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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 Cloud Data Services 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.
Amit Vyas
Global Vice President, Inside Sales of Samsara
Amit is responsible for building and scaling a high-performance sales organization and driving all revenue growth. Known for his energy, motivating leadership style and sharp attire, Amit brings over 15 years of experience across IT, networking, direct and channel sales. Most recently, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the sales organization and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. When Amit’s not working, he can be found playing almost any competitive sport, doing Bikram yoga, riding his motorcycle, playing chess or hanging with his wife and son at Crissy Field.Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Charles Walton
Senior Vice President, Digital Identity Products of Mastercard
Charlie has been involved in the information security industry for more than 30 years, currently responsible for digital identity services within Morpho’s Government Identity Solutions division. Prior he was CEO of Toronto-based SecureKey and responsible for the launch and growth of the SecureKey Concierge Network. As COO and General Manager for Aix-en-Provence based INSIDE Secure, he was responsible for defining business strategy, driving product strategy and development, and leading the launch of new semi-conductor products. His early career included the founding of Caradas which was a security services company in the bankcard industry, COO at Certco which was the founding ground for Identrus, the founder of GTE Cybertrust, and multiple roles in large-scale secure system development at GTE for the defense industry.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Raj Dhamodharan
EVP Blockchain / Digital Asset Products & Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Mastercard
Rohit Chauhan is the EVP of artificial intelligence at MasterCard Worldwide.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andreas Spengel
Vice President International Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rebecca Ledingham
Global VP/Senior Business Leader Cybersecurity of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Russ Barenboym
Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Zahir Khoja
Executive Vice President, Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Daniel Ruggeri
Vice President Of Software Engineering – Middleware of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Washington University in St. Louis: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ranjita Iyer
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Galvan
VP, Business Development and Strategic Alliances – US Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sherri Haymond
Executive Vice President, Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
JoAnn Stonier
Executive VP and Chief Data Officer of Mastercard
JoAnn C. Stonier is the EVP/Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer for MasterCard Worldwide.She is responsible for worldwide privacy compliance and information governance for the enterprise. Stonier is responsible for identifying MasterCard’s data strategy as an element of the company’s product and business strategy as well as for the management of privacy and data protection compliance and regulatory engagement on a global basis. Prior to joining MasterCard in 2008, Stonier was the Chief Privacy Officer for American Express Company. Stonier received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her bachelor of science degree from St. Francis College.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Cathy Baker
Executive Vice President of Mastercard
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
John Fimbel
SVP of Business Development of Mastercard
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About Andrews Toy Box, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lance Gruner
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Care of Mastercard
Lance Gruner is an executive vice president at MasterCard focused on global customer care.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Leigh Amaro
SVP, Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Sanker
Senior Vice President (SVP) Software Engineering, Cyber & Intelligence of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
James Anderson
Executive Vice President – Commercial and B2B Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sadiq Mohammed
Vice President, Mobile Payments of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Kiki Del Valle
EVP Market Development – Latin America & Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Cindy Chastain
SVP, Global Customer Experience & Design of Mastercard
Cindy Chastain serves as SVP of global customer experience and design at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shubhra Srivastava
Vice President, Global Product Management of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Trisha Asgeirsson
Senior Vice President, Global Retail and Commerce Loyalty Lead of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris Merz
Vice President, Security and Decision Products of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, MasterCard Labs: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Matt Miller
Vice President – Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shari Krikorian
Senior Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andrew Markowitz
SVP, Managed Services of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michelle Hafner
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stuart Vaeth
Vice President, Digital Identity of Mastercard
“Stuart Vaeth joined Diversinet in 2004 and is responsible for product strategy, strategic partnerships, and directing Diversinet’s industry standards activities. Mr. Vaeth has 20 years experience in the information security industry, specializing in encryption and authentication technologies. Prior to Diversinet, he was director of product marketing with nCipher, a leading cryptographic hardware provider. Mr. Vaeth spent the first 12 years of his career with GTE, where he was chief architect for the CyberTrust PKI product line. Mr. Vaeth received a BSEE degree from Bucknell University and earned his MBA at the Boston University School of Management. He is a frequent speaker at wireless and security industry conferences and is co-chair of the OATH (Initiative for Open Authentication) Technology Group.” (Source: [Diversinet](http://www.diversinet.com/html/organization/managementteam.html))
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ronald Green
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer of Mastercard
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About Financial Services Council, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Brown Lee
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Mastercard
Manage team responsible for working with business units to enable product development while ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s products and services, including payment processing, data analytics, marketing, digital payments, and fraud-related activities for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct regulatory engagement and monitor and analyze pending legislation. Partner with Information Security to revise, update, and execute incident response program.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Amyn Dhala
Vice President Global Head of Product of Mastercard
Amyn Dhala is currently Vice President, AI Express in the Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team at Mastercard. He launched and manages the Mastercard AI Express program in which Mastercard enables Financial Institutions, Merchants and other verticals, adopt AI swiftly and smartly. In his current role, Amyn leads AI Express Product Strategy and AI Express engagements where he collaborates with the AI Express team of product managers and data scientists – right from problem identification for customers to developing production-ready AI models for them which can be deployed. Prior to this, Amyn has over fifteen years in leading Product and Sales Teams globally across Financial Services, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Before joining Mastercard, Amyn launched products such as Amazon Pay and Amazon Prime on Your Site at Amazon. Amyn has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale and his bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Jennifer Rademaker
EVP, Global Customer Delivery of Mastercard
Jennifer Rademaker is the Executive Vice President of Global Customer Delivery at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stefany Bello
Vice President- Digital Partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Goldschmidth
VP, Head of Push Payments of Mastercard
Vice President – Head of Digital Payments & Labs MasterCard – Geo-Central LAC
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
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.
Hans Jespersen
Senior Vice President, WW Systems Engineering of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
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.
Bradford Walker
Vice President of Finance and Operations of Levelset
Bradford Walker is the VP of finance and operations at Levelset.
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Gretchen Lynn
VP, Customer Experience of Levelset
Gretchen Lynn is the VP of customer experience at Levelset.
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Mathew Spolin
SVP Engineering of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Andy Ellerhorst
Chief of Staff and VP of Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jonathan Reid
SVP Global Sales & Business Development of AppDirect
rior to AppDirect, Jonathan was Worldwide Managing Director for Cloud and Hosted Sales at Cisco Systems, following Cisco’s acquisition of BroadSoft, the global leader in Cloud Unified Communications. Jonathan has held senior management positions at other successful start-ups including Sylantro Systems and Syndeo Corporation, and performed venture capital and strategy consulting at Accenture. Jonathan holds a 1st class bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University and MBA from Europe’s leading business school, INSEAD.
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About AppDirect, BroadSoft: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Renee Bergeron
Senior VP & General Manager of Agent Services of AppDirect
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About AppDirect, Ingram Micro: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Joshua Schnoll
VP of Marketing of AppDirect
Previous to AppDirect, Joshua led Product Marketing at FICO and held a variety of marketing, product and strategy roles at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. He has a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he was also an International Management Fellow.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jerry Sherman
VP, User Experience of AppDirect
Jerry spent over 10 years at Salesforce, starting as the company’s first program manager, building the user experience team, and managing a variety of teams in the R&D and product organizations. He has also spent 12 years in management and individual contributor roles at DoubleClick, NetGravity, Netscape, Oracle, and IBM. Jerry holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor’s in English from Santa Clara University. In his spare time, he enjoys running, hiking, cooking, and keeping his 1970 Ford pickup truck running.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Michael Cassin
Vice President of Product Management of AppDirect
Prior to his 5 years at Visa, Michael spent 6 years in product leadership roles at PayPal and, before that, 3 years in product at VeriSign. Michael holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering Technology from the State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking in and exploring the great outdoors with his wife and young daughter and honing his skills as an avid home chef.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Lennart Lepner
VP of Finance of AppDirect
Before joining AppDirect, Lennart worked in New York as an investment banker advising financial service clients on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing transactions. Lennart holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and psychology from Amherst College. In his spare time, Lennart enjoys playing tennis and exploring the greater Bay Area with his wife.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
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.
Dave Kranowitz
Vice President Of Worldwide Sales of Grafana Labs
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About Grafana Labs: Grafana Labs is an open source software platform for analytics and monitoring database.
Matthew Toback
VP, Customer Experience of Grafana Labs
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About Grafana Labs: Grafana Labs is an open source software platform for analytics and monitoring database.
Tevye Krynski
VP of Engineering of Migo
Tevye Krynski is the VP of Engineering at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jacob Smith
VP, Bare Metal Strategy & Marketing of Equinix
Jacob is co-founder of Packet and serves as CMO. His diverse background (which includes running a digital marketing agency, administering two national nonprofits, and ten years as a professional opera musician) informs a unique approach that has established Packet as a trusted infrastructure partner for today’s leading developers, SaaS companies and Fortune 100’s.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Raouf Abdel
EVP, Global Operations of Equinix
Raouf Abdel joined Equinix in 2012, and today he is head of Global Operations overseeing engineering, construction, and operations for the company. Previously he served as Regional Operating Chief, Americas where he successfully led IBX Operations through significant growth and expansion. Mr. Abdel has 30 years of experience in the datacenter, telecom, and construction industries. Prior to joining Equinix, he was President and CEO for OpTerra Energy Group where he was responsible for building the company’s business plan, securing funding and day to day operations. Before that Mr. Abdel was President, Business Markets Group, at Level 3 Communications where he led the company’s $1 Billion Enterprise business unit. He also held numerous leadership roles at Level 3 in network deployment, product development and M&A. Prior to Level 3, Mr. Abdel served as VP of Network Deployment at MFS Communications and was responsible for network and facility deployment throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Mr. Abdel holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Temple University in Philadelphia.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Yun Freund
Vice President of Engineering of Equinix
Yun Freund served as Vice President of Engineering, at Equinix, leading the global Product Engineering organization. Previously Yun worked as the VP of Engineering at GE Digital for over 5 years and has been instrumental in building Predix Industrial Internet Platform and driving Digital Transformation with GE business units. Yun also worked at Cisco leading Cloud Services Platform for large enterprise and service providers. Yun has taught graduate computer science courses at San Jose State University as Adjunct Professor and has a PhD in Computer Science. Yun is an executive speaker at various STEM and Women leadership panels and embraces diversity and inclusion in her value.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Madden
Vice President, Global Segment Marketing of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steven Smyser
VP, Bare Metal Finance & Commercial Solutions of Equinix
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About Equinix, GraniteShares: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jim Poole
Vice President, Ecosystem Business Development of Equinix
Jim Poole is the vice president of ecosystem development and global service providers at [Equinix](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/equinix). Prior to that, he was the general manager of global networks and mobility at the same company. He joined Equinix from Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, where he led business development and sales. Before Roundbox, he was vice president and general manager of network services at CenturyLink. He also held senior leadership positions at C&W Americas, dynamicsoft, American University Washington College of Law, and UUNET. Poole holds a bachelor’s degree from American University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Bill Long
Vice President- Interconnection Services of Equinix
Bill Long joined Equinix in 2013. He is responsible for the overall profitability and growth of Equinix interconnection products globally. This includes management of the existing portfolio and new product innovation. Prior to joining Equinix, Long served as Vice President of Voice Services at Level 3 Communications where held numerous product management, product develop and R&D related roles. He is a named inventor on five issued and pending patents.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Ryan Mallory
Senior Vice President Global Solutions Enablement of Equinix
Ryan Mallory serves as Equinix’s VP of Global Solutions Architects and is an active contributor in the IoT space. Sitting on multiple customer advisory boards and advising start-ups in Silicon Valley around the interconnect grid, city, home and person, his line of sight into emerging market trends and advanced execution is highly regarded. Key areas of expertise are the mobile integration point, edge access and aggregation point and core distribution infrastructure for IoT and the industrial internet. His guidance and recommendations have helped fortune 500 companies solidify their IoT roadmap and implement a comprehensive execution plan.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Milind Wagle
SVP & CIO of Equinix
Milind Wagle joined Equinix in April 2010 and serves as the Global CIO within the Customer Success Organization. Wagle leads the global IT team and oversees the solution delivery for enterprise applications, information security, and end-user technology infrastructure support for Equinix’s thousands of global employees. For the past six years, Wagle has served in various senior leadership roles within the IT team at Equinix, most recently as Vice President. In addition to managing the global IT applications portfolio, he has managed large-scale, cross-functional enterprise transformation programs for the company, including designing and deploying process, system and organizational standardization across the globe. Previously he has held leadership positions at VeriSign, KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint. Wagle holds a BS, Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
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.
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.
John Burger
Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Infrastructure of ReliaQuest
John Burge is the chief information security officer at ReliaQuest.
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About ReliaQuest: ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions.
Kurt Kalbfleisch
Senior Vice President and CFO of Sphere 3d
Kurt Kalbfleisch joined Sphere 3D as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2014. Prior to that, Kurt was with Overland Storage from December 1993 until November 2014 and served as Overland’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kurt is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, legal, and facilities operations. During his tenure at Overland, Kurt has also served in several key management roles in cost accounting and finance. Prior to joining Overland, Kurt was a manufacturing budget analyst for McDonnell Douglas Corp. Kurt earned his MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
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About Sphere 3d: Sphere 3D Corp. delivers data management, and desktop and application virtualization via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and on-premise implementations.
Brad Sonnenberg
SVP-Business Development and Operations of Comixology
Brad Sonnenberg is Senior Vice President-Business Development and Operations at comiXology. An experienced senior executive in the media and communications sector, Brad has led organizations responsible for business development, legal affairs, finance, and operations. He was Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Adelphia Communications, where he was on the four-person executive committee that revitalized the cable TV and broadband provider and sold it for $17 billion. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Covad Communications, an early pioneer in commercial broadband. Brad’s government experience includes service as General Counsel to the public economic development corporation financing rebuilding at the World Trade Center and surrounding sites, and also in the U.S. Justice Department as an Assistant United States Attorney. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the law school at the University of Chicago. Brad is currently reading Avengers Vs. X-Men from Marvel Entertainment.
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Tiffany Campbell
VP of Channel Revenue and Business Development of Beanworks
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Connie Adcock
Vice President of Client Services of Intermedia
Connie Adcock joined Intermedia in 2012 as vice president of client services. In her role, Adcock is responsible for Intermedia’s global technical support team where she champions companywide alignment in delivering extraordinary customer experience as measured by Intermedia’s Net Promoter Program, enhancing capabilities to scale with the company’s vision of growth, and supporting the client services team in realizing their career potential. Adcock has a demonstrated record of success at building, mentoring and developing high performing customer service teams, including previous roles as SVP of customer service at 1-800-Flowers and VP of global customer contact at National Car Rental. These customer service teams won numerous awards, such as CRM Magazine’s #1 Best Customer Service Call Center for 1-800-Flowers, Training Magazine’s Top 125 Training Organizations two years in a row for 1-800-Flowers, and JD Power Car Rental Customer Satisfaction two years in a row for National Car Rental. Most recently, Adcock was vice president of shared services at Vertex Data Science. While there she led the international virtual shared services team supporting global outsourcing operations with 32 call centers and 15,000 employees. She has tremendous experience creating and implementing innovative solutions in high growth companies, including building supporting capabilities for customer acquisition, cross-sell/up-sell and retention leadership, and career development programs.
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
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.
Utkarsh Contractor
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Aisera
Utkarsh Contractor is the Director of AI at Aisera, where he leads the data science team working on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Vision. He is also pursuing his graduate degree at Stanford University, focussing his research and experiments on computer vision, using CNNs to analyze surveillance scene imagery and footages. Utkarsh has a decade of industry experience in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning working at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
David Tishgart
Vice President of Marketing of Data.world
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About Data.world: Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Shankar Chandran
Vice President, Catalyst Fund of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Shankar Chandran is vice president at Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Catalyst Fund, at the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). The SSIC is based in Menlo Park, California and is focused on accelerating innovation for Samsung Electronics. Shankar is responsible for early stage and disruptive venture capital investments in technologies targeted at high growth sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile technology and security, digital health, next-generation user interfaces, and the internet of things. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Panorama Capital and has been an active venture investor for 12 years at Panorama Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Shankar has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He also serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, and has served as a director or observer on the boards of over ten companies. Shankar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India, an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Curtis Sasaki
VP of Ecosystems and iOT General Manager of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Curtis Sasaki is the vice president of ecosystems for Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). He leads new business creation and is responsible for driving growth and innovation through product, technology and ecosystem development. He works with entrepreneurs and startups in Silicon Valley and other global technology hotspots, focusing on Smart Health, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Prior to SSIC, Curtis was Senior Vice President of Samsung Media Solutions Center America (MSCA), where he oversaw the development of Samsung’s media services that work with Samsung Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to deliver the best apps and content to the connected consumer. At MSCA, he also lead the Innovation Lab, a team that focuses on developing pioneering cloud services, the Developer Relations team that drove the Samsung Developer Conferences, as well as the North American Content Services team, which focuses on content partnerships and strategic partner relations.
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About Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Nilay Patel
VP of Sales of Backblaze
Nilay runs Sales for B2. Nilay was part of the founding team at Backblaze and started Business Backup and the partner programs. In early 2011, Nilay left to be co-founder of Selligy. Selligy’s products guided inside and field salespeople on how best to interact with their customers. Selligy won multiple awards for its products, including being named Gartner Cool Vendor for CRM in 2014. As CEO, Nilay raised $3M from DFJ Ventures, Salesforce and other investors. Selligy was acquired by Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) in mid-2015. Soon thereafter, Nilay returned to Backblaze. In addition to Selligy, Nilay was the first employee in Europe for both Electric Cloud and MailFrontier. He opened up the territories by selling products to Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens Medical, Bertelsmann and other large enterprises. Nilay has his computer science degree from UC Berkeley.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Ahin Thomas
VP of Marketing of Backblaze
Ahin’s career is focused on building great Commerce experiences and developing talent. Previously, he headed up marketing for Symphony Commerce (a leader in the Commerce-as-a-Service space). Before that, Ahin was the co-founder / CEO of VIntners’ Alliance. He led the company through its Series A and introduced the industry’s first data co-op, pioneered the introduction of programmatic display for alcohol in the US, and co-authored California’s current regulatory regime governing alcohol transactions. He also got to drink a lot of great wine. Ahin holds his MBA from Wharton, AB from Georgetown University (Government, with honors). A Bay Area native, Ahin is also an experienced musician and songwriter.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Brian Beach
VP of Engineering of Backblaze
Brian Beach has wide-ranging technical experience, from fundamental academic research on programming methodology and distributed computing at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to ground-breaking consumer devices at TiVo. At Backblaze, Brian designed the vault storage system and now leads the engineering team. He earned both an undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Casey Jones
VP of Design of Backblaze
Most recently, Casey Jones was the design lead for SonicWALL’s products, where he developed the company’s official product design guide and revamped the user interface for the firewall deployed in over 1 million businesses worldwide. He led user interface and web design and development at MailFrontier, where both end users and corporate IT praised the products for their ease of use, and at Kendara through its acquisition by Excite@Home. Starting in design in the early days of the web, Casey developed event sites for companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and PeopleSoft.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Casey Jones
VP of Design of Backblaze
Most recently, Casey Jones was the design lead for SonicWALL’s products, where he developed the company’s official product design guide and revamped the user interface for the firewall deployed in over 1 million businesses worldwide. He led user interface and web design and development at MailFrontier, where both end users and corporate IT praised the products for their ease of use, and at Kendara through its acquisition by Excite@Home. Starting in design in the early days of the web, Casey developed event sites for companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and PeopleSoft.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
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.
Jeff Johns
VP of Engineering of Formstack
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About Formstack: Formstack is a workplace productivity platform helps organizations digitize, automate workflows, and fix processes—all without code.
Ryan Greives
Vice President, Brand & Communications of Formstack
Senior communications and marketing leader with 14 years’ experience in B2B and B2C software and SaaS, both in-house and agency. Proven history of driving successful marketing and communications strategies, including helping three companies from early stage to exit (3Tera (acquired by CA), Bluelock (acquired by InterVision Systems), and iGoDigital (acquired by ExactTarget)). I currently lead brand and communications at Formstack, driving content, design, PR, corporate comms and messaging strategies. Previously, I led communications at Cheetah Digital, driving the company’s repositioning, biggest product launch in company history, acquisition of Wayin, and significant movement in our respective Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave. At cleverbridge, I launched the company’s first global PR and social media program, delivering consistent media coverage and elevating the brand. Prior to cleverbridge, I earned a series of promotions to serve as VP of BLASTmedia, led some of the agency’s largest accounts, conducted launch campaigns for numerous startups, and helped many high-growth companies build their profile. Working with a wide variety of companies at all stages of growth, I have helped shape strategy and messaging for companies such as 3Tera (acquired by CA in 2010), Bluelock (acquired by InterVision Systems in 2018), iGoDigital (acquired by ExactTarget in 2012), Code 42 Software, Tanita, NuCurrent, Woopra, Gordano, Ontario Systems and Mi Media (FRA: 8MK). Working with a wide variety of companies at all stages of growth, I have helped shape strategy and messaging for clients such as 3Tera (acquired by CA in 2010), Bluelock (acquired by InterVision Systems in 2018), iGoDigital (acquired by ExactTarget in 2012), Code 42 Software, Tanita, NuCurrent, Woopra, Gordano, Ontario Systems and Mi Media (FRA: 8MK). Specialties: Media relations, public relations, social media, positioning, B2B PR, analyst relations, business development, content strategy, content marketing, messaging
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About Formstack, Formstack: Formstack is a workplace productivity platform helps organizations digitize, automate workflows, and fix processes—all without code.
Seth Samuels
Vice President of Research & Development of Kochava
Samuels comes to Kochava with more than 15 years of business intelligence (BI) experience. Having spent his entire career in BI roles, Samuels has an eye for trends and possesses the knowledge and experience to analyze data and simply articulate its meaning. Previously, Samuels served as the vice president of business intelligence for Coldwater Creek, where he spent nearly ten years and created numerous cross-channel attribution tools to support web, catalog, and mobile attribution, managed all corporate testing and analysis, and owned analysis for all corporate data. Samuels leads the Research and Development division of Kochava, designed to create integrated data sets enabling efficient analysis and to identify advanced algorithms to enhance Kochava’s product offerings. This division is also responsible for the consolidation of all information from across the organization to provide customers world-class visibility into their data and the actionable learnings it reveals.
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About Kochava: Kochava is a provider of secure, real-time data solutions for mobile and connected devices.
Garrett MacDonald
Executive Vice President of Sales of Kochava
Garrett MacDonald brings more than 21 years of B2B sales management experience to his role leading the global sales effort for Kochava. A top performer with Fortune 500 companies and early stage startups, MacDonald is a recognized industry luminary on the convergence of mobile, retail, finance and technology, with deep expertise in the advertising industry. Most recently MacDonald served as the Vice President of Strategic Sales at Airpush where he managed sales and platform development projects around real-time bidding, predictive algorithmic optimizations, advanced location targeting, and UI design, among other areas. Prior to Airpush MacDonald served as Regional Sales Manager at StrikeAd, the world’s first Demand Side Platform, and was a Regional Manager with American Express during the company’s digital transformation. MacDonald is leading Kochava’s sales department as the company continues to expand internationally, helping brands deliver better mobile app experiences across multiple channels while extracting more value from their advertising spend.
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About Kochava: Kochava is a provider of secure, real-time data solutions for mobile and connected devices.
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.
