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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Amit Vyas
Global Vice President, Inside Sales of Samsara
Amit is responsible for building and scaling a high-performance sales organization and driving all revenue growth. Known for his energy, motivating leadership style and sharp attire, Amit brings over 15 years of experience across IT, networking, direct and channel sales. Most recently, Amit was Director of Sales, Cloud Networking at Cisco Meraki, where he helped build and scale the sales organization and was a key contributor to the rapid growth through Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012. When Amit’s not working, he can be found playing almost any competitive sport, doing Bikram yoga, riding his motorcycle, playing chess or hanging with his wife and son at Crissy Field.Amit has a B.A. in Philosophy from San Jose State University.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
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Reed Grothe
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Alarm.com
Reed Grothe has served as our Senior Vice President of Business Development since April 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Grothe served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the pro audio division of Harman International Industries, Incorporated from 2006 to 2010 and as the Chief Global Sales Officer of Gibson Guitar Corp. from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining Gibson, Mr. Grothe served as Senior Vice President and General Manager as well as Vice President of Global Sales at GE Security, now under the umbrella of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Grothe holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Donald Natale
Senior Vice President of Sales of Alarm.com
Donald Natale has served as our Senior Vice President of Sales since July 2014 and prior to that served as our Vice President of Sales since June 2006. Prior to us, Mr. Natale served as Vice President of Dealer Sales for GE Security, now under the umbrella of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Natale also has served as Vice President of Sales for Sequel Technologies, LLC, Territory Manager for Interactive Technologies Incorporated, and Sales Manager for Rollins Protective Services Company. Mr. Natale holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Edinboro University.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Alison Slavin
SVP Creation Lab of Alarm.com
Alison Slavin, one of our founders, has served as our Senior Vice President, Creation Lab since February 2014. Prior to that, from 2000 to January 2014 Ms. Slavin served as our Vice President of Product Management. Ms. Slavin holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Daniel Ramos
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Alarm.com
Daniel Ramos has served as our Senior Vice President of Corporate Development since June 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ramos served as Principal Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense. Prior to his service with the Air Force, Mr. Ramos was the Vice President of Legal and Business Planning at The Away Network, a business unit of Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. Before joining The Away Network, he was a senior transactional attorney with the law firm of Shaw Pittman LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP). Mr. Ramos holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Jason DaCosta
Vice President of Customer Operations of Alarm.com
Jason DaCosta has served as our Vice President of Customer Operations since May 2014. Joining Alarm.com as a Sales Associate in 2004, Mr. DaCosta has served us in a variety of roles, currently overseeing Alarm.com’s customer service and support organization. Prior to working at Alarm.com, Mr. DaCosta started his career as a Marketing Associate with the Corporate Executive Board. Mr. DaCosta holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Victoria Schillinger
Vice President of Human Resources of Alarm.com
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Steve Chazin
Vice President Of Products of Alarm.com
Steve is a Chief Product and Marketing Officer. He is equally adept at product strategy and tactics and has an excellent on-stage presence. He is a rare individual who has synthesized a stellar background in engineering, sales, marketing and management to become a true product leader.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Eric Johnsen
VP Business Development, Consumer and Enterprise (Fractional) of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Jean-Claude Junqua
VP, North America Strategy and Business Development of Smappee
Jean-Claude Junqua has 20+ years of successful experience as a global executive in the US, Europe and Japan. During his tenure at Panasonic he led the global speech activities involving teams in US, Japan and China. After 2 years spent in Japan, Jean-Claude Junqua served as Vice President of Panasonic North America and developed the R&D activities of Panasonic in Silicon Valley creating new business opportunities in various areas such as Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Avionics, Mobile Communication, Smart Home, Speech Recognition/Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (IOT). Always enjoying new challenges, Jean-Claude Junqua created an internal startup inside Panasonic which led to the creation of a new US business unit in the area of Health and Wellness. Jean-Claude Junqua is also Visiting Professor at Osaka Institute of Technology and Adjunct Professor at CMU Silicon Valley. Currently, Vice President of American Strategy and Business development at Smappee, Inc. and CEO and Founder of CE2Innovate, one of his passions is to develop new approaches to innovation, to initiate and develop business transformation and to help startups and public companies reach their next level of growth. He serves as a mentor and coach for startups at a number of accelerators in the Bay area and is the author/co-author of more than 100+ articles and 90+ patents along with 2 books in the area of speech recognition.
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About CE2Innovate, European Commission, Plug and Play Tech Center, Smappee: Smappee develops innovative solutions that foster sustainable energy consumption.
Matt Felser
VP of Technology of Grandex
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About Grandex: Commerce powered by original media
Abhijit Tamhane
VP of Product Development of HackerRank
Abhijit has over 17 years of experience building industry leading products. In his current role, he is leading the Product Management and Design function at HackerRank. Before HackerRank, he was the head of Product Management for the Commerce Group at Target.com and Mobile. Over there, he played an instrumental role in establishing global Product teams and leading a technology led transformation of Target’s Ecommerce business. Prior to Target, he has held Product leadership roles at Salesforce and Hightail. Abhijit holds an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and a MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago.
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About HackerRank: HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world.
Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Kathy Lam
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of Prodea
Kathy Lam is responsible for Human Resources and brings 21 years of experience in all aspects of human resources to Prodea Systems. Prior to joining the company, Kathy served as the Director of Human Resources for Sonus Networks. She was responsible for a global organization in excess of 700 employees located in the US, EMEA and APAC. During her tenure at Sonus Networks, she managed the human resources activities for multiple acquisitions, including her prior organization, telecom technologies, inc. Prior to Sonus Networks/telecom technologies, Kathy was with the telecommunications division of Teradyne Inc. responsible for over 400 employees in an engineering and manufacturing environment. Kathy holds a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations from Loyola University in Chicago, as well as a bachelors of science degree in education, minor in mathematics and computer science, from the University of Illinois, Champaign.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
Tom Kurke
Vice President, Acceleration Ventures of Bentley Systems
Tom Kurke is the Vice President, Acceleration Ventures at Bentley Systems.
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About 3DSolver, Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Barry Bentley
Executive Vice President of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems, Bentley Systems Scandinavia: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Brian Robins
VP – Business Development of Bentley Systems
Brian Robins is an experienced B2B marketing executive specializing in enterprise software and IT services. Currently Brian is Vice President of Business Development at Bentley Systems, a provider of software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction. Brian was formerly Chief Marketing Officer at SunGard Data Systems Inc., the largest privately-held business software and IT services company. Between 1999 and 2011 Brian led SunGard’s worldwide marketing organization during which time the business grew from a $1 billion revenue company focused primarily on North America to a $5 billion revenue global Fortune 500 company with 20,000 employees serving 25,000 customers in 70 countries. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from New College, Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Jerry King
Vice President of Bentley Systems
Jerry King is Vice President of Strategic Alliances and is the alliance lead for Bentley’s partnership with Microsoft. While at Bentley, King has served as global vice president of business development for Asset Performance, global vice president of Utilities and Communications, vice president of Engineering Information Management and vice president of WorkPlace System Solutions, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate and product research and development startup. King contributed to the development, launch and progressive sales growth of ProjectWise®, the leading-edge engineering information management solution. Since its introduction in 1998, ProjectWise has been adopted by major engineering and infrastructure owner organizations worldwide and represents a huge technological and productivity-enhancing leap forward for organizations managing engineering projects. King is a registered engineer in the State of California and is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Association of Civil Engineers.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Mitch Gaynor
Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell
Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Vicky Sagehorn
VP of Finance & Operations of LISNR
Vicky Sagehorn is the VP of Finance & Operations at LISNR.
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About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Jake Engwerda
SVP Global Sales & Partnerships of LISNR
Jacob Engwerda is the SVP Global Sales & Partnerships at LISNR.
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About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Shankar Chandran
Vice President, Catalyst Fund of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Shankar Chandran is vice president at Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Catalyst Fund, at the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). The SSIC is based in Menlo Park, California and is focused on accelerating innovation for Samsung Electronics. Shankar is responsible for early stage and disruptive venture capital investments in technologies targeted at high growth sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile technology and security, digital health, next-generation user interfaces, and the internet of things. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Panorama Capital and has been an active venture investor for 12 years at Panorama Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Shankar has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He also serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, and has served as a director or observer on the boards of over ten companies. Shankar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India, an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Curtis Sasaki
VP of Ecosystems and iOT General Manager of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Curtis Sasaki is the vice president of ecosystems for Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). He leads new business creation and is responsible for driving growth and innovation through product, technology and ecosystem development. He works with entrepreneurs and startups in Silicon Valley and other global technology hotspots, focusing on Smart Health, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Prior to SSIC, Curtis was Senior Vice President of Samsung Media Solutions Center America (MSCA), where he oversaw the development of Samsung’s media services that work with Samsung Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to deliver the best apps and content to the connected consumer. At MSCA, he also lead the Innovation Lab, a team that focuses on developing pioneering cloud services, the Developer Relations team that drove the Samsung Developer Conferences, as well as the North American Content Services team, which focuses on content partnerships and strategic partner relations.
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About Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: SSIC is a global organization within Samsung’s Device Solutions division focused on identifying and nurturing new technologies
Tre Jones
Senior Vice President, Growth of Dotdash
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About Dotdash: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Joseph Tou
Vice President / US Investment Manager of Sony Innovation Fund
Joseph Tou is Vice President / US Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund.
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About Sony Innovation Fund: Sony Innovation fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony that invests and engages in early-stage companies.
Eric Hauser
Vice President of Engineering of DroneDeploy
Eric Hauser is the VP of engineering at DroneDeploy.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Vidya Subramanian
Vice President – Emerging Technologies of Roambee
An energetic leader and results driven executive with over 15 years of solution delivery experience, Vidya Subramanian is the Vice President of Products and Co-founder of Roambee. He is responsible for product strategy, product delivery, and product management with a singular focus on product-market fit. Prior to Roambee, Vidya was Co-Founder and VP Professional Services at KeyTone Technologies Inc, a RFID technology company focused on providing a technology enabled service for real time asset monitoring through an enterprise scale sensor based platform. KeyTone was successfully acquired by Global Asset Tracking UK Ltd. He has also held influential and leadership roles at Plexus Technologies Inc., KPMG Consulting, Unisys, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Vidya holds a Masters in Computer Science from Temple University and dual Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Calvin College, Michigan.
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About Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Shailesh Mangal
VP of Engineering of Roambee
Shailesh Mangal is Roambee’s Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, he is responsible for company’s technology strategy, development direction and future initiatives. Shailesh has been developing enterprise and web applications for more than 20 years. His passion spans from nurturing highly productive and nimble development teams, to steering through fast-paced ever-changing development landscapes, and maintaining code quality & performance. His main areas of interest include object-oriented design, system and cloud architectures, big data, real-time search and analytics. Shailesh holds a Masters in IT from The University of Texas and a Bachelors in Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur, India.
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About Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Jerry Miller
VP of Operations at ChargeLab
Jerry Miller, Fuqua MBA ’14, is a Tech Industry leader and currently serves as the VP of Operations at ChargeLab, a rapidly growing Electric Vehicle SAAS solution Start-up. Prior to ChargeLab having the honor of Jerry joining the team in April 2022; he had quite an impressive journey.
Jerry began his career after matriculating from the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Japanese Language and Cognitive Science. He has been the Head of Strategy and Operations at Particle, a Series-C Start-up in San Francisco. He has also spent a significant time at Apple for a sum of five years prior to joining Particle as a Business Operations Manager for Apple Watch and iPod, owning the relationship between the China-based factories and Apple. Prior to his MBA, Jerry was with Deloitte in San Francisco for over seven years as his service line’s lead Global Manager on the Oracle, Disney, HP, Intel, and Apple accounts.
Jerry is currently the CFO of the Board of Directors of Home for a Home, a 501c3 non-profit focused on providing homes for families in Guatemala. Jerry has been a musician since the 3rd grade and continues to artistically express himself as a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. Jerry hails from Compton, California and now calls the city of San Francisco his home.
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About ChargeLab: ChargeLab is the Android of EV charging. Our hardware-agnostic software runs on the world’s most popular EV chargers.
Martin Forest
VP of Technology of Tive
CTO & Founder of BeON Home.
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
Andy Fercu
VP, Product of Tive
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
Asaf Shen
VP Products of Sansa Security
Mr. Shen joined Discretix in 2005 and has accumulated extensive engineering and marketing experience in security related IP products. Previously, he served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing for the company’s IP product portfolio. Prior to that he served as Discretix’ VLSI team manager and IP projects manager. Before joining Discretix, Mr. Shen was a VLSI team manager at Tioga Technologies, a spinoff of its parent company, Orckit Communications. Mr. Shen holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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About Sansa Security, Tioga Technologies: Sansa Security is the only comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) security platform securing everything from chipsets to the cloud.
Darren Hudgins
Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer
Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.
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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Curt Schacker
Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products of EVRYTHNG
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About EVRYTHNG: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Automotive and Embedded Line of Business of Arm Holdings
Dipti Vachani is vice president in the Internet of Things Group and general manager of the Strategy and Solutions Engineering Division at Intel Corporation. Vachani’s organization is responsible for driving the overall strategy, technology direction, industry standards and IoT Edge product portfolio for IOTG.Prior to joining Intel, Vachani served as vice president and general manager of Power, Lighting and Display at Skyworks, maker of analog semiconductors. In that role, she managed product development, applications and operations.Before that, Vachani worked at Texas Instruments for 17 years, where her most recent position was vice president and general manager of the Single Core Processors group , a multinational business unit consisting of ARM MPU, video security and DSP. Also, while at Texas Instruments, Vachani led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of ARM MPUs.Vachani holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University and an executive MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a graduate of the executive education program at both the Harvard and Cambridge business schools.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Peter Greenhalgh
VP Technology & Fellow of Arm Holdings
Since then, he has held a range of engineering and lead architect positions in the company. He was the lead architect of the Arm Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A53 processors, and led the development and deployment of Arm big.LITTLE technology. Prior to this, he owned key units in the microarchitectures of the Cortex-R4, Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A8 processors. Between 2013 and 2017, Peter was the senior director of technology in Arm’s Compute Products Group (CPG), responsible for all microarchitecture and technology developments across Arm’s CPU. Peter holds 20 patents in the field of CPU microarchitecture and has a degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Heriot-Watt University.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Surajit Datta
Vice President of Arm Holdings
Surajit Datta is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Arm since 2017. His role includes leading merger and acquisitions transactions and investments across multiple sub-sectors in technology, including emerging memory, IoT and security. Prior to joining Arm, Surajit was Managing Director at Evercore Partners in New York. He has over 15 years of investment banking experience on Wall Street, leading origination and execution of advisory and capital raising transactions in technology, media and telecom sectors at JPMorgan and Evercore. He has closed over $100 billion of M&A and over $20 billion of financing transactions. Surajit has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelors of Technology (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Drew Henry
SVP, IPG Strategy and Operations of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Hassan Parsa
VP of Global Head of Corporate Development of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Ian Smythe
VP Solutions Marketing, Client Line of Business, Arm of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Carolyn Herzog
EVP and General Counsel of Arm Holdings
Carolyn Herzog has over 20 years of global business and legal experience. She has extensive expertise in cybersecurity and privacy, ethics and compliance, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, crisis management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning. Carolyn is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer at Arm, the world’s leading semiconductor IP company. At Arm, Carolyn leads a team of legal and public affairs professionals, and is responsible for all legal matters in the company. Prior to joining Arm, Carolyn was the VP, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel at Symantec Corporation, the global leader in cybersecurity, based in the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. She held various roles at Symantec, leading the company through significant transformation in 3 major offices. Carolyn was instrumental in leading numerous acquisition integrations for Symantec and, notably, the company’s sale of Veritas in 2016, creating a separate, privately held company. As Head of Legal for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, Carolyn was based in Symantec’s European headquarters in the U.K. She joined Symantec through the AXENT Technologies acquisition in December 2000, where she successfully led the public company acquisition of AXENT by Symantec, as General Counsel. Carolyn had been based in the Washington DC area prior to moving to the UK, having worked in the international development arena, both in the non-profit sector and with The World Bank. Carolyn has served on the European Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Board for the National Cyber Security Alliance, and is an Advisory Board member to IPWatch System Corporation. She has been recognized as a Distinguished General Counsel by the Director’s Roundtable, and an Attorneys Who Matter by Ethisphere Magazine. Carolyn graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a JD and received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Raymond Liao
Managing Director & Vice President of Samsung NEXT
Raymond Liao is a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, with a special focus on Security, Big Data, Cloud, and AI. Previously Raymond was the founding CTO of Siemens Industrial Communications business in Germany. He started as an innovator at Siemens Berkeley to commercializing his PhD into a startup but failed post dot-com bubble, then as a spin-in and grew into the market-leading industrial WLAN business
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Brendon Kim
Vice President & Managing Director of Samsung NEXT
VP and Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures, Brendon Kim has been investing in early stage startup companies for over 20 years. He is currently a Vice President/Managing Director of Samsung NEXT Ventures. The Ventures team invests in compelling early stage software and services startups, bringing the power of the Samsung platform to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Samsung, Brendon was a co-founding general partner of Altos Ventures where he was a lead investor and board member in numerous early-stage software and services companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, he was a strategy and management consultant in the media, consumer and technology industries. Brendon received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his BA from Princeton University.
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About Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
John Kilpatrick
Vice President – Global Head of Product & Experience of Samsung NEXT
John Kilpatrick is leading several new initiatives for Samsung that include: mobile, TV, Home Appliances and emerging new hardware. Before joining Samsung, John was the CEO of a mobile startup (www.cabinapp.com) that was acquired by Samsung’s MSCA division. The company was funded by The Samsung Accelerator in NYC and voted one of the best family app by Google Play in 2013. Prior to Cabin and Samsung, John was senior vice president and executive creative director at The Daily, a first-of-its-kind news publication built exclusively for the iPad. This app was developed hand-in-hand between Apple and News Corp., and the resulting publication had the aesthetics and readability of a digital magazine, the daily frequency of a newspaper, and the interactive experience of a tablet app. John built a world class product and design team and directly managed a team of 65+people. Some of the awards he received while at The Daily was one of the best news apps from Wired Magazine and a Webby award. He has spent his career spearheading digital products and teams for both start-ups and large-scale media organizations. Previously, Kilpatrick was vice president and group creative director for AOL Media, where he led the interactive design team, developing new digital media products and content for more than 80 websites that reached more than 100 million people. While at AOL, John earned over 30 design patents. Prior to joining AOL, he was a founding partner of the New York City design studio Double K Design, where he worked with Nike, Prada, Estée Lauder, Mercedes-Benz, Absolute Vodka, Razorfish, Honda, Versace, B&B Italia and several boutique hotels. Kilpatrick is an active “media board” member for the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City (Smithsonian National Design Museum) and is a mentor for RGA/Techstars Accelerator program.
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About Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Travis Bogard
SVP, Head of Product of Samsung NEXT
Travis Bogard is the Global Head of Uber Enterprise where he manages enterprise sales, product strategy and development, partnerships, and go-to-market initiatives, internationally. Prior to Uber for Business, Travis spent eight years at Jawbone as the Vice President of Product Management and Strategy. He oversaw the company’s product roadmap, research and analytics teams, customer service program, and business development activities, globally. While at Jawbone, Travis helped scale the company’s product offering from a single wireless headset to a portfolio of human-centered products designed to make everyday life better through a combination of hardware, software, and data. Before Jawbone, Travis spent almost a decade at Tellme Networks helping to grow a variety of teams ranging from engineering and product management to sales and business development. He also spent four years at AOL where he was a founding member of the AIM development team. During that time, he worked closely with the strategy and business affairs teams to direct AOL’s integration options for partners and lead the technical due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, such as Netscape. Today, Travis is focused on leveraging Uber’s ability to bring people and technology together in ways that save organizations time and money. He aims to launch a full-fledged business platform that extends the Uber for Businesses value proposition beyond ground travel in a variety of ways, including through partner integrations with companies like Concur, and native integrations with Uber products such as like UberEats.
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About Samsung NEXT, Whisk: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Emily Becher
SVP MD Head of Samsung Next Global of Samsung NEXT
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About Samsung NEXT: Samsung NEXT invests in transformative early-stage software and services startups.
Jonathan Hodges
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of DUST Identity
Jonathan Hodges is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at DUST Identity Inc. He is a former Vice President of Engineering at Diamond Nanotechnologies Inc and Research Physicist at MITRE. Mr. Hodges graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a BS in Applied Physics and received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Steve Smith
EVP and CFO of Inseego
Steve Smith previously served as a financial consultant serving multiple software-as-a-service, medical technology and technology device businesses, and served as interim Chief Financial Officer of TetraVue Inc., a developer of high definition 4D LIDAR technology, since February 2017. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Operations for Micropower Technologies, a private equity-backed business engaged in the development and sale of platforms enabling extreme low-power wireless video surveillance systems. From 2005 to 2012, Mr. Smith ran his own consulting business and also served as President of XiTron Technologies, a development stage biotech firm that was sold to ImpediMed Ltd, a publicly-traded medical device company, in 2007. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Smith served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a publicly-traded semiconductor company that designs network and embedded power architecture, optical transport and storage solutions. Mr. Smith also serves as a director of the Business Executive Council of San Diego and Niels Brock/CIBU, a Denmark-based International Business University. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Arizona State University.
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About Inseego: Inseego specializes in providing enterprise SaaS solutions, IoT, and mobile solutions.
Brian MacLeod
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Nick Taluja
VP Worldwide Sales of Sequans Communications
Nick Taluja leads Sequans’ worldwide sales operations and drives the formation and execution of the company’s global sales strategy. Prior to joining Sequans, Nick led the sales organization for SK hynix, a leading supplier of DRAM and Flash memory solutions, as vice president for the Americas. Earlier he was with ST-Ericsson from 2007-2013, the former multinational supplier of wireless semiconductor products including LTE solutions, where he most recently led the Americas’ sales and marketing organizations. Nick has more than 20 years of sales, product marketing, and business development experience, including several years at Texas Instruments and TranSwitch, specifically in the areas of wireless and wireline communications. Nick has co-authored three patents in the field of near field communications (NFC).
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About Sequans Communications: Sequans Communications is a provider of single-mode 4G LTE semiconductor solutions.
Darren J. Milliken
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ForeScout Technologies
Darren J. Milliken Senior Vice President and General Counsel With over 20 years of legal, business and compliance experience, Darren leads global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining ForeScout, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Accuray Inc. Before Accuray, he held several senior level legal roles at Sanmina-SCI, Voyan Technology, and the law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Phillip Pyo
VP of Product Marketing & Product Management of NETGEAR
Phillip Pyo is the VP Product Marketing & Program Management at NETGEAR.
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About NETGEAR: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Richard Jonker
VP Business Development, AV over IP, EMEA of NETGEAR
Richard Jonker is the VP Business Development, AV over IP, EMEA at NETGEAR.
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About NETGEAR: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Ravi Roopreddy
VP of Software Engineering & Co-Founder of Cloudleaf
Ravi is a founder and technical leader of Cloudleaf. He has deep expertise developing enterprise applications and infrastructure on a wide variety of platforms for companies including CallidusCloud, Zaplet and Electronic Arts. Ravi enjoys the outdoors, traveling and video games.
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Jonas Gray
VP of Business Development of PubNub
Head of Strategic Partnerships at PubNub.
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About PubNub: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Jared Waxman
VP Growth of PubNub
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About PubNub, TVLP Institute Silicon Valley, Yahoo: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Sylvain Dubois
Vice President Business Development and Marketing of Crossbar
Sylvain Dubois joined the Crossbar management team in 2013 as its senior director of strategic marketing and business development.With over 13 years of semiconductor experience in business development and strategic product marketing, he brings a proven ability to analyze market trends, identify new, profitable business opportunities and create precise product positioning that is in perfect sync with market demands to drive market share leadership and business results. Prior to joining Crossbar, Mr. Dubois led strategic product positioning and market engagement for developing new products at Spansion. Responsible for identifying new growth opportunities and expanding the product portfolio, Mr. Dubois was instrumental in defining the Spansion Flash memory product roadmap.From 2002-2006, Mr. Dubois was a System-on-Chip architect of OMAP application processors at Texas Instruments. Mr. Dubois was in charge of the architecture and technology roadmap of DRAM and Flash memory controllers, and developed strategic relationships with major DRAM and Flash memory suppliers.Sylvain Dubois holds a Master of Science in Microelectronics from E.S.I.E.E. (Paris), University of Southampton (UK) and Universidad Pontifica Comillas (Spain).
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Lance Maerov
Executive Vice President of WPP
Mr. Lance Maerov serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at WPP Group USA, Inc. where he manages WPP’s Corporate Development team in North America and his primary focus is to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. Mr. Maerov began his work for the Corporate Development Group in March 2005 in New York after WPP’s acquisition of Grey Global Group. He serves as Senior Vice President of Grey Ventures. Before joining WPP, Mr. Maerov worked at Grey Global Group as its Head of Corporate Development and made over 20 venture investments on behalf of Grey through its Grey Ventures Subsidiary. Prior to joining Grey, Mr. Maerov handled acquisitions and investments for Reed Business Information, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. He was a Founder of iFusion and raised $20 million of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier. Mr. Maerov served as Director of Expression Engines Inc. He serves as Board Observer of Visible Technologies, Inc. and served as its Board Advisor. Mr. Maerov holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.
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About WPP, WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Phillip Chang
Co-founder, VP & Greater China GM of Ayla Networks
Phillip has more than 20 years of experience building and growing companies in Taiwan, China and the United States. Prior to founding Ayla, Phillip was at ZeroG Wireless, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with Asian manufacturers, suppliers, and customers, working with some of Asia’s largest contract manufacturers and technology providers. Phillip has also served as an executive vice president at Broadweb, a networking security vendor, CEO of Linkpeople, an early social network application developer, and founder of Macsense, a third party developer of Mac peripherals. A recognized business leader in Asia, Phillip has been called upon to instruct local corporate groups and support start-up fund raising activities in Taiwan and Shanghai. In 2004, he was honored to be a representative of Taiwan’s Information Telecommunication and Communication delegation to APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Conference) in Seoul, Korea. Phillip has a BA from UC Berkeley, an MS from Stanford University and is completing a doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in his spare time. Before beginning his career in business, he was a world class athlete, participating as a member of Taiwan’s Olympic swimming team.
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About Ayla Networks, Macsense Connectivity Inc: Ayla Networks’ Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivers industry-leading device management and application enablement.
Susanto Irwan
Co-founder & VP of Engineering of Xage Security
Prior to Xage, Susanto held senior engineering and product development roles at Shape Security and Arxan Technologies (acquired by TA Associates). Susanto has over 16 years of experience in security, protecting desktop, mobile, web and embedded applications against tampering, fraud, and reverse engineering across industries including financial services, mobile payments, healthcare, automotive, gaming, and entertainment. Susanto holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Purdue University.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Roman Arutyunov
Co-Founder & VP Products of Xage Security
Prior to Xage, Roman held Vice President of Product and Engineering roles at ABB, Tropos Networks, and Mimosa Networks solving networking, security, and data analytics challenges for industrial and commercial enterprises enabling millions of IoT devices in production today. Earlier in his career, Roman developed the first generation of Content Distribution Networks (CDN) and secure proxy servers at Blue Coat Systems (Symantec). Roman holds a Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Katy Motiey
EVP/CAO of Extreme Networks
Katy Motiey is a EVP/CAO @ Extreme Networks.
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About Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Ivan Chong
Vice President, Sales of Nonda
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Geeta Sehgal
VP of Training & US Recruitment of MSys Technologies
Geeta leads the training and US recruitment divisions of MSys. She packs diverse experience in training and development and worked as a Montessori educator for many years in Alpharetta, Georgia. Geeta also led the QA team for Mansfield Oil Company, Gainesville, GA. Her professional experience encompasses a wide variety of technologies including proprietary ERP systems, Linux, Progress OpenEdge, BizTalk, Microsoft .NET, Apache Tomcat/SOAP, SharePoint, BugZilla, Jira, etc. Geeta holds a BS in General Sciences from Holkar Science College, Indore; she specialized in software testing essentials, advanced QA training, and business software training.
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About MSys Technologies: MSys Technologies is a reliable partner for product engineering & digital transformation projects for its ISV & Enterprise clientele.
Jill Springer
Vice President – Human Resources of Jasper Technologies
Jill Springer joined Jasper in 2014, overseeing human resources and talent acquisition. Over the past 25 years Jill has worked with companies in commercial, technical, and consumer businesses in the United States and around the world. She’s known for her well-grounded, clear, straightforward, and operationally focused plans in support of business strategies. Jill has provided executive leadership for numerous startups and small to mid-size pre-public and public companies on acquisitions and mergers, strategic planning, Human Resources operations, succession planning, and executive development. Jill has established a proven track record designing, implementing, and leading programs and processes for companies that include: Apple computer, Applied Materials, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, TSMC, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Illinois State University.
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About Jasper Technologies: Jasper Technologies develops cloud-based platforms.
Crystal Black
VP of Marketing of Aizon
Crystal Black is a next-level, creative data analytics marketing professional with years of experience in providing executive-level strategic and developmental support to achieve brand-marketing and company objectives. As VP of Marketing for Bigfinite, Crystal owns and directs the marketing strategy for Bigfinite’s award-winning AI-informed data analytics solutions for the life sciences industry. She is responsible for building the marketing analytics infrastructure, processes, and dashboards that inform B2B marketing decisions across the organization, and is deeply involved in brand strategy, promotions, content calendar, and strategic partnerships to support Bigfinite’s AI platform offerings. Crystal’s accumulated experience spans partner/channel marketing, martech/marketing, automation/ABM, web and search marketing, event planning, yearly planning, branding and identity, global marketing, and contract negotiations. Prior to joining Bigfinite in 2019, Crystal was the Director of Marketing Programs for Saama Technologies where she drove brand the transition from a services business to a higher value solutions business by building company’s first account-based marketing program, first partner marketing program, expanding corporate communications, and led global sales enablement and operations. Previously, she was Director of Marketing for Grid Dynamics International, Inc., where she built the company’s first marketing plan, launched their first lead campaigns, and supported solution definitions and GTM strategies. During Crystal’s tenure as Senior Marketing Manager for APTARE, she rebranded and updated company messaging, improved lead processes, and expanded the global channel plan, which ultimately resulted in a successful acquisition of APTARE by Veritas. Crystal earned both a B.A and M.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a talented nature photographer and Jeep enthusiast.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Daniel Wachdorf
VP of Product of Senrio
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About JASK, Senrio, Sumo Logic: Providing visibility, insight & awareness of network embedded devices (IoT) to support enterprise-wide security and safety.
M Carlton
VP Research of Senrio
M. Carlton leads the research team at Senrio, focusing on connected device security. After graduating from MIT, she worked in software security before joining the embedded security team at Draper Laboratory. Her recent work at Senrio has included discovering patterns in IoT vulnerabilities and identifying new ways in which devices are attacked.
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About Senrio: Providing visibility, insight & awareness of network embedded devices (IoT) to support enterprise-wide security and safety.
David Walker
Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant
David Walker is the Vice President Hardware Engineering of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
Julia Slocombe
Vice President of Operations, West Region of SmartCity Networks
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
David Langford
Vice President of Technology of SmartCity Networks
Since joining Smart City in 2000 as the Vice President of Technology, David Langford has developed the voice and data network infrastructure for Smart City’s convention centers and the proprietary Smart City Network Operations Center, which monitors the network performance at Smart City’s facilities. He launched his career as a leader in the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Network & Services project, deploying the first national pre-Internet high speed IP infrastructure. This experience grew to include: developing the sales engineering division at AOL, the installation of temporary data network capabilities for the events of FORTUNE 500 companies (often where none existed previously), and the development and implementation of the country’s first permanent wireless installation for conventions. Langford’s most recent contributions include developing Smart City’s High Density Wireless networks for stadiums and convention centers, and developing a Neutral Host Distributed Antenna System (NHDAS) practice. He has also led teams in designing next generation networks for facilities such as the Washington State Convention Center, the Anaheim Convention Center, and NHDAS in Charlotte, Phoenix, and Santa Clara. As an active member in the industry, he participates in numerous industry associations including the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE), American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). He holds a BS degree in Communication Systems Management from Ohio University.
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About SmartCity Networks: Smart City is a provider of utilities, technology and telecommunications services in the convention industry.
Jason McMinn
Co-Founder & VP of Product of LocusLabs
Jason McMinn is VP of Product and co-founder at LocusLabs. Prior to LocusLabs he was co-founder of Blockdot, a Dallas based mobile development agency where he oversaw design, engineering, and delivery for the company’s largest clients such as American Airlines, Microsoft, CarMax, among others. With American Airlines, he developed their original mobile strategy around “day of travel” and led the teams that delivered their iOS and Android apps. Blockdot was acquired by Media General (NYSE: MEG).
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About LocusLabs: LocusLabs is a geospatial data service that enables venues and enterprises to create location aware experiences.
Sharyn Eles
VP, HR of MyLife
Los Angeles resident Sharyn Eles is currently serving as the Vice President of Operations and Human Resources at Mylife.com. She has been educated at NYU, and got her professional start in San Francisco, at FOX Sports Television. Though she initially came on as a coordinator, she eventually became broadcast traffic manager and, among other responsibilities, managed $15M in media buys. She has also worked at Cantor Fitzgerald with the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). As SVP at MyLife, she works closely with the CEO and COO, drafts HR policies, and has proven integral to talent retention. When she is not working, Sharyn Eles gives time to several nonprofit organizations: San Fernando Valley Mission during the Thanksgiving season, and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles during Christmas time. She’s also a mother, and an active participant in their school’s Parent-Teacher Association.
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About Cantor Fitzgerald, MyLife, MyLife: MyLife provides the leading Reputation Platform, making consumers safer & marketplaces more trusted.
Justin Freeh
VP of Operations and Chief Legal Counsel of SAIFE, Inc.
Justin Freeh, Vice President of Operations and Chief Legal Counsel, is responsible for strategic business planning, finance, legal matters, compliance, organizational strategy, human resources, facilities, and other operational functions. Justin previously worked in a private equity group, with a technology centric investment portfolio. Justin served as an officer in the United States Navy, where he completed multiple deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Justin holds a BS from the United States Naval Academy, a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a member of the bar in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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About SAIFE, Inc.: SAIFE’s Software Defined Perimeter solution cuts financial exposure and likelihood of a breach by substantially reducing the attack surface.
Tianyi Cong
VP Engineering of Insticator
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About Insticator: Insticator is the global leader in increasing engagement for publishers through interactive content.
John Gallagher
VP of Marketing of Viakoo
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About Viakoo: Vulnerability management for unmanaged & IoT Devices; firmware patching, certificate management, password enforcement, and service assurance
Steve Francis
Chief Revenue Officer and EVP GTM Operations of Instaclustr
Steve Francis is the Chief Revenue Officer and EVP GTM Operations at Instaclustr.
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About Instaclustr: Instaclustr is the open source as-a-service company, delivering reliability at scale. 24x7x365
Yasser Khan
Executive Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
Executive Vice President at Plasma Computing Group
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About ONE Tech, Inc., Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Keith Merrill
Vice President of Plasma Business Intelligence
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About Plasma Business Intelligence: Plasma Computing Group offers businesses with a BPM solution that focuses on business process automation and transformation.
Daniel de Mos
Vice President of Finance of Orion Labs
Daniel de Mos serves as VP of Finance at Orion Labs. Over the past 12 years, Daniel has held the position of senior financial officer for global companies specializing in innovative software technology in the marketing automation, lead generation and fintech spaces.
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About Orion Labs: Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
Yuta Endo
VP/GM Head of APAC Operation & NorthWest US Region, Co-founder of FogHorn
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About FogHorn: FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions.
Marty Chobot
Vice President, Product Management & Marketing of Invicara
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About Invicara: Invicara is the developer of Twinit.io, a fully composable platform for developing Digital Twin solutions for the built environment
Jasmyn Haas
VP, Customer and Customer Experience of Flume
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About California Polytechnic State University, Flume: Flume eliminates water waste and protects homes by helping homeowners and communities with real-time water usage data.
Brett Finkelstein
VP Sales, Americas of Controlant
Brett Finkelstein is the VP Sales, Americas at Controlant. He is a sales and Business Development leader with nearly 20 years of diverse experience and deep relationships across a broad cross section of the healthcare industry and supply chain including: Healthcare IT Technology Software/Services (E.H.R., PMIS, RCM), Digital Health, Genetic/molecular diagnostics, Imaging, and cardiovascular medical devices.
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About Controlant: Controlant is a supply chain company for heavily regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals & life sciences and food & beverage sectors.
Anthony Dumont
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ordr of Ordr
Anthony Dumont is the senior vice president of worldwide sales at Ordr.
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About Constella Intelligence, Ordr: Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise.
Jill Odom
VP of Finance and Administration of Upskill
Jill Odom serves as a VP, Finance and Administration at Upskill.
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About Upskill: Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite.
Marc Mandel
Vice President & General Counsel of Canary
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About Canary, Smartfrog & Canary: Canary is a NYC-based company and a subsidiary of Smartfrog & Canary Group, a Consumer IoT SaaS business and one of the fastest-growing Consumer IoT category leaders. The company’s mission is to enhance consumer’s lives by making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe – IoT for everyone.
Arthur Meyerovich
EVP of Corporate Partnership, Founder of Squawk-IT
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About Squawk-IT: Fun, new and dynamic commenting platform
Mark Tyndall
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Dialog Semiconductor
Mark joined Dialog Semiconductor in September 2008. Prior to this, Mark was Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Relations at MIPS Technologies. From 1999 to 2006, he held the position of Vice President of Business Development at Infineon and has also served as a board director of a number of start-up companies, several of which were successfully acquired. Earlier in his career, Mark held management positions in marketing at Fujitsu Microelectronics and in design at Philips Semiconductors.
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About Dialog Semiconductor, Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Sean Hobday
SVP of Global Sales of Zones
Sean Hobday is a Global technology supply chain leader with over 20 years of global supply experience. His expertise includes asset management strategies, global vendor consolidation, import reduction methodology, next gen IT procurement and cloud management. Sean has been with Zones for over 18 years and has extensive experience in working with Fortune 100 companies for the supply of IT hardware, software, and solutions.
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About Zones: Zones simplifies information technology by providing end-to-end capabilities and acting as a singular point of contact for hardware
Jeffery Brennan
SVP & Global Healthcare Business of Altair
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About Altair: Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology.
