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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 VP’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Eric Carnell
CLO, VP Corporate of Farmers Business Network
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Matthew Meisner
Vice President, Research and Development of Farmers Business Network
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Matt Kamen
SVP Engineering of Foursquare
As vice president of engineering and head of enterprise, monetization, and core technology, Matt oversees some of Foursquare’s most distinctive work, including our revenue-driving engineering products—Pinpoint, Attribution, Place Insights, Native Ads and our Places developer tools—as well as Pilgrim, the venues database, and all of our data science and machine learning teams. Prior to joining Foursquare in 2011, Matt worked in search and web technologies for Goldman Sachs. A musician at heart—he plays the bass—he’s also a luthier. Born and raised in Manhattan and a Harvard graduate, he now lives in Washington Heights with his family.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Rob MacKethan
VP of Insurance of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Monal Patel
SVP & CBO of Unbxd
At Unbxd, Monal helps eCommerce companies solve their product discovery problems and create growth by providing new and improved approaches to decision making. Monal has 15+ years of experience in the software & retail industry and is a seasoned speaker at major eCommerce events like Etail West, MivaCon, Fashion Digital, Etail East, etc. Monal holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Aswin Shibu
VP of Sales of MixRank
VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.
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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation
Anne Johnson
VP Business Development of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Jonathan Siegal
VP, Product Marketing of Dell EMC
Jon Siegal is currently the Vice President of Product Marketing, Dell EMC CI, HCI, Networking & Ready Solutions, which is leading the IT industry revolution in converged and hyper-converged infrastructure with its broad portfolio, including VxBlock, VxRail, VxRack, and XC Series. Prior to this, Jon led product marketing for EMC’s industry-leading VNX and VMAX product lines, where he spearheaded the market introductions of the award-winning VNX/VNXe in 2011, the follow-on VNX2 in 2013, and the VMAX3 launch in 2014. Jon has received several awards throughout his 14 year stint at Dell EMC, most notably the prestigious 2013 John Howard CMO award (top annual marketing leader award) and the 2011 EMC President’s Award. Prior to joining EMC, Jon led product marketing at two networked storage start-ups including Acopia Networks and Cereva Networks. He also previously served as a senior product manager at GE and as an account manager in the biotechnology industry. Jon holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and BA from the University of Vermont.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Jeffrey Boudreau
Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Ty Schmitt
Vice President / Fellow of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
James King
SVP / CISO(Chief Information Security Officer) of Finicity
James King is SVP & CSO at Finicity.
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About Finicity: Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
Sabrina Chiasson
Vice President of Polaris Partners
Sabrina joined Battery in 2015 as an associate. She focuses on later-stage software investments, including growth equity, buyouts, rollups, carve-outs and take-privates. Before coming to Battery, Sabrina was an associate at H.I.G. Growth Partners, a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations of lower-middle market, growth oriented businesses. There, she sourced, evaluated and executed investments in the consumer, healthcare and technology sectors. She also previously spent time at Westwind Investors, a private investment firm focused on growth-equity investments and buyouts. Sabrina received a B.A. in biology and economics from Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, Sabrina was captain of the varsity Alpine ski team.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Todd Hyatt
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Todd Hyatt is executive vice president and chief financial officer of IHS Markit. Todd served in those same roles at IHS after previously serving as chief information officer, senior vice president of FP&A, and leading the finance organization for the company’s engineering segment. He also worked for LoneTree Capital, US WEST/MediaOne, AT&T, Arthur Young and Arthur Andersen. He holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in management from Purdue University.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Leslie
Senior Vice President of IHS Markit
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jonathan Gear
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Jonathan Gear is president of resources, transportation and CMS for IHS Markit, including business lines supporting the automotive, energy, chemicals, maritime and aerospace industries. Earlier, he served in multiple senior vice president positions and as president/COO of IHS CERA. Jonathan previously held leadership positions at Activant Solutions, smarterwork.com and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Sari Granat
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of IHS Markit
Sari Granat is executive vice president and general counsel at IHS Markit, responsible for the company’s legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs, enterprise risk and information security functions. Prior to joining Markit in 2012, Sari was lead counsel and chief administrative officer of TheMarkets.com LLC. She has served in senior legal and strategy positions at media and technology companies including Dow Jones & Company and Kaplan, Inc. Sari holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Dennis Careri
VP of Engineering of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Dennis Careri
VP of Engineering of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Bill McLaughlin
SVP Sales & Marketing of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Shadi Rostami
SVP of Engineering of Amplitude
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Justin Bauer
SVP, Product of Amplitude
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Jerry Adriano
EVP of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Jerry Adriano
EVP of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Pasha Saleh
VP of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships of AirMap
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About AirMap: AirMap operates as an airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft.
Jason Scheckner
SVP of Sales & Customer Success of HiredScore
CRO @HiredScore based in NYC area. Dad of daughters and lucky husband. StartUps, Builder, Investor. I’m also Co-author of “Cutting Edge Sales.”
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Daniel Jewett
VP, Product Management of Tableau
Dan Jewett is Tableau Software’s Vice President of Product Management. Dan has more than 20 years of product management and development experience in a variety of technical and marketing positions particularly for business intelligence software companies. Prior to Tableau, Dan was an early employee at Brio Software where he served in numerous senior roles including VP, Business Intelligence and VP, System Architecture. Dan helped build Brio to hundreds of employees and thousands of customers and continued through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Hyperion Solution. At Hyperion, he played a key role in market positioning, strategy decisions, and the overall product strategy. Dan holds a master’s degree in business administration from California State University, Long Beach, and a Bachelor’s degree in business (management information systems) from California State University, Sacramento. Dan’s motivation for joining Tableau is clear. “I want to change the way people think about data. Data analysis doesn’t have to be hard, scary, and left to specialists. Everyone has a thirst to understand and a desire to explore. And add to that making it so easy to share and weave data-centric stories, and Tableau is really helping people to further their understanding and get the (data) stories out. Those stories can change the world.”
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Greg Haislip
AVP, US Financial Services of Tableau
Greg Haislip is the AVP, US Financial Services at Tableau Software.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Chris Bates
Global Vice President of Customer Success of Tableau
Chris Bates leads the global Customer Success organization at Tableau Software.Chris’ team is responsible for ensuring that Tableau’s 80,000+ customers are successfully onboarding, adopting, and renewing with Tableau.Chris has over 20 years of experience leading customer-facing organizations in high-growth technology companies.Prior to joining Tableau, Chris led Sales organizations at Dell, including living in London for 2 ½ years.For the last 8 years, Chris has led global Customer Success teams at both Salesforce.com and Clarizen.Chris started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he first developed his passion around customers.He received his undergraduate degree in Finance and Marketing at the University ofVirginia, and his MBA from Harvard Business School
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Arjun Pillai
SVP, Products and Growth of ZoomInfo
Arjun Pillai is the SVP, Products and Growth at ZoomInfo.
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About Datachain Inc, ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Santosh Sharan
VP of Growth & Strategy of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Jesse Noyes
VP of Marketing of Unsupervised
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About Unsupervised: Unsupervised is an automated analytics platform provider that finds hidden insights in complex data.
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Anne Lynch
SVP Human Resources of WANdisco
Anne is a Human Resources executive with extensive experience in providing global strategic Human Resources direction and leadership. A career spent solely in high tech industries with leadership roles in the US, Europe and Asia have provided her with the skills, experience and attitude to operate successfully in challenging fast paced and changing global environments. Most recently she was the VP HR and a section 16(b) Officer of Envivio a software based processing and delivery solutions company. Prior to Envivio she was the VPHR for Harmonic, Inc as well as the Directeur General of Harmonic Europe. Earlier in her career she has also held senior level positions at Quantum (Seagate), Schlumberger Limited and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Ms. Lynch earned her B.A. at Clarke University and completed graduate studies in Linguistics at Emory University and post graduate studies at L’Universite Paris-Sorbonne. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership and Ethics from St. Mary’s College of California.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Eric Johnsen
VP Business Development, Consumer and Enterprise (Fractional) of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Aaron Williams
VP Marketing of Civis Analytics
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About Civis Analytics: Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
Yuanling Yuan
Vice President of SignalFire
Yuanling Yuan is a Vice President at SignalFire. She goes by “YY” (not to be confused with the Chinese social media company). Prior to SignalFire, YY worked on the investment team at Blackstone’s Strategic Opportunity Fund, where she evaluated late-stage and IPO investment opportunities. At Blackstone, she also spent time on the Emerging Markets team, evaluating macroeconomic and political risk in countries such as China, Brazil, and Egypt.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Spencer Ackermann
VP of Finance & Chief Compliance Officer of SignalFire
Spencer Ackermann is the Vice President of Finance & Chief Compliance Officer at SignalFire.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Libby Hadzima Perkins
VP, Legal of SignalFire
Libby Hadzima Perkins is the Vice President of Legal at SignalFire.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Leigh Merrigan
VP of Marketing of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Leigh Merrigan
VP of Marketing of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Jack Drew
VP, Sales of Logentries
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About Logentries: Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes.
Jad Naous
VP of Engineering & Product of Imply
Jad Naous is the VP of Engineering & Product at Imply.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Ralph Lafferty
VP & Head of Commercial Business of Orbital Insight
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Dennis Mink
VP Marketing of Liftoff
Out-of-the-box marketing professional with a passion for building cloud-based products and services. Deep experience with SaaS, mobile and marketing technology. Highly motivated self-starter.
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Ben Gitenstein
Vice President of Product Management of Qumulo
Ben Gitenstein runs Product at Qumulo. He and his team of product managers and data scientists have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews with storage users and analyzed millions of data points to understand customer needs and the direction of the storage market. Prior to working at Qumulo, Ben spent five years at Microsoft, where he split his time between Corporate Strategy and Product Planning.
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About Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Molly Brown
Vice President Of Engineering of Qumulo
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About Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Theodore Weitzel
SVP Finance of Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing)
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About Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing): #1 Revenue Management Solution for Short-Term Rental Managers and Owners to Get, Grow, and Keep Revenue
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.
James Watters
VP and GM, Cloud Platform Group of Pivotal
James Watters is the vice president and general manager of cloud platform group at [Pivotal Software](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pivotal), a technology company that provides enterprise PaaS-based solutions for its users. In his current role, Watters oversees the product management, product marketing, business development, and solution engineering organization responsible for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Spring. Prior to Pivotal Software, Watters served in leading product roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Duncan Winn
VP of Platform Architecture, US West of Pivotal
Duncan Winn Is The Director Of Engineering At Google.
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About Google, Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Sylvain Gil
Co-founder & VP Product Strategy of Exabeam
Sylvain brings 20 years of experience in building, deploying and supporting information security products for large and medium enterprises. Previously, Sylvain held senior-level roles at Imperva where he led product management and product marketing for application security, as well as Imperva’s worldwide customer support and professional services organization. Sylvain also led North American technical support and services for Solsoft (acquired by LogLogic). Sylvain has a software engineering degree from the Leonard de Vinci school of Melun, France.
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About Exabeam: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Matt Bramson
VP, Enterprise Sales of Narrative Science
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Katie Grinberg
VP, Talent of Narrative Science
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Keelin McDonell
Senior Vice President, Customer Success of Narrative Science
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Ryan Kurt
VP, Global Alliance Partnerships of Narrative Science
As Vice President of Global Alliance Partnerships at Narrative Science, Ryan and his team work with the world’s leading consulting firms to establish strategic relationships and collaborations. Ryan is responsible for fueling revenue growth and supporting the long-term company vision via partnerships. Prior to joining Narrative Science in early 2013, Ryan spent 8 years in consulting and enterprise sales at FactSet Research Systems, a Fortune 500 financial data and analytics provider. In addition to working at Narrative Science, Ryan is an instructor at the Startup Institute of Chicago. Ryan earned his BA in Finance from the University of Iowa.
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Josh Smith
VP Finance of Narrative Science
Josh manages our Finance and Accounting functions. He is responsible for the company’s financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning, and budgeting. Prior to joining Narrative Science, Josh spent eight years in public accounting at Ernst & Young as an audit manager, serving clients across multiple industries. Josh is a CPA and has his Masters in Accountancy from the University of Iowa.
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Josh Smith
VP Finance of Narrative Science
Josh manages our Finance and Accounting functions. He is responsible for the company’s financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning, and budgeting. Prior to joining Narrative Science, Josh spent eight years in public accounting at Ernst & Young as an audit manager, serving clients across multiple industries. Josh is a CPA and has his Masters in Accountancy from the University of Iowa.
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About Narrative Science: Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from enterprise data to drive understanding and results.
Colin South
Vice President of Zymergen
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jesse Channon
SVP, Revenue of Unified
Jesse has successfully built departments and functions across Sales, Business Development, Account management and Technical Solutions in start ups in the Social Media space. Jesse began his career in Social at Vocus, then moving on to companies like PageLever and UNIFIED. Jesse was also the co founder at Monkey Say Media, as small Social Media consulting firm.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Chris Cahill
EVP, Finance of Unified
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Cynthia Henderson
VP Data Scientist of Scoutible
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Wen Miao
Senior Vice President, Global Client Technical Services of TIBCO
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Matt Quinn
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO of TIBCO
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO at Tibco software.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Robert Langan
VP, Engineering of Parchment
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About Parchment: Parchment enables learners, educators, associations, and employers to securely send and receive academic credentials online.
Alpa Jain
Vice President, API Center of Excellence of Experian
Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support. Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America. Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Angela Granger
Vice President of Experian
Angela Granger is Vice President of Experian With over 20 years of experience in analytics, Angela Granger leads a team responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytical solutions which accelerate the profitable growth and market position of Experian clients. Since joining Experian in 1993, Granger has leveraged the latest statistical techniques in predictive modelling, data intelligence and business intelligence to maximise clients’ return on investment. She plays an instrumental role in analytics research and development, having participated in the design and commercial introduction of several advanced analytics products and services aimed at helping clients predict customer behaviour and effectively manage a wide range of decisions related to repayment of debt, account utilisation, default and fraud prevention. Prior to her current role at Experian, she was with HSBC where she was responsible for bankcard portfolio inbound call cross-sell strategies and acquisitions. Granger is named as an inventor on a US patent, Credit Portfolio Benchmarking, which defines a system and method for analysing massive amounts of current and historical trade data across financial institutions to allow peer group performance comparisons.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
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.
Doug Barnett
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Informatica
Doug Barnett is the EVP & CFO at Sabre Corporation.
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About Informatica, Sabre Corporation: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Bill Burns
Chief Trust Officer and VP, Cloud Business Transformation Strategy of Informatica
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About Informatica, RSA Conference: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Graeme Thompson
SVP & Chief Information Officer of Informatica
Graeme Thompson is the SVP & Chief Information Officer at Informatica.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Terence Vaughan
VP, Business Development & Sales of Constellation Research
Terence Vaughan is VP, Business Development & Sales @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Holger Mueller
VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Sherrie King
Vice President of Sales and Business Development of Constellation Research
Sherrie King is Director of Lead Generation and Sales @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Vinnie Mirchandani
VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
Vinnie Mirchandani is VP & Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
David Stanley
Vice President of Constellation Research
David Stanley is the Vice President at Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Elizabeth Herrell
Vice President and Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
Elizabeth Herrell is Vice President and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research, Forrester Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Elizabeth Herrell
Vice President and Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
Elizabeth Herrell is Vice President and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research.
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About Constellation Research, Forrester Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Doug Henschen
VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Saranyan Vigraham
VP of Engineering of Petuum
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About Petuum: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Sally Taylor Shoff
Scores Vice President of FICO
Sally Taylor-Shoff is Scores Vice President, responsible for product management, marketing, analytic and software development, and analytic delivery for global syndicated FICO score products. Sally joined FICO (aka Fair Isaac) in 1987 as a data scientist, developing application scorecards for the consumer credit and utility industries. Subsequently she was the original product manager for the FICO Score product line, driving product launch and marketplace adoption including achieving endorsements for usage in the Mortgage industry. Sally has served FICO in other capacities including managing and growing the Marketing automation product line through both acquisition and new product development, and developing a new channel and business model by launching the FICO Analytic Cloud Marketplace. Sally holds a B.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Steve Wilson
VP, Chief Procurement Officer of FICO
Leader of a great team of Developers, Husband, , Father, Coach and Fisherman.
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About FICO, MamaBear App, Sluice: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Ahmed Shabbir
VP of Engineering of Accern
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About Accern: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Cristian Felix
VP of Product of Accern
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About Accern: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Martin Frid-Nielsen
Vice President of Document Solutions of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Sastry Chilukuri
Executive Vice President, Digital and AI of Medidata Solutions
Sastry Chilukuri is responsible for accelerating the development, go-to-market and delivery of capabilities that help life science customers scale artificial intelligence across the enterprise. Sastry brings 19 years of experience in healthcare technology. He most recently was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 12 years advising bio-pharma, medical device, technology, public sector and regulatory clients around the world. Prior to that, he worked for GE Healthcare in software engineering, product development and operations. His perspectives have been widely disseminated, including in conferences, media and numerous publications on McKinsey Insights. Sastry holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; a Master of Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Michele Becci
Vice President of Customer Experience of Medidata Solutions
Michele Becci is the Vice President of Customer Experience at Medidata Solutions, a global life sciences technology company. Michele has spent over 18 years in the life sciences technology industry, with a focus on the sales and strategy that supports clinical trial and pharmacovigilance solutions. Prior to her current role, she held various management positions within Oracle Corporation’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Julie Iskow
SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Robyn Perry
SVP of Total Rewards of Medidata Solutions
Robyn Perry leads the Total Rewards and People Technology teams at Medidata Solutions, a SaaS company leading the digital transformation of life sciences, with the world’s most used platform for clinical development, commercial and real-world data. In her current role, Robyn has global responsibility for designing and implementing innovative total rewards programs (including general/executive/sales compensation, equity, benefits, as well as the recognition programs) in addition to leading their HR technology digital strategy. She believes strongly that total rewards extend well beyond competitive cash compensation and traditional benefits and can give organizations a significant advantage in a highly competitive talent market.
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
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.
Satish Kumar
EVP – Sales, Marketing & Solutions 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.
Niall Fitzpatrick
Vice President, Customer Success of Starburst Data
Niall Fitzpatrick is a Vice President of Customer Success at Starburst Data. Niall holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
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About Starburst Data: The analytics engine for all your data. The fastest, most efficient query engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh.
Derek Adelman
Founder & Regional VP Asia Pacific of Fanplayr
Derek Adelman is the Founder & Regional VP Asia Pacific at Fanplayr.
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About Fanplayr: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Rich Labarca
Vice President of Product of AddThis
Rich LaBarca GM Dynamics 365 Customer Insights at Microsoft.
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About AddThis: AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting.
