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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 Hardware 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.
Steven Fuld
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Sony
teven Fuld has been SVP and Managing Director, Sony Card Marketing & Services Company at Sony Corporation of America since June 2009. Mr. Fuld oversees all aspects of the Sony Rewards as well as the Sony and PlayStation credit card programs. Sony Rewards collaborates with and provides capabilities and expertise to other parts of Sony to assist them in increasing customer loyalty and brand preference, and driving incremental sales. During Mr. Fuld’s tenure, Sony has introduced a significantly improved credit card program utilizing Capital One and Visa, closer collaboration with Sony’s US business units and enhanced marketing capabilities, and a merchant-funded rewards program. Prior to joining Sony, Mr. Fuld served as Managing Director and Executive Vice President at The Kessler Group, a privately owned financial services firm based in Boston specializing in partnership development, credit card marketing and portfolio acquisitions, for 10 years. During that time, he was instrumental in launching and managing three separate and diverse businesses for the company, including its credit card portfolio acquisition unit, its insurance practice and, most recently, its capital business.
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Shiro Kambe
Executive Vice President of Sony
Sachi Kambe is the Senior VP at Sony Pictures Entertainment
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About Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Kazushi Ambe
Senior Vice President of Sony
Kazushi Ambe is the Senior Vice President at Sony Corporation.
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
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.
Derek Hanson
Vice President Solutions Architecture and Alliances of Yubico
Derek Hanson is the Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Standards for Yubico. Derek and his team are tasked with assisting organizations and standards bodies everywhere to develop and deploy authentication solutions utilizing the YubiKey.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Matthew Hollifield
Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer of Lowe’s
Matt Hollifield was promoted to senior vice president and chief accounting officer in 2005, after serving as vice president of corporate accounts payable since joining Lowe’s in 2002. Hollifield’s responsibilities include oversight of all corporate accounting, product accounting, inventory control, trades payable, expense payable and general accounting functions. He has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and accounting and previously served as chief financial officer of Century Furniture Industries. Hollifield has a bachelor’s degree from Appalachian State University, an MBA from Duke University and is a certified public accountant.
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About Lowe’s: Lowe’s provides the skills you need to manage your home, and offer the best customer services.
Mick Koster
Vice President and General Manager of Lowe’s Iris of Lowe’s
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About Lowe’s: Lowe’s provides the skills you need to manage your home, and offer the best customer services.
Sanyogita Shamsunder
Vice President Of Product Innovation of Verizon Wireless
Sanyogita Shamsunder is the Vice President of Technology Development and 5G Labs at Verizon. Previously, she was Director of Advanced Wireless and Mobile Technology Planning, and has led the 5G network planning and Device Technologies teams at Verizon. Sanyogita has directed and managed teams in all areas of the wireless business, including silicon, and network technology development, marketing, planning and strategy. Sanyogita received an MBA from The Wharton School, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Math from The University of Virginia.
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About Verizon, Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Ed Chan
Senior Vice President – Chief Network Engineering Officer of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Joan T. Bowyer
Vice President, Customer Service of Verizon Wireless
Joan T. Bowyer is vice president of Midwest Area Customer Service for Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, with responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day operations for the area’s seven customer service centers that primarily support customers in the Midwest Area including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin. A premier technology company, Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network. Bowyer began her wireless career in 1997 in human resources and has held positions of increasing responsibility with Verizon Wireless including director of compensation, before being promoted to executive director of Midwest Human Resources in 2002. In her most recent position, Bowyer was responsible for employee training and communications. Bowyer earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Monica Hammond
Vice President of Business and Government Customer Operations of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Steve Smith
Senior Vice President – Corporate Finance of Verizon Wireless
Steve Smith is senior vice president of business development for Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, with responsibility for the company’s merger and acquisition activity, expanding the company’s national footprint and acquiring additional radio frequency spectrum for new products and services. A premier technology company, Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network. Before assuming his current position, Smith served as chief financial officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, responsible for overseeing strategic and financial planning. Previously, he served as president of the South Central Region for Verizon Wireless, responsible for directing sales, operations, financial performance and marketing for the region. With more than 20 years of telecommunications experience, Smith has held a variety of senior leadership positions at Verizon and its legacy companies, including vice president of transition planning and staff vice president of strategic and financial planning for Verizon Wireless. He also served as group vice president of international finance and director of international strategic planning for Verizon. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in mechanical engineering technology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA with honors from the University of Rochester. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Michelle Miller
Vice President – Retail Sales & Operations of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Archana Jain
Vice President Information Technology of Verizon Wireless
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Victoria Lonker
Vice President Of Public Sector Solutions & Product Management of Verizon Wireless
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Nicki Palmer
Senior Vice President of Technology & Product Development of Verizon Wireless
Nicola Palmer is the senior vice president of technology and product development at Verizon.
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Praveen Vishakantaiah
Senior Vice President and CTO, Infrastructure Solutions Group of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jeff Clarke
President of Dell
Jeff Clarke serves as vice chairman, Operations and president, Client Solutions, for Dell. In this role, he is responsible for global manufacturing, procurement and supply chain activities worldwide, as well as the engineering, design and development of computer desktops, notebooks and workstations for customers ranging from consumers and small and medium businesses to large corporate enterprises. In addition, Jeff leads customer support, sales operations, commerce services functions, and IT planning and governance globally for Dell. Jeff joined Dell in 1987 as a quality engineer, and has served in a variety of engineering and management roles. He moved into product development in 1989 and was promoted to director of desktop development in 1995. In 1997, Jeff was responsible for launching the Dell Precision Workstation product line. Subsequently, Jeff was vice president and general manager, Relationship Product Group, including the OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision lines of business. Under his leadership, all three businesses achieved No. 1 worldwide share positions. Prior to joining Dell, Jeff was a reliability and product engineer at Motorola, Inc.Jeff serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Council for his alma mater, the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1986.
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About Dell, Dell Technologies: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Karen Quintos
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Dell
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Brett Hansen
Vice President Client Software and General Manger Data Security of Dell
Brett is responsible for developing Dell Technologies solutions that enable customers to simplify and streamline their client lifecycle, secure their endpoints, and ultimately provide users with a more productive and modernized workspace environment. Brett joined Dell after 12 years with IBM Software Group. In his last position, he served as Director, IBM Tivoli Demand Systems Marketing where he held global responsibility for generating and managing the Tivoli pipeline.
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About Cigent Technology, Dell, Semarchy: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Scimone
Sr. Vice President, Chief Security Officer of Dell
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About Dell, Executive Women’s Forum: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Liam Quinn
Sr. Vice President, Sr. Fellow of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Neil Hand
Vice President & General Manager Tablet, Chrome, Workstations, Rugged and Alienware of Dell
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Liz Matthews
Senior Vice President Global Brand and Creative of Dell
Liz Matthews is the SVP of Global Brand and Creative & Executive Director – Consumer Marketing for Dell. Liz is responsible for building and running the new Dell Technologies brand and its family of brands. Additionally, Liz is responsible for driving Dell’s brand and purpose globally through advertising, messaging, digital, social, creative, corporate narrative, voice and visual identity, while at the same time, igniting Dell’s purpose internally. She has a plethora of technology marketing background from both large global brands and brazen start-ups including Sun Microsystems where she was fully integrated in the brand, product, and in house communications and ran end-to-end, integrated marketing for the software division. Liz sits on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council and is a LifeWorks Legacy Circle member, a non-profit dedicated to empowering homeless youth to self-sufficiency. Liz holds a B.A. in communications from California Polytechnic State University.
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About Dell, Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
John Moody
Vice President – Global Client Support & Deployment Services of Dell
John Moody serves as vice president of global client support and deployment services at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Brian Payne
Vice President, Product Management for Dell Technologies Cloud of Dell
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Aaron Chaisson
Vice President Dell Technologies Messaging of Dell
Aaron and his team are responsible for creating and socializing Dell EMC’s strategy and thought leadership messaging within the rapidly evolving IT landscape. Aaron has held a variety of roles in EMC and Dell Technologies over the past 20 years including Training & Education, Pre-Sales and marketing. Aaron was a founding member of the EMC vSpecialists program focusing on virtualization and cloud technologies and most recently he built the Dell Technologies Portfolio Messaging organization.
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Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Jayshree Ullal
President & CEO of Arista Networks
As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista’s business and thought leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015, Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and one of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019. Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.
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About Arista Networks, StorSimple: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Christian Martin
Vice President, Service Provider Customer Engineering of Arista Networks
Christian Martin has spent more than 20 years delivering advanced ICT solutions to enterprises, government and service providers. His career experience spans many areas. In his current role, he is responsible for defining and driving the execution of Arista’s strategy for its ongoing expansion into the service provider and MSO markets. Prior to his role at Arista, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco, reporting to the CAO/CTO Development. At Cisco, Christian was responsible for network architecture and strategic direction for major global carriers, large MSOs and large financial services organizations. Before Cisco, he held leadership roles in engineering at Juniper Networks and Teliris; co-founded and led a technology consultancy from inception to acquisition; and held leadership roles in technology, engineering and operations at Verizon.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Edward Chapman
Vice President Business Development and Alliances of Arista Networks
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Gordon Daily
President & Co-Founder of BoxCast
Gordon has always been a big dreamer and big thinker. Although he failed to achieve his childhood goal of starting in center field for the Cleveland Indians, Gordon has never lost his capacity for dreaming big and working tirelessly to achieve whatever he sets his mind to. His really big dream: To create a technology company that changes the way people communicate – through live HD video streaming. After receiving his BS and MS in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in three-and-half years, a 12-year-career at Rockwell Automation followed. It literally took him around the world, including a stint in Singapore. It also gave him the opportunity to manage mission-critical projects early in his career. In Gordon’s Rockwell years, he tackled tough technical problems, crafted international business deals and came up with creative marketing solutions. He also managed to be awarded a half-dozen patents. Gordon lives with his wife Cara and their young children Quentin and Serena in a renovated convent on Cleveland’s West Side. When he isn’t with his family or working, he’s most often demonstrating his competitive side whether it’s skiing, kayaking or playing ping pong.
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About BoxCast: BoxCast is an end-to-end video-streaming solutions for organizations.
John Taylor
Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications of LG Electronics
John I. Taylor is Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for LG Electronics USA, Inc. Active in ATSC activities for decades, Taylor currently serves as ATSC Communications Chairman in addition to his role as a member of the ATSC Board of Directors. He represents LG Electronics on the Video Division Board of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is Chairman of the CEA Communications Committee and co-Chair of the CEA 4K Ultra HD Working Group, and he serves on the CEA Foundation Board of Trustees. Taylor also is a member of the boards of directors of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, The Media Institute and the Library of American Broadcasting. His industry experience included serving as Chairman of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance public affairs group, past Chairman of the CEA Video Division and former Chairman of the CEA HDTV Promotion Committee.He co-founded the Digital TV Transition Coalition and Plasma Display Coalition and previously served on the boards of the ATSC Forum and the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Active in digital television since 1988, Taylor is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and recipient of its highest honor, the Industry Leadership Award. Among other industry honors, Taylor received the 2014 AHAM Distinguished Service Award and was inducted into the Dealerscope Hall of Fame in 2015, largely for his work related to digital television.Since 2000, he has served as LG’s senior U.S. industry relations and government affairs executive. Taylor represents the company before the U.S. government and in industry organizations. He also is chief media spokesman and public relations strategist for LG Electronics in the United States. Taylor joined Zenith in 1981 and was named the company’s senior public affairs executive in 1987 and a corporate officer in 1993. (Zenith merged with LG Electronics in 1999.)A former newspaper reporter, he earned an M.S. degree from the Medill Graduate School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and a B.A. from DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
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Samuel Chang
SVP LG electronics US / Corporate Vice President LG HQ of LG Electronics
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Henry Chung
Vice President and Corporate Venture Capital of LG Electronics
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Kevin Blankespoor
Vice President of Controls & Autonomy of Boston Dynamics
He is the Vice President of Product Engineering at Boston Dynamics.
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About Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Alessandro Parimbelli
Executive Vice President, CEO, Enterprise and Infrastructure of Jabil
Alessandro Parimbelli was named Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise & Infrastructure on October 2, 2014. Mr. Parimbelli joined Jabil in 1998 as a Test Engineering Manager. At Jabil, Mr. Parimbelli served in business management positions in Boise, Idaho and Paris, France before being promoted to Vice President, Global Business Units in September 2006. From 2010 through 2012 Parimbelli was Senior Vice President, Global Business Units, responsible for Jabil’s High Velocity business. Prior to joining Jabil. Mr. Parimbelli held various engineering positions within Hewlett-Packard, Italy and other software engineering companies. He holds an MBA from Colorado State University and a Software Engineering degree from Politecnico of Milan, Italy.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Bruce Johnson
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of Jabil
Bruce A. Johnson was named senior vice president, chief human resources officer in January 2017. Mr. Johnson joined Jabil in 2015 as vice president, human resources. Prior to joining Jabil, Mr. Johnson was a chief organizational effectiveness officer/executive vice president, human resources for C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. in Keene, N.H. Mr. Johnson also served in senior roles at The Timberland Company in New Hampshire and E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company (DuPont) in Delaware. He holds a BA in history from Middlebury College in Vermont. Mr. Johnson is the founding director, vice chairman of board of directors (lead director) for Pathways Group, Inc.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Kenny Wilson
Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer Jabil Green Point of Jabil
Kenny Wilson was appointed executive vice president and CEO of Jabil Green Point in 2017. Mr. Wilson brings with him more than 35 years of electronics and optics industry experience. He first joined Jabil in 2000 as business unit manager, and has held various leadership roles, including vice president of global business units, running businesses such as consumer electronics and telecommunications. Mr. Wilson was most recently senior vice president of the telecommunications infrastructure sector within Jabil’s Enterprise & Infrastructure Division. Prior to Jabil, he spent eight years at Motorola, where he served as operations director in their handset division. Mr. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering and a MBA from Edinburgh Business School.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Steve Borges
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare of Jabil
Steve Borges serves as the CEO of Nypro Healthcare and is a Jabil Executive Vice President. With over 20+ years of global experience in Business Development, Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management he consistently leads and develops new operations and processes that contribute to top-line growth and bottom-line profitability. In Steve’s 22-year history with Jabil he has led successful growth efforts in various diverse markets. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from Fitchburg State College.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Daryn Smith
Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Commercial Controller of Jabil
Daryn Smith was named senior vice president, enterprise & commercial controller in June 2018. Mr. Smith served as CFO for Jabil’s EMS Division from June 2013 to June 2018. Mr. Smith joined Jabil in 2002 and he has held various leadership roles in risk and assurance, financial planning and analysis, and controllership including an assignment to Asia as part of the Jabil global manufacturing services team. Prior to joining Jabil, Mr. Smith was with the assurance and advisory services practice for Arthur Andersen (Andersen). He holds an MBA in measuring and managing value (finance) from the University of Florida – Warrington College of Business and previous affiliations with AICPA (CPA) and NACVA (CVA). Mr. Smith also serves as a member of the University of South Florida and USF St. Petersburg’s School of Accounting Advisory Boards.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
William Peters
President of Jabil
Mr. William E. Peters is President of Jabil Circuit, Inc. Peters was named President in March 2013. Mr. Peters served as Executive Vice President, Human Development, Human Resources from April 2010 to March 2013. He joined Jabil in 1990 as a buyer and shortly thereafter was named Purchasing Manager. In 1993 Mr. Peters was named Operations Manager for Jabil’s Michigan facility and was promoted to Vice President, Operations in January 1999. Mr. Peters was named Senior Vice President, Operations in October 2000. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, Regional President — Americas in September 2004. In September 2007, Mr. Peters was named Senior Vice President, Human Development. Prior to joining Jabil, Mr. Peters was a financial analyst for Electronic Data Systems. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Michael J. Loparco
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Engineered Solutions Group of Jabil
Michael J. Loparco was named Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, Engineered Solutions Group in January 2016. Previously, Mr. Loparco has served as Executive Vice President, CEO, Industrial & Energy, Senior Vice President of Jabil’s High Velocity business and held a variety of global management positions. Before joining Jabil in 1999, Mr. Loparco was an attorney at Holland & Knight, LLP, practicing Corporate and Commercial Litigation, and was a Certified Mediator in the judicial circuits of the State of Florida. He holds a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Stetson University College of Law; and attended Florida State University, College of Law, while serving in the Committee of Business and Professional Regulation for the FL House of Representatives. He holds a B.A. in International Business, with minor degrees in Spanish and Business Management, from Eckerd College.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Sergio Cadavid
Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Jabil
Sergio Cadavid joined Jabil as Treasurer in June 2006. Prior to joining Jabil, Mr. Cadavid was Assistant Treasurer — Director Global Enterprise Risk Management for Owens-Illinois, Inc. in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Cadavid joined Owens — Illinois, Inc. in 1988 and held various financial positions in the U.S., Italy and Colombia. He has also held various positions with The Quaker Oats Company, Arthur Andersen & Co. and J.M. Family Enterprises, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Florida and a B.B.A. from Florida International University.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Robert Katz
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Jabil
Robert “Bobby” Katz was named executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary on Sept. 1, 2016. Prior to joining Jabil, Mr. Katz served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of SharkNinja. He was previously senior vice president and general counsel of Ingersoll-Rand plc in Davidson, N.C., from 2010 to 2015, and served as senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer of Federal-Mogul Corporation from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Katz served in senior roles at Delphi and General Motors in Paris and Zurich, and began his career as an attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York and London. He earned his LLB and BCL from McGill University where he graduated magna cum laude. He is a member of the New York Bar.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
David Wahl
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Jabil Digital Office of Jabil
David Wahl is a VP Operations & General Manager at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Daniel Gamota
Vice President, Engineering & Technology Services of Jabil
Daniel Gamota is a Sr. Director Process Innovation, Engineering & Technology Services at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Ben Chostner
Vice President of Blue River Technology
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Mac Keely
Vice President Field Operations of Blue River Technology
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Rick Loughery
Vice President Global Product Communications of GoPro
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About GoPro, GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Kurt Kalbfleisch
Senior Vice President and CFO of Sphere 3d
Kurt Kalbfleisch joined Sphere 3D as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2014. Prior to that, Kurt was with Overland Storage from December 1993 until November 2014 and served as Overland’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kurt is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, legal, and facilities operations. During his tenure at Overland, Kurt has also served in several key management roles in cost accounting and finance. Prior to joining Overland, Kurt was a manufacturing budget analyst for McDonnell Douglas Corp. Kurt earned his MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
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About Sphere 3d: Sphere 3D Corp. delivers data management, and desktop and application virtualization via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and on-premise implementations.
Joseph Macri
Vice President/CTO of AMD
Joseph Macri is Vice President at AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Raghunath Nambiar
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Pat Kelly
Vice President of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Jonathan Hefter
Founder, President of Neverware
Jonathan Hefter is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Neverware, based in New York City. He is paving the way for innovative technologies that help solve the current business and educational computer procurement model by way of perpetually extending the life and performance of existing PCs, eliminating the need to purchase new hardware. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton with a degree in finance in 2009, Hefter spent a year teaching himself the basics of virtual computing while developing the Neverware’s prototype in his parents’ basement.
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About Neverware: Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Tim Saeger
Executive Vice President, Engineering of iRobot
Tim Saeger has served as executive vice president of engineering since March 2017. Mr. Saeger previously served as senior vice president of engineering from August 2015 until March 2017. Prior to iRobot, Mr. Saeger served in multiple roles at Bose Corporation from 2005 – 2015, including Vice President of Home Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saeger also served at Thomson, Inc., and General Dynamics, in a variety of engineering and engineering management positions. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Saeger also has been awarded 24 U.S. patents.
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About iRobot, iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Russell J. Campanello
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Patrick O’Malley
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Seagate Technology
Patrick O’Malley assumed the role of EVP & CFO effective August 25, 2008. In his previous role of SVP Finance & Treasurer, he was responsible for Corp. Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Credit & Collections and Risk Management along with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and support for our Business Unit GMs, Sales & other functions. In October 2005, he returned to Finance from the Sales Organization where he coordinated the Company’s activities surrounding the Consumer Electronics market as the SVP, Consumer Electronics Business Development from January 2004. O’Malley joined Seagate in 1988 & has held various management roles within the Finance organization including Manager of Consolidation & Cost Accounting, Director of Finance – Corporate FP&A, Sr. Director of Finance for Oklahoma City Operations, Sr. Director of Finance for Desktop Design, VP of Finance for Recording Media Operations & SVP of Finance for Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Seagate, he spent four years as a Sr. Staff Accountant for Arthur Young & Co. O’Malley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1984).
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About Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
B.S. Teh
Senior Vice President of Sales & Sales Operations of Seagate Technology
B.S. Teh is senior vice president of global sales and sales operations. He is responsible for Seagate’s worldwide sales and field marketing, with a focus on driving scale and breadth in customer and market coverage. Teh joined Seagate in 1989 as a field customer engineer. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with the company across multiple functions in California, Singapore and Shanghai, including sales, marketing, business operations and field technical support. Most recently, he was senior vice president of Asia-Pacific sales and marketing, based in Singapore. Teh holds an MBA from the University of South Australia and an EE degree from the National University of Singapore.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
John Grieci
Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Jason Feist
Vice President of Engineering of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Joy Nyberg
Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Internal Communications of Seagate Technology
Joy Nyberg is responsible for leading Seagate’s global human resources efforts, including: compensation and benefits, leadership and learning, staffing and on-boarding, HR central transaction centers, HR compliance, internal communications and community engagement. Prior to joining Seagate in 2007, Nyberg was vice president of Compensation and Benefits at Maxtor Corporation. She has also held senior HR positions at KLA-Tencor and ESL/TRW. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Susan Lyman
Vice President, Global Consumer Marketing of Garmin
Director of Marketing – responsible for global marketing of consumer marine, automotive, outdoor, fitness and wellness markets. Susan works with Garmin associates around the world. She joined Garmin in 1997 after 10 years in engineering and technical sales, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
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About Garmin: Garmin manufactures marine, aviation, and consumer technologies suitable to run on global positioning systems.
Jesper Andersen
CEO & President of Infoblox
A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Norma Lane
CHRO , Executive Vice President, People & Places, of Infoblox
Norma Lane is the CHRO, Executive Vice President, People & Places at Infoblox.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Craig Sanderson
Vice President of Infoblox
Craig Sanderson is the Senior Director of Product Management for Infoblox security solutions. Craig has been in the security industry for 19 years in a number of roles including Technical Consultant, Solution Architect, Product Manager and Business Development manager. Having worked on a range of security technologies, Craig is now focused on developing solutions that prevent the abuse of DNS and enabling customers to leverage their network infrastructure to better secure their data, assets and people.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
David Zinsner
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Micron Technology
David Zinsner is the senior vice president and chief financial officer at Micron Technology. Mr. Zinsner joined Micron in February 2018 with more than 20 years of financial and operations experience in the semiconductor and technology industry. Mr. Zinsner most recently served as president and chief operating officer at Affirmed Networks. Previously, he was senior vice president of finance and CFO at Analog Devices. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Intersil Corp. Mr. Zinsner holds a master’s degree in business administration, finance and accounting from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
April Arnzen
Senior Vice President, Human Resources of Micron Technology
April Arnzen is human resources senior vice president at Micron Technology. She is responsible for aligning team members to Micron’s business strategy. She was appointed to her current position in 2015. Since joining Micron in 1996, Ms. Arnzen has held various positions of increased responsibility and worked across many functions within the Human Resources department. She helped shape many of Micron’s team member programs, including performance management, human resources business partners, total rewards, leadership development, succession and integration. Prior to her current position, she was the global director of Micron’s human resources business partner organization. Ms. Arnzen earned a bachelor’s degree in human resources management and marketing from the University of Idaho.
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About Micron Technology, Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Jeff VerHeul
Senior Vice President, Nonvolatile Engineering of Micron Technology
Jeff VerHeul is the senior vice president for corporate engineering where he oversees the development of SanDisk’s growing portfolio of SSD, embedded and removable products and solutions. VerHeul brings 30 years of engineering and management experience to SanDisk where joined from Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), now a part of Microchip Technology. At SMSC he was senior vice president of engineering. Prior to that, he held executive roles at AMD in platform solutions engineering and silicon design. Verheul began his career at IBM where he spent 25 years in positions that included the vice president of server development, vice president of product development for microelectronics, and vice president of engineering and technology services. VerHeul holds a master’s degree in management of technology from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Thomas Giacomini
President & CEO of JBT Corporation
Thomas Giacomini was appointed JBT Corporation’s President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2013 and was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 2014. Prior to joining JBT, he served as Vice President (since February 2008) of Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer, and President and Chief Executive Officer (since November 2011) of Dover Engineered Systems. Prior to serving in these roles, Giacomini served as President (from April 2009 to November 2011) and Chief Executive Officer (from July 2009 to November 2011) of Dover Industrial Products and President (from October 2007 to July 2009) of Dover’s Material Handling Platform. Giacomini joined Dover in 2003 following its acquisition of Warn Industries, an industrial manufacturer specializing in vehicle performance enhancing equipment. During his 12 year tenure at Warn Industries he held a variety of leadership roles including President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Warn Industries, Giacomini held various roles at TRW, Inc. Giacomini holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan (Dearborn).
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About JBT Corporation: JBT Corporation is a global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries.
Brian Deck
Interim President And CEO of JBT Corporation
Brian Deck was appointed as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of JBT Corporation in February 2014, and became Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of JBT in May 2014. Prior to joining JBT, Deck served as Chief Financial Officer of National Material L.P., a private diversified industrial holding company (since May 2011). He served as Vice President of Finance and Treasury (from November 2007 to May 2011) and as Director, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (from August 2005 to November 2007) of Ryerson Inc., a metals distributor and processor. Prior to his service with Ryerson, Deck had increasing responsibilities with General Electric Capital, Bank One (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.) and Cole Taylor Bank. Deck holds an MBA with a concentration in finance from DePaul University in Chicago, and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois.
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About JBT Corporation: JBT Corporation is a global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries.
James Marvin
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of JBT Corporation
James Marvin joined FMC Technologies, Inc., the predecessor to JBT Corporation, in April 2003 as Assistant General Counsel. Subsequent to JBT Corporation’s spin-off from FMC Technologies in July 2008, Marvin became the Deputy General Counsel and Secretary of JBT Corporation. He assumed his current role in May 2014. Prior to joining JBT’s predecessor, Marvin worked for Heller Financial, Inc., a financial services business, for 7 years, serving as its Corporate Finance Division Counsel and then as its Chief Corporate Counsel. Marvin was a partner with the Chicago-based law firm, Katten Muchin & Zavis, a firm he joined in 1990, where he primarily represented financial institutions. Prior to that, Marvin was an associate at O’Connor Cavanagh Killingsworth & Beshears, in Phoenix, Arizona, practicing securities law. Marvin received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
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About JBT Corporation: JBT Corporation is a global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries.
David Burdakin
Executive Vice President, President JBT AeroTech of JBT Corporation
David Burdakin joined JBT Corporation as a Vice President and Division Manager of JBT AeroTech in January 2014 and was appointed Executive Vice President and President JBT AeroTech in May 2014. Prior to joining JBT, Burdakin was with Mayline Corporation, a private equity owned industrial company, where he most recently served as Non-Executive Chairman. Burdakin has over 25 years of experience in industrial manufacturing and executive leadership. Previous to Mayline, Dave served as President and Chief Executive Officer (2007 to 2012) of Paladin Brands, a leading independent manufacturer of attachment tools for construction equipment including mobile aviation support equipment. Prior to that, he progressed through various leadership roles at HNI Corporation (1993 to 2007), including seven years as President of The HON Company, HNI’s largest operating company. Prior to joining HNI, Dave held various roles at Illinois Tool Works Inc. and Bendix Industrial Group. Burdakin holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.
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About JBT Corporation: JBT Corporation is a global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries.
Maria Martinez
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer of Cisco
Maria Martinez is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Cisco. As a member of the executive leadership team, Martinez oversees Cisco’s $12.5B Services and Customer Success organizations that are responsible for helping customers transform their businesses through Cisco’s broad portfolio of software, subscription, and services offerings. Under her leadership, Martinez is also helping to drive Cisco’s overall sales and go-to-market transformation to deliver greater business outcomes for customers as they transform their businesses. Martinez brings more than 35 years of leadership experience from a variety of technology sectors including software, services, networking technology and hardware to Cisco. Most recently, she served as President, Customer Success Group and Success Cloud, as well as General Manager for Latin America at Salesforce. In these roles, she was responsible for keeping Salesforce’s 100,000-plus customers across the globe happy, including the on-boarding, product usage, best practices, training, customer support, professional services, partner certification, and developing long-term relationships, while also looking after the firm’s operations in the emerging Latin America region. Prior to joining Salesforce, Martinez managed Microsoft’s global services business, including professional services and customer support for all products. During her six-year tenure, she led the business to outperform revenue targets and to significantly increase Microsoft’s customer satisfaction rating. Martinez has held a number of other leadership positions at Motorola and AT&T. She also served as the CEO of Embrace Networks where she led the development of the start-up’s technical strategy, launched its first software platform and developed its customer base. Martinez serves on the boards of directors for Genesys Works and Declara, Inc. Martinez has received several distinctions for her leadership, most recently being ranked No. 6 on Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Latinas. Martinez holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan and a Master’s of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University.
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Amy Chang
Executive Vice President, Collaboration Technology Group of Cisco
Amy serves on the board of directors for Disney, Procter & Gamble, Marqeta, SambaNova, Pragma and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk and Informatica, which encompass nearly a trillion dollars in total market cap. Post-acquisition of her startup Accompany by Cisco for $270M, she led Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business. As EVP and GM of this 6000 person team, she led the videoconferencing, cloud calling, contact center, video device and phones businesses. Accompany was an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends, and multichannel attribution for over 7 years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She previously led product for the paid search and affiliates channels at eBay, as well as worked in the semiconductor and software industries at McKinsey. She started her career in hardware with Intel, AMD and Motorola.She serves on the UCSF Hospital Executive Committee, the Stanford School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Board, and as an advisor to ID.me, DataChat, Snorkel.ai, PerfectDay, KatanaGraph, Prosimo.io, NoviConnect, Hubspot (now public), Datorama (acquired by Salesforce), Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee), Optimizely (acquired by Episerver), BloomReach, Origami Logic (acquired by Intuit). Amy holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a hardware subspecialty and an MS in Electrical Engineering with a network systems subspecialty, both from Stanford University.
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Yvette Kanouff
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Business of Cisco
Yvette Kanouff brings more than 20 years of service provider, media, and software experience to Sprinklr. Yvette has held various positions at Cisco Systems, including her most recent role as SVP/GM of the Service Provider Business, where she led a team of over 6,000 people. She also held the position of SVP/GM of Cisco’s Cloud and Virtualization Business and Service Provider Video Business. Prior to joining Cisco, she was Executive Vice President, Corporate Engineering and Technology at Cablevision, where she was responsible for the company’s strategic technology and critical engineering objectives, as well as identifying emerging technology opportunities. Previously she served as President of SeaChange, where she spearheaded its transition from a hardware company to a software-centric company. Earlier in her career, Kanouff played a key role at Time Warner Cable as Director of Interactive Technologies. Kanouff’s valuable leadership, deep commitment to mentorship and technical acumen have earned her numerous awards and accolades – including a Technical Emmy, patents for her work in digital technologies, the National Cable and Television Association Vanguard Award for Leadership in Science and Technology and the Multichannel News Wonder Woman award. Yvette has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics.
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Jie Xue
Vice President of Cisco
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Todd Nightingale
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco
Todd Nightingale is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki. Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012 and took over as GM in 2013. He has led Meraki to deepen its focus on simplicity and initiatives pulling powerful Cisco technologies into the Meraki platform. Nightingale has led the expansion of the Meraki team’s scope from cloud-managed wireless to cloud-managed networking to cloud-managed IT. In the process, the team has added enterprise mobility management, telephony, and video technology to the platform. This expansion has been driven by Meraki’s mission of simplicity and enabled by using cloud, open source, and a nimble engineering-led development model. In addition to product expansion, Nightingale and the team have globalized the Meraki portfolio, bringing simplified IT to more than 145 countries around the world.
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Liz Centoni
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Cisco
Liz Centoni serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Computing Systems Product Group responsible for the Data Center compute P&L including the flagship UCS and Hyperflex product families. As SVP/GM, Liz runs a 1,000+ person global organization including engineering, product management and solutions. In this role, Liz sets the business and engineering direction, strategy, solutions and product priorities for the Datacenter compute business. Prior to her current role, Centoni served as Vice President, Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning and has also served as a Vice President/General Manager of the Service Provider Access Group where she set strategy, marketing direction and led engineering efforts to grow Cisco’s portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions. Since joining Cisco in 2000, Centoni has served in various engineering roles where she has been instrumental in building industry leading products, driving discipline, cadence, and structure to decision processes, portfolio planning and analytics to maximize profitable growth. Centoni brings over 20+ years of engineering, marketing and sales experience. She is an active mentor and actively supports under-represented minorities. She launched a “Women in Engineering Leadership” forum at Cisco, which now includes the entire Cisco engineering organization. She is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), a recipient of the YWCA 2015 TWIN Awards, Cloud NOW 2015 “Top 10 Women in Cloud” awards and Million Women Mentors 2015 “Mentor of the Year” Award.
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Dillard Myers
Vice President, Global Service Logistics and Operations Organization of Cisco
Dillard Myers has more than 25 years of demonstrated global logistics experience with various governmental and corporate organizations. Prior to Cisco, he held the Marine Corps senior logistics colonel’s position on the West Coast, providing total support to more than 45,000 Marines and sailors. He has had documented success in senior leadership positions, providing vision, focus, and development of supply chain strategies for service organizations having inventories exceeding $5 billion and annual budgets exceeding $700 million. Currently Dillard leads Cisco’s Global Service Supply Chain organization, supporting more than $8 billion in services revenue globally. He has designed, built, and deployed capabilities to support their customers in 128 countries with 1,100-plus distribution depots.
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Kaustubh Das
Vice President and General Manager, Cloud and Compute of Cisco
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Paul Chapman
Vice President of Cisco
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Cindy Goodwin Sak
Vice President, Global Security Sales Engineering Organization of Cisco
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Roland Acra
Senior Vice President and General Manager – Data Center Business Group of Cisco
Roland Acra serves as Strategic Advisor at Bidgely Inc. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Rock Corporation from December 2005 to September 2010. He served as an Executive Advisor of Cisco’s Smart Grid Business Unit until May 2012. Roland Acra served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Procket Networks, Inc. since January, 2004, which he successfully led to an acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2004. From 1991 to 2003 he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco’s Service Provider business. Roland Acra served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the Public Carrier IP Group, General Manager of the Remote Access Business Unit where he provided leadership for the access server and access concentrator products and voice-over-IP technology to the rest of Cisco Systems. He served as Technical Director of Cisco in EMEA. At Cisco Systems, Roland Acra served as a Director of Dial Marketing for the Network to User Business Unit, responsible for defining and marketing Cisco’s dial access products and Director of Consulting Engineering in Europe, responsible for a team of consulting engineers for multiple disciplines and different market segments to address customers in network design. Roland Acra developed UNIX subsystems for Sun Microsystems served as a networking software development engineer at Interphase and held engineering development and technical leadership positions at Bridge Communications and 3Com Corporation from 1986 to 1988 and at Interphase Corporation from 1989 to 1991. Roland Acra serves as a Director of Arch Rock Corporation and U.S Telecommunications Training Institute. Roland Acra served as a Director of Procket Networks, Inc. since January 2004. Roland Acra holds Master of Science degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University, a Masters degree in Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superierue des Telecommunications in Paris and a degree in mathematics and physics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
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James Mobley
Senior Vice President/GM. Network Services Business Unit of Cisco
James Mobley is a proven corporate and early stage executive with more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry. As President and CEO, James is responsible for the operational and strategic direction of the company. Under his leadership, Neohapsis has grown from a small Midwestern security consultancy to become an international mobile and cloud security services company. Prior to Neohapsis, James was President and Chief Executive Officer of @stake, Inc., an industry leading international security consulting and products company. Under his leadership, the company’s client base and revenue grew significantly over four years, leading to its acquisition by Symantec (SYMC) Corporation in 2004. At Symantec, as Vice President, he led the Professional Services organization in the Americas. Other prior experience includes President and CEO of Intrusic Corporation, an early stage security software pioneer in internal threat intelligence, executive leadership roles in Fortune 100 Companies including Vice President of Compaq’s (HP) $1 billion North America Professional Services sales organization, Vice President & General Manager of Digital Equipment’s (HP) $400 million Southeast and Central Region and Business Unit Executive of IBM’s $200 million D/FW business unit. James has been recognized nationally for his leadership and sales accomplishments in both global enterprises and early stage companies. He is a graduate of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
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Ted Hardie
Vice President of Cisco
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Bailey Szeto
Vice President – Sales, Channels, Marketing, and Services IT of Cisco
Bailey Szeto is the Vice President of Connected Selling Experience IT at Cisco. The goal of CSE-IT is to transform the selling experience by leveraging data, business process and a simplified user interface to connect Marketing, Sales, and Virtual Sales organizations. CSE-IT encompasses Marketing, Sales, Partner, Content &Search, Global Virtual Sales & Engineering, and Integrated Digital Experience services. Under Bailey’s leadership Cisco has leveraged Adobe’s portfolio to transform sales and marketing processes and experiences. Cisco.com is managed by AEM and is one of the largest B2B sites in the world (both size and revenue). Bailey has been with Cisco for over 25 years and has three patents. In his spare time he enjoys athletic challenges such as marathons and obstacle course racing.
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Mark Chandler
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Cisco
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