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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 Information 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.
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Chuck Stevens
Executive Vice President and CFO of General Motors
Chuck Stevens was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors effective Jan. 15, 2014. Stevens is responsible for leading the company’s financial and accounting operations on a global basis. Stevens was previously CFO of GM North America since January 2010. He led GM’s financial operations for U.S. Sales, Service and Marketing, GM Canada, GM de Mexico, North America Manufacturing, Customer Care and Aftersales, and OnStar. He was also interim CFO of GM South America from December 2011 to January 2013.
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About General Motors: General Motors manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications of General Motors
Tony Cervone was named senior vice president, Global Communications, in May 2014. As GM’s top communications executive, he is responsible for the company’s overall global communications strategy. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and a senior advisor to CEO Mary Barra. Prior to his current position, Cervone served since 2011 as executive vice president of Group Communications for Volkswagen Group of America in Herndon, Va., where he revamped the company’s communications activities for its VW and Audi brands. From 2009 to 2011, Cervone was senior vice president and chief communications officer for United Airlines in Chicago, where he helped manage the company’s eventual merger with Continental Airlines. From 1999 to 2009, Cervone worked at GM in several senior communications positions of increasing responsibility. From 1999 to 2000, Cervone was executive director of Corporate Communications, responsible for media relations, issues management and labor and employee communications. From 2001 to 2003, he served as executive director of Executive and Financial Communications; from 2003 to 2006, vice president of GM Europe Communications; from 2006 to 2007, vice president of GM North America Communications; and from 2007 to 2009, vice president of Global Communications Strategy and Operations. In 2000, Cervone served for a short period as vice president of Chrysler Group Communications for DaimlerChrysler AG in Auburn Hills, Mich. From 1985 to 1999, Cervone worked at Chrysler Corp. – which became DaimlerChrysler AG – in virtually every aspect of auto industry communications, from product and technology to supplier and crisis communications. He managed pre- and post-merger communications related to the merger of Chrysler and Daimler-Benz. Cervone has a bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts from Central Michigan University where he majored in Journalism, with Business Administration and Advertising minors. He completed the General Motors Senior Executive Program in 2003. Cervone is a member of the Arthur Page Society, the Public Relations Society of America and The Seminar. He is a board member of Detroit Public Television (DPTV), The LaGrant Foundation and serves on the Advisory Council for the Department of Communication at the College of Charleston. He is a former trustee of The Institute for Public Relations, and former board member of the Automotive Press Association and the Ad Council. Cervone was also named one of the 2014 Automotive News All-Stars.
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About General Motors: General Motors manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
Michael Wheeler
EVP – Global IP Network of NTT Communications
Michael Wheeler is the Executive Vice President of Global IP Network at NTT America, , a subsidiary of NTT Communications. Michael is responsible for all financial, engineering, operational and customer relationship activities for the Global IP Network (GIN) business unit. Prior to his current role, Michael led the GIN sales and business development organization, including direct sales, account management, indirect channel sales, sales engineering, marketing, product management and business development activities. Michael was part of the original start up team with Verio in 1997, where he led several different sales organizations. Michael transitioned to a leadership role at NTT America following the acquisition of Verio by NTT America’s parent company, NTT Communications, in August of 2000. Michael earned his B.A. degree from Northwest University.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Michael Perone
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
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About 345 Partners, Opensense, Switch9, Inc.: Everyday email, evolved.
Kieran Boyle
VP of Product & Engineering of Opensense
Kieran Boyle is the VP of Product & Engineering at Opensense
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Bobby Narang
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
Bobby co-founded SenderGen in 2013, where he led sales and marketing for the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where he serves as co-founder and VP, Sales. Prior to SenderGen, Bobby was sales lead at Intralinks (NYSE: IL), where he was responsible for sales to the largest firms in the financial services industry, as well as selling directly into the C-Suite at firms within the Fortune 1000. As a highlight, In 2013, Bobby secured Intralinks first full enterprise agreement at a major investment bank in New York, marking a significant win for the organization. Prior to Intralinks, was in sales at Yext, where he was responsible for generating new business within a dozen different SMB verticals. Additionally, he served in a Business Development role where he successfully spearheaded the launch of six new vertical-focused product lines. Bobby has a passion for evangelizing cutting-edge technology solutions that disrupt “the old way of doing things.” Bobby holds a BSBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University.
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Dante Gaudio
SVP of Revenue and Media Strategy of Healthline Media
Dante has been with Healthline for over 8 years, leading the sales team of the fastest growing health site. Dante has a long running passion for Healthcare marketing, having led sales efforts for the pharmaceutical and other health related verticals at The New York Times and the Meredith Corporation. His other passions include cooking, staying healthy and surfing.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Stephen Schmidt
VP & Chief Information Security Officer of Amazon Web Services
Stephen Schmidt is a VP & Chief Information Security Officer at Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Deepak Singh
Vice President, Compute Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President and General Manager, Amazon S3 of Amazon Web Services
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is the Vice President and General Manager of Amazon S3, the object storage service of Amazon Web Services. Mai-Lan has been on Amazon Web Services since 2010. During her tenure at Amazon Web Services, Mai-Lan has also been General Manager of AWS computing services, such as Amazon Simple Workflow, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Wilson
VP/Distinguished Engineer of Amazon Web Services
Matt Wilson is a vice president, distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services, which he joined as a principal systems engineer for the kernel and operating system team. Perviously, he was the chief architect and a founding engineer at rPath, where he codesigned and coauthored Conary, a software version control system, making building and maintaining complex software systems with multiple versions and interdependencies possible. He was responsible for the technical quality of rPath’s products and was instrumental in identifying the needs and solutions for rPath’s most important customers. As one of the first three employees, he had his hands in a little bit of everything at the company. Matt also was the manager of the base operating system team at Red Hat, which he joined as a part time programmer and ended up there full time. His first programming assignment was the maintenance and feature enhancement of the system installer. He was one of the original authors of Anaconda, the installation system used by Red Hat today. As a senior engineer, he lead the team of developers responsible for Anaconda. Matt represented Red Hat as a member of the Linux Standard Base Specification working group. Outside of work, Matt is active in the Linux and free/open source software community. He’s been a member of the Programme Committee of the annual Linux Symposium, traditionally held in Ottawa, Canada, each year. He also served on the board of directors for the Software Freedom Conservancy. The conservancy is a 501©(3) organization providing administrative and financial services to free and open source software projects including Samba, Boost, and jQuery.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Wood
Vice President of Amazon Web Services
Matt Wood works at Amazon Web Services, pulling from over a decade of expertise in distributed systems, architecture, web-scale analytics, big data, machine learning and high performance computing to help customers bring their ideas to life through technology. After medical school, Dr. Wood completed his PhD in machine learning and bioinformatics, joined Cornell as a research fellow, and contributed to the next generation DNA sequencing platform at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Since joining Amazon Web Services in early 2010, he has played a role in introducing many significant new features and services to customers on the AWS Cloud, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Machine Learning.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Swami Sivasubramanian
VP, Amazon AI of Amazon Web Services
Swami Sivasubramanian works as a GM and Architect in Amazon Web Services where he builds large scale cloud computing platforms and also manages different groups within AWS Database services. Swami has built several large scale systems in the past. Some of the well known ones include Amazon Dynamo, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon RDS (including the replication engine for RDS that does synchronous replication with automated failover). He also wrote a major part of the Amazon’s distributed lock service that is used as a foundational building block for various Amazon service infrastructure. Swami obtained his Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from the Computer Systems Group headed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. Swami has authored more than 40 refereed journals and conference papers. He also holds more than 10 patents and has more than 60 pending patent applications. He also serves in program committees of different ACM/USENIX/IEEE conferences, and also as guest editors for different IEEE/ACM magazines.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
John Brigden
VP, AWS Managed Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Steve Rabuchin
VP, AWS World Wide Revenue Operations of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Alex Smola
Distinguished Scientist / VP of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Bill Vass
VP Engineering of Amazon Web Services
Bill Vass is the VP Engineering of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Bob Barron
Senior Vice President of Sales, GameTime of GameTime
Bob Barron is a senior-level sales and marketing professional with more than 23 years of experience managing dynamic sales teams. His experience includes working with industry leaders and Fortune 100 companies to develop global distribution networks. Bob is currently responsible for managing all domestic and international sales activities for GameTime and is also part of the PlayCore operating committee. He is an active member of several industry organizations and is a strong advocate for building better communities through play..
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About GameTime: GameTime is a leading commercial playground equipment manufacturer, located in Alabama.
Bill Cox
Vice President of Finance, GameTime of GameTime
Bill is experienced in operational reporting and control for multiple manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. As a member of GameTime’s senior management team, he is responsible for all financial activities and achievement of GameTime’s strategic goals.
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About GameTime: GameTime is a leading commercial playground equipment manufacturer, located in Alabama.
Nathan Winkel
VP Design of Merit
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About Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Sajeev Menon
AVP and Head Oracle Practice of Infosys
Sajeev Menon is an Associate Vice President at Infosys Ltd. . sajeev Menon is a successful executive and corporate officer track with deep experience in Sales, Delivery and Practice Management. Managed revenue of over $150M with a TCV of over $400M, and lead a team of over 120 consultants. Sajeev Menon is highly experienced in selling services in all the Oracle products including Oracle ebusiness, Peoplesoft, JDE, Seibel, Oracle fusion and Oracle edge products. Excellent general management and leadership experience, strong communication and team-building skills; and the ability to generate significant growth. Sold complex global programs and projects, lead sales and business development, established and grew Oracle partnerships to deliver planned goals. Strong communicator who fosters team work, partnerships and collaboration.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Nitesh Bansal
Senior Vice President and Global Head Engineering Services of Infosys
Nitesh is passionate about bridging the physical-digital divide, advocating AI, machine learning and process automation to amplify business value. He has worked with numerous clients helping them understand ways to leverage Industry 4.0 and IoT technologies leading to digitization and improvements in manufacturing operations, and effectively use servitization for new revenue models. Nitesh is also responsible for leading the innovation charter for Infosys and has a core group of researchers who focus on technology trends and their intersection with business value. This group works on Horizon 3 and Horizon 2 technologies and has been responsible for launching services like Autonomous Technologies, Additive Manufacturing, Software Defined Networking and 5G, that have now become mainstream. One of the key focus areas for Nitesh has been to drive value through transformation of networks – going from significantly hardware based to software based systems. He is actively involved in helping both network providers and enterprises to identify and drive value through technology transformations. Nitesh is on the Executive Supplier Advisory Board (E-SAB) of Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He is a regular speaker at recognized business schools and also a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Tauber Institute of Global Operations as well as Ross School of Business at University of Michigan.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Benoy Ojha
VP Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services of Infosys
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Anant Adya
Senior Vice President and Head (Cloud, Infra and Security) of Infosys
Anant Adya is SVP and Head of Sales and Engagements for Cloud, Infrastructure and Security (CIS). CIS helps customers in their Digital Journey through combination of AI led solutions combined with capabilities from partner and startup ecosystem.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Stephen DE
Associate Vice President & Portfolio Head – Financial Services of Infosys
Stephen Sanjay D. E. is the Delivery Manager of Independent Validation and Testing Services at Infosys since January 2014. Stephen has over 15 years of IT experience. Stephen currently heads IVS – Tools, IP and Service offerings (TIPS) unit, specializing in testing solutions and COEs such as Automation Testing, Performance Testing, Data Warehouse Testing (DWT) and Test Data Management. Previously, Stephen was Senior Sales Manager of FSI Asia at Infosys Limited. Stephen has successfully ideated and managed organization-wide testing solutions. Stephen founded test- related forums and local chapters that inculcate in-depth testing knowledge. Stephen co-created and delivered multiple tools that created value improved testing efficiency. Prior to Infosys Limited, Stephen was Manager of User Centered Design and Business Architecture at Vanguard. Stephen earned his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bharathiar University.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Danette Seward
Vice President Global Alliances of Infosys
As Vice President for Infosys’ Global Enterprise Alliances, Danette has direct responsibility for partnerships with Microsoft, SAP, Adobe, IBM and Oracle. Leading a team of highly specialized business alliance managers she helps clients and partners embark on a journey of digital transformation with Infosys at the center of their IT and business needs. She has the unique opportunity to work directly with clients and partners across the globe to empower them to achieve more together. Danette has been a strong advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace throughout her career. Over the past 3 decades she has created gloal communities to connect women to support each other and learn together through trust and shared accountability. She has a passion for mentoring women that have chosen career goals in the IT industry, both technical and non-technical, particularly in a global capacity.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Ashok Vemuri
Senior VP, Banking and Capital Markets of Infosys
Ashok Vemuri is a Member of the Executive Council and Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Banking and Capital Markets (BCM) group. He is also a member of the Board of Infosys Consulting Inc. Ashok joined Infosys in 1999 and has performed multiple leadership roles. Earlier, he was the Head of Infosys’ Canada and Eastern North America Region. As a member of the Executive Council, Ashok plays a significant role in defining the company’s strategic direction and is also responsible for business operations in the Americas. Ashok holds a degree in Physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi, and a degree in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. source: [Infosys Management Profiles](http://www.infosys.com/about/management-profiles/ashok-vemuri.asp)
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About Conduent, Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Viv Goldstein
Vice President of Bionic
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About Bionic: Bionic ignites growth revolutions within the world’s largest companies as they face disruption.
Jason Hubbard
VP of Growth of SalesIntel
Jason Hubbard is the VP of growth at SalesIntel.io and the VP of marketing at CircleBack, Inc. He is also the CEO and founder of YourGrowthExpert. Prior to that, Jason was the VP of marketing at Cirruspath.
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About Cirruspath, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Todd Hyatt
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Todd Hyatt is executive vice president and chief financial officer of IHS Markit. Todd served in those same roles at IHS after previously serving as chief information officer, senior vice president of FP&A, and leading the finance organization for the company’s engineering segment. He also worked for LoneTree Capital, US WEST/MediaOne, AT&T, Arthur Young and Arthur Andersen. He holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in management from Purdue University.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Leslie
Senior Vice President of IHS Markit
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jonathan Gear
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit
Jonathan Gear is president of resources, transportation and CMS for IHS Markit, including business lines supporting the automotive, energy, chemicals, maritime and aerospace industries. Earlier, he served in multiple senior vice president positions and as president/COO of IHS CERA. Jonathan previously held leadership positions at Activant Solutions, smarterwork.com and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Sari Granat
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of IHS Markit
Sari Granat is executive vice president and general counsel at IHS Markit, responsible for the company’s legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs, enterprise risk and information security functions. Prior to joining Markit in 2012, Sari was lead counsel and chief administrative officer of TheMarkets.com LLC. She has served in senior legal and strategy positions at media and technology companies including Dow Jones & Company and Kaplan, Inc. Sari holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Laurel Hesch
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Operations of Arcesium
Laurel Hesch is a Senior Vice President and the Head of Business Operations for Arcesium. Prior to the formation of Arcesium, Laurel spent 11 years with the D. E. Shaw group in roles within the firm’s Treasury, Finance, and Operations departments. She also served as Head of Management Reporting for the D. E. Shaw group.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Arjun Pillai
SVP, Products and Growth of ZoomInfo
Arjun Pillai is the SVP, Products and Growth at ZoomInfo.
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About Datachain Inc, ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Santosh Sharan
VP of Growth & Strategy of ZoomInfo
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About ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo provides accurate and actionable B2B contact and company information to accelerate the growth of sales and marketing teams.
Steven Vine
EVP, Corporate Development & General Counsel of Zeta Global
Steven Vine has been Executive Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions and General Counsel of Zeta Interactive Corporation since 2013. Vine served as an EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT of Zeta Interactive Corporation. He served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at PulsePoint, Inc. (formerly Datran Media Corp). Vine was responsible for managing consumer privacy commitment as well as government and industry relations. Where he led PulsePoint through multiple acquisitions and the transformation of its business into a leading RTB and Content Marketing platform. He joined Datran Media from Register.com, where he served as Deputy General Counsel with responsibility for oversight of the legal department and industry relations. He also serviced as an active Leader in ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Prior to Register.com, Vine served as a Corporate Associate at the law firm Kaye Scholer, LLP, where he managed mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions and other general corporate matters. Vine holds a BA from Tufts University and JD from New York University.
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
David Schey
SVP CX/Strategy & Analytics of Zeta Global
David Schey, Zeta’s Senior VP of Customer Experience, has over 18 years of experience consulting Fortune 1,000 companies on optimizing marketing and CRM programs, within both digital and offline channels. Most recently, David served as Vice President/Group Director of Strategy and Analytics at DigitasLBi, where he led the S&A CRM practice. He has held leadership positions at Digitas, Merkle and Epsilon. Throughout his career, David has worked with a variety of national and global brands including PepsiCo, Pfizer, Unilever, Kraft, Tesco, Samsung, Comcast, The Limited, Urban Outfitters, T.J.Maxx, Toys “R” Us and Bed Bath & Beyond, to plan, measure and optimize CRM campaigns. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Rutgers University.
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Tom Walsh
EVP, Zeta Labs of Zeta Global
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Manish Pandey
Vice President R&D of Synopsys
Manish Pandey is a Fellow at Synopsys, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently leads the R&D teams for Machine Learning and Systems, Formal Verification and Power Analysis at Synopsys. He previously led the development of several static and formal verification technologies at Verplex and Cadence. He also has extensive experience in distributed systems and computing infrastructure, leading the display advertising security group at Yahoo, and storage analytics systems at Nutanix. Dr. Pandey has been the recipient of the IEEE Transaction in CAD Outstanding author award, and holds over two dozen patents and referred publications. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Manoj Gandhi
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group at Synopsys of Synopsys
Manoj Gandhi joined Synopsys with the company’s merger with Viewlogic in December 1997. In his current position, Mr. Gandhi and his organization are responsible for Synopsys’ verification solutions, including simulation, testbench automation, hybrid formal verification, and system level design. Mr. Gandhi has over 15 years of HDL simulation and verification experience having begun his EDA career at Gateway Design Automation in 1986. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Burkhard Huhnke
Vice President of Synopsys
In his role as vice-president at Volkswagen’s North American Engineering and Planning Center (EPC), Burkhard Huhnke encourages innovation in the market, builds relationships with national R&D organisations and liaises with universities. Huhnke previously served as head of Product Engineering at VW’s Chattanooga plant, leading the product engineering teams for the Passat and mid-sized SUV projects. From 2006 to 2011 he was executive director of VW’s Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. His other achievements include helping to initiate the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Center (VAIL) at Stanford University and leading the Autonomous Car Project: Volkswagen Passat Junior.
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About Synopsys, Volkswagen Group: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Jim Ivers
Vice President, Marketing, Software Integrity Group of Synopsys
Jim Ivers leads all aspects of Cigital’s global marketing strategies, branding initiatives and programs, as well as product management and product marketing. Jim is a 30-year technology veteran who has spent the last ten years in IT security. Prior to Cigital, Jim was the CMO at companies such as Covata, Triumfant, Vovici, and Cybertrust, a $200M security solutions provider that was sold to Verizon Business. Jim also served as VP of Marketing for webMethods and VP of Product Management for Information Builders.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Jean-Christophe Hermann
EVP, global retailing & consumer goods of Valtech
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About Valtech: Valtech is a pioneering company in the technology and digital space, listed on Euronext in Paris.
Tim Steele
VP, Commerce of Valtech
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About Valtech: Valtech is a pioneering company in the technology and digital space, listed on Euronext in Paris.
Brian Lobdell
Vice President of Lead Edge Capital
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Steven Bertoni
Vice President & Senior Editor of Forbes
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About Forbes: Forbes, featuring articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics.
Christopher Guenther
SVP, Global Head of Programmatic of News Corp
SVP, Global Head of Programmatic at News Corp.
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About ArcSpan Technologies, News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Joel Klein
EVP – Office of the Chairman of News Corp
Joel, an education visionary and proven leader of change, was former chief executive officer at Amplify. Joel was chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, where he oversaw a system of 1.1 million students and 136,000 employees. While there he led systemwide transformations that resulted in significant improvement in student performance. Under Joel’s leadership, high school graduation rates in the city rose 20 points—an increase of more than 40 percent.
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About News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Deborah Brewster
Senior Vice President (Strategy); and Head of Initiatives of News Corp
Deborah Brewster is Senior Vice President (Strategy), and Head of Initiatives at News Corp, which includes developing News Corp’s businesses as well as building and acquiring new digital businesses. Before this, she was Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal.
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About News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Goutam Nadella
EVP of Client Solutions of Symphony Communication Services
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About Symphony Communication Services: Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform.
Lawrence Johnson
SVP & Head of Fintech Engagement of Morningstar
Lawrence Johnson is head of Retirement Plan Intelligence solutions for Morningstar, a business intelligence and data preparation platform focused on the institutional retirement space. Johnson joined Morningstar following the acquisition of RightPond in March 2016. Johnson also leads Morningstar’s global financial technology outreach initiatives, working to strengthen the firm’s leadership role with world-class emerging growth companies and organizations fostering innovation in software, data management, business intelligence, and user experience in the financial services sector. Before joining Morningstar, Johnson was the CEO of RightPond. He has also successfully led a number of emerging companies in the data mining, analytics, and digital marketing spaces. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Johnson practiced law in the area of securities and technology law. He began his career at IBM. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a law degree from the Université de Montréal. He is a member in good standing of the California Bar.
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About Morningstar: Morningstar provides independent investment research to investors worldwide.
Dave Costenaro
VP of Artificial Intelligence R&D and Chief Data Officer of Capacity
Dave Costenaro is Head of Artificial Intelligence Design at Jane.ai and a Co-Founder and Technical Director at Prepare.ai.
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About Capacity, Prepare.ai: Capacity is an AI-powered helpdesk that automates support for customers and employees.
Andy Rahden
VP of Creative | Design | Engineering of Pluralsight
Nothing gets Shmoop’s esteemed head honcho Andy Rahden pumped up quite like digital learning and educational technology. Before hopping aboard the Shmoop train, Andy was the Vice President of the Pluralsight Creative, Design, and Engineering business unit. Armed with his passion for democratizing education, Andy built teams at Pluralsight from the ground up to forge strategic partnerships and create a world-class customer experience. Since his early days as a Mechanical Engineer at Baker Hughes, Andy has always enjoyed building things, from mechanical stress tests to Marvel-worthy teams of super-employees. Prior to Pluralsight, Andy made his way as an all-rounder at Autodesk, where he directed sales teams through all elements of improving customer experience. He has also worked for the largest SolidWorks reseller, where he provided in-person training, worked with customers on implementation, and provided guidance to companies transforming their design process.
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About Pluralsight, Pluralsight, Shmoop: Pluralsight is a technology learning platform for software developers, IT admins, and creative professionals.
James W. Cox
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Fiserv
James W. Cox is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Fiserv, Inc., responsible for driving the company’s merger, acquisition and divestiture strategy. Cox rejoined Fiserv in this role in 2017, having previously served in this role from 2006 through 2013. Cox has led the company through acquisitions that have driven differentiation in key solution areas and expanded its capabilities and scale, as well as divestitures that aligned the company with its strategic objectives. Key acquisitions he has spearheaded include CheckFree Corporation, Open Solutions, Inc. and CashEdge, each of which furthered the company’s delivery of solutions in step with the way people live and work today. Previously, Cox served as EVP, Group President of Fiserv Health Solutions. He joined Fiserv in 2001 through the acquisition of Trewit and has 30 years of financial services experience. Prior to joining Fiserv, Cox was managing partner of Lund Koehler Cox & Arkema, LLP, now part of Baker Tilley Virchow Krause. While a practicing CPA, Cox frequently advised clients on their merger and acquisition programs. Cox earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Minnesota and practiced as a licensed CPA until 2000.
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Jason Blumenkrantz
Vice President of Engineering of Fiserv
Jason Blumenkrantz is the VP Engineering at Fiserv
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Shuchi Mittal
VP Technology Delivery Transformation of Fiserv
Shuchi manages the cloud enablement team at Fiserv, with a focus on Developer Enablement. The team partners with development teams within Fiserv to both transform existing applications or develop new cloud-native services. Shuchi has developed applications using various technology stacks, and has led multiple application transformations for Fiserv.
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Dan Myers
Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking Solutions of Fiserv
Dan Myers is chief executive officer and founder of Online Banking Solutions (OBS). As a successful entrepreneur and 30-year industry veteran, Myers helped define the cash management space and developed cash management software that is still being used by financial institutions nearly 30 years later. At OBS, Myers provides development and management experience relevant to financial software innovation and proven strategies for commercial banking. Prior to founding OBS, he founded Magnet Communications, Inc. in 1996, the first company to use the Internet’s technology and networking capabilities to provide cash management services to the banking industry. Magnet became one of the most successful Internet-based cash management solutions providers as evidenced by its product depth, prestigious customer base and Myers’ nomination to the regional E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. Having led the company to market success, he left Magnet in 2002 and started OBS, which has now developed the next generation of products and services for the banking industry. Before founding Magnet, Myers established Interactive Technology Corporation (ITC) in 1980. The cash management software developed by ITC became the industry’s predominant system, serving the needs of more than 200 banks worldwide. Myers remained president of his original organization through mergers with DISC, a Baltimore, Md.-based provider of financial software for domestic and international financial institutions and corporations. During his tenure, the DISC Access product evolved from an interactive TTY product to a multi-channel, multi-client solution capable of operating on several hardware platforms. Myers was also the development manager for National Data Corporation in the 1970s, where he was responsible for the industry’s first electronic systems linking banks with their business customers for data exchange, information reporting and transaction initiation services. Close
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Robert Hau
EVP, CFO of Fiserv
Robert (Bob) Hau is Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Fiserv, Inc. and provides oversight for all financial functions of the company. Hau has nearly 30 years of experience in business and financial leadership roles. Prior to joining Fiserv, he was executive vice president and chief financial officer of TE Connectivity Ltd., a $12 billion global product technology company. At TE Connectivity, Hau was responsible for developing and implementing financial strategy, as well as creating the financial infrastructure necessary to drive the company’s financial direction, vision and compliance initiatives. Previously, Hau served as chief financial officer for Lennox International Inc. Hau also spent 22 years at Honeywell International Inc. in a variety of progressive financial and operations leadership roles, including serving as chief financial officer of its Aerospace Business Group, Specialty Materials Business Group and Aerospace Electronic Systems Unit. Hau holds a master’s degree in business administration from the USC Marshall School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Marquette University.
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Ken Owens
Vice President Cyber Cloud Security Engineering of Fiserv
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Andrew Davies
VP, Global Market Strategy, Financial Crime Risk Management of Fiserv
Andy is a software developer working at Lindorff Oy, helping provide their online payment solution. He likes talking about Strong Typing, EventSourcing, and MicroServices (and how you shouldn’t). He particularly enjoys making other developers lives easier, and automates pretty much anything he touches. He blogs sometimes at https://andydote.co.uk, and has a compulsion to continue his open source commit streak, which has been going since 14th October 2013. He is the author of gulp-dotcover-runner on NPM, and Stronk, NScientist, RabbitHarness and KickOff on Nuget.org.
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Andrew Davies
VP, Global Market Strategy, Financial Crime Risk Management of Fiserv
Andy is a software developer working at Lindorff Oy, helping provide their online payment solution. He likes talking about Strong Typing, EventSourcing, and MicroServices (and how you shouldn’t). He particularly enjoys making other developers lives easier, and automates pretty much anything he touches. He blogs sometimes at https://andydote.co.uk, and has a compulsion to continue his open source commit streak, which has been going since 14th October 2013. He is the author of gulp-dotcover-runner on NPM, and Stronk, NScientist, RabbitHarness and KickOff on Nuget.org.
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About Fiserv: Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.
Patrick O’Malley
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Seagate Technology
Patrick O’Malley assumed the role of EVP & CFO effective August 25, 2008. In his previous role of SVP Finance & Treasurer, he was responsible for Corp. Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Credit & Collections and Risk Management along with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and support for our Business Unit GMs, Sales & other functions. In October 2005, he returned to Finance from the Sales Organization where he coordinated the Company’s activities surrounding the Consumer Electronics market as the SVP, Consumer Electronics Business Development from January 2004. O’Malley joined Seagate in 1988 & has held various management roles within the Finance organization including Manager of Consolidation & Cost Accounting, Director of Finance – Corporate FP&A, Sr. Director of Finance for Oklahoma City Operations, Sr. Director of Finance for Desktop Design, VP of Finance for Recording Media Operations & SVP of Finance for Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Seagate, he spent four years as a Sr. Staff Accountant for Arthur Young & Co. O’Malley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1984).
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About Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
B.S. Teh
Senior Vice President of Sales & Sales Operations of Seagate Technology
B.S. Teh is senior vice president of global sales and sales operations. He is responsible for Seagate’s worldwide sales and field marketing, with a focus on driving scale and breadth in customer and market coverage. Teh joined Seagate in 1989 as a field customer engineer. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with the company across multiple functions in California, Singapore and Shanghai, including sales, marketing, business operations and field technical support. Most recently, he was senior vice president of Asia-Pacific sales and marketing, based in Singapore. Teh holds an MBA from the University of South Australia and an EE degree from the National University of Singapore.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
John Grieci
Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Jason Feist
Vice President of Engineering of Seagate Technology
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Joy Nyberg
Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Internal Communications of Seagate Technology
Joy Nyberg is responsible for leading Seagate’s global human resources efforts, including: compensation and benefits, leadership and learning, staffing and on-boarding, HR central transaction centers, HR compliance, internal communications and community engagement. Prior to joining Seagate in 2007, Nyberg was vice president of Compensation and Benefits at Maxtor Corporation. She has also held senior HR positions at KLA-Tencor and ESL/TRW. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Tiffany Riley
VP Marketing of Kitman Labs
Tiffany Riley is the vice president of marketing at Kitman Labs.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Nik Reed
SVP Product, R&D and Design of Knowable
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About Knowable, Ravel Law: Knowable provides legal services.
Zenobia Godschalk
SVP, Communications of Hedera Hashgraph
Founder and Chairwoman of ZAG Communications. Seed investor and SVP Comms, Hedera Hashgraph. Seed investor in Swirlds, Greenlight. Previously a sell-side analyst with Morgan Keegan, she was a member of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ranked Software Analyst team covering the security sector. Prior to that she served as head of corporate communications for Opsware Inc (NASDAQ: OPSW), founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, which was acquired by HP for $1.6B. This unique combination of experience allows her to advise CEOs, CFOs, marketing and IR departments on the latest industry trends and execute successful, tangible PR and IR programs.
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About Cloud Security Alliance, Hedera Hashgraph, ZAG Communications: Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
Sanjeev Khati
Vice President and Market Unit Lead of Tata Consultancy Services
Sanjeev Khati is the Vice President and Market Unit Lead and he is the former Head of Business Development for Banking and Financial Services USA at Tata Consultancy Services, Sanjeev is responsible for driving the unit’s business development vision, strategy and targets, leading the sales force to structure and shape deals that deliver value and sustainable outcomes for clients. Sanjeev also heads the Capital Markets Unit for TCS USA, responsible for guiding the development of client relationships, driving overall unit strategy, customer centric offering development and fostering industry partnerships. Sanjeev specializes in envisioning and delivering large scale Technology and Business change programs for clients in the Financial Services Industry. With more than 19 years of experience and a proven track record, he has overseen many large transformation programs encompassing Application and bespoke Software development, Package Implementations & Reengineering, Systems Integrations, Operations & Infrastructure Outsourcing and Consulting engagements for his clients. His work experience has spanned across clients from various industry sub segments viz. Payments, Core Banking, Wealth and Asset Management, Capital markets and Market Infrastructure firms. In his previous roles as Senior Client Partner, Sanjeev has led TCS’s relationship with some of the world’s largest investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, clearing houses and exchanges to deliver results in the areas of business planning and process optimization, business and IT architecture, application management, IT and Infrastructure outsourcing and business process outsourcing. Sanjeev is an avid business reader and golfer. He has a passion for sustainability and supports multiple non-profit organizations. He has completed an Executive Leadership Program from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, and he is based in New Jersey.
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About Tata Consultancy Services: Tata Consultancy Services is a multinational information technology services, business solutions and consulting company based in India.
Jagmeet Chawla
Chief Architect, VP/Global Head Of Architecture Office and Cloud Engineering of The Weather Company
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About The Weather Company: The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
Peter P. Neilley
SVP, Global Forecasting Services of The Weather Company
Dr. Neilley is responsible for the development and operation of TWC’s global forecasting operations. This includes the research and development of the next generation of forecasting technology and the management of operations at the forecasting centers in Atlanta, GA, Andover, MA, Birmingham UK and Dallas, TX. Before joining WSI, Dr. Neilley was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research., pursuing research and development interests in the fields of mesoscale weather forecasting, wind and turbulence forecasting, and automated weather forecasting using artificial intelligence techniques. Dr. Neilley is also the principle scientist in the development and operation of an automated weather forecasting system based on various applications of statistical and fuzzy-logic theory. The weather forecasting system is currently used to provide weather forecasts to millions around the globe daily as part of TWC’s core forecasting infrastructure. Dr. Neilley created and directed the forecasting research and development group at WSI whose accomplishments include the establishment of a numerical weather prediction group and the world’s first operational implementation of the WRF model as part of WSI’s RPM product line. Dr. Neilley received a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from McGill University, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at McGill University, he was named a University Scholar of Great Distinction. He was awarded the Jules Charney Memorial Scholarship at MIT. Dr. Neilley currently is the chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Analysis and Forecasting Committee, a member of NOAA’s NWS Science Advisory Board Environmental Information Services Working Group and a member of the National Academy of Science’s Transportation Research Board’s Surface Transportation Weather Committee.
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About The Weather Company, WSI Corporation: The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
DJ Reali
Senior Vice President, National Advertising Sales of The Weather Company
As head of industry sales, US and EMEA, for The Weather Company, an IBM Business, D.J. Reali leads the sales team’s efforts for the company as they develop data-driven, media and technology solutions as well as long-term initiatives to drive persistent growth among Weather’s largest accounts. Reali was named to this role for his developmental guidance and success with clients including Procter & Gamble, State Farm, Unilever, Kraft, Kellogg’s, GSK Consumer Healthcare, and Subaru, among others. His role includes helping the team build and manage relationships at the highest levels of Weather’s client and agency partnerships. He is closely involved in the development of the company’s ongoing selling strategy and has played key roles in crafting core sales initiatives, including the the digital NewFront, the cable Upfront, the company’s first ever “AllFront,” and product positioning for the company’s WEATHERfx data and analytics platform, JOURNEYfx platform, and Watson Ads cognitive offering. He previously served as senior vice president, agency partnership and development; senior vice president, multi-platform sales; and vice president and regional manager of Midwest advertising sales. Reali joined Weather in 2000. Reali’s career in media spans over 30 years and includes time on both the agency and media sales sides of the business. Before joining Weather, Reali was an account executive at HGTV. Prior to that, he was partner and group media director for J. Walter Thompson. He began his career as a media planner at Campbell-Mithun Advertising. Reali received a bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations from the University of North Dakota. He spends his time between the New York and Chicago offices of The Weather Company.
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About The Weather Company: The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
Steven Baker
VP Product Management of KORE Wireless
In his role at KORE, Steven leads product management in delivering KORE’s Licensed and Unlicensed IoT Connectivity Service offerings, Platform and Data Services, and Healthcare vertical solution enablement. Over his 30 year telecommunications career, Steven has specialized in wireless and optical network technologies and has filled individual and leadership roles spanning product management and marketing, sales and business development, and software engineering. Steven has authored multiple cellular and optical network patents during his career and holds a BA in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas.
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About KORE Wireless: KORE Wireless is a trusted advisor delivering mission-critical IoT solutions and services.
Ross Taylor
VP Software Engineering, Chief Architect of Quanergy Systems
As VP of Software Engineering and Chief Architectchief, Ross Taylor drives technology and architecture decisions across Quanergy’s business units to ensure that product development and execution is consistent with Quanergy’s overall strategy. Taylor has been developing LiDAR and robotics systems and software for more than 15 years. Prior to joining Quanergy, he worked primarily on NASA and DoD LiDAR programs including 3D inspection of the Space Shuttle, planetary rover navigation, and roadside change detection. In addition, he worked on robotics control problems including NASA’s Robonaut. Taylor has extensive project management experience and has played a key role in the development of Quanergy’s technical direction. Taylor received his Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas and his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana Tech University.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
Raj Bhullar
Vice President of Manufacturing, Quality & Reliability of Quanergy Systems
Raj Bhullar serves as vice president of manufacturing. Bhullar has responsibility for global manufacturing and operations activities, along with overseeing the company’s supply chain efficiencies and logistics strategies. In addition to establishing the supplier management and distribution operations for the company’s LiDAR sensors, he also manages IT. Most recently, Bhullar was the vice president of manufacturing for Ultimate Solutions Corporation where he was responsible for the management of the entire manufacturing process and engineering teams, along with the design and development of new products. He also served as director of manufacturing and operations at Vitesse Semiconductor where he organized the manufacturing process, equipment and labor to meet a 300% growth in sales. Bhullar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Technology from GND University.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
Michelle Wheeler
SVP, Consortium of Prove (formerly Payfone)
Michelle Wheeler brings more than 25 years of experience in the communications and financial services markets to XOR with deep experience in risk and analytics. Wheeler’s career has focused on enabling start-up companies to expand their business through direct and indirect sales and marketing. She is a CFCA Board member, long-term member of TRMA and has previously served on Utica College’s Economic Crime Institute board.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone): Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
David Berra
VP of Engineering of Prove (formerly Payfone)
David Berra is VP, software engineering at Payfone.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone): Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
Padmashree Koneti
VP of Business Planning of Puppet
As VP of Business Planning at Puppet, Padmashree is responsible driving business process innovation, strategic planning, and cross-functional growth and efficiency initiatives that enable Puppet to lead the way for pervasive infrastructure automation and cloud-native application delivery. After starting out as an engineer building enterprise application software close to 25 years ago, she evolved her career with roles in engineering management, product management, product operations, and most recently Business Planning. Padmashree’s approach to driving great business outcomes is based on her deep-rooted fascination for the intersections – be it x-functional collaboration, the handoff among disciplines within a team, or the confluence of people, process and technology. She is a strong advocate of the agile mindset, focusing on an iterative approach that is grounded in tight feedback loops. She is an expert at helping late stage startups scale while fostering a vibrant company culture.
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About Puppet, Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Jeffrey Feinstein
VP Global Analytic Strategy of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Debbie Atwell
Vice President, Public Records for Risk Solutions Business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Debbie Atwell is Vice President, Public Records for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this position, Atwell is responsible for managing the business between the risk and legal business units. This includes leveraging existing solutions and identifying new opportunities that would apply across these two business units. Prior to joining the risk solutions business, Atwell worked in the legal business in a variety of sales capacities, most recently leading the team who managed the Top 20 Customers for U.S. Legal Markets. She is a ten-time winner of the company’s Circle of Excellence sales award, and has been with LexisNexis for 16 years. Atwell earned her bachelor’s degree in Finance from Baldwin Wallace College and graduated Magna Cum Laude, and attended business school at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Bill Brower
Vice President, Claims Product Management of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Bill Brower serves as VP of claims product management at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
William Min
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
William Min is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel at LexisNexis.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Alpa Jain
Vice President, API Center of Excellence of Experian
Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support. Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America. Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Angela Granger
Vice President of Experian
Angela Granger is Vice President of Experian With over 20 years of experience in analytics, Angela Granger leads a team responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytical solutions which accelerate the profitable growth and market position of Experian clients. Since joining Experian in 1993, Granger has leveraged the latest statistical techniques in predictive modelling, data intelligence and business intelligence to maximise clients’ return on investment. She plays an instrumental role in analytics research and development, having participated in the design and commercial introduction of several advanced analytics products and services aimed at helping clients predict customer behaviour and effectively manage a wide range of decisions related to repayment of debt, account utilisation, default and fraud prevention. Prior to her current role at Experian, she was with HSBC where she was responsible for bankcard portfolio inbound call cross-sell strategies and acquisitions. Granger is named as an inventor on a US patent, Credit Portfolio Benchmarking, which defines a system and method for analysing massive amounts of current and historical trade data across financial institutions to allow peer group performance comparisons.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Jim Clancy
Vice President of IT Operations of Confirmation
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About Confirmation: Confirmation is the leading digital platform and global network for confirming financial data.
Dan Olley
EVP & CTO – Elsevier of Elsevier
Dan Olley is the Non Executive Director at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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About Elsevier, Hargreaves Lansdown: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Paul Crockett
Vice President, Product and Innovation of Elsevier
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About Authess, Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Hari Shetty
Sector Head & Senior Vice President – Technology Platforms, Products & Gaming of Wipro Technologies
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About Wipro Technologies: Wipro is a global information technology, consulting and business process services company.
Howard Dratler
Senior Vice President Of Sales of OpenText Corporation
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Madhu Ranganathan
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of OpenText Corporation
Madhu joined OpenText as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in April 2018. With more than 25 years of financial leadership experience, Madhu brings to OpenText a strategic mindset with global industry expertise and deep operational focus in software, hardware and tech-enabled services businesses, as well as a demonstrable track record of building shareholder value. Madhu is skilled at leading and supporting business transformation initiatives, strategic acquisitions and global capital raising. Prior to OpenText, Madhu served for more than 9 years as the Chief Financial Officer for [24]7.ai, a highly global, enterprise-class software and services company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to dramatically improve customer experience. At [24]7.ai, Madhu was responsible for worldwide finance, accounting, treasury, planning, tax, internal audit and procurement. During her tenure, Madhu worked closely with the CEO and management team to transform the company into a technology innovator. Madhu started her career with Liberty Mutual Financial Services and has held senior financial roles at Rackable Systems, which became SGI and is now part of HPE and Redback Networks, a telecommunications equipment company acquired by Ericsson, services platform Jamcracker, and e-Business software provider Backweb Technologies (IPO on NASDAQ). She also has public accounting experience with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC. Additionally, Madhu currently serves as Board Member and Audit Committee Chair for ServiceSource (Nasdaq: SREV) and previously served as a Board Member of Watermark, a Bay Area organization focused on professional development for women. Madhu holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, is a Certified Public Accountant in California and a Chartered Accountant from India.
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Muhi Majzoub
EVP & Chief Product Officer of OpenText Corporation
Muhi S. Majzoub was named Executive Vice President, Engineering and IT in January 2016. Muhi joined OpenText as Senior Vice President of Engineering in June 2012. He is responsible for Corporate and Commercial IT, including Cloud Services, as well as defining the vision and strategy for OpenText products, leading the development organization and transitioning OpenText to the cloud. Prior to OpenText, Muhi was Chief of Products for NorthgateArinso, where he was responsible for defining the company’s product vision, strategy and the development life cycle. He focused on consolidating the late software portfolio and developing new product capabilities for both cloud and on-premises solutions. Muhi has also held the position of Senior Vice President of Product Development for CA, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of the common technology platform and components and integration strategy. Prior to CA, Muhi was Vice President of Product Development at Oracle Corporation. During his tenure at Oracle, he was responsible for the delivery of the Sales Automation Suite, including Sales Online TeleSales, Sales Compensation, Sales Intelligence and many other Internet technology projects, such as Oracle Store, Oracle.com and the MetaLink TAR system. Muhi attended San Francisco State University.
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
David Levine
Vice President Information Security, CISO of Ricoh Company
David Levine is Vice President of Information Security and CISO for Ricoh USA, Inc. In this role, he has responsibility for operational security, security policy, access management, eDiscovery and litigation support and HIPAA compliance. Levine chairs Ricoh’s Security Advisory Councils, leads Ricoh’s Global Virtual Security team and is routinely engaged in customer opportunities to discuss risk and security. Levine has held a wide and diverse variety of positions during his 23-year tenure with the company, giving him a great perspective on technology, the business and security. Levine is a Governing Body Co-Chair with Evanta, a member of Forrester Research’s Security and Risk Leadership Board and the FBI’s InfraGard Program. He holds a BA degree in information systems from Eckerd College.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Bruce Nelson
Vice President, Support Services of Ricoh Company
Bruce Nelson leads the customer support services division at Ricoh. His areas of expertise include technical support, engineering, customer support, remote monitoring, and global support. Bruce has held various positions at Ricoh over the past 25 years, including director of business development, VP of field operations, and VP of support services. With a deep expertise in developing, launching, and improving processes and procedures, Bruce has shared his vast knowledge at Oracle Open World and IQPC.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Asim Fareeduddin
Vice President, IT Security & Regulatory Controls Assurance of RELX Group plc
Asim Fareeduddin is the Vice President, IT Security & Regulatory Controls Assurance at RELX Group.
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About J. Mack Robinson College of Business | Georgia State University, RELX Group plc: RELX Group plcis is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
Hassan Malik
Vice President, Search and Analytics of Clarivate Analytics
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About Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics.
Darcy Frisch
Managing Director & Vice President of Hearst Ventures
Darcy Frisch is vice president at Hearst Ventures, where she identifies, executes and oversees Hearst’s investments in early stage digital media and information businesses. Since joining Hearst Ventures in 2000, Ms. Frisch has been involved with many investments including drugstore.com, XM Satellite Radio, Circles and MobiTV. She currently is a board director at Nexage and board observer at RAMP. She previously served on the boards of Sphere (sold to AOL in 2008) and Voxpop.tv (sold to IAC in 2011). Prior to Hearst, Darcy was with the investment group E2Enet. She also held positions as a tax analyst at KPMG and as the legislative assistant for tax for U.S. Senator David Boren of Oklahoma. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and earned her MBA at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
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About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Carina Ertl
Global Vice President Marketing of Swarovski Group
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About Swarovski Group: Swarovski delivers a diverse portfolio of unmatched quality, craftsmanship, and creativity.
