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This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Internet of Things 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.
Amit Vyas
Global Vice President, Inside Sales of Samsara
Amit is responsible for building and scaling a high-performance sales organization and driving all revenue growth. Known for his energy, motivating leadership style and sharp attire, Amit brings over 15 years of experience across IT, networking, direct and channel sales. Most recently, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the sales organization and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. When Amit’s not working, he can be found playing almost any competitive sport, doing Bikram yoga, riding his motorcycle, playing chess or hanging with his wife and son at Crissy Field.Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
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Ivo Rook
COO & President, North America of 1NCE
Ivo Rook is a recognized IoT pioneer with a long experience in the cellular telecommunications market. He was previously CEO IoT at Vodafone and Senior Vice President at T-Mobile US/Sprint and working as liaison officer to SoftBank Group. As a proven expert on the IoT market, he is an independent advisor to I Squared Capital, a U.S. private equity firm, and board member of Global Telecom, California-based manufacturer of IoT modules and devices. He is also member of the advisory board of Digitize Things Inc, an IoT software development company also based in California, USA. Rook studied Master of Science in Information Technology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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About 1NCE: 1NCE offers managed connectivity services for IoT solutions at a global flat rate.
Stephen Trundle
President & Chief Executive Officer of Alarm.com
Steve Trundle is the president and chief executive officer of Alarm.com. Previously, he was the chief technology officer of MicroStrategy. Trundle holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences and government from Dartmouth College. He lives in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Reed Grothe
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Alarm.com
Reed Grothe has served as our Senior Vice President of Business Development since April 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Grothe served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the pro audio division of Harman International Industries, Incorporated from 2006 to 2010 and as the Chief Global Sales Officer of Gibson Guitar Corp. from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining Gibson, Mr. Grothe served as Senior Vice President and General Manager as well as Vice President of Global Sales at GE Security, now under the umbrella of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Grothe holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Donald Natale
Senior Vice President of Sales of Alarm.com
Donald Natale has served as our Senior Vice President of Sales since July 2014 and prior to that served as our Vice President of Sales since June 2006. Prior to us, Mr. Natale served as Vice President of Dealer Sales for GE Security, now under the umbrella of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Natale also has served as Vice President of Sales for Sequel Technologies, LLC, Territory Manager for Interactive Technologies Incorporated, and Sales Manager for Rollins Protective Services Company. Mr. Natale holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Edinboro University.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Daniel Ramos
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Alarm.com
Daniel Ramos has served as our Senior Vice President of Corporate Development since June 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ramos served as Principal Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense. Prior to his service with the Air Force, Mr. Ramos was the Vice President of Legal and Business Planning at The Away Network, a business unit of Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. Before joining The Away Network, he was a senior transactional attorney with the law firm of Shaw Pittman LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP). Mr. Ramos holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Jason DaCosta
Vice President of Customer Operations of Alarm.com
Jason DaCosta has served as our Vice President of Customer Operations since May 2014. Joining Alarm.com as a Sales Associate in 2004, Mr. DaCosta has served us in a variety of roles, currently overseeing Alarm.com’s customer service and support organization. Prior to working at Alarm.com, Mr. DaCosta started his career as a Marketing Associate with the Corporate Executive Board. Mr. DaCosta holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Victoria Schillinger
Vice President of Human Resources of Alarm.com
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Steve Chazin
Vice President Of Products of Alarm.com
Steve is a Chief Product and Marketing Officer. He is equally adept at product strategy and tactics and has an excellent on-stage presence. He is a rare individual who has synthesized a stellar background in engineering, sales, marketing and management to become a true product leader.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Hamid Ansari
President & Co-Founder of Prodea
Hamid Ansari is President and Co-Founder and brings more than 25 years of entrepreneurial experience building and deploying technology products and services worldwide. His expertise in strategic positioning, mergers and acquisitions has resulted in several successful business transactions with values ranging from tens of millions to more than a billion dollars. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Hamid co-founded telecom technologies, inc., where he managed a professional services organization and oversaw the creation and worldwide deployment of four carrier-class products. Hamid served as the company’s President until its successful merger with Sonus Networks (Nasdaq: SONS) in 2001. Hamid launched his career at MCI, where he was part of a small group of pioneers in the world of telecommunications divestitures. As part of the advanced engineering group, his contributions led to the development and implementation of new products and services and resulted in one of the most technically advanced telecommunications networks in the world. Later, Hamid headed the advanced data communications network division of an international consulting company in support of World Bank projects in Africa and the Middle East. Hamid has completed advanced credits towards a doctorate of communications. He earned a master’s degree in computer science and telecommunications from George Washington University.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
Kathy Lam
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of Prodea
Kathy Lam is responsible for Human Resources and brings 21 years of experience in all aspects of human resources to Prodea Systems. Prior to joining the company, Kathy served as the Director of Human Resources for Sonus Networks. She was responsible for a global organization in excess of 700 employees located in the US, EMEA and APAC. During her tenure at Sonus Networks, she managed the human resources activities for multiple acquisitions, including her prior organization, telecom technologies, inc. Prior to Sonus Networks/telecom technologies, Kathy was with the telecommunications division of Teradyne Inc. responsible for over 400 employees in an engineering and manufacturing environment. Kathy holds a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations from Loyola University in Chicago, as well as a bachelors of science degree in education, minor in mathematics and computer science, from the University of Illinois, Champaign.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
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.
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.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Shankar Chandran
Vice President, Catalyst Fund of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Shankar Chandran is vice president at Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Catalyst Fund, at the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). The SSIC is based in Menlo Park, California and is focused on accelerating innovation for Samsung Electronics. Shankar is responsible for early stage and disruptive venture capital investments in technologies targeted at high growth sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile technology and security, digital health, next-generation user interfaces, and the internet of things. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Panorama Capital and has been an active venture investor for 12 years at Panorama Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Shankar has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He also serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, and has served as a director or observer on the boards of over ten companies. Shankar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India, an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Jon Roberts
President, Dotdash Finance of Dotdash
Dr. Jon Roberts has a PhD in theoretical high-energy physics with ten years of research experience in high-energy particle physics and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. At Dotdash, Dr. Roberts leads a team of researchers deriving insights from more than 20 years of Internet data across thousands of topics. As a Marie Curie research fellow at Warsaw University, Dr. Roberts studied how dark matter might appear at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. After Poland, Dr. Roberts spent five years as a researcher at New York University, where he made predictions for solar system cosmic rays, currently being tested by NASA’s AMS detector on the International Space Station. He also worked on the Pierre Auger telescope in Argentina, tracking the detected ultrahigh energy cosmic rays back to their origins outside our galaxy.
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About Dotdash, Dotdash, Investopedia: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Tre Jones
Senior Vice President, Growth of Dotdash
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About Dotdash: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Joseph Tou
Vice President / US Investment Manager of Sony Innovation Fund
Joseph Tou is Vice President / US Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund.
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About Sony Innovation Fund: Sony Innovation fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony that invests and engages in early-stage companies.
Nicole Zheng
Founder and President of Minim
Nicole Zheng is the Co- founder and CMO of Minim (OTCQB: MINM), the creator of innovative internet access products under the globally-recognized Motorola brand. While at Minim, she has been recognized by Entrepreneur as a Top Female Founder in the United States (2020). Prior to Minim, Nicole held the position of Chief Marketing Officer at cloud software companies Antidote Technologies and OnSIP (ACQ: Intrado). She has served as a board member of Alliance of Channel Women, a nonprofit on a mission to advance careers for women in the communications technology sector through education, community, and advocacy. Nicole holds a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering and B.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as business certifications from The Wharton School. She currently resides in Southampton, NY.
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About Minim, Zoom Telephonics (now Minim): Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Eric Hauser
Vice President of Engineering of DroneDeploy
Eric Hauser is the VP of engineering at DroneDeploy.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Tyler Raugh
Co-Founder & President of Booster
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About Booster: Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing last-mile delivery.
Vidya Subramanian
Vice President – Emerging Technologies of Roambee
An energetic leader and results driven executive with over 15 years of solution delivery experience, Vidya Subramanian is the Vice President of Products and Co-founder of Roambee. He is responsible for product strategy, product delivery, and product management with a singular focus on product-market fit. Prior to Roambee, Vidya was Co-Founder and VP Professional Services at KeyTone Technologies Inc, a RFID technology company focused on providing a technology enabled service for real time asset monitoring through an enterprise scale sensor based platform. KeyTone was successfully acquired by Global Asset Tracking UK Ltd. He has also held influential and leadership roles at Plexus Technologies Inc., KPMG Consulting, Unisys, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Vidya holds a Masters in Computer Science from Temple University and dual Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Calvin College, Michigan.
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About Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Patrice Carroll
President and CEO of ImOn Communications
Patrice M. Carroll served as Group Vice President of Business Development at McLeodUSA. Patrice Carroll serves as President of ImOn Communications LLC and has been its Chief Executive Officer. Patrice Carroll served as General Manager of ImOn Communications LLC. Patrice Carroll served as Senior Vice President of Communication Services Engineering at MCI. She served 12-years at MCI, where she played a key role in developing product strategy and systems architecture for a number of major initiatives, including driving existing telephony products toward converged voice and data services strategy; integration of long distance, local, PBX and Internet product offerings; and the development of partner relationships to support several key voice and IP-based product launches. Patrice Carroll serves as Director of ImOn Communications LLC.
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About ImOn Communications: ImOn Communications is the smart choice for cable, Internet and phone service for residents of Cedar Rapids and Marion.
Darren Hudgins
Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer
Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.
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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Automotive and Embedded Line of Business of Arm Holdings
Dipti Vachani is vice president in the Internet of Things Group and general manager of the Strategy and Solutions Engineering Division at Intel Corporation. Vachani’s organization is responsible for driving the overall strategy, technology direction, industry standards and IoT Edge product portfolio for IOTG.Prior to joining Intel, Vachani served as vice president and general manager of Power, Lighting and Display at Skyworks, maker of analog semiconductors. In that role, she managed product development, applications and operations.Before that, Vachani worked at Texas Instruments for 17 years, where her most recent position was vice president and general manager of the Single Core Processors group , a multinational business unit consisting of ARM MPU, video security and DSP. Also, while at Texas Instruments, Vachani led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of ARM MPUs.Vachani holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University and an executive MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a graduate of the executive education program at both the Harvard and Cambridge business schools.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Surajit Datta
Vice President of Arm Holdings
Surajit Datta is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Arm since 2017. His role includes leading merger and acquisitions transactions and investments across multiple sub-sectors in technology, including emerging memory, IoT and security. Prior to joining Arm, Surajit was Managing Director at Evercore Partners in New York. He has over 15 years of investment banking experience on Wall Street, leading origination and execution of advisory and capital raising transactions in technology, media and telecom sectors at JPMorgan and Evercore. He has closed over $100 billion of M&A and over $20 billion of financing transactions. Surajit has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelors of Technology (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Rene Haas
President Intellectual Property Group of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Raymond Liao
Managing Director & Vice President of Samsung NEXT
Raymond Liao is a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, with a special focus on Security, Big Data, Cloud, and AI. Previously Raymond was the founding CTO of Siemens Industrial Communications business in Germany. He started as an innovator at Siemens Berkeley to commercializing his PhD into a startup but failed post dot-com bubble, then as a spin-in and grew into the market-leading industrial WLAN business
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
John Kilpatrick
Vice President – Global Head of Product & Experience of Samsung NEXT
John Kilpatrick is leading several new initiatives for Samsung that include: mobile, TV, Home Appliances and emerging new hardware. Before joining Samsung, John was the CEO of a mobile startup (www.cabinapp.com) that was acquired by Samsung’s MSCA division. The company was funded by The Samsung Accelerator in NYC and voted one of the best family app by Google Play in 2013. Prior to Cabin and Samsung, John was senior vice president and executive creative director at The Daily, a first-of-its-kind news publication built exclusively for the iPad. This app was developed hand-in-hand between Apple and News Corp., and the resulting publication had the aesthetics and readability of a digital magazine, the daily frequency of a newspaper, and the interactive experience of a tablet app. John built a world class product and design team and directly managed a team of 65+people. Some of the awards he received while at The Daily was one of the best news apps from Wired Magazine and a Webby award. He has spent his career spearheading digital products and teams for both start-ups and large-scale media organizations. Previously, Kilpatrick was vice president and group creative director for AOL Media, where he led the interactive design team, developing new digital media products and content for more than 80 websites that reached more than 100 million people. While at AOL, John earned over 30 design patents. Prior to joining AOL, he was a founding partner of the New York City design studio Double K Design, where he worked with Nike, Prada, Estée Lauder, Mercedes-Benz, Absolute Vodka, Razorfish, Honda, Versace, B&B Italia and several boutique hotels. Kilpatrick is an active “media board” member for the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City (Smithsonian National Design Museum) and is a mentor for RGA/Techstars Accelerator program.
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About Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Brian MacLeod
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Darren J. Milliken
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ForeScout Technologies
Darren J. Milliken Senior Vice President and General Counsel With over 20 years of legal, business and compliance experience, Darren leads global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining ForeScout, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Accuray Inc. Before Accuray, he held several senior level legal roles at Sanmina-SCI, Voyan Technology, and the law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Sean Chen
President of Ambiq Micro
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About Ambiq Micro: Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor manufacturing company that develops mixed-signal solutions for wireless electronics.
Robert Frederick
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Sirqul
Robert Frederick, founder and CEO of Sirqul, has been focused on connected communities of devices, people, and businesses since 1993. He was inspired by the boundless future potential of smart connected devices and leveraged this passion to attend MIT, to work on projects in the MIT Media Lab, and to join one of the first startups focused on standards that would later be called BlueTooth in the late nineties. The startup’s licensed product, DeviceTalk.com, was a central server running Intelligent Agents that used event-based logic to complete actions on behalf of its users via simple commands and conditional triggers. Identity and Presence was important then and still tends to be important now. Amazon acquired the company in 1999, and Robert led the internal team, Amazon Anywhere, that focused on making it possible to interact with Amazon Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device. After becoming the technical co-founder of Amazon Web Services and setting the stage for Amazon to become profitable leveraging the Cloud, Rob started Sirqul to create an Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem on top of the cloud that also works at the edge. Sirqul has numerous partners that span Retail, Smart Buildings, Autonomous Vehicles, and Robotics.
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About GripWire, Sirqul: Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
Mahesh Veerina
President & CEO of Cloudleaf
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Matt Judge
President and Partner of Eight
I am a creative leader who thrives at the intersection between brand, business and design. Since graduating in 2003, my career has given me the opportunity to work across continents, categories and disciplines, delivering award winning work and experiencing both the client and agency side of the table in the process. At Apple, California, I worked in both the retail and product team, delivering Apple’s creative strategy and launching projects such as iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air. Prior to my American dream I worked at a number of respected brand and communications agencies, large and small, learning the power of both ideas and craft and working with the likes of Westfield, Sony, Burberry, Hewlett Packard and Rankin in the process. In 2009 I founded Design Assembly (.org), an online design forum gathering an audience of over 80,000 unique visitors each month to critically discuss design and its impact in the world. Sales from its published compendium, ‘DA3’, have raised over £14k for cancer charities worldwide. In 2013 the publication, which I wrote, edited and designed was recognised by The Creative Circle with a prestigious ‘Gold’ award for creative excellence. Interests… — Brand, marketing and communication design — Sociology and anthropology — Innovation and service design — Culture creation and organisational design — Change management — Social activism — Genomics and Healthcare innovation Recent speaking engagements… — Harvard Business Review ‘The CEO’ awards (Istanbul): ‘Designing Performance’ — Index Conference (Dubai): ‘Designing Performance’ — Citi Mobile Challenge (London): ‘Innovation at Scale’ — Imperial College (London): ‘Human Experience Design’ — Crystal Apple Creative Festival (Istanbul): ‘Fame’ — MasterCard StartPath (Berlin): ‘Lessons on ‘engaging”
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About Eight: We design meaningful experiences. Experiences with emotion and purpose that change the way people think, feel and do.
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
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About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Jim Xiao
Founder & President of Mason
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Joy Weiss
President & CEO of Tempo Automation
Joy Weiss, currently President of Dust Networks at Analog Devices, has held executive leadership positions over the past 35 years at a variety of private and public technology companies. Joy was CEO of Dust Networks, a pioneer in industrial wireless sensor networking, when it was acquired by Linear Technology in 2011, and she has served on the boards of several private companies in Silicon Valley. She is currently on the board of Vigilent and Tempo Automation. Joy is also the Chair of the board of Playworks, a national non-profit based in Oakland, CA. Joy holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Analog Devices, InkSpace Imaging, Tempo Automation: Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Amy Kao
Co-Founder & President / Chief Marketing Office of RxAll
Amy is a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She has +5 years of management consulting experience with global pharmaceutical companies in New York and Asia, and has a strong focus on go-to-market strategy in emerging markets.
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About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
Sylvain Dubois
Vice President Business Development and Marketing of Crossbar
Sylvain Dubois joined the Crossbar management team in 2013 as its senior director of strategic marketing and business development.With over 13 years of semiconductor experience in business development and strategic product marketing, he brings a proven ability to analyze market trends, identify new, profitable business opportunities and create precise product positioning that is in perfect sync with market demands to drive market share leadership and business results. Prior to joining Crossbar, Mr. Dubois led strategic product positioning and market engagement for developing new products at Spansion. Responsible for identifying new growth opportunities and expanding the product portfolio, Mr. Dubois was instrumental in defining the Spansion Flash memory product roadmap.From 2002-2006, Mr. Dubois was a System-on-Chip architect of OMAP application processors at Texas Instruments. Mr. Dubois was in charge of the architecture and technology roadmap of DRAM and Flash memory controllers, and developed strategic relationships with major DRAM and Flash memory suppliers.Sylvain Dubois holds a Master of Science in Microelectronics from E.S.I.E.E. (Paris), University of Southampton (UK) and Universidad Pontifica Comillas (Spain).
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Lance Maerov
Executive Vice President of WPP
Mr. Lance Maerov serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at WPP Group USA, Inc. where he manages WPP’s Corporate Development team in North America and his primary focus is to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. Mr. Maerov began his work for the Corporate Development Group in March 2005 in New York after WPP’s acquisition of Grey Global Group. He serves as Senior Vice President of Grey Ventures. Before joining WPP, Mr. Maerov worked at Grey Global Group as its Head of Corporate Development and made over 20 venture investments on behalf of Grey through its Grey Ventures Subsidiary. Prior to joining Grey, Mr. Maerov handled acquisitions and investments for Reed Business Information, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. He was a Founder of iFusion and raised $20 million of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier. Mr. Maerov served as Director of Expression Engines Inc. He serves as Board Observer of Visible Technologies, Inc. and served as its Board Advisor. Mr. Maerov holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.
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About WPP, WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Ed Meyercord
CEO & President of Extreme Networks
Meyercord serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015. Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company, that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously,, Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup). He previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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About Extreme Networks, Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Jia Li
Founder & President of Nonda
Founder at Nonda & Baixing.com.
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Ivan Chong
Vice President, Sales of Nonda
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Brian Ewing
Vice-President of Sales of Notion
Sales and Marketing Executive with experience with mature brands and hyper-growth emerging brands. Strong pragmatic Sales & Marketing experience has led to documented success with US brick & mortar retailers, Amazon, professional channels, builder, and developing NEW Business in emerging channels Strong leadership abilities have allowed for rapid career growth. Ability to step outside the box and to look at opportunities with a strategic short / long term perspective. Team player that enjoys managing / developing a team to take on the next BIG Challenge
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Patrick J. Esser
President & CEO of Cox Communications
Patrick Esser is President of Cox Communications, Inc., a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company with more than 6 million residential and commercial customers. Esser brings 30 years of experience in cable and telecommunications to bear on his role as Cox’s top executive, a position he’s held since 2006. He joined Cox in 1979 as Director of Programming in Hampton Roads, Va., and was part of the original management team that pioneered Cox’s advertising sales division now known as Cox Media. Named corporate Vice President of Advertising Sales in 1991, Esser was presented with the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau President’s Award just three years later. Esser became Vice President of Operations for Cox’s Western Division in 1999, and a year later was promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations. In 2004, Esser was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Cox has earned numerous accolades during Esser’s tenure as President. In 2006, Cox debuted in DiversityInc’s listing of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity, and in three years, the company scaled the list from its initial ranking at number 32 to its’ ranking at number 6 in 2008. In 2008, DiversityInc also ranked Cox within the Top 10 Workplaces for African Americans and the Women in Cable Television (WICT) Foundation named Cox the Best Operator for Women in Cable for the sixth straight year. In 2006, Cox was named the top employer in cable by CableWorld, and in 2007 Esser was personally distinguished with recognition as Multichannel News’ first “Executive of the Year.” Customer service excellence remains a Cox hallmark under Esser’s leadership. Cox ranks highly in annual J.D. Power and Associates studies of consumer satisfaction. In 2008, for the sixth consecutive year, Cox received highest honors for Residential Telephone Customer Satisfaction StudySM in the West and ranked highest among small/midsize business data providers in their Major Provider Business Telecommunications StudySM. To-date, Cox is the only telecommunications and entertainment company to receive top honors recognition from J.D. Power in studies of video, telephone and high-speed Internet satisfaction. In 2007, Cox also received PC Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for Cox High Speed Internet Service. Esser currently serves as Vice Chair of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, following successful tenure as treasurer and co-chair of The Cable Show, the industry’s premier annual event in 2007. He also serves on the board of directors of C-SPAN, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Educational Foundation, CableLabs, and Cable in the Classroom. Additionally, he serves as an adviser to the Association of Cable Communicators and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications. Esser also serves as a Southeastern Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Esser holds a B.A. and M.A. in communications media, and in 2003 was presented the university’s Heritage Honors Alumni Achievement Award.
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About Cox Communications, Cox Enterprises: Cox Communications operates as a multiservice broadband communications company in the United States.
Jill Springer
Vice President – Human Resources of Jasper Technologies
Jill Springer joined Jasper in 2014, overseeing human resources and talent acquisition. Over the past 25 years Jill has worked with companies in commercial, technical, and consumer businesses in the United States and around the world. She’s known for her well-grounded, clear, straightforward, and operationally focused plans in support of business strategies. Jill has provided executive leadership for numerous startups and small to mid-size pre-public and public companies on acquisitions and mergers, strategic planning, Human Resources operations, succession planning, and executive development. Jill has established a proven track record designing, implementing, and leading programs and processes for companies that include: Apple computer, Applied Materials, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, TSMC, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Illinois State University.
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About Jasper Technologies: Jasper Technologies develops cloud-based platforms.
Andre De Castro
Co-Founder, CEO & President of Blockchain of Things
Andre De Castro is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain of Things, Inc. He is a long-time crypto currency specialist who has an expert’s insight as to the field’s potential and is working towards making that potential a reality. Andre has been an active participant in the Bitcoin community and industry since 2010. Andre’s experience includes being a software developer, investor, trader, advisor, and US policy influencer. He is an avid public speaker and panelist for financial technology events including GE Global Research, Perkins Coie, Wedbush, and the NY Bitcoin Center. His early grasp of the unrealized potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize multiple sectors of the industry led him to found Blockchain ofThings in 2014, and drive the development of the Catenis EnterpriseTM platform. Graduating with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Andre earned a B.S. in Computer Science, with concentration in artificial intelligence. A prolific inventor, he is the holder of two U.S. patents that streamline the installation of electronic products in automotive circuits. Most recently, Andre was a keynote speaker at the Blockchain Summit in Beijing), The Blockchain Event in Las Vegas, Canaccord Genuity’s Annual Growth Conference in Boston, and the Blockchain World Congress in NYC.
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About Blockchain of Things: Blockchain of Things created the first globally accessible blockchain enabled device network.
Monique Farantzos
CEO, Co-Founder & President of doubleTwist
The co-founder and President of doubleTwist. Prior to doubleTwist, she was the Managing Director of DoubleTwist Ventures, a DRM interoperability company. She has also been a consultant for Intellectual Ventures and a Director at the Miller Porter Group, a consulting firm focused on the Life Sciences and Biotechnology industries. Monique holds an MS in Applied Science with empahsis on Bioengineering from UC Davis and worked as a Physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Source: http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Management.dt
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About doubleTwist: doubleTwist is a digital media company that allows its users to send photos and videos to others.
Graham Hine
President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant
Graham Hine is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
David Walker
Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant
David Walker is the Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
Martin A Rubin
Chief Executive Officer & President of SmartCity Networks
Since 1994, Martin Rubin has been responsible for all aspects of Smart City including operations, finance, strategic planning and all FCC and PUC regulatory matters. Rubin negotiated acquisition of the business from Wiltel and Houston Sports Association and developed a successful purchase package for the buyout of Vista-United, Walt Disney World’s in-house telecommunications company. Rubin was formerly President of DCT Communications, Inc., an FCC license holder of wireless spectrum for voice and data communications in the 38 Ghz band, which was sold to Advance Radio Telecom in 1997 for $75 million. In 1993, he was the President of Raptor Systems, Inc., a leading software developer of Internet firewall technology that was sold to AXENT for $225 million. Previously, he served as president and COO of AutoInfo, Inc. and vice president of Corporate Information Systems of JP Morgan Chase. Professionally, Rubin has received numerous honors including election to the United States Telecom Association Board of Directors, the title of Distinguished Entrepreneur for 2004 by the Entrepreneurship Institute at Rollins College and selection as the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Florida in the Technology category. He received his B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
Mark Haley
President of SmartCity Networks
As the President of Smart City Networks, Mark Haley oversees Smart City’s sales and operations teams and all strategic corporate initiatives. With over 30 years of experience in the convention industry he has worked with many of the largest convention centers, stadiums and arenas in North America. Before taking the helm at Smart City, Haley was Vice President of Facilities for the Las Vegas Convention & Visitor’s Authority following a 23-year tenure at Aramark culminating in his role as Executive Vice President of Aramark’s Convention & Cultural Attractions Group. He has the unique perspective of having worked as both a facility manager and exclusive facility partner in a variety of roles. This perspective has led to numerous speaking opportunities both in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM), Association International Palais de Congress (AIPC), and the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE). Most recently, Haley addressed AIPC’s 56th Annual Congress in Berlin, Germany on current technology issues and trends in the Convention Center market. He holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
Julia Slocombe
Vice President of Operations, West Region of SmartCity Networks
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
David Langford
Vice President of Technology of SmartCity Networks
Since joining Smart City in 2000 as the Vice President of Technology, David Langford has developed the voice and data network infrastructure for Smart City’s convention centers and the proprietary Smart City Network Operations Center, which monitors the network performance at Smart City’s facilities. He launched his career as a leader in the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Network & Services project, deploying the first national pre-Internet high speed IP infrastructure. This experience grew to include: developing the sales engineering division at AOL, the installation of temporary data network capabilities for the events of FORTUNE 500 companies (often where none existed previously), and the development and implementation of the country’s first permanent wireless installation for conventions. Langford’s most recent contributions include developing Smart City’s High Density Wireless networks for stadiums and convention centers, and developing a Neutral Host Distributed Antenna System (NHDAS) practice. He has also led teams in designing next generation networks for facilities such as the Washington State Convention Center, the Anaheim Convention Center, and NHDAS in Charlotte, Phoenix, and Santa Clara. As an active member in the industry, he participates in numerous industry associations including the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE), American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). He holds a BS degree in Communication Systems Management from Ohio University.
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
GARRY MARTIN
President of Locbit
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About Locbit: Locbit is a company that helps companies and people connect their devices inside their buildings.
Homaira Akbari
President and CEO of AKnowledge Partners
An award-winning thought leader in the sectors of Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Supply Chain Visibility, Artificial Intelligence, and Enterprise Software. Homaira founded AKnowledge Partners in 2012 with the goal of providing C-level executives, companies and private equity firms with unique and proprietary investment theses, and building and implementing adaptive growth and investment strategies. Drawing on an international track-record that includes nine years working in Paris, London, Beijing and Cape-Town for global organizations, Homaira brings extensive leadership experience, entrepreneurial drive, operational skills and deep domain knowledge to create customized solutions for the unique needs of each client. Homaira serves on the Board of Directors of several publicly traded companies: Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN), Temenos AG (SWX: TEMN) and is currently the Chairman of WorkFusion, the leading provider of intelligent automation software. Throughout her life, Homaira has been active in and a contributor to many non-profit organizations. She is currently a member of Business Board of Advisors for Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. Homaira was the inaugural Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Physics and Astronomy Advisory Council from 2013-2018, and a member since 2009. She has established Homaira Akbari Fellowship Endowment at Carnegie Mellon University and Akbari-Mack Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. Homaira has held senior executive roles in Fortune 500 companies including: Microsoft, Thales, SA, and TruePosition, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and served as the President and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., a leading provider of remote asset tracking and security solutions. Under her leadership, SkyBitz had record performance and was successfully sold to Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS) in 2012. Homaira holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals, has four granted and pending patents in IoT/M2M, and is a frequent speaker in industry conferences. She has published Opinion Editorials in Financial Times.
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About AKnowledge Partners: AKnowledge Partners, LLC, is a global advisory firm providing high-impact consultative strategies, solutions and advice.
Jon J. Bowsher
President of TIBA North America of TIBA Parking Systems
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About TIBA Parking Systems: TIBA’s advanced Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems improve efficiency & profitability for Off-Street Parking owners and Operators.
Gal Garniek
President & CEO of GEMBO
Gal Garniek is the president and CEO at GEM.
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About GEMBO: GEM provides customized agents and machine models that enable streaming, analysis, and processing from any machine.
Shawn Nichols
Vice-President of Product of Nikola Labs Inc.
Shawn Nichols is the VP of Product at Nikola Labs, Inc.
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About Nikola Labs Inc.: Rapidly deployable, remote, end-to-end condition monitoring solution providing predictive insight to enable proactive maintenance.
Manu Mathew
President, Americas of Ad-Lib.io
Manu Mathew is a President, Americas at Ad-Lib.io.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Yasser Khan
Executive Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
Executive Vice President at Plasma Computing Group
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About ONE Tech, Inc., Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Gregory Taylor
CEO, President of Orion Labs
Greg was appointed Orion’s Chief Executive Officer in January 2020 after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2019 and is a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for the company’s vision, global strategy and day-to-day operations. In this role, he leads the critical emergence of the company as a foremost global leader in the enterprise Voice Activated Business Automation category within the Workstream Collaboration / Connected Workforce sector. His focus is on accelerating the company’s leading market position and global growth. Greg is a veteran executive and entrepreneur in the enterprise software industry. He recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer of global SaaS leaders HighQ (acquired by Thomson Reuters) Eka Solutions Inc., and notably served as the Executive Vice President of Triple Point Technology, the global leader for in-cloud commodities management software. At Triple Point, Greg drove the company’s record software industry-leading 5x revenue and earnings growth over seven consecutive high-growth years. He led the successful global expansion strategy, integrated eight acquisitions and grew the company to 16 global offices, 450 marquee corporate customers on six continents, over 900 employees as well as to seven consecutive INC 500 awards. In the summer of 2013, he and his two partners completed the successful sale of Triple Point to ION, in one of the largest enterprise software deals of the year. Prior to Triple Point, Greg served as Executive Vice President for Netkey Technology, Inc. (acquired by NEC), iMediation Inc. (acquired by OpenText) and Vice President at Datalogix International (IPO, acquired by Oracle). He started his career in sales and management at IBM after graduating with a BA from Connecticut College. Greg serves on the boards of Connor Industries Inc., Harris Freeman & Company Inc. and The Everest Leadership Academy (a not-for-profit entity in leadership mentoring for less-advantaged students with academic promise).
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About Orion Labs: Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
Daniel de Mos
Vice President of Finance of Orion Labs
Daniel de Mos serves as VP of Finance at Orion Labs. Over the past 12 years, Daniel has held the position of senior financial officer for global companies specializing in innovative software technology in the marketing automation, lead generation and fintech spaces.
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About Orion Labs: Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
Moshe Noah
Vice-President of Engineering of Skylo
Moshe Noah is Vice-President of Engineering at Skylo.
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About Skylo: Skylo provides a ubiquitous NB IoT platform that connects your machines, anywhere – 100% of the time!
Greg Kahn
CEO & President of Internet of Things Consortium
Greg is President & CEO, Internet of Things Consortium (IoTC), which is comprised of leading hardware, software and analytics companies – in areas including home automation, wearables, virtual/augmented reality, connected cars, smart cities and 3D printing – dedicated to the growth and sustainability of the IoT marketplace. Greg is also founder and CEO of IoT strategic advisory firm GK Digital Media. A 20-year media industry veteran at companies such as Meredith, Viacom, Publicis Groupe, and Omnicom, Greg has been honored with both Advertising Age’s Media Maven and Mediaweek’s All-Star awards. He earned his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and two children.
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About GK Digital Media, Guggenheim Museum, Internet of Things Consortium: Premier IoT trade association connecting a global ecosystem of leading companies building the Internet of Things
Marty Chobot
Vice President, Product Management & Marketing of Invicara
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About Invicara: Invicara is the developer of Twinit.io, a fully composable platform for developing Digital Twin solutions for the built environment
Leonard Lekht
Founder, President and CEO of CyberVision
Leonard Lekht, Founder and a Chief Executive Officer at CyberVision. Leonard Lekht has built CyberVision into a successful IT company, trusted by dozens of clients globally. Under Leonard Lekht’s direction CyberVision has evolved to become the go to company for most complex development tasks and projects in mobility, telecom, consumer electronics, big data, and IoT. Prior of founding CyberVision Leonard Lekht worked for almost 15 years at the Chase Manhattan Bank as a Senior Technology Executive managing several major areas of the bank. Over the span of his career at Chase he had brought dozens of complex projects to completion, as well as being the catalyst for innovation and change. Leonard Lekht is regarded as one of the most innovative executives and a pioneer in the implementation of leading edge technologies and approaches.
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About CyberVision: CyberVision is a trusted global provider of software engineering services.
Anthony Dumont
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ordr of Ordr
Anthony Dumont is the senior vice president of worldwide sales at Ordr.
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About Constella Intelligence, Ordr: Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise.
Stephen Westerfield
Co-Founder and President of Droplit
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About Droplit: Droplit.io is a cloud-hosted open platform for developers that manages smart devices with a real-time control API.
Bryan Jenks
Founder and President of Droplit
Bryan has over 16 years of experience designing and creating software products. He got his start writing software on the glorious 160 by 160 pixel Palm Pilot before it was called an app. He’s designed hardware and software for warehouse management, biomedical machinery, robotics, information security, and even communication and DNA forensics. As a serial entrepreneur, his first real startup was a small engineering firm over ten years ago. He then become the product development director at startup serving the law enforcement community which he helped sell. Now on his third startup called Droplit, he hopes to revolutionize the Internet of Things by making it incredibly easy to control connected devices. Bryan is also a proud connoisseur of fine pizza, beer, and terrible movies.
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About Droplit: Droplit.io is a cloud-hosted open platform for developers that manages smart devices with a real-time control API.
Brad McNamara
President & Co-Founder of Freight Farms
When Jon and I were brainstorming the idea of Freight Farms back in 2009, there was a moment of realization for me that this project had the potential to change the world. From that point on I’ve dedicated myself to making sure it happens.
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About Freight Farms: Freight Farms offers high-volume crop production units made from upcycled shipping containers to support farming in any climate.
Marc Mandel
Vice President & General Counsel of Canary
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About Canary, Smartfrog & Canary: Canary is a NYC-based company and a subsidiary of Smartfrog & Canary Group, a Consumer IoT SaaS business and one of the fastest-growing Consumer IoT category leaders. The company’s mission is to enhance consumer’s lives by making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe – IoT for everyone.
Mark Tyndall
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dialog Semiconductor
Mark joined Dialog Semiconductor in September 2008. Prior to this, Mark was Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Relations at MIPS Technologies. From 1999 to 2006, he held the position of Vice President of Business Development at Infineon and has also served as a board director of a number of start-up companies, several of which were successfully acquired. Earlier in his career, Mark held management positions in marketing at Fujitsu Microelectronics and in design at Philips Semiconductors.
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About Dialog Semiconductor, Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Tammy Martin
Virtual Chief Financial Officer | Vice President | Technology Executive of Seeq
Tammy leads the company’s worldwide financial and accounting operations, including investor relations. She brings over 20 years of experience drawn from public, private, venture and PE backed technology firms, engaged in software development, healthcare information technology, and life sciences. Prior to joining Seeq, Tammy formed CFO Strategic Advisors, where she provided fractional CFO services to fast growing high technology firms. Before this she served as the CFO at Lighthouse Computer Services, where she led the firm’s financial and operational strategies, including M&A activities. Tammy has been instrumental in leading sell side transactions to enChoice Technologies, United Health Group and IBM. On the buy side, Tammy led the acquisitions of Creative Computing, Acumetrics and Good Dog Labs. Tammy also held roles as Corporate Controller at QualityMetric and Computer Associates, Inc. She was the Director of IT Finance and Administration within the IT department at United Natural Foods, Inc. Tammy began her career with a Providence, RI based CPA firm. Tammy holds an MBA from Bryant University, where she also received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She is a member of Financial Executives International and the High Tech Financial Executives Networking Group.
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About Seeq: Seeq is a software company that accelerates industrial process analytics for process manufacturing data.
Michael Risse
Vice President of Emerging Markets/CMO of Seeq
Michael joins Seeq from his consulting practice which provided guidance in marketing, segmentation, and channel strategies to big data and SAAS startups. Prior to that Risse was Vice President of Product Management at Stellr, Inc., a Seattle-based startup developing contextual search technology for the professional app ecosystem. In 2012, Risse was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Ignition Partners of Bellevue, Washington, where he worked with portfolio companies in the big data infrastructure and application spaces. Risse spent almost 20 years with the Microsoft Corporation where his last role was Vice President of the $13 billion dollar Worldwide Small and MidMarket (SMB) segment. He moved to the worldwide role from the United States subsidiary where he was Vice President of the MidMarket segment. From 1991 to 2002 Risse held a series of product management roles on successful Microsoft offerings: General Manager in the Server and Tools Business, Director of Marketing for Visual Studio, Lead Product Manager for Microsoft Office, and Product Manager for the Visual Basic programming system. Risse graduated with honors in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and completed graduate work in international business. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife Kathy and twin daughters and son, and spends as much time as he can on a bicycle, skies, or trail.
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About Seeq: Seeq is a software company that accelerates industrial process analytics for process manufacturing data.
Lou Lutostanski
Vice President, Internet of Things of Avnet
Lou Lutostanski was named vice president, Internet of Things (IoT) for Avnet in March 2017. In this role, he works across the company to identify and create opportunities to leverage Avnet’s capabilities and expand the company’s reach and expertise to entrepreneurs, startups, leading technology OEMs and other IoT innovators, enabling them to bring IoT solutions to market, from idea to production. He reports to Pete Bartolotta, Chief Transformation Officer for Avnet. Lutostanski has 30 years of experience and industry knowledge. He joined Avnet in 1987 as a system sales manager. Throughout the next 13 years, he gained increasing responsibility as a field application engineer, sales manager, branch manager, and vice president, area director. Lou left Avnet in 2000 and spent 12 years at Motorola/Freescale where he served as the global vice president of sales covering Hewlett Packard and Motorola, and then as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. Since his return to Avnet in 2013, he has served as vice president of sales for the Americas and as vice president of demand creation for the Americas. Lutostanski graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned an MBA from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He resides in Austin, Texas.
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About Avnet, Avnet: Avnet is a global technology solutions compnay.
Lou Lutostanski
Vice President, Internet of Things of Avnet
Lou Lutostanski was named vice president, Internet of Things (IoT) for Avnet in March 2017. In this role, he works across the company to identify and create opportunities to leverage Avnet’s capabilities and expand the company’s reach and expertise to entrepreneurs, startups, leading technology OEMs and other IoT innovators, enabling them to bring IoT solutions to market, from idea to production. He reports to Pete Bartolotta, Chief Transformation Officer for Avnet. Lutostanski has 30 years of experience and industry knowledge. He joined Avnet in 1987 as a system sales manager. Throughout the next 13 years, he gained increasing responsibility as a field application engineer, sales manager, branch manager, and vice president, area director. Lou left Avnet in 2000 and spent 12 years at Motorola/Freescale where he served as the global vice president of sales covering Hewlett Packard and Motorola, and then as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. Since his return to Avnet in 2013, he has served as vice president of sales for the Americas and as vice president of demand creation for the Americas. Lutostanski graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned an MBA from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He resides in Austin, Texas.
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About Avnet, Avnet: Avnet is a global technology solutions compnay.
Brad McMahon
Vice President Corporate Development of Rigado
Brad leads is the Vice President Corporate Development at Rigado
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About Lytics, Rigado, Rigado: Rigado’s Enterprise IoT solution powers Bluetooth applications such as asset tracking, smart lighting, and sensing and monitoring.
Jeremy Norberg
President & Founding Member of Assemble
Jeremy Norberg is the President & Founding Member at Assemble Inc.
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About All Widgets, Assemble: Assemble provides software services that deliver delightful customer experiences.
Starr Fowler
Senior Vice President, Human Resources of Vivint Smart Home
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About Vivint Smart Home: Vivint Smart Home offers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation, and support.
