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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Cloud Computing 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.
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.
Peter Mattis
CTO and VP of Engineering of Cockroach Labs
I am a cofounder of Cockroach Labs where I work on a bit of everything, from low level optimization of code to refining the overall design. I was thrust into file systems early in my career at Inktomi and then learned the true meaning of scalability while working on Gmail and Colossus at Google. Before stepping into the office in the morning I will have nursed my CrossFit addiction and dealt with the chaos of a three kid morning routine. You can set your watch by my daily departure at 5:30 pm to have dinner with my family.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Pali Bhat
VP, Product & Design of Google Cloud
Pali Bhat is the Vice President of Product & Design for Developer Products for Google Cloud Platform & also leads design for Google Cloud Platform. He has held other roles at Google including Vice President of Product Management at Google leading Payments products globally. Prior to Google, Pali was a Vice President of Product Management at SAP Labs. He has also been a consultant for McKinsey & Co. Pali has earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Duke University.
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About Google Cloud, Reddit: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Benjamin Treynor Sloss
VP Engineering of Google Cloud
Ben started programming at age 6, Joined Oracle as a software engineer at age 17. Worked as a software engineer at Oracle & Versant; engineering management at E.piphany, SEVEN, and finally Google (2003-present). Currently have team of ~4,400 at Google, responsible for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Networking, Data Center Operations (DCOps) and Hardware Operations (HWOps), and parts of Cloud business. Stanford BS ’90 & MS Computer Science ’91, Haas MBA. Hobbies include bicycling, photography, and racing cars.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Adam Seligman
VP of Developer Relations of Google Cloud
Adam Seligman is the Vice President of Developer Relations at Google and he is responsible for the global developer community across product areas. Adam holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s of business administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Williams College.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Suzanne Frey
VP of Engineering of Google Cloud
Suzanne and her team ensure that Google Apps (and G Suite) are the most trusted products in the world for consumer, government, enterprise, and educational user data. With over 20 years of industry experience leading advanced technology operations, engineering, systems design, policy, and compliance, Suzanne is in her 12th year at Google where she has worked across the company to “engineer trust” throughout our infrastructure, products, processes, and policies. Prior to Google, Suzanne spent over a decade leading large-scale enterprise applications engineering, professional services, and operations globally.
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About Google Cloud: Google Cloud focuses on business challenges that head-on with cloud computing services from Google.
Jim Donovan
SVP, Product of Wasabi Technologies
Jim leads Wasabi’s product management, sales engineering, and customer support efforts. As a veteran of multiple startups and large enterprise organizations, Jim has deep experience in developing, delivering, and supporting products and services that provide security, scalability, and reliability to customers and partners. Prior to Wasabi, Jim served in product management and sales/support engineering roles at Oracle (via Acme Packet and Covergence), Ciena (via WaveSmith Networks), Lucent Technologies (via Ascend Communications and Cascade Communications) and GTE. Jim holds a BSEE from Northeastern University and a MBA from Babson College.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
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.
Jeff Smits
VP, IT Infrastructure & Operations 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.
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.
David Lee
VP Platform Products 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.
Curtis Peterson
SVP Operations 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.
David Wilinski
RVP Enterprise Sales 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.
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.
Megan Evert
SVP, Operations of Flexe
Megan Evert is the SVP of operations at FLEXE.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
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.
Joshua Bernstein
VP of Technology of Dell EMC
Joshua Bernstein recently joined EMC as the new VP of Technology for the Emerging Technologies Division. Prior to EMC, Joshua ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple for 4 1/2 years. As a member of the small team, Joshua and his colleagues successfully took Siri from launch to sixty thousand servers, deploying in seventeen locations worldwide. Prior to working at Apple, Joshua was the senior software engineer at Penguin Computing specializing in design and implementation of large scale distributed systems management software. In addition, he has worked on many high profile NASA missions, including the design for the image processing pipeline of the HiRISE Camera currently on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Joshua is a large contributor to the Open Source community, contributing to multiple projects including Mesos, HDFS, HBASE, Zookeeper, Samba, OpenMPI, Torque, and the Linux Infiniband Stack. Joshua studied computer engineering at the University of Arizona.
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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.
Randy Bias
VP Technology, Emerging Technologies Division of Dell EMC
Randy Bias is the VP of technology of [EMC](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emc), a company that manufactures information management and storage software systems. He was previously a director at OpenStack. Before that, Bias was the VP of technology strategy at GoGrid.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Steve Todd
VP of Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Lee Feigenbaum
EVP of Customer Success of Salsify
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Jignesh Patel
VP, Chief Software Architect of iCare
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
Patrick Toomey
VP Software Technology of iCare
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
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.
Richard Duffy
VP Partner Strategy and Enablement of Acumatica
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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.
Gautham Viswanathan
VP of Product & Co‑Founder of Workato
Gautham created the first integrated middleware platform, BusinessWorks, that became the template for the more cloud integration platforms of today. Gautham was an early employee of TIBCO, where he held several leadership positions – engineering, product marketing & management, and corporate development. BusinessWorks powered TIBCO’s growth from a startup to one of the top names in enterprise software. After TIBCO, Gautham founded and was the CEO of two SaaS startups.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Rishi Mallik
VP, Growth of Workato
Rishi Mallik started his career in the consumer internet space at companies like Mozilla and Cooliris (acquired by Yahoo). Rishi transitioned into the mobile space in 2007 and joined the founding team of Qik at the age of 21. At Qik, Rishi led Business Development closing deals with 6 of the 7 top mobile handset manufactures and 3 of the 4 top US mobile carriers. He later became the Head of Product for Qik and led the development and launch of the first mobile video chat application in the US (16M users). Qik was acquired by Skype for $150M and Rishi became the Principal Program Manager of Mobile for Skype. At Skype, he led video initiatives across all platforms including the launch of Skype Video Messaging (>250M users). Skype was acquired by Microsoft for $8.5B. Rishi graduated from Stanford University where he was the VP of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students. He has three patents in the mobile space, is on the Board of Advisors for two companies, and is an avid Bhangra dancer.
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About HiFi Ventures, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Harish Shetty
VP of Engineering & Co‑Founder of Workato
Harish has extensive experience leading engineering teams and building highly scalable products. Prior to Workato, he led engineering at two SaaS companies and before that was Director of Engineering and Lead Architect at TIBCO and for products like BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix and Tibbr.
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About iProfile, Thinkspeed, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Amlan Debnath
VP Solutions and Customer Success of Workato
Amlan is currently working at Workato, a DIY integration service that allows anyone to connect their apps and track their business. He is working with partners and customers to make them successful users of Workato. Prior to Workato, Amlan worked at startups and large enterprises building cloud and integration products.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Jayesh Shah
VP Customer Success of Workato
Jayesh Shah is the VP of customer success at Workato.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Jenny Sohn
VP Finance of Workato
Jenny Sohn is the VP of finance at Workato.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
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.
Gregory Rosen
Chief Investment Officer & EVP, Business Development of Powerhive
Greg is a 16-year solar finance veteran who has developed or financed more than $400 million worth of rooftop and utility-scale solar projects.Prior to Powerhive, he ran High Noon Advisors where he acquired solar projects for an equity investor and advised several organizations on renewable project fund structuring, market entry analysis, community energy deployment, and government and non-profit initiative design. Prior to that, Greg served as Chief Investment Officer at Mosaic where he originated loans for residential, commercial, and utility solar projects and raised a $100 million fund. Greg has served as Vice President of Solar Finance at Union Bank where he originated and closed tax equity and syndicated loan transactions, and has managed a solar tax equity fund for Citi. Greg has held various positions in solar finance and investment banking at PowerLight and SunPower Corporation where he financed many industry-leading solar projects. Greg holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Powerhive: Powerhive unlocks productive, clean electricity for millions of households and businesses in emerging markets.
Steve Kraft
VP, Engineering of Powerhive
Steve has nearly 20 years of experience developing hardware and firmware for embedded systems. He has developed solutions for a wide range of hard and soft real-time applications including industrial automation, remote monitoring, and renewable energy. Steve has also served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a MS in Engineering.
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About Powerhive: Powerhive unlocks productive, clean electricity for millions of households and businesses in emerging markets.
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.
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.
Rob Hull
VP Consumer & Network Scouting, Technology, Service & Innovation of BT Global Services
Rob has been in Silicon Valley for 15 years heading up Global Scouting within BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify, qualify, then introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models into the BT Lines of Business. Notable projects include BT Sport on Chromecast, steamed gaming and fixed mobile convergence propositions. Before coming to the US, Rob worked in BT’s Group Strategy Department as well as heading up Marketing and Business Development for one of their global sales sectors, and prior to that held various sales and marketing roles. Rob has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
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.
Scott Aylor
CVP Global Operations Strategy of AMD
Scott Aylor is the Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Enterprise Solutions at AMD. Scott is responsible for driving strategy and execution across AMD’s Server and Embedded segments. Scott originally joined AMD to run its Embedded Solutions division in 2013 and has been responsible for driving design win and share growth in embedded vertical markets. Prior to AMD Scott was at Freescale Semiconductor for 17 years with strong domain knowledge and experience in the industrial, automotive, networking and general embedded markets. Scott came to AMD with deep technical insight, customer relationships, and a track record of successfully growing embedded businesses. He held many leadership positions with Freescale including Vice President of Product Development for the Digital Networking Group; General Manager, Wireless Access Division; and Director of Engineering, Microcontroller Solutions Group. Scott holds a MBA in Management from St. Edwards University and a MS & BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. Scott is based in Austin.
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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.
Forrest Norrod
SVP & GM, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group 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.
Malaikannan Sankarasubbu
VP, AI Research of Saama
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Charles Johnston
EVP Global Sales of OwnBackup
Charles Johnston is the Vice President Sales at Own{backup}.
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About OwnBackup: OwnBackup provides backup and recovery solutions for companies that use Salesforce.
Cory Haynes
VP, Financial Services Strategy 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.
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.
Daniel Nelson
VP and Products & Solutions of SUSE
Daniel Nelson is one of the original founders of Datical, and serves as the CEO. Prior to Datical, Daniel was Founder and VP of Products at Phurnace Software, a maker of cutting-edge application deployment and configuration software for large enterprises. Phurnace was acquired by BMC Software in December of 2009. After the acquisition, Daniel served BMC as Director of Product Management, focused on Business Automation. Daniel has spent the past 16 years in the software business, and has both a BA and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2010, Daniel was honored with the Rising Star Award from the McCombs School of Business.
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About 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.
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.
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.
Joni Reicher
VP People of D2iq
Joni B. Reicher is Vice President of People at Mesosphere where she leads Mesosphere’s people team, which includes recruiting, human resources, wellness, office space and employee events. Joni is an accomplished human resources executive and employment counsel. She has lead multiple human resources functions for Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, Apple, Airbnb and consulted for several Silicon Valley start ups. She has experience building and inspiring high performing teams, managing local and virtual teams, and coaching and counselling executives, managers and individual contributors. Before joining Mesosphere, Joni had a people and employee experience consulting agency. Before consulting, Joni was Director of Talent at Airbnb during which the Airbnb talent team tripled in size. For nine years prior, Joni worked at Apple as a Senior Director, Worldwide Human Resources. She lead Apple’s second largest human resources team which included Apple’s Human Resources Business Partners, international recruiting, international benefits and services and global mobility. Prior to Apple, she held numerous other positions providing legal advice at Hewlett-Packard, Littler Mendelson, and Graham & James.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Oren Schauble
VP of Marketing of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology, Unrivaled Brands: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Rey Madolora
VP of Finance and Business Intelligence of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
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.
Murtaza Doctor
VP of Engineering & Operations of ThousandEyes
Murtaza leads global engineering and operations at ThousandEyes. He brings 20 years of engineering leadership, software development and innovation experience across startups and hyper-scale giants. He has built products ground-up in personalization, advertising, e-commerce, pricing, and defense domains. Before the current role, he was the site lead for AWS DynamoDB in Palo Alto where he led multiple teams focussed on Edge Engineering, API Management, Global Tables (Cross Region Replication) and Developer Experience for DynamoDB.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Larry Whitman
VP and CFO of AppNeta
Larry Whitman is a CFO at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
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.
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.
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
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.
Chadd Kenney
VP, Products and Solutions of Pure Storage
Chadd Kenney is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Clumio. Chadd has 20 years of experience in technology leadership roles, most recently as Vice President of Products and Solutions for Pure Storage. Prior to that role, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Americas helping to grow the business from zero in revenue to over a billion. Chadd also spent 8 years at EMC in various roles from Field CTO to Principal Engineer. Chadd is a technologist at heart, who loves helping customers understand the true elegance of products through simple analogies, solutions use cases, and a view into the minds of the engineers that created the solution.
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About Clumio, Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Josh Gluck
VP Global Healthcare Technology Strategy of Pure Storage
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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.
Vaughn Stewart
VP, Technology Alliance Partners of Pure Storage
Vaughn is a VP of Technology Alliance Partners at Pure Storage. He helps organizations capitalize on what’s possible when pairing memory-based storage technologies with traditional and next-generation applications. Prior to Pure he spent 13 years in various leadership roles at NetApp and has been awarded a U.S. patent.
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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.
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.
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.
Malcolm Ross
VP, Product Strategy / Deputy CTO of 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.
David K. Donovan
VP and Managing Director, Global Markets of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient, Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
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.
