Manager of the enterprise product consulting team in the Tableau Austin office. A native Texan and graduate of The University of Texas at Austin’s management information systems program, Steve’s past roles have included Data Analyst for the State of Texas and various technical sales and consulting roles at Dell, PlanView and contractor for Apple and Microsoft.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Paul Cardon
Manager of Development & Staff Software Engineer of Tableau
Paul is a dev manager for the new version of Tableau Mobile. His passion is enabling mobile users to interact with the data on their Tableau Servers in both new and familiar ways, and ensuring that server provides all the support needed to make the mobile experience first class. Paul has been at Tableau since April 2013, and previously spent 14 years working on various server and language-related products at Microsoft. He has a BS degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Phillip Cheung
Technical Program Manager of Tableau
Phillip joined Tableau in 2013 and is the TPM for the team that runs Tableau at Tableau. While not graceful at all in physical activities, he balances keeping Tableau running as a mission critical system while dogfooding the product and making it better for customers. Phillip has over 15 years of experience in IT working for small and large corporations with experience in business intelligence, database, and business process. Outside of Tableau, Phillip main goal is raising his three children to be reasonably well adjusted human beings.
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About Tableau, Tableau, Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Phillip Cheung
Technical Program Manager of Tableau
Phillip joined Tableau in 2013 and is the TPM for the team that runs Tableau at Tableau. While not graceful at all in physical activities, he balances keeping Tableau running as a mission critical system while dogfooding the product and making it better for customers. Phillip has over 15 years of experience in IT working for small and large corporations with experience in business intelligence, database, and business process. Outside of Tableau, Phillip main goal is raising his three children to be reasonably well adjusted human beings.
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About Tableau, Tableau, Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Lauren Brousell
Senior Content Manager of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Joseph Dickerson
User Experience Manager of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Stacey Nordwall
Senior People Operations Manager of Culture Amp
Stacey Nordwall is a People Geek and Senior Global People Operations Manager at Culture Amp. She has an MA with Honors in Counseling Psychology from St. Mary’s College of California and a BA in Psychology and Communication from Stanford University. She is passionate about learning how and why people think and behave as they do, helping people grow, and working to improve the world of work. Stacey has scaled Culture Amp’s onboarding program through 6x growth, and is responsible for Culture Amp’s people operations globally.
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About Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics.
Andy Triedman
Senior Product Manager of Replica
Andy Triedman currently works as a Senior Product Manager at Replica. He previously worked at Innovation Endeavors as the Senior Associate.
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About Replica: Replica is an enterprise data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment.
Ryan Grosso
Data Science Manager of SparkBeyond
Ryan Grosso is Sr. Data Scientist and Data Science Manager at SparkBeyond. Ryan holds a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics. He also has over 4 years of experience in data science and AI spanning across numerous verticals including finance, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and media. In his spare time, he serves as a technical advisor for the program Insight Data Science to shape the next generation of Data Science and AI in the workplace.
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About SparkBeyond: At SparkBeyond, we unleash AI for Business and Social impact
Scott Rigney
Principal Product Manager of MicroStrategy
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About MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy provides enterprise software for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and network applications.
Martina Abrahams
Product Marketing Manager of NextRoll
Martina Abrahams is the product marketing manager at [Square](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/square), a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology. Prior to that, she founded You Had Me at Black. She also worked as a product marketing manager at AdRoll. Abrahams holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and entrepreneurial management from Georgetown University.
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About NextRoll, You Had Me at Black: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Peter Stradinger
Manager, Study Team of Evidation Health
Peter leads the technology and engineering teams at Evidation Health. Previously, he spent five years as a software engineer and team leader at RightScale Inc, a pioneering cloud computing management company where he implemented cloud support for AWS, OpenStack, GCE and Azure. Earlier in his career, Peter was a Senior Software Engineer at GreenSherpa, where he built the company’s financial management product from the ground up. Peter started his career as a production specialist responsible for database management at Warp9 and later as a data analyst for Callwave, one of the first internet-based unified communication networks. During this time, he was an instructor for database languages at UC Santa Barbara’s Extension Program. Peter has a BA in English Literature from Whitworth College.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Sebastian Hempstead
General Manager, North America of Streetbees
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Prakash Chockalingam
Product Manager of Databricks
Prakash is currently a Product Manager at Databricks. Prior to joining Databricks, he was building the personalization infrastructure at Netflix.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Rishi Singh
Senior Product Manager of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Ryan Delany
Senior Technical Marketing Manager of FireEye
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Alex Rivlin
Sr Manager, Engineering of FireEye
Alex Rivlin leads the team responsible for dynamic threat intelligence at FireEye, which includes a crowdsourced malware exchange across FireEye customers and a malware analytics platform supporting FireEye’s research. For two decades, Alex developed novel analytical capabilities for high-tech companies in projects such as semiconductor failure analysis, supply chain optimization, pricing, and cybersecurity. Previously, Alex worked at Altera (currently part of Intel), where he was hired to develop analytical platform for semiconductor test. His very first project earned a US patent for optimization of bulk loading of data to RDBMS. He later joined supply chain optimization project, where he was responsible for operational analytics. One of his developments allowed real-time reallocation of materials, a feature not available in any commercial packages. Alex also spent time at Flextronics, where he was in charge of project management for implementation of global procurement solution and master data management.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Rob Ayoub
Product Marketing Manager of FireEye
Rob Ayoub is a research director in IDC’s security products program. In this role he provides thought leadership and guidance for clients on a wide range of security products ranging from traditional network security products such as firewall, IPS and UTM to emerging products designed to protect the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). Rob is also responsible for research and analysis around a wide range of evolving security markets, including forensics and security and vulnerability management. Rob has extensive experience in the security industry, with more than 10 years as an industry analyst and several years in solutions marketing for a security vendor. He is actively involved in industry initiatives and education in his community – including ISSA and CyberPatriot.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Prachi Chheda
Marketing Operations Manager of FireEye
Prachi is a Sr. Marketing Operations Analyst at FireEye. She is Marketo Certified Expert and is passionate about data, technology and processes. Her area of expertise include lead scoring, technology integrations, generate and analyze marketing KPIs & ROI assessment.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Laura Rennels
Customer Success Manager of People Data Labs
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About People Data Labs: Enabling all companies to build compliant b2b data solutions
Mondeep Thiara
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Density
Mondeep Thiara is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Density.
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About Density: Density builds the technical infrastructure for cities, buildings, and spaces to measure how they’re used.
Deja Amato
Marketing Manager of LISNR
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About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Marina Radvinsky
HR Manager of Shareablee
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About Shareablee: Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
Yuansong Liao
Co-COO/Chief Scientist/VP Analytics / Senior Analytics Manager of Opera Solutions
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Sarah Anderson
Senior Manager, Marketing Communications of Opera Solutions
Sarah Anderson is the senior manager for marketing communications at [Opera Solutions](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opera-solutions#/entity), a provider of advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from big data. Prior to that, she was a senior editor at the same company. Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of South Dakota. She lives in New York, United States.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Sarah Anderson
Senior Manager, Marketing Communications of Opera Solutions
Sarah Anderson is the senior manager for marketing communications at [Opera Solutions](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opera-solutions#/entity), a provider of advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from big data. Prior to that, she was a senior editor at the same company. Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of South Dakota. She lives in New York, United States.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Jim Wang
Software Engineering Manager of Corva
Jim has an extensive background in enterprise systems development and integration, including a focus in online retail analytics and payment systems. During his time at Dell, Jim designed and delivered cloud based lead-to-cash sales solution extending the salesforce.com platform. The solution provides subscription based billing model for next generation of cloud computing services. Jim was responsible for Service Cloud customization with evaluation and integration of 3rd party products to expand the capability of the platform. Jim provided long-term capability road maps for the solution to meet the demands and needs of future product offerings, mergers, and acquisitions. Jim received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Jim enjoys spending time on friends boats and racing his Mazda Miata around various tracks in Texas.
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About Corva: Corva is the emerging leader in real time data and analytics for oil & gas.
Peter Zotto
General Manager of ProfitWell
Peter Zotto is the General Manager at ProfitWell.
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About ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Lilian Mitchell
Sales Operations and Enablement Manager of ProfitWell
Lilian Mitchell is the Sales Operations and Enablement Manager at ProfitWell.
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About ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Matthew Ellis
Senior Product Manager and Head of Open Source Software of TIBCO
Matt Ellis is a senior product manager and head of open source software at TIBCO Software, where he focuses on product and strategy around open source and Project Flogo, an open source edge microservices framework built entirely in Go. As of late, Matt has spent his time focusing on two key technical shifts: machine learning and serverless compute. Matt has brought many technical achievements to the Golang open source community in areas related to edge machine learning with TensorFlow and serverless compute constructs in Golang with AWS Lambda. Matt has been involved in the tech industry for over two decades and has held a number of roles. Early in his career, he developed 3D rendering engines in both OpenGL and Direct3D and authored a number of technical manuals and books on the topic. During an independent consulting opportunity in Brazil, Matt authored two additional books focusing on RESTful services and APIs.
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About TIBCO, TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Boris Revechkis
Product Manager for Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence 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.
Sri Ponnada
Associate Product Manager 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.
Rick Wakida
Global Travel Manager of Informatica
Rick Wakida is the Global Travel Manager at Informatica.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Jonah Mackey
Community Manager of Statespace
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About Statespace: Statespace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential.
Jason Miller
IT Security Assurance Manager of RELX Group plc
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About RELX Group plc: RELX Group plcis is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
Ravi Gairola
Engineering Manager of LiveRamp
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About LiveRamp: LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.
Megan Williams
Human Resources Manager of Blue Acorn iCi
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About Blue Acorn iCi: Blue Acorn iCi is an e-commerce consulting firm that helps online retailers increase sales, profitability, and ROI.
Lauren Hockenson
Content Marketing Manager of Sensor Tower
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About Sensor Tower: Sensor Tower provides market intelligence and analytics for the mobile app economy through their software suite.
John Zilch
Product Manager of NetProspex
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About NetProspex: NetProspex is a provider of B2B marketing data services and data management.
Sean Horgan
Product Manager of Verily
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About Verily: Verily develops tools and devices to collect and analyze health data to research and manage diseases.
Matt McKeon
Technical Lead Manager of Verily
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About Verily: Verily develops tools and devices to collect and analyze health data to research and manage diseases.
Nikki Perrotti
Client Success Manager of Stylitics
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About Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Leo Liberman
Engineering Manager – Mobile of Dialpad
He is an Engineering Manager – Mobile at Dialpad.
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Alexander Luntz
Sales Manager of Custora
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Madeleine Buras
Marketing Manager of Custora
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Dylan Antonacci
Sales Manager of Custora
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Nicola Kornbluth
Marketing Manager of Custora
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Paul Lenser
Product Marketing Manager of Sprout Social
Paul Lenser is the product marketing manager at Sprout Social.
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About Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Prince Kwateng
Mid Market Sales Manager of Sprout Social
Prince Kwateng is Founder @ Karma Gift List.
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About Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
