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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Manager operating in the Software 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.
Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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Sam Berlow
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
After graduating from The University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in History, Sam Berlow moved east to work in the Boston Public Schools. During his five years as Program Coordinator for the Boston Compact, a citywide initiative linking high school students with the business community, Berlow developed education and job training programs for both his students and their parents. From this rewarding experience, Berlow moved on to become an Apple Education Sales Consultant, and in 1992 joined Font Bureau as General Manager. Since relocating with his family to Martha’s Vineyard, Berlow continues his commitment to younger generations. As President of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s Board of Trustees, he has brought awareness to a number of environmental issues, most notably by leading the charge to lessen carbon footprinting in public schools. Berlow has also dedicated his efforts to expanding recreational opportunities for the island’s youth, acting as Little League President, coaching high school basketball and spearheading a campaign to create safe environments for children to participate in sports. Today, Berlow consults with designers, as well as continuing to oversee day-to-day operations at Font Bureau, where his mission remains to develop a studio “of the designers, for the designers and by the designers.”
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Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Yuki Ishioka
Principal Product Manager of Adobe
Yuki Ishioka is a Principal Product Manager at Adobe and is responsible for driving International product strategy across the company’s Creative Cloud products. Yuki is an Adobe veteran, with over 12 years of combined experience and was an original member of the InDesign J, an Adobe product well regarded for its highly culturalized features. Yuki’s passion is helping bridge Adobe’s product relate-ability and usability for users in the international markets.
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Prithvi Bhutani
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Prithvi Bhutani is a Senior Product Manager at Adobe Analytics. She helps lead the vision and product roadmap for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for one of Adobe’s primary enterprise offerings. She also leads the strategy for customer adoption, retention and advancing user maturity. She has extensive product management experience in the AdTech space as well, specializing in video and mobile advertising.
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Wayne Hoang
Principal Manager, Product Marketing of Adobe
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Sonja Hernandez
Senior Experience Design Manager 2, Brand, Icons, and EGD of Adobe
Sonja Hernandez is a Lead Senior Experience Designer in Adobe’s Experience Design organization. Sonja works on the Brand team where she creates the logos, screens, and other visual stylings that form Adobe’s brand. Sonja has worked on the packaging for Adobe’s first hardware, Ink & Slide; creates environmental graphics for Adobe’s offices; and volunteers for Adobe’s pro-bono projects. Outside of the office, she teaches in the Graphic Design department at California College of the Arts. She is an avid typography and lettering enthusiast, and can often be found bicycling around the Bay Area in search of the perfect cup of coffee.
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Agatha Yu
Senior Design Manager: 3D & Mixed Reality of Adobe
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Rohit Kumar
Senior Manager – Enterprise & SMB Retention Strategy of Adobe
Rohit Kumar is an experienced customer retention and business strategy professional with more than 15 years of experience. He is responsible for driving customer success and engagement strategy for Adobe’s most scaled and fastest growing Creative Cloud subscription business. Been with Adobe for more than 10 years, Rohit has played a pivotal role in migration from perpetual to subscription model, establishing customer success teams and developing pre-emptive and reactive retention tactics. Rohit holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in business administration.
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Deepak Pai
Manager, Machine Learning-Core Services of Adobe
Deepak Pai is a manager of AI machine learning core services at Adobe.
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Alex Filipkowski
Senior Manager of Product Management – Applied Science and Machine Learning of Adobe
Alex Filipkowski is the Senior Manager of Product Management – Applied Science & Machine Learning at Adobe.
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Sumit Kumar Mukherjee
Sr. Engineering Manager & Adobe Experience Platform of Adobe
Sumit Kumar M is the Sr. Engineering Manager & Adobe Experience Platform at Adobe.
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Amy Zhong
Product Manager of Adobe
Product Manager at Adobe.
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Lindsey Wallace
Design Research Manager- Enterprise and Teams of Adobe
Lindsey is an Experience Researcher with Adobe Design Research. Anthropologist turned experience researcher, she uses expertise in observational and qualitative methods to make the voice of our users count in our product development process.
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Ram Parthasarathy
Group Product Manager of Adobe
Group Product Manager at Adobe.
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Veronica Belmont
Product Manager of Adobe
Veronica Belmont is a product manager and evangelist on the Adobe Spark team, where she works to help social media creators, marketers, and influencers bring their brands and creative ideas to the masses. As an online media content producer and personality, she has worked for the last twelve years to inform audiences about the latest tech trends and news, while also advising startups on social strategy and product market fit.
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Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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Demian Borba
Product Manager, APIs and developer tools, Adobe XD of Adobe
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Corey Hobbs
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
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Chris Nguyen
Group Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
As a group product marketing manager on the Adobe Experience Manager team, Chris Nguyen is responsible for go-to-market strategy and field readiness for Adobe Experience Manager’s cloud deployment product offerings. Prior to joining Adobe, he served as manager of product marketing for TIBCO Software’s Service Oriented Architecture platform, focusing on application development, governance, and integration and product management at BEA Systems (Oracle).
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Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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Amanda Fetterly
Senior Experience Design Manager of Adobe
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Ginna Baldassarre
Principal Product Manager, International Strategy for Creative Cloud of Adobe
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Chris Duffey
Strategic Development Manager of Adobe
Chris Duffey joined Adobe as Strategic Development in 2017.Chris is an Award-Winning Creative Director, Noted Speaker, Author and Mobile & Wearable Technologist. Chris has been featured by Business Insider, and Yahoo as one of “The industry’s leaders on the top issues, challenges and opportunities in the fast-changing world of mobile.” For over 20 years Chris and his teams have focused on the integration of creative and digital storytelling to generate relevant and memorable user journeys on mobile, wearables, and beyond.
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Lindsey Wegrzyn Rush
Senior Manager of Security incident response of Adobe
Lindsey Wegrzyn Rush is the senior manager of security incident response at Adobe. She has also helped develop Adobe’s anti-abuse programs. Prior to joining Adobe, Wegrzyn was legal director, global security at Yahoo! Inc., where she drove Yahoo!’s worldwide legal security policy development and was responsible for the implementation of security and privacy processes and procedures. Previously, Wegrzyn held positions as chief operating officer at the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance, operations legal advisor at EarthLink, Inc., and as a corporate transactional and tax attorney with the Sanders Law Firm, LLC. Wegrzyn holds a JD from the Baylor School of Law and a BS in secondary education from Northwestern University. She is a member of the bar in Georgia and Florida.
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Tom Silverstrim
Sr. Manager of Analytics and Monitoring of Adobe
Sr. Manager of Analytics and Monitoring at Adobe.
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Karl Soule
Sr. Technical Sales Manager, Film and Video of Adobe
Karl Soule has been with Adobe for over 10 years, focused on the Pro Video and Broadcast market. Karl traveled worldwide as an Adobe Video Evangelist, inspiring video professionals on five continents. For the last 5 years, Karl has been living in Singapore and working in Asia, helping to grow the broadcast business and drive awareness of the video tools for that growing market. Currently based in Los Angeles, Karl is supporting the Hollywood and Broadcast markets for the US West Coast.
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Julia Knecht
Manager, Security & Privacy Architecture of Adobe
Julia Knecht manages Product Security and Privacy Engineering at Adobe. She created and is responsible for the Secure Product Lifecycle of Adobe’s Digital Experience Business.
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Dave Hotchner
Senior Business Development Manager of Adobe
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Andy Welfle
Senior Experience Content Design Manager of Adobe
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Archana Chaudhary
Engineering Manager of Adobe
Archana Chaudhary is an Engineering Manager at Adobe.
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Jonathan Pimento
Group Product Manager of Adobe
Jonathan Pimento is a Product Manager working on Adobe XD. He focuses on the design workflow for XD. Prior to joining the XD team he worked as an experience designer on Adobe Web.
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Victoria Nece
Senior Product Manager, Motion Graphics & Visual Effects of Adobe
Victoria Nece is the Senior Product Manager, Motion Graphics & Visual Effects at Adobe.
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Pierre Tapia
Senior Manager, Product Management of Adobe
Pierre is Entrepreneur in Residence at The Angels’ Forum. and former Vice President of Product for eFolder. Pierre specializes in the development of high-performing product teams and co-founded the first channel-exclusive enterprise file sync and share solution, Anchor, which was acquired by eFolder in 2013. Prior to eFolder, Pierre served as a co-founder and Vice President of Product at Anchor, where he was responsible for owning the product roadmap until the company’s acquisition.
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Jeanette Matthews
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Jeanette is a creative chameleon whose skills run the line of 3D modeling, digital illustration, and video game design. As part of the Project Felix product team, she interacts with the community through the Prerelease program, forums and authoring of the Coffee Break video series, gathering insights from customers to help guide product discussions.
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Matthew Aune
Senior Design Manager of Adobe
Matt Aune is a Senior Product Manager for Creative Cloud libraries. With a long-held passion for design and digital imaging, he has been a designer at various creative agencies and startups over his 20-year career. Matt Joined Adobe in 2012 and built a high performing design team charged with designing the future of the Experience Cloud. Since moving to product management, he has been focused on how teams work and how their systems of tools and assets enable high capacity creativity.
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Carmen Sutter
Group Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem of Adobe
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Will Eisley
Principal Product Manager of Adobe
Principal Product Manager at Adobe.
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Chantel Benson
Mgr, Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Chantel Benson is the Mgr, Senior Product Manager at Adobe.
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Trevor Paulsen
Senior Manager of Product Management of Adobe
Trevor Paulsen is the Senior Manager of Product Management at Adobe.
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Barbie Fink
Senior Manager of Knowledge Management of Adobe
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Fernando Centurion
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Senior Product Manager at Adobe.
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Dan Rhatigan
Senior Manager of Adobe Type of Adobe
Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Type in New York as the Senior Manager for Adobe’s Type Foundry. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher before coming to Adobe. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.
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Bruce Swann
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
Bruce Swann has more than 15 years of experience working with digital marketing disciplines like web analytics, social media, mobile marketing and email marketing, as well as marketing and CRM technologies, including marketing automation, predictive analytics and marketing resource management. At Adobe, he is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Campaign, focused on marketing and product strategy for cross-channel campaign management.
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David Everly
Product Manager of Adobe
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Ash Ryan Arnwine
Group Manager, Developer Experience & Evangelism of Adobe
Developer Experience & Evangelism team lead for Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Platform.
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Fernando Centurion
Senior Product Manager of Adobe
Senior Product Manager at Adobe.
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David Everly
Product Manager of Adobe
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Ash Ryan Arnwine
Group Manager, Developer Experience & Evangelism of Adobe
Developer Experience & Evangelism team lead for Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Platform.
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Jake Bernstein
Sales Operations Manager of MainStreet
Helping people is my passion! From coaching lacrosse to my job every single day, I’m energized by unlocking the full potential in people and companies to help them achieve their goals most effectively.
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Cameron Aaron
Project Manager of Dutchie
Cameron Aaron is a native of Studio City, CA and graduated from Bridges Academy with a young expert designation after doing Neuroscience and Artifical intelligence research. He is a rising Junior at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Cameron is a double major in Computer Science and Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science and a Scholar in the Ammerman Center of Arts and Technology. He conducts both Artifical intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience research. He is currently the head of special events at the Connecticut College TED Club and is in charge of the youth event TEDxYouth@NewLondon. He is a Google product Expert and is currently a moderator for the official Google Android Beta subreddit.
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Andersen Yu
Customer Success Manager of Front
1st Customer Success Manager at FrontApp.
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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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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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James Garcia
Services Solution Architect Manager of GitHub
James Garcia is the Director at GitHub.
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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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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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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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Ryan Johnson
Sr. Account Manager, Investor Services Team of Carta
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Sajad Ghanizada
Senior Demand Generation Manager of Carta
FinTech and Blockchain
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Alex Legault
Group Product Manager of Carta
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Jessica Aguilar
Office Manager of Initialized Capital
Jessica is the Office Manager and the EA to the CFO & Operating Partners; she also supports Initialized’s event program. She was previously the Office Manager/Executive Assistant at a travel start-up. With over four years of experience working as an OM/EA in several different industries including insurance, tax, and cosmetic/healthcare, she is ready to take on the VC Industry.
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Nicolas Ritz
Product Manager of Asana
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Jina Anne
Product Design Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility of Asana
Jina is a designer, community builder, and advocate with a passion for design systems, minimalism, typography, and art. At Salesforce, she was lead designer on the Lightning Design System. She organizes Clarity, the first Design Systems conference. She also started the Design Systems Coaltion and its SF chapter, and she created and moderates the Design Systems Slack. She maintains the design and website for Sass.
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Greg Slovacek
Engineering Manager of Asana
Greg Slovacek is an engineer at [Asana](/organization/asana). Greg Slovacek worked at [Google](/organization/google). on vertical search experiences within Calendar and Maps, in addition to working on Flu Trends and the accounts system. He was previously an engineer at There.com and studied computer science at Brown University.
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Terri Lomax Burden
Asana’s Dedicated Customer Success Manager of Asana
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Lakshmi Munnangi
Product Manager of Gainsight
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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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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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Angelo Matheou
Sr. Product Manager of Gainsight
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Daniel Levine
Sr. Manager, Solution Architecture of Gainsight
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Steve Davis
Sr. Manager Global Enterprise Support of Gainsight
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Steve Davis
Sr. Manager Global Enterprise Support of Gainsight
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Devin Stevens
Manager Solutions Consulting of Gainsight
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Charles Lamanna
General Manager of Microsoft
Engineering leader for PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Common Data Service, AI Builder and the Dynamics 365 Platform.
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Krysta Svore
General Manager of Quantum Software of Microsoft
Dr. Krysta M. Svore is the General Manager of Quantum Software at Microsoft where she leads the Quantum Architectures and Computation group. Krysta’s award-winning work is at the leading edge of computer science, mathematics, physics, and engineering, with a focus on developing and implementing the next generation of computing- Quantum Computing, bringing with it the ability to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems, like food production and global warming. In addition to her work at Microsoft, Krysta has been named to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term. The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers together to identify new areas of development in computer and communication technologies and to recommend future research directions. The Department of Energy has also appointed her to the Advanced Scientific computing Advisory Committee for a three-year term. Krysta is also slated to teach an upcoming course on quantum computing at the University of Washington. Krysta received her Ph.D. in Computer Science with highest distinction from Columbia University in 2006 and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. She serves on non-profit boards for education of young women, mentors young women, and speaks around the world about the importance of diversity, young women’s self-esteem, and the critical redesign of what the technology workforce looks like today and should look like tomorrow. She hopes to inspire young women around the world, to show them that technology is a field for everyone, and that they will be the ones to unlock technologies that will be ground-breaking and transformative. Krysta lives in Seattle, WA where she is raising her 8-month-old daughter, Daisy.
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Kuleen Bharadwaj
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
Kuleen leads an engineering growth hacking team focused on helping Microsoft partners find business success with Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. He has held several product management roles in his 14 years at Microsoft across security, infrastructure, database, device, and business applications. He holds an Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and also graduated as a Palmer Scholar with an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Aaron Greenberg
General Manager, Xbox Games Marketing of Microsoft
Aaron Greenberg is the General Manager, Xbox Games Marketing at Microsoft.
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Scott Hanselman
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Kendra Havens
Program Manager of Microsoft
Kendra Havens is a program manager at Microsoft on the .NET and Visual Studio team. Her focus is the testing experience in Visual Studio and productivity. You may recognize her from videos on .NET Core, VS Code, and Docker. In addition to an unruly enthusiasm for technology, Kendra loves reading and camping.
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Bhairav Mehta
Principal Data Scientist Manager of Microsoft
Experienced engineer, entrepreneur and seasoned Statistician / programmer with 14 years of combined experience working on product service/ channel /warranty management in electronics consumer products industry at Apple Inc. (4 years), yield engineering in semiconductor manufacturing at Qualcomm (6 years) and quality engineering in automotive industry at Ford Motor Company (OEM, Tier2 Suppliers) (3 years). MBA from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, 3 Master of Science (MS) degrees in diverse engineering and mathematical sciences. Industrial Systems Engineering (Rochester ’02), Applied Statistics (Cornell ’04)..Developed skills in Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark for Scalability and implementation of big data solution for the enterprises. Cloudera certified Hadoop developer, Cloudera certified Data Scientist and Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate. Industry renowned ASQ certifications: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE ’06), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE ’07) and Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CSSBB ’09). Skills across hardware and software platforms. Naturalized US Citizen.
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Jamie Gaudette
Principal Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Jill Braff
General Manager, Strategy, Xbox Game Studios of Microsoft
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Keith Ballinger
General Manager of Microsoft
Keith Ballinger is the General Manager of Developer Services at Microsoft, where he drives the mission to engage developers with services they love, make Azure the most developer-friendly cloud, and make 1ES the best engineering system in the world. Before returning to Microsoft, Ballinger was the VP of Product for Xamarin, which Microsoft acquired in March of 2016. Ballinger has a strong background in entrepreneurship, engineering, and product management, dating back to his time as a project manager on the original .NET team. In 2007, he left Microsoft to co-found several startups. Previous to Xamarin, Ballinger was the Chief Architect at the YC-backed startup Standard Treasury, building an API-first bank. He’s the author of two books on programming.
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Neil Jordan
General Manager, Worldwide Health of Microsoft
Neil Jordan is the general manager of Health for Microsoft Worldwide. In this role, he acts as chief strategist for the organization’s Health industry initiatives worldwide, including defining and articulating the Microsoft vision for the future of Healthcare, and how Microsoft products, technologies and partner solutions will make it a reality. Blending a deep background in healthcare-focused technology, Neil leads Microsoft’s collaboration with an ecosystem of partners around the world to provide solutions that meet the specific needs of customers working to deliver better health outcomes for more people. Since the establishment of the global team, he has driven consistent growth of this multi-billion dollar business. Before assuming his current role, Neil was the head of Healthcare at Microsoft UK where he was responsible for managing strategic operations and senior customer and partner relationships. He led the NHS National Programme for IT, the largest ever civil IT procurement and the largest application delivery in Microsoft’s history, including managing close engagement with the UK government. Currently residing in the Seattle-area, Neil is a former professional classical singer and continues to perform and teach. He also sits on the board of King FM, a Seattle-based classical radio station. Neil is a frequent industry speaker and visiting lecturer at the Royal Society of Medicine, London and the Eastman School in New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts honors degree in archaeology and anthropology, and a Master of Arts in biological anthropology from Cambridge University.
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James Montemagno
Principal Lead Program Manager, .NET Community of Microsoft
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop.
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Idan Levin
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Idan Levin is Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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Mehrnoosh Sameki
Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
Mehrnoosh Sameki is a technical program manager at Microsoft responsible for leading the product efforts on machine learning interpretability within the Azure Machine Learning platform. Previously, she was a data scientist at Rue Gilt Groupe, incorporating data science and machine learning in retail space to drive revenue and enhance personalized shopping experiences of customers. She earned her PhD degree in computer science at Boston University.
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Arun Ulagaratchagan
General Manager, Power BI Engineering of Microsoft
As the General Manager of Power BI Engineering, Arun leads product development for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence product portfolio. This includes Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services. Previously, as the General Manager of the APAC Cloud & Enterprise Division, Arun was responsible for growing Microsoft’s Windows Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence businesses for Microsoft in the Asia Pacific region based out of Singapore. Before moving to Singapore, Arun held worldwide accountability for growing Microsoft’s SQL Server business with enterprise customers. Arun and his team consistently grew the multi-billion SQL Server business faster than other large database and business intelligence vendors during the four years he served in this role. Arun founded Think Business Networks, Inc., a vendor of specialized network management software based out of Silicon Valley. Arun grew the company profitably for six years to over 60 employees before selling his stake and heading to Stanford for his MS in Management.
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Taimoor Husain
Global Business Manager of Microsoft
Taimoor has been with Microsoft for 8 years, working primarily on Communications with Skype/Lync/OCS, helping the largest customers and partners be successful in their Communications strategy.
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Nitika Gupta
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Maria Puertas Calvo
Principal Data Science Manager – Identity Division of Microsoft
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Hans Reutter
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Hans Reutter is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Microsoft’s Core Services Engineering group. He is responsible for SAP Order-To-Cash Software Engineering. Before joining Microsoft in 1997 he worked as a SAP Consultant for a technology company in Ohio and as a computer science research assistant at Fraunhofer Society in Germany. In his current role he champions Agile and Devops methodologies, business process monitoring and telemetry, cloud migration, cloud optimization and operational best practices while pursuing his passions of SAP Enterprise Services and Service Resilience. Hans has presented at ASUG, SAPPHIRE Inspire and frequently speaks to customers around the world about Microsoft’s SAP IT strategies. He has a MS degree in Computer Science (Operations Research) from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Computer Science (Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany.
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Greg Nelson
General Manager, ISV Success of Microsoft
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Balaji Balasubramanian
General Manager and Dynamics 365 Retail of Microsoft
Balaji Balasubramanian is Group Program Manager for Dynamics Retail & Commerce solution. In his current role in the R&D Organization, Balaji is responsible for Product Management and is responsible for the strategy, direction and roadmap of the Dynamics Retail & Commerce solution. In addition, Balaji drives various aspects of customer and partner engagements in coordination with other teams at Microsoft. Balaji also leads the efforts for other Dynamics product offerings including Retail Management System as well as Dynamics Online Payment Services.
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Deanna Hearns
Partner Engineering General Manager, Minecraft Marketplace Creator Program of Microsoft
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Sangeeta Ranjit
Principal Program Manager Lead of Microsoft
Sangeeta is a Principle PM Manager leading Customer Identity Access Management and B2B Collaboration for the Azure Active Directory business. She joined Microsoft in 2000 as a Software Engineer in the Windows team. As a Program Manager at Microsoft since 2006, Sangeeta evolved the user experiences for printing, cloud file sync, lock screen and sign in, and most recently Windows Hello – the biometrics authentication experiences in Windows, through multiple releases of Windows. Sangeeta holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from SDM College of Engineering and Technology in India. She moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Science. While at Microsoft, she also got her MBA from Seattle University. Sangeeta lives in the Seattle area where she enjoys exploring the hiking trails in her spare time.
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Edet Nkposong
Principal Engineering ManagerMicrosoft of Microsoft
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Ali Alabbas
Senior Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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Jack Kabat
Program Manager of Microsoft
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Nathaniel Robinson
General Manager of IQ Products of Microsoft
Nathaniel Robinson is the Founder & CEO of Trustworthy.He attend to the WelTec.
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