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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 Infrastructure 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 Darling
President of Dell Technologies Capital
President, Dell Technologies Capital at Dell Technologies. Board Of Directors at Zscaler, Nuvia & Noodle.ai.
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About Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Ted Gillick
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dell Technologies Capital
Ted Gillick is Vice President, Corporate Development of EMC Corporation and is a senior member of EMC’s global mergers and acquisitions practice. Over the course of his career, Ted has worked with a variety of technology and media companies and executed over $30B worth of M&A transactions across those industries. Prior to joining EMC, Ted was a senior member of the Corporate Development team at Avid Technology and an M&A investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Ted holds a BBA from the College of William and Mary and is currently pursuing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
DANIEL ALONSO
Vice President of Business Development of IMS Corporate
Daniel Alonso is Vice President of Business Development, managing new business opportunities for the company. Daniel brings vast experience in sales and marketing, including extensive international, Hispanic, Fortune 500 and start-up experience, with previous roles as vice president of business development at Terra Networks and senior director of marketing at Univision Enterprises. Daniel holds both an MBA and a BA from the University of Miami. He is based in our Miami office.
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About IMS Corporate: IMS is a digital marketing & communications company that partners with businesses seeking to expand in Latin America
Vivek Kumar
Co-Founder and President of ProKarma
Vivek Kumar serves as the President of Prokarma, Inc. Mr. Kumar has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has provided leadership in the management, and delivery of e-Business technology, and services. He is involved with building e-procurement solutions since the last 7 years, and has tremendous knowledge of procurement functions. Mr. Kumar is responsible for leading the growth of the organization through revenue improvement with existing customers, increased market penetration, and development of new products and markets. He is ultimately responsible for corporate profitability and establishing policies, procedures and strategies consistent with the values and integrity of the organization.
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About PK Global, ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Amitabh Srivastava
President, Advanced Software Division of Dell EMC
Amitabh Srivastava is President, Advanced Software Division at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. In his role as President of EMC’s Advanced Software Division, Srivastava oversees all aspects of ASD’s business including product development, finance, marketing, sales, and product management. ASD is building innovative products that will help differentiate EMC storage products and expand them into new markets. Srivastava has more than 28 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining EMC in April 2011, Srivastava was Senior Vice President of Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for Windows Azure and Windows Server products. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Srivastava was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of TracePoint Technology Inc. He started his career in research in 1984, working at Texas Instruments Research Labs in Dallas, Texas and Digital’s Western Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. He holds 14 patents and has published a variety of papers. His paper on ATOM with Alan Eustace in PLDI 1994 received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in June 2005. Srivastava earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. A Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur awarded him a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004. The Pennsylvania State University named him an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus in 2004 and inducted him as an Alumni Fellow in 2009. Srivastava delivered the commencement address titled ‘Fourth and Goal’ in the College of Engineering graduation ceremonies at Pennsylvania State University in 2008.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Mary Kosten
Vice President Customer Service of Dell EMC
Mary Cay Kosten is vice president, customer service – field, for EMC Corporation. She is responsible for creating and driving field service strategy and programs, logistics, and escalation management for EMC’s 3,000-person global team supporting EMC’s customer base. Kosten has over 25 years of experience in service and supplier management, with a proven track record in building outstanding service delivery organizations. Prior to joining EMC, she was vice president of global customer services delivery for Oracle/Sun Microsystems, responsible for delivering all elements of Sun’s support services. At Sun Microsystems, she also served as vice president of customer services for the Americas region and vice president for the Americas Customer Care Center. Under her leadership, Sun achieved the prestigious J.D. Power Certified Technology Service and Support (CTSS) Award for “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience,” the TSIA Award for Excellence in Service Operations, and was inducted into the STAR Awards Hall of Fame. Kosten is a 2008 recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business (High Tech and Telecommunications) Award and a 2006 recipient of the Silicon Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. She also is on the steering committee for TSIA’s Women in Services community of interest. She holds an MS degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and a BS in marketing from the University of West Florida.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Chris Scollo
Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations, Customer Services of Dell EMC
Chris Scollo serves as the vice president of global strategy and operations for EMC Customer Support Services. In this role, he oversees the operation and evolution of EMC’s 7,000-person support organization—including a full range of programs and initiatives designed to meet new customer requirements, leverage new routes to market, and amplify EMC’s opportunities in cloud computing and big data. Scollo has over 19 years of experience in consulting, service delivery, and business operations. He joined EMC in 2011 from Oracle Corporation, where he was most recently vice president of Business Operations for the Global Systems Support organization. In this role, Scollo led the multi-year strategic planning process for customer services, acted as the support integration lead in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and drove management review processes, standardized metrics, and reporting. He has held previous leadership positions in Sun Microsystems’ Technical Support Services and Field Operations. Scollo holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross, an MA in economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Terry Ledger
Owner & President of Managed IT Services Boston
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David Goulden
President of Dell EMC
David Goulden is President of Dell EMC, responsible for the global organization that provides the essential infrastructure for customers to build their digital future and transform IT. Goulden oversees all aspects of the Infrastructure Solutions Group, including an industry-leading portfolio that is focused on modernizing the data center, leveraging the cloud, empowering a mobile workforce and protecting organizations and their data. He is based in Dell EMC’s offices in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Goulden joined Dell through its combination with EMC where, as CEO, he led EMC Information Infrastructure, EMC Corporation’s largest business by revenue and employees. He also served as president and chief operating officer of the business, responsible for engineering and product development, sales and customer operations, services, marketing and G&A functions. Previously, he was EMC’s CFO, responsible for financial operations of EMC Corporation’s consolidated business. He helped make mergers and acquisitions a core competency at EMC by playing major roles in more than 75 acquisitions as well as business model innovations, such as VMware and the formation of VCE. In 2011, analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor magazine named him the best CFO in IT hardware. Before becoming EMC’s CFO, Goulden led EMC’s Sales and Customer Operations worldwide, including Global Sales in all theaters as well as Global Channels, Alliances and Partners. Under his direction EMC rapidly transformed into a solutions-oriented technology company with a segmented go-to-market strategy and a partner-friendly selling model. Prior to that, he oversaw Marketing and New Business Development for the company. Goulden joined EMC in 2002 from Getronics, where he was a member of the board of management, president and chief operating officer Americas and APJ. Prior to Getronics acquiring Wang Global in 1999, he held executive, strategy and marketing roles during a decade with Wang, after a decade with Unisys before that. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Durham University (England) and an executive MBA degree from Cranfield School of Management (England).
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Jeffrey Boudreau
Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Ty Schmitt
Vice President / Fellow of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, reef.ai: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Tom Gillis
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network and Security of VMware
Tom Gillis is CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Gillis started Bracket with a vision to re-imagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. This Technology Group included the business units responsible for Cisco’s entire Network and Content Security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Tom was VP of Marketing and part if the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Before that, he held the position of VP/GM at iBEAM Broadcasting, an Internet start up that wentpublic on NASDAQ. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group, and Raytheon Corporation. Gillis received a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEEfrom Northwestern, and an MBA from Harvard.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Hüseyin Dursun
Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services of VMware
Hüseyin Dursun is the Vice President of Engineering & Head of VMware Engineering Services at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware
Mr. Rowe has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. Mr. Rowe has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware since March 2016. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DellEMC from October 2014 through February 2016. Prior to joining DellEMC, Mr. Rowe was Vice President of North American Sales of Apple Inc. from May 2012 to May 2014. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc., an airline holdings company, from October 2010 until April 2012 and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Continental Airlines from August 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Rowe currently serves on the board of directors of Sabre Corporation.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
June Yang
Vice President, Engineering and Product Management – VMware cloud on Dell EMC of VMware
June Yang serves as vice president of engineering and product management at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Lee Caswell
Vice President Marketing of VMware
General management and marketing for the storage, virtualization and digital video markets Specialties: Marketing, Strategy Development, Technology Alliances, OEM relationship management.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Paul Turner
Vice President Product Management vSphere of VMware
Paul Turner is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian Inc. since January 2014. Paul is responsible for marketing, product planning and strategy at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, Paul previously led the Product Strategy Office at NetApp, where he guided their investments into FlashRay, Iongrid and CacheIQ. Prior to that role, Paul was the General Manager of the OnCommand Insight Business (which included Onaro and Akorri). Under his leadership this enterprise software business grew to more than $60M and was recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Storage Resource Management market. Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle where he led Oracle’s Technology Alliances Division and their Support Engineering Team. Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and is based out of Cloudian’s Foster City, Calif. headquarters.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andy Banks
Vice President of Global Distribution of VMware
Andy Banks is a Vice President of Global Distribution at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sanjay Katyal
Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
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About Druva, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tanya Shastri
Vice President of Products, of VMware
Tanya Shastri is the Vice President of Products at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
John Gilmartin
General Manager and Vice President, Integrated Systems of VMware
John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Craig McLuckie
Vice President of VMware
Craig is the VP of R&D for VMware’s Cloud Native Applicationsbusiness unit. Craig arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a company that he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig spenttime in senior positions at Microsoft and Google; at the latter he made significant contributions to Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes. Craig also co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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About Kubernetes, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mark Chuang
Vice President, Product Management, Integrated Systems Business Unit of VMware
Mark Chuang is the VP, Product Management for VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit. His team accelerates the adoption of the software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud, by defining plans for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs. He has over 20 years of product experience across enterprise SW, personal computers, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Mark graduated with High Honors from the UC, Berkeley with a BS in EECS and has been awarded 6 US patents.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Geoff Thompson
Vice President: VMware Cloud Provider Sales of VMware
Geoff Thompson is a Senior Director of vCloud Air Network Programs at VMware.
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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Teri Bruns
Vice President, Tanzu Partner Ecosystem of VMware
Teri Bruns is a Vice President – Partner Services at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Charles Meyers
Chief Executive Officer & President of Equinix
Charles J. Meyers is the President and the Chief Executive officer at Equinix. He joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success teams. For the past year, he was President, Strategy, Services, and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering. Under Mr. Meyers’ leadership, SSI worked to optimize the company’s position as a cloud enabler, identify key growth areas, and evolve our services portfolio in response to market, competitive and technology trends. Mr. Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Meyers served as Group President at Verisign where he led a P&L portfolio including the company’s Security, Communications and Mobile Messaging businesses. Prior to Verisign, Mr. Meyers held various executive positions at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Global Marketing, President of IP and Data Services, and Senior Vice President, Softswitch Services. During his tenure, Mr. Meyers helped Level 3 emerge as a premier global provider of Internet and VoIP services.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jim Poole
Vice President, Ecosystem Business Development of Equinix
Jim Poole is the vice president of ecosystem development and global service providers at [Equinix](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/equinix). Prior to that, he was the general manager of global networks and mobility at the same company. He joined Equinix from Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, where he led business development and sales. Before Roundbox, he was vice president and general manager of network services at CenturyLink. He also held senior leadership positions at C&W Americas, dynamicsoft, American University Washington College of Law, and UUNET. Poole holds a bachelor’s degree from American University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Bill Long
Vice President- Interconnection Services of Equinix
Bill Long joined Equinix in 2013. He is responsible for the overall profitability and growth of Equinix interconnection products globally. This includes management of the existing portfolio and new product innovation. Prior to joining Equinix, Long served as Vice President of Voice Services at Level 3 Communications where held numerous product management, product develop and R&D related roles. He is a named inventor on five issued and pending patents.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Ryan Mallory
Senior Vice President Global Solutions Enablement of Equinix
Ryan Mallory serves as Equinix’s VP of Global Solutions Architects and is an active contributor in the IoT space. Sitting on multiple customer advisory boards and advising start-ups in Silicon Valley around the interconnect grid, city, home and person, his line of sight into emerging market trends and advanced execution is highly regarded. Key areas of expertise are the mobile integration point, edge access and aggregation point and core distribution infrastructure for IoT and the industrial internet. His guidance and recommendations have helped fortune 500 companies solidify their IoT roadmap and implement a comprehensive execution plan.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Chad Peterson
Vice-President for Strategy, Mergers, and Acquisitions of The Heritage Group
Chad Peterson joined VPC in 2011 and is a Vice President. He is primarily responsible for sourcing, analyzing, executing and management of direct private debt and equity investments in lower middle market companies in the Restaurant, Gaming, Lodging and Leisure sectors. Mr. Peterson also actively works on value creation initiatives and strategic alternatives for VPC’s investments. Mr. Peterson serves as a member the Board of Directors of VPC portfolio company VPC Pizza Operating Corp. (Giordano’s). Previously, Mr. Peterson worked at Qorval LLC, a turnaround advisory and interim-management firm focusing on financial and operational improvements for middle-market companies. He also worked in the Special Situations Group at American Capital and held various financial advisory positions at Bridge Associates and Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Peterson received a B.S. in finance and decision sciences from Miami University of Ohio and an M.B.A. with Honors from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is an active committee member of the Champions for Children’s charity event, benefitting the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Mr. Peterson speaks on issues related to distressed investing and has been a guest lecturer and panelist at the University of Chicago’s Booth Global School of Business and at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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About The Heritage Group: Privately owned large conglomerate in energy, refining, chemicals, construction, environmental and recycling sectors seeking opportunities
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Kevin Thompson
President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds
Kevin Thompson brings nearly 20 years of corporate finance, strategic planning and management experience to the NetSuite board. Thompson currently serves as president and chief executive officer at SolarWinds, a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software applications. Prior to SolarWinds, Thompson was senior vice president and chief financial officer at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world. Before that, he was chief financial officer, treasurer, and an executive vice president of Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHT), the world’s leading provider of Linux and open source solutions to the enterprise. Earlier in his career, Thompson served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he managed operations, debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions for public and private technology companies.
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About Samanage, SolarWinds: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Saaya Nath
Vice President of Jump Capital
Saaya Nath currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Boston Consulting Group as an Associate.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Tarun Gupta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Tarun Gupta currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. He previously worked at Scientific Games as the Manager.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Vice President of Jump Capital
Shanav Mehta is the Vice President at Jump Capital.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Alban Schmutz
Senior Vice-President, Business Dev. & Public Affairs of OVHcloud
Alban Schmutz is a SVP of Business Dev & Public Affairs at OVH.com.
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About OVHcloud: OVHcloud is an independent French company that offers web, dedicated, and cloud hosting solutions.
Sujai Hajela
Co-founder, President & CEO of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Michael Tweddle
President and General Manager, Platform Management of Quest Software
Michael has more than 17 years of experience working in many areas of enterprise software including Windows management, IT security and compliance software. Most recently, Michael was the Sr. Director of Outbound Product Management for the One Identity business and worked closely with product management, product marketing, customers, partners, and analysts to ensure the business delivered the right portfolio of solutions to market. Prior to joining the One Identity team, Michael was the Chief Strategy Officer at BetterCloud which delivered SaaS solutions to manage and secure cloud office platforms such as Google Apps and Office 365. Michael has also held various leadership positions in product management at Quest Software/Dell Software, most notably as the executive director of product management for Dell Software’s Windows Management business. Michael is also a founding member of Product Tank Atlanta. With close to 700 members, this group meets quarterly to discuss building, managing, selling, and marketing great software and SaaS solutions. Michael holds a bachelor in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University and a MBA, Finance from St. Thomas University.
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About Dell, Quest Software: Quest Software is a software manufacturer that develops, manufactures, and supports software used by IT professionals.
Max Silber
Vice President of Mobility of MetTel
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & President of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Steven J. Demetriou
President & Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs
Steve Demetriou is the Financial Controller at Inventis Ltd.
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About Inventis, Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Ankur Gupta
Senior Vice-President of Brookfield Asset Management
Ankur is a member of the real estate investments team at Brookfield and is based out of New York. He has over 10 years of experience in real estate. Ankur joined Brookfield in 2012 and has been involved in a wide range of real estate investments totaling more than $15 billion. He also oversees Brookfield’s real estate investments in India. Ankur received his MBA with Dean’s Honors from Columbia Business School and holds a B Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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About Brookfield Asset Management: Brookfield Asset Management is a Canadian asset management firm focused on property, renewable energy, infrastructure, and private equity.
Marc Ganzi
President and CEO of DigitalBridge Group
Marc C. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer of DigitalBridge. Prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of DigitalBridge, Mr. Ganzi founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Digital Bridge Holdings, a leading global investor and owner of mobile and internet infrastructure that was acquired by DigitalBridge in July 2019 as part of DigitalBridge’s transformation to become the premier platform for digital infrastructure and real estate investment. At the time of the acquisition, Digital Bridge Holdings managed nearly $20 billion of global digital infrastructure assets, including assets managed with DigitalBridge in its initial digital infrastructure fund. In conjunction with the acquisition, Mr. Ganzi became CEO-Elect of DigitalBridge. Prior to Digital Bridge, Mr. Ganzi founded Global Tower Partners (“GTP”) in 2003, which grew to become one of the largest privately-owned tower companies in the U.S. under his leadership before being acquired by American Tower Corporation in 2013 for $4.8 billion. At GTP, Mr. Ganzi executed a series of strategic acquisitions, build-to-suit agreements with wireless carriers and financings in the credit markets. Prior to the formation of GTP, Mr. Ganzi worked as a consulting partner for DB Capital Partners from 2000 to 2002 where he oversaw the institution’s investments in the Latin American tower sector. Before joining DB Capital, Mr. Ganzi co-founded and served as President of Apex Site Management, one of the largest third-party managers of wireless and wireline communication sites in the United States. In 2000, Apex merged with SpectraSite Communications to create one of the largest telecommunications site portfolios in the United States at the time. In 1990, Mr. Ganzi served as an assistant Commercial Attaché in Madrid for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Foreign Commercial Service Department. He also served as a Presidential Intern in the White House for the George H.W. Bush administration with the Office of Special Activities and Initiatives for the Honorable Stephen M. Studdert in 1989. Mr. Ganzi received a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School of Business in 1993. He was a Board Member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association from 2008 to 2017 and served as Chairman from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission, and he currently serves on the board of the Aspen Valley Ski Club.
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About Colony Capital, DigitalBridge Group: DigitalBridge is a global digital infrastructure REIT.
Pete Patel
Vice President of Operations of Coho Data
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About Coho Data: The Coho Data platform delivers Rack Scale Converged, Software-Defined Data Center solutions for the enterprise private cloud.
Tom Kurke
Vice President, Acceleration Ventures of Bentley Systems
Tom Kurke is the Vice President, Acceleration Ventures at Bentley Systems.
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About 3DSolver, Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Barry Bentley
Executive Vice President of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems, Bentley Systems Scandinavia: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Jerry King
Vice President of Bentley Systems
Jerry King is Vice President of Strategic Alliances and is the alliance lead for Bentley’s partnership with Microsoft. While at Bentley, King has served as global vice president of business development for Asset Performance, global vice president of Utilities and Communications, vice president of Engineering Information Management and vice president of WorkPlace System Solutions, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate and product research and development startup. King contributed to the development, launch and progressive sales growth of ProjectWise®, the leading-edge engineering information management solution. Since its introduction in 1998, ProjectWise has been adopted by major engineering and infrastructure owner organizations worldwide and represents a huge technological and productivity-enhancing leap forward for organizations managing engineering projects. King is a registered engineer in the State of California and is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Association of Civil Engineers.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Zach McGuire
Group President of Mastec
As Group President of MasTec Advanced Technologies, Zach McGuire leads one of the largest installation and fulfillment services companies in the country, serving millions of customers per year on behalf of the nation’s most recognizable brands. Zach’s depth of experience within the telecommunications industry and passion for leading high performing teams have been paramount in forging the continued success of the division, which has evolved to serve a broad range of industries including Cable, Wireless, Satellite, Home Security and Automation, Smart Cities and Energy. Zach began his career in 1992 as a cable TV installer with TCI and was promoted throughout his tenure there, eventually serving as Director of High Speed Data, where he spearheaded the launch of TCI’s digital cable and high speed internet service lines. In 2001, Zach accepted a position with Viasource Communications as Vice President of Operations, where he led their DIRECTV® business line, and moved on to become President of Ironwood Communications in 2003 after Viasource was acquired. Zach is an avid supporter and sponsor of several local charities including Kiwanis, Big Brothers Big Sisters Colorado, Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association, Fore Melina and American Heart Association. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Metropolitan State University of Denver and sits on the board of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA).
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About Mastec: MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company.
Robert Apple
President of Mastec
Robert Apple has been our Chief Operating Officer since December 2006. Previously, Mr. Apple served as Group President for MasTec’s energy service operations since 2005. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Apple was a senior vice president at DIRECTV®, where he was responsible for the installation and service network, warranty program, supply chain management and national dispatch support. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Apple, while on assignment from Hughes Electronics/DIRECTV® Latin America to Telefonica S.A., served as Chief Operating Officer and Board member of Via Digital, a direct broadcast satellite company and Telefonica affiliate. From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Apple served in various capacities within the Hughes Electronics organization, including as Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Electronics-Spain, Vice President of Hughes Europe and as a program manager for a Hughes Electronics training and support systems group.
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About Mastec: MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company.
George L. Pita
Executive Vice President and CFO of Mastec
George Pita became our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2014, upon the retirement of our previous Chief Financial Officer C. Robert Campbell. Mr. Pita joined MasTec in February 2013, as its CFO-Operations. From June 2007 until joining MasTec in 2013, Mr. Pita served as EVP and CFO to Stuart Weitzman Holdings, a manufacturer, designer and retailer of fine women’s footwear and accessories. From April 2002 to June 2007, Mr. Pita served in various capacities at Perry Ellis International, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2004 – 2007. From 1989 – 2002, Mr. Pita served in a variety of financial and operations positions at Sunglass Hut International, including Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pita earned his Bachelors in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Miami in 1983 and has been a certified public accountant for approximately 30 years. Mr. Pita also serves or has served in various charitable and other capacities, including current appointments at the University of Miami Accounting school advisory board, as well as a board member of Easter Seals of South Florida. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Pita served as a special advisor to Atlas Acquisition Holdings, Corp., a special purpose acquisition corporation.
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About Mastec: MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company.
Girish Arora
Vice President – Financial Services & Business Unit Head of HTC Global Services Inc
An accomplished IT industry business and sales leader with more than 25 years of comprehensive experience, Girish Arora has been managing the Financial Services vertical to accelerate growth in the Banking and Financial Services industry for IT and Business Process Outsourcing services. He has experience in leadership roles in the IT and BPO industry in the areas of Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Sales Management, Engagement Management, and Resource Management. Girish, with his strong business planning and execution experience, was responsible for starting, building, and growing the new business areas. He has been developing and managing senior level relationships with strategic customers, generating new business, managing engagements, and leading cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery and customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 companies. Girish has been creating and implementing Go-to-Market strategy, pursuit strategies for new and existing customers, managing overall relationship building process, ensuring customer satisfaction and successful delivery. He has been building and managing a world class Sales and Client relationship team for Onshore and Offshore Engagements providing direction, goal setting, mentoring, personal development, and performance management.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Prashant Kothari
Vice President and Practice Leader of HTC Global Services Inc
Prashant leads the effort for providing thought leadership in ECM, BPM, and Online Publishing domains. He is also responsible for the delivery of technology solutions for enabling digital transformation and driving operational efficiencies. Prashant has been instrumental in building strategic relationships with clients to provide IT services and manage large value IT projects delivery across business verticals. In his 20+ years of tenure at HTC, he has been consistently recognized for driving the company’s growth through strategic technology initiatives. Before joining HTC, Prashant was managing a company involved in developing Embedded Systems and Solutions for the Department of Defense agencies. Prashant holds a degree in Electronics Engineering.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Venu Vaishya
Executive Vice President – Operations of HTC Global Services Inc
As Executive Vice President, Operations, Venu is responsible for the US Business Operations. In this role he supports business development across all verticals, Global Strategic Sourcing, Human Resources Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. In addition, Venu heads the Human Resource function for CareTech Solutions, Inc also, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC Global Services. He joined HTC in December 2009. Venu brings over 41 years of diverse business leadership experience in the IT Industry. Prior to HTC, Venu was with Convansys / CSC and TCS. During his tenure at Covansys / CSC, he managed new business efforts, led the automotive business unit as the Head of Human Resources, played a vital role in the IPO and spearheaded the integration of several newly acquired companies. As Executive Vice President of Offshore Solutions, at Covansys/CSC, Venu played an integral role in driving growth, from overseeing contract negotiations, to executing a large contract for one of their top clients. In his 16 plus years at TCS, he performed in several different Technical roles. He was the Regional Manager in their New York office, during last three years of his tenure with TCS.
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
James Joseph
Executive Vice President – Public Sector of HTC Global Services Inc
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About HTC Global Services Inc: HTC Global Services provides IT solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.
Weili Dai
Co-Founder & President of Marvell
Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world today. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she has helped Marvell’s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Mitch Gaynor
Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell
Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Ratmir Timashev
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Development of Veeam Software
Ratmir Timashev possesses a rare combination of proven business savvy, forward-looking technical knowledge and market vision. Ratmir brings to bear more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience building, advising and investing in successful technology companies. As Veeam Software’s Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development Mr. Timashev is responsible for strategy and process execution on acquisitions and investments to expand Veeam’s total addressable market (TAM) as well as to build and lead the Veeam Global Marketing Organization in executing the marketing plan and strategy. In 1997, he founded Aelita Software, provider of award-winning Windows Server systems management software. In 2004, Aelita was acquired by Quest Software, and after ensuring the successful continuation of Aelita’s products and strategy at Quest, Ratmir founded Veeam Software to provide similar systems management solutions for modern virtualized data center infrastructures. Over the last decade, Ratmir’s vision and drive has seen Veeam to become one of the largest private software companies in the world with revenue booking projected to reach $1 Biillon in 2018 and 3,000 employees worldwide. Veeam has become the leader and the innovative provider of data management and protection by creating a new market category of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise. Ratmir earned a master’s degree in Chemical Physics from the Ohio State University in 1995. He continues to share his knowledge and ideas to fuel innovative IT solutions around the world.
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About ABRT, Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Jason Buffington
Vice President, Solutions Strategy of Veeam Software
30 years of data protection/availability, BC/DR and systems management subject-matter expertise — including field-engagement, sales/marketing, and product management experience across multiple ISVs and channel partners, Microsoft, and as an industry analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Now at Veeam.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Emad Rizk
President and Chief Executive Officer of R1 RCM
Emad Rizk currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Accretive Health. He previously served as president of McKesson Health Solutions, a business unit of McKesson Corporation, and as Senior Partner and Global Director, Medical Management/Pharmacy for Deloitte Consulting. He led the company’s medical cost and quality management practice. Previous to that, he held a variety of roles at Monsanto Corporation, serving as Associate Medical Director, Corporate Medical and Scientific Affairs and then Worldwide Medical Director. Emad Rizk was formerly a member of the board of DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance and currently serves on the boards of directors of the National Association for Hispanic Health, Manage Care Editorial, Accuray Inc. and Accretive Health. A Senior Scholar professor at Jefferson Medical College, Emad Rizk’s work has been widely published in medical journals and medical books. His book, The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and Payers, focuses on ways that providers and payers can work together to reduce costs while improving efficiency and patient care. In 2013, Modern Physician named Emad Rizk one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in the United States,” the fifth time he has been recognized by this publication. In addition, Modern Healthcare has listed him among the “Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” while Managed Healthcare Executive named him to its “Top 25 Leaders in Disease Management.” Emad Rizk has frequently lectured at Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg School, and Columbia Business School.
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About R1 RCM: R1 RCM serves as a revenue cycle management partner for hospitals and healthcare systems regardless of the payment models.
Trevor Lund
Vice President of Finance of Pelion Venture Partners
Trevor joined the Pelion team in 2017. Trevor’s key responsibilities revolve around financial reporting, with duties that include preparation of the GAAP financial statements and assisting in the valuation of the fund’s portfolio companies. Prior to Pelion, Trevor was a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was charged with managing the day-to-day activities on numerous SEC and asset management engagements. He was also one of two employees chosen by the national office to be mentored by Manhattan-based CEO Bob Moritz; never before, or since, has an employee from the Salt Lake City office been chosen for such an honor. Trevor graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from Utah State University and is a licensed CPA and member of the UACPA and AICPA.
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About Pelion Venture Partners: Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
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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About Cisco, JC2 Ventures: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
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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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
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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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
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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Don Neault
Vice President, Advanced Services Global Enterprise Theater of Cisco
Don Neault is responsible for executive management and delivery of consulting, engineering and professional services to Cisco’s largest Global Enterprise customers. He leads dedicated teams that address the technical challenges faced by customers in Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Logistics, Retail, and Oil and Gas. Neault has successfully married Cisco’s preferred go-to-market model with the complexities and desires of his customers’ business models to drive complementary strategies for business growth, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. Neault and his team work with Cisco’s community of engineers, business development, account managers, and the company’s ecosystem of systems integrators and partners to meet the unique requirements of this global segment. Neault has held a variety of leadership positions in Cisco Services where he established a professional services team focused on the Service Provider and the Public Sector markets. Among his major achievements was the successful planning, execution and migration of a Voice over IP service offering for two major cable companies in the US and the establishment of a Global Enterprise Services Agreement with the US Army. Prior to joining Cisco in 1999, Neault served as Vice President of Outsourcing at Bell Atlantic Network Integration (BANI). In this capacity, he managed outsourcing service contracts involving networking and distributed computing environments. In addition, Neault provided executive management to outsourcing account operations through the entire life cycle from due diligence and transition, to ongoing operations. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Neault managed the Communications Industry Professional Services Center where he was responsible for the definition, sale and delivery of complex systems integration services for the company’s clients in the communications industry. He holds a Master of Science degree in computer and information systems from Northeastern University. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Lowell Technological Institute. Neault also is a graduate of Boston University’s Management Development Program.
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Curtis Hill
Senior Vice President, Customer Assurance of Cisco
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Anand Oswal
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Enterprise Networking Business of Cisco
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Shari Slate
Vice President, Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Officer of Cisco
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Jose Van Dijk
Vice President Operations and Partner Performance GPO of Cisco
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Surendra Saboo
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Onvoy
Dr. Surendra Saboo has more than 28 years of telecommunications executive management experience. Prior to becoming the EVP and COO of Onvoy, Surendra was the CEO of the Telecom Services Division of Transaction Network Services (TNS). Preceding TNS, Surendra was the President and COO of Inteliquent where he was responsible for Sales, Product Management, Network Engineering and Operations, Service Delivery, Customer Care and Information Technology. Surendra started his career with AT&T in 1986 as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ and then spent the next 14 years in a variety of operating areas, including research and development, engineering, product management, strategy, systems development and operations. He was instrumental in launching AT&T into local services after the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Surendra holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, India, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program from University of Hawaii.
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Teri Asiala
Executive Vice President of Corporate Development of Onvoy
Teri rejoined Onvoy in 2008 and runs Sales, Product Management, Customer Service and Sales Engineering. She has 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry starting her telecom career as one of the founding employees of Onvoy (MEANS) in 1992. As Director of IT, Teri led the IT, Customer Service, ISP and Product Development organizations before leaving in 1998 to join Ovation Communications. Ovation was later purchased by McLeodUSA, where Teri became the VP of the IT organization and was a member of the Executive team. After leaving McLeodUSA, she became an independent management consultant and assisted numerous CLECs and ILECs with all aspects of their business including regulatory and interconnection support, revenue assurance, operational processes and IT support.
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Kyle Bertrand
Vice President of Procurement Management of Onvoy
Kyle Bertrand, VP Carrier Services and Procurement Management, is responsible for Long Distance Termination, Toll Free Origination, SS7 Services and Procurement Management for Onvoy. Prior to Onvoy, Kyle served as Vice President of Network Planning and Regulation for Broadvox, which was acquired by Onvoy, LLC in 2015. Kyle has over 25 years of Telecom experience and is often noted by colleagues to be one of the most knowledgeable people in Telecom. Kyle started his career as a Manager at Centurytel and then at Metro Access Networks. Kyle moved on to be a Director of Engineering and Provisioning at CoServ before joining @Link Networks as their Vice President of Engineering, where he was responsible for Network Development, Planning, Design, Procurement, Implementation, and Provisioning of a 14 state network. Kyle then spent 8 years in Network and Engineering at Pac-West where he was responsible for Network Operations & Planning, Provisioning, CAPEX, OPEX, Network Engineering, Sales Engineering, Traffic & Translation Engineering and the NOC. Kyle holds a B.S. degree in Biomedical/Medical Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University
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Nick Reifschneider
Vice President of Enhanced Communications Strategic Products of Onvoy
Nick Reifschneider, Vice President – Enhanced Communications Strategic Product Group, is responsible for the growth of Onvoy’s Voice, SMS and Mobility Platform services. With over 19 years of experience in a wide range of roles Nick is able to mesh the different nuances of product, marketing and operations to create services that add value to the customer. Prior to joining Onvoy, Nick held several roles at 360networks, a CLEC and fiber network operator based in Seattle, WA. Nick started his career at 360networks as Director of Land and Buildings overseeing the construction of telecom facilities throughout North America. He then moved into a Director of Sales Engineering position prior to his last role as of Product Director. Before his time at 360networks, Nick was the Regional Manager for Facility Construction at Qwest and was also a Project Manager at Turner Construction. Nick has a Bachelors in Construction Management from the University of Nebraska and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Colorado.
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Michael Wistock
VSP Market Segment Vice President of Onvoy
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Kate Flanagan
Vice President of 3i Group
Kate joined 3i’s New York Infrastructure team as a Vice President in 2018. Her role is principally focused on the evaluation of infrastructure opportunities in North America and asset management support to 3i’s North American infrastructure assets. Kate has over 9 years’ experience in the infrastructure investment community. Prior to joining 3i, Kate worked at QIC in their newly established North American office for two and a half years where she managed the transport sector for QIC’s North American activities across both business development and asset management. Previously, Kate ran an independent consulting business providing support to equity investors on global transport assets and had a six-year career with Cintra in Texas and Sydney. She was a founding member of Cintra’s Sydney office in her role as Technical Manager, undertaking corporate and business development activities in Australia and Southeast Asia. Her other roles at Cintra included being Traffic and Revenue Manager for Cintra’s North American market. Key responsibilities in these prior roles included deal origination, transaction due diligence, and asset portfolio management. Kate holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Hons) and Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Transportation (Hons), both from the University of Texas at Austin.
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