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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 Enterprise Software 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.
Scott Belsky
Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud of Adobe
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance’s acquisition, Scott served as Adobe’s Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe’s mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages. Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively). Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company’s list of “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Shantanu Narayen
President and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe
Shantanu Narayen currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Adobe. He joined Adobe in January 1998 as Vice President and General Manager of our engineering technology group. In January 1999, he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Worldwide Products, and in March 2001 he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing and Development. In January 2005, Narayen was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer, and effective December 2007, he was appointed our Chief Executive Officer and joined our Board of Directors. Narayen serves on the board of directors of Pfizer Inc., a multinational pharmaceutical corporation. He previously served as a director of Dell Inc. from September 2009 to October 2013. Narayen holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Osmania University in India, a M.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
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Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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Amit Ahuja
Vice President of Ecosystem Development of Adobe
Amit Ahuja is the Vice President of Ecosystem Development at Adobe where he is responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships and initiatives. Prior to this role, Amit was the Head of Emerging businesses and the GM of Adobe’s DMP business. Amit also spent 7 years in Adobe’s Corporate Development Group where he executed numerous transactions including acquisitions of Omniture, Scene7, Efficient Frontier, Demdex and Auditude. Amit joined Adobe via the acquisition of Macromedia where he was in the Corporate Development Group focusing on mobile and video. Amit began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a technology investment banker and also spent several years at a technology start up. Amit has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
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Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Stefano Corazza
Fellow & Vice President of Adobe
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe’s Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo’s advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutions that support Mixamo. Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy. A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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Rob Giglio
Senior Vice President and GTM & Sales – Digital Media of Adobe
As senior vice president of Adobe’s Digital Media (DMe) Go-to-Market & Sales organization, Rob Giglio is responsible for more than $5billion in global annual sales (FY18) of Adobe’s Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products and solutions to consumers and non-enterprise businesses. Key to the organization’s success is Rob’s efforts to improve customer purchasing and renewal experience, drive customer retention, reduce software piracy, and identify new market opportunities for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products. By focusing on all routes to market, including online sales via Adobe.com, direct phone and chat sales, as well as channel partner, retail and education offerings, Rob has transformed Adobe’s go-to-market efforts into a data-driven, growing revenue stream for the company. Before joining Adobe in 2009, Robserved aschief marketing officerat Art.com, where he owned all revenue-generation, growing the company to more than$200million in annual sales. He built a multi-functional team to deliver sales and earnings growth, improve margins, and expand productofferings and market penetrationfor the multi-channel/multi-brand business overall. Prior to that, Rob spent threeyears with Gap, Inc. as vice president & general manager for Old Navy Canada, leading a turnaround initiative to restore revenue and profit within the 65-store Old Navy Canada business. He led a team of 75 to deliver more than$300 million in revenue and increase website traffic by 25%. Rob also held senior-level positions in marketing and e-commerce at Williams-Sonoma,where he created the brand marketing organization to drive customer acquisition and loyalty and launchedthe $130M PotteryBarn.com business in 2000. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.
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Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adobe
Mike is anything but your typical general counsel. His distaste for acronym use and “legalese” drove him to rewrite Adobe’s contracts to plain English and develop a whole new writing style guide for the legal community. He oversees legal affairs, public policy, and compliance interests by day, but outside the office, he’s an avid blogger, writer, and adventurist. Given his love for writing, it may come as no surprise that Mike received bachelor’s degrees in communications and sociology from UC San Diego before getting his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University.
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Deepak Bharadwaj
Vice President of Product Management, Document Cloud of Adobe
Deepak Bharadwaj is the vice president and general manager of ServiceNow, where he is responsible for incubating, creating, and scaling new companies within the Employee Workflows product portfolio. He recently managed the company’s entry into the HR technology market, where he established a $200 million+ subscription revenue business in four years. Deepak was previously the VP of Product Management for Oracle’s Talent Acquisition and Talent Management products. He has also held roles of leadership in pre-sales and corporate development at Taleo, corporate strategy at SAP, and engineering at i2. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from India’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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Cynthia Stoddard
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, of Adobe
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Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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Karl Rumelhart
Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering of Gainsight
Karl will lead Gainsight’s expanded product vision and execution for a comprehensive customer success platform that help customers take action. Karl has held senior product and marketing roles as an early employee at VMware, leading product management for VirtualCenter, driving the acquisition of SpringSource, and leading the vFabric business unit. Karl has also run product teams at enterprise social pioneer, Jive, and predictive analytics pioneer Infer. Prior to his software career, Karl was an academic mathematician, lecturing at Stanford University after receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Brad Smith
President of Microsoft
Brad Smith is Microsoft’s President. He leads the company’s Department of Corporate, External and Legal and Affairs, which is responsible for all legal work and for government, industry and community affairs activities. Smith has played a leading role at Microsoft on intellectual property, competition law, and other Internet legal and public policy issues. He is also the company’s chief compliance officer. Since becoming general counsel in 2002, he has overseen numerous negotiations with governments and other companies, including Microsoft’s 2002 antitrust settlement with state attorneys general, its 2002 data privacy negotiations with the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission, and agreements to address antitrust or IP issues with Time Warner, Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks, IBM and Novell. Smith is responsible for Microsoft’s intellectual property work, including all of its IP portfolio, licensing and public policy activities. He has helped spearhead the growth in the company’s patent portfolio and the launch of global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in software piracy and counterfeiting and against viruses, spyware and other threats to Internet safety. He is also responsible for the expansion of Microsoft citizenship and philanthropic activities, work to revise its contracts to make them more customer-friendly, and the strengthening of legal compliance programs, issuing Standards of Business Conduct for all Microsoft employees and creating an Office of Legal Compliance. Smith previously worked for five years as Deputy General Counsel for Worldwide Sales, and before that, he spent three years managing the company’s European Law and Corporate Affairs group, based in Paris. Before joining Microsoft, he was a partner at Covington & Burling, having worked in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and London offices and represented a number of companies in the computing industry. Smith graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues, and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.
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Deb Cupp
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Commercial Industries of Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As Corporate Vice President of the Enterprise and Commercial Industries team, Deb’s vision is for Microsoft to be the Digital Transformation leader and partner of choice for our customers. With every industry being transformed by digital technology, Deb leads a team dedicated to bringing industry insights and expertise to every customer engagement. Deb joined Microsoft in 2017 from SAP, where she was most recently the Senior Vice President (SVP) and Managing Director of SuccessFactors for North America. Deb was responsible for leading the HR business by driving sales and the go-to-market strategy and for overseeing operations for the field sales organization. Prior to joining SAP in 2011, Deb served as Vice President of Sales for Standard Register’s healthcare business, leading a national organization of sales professionals in 10 regional markets. With ultimate responsibility for the division, she worked directly with her sales teams to drive acquisition, retention, and expansion efforts in the highly competitive healthcare arena, an achievement that would cap off her 17-year tenure with the company. A collaborative and authentic leader, Deb’s focus on re-engineering and optimizing processes has enhanced productivity and driven results for the businesses under her leadership. Deb is highly focused on customer success and people development and takes a particular interest in mentoring women in business. Deb holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with concentrations in marketing and finance from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, where she was a Division One field hockey and lacrosse scholarship athlete. In addition, she holds an MBA from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deb lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband Sam and their dog Penny. In her free time, she enjoys being active including hiking, biking, yoga, and Orangetheory Fitness.
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Bret Arsenault
Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President of Microsoft
As VP and CISO at Microsoft, Bret Arsenault is responsible for information security and risk management; setting the company’s security incidence response strategy. He leads a global team of security professionals focused on protecting the company’s assets through programs that span education and awareness, governance, identity and access management, enterprise business continuity management, and security assessments. He chairs Microsoft’s Information Risk Management Council, which brings together teams from across the company focused on protecting data, and hosts Microsoft’s Security Council – an enterprise customer forum that drives product direction and operational best practices. He holds advisory board roles in the public and private sectors and is a founding member of the Executive Security Action Forum and Security 50.
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Julia Liuson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Julia Liuson is Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, overseeing software development for Visual Studio and .NET framework, including CLR, .NET x-plat effort, all programming languages, user interface, mobile and cloud development tools. Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, and has held a variety of technical and management positions while at Microsoft. She was General Manager of Visual Studio Business Applications where she was responsible for enabling developers to easily build applications on Microsoft client, server and service platforms. Liuson has also served as General Manager for Server and Tools business from MS Shanghai office in China for two years while running engineering teams on both sides of the Pacific. Previously, Liuson has served as development manager, and later as Partner Product Unit Manager for Visual Basic. She was also a core member of the leadership team that led the successful development and launch of Visual Studio Team System in 2005.
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Rajesh Jha
Executive Vice President, Experiences and Devices of Microsoft
As executive vice president of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group, Rajesh Jha leads the team that includes Devices, Windows client, New Experiences and Technology, Enterprise Mobility and Management, and Office Product Group
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Brendan Burns
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Lori Wright
Vice President, Gaming / Xbox Business Development of Microsoft
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Jared Spataro
Corporate Vice President, Office and Windows of Microsoft
Spataro is responsible for the Windows Commercial business; the Office SMB business; Office apps product marketing, and Microsoft 365 digital marketing. He also manages several cross-company initiatives, including Modern Desktop (focused on driving upgrades to Windows 10 and Office 365) and Modern Productivity (aimed at creating new productivity scenarios that span devices, operating systems, apps, and cloud services).
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Kareem Choudhry
Corporate Vice President, Gaming Cloud of Microsoft
Kareem currently works as Microsoft’s corporate VP of gaming.
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Chris Weber
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Chris Weber is a corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business. He leads the Small, Medium, and Corporate business segment and plays a key role in driving growth and new customer acquisition across four solution areas – Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Apps & Infrastructure, and Data & AI. Chris’s group drives global strategy and digital sales for corporate accounts, and small to medium-sized businesses, along with Software Asset Management. Chris previously worked for Nokia as a senior vice president, Markets, to lead the company’s re-entry into the North American market. In July 2012, he was named to the Nokia Leadership Team to lead sales and marketing globally. Prior to his tenure at Nokia, Chris held executive positions in sales, marketing and professional services at Microsoft for 15 years.
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Thomas Keane
Corporate Vice-President of Azure Global of Microsoft
As Corporate Vice President of Azure Global, Keane leads a worldwide engineering team dedicated to building Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform to enable adoption by every country, every industry, and every customer in the world. His organization is responsible for Azure’s Global Infrastructure, including designing and launching future Azure data center regions, expanding global coverage and Microsoft’s hub, hero, service ring and availability zone infrastructure spanning over 1GW of capacity in 200 datacenters in 54 regions and 19 countries. Keane is responsible for Azure’s Cyber Sovereignty engineering, including privacy, compliance, data residency and security and works frequently with global governments and regulators enabling Azure to be the industry leader in this critical area.
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Shilpa Ranganathan
Corporate Vice President, Mobile & Cross device Experiences of Microsoft
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Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
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Judson Althoff
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
As president of Microsoft North America, Althoff is responsible for Microsoft’s commercial and public sector customers and partners, and the consumer business in retail and through operator channels across the United States and Canada. Althoff leads strategic planning, business operations and key growth initiatives across the region. As a senior leader, he brings solid experience developing and leading successful direct and indirect businesses globally. Recognized for building organizations with a culture of excellence in execution his strengths include building relationships, communicating, innovating, and motivating organizations to produce results. Althoff joined Microsoft in March 2013. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales for Oracle. Before joining Oracle, Althoff was an Area Business Development Manager and District Sales Manager for EMC Corporation. Althoff was named a Top Channel Leader or Executive by CRN magazine 2008-2012 and was named Channel Chief 2009-2012. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Priya Vijayarajendran
Vice President Data & AI of Microsoft
Priya Vijayarajendran is the CTO, Vice President for Applied AI at IBM Services. She is responsible for creating consumable AI solutions for enterprises. She is chartered to build and foster an engineering driven culture, creating end-to-end AI solutions from concept to consumption, by partnering with our clients, enabling and augmenting with IBM talent. Priya thrives being an Intrapreneur, building high performing scalable teams to achieve strategic deliverables, pioneering innovation with sound technology focus. She believes in humanizing enterprise software, with AI as a key enabler. She works with business executives on transforming, reimaging and creating highly viable business solutions.
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Jeff Teper
Corporate Vice President – Microsoft 365 Collaboration of Microsoft
Jeff joined Microsoft in 1992 to lead corporate developer evangelism for Windows NT. He then served as a Group Program Manager in Microsoft’s Internet Business Unit. In 1998, he led the creation of SharePoint Portal Server, which became one of Microsoft’s fastest growing businesses, exceeding $3 billion in revenues. Jeff next served as Corporate Vice President for Program Management across Office 365 Services and Servers, which is the foundation of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud leadership. He then led Corporate Strategy supporting Satya Nadella and Amy Hood on Microsoft’s mobile-first/cloud-first transformation and acquisitions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeff was vice president for software development for an investment firm in New York. He leads Office shared experiences and core applications, as well as OneDrive and SharePoint consumer and business services in Office 365. Jeff holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems and finance from New York University.
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Jordi Ribas
Corporate Vice President, Bing Program Management, Microsoft of Microsoft
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Rish Tandon
Corporate Vice President, Teams Engineering of Microsoft
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Ann Johnson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Ann Johnson leads the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group in their mission is to accelerate customers’ digital transformation with trusted solutions and expertise to build the secure modern enterprise. Before joining Microsoft, Ann was CEO at Boundless, an open source geospatial software and services provider. Prior to Boundless, Ann was with Qualys, Inc., as president and chief operating officer, a provider of cloud security and compliance solutions that enable organizations to identify security risks to their information technology infrastructures, help protect their information technology systems and applications from cyber-attacks and achieve compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Prior to Qualys, Ann was vice president of World Wide Sales/IPV and Global Accounts at RSA Security LLC, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation which provides solutions to protect customer online identities and digital assets. Ann is a recognized cybersecurity industry leader with a proven track record for building and leading high-performing global enterprise software operations. Ann has a background in cybersecurity, infrastructure and storage and is a frequent speaker on topics of online banking fraud, information security, healthcare security, mobile security, privacy and compliance. Ann is a graduate of Weber State University in Utah where she completed a dual major in political science and communications. Ann is passionate about horseback riding, skiing and any water-related activity as well as cooking and organic gardening. She lives with her husband, son, and three rescue dogs in the Puget Sound area.
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Tom Burt
Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust of Microsoft
Burt leads the company’s Customer Security and Trust (CST) team. This cross disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, policy advocates, project managers, business professionals, data analysts and cybercrime investigators drives continuous improvement of customer security in our products and online services. Working with engineering and security teams across the company, CST is responsible for ensuring our products and online services comply with our internal security engineering policies and oversees programs to provide security transparency to global governments. Burt’s team is formulating and advocating cybersecurity policy globally, advancing the Digital Geneva Convention, the Tech Accord, and the Defending Democracy Project, is collaborating with public and private organizations to disrupt cyberattacks and support deterrence efforts. Engineering compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, global readiness of our products and services, responding to law enforcement requests for access while protecting customer privacy and adherence to trade sanctions globally are also key focus areas for the team as it seeks to advance its core mission of ensuring customers can rely on and trust all Microsoft products and online services. Burt joined Microsoft in 1995 and has held several leadership roles in the Corporate External and Legal Affairs Department. He led the company’s Litigation Group from 1996 to 2007, and most recently led the Digital Trust team.
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Rohan Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Data of Microsoft
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Mark Stanley
Vice President, Gaming Platform Growth of Microsoft
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Tad Brockway
Corporate Vice President for Azure Storage, Media, and Edge of Microsoft
Tad is a 20-year veteran of Microsoft and has been in leadership roles on the Microsoft Azure team since 2011. Currently, his team is responsible for Azure Storage, which is the durability layer for the Azure cloud, including: Object Storage, Files, Disks, etc. His team is also responsible for Azure Media Services and Azure’s overall strategy in the Media & Entertainment industry. In addition, his team owns Azure Intelligent Edge products like: Azure Stack and Data Box. Tad has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Mitra Azizirad
Corporate Vice President and Microsoft AI of Microsoft
Mitra Azizirad is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft AI where she is responsible for defining and accelerating the productisation of Microsoft’s portfolio of AI innovation, and shaping and driving the perception of Microsoft AI. Mitra leads Microsoft’s vision to democratise access to AI, empowering developers to innovate, industries to transform, and ultimately empowering every individual to transform society with AI. A 27-year veteran of Microsoft, Mitra has held key leadership positions at Microsoft across a wide array of technical, marketing and sales functions, both in the field and corporate. Prior to Microsoft, she held technical leadership positions at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD/NASDAQ), and International Telecommunications and Satellite Organisation (Intelsat).
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Stephen Harris
Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Data Science & Growth Analytics (Cloud + AI) of Microsoft
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Gregory Moore
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Health of Microsoft
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Lisa Maki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next of Microsoft
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next at Microsoft.
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Rik van der Kooi
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Advertising of Microsoft
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Joe Whittinghill
Corporate Vice President, Talent, Learning, and Insights of Microsoft
Joe Whittinghill is the corporate vice president of talent, learning, and insights at Microsoft.
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Nick Parker
Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions of Microsoft
Nick Parker serves as a Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft.
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Aleš Holeček
Corporate Vice-President of Office Engineering of Microsoft
Aleš Holeček is a Corporate Vice President leading the Engineering team delivering the core applications and service that define the Modern Office Experience. Prior to Office Aleš was responsible for the Windows Developer Ecosystem and Platform team. He was responsible for design and architecture of the Universal Windows Platform and for the broader Windows Platform. Prior to that Mr. Holeček was a Distinguished Engineer and the Director of Development for the Windows Experience for Windows 7. He joined Microsoft in 2004.
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Alex Simons
Corporate Vice President Program Management of Microsoft
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Matt Barlow
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Joy Chik
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Joy’s teams are responsible for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graph, Information Protection, and Forefront Identity Management suites, which are delivered to customers as cloud services or on-premises products. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 as a software engineer contributing to Terminal Services in Windows 2000, she has steadily risen in the company as an established leader of some of the industry’s most impactful engineering teams. Joy was also recognized as one of Business Insider’s “39 Most Powerful Women Engineers of 2018″.
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Alysa Taylor
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Global Industry of Microsoft
Alysa Taylor is the Corporate Vice President responsible for Microsoft’s Business Applications and Global Industry Marketing. She leads the product marketing teams responsible for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (Power BI, Common Data Services, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow) as well as the global industry product marketing team.
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Kudo Tsunoda
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Megan Saunders
Vice President Connected Care of Microsoft
Megan Saunders is the Windows 3D Initiative General Manager for Microsoft.
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Fred Humphries
TitleCorporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs of Microsoft
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Gavriella Schuster
Corporate Vice President, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs of Microsoft
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Julie Brill
Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft
Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission on April 6, 2010. Since joining the Commission, Julie Brill has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech. Prior to becoming a Commissioner, Julie Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice. Commissioner Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s School of Law. Before serving as Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust in North Carolina, Commissioner Brill served as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years. Prior to coming to the Vermont Attorney General’s office, Commissioner Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. Commissioner Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.
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Andrew Shuman
Corporate Vice President – Products – Experiences and Devices Group of Microsoft
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Toni Townes-Whitley
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Richard Borenstein
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of MURAL
Richard Borenstein is the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and is responsible for accelerating MURAL’s revenue growth and market penetration, forming deep, integrated partnerships with enterprise brands, and leading a highly skilled sales team bringing visual collaboration to the enterprise collaboration toolkit. A SaaS veteran with a passion for recruiting and team building, Richard has built an extensive, worldwide executive network and has a proven track record of creating mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships. He recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), where he led the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Previously, he held sales management positions at RingCentral, Zong (acquired by PayPal), Baynote Inc., and Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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Sarah Franklin
President & CMO, Salesforce of Salesforce
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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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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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Amy Weaver
President & Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce
Amy Weaver is the President & Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce.
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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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Pascal Yammine
Senior Vice President & General Manager Salesforce CPQ + Billing of Salesforce
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Tyler Prince
Executive Vice President – Worldwide Alliances & Channels of Salesforce
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Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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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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Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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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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Theresa Ludvigson
Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection of Salesforce
Theresa Ludvigson is the Vice President, Onboarding & Employee Connection at Salesforce.
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Michael Maoz
Senior Vice President, Innovation Strategy of Salesforce
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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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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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AJ Kiefer
Vice President, Transformation Services International of Salesforce
AJ Kiefer is the Vice President, Transformation Services International at Salesforce
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Kylie Fuentes
Vice President, Product of Salesforce
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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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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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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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Robert Amezaga
Vice President Product Marketing of Salesforce
Robert Amezaga is the Vice President Product Marketing at Salesforce.
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Jashojit Roy
Vice President, Innovation Consulting, Office of Innovation of Salesforce
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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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Christian Posse
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering of Salesforce
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Peter Schwartz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning of Salesforce
Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
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Jeff Schick
Senior Vice President North America Cloud Sales of Oracle
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Jae Chung
Vice President of Oracle
Jae Chung is the Vice President at Oracle.
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Steve Miranda
Executive Vice President, Application Development of Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle’s applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
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Reggie Bradford
Senior Vice President, Product Development of Oracle
Founder and CEO Reggie Bradford brings nearly two decades of experience as an industry pioneer, having blazed a successful path for technology companies under his leadership. With funding from General Catalyst Partners and later from Comcast Interactive Capital and Turner Broadcasting-Bradford founded Vitrue in 2006 to help brands and consumers connect more meaningfully with each other through online social networking and user-generated video. The company currently boasts a growing roster of customers that represent some of the world’s leading media companies and consumer brands. Most recently, Vitrue was named to Business 2.0’s “Next Net” Top 25 for 2007. Bradford’s leadership experience spans 16 years in the consumer packaged goods, Internet and television industries. Prior to Vitrue, he was President and a member of the board at TANDBERG Television, an organization of more than 400 employees and over $100 million in revenues. In his 14-month tenure, he led the company to a 40% annual growth rate, successfully integrated two major acquisitions and led the global repositioning of the re-launched brand. Bradford also served as President and CEO of N2 Broadband, the leading provider of open-platform, on-demand entertainment solutions. During his tenure, N2 Broadband grew annual revenues from less than $1 million to more than $35 million in just under five years. The company, which achieved cash-flow profitability during the same period, boasts a customer roster that includes the world’s top 10 cable operators and the world’s leading entertainment companies Bradford was named one of Television Week’s “10 to Watch” for 2005. Prior to joining N2 Broadband, Bradford served as Chief Marketing Officer at WebMD from 1998 to 2000. During his tenure there, the company grew from 40 to 4,000 employees and received more than $2 billion in funding. While at WebMD, Reggie was instrumental in defining interactivity on the web as an early pioneer of social communities. WebMD later became one of the world’s leading Internet destinations with over 38 million unique visitors a month. He previously held various marketing and management positions with Miller Brewing Company, a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. Bradford received a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University. He and his wife Holly have six children.
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Douglas Kehring
Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations of Oracle
Douglas Kehring has served as the head of Oracle’s Corporate Development and Strategic Planning group since 2005, providing planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source code and object code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Mr. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined Oracle after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Mr. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
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Keith Stanback
Vice President of Oracle
Keith Stanback is the vice president of North America Systems Support Services for Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for over 1,100 hardware field service delivery employees and oversees Oracle’s Premier Support customer base. He has been in the computer industry for over 30 years and has over 26 years of management experience. Prior to joining Oracle, Stanback held senior leadership roles at Sun Microsystems, including senior director for the Western and Southern Areas in the United States. He managed Sun’s support services business for four different vertical markets. As a senior leader for Sun, Stanback established a reputation of driving revenue and shareholder value while improving Sun’s overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. In 2002, Stanback accepted a two year international assignment in Asia Pacific as the managing director of Sun Support Services for Australia and New Zealand. Under his leadership the support services business achieved very strong operational performance, record service revenues and record maintenance contract penetration rates. Prior to moving to Sydney, Stanback was director for Strategic Account Services in the United States, where he helped develop, market, and manage the newly enhanced service delivery model that was specifically designed for Sun’s top customers around the globe. Earlier in his career, Stanback held several key senior management roles at Wang Laboratories and Delta Data Systems. As a leader in the Federal Systems Divisions of both companies, he played a big role in winning and managing several multimillion dollar US Federal Government service contracts.
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Steve Seoane
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Oracle
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Paolo Juvara
Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Labs of Oracle
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Jason Williamson
Vice President – Startup Ecosystem of Oracle
Jason Williamson is the VP of the Startup Ecosystem at Oracle. He leads Oracle’s collaboration with the VC and PE communities and their portfolio companies around the globe. Prior to Oracle, Jason was at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created and led several key initiatives within the investment community including Amazon’s Private Equity Program and Management Consulting efforts. He has a background in both Fortune 500 firms (Amazon, Capital One, GE) and the startup world. Among his startup efforts, he co-founded the construction industry’s first CRM SaaS offering, a faith-based NGO for entrepreneurial development based in Latin America, and is currently launching a company in the pediatric healthcare space. In addition to his work in the commercial sector, Jason served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and now works part time in academia in home state of North Carolina. He has authored three books on Data Integration and Migration and Big Data. Jason also served his country as a United States Marine and lives in North Carolina with his wife and four children where he coaches High School Girls Basketball, drinks sweat tea and eats barbecue as much as possible.
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Sonny Singh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit of Oracle
EVP & GM, Oracle Financial Services at Oracle.
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Vinay Kumar
Senior Vice President, Cloud Engineering of Oracle
Vinay Kumar is Sr. Director Product Management at Oracle, responsible for Oracle Infrastructure product strategy. He leads product teams focused on compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an expanding set of foundational services. He has wide range experience in building distributed systems, and specializes in building V1.0 products. Before joining Oracle, he led product teams at Amazon S3 and EBS, where he built multiple new services including EBS GP2 and S3 IA. He has held various product management and engineering roles at Akamai, EMC, and Wipro. He holds MBA from Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
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Bernard Traversat
Vice President, Software Development – Java Platform Group of Oracle
Bernard Traversat is currently the Vice President of Engineering for the Java SE Platform team at Oracle. He oversees the development team responsible for the Java Language, JVM, Core libraries, security, Java UI toolkits, and Java deployment stack for the Oracle JDK product and OpenJDK. Previously he led Sun Microsystem Java efforts in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems.
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Killian Evers
Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience of Oracle
Killian Evers is a Vice President on the Oracle Applications User Experience team. She leads a multifaceted team responsible for product design and usability for Sales, Engagement, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Procurement areas. The team also covers all product family areas for Setup, Extensibility, and Tooling for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.
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JJ Jagannathan
Vice President of Engineering – Oracle Cloud of Oracle
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Steve Zivanic
Vice President, Storage Hardware Systems Business Group of Oracle
Steve Zivanic is the Global Vice President, Database & Autonomous Services Product Marketing at Oracle
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Lawrence Lindsey
Vice President, Cloud Solutions, Oracle Application Labs of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Application Labs at Oracle.
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Tracy Martin
Vice President, HCM Strategy of Oracle
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Don Johnson
Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
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Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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