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 Manager operating in the Internet 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.
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Ben Balter
Staff Technical Program Manager of GitHub
Ben Balter is the Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Kara Sowles
Senior Open Source Program Manager, DevRel team of GitHub
Kara Sowles is the Senior Open Source Program Manager, DevRel team at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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James Garcia
Services Solution Architect Manager of GitHub
James Garcia is the Director at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Allison McMillan
Engineering Manager, Atom and Xray of GitHub
Allison McMillan is a software developer at Collective Idea. She’s worn many hats including startup founder, community builder at the University of Michigan, and Managing Director of a national non-profit. Allison started programming at a Rail Girls workshop and is now a chapter organizer. She speaks on a variety of topics including mentorship, working remotely, and being a parent and a developer. When she’s not coding, you can find her encouraging her toddler’s climbing skills or pretending she has time to bake. Allison lives in the Washington, DC area.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Nadia Gathers
Communications Program Manager / Producer of GitHub
Nadia is the Internal Communications Manager at Github and an intersectional design thinking facilitator hailing from the d.school. In their spare time, they are a mental health advocate, occasional stage-talker, and aspiring novelist. Nadia helps people talk to each other.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Traci Coffman
Product Marketing Manager of GitHub
Traci Coffman is one of GitHub’s Product Marketing Managers. She is an advocate for the coding community and has a heart for women in tech. In her spare time, she dabbles in excelorating her coding skills, converting her agile knowledge into GitHub flow and teaching ballroom dance. Traci holds an undergraduate degree in Public Relations from the University of Oklahoma. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and is working on her PMP certification.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Nick Elsbree
Engineering Manager of Eventbrite
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About Eventbrite: Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Joanna Lambert
General Manager of Finance & Tech of Verizon Media
Joanna Lambert is vice President of Consumer Financial Services, PayPal Jo Lambert is the Vice President of Consumer Financial Services at PayPal. In this role, she is leading efforts to democratize financial services and make the management and movement of money more effective and affordable for billions of financially underserved people around the world. She speaks broadly about the role technology can play to lower the costs and barriers to access financial services, and the importance of building a customer-centric team with a culture centered around a shared mission in order to drive change. Previously, Jo was the Senior Vice-President of Product Development and Operations at American Express, where she was charged with developing and managing Product, User-Experience and Operational Excellence for a group focused on developing next-generation banking solutions.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Nancy Ranxing Li
Product Manager of Edge Computing of Verizon Media
Nancy is the Product Manager of Edge Computing at Verizon. She is leading the commercialization strategy of new products leveraging 5G and Mobile Edge Computing. She led a team of 30 engineers and designers to launch one of the first smart cities products to use machine vision and integrated IoT systems to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries. It was awarded Boston Mayor’s Best Practice in 2017. The product was deployed in about 10 leading cities in the US. Before joining Verizon, she was the architect of a $250M project to design fault-tolerant control systems to prevent oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico at Shell Oil. She got a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Boston University at the age of 24 (youngest in the program history) with 14 publications and 1 patent. She is also an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management. Nancy is passionate about building high schools in China to teach critical thinking and entrepreneurship. She enjoys public speaking, scuba diving, and ballroom dancing.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Joe Rozner
Sr Manager Offensive Security (Red Team) of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
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Danielle Letayf
Program & Community Manager of Verizon Media
Danielle Letayf is the Founder at Badassery.
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About Badassery, NewYork.SG, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Llewellyn Dawkins
Innovation Program Manager of Verizon Media
JR Dawkins is a tech junkie that spent his early days at Apple Retail teaching customers how to use Apple technology and working at the Genius Bar. In 2013 he changed gears to take on a software product management role and delivered software solutions across all platforms including web, mobile and desktop. Since 2016 he has been working in the world of XR technology via Verizon R&D. This has afforded him the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of XR technologies and the impact 5G will have.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
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Stephen Valenta
Sr. Product Manager of Samsara
Product at Samsara. GSB ’17.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Eleanor Horowitz
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Samsara
Eleanor Horowitz is the senior product marketing manager at Samsara.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Kate Heddleston
Senior Engineering Manager of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ken Kazama
Product Operations Manager of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Nicholas Spitzman
General Manager – US of Razor Group
Nicholas is the US General Manager for Razor Group, one of the largest FBA aggregators in the world with over $550M raised. Previously, Nicholas was CEO of Pet Pro Supply Co., an online retailer of premium products for pet care professionals and pet parents. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Digital at Regus, the world’s largest provider of serviced office spaces. He oversaw web, mobile, e-commerce and digital transformation of customer experience. Before Regus he was Regional CEO for HomeAway in South America. Nicholas grew HomeAway’s business in Brazil post-acquisition from 8 to 60 people, doubling revenue and expanding operations from Brazil to Spanish-speaking markets in Argentina and Colombia. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Love Home Swap, an online community where homeowners can swap or use points to stay in thousands of inspiring homes worldwide. His other work experience includes The Boston Consulting Group and Draper Fisher Jurvetson FIR Capital Partners, a venture capital fund in Brazil. Nicholas holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a MBA from Wharton.
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About Razor Group: Razor Group is a global consumer holding company that partners with e-commerce merchants to acquire and scale brands.
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Collin Vine
Product Manager of YouTube
Collin Vine is a Product Manager at YouTube.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Nicky Rettke
Product Manager, Monetization of YouTube
Nicky Rettke is a Group Product Manager for YouTube ads, focused on building end-to-end solutions for performance advertisers. Nicky has been at Google for almost 10 years and led the efforts around YouTube mobile ads before building YouTube’s direct response business. Nicky graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Telecommunications Engineering.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
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Janet Zhou
Product Manager of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
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Todd Sherman
Product Manager of YouTube
Todd Sherman is a Product Manager.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Alison Meier
UX Research Lead & Manager of YouTube
Alison Meier serves as UX Research Lead & Manager at YouTube TV.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Matt Kovalakides
Manager, Creative Insights, North America of YouTube
Matt is a former YouTube creator who grew his comedy channel to over 15M views and 115,000 subscribers. Soon after being selected for the first “NextUp” class, he joined YouTube as a full-time Content Strategist, where he co-developed the site’s 10 Fundamentals among many other resources. He’s currently the Head of Content & Production for two of YouTube’s educational outlets, the Creator Academy and Help Channel.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Claudio Fuentes
Product Manager of Pypestream
Passionate about building great teams, products, startups, entrepreneurship, venture capital, tech, and innovation.
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About Pypestream: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
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Alexandra Ames
Sr. Marketing Manager of TechCrunch
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About Engadget, TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
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Kevin Manniko
Senior Event Manager | Production Specialist of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
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Mischa Stephens
Product Manager of TechCrunch
Mischa is the Mobile Product Manager for TechCrunch and Engadget. Currently redesigning the TechCrunch and Engadget reader apps from scratch for a vastly new and improved reading experience, and building the next version of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference app. Tweet at me if you have any ideas or feedback (@mischalol).
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Shikha Tandon
Product Manager of TechCrunch
Olympian; Product Manager; Science Lead; Advisory Board Member; TEDx Speaker
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About SVEXA, TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Abhilasha Shripat
Senior Product Manager of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Aerica Shimizu Banks
Public Policy and Social Impact Manager of Pinterest
Aerica Banks is on the patent strategy team in Google’s DC office. In this capacity she monitors the legislative and legal patent landscape and integrates diversity initiatives into Google’s patent strategy. She leads Google’s sponsorship of BEACON, the campaign to make Washington, D.C. the most supportive ecosystem for women entrepreneurs in the United States. She is the COO of the Asian Google Network, Co-lead for the DC chapter of the Black Google Network, and acts as liaison to the black small business community for the DC region. She was named a 2017 Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine and joined the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurs. Previously, she was a political appointee in the Obama Administration, worked in government relations for The Pew Charitable Trusts, and advanced environmental justice policies in Washington state. She holds a MSc in Environmental Policy from Oxford University and a BA in Environmental Studies and Public Affairs from Seattle University. She sits on the advisory boards of TechWeekDC, Project 500, and Black Girl Ventures.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Madhu Punjabi
Product Manager of Pinterest
Madhu is an Entrepreneur in Residence. Madhu worked as a product manager at Pinterest, Facebook, and TellApart. Prior to that, she spent 6 years at Google in Partnerships and Finance on the Google Shopping team.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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Vahid Kazemi
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Leslie Nguyen
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Clara Timpe
Talent Brand Manager of Pinterest
Clara Timpe is a talent brand manager at Pinterest.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Derrick Diaz
IT Ops Helpdesk Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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Dmitry Kislyuk
Engineering Manager, Computer Vision of Pinterest
Dmitry Kislyuk leads Visual Search at Pinterest, where he has worked on applied computer vision and deep learning for over four years. Most recently, he led the launch of Pinterest Lens, allowing your phone camera to function as a search input to find out more about anything you see, a technology which was subsequently adopted for the Bixby AI assistant. Dmitry studied AI at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University, and his work is focused on solving practical problems in for novel visual search systems, including visual object detection, and image embeddings for fast and large-scale retrieval.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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Alexander Dymo
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About KDE, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Seth Weisfeld
Product Manager, Growth Traffic of Pinterest
Seth currently works for Pinterest as product manager.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Jeffrey Donenfeld
Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
Jeffrey Donenfeld is an international business strategy advisor, investment manager, and startup venture mentor with experience in tech ideation, investment analysis and market positioning. Jeffrey is currently the Investment Manager of Boomtown Accelerators, and Director of Four North Media Group. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. He’s also worked internationally as a public speaker, photojournalist, and expedition technician. Connect at http://JeffreyDonenfeld.com.
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About Boomtown Accelerators, Four North: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
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Jason Baudendistel
CEO, CTO & Content Manager of Wibbets.com
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About Self Employed, Sixy Press, Wibbets.com: Wibbets.com is the ultimate pro privacy shopping platform.
Kate Spies
SVP & General Manager of Wellgood
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About Wellgood: Wellgood is an organization that writes articles about exercise and healthy living.
Beck Parker
Senior Manager Business Operations & Growth of Fair
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Stacy Feldman
Operations Manager of Innovation Department
Stacy Feldman is Director of Communications at Shoeboxed.
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About DojoMojo, Innovation Department, Vida Shoes International, WellPath: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
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Masumi Nakamura
Senior Director / Engineering Manager of Mercari
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About Mercari, Techstars: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
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Tatiana Bakaeva
Global Sales Analytics & Insights, Manager of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Daniel John Eline
Senior Manager for AMER Solution Marketing of Equinix
Dan is responsible for driving vertical growth of the Americas East region at Equinix. An industry veteran of nearly 20 years, Dan joined Equinix in April of 2017. Before joining Equinix, Dan was a Solutions Architect with Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for the development of datacenter solutions for large enterprise customers. Prior to that, Dan was the network architecture team lead for Cantor Fitzgerald, senior network engineer At the National Basketball Association and senior infrastructure architect at QVC, Inc.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
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Mike Indigaro
Partnerships & Business Development Manager of Teikametrics
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About Teikametrics: Teikametrics is an e-commerce optimization platform designed for retailers on online marketplaces.
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Steven Redman
Senior Implementation Project Manager of Wave
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About Wave: Wave is a leading provider of video, internet and phone services
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Natasha (Tong) Young
Product Manager – Profile of Best Buy
Seasoned product management professional with demonstrated abilities to manage and market a product through its lifecycle. Extremely effective in establishing product specifications, market positioning with focus on customer needs. Adept at understanding interdependent relationships between technical and business issues. Proven success in identifying growth opportunities, delivering differentiated products to market, and communicating value through integrated marketing programs. Successfully launched and managed numerous products. Looking to use my broad cross section of hands on product management, business development, team building and technical skills to bring focus and drive to innovative product or service to meet customer’s needs and to create the organization’s competitive advantage. Specialties: Innovation Process Management, Product Strategy and Roadmap, Marketing and Launch Strategy, Communication, Cross functional leadership and team development, Change management, New product design & development, Training Development and Implementation, Creation of MRD/CRD/PRD.
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Rich Hultman
Senior Manager | Services & Strategic Growth Office of Best Buy
Rich Hultman serves as a senior manager at Best Buy.
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Kevin Lau
Solutions Manager of Singtel
Kevin Lau has more than 15 years’ experience as an IT professional in networks and IT infrastructure for multinational companies. He is currently a Solutions Manager at Singtel USA in the heart of Silicon Valley. Singtel is Asia’s leading communication group, which is headquartered in Singapore. In his current role, Kevin develops and reviews technical designs and architecture proposals with clients, in the areas of WAN and integrated Infocomm solutions that covers voice and data infrastructure, SD-WAN, managed services and cloud computing.
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
Doug Brown
Global Account Sales Manager of Singtel
Doug Brown is a Global Account Sales Manager with Singtel (Singapore Telecom). He brings a business perspective that evokes an appreciation of business and technology – and how they are intertwined. His optimistic viewpoint of technology formed while working at US West Communications, EMC Corporation, CenturyLink Business and Singtel. By providing communications technology solutions with a global reach – Singtel enables Doug to collaborate with enterprise and global companies. He also utilizes his background in marketing, business development and business ownership to assist customers with their business initiatives. His goal is to help customers do great things!
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
Doug Brown
Global Account Sales Manager of Singtel
Doug Brown is a Global Account Sales Manager with Singtel (Singapore Telecom). He brings a business perspective that evokes an appreciation of business and technology – and how they are intertwined. His optimistic viewpoint of technology formed while working at US West Communications, EMC Corporation, CenturyLink Business and Singtel. By providing communications technology solutions with a global reach – Singtel enables Doug to collaborate with enterprise and global companies. He also utilizes his background in marketing, business development and business ownership to assist customers with their business initiatives. His goal is to help customers do great things!
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About Singtel: Singtel is a telecommunications company that provides ISP, IPTV, mobile phone, and fixed line telephony services.
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Amanda Rosenberg
Product Analytics Manager of Grove Collaborative
Amanda Rosenberg is the Data and Insight Analyst at The Weather Channel, LLC. since August 2013. Amanda has worked in Ad Operations on the publisher side for 4 years. After becoming proficient in campaign management she has focused on training teams how to analyze campaigns, developing advanced reporting, building documentation and campaign performance optimizations. Prior to the Weather Company, Amanda worked as a Associate Web Analyst for e-Commerce Conversion at Williams Sonoma where she perfected her analytic skills and learned to manage large sets of data. Previously, Amanda was a Campaign Manager at Jumpstart Automotive Group. Amanda earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Amanda currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Kristin Peterson
Project Manager of TheoremOne
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About TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
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Jeff Chase
Community Manager of eero
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
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Kriti Dubey
Principal Engineering Product Manager of Way
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Nishanth Reddy
Project Manager of Way
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Ankita Bagri
Senior Sales Manager of Way
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Shaniece McGill
Customer Success Manager of Way
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Krystal Little
Office Manager Human recources of Way
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Cly Chen
Business Development Manager of Way
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Shaniece McGill
Customer Success Manager of Way
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Krystal Little
Office Manager Human recources of Way
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Mo Singh
Account Manager of Way
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Jordan Sweetnam
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas Market of eBay
Jordan Sweetnam is the SVP and general manager for Americas Market at eBay. He was the vice president of customer experience for Walmart eCommerce. He brings rich e-commerce experience building differentiated products that delight customers and drive growth. He is responsible for leading a high-performance organization with Design, Analytics and Product Management teams that are focused on delivering an amazing customer experience when shopping Walmart.com at home, on their mobile devices or engaging digitally in the store. Jordan joined Walmart’s eCommerce team in 2016. He previously spent 12 years at eBay with his last two years as vice president of Seller Experience. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a specialization in finance from the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honors.
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About eBay, Walmart Labs: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
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Vandit Garg
Senior Engineering Manager of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Thomas Varghese
Senior Manager, Product Management of eBay
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About eBay, Expedia: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Blaine Kaho`onei
Sr. Business Development Manager of Heroku
Blaine Kaho`onei A technology professional with 12 plus years experience around Internet, Mobile, CRM, Cloud and Social Enterprise Technologies. Blaine has worked with CRM as one of the first customers of salesforce.com. An avid user and worked for one of the first partners of salesforce.com to offer mobile CRM on a handheld device (AvantGo). Then he was recruited to work in direct sales for 3 years before helping launch the AppExchange ISV community playing a variety of front and back-of-house roles.
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About Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
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Coby Randquist
Engineering Manager of Heroku
Coby Randquist is an engineering manager at [Heroku](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heroku), He is also the founder and co-founder of Confreaks and On Ales, respectively. Previously, he was the director of IT at AT&T. Prior to AT&T, he held several IT-related roles in G5, Summit Financial Resources, Cymphonix, and Vehix. Randquist studied at Salt Lake Community College and Westminster College.
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About Heroku, Salesforce: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
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Erica Deahl
Senior Design Manager of Khan Academy
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About Khan Academy: Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere.
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Lisa Freed
STEM Program Manager of iRobot
Lisa Freed is a LEED AP, STEM Program Manager at iRobot.
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
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Thomas Fattal
Engineering Manager of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
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Jenni Snyder
Engineering Manager of Yelp
Jenni Snyder is the engineering manager at Yelp.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
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Dejana Bajic
Product Manager of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
John McGanty
General Manager 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.
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Patrick Shao
Account Manager of HackerRank
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About HackerRank: HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world.
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Chris Brown
Senior Enterprise Innovation Manager of Vodafone
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
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Mike Rolfe
Senior Product Manager of Rokk3r
Mike Rolfe is a Senior Product Manager at Rokk3r Labs, where he leads the strategic and technical analysis of entrepreneurial ideas throughout the cobuild process.
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About Rokk3r: Rokk3r is a unique platform for entrepreneurs to launch companies through its comprehensive cobuilding approach.
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Tabitha Kaiser
Product Manager and Implementation Manager of Embark Corporation
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About Embark Corporation: Embark connects students with educational opportunity. We provide online admissions software and free financial aid assistance for students.
Jason van der Merwe
Engineering Manager – Growth of Strava
Born in South Africa but transplanted to Tennessee, Jason has three passports and an ambiguous accent. Now living in San Francisco, he is an engineering manager at Strava, leading a team that focuses on the early stages of the new user lifecycle. Outside of work, Jason loves to cook and has aspirations of opening a restaurant some day.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
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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
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Curtis Sasaki
VP of Ecosystems and iOT General Manager of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Curtis Sasaki is the vice president of ecosystems for Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). He leads new business creation and is responsible for driving growth and innovation through product, technology and ecosystem development. He works with entrepreneurs and startups in Silicon Valley and other global technology hotspots, focusing on Smart Health, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Prior to SSIC, Curtis was Senior Vice President of Samsung Media Solutions Center America (MSCA), where he oversaw the development of Samsung’s media services that work with Samsung Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to deliver the best apps and content to the connected consumer. At MSCA, he also lead the Innovation Lab, a team that focuses on developing pioneering cloud services, the Developer Relations team that drove the Samsung Developer Conferences, as well as the North American Content Services team, which focuses on content partnerships and strategic partner relations.
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About Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
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Jake Glascock
Engineering Manager of Storable
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About Storable: Storable is a provider of self-storage management software used to help storage operators increase efficiency and improve profitability.
Joseph Tou
Vice President / US Investment Manager of Sony Innovation Fund
Joseph Tou is Vice President / US Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund.
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About Sony Innovation Fund: Sony Innovation fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony that invests and engages in early-stage companies.
Matthew Burry
Senior Manager Information Security of Arlo
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About Arlo, Granite Construction, Various Companies: Arlo provides security and video monitoring solutions for homes.
Kristi O’Brien
General Manager, US Collaborations in Operations Management of LTK
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About LTK: LTK is a global creator commerce platform that empowers thousands of digital lifestyle influencers to achieve economic success.
Jonathan Knight
General Manager of Games of The New York Times
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About PureSolo, The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
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Meredith Birchfield
Principal Product Manager – Growth of Mixmax
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About Mixmax: Mixmax is a sales engagement platform that helps sales and customer success teams accelerate revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Yael McCue
Senior Customer Success Manager of Guru
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About Guru: Guru is a knowledge management solution that keeps customer-facing teams up-to-date, consistent, and confident.
Anne Hathaway
CX Manager of Bison Trails
Anne Hathaway is the CX manager at Bison Trails Co.
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Anne Hathaway
CX Manager of Bison Trails
Anne Hathaway is the CX manager at Bison Trails Co.
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
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Bill Bittancourt
Senior Product Line Manager of Calix
Bill Bittancourt has responsibility for copper-based access technologies for FTTN, FTTB and FTTdp solutions. These products include G.fast and VDSL2/ ADSL2+ solutions for sealed/hardened, fixed form factor and chassis based solutions. He has contributed to the Calix submissions to the WT-301 G.fast standard and has written VDSL2 Vectoring best practice documents as well as worked on cabinet and cabinet retrofit OSP solutions. Prior to joining Calix, he has held strategic product line development and marketing roles for L2/L3 router and remote access server products, proprietary embedded communications solutions and mainframe computer products at other companies.
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About Calix: Calix provides the cloud, software, systems and services for service providers to simplify business, excite subscribers and grow value
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Jeff Carlson
Manager of Bain & Company
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About Bain & Company: Bain & Company is a management consulting firm that provides solutions on change in management, strategies, and technology.
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Jenny Li
Senior Manager of Bain & Company
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About Bain & Company: Bain & Company is a management consulting firm that provides solutions on change in management, strategies, and technology.
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Madeline Mann
People Operations Manager of Gem
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About Gem: Gem is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency and blockchain brands in the world.
Alexis Arnell
People Experience Manager of Wonder
Alexis Arnell is a people experience manager at Wonder.
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About Wonder: Wonder is a research service that provides access to the intellect and fact-finding skills of a network of analysts around the world.
Iynna Halilou
Global Programs Manager of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
After acquiring experience in the International Relations/Government sector as a former UN and Cameroon Government staff, Iynna Halilou found her passions in entrepreneurship and its interplay with tech and social impact. She currently manages Yunus&Youth, a digital global accelerator to support social entrepreneurs across the world scale their ventures while running lean. Prior to this, she worked in edtech, where she designed programs to increase underrepresented students’ access to technology. Originally from Cameroon and Madagascar by way of France, the UK, and now New York, she is a native French and English speaker as well as fluent in Spanish. She holds Master in International Affairs, specializing in International Development from NYU and a Bachelor in International Relations from Durham University.
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About Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Yunus&Youth: Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator.
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Ron Bloom
Manager of the 9-1-1 of Frontier Communications
I am honored to serve on the NENA Executive Board as the Private Sector Director – a position that has afforded many unparalleled opportunities to meet with our Private Sector members and companies, discuss pivotal issues, industry initiatives and NENA’s ongoing efforts to continue to deliver valued service benefits to the membership. I am also privileged to serve as the liaison to NENA’sNext Generation Partner Program,the Industry Collaboration Steering committee, and to provide secondary support to the Development Steering Council leadership. Did you know … NENA’s Private Sector membership represents over 400 companies and over 1,000 members – offering a vast array of products and services to the public safety industry fueled by the development of Next Generation 9-1-1 advancements. The Private Sector represents every facet of 9-1-1 service and is a cornerstone of NENA’s continued growth, prosperity and ongoing recognition as “The 9-1-1 Association” with stakeholders and policy-makers throughout our industry. This recognition and the underlying delivery of effective and efficient 9-1-1 service, however, is not possible without a strong and committed partnership with the public sector – the 9-1-1 agencies that utilize those products and services … designed around NENA industry standards that are painstakingly developed across many work groups and hundreds of hours of joint public and private volunteer efforts. My career in NENA 9-1-1 / public safety services has spanned over twenty years with career positions in the telecommunications, GIS and professional consulting services. I have recently joined Frontier Communications, a leading telecommunications provider with a customer base in twenty-three states, as the manager of the 9-1-1 team. I also am a senior Partner of PSAP Concepts & Solutions (www.psapconcepts.com) a professional consulting services firm actively engaged with 9-1-1 systems and agencies assisting with consolidation planning, funding, system upgrades, preparedness for Next Generation 9-1-1 and other services required in a mission critical environment. I have served on the Blue Island Emergency Telephone Systems Board since 2002. In the emergency service communications world fueled by technology advancement and change it is the people – at every stage of the process – from ideation through service delivery and support that represent determining factors that enable the full potential of technology to be realized in the delivery of world class emergency services. As a member of our public safety community and valued member of NENA each of us plays a vital role in making that possible.
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About Frontier Communications, PSAP Concepts & Solutions: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
William Hart
Sr. Director of Product and General Manager of Particle
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.