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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 CRM 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.
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Sarah Franklin
President & CMO, Salesforce of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Judith Platz
Senior Vice President, Service Cloud Support of Salesforce
Judith Platz brings over 25 years of in-depth customer support experience to TSIA. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President of the Global Customer Success team for Approva Corporation. Judith was responsible for supervising & coordinating multiple functional, strategic, organizational development & technical work streams, including Technical Support, Account Management, Business Consulting, implementation management, and Training. Judith developed and nurtured a world-class professional services, support & training culture. She led the recruitment and motivation of a talented management team & staff. She led her team to three consecutive TSIA STAR Awards. Prior to Approva, she spent seven years at Oracle in a number of critical customer service positions where she led a team that developed and implemented customer confidence programs focused on increasing customer satisfaction and retention for highly complex global accounts. In this role, she was recognized by the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) for her sustained efforts advocating on their behalf and educating and communicating with the Oracle user community. Judith brings significant systems integration and operations experience to TSIA. Prior to her tenure at Oracle, Judith worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she supervised support operations across three continents and developed and implemented information technology standards to achieve quality improvements. Judith also has extensive experience in computerized learning in both the public and commercial sectors.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Adam Gilberd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales of Salesforce
Adam is Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce. In his eight years at the company, Gilberd has served in a variety of sales leadership roles, across multiple customer segments in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Amy Weaver
President & Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce
Amy Weaver is the President & Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lynne Zaledonis
Executive Vice President, Industry Marketing of Salesforce
Lynne is a former Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce who helps drive product marketing and sales enablement for Sales Cloud, the world’s leading sales app.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Pascal Yammine
Senior Vice President & General Manager Salesforce CPQ + Billing of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Tyler Prince
Executive Vice President – Worldwide Alliances & Channels of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Liam Doyle
Senior Vice President Product Management and GM, MuleSoft Composer of Salesforce
Senior Vice President Product Management, MuleSoft at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
John Carney
Senior Vice President and GM for Global Telecom and Media of Salesforce
John Carney oversees all aspects of Motorola’s Mobile Devices global sales operations. Prior to joining Motorola Mobility, John most recently was at Sprint Nextel, where he was senior vice president of Consumer Marketing. During his three years with Sprint Nextel, John delivered 10 consecutive quarters of year-over-year customer growth and led a customer retention turnaround via a multi-billion consumer marketing effort. Prior to working at Sprint Nextel, John was president and CEO for wireless carrier Affinity Mobile, a private equity-backed start-up, which he helped build and launch in the U.S. and where he built a customer list from scratch. Before joining Affinity, John spent nearly a decade at T-Mobile USA, where he ran the sales organization. John was responsible for building out T-Mobile’s retail network (opening more than 1,000 stores), and had revenue accountability for tens of billions of dollars. John is a Chicago-area native and will be based in Libertyville after relocating from Kansas City. John holds an MBA in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s in Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Theresa Ludvigson
Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection of Salesforce
Theresa Ludvigson is the Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection at Salesforce.
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About Chief, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Michael Maoz
Senior Vice President, Innovation Strategy of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jim Green
Senior Vice President of Salesforce
Jim Green is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy forSalesforce. He oversees the company’s government relations and policy initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Salesforce in 2014, Jim founded T4A.org, a non-profit organization that works to create a network of entrepreneurs committed to redefining the public-private sector relationship. Jim has worked on four U.S. Presidential campaigns, including the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama. Jim founded and led Tech4Obama and organized the technology industry for the re-election campaign. Jim has more than 20 years of experience in bringing together politics, policy, technology and the non-profit sector. He resides in San Francisco with his wife Cammy, son James Jr., and daughter Mavis.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Raj Vemulapalli
Executive Vice President, Software Engineering of Salesforce
Senior Technology Executive with experience in leading and building award winning Consumer/Enterprise products and with expertise in IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Data Science, Search, Mobile, Large Scale, High Performing, Fault-Tolerant, Reliable Distributed systems, and Saas/PaaS * Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Search, Analytics, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning and Scalable Distributed Storage Systems at Salesforce.com * Led and built Mobile products and platforms that process $3.5+ Billions in transactions per year * Head of Engineering and one of the Co-Founders of Yahoo! Real Time Communications groups and the most used products in the world including Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Mobile Messaging, Yahoo! Real Time Notification Platform, Y! Voice and Video, Yahoo! IM Integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google Talk and Microsoft, and open APIs * Advisor at Salesforce Ventures and Limited Partner at Morado Ventures * Architected and built complex multi-tier distributed and scalable systems that handle 300+ million active users and deliver 300+ billion real time messages per month with 99.99% up-time * Filed 9 patents and published 3 papers in distributed systems, communications and social networking * Board of Director, Technology, Product and Strategic Advisor at technology startups * Experience in due diligence, acquisition and integration of companies to help accelerate the roadmap * Judge for TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 held in San Francisco (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/techcrunch-disrupt-hackathon-details/) * Company’s spokesperson for products. Widely interviewed and quoted in media, magazines and blogs * Won prestigious awards at Salesforce and Yahoo! Specialties: * Consumer Internet * Enterprise * Internet of Things (IoT) * Big Data and Analytics * Data Science and Machine Learning * SaaS/PaaS * Mobile * Search * Cloud computing * Large scale systems – Scalability and Reliability * Real Time Platforms
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About Morado Ventures, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
AJ Kiefer
Vice President, Transformation Services International of Salesforce
AJ Kiefer is the Vice President, Transformation Services International at Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kylie Fuentes
Vice President, Product of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert DeSisto
Chief Value Officer, Senior Vice President of Salesforce
Robert DeSisto is Vice President of Global Customer Transformation at Salesforce. Previously, he was Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research where he was responsible for managing the software as a service (SaaS) research agenda, CRM sales agenda, and business application research community.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Eric Loeb
Executive Vice President of Salesforce
Eric Loeb joined Salesforce as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs in July 2018. He was previously Senior Vice President, International External and Regulatory Affairs for AT&T, where he supported AT&T’s international external and regulatory affairs team, which is responsible for advocacy to international departments of the US government, and all branches of government outside the US, including executive, legislative and regulatory agencies, and for international external affairs affecting AT&T and its Affiliates.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jason Lee
Vice President of Salesforce
Jason Lee is the Vice President of Security Operations at Salesforce which includes companywide network and system security, incident response, threat intel, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, identity and access management, and the red team. He has 20 years of experience in technology with a primary focus on information security and cryptography. Prior to his current role, he held the position of Principle Director of Security Engineering for the Windows and Devices division in Microsoft with the charter of protecting the online services of Windows Update, XBOX live, and the Microsoft online store. He also was Senior Director of Developer Services where he was responsible for the design and management of the mission critical PKI for all products across Microsoft. This included cryptographic services baked in boxed products such as Windows and SQL Server, and cloud services such as Azure and Office 365. Additionally, Jason was responsible for the codesigning and anti-malware services supporting Microsoft in that role. Previous roles included leading various security functions such as application security, attack and penetration testing, security strategy and architecture, and regulatory compliance.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Robert Amezaga
Vice President Product Marketing of Salesforce
Robert Amezaga is the Vice President Product Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Jashojit Roy
Vice President, Innovation Consulting, Office of Innovation of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Joel Martin
Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech of Salesforce
Joel Martin is the Regional Vice President, Customer Success & Strategic High Tech at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christian Posse
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning of Salesforce
Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Yoni Rubin
Vice President of Business Operations of Pypestream
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About Pypestream: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Gary Johnson
Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support of Pitney Bowes
Gary Johnson is the Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Manish Choudhary
Senior Vice President, Global Product Management & Strategy of Pitney Bowes
As the SVP for SMB Products & Strategy at Pitney Bowes, Manish has responsibilities of the SMB Shipping & Mailing portfolio that generates over $1.7B in annual revenues. He is responsible for product and market positioning & strategy including equipment and SaaS offerings, SMB financial results, customer experience, driving market competitiveness and delivering client value to a base of 700k clients globally. He is leading a team that is at the center of transformation of the legacy mailing business of PB and is responsible to drive new value offerings with capabilities in IOT, cloud, data & analytics & AI. He is also building domain-relevant developer communities, ecosystem & partner marketplaces in shipping, mailing and ecommerce industry. Manish has held a variety of leadership roles in his 17 years at Pitney Bowes. Most recently, Manish was the SVP for Global Innovation where he led a global team of over 900 people, across 5 countries, 12 locations to create products and technologies for driving digital and physical commerce for Pitney Bowes clients worldwide. He founded PB Bowes India office in 2007, moving from Albany NY, as the first employee and grew it to 800 people. Pitney Bowes has been named one of India’s Top Workplaces consistently for the past 6 years. Manish also launched the Pitney Bowes Startup Accelerator Program in 2014 that has incubated 23 starts up and has been named one of Top 15 Startup incubators. He regularly participates in policy and decision making with Indian and US business councils evangelizing Pitney Bowes brand and solutions in the global ecosystem. He is also one of the key founding Board Members of Catalyst, a global nonprofit organization that promotes inclusive workplaces for women. Manish is an MBA from the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, an MS from Ohio and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He also has an executive MBA from NUS Business School, Singapore and received executive education at Harvard Business School and MIT.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Steven Green
Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer of Pitney Bowes
Steven Green is the VP Finance & CAO at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Ralph Kasuba
Vice President & General Manager of Pitney Bowes
Ralph Kasuba is the Vice President & General Manager at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Debbie Salce
Vice President & Treasurer of Pitney Bowes
Debbie Salce is the Vice President & Treasurer at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Phil Landler
Vice President Strategy of Pitney Bowes
Philip Landler is the Vice President Strategy at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Jason Dies
EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions of Pitney Bowes
Jason Dies is the EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael Fellers
Vice President of Sales, Global eCommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Convey, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Debbie Pfeiffer
President of Pitney Bowes
Debbie Pfeiffer is the President at Pitney Bowes Presort Services.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Christoph Stehmann
EVP & President , Enterprise Solutions Group of Pitney Bowes
Christoph Stehmann is the Corporate Strategy & Corporate Development at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Ulf Zetterberg
Co-founder & President of Time is Ltd.
Ulf Zetterberg is the Co-founder & President at Time is Ltd.
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About Time is Ltd.: At Time is Ltd., we provide an advanced analytical SaaS platform that delivers a holistic view of an organization collaboration patterns.
Mark Armenante
Vice President of Sales of Siebel Systems
Mark Armenante is a Founder and Director at Vlocity. He was previously Founder and Director of Veeva Systems. Prior to founding Veeva, Mark spent over 10 years with Siebel Systems. Mark was Siebel’s first Vice President of Sales and held several Group Vice President roles managing Alliances, Operations and Siebel’s OnDemand division. Prior to Siebel, he was President of PharmaSystems, Inc., an early innovator in pharmaceutical sales force management. PharmaSystems automated sales forces at Ciba-Geigy, Sandoz, Warner Lambert, Schering-Plough and other pharmaceutical manufacturers. Mark joined Oracle in 1987 to form the pharmaceutical vertical sales organization in addition to other pioneering vertical product lines. Prior to Oracle Corporation, Mark spent seven years with Information Resources, Inc., as Senior Vice President, Sales, which served the consumer products and pharmaceutical industries. Mark holds an MBA in Finance from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University.
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About Siebel Systems: Siebel Systems is a CRM software company automating the sales and customer service operations of large corporations.
Erick Schonfeld
President & Founding Partner of Traction Technology Partners
Erick has been discovering and working with startups his entire professional career as a technology journalist, startup event producer, and founder. Erick is President & Founding Partner at Traction Technology Partners. He is also a co-founder of TouchCast, the leading interactive video platform, and a partner at bMuse, a startup studio in New York City. He is the former Executive Producer of the DEMO conferences and former Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch (where he helped conceive, lead and select startups for the Disrupt conferences, among other duties). Prior to TechCrunch, which he joined as Co-Editor in 2007, Erick was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, and a senior writer at Fortune magazine covering technology. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. After founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor in Chief. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched the online video series “The Disruptors” with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences of industry luminaries. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993, where he was recognized with numerous journalism awards.
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About bMuse, Traction Technology Partners: Traction is a SaaS platform that automates the discovery and evaluation of emerging technologies across the enterprise.
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Platform Strategy of Acumatica
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy heads the Cloud xRP Division of Acumatica, a leading cloud ERP platform provider for mid-sized customers. In this role he is responsible for the Vertical ISV ecosystem, Platform business P&L and developer marketing. He is also responsible for strategic alliances and product incubation with strategic partners including DocuSign, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Prior to Acumatica, Ajoy spent 10 years at Microsoft driving business success across a wide range of product management, alliance and marketing roles. Ajoy has co-authored half a dozen books on various MS technologies including ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Ajoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Masters in Computer Science and also earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Simon Koziel
President of ProTrak
Simon is the President and Founder of ProTrak International, Inc. and has over 30 years of experience in the investment management and consulting industries. He worked at several major investment management, banking and consulting firms, including J.P. Morgan Investments in New York City and Arthur D. Little in Boston. Prior to starting ProTrak, Simon was the President of a software consulting company that serviced the investment management community. Simon holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the City College of New York – School of Engineering.
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About Backstop Solutions Group, ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
Ari Greenberg
Co-Founder and President of BCV
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About BCV, Brightline Trains: BCV is a full service social media provider focused on the hospitality industry.
Bruce Mandell
President ,Owner & CEO of Data-Mail
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About Data-Mail: Data-Mail is one of the nation’s largest direct marketing, print and production facilities.
Nick Illobre
Vice President Product Strategy, Crossix Analytics of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Darren Farrugia
Vice President, User Experience & Product Design of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
David Rye
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development of Blue Yonder
As Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development, David Rye ensures that JDA is on point strategically and performing well operationally, while also exploring investment and partnership opportunities to accelerate the company’s growth. He is responsible for shaping JDA’s corporate strategy around its portfolio, services, cloud and go-to-market approach, and operationalizing this strategy cross-functionally. David joined JDA in April 2017 from Informatica Corporation, where he served as SVP of corporate development, responsible for strategy, corporate and business development, strategic investments, and operational transformation initiatives. At Informatica, he played a pivotal role in helping drive the company’s revenue growth from $390 million to $1.1 billion, overseeing the company’s organic growth strategies and the acquisition and integration of numerous companies. Prior to spending nine years in the software industry at Informatica and Hyperion Solutions, he spent over five years as a private equity investor at Thayer Capital Partners and Atlas Venture. David began his career in investment banking at Robertson Stephens & Co. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Princeton and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business. If not orchestrating game-changing deals with Blue Yonder and MuleSoft, David would be a helicopter ski guide. On the weekends, he can often be found with this family, coaching his kids’ sports and when time allows, either skiing or cycling.
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About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is a digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment platform.
Duane Kotsen
Senior Vice President Professional Services of Blue Yonder
Behind every successful JDA go-live is a global team of expert consultants, strategists and education professionals led by Duane Kotsen, JDA’s Senior Vice President of Professional Services. His team solves some of the most complex supply chain challenges for some of the biggest companies in the world, making sure they get the most value out of their JDA software investments. His interest in solving tough business challenges – and learning about a variety of different industries, geographies and cultures – is what turned Duane’s first consulting job into a lifelong career. He joined JDA from Deltek, where he was SVP of Global Consulting Services, developing a tiered implementation methodology that significantly improved margins and customer outcomes. Prior to that, Duane spent four years as JDA’s SVP of America Services and SVP of Global Consulting Services, where in both roles he integrated sales and delivery models across the services teams, improving customer satisfaction and outcomes. He was SVP of Global Services at QAD and PeopleSoft and also held positions at Extraprise Group and Oracle. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and information sciences from Leigh University and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. If not successfully designing, launching and implementing software for JDA customers, Duane would be on the road as a professional athlete or an outdoor adventurist. In his downtime, he can often be found cheering on his four kids at their various activities.
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About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is a digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment platform.
Desikan Madhavanur
Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer of Blue Yonder
As JDA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Desikan Madhavanur leads a team of engineers and product managers passionate about leveraging new innovative technologies to create an optimal customer experience. His team is investing in and developing JDA’s current market-leading planning, execution and retail solutions to harness the collective power of cloud, IoT, analytics and big data to bring new solutions to market that deliver real-time, actionable insights and customer value. Desikan honed his experience in modern application delivery, deployment, management, user adoption and profitable monetization at CA Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President and Business Center head for Data Center Orchestration. Prior to CA, Desikan served as GVP of Engineering, Emerging Technologies and GM of Products & Strategy at E2Open. He has also held leadership positions at JP Morgan and i2 Technologies, where he spent four years as the lead product manager for collaborative supply and demand planning solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Annamalai University in India, a master’s degree in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Texas. If not designing products that will accelerate JDA’s vision of the Autonomous Supply Chain™, he would be an adventure tour guide, providing unique travel experiences such as balloon rides over Patagonia, hiking the Inca trail in Peru, or tracking tigers while riding elephants in India. In his downtime, he can often be found taking his kids from one activity to another and catching up on his reading.
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About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is a digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment platform.
Myles Kleeger
President & Chief Customer Officer of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Will Crocker
Vice President, Customer & Partner Marketing of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Kyle Butts
Head Of Strategic Relations and Vice President of Sales of CINC
Kyle (“KB”) joined CINC in 2014 and is responsible for sustaining and evolving key relationships within the CINC community and other strategic partnership opportunities. KB began his career in radio as an Account Executive and on air personality, and later became Manager of West Coast Sales at Turner Broadcasting. A native of Los Angeles, KB is a die-hard Lakers, Raiders, and Dodgers fan; with love for the Braves and Atlanta United. KB is a graduate of Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing and holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing.
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About CINC: CINC provides an integrated buyer lead generation and management solution for top-producing real estate brokers and agents.
Steve Murnin
Head Of Client Services and Senior Vice President of CINC
Steve is responsible for the client experience at CINC. This includes onboarding, training, MasterMinds, CINC Summit, and the daily experience of each CINC family member. Steve’s background includes changing the culture of a Fortune 300 real estate related organization with over 2,200 sales executives by identifying, creating, developing, and implementing “value ad” sales solutions. Steve has 40 years of experience in real estate and over 25 years in technology sales and service. Steve and his wife Lori have been married for forty years. The have three wonderful daughters and six amazing grandchildren.
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About CINC: CINC provides an integrated buyer lead generation and management solution for top-producing real estate brokers and agents.
Ed Chuang
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Vance Loiselle
President & CEO of Boston Logic
President & CEO at Propertybase.
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About Boston Logic, Boston Logic, Propertybase: Boston Logic offers an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents.
Vahe Kuzoyan
President & Co-Founder of ServiceTitan
As co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Vahe is the principal domain expert and product visionary behind ServiceTitan’s innovations. Vahe’s father is a plumber, and Vahe built ServiceTitan as a “thank you” to his dad and fellow contractors. Vahe holds degrees in Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
John Laino
Vice President, Customer Success of ServiceTitan
John Laino is the VP of Customer Success Management at ServiceTitan in Glendale, CA. With over 20 years of technology and relationship management expertise, he specializes in optimizing customer experience and fostering long-term relationships. Most recently, John led the Enterprise Account Management team at ZipRecruiter. He took on that role after being part of the leadership team at Velocify in El Segundo, a vertical SaaS company that was successfully acquired in October 2017. During his 3 years at Velocify, John drove the evolution of the Account Management & Customer Success organization that resulted in higher customer adoption of the solution, reduction in churn, and greater productivity for the team. Prior to ZipRecruiter and Velocify, John held various roles in Sales Operations, Services, and Account Management at NetApp, Cisco Systems, XM Sirius Satellite Radio, and Accenture. He has a degree in Economics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Originally an East Coaster, John moved to Northern California in 2002 and landed in Los Angeles in 2014. In his spare time, John likes to go for a run along the beach, jump on his bike for a ride, or take on another home renovation project that usually goes over budget.
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
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.
Rajaram Kudli
Vice President of Analytic Engineering of Valgen
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About Valgen: Valgen provides analytic consulting services, data and SaaS applications to serve the commercial fleet market.
Parth Srinivasa
President of Valgen
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About Valgen: Valgen provides analytic consulting services, data and SaaS applications to serve the commercial fleet market.
Michael Lightfoot
Vice President of Operations & General Counsel of Valgen
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About Internet Law Services, Valgen: Valgen provides analytic consulting services, data and SaaS applications to serve the commercial fleet market.
Dinesh Desai
President and CEO of Emtec
Dinesh Desai has been Emtec’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since August 2005. Prior to August 2005, Dinesh Desai was the Chairman and CEO of DARR Global Holdings, Inc., a management consulting firm. Prior to DARR, Dinesh Desai was President, CEO, Co-Chairman and an owner of Western Sky Industries, a privately-held manufacturer of proprietary component parts used primarily in aerospace applications. Western Sky grew from approximately $3 million in revenues to over $170 million prior to being sold to McKechnie in 1999. Before Western Sky, Dinesh Desai spent twelve years with American Can and Arco Chemical in various management positions. Dinesh Desai holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and a Masters of Science Degree in both chemical and industrial engineering from Montana State University. He earned a Masters in Business Administration from Temple University.
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About Emtec: Emtec is a global IT consultancy dedicated to helping organizations drive transformation and growth via innovative technology and processes.
Cynthia Mason
Senior Vice President of Global People of Postclick
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About Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Taylor Justice
Co-Founder & President of Unite Us
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About Unite Us: Unite Us provides a collaboration and coordination software, streamlining the delivery of health and social services.
Pehong Chen
President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of BroadVision
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About BroadVision: BroadVision has been a global leader in providing organizations with the rules, tools and infrastructure for doing business on the Web.
Earl C. Austin, Jr.
President & Chief Executive Officer of Quanta Services
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About Quanta Services: Quanta Services provides engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for comprehensive infrastructure needs.
Lauren Crampsie
Executive Partner, President of Ogilvy
Lauren Crampsie As Ogilvy & Mather’s chief brand champion, Lauren is responsible for the direction and reputation of one of the world’s most recognized brands and award-winning creative agencies. She is responsible for overall brand strategy, global communications, social media, and corporate responsibility and leads new business on behalf the agency. Lauren joined Ogilvy & Mather in 2004 as a new business coordinator which led her to become the agency’s youngest director of business development three years later. She was next appointed the agency’s first North American Chief Marketing Officer in 2010 and was elevated, two years later, to worldwide CMO. During her tenure at the agency, Lauren has been instrumental in adding a number of Fortune 500 brands to the agencies client roster. These brands include: Aetna, BlackRock, Citizens Bank, IKEA, InterContinental Hotels Group, NASCAR, Philips, Tiffany & Co., Time Warner Cable, Tiffany & Co. and UPS. As Worldwide CMO, Lauren has implemented a series of initiatives across the network. She focused on internal communications first, relaunching the company’s global intranet along with its most popular series, Miles’ Minute, showcasing the agency’s Global CEO, Miles Young. In 2013, Lauren introduced the official content hub of the agency, ogilvydo.com – the award-winning home for ideas, reporting, debate and analysis – born out of Ogilvy & Mather Asia. In tandem with the launch of ogilvydo.com, Lauren also developed the first-ever agency/publisher content partnership with Fast Company and penned the premier post. Under Lauren’s leadership and guidance, Ogilvy & Mather has been recognized by Advertising Age as an “Agency to Watch” (2011), the magazine’s 2014 “North America BtoB Agency of the Year” and “Stand Out Agency” (2012, 2013 and 2016). In addition, the advertising community has applauded Lauren’s professional accomplishments. Advertising Age listed her as a 2011 “Woman to Watch.” That same year, Adweek named her among the most influential Twitter voices. The DMNews Marketing Hall of Femme inducted her in 2013, and in 2015, Lauren was the only advertising industry representative to make Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40” list. Additionally, she was named to Adweek’s “The Young Influentials” 2015 list, an honor that is bestowed upon 25 people under the age of 40 who have made achievements beyond their years that redefine ambition and achievement and change the industry. She is an active and dedicated participant in the 4As, Advertising Women of New York, the Direct Marketing Association, the ANA, and the Paley Media Council. Lauren served as a delegate at the 2015 Media for Social Impact Summit held at the United Nations. Additionally, she was appointed to the MAKERS board, an Emmy-winning TV and digital video initiative, that harnesses the power of storytelling to capture and preserve the remarkable achievements of women of yesterday and today to inspire the MAKERS of tomorrow. Lauren’s work to globally transform the agency into a modern and high-quality marketer led to her appointment to Ogilvy’s Worldwide Board in 2016. Lauren lives in New York City with her husband, Jason, son, Drake, and dog, Charlie.
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About Ogilvy: Global brand Strategy, Advertising, Customer Engagement and Commerce, PR and Influence, Digital Transformation, and Partnerships.
Joe Essenfeld
Vice President Strategy of iCIMS
Joe Essenfeld is the Founder and CEO of Jibe. Prior to starting Jibe, Joe was COO of Insomnia Cookies, where he was responsible for hiring hundreds of employees. It was his experiences with those hires that led him to start Jibe. Beyond Joe’s hands-on hiring experience, his relationships with senior recruitment executives at the Fortune 1000 have shaped the recruiting solutions Jibe has built. Joe received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and currently resides in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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About iCIMS: iCIMS is a talent cloud company that helps organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent.
Michael Wilczak
Senior Vice President of iCIMS
Mike is a global business executive who has spent 20 years building great companies in the SaaS, Cloud and IT infrastructure segments of the technology sector. As head of Strategy and Corporate Development at iCIMS, he is responsible for growing the business through mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and strategic alliances, and preparation for future financial events.
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About iCIMS: iCIMS is a talent cloud company that helps organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Dennis W Shuler
Founder, President of Core Strengths Management Consulting LLC
Dennis W Shuler is the Executive Advisory Board Member at Springbuk.
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About Bain Capital, Core Strengths Management Consulting LLC, Kinetic Consulting: Consulting Practice
Fred Shilmover
President & Founder of InsightSquared
Prior to InsightSquared Fred headed global IT and was an associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. His background includes an SMB consultancy he founded as well as corporate development at Salesforce.com.Fred has a B.A. from Tufts and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his off time Fred is an avid wakeboarder.
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About InsightSquared: InsightSquared is a revenue intelligence platform that provides sales intelligence solutions for forecasting, accuracy, and decision-making.
Jason Noble
Vice President – Digital Innovation Group of Neudesic
As Vice President of the Digital Innovation Group, Jason drives the daily innovation pipeline that fuels Neudesic’s client solutions and successes. He owns a team of technology experts, dedicated to digital enterprise transformation through trending technologies including collaboration, integration, cloud, data and analytics. Jason has spent over twenty years helping medium-sized businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises build and manage complex, mission critical digital platforms that advance collaboration through knowledge and management applications. In addition to his Vice President role, Jason also leads product development for Neudesic’s Firm Directory and Pulse products.
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About ikaun, Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Brett Fisher
Vice President, Client Partner Organization – Western Region of Neudesic
Brett Fisher is Neudesic’s Vice President, Client Partner Organization – Western Region. His organization is responsible for ensuring that Neudesic’s clients obtain the greatest amount of business value for their technology investment. He has 25 years of software consulting experience and has held various roles throughout his career. Before Neudesic, Brett held the position of Vice President of Sales with Stonebridge and held various roles with Software Architects, including Managing Director, Houston and Director of Regional Sales. Brett has a proven track record of delivery, financial, sales and partnership excellence.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Brendon Birdoes
Vice President, Digital Innovation Group of Neudesic
Technology professional with over 15 years experience, helping clients with technology strategy, architecture and implementation of technology solutions. His passion is utilizing existing and emerging technologies especially in Cloud and Mobility, along with proven delivery practices to achieve Digital Transformation. Brendon is currently a Vice President of the Solution Partner Group at Neudesic shaping technology vision & strategy focusing on innovative solutions for their clients.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Shantanu Sarkar
Vice President, Solutions and Innovation of Neudesic
Shantanu is responsible for Neudesic’s innovation consulting capability, focused on helping customers develop strategies for deriving business value through innovative use of technology. He is also responsible for Neudesic’s line-of-business solutions and offerings in analytics, visualization, and social collaboration, based on Microsoft technology and SAP ERP. Prior to joining the Neudesic team, Shantanu spent more than twenty years at Microsoft in individual technical contributor and business management roles. Most recently, he was Microsoft U.S. Consulting Services CTO for the Business Productivity solution areas based on Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and Project Server, in the cloud on Office 365, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment. Shantanu has extensive experience designing and implementing a variety of business automation solutions in diverse industries, including healthcare, real estate, financial services and retail. He began his IT career at Burroughs/Unisys as a software engineer in mainframe operating systems and high volume transaction processing. Shantanu holds a Master of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He currently resides in Irvine, Calif.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Julie Drimel
Vice President, Global Business Development + Sales Productivity of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Brett Gilliland
Vice President of Keap
Brett Gilliland is Vice President at Infusionsoft, a complete sales and marketing automation software for small businesses combining CRM, email marketing, lead capture and e-commerce.
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About Elite Entrepreneurs, Keap: Keap helps small businesses get organized to deliver services and close more business.
Diya Obeid
Founder, CEO & President of JobDiva
As the Chief Executive Officer of JobDiva, Mr. Diya Obeid is responsible for setting the business and technology strategy of the company. With over 30 years of experience in IT consulting services, he has been an iconoclastic force in the recruitment industry. His longstanding commitment to technology and process improvement is evident by several pending patent applications for technologies related to search and the recruitment process. Mr. Obeid is also the founder of Axelon Services Corporation, a national Information Technology staffing and consulting organization established in 1977. The company is a preferred supplier to the largest and most successful companies in telecommunications, banking, brokerage, pharmaceutical and utility among others. Axelon has been recognized as the most favored supplier due to its customer service, quality, rapid delivery, and competitive pricing. Axelon’s success is directly related to its creation of innovative recruitment processes and technologies, embodied by JobDiva.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Peter Cronin
Senior Vice President of JobDiva
Peter Cronin is JobDiva’s Vice President of Sales and has been with this company for more than 3 years. Peter has had 20+ years Business Development and Management for Start – Up, Mid-Sized and Multinational Accounts with Medical products and Medical IT. He has helped introduce Medical/Surgical technology and Medical IT systems for Fortune 500 Companies to major Healthcare institutions in the US. His background combines Traditional and Alternative Medicine and Medical methodologies. Peter’s experience with business building has included Planning, Infrastructure, Build Out and Business Development. Peter’s responsibilities include managing current clients while always looking out for their best interest, along with generating new business for JobDiva. Peter has a B.A. from St. Louis University and likes to ski, sail , fish and read in spare time.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Jennifer Santiago
Vice President, Sales of JobDiva
Jennifer Santiago joined JobDiva in 2014 to assume the role of Vice President, Sales, drawing on her extensive experience in sales and customer relationship management. An expert in software technology and SaaS solutions for the staffing industry, Ms. Santiago is responsible for promoting JobDiva’s award-winning Talent Acquisition and Management solution. Based in New York City, Ms. Santiago’s primary responsibility is providing practical advice and comprehensive technical guidance in the selection, use, and application of staffing software technologies.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Gene Liu
Senior Vice President of JobDiva
Gene Liu is JobDiva’s Vice President of Technology and has been instrumental in the building and growth of the system’s infrastructure since inception. Prior to joining JobDiva in 2001, Gene was a Project Leader for Algomod Technologies Corporation, JobDiva’s sister company, for over 23 years working with Citibank. At Citibank, he was responsible for the development and implementation of systems for trade services. The well-developed systems processed up to thirty percent of the total US exports. He managed large teams of developers, analysts, and various professionals in different phases of the project development life cycle. Since 1979, he worked closely with Mr. Obeid in delivering some of the most advanced innovations in the application of information technology to business processes. Moreover, managing early in his career, Gene was a programmer for C&W Incotel, Citibank, Routers and Computer Horizons. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Computer Science from Hunter College, City University of New York.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Jack Shein
Senior Vice President of JobDiva
As Senior Vice President, Jack Shein is responsible for generating new business development opportunities for JobDiva. Throughout his career, he has held various executive-level positions in staffing and human resources at The Equitable Life Assurance Society, Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and Instinet. His post-graduate work is in Human Resources at Long Island University, New York — Master’s Degree. He currently serves on the Board of Directors as Senior Adviser for the Human Resource Association of New York. Jack has held many positions with HRNY including Vice President of Technology & Communications for HRNY and has served as a member of National Human Resource Technology Management Panel for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Past Chair of the HR/NY Certification Committee.. Jack has been an Adjunct Professor for Human Resources Certificate Program at Wagner College’s teaching Workforce Planning and Employee/Labor Relations.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Edward Berkowitz
Senior Vice President, Sales of JobDiva
Ed Berkowitz is a highly accomplished and dynamic professional with 25+ years of sales achievements in various market segments. Ed’s goals and responsibilities at JobDiva are maintaining excellent service for his clients and working with potential clients to show them how JobDiva will allow them to achieve their ultimate goals in the staffing industry. Ed carries an extensive knowledge of sales processes, demonstrating business management and team management skills repeatedly throughout his career. Ed is known for his history of generating new business through tactical negotiation and growing new relationships with key decision makers, while identifying the client’s relevant and strategic business issues and recommending appropriate action.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Charles Rouhan
Senior Vice President of JobDiva
Charles Rouhana is JobDiva’s Technology and Deployment Leader. He has played a major role in designing, developing, and enhancing many features of the solution such as harvesting, VMS interfacing, resume parsing and processing. Charles leads the JobDiva development team. Charles also manages deployment and the mapping of client processes to JobDiva’s functionality. Prior to joining JobDiva in 2002, Charles worked at the DISCOVER Lab of Cornell University where he participated in research and development of video conferencing on mobile networks. He also participated in early research and development of Internet access over Bluetooth. Charles also worked at Ericsson and helped implement the first trials for mobile Internet access. His project was presented in multiple IT exhibitions with great success. Charles holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Craig Wright
Vice President, North America Sales of SugarCRM
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Peter Kennedy
Founder & President of Tagger Media
Peter Kennedy is the Founder and President at Tagger.
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About Tagger Media: Tagger Media is an influencer marketing management platform helping brands through the planning, activation, and reporting phases.
Matt Fischer
President and CTO of Bullhorn
Matt Fischer is the president and CTO at Bullhorn. Since joining Bullhorn in 2004, Matt has held a variety of strategic leadership positions managing the growth of various technical and services teams, including Vice President of Professional Services. Prior to Bullhorn, Matt worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers specializing in systems process assurance for such companies as Fidelity and State Street Global Advisors. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Boston University’s School of Management
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About Bullhorn: Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in business services industries.
Jeremy Dillingham
Vice President, Product Management of Apto
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About Apto: Apto is a web-based broker software for managing contacts, properties, listings, and deals.
Jeff Finn
President & CEO of RealNex
As President & CEO of RealNex, Jeff brings a wealth of CRE knowledge garnered during his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer of NAI Global. During his tenure, Jeff’s branding, technology and globalization strategies led to NAI Global’s expansion into 55 countries. This extensive experience in marketing, business development, management and strategic planning have helped position RealNex as a leader in the commercial real estate technology solutions space. Jeff is a cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Management. He was a founding and advisory board member of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Real Estate Center, two-time recipient of RealComm’s Digie Award, and is a trustee of Peddie School.
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About Pavonis Group, RealNex, Renaissance Global: RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company focused on providing data management, and analytic.
Demetrios Louziotis
President & COO of RealNex
Demetrios brings 30 years of real estate and finance experience to his role of COO of RealNex. His many talents include asset management, business development, corporate real estate, education, lending, property management, research, risk management, strategy, structuring, technology, underwriting and valuation. Demetrios was the Senior Vice President of Global Real Estate Solutions Group at ARGUS software, where he successfully lead the initiative that resulted in the first corporate instance of integration between market data and analytical solutions for commercial real estate. Demetrios holds a M.S. in real estate from Penn State University. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the real estate master’s program at NYU, where he taught international real estate for ten years.
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About Pavonis Capital Partners, Pavonis Group, Pix-virtual, RealNex: RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company focused on providing data management, and analytic.
Matthew Smith
Vice President of RealNex
An industry leader in commercial real estate technology solutions, Matthew Smith is VP of National Business Development at RealNex. Matt specializes in building relationships with potential and existing customers and educating commercial real estate brokers on how to use the RealNex Suite to win to more effectively win business. Prior to his role at RealNex, Matt was operations and sales director for Real Estate Assistant (REA). He helped grow the REA brand to worldwide status. He is also a published author and recognized leader is social media marketing.
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About RealNex: RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company focused on providing data management, and analytic.
Jeff Yanagi
Sr. Vice President of Human Resources of Pegasystems
Jeff Yanagi is Pegasystems’ Vice President of Human Capital, responsible for all Human Resources functions of the organization, including employment, compensation and benefits, training and development, organizational development and employee relations. Jeff has more than 20 years of direct experience in Human Resources leading teams and managing operational functions for high tech companies such as Wang Laboratories, Lotus Development and CMGI Inc. Immediately prior to joining Pegasystems, Jeff served as Vice President of Administration and Finance for Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., where his responsibilities included oversight of Human Resources, Fiscal Affairs, Legal and other departments. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Rutgers University.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Max Mayer
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Pegasystems
Max Mayer is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Pegasystems, responsible for driving the company’s integrated strategy and development process. Max brings more than two decades of experience in successful executive management to Pegasystems, most recently as the head of The Mayer Group, which served as management consultants to more than a dozen technology companies. Max holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Boston University. He has also completed executive education at Insead in Fountainbleau, France.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Dan Nash
Vice President, Corporate Strategy of Pegasystems
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Kerim Akgonul
Senior Vice President of Products of Pegasystems
Kerim Akgonul is Senior Vice President of Products, responsible for the company’s suite of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, including Pega Customer Service, Pega Marketing and Pega Sales Automation, as well as our Case Management, Decisioning, Mobile, and BPM software. Kerim began his career at Pega developing applications for customers in financial services and insurance, and he put his customer-centric perspective to work in establishing the company’s product management function. Early in the company’s history, Kerim recognized the power of connecting back-end operations to front-end, customer-facing applications and has focused the product management team on applications that allow business visionaries to innovate how their organizations interact with customers. Kerim is focused on leveraging technologies such as mobile, cloud, social, IOT and analytics to support business users. He is an advocate for building software that makes the underlying technology transparent and serves the needs of the business. This focus on business impact has contributed significantly to the company being recognized as leaders in CRM, Case Management and BPM. In addition to leading the Product Management function, Kerim also established the company’s eLearning Platform, PegaAcademy.com, which provides the courses and training necessary to become a Pega Certified Professional. To date, Pega Academy has delivered more than 1.5 million lessons to more than 36,000 students around the world. Kerim holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
