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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 Enterprise Software 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.
Scott Belsky
Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud of Adobe
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President – Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance’s acquisition, Scott served as Adobe’s Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe’s mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages. Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively). Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company’s list of “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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Amit Ahuja
Vice President of Ecosystem Development of Adobe
Amit Ahuja is the Vice President of Ecosystem Development at Adobe where he is responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships and initiatives. Prior to this role, Amit was the Head of Emerging businesses and the GM of Adobe’s DMP business. Amit also spent 7 years in Adobe’s Corporate Development Group where he executed numerous transactions including acquisitions of Omniture, Scene7, Efficient Frontier, Demdex and Auditude. Amit joined Adobe via the acquisition of Macromedia where he was in the Corporate Development Group focusing on mobile and video. Amit began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a technology investment banker and also spent several years at a technology start up. Amit has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
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Mala Sharma
Vice President and General Manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community of Adobe
Mala Sharma serves as vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community for Adobe. Creative Cloud delivers the world’s best creative apps and services that allow anyone to create their best work. Sharma has led the Creative Cloud GTM and business strategy from its inception, and championed the business transformation from selling boxed Creative Suite software with perpetual licensing. Today, Sharma’s team manages the overall Creative Cloud product experience, and creates data-driven customer experiences that directly impact how users discover, learn, try and buy Adobe’s creative tools. She is also responsible for Behance, the world’s largest and most vibrant creative community. Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sharma was at Creative Lab for nine years where she was last director of product marketing for the Americas. She is a passionate advocate for the creative community and for making Adobe’s tools widely accessible to youth and a broader base of users. Sharma is a board member of the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and actively promotes the importance of Creativity in Education. Sharma holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and an M.B.A. from universities in India.
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Ashley Still
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
As Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Document Cloud and Creative Cloud enterprise businesses, Ashley Still helped lead the transition of Adobe’s business and products from desktop software to SaaS, driving record-breaking business growth. Ashley and her team are putting design, mobility and artificial intelligence at the center of customer experience to usher in a new era of innovation for Adobe’s diverse customer base – whether it’s e-signing a contract from an airplane, or producing the latest Hollywood film. Prior to her current role, Ashley was Senior Director of Product & Marketing for Adobe Primetime, an Emmy-award winning Internet television platform used by major media companies such as Comcast, Turner, NBC Sports and more to transform their television experiences. Ashley was named a “2017 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother magazine. She is passionate about empowering women in technology to maximize their potential through one-on-one mentoring and Adobe programs such as the Women’s Leadership Summit, Women’s Executive Shadow Program and Adobe Women & Lunch. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international studies from Yale University and her Master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Stefano Corazza
Fellow & Vice President of Adobe
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe’s Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo’s advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutions that support Mixamo. Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy. A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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Marc Leibowitz
Global VP – Partnerships & Strategic Growth Initiatives of Adobe
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Abhay Parasnis
CTO & EVP of Adobe
Abhay Parasnis is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems#/entity), a software company that provides digital marketing and media solutions. Previously, he was the senior vice president of the same company. Parasnis served as the president and chief operating officer of Kony before he joined Adobe. Parasnis holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Rob Giglio
Senior Vice President and GTM & Sales – Digital Media of Adobe
As senior vice president of Adobe’s Digital Media (DMe) Go-to-Market & Sales organization, Rob Giglio is responsible for more than $5billion in global annual sales (FY18) of Adobe’s Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products and solutions to consumers and non-enterprise businesses. Key to the organization’s success is Rob’s efforts to improve customer purchasing and renewal experience, drive customer retention, reduce software piracy, and identify new market opportunities for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products. By focusing on all routes to market, including online sales via Adobe.com, direct phone and chat sales, as well as channel partner, retail and education offerings, Rob has transformed Adobe’s go-to-market efforts into a data-driven, growing revenue stream for the company. Before joining Adobe in 2009, Robserved aschief marketing officerat Art.com, where he owned all revenue-generation, growing the company to more than$200million in annual sales. He built a multi-functional team to deliver sales and earnings growth, improve margins, and expand productofferings and market penetrationfor the multi-channel/multi-brand business overall. Prior to that, Rob spent threeyears with Gap, Inc. as vice president & general manager for Old Navy Canada, leading a turnaround initiative to restore revenue and profit within the 65-store Old Navy Canada business. He led a team of 75 to deliver more than$300 million in revenue and increase website traffic by 25%. Rob also held senior-level positions in marketing and e-commerce at Williams-Sonoma,where he created the brand marketing organization to drive customer acquisition and loyalty and launchedthe $130M PotteryBarn.com business in 2000. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.
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Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Adobe
Mike is anything but your typical general counsel. His distaste for acronym use and “legalese” drove him to rewrite Adobe’s contracts to plain English and develop a whole new writing style guide for the legal community. He oversees legal affairs, public policy, and compliance interests by day, but outside the office, he’s an avid blogger, writer, and adventurist. Given his love for writing, it may come as no surprise that Mike received bachelor’s degrees in communications and sociology from UC San Diego before getting his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University.
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Deepak Bharadwaj
Vice President of Product Management, Document Cloud of Adobe
Deepak Bharadwaj is the vice president and general manager of ServiceNow, where he is responsible for incubating, creating, and scaling new companies within the Employee Workflows product portfolio. He recently managed the company’s entry into the HR technology market, where he established a $200 million+ subscription revenue business in four years. Deepak was previously the VP of Product Management for Oracle’s Talent Acquisition and Talent Management products. He has also held roles of leadership in pre-sales and corporate development at Taleo, corporate strategy at SAP, and engineering at i2. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from India’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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Cynthia Stoddard
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, of Adobe
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Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media of Adobe
Bryan most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Creative Solutions, Adobe’s largest business unit. Bryan led product strategy, marketing and product development for Adobe’s flagship software applications, including Photoshop, the Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. In his 14 years at Adobe Systems, Bryan held key management positions including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Imaging and Video and Vice President of Marketing, Professional Publishing Solutions. He was responsible for new product development and marketing as well as the acquisition and product integration strategies that established Adobe’s overwhelming leadership in digital imaging and multimedia and web publishing. In April 2009, he was hired as the Senior Vice President of Applications Products at Yahoo!
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Loni Stark
Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager of Adobe
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Karl Rumelhart
Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering of Gainsight
Karl will lead Gainsight’s expanded product vision and execution for a comprehensive customer success platform that help customers take action. Karl has held senior product and marketing roles as an early employee at VMware, leading product management for VirtualCenter, driving the acquisition of SpringSource, and leading the vFabric business unit. Karl has also run product teams at enterprise social pioneer, Jive, and predictive analytics pioneer Infer. Prior to his software career, Karl was an academic mathematician, lecturing at Stanford University after receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Maksim Ovsyannikov
EVP, Products and Design of Gainsight
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Denise Stokowski
VP Solutions, Product Management and Security of Gainsight
Denise leads all things related to creating solutions in the field with our customers. She believes in partnership with her customers and delivering expertise that leads to successful deployment of Gainsight’s solution.Denise has been implementing business software applications for over 20 years and built and led services teams at Marketo, Right90, and Epiphany.
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Ciara Peter
VP Product, Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Ciara is best known for bringing consumer grade experiences to enterprise products at scale. As VP of Product at Gainsight, she leads vision and strategy for Gainsight PX, the Product Experience platform focused on delivering insights, enabling data driven in-app customer engagement, and instantly evaluating ROI of product investments. Prior to Gainsight, Ciara held Product & Design leadership positions at InVision, Box, BetterWorks, and Salesforce. She lives in downtown San Francisco with her Maine Coon cat, Wesley.
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Mike Berger
VP, Product Marketing of Gainsight
Mike Berger is the VP of product marketing at Gainsight.
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Bill Mastin
SVP of Sales and Services of Topia
Bill Mastin is a learning technologies industry veteran, with over 20 years of experience in the market. Prior to joining NetDimensions, Bill served as Senior Vice President of North America at LEO, a sister company within Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG). Before he joined LEO, he held key positions at Saba and PeopleFluent.
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Deb Cupp
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Commercial Industries of Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As Corporate Vice President of the Enterprise and Commercial Industries team, Deb’s vision is for Microsoft to be the Digital Transformation leader and partner of choice for our customers. With every industry being transformed by digital technology, Deb leads a team dedicated to bringing industry insights and expertise to every customer engagement. Deb joined Microsoft in 2017 from SAP, where she was most recently the Senior Vice President (SVP) and Managing Director of SuccessFactors for North America. Deb was responsible for leading the HR business by driving sales and the go-to-market strategy and for overseeing operations for the field sales organization. Prior to joining SAP in 2011, Deb served as Vice President of Sales for Standard Register’s healthcare business, leading a national organization of sales professionals in 10 regional markets. With ultimate responsibility for the division, she worked directly with her sales teams to drive acquisition, retention, and expansion efforts in the highly competitive healthcare arena, an achievement that would cap off her 17-year tenure with the company. A collaborative and authentic leader, Deb’s focus on re-engineering and optimizing processes has enhanced productivity and driven results for the businesses under her leadership. Deb is highly focused on customer success and people development and takes a particular interest in mentoring women in business. Deb holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with concentrations in marketing and finance from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, where she was a Division One field hockey and lacrosse scholarship athlete. In addition, she holds an MBA from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deb lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband Sam and their dog Penny. In her free time, she enjoys being active including hiking, biking, yoga, and Orangetheory Fitness.
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Bret Arsenault
Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President of Microsoft
As VP and CISO at Microsoft, Bret Arsenault is responsible for information security and risk management; setting the company’s security incidence response strategy. He leads a global team of security professionals focused on protecting the company’s assets through programs that span education and awareness, governance, identity and access management, enterprise business continuity management, and security assessments. He chairs Microsoft’s Information Risk Management Council, which brings together teams from across the company focused on protecting data, and hosts Microsoft’s Security Council – an enterprise customer forum that drives product direction and operational best practices. He holds advisory board roles in the public and private sectors and is a founding member of the Executive Security Action Forum and Security 50.
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Julia Liuson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Julia Liuson is Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, overseeing software development for Visual Studio and .NET framework, including CLR, .NET x-plat effort, all programming languages, user interface, mobile and cloud development tools. Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, and has held a variety of technical and management positions while at Microsoft. She was General Manager of Visual Studio Business Applications where she was responsible for enabling developers to easily build applications on Microsoft client, server and service platforms. Liuson has also served as General Manager for Server and Tools business from MS Shanghai office in China for two years while running engineering teams on both sides of the Pacific. Previously, Liuson has served as development manager, and later as Partner Product Unit Manager for Visual Basic. She was also a core member of the leadership team that led the successful development and launch of Visual Studio Team System in 2005.
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Rajesh Jha
Executive Vice President, Experiences and Devices of Microsoft
As executive vice president of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group, Rajesh Jha leads the team that includes Devices, Windows client, New Experiences and Technology, Enterprise Mobility and Management, and Office Product Group
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Dayne Sampson
CVP of Global Foundation Services of Microsoft
Dayne Sampson is the CVP of Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dayne served as VP of operations at Yahoo! Inc. He held positions at various companies including IAC, Ask.com, and Bowne Global Solutions.
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Brendan Burns
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Lori Wright
Vice President, Gaming / Xbox Business Development of Microsoft
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Jared Spataro
Corporate Vice President, Office and Windows of Microsoft
Spataro is responsible for the Windows Commercial business; the Office SMB business; Office apps product marketing, and Microsoft 365 digital marketing. He also manages several cross-company initiatives, including Modern Desktop (focused on driving upgrades to Windows 10 and Office 365) and Modern Productivity (aimed at creating new productivity scenarios that span devices, operating systems, apps, and cloud services).
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Kareem Choudhry
Corporate Vice President, Gaming Cloud of Microsoft
Kareem currently works as Microsoft’s corporate VP of gaming.
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Chris Weber
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Chris Weber is a corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business. He leads the Small, Medium, and Corporate business segment and plays a key role in driving growth and new customer acquisition across four solution areas – Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Apps & Infrastructure, and Data & AI. Chris’s group drives global strategy and digital sales for corporate accounts, and small to medium-sized businesses, along with Software Asset Management. Chris previously worked for Nokia as a senior vice president, Markets, to lead the company’s re-entry into the North American market. In July 2012, he was named to the Nokia Leadership Team to lead sales and marketing globally. Prior to his tenure at Nokia, Chris held executive positions in sales, marketing and professional services at Microsoft for 15 years.
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Shilpa Ranganathan
Corporate Vice President, Mobile & Cross device Experiences of Microsoft
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Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
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Judson Althoff
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
As president of Microsoft North America, Althoff is responsible for Microsoft’s commercial and public sector customers and partners, and the consumer business in retail and through operator channels across the United States and Canada. Althoff leads strategic planning, business operations and key growth initiatives across the region. As a senior leader, he brings solid experience developing and leading successful direct and indirect businesses globally. Recognized for building organizations with a culture of excellence in execution his strengths include building relationships, communicating, innovating, and motivating organizations to produce results. Althoff joined Microsoft in March 2013. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales for Oracle. Before joining Oracle, Althoff was an Area Business Development Manager and District Sales Manager for EMC Corporation. Althoff was named a Top Channel Leader or Executive by CRN magazine 2008-2012 and was named Channel Chief 2009-2012. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Priya Vijayarajendran
Vice President Data & AI of Microsoft
Priya Vijayarajendran is the CTO, Vice President for Applied AI at IBM Services. She is responsible for creating consumable AI solutions for enterprises. She is chartered to build and foster an engineering driven culture, creating end-to-end AI solutions from concept to consumption, by partnering with our clients, enabling and augmenting with IBM talent. Priya thrives being an Intrapreneur, building high performing scalable teams to achieve strategic deliverables, pioneering innovation with sound technology focus. She believes in humanizing enterprise software, with AI as a key enabler. She works with business executives on transforming, reimaging and creating highly viable business solutions.
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Jeff Teper
Corporate Vice President – Microsoft 365 Collaboration of Microsoft
Jeff joined Microsoft in 1992 to lead corporate developer evangelism for Windows NT. He then served as a Group Program Manager in Microsoft’s Internet Business Unit. In 1998, he led the creation of SharePoint Portal Server, which became one of Microsoft’s fastest growing businesses, exceeding $3 billion in revenues. Jeff next served as Corporate Vice President for Program Management across Office 365 Services and Servers, which is the foundation of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud leadership. He then led Corporate Strategy supporting Satya Nadella and Amy Hood on Microsoft’s mobile-first/cloud-first transformation and acquisitions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeff was vice president for software development for an investment firm in New York. He leads Office shared experiences and core applications, as well as OneDrive and SharePoint consumer and business services in Office 365. Jeff holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems and finance from New York University.
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Amanda Silver
CVP of Product for Developer Tools of Microsoft
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Jordi Ribas
Corporate Vice President, Bing Program Management, Microsoft of Microsoft
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Rish Tandon
Corporate Vice President, Teams Engineering of Microsoft
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Ann Johnson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Ann Johnson leads the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group in their mission is to accelerate customers’ digital transformation with trusted solutions and expertise to build the secure modern enterprise. Before joining Microsoft, Ann was CEO at Boundless, an open source geospatial software and services provider. Prior to Boundless, Ann was with Qualys, Inc., as president and chief operating officer, a provider of cloud security and compliance solutions that enable organizations to identify security risks to their information technology infrastructures, help protect their information technology systems and applications from cyber-attacks and achieve compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Prior to Qualys, Ann was vice president of World Wide Sales/IPV and Global Accounts at RSA Security LLC, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation which provides solutions to protect customer online identities and digital assets. Ann is a recognized cybersecurity industry leader with a proven track record for building and leading high-performing global enterprise software operations. Ann has a background in cybersecurity, infrastructure and storage and is a frequent speaker on topics of online banking fraud, information security, healthcare security, mobile security, privacy and compliance. Ann is a graduate of Weber State University in Utah where she completed a dual major in political science and communications. Ann is passionate about horseback riding, skiing and any water-related activity as well as cooking and organic gardening. She lives with her husband, son, and three rescue dogs in the Puget Sound area.
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Tom Burt
Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust of Microsoft
Burt leads the company’s Customer Security and Trust (CST) team. This cross disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, policy advocates, project managers, business professionals, data analysts and cybercrime investigators drives continuous improvement of customer security in our products and online services. Working with engineering and security teams across the company, CST is responsible for ensuring our products and online services comply with our internal security engineering policies and oversees programs to provide security transparency to global governments. Burt’s team is formulating and advocating cybersecurity policy globally, advancing the Digital Geneva Convention, the Tech Accord, and the Defending Democracy Project, is collaborating with public and private organizations to disrupt cyberattacks and support deterrence efforts. Engineering compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, global readiness of our products and services, responding to law enforcement requests for access while protecting customer privacy and adherence to trade sanctions globally are also key focus areas for the team as it seeks to advance its core mission of ensuring customers can rely on and trust all Microsoft products and online services. Burt joined Microsoft in 1995 and has held several leadership roles in the Corporate External and Legal Affairs Department. He led the company’s Litigation Group from 1996 to 2007, and most recently led the Digital Trust team.
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Rohan Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Data of Microsoft
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Mark Stanley
Vice President, Gaming Platform Growth of Microsoft
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Lorraine Bardeen
VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) WW Enterprise and Commercial Industries of Microsoft
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Todd Holmdahl
CVP of Microsoft
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Tad Brockway
Corporate Vice President for Azure Storage, Media, and Edge of Microsoft
Tad is a 20-year veteran of Microsoft and has been in leadership roles on the Microsoft Azure team since 2011. Currently, his team is responsible for Azure Storage, which is the durability layer for the Azure cloud, including: Object Storage, Files, Disks, etc. His team is also responsible for Azure Media Services and Azure’s overall strategy in the Media & Entertainment industry. In addition, his team owns Azure Intelligent Edge products like: Azure Stack and Data Box. Tad has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Gurdeep Singh Pall
Corporate VP, Information Platform & Experience of Microsoft
Gurdeep Singh Pall is the corporate vice president for the Information Platform & Experience team at Microsoft Corp., and is part of the Online Services Division’s senior leadership team. He is responsible for vision, product strategy and R&D for the Bing services and platform that includes mobile, mapping, and speech. Pall joined Microsoft in January 1990 as a software design engineer. He has worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure, starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. Pall was part of the Windows NT development team, working on the first version of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 as a software design engineer, all the way through Windows XP in 2001 as general manager of Windows Networking. During his work on Windows, he led design and implementation of core networking technologies such as PPP, TCP/IP, UPnP, VPNs, routing and Wi-Fi, and parts of the operating system. Pall co-authored the first VPN protocol in the industry – Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) – which received the prestigious Innovation of the Year award from PC Magazine in 1996. He also authored several documents and standards in the networking area in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body in the mid-1990s. Pall was previously the corporate vice president for the Office Lync & Speech Group, overseeing the vision, product strategy and R&D for the Microsoft Lync family of products and Microsoft Tellme services. He was appointed general manager of Windows Real-Time Communications efforts in January 2002 and helped develop a broad strategy that led to the formation of the Real Time Collaboration division and acquisition of PlaceWare Inc. (now called Microsoft Office Live Meeting). Since then, Pall has led acquisitions of media-streams.com AG and Parlano, and key industry partnerships with HP, Polycom and Aspect. Microsoft’s Unified Communications efforts have received many technical and design industry awards. Pall was named one of the “15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference” in 2008 by Information Week. He co-authored “Institutional Memory Goes Digital,” which was published by Harvard Business Review as part of “Breakthrough Ideas for 2009” and subsequently presented at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos. Pall has more than 20 patents (in process or approved) in networking, VoIP and collaboration areas. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Oregon and an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India. Pall is on the board of trustees of Ashesi University.
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Mitra Azizirad
Corporate Vice President and Microsoft AI of Microsoft
Mitra Azizirad is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft AI where she is responsible for defining and accelerating the productisation of Microsoft’s portfolio of AI innovation, and shaping and driving the perception of Microsoft AI. Mitra leads Microsoft’s vision to democratise access to AI, empowering developers to innovate, industries to transform, and ultimately empowering every individual to transform society with AI. A 27-year veteran of Microsoft, Mitra has held key leadership positions at Microsoft across a wide array of technical, marketing and sales functions, both in the field and corporate. Prior to Microsoft, she held technical leadership positions at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD/NASDAQ), and International Telecommunications and Satellite Organisation (Intelsat).
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Eric Doerr
VP, Cloud Security of Microsoft
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Stephen Harris
Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Data Science & Growth Analytics (Cloud + AI) of Microsoft
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Gregory Moore
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Health of Microsoft
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Lisa Maki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next of Microsoft
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next at Microsoft.
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Anthony Salcito
VP of Worldwide Education of Microsoft
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Rik van der Kooi
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Advertising of Microsoft
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Joe Whittinghill
Corporate Vice President, Talent, Learning, and Insights of Microsoft
Joe Whittinghill is the corporate vice president of talent, learning, and insights at Microsoft.
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Nick Parker
Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions of Microsoft
Nick Parker serves as a Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft.
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Bobby Morrison
VP and Head of WW Small, Medium, and Corporate Segments of Microsoft
Bobby Morrison is president of the Pacific Northwest Region for Verizon Wireless, responsible for sales, marketing, operations, customer service, business development and network expansion in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska, which has more than 1,500 employees. Morrison’s 14-year career with Verizon is marked by sales success and strategic, pioneering leadership delivering company-leading results. Prior to his current role, he was executive director of Marketing in the Midwest Area, responsible for the Business-to-Business (B2B) and telesales channels as well as planning and strategy for the enterprise segment across 18 states. Prior to that, Morrison was regional director of business and enterprise sales headquartered in Chicago, IL. Morrison serves on the board of directors of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), the largest statewide association of technology companies and executives in the world. He is a regular speaker at technology events across the Northwest. Morrison graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Business Administration from Walsh University in Ohio.
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Alex Simons
Corporate Vice President Program Management of Microsoft
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Joe Belfiore
CVP, Office Product Group of Microsoft
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Matt Barlow
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Joy Chik
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Joy’s teams are responsible for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graph, Information Protection, and Forefront Identity Management suites, which are delivered to customers as cloud services or on-premises products. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 as a software engineer contributing to Terminal Services in Windows 2000, she has steadily risen in the company as an established leader of some of the industry’s most impactful engineering teams. Joy was also recognized as one of Business Insider’s “39 Most Powerful Women Engineers of 2018″.
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Alysa Taylor
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Global Industry of Microsoft
Alysa Taylor is the Corporate Vice President responsible for Microsoft’s Business Applications and Global Industry Marketing. She leads the product marketing teams responsible for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (Power BI, Common Data Services, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow) as well as the global industry product marketing team.
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Kudo Tsunoda
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Albert Shum
CVP of Design of Microsoft
Albert leads a collaborative team of designers, writers, and researchers imagining the future of experiences and devices at Microsoft. With over 20 years of product, brand, and digital design expertise, Albert has led initiatives at Nike and Microsoft to scale design thinking and create compelling experiences for millions. His team currently drives incubation for the Windows ecosystem, focused on coherent, inclusive design across diverse platforms to bridge the gap between humans and technology. Albert is known to muse on creativity, ambient computing, the responsibility of designers in the fourth industrial revolution, and the perfect bowl of ramen.
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Megan Saunders
Vice President Connected Care of Microsoft
Megan Saunders is the Windows 3D Initiative General Manager for Microsoft.
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Ilan Spillinger
Corporate VP, HoloLens Development of Microsoft
Dr. Ilan Spillinger, CVP of Microsoft HoloLens and Silicon, has been with Microsoft since late 2007. He currently leads HoloLens and Silicon organization, which consists of the HoloLens Hardware engineering team, as well as Silicon and sensor development for HoloLens, Xbox, and accessories. During his previous six-year tenure with IBM, Ilan was as a Distinguished Engineer and VP of Advanced Processor Design. In that role, he was responsible for development of all Power Architecture-based processors at IBM: server processor; embedded processors; and client-driven solutions (e.g., Xbox 360, Wii). Ilan joined IBM Haifa, Israel development laboratory in 2001, where he managed the IBM Microelectronics Infiniband activity. Prior to that, Ilan was a principal engineer and the manager of the architecture team in Intel Israel responsible for the definition of X86-based low-cost and low-power microprocessors, specifically the first Intel mobile processor in the Intel Centrino roadmap.
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Kelly Nojaim
RVP, North America Corporate Sales of Microsoft
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Ron Huddleston
CVP, Ecosystem of Microsoft
Ron Huddleston is the Corporate Vice President of MBS Partner Strategy and Ecosystem. He joined Microsoft on June 13th, 2016. As the leader of the “Partner Team Unit” (PTU), Ron is responsible for the transformation of our through Partner business, including recruiting and developing the premiere, industry leading partner ecosystem for Microsoft first and third party business applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ron was the Senior Vice President of Global ISV & Channels at salesforce.com where he is credited with developing “the AppExchange” – the world’s largest enterprise cloud marketplace. In this role, Ron led an organization responsible for cultivating and managing salesforce.com’s extensive and successful partner channel, with a focus on supporting cloud computing solutions on the salesforce platform. Ron joined salesforce.com in 2008, following more than a 13-year career at Oracle in channel development and direct sales management, with the last five years spent as the vice president of ISV and OEM sales. During his tenure, Ron grew the program to more than 2,000 North American-based OEMs and ISVs, and managed over $500 million in partner business. Ron has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family in his hometown of San Diego, surfing, and restoring classic cars.
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Fred Humphries
TitleCorporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs of Microsoft
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Gavriella Schuster
Corporate Vice President, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs of Microsoft
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Julie Brill
Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft
Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission on April 6, 2010. Since joining the Commission, Julie Brill has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech. Prior to becoming a Commissioner, Julie Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice. Commissioner Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s School of Law. Before serving as Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust in North Carolina, Commissioner Brill served as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years. Prior to coming to the Vermont Attorney General’s office, Commissioner Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. Commissioner Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.
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Andrew Shuman
Corporate Vice President – Products – Experiences and Devices Group of Microsoft
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David Rhew
Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare, Worldwide Commerical Business (WCB) of Microsoft
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Toni Townes-Whitley
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Kathleen Dollard
MVP in Microsoft Languages of Microsoft
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Phil Japikse
MVP of Microsoft
He is a Chief Technology Officer at Pintas & Mullins Law Firm. An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 30 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil is co-author of best selling “C# and the .NET 4.6 Framework” (http://bit.ly/pro_csharp) and “Pro C# 7” (http://bit.ly/pro_csharp7), the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (http://www.cinnug.org) and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosts the Hallway Conversations podcast (http://www.hallwayconversations.com), founded the Cincinnati Day of Agile (http://www.dayofagile.org), and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. Phil is also a published author with LinkedIn Learning (https://www.lynda.com/Phil-Japikse/7908546-1.html). During the day, Phil works as an Enterprise Consultant and Agile Coach for large to medium firms throughout the US. Phil enjoys to learn new tech and is always striving to improve his craft. You can follow Phil on twitter via http://www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at http://www.skimedic.com/blog.
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Kathleen Hall
CVP of Brand, Global Advertising and Research of Microsoft
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Phil Japikse
MVP of Microsoft
He is a Chief Technology Officer at Pintas & Mullins Law Firm. An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 30 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil is co-author of best selling “C# and the .NET 4.6 Framework” (http://bit.ly/pro_csharp) and “Pro C# 7” (http://bit.ly/pro_csharp7), the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (http://www.cinnug.org) and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosts the Hallway Conversations podcast (http://www.hallwayconversations.com), founded the Cincinnati Day of Agile (http://www.dayofagile.org), and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. Phil is also a published author with LinkedIn Learning (https://www.lynda.com/Phil-Japikse/7908546-1.html). During the day, Phil works as an Enterprise Consultant and Agile Coach for large to medium firms throughout the US. Phil enjoys to learn new tech and is always striving to improve his craft. You can follow Phil on twitter via http://www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at http://www.skimedic.com/blog.
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Mark Minasi
Directory Services MVP of Microsoft
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Kathleen Hall
CVP of Brand, Global Advertising and Research of Microsoft
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Lenni Lobel
Data Platform MVP of Microsoft
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Richard Borenstein
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of MURAL
Richard Borenstein is the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and is responsible for accelerating MURAL’s revenue growth and market penetration, forming deep, integrated partnerships with enterprise brands, and leading a highly skilled sales team bringing visual collaboration to the enterprise collaboration toolkit. A SaaS veteran with a passion for recruiting and team building, Richard has built an extensive, worldwide executive network and has a proven track record of creating mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships. He recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), where he led the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Previously, he held sales management positions at RingCentral, Zong (acquired by PayPal), Baynote Inc., and Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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Greg Schott
EVP, Emerging API Initiatives of Salesforce
Greg Schott is the EVP of Emerging API Initiatives at Salesforce. Prior to that, Greg served as the chairman and CEO of MuleSoft Inc. He holds an MBA degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BS in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.
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Elizabeth Pinkham
EVP, Global Real Estate of Salesforce
Elizabeth Pinkham is the EVP, Global Real Estate at Salesforce.
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Judith Platz
Senior Vice President, Service Cloud Support of Salesforce
Judith Platz brings over 25 years of in-depth customer support experience to TSIA. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President of the Global Customer Success team for Approva Corporation. Judith was responsible for supervising & coordinating multiple functional, strategic, organizational development & technical work streams, including Technical Support, Account Management, Business Consulting, implementation management, and Training. Judith developed and nurtured a world-class professional services, support & training culture. She led the recruitment and motivation of a talented management team & staff. She led her team to three consecutive TSIA STAR Awards. Prior to Approva, she spent seven years at Oracle in a number of critical customer service positions where she led a team that developed and implemented customer confidence programs focused on increasing customer satisfaction and retention for highly complex global accounts. In this role, she was recognized by the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) for her sustained efforts advocating on their behalf and educating and communicating with the Oracle user community. Judith brings significant systems integration and operations experience to TSIA. Prior to her tenure at Oracle, Judith worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she supervised support operations across three continents and developed and implemented information technology standards to achieve quality improvements. Judith also has extensive experience in computerized learning in both the public and commercial sectors.
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Ben Brantly
VP of Product of Salesforce
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Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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Clarence So
EVP of Salesforce
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Adam Gilberd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales of Salesforce
Adam is Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce. In his eight years at the company, Gilberd has served in a variety of sales leadership roles, across multiple customer segments in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets.
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Jessica Ross
EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer of Salesforce
Jessica Ross is the EVP of Finance and Chief Transformation Officer at Salesforce.
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Bill Patterson
EVP & GM, CRM Applications of Salesforce
Bill Patterson is an EVP and General Manager, CRM Applications at Salesforce.
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Lynne Zaledonis
Executive Vice President, Industry Marketing of Salesforce
Lynne is a former Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce who helps drive product marketing and sales enablement for Sales Cloud, the world’s leading sales app.
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Lidiane Jones
Executive VP, Commerce Cloud GM of Salesforce
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Pascal Yammine
Senior Vice President & General Manager Salesforce CPQ + Billing of Salesforce
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Robin Glinton
SVP & Data Intelligence of Salesforce
Robin Glinton is the SVP & Data Intelligence at Salesforce.
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Tyler Prince
Executive Vice President – Worldwide Alliances & Channels of Salesforce
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Sherrick Murdoff
Vice President, Partner Investments of Salesforce
Sherrick Murdoff is the Board Observer of AllCloud.
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Thimaya Subaiya
SVP, Marketing & Operations of Salesforce
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Liam Doyle
Senior Vice President Product Management and GM, MuleSoft Composer of Salesforce
Senior Vice President Product Management, MuleSoft at Salesforce.
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Michael Peachey
Senior Vice President & Global Marketing of Salesforce
Michael Peachey is the SVP & Global Marketing at Salesforce.
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John Carney
Senior Vice President and GM for Global Telecom and Media of Salesforce
John Carney oversees all aspects of Motorola’s Mobile Devices global sales operations. Prior to joining Motorola Mobility, John most recently was at Sprint Nextel, where he was senior vice president of Consumer Marketing. During his three years with Sprint Nextel, John delivered 10 consecutive quarters of year-over-year customer growth and led a customer retention turnaround via a multi-billion consumer marketing effort. Prior to working at Sprint Nextel, John was president and CEO for wireless carrier Affinity Mobile, a private equity-backed start-up, which he helped build and launch in the U.S. and where he built a customer list from scratch. Before joining Affinity, John spent nearly a decade at T-Mobile USA, where he ran the sales organization. John was responsible for building out T-Mobile’s retail network (opening more than 1,000 stores), and had revenue accountability for tens of billions of dollars. John is a Chicago-area native and will be based in Libertyville after relocating from Kansas City. John holds an MBA in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s in Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Rob Garf
VP of Industry Strategy & Insights, Retail and Consumer Goods of Salesforce
Rob Garf is VP of Industry Strategy and Insights and the Chair of the Client Advisory Board at Salesforce Commerce. With 25 years of global retail experience as a practitioner (Lids, Marshalls, Hit or Miss), an industry analyst (AMR Research), a strategy consultant (IBM), and a software leader (Salesforce), he is no stranger to the industry and the challenges retailers face. He currently guides product strategy, develops industry research, and advises senior executives globally on unified commerce strategies. Rob is also a frequent industry speaker and a member of NRF’s Digital Council.
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