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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 President operating in the Big Data space. If you think a President 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.
Matthew Meisner
Vice President, Research and Development of Farmers Business Network
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Steven Becker
President and COO of MakerDAO
Steven Becker is President and COO of the MakerDAO Foundation. MakerDAO is a unique dApp that generates Dai, the world’s first decentralized stablecoin that facilitates economic growth on the blockchain and economic empowerment with the blockchain. Steven is responsible for the strategic business operations, risk management, partnerships, and marketing. An alternative investment professional with 20 years of experience. Steven is Chartered as an Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) by the CAIA Association and certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is a member of both associations.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Vivek Kumar
Co-Founder and President of ProKarma
Vivek Kumar serves as the President of Prokarma, Inc. Mr. Kumar has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has provided leadership in the management, and delivery of e-Business technology, and services. He is involved with building e-procurement solutions since the last 7 years, and has tremendous knowledge of procurement functions. Mr. Kumar is responsible for leading the growth of the organization through revenue improvement with existing customers, increased market penetration, and development of new products and markets. He is ultimately responsible for corporate profitability and establishing policies, procedures and strategies consistent with the values and integrity of the organization.
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About PK Global, ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
David Goulden
President of Dell EMC
David Goulden is President of Dell EMC, responsible for the global organization that provides the essential infrastructure for customers to build their digital future and transform IT. Goulden oversees all aspects of the Infrastructure Solutions Group, including an industry-leading portfolio that is focused on modernizing the data center, leveraging the cloud, empowering a mobile workforce and protecting organizations and their data. He is based in Dell EMC’s offices in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Goulden joined Dell through its combination with EMC where, as CEO, he led EMC Information Infrastructure, EMC Corporation’s largest business by revenue and employees. He also served as president and chief operating officer of the business, responsible for engineering and product development, sales and customer operations, services, marketing and G&A functions. Previously, he was EMC’s CFO, responsible for financial operations of EMC Corporation’s consolidated business. He helped make mergers and acquisitions a core competency at EMC by playing major roles in more than 75 acquisitions as well as business model innovations, such as VMware and the formation of VCE. In 2011, analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor magazine named him the best CFO in IT hardware. Before becoming EMC’s CFO, Goulden led EMC’s Sales and Customer Operations worldwide, including Global Sales in all theaters as well as Global Channels, Alliances and Partners. Under his direction EMC rapidly transformed into a solutions-oriented technology company with a segmented go-to-market strategy and a partner-friendly selling model. Prior to that, he oversaw Marketing and New Business Development for the company. Goulden joined EMC in 2002 from Getronics, where he was a member of the board of management, president and chief operating officer Americas and APJ. Prior to Getronics acquiring Wang Global in 1999, he held executive, strategy and marketing roles during a decade with Wang, after a decade with Unisys before that. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Durham University (England) and an executive MBA degree from Cranfield School of Management (England).
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Jeffrey Boudreau
Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Ty Schmitt
Vice President / Fellow of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Sabrina Chiasson
Vice President of Polaris Partners
Sabrina joined Battery in 2015 as an associate. She focuses on later-stage software investments, including growth equity, buyouts, rollups, carve-outs and take-privates. Before coming to Battery, Sabrina was an associate at H.I.G. Growth Partners, a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations of lower-middle market, growth oriented businesses. There, she sourced, evaluated and executed investments in the consumer, healthcare and technology sectors. She also previously spent time at Westwind Investors, a private investment firm focused on growth-equity investments and buyouts. Sabrina received a B.A. in biology and economics from Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, Sabrina was captain of the varsity Alpine ski team.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Kevin Gould
President of IHS Markit
Kevin Gould is president of Markit and a cofounder of the company. He was appointed head of Markit’s Asia Pacific operations in July 2013, a role that spans Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. Previously, Kevin led Markit’s business in North America, which he established in 2005 and now serve more than 400 customers. Kevin holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Bristol University.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Shane Akeroyd
President of IHS Markit
Shane Akeroyd is president of IHS Markit Asia Pte. Ltd. He joined Markit as head of sales in 2008 from RBC Capital Markets where he was head of global debt markets distribution and a member of the executive management team.Prior to RBC, Shane was vice chair, capital market sales at TD Securities, responsible for Europe, Asia and Australia. He holds a B.S. (Hons) in economics from University College London.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Todd Hyatt
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Todd Hyatt is executive vice president and chief financial officer of IHS Markit. Todd served in those same roles at IHS after previously serving as chief information officer, senior vice president of FP&A, and leading the finance organization for the company’s engineering segment. He also worked for LoneTree Capital, US WEST/MediaOne, AT&T, Arthur Young and Arthur Andersen. He holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in management from Purdue University.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Leslie
Senior Vice President of IHS Markit
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Adam Kansler
President, Financial Services of IHS Markit
Adam Kansler is president of the financial services business at IHS Markit, which includes pricing and reference data, trade processing, valuations, indices, and economic and country risk products. Adam previously served as global co-head of Markit’s information division and head of North American operations. Earlier, Adam was Markit’s chief administrative officer and general counsel – leading human resources, legal, corporate communications, risk, regulatory and strategic alliances. Before joining Markit in 2009, Adam spent 17 years with Proskauer LLP as a corporate partner. He holds a B.A. in economics from Hobart College and received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jonathan Gear
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Jonathan Gear is president of resources, transportation and CMS for IHS Markit, including business lines supporting the automotive, energy, chemicals, maritime and aerospace industries. Earlier, he served in multiple senior vice president positions and as president/COO of IHS CERA. Jonathan previously held leadership positions at Activant Solutions, smarterwork.com and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Sari Granat
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of IHS Markit
Sari Granat is executive vice president and general counsel at IHS Markit, responsible for the company’s legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs, enterprise risk and information security functions. Prior to joining Markit in 2012, Sari was lead counsel and chief administrative officer of TheMarkets.com LLC. She has served in senior legal and strategy positions at media and technology companies including Dow Jones & Company and Kaplan, Inc. Sari holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
David Hose
CEO & President of AirMap
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About AirMap, Buzzwire, Soundwall: AirMap operates as an airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft.
Sean Brehm
Co-Founder and President of Gradient Cyber
Sean Brehm is the Co-Founder and President at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Chris Bates
Global Vice President of Customer Success of Tableau
Chris Bates leads the global Customer Success organization at Tableau Software.Chris’ team is responsible for ensuring that Tableau’s 80,000+ customers are successfully onboarding, adopting, and renewing with Tableau.Chris has over 20 years of experience leading customer-facing organizations in high-growth technology companies.Prior to joining Tableau, Chris led Sales organizations at Dell, including living in London for 2 ½ years.For the last 8 years, Chris has led global Customer Success teams at both Salesforce.com and Clarizen.Chris started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he first developed his passion around customers.He received his undergraduate degree in Finance and Marketing at the University ofVirginia, and his MBA from Harvard Business School
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Yuanling Yuan
Vice President of SignalFire
Yuanling Yuan is a Vice President at SignalFire. She goes by “YY” (not to be confused with the Chinese social media company). Prior to SignalFire, YY worked on the investment team at Blackstone’s Strategic Opportunity Fund, where she evaluated late-stage and IPO investment opportunities. At Blackstone, she also spent time on the Emerging Markets team, evaluating macroeconomic and political risk in countries such as China, Brazil, and Egypt.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
William R. Adler
Co-Founder, CEO, and President of True Fit
William R. Adler, also known as Bill, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of True Fit Corporation and TrueFit Solutions, Inc. William Adler was a Timberland executive who has multiple generations of apparel leaders. He has 20+ years of leadership and general management experience. He successfully led True Fit’s pivot from direct retailer to a big data SaaS solution for major retailers and brands.
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
Christine Lemke
Co-Founder & President of Evidation Health
As Chief Product Officer, Christine leads product management and development at Evidation Health. Previously, Christine co-founded and led The Activity Exchange, an insight and personalization platform that helps healthcare companies deliver the right digital interventions and incentives to consumers to help them achieve sustainable behavior change. Prior to her work in healthcare, Christine was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsoft XBOX and co-founded Chicago-based Channel IQ, a product analytics platform. Christine has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from HEC Paris.
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About Evidation Health, Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Joe Fraiman
Co-Founder and President of Lyric
Joe is a Founder & President of Lyric. He is a professional nomad, adventure traveler, a certified BBQ judge, and interior design junkie. Over the last 15 years he’s lived in countless apartments across the country — and he obsessively designed each one. Along the way he hiked 1000 miles on the Appalachian Trail, crossed Asia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Joe has worked in construction in Alaska, developed top-secret defense software in San Diego, and raised money for the world’s largest hedge fund in Connecticut. He studied computer science and philosophy at Dartmouth College and NYU.
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About Lyric: Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Ben Gitenstein
Vice President of Product Management of Qumulo
Ben Gitenstein runs Product at Qumulo. He and his team of product managers and data scientists have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews with storage users and analyzed millions of data points to understand customer needs and the direction of the storage market. Prior to working at Qumulo, Ben spent five years at Microsoft, where he split his time between Corporate Strategy and Product Planning.
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About Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Molly Brown
Vice President Of Engineering of Qumulo
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About Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Lesly Mohr
Vice President of Finance of Voyager Capital
Lesly Mohr is the Vice President of Finance at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Michael DeCesare
CEO and President of Exabeam
Michael DeCesare is the CEO and president of Exabeam, a leading security analytics and automation company. Prior to Exabeam, he was CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies, a company that offers Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations the ability to see devices. He was previously the president at McAfee. DeCesare served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at EMC Software Group before which he held the same position at EMC Documentum. He also worked as the EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at Oracle. DeCesare holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
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About Exabeam, ForeScout Technologies: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Keelin McDonell
Senior Vice President, Customer Success of Narrative Science
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Colin South
Vice President of Zymergen
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Anukool Lakhina
Founder & President of Guavus
Anukool Lakhina founded Guavus, Inc. in February 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Anukool Lakhina has more than a decade of thought leadership in large-scale data analytics and has published more than a dozen papers on the subject. His Ph.D. dissertation put forth the theory and algorithms for streaming analytics on high-dimensional data, which forms the basis for the technology at Guavus. Prior to Guavus, he was at Intel Research and Sprint Labs. Anukool Lakhina serves as the Director at Guavus, Inc. He holds a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University.
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About Guavus: Guavus is a big data analytics company developing apps that allow companies to embed data driven-decisions into agile businesses processes.
Wen Miao
Senior Vice President, Global Client Technical Services of TIBCO
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Matt Quinn
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO of TIBCO
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO at Tibco software.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Alpa Jain
Vice President, API Center of Excellence of Experian
Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support. Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America. Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Angela Granger
Vice President of Experian
Angela Granger is Vice President of Experian With over 20 years of experience in analytics, Angela Granger leads a team responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytical solutions which accelerate the profitable growth and market position of Experian clients. Since joining Experian in 1993, Granger has leveraged the latest statistical techniques in predictive modelling, data intelligence and business intelligence to maximise clients’ return on investment. She plays an instrumental role in analytics research and development, having participated in the design and commercial introduction of several advanced analytics products and services aimed at helping clients predict customer behaviour and effectively manage a wide range of decisions related to repayment of debt, account utilisation, default and fraud prevention. Prior to her current role at Experian, she was with HSBC where she was responsible for bankcard portfolio inbound call cross-sell strategies and acquisitions. Granger is named as an inventor on a US patent, Credit Portfolio Benchmarking, which defines a system and method for analysing massive amounts of current and historical trade data across financial institutions to allow peer group performance comparisons.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Shon Myatt
CTO, President & Co-Founder of Babel Street
Shon Myatt Co-Founder and CTO of Babel Street, Shon Myatt shares the first steps that he took to found Babel Street, a technology company that provides intelligence from online and private sources that accurately detected the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks before it happened.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Stephen Coakley
COO & President of Babel Street
Stephen Coakley is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Babel Street, a company that provides actionable intelligence by persistently monitoring and analyzing a variety of data sources. Babel Street serves governments, higher education, and a wide spectrum of the business sector. Prior to Babel Street, Stephen was the Founder and Principal of Horizon Services, a government contractor that rose to #312 on the Inc 500 Fastest-Growing Companies List, with $8M in revenues and 150 employees. Steve’s philosophy is that he wants to work with very smart people doing something they all can be incredibly passionate about. Otherwise, it’s time to reinvent.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Ansa Sekharan
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Success Officer of Informatica
Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president and Chief Customer Success Officer, leads Informatica’s Global Customer Support and Informatica University, where he is responsible for establishing Informatica as a trusted partner for customers worldwide by ensuring their success with Informatica’s products. Additionally, Ansa leads Informatica’s Education Services division, with a focus on role-based training programs to ensure the organization gets the most out of investment in Informatica products. Ansa was an early employee at Informatica starting in 1996. During his tenure, Informatica has received prestigious industry awards recognizing its support services, including being ranked number one in customer loyalty in the data integration enterprise software sector for 11 years in a row. Prior to joining Informatica, Ansa was a veteran of Sybase, where he held numerous customer services roles. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Technology, India.
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About Active Endpoints, Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Sherrie King
Vice President of Sales and Business Development of Constellation Research
Sherrie King is Director of Lead Generation and Sales @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
David Stanley
Vice President of Constellation Research
David Stanley is the Vice President at Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Elizabeth Herrell
Vice President and Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
Elizabeth Herrell is Vice President and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research, Forrester Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Elizabeth Herrell
Vice President and Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
Elizabeth Herrell is Vice President and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research, Forrester Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Sally Taylor Shoff
Scores Vice President of FICO
Sally Taylor-Shoff is Scores Vice President, responsible for product management, marketing, analytic and software development, and analytic delivery for global syndicated FICO score products. Sally joined FICO (aka Fair Isaac) in 1987 as a data scientist, developing application scorecards for the consumer credit and utility industries. Subsequently she was the original product manager for the FICO Score product line, driving product launch and marketplace adoption including achieving endorsements for usage in the Mortgage industry. Sally has served FICO in other capacities including managing and growing the Marketing automation product line through both acquisition and new product development, and developing a new channel and business model by launching the FICO Analytic Cloud Marketplace. Sally holds a B.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Martin Frid-Nielsen
Vice President of Document Solutions of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Sastry Chilukuri
Executive Vice President, Digital and AI of Medidata Solutions
Sastry Chilukuri is responsible for accelerating the development, go-to-market and delivery of capabilities that help life science customers scale artificial intelligence across the enterprise. Sastry brings 19 years of experience in healthcare technology. He most recently was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 12 years advising bio-pharma, medical device, technology, public sector and regulatory clients around the world. Prior to that, he worked for GE Healthcare in software engineering, product development and operations. His perspectives have been widely disseminated, including in conferences, media and numerous publications on McKinsey Insights. Sastry holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; a Master of Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Michele Becci
Vice President of Customer Experience of Medidata Solutions
Michele Becci is the Vice President of Customer Experience at Medidata Solutions, a global life sciences technology company. Michele has spent over 18 years in the life sciences technology industry, with a focus on the sales and strategy that supports clinical trial and pharmacovigilance solutions. Prior to her current role, she held various management positions within Oracle Corporation’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Jeffrey Brewer
President & CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Pradeep Menon
Executive Vice President & Global head of delivery of Orion Innovation
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About Orion Innovation: Orion Innovation is a global IT services and solutions provider helping organizations with Digital Transformation services.
Michael Williams
President & CEO / Co-Founder of Oomba
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About Glytch, Oomba: Oomba is a specialized digital media company bringing elegant organization to sports and games.
Niall Fitzpatrick
Vice President, Customer Success of Starburst Data
Niall Fitzpatrick is a Vice President of Customer Success at Starburst Data. Niall holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
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About Starburst Data: The analytics engine for all your data. The fastest, most efficient query engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh.
Rich Labarca
Vice President of Product of AddThis
Rich LaBarca GM Dynamics 365 Customer Insights at Microsoft.
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About AddThis: AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Jock Breitwieser
Vice President, Global MarCom and Brand of Arcserve
Jock Breitwieser is Vice President of Global Marketing Communications (MarCom) & Brand at Arcserve. Previously, Jock was senior director MarCom and PR at StorageCraft, a company that provides award-winning backup, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions. Before that, Jock was director of corporate communications at TriNet, a strategic partner to small businesses for HR, benefits, payroll, employment law compliance, and risk reduction. Prior, he was head of global PR at Dell SonicWALL, where he directed strategy and execution for the company’s entire global PR, customer reference program, social media, speakers bureau and product reviews. At Dell, he managed a global, multi-million-dollar PR budget, 17 PR teams, and multiple contractors. He restructured and consolidated the global communications program, replaced all global agencies; developed positioning, messaging architecture, and communication strategy; drives awareness, SEO, and social media. With 20+ years of international communications expertise in agencies and in-house, Jock Breitwieser is an expert in MarCom and Public Relations, Analyst Relations, Social Media and Social Selling, Crisis Communications Corporate Communications, Messaging and Positioning. Since 2013, Jock has been very involved in social selling, digital media, and social media marketing. He helps individuals and businesses recognize and leverage the power of social media for business. In 2017, he was named one of the Top 100 social selling influencers. He holds an M.A. in contemporary history, law, and political sciences from the University of Bochum, Germany, and studied in Tours/France with a scholarship of the European Union. In his spare time, Jock enjoys international travel and competes in Triathlons.
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About Arcserve: Arcserve is a provider of data protection and recovery software that provides organizations with the assurance.
Jason Goldberg
Co-Founder & President of CARRO
President & Co-founder of VYRL.
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About CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Piotr Gajos
Vice President of Brand Expression & Design of Persistent Systems
Piotr Gajos is the Vice President of Brand Expression and Design at Persistent Systems.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Debbie Lofton
Vice President & General Counsel of Qlik
Debbie is responsible for providing legal support on operational issues, as well as developing and implementing business processes to achieve business goals and mitigate risk. She also supports SEC reporting and corporate governance compliance programs, joint venture and merger and acquisition transactions, intellectual property activities, and also manages internal and external legal resources. Debbie joins Qlik from McCausland Keen & Buckman, where she provided legal services to public and private clients in the areas of securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, business counseling and general corporate law. Prior to McCausland Keen & Buckman, Debbie was the SVP, General Counsel and Secretary for InfraSource Services, Inc., where she was responsible for corporate governance and compliance, SEC reporting, litigation management, acquisitions and divestitures, labor and employment, and general commercial. She has also served as SVP and General Counsel for SunGard Availability Services, EVP and General Counsel of RMH Teleservices Inc., and VP-Legal and Assistant General Counsel for SunGard Data Systems. Debbie holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Cory Capoccia
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Womply
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About Verifi, Inc., Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Adam Champy
Senior Vice President Product Management of Two Sigma
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About Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Jordan Sumerlus
Vice President, Product Management of Two Sigma
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About Two Sigma: Two Sigma’s technology-driven team streamlines the use of machine learning, distributed computing and research to guide its endeavors.
Noble Kuriakose
Vice President, Data Science of Edison
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About Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Steve Sullivan
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Americas of Infinidat
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About Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Robert Cancilla
Executive Vice President of Business Development and Global Alliances of Infinidat
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About Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Jaswinder Chadha
President & CEO of Axtria
Jassi founded Axtria with the vision of building cutting-edge analytics and software solutions that will help global companies to effectively manage and get insights from big data. He is a pioneer in building advanced decision support software.He has worked closely with over 100 global companies to improve effectiveness of their commercial operations. Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) awarded Jassi with prestigious lifetime achievement award in 2014. This is among several other accolades. Jassi also serves on the Board of many diverse organizations like TIE Global, Ocular Therapeutics, SpectraMedix and others.
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About Axtria: Axtria is a big data analytics software and services company for the Life Sciences industry.
Wei Zheng
Vice President of Product and Design of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Stephen Scheppmann
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Teradata
Steve Scheppmann is executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) for Teradata, reporting to Vic Lund. In addition to leading the financial organization, Steve has responsibility for IT services and global operations. Prior to joining Teradata in September 2007, Steve had 20 years of experience as a CFO and more than 10 years in public accounting. He was executive vice president and CFO of Per-Se Technologies, Inc. Steve was executive vice president and CFO for NOVA Information Systems, Inc. from 2000 to 2006 and senior vice president and CFO for Larson-Juhl, Inc. from 1988 to 2000. He held senior auditing positions with Arthur Andersen & Company from 1978 through 1988. He was a member of the board of directors of eResearch Technology, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnical services and technology company, where he also served as the chair of its audit committee from 2006 – 2012. Steve grew up in the Midwest and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor’s degree in business administration – accounting.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Simon Moss
Vice President, Head of Industry Consulting and Solutions, The Americas of Teradata
Simon Moss is vice president of industry consulting and solutions for the Americas at Teradata. Simon has extensive leadership and entrepreneurial experience in banking and financial technology. Previously, he was a managing director at Grant Thornton responsible for FinTech in the Americas and was founder and chief executive officer for Mantas Corporation, leading the company to become a market leader in global anti-money laundering and compliance technology. Simon’s other experience includes founding the IBM Risk Management Practice, working as a partner at PWC, and serving on multiple technology company boards of directors.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Michael Koehler
President & CEO of Teradata
Michael Koehler is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors at Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) since September 2007. Michael led the successful spin-off from NCR Corporation in 2007 and has since led Teradata to a continuing record of strong financial performance and technological innovation. Michael began his career with NCR Corporation in 1975, and held a number of leadership positions that contributed to Teradata’s rapid growth as NCR’s data warehousing business. Before heading Teradata as Senior Vice President in 2003, Michael was Vice President of Teradata’s Global Field Operations, where he developed a world-class sales force and professional services organization. Before the Teradata Division was formed in January 2000, Michael was Vice President of NCR’s Americas Retail Division and Vice President of NCR’s Worldwide Retail Industry Marketing group where he was responsible for driving enterprise data warehousing into the retail market, where much of Teradata’s early success originated. Michael currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiary, Hertz Corporation. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Rocky J. Blanton
President of Teradata
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Trevor Stuart
Co-Founder & President of Split Software
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Ned Bicks
Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer & Emerging Business of Iron Mountain
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About Iron Mountain: Iron Mountain provides online backup and data protection.
Carole Meixsell
Vice President, Information Technology of Iron Mountain
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About Iron Mountain: Iron Mountain provides online backup and data protection.
Joe Kunigonis
Co-Founder & President of Corner Media, Inc.
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About Corner Media, Inc.: Platform Company with Location-Based Consumer Targeting
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
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About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Joe Pasqua
Executive Vice President, Products of MarkLogic
Joe brings over three decades of experience as both an engineer and a leader. He has personally contributed to several game changing initiatives including the first personal computer at Xerox, the rise of RDBMS in the early days of Oracle, and the desktop publishing revolution at Adobe. In addition to his individual contributions, Joe has been a leader at companies ranging from small startups to the Fortune 500. Most recently, Joe established Neustar Labs which is responsible for creating strategies, technologies, and services that enable entirely new markets. Prior to that, Joe held a number of leadership roles at Symantec and Veritas Software including VP of Strategy, VP of Global Research, and CTO of the $2B Data Center Management business. Joe’s technical interests include system software, knowledge representation, and rights management. He has over 10 issued patents with others pending. Joe earned simultaneous Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics in 1981 from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo where he is a member of the Computer Science Advisory Board.
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Amy Kao
Co-Founder & President / Chief Marketing Office of RxAll
Amy is a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She has +5 years of management consulting experience with global pharmaceutical companies in New York and Asia, and has a strong focus on go-to-market strategy in emerging markets.
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About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
Siva Sivaram
Executive Vice President and President of Western Digital
Dr. Siva Sivaram is founder and chief executive officer of Twin Creeks Technologies, to which he brings unrivaled experience running a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing business with outsourced fabrication. Siva began his career at Intel. There, his final position was general manager of the $1 billion IC Procurement and Enabling Division, where he was responsible for portions of Intel’s chipset design, all external integrated circuit procurement and the production of Intel chips that were not manufactured in Intel fabs. In that position, Siva was known worldwide as the world’s largest consumer of semiconductor foundry wafers. In 1999, he joined Matrix Semiconductor as COO and was instrumental in the development and mass production of the first monolithic 3-D memory card. SanDisk purchased Matrix in 2006, and Siva was appointed general manager of the Pre-recorded Content Division. From 2004 until 2008, Siva was a board member at Nanosolar. In August 2007, Siva left SanDisk to found and manage Twin Creeks Technologies as its CEO. Siva is the author of Chemical Vapor Deposition: Thermal and Plasma Deposition of Electronic Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995), and has published over 50 technical papers. He has also held positions as a research scholar at Matsushita Electric in Japan, a technologist at SEMATECH, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University.Siva received his doctorate in Materials Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Steffen Hellmold
Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives of Western Digital
Steffen Hellmold is the Vice President Corporate Strategic Initiatives at Western Digital.
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About Twist Bioscience, Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Art Handman
Former Area Vice President, North America, Energizer Household Products, Energizer Holdings / Mentor of CellARide
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About CellARide: Pioneering Automotive Marketing Technology One Message At A Time!
Art Handman
Former Area Vice President, North America, Energizer Household Products, Energizer Holdings / Mentor of CellARide
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About CellARide: Pioneering Automotive Marketing Technology One Message At A Time!
Jalal Nasir
Founder, President and CEO of Pixalate
Jalal Nasir serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Pixalate.
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About Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
Jeff Storey
President & CEO of CenturyLink
Storey has been a director of the company since May 2013 and is president and chief executive officer of Level 3 Communications. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Storey served as the company’s president and chief operating officer, with global responsibility for Level 3’s sales, marketing, customer and network operations, IT and business process engineering spanning three regions: North America, Latin America and EMEA. Mr. Storey has held a number of leadership positions in the telecommunications industry. He served as president and CEO of WilTel Communications and president of Leucadia Telecommunications Group. He held senior executive positions at Cox Communications, where he was a founding member of Cox Business Services. He began his 30-year career in the telecommunications industry with Southwestern Bell Telephone. Mr. Storey is a member of the Classified Business and Security Committee.
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About CenturyLink, Level 3 Communications, Lumen Technologies: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Gaurav Chand
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CenturyLink
As Chief Marketing Officer, Gaurav is responsible for the company’s marketing strategy, marketing communications, brand and customer experience. He also is responsible for the company’s digital ecosystem which involves digital engagement with the customers, from buying solutions to obtaining support and automated services for provisioning. A dynamic and passionate leader, Gaurav has held marketing executive roles since 1996 and has extensive experience creating enterprise marketing strategies to grow revenue. Throughout his career, Gaurav has continually pushed the boundaries combining both the art and science of marketing, to deliver the best possible outcomes for customers and the business. Before joining CenturyLink, Gaurav served as the Global Senior Vice President, Marketing – Infrastructure Solutions group for Dell EMC, where he led a team responsible for architecting the marketing strategy for a multi-billion-dollar enterprise solutions portfolio and was the global marketing leader for the Dell & EMC integration – the largest of its kind in tech history. Gaurav holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Fergusson College in Pune, India, and a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Edward Morche
President, Strategic Enterprise and Government Markets of CenturyLink
Ed Morche brings more than 25 years of experience to his role as CenturyLink’s President of Strategic Enterprise and Government Markets, inclusive of large educational institutions and research networks. He is responsible for core network services revenue growth, EBITDA expansion and wireline enterprise investment. Ed has successfully held senior leadership roles within the Product Management, Product Development, Business Development, Sales and Offer Management organizations at Level 3 Communications. He carries a unique practice among government segments. Prior to joining Level 3, Ed held North America and global-oriented roles within Network Operations, Engineering, Access Management, Sales and Product Management at Sprint Corporation, Sprint International, Global One, Teleglobe and Igaea Communications. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Hospital Center. Ed holds Bachelor’s and Professional Degrees in Architecture from the Catholic University of America.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Stacey Goff
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of CenturyLink
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Richard Batelaan
Executive Vice President, North America Operations of CenturyLink
Richard Batelaan has nearly 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries. As CenturyLink’s Executive Vice President of North America Operations, he is responsible for North America’s Operations Strategy and Planning, Network Planning and Access Management, Network Implementation, Field Operations, Service Delivery, Service Assurance and Advanced Services Operations. Richard has extensive industry knowledge and a track record of implementing repeatable, automated business processes and great customer experiences. Prior to joining CenturyLink, Richard spent five years with AT&T in Dallas in leadership roles within Network Planning and Engineering, Platform Strategy and Solutions/Product Realization, and Product Management. He has also served as Chief Operations Officer for Cbeyond, Inc., BroadRiver Communications and BellSouth.net. Richard holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Laurinda Pang
President, International and Global Accounts Management of CenturyLink
Laurinda Pang is chief human resources officer for Level 3 Communications. Previously, Ms. Pang was senior vice president of human resources at Global Crossing, where she led global programs that supported the firm’s strategic imperative to focus on its people as the drivers of its future growth. Ms. Pang also served as vice president of Global Crossing customer experience re-engineering, where she was responsible for all aspects of global business transformation affecting customer experience. Prior to that, as vice president for Global Crossing investor relations, she was responsible for communicating with shareholders, bondholders and financial analysts. She also served as the chief of staff to the CEO and vice president of operations for Global Crossing, and was a member of the executive team that restructured Global Crossing during a critical phase in its history. Prior positions with Global Crossing include leadership roles in product management, sales and sales operations. In addition to contributing to the restoration of Global Crossing’s reputation in the financial markets, she contributed to the success of its UK business and enhanced the customer support infrastructure in North America. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pennsylvania State University.
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About CenturyLink, Level 3 Communications: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
John DeLozier
Vice President Strategic Partners and Alliances of CenturyLink
John DeLozier joined CenturyLink’s strategic partnerships and channel operations leadership team as vice president, Channel Alliance in July 2016. A well-respected presence in the channel space, DeLozier leads CenturyLink’s business and technology partner program, overseeing the development and execution of strategic sales and partner plans. He came to CenturyLink from Unify, where he built the company’s channel organization. Before that, he founded ACT and served as executive vice president of Crosstelecom, which was later sold to Arrow Electronics. DeLozier is a graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Shaun Andrews
Executive Vice President, Product Management of CenturyLink
Shaun Andrews is CenturyLink’s Executive Vice President of Product Management and is responsible for the company’s Go-To-Market Strategy, Pricing, Product Management and Product Marketing, as well as most Sales Overlay teams. With nearly 25 years in the telecommunications industry, Shaun brings a wealth of experience, a strong product management background and focus on driving profitable revenue to this role. Shaun previously served as the Senior Vice President of IP and Real-Time Communications for Level 3 Communications. Prior to this role, he held a number of senior level roles in Product Development, Product Management, Sales and Business Development at IntelePeer, WilTel and SBC Communications. Shaun holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Miami University and a Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Lisa Miller
President of Wholesale & Indirect Channels and Alliances of CenturyLink
Lisa Miller is president of wholesale, indirect channels and alliances at CenturyLink. She is responsible for driving profitable revenue growth through alternate sales channels and building strategic partnerships for the company. With more than 27 years of experience, Miller has held senior leadership roles across enterprise and alternate sales channels. She serves as a mentor, working to develop rising talent, and contributes her insights on the importance of women in technology. She was recently recognized as one of CRN’s 2017 Women of the Channel. Miller attended the University of Northern Iowa and is a member of Women in Channel and Women in Cable.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Scott Trezise
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of CenturyLink
As CenturyLink’s top Human Resources executive, Scott Trezise is responsible for the global employee experience, including talent acquisition, employee engagement, recognition, training and development, compensation and benefits, payroll, labor relations for represented employees and contingent labor. Prior to joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the Shaw Group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his responsibilities included compensation and benefits, talent management, staffing and learning and development. Scott also spent 15 years at Honeywell, in various HR Generalist roles of increasing scope and complexity as well as specialist assignments in the areas of talent management, staffing, organization design and business integration. His tenure at Honeywell culminated as Vice President of HR Services and Canada/Latin America. He was also a member of the HR Leadership Council. An active civic leader, Scott served three years as president of the Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Advisory Board, and he’s been a CenturyLink Executive in Residence at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, teaching Human Resources. Scott holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and a Master’s Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations, both from Michigan State University.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Maxine Moreau
President, Consumer Markets of CenturyLink
Maxine Moreau serves as President of CenturyLink’s Consumer Markets division. In this role, she has overall P&L responsibility for CenturyLink’s Consumer division and all aspects of the company’s Consumer strategy, go-to-market and customer experience. Her leadership has been critical to CenturyLink’s efforts to improve sales, marketing and customer service as well as transforming the customer experience. In addition, she serves as the company’s Executive Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Council. Previously, Maxine served as Executive Vice President of Global Operations, responsible for planning, engineering, construction, operations and maintenance of CenturyLink’s robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and 300,000-route-mile international transport network, including service delivery, service assurance, real estate/fleet management and region operations. She led the network enablement that currently provides commercial 100 Gbps services to businesses for high-bandwidth needs as well as the deployment of 1 Gbps fiber network to more than one million customers for both consumer and business. Prior to leading Global Operations, Maxine held several leadership roles at CenturyLink, since rejoining the company in 2003. During this period, she led the successful integration of CenturyTel, Embarq, Qwest and Savvis, creating a Fortune 150 company and the third-largest telecommunications provider in the United States. Maxine has worked for three decades in the telecommunications industry and has depth of knowledge and experience in operations, network services, IT and process improvement. She has been recognized internally and externally for her strong leadership style, focus on accountability and decision making, and ability to challenge the status quo to achieve solutions that drive efficiency and revenue growth through improved customer experiences. She is also involved in her local community non-profit organizations, including the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Northeast Louisiana United Way. Maxine holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business – Computer Information Services (CIS) from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She resides with her family in Monroe, Louisiana.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Brian Liu
Vice President of PingCAP
Brian Liu serves as the Vice President at PingCAP.
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About PingCAP: PingCAP is a developer of an open-source, distributed SQL database for real-time analytics.
Bill Brennan
CEO & President of Credo Semiconductor
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
