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 Mobile Apps 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.
Andrew Savage
VP Head of Sustainability of Lime
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Jeff Birkeland
Vice President of Product, Consumer Experience of Headspace
director of product @ facebook video focused on building for creators and publishers. formerly led the Feed team at LinkedIn. Before that built a publishing startup, and multiple news and media products at Yahoo! former television producer. drinks coffee. bald.
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About Headspace, High Gear Media, LinkedIn: Headspace is a digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
David Feller
VP, New Verticals of Gopuff
Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Daniel Folkman
SVP, Business of Gopuff
SVP, Business at goPuff
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Charles Migos
Vice President of Product Design of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Mike Acton
VP DOTS (Data-Oriented Technology Stack) Architecture and Runtime of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Laura Palmer
VP of Sales, Americas and EMEA of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Mike DeLaet
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships of Scopely
Mike DeLaet is currently the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Scopely. Prior to Scopely, Mike was the Founder & CEO of Rogue Games, Inc. based in Los Angeles. Prior to Rogue, he was the SVP of WW BD & Licensing at Kabam and SVP of Global Publishing at Glu Mobile.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Eric Ma
Senior Vice President, User Acquisition of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Christina Dunbar
Vice President, Global Talent of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Fengmin Gong
VP and InfoSec Strategy of Didi
Fengmin Gong is a well-respected cybersecurity technologist with more than 30 years of industry experience. As head of DiDi Labs, Dr. Gong currently drives R&D innovation and strategy for safety, security and user experience on DiDi platforms, and works on developing the next generation of security tools He has held chief scientist and R&D VP roles in a variety of large security corporations, including McAfee and Symantec JV, and served as chief security content strategy officer for FireEye, where he led the development and management of the company’s security initiatives. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen startups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture, and M.S. in computer science.
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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Ted Bronstein
Vice President of Partnerships of Spin
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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Matt Pillar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Jam City
Matt Pillar is an accomplished executive with more than twenty-five years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Asia and the United States. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at leading mobile gaming company Jam City, formerly SGN Games; Founder and Managing Director at Fire Dragon Enterprises, a global strategic advisory firm; and Senior Fellow with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches a graduate/MBA course on “Doing Business in China/Asia.” In addition to his service on a number of Boards of Directors of consumer-facing media and technology companies over the years, Matt has been a major fundraiser on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of From the Top and on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in East Asian Studies from Brown University and received a Master in Business Administration degree with Honors from Harvard University, where case studies and lecture material which he co-authored and published have been taught in both the Harvard Business School executive education program and second-year MBA curriculum. He currently writes about China business and strategy at http://www.climbingthegreatwall.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/firedragonllc.
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About Fire Dragon Enterprises, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Robert Zakari
EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel of Jam City
Rob Zakari is EVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at Jam City, where he helps direct its mergers and acquisitions strategy and advises its executives on critical company priorities. A native of Los Angeles, Rob has held leadership positions at many of its e-commerce companies over the last two decades. Before joining Jam City, he was EVP and General Counsel at e-commerce company The Lucky Group. As founding manager of early-stage venture fund Global Agora, Rob became acting CEO of SUP ATX, guiding its relationships with offshore manufacturers and overseeing its expansion from 2010 to 2012 from a startup to the world’s largest seller of stand-up paddleboards. In 2002, Rob co-founded Zaba Inc. (formerly PeopleData), an online public record search engine that he led as president for seven years until its 2009 acquisition by Intelius. Prior to this, Rob was a VP at early online storage company Xdrive and VP and General Counsel at direct-to-consumer public records reseller US Search before and during its 1999 IPO. A graduate of UCLA and New York Law School, Rob lives in Los Angeles with his family, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a BMW motorcycle.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Brooks
Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jeremy Horn
Vice President of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Andy Chen
Senior Vice President of Innovation of Match Group
Andy Chen is chief product officer at Glassdoor, responsible for leading strategy, innovation, and execution among the product, design and community teams. Andy joined Glassdoor from Match Group, where he held several leadership roles within product, innovation and business development. Most recently, Andy was SVP of Match Group’s innovation team, +1Labs, where he led a portfolio-wide effort to drive ideas from conception to strategy to development and to market. Prior to his tenure at Match Group, he co-founded travel technology startup, Traxo. Andy holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with honors, and a bachelor’s degree in civil structural engineering from Texas A&M University.
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About Glassdoor, Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Tracey Breeden
VP, Head of Safety and Social Advocacy of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Tyler Kennedy
Co-Founder & VP-Operations of Fetch Rewards
Tyler Kennedy is the Co-Founder & VP-Operations at Fetch Rewards.
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About Fetch Rewards: Fetch Rewards is a mobile shopping platform that rewards shoppers for buying the brands they love.
Rujul Patel
VP New Business, Marketing & PMM of ironSource
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About ironSource: IronSource is a business platform enabling mobile content creators to prosper in the app economy.
Trevor Lund
Vice President of Finance of Pelion Venture Partners
Trevor joined the Pelion team in 2017. Trevor’s key responsibilities revolve around financial reporting, with duties that include preparation of the GAAP financial statements and assisting in the valuation of the fund’s portfolio companies. Prior to Pelion, Trevor was a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was charged with managing the day-to-day activities on numerous SEC and asset management engagements. He was also one of two employees chosen by the national office to be mentored by Manhattan-based CEO Bob Moritz; never before, or since, has an employee from the Salt Lake City office been chosen for such an honor. Trevor graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from Utah State University and is a licensed CPA and member of the UACPA and AICPA.
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About Pelion Venture Partners: Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
Erik Berg
Co-founder & VP Product of Tomorrow Ideas
Erik Berg is a founder at Wealthfile.com .
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About Earlybirdy, Tomorrow Ideas, Wealthfile.com: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Kevin McGowan
Vice President Of Product Management of HqO
Kevin McGowan is the Vice President of Product Management at HqO.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Manish Barmecha
VP Product of HqO
Manish Barmecha is WordStream’s Senior Vice President of Product. Manish is responsible for defining WordStream’s product strategy and for product management and design. Prior to joining WordStream, Manish was Head of Product Management in the Software as a Service (SaaS) unit at Infosys, where he helped build the eCommerce and Social Collaboration software businesses. Before that, Manish headed Product Management at Demandware, an eCommerce SaaS company, and held product leadership roles at Art Technology Group (ATG), where he managed multiple product lines, led entry into new markets, and led the integration of an acquisition. Prior to ATG, Manish was a Senior Associate with McKinsey & Company where he served Global 2000 clients on strategy and marketing issues. Manish holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA (summa cum laude) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lawrence University.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Anjali Peri
Vice President Business Development of SitterFriends
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About SitterFriends: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free
Joshua Feldman
VP of Product of Raya
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About Raya: Raya is an online membership-based community for dating, networking, and making new friends.
Ernest Hursh
Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Slice Labs
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Elan Mosbacher
SVP of Strategy and Operations of SpotHero
Elan Mosbacher is a Chicago-based startup marketing & business development executive. He is currently SVP of Strategy & Operations at SpotHero. He previously served as VP of Strategy & Business development as well as VP of Marketing , joining the company following the seed round of funding as the company’s first executive hire. Prior to SpotHero, Elan was the 1st marketing hire in venture-backed startups in ecommerce & B2B sofware-as-a-service companies. Elan has a BS in Finance, as well as an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Matt Sullivan
VP of Sales of SpotHero
In his three years of holding sales leadership roles at SpotHero, Matt has driven a variety of strategic initiatives that capture demand, increase efficiency and maximize revenue for SpotHero’s parking partners in markets across all of North America. He now leads SpotHero’s entire sales organization as Head of Supply. Matt hails from San Diego and graduated from UC San Diego, and he has a proven track record of success over 20+ years of customer service, account management and sales management.
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About SpotHero, SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Sameer Khanna
SVP of Engineering of Pager
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About Pager: Virtual care technology platform that provides communication, collaboration, navigation, and care coordination solutions.
Stephan Galfas
Co-Founder, President and Executive Vice President of Product of Activation, Inc.
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About Activation, Inc., International Talent Organization, Miss Molly Records: Connecting Brand Enthusiasts on Mobile
David Olsen
Vice President, Quality Assurance, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs of AgaMatrix
Vice President Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance & Clinical Affairs at AgaMatrix.
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About AgaMatrix: AgaMatrix develops and manufactures a line of diabetes products designed to improve the quality of diabetes care.
Merrick Theobald
Vice President, Marketing of BILLMO, LLC
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About BILLMO, LLC: BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
Denise Delisle
Vice President, Operations and Compliance of BILLMO, LLC
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About BILLMO, LLC: BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
Karl Schultz
SVP, Global IT of Spring Global
Mr. Schultz has over seventeen years of information technology experience in the software industry. Mr. Schultz came to Spring Mobile Solutions from Oracle where he served as the IT organization’s liaison to the Hardware Systems division that was formed out of the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Previously, Mr. Schultz served as CIO and VP of Information Systems for Skywire Software, an insurance software company with 600 employees and 2,400 customers worldwide that was acquired by Oracle in 2008. Mr. Schultz also served as CTO for Attenza Corporation, a SaaS provider of customer support and knowledge management solutions used by companies like Dell, Radio Shack, and Aon Corporation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schultz worked for a variety of companies and consulting firms where he specialized in the development of business applications and the IT environments to run them. Mr. Schultz holds a BBA degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University.
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About : Spring Mobile Solutions offers cloud-based, out-of-the box mobile applications designed to optimize medium to large field force operations.
Falko Buttler
VP of Engineering of PlushCare
VP of Engineering at PlushCare. • 8+ years of interdisciplinary, global software development team leadership experience • Proven track record to deliver on time with high quality; experience to achieve project goals even within tight project constraints • Significant experience scaling engineering teams, recruiting and retaining exceptional talent in very competitive markets
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About Free Agent, PlushCare: PlushCare is a tech-enabled concierge primary care practice built for the healthcare industry.
Greg Silvey
Executive Vice President of Babyscripts
Senior Healthcare Executive in Sales Leadership functions at multiple start up’s and Fortune 15 organizations. Has lead Divisions at Cardinal Health and PSS World Medical. Most recently is the Senior Vice President at Envera Health.
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About Babyscripts, Envera Health: Babyscripts is a clinically validated, digital healthcare company that delivers risk-specific care to pregnant mothers at any time.
Shounak Lahiri
VP of Product and R&D of Twistle
Shounak Lahiri is the VP of Product and R&D at Twistle.
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About Twistle: Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery.
Kevin Shawver
VP Marketing & Operations of Dolly
Kevin Shawver is the VP of Marketing at Dolly.
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About Dolly: Dolly is a customer service company offering delivery and services through mobile apps at an affordable price.
Scott Kinzie
VP of Marketing and Business Development of SmugMug
A driven, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and proven marketing leader with years of senior level marketing, brand, and creative management experience. I’m an visionary brand strategist and brand equity architect with a strong bias for action. Passionate about developing audience and objective centric messaging and creative. Vision, Mission and Culture matter. Bold ideas and clever solutions win.
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About SmugMug: SmugMug is a photo sharing website that allows its users to store, share and sell their photos online. They also own & operate Flickr.
Ivan Makarov
VP of Finance of SmugMug
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About SmugMug: SmugMug is a photo sharing website that allows its users to store, share and sell their photos online. They also own & operate Flickr.
Fej Shmuelevitz
VP Community & Operations of Waze
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About Waze: Waze is a mobile navigation app that enables drivers to use live maps, and get real-time traffic updates and other road data.
Jon Coley
Senior Vice President, Sales & Success of Device Magic
Jon Coley serves as a Senior Vice President, Sales at Device Magic.
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About Device Magic: Device Magic replaces paper forms and processes for organizations across the world.
Karthic Bala
EVP & Chief Data Officer of Condé Nast
Karthic Bala is currently the Head of Data Strategy at Condé Nast. His team focuses on using data and statistical modeling techniques to create innovative solutions. Has over twenty years of experience in handling technology and large data systems to drive competitive advantage and monetize data.
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About Condé Nast: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Stephen Philip
VP of Marketing of AppDome
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About AppDome: AppDome allows mobile developers and enterprise mobility professionals to rapidly integrate mobile apps and services without coding.
Kyle Liu
Co-founder & VP of iOS Development of Shyft Technologies
Co-founder & VP of iOS Development at Shyft.
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About Shyft Technologies: Shyft Technologie is a tech company developing mobile apps for coworkers and teams.
Maher Hanafi
VP, Engineering of Thrive Global
Engineering executive with years of experience leading teams building world class full stack systems and native mobile applications with global reach and millions of users. Entrepreneur, Founder in Technology and Digital Marketing
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About Thrive Global: Thrive develops technology that help individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance.
San Wai Oo
VP Engineering of Astro Technology
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About Astro Technology: Astro has been acquired by Slack! We’ve shut down our apps, but you can find us at Slack making email and channels work better together
Alex Wu
Vice President, Marketing and Partnerships of HomeCourt
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About HomeCourt: HomeCourt is an interactive basketball app that acts as a personal skills trainer for basketball players.
Geoff Greve
Senior Vice President of OEM & IOT Division of Total Communicator Solutions
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About Total Communicator Solutions, Total Communicator Solutions: Total Communicator Solutions provides a platform that enables marketers to send targeted offers and messages to customers.
Bart Geiser
EVP of Global Sales of First Orion
Bart has an M.S.H. (Making Stuff Happen) in business development from the university of blood, sweat and tears where he’s spent the past 25 years. He performs in results-driven roles spanning anywhere from the Golf industry to financial and marketing services to founding entrepreneurships. To put it in his words, “When you can do anything, the difficult part is choosing!” Inspired by perfection, Bart has cultivated, consulted and closed several multi-million-dollar opportunities in his lifetime, and we’re thrilled he shares his confidence and enthusiasm with First Orion.
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About First Orion: First Orion allows businesses to brand communications, revealing the who and why behind the call to deliver enhanced customer experiences.
Dave Mathews
Vice President of onedine
Inventor with more than 72 pending or granted patents, technology expert in print and television converged media and serial entrepreneur. Dave was on the early stage teams for Sling Media makers of the Slingbox, boxee.tv where he helped them win the 2008 iStage startup competition and inventor of the CueCat the first ever consumer barcode reader and “Shazam” for TV which Time magazine called one of the worst inventions of the decade. It is the most hacked consumer gadget to this day. Currently founder of NewAer, makers of a proximity platform – a SDK to make smartphones truly smart by automating actions to take place based upon a phone’s proximity with other people, places or things. NewAer has been called the operating system for the Internet of things by Fierce Wireless, one of the top 10 companies to watch in the mobile space and was winner of best technology in the inaugural LAUNCH competition, a spinoff of TechCrunch 50.
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About NewAer, onedine: onedine is pioneering guest-side technology solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industries
Rahul Bindlish
VP of Sales of Grid Dynamics
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About Grid Dynamics: Grid Dynamics is a provider of in driving enterprise-level digital transformation solutions in Fortune 500 corporations.
Mark Schmidt
Executive Vice President of Operations of ToDoolie
Mark Schmidt is VP of Operations at ToDoolie Inc. & Mark Schmidt is also Founder & Principal Start-Up Operations Consultant at Support Hacker. Mark Schmidt has 10+ years of experience as an early employee at high growth, eventual unicorns and household names, tech start-ups like Google Ventures (GV), Mozilla (Firefox), Duo Security, Barracuda Networks and more. Mark Schmidt is a mentor and adviser to start-up founders, with a focus on developing customer focused business operations. Mark Schmidt is always open to adviser and mentorship relationships with startup founders. Don’t be afraid to reach out! Mark Schmidt holds a bachelor’s degree in Technology Business Management from Eastern Michigan University and is actively pursuing technology focused MBA programs.
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About Support Hacker, ToDoolie: ToDoolie is a social platform that allows users to hire local students to help with simple outdoor tasks.
John Garbarino
EVP Business Development of Five
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About Five, WhoWeUse: Five is a development firm that offers product design, development, growth marketing, mobile apps, and software services.
Sandy Yu
VP, Marketing and Product Management of EmployeeChannel
Sandy Yu owns and drives the company’s marketing and product direction with an intense focus on delivering innovative, intuitive, and highly differentiated products at a start-up pace. Sandy has experience managing the entire product lifecycle, from early concepts and prototypes, to market releases, to broad market penetration, to a position of market dominance evidenced by a loyal and referenceable base of partners and customers. She has more than 15 years experience in product management and development for consumer, corporate, and educational organizations, and she is a highly motivated, passionate, and innovative thinker. Sandy has experience and expertise in eCommerce, web, and mobile strategy, and has provided leadership in product development, analysis, and project and program management for companies such as Autodesk, Avid Technology, Digidesign, and the University of California, Davis. Sandy has a B.A. in Economics from UCD and an M.B.A. from SFSU.
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About EmployeeChannel: A leading provider of mobile apps for employee engagement and communication.
Steven Bailey
VP, Sales of EmployeeChannel
Steve leads EmployeeChannel’s enterprise sales team and drives both strategic and tactical initiatives to meet the company’s growth objectives for revenue, profitability, and market dominance. He is responsible for growing market share while fostering high degrees of customer satisfaction. Steve has a proven track record of delivering consistent top-line revenue growth, recruiting and developing world-class sales teams, and ensuring that the customer voice is reflected in the company’s decision making. Steve is an experienced enterprise sales executive in the HR technology marketplace, having recently served as the Vice President of Sales, North America at Cornerstone OnDemand, a leader in talent management software. Prior to joining Cornerstone, Steve served as a Regional Vice President of Sales at SumTotal Systems, a provider of Human Capital Management solutions, and as a Regional Sales Manager at Concur Technologies, a provider of T&E Management Solutions. Steve has a B.A. in Liberal Arts, from DePauw University.
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About EmployeeChannel: A leading provider of mobile apps for employee engagement and communication.
Derckjan Kruit
Co-Founder and Vice President of Corporate Development of Mendix
Derckjan Kruit co-founded Mendix and has been instrumental in leading its growth across the company’s operational, financial, and customer-service operations. Today he spearheads a wide range of strategic initiatives and works closely with internal and external teams to ensure that Mendix continues to adapt, improve, and grow. Derckjan holds a Master of Science degree from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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About Mendix: Mendix is the fastest and easiest high-productivity platform to create and continuously improve multi-channel applications at scale.
Pat Griffin
VP, Sales and Marketing of Retrieve
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About Retrieve: The Retrieve platform offers a fully collaborative, modern digital experience for learning and communication.
Robert Gleason
Vice President of Business Development of seatXchange
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About seatXchange: SeatXchange gives fans unprecedented access and control to upgrade their live-event experience.
Landon McDowell
VP of Operations and Platform Engineering of Linden Lab
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About Linden Lab: Linden Lab creates platforms that allow people to create, share, and monetize their own virtual experiences.
Olly Jones
VP – Business Development of PayWith
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About PayWith: PayWith is a mobile application development firm that enables businesses to track data and run gifting, marketing, and loyalty campaigns.
David A. Stewart
Vice President of Sales of Camera IQ
David A. Stewart currently works as Vice President of Sales at Camera IQ.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Derek Jones
VP Business Development, Americas of Deputy
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About Deputy: Deputy is an employee management tool, simplifying scheduling, timesheets, tasks and workplace communication.
Henry Katz
VP of Engineering of RapidSOS
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About RapidSOS: RapidSOS is a creator of an emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data to 911 and first responders.
Wybe Schutte
VP Business Development of Newzoo
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About Newzoo: Newzoo is the world’s leading provider of games and esports data and insights.
Jennifer Ives
Senior Vice President | Global Partnerships & Alliances of 3Pillar Global
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About 3Pillar Global, Chief: 3Pillar Global is a software product development company providing solutions in the areas of mobile applications and SaaS-based enablement.
Sri Karthik
Senior Vice President and Partner of Innovapptive
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About Innovapptive: Innovapptive is a connected workforce platform that connects worker solutions for teams in maintenance, operations, and supply chain.
Christopher Malone
VP, Strategy & Growth of GroundTruth
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About GroundTruth, The Boston Consulting Group: GroundTruth, the leading location technology company that drives results with real-world data.
Venkat Ramasamy
SVP Product Marketing of FileCloud
Venkat leads operations, business development, sales and marketing functions at CodeLathe. He comes with over 15 years of experience as a Product Development Manager at Schlumberger and as a Product Manager at Garmin. Venkat holds a MBA from University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Texas Tech University.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Manoj Mohandas
SVP, Global Sales of FileCloud
Manoj leads partnerships, channel development, sales and various business development activities for CodeLathe. He comes with 15+ years of experience in driving strategic solutions to several small/large/distributed organizations such as General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Gannett, Edmunds and Real Estate MLS associations. Manoj holds Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Sathya Ramanathan
SVP, Engineering of FileCloud
Sathya leads the software development team at CodeLathe. Before CodeLathe, he was Director of Software Development building software solutions for the travel industry and has over 15 years of experience developing software products using many software technologies including ASP.NET, C#, C++, PHP and more. Sathya holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Texas Tech University.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Anis Abdul
SVP, Chief Architect of FileCloud
Anis drives technology innovation and overall mobile technology vision for the company. Before CodeLathe, he spent over 13 years at IBM’s Server division, overseeing design, engineering and architecture for embedded firmware. He holds over 17 patents in reliability and redundancy of server systems. Anis’s experience enables bringing in highly scalable and efficient architectures to CodeLathe’s products and services. When not working on CodeLathe’s software, Anis spends his time capturing breathtaking vistas of distant galaxies using his astro photography equipment from his backyard. Anis holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Texas A&M.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Rada Sethuraman
SVP, Technology Operations & Support of FileCloud
Rada handles storage system technology and architecture and customer solutions at CodeLathe. Before CodeLathe, he spent over 13 years at IBM and has experience in server, database technologies and highly scalable and highly available systems. He also holds over 23 patents in various server networking functional areas. A Linux guru and expert, he co-authored a book on the Linux Standard (Amazon). Rada holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Texas Tech University.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Alexander Tishchenko
SVP of Evil Martians
Co-Founder and SVP at Evil Martians, co-founder at Amplifr
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About Amplifr, Evil Martians: Evil Martians is a product development consultancy that works with startups and established businesses, and creates OSS-based products.
Jason Sweet
Vice President of Sales of Salesfloor
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About Salesfloor: Salesfloor is a mobile platform designed for store associates to connect with customers-beyond the store.
Don Austin
VP of Zco Corporation
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About Zco Corporation: Award Winning Mobile App Development & Custom Software
Rich Taylor
Executive Vice President & Co-Founder of FinTech Studios
Sr. Vice President and Co-Founder at FinTech Studios .
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About FinTech Studios: AI-based market intelligence and regulatory intelligence platform for Wall Street
Steve Kalman
VP Bus. Strategy of Parle Innovation Inc. (Pi)
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About : Transforming fan engagement at live events.
Matt Baker
VP of Operations of Broadly
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About Broadly: Broadly is a mobile-first communications platform that ensures that your business looks great online.
John Parides
Vice President, User Acqusition of Radish
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About Radish: Radish is a mobile fiction platform for serialized storytelling.
Ed Gillen
VP of Operations of Vivify Health
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About Vivify Health: Vivify Health delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic, and ecosystem-connected remote care management platform.
Dunnie Norman
Senior Vice President of Sales of Vivify Health
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About Vivify Health: Vivify Health delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic, and ecosystem-connected remote care management platform.
David Lucas
Vice President of Strategic Sales of Vivify Health
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About Vivify Health: Vivify Health delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic, and ecosystem-connected remote care management platform.
Adrian Gross
SVP Marketing of Keyo
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About Keyo: Keyo is an end-to-end apartment rental service
Michele McPherson-Terry
Co-Founder & VP, Systems of NeighborHub
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About Aristocrat Technologies, NeighborHub: NeighborHub changes the way you apartment live.
Pat Watson
VP, Industry Relations of TrueCar
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About TrueCar: TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its users to communicate with TrueCar certified dealers.
Marla Hunter
VP, People of TrueCar
Marla Hunter heads up the People team at TrueCar and ALG, overseeing human resources, recruiting and corporate culture functions for both organizations. Under her leadership, TrueCar has grown from 93 employees in 2010 to its current combined 300 employees. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in management, leadership and organizational development across a wide variety of industries. She joined TrueCar from Brown Development in Lahaina, Hawaii, where she directed all phases of operations for multi-million dollar development projects. Previously, Hunter was General Manager/HR Operations for the Yucaipa Companies. At Yucaipa, she oversaw the day-to-day operations as well as managed large-budget special projects, including the conversion of a historical landmark building into luxury office spaces. She began her career with a successful start-up endeavor, Doctors On Call, building a tourist-oriented medical services business from the ground up.
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About ALG, TrueCar: TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its users to communicate with TrueCar certified dealers.
Krishnan Subramanian
Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy of CloudMunch
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About CloudMunch, Rishidot Research: CloudMunch is democratizing DevOps by providing a powerful, extensible, full stack platform to make continuous delivery of applications &
Ted Verani
VP Business Development of wappier
A veteran in mobile technology companies, Ted Verani is VP of Business Development for wappier, where he is responsible for business development and strategic partnerships with game developers, publishers, and platform providers. Prior to joining wappier, Ted was VP of Business Development for Scientific Revenue, a pioneer of dynamic pricing for mobile games. For nearly 20 years, Ted has held leadership roles in creating innovative consumer facing mobile services with technology companies like Trilibis Mobile, Enpocket (acquired by Nokia) and Jumbuck, as well as wireless carriers’ Vodafone and AirTouch (now Verizon Wireless).
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About wappier: Re-inventing entertainment technology for the metaverse era.
Brandon Walker
VP Sales of Untappd
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About Untappd: Untappd is an app that enables users to socially share and explore the world of beer with others.
Bryon Thomas
VP Worldwide Demand Generation of EasyVista
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About EasyVista: ITSM and Self Help Software That Makes it Easy to Deliver Services to Employees and Customers
Mike Schwartzberg
VP of Sales and Client Success of Motive Interactive
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About Motive Interactive, Motive Interactive: Motive Interactive is a data-driven performance marketing company that helps top brands acquire quality users at scale.
George Tate
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Emplify
George Tate is the senior vice president of sales at Emplify.
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About Emplify: Emplify is an employee engagement measurement that enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback.
Joseph Loria
Vice President of Customer Success of Emplify
Joseph Loria brings over 15 years of expertise to his role leading the Emplify (powered by Bluebridge) customer success function, where he and his team of customer success and technical services professionals are responsible for the full customer experience, from onboarding and education through support and retention. Previously, Joseph held vice president roles at auto-dealer data management company One View, Inc. and association management software company WebLink International. He also developed and managed the professional services practice at Autobase, Inc. which was named twice to both the Inc. 500 and to Deloitte’s Technology Fast Growth 500.
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About Emplify: Emplify is an employee engagement measurement that enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback.
Joseph Loria
Vice President of Customer Success of Emplify
Joseph Loria brings over 15 years of expertise to his role leading the Emplify (powered by Bluebridge) customer success function, where he and his team of customer success and technical services professionals are responsible for the full customer experience, from onboarding and education through support and retention. Previously, Joseph held vice president roles at auto-dealer data management company One View, Inc. and association management software company WebLink International. He also developed and managed the professional services practice at Autobase, Inc. which was named twice to both the Inc. 500 and to Deloitte’s Technology Fast Growth 500.
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About Emplify: Emplify is an employee engagement measurement that enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback.
Keith Curtin
VP Business Development (US) of Zappar
Keith Curtin is an Entrepreneur, Brand Marketing Executive & Technology Evangelist specializing in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality & Mixed Reality. He has been named #1 on Onayltica’s “Augmented Reality Top 100 Brands & Influencers” list. Additionally, Keith has consulted with hundreds of Fortune 1000 global brands to develop and execute their first Augmented Reality & Mixed Reality campaigns including: Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestle, Kraft Foods, Kellogg’s, Mondelez, Mars Foods, Disney, Nickelodeon, Walmart, Anheuser Busch, Heineken, LVMH, Diageo and many others.
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About Blippar, Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.