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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 Partner operating in the Software space. If you think a Partner 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.
Marc Leibowitz
Global VP – Partnerships & Strategic Growth Initiatives of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan O’Neil Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Bryan O’Neil Hughes is the Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Clive Henry
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Lead of Adobe
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Leader | @Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Clive Henry
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Lead of Adobe
Strategic Cloud & ISV Partnerships Leader | @Adobe.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bryan Hughes
Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach, Creative Cloud of Adobe
Director of Product Management at Adobe.
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Jackson Moses
Founding Team & Head of Partnerships of MainStreet
Head of Partnerships at [MainStreet](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mainstreet-08ea) and Venture Partner at [Afore Capital](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/afore-capital), Jackson Moses is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and early stage startup advisor. He is the Founder of venture-backed enterprise AIaaS company [Spectrum Labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spectrum-5) and the creator of its proprietary AI-powered content moderation platform. Prior to founding and scaling Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn. Prior to this, Jackson worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he compiled competitive insights and evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines. Jackson invests in early stage companies (pre-seed & seed) developing frontier technologies. Specifically, he focuses on aerospace (drones), intelligent defense, national security, commercial space (NewSpace), and deep tech startups (AI, computer vision, robotics, edge-computing, perception, simulation, etc.). Jackson actively advises startups about corporate structuring, partnerships, product development, sales, and fundraising. He also sources deals for 8VC (Invisible AI & DASH Systems), Afore Capital (Steady), LightBank (Neatleaf), SpaceFund (Skyloom), Financial Venture Studio (FVS), Techstars, and Alchemist. Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory. www.jacksonmoses.com
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About Afore Capital, MainStreet, Spectrum Labs: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Tim Draper
Founder and Managing Partner of Draper Associates
Timothy Draper is founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates and DFJ. Tim’s original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and other web-based email providers and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. Tim founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), Draper Nexus (Tokyo), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai). Tim recently launched “Six Californias,” a statewide initiative to create six new states and dissolve a failed one in California. Previously, Tim served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, Tim launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. Tim was a Member of Singapore’s International Economic Council and Ukraine’s Orange Circle. Tim was on the Board of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Tim was ranked 52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and seven on the Forbes Midas List. Tim was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker. Tim was awarded the Commonwealth Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. To further encourage entrepreneurship, Tim started BizWorld.org, a non-profit for children to learn entrepreneurship, Draper University of Heroes, a school for entrepreneurs 18-28 and he leads SixCalifornias, an initiative to improve the governance of California. Tim has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Bancor, DDF, DFJ DragonFund, DFJ VinaCapital, Draper Associates, Draper Athena, Draper Dragon, Draper University Ventures, ePlanet Capital, Gotham Ventures, SpeedUPAfrica, Threshold, VenturesLab, Zone Ventures: Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Andrew Tang
Partner of Draper Associates
Andrew Tang joined the Power Assure Board of Directors in 2011. He is a Managing Director of ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). Andrew has over 15 years of operating, R&D, investment banking and investing experience in the IT industry and focuses on clean technology and industrial applications. Prior to joining ATV, he was a founding Managing Director of the DFJ DragonFund China, Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s sole China affiliate venture capital fund. Andrew has led and managed investments in Miartech, Mobim, Yeepay, Broadbus (MOT), Imago Scientific, Zettacom (IDTI), Packet Video, NuTool (ASMI), Santur, and Corrent. Most recently, he was a partner and member of the investment committee at Infineon Ventures. Prior to Infineon Ventures, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston’s technology group in Palo Alto. He worked on the Magma IPO (LAVA), as well as numerous M&A transactions. Before CSFB, Andrew was a senior engineer and marketing manager at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for chip design and market enablement for the Pentium and Itanium processors. He also holds one US patent for silicon germanium thin-film transistor applications. Andrew holds an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as MSEE and BSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Texas at Austin, respectively.
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About Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, Draper University, Draper University Ventures: Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Leon Jones
Head of Partner and Channel of GitHub
Leon is an experienced business leader and strategist with a demonstrated history of transforming and growing businesses through technology innovation and execution with partners. Leon has a strong grounding in cloud enabled business transformation and played a foundational role in pivoting Microsoft to capture the cloud opportunity. Leon is now responsible for the end to end strategy and execution for GitHub’s SI, Reseller and Distribution partners.
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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.
Garry Tan
Managing Partner of Initialized Capital
Garry is a designer, engineer, and founder turned early stage investor, co-founding Initialized Capital in 2012. The firm has invested at the earliest stages of companies like Coinbase, Flexport, Instacart, and Cruise. Prior to Initialized, Garry spent nearly 5 years as a partner at Y Combinator, advising and funding more than 1,000 companies and founders. He was co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and previously worked at Palantir as a founding member of the engineering team. He also designed Palantir’s logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Initialized Capital, SapientNitro: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Parul Singh
Partner of Initialized Capital
Parul Singh is a product-driven founder and investor with a background in engineering, product strategy, and analytics. Parul spent the past five years on the investing team at Founder Collective, a tech-focused, early-stage seed fund where she covered Boston and NYC, evaluated over 3,000 companies, and spearheaded the firm’s investments in Embark Veterinary, Broadlume, Running Tide, HumanFirst, Flume Health, and HealthNote. Prior to investing, she spent close to a decade as an engineer and product manager at the NYTimes.com, Inc. and Fast Company, and she was the founder of a learning analytics company. At Initialized, Parul will focus her investing efforts on software companies, with a special interest in the areas of healthtech, SaaS, and analytics. Parul has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from MIT.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Jennifer Wolf
President & Partner of Initialized Capital
I’m President and Partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with $1B assets under management. At Initialized I’m responsible for hiring and managing the team on both the investment and operations sides of the business. I invest in companies that have an intriguing product or design challenge, usually in the e-commerce marketplace, enterprise saas, and data science spaces. I also advise our portfolio companies on product strategy/roadmaps, product design and user research, how to build and manage teams, and how to resolve conflicts. I have been a product executive at several B2B and B2C startups, from early-stage to growth stage. Prior to Initialized I was Chief Product Officer at Reserve, an Expa-funded hospitality platform that connects restaurants and diners. I also founded a boutique consultancy where I delivered successful projects for companies like Apple, Twitter, Chase, Nordstrom and Starwood Hotels. Before that I helped create the User Experience practice at Sapient and helped open its Milan, Italy office.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Alda Leu Dennis
General Partner of Initialized Capital
Alda is a General Partner at Initialized Capital. She brings over a decade of investing and legal experience to both Initialized and our portfolio companies. Prior to joining Initialized, she was a managing partner at 137 Ventures where she led investments in Planet Labs, Wish, Coupang, CourseHero, and Work Market (acquired by ADP). Additionally, she made personal early-stage investments in companies such as Maven, Common Networks, Legalzoom (acquired by Permira), SpaceX, and Osaro. Previously she was COO at Airtime, General Counsel at Founders Fund, Assistant General Counsel at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital Management, and practiced as a litigator for IP disputes at WSGR. She graduated from Stanford with BAs in economics and political science, and a JD from UCLA.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Kim-Mai Cutler
Partner of Initialized Capital
Kim-Mai Cutler is a partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm that has roughly $500M under management and has been a seed investor in companies including Coinbase, Instacart and Patreon. Before that, she was a journalist for more than 10 years, working at publications including TechCrunch, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Brett Gibson
General Partner of Initialized Capital
Brett brings a career of shipping software to venture. He co-founded the blog platforms Posthaven and Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and later wrote software for Y Combinator, building their essential internal software systems. He was also a founder of the social news platform Slinkset, which was funded by YC in Summer 2008, and DrawHere, a browser drawing startup acquired by DeviantArt in 2006. He graduated with a BA in philosophy from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Mahendra Sekaran
Partner Director of PM – Skype and Teams Services of Microsoft
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Allison Saltzer
Partner Sales Director of Microsoft
Allison Saltzer has spent the last 13 years at Microsoft, where she is the IOT Partner Director for the Americas in the Global Black Belt Sales Team. Prior to this role, Allison was the Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R) focused on Microsoft’s newest innovations in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing.
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Zhong Wu
Partner Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Eric Kamont
Mixed Reality Strategic Partnerships of Microsoft
Celebrating his 15th year with Microsoft, Eric Kamont has established a reputation for working on cutting edge technology, startup businesses, and shaping the strategy to align to partners and customers around the world. With successful endeavors such as Mixed Reality and IOT, grounded industry experience in manufacturing and retail, Kamont brings to bear a point of view that crosses both the technical and business landscape. Prior, he spent time in the engineering and construction, and gas turbine industries, embracing startup mindsets to push the envelope on technology in both. Self-funding his collegiate pursuits, Kamont holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
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Deanna Hearns
Partner Engineering General Manager, Minecraft Marketplace Creator Program of Microsoft
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Mira Lane
Partner Director, Ethics & Society – Cloud & Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft
Mira Lane is the Partner Director of Ethics & Society within Cloud & AI at Microsoft. Mira runs a multidisciplinary team within an engineering context that is responsible for guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible, and sustainable outcomes. The technology areas of interest to her team include speech & language, computer vision, ambient devices, intelligent meetings, intelligent agents, and mixed reality (AR, VR, HoloLens). Mira’s history at Microsoft has focused on experience strategy, incubation of new product concepts, and bringing products to market. She holds numerous patents across platforms and collaborative interfaces. She has held various roles through her technology career in development, product management, UX architect and design. Mira has a background in art, computer science, and mathematics. Her video art has been featured in film festivals and galleries.
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Felicia Gardner
Partner Sales Executive of Microsoft
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Lisa Maki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next of Microsoft
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next at Microsoft.
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Russell Wilson
Partner Director of Microsoft
Russ Wilson joined Microsoft in December 2014 as a Partner Director and Head of Design for Business Intelligence, a collection of features and services that enable you to visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways. Prior to Microsoft, Russ was the founder and Director of IBM’s Mobile Innovation Lab. The mission of the lab is to identify disruptive mobile technologies and trends and transform them into new products and solutions that deliver significant value to individuals and companies. Russ also served as the Head of Design for IBM’s Application and Integration Middleware business unit, providing design leadership for Websphere, MobileFirst, Pure, IoT, and SmarterProcess. As one of IBM’s new Design Executives, Russ helped to teach and evangelize design thinking throughout IBM, and influence a new era in software product development. Prior to IBM, Russ was the worldwide Senior Vice President of User Experience at CA Technologies where he led the development of an enterprise-wide design language and a common application platform. Russ joined CA as part of the acquisition of NetQoS, where Russell was one of the original executives. Russ is a serial entrepreneur, an experienced executive, and has proven success in both startups and large companies. His interests include approaches to innovation, user experience design, rapid prototyping, and team building.
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Charlie Miller
Partner GM of Microsoft
Dr. Charlie Miller is Cofounder and Chief Design Officer of Vidku. Charlie is also the Founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Design Innovation at the University of Minnesota (UMN), and an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at UMN.
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Nick Parker
Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions of Microsoft
Nick Parker serves as a Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft.
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Anila Baseel
Sr. Partner Programs Manager of Microsoft
Responsible for driving horizontal and industry scenarios through Partner-to-Partner (P2P) Go-to-Market engine, including P2P Collaborative Platform optimizing through existing and new partnerships. Over 15 years of specialized experience across multiple marketing organizations including Field Marketing, Lead Generation, Account Base Marketing, Strategic Account Management, Small Business Marketing, Channel Programs, User Groups and Alliances.
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Bert Van Hoof
Partner, Group Program Manager Azure IoT of Microsoft
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Paul R. Nash
Partner PM Manager, Azure Compute of Microsoft
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Sally Ann Frank
Senior Partner Industry Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Sally helps healthcare companies use IoT to improve patient outcomes and efficiency. With more than 20 years in the technology industry, she helps providers, payers, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies use IoT, machine learning, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to meet the changing demands of the healthcare industry. Focused on business outcomes, Sally has been advising customers about IoT for more than 5 years, starting in the manufacturing sector before focusing on healthcare. She holds an MBA from The George Washington University (Washington, DC), an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Marketing and Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
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Matt Augustine
Partner Architect of Microsoft
Matt Augustine is a Partner Architect at Microsoft. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Co-founder at PlayFab (acquired by Microsoft).
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Pete Bernard
Principal Group Program Manager – Silicon and 5G Connectivity Partners of Microsoft
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Boris Scholl
Partner Product Architect @Microsoft Cloud&AI RnD of Microsoft
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Lauren Holland
WW Partner Marketing Advisor of Microsoft
Lauren Holland is a Partner Marketing Advisor in Worldwide OCP dedicated to driving Go-To-Market strategies with select global channel partners. Her current mission is to guide partners to differentiate with innovative “better together” solutions and launch offers in market in the GTM “fast lane.” With 7+ years in the technology industry and Microsoft partner ecosystem, Lauren has built and implemented global programs for accelerated growth and scale. Her experience spans across Microsoft’s three clouds- Modern Workplace, Azure, and Dynamics- with disciplines including Go-To-Market strategy, enablement, integrated digital, content, and creative ideation. Lauren is from Corona del Mar, CA, graduated from Duke University, and is currently working with global indirect provider partners around the world.
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Sarah Fender
Partner Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Julie Strauss
Partner PM Director of Microsoft
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Emily Hendrickson
Partner Content Strategist of Microsoft
As Partner Content Strategist, Emily drives content strategy across to-partner communications channels to help Microsoft partners grow their businesses. Prior to joining Microsoft in July 2018 Emily worked at Insights, a learning and development company, for over five years. Emily held a variety of roles at Insights her last being Field Marketing Manager. In this role she led an award-winning, global team to develop and execute innovative and targeted marketing strategies. Emily has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a Marketing Concentration from Western Washington University and is currently pursuing her MBA at Seattle University.
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Kevin Chan
Director, Global Partners of Microsoft
Kevin Chan leads the development & business transformation of key global partners across Microsoft’s products and cloud services. Kevin has being with Microsoft for over 20 years.
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Dan Greenawalt
Partner, Creative Director of Microsoft
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Chung Webster
Partner Director of Software Engineering – Modern and Government Commerce, Cloud+AI of Microsoft
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Girish Chander
Partner Group Program Manager, Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Full-time of Microsoft
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Dan Rippey
Director of Engineering, One Commercial Partner of Microsoft
Dan Rippey is the Director of Engineering for Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner organization, leading a team of engineers that power digital experiences across partner.microsoft.com
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Hardik Mehta
Global Lead, WW Partner Strategy of Microsoft
Hardik Mehta is WW Partner Strategy lead for Microsoft’s IoT business. He is responsible for building IoT partner strategy, leading initiatives and programs globally that enable partners to build edge to cloud IP, services and profitable businesses, and deliver solutions that empower customers to digitally transform their companies and realize greater business value through the use of technology. Earlier, Hardik led cloud partner programs strategy and launched new construct: advanced specializations. Prior to Microsoft, Hardik worked at Amazon where he led international expansion for ecommerce business and grew B2C cloud adoption through strategic partnerships. Earlier, he helped TIBCO launch and commercialize new products. He holds MBA from Cornell and Masters in Info systems from Carnegie Mellon.
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Dalip Tyagi
Global Head of Partner Marketing, Bing Ads of Microsoft
Global Head of Partner Strategy and Marketing for Bing Ads at Microsoft Corporations. More details are available at official blog at www.aka.ms/dtyagi
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Steve Sullivan
Partner & General Manager, Mixed Reality Capture Studios of Microsoft
Steve Sullivan serves as a Partner and General Manager of Mixed Reality Capture Studios at Microsoft.
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Cecilia Flombaum
Business Applications Partner Lead of Microsoft
Cecilia Flombaum has been in the Microsoft for 18 years and in the Business Applications space for about 12 years in different capacities. She assumed the lead role in the Business Application Strategy team as part of the One Commercial with worldwide responsibility in August 2017. In this role she is responsible for capacity planning, capability and growth strategies as well as worldwide field execution; all aimed at the development and health of Microsoft’s Business Applications partner ecosystem and co-selling success.
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Christoph Berlin
Partner Group Program Manager, Azure Industrial IoT/Manufacturing of Microsoft
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Jianfeng Gao
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
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Ankur Arora
Director, WW Partner Strategy: Security & Compliance of Microsoft
Cybersecurity and Compliance are top-of-mind board level conversations today. Gartner predicts customer spend to the tune of $153B by 2021. As customers embrace cybersecurity and compliance as an integral part of their digital transformation, they look upon Microsoft partners to simplify this journey for them. Ankur’s goal is to be able to engage with OCP Field teams and Microsoft partners to capitalize on this opportunity and ultimately align the right partner with the right skill set for the right customer opportunity.
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Johan Jonsson
Director Dynamics Partner Incentives of Microsoft
Mr. Jonsson is a 25-year veteran with Microsoft. A native of Sweden, he has worked for Microsoft in several capacities in the Nordics, Ireland and in the US, where he currently is a Director on the Incentives team in the One Commercial Partner (OCP) organization. Mr. Jonsson is focused on Usage and Dynamics incentives, and he is responsible for Design and Go-To-Market for incentives relating to the following partner incentive programs: Online Services Usage, Online Software Advisor Sell, Certified Software Advisor incentive and the SPA agreement.
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Chris Boar
Director ISV Partner Experience of Microsoft
Chris leads the partner execution and go to market strategy for Applications and Infrastructure on Azure. Chris is extremely passionate about helping our partners accelerate our customers migration to Azure and driving advanced innovation into their critical applications.
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Gavriella Schuster
Corporate Vice President, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs of Microsoft
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Steven Abrahams
Partnerships for Teams in Education, Healthcare, Financial Services and Government. of Microsoft
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Dianne O’Brien
Sr. Director, Azure Partner Strategy of Microsoft
Dianne O’Brien is the Azure Partner Strategy Lead for the One Commercial Partner organization of Microsoft responsible for developing and landing the Azure partner strategy with our field and partners. Prior to this, she was Chief of Staff for Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business Development. In this role, Dianne is responsible for managing the office of the EVP, including setting and managing the long term organization strategy, developing and executing our communications strategy, and setting policies and processes for managing the organization. Prior to this role, Dianne was Senior Director of Business Development for Cloud & Enterprise. In this role Dianne was responsible for developing the Cloud & Enterprise business development strategy for commercial deals that fill key technology or business gaps that will help accelerate the C&E business growth, with a particular focus on realizing our Cloud OS vision and the success of Microsoft Azure and Dynamics. Prior to moving into Business Development for C&E, Dianne was a part of the Microsoft Azure business team, joining as its third member in 2008 as the Senior Director for Business Planning and Operations, responsible for all long-term business planning, offer and channel strategy, business desk, and performance management. During her nearly nineteen-year Microsoft tenure she has held senior leadership positions in the corporate planning and finance functions including leading the Global R&D finance team and serving as IT Controller. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dianne owned a private CPA practice, and was the Assistant General Manager of a public utility service in San Diego County where she was responsible for the implementation of several major technology initiatives. Dianne holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of San Diego. She lives with her husband and on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and enjoys fishing and watching baseball.
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Jay Schmelzer
Partner Director of Program Management of Microsoft
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DeAnna Paddleford
Senior Partner Channel Marketing Manager, One Commercial Partner Team of Microsoft
Sr. Marketing Manager OCP Digital Engines at Microsoft.
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Yuxiong He
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
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Brad Larsen
Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Co-Sell Programs of Microsoft
Larsen is a long-time Microsoft leader and currently serves as Senior Director of the company’s Partner Co-Sell Programs within the One Commercial Partner organization. In this role, he leads a team to define the strategy and program development to accelerate how Microsoft and its commercial business partners engage to sell industry-aligned cloud-based solutions to our mutual customers. This approach accelerates time to customer success in digital transformation scenarios, grows partner revenue, and deepens Microsoft’s role as a trusted technology advisor. Prior to this role, Larsen held positions leading Microsoft’s partner enablement and readiness efforts, and in various commercial marketing and operational roles at the company.
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Don McCormick
WW Director of Cloud Solutions, One Commercial Partner Group of Microsoft
Don McCormick WW Director, SAP Partner Development One Commercial Partner Microsoft Corporation With over 30 years’ experience in Partner Development and Sales Leadership, Don McCormick is responsible for managing the SAP focused partner ecosystem within the One Commercial Partner team at Microsoft. As an SAP WW Director, Don is responsible for driving adoption of Microsoft Azure, associated with Mission Critical SAP workloads, by enabling a strong partner ecosystem. Don also provides SAP workload focused solution sales support through strategy, envisioning, proof of concepts consultation and product evangelism to support Microsoft’s business for SAP strategy. Don’s expertise covers the Microsoft Cloud Platform for SAP, Analytics and Productivity integration with SAP. Previously Don held a variety of leadership roles within Microsoft as the Americas Director for the Cloud & Enterprise Global Black Belt Team, and the Americas Director for Platform Modernization, providing Cloud Enablement for traditional on-premise workloads.
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Amanda Whaley
Partner Director of Product, Azure Programmability, Management, and Automation Developer Experience of Microsoft
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Catherine Brown
Senior Partner/Channel Marketing Manager, WW Business Planning & Commercial Licensing of Microsoft
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Ginny Hoban
Partner Channel Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Ginny has 10 years’ experience working in Marketing, focused on building strong, mutually beneficial partnerships. She currently works in the Microsoft 365 Partner Marketing team leading Modern Workplace fundamentals, focusing on driving Adoption and Change Management capability for profitable Partner businesses. Previously, Ginny worked with Microsoft Partners in the US market supporting their journey to success with Cloud solution offerings and profitable practice growth.
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Geoffrey Hirsch
Head of Partner Channel, WW Learning & Readiness of Microsoft
Geoff Hirsch is Senior Director of Microsoft’s Worldwide Learning (WWL) Partner Channel. In this role, he is responsible for Channel Strategy and overall Learning Partner engagement. Geoff’s team works closely with Learning Partners to increase skills and adoption of Microsoft technologies globally, with a core focus on how Microsoft and Learning Partners can help consumers and enterprises achieve their goals. Prior to WWL he led Microsoft’s Media & Entertainment team responsible for working with global media companies to drive Cloud, App, and Content based partnerships. Geoff started with Microsoft in 1992 after graduating from the University of Washington, and has held a variety of leadership positions across Microsoft’s Enterprise Sales, Partner, and Business Development organizations.
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Hannibal Scipio
Partner Go-to-market Capability Lead of Microsoft
Hannibal Scipio is the global strategy and execution lead for the partner-to-partner motion in the GTM and Programs team at Microsoft. He is focused on enabling, empowering and activating Microsoft partners to build and strengthen connections that drive digital transformation for both themselves and their customers. With more than 15 years of technology and leadership experience, he has received numerous awards for improving partner experiences, has developed high-value partner programs, and has driven critical partner sales activities. A transformational business leader, he is always up for the challenge to solve problems and support partners’ success.
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Analisa Roberts
Director, Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing Team of Microsoft
As the Director of Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing at Microsoft, my mission is to build a team poised to break new ground and recruit, educate and assist potential partners about the power of Azure, Azure Sphere, Windows IoT,Cloud-based business solutions and Intelligent Edge device design. The energy around the Intelligent Edge allows me to be in a constant state of learning and evolution, adapting marketing and sales to customers based on the changing technologies available and partnering with them to create something revolutionary. I help partners build out custom Cloud products, identifying where to build, how to build it, and who their potential customers may be. My experience as a hands-on leader allows me to develop valuable correlations across the Microsoft landscape, helping inter-related programs and partners find the leading-edge Cloud-based resources they seek to benefit their business and scale their IoT solution.
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Claudia Rössler
Agriculture – Strategic Partnerships, Principle Program Manager Azure Global Engineering of Microsoft
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Jenny Leahy
Director of Advertising for Social and Media Partnerships Creative of Microsoft
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Scott Mauvais
Director, AI and Global Partnerships, Microsoft Philanthropies of Microsoft
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Jo Amato-Tuck
Global Partner Development Manager of Microsoft
Jo Amato-Tuck’s experience covers channel expertise and technology leader, with technology journalism as well as being a high-achieving mum. Her experience lends her ability to uniquely explore the status quo and then challenge it where appropriate to drive innovation to make technology accessible to all. She is known and respected for setting high expectations and a tough, reasonable approach to maximizing sales results. Her strength in relationship-building stems from a mix of empathy and strategy to enable outcomes with a growth mindset. As well as her current role as the Lead to a large global enterprise account driving Hybrid Cloud and Intelligent Edge soltuions on Azure, her journalism background enables her to tap into stories of changemakers that inspire, that enable diversity and inclusivity with high performance. Her inspiration comes from engineers and non-engineer technologists alike, plus motorsports racers, creatives, mold-breaking political leaders and others who challenge and change the status quo by outperforming.
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Oliver Schulz
Director Global Partner Development of Microsoft
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Dan Driscoll
Partner Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Jose Gomez Cueto
Director – SMB Partners Go To Market – US Subsidiary of Microsoft
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Karen Fassio
Director, One Commercial Partner group of Microsoft
Karen leads the strategy for digital marketing engagement that serves the global Microsoft partner ecosystem. Karen has held multiple marketing roles over her 20 years at Microsoft including work in global technical readiness, licensing, sales excellence, audience and channel marketing. Karen also leads OCP Change Management and Microsoft’s Channel Inclusion strategy. She is also co-founder and steering chair of Women In Cloud, a community-centered organization focused on helping female entrepreneurs lead and grow their business in the cloud.
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Derek Cheshire
Business Strategist, Unified Partner Experience of Microsoft
Building a unified partner experience to help partners find new ways to grow their business and save time navigating Microsoft.
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Laura Padley
Sr. Partner Dev Manager, Services Growth Specialist Team and WW AI Lead of Microsoft
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Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
Sumit is a Research manager at Microsoft, leading the PROSE research and engineering team that develops APIs for program synthesis (programming by examples and natural language) and incorporates them into real products. He is the inventor of the popular Flash Fill feature in Microsoft Excel used by hundreds of millions of people. He has published 110+ peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences/journals across multiple computer science areas. He is a recipient of the prestigious ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the President’s Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur.
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Derek Cheshire
Business Strategist, Unified Partner Experience of Microsoft
Building a unified partner experience to help partners find new ways to grow their business and save time navigating Microsoft.
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Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research Manager of Microsoft
Sumit is a Research manager at Microsoft, leading the PROSE research and engineering team that develops APIs for program synthesis (programming by examples and natural language) and incorporates them into real products. He is the inventor of the popular Flash Fill feature in Microsoft Excel used by hundreds of millions of people. He has published 110+ peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences/journals across multiple computer science areas. He is a recipient of the prestigious ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the President’s Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur.
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Barnaby Jeans
Senior Partner Development Manager of Microsoft
Global Growth specialist working with partners who are transforming to deliver cloud managed Services. #AzureExpertMSP #AzureStack #Azure #PartnerTransformation
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Paul Maher
Partner, General Manager – Industry Experiences of Microsoft
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Ryen White
Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI of Microsoft
Ryen White is a Partner Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research. Recently, White led the applied science organization for Cortana, served as chief scientist at Microsoft Health, and was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
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Richard Borenstein
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of MURAL
Richard Borenstein is the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and is responsible for accelerating MURAL’s revenue growth and market penetration, forming deep, integrated partnerships with enterprise brands, and leading a highly skilled sales team bringing visual collaboration to the enterprise collaboration toolkit. A SaaS veteran with a passion for recruiting and team building, Richard has built an extensive, worldwide executive network and has a proven track record of creating mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships. He recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), where he led the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Previously, he held sales management positions at RingCentral, Zong (acquired by PayPal), Baynote Inc., and Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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Elizabeth Maxson Martinet
Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Partnerships of Salesforce
Elizabeth Maxson is a Senior Director on the Strategic Technology Partnerships team at Salesforce. As a marketing veteran with over 13 years of experience, Elizabeth leads strategy for the top technology partners with specific focus on the Salesforce & Google relationship. Prior to joining the Strategic Technology Partnerships’ team, Elizabeth spent four years in Salesforce Corporate Marketing with focus ranging from strategic events to corporate messaging and content. Elizabeth is passionate about story telling and bringing technology to life through creating engaging experiences.
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Cliff Holekamp
Cofounder, Managing Director, & General Partner of Cultivation Capital
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Brian Matthews
Co-Founder & General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Brian Matthews is a Co-founder and a General Partner at Cultivation Capital. In addition, he is a General Partner and mentor at SixThirty FinTech accelerator, as well as, a founder of River City Internet Group (www.rcig.net). River City Internet Group is an Internet holding company that focuses on software, Internet access, and hosting products. Brian is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded and assisted in the sale of the following technology companies: Primary Network to Mpower Communications (MPWR) in 2000, Primary Webworks to Perficient (PRFT) in 2001, CDM Fantasy Sports to Liberty Media (LCAPA) in 2006, and IntraISP to Clearwire Communications (CLWR) in 2007. Brian continues to focus on investments in early stage companies and sits on the boards of Perficient, LockerDome, NoonLight, S4, SimpleRose, TopOpps, Aisle411, Hatchbuck, Tunespeak, SixThirty, Hostirian, and non-profit boards GlobalHack, Givable, Friends of T-REX.
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Kyle Welborn
Co-Founder & General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Kyle is a co-founder and General Partner at Cultivation Capital where he focuses on making AgriFood Tech investments through the Yield Lab. He serves as the board chair at NanoGuard Technologies, and a board member at Eiwa Ag and Ascribe Bioscience. He is also a board observer representing the firm’s investments in Notch and Hydrosat. Prior portfolio board service includes Label Insight which was sold to NielsenIQ in 2021. Before joining the AgriFood Tech investment team, Kyle led Cultivation’s operations team. In 2012, he founded an angel investment group in St. Louis called FinServe Tech Angels, which later became a part of the St. Louis Arch Angels. Kyle graduated from Loyola University Chicago where he studied political science.
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Joe Maxwell
Managing Partner of Cultivation Capital
Joe Maxwell is the Managing Partner at FINTOP Capital. Joe was most recently the EVP and MD of IPreo Inc. where he led the Private Capital Markets, acquiring Clear Momentum Inc. in December 2015 and ILevel Inc. in August 2015.
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John True
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
John True is the General Partner of Cultivation Capital.
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William Schmidt
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Bill has over 20 years experience in the medical device, healthcare IT and pharmaceutical sectors, and is a founding Partner of LDM Group. LDM is a successful healthcare technology company and leader in targeted, behavior based messaging for both patients and providers at the point of sale and point of care. As a founder of LDM Group, Bill served many different roles. Specifically, over the last 10 years Bill has spent time in business development, sales management, marketing, operations, IT, finance, and is currently serving on its Board of Directors. Prior to LDM, he held various executive leadership positions, most notably at United States Surgical Corporation (now Covidien) and Catalina Marketing’s Health Resource division. Bill is also a Limited Partner in Cultivation Capital Technology Fund, participates as a mentor in the Capital Innovators accelerator program, and is an angel investor himself. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin. Bill was also a torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and lives in St. Louis with his wife and 3 children.
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Peter Esparrago
General Partner and Co-Founder of Cultivation Capital
Peter Esparrago co-founded Cultivation Capital. and Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of FinLocker in 2001
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Chris Danforth
General Partner – Life Sciences Fund of Cultivation Capital
Chris is a Limited Partner and Investment Committee member of the Cultivation Capital technology fund,
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Dean VandeKamp
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
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David Smoller
General Partner – Life Sciences Fund of Cultivation Capital
Dr. David A. Smoller, General Partner of Cultivation Capital
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Heather Wood
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
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Taha Jangda
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Taha started his journey at the Texas Medical Center (TMC), the world’s largest medical center. During his time with TMC, he took part in the creation of the TMC Innovation Institute which is comprised of a healthcare and life science startup accelerator/incubator, Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center for Device Innovation and JLABS, and AT&T Connected Health Foundry. Haven seen firsthand how a lack of integration hinders patient care, Taha followed his entrepreneurial spirit and later joined Redox as the Director of Strategic Partnerships to help digital solutions get into the hands of care providers faster. Beyond tackling today’s most challenging healthcare issues and advising innovation communities across the country, Taha spends his free time reading books on leadership development and staying true to his Texas roots – BBQ and football.
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Bobby Sandage
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Dr. Sandage most recently was President and CEO and member of the board for Coronado BioSciences, Inc. (CNDO) from March 2011 to April 2013. Previously, he was vice president of Covidien (Mallinckrodt) Pharmaceuticals’ oncology research and development program from March 2010 to March 2011. From 1991 until 2009 (when Endo Pharmaceuticals acquired Indevus), Dr. Sandage was the Chief Scientific Officer and executive vice president of research and development, quality and manufacturing at Indevus Pharmaceuticals. He previously held senior drug development positions at DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, DuPont/American Critical Care, Merrell Dow and Dow Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sandage received his Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacy from Purdue University and his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Sandage is also a registered pharmacist.
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Elise Miller
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Elise Miller Hoffman is a Principal at Cultivation Capital. Prior to this position, she served as an Analyst, performing due diligence for Cultivation Capital’s Tech Fund II. After graduating cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011, Elise served as Senior Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at WashU. She went on to pursue an MBA at Washington University’s Olin Business School, graduating in 2016. As an MBA student, Elise served as president of the Washington University InSITE Fellowship, and performed numerous consulting projects for entrepreneurial organizations, both locally and internationally. Though originally from Texas, Elise now considers herself a proud St. Louisan, and serves on the boards of St. Patrick Center, New Leaders Council – St. Louis, and the St. Louis Young Democrats.
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Rick Ryan
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Rick Ryan is the General Partner of Cultivation Capital Life Sciences.
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Marc Hirshman
General Partner of Cultivation Capital
Marc Hirshman is the President, Principal, and Co-Founder of Twain Financial Partners. Marc is also a General Partner at Cultivation Capital.
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