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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 Vice President operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a Vice 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.
Anthony Lye
Senior Vice President and General Manager of NetApp
Anthony Lye is Senior Vice President of the Cloud Business Unit for NetApp. He is responsible for the strategy and execution to further NetApp’s cloud innovation across private, hybrid cloud and hyperscaler models and establish the company as the undisputed leader in managing data in a cloud-integrated world. He brings more than 25 years of diverse leadership experience to NetApp, spanning roles in development, product management, marketing, sales and as a high-tech CEO. He has focused primarily on cloud innovation for the past 15 years, most recently as the Executive Vice President and Chief Cloud Officer at Guidewire Software, where he led the insurance software company’s transition from on-premises to cloud solutions. His background includes leading teams in both North America and Europe and hands-on experience building applications and working with the developer community. Earlier in his career, Anthony served as President and Chief Executive Officer for HotSchedules, a vertical cloud company building applications for the restaurant, retail and hospitality industries. He was previously the Global President of Digital Platforms, Customer Relationship Management and Channels at Publicis, the world’s largest digital agency. He also held senior leadership positions at Oracle, Siebel Systems and Remedy Corporation. Anthony earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering with honors from the University of Bath in Bath, United Kingdom. He serves on the board of Spoken Communications and is an investor in both startups and venture funds.
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About CRMsearch.com, NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Octavian Tanase
Senior Vice President ONTAP of NetApp
Octavian Tanase is the Senior Vice President ONTAP (ONTAP Software and Systems Group). Previously Octavian was the GM of the Cloud Appliance – AltaVault Group, which built the fabric to enable enterprises to operate in hybrid cloud environment to send their backups and archives to the cloud. Octavian started at NetApp as the Vice President of the Data Protection engineering team who shipped world-class data protection products such as SnapMirror, MetroCluster and SnapVault. Before joining NetApp in 2010, Octavian led the Java Platform engineering group at Sun Microsystems/Oracle. He has also held various engineering roles in several start-ups in Silicon Valley.
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About NetApp, NetApp, NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Pranoop Erasani
TitleVice President of Engineering, ONTAP NAS, Replication Technologies and Performance, ONTAP of NetApp
Pranoop Erasani is a Senior Technical Director for world’s No.1 storage operating system, NetApp® ONTAP®. NetApp is widely recognized as the market leader in storage software solutions. Since joining NetApp, Pranoop has led technology innovations related to areas of NAS protocol, Scalable filesystem, Analytics and Caching technology for the NetApp flagship ONTAP operating system. He is a passionate about clustering and distributed systems and is a strong advocate of leveraging NAS for analytics storage. He acts as a key technical advisor to technical marketing and product management for design and development of technologies required to make ONTAP a successful data management platform for Hadoop, NoSQL and Machine Learning. Prior to NetApp, Pranoop worked at Sun Microsystems on the Solaris Clustering product. Pranoop holds a Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
William Miller
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of NetApp
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at NetApp.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Roslyn Jones
Vice President Global Education of NetApp
Roslyn B. Jones is the Vice President Global Education at NetApp.
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About Apttus, CA Technologies, HP, NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Tom Gerstenberger
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations of NetApp
Tom Gerstenberger is executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations at NetApp. In this role, Tom is responsible for the strategy and execution of all NetApp sales efforts, including our entire ecosystem of go-to-market channel and alliance partners. Previously, Tom held the roles of SVP and chief of staff of Go-to-Market Operations and SVP of Field Strategy and Operations. Before joining NetApp in November 2004, Tom spent 15 years with 3Com in various executive and senior management positions, most recently as vice president and general manager of the Personal Systems division. During his tenure at 3Com, he worked as VP of Finance and Business Operations for the Business Communications company, VP of Worldwide Sales Operations, VP Executive in Residence Office of the Chairman, VP of Finance for the Network Systems business unit, and controller for Worldwide Field Operations. Tom holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Eirikur Hrafnsson
Vice President of Cloud Engineering of NetApp
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Praful Shah
Senior Vice President Strategy of RingCentral
Praful Shah is responsible for defining the company’s business, product, and marketing strategy. Shah brings more than 20 years of experience with major technology companies in the software and cloud industries. Before joining RingCentral, he worked at WebEx from its founding days until its acquisition by Cisco in 2007. At WebEx, Shah held various executive management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Communications, Online Products, Product Marketing, and Business Development. Shah previously served as the Senior Director of Marketing for the database and internet products divisions at Oracle. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Tim Mund
Regional Vice President of Sales, Enterprise of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jim Dvorkin
Senior Vice President, Customer Engagement of RingCentral
Jim Dvorkin has broad experience in building companies in software as a service (SaaS) technology space, including customer relationship management and call center technologies. Presently, as CTO of Five9 – a market-leading SaaS call center solutions company, Jim manages software development, data center operations, customer support and implementation. Previously, Jim started the call center initiative as VP of Technology for Salesforce.com – a leading SaaS customer relationship management company. Jim has also served as CTO at EchoPass, provider of hosted call center solutions, and as VP of Technology at HipBone, a hosted web collaboration company. His extensive experience also includes co-founding one of the first on-demand call center companies – WhitePJ (acquired by Contactual), as well as co-founding Next Age Technologies, leading provider of workforce management solutions (acquired by Genesys). Jim also held several key engineering roles at Genesys – a pioneer and worldwide leader of delivering complex premise-based call center solutions. Jim holds a Masters degree of Economics and Computer Science from State University of Lithuania, and fluently speaks Russian, Lithuanian and English.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Keith Dennis
Regional Vice President, Enterprise West of RingCentral
Software as a Service (SaaS) sales leader with 16+ years experience rapidly building and scaling high performance teams in emerging markets. Industry specialization: Global Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service; Global Omni Channel Contact Center as a Service.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Mary Kosten
Vice President Customer Service of Dell EMC
Mary Cay Kosten is vice president, customer service – field, for EMC Corporation. She is responsible for creating and driving field service strategy and programs, logistics, and escalation management for EMC’s 3,000-person global team supporting EMC’s customer base. Kosten has over 25 years of experience in service and supplier management, with a proven track record in building outstanding service delivery organizations. Prior to joining EMC, she was vice president of global customer services delivery for Oracle/Sun Microsystems, responsible for delivering all elements of Sun’s support services. At Sun Microsystems, she also served as vice president of customer services for the Americas region and vice president for the Americas Customer Care Center. Under her leadership, Sun achieved the prestigious J.D. Power Certified Technology Service and Support (CTSS) Award for “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience,” the TSIA Award for Excellence in Service Operations, and was inducted into the STAR Awards Hall of Fame. Kosten is a 2008 recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business (High Tech and Telecommunications) Award and a 2006 recipient of the Silicon Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. She also is on the steering committee for TSIA’s Women in Services community of interest. She holds an MS degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and a BS in marketing from the University of West Florida.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Chris Scollo
Vice President, Global Strategy and Operations, Customer Services of Dell EMC
Chris Scollo serves as the vice president of global strategy and operations for EMC Customer Support Services. In this role, he oversees the operation and evolution of EMC’s 7,000-person support organization—including a full range of programs and initiatives designed to meet new customer requirements, leverage new routes to market, and amplify EMC’s opportunities in cloud computing and big data. Scollo has over 19 years of experience in consulting, service delivery, and business operations. He joined EMC in 2011 from Oracle Corporation, where he was most recently vice president of Business Operations for the Global Systems Support organization. In this role, Scollo led the multi-year strategic planning process for customer services, acted as the support integration lead in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and drove management review processes, standardized metrics, and reporting. He has held previous leadership positions in Sun Microsystems’ Technical Support Services and Field Operations. Scollo holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross, an MA in economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Christian Martin
Vice President, Service Provider Customer Engineering of Arista Networks
Christian Martin has spent more than 20 years delivering advanced ICT solutions to enterprises, government and service providers. His career experience spans many areas. In his current role, he is responsible for defining and driving the execution of Arista’s strategy for its ongoing expansion into the service provider and MSO markets. Prior to his role at Arista, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco, reporting to the CAO/CTO Development. At Cisco, Christian was responsible for network architecture and strategic direction for major global carriers, large MSOs and large financial services organizations. Before Cisco, he held leadership roles in engineering at Juniper Networks and Teliris; co-founded and led a technology consultancy from inception to acquisition; and held leadership roles in technology, engineering and operations at Verizon.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Edward Chapman
Vice President Business Development and Alliances of Arista Networks
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Platform Strategy of Acumatica
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy heads the Cloud xRP Division of Acumatica, a leading cloud ERP platform provider for mid-sized customers. In this role he is responsible for the Vertical ISV ecosystem, Platform business P&L and developer marketing. He is also responsible for strategic alliances and product incubation with strategic partners including DocuSign, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Prior to Acumatica, Ajoy spent 10 years at Microsoft driving business success across a wide range of product management, alliance and marketing roles. Ajoy has co-authored half a dozen books on various MS technologies including ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Ajoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Masters in Computer Science and also earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Salesforce Ventures
John Somorjai is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Salesforce Ventures at salesforce.com. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of mergers and acquisitions, and investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas through acquisitions including Exact Target, Radian6, Buddy Media, Heroku, Jigsaw, Instranet, and Rypple, and also brought onboard a number of key leaders. In addition, his team has made investments in more than 100 technology companies located in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, China, and Israel.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Vaikom Krishnan
Vice President, Engineering of SnapLogic
Vaikom Krishnan is the vice president of engineering at [SnapLogic](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snaplogic), an enterprise integration Platform-as-a-Service built to connect big data, cloud, and on-premise apps. Previously, he worked as the VP of engineering at Informatica Corporation. Prior to Informatica, he was chief architect and director of development at Celequest, , and before that he was the director of engineering at Asera. Earlier in his career, Krishnan was a software engineer at Sybase.
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About SnapLogic, SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
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.
Joseph Macri
Vice President/CTO of AMD
Joseph Macri is Vice President at AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Raghunath Nambiar
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Pat Kelly
Vice President of AMD
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Wendy Close
Vice President Product Marketing of Talkdesk
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Keith Basil
Vice President of Product, Cloud Native Infrastructure of SUSE
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About Fourth Cloud, SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Lesly Mohr
Vice President of Finance of Voyager Capital
Lesly Mohr is the Vice President of Finance at Voyager Capital.
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About Voyager Capital: Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.
Anders Wallgren
Vice President of Technology Strategy of CloudBees
Anders Wallgren is Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud. Anders brings with him over 15 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Anders held executive positions at Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award winning technologies such as Macromedia’s Director 7 and various Shockwave products. Anders holds a B.SC from MIT.
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About CloudBees, Electric Cloud: CloudBees develops a cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end automated software delivery.
Jeffrey Jenkins
Vice President, R&D Americas of TeamViewer
Jeff brings nearly fifteen years of technology experience to APX Labs with a focus on creating and managing highly effective agile software engineering teams. Prior to co-founding APX, Jeff served as the Director of Core Networks at Battlefield Telecommunications Systems, overseeing the development of the company’s next generation cellular core network. Prior to that, Jeff served as the Vice President in charge of Solution Services at AETEA Information Technology where he led a division specializing in the development of bespoke enterprise software solutions for customers in a variety of verticals including healthcare, conservation, warehousing, and defense. A software engineer by trade, Jeff brings to bear experience gained in the architecture and development of enterprise-class software for Fortune 500 businesses to attack the challenges faced by APX Labs as it grows.
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About TeamViewer: TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution for remote access, support, collaboration and desktop sharing over the internet.
Alfredo Patron
Senior Vice President Business Development of TeamViewer
As TeamViewers Senior Vice President of Business Development, Alfredo oversees all global efforts focused on strategic partnerships that drive innovation and business growth. Partnerships span OEM hardware manufacturers, MDM and EMM platforms, ERP, CRM partners, IT services and IoT. Previously he was the Sr. Director of Business Development in Microsoft focusing in distribution partnerships for their top applications including Office, Skype, Onedrive, Onenote across cross platform partners, mobile operators and ISVs. He also held numerous roles across marketing and business development in the Microsoft Server business and Windows devices team having lived in Mexico, London and Seattle. He holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Anahuac del Sur
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About TeamViewer, TeamViewer: TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution for remote access, support, collaboration and desktop sharing over the internet.
Eva Maloney
Vice President of Business Operations of AppNeta
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Sean Armstrong
Vice President, Products of AppNeta
Sean Armstrong is a Vice President of Products at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Suresh Kuppahally
Executive Vice President, Engineering & Operations of Replicon
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About Replicon: We help businesses capture, manage and optimize their most underutilized asset – time.
Vien Nguyen-Vu
Vice President, Human Resources of Replicon
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About Replicon: We help businesses capture, manage and optimize their most underutilized asset – time.
Ansa Sekharan
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Success Officer of Informatica
Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president and Chief Customer Success Officer, leads Informatica’s Global Customer Support and Informatica University, where he is responsible for establishing Informatica as a trusted partner for customers worldwide by ensuring their success with Informatica’s products. Additionally, Ansa leads Informatica’s Education Services division, with a focus on role-based training programs to ensure the organization gets the most out of investment in Informatica products. Ansa was an early employee at Informatica starting in 1996. During his tenure, Informatica has received prestigious industry awards recognizing its support services, including being ranked number one in customer loyalty in the data integration enterprise software sector for 11 years in a row. Prior to joining Informatica, Ansa was a veteran of Sybase, where he held numerous customer services roles. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Technology, India.
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About Active Endpoints, Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Murli Thirumale
Vice President / General Manager Cloud Native of Pure Storage
Murli Thirumale is the VP, GM of the Cloud-Native Business Unit at Pure Storage. Prior to that, he was the co-founder, VP, and General Manager of Portworx.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Pradeep Menon
Executive Vice President & Global head of delivery of Orion Innovation
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About Orion Innovation: Orion Innovation is a global IT services and solutions provider helping organizations with Digital Transformation services.
Neal Meropol
Vice President, Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs of Flatiron Health
Neal J. Meropol is a medical oncologist, clinical investigator and health outcomes researcher who serves as vice president of research oncology at Flatiron Health. In this role, he leads efforts to leverage Flatiron’s technology platforms and nationwide provider network to gain insights from real-world data that accelerate research and improve quality of care for cancer patients. Prior to joining Flatiron, Neal was professor and chief of the division of hematology and oncology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, and associate director for clinical research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Neal has a national reputation for his research contributions in gastrointestinal malignancies and health services research, including evaluation of new agents, predictors of response and outcome, development of tools to overcome barriers to clinical trial participation, and assessment of the economic impact of care. He currently serves as chair emeritus of the National Cancer Institute Gastrointestinal Cancer Steering Committee, which oversees the development of clinical trials in the publicly-funded clinical trials system. Neal recently completed a four-year term as an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Board of Directors. He has authored more than 250 manuscripts, book chapters, and editorials related to cancer prevention, treatment, decision making, and health economics. Neal received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton University and MD from Vanderbilt University. He was a resident in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and completed hematology and medical oncology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent a sabbatical at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Marta Bralic
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Flatiron Health
Marta Bralic Kerns is the Founder & CEO at Pomelo Care. She attended Harvard University.
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About Flatiron Health, Pomelo Care: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Marc Wilson
Co-Founder & Senior Vice President Global Partners & Industry Practices of Appian
Marc Wilson is a Co-Founder of Appian and is responsible for the company’s sales into Financial Services, Insurance, and Pharmaceuticals. Marc’s prior roles at Appian include building Appian’s Global Partnership Team and running Appian Professional Services. Marc received his B.A. in Government (International Relations) from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, Marc was recognized as one of the top ranked inter-collegiate debaters in the United States.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Medhat Galal
Vice President Of Software Development of Appian
Medhat Galal is a VP, Enablement at Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Michael Heffner
Vice President — Solutions and Industry Go To Market of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Lang Ly
Senior Vice President, Strategy of Appian
Lang Ly is a VP, Business Application at Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Marco Pescosolido
Vice President of Engineering of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
David Metzger
Vice President, Talent of Appian
David Metzger is a VP, Talent Management at Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Suvajit Gupta
Senior ⇒ Executive Vice President Of Engineering of Appian
Suvajit Gupta is a VP, Engineering at Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Kevin Spurway
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Kevin Spurway
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Appian
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Matthew McSweeney
Vice President Sales, Americas of Cohesity
Matthew McSweeney is the regional vice president of major and global accounts, East Region at Palo Alto Networks, as well as the vice president of worldwide sales at Emulex. He has experience in hiring, developing, motivating, and managing grown talented sales teams. Previously, McSweeney worked at [AppNeta](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appneta), [BMC Software](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bmc-software#/entity), [Coradiant](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coradiant), holding leadership positions in sales. Prior to that, he was the national sales and business development director at [RealMed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/realmed#/entity) McSweeney holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Nikolaus Oberhuber
Vice President Sales Eastern US, Canada, EMEA of Cohesity
Nikolaus, A perennially top performing sales leader, having successfully lead the top performing sales teams at 3PAR purchased by HP in 2010 and Actifio. He brings 16 years of start up sales leadership to Cohesity. Nikolaus Oberhuber joins Cohesity from Actifio, where he served as VP sales, East, for more than four years. At Actifio, he was responsible for leading the sales team, resulting in the highest performance of any region in the company. His team achieved over $50 million in total bookings across new accounts in the company.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Piotr Gajos
Vice President of Brand Expression & Design of Persistent Systems
Piotr Gajos is the Vice President of Brand Expression and Design at Persistent Systems.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Marcus Cohn
Vice President of Inbound Marketing of 2U
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About 2U: 2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that provides schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure.
May Mitchell
Senior Vice President Marketing of iboss
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Sara Liu Liang
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and Director of Supermicro
Chiu-Chu (Sara) Liu Liang co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1985 to 1993, Ms. Liang held finance and operational positions for several companies, including Micro Center Computer Inc. Ms. Liang holds a B.S. in Accounting from Providence University in Taiwan. Ms. Liang is married to Mr. Charles Liang.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Wally Liaw
Co-Founder, Vice President of International Sales, Secretary and Director of Supermicro
Yih-Shyan (Wally) Liaw co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of International Sales, Corporate Secretary and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Liaw was Vice President of Engineering at Great Tek, a computer company. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Matt Thauberger
Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Supermicro
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Fiona Gellatly
Vice President – Enterprise & Partner Accounts of Cloud Lending
Fiona is responsible for global account management for Cloud Lending Solutions. Her responsibilities include ensuring customer success for customers using the CLS products and services including banks, alternative financial institutions and leasing companies.Fiona comes to us with a broad background in the international payments ecosystem with both sales and marketing experience. Her leadership experience includes working for a variety of companies within payments including credit, lending, merchant acquiring, card issuer processing, fraud in both brick and mortar, ecommerce and working at the two largest global third-party distribution partners of prepaid cards, Blackhawk Network and InComm. Her knowledge of the digital payments ecosystem includes serving as a director for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, a global trade association serving the needs of the mobile industry world-wide.
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About Cloud Lending, Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Leonid Igolnik
Vice President of Engineering of CA Technologies
Leonid Igolnik is an enterprise application specialist with wide experience in leadership and management of all aspects of the software development lifecycle across the technology organization, including software engineering, quality assurance, and cloud operations. Igolnik’s areas of expertise are the setup and refactoring of software development teams; enterprise software design; high availability applications; technology due diligence and evaluation; and software as a service (SaaS).
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About CA Technologies, ClearLaw, Sand Hill Angels: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Jacob Lamm
Executive Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development of CA Technologies
Jacob Lamm is executive vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development, at CA Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating the company’s overall business strategy, as well as developing strategy for the selection, prioritization, and execution of acquisitions. In addition, Jacob is charged with exploring opportunities to build businesses in new markets. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team, which defines and executes business and technical strategies. Jacob has held various management positions since joining CA Technologies in 1998. Prior to assuming his current role he served as executive vice president of the company’s Governance Group, a collection of business units focused on delivering solutions that help organizations effectively govern all areas of operations. Earlier, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Business Service Optimization business unit at CA Technologies. Jacob has more than 20 years of industry experience covering a wide range of technologies and business applications. He joined CA Technologies with its acquisition of Professional Help Desk (PHD), where he was co-founder and served as executive vice president and chief technology officer. Under his leadership, PHD evolved into one of the strongest products on the market and gained industry recognition as having the most visionary service management solution. Prior to founding PHD, Jacob served as a senior manager at Con Edison in New York, where he was responsible for integrating new technologies into the company’s business systems, including wireless communications, data warehousing, imaging, and Internet solutions. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Jacob earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information science.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Lauren Flaherty
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CA Technologies
Lauren is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CA Technologies, a market leader in enterprise software. She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks, and a 25-year marketing career at IBM®, where she held executive roles for over a decade. In addition to her role at CA, Lauren serves on the Board of Directors for Xactly Corporation, a market leader in SaaS-based tools for enterprise sales performance management and effectiveness. The scope of her expertise and experience covers a broad spectrum: corporate brand management, product marketing and portfolio management, and digitally driven customer engagement, experience and demand creation. Lauren is an experienced leader who has served a diverse profile of companies, from globally recognized technology leaders to high-growth, Silicon Valley innovators. At CA, Lauren is responsible for all facets of marketing. Since joining she has led a global initiative to recast the company’s reputation and positioning in the market via portfolio rationalization, brand marketing, strategic media and sports sponsorships. She’s also led the development of CA Technologies first integrated operating model for demand and opportunity management across sales and marketing. This work enables CA to measure market demand on a global basis, use analytics to gain insight on customer buying patterns, assess program ROI and sales conversion. Lauren has been recognized multiple times by BtoB Magazine as one of the World’s Top Marketers and was profiled in Secrets of the Marketing Masters, 2009. In 2010, she was named one of The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and in 2015 she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the 50 Most Powerful Woman in Technology. Lauren holds a BA from Syracuse University. She is married, has two children and lives in New York City.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Otto Berkes
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies
As executive vice president and chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets. Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft® and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU. Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD. An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines. Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Michael Bisignano
Executive Vice President, General Counsel of CA Technologies
Michael Bisignano is general counsel and executive vice president at CA Technologies. In his role, Michael is responsible for providing legal guidance to the company’s senior management and board of directors. He oversees CA Technologies legal organization, including corporate governance and compliance, contracts, securities, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and litigation. Michael has more than two decades of business experience. Most recently, he served as general counsel and chief legal officer of Blackboard, Inc., a global technology company with 2,600 employees and clients in 90 countries. Michael oversaw critical aspects of the $1.64 billion transaction that took Blackboard private in 2011. Earlier in his career, he was general counsel at Online Resources Corporation, a software and SaaS technology provider, and was special counsel at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, a full-service, general practice law firm with offices in the US, the UK, and in Israel. He started his legal career as an attorney in the Washington D.C. offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy, a leading international law firm. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Michael earned a Juris Doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in economics and finance from The Wharton School of Business. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Stan Brown
Vice President Global Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer of CA Technologies
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Fred Muller
Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Dayton Semerjian
General Manager & Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of CA Technologies
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Tom Maheras
Vice President of AHEAD
Tom joined AHEAD in 2010 with 20 years of experience in finance / operations. As finance director, Tom oversees AHEAD’s financial selling, contract, and credit efforts. He also develops and maintains relationships with lessors and OEMs. Prior to AHEAD, Tom worked for EMC, where he managed its financial services practice for the Midwest. He also worked as a portfolio manager for Comdisco. Tom received a BBA from Butler University and an MBA from DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
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About AHEAD: AHEAD is a solutions-based company that helps clients move to an optimized IT service delivery model.
Julie Drimel
Vice President, Global Business Development + Sales Productivity of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Brendan Moore
Vice President of Enterprise Sales of Zipwhip
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About Zipwhip: Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers.
Tony Williams
Vice President of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
Tony Williams, Vice President of Mobile Workforce Solutions at SEW has over 25 years of experience working in the electric and gas utility. Tony brings a diverse set of skills and experiences to his role including utility strategy development, training and development and business process improvement. He has successfully helped utilities gain efficiencies and improve core operations throughout his career. Prior to joining SEW, Tony spent 3.5 years at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) as Director of Electric Operations Training where he was responsible for Training and Development for the Electric Operations organization. In this role, Tony successfully brought innovation to core training procesSEW that resulted in substantial cost efficiencies and improved workforce productivity year-over-year. Similarly, he led the implementation of mobile solutions for some of PG&E’s most critical job training procesSEW—including pre-apprentice lineman, apprentice lineman, and cable splicer—resulting in increased engagement and training efficiency. Prior to his tenure at PG&E Tony spent 23 years at Southern California Edison (SCE), many of which in leadership roles in support of Transmission and Distribution operations and learning and development. Tony is a graduate of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California where he received his MBA and has a BS in Marketing from California State University Chico.
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About Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Brad Adamske
Vice President Sales, Western Region of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
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About Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Lance Brown
Vice President of Customer Solutions of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
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About Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Ken Roberts
Senior Vice President of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
Ken Roberts, Vice President of Sales – International Market at SEW is responsible for developing, directing and executing the Firm’s overall strategic sales. Ken brings a diverse background and has more than 21 years of product marketing, channel marketing, product development, sales, engineering, technology, B2B and consumer marketing experience on a global scale. Ken has held a vice president of sales and marketing position as well as other senior management roles. Prior to joining Smart Energy Water, Ken spent 9 years at Samsung Corporation, where he held product marketing and engineering positions. At Hewlett Packard, he served as product manager responsible for $400M in sales. He oversaw the development of both of these product categories that resulted in exceeding Hewlett Packard’s sales goals and also being awarded the HP Star Award for a significant contribution to HP’s sales, revenue and profitability. Ken is a graduate of the University of Southern California and received a BA in Spanish and also graduated from California State University Long Beach where he received a BS in Quality Assurance Engineering.
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About Enterprise Solutions Consulting LLC, Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
Glenn Pagan
Senior Vice President of Global Sales of Upstream Commerce
Glenn Pagan brings to Upstream Commerce more than 27 years of sales and business development leadership in the software industry. His results-driven and client-focused approach, paired with his deep understanding of the market, provide Glenn with the ability to help global retail and e-commerce companies drive revenues and increase profitability. Glenn has held various leadership roles with leading solution providers including Regional Director at IBM Retail, Director of Business Development at Time Warner, VP Global Sales at Idomoo and VP Sales at TruEffect. Throughout his career he has worked with prominent retailers and brands such as Macy’s, Sears, Ralph Lauren, Amazon, HP and Microsoft to understand their needs and help them find retail solutions on a global scale. Glenn earned his BA/BBA in Marketing and Political Science from Iona College.
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About Upstream Commerce: Upstream Commerce provides cloud-based, automated competitive pricing and product analytics solutions for online retailers.
Kevin Hendrick
Senior Vice President, Sales of Softchoice
As Senior Vice-President of Sales, Kevin Hendrick leads Softchoice’s sales organization of 600+ individuals across North America. He is responsible for the overall strategy, execution and mentorship of sales reps across Softchoice’s Outbound Sales, Telesales and Territory Sales channels, ensuring their success and the consistent delivery of outstanding customer service. Kevin has more than 25 years of sales leadership experience, many of which were with ADP, where he served in senior sales roles and drove record market share gains and revenue growth. Directly before joining Softchoice, he built a sales leadership, coaching, and Challenger selling consultancy, working with top firms across North America like Amex, UPS, and US Bank. His innovation in leadership, coaching, and training have been chronicled in the Harvard Business Review. Kevin resides in Alpharetta, GA with his wife Lisa, and works out of Softchoice’s Atlanta office.
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About Softchoice: Softchoice is one of North America’s leading IT solutions & managed service providers.
Carolyn Pampino
Vice President of Design of Brightcove
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About Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Jill Springer
Vice President – Human Resources of Jasper Technologies
Jill Springer joined Jasper in 2014, overseeing human resources and talent acquisition. Over the past 25 years Jill has worked with companies in commercial, technical, and consumer businesses in the United States and around the world. She’s known for her well-grounded, clear, straightforward, and operationally focused plans in support of business strategies. Jill has provided executive leadership for numerous startups and small to mid-size pre-public and public companies on acquisitions and mergers, strategic planning, Human Resources operations, succession planning, and executive development. Jill has established a proven track record designing, implementing, and leading programs and processes for companies that include: Apple computer, Applied Materials, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, TSMC, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Illinois State University.
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About Jasper Technologies: Jasper Technologies develops cloud-based platforms.
Craig Wright
Vice President, North America Sales of SugarCRM
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Jennifer Armstrong-Owen
Vice President, People of Chef Software
Jenny Armstrong-Owen comes to Chef with more than 25 years of experience in developing and aligning HR strategy to the business, having most recently served as vice president of people, environment and culture at Impinj. She previously served as chief human resources officer at both Branded Entertainment Network and Corbis, after serving in increasingly senior roles at RealNetworks and Group Health Cooperative. Armstrong-Owen holds a MBA from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a BA from The Evergreen State College.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Paul N. Saleh
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of CSC
Mr. Saleh has more than 25 years of corporate finance experience. Prior to his tenure as CFO at Gannett Co., he served as CFO for leading brands including Walt Disney International and Sprint Nextel. Upon leaving Sprint Nextel in 2008, Mr. Saleh launched Menza Partners, an operational and financial advisory group focusing on media, telecommunications, and technology industries. Prior to the merger between Sprint and Nextel Communications Inc., Mr. Saleh was executive vice president and CFO of Nextel Communications from 2001 to 2005 where he led a profitability increase as Nextel’s revenues grew to $16 billion and market value increased more than tenfold. Saleh served as senior vice president and CFO of Walt Disney International where he held other senior financial positions since 1997. Before joining Walt Disney, Mr. Saleh was with Honeywell Inc. for 12 years, where he was vice president and treasurer from 1994 to 1997, and held other various leadership positions in finance, treasury, investor relations, strategic planning and operations. Mr. Saleh holds a Master of Business Administration with distinction in Finance; a Master of Science in Computer, Information & Control Engineering; and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He resides with his family in the Washington D.C., metropolitan area.
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About CSC: CSC is an IT services company providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.
Mark Balch
Vice President of Products of Diamanti
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About Diamanti: Diamanti is the technology leader in bare-metal container infrastructure, purpose-built for modern cloud and open-source environments.
Steven Shalita
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development of Pluribus Networks
Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across enterprise and service provider markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, SDN and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes performance management (NPM/APM) and service assurance. He has a deep background with service delivery architecture including security, data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting mobile (3G/4G/LTE), cable networks and business services environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior technology and marketing leadership positions at NetScout, Check Point, Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco.
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About Pluribus Networks: Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software defined networking (SDN)
Jeremy Dillingham
Vice President, Product Management of Apto
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About Apto: Apto is a web-based broker software for managing contacts, properties, listings, and deals.
Scott Boore
Senior Vice President, Head of Sales of MORE Health
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About MORE Health: MORE Health delivers access to the best physicians in the world via its cloud-based medical collaboration platform.
Andrew Norton
Senior Vice President of ePlus
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About ePlus: ePlus is an technology solutions provider of professional & managed services for cloud, security, data center, and digital infrastructure.
Bruce Bowen
Senior Vice President of ePlus
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About ePlus, ePlus: ePlus is an technology solutions provider of professional & managed services for cloud, security, data center, and digital infrastructure.
Terry Olkin
Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Workday Adaptive Planning
Terry Olkin is the SVP and Chief Architect at Workday, Inc.
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About The Toro Company, Workday Adaptive Planning: Workday Adaptive Planning is powering a new generation of business planning with the Business Planning Cloud.
Tomas Schoessow
Vice President, Technology Infrastructure of AbacusNext
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About AbacusNext: AbacusNext is a technology-as-a-service provider for the professional services industry.
Tomas Schoessow
Vice President, Technology Infrastructure of AbacusNext
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About AbacusNext: AbacusNext is a technology-as-a-service provider for the professional services industry.
Veena Sriram
Vice President of Happiest Minds Technologies
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About Happiest Minds Technologies: Happiest Minds provides IT services focused on cloud computing, social media, mobility solutions, BI, analytics, and unified communications.
Rich Fortier
Senior Vice President of Engineering of CloudCheckr
Rich Fortier is the senior vice president of engineering at CloudCheckr. Prior to joining CloudCheckr, Rich served as the VP software engineering at Altisource.
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About CloudCheckr: CloudCheckr is a cloud management solution that helps businesses manage and automate cost and security for their public cloud environments.
Srikant Sharma
Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success of Conga
Srikant is responsible for leading our global engagements with our customers and as such, serves as our customers’ advocate, partnering across all business units to ensure a high level of service and value delivery. He leads our focus to become a customer-first organization that puts our customers at the center of every business decision. Prior to Conga, Srikant ran global customer success at Marketo where he led the transformation of the business into a highly metrics driven one that focused on the experience and journey of the customer across all touch points within the company. Earlier to that, he held leadership roles at Open Text, HP and NorthboundDGS, a global revenue and customer marketing agency, and has a deep pedigree of building and leading passionate, high-performance teams. Srikant has an MBA from Cornell University, and a Bachelors in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India.
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About Conga, Marketo, Zenyx Inc.: Conga’s suite of solutions creates more efficient organizations by simplifying and automating data, documents, contracts and reporting.
Lokesh Verma
Vice President Of Product Management of Conga
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About Apttus, Conga: Conga’s suite of solutions creates more efficient organizations by simplifying and automating data, documents, contracts and reporting.
Nick McCoy
Vice President, Pre-Sales of Conga
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About Conga: Conga’s suite of solutions creates more efficient organizations by simplifying and automating data, documents, contracts and reporting.
Julien Anguenot
Vice President Software Engineering of iland
Julien Anguenot serves as iland’s Vice President of Software Engineering and is responsible for the strategic vision and development of the iland Secure Cloud Console℠. Under his leadership, iland has introduced the innovative console which provides an intuitive interface that enables customers to easily ramp up cloud capabilities, control and predict costs, manage resources, maximize performance and enhance security and compliance. Prior to joining iland, Mr. Anguenot was the Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Sofun gaming, an innovative start-up that revolutionized the betting industry on the newly regulated French market. Prior to Sofun, Mr. Anguenot held senior tech leadership positions at several open source content management vendors. Mr. Anguenot is an accomplished and organized software craftsman and open-source advocate with a creative and entrepreneurial spirit.
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About iland: iland is a cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure, disaster recovery, and backup as a service.
Anthony Dumont
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ordr of Ordr
Anthony Dumont is the senior vice president of worldwide sales at Ordr.
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About Constella Intelligence, Ordr: Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise.
