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This list showcases the top United States based Principal operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Principal 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.
Seth Lippman
Senior Principal Cloud Automation Developer of Oracle
Seth is a productivity aficionado who loves his work in software development and process automation design (think The Elastic Stack and The Chef Infrastructure Suite). His career started in Hollywood visual effects, creating simulation based animation; then transitioned into developing software to manage cross-location data set replication, distributed data processing, and infrastructure orchestration. Seth also spent many years considering the finer points of database design and workflow methodologies. These days, he prefers to direct his algorithmic thinking towards custom Cloud automation by way of implementing Python APIs, writing Chef Cookbooks, and designing application provisioning pipelines.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Norka Lucena
Software Engineer, Principal Member of the Technical Staff of Oracle
Norka Lucena is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle. Prior joining the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity team, she developed several Azure services at Microsoft, leading the authentication and authorization implementation for a SPA that managed datacenter operations world-wide serving users from public and private clouds (both federated and not) and a backend authorization service, also supporting multiple clouds. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University with focused on protocol steganography and covert channels for private communications.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Rohit Koul
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Rohit Koul has been working for BITSAA International Inc since 2010. Starting as a volunteer in Technology Team, he has been serving the community as the CEO since 2012. Among other things like starting multiple scholarships and awards, he and his team of “merry men” have been instrumental in raising a million dollars for BITSAA, getting BITSConnect 2.0 implemented, BITS’ partnership with Coursera/EdX, launching the concept of BITSians’ Day, Taking BITS/BITSAA to NASDAQ, Setting up a merchandise store, Career Center and Mentoring network for the alumni. In his day job, he works on securing cloud services. Rohit graduated in 2006 from BITS, Pilani (Computer Science); has a Masters in Computer Science(09-11) from University of Wisconsin-Madison, holds numerous patents and has been awarded at Oracle for special contribution and innovation.
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About BITSAA International, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jeewika Ranaweera
Principal Hardware Engineer of Oracle
Jeewika Ranaweera is a principal hardware engineer at Oracle. She received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from ISPJAE in Havana, Cuba; and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Oracle Semiconductor Engineering team that develops high-speed microprocessors. She is an IEEE Senior Member, an ABET program evaluator for IEEE, and a Sustainability Champion at Oracle. Jeewika authored an eBook about her engineering journey for IEEE Women in Engineering to inspire others to follow STEM careers and illustrated the 1st children’s book published by IEEE. She was a speaker at the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida on “High Performance Computing and Engineering track” and contributed to the development of the next generation of women in technology. She was a panelist at the 2017 IEEE Women in Computing Summit’s Innovation Panel on “How to stay ahead of the curve in technology”. As a judge for local and international science fairs, she gets to motivate and stimulate the interests of students in the fields of science and engineering. Through Oracle Women in Leadership, she networks with like-minded women who are committed, diverse and passionate while enhancing her leadership skills. As an ambassador for Oracle Diversity and Inclusion, she shared her experience and insight as an engineer at the “True Blue Inclusion Solutions Forum” to tackle head-on issues that so far have rebuffed the change essential to make engineering jobs rewarding for women. She also develops curriculums and deliver workshops surrounding wearable technology through the Oracle Education Foundation. Through ABET, she helps guide the content, quality and delivery of ECE degree programs around the world. She also makes a difference to the health and safety of employees by volunteering with Oracle’s Emergency Response Team. She has authored and co-authored many papers published in technical journals, or presented at international conferences. Jeewika holds four U.S. Patents.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Eric Hanko
Principal Software Engineer of Oracle
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Christian Shay
Principal Product Manager of Oracle
Christian Shay is a product manager in the Database Technologies group at Oracle. As a .NET and Oracle Database on Windows evangelist, he speaks to user groups, at Microsoft events and at Oracle events worldwide.
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Mary Beth Raven
Senior Principal User Researcher of Oracle
Mary Beth Raven is a Senior Principal User Researcher at Oracle. Prior to that she has held positions at a variety of companies, including IBM, SolidWorks, and EMC. She has been an interaction designer and a Director. In all cases she brings a passionate focus on getting user input at every stage of the product lifecycle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Andy Herm
TitleSenior Principal Infrastructure Architect of Oracle
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Michael Richter
Principal Director, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, IoT, Blockchain of Oracle
Michael Richter has always gravitated toward change, whether it is building new businesses, embracing new technologies or exploring and discovering new places. His career has included senior marketing roles at News Corporation, MGM, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Setanta Sports and MediaZone. He led the pioneering roll out of cable and satellite TV in Asia over a 10-year period in the 90’s followed by digital media and product management roles based in the US. Currently, he is at the forefront of the fast growing cloud services industry as Director Product Management for CX Sales at Oracle. He holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, Global School of Management in Alliance with ASU, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. He is a competitive outrigger canoeist residing in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he published a book titled “One Red Shirt” documenting his 10-year experience in the Asia Pacific region.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Topher Timzen
Principal Offensive Security Engineer of Oracle
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Stuart Marks
Principal Member of Technical Staff of Oracle
Stuart Marks is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in the Java Platform Group at Oracle. He is currently working on a variety of JDK core libraries projects, including Collections, Lambda, and Streams, as well as improving test quality and performance. As his alter ego “Dr Deprecator” he also works on the Java SE deprecation mechanism. He has previously worked on JavaFX and Java ME at Sun Microsystems. He has over twenty years of software platform product development experience in the areas of window systems, interactive graphics, and mobile and embedded systems. Stuart holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Irfan Ahmed
Principal Member Technical Staff of Oracle
Irfan Ahmed is the Consulting Member Technical Staff at Oracle.
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Karthik Gaekwad
Principal Member of Technical Staff of Oracle
Karthik Gaekwad is a Principal Engineer for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He’s been in many engineering roles inside Oracle and was on the product teams that released various container based products including Oracle Kubernetes Engine. He is a innovator in the devops, agile and container technologies. He is an author on LinkedIn Learning, a frequent presenter at conferences, and organizes many technical events including Devopsdays Austin. He frequently writes at cloudnative.oracle.com.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nicolas DeRico
Master Principal Solutions Engineer of Oracle
Nicolas has a passion for databases and statistics, and their application. Combining his experience with database development and business education, he advises and designs high-value solutions with customers, and supports the MySQL sales organization.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Neerav Padliya
Principal Software Engineer of Oracle
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Jan Maska
Principal UX Designer of Oracle
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Christopher Jones
Senior Principal Product Manager of Oracle
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Jan Maska
Principal UX Designer of Oracle
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Sergey Kuksenko
Java Performance Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff of Oracle
Sergey works as Java Performance Engineer at Oracle. His primary goal is making Oracle JVM faster digging into JVM runtime, JIT compilers, class libraries and etc. His favorite area is an interaction of Java with modern hardware what he is doing since 2005 when he worked at Intel in Apache Harmony Performance team.
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Jenny Zhang
Sr. Principal Information Security Engineer of Mastercard
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Vishal Anand
Principal Software Engineer of Mastercard
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Wally Lo Faro
Principal Consultant of Mastercard
Wally Lo Faro, PhD, Vice President Data Science, Operations and Technology, Mastercard Wally Lo Faro is Vice President, Data Science for Mastercard Operations and Technology. He leads a team of data scientists whose responsibilities include architecting data science and analytics environments and applying artificial intelligence and related approaches to extract information from large volumes of data for operational improvement, data quality, and product development. Wally has been with MasterCard for 12 years in a variety of roles.
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Kathy Chen
Senior Principal of Ulu Ventures
Kathy is a Senior Principal at Ulu Ventures.
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Nancy Torres
Principal of Ulu Ventures
Nancy Torres is a Principal at Ulu Ventures.
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Curtis Brown
Principal Mechanical Engineer of Honeywell
Curtis Brown is a Professional Engineer, currently a mechanical principal engineer at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) managed and operated by Honeywell FM&T. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas. He is the technology Focus Lead for Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) within KCNSC’s Simulations & Modeling Center of Excellence. He leads his company’s Digital Product Realization Enterprise team toward maturing MBE at KCNSC within the context of US Dept. of Energy’s National Security Enterprise (NSE) partners. He manages an enduring project with UK’s AWE for Model-Based Design and Manufacturing. Recently, he has become the chairmen for NSE’s new MBE Committee and was elected to the new ASME MBE Steering Committee. Curtis originally hired at AlliedSignal as a Quality Engineering in support of computer numerical controlled coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and immediately showed an interested in science-based manufacturing with a quality emphasis. He was the inventor and core programmer for the innovative model-based tolerance application through his Feature-Based Tolerancing (FBTol) Advisor tool. Curtis was the chairmen of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standards (DMIS) committee and is the now the president of the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) which fosters and produces ANSI approved digital interoperability standards such as the new enabling Qualify Information Framework (QIF).
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Ely Kahn
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
Ely Kahn was the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development for Sqrrl. Previously, Ely served in a variety of positions in the Federal Government, including Director of Cybersecurity at the National Security Staff in White House, Deputy Chief of Staff at the National Protection Programs Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of Risk Management and Strategic Innovation in the Transportation Security Administration. Before his service in the Federal Government, Ely was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Ely has a BA from Harvard University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ely currently serves as the Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Venkat Prasad
Principal Product Manager (Growth) of Amazon Web Services
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Grant McAlister
Senior Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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Bill Shinn
Senior Principal, AWS Security of Amazon Web Services
Bill Shinn spends his time helping security teams understand privacy, security and compliance as they move their business to AWS. Prior to AWS, Shinn spent over 12 years managing and leading information security operations and architecture initiatives at some of the largest U.S. financial institutions, including U.S. Bank and JPMorgan Chase.
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Mohit Srivastava
Principal Lead Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Stefano Marzani
Principal Specialist SA, Autonomous Driving of Amazon Web Services
It’s more than 15 years that I develop Human-Machine Interaction systems. I create tools and methodologies to support HMI development and I contributed to HMI innovation, especially in the automotive sector. This is reflected in the projects and initiatives I contributed to: 20+ publications and patents, a team of 50+ people, 100+ globally distributed partners and clients, mostly in the automotive.
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Bimal Tandel
Principal Analytics GTM lead, ProServe Global Speciality Practice of Amazon Web Services
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Ryan Coleman
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Michael Luzzi
Principal Customer Solutions Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Tom Callaway
Principal Open Source Evangelist of Amazon Web Services
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Shyam Srinivasan
Principal Product Marketing Manager, AI/ML of Amazon Web Services
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Ali Arsanjani
TechSector Leader and Principal Architect, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architecture of Amazon Web Services
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Jason Schleifer
Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services
Jason Schleifer is the Principal Creative Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Nikki Rouda
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Amazon Web Services
Nikki Rouda is a principal product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nikki has decades of experience leading enterprise big data, analytics, and data center infrastructure initiatives. Previously, he held senior positions at Cloudera, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Riverbed, NetApp, Veritas, and UK-based Alertme.com (an early consumer IoT startup). Nikki holds an MBA from Cambridge’s Judge Business School and an ScB in geophysics from Brown University.
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David Filiatrault
Principal Security Consultant, Professional Services of Amazon Web Services
David Filiatrault is responsible for the strategy, development, and the day-to-day management of the Softgate Systems technology platform. David brings over 20 years of experience leading technology organizations in the design and development and operations of complex 24/7 system architectures. Prior to joining Softgate, David held various senior management positions at Online Resources/ACI Worldwide where he was responsible for the development, technical operations, and leadership of the professional services function for their Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment solution. At CustomInk, an innovative website that enables people to design and order custom designed products, he was responsible for all of the operations technology. David also spent several years at Fannie Mae where he was responsible for the technical design and development of various projects in the Capital Markets and eBusiness groups. Early in his career, David spent time as a technology consultant for various firms including Verizon and Nextel.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Adam Fuchs
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
CTO at Sqrrl
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Ben Snively
Principal Solutions Architect, Data Science of Amazon Web Services
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Antonella Corno
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Damon Cortesi
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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Ryan Nienhuis
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Jason Willig
Principal, Strategy & Business Operations of Amazon Web Services
Jason Willig is a consumer software executive, entrepreneur, and advisor. He is currently Principal, Strategy & Business Operations in the AWS division at Amazon. Jason is an advisor to Farside HR Solutions, an HR tech startup building a disruptive performance management platform, as well as VGMarket, a leading market research company. Previously, he was Vice President and Group General Manager and Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations at Electronic Arts. From 2011 to 2013 Willig served as COO and CEO of Booyah, Inc., a leading developer and publisher of location-based mobile games. Prior to joining Booyah, he spent four years at Electronic Arts as the Senior Director of Strategy & Business Operations for the Hasbro business unit. Jason has held executive & leadership positions at top interactive and media companies since 1998 including LucasFilm, Vivendi Games and BabyCenter.com. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in Chinese from the University of Massachusetts and an associate degree in Culinary Arts from the California Culinary Academy.
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Steve Rice
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
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Harnish Patel
Principal PDM, Security of Amazon Web Services
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Matt Bretan
Principal Manager – Security & Infrastructure Practice of Amazon Web Services
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Craig Williams
Principal Solutions Architect, IoT of Amazon Web Services
Craig is a Principal Solutions Architect for the Specialist IoT team for Amazon Web Services and is responsible for IoT architecture programs, partner enablement, design & integration support and workshops within his team. He has 27+ years of IT experience with over 11 years focused on cloud technologies. Craig has a Digital Systems Engineering background and ran his own software and networking company in South Africa before working in London, Amsterdam, Belgium and now the US doing application development, system administration, networking, disaster recovery design and performance profiling. Craig has done a prodigious amount of architectural and coding implementation work for a variety of clients regarding: Cloud Architecture/Development, CRM, Inventory Management, Ecommerce, Reporting, Billing, Risk Analysis, Banking, Payments Processing, Mobile & WAP, Web Services, database architecture and analysis, hardware infrastructure, IoT design and development, and many related IT implementation and execution fields.
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Phil Estes
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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Clare Liguori
Principal Software Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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Sergey Ermolin
Principal Solutions Architect, ML/DL/AI of Amazon Web Services
Sergey Ermolin is a technical program manager for deep learning, Spark analytics, and big data technologies at Intel. A Silicon Valley veteran with a passion for machine learning and artificial intelligence, Sergey has been interested in neural networks since 1996, when he used them to predict aging behavior of quartz crystals and cesium atomic clocks made by Hewlett-Packard. Sergey holds an MSEE and a certificate in mining massive datasets from Stanford and BS degrees in both physics and mechanical engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
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Danny Yuan
Principal Software Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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Geoff Pare
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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Chris Munns
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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Randall DeFauw
Principal Solutions Architect of Amazon Web Services
Randy is a solutions architect at AWS, with over 20 years of experience in enterprise software architecture. He’s worked heavily in DevOps in the past, and currently focuses on Analytics and Machine Learning.
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Russell Klosk
Strategy Principal Director, Talent and Organization, Accenture Strategy of Accenture
Russell Klosk is a globally recognized thought leader in Talent Strategy, Workforce Transformation and Strategic Workforce Planning. He has been involved in multiple global transformation projects. A seasoned executive who has led internal functions in the Fortune 500 in addition to over 15 years of consulting experience and is a key author of 3 ISO HR standards. Currently Russell leads Accenture’s global product offerings for Strategic Workforce Planning and Organizational Effectiveness. He also leads the North American T&O Strategy practice for the Resources Industry. His cross industry experience and though leadership drive client differentiation and have included work on 6 continents including expatriate assignments in Europe and Asia. He focuses in the areas of includes Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent Strategy, HR Operating Model Design, Performance Management, Learning Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, HR Process & Policy design and creation, HR Strategy, and HR Technology Enablement He consistently demonstrates an ability to focus on the underlying business issues and to help clients optimize and improve efficiencies to solve complex business challenges. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, an MBA from New York University and is a certified SPHR, GPHR, SHRM-SCP, and PMP.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ian McCulloh
Principal Director & Chief Data Scientist of Accenture
Ian McCulloh is the chief data scientist for Accenture Federal Services. His current work focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to improve democracy and government services. He also maintains adjunct faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public health and the Whiting School of Engineering. His most recent academic papers have been focused on the neuroscience of persuasion and implementation of artificial intelligence programs. He is the author of “Social Network Analysis with Applications” (Wiley: 2013), “Networks Over Time” (Oxford: forthcoming) and has published 55 peer-reviewed papers. Prior to joining Accenture, McCulloh served as associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public health, senior lecturer in Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering and senior scientist at the University’ Applied Physics Laboratory. His latest research focused on strategic influence in online networks. McCulloh retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army after 20 years of service with expertise in social network analysis, special operations and improvised explosive device forensics. During his military tenure, he founded the West Point Network Science Center and created the Army’s Advanced Network Analysis and Targeting (ANAT) program. In addition, he led interdisciplinary teams of scientists at Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) and Central Command (CENTCOM) to conduct global, data-driven, social science research to inform strategy for countering extremism and assessing military operations. McCulloh holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Masters degrees in Industrial Engineering and Applied Statistics from the Florida State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington.
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Elena Eneva
Senior Principal AI Researcher of Accenture
Elena Eneva is a senior principal AI researcher at Accenture Technology Labs, where she leads the development of cutting-edge AI solutions applied across multiple high-impact domains, including anti human trafficking, intelligent compliance, and explainable and equitable AI. She has over 15 years of experience in big data, machine learning, data science, and AI across business, technical, and R&D groups. Prior to Accenture, Elena worked at Yahoo! on machine learning for fraud detection. Elena is particularly passionate about applying data science to social-good domains. In the summer of 2013, Elena helped start the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship at the University of Chicago. As a technical mentor, she led several teams of fellows and developed open-source solutions for healthcare and disaster relief. In 2018, Elena returned to the University of Chicago to lead the entire DSSG program there as DSSG’s director. She continues to be involved with the fellowship program and is working toward creating a DSSG program in the Bay Area, where she is based. Elena got her master’s degree in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of the South: Sewanee. Besides sciencing with data, she is passionate about social good in general and works with community organizations involved in education, the arts, and the environment.
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Mark Barajas
Cloud Tech Arch Innovations Sr Principal of Accenture
Mark is responsible for VMware Validated Designs based on VMware software-defined data centers.
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David Blaszkowsky
Principal Director, Data Governance and Regulatory Compliance of Accenture
David joined State Street in 2014 from the Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury, where he was Senior Policy Advisor, working on data and technology issues related to financial institution and systemic risk, including standards, data strategy, and emerging data technologies. Prior to joining the OFR, the Securities and Exchange Commission appointed David in October 2007 as Director of its new Office of Interactive Disclosure, which developed and implemented interactive data rules, standards (particularly XBRL), and analytical tools for SEC financial disclosures. At both the SEC and OFR, David co-created and helped promote the adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), as an original member of the “Linchpin” team. Before his stints in government, David managed several equity research and analytics businesses for Standard & Poor’s in New York.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Gregory Spata
Senior Principal Director, Industry X of Accenture
Gregory Spata is the Senior Principal Director, Industry X at Accenture.
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Thomas Ryan
Principal Director of Accenture
Tom Ryan has more than 20 years of experience in emergency management strategy and emergency response planning. He leads the firm’s Emergency Management line of business. Tom is a thought leader in emergency management, delivering expert advice to utilities in the areas of strategic emergency management, operational tactics, program design and implementation, emergency communications, risk management, decision analysis, knowledge management, training, and exercise delivery. His experience in training and exercise includes multi-agency public and private training and exercise programs. Prior to joining Davies Consulting, Tom was a technical advisor to the U.S. Department of State in the Foreign Service, president of Midland Risiko, Inc., and program manager in the District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency, where he responded to international level events in the Washington, D.C., area and helped develop the city’s emergency response system. His personal experience as a first responder bolsters his knowledge and experience with very practical, hands-on involvement in field operations. Tom holds a B.A. from Colby College and an M.S. in Engineering Management and System Engineering with a focus on Disaster, Crisis, and Risk Management from George Washington University. He is certified through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Management Institute on the Incident Command System, the National Incident Management System, and the National Response Framework and is certified by the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute as an Instructor I.
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TJ Glazier
Principal Director of Accenture
TJ Glazier is a Senior Manager and Master Technology Architect in Big Data and Advanced Analytics. TJ has nearly 20 years’ experience designing, building and delivering large scale volume and high performance line of business and analytics applications using innovative software technologies for well-known Fortune companies. TJ holds a B.S. in Mathematics of Computation from UCLA, an M.S. in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University investigating automated tradeoff analysis in self-adaptive systems.
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Jeffrey Vah
Sr. Principal Test Engineer of Dell
Jeffrey Vah is a senior principal test engineer at Dell.
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Austin Bolen
TitleStorage Development Principal Engineer of Dell
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Gurdeep Kalra
Principal Consultant of Infosys
Gurdeep is a Principal consultant with Infosys with 20+ years of US experience in Hi-Tech Manufacturing Supply Chain and Bio-tech Pharma specializing in ERP & Big Data Analytics. He is passionate about solving tomorrow’s business challenges by applying cutting edge technologies. He is part of Infosys Block Chain Center of Excellence team for Supply chain functions and working on several initiatives within Infosys and outside that relate to applying Blockchain technology to the Supply Chain industry. Currently working Blockchain Supply Chain use case at a major Hitech company in San Jose for an End to End visibility of shipment and service around it, real time and secure exchange of data between partners and automation of invoicing payment thru smart contracts. Prior to Infosys, he was Director Systems for Quark city Chandigarh for building automation projects and prior to that he was Technical Lead at Stanford University, USA. He has been engaged with several bay area US companies as consulting/strategic partner roles mainly for technology ERP projects and Hadoop Data Lake implementations.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Bob Sokol
CPS Chief Strategist, VMware Cloud, Principal Systems Engineer of Dell EMC
Bob works with Dell EMC customers to adopt private and hybrid cloud strategies, using VMware and Pivotal technologies. He’s also frequently engaged with customer discussions on Cloud Native Apps, DevOps and Hyper-converged Infrastructure. He has over 20 years experience in pre-sales systems engineering, including prior systems engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Cisco.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Ernie Erwee
Account Principal of Contino
Ernie is an Account Principal at Contino. He is a seasoned System Architect with over 28 years of IT experience who skillfully uses architecture as a discipline to solve business problems. Ernie’s core focus, with a long history in operational efficiency enablement, has shifted to Exploring the Digital Frontier with a deep understanding and passion for DevOps as Service. With robust knowledge of infrastructure and application architecture, he combines technical ability and leadership skills to push teams to achieve targets beyond their wildest dreams.
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About Contino: Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
Ernie Erwee
Account Principal of Contino
Ernie is an Account Principal at Contino. He is a seasoned System Architect with over 28 years of IT experience who skillfully uses architecture as a discipline to solve business problems. Ernie’s core focus, with a long history in operational efficiency enablement, has shifted to Exploring the Digital Frontier with a deep understanding and passion for DevOps as Service. With robust knowledge of infrastructure and application architecture, he combines technical ability and leadership skills to push teams to achieve targets beyond their wildest dreams.
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About Contino: Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
Natalie Vais
Principal of Amplify Partners
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Renee Shah
Principal of Amplify Partners
Renee is a Principal at Amplify Partners and focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics startups. Prior to joining Amplify, Renee worked at Google, where she was a core member of the emerging products and solutions team working on machine learning projects for e-commerce applications. In her time at Google, she helped drive the of launch Shoppable Images, a computer vision product for retailers and brands. Renee also spent time at Waymo, where she helped launch their 3D LiDAR sensor business for autonomous vehicles, drone, and robotics customers. Earlier in her career, Renee worked for Boston Consulting Group where she focused on strategy for healthcare, retail, and private equity clients. As a member of BCG’s social impact group, she worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative where she focused on identifying investments to improve healthcare in East Africa. Renee holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Amplify Partners: Amplify Partners invests in technical founders solving technical problems for the enterprise.
Joseph Beda
Principal Engineer, Cloud Native Apps of VMware
Joe Beda is a Principal Engineer at VMware. Joe arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader in the cloud native movement and a company that he co-founded. Previously, at Google, Joe co-created Google Compute Engine and filed the first ever Kubernetes project commit. He remains a frequent contributor to the open source community.
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About Kubernetes, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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Matthew Amdur
Principal Engineer of VMware
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Ravi Soundararajan
Principal Engineer of VMware
Ravi Soundararajan is a Principal Engineer in the Performance Group at VMware. He works on vCenter performance and scalability, from the UI to the server to the database to the hypervisor management agents. He has been at VMware since 2003, and he has presented on the topic of vCenter Performance at VMworld from 2013-2017.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mark Peek
VP, Principal Engineer of VMware
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF and OCI.
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About FreeBSD, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Alex Rankov
Principal Enginer of VMware
Alex Rankov serves as principal engineer at VMware.
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Linus Bourque
Principal Instructor of VMware
Linus Bourque has been with VMware for nearly 14 years. He started his career with in GSS as a TSE/Escalation Engineer. After missing teaching for a while, he moved over to VMware’s Education team as a senior instructor and today is part of the Americas Education Tech Lead team, where he has been the lead instructor for a variety of End-User Computing courses over the last 8 years. Additionally, he has also been involved in the creation of various EUC certs and certifying new instructors (VCIs).
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TJ Vatsa
Principal Consulting Architect, AMER of VMware
TJ Vatsa is a principal architect at VMware.
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Jad El-Zein
Principal Architect, CMBU Office of the CTO of VMware
Jad is a Principal Architect in VMware’s CMBU’s Office of the CTO. As Principal Architect, Jad focuses on driving strategy and vision of VMware’s Cloud Management and emerging technologies. Jad has over 19 years of experience in IT, including an 11-year tenure with Lockheed Martin Corp, and has spent much of the last 9 years focusing on datacenter optimization and emerging cloud technologies.
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Kim Jahnz
Principal Technical Account Manager of VMware
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Roshni Patil
Principal Product Manager of VMware
Roshni Patil serves as principal product manager at VMware.
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Mike Hall
Principal Engineer of VMware
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Christian Dickmann
Principal Engineer of VMware
Christian Dickmann is the Principal Engineer at VMware.
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Cliff Lane
Principal System Engineer of VMware
Cliff Lane serves as principal system engineer at VMware.
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Dharma Rajan
Principal Solutions Architecture Leader – Global of VMware
Dharma Rajan is the Principal Solutions Architecture Leader – Global at VMware.
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Matt Vandenbeld
Principal Architect of VMware
Matt Vandenbeld serves as principal architect at VMware.
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Dale Carter
Principal Architect EUC Technical Marketing of VMware
Dale Carter is a principal architect at VMware.
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Adam Osterholt
Principal Cloud System Engineer – VMware Cloud on AWS of VMware
Adam Osterholt is a principal cloud system engineer at VMware.
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Jason Karnes
Principal Architect of VMware
Jason Karnes is a senior architect at VMware.
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Henry Kaestner
Managing Principal, Co-Founder & Partner of Sovereign’s Capital
Henry Kaestner is the Chairman, Co-Founder and previous CEO of Bandwidth.com, a company that together with his business partner, David Morken, he has grown from $0 to $200 million in revenue. The values of Bandwidth.com have always been: Faith, Family, Work and Fitness (in that order). Bandwidth.com was the 4th fastest growing privately held company in the country from 2003 through 2007, a position it achieved without acquisition or institutional funding. Prior to co-founding Bandwidth.com Mr. Kaestner founded Chapel Hill Brokers (a predecessor to ICAP Energy), an institutional energy derivatives broker that became the top ranked electricity broker in the country. Mr. Kaestner has also been involved in a number of ministry and philanthropic activities. He co-founded and serves as Chairman of the Board of DurhamCares, sits on the Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Board of Directors of Praxis, an accelerator committed to helping Faith driven entrepreneurs. He serves as an elder in the Presbyterian Church of America and lives in Saratoga, CA with his wife Kimberley and their three sons.
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About Faith Driven Investor, Sovereign’s Capital: Sovereign’s Capital provides growth capital for consumer SaaS, B2B tech, healthcare IT, and med devices.
Parag Khandelwal
Principal of Spectrum Equity
Parag joined Spectrum in July 2012. Prior to joining Spectrum, he was an Investment Banking Analyst with J.P. Morgan in their Restructuring Group. While at J.P. Morgan, Parag focused on a variety of special situations transactions, including evaluating, structuring and executing constructive financing for bankruptcy, turnaround and distressed scenarios across all industries.
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Matt Neidlinger
Principal of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity, Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Michael Radonich
Principal of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity, Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Julia Kuo
Principal of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Julia Kuo
Principal of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Amy Tobey
Principal SRE of Equinix
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About Equinix, Tenable: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
