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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 Internet 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.
Elizabeth Pemmerl
Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector & Channels of GitHub
Elizabeth Pemmerl is the Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector and Alliances at GitHub.
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About Dcode, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Julia Hartz
Co-Founder & President of Eventbrite
Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world’s largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe. A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world. Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite’s award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.’s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013. Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.
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About Eventbrite, Eventbrite, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The Aspen Institute: Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Sumeet Singh
Vice President Big Data & AI and Location Platforms of Verizon Media
Sumeet Singh is the Vice President of Big Data, AI, and Location Platforms at Yahoo (now Verizon Media). Sumeet is considered an early leader of the big data movement, responsible for launching and scaling most services for Yahoo’s Hadoop platform since 2011. He has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech, media, and telecommunications industries. Connect with Sumeet on Twitter @sumeetksingh.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Nicholas Bagg
Vice President, Head of Consumer Operations and Strategy of Verizon Media
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About Bagg Therapy Group, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
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.
Brendan Lewis
Vice President, Communications of Expa
Brendan Lewis is the VP of Communications at Expa.
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About Expa, Grubhub: Expa supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.
Brandon Wolf
Vice President, User Enablement of InVision
Brandon Wolf is the Vice President of User Enablement for InVision, overseeing a global support team of 30+ team members including customer advocacy, support engineering, customer education, and internal tools. He is charged with managing divisional personnel, deliveries, growth and scalability to address thousands of tickets per month. Brandon is responsible for InVision’s systematic and customer-first approach, which is an extension of our platform and has consistently earned over 98% ticket satisfaction rating over the last two years. Prior to InVision, Brandon served as the Manager of Customer Advocacy and Support Engineering at Zendesk.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
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.
Dan Greenberg
Founder & President of Sharethrough USA
Dan Greenberg is the founder and CEO of Sharethrough, a 150+ person SF-based software company that powers in-feed, native ads for premium publishers like Time Inc, Hearst, People and brand marketers like Pepsi and P&G. Dan also acts as the co-chair of the IAB Native Advertising Committee. Dan comes from a research background at Stanford in persuasive technology, and regularly teaches classes in brand content, modern monetization, and viral engineering. Dan was recently named to the Inc “35 Under 35” list, the Forbes “30 Under 30″ list and has been honored as an Ad Age Media Maven. He organizes and hosts the Sharethrough Native Ad Summits, is a regular speaker at advertising and technology conferences, and contributes to industry publications including Forbes, AdAge, and TechCrunch.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Yoonkee Sull
Vice President of ICONIQ Capital
Yoonkee Sull currently works as the partner for ICONIQ Growth. He previously worked at Citi as the Analyst
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About ICONIQ Capital: ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some influential families and organizations.
Yoni Rubin
Vice President of Business Operations of Pypestream
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About Pypestream: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Jon Chapman
Co-Founder and President of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Ray Martinez
President Financial Education of EVERFI
Ray Martinez is the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of EverFi. During his tenure, Ray has led a number of critical initiatives including the creation of the company’s first teacher training initiatives, the development of partnerships with dozens of state superintendents, and the training of hundreds of teachers across the country. He’s also led sales efforts including the signing of key partnerships with American Express, BB&T, United Way, EverBank and dozens of community banks that have brought critical skills to hundreds of communities. Ray has forged partnerships with twenty eight state banking associations and is a frequent speaker at statewide banking and teacher onferences.Before EverFi, Ray spent 11 years at Kaplan, Inc.managing cutting edge supplemental education programs in San Francisco, Sacramento, Dallas,Northern Virginia, Los Angeles, and San Diego. During his time there, he was recognized with Kaplan’s President Award for Leadership.Ray is a graduate of Bowdoin Collage. EverFi is the leading education technology platform company to teach, assess,and certify students in critical skills. EverFi’s learning platforms include financial literacy, digital citizenship and cyberbullying prevention, civic education, student loan management, and health and ellness. The company is powering a national movement in 50 states that enables students to learn using adaptive and engaging technologies including 3D gaming, simulation, social networking, and virtual worlds.EverFi is currently working with 1,000 clients and over 5 million students have been certified in EverFi platforms, making the company one of the largest online education providers in the world.
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Fletcher Jones
Senior Vice President, Product Management of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Jim Kellner
President of Artizan Internet Services
Jim Kellner served as president of insurance software provider Applied Systems, Inc. since 1997, and was CEO until September 2011. He was instrumental in building Applied Systems to an acquisition exit value of $1.8B.
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About Artizan Internet Services: Artizan Internet Services, LLC is the leading provider of web-based solutions for the insurance industry.
Vinodh Bhat
Co-founder, President & Chief Strategy Officer of JioSaavn
Vinodh Bhat is Co-Founder and President of Saavn. Vinodh has played a crucial role in developing the company’s purpose and vision, helping to recruit talented individuals to join the Saavn team, and lead its capital raises to finance growth. He leads the sales team in securing advertising partnerships with some of the world’s most recognized brands, such as Apple, Nissan, Microsoft and Bacardi. Vinodh has been a recognized speaker at industry conferences around the world. He is also a Founding Partner at New York City-based venture development fund, 212MEDIA. Prior to Saavn and 212MEDIA, Vinodh co-founded and served as the VP, Sales & Business Development at Simile, a contextual advertising platform that advised the business units of Time Warner, Cox Media, McClatchy Newspaper Group, Scripps and Hearst Magazines. He began his career at the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), and helped advise and raise capital for media & telecom companies such as Voyager, Earthlink, AT&T, @Home, Akamai, and several others. Vinodh graduated with a B.S. in Finance and Marketing from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He was an Echols Scholar.
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About [212]Media, JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Julie-Anne Selvey
Vice President – Brand Communications / Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for IAC Applications of IAC
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Joanne Hawkins
Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of IAC
Joanne Hawkins is the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of IAC. In this capacity, her responsibilities include securities laws and related regulatory compliance, corporate governance and corporate finance matters and assisting in the general administration of the legal department. Ms. Hawkins was promoted to this position in February 2006 from Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, a position she held since September 2005. She previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel, a role she held since December 2000. Prior to IAC, she worked for Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a New York law firm, serving first as an Associate and then as a Senior Attorney. At Cahill Gordon & Reindel, her practice focused on general corporate law, securities laws, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Hawkins graduated with a B.S. in accounting from St. John’s University and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review.
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Mark Schneider
Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis of IAC
Mark Schneider is the Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at IAC.
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Trish Lounsbury
Senior Vice President & Internal Audit of IAC
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About IAC, IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
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.
Boris Revsin
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Business Development & Strategy of Dailybreak
Boris Revsin is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CampusLIVE, Inc, “The Homepage for College Students,” providing single-click access to the most widely used college resources. Boris has an extensive background in web development and digital media, founding his first website in 1999. While attending UMass Amherst, he worked as the Head of Operations for the Amherst-based web-development firm JaredWeb, Inc and as a web consultant for the 2008 Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign. Boris, along with the CampusLIVE team, was named 3rd place in the 2008 BusinessWeek “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.” He has also been honored as an “Emerging Entrepreneur” by Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. BusinessWest Magazine named Boris Revsin to the 2010 class of “40 Under 40”.
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About Dailybreak, Fullstack Ventures, Republic, Republic Capital: A revolutionary online media platform that allows users to earn rewards for engaging in shareable, interactive content.
Sara Bial
Vice President, Product Management of WeddingWire
Sara Bial is the vice president of product management at [WeddingWire](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/weddingwire), an online vertical marketplace that connects engaged couples with event professionals. She was previously the chief product officer at Rent the Runway. Bial was the director of product management at HSN before which he was a VP of product management at Barnes & Noble. Bial holds a bachelor’s degree in decision information science from the University of Florida.
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About WeddingWire: WeddingWire is an online marketplace to help engaged couples plan their weddings.
Chris Beals
CEO and President of Weedmaps
Christopher Beals is the chief executive officer of Weedmaps. Prior to being CEO, he first serves as the company’s president and general counsel from 2015 until his appointment in March 2019.
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About Weedmaps, WM Technology: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
Annie Banks Raser
Vice President Of Production of MeatEater
Annie Banks Raser is the Vice President of Production and Operations at MeatEater. Previously, Annie spent over three years working at Zero Point Zero Production as the Head of Production from the year 2016 to 2018 and as a Producer form the year 2015 to 2018.
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About MeatEater: MeatEater is an outdoor lifestyle media and commerce company that provides content about the natural world.
David Danziger
Vice President, Data Partnerships of The Trade Desk
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Justin Stewart
President & Co-Founder of Industrious
ustin is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Industrious. Previously Justin served as Director of Acquisitions and Operations at Windham Development and Windham China, where he headed their US Real Estate operations. He was previously a Vice President at Madison Realty Capital, but his career highlight will forever be the time he worked for the writing team at the Late Show with his childhood idol, David Letterman. He is the childhood next-door neighbor of Industrious co-founder Jamie Hodari, allowing them an early start dreaming about the future of office space. Justin can be found living with his fiancé in New York’s Lower East Side, along with their dog, confusingly named Chicken. Justin holds a Graduate Certification in Real Estate Finance and Development from NYU and a B.A. from Indiana University.
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About Industrious: Industrious is a premium flexible workspace provider that redefines the workplace experience.
Todd Parnell
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels of MLB Advanced Media
“Parney” serves as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Double-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants. In that role he oversees all aspects of the Flying Squirrels’ day-to-day operations in Richmond, including the recent $1.5 million renovation of The Diamond, the Squirrels’ stadium. During their inaugural season, the club quickly established itself as a leader in the community, while smashing corporate and ticket sales expectations as the Squirrels led the Eastern League in both overall and average attendance, welcoming 463,842 fans to The Diamond. Upon completion of the inaugural season, the franchise was recognized as the Richmond Business of the Year by the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. “Parney” also serves on the Richmond Chapter of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Board of Trustees as well as the Richmond Police Athletic League Board of Directors. With his flamboyant personality and 22 years’ experience in minor league baseball, “Parney” has become one of the most popular speakers and guest lecturers in the region. Prior to joining the effort to return baseball to Richmond, Parnell served as the President of the Greenberg Sports Group (GSG), which provides management, consulting, and marketing services to the U.S. sports industry. GSG also manages the overall operations of Minor League Baseball’s Pennsylvania State College Spikes and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. He held the title of President for both franchises. The 43-year old “Parney” graduated from Messiah College in 1988 with a degree in physical education and a minor in business.
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About MLB Advanced Media: MLB.TV is a website that offers news, schedules, standings, and statistics related to baseball.
Robert Bowman
CEO & President of MLB Advanced Media
Bob Bowman was appointed President, Business & Media of Major League Baseball by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. on December 4, 2014. He directs revenue-generating and media rights activities across all MLB entities while continuing to oversee MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM) and MLB Network. Bowman has been President & Chief Executive Officer of MLBAM, the league’s world-class technology company, since its inception in 2000. Bowman joined MLBAM in 2000 following two years of work in the Internet space. He took on oversight of MLB Network in 2014. MLBAM was created in January 2000, when the owners of the 30 Major League Clubs voted to follow the recommendation of Commissioner Selig and centralize all of Baseball’s Internet and Interactive Media operations under one roof. MLBAM operates the official League site, MLB.com, as well as each of the 30 individual team sites. It also develops, deploys and distributes the highest grossing iOS app, At Bat, as well as manages live video content for dozens of clients. In 2014, MLBAM captured, encoded and distributed 30,000 live video events. MLB.com is an award-winning multimedia business at the forefront of the digital revolution. Prior to joining MLBAM, Mr. Bowman was President and Chief Operating Officer of ITT Corporation, one of the world’s largest and preeminent conglomerates. He joined ITT in 1991 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Sheraton, the Boston-based global hotel network. In 1992, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the parent company before being named President and Chief Operating Officer in 1995. Following the trivestiture of the Company’s business divisions in 1995, Mr. Bowman successfully oversaw the growth and operations of the $8 billion conglomerate until its merger with Starwood Hotels and Resorts in 1998. During his tenure, Mr. Bowman and the senior management team at ITT created more than $25 billion of value for the company’s shareholders. Before joining ITT, Bowman served as Treasurer for the State of Michigan from 1983-1991. The youngest State Treasurer in the nation at the time of his appointment, during his eight-year term, the State’s pension system grew from $6 billion to $19 billion in asset value, and improved the State’s credit rating from BBB to AA. Immediately prior to his appointment in Michigan, Bowman also worked as a municipal finance investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Company, and from 1979 to 1981 he served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance. In that role, he worked on both the New York City Loan Guarantee Act and the Chrysler Loan Guarantee Act. A native of Milwaukee, Bowman graduated from Harvard College in 1977, and received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School in 1979. Bowman serves as President of the Michigan Education Trust and is a member of the Board of Directors of Take-Two Interactive Corp., and ViaSat, Inc.
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About MLB Advanced Media, Openwave Systems: MLB.TV is a website that offers news, schedules, standings, and statistics related to baseball.
Martin Hood
Vice President, Channel Partnerships of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Terry Sutton
Vice President, Client Success of CashStar
Terry Sutton is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Technology and Customer Experience. She most recently was at L.L.Bean where she oversaw the E-commerce and Marketing departments as Senior Vice-President of the Direct Channel. Prior to that she was the VP of Customer Satisfaction for L.L.Bean, responsible for four call centers and over 1,000 employees. She is unique in her ability to bring together people, process and technology to solve complex business problems and is known for her ability to translate strategy into action. Her passion for the customer experience and business process design and optimization positions her well to scale DAVO Technologies for the future. Terry has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Katherine Edenbach
Vice President, Finance of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Anik Dang
Co-Founder & Vice President, International Markets of FirstBlood
Co-founder & VP Global Markets @ Firstblood Technologies Inc.
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About Babson College, FirstBlood: A platform that lets eSports players challenge each other in the field and win rewards.
Hannah Budreski
Vice President Marketing Communications of Endurance International Group
Hannah Budreski is Vice President of Marketing at Endurance International Group, a technology company focused on helping small businesses around the world and whose family of brands includes Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, and Domain.com. During her 20 year career, Hannah has honed her skills at building brands, driving demand, and helping customers meet their milestones. Deeply passionate about small business, Hannah is accomplished at adding value for customers at all stages of their journey from those just starting out to established and expanding businesses.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
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
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.
Andrew Chen
Senior Vice President – Product, Design, & Data of Flow Commerce
Andrew Chen is the senior vice president of product management at [Flow](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flow-8), a turn-key platform for e-commerce companies to go global, capturing international demand for their products. Previously, he was the vice president of product management, UX, and design at [BaubleBar](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baublebar#/entity). Prior to BaubleBar, Chen was the director of products at [Gilt Groupe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gilt-groupe) and [iHeartMedia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clear-channel-communications#/entity). He was also the principal product manager of [Lot18](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lot18#/entity). In 2009, Chen founded SnapItTo.Me and served the same company as the head of products. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Yale University.
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About Flow Commerce, Gaingels: Flow is a platform that enables e-commerce companies to go global.
Juliana Pereira
Vice President Marketing of Flow Commerce
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About Flow Commerce: Flow is a platform that enables e-commerce companies to go global.
Andy Ellwood
Co-Founder & President of Basket
Andy Ellwood is cofounder and president of Basket, the first ever shopper powered smart shopping list and grocery business intelligence platform. Prior to Basket, Andy ran Business Development for Waze until their acquisition by Google in 2013 and before that, for Gowalla until their acquisition by Facebook in 2011. Andy is also cofounder of Exosphere, a learning and problem solving community headquartered in Catalonia, Spain. Andy is a graduate of Texas A&M University and serves as an officer for the New York Aggies alumni club, most recently as President of the club for the past two years. Andy frequent speaker, contributor, and serves as an advisor to early stage companies around the world. For more of his adventures, follow along on Twitter: @andyellwood.
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About Basket: Basket believes you should never overpay for groceries and is the largest community of Shoppers working together to save time and money.
Paramesh Gopi
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
Dr. Paramesh Gopi joined us as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008 and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2009. On April 29, 2009, Dr. Gopi became a member of our Board of Directors. From September 2002 to June 2008, he was with Marvell Semiconductor, a provider of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits to broadband digital data networking markets, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit. At Marvell, Dr. Gopi held several executive-level positions including Chief Technology Officer of Embedded and Emerging Business Unit and Director of Technology Strategy. From June 2001 to August 2002, Dr. Gopi was Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications at Conexant Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal processing company. He joined Conexant Systems, Inc. as part of its acquisition of Entridia Corporation in 2001. Dr. Gopi founded Entridia, a provider of Network Processing ASICs for Optical Networks, in 1999. Prior to Entridia, Dr. Gopi held principal engineering positions at Western Digital and Texas Instruments where he was responsible for the development of key mixed signal networking products. Dr. Gopi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits, Starthub Nation: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
William Caraccio
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary; Chief Legal Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
L. William Caraccio joined us in June 2010 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. In December 2002, he was a co-founder of RMI Corporation (formerly Raza Microelectronics, Inc.), a privately held fabless semiconductor company where he was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and, following RMI Corporation’s acquisition by Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. in October 2009, he served a transition role at Netlogic as Senior Counsel until January 2010. From March 2000 to January 2003, he was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Foundry Holdings, Inc., a privately held investment firm and incubator of high technology companies. From June 1992 to March 2000, he was at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), an international law firm where he was most recently a Partner and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Securities and Technologies Group. Mr. Caraccio earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
Matt Wilson
Vice President, Politics of Brigade
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About Brigade, Causes: Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Darcy Wedd
President of Outspoken
Darcy Wedd is an accomplished technology executive with over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications, payments, and consumer goods industries. Formerly the CEO and Co-Founder of Mobile Messenger (Acquired by Silverlake Sumeru), and the President and Co-Founder of payvia (backed by leading investors; Montgomery & Co. and Trinity Ventures). During his time in the telecommunications industry, Darcy completed multiple acquisitions including m-Qube (from VeriSign), and Mogreet, Inc. Darcy is a frequently requested speaker at influential industry events and a recognized thought leader. Since the beginning of 2014, Darcy has focused his attention on real estate development, investing and advising tech start-ups https://angel.co/darcy-wedd and film production, producing three feature films including The Lookalike, Mother’s Day and Sugar Mountain.
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About Outspoken: Outspoken is the most experienced SMS and MMS messaging platform in the US.
Brian Lobdell
Vice President of Lead Edge Capital
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Steve Heflin
Vice President of Sales of Afilias
Steve Heflin has 20 years’ experience in the online industry. In 1994, he started one of the first dial-up internet service providers in southern Pennsylvania. Steve co-founded Domain Bank in 1999, one of the first ICANN-accredited Registrars to be created, where he spent four years as President from 2002 to 2005. Steve joined Afilias as Vice President of Sales in 2006, overseeing Afilias’ global sales including the dotMobi business subsidiary, with a focus on domain and Registry services. Steve is 44 years old.
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About Afilias: Afilias provides back end domain name registry services, DNS, idn and RFID services.
John Kane
Vice President of Corporate Services of Afilias
John Kane has nearly 20 years’ experience focusing on the online industry, specifically in the areas of Domain Name management, brand protection and Internet security. Before joining Afilias in 2008, John was Executive Vice President at Demand Media, a Content and Social Media company, from 2007 to 2008 and served as Vice President of Sales and President of its subsidiary, eNom, Inc. (an ICANN-accredited Registrar) from 2004 to 2008. He has also been an active participant in ICANN since its inception in 1998. John was previously a non-Executive board member of Afilias prior to his appointment with the Group. He oversees the continuing expansion of Afilias’ product offering. John is 48 years old.
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About Afilias: Afilias provides back end domain name registry services, DNS, idn and RFID services.
Roland LaPlante
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias
Roland LaPlante has over 30 years’ senior marketing experience, beginning with Procter and Gamble in brand management, and then successive positions at Heublein/Diageo, Citibank, McGraw-Hill, Providian and Xlibris (an online publisher). Since joining Afilias in 2001 as Chief Marketing Officer, he has overseen both corporate and product marketing for Afilias, including the launch of .INFO and the establishment of Afilias’ position in the current round of nTLDs. As the Group’s principal industry spokesperson, Roland is a sought after speaker on a variety of TLD issues and has helped position Afilias as a global Registry leader. Roland is 61 years old.
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About Afilias: Afilias provides back end domain name registry services, DNS, idn and RFID services.
Michael Vega Sanz
President/Founder of Lula
Michael Vega-Sanz is Co-Founder/President of Lula
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About Lula: Lula Technologies is a peer-to-peer car sharing platform that connects vehicle owners with drivers seeking to rent such vehicles .
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.
Shawn Conly
Senior Vice President Marketing of GREE
Shawn Conly is a Vice President, Marketing at GREE.
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About GREE: Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.
Pembe Candaner
Co-Founder & President of JobzMall
Pembe Candaner is the Founder & President of JobzMall Inc. Previously she served as the CEO of Adecco SA Turkey, General Manager of Lee Hecht Harrison, and CEO of Kariyer.net, the largest employment portal of Turkey. She is a member of TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association), the top business association of Turkey and Society for Human Resource Management. As a vocal activist of Women Rights, Candaner hosted her TV show at national ‘Artı Bir TV’ channel about Woman Leaders and Entrepreneurs. She has also lectured in Bogazici University (Bosphorus University) and UCI (University of California in Irvine) on Development of Woman Leaders, Talent Management, Protocol and Etiquette and Intercultural Relations. Additionally to her career in private sector, she authored 4 books. Candaner has been awarded as the Business Woman of the Year 2003.
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About JobzMall: JobzMall is a next-generation, cloud-based job finding platform empowering both the job seeker and employer with unprecedented innovations.
Giorgos Zacharia
President of KAYAK
Giorgos Zacharia is the President at KAYAK, and runs the company technology, product, marketing and commercial teams. He has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and was an MIT Fulbright Scholar. Zacharia previously served as co-founder, CTO and Chief Scientist of Open Ratings, Inc., a leading provider of supply risk management solutions. Zacharia was also instrumental in co-founding two machine learning-driven hedge funds, Stocknomics Ltd. and Emporics Capital Management, LLC. He holds four math and computer science degrees from MIT and has won five medals in International Mathematical and Physics Olympiads.
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About KAYAK: KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Jordan Harris
Chief Operating Officer & President of Glitch
An experienced operating executive and entrepreneur, Jordan Harris formed the New Media Group at Reed Elsevier. He went on to found Hurricane Interactive and Notara Inc., which pioneered Brand Marketing Automation. He advises non-profits including Eyebeam, a platform for artists to engage society’s relationship with technology.
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About Glitch, Lela: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Steve Yankovich
Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures of eBay
Steve Yankovich joined HomeValet as Chief Experience Officer in 2020.Steve Yankovich, vice president of innovation and new ventures at eBay Inc., leads a newly formed team focused on future-looking technologies and experiences that will drive innovative new approaches to connecting retailers, merchants and sellers with consumers around the world. Steve is focused on creating the future – opportunities beyond core products from a business and technology perspective. From 2009 to 2012, Steve served as vice president of eBay mobile, responsible for eBay’s mobile business and product development worldwide on device platforms such as the iPhone, iPad, RIM, Android, Windows Phone, tablet and mobile web. Under Steve’s leadership, eBay mobile doubled its mobile commerce volume every year from 2008 through 2012, with $13 billion in mobile commerce volume in 2012 alone. eBay mobile is expected to generate $20 billion in 2013. Steve spearheaded the eBay Inc acquisitions of RedLaser and Critical Path Software. His patent portfolio consists of 29 leading technologies, four of which have been formally issued. Before eBay, Steve was Adobe’s Entrepreneur in Residence where he created an Adobe seed project targeted at knowledge and information workers. Before Adobe, he was the founder/CEO/CTO of Movaris Inc., an Enterprise BPM software company that was acquired by Adobe. When Steve isn’t busy tinkering with technology, he enjoys building and driving fast cars.
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About eBay, HALL Wines, HomeValet, Relay Ventures: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Alexander Stojanovic
Vice President, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Semantic Platform Engineering of eBay
Alexander is an executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as Managing Director of Adaptive Insight. Previously, he served as Vice President of Applied Research and Machine Learning at eBay, managing machine learning activities globally. He was the founding Vice President, CTO, and Chief Architect of the Cisco Cognitive Computing and Real-time Analytics SaaS platform – now a part of the Cisco Cloud Center product line. Prior to Cisco, Alexander was a Vice President and CTO at Oracle Corporation, working on design and strategy of Oracle’s public cloud platform offerings with an emphasis on machine learning-based SaaS offerings. He served as CTO for the Oracle Data Integration Cloud Services and founded both Oracle Data Catalogue and Big Data Preparation Cloud Services. Alexander has also held founder and leadership roles at MAANA. At Microsoft, Alexander founded and led Azure HDInsight, SQL Server Semantic Engine, and Microsoft Solver Foundation product lines. Alexander is an active angel investor and advisor to innovative AI and ML-driven start-ups, including: Kosmos AI, Wave Computing, Sapiens Data Science, Roambee, and DataRPM (acquired by Progress Software in 2017). A graduate of Santa Clara University, he resides in Los Gatos with his family – wife Tatjana and daughter Mina – enjoying electronic music composition, Leica photography, cinema, and sailing.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Jordan Sweetnam
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas Market of eBay
Jordan Sweetnam is the SVP and general manager for Americas Market at eBay. He was the vice president of customer experience for Walmart eCommerce. He brings rich e-commerce experience building differentiated products that delight customers and drive growth. He is responsible for leading a high-performance organization with Design, Analytics and Product Management teams that are focused on delivering an amazing customer experience when shopping Walmart.com at home, on their mobile devices or engaging digitally in the store. Jordan joined Walmart’s eCommerce team in 2016. He previously spent 12 years at eBay with his last two years as vice president of Seller Experience. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a specialization in finance from the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honors.
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About eBay, Walmart Labs: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Sanjeev Katariya
Vice President & Chief Architect of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Michael Tiffany
Cofounder & President of HUMAN
Michael Tiffany is co-founder and President of White Ops, where he focuses on product direction, strategic partnerships, and building teams that uphold the White Ops mission. His founding vision is to make everyday internet users more secure by disrupting the profit centers of cybercrime. Tiffany began his startup career before he could legally purchase alcohol as an executive at Western Integrated Networks, which started with an $889 million Series A round. Throughout Tiffany’s career, he has protected humans from bad actors using innovative security techniques. He is also a lifetime Technical Fellow of Critical Assets Labs, a DARPA-funded cybersecurity research lab, and a Subject Matter Advisor for the Signal Media Project, a nonprofit promoting the accurate portrayal of science, technology and history in popular media. Tiffany is a member of the old school white hat hacker collective ninjas.org.
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About HUMAN: HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects the internet and enterprises from fraud and sophisticated bot attacks.
Bowen Zhou
President, AI Platform and Research of JD.com
Bowen Zhou has been the President of Artificial Intelligence Platform & Research of JD.com since September 2017.Bowen is a technologist and business leader of human language technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He is keen on creating and advance relevant theory and applications that matter in the real world.Before joining JD.com, Bowen was with IBM for almost 15 years. In April last year, Bowen was appointed as the Chief Scientist of Watson Group, where he was responsible to lead and align Watson Group’s science agenda with IBM’s technical strategy and IBM Research’s cognitive computing and artificial intelligence agenda. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Bowen was an integrated member of the Executive Team of IBM Watson. He was also appointed to be the Director of AI Foundations, which were founded and launched by Bowen in January 2017, the first horizontal core learning and AI research lab at IBM Research.
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About JD.com: JD.com is an internet company and online consumer electronics retailer in China.
Jeffery Fowler
President, North America of Farfetch
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Meg Runeari
Vice President of Business Operations, North America of Teads US
Meg Runeari is the Vice President of Business Operations, North America at Teads, leading operational strategy and business efficiencies across a dedicated team of account and project managers. Meg’s key focus is to bring quality advertising to engaged audiences in environments that are not only safe for brands but also respect the user. With ten years of experience in the digital space and deep-rooted industry relationships with leading verification vendors, Meg is doing her part to keep the digital ecosystem clean.
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About Teads US, Teads US: Teads US invented outstream video advertising and is the no.1 video advertising marketplace in the world.
Nick Bushak
Co-founder, President, and CTO of Gem
Nick Bushak is a Co-Founder, President, and CTO at Gem. Before starting Gem, Nick spent 6 years at Facebook, where he led various engineering teams for Facebook Pages, Ads, and Messenger.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Tim Saeger
Executive Vice President, Engineering of iRobot
Tim Saeger has served as executive vice president of engineering since March 2017. Mr. Saeger previously served as senior vice president of engineering from August 2015 until March 2017. Prior to iRobot, Mr. Saeger served in multiple roles at Bose Corporation from 2005 – 2015, including Vice President of Home Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saeger also served at Thomson, Inc., and General Dynamics, in a variety of engineering and engineering management positions. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Saeger also has been awarded 24 U.S. patents.
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About iRobot, iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Russell J. Campanello
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Nidhi Gupta
Senior Vice President of Engineering of Hired
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About Hired: Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies.
Alex Cavoulacos
Founder & President of The Muse
Alex is the President & Founder of The Muse, where she focuses on the growth and operations of the fast-growing business, and pursuing constant innovation. She is also the co-author of “The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career” (Crown Business, April 2017). Alex was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media and INC’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech. She is a frequent keynote on productivity and entrepreneurship, and a champion for women in tech. Prior to founding The Muse, Alex was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She graduated from Yale University, and is an alumna of Y Combinator.
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About The Muse: The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people.
Thanda Belker
Senior Vice President, Global Distribution of pocket.watch
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About pocket.watch: Pocket.watch is a new studio creating global franchises from the YouTube stars and characters loved by Generation Alpha.
Justin Norman
Vice President, Data Science of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Luther Lowe
Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Government Affairs of Yelp
Luther Lowe is the Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Yelp. In this role, he develops and executes Yelp’s initiatives related to competition policy, open data, and consumer free speech. A recent focus of his advocacy was working to persuade the European Commission that Google was in violation of EU competition laws, an effort profiled at length by the New York Times in 2017. In 2018, in naming him to its inaugural ‘New Establishment’ list, Vanity Fair wrote, “No single person in the United States has been a bigger antagonist of Google in the past seven years than Luther Lowe.” Politico called Luther “Google’s chief antagonist in the U.S. and Europe” this year when it reported on the Department of Justice’s fresh investigation into Google’s conduct. Luther joined Yelp as an early employee in 2008, where he was part of a small landing team that opened Yelp’s first remote office in New York City. After serving a year in the Account Executive role, he was tapped to create a new department leading small business outreach, reporting to the COO. In 2011, he handed off the department and became Yelp’s first director of government affairs. Before joining Yelp, Luther was an aide de camp to retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark where he primarily assisted in producing General Clark’s best-selling memoir. He has served as a paid staffer on more than a dozen state, local, and federal democratic campaigns. While attending college and serving as a member of the Virginia National Guard, he filed and won a federal lawsuit against the city of Williamsburg, Virginia for the systematic disenfranchisement of student voters. The high profile effort led to increased national awareness about student voter suppression. Luther lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter. He holds a bachelor of arts in Government from the College of William & Mary.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Song Bac Toh
Vice President of Product Management of Tata Communications
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
Robert Brisco
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Internet Brands
Bob Brisco is the President & CEO at Internet Brands.
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About CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
James Keating
Division Head (Vice President): Apartments, Shopping, Careers, & Digital Marketing of Internet Brands
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About Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
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
René Schmitz
Vice President IoT Products & Technology of Vodafone
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About Vodafone, Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
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.
Tom Turner
Senior Vice President of Rogers Communications
Tom is the Senior Vice President, Medium Business and has been with the Rogers Group of Companies for over 20 years, holding various executive positions in Rogers Communications Inc., Rogers Cable and Rogers Wireless. In his time with Rogers, he has had the privilege of supporting Finance, and Marketing in addition to Sales. Prior to assuming his current role, Tom served as VP of Sales for Rogers Business Solutions, a division of Rogers Communications, that provided premium Internet, data networking, voice, data centre and cloud services to a wide range of enterprise, government and wholesale customers. Tom has held positions as VP Sales Planning & Operations, VP/GM High Speed Internet and VP Convergence, reporting directly to Ted Rogers. Tom’s significant contributions have been leading Rogers High Speed Internet business, launching Canada’s first Digital PCS and prepaid services and managing Rogers’ largest distribution channels and regions. Tom has a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science from Michigan State University and a Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University College of Law.
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About Rogers Communications: Rogers Communications is a communications and media company that specializes in telecommunications and internet.
Jay Blazensky
Vice President of Business Development, Voice of LivePerson
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About LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
Ido Hacohen
Vice President, Head of M&A and Corporate Development of LivePerson
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About LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
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.
