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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Mobile 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.
Jesse Greenberg
VP of Engineering of Attentive
Jesse Greenberg is the VP of engineering at Attentive.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Brooke Burdge
SVP of Marketing of Attentive
SVP of Marketing / Founding team at Attentive®
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Andrea Chesleigh
VP of Product of Boxed
Andrea Chesleigh is the VP of product at Boxed.
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
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.
Greg O’Connor
Vice President, Network Core and Access of Sprint
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Charles McKee
Vice President, Government Affairs Federal and State Regulatory of Sprint
Vice President, Government Affairs Federal and State Regulatory at Sprint.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Manish Goyal
SVP of Revenue and Base Management of Sprint
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About Berkshire Partners, Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Joseph Martin
VP, Wireless Solution Enablement of Sprint
Joseph Martin is Vice President–Wireless Solutions Enablement at Sprint Business. Joe manages an organization that provides advanced wireless business solution sales support across all channels & segments. He is responsible for a dedicated Sprint Business Contact Center in Denver (WSTS) for managed customer trials–Sprint Try-BuySM, all SaaS deployments and the delivery of Sprint Care Free CloudSM. Joe started his career with the Department of Energy. Joe began his career with Sprint as part of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph in 1988 and held positions responsible for Sales & Service focused in the “edge-out” markets. He also served as Director, Sales & Service, for business customers at United Telephone of Florida, and was heavily involved with the first Sprint CLEC (Orlando), with direct responsibility for LD field sales. Joe has extensive experience in the “inter-connect” business, customer premise equipment, cable television consulting for municipal and county government, including primary market research. Joe attended undergraduate school at Virginia Tech and graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joe resides in Overland Park, Kansas, near the Sprint HQ, with his wife of 40 years, Randolph.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Ron Marquardt
VP of Technology of Sprint
As Vice President of Technology for Sprint, Dr. Marquardt is responsible for Sprint’s long-term technology strategy and architecture, the industry relationships and investments enabling Sprint’s innovation and ecosystem development goals, as well as the company’s advocacy in US and global industry forums and standards bodies. He also represents Sprint at speaking engagements, in press and analyst interviews, and as needed with regulatory bodies and other industry stakeholders. Prior to Sprint, Dr. Marquardt was VP of Technology Development at Clearwire Corporation, responsible for that company’s technology strategy as well as the architecture, design, testing, and implementation of its mobile broadband 4G network, devices, and services. He also was CTO at Covad Communications where he led teams responsible for the engineering and network planning of VoIP, wireless, and broadband services across the United States. Prior to that role, he was in various positions at network equipment manufacturers. Dr. Marquardt has an S.B. in Physics from MIT, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Bryan Fries
VP – 5G Marketing Strategy + Global Services of Sprint
Bryan Fries leads Sprint’s 5G market strategy and ecosystem development. He engages with current and prospective industry partners to understand how consumers will use 5G, identifying areas where Sprint’s assets and capabilities are uniquely suited to meet those needs. He is particularly passionate about 5G’s intersection with gaming and eSports.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
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.
Brendan Lewis
Vice President, Communications of Expa
Brendan Lewis is the VP of Communications at Expa.
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About Expa, Grubhub: Expa supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.
Pio Schunker
EVP, Global Head Brand Marketing of Samsung Electronics
Pio Schunker is a global integrated brand marketing expert, with a proven track record of unparalleled capability and craft. Schunker, known for his expertise in brand marketing and advertising, has won several distinguished international awards over the course of his career, of which have included two Cannes Marketer of the Year awards (for Coca Cola and Samsung) as well as an Emmy Award for best commercial.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sang Ahn
Vice President and General Manager, Samsung Pay of Samsung Electronics
Sang Ahn is the VP & General Manager of Samsung Pay, Inc., responsible for driving the business and operations of Samsung’s mobile wallet in the U.S. Sang Ahn has been involved in Samsung Pay from day one by leading the investment and then strategic acquisition of a proprietary technology that became the basis for Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). Today he leads teams in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City working closely with Samsung divisions in the U.S. and Korea. Sang Ahn also leads the commercialization of select Samsung services in the identity management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, and mobile browser spaces for the U.S. market. He reports to the Global SVP of Services at Samsung Electronics. Previously Sang Ahn was the Managing Director and Head of East Coast Investments for Samsung’s Global Innovation Center (GIC). GIC builds, buys, invests, and partners with innovative startups that can make a strategic impact for Samsung. At Samsung he invested in LoopPay (payments, acquired by Samsung), Automated Insights (language processing, acquired by Vista Equity) and Wevr (software and content for virtual reality). Prior to Samsung, Sang Ahn was a Principal at Dawntreader Ventures (a $300mm venture fund based in New York) where he served as a lead investor and Board Director of companies that have been acquired by leading technology companies such as Google, EMC, VeriSign, and IAC. As an entrepreneur, Sang Ahn was the founder and President of Glenkirk Advisors (technology advisory) and Founder & CEO of AhnWalker Therapeutics (novel drug development). Sang Ahn is a current Board Director of MarketFactory, an emerging financial technology company. Sang Ahn is a husband and father of two daughters and resides in Palo Alto, CA.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
John Godfrey
Vice President of Public Policy of Samsung Electronics
John Godfrey is Vice President of Public Policy for Samsung Electronics America, a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. Based in Washington, D.C., he represents Samsung in external relations with government and industry, focusing on communications policy and technical regulations related to digital television, wireless spectrum, health care, environment, broadband, accessibility, and other areas. An active participant in the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Godfrey is a member of the CEA Foundation’s Board of Trustees, the Video Division Board, and the Government Affairs Council, among other groups. He is also a current member and past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the standards developing organization for digital television broadcasting. Prior to joining Samsung in 2006, Godfrey was vice president of government affairs for Pioneer North America; and previously, he was director of government affairs for Sony Electronics, also in Washington. Earlier, he was with the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade association of leading information technology companies; the National Research Council, the policy research arm of the National Academies of Science and Engineering; and SRI International. Godfrey has a Master of Arts degree in Telecommunications from George Washington University, a Master of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Texas.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Alok Shah
VP Strategy and Business Development & Marketing of Samsung Electronics
Alok Shah is the Vice President of Strategy, BD, & Marketing for Samsung Electronics America, where he steers strategic direction, leads all aspects of corporate communications, and monitors regulatory impact for Samsung’s North American Networks division. Previously, Alok led technical marketing, including consumer messaging, market requirements, and regulatory impact, for Samsung’s US Mobile division.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jaeyeon Jung
Corporate Vice President of Samsung Electronics
Jaeyeon Jung is a vice president for service R&D at Mobile Communications Business in Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining Samsung, she was a principal security architect at Microsoft Research (2011-2016) and a research scientist at Intel Labs Seattle (2007-2011) after a brief stint as a software architect at Mazu networks (2006-2007). She obtained her PhD from MIT in 2006. Currently, she leads various cloud service engineering efforts in Samsung including the IoT backend service.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Alan Robles
Vice President Retail Design & Development of Samsung Electronics
Over 24 years exploring the relationship between users and their surroundings, Alan’s been creating experience environments for clients and projects of every scale around the world. In his role at Gensler he explores the opportunities found at the fringes of the design practice, searching for the edges of the play space of each design opportunity. As Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and digital media have become a more significant part of the engagement and development of “place”, he’s focused his work on exploring the interplay between content and context. Developing the tools for creating stories in places with special attention to the value those stories help communicate within the experience environment.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Stefan Heuser
Vice President, Operations and Innovation – Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) of Samsung Electronics
CEO at Siemens Technology-to-Business
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Bill Lee
Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Electronics Retail Operations of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Drew Blackard
Vice President, Mobile Product Management of Samsung Electronics
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jack Ahn
Vice President of Samsung Electronics
Samsung DeX is another notable accomplishment of the dedicated technical minds at Samsung. They’ve tirelessly pursued creating new possibilities for technologies to help users break preconceived notions of what they can and cannot do or how they are “supposed” to use their devices. Jack truly appreciates being part of Samsung DeX. Prior to joining Samsung, Jack focused on delivering mobile and mobility solutions to enterprise customers. At Samsung, Jack is responsible for Knox and Knox related services along with Samsung DeX, Email, Samsung Focus, and Smart Key services. Jack enjoys problem solving with engineers from all walks of life.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Raj Krishnan
Vice President Of Product Management of Noom
Raj Krishnan is VP Product at Noom
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
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.
Stephen Olmstead
VP, Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO of InVision
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Brandon Wolf
Vice President, User Enablement of InVision
Brandon Wolf is the Vice President of User Enablement for InVision, overseeing a global support team of 30+ team members including customer advocacy, support engineering, customer education, and internal tools. He is charged with managing divisional personnel, deliveries, growth and scalability to address thousands of tickets per month. Brandon is responsible for InVision’s systematic and customer-first approach, which is an extension of our platform and has consistently earned over 98% ticket satisfaction rating over the last two years. Prior to InVision, Brandon served as the Manager of Customer Advocacy and Support Engineering at Zendesk.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Matt Kamen
SVP Engineering of Foursquare
As vice president of engineering and head of enterprise, monetization, and core technology, Matt oversees some of Foursquare’s most distinctive work, including our revenue-driving engineering products—Pinpoint, Attribution, Place Insights, Native Ads and our Places developer tools—as well as Pilgrim, the venues database, and all of our data science and machine learning teams. Prior to joining Foursquare in 2011, Matt worked in search and web technologies for Goldman Sachs. A musician at heart—he plays the bass—he’s also a luthier. Born and raised in Manhattan and a Harvard graduate, he now lives in Washington Heights with his family.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Clint Balcom
Chief Product Officer & SVP, Design of JioSaavn
Clint Balcom is the Chief Product Officer & SVP, Design at [Saavn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saavn#/entity), an online music service that enables its users to access Indian, Bollywood, and international content. He also serves as the creative director of [212] MEDIA. Previously, he was the founder and principal of Balcom & Nobody. Balcom holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Boston University. He lives in New York, United States.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Gavin Byrne
SVP Special Projects of JioSaavn
Gavin Byrne is the vice president of product at [Saavn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saavn#/entity), an online music service that enables its users to access Indian, Bollywood, and international content. Previously, he was the director of content operations at the same company. Byrne has studied at Fordham University. He lives in New York, United States.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Barry Vandevier
Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President of Asurion
Barry is responsible for Asurion’s expanding IT portfolio of support and services, including Business and Enterprise Architecture, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Application Development, Front and Back Office Operations, and Asurion’s Mobile Applications (AMA) business. Barry began his career as an industrial engineer interning with American Airlines, where he was focused on business process optimization and staffing algorithms for most aspects of airport operations. He later joined Sabre as a software developer, supporting agency and hotel reservation products before moving to the company’s Travelocity division, as a lead software developer. During his tenure at Travelocity, Barry was instrumental in the creation of the online agency’s site functionality and was ultimately named Chief Technology Officer, responsible for all decisions about the site’s technical direction and architecture. Barry was later named CIO of Sabre, where was responsible for Sabre’s technology organization supporting its Software-as-a-Service businesses in agency distribution, airline products and reservation services, and hospitality services. Barry earned a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
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About Asurion, Asurion: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Ramanujam Rao
Vice President of Asurion
Ram has been in the software industry for around 20 years, His current responsibilities includes, driving global enterprise cloud strategy and adoption, development of the data lake-based enterprise analytics platform to support traditional reporting, BI, predictive modeling and data science. He is also accountable for Asurion global technology strategy, R&D and technology innovation. Prior to Asurion, he was CTO at Nationwide Insurance. He is a published author and an active speaker. Ram has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Computer Science and M.B.A. from Ohio State University. He has an Executive Certificate from MIT, Sloan
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About Asurion: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Greg Newton
Vice President Product Engineering of Asurion
Greg leads the software engineering efforts for Asurion’s Soluto premium tech help business. Under his leadership, his team recently drove the next-generation upgrade of our internal customer engagement platform called “Soluto Connect,” which helps Asurion tech experts provide faster, more accurate technical support and technical problem resolution for our clients’ customers. This, in turn, has led to a better overall experience for customers. Greg joined Asurion’s Technology organization in 2013 as senior director of application development and delivery for Asurion’s Soluto premium tech help product. His team developed and maintained the technical product roadmap and work with project portfolio management to ensure quality control for all Soluto-related projects. Prior to joining Asurion, Greg led software development teams in the technology industry, including start-ups, mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies. Greg holds a Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Asurion: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
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.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Rob MacKethan
VP of Insurance of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
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.
Steve Woodworth
Vice President of Business Development of Prompt.io
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About Prompt.io: Prompt.io is a simple, scalable solution for communicating with customers in their preferred medium messaging.
Aswin Shibu
VP of Sales of MixRank
VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.
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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation
Eoghan Geoghegan
Vice President of Business Development of MomentFeed
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About MomentFeed: MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.
Baoqiu Cui
VP & Chairman of Technical Committee of Xiaomi
In June 2012, he joined Xiaomi and built up the Xiaomi Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Platform team. He has led Xiaomi’s “Cloud Computing-Big Data-Artificial Intelligence” technology development route。He is the chairman of the Group technical committee . Dr. CUI, Baoqiu graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Xiaomi, he worked in IBM Silicon Valley Lab, Yahoo! and LinkedIn, working on technology development and management in database, search engine, machine learning, big data, social networking and more.
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About Xiaomi: Xiaomi is an electronics and software company that focuses on mobile devices and technology.
Bryan Ingram
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division of Broadcom
Bryan Ingram is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Wireless Semiconductor Division (WSD). Mr. Ingram served as Chief Operating Officer of Avago Technologies from April 2013 until October 2015. In this role, he led all Avago product development and manufacturing. From 2007 to 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division where he oversaw the development, production and marketing of Avago RF and wireless components used in handsets, cellular infrastructure and satellite applications. From 2005 to 2007, he was Vice President of WSD. Prior to the founding of Avago from the Agilent Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) in 2005, Mr. Ingram was Vice President and General Manager of the SPG Wireless Semiconductor Division. Mr. Ingram holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Michael E. Hurlston
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division of Broadcom
Michael Hurlston is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division. He is responsible for the company’s mobility products. Prior to his current role, he held senior leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and General Management. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2001, Mr. Hurlston held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Micro Power Systems, Exar and IC Works. Mr. Hurlston earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom, Synaptics: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Boon Chye Ooi
Senior Vice President, Global Operations of Broadcom
Boon Chye Ooi is Senior Vice President, Global Operations at Broadcom, responsible for managing worldwide manufacturing, outsourcing, procurement and logistics, planning and quality programs. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since January 2009. From November 2003 until 2008, Mr. Ooi was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Xilinx, where he was responsible for all worldwide plant operations, supply chain processes, inventory controls, as well as contract electronic component manufacturers. Prior to Xilinx, Mr. Ooi had a long career at Intel, where he served in a variety of management positions.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Lorenzo Longo
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Physical Layer Products Division of Broadcom
Lorenzo Longo is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Physical Layer Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s physical interconnect and automotive Ethernet products. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, Mr. Longo served as Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Newport Communications. He also held senior engineering positions at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Newbridge Networks and Bell-Northern Research. Mr. Longo earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University at Ottawa, Canada.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Rob Greer
VP & GM of Broadcom
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Hassan Hussain
Vice President and General Manager, Motion Control Products Division of Broadcom
Hassan Hussain is Vice President and General Manager of the Motion Control Products Division. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2006. He oversees the development, production, marketing and sales of motion control products used in factory, industrial and office automation. Prior to his current role, Mr. Hussain held a variety of management positions within the Optoelectronics and Disk Drive divisions at H-P and Agilent. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Hussain was a Process Engineer at Motorola Semiconductor.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Ed Redmond
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compute and Connectivity Division of Broadcom
Ed Redmond is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Compute and Connectivity (CCX) division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for Ethernet controllers, connectivity switches, Knowledge-Based Processors and ARM-based SoCs. Mr. Redmond joined Broadcom in 2010 after serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager at NextWave Wireless, where he led a merchant silicon chipset business unit delivering a leadership 4G wireless solution including a broadcast over WiMax service. Prior to joining NextWave he served in various engineering leadership roles at Intel in both wired and wireless networking, including where he delivered the first several products and customer programs for the launch and subsequent volume ramp of Intel’s Centrino Mobile Technology Wi-Fi modules. Mr. Redmond received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in Communications and Digital Signal Processing from Santa Clara University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Rich Nelson
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division of Broadcom
Rich Nelson is Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for driving worldwide set-top box and cable modem strategies to enable services to and throughout the home, with system-on-a-chip solutions targeting end products and end markets. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1995, Mr. Nelson served as a U.S. consumer accounts sales manager at LSI. Mr. Nelson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Anthony Maslowski
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom
Anthony Maslowski is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Broadcom. Mr. Maslowski joined Avago, now Broadcom, in 2006 as Vice President of Internal Audit. Prior to that role, Mr. Maslowski served as the Chief Financial Officer for Allegro Manufacturing and before that, he held senior finance management positions at Lam Research and Hitachi Data Systems. Mr. Maslowski holds a B.A. in Business Administration from University of Michigan.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Jim Bland
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Controller Division of Broadcom
Jim Bland is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Controller Division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for silicon solutions for the hard disk drive and custom solid-state drive (SSD) markets. Previously, he was vice president of sales and marketing for the Data Controller Division and Storage Peripherals Division at LSI, with responsibility for marketing and sales of LSI SoCs and preamplifiers to hard disk drive, tape storage and solid-state drive customers. Prior to joining LSI in 2005, Mr. Bland was senior vice president of sales and marketing, as well as a board member, for two European wireless startups, which were subsequently acquired. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Bland was vice president of sales and marketing for Siemens/Infineon HDD business unit based in Munich, Germany. Mr. Bland began his 40-year semiconductor career in operational roles with Intel, Amdahl and Zilog. From 1986 to 1996, he formed a sales representative company concentrating on custom semiconductors for the HDD business.
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Greg Fischer
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Carrier Access Products Division of Broadcom
Greg Fischer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband Carrier Access Products Division. In this role, he is responsible for driving carrier access semiconductor solutions, enabling wireline and wireless broadband services to and throughout the home. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2004, Mr. Fischer served in various executive roles with Conexant Systems, including Vice President of Marketing and Vice President and General Manager of the Video Products Group. Mr. Fischer earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of Iowa.
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Tom Swinford
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Group of Broadcom
Tom Swinford is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, responsible for developing and delivering silicon, software and adapters for data center storage solutions to cloud service providers, enterprise customers and embedded OEM systems. Prior to his current role, he was the general manager of the data center solutions group at LSI, responsible for PCIe Flash, hard disk drive and solid state drive adapters and associated software. Prior to joining LSI, Mr. Swinford was the Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity and Networking Group in Intel’s Data Center Group, providing Ethernet silicon, software, and adapters to data centers, OEMs and embedded customers. Mr. Swinford received a B.A. in mechanical engineering from Washington State University, and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
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Mitchell Fields
Vice President and General Manager, Fiber Optics Products Division of Broadcom
Mitchell Fields is Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Fiber Optics Products Division (FOPD). In this role, Dr. Fields leads the business unit responsible for developing and manufacturing devices used in optical communications including lasers, detectors, integrated circuits, planar light circuits and diffractive optics. He has been at Avago Technologies, now Broadcom, for more than 10 years and has held various positions that include Field Applications Engineering, Strategic Marketing, and, most recently, Senior Director of Marketing for FOPD. Prior to joining Avago, Dr. Fields was an optical engineer at Sycamore Networks, architecting and designing optical interconnect solutions for the SN16000 core optical switch. Earlier, he was a staff scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he was Chief Scientist of the Advanced Concepts Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. Dr. Fields received his B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University.
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Fatt Lun Ho
Vice President and General Manager, Optoelectronic Products Division of Broadcom
Fatt Lun Ho is Vice President and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Products Division at Broadcom. In this role, He oversees the overall development, marketing and sales of LED lighting products used in industrial, automotive and consumer applications. Based in Singapore, Mr. Ho began his career in 1977 as a Product Line Manager and has held a variety of management positions across several different product lines at H-P/Agilent/Avago. Most notably, he served as Manufacturing Manager from 1985 to 1998, and was SPG’s Operations Manager for many years until assuming his current position in 2008.
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Patrick Henderson
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Patrick Henderson is Vice President, General Manager and Co-Leader of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for growing share and revenue in the high volume Mixed Signal ASIC market. Prior to his current role at Broadcom, he served in sales roles of increasing responsibility up to Senior Vice President of America Sales. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1998, Mr. Henderson held a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions at Integrated Device Technology and National Semiconductor. Mr. Henderson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
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Ah-Chee Neo
Vice President, Worldwide Quality of Broadcom
Ah-Chee Neo is Vice President of Worldwide Quality, responsible for product quality across all Broadcom business divisions. Mr. Neo was instrumental in establishing the quality system, product compliance and in-depth failure analysis and reliability lab capabilities at Avago. Neo joined Avago, now Broadcom, as part of the spin-out from Agilent. Previously, Neo was the quality manager for Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group and Quality Director for Singapore. Prior to joining Agilent, Neo worked at Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent in various supply chain and quality roles for the company’s Asia Pacific region.
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Bob Mantz
Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis of Broadcom
Bob Mantz is Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. He joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition in May 2014. Previously, he held positions as Vice President Financial Planning and Analysis, Business Unit and Operations Controller for LSI. Prior to that, he was vice president, Business Unit and Operations Controller for the Semiconductor Solutions Group, supporting LSI’s Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Mantz joined LSI as part of the company’s merger with Agere Systems in April 2007. Before joining LSI, Mr. Mantz worked at Agere Systems as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, BU and Operations Controllership. He has held various financial planning, business unit and operational controllership roles during his career with AT&T Microelectronics, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Mr. Mantz holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Stetson University.
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Frank Ostojic
Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASIC Products Division of Broadcom
Frank Ostojic is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the ASIC Product Division (APD). He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2007. In this role, he is responsible for product strategy that enables APD to grow in market share and revenue in the Networking and Data Center ASIC market. He is also responsible for the development of IP design that enables APD to be the leader in SerDes-based ASICs. Mr. Ostojic came to Avago as a design engineer for computer ICs in 1996 through a series of acquisitions and roles with H-P and then Agilent. Mr. Ostojic has held a variety of senior research and development, and marketing management positions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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Sally Doherty
Vice President and General Manager, PreAmp Components Division of Broadcom
Sally Doherty is Vice President and General Manager of the Preamp Components Division at Broadcom. In this role, Dr. Doherty leads the business unit responsible for developing analog and mixed signal products and technologies for storage markets. Dr. Doherty joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition where she served as Vice President of Research and Development for the Storage Peripherals Division. In that role, she was responsible for product development, silicon germanium technology development and led the LSI global expansion strategy in China. Since 2009, Dr. Doherty has been an inside Director for Silicon Manufacturing Partners Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Before joining LSI, Dr. Doherty worked at Lucent Technologies and its spinoff, Agere Systems, in a variety of engineering and management roles. Dr. Doherty received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Dan Fisher
VP and GM, Data Controller of Broadcom
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Ivy Pong
Vice President, Global Taxation of Broadcom
Ivy Pong is the Vice President of Global Taxation, responsible for worldwide tax planning, reporting, compliance, audit and inquiry, and local statutory compliance functions. She has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since September 2008. Prior to joining Avago, Ms. Pong was with KLA-Tencor and Altera, where she was responsible for the International Tax function. Pong started her career in tax with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where she spent seven years serving public high-tech clients. Pong is a senior tax executive with extensive experience in offshore tax structures, development and execution of tax strategies, foreign governmental interactions for tax incentives and rulings, transfer pricing, business restructuring and reorganizations, cash repatriation, improvement to tax processes and controls, and income tax accounting and reporting.
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Myles Wakayama
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Myles Wakayama is Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for developing Custom Mixed Signal ASICs. Prior to his current role, he held a variety of engineering design and management positions, including Senior Vice President of Central Engineering for all Mixed-Signal/RF and Library IP Development. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1996, Mr. Wakayama held research positions at Toshiba Research and Development Center and Hitachi Central Research Laboratory. Mr. Wakayama earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Mark Terrano
Vice President and General Manager, IP Licensing Division of Broadcom
Mark Terrano is Vice President and General Manager of the Intellectual Property Licensing Division, responsible for all worldwide outbound patent licensing programs. Mr. Terrano has more than 20 years of experience in the protection, licensing, and litigation of intellectual property in various technology areas. Mr. Terrano joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition, having served as Senior Director and Managing IP Counsel of the LSI IP litigation and licensing team. He joined LSI through its merger with Agere Systems in 2007. Prior to joining Agere in 2006 as a Senior IP Counsel, he was a Senior IP Counsel at Ericsson for eight years, where he was primarily responsible for managing the Ericsson IP litigation in North America. Before that, Mr. Terrano practiced IP litigation with the law firm of Fenwick & West in the Bay Area. He was also an electrical engineer at MCI Telecommunications prior to attending law school. Mr. Terrano holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire.
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Tim Kimmet
VP Cloud Platform of Walmart Labs
Tim leads the Cloud Computing Platform at Walmart, code-named Strati. This includes common layers such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Platform frameworks and services that support rapid application development at Walmart. The scope of this Platform is to dramatically increase the digital to physical integration of Walmart’s assets including @WalmartLabs Global E-commerce, Stores, Clubs, Distribution Centers and Fulfillment Centers. Tim is responsible for driving many of Walmart’s open source initiatives, including OneOps— a tool that manages continuous lifecycle management for business critical applications for all of Walmart’s properties (digital and physical). Prior to Walmart, Tim built similar platforms at scale for internet companies in Silicon Valley, including Ebay, PayPal and other startups prior.
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Kevin McIntire
SVP of Engineering of Remind
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Scott Harris
Co-Founder | VP. Product Definition & UX of Onshape
Scott Harris is a Co-founder and the vice president of product definition and user experience at [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. Previously,he co-founded and worked as the VP of new concepts at SolidWorks.
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David Corcoran
Co-founder and VP of R&D of Onshape
David Corcoran is the vice president of research and development of [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. He previously co-founded and worked as the president of LC Design. Corcoran holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Brown University.
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Will Cathcart
Vice President of WhatsApp
Will Cathcart is the vice president of product management at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Prior to that, he served as a product manager at [Google](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google#/entity) from 2006 to 2010. Cathcart holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from [Colgate University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/colgate-university-hamilton#/entity). He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Doug Clark
Assistant Vice President – FirstNet State Outreach and Consultation of AT&T
Doug Clark is responsible for a team that engages with district / state & territories to consult on providing FirstNet based on specific state first responder needs. His special focus areas include LMR-LTE interoperability, mobile data communications, deployable technology & mobile security. Doug has 16 years of telecommunications experience, including business development, consulting and sales leadership roles at AT&T. In his career at AT&T he has been responsible for delivering advanced connectivity solutions across Public Safety and Government customers. A majority of his focus has been delivering wireless solutions including mobile VPNs, fleet management, workforce management, and LMR-LTE interoperability. Doug engaged early in BC14 discussions in 2009 and led the development of AT&T’s LMR-LTE interoperability strategy until his appointment to the FirstNet team. Doug holds Bachelors degrees from the Ball State University in marketing and history as well as a Master’s of Science in Information & Communication Sciences. In addition Doug holds a MBA from the Kennesaw State University. He has been a speaker at events including IWCE, IACP, APCO, NENA, LEIM, NOBLE, IJIS & NASTD. He lives in Dallas with his wife and has three daughters.
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Kevin Petersen
SVP Wireless Product Marketing of AT&T
Kevin Petersen has a broad portfolio of responsibilities including delivering advanced network and communication products and services integrated with the industry’s leading portfolio of mobile devices and accessories, providing developers and content creators the tools, platforms, and best practices to deliver great mobile app and entertainment experiences, and capital planning for the AT&T Mobility and Entertainment Group. Prior to this role, Kevin has held a variety of high-level positions in Finance, Corporate Strategy, and Market Leadership. Most recently Kevin served as the senior vice president for AT&T Digital Life services where he led a start-up business from ideation to launch in a new segment for AT&T offering home security, home automation, home healthcare, energy management, and international wholesale services. As a 25-year veteran of the industry, and a graduate of AT&T’s Leadership Development Program, Kevin’s experience ranges from leading cross-functional teams to develop, analyze and present long term strategies to leading large teams achieving goals and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue for AT&T. Kevin has leadership expertise in Finance, Strategic Planning, Business Development and Large Team Leadership. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and the Oglethorpe University’s President’s Advisory Council. A native of St. Louis, Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and a master’s degree from St. Louis University. He and his wife Nora have five children.
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William A. Blase
Senior EVP, HR of AT&T
Bill Blase is senior executive vice president-Human Resources, with responsibility for the development and implementation of human resources policies and practices in support of AT&T’s global workforce, as well as the company’s relationship with the unions that represent AT&T employees. From December 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Blase served as executive vice president-Labor Relations. Before that, he was president and chief executive officer of SBC Southwest, where he was responsible for overall leadership in the SBC Southwest and SBC Southern New England Telephone (SNET) regions, including network, consumer and business sales and external affairs. From April 2001 to June 2003, Mr. Blase served as president and CEO of SBC SNET, with overall responsibility for the company’s wireline operations in Connecticut. Previously, Mr. Blase was president-External Affairs for Pacific Bell, where he was responsible for all regulatory, legislative, governmental and external affairs activities. Mr. Blase began his career with SBC at Southwestern Bell in 1979 as a customer services supervisor in the Business Marketing Organization in St. Louis. After holding a variety of positions in the marketing, revenues and public affairs organizations for Southwestern Bell and in investor relations for SBC, he became director-Federal Regulatory for SBC in Washington, D.C. In 1994, Mr. Blase was appointed executive director-Regulatory Matters for Southwestern Bell in Kansas and returned to St. Louis two years later as managing director-Regulatory and External Affairs for SBC. He became President-Kansas for Southwestern Bell in 1997. Later that year, he was appointed vice president-Regulatory for Pacific Bell, where he was responsible for state regulatory relations, strategy and implementation for formal proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and the development of regulatory public policy. Mr. Blase is a member of the board of trustees at St. Louis University and is also a board member of Loyola University and the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. He also serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Animal Rescue Foundation. Mr. Blase was born and raised in St. Louis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and a doctorate in business administration from St. Louis University. In addition, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has served as an adjunct professor of finance at George Mason University.
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Joni Arison
Senior Vice President, Finance Services of AT&T
Joni Arison is senior vice president of Finance Services. She was appointed to this position in August 2017. Joni is responsible for call center strategy, operations, and shared services activities that support AT&T Communications including revenue cycle operations, risk management, workers’ compensation, claims management, transaction tax compliance, and subpoena processing. Prior to this role, she held numerous leadership positions including: senior vice president of Emerging Consumer Markets, Small Markets Solutions, and Advertising Solution Sales. Joni also served as chief marketing officer for Home Solutions and Small Business Marketing responsible for wireline marketing, product definition, lifecycle management, customer experience and key consumer and business marketing programs. Joni is a member and mentor of Women of AT&T, AT&T Women of Finance, AT&T Women of Business and a National Advisory Board Member for the AT&T employee resource groups OxyGEN and AT&T Veterans. Joni is a supporter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and has participated in the very special Breast Cancer 3-day walk. She also serves as a board member for WiNGS of Dallas. After graduating from Quinnipiac University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in business management, Joni earned a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of New Haven. Now residing in Southlake, Texas, Joni enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.
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Joe Mosele
Vice President: Mobility of AT&T
Joe Mosele – Vice President of AT&T’s Internet of Things Solutions. Joe leads the global business development and account management team.
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Bill Hague
Executive Vice President Global of AT&T
Bill Hague, Executive Vice President Global Connection Management, is responsible for developing both international and domestic strategy and partnerships around network access and connection agreements. These areas include domestic and international wholesale and retail roaming support, global and national access management and international voice termination. He also manages the company’s wireless operations in the cruise ship business, company wireless merger integrations and global wireless resale operations. Hague had previously served as Executive Vice President-International Development, responsible for developing and implementing international partner and roaming strategies for voice and data for both Cingular Wireless and the former AT&T Wireless, before it was acquired by Cingular. Hague previously managed the former AT&T Wireless’ mergers and acquisitions department on both the national and international front; part of his duties included managing strategic investments. Prior to joining AT&T Wireless, Hague was with Pacific Northwest Cellular/Western Wireless Communications where he headed legal, human resources and regulatory affairs. Prior to that time, he served as a partner at the law firm of Stokes, Eitelbach & Lawrence. Hague currently serves on the board of directors of the global GSM Association, is the Chairman of the GSMA Finance Committee and is Chairman of the GSMA Ltd. He is also president of the African Education Foundation, a private foundation he established in 1980, after serving in the Peace Corps in West Africa. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado, a Master’s Degree in Health Administration and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Washington.
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Johannes Jaskolski
Assistant Vice President of AT&T
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Andrew Goodman
Vice President, Content Partnerships of AT&T
Andrew is VP of Content Partnerships for AT&T, where he is responsible for managing content partnerships across traditional and software based pay TV systems, mobile devices, and data bundles. In this role, he balances strategic planning, business development, and product innovation with partner engagement. Most recently, he oversaw AT&T’s partnership with HBO Max, including the go-to-market (GTM) strategy and terms for bundling HBO Max with AT&T’s mobile and broadband assets. His work focuses on expanding the digital entertainment experience through mobile and over the top video initiatives (OTT), multi-screen extensions for subscribers of DIRECTV and U-verse Television (TV Everywhere), and other emerging technologies such as 4K UHD, leading cross functional teams to bring innovative new streaming video products to market. He also oversees AT&T’s relationships with Premium TV Networks (e.g., HBO), SVOD services (e.g. Netflix), and works closely with AT&T and The Chernin Group’s joint venture, Otter Media, focusing on video investments for a digital native audience. Andrew is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and media industry conferences. Before joining AT&T, Andrew was a Manager in the technology, media, and telecom practice of Deloitte Consulting, where he focused on helping film studios and other large media companies manage the transition from analog to digital. Andrew began his career working in film development for director Robert Zemeckis’s ImageMovers. Andrew received his MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Theater and Political Science from Amherst College.
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Karim Lesina
Senior Vice President International External and Regulatory Affairs of AT&T
Karim Antonio Lesina is the Vice President of AT&T, covering International External Affairs for the European Union, Caribbean, Central and Latin America Regions and in charge of Trans-Atlantic Relations. In this role he leads AT&T’s advocacy in those regions. AT&T is a premier global communications company, providing wholesale services and mobile roaming services to over 220 countries and territories, and providing business enterprise services to countries representing over 99 percent of the world’s economy. In addition to developing and implementing market access strategies to enable AT&T’s global expansion to satisfy customer needs, other responsibilities for Mr. Lesina include ensuring compliance with international telecom regulations, and advocacy on a wide range policymatters related to the stable growth, innovation and investment by the information and communications technology sector. Mr. Lesina is based in AT&T’s Brussels (Belgium) office. He is an active member in several industry and community organizations, including current service as: Vice Chair of the Board of of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU and Chair of the Presidency Group of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. He is a Board Member of the European Internet Foundation and of the Transatlantic BusinessCouncil and also President of the Association EGO. He also represents AT&T in different associations such as ETNO, GSMA, TPN, etc. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Lesina held senior positions with another leading US-headquartered ICT company (Intel Corporation), and a number of leading public affairs agencies in Brussels. Born in Dakar (Senegal) Mr. Lesina is an Italian-Tunisian national and has a Master Degree in Economics of development at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium.
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Robert Boyanovsky
Vice President Enterprise Mobility Product Management of AT&T
Robert Boyanovsky is Vice President of Enterprise Mobility at AT&T Business. He oversees all aspects of product management supporting AT&T’s mobility business customers. In a highly competitive market, Robert creates and implements new strategies to improve products, reach new customers and differentiate offers while driving revenue and operating income. Robert has over 20 years of telecommunication experience including positions in consumer, business, marketing, sales and operations, wireline, wireless and eCommerce at AT&T plus Cellular One and Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems.
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Charles Merrin
AVP, CRU & Small Business of AT&T
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Marian Croak
Vice President of AT&T
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Jill Singer
Vice President, National Security of AT&T
Jill Singer leads AT&T Global Business across the national security community, overseeing delivery of strategic technology solutions/services to national security agencies. Prior to AT&T, Jill was a partner with Deep Water Point consulting firm and served on several advisory boards for companies in the federal space. In government, she served as chief information officer (CIO) for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), deputy CIO for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service for Department of State (DoS). Her awards include Wash100, CloudNow, Top Ten Global Breakaway CIO, and Top Ten Women in Cloud.
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Mike Troiano
Vice President – Corporate Strategy and Business Development of AT&T
Mike Troiano is currently responsible for AT&T’s Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) organization, including Business Development, Product Management and Strategy for products including AT&T M2X. Mike previously led AT&T’s Advanced Mobility Solutions Product Management organization.
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Jason Porter
VP Security Solutions of AT&T
Jason Porter currently leads AT&T’s cyber security business. He is responsible for driving growth and profitability for the AT&T Security portfolio, consisting of network, premise, cloud and mobile security products, threat management and consulting. He leads a large team consisting of Sales, Product, Marketing and Consulting leaders. Since joining AT&T in 2002, Jason has held various leadership positions in Engineering, Strategy, Operations and Marketing spanning consumer and business. He maintains a track record of successfully introducing and maturing emerging technologies and business units as well as transforming businesses. Previously, Jason Porter was Vice President of DevOps for AT&T Partner Solutions where he was responsible for driving Pofitability and growth of the AT&T Partner Exchange channel. He and his team launched over 25 products, reduced cycle times by 75% and transformed the user experience to earn one of the highest Net Promoter Scores in the industry. Prior to that role, Jason Porter was AVP, Business Development for AT&T Business Solutions, responsible for evaluating and forming strategic cloud partnerships to extend AT&T’s market share, develop differentiating features and scale the As a Service business. Jason also was the AVP of Mobility Service Operations for AT&T Global Network Operations. He was responsible for the health, maintenance and growth of voice and data services for over 80 million worldwide wireless subscribers. In this role, Jason successfully introduced products and services such as the 3G MicroCell, Location Based Services, and devices including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Kindle. Prior to his role in AT&T Mobility, Jason was Director of U-verse Operations, responsible for crafting and executing a strategy to introduce a first ever technology and grow it to a scalable solution. He created and executed an “Incubation Center” concept founded in the end-to-end customer experience, maximizing rapid learning and establishing operational discipline in a nascent environment. Jason’s leadership in U-verse resulted in numerous patents, awards, and enabled the growth of the first million U-verse customers. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Regis University. He served in the Army as an Armor Officer, leading a Tank Platoon and a Mortar Platoon. He and his wife, Tiffany, have three children and currently reside in Frisco, Texas.
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Michael Zeto
Vice President of IoT Solutions and General Manager of Smart Cities of AT&T
Michael leads Boingo’s corporate strategy and growth initiatives, responsible for capitalizing on the company’s unique position in the wireless industry. He is focused on driving new opportunities across 5G, CBRS, Wi-Fi 6, IoT and smart cities. A seasoned corporate executive, Michael has a successful track record for building new businesses and creating profitable growth. Prior to Boingo, he was Vice President, Internet of Things Solutions, and Founder and General Manager for AT&T’s Smart Cities and emerging IoT solutions. Before joining AT&T, Michael co-founded and served as CEO of Proximus Mobility and previously held leadership positions with top technology companies. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Technology Association of Georgia. He holds an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University and BA from Wilkes University.
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Tad Reynes
Regional Vice President, Healthcare Solutions of AT&T
Tad brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, sales management, alternate channels, equipment and maintenance solutions, technical support, and product management. Tad presently serves as a Regional Vice President in the Internet of Things organization within AT&T. He is responsible for coordinating product strategy across AT&T’s enterprise healthcare portfolio and business development efforts with medical device manufacturers. Tad is responsible for identifying industry trends and developing best-in-class solutions for AT&T’s healthcare customers and developers. Tad’s experience has focused on development and delivery of solutions within Fortune 500 Companies, large Healthcare Entities and Government and Education Institutions. Tad has an extensive background in enterprise sales management, technical and overlay sales support and product management. Prior to working in product management for AT&T, Tad led AT&T’s equipment and solutions organization in the Government, Education and Medical division. Tad has held several additional positions within AT&T, including Director of Alternate Channels, Director of the State of IL and Associated Accounts, Director of Field Marketing and Director of Sales and Channel Support.
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Todd Waskelis
AVP, AT&T Cybersecurity Solutions of AT&T
Todd Waskelis leads the AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting business and is responsible for the strategic direction, business operations and P&L operations of the group. Todd’s organization provides both strategic and tactical cybersecurity consulting services to businesses as well as government agencies covering a wide spectrum of offerings from compliance and risk management to technical services for emerging technologies such as IoT, cloud, and mobility. His career focus has been on helping customers drive business benefit through the exploitation of technology and driving improvements in organizations while sustaining security, managing compliance and mitigating risk. Todd joined AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting through the acquisition of VeriSign in October 2009, where he performed the same duties as the Vice President & General Manager of VeriSign’s Global Security Consulting organization. With active professional certifications and more than two decades of experience, and an enviable knowledge of business and technology Todd has earned the respect of global, top-named clients and industry insiders. Todd’s understanding of business has enabled him to create innovative solutions for his customers that align with key organizational objectives. Utilizing his keen business insights and ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, Todd has been able to collaborate with corporations to analyze, develop and implement enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions that support key business drivers. Todd has worked with clients in the financial, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, service provision and industrial sectors. He manages a multi-million dollar consulting practice while leading a highly successful team of security consultants that serve customers across the globe. Todd has been invited to speak to security conferences, advisory councils across industry verticals including healthcare, financial and has participated in numerous industry forums. In addition to holding Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification, Todd Waskelis is also a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry and serves on the board of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Todd Waskelis’ experience is the result of more than 25 years of operations leadership at various organizations and over 20 years of information security experience. Todd Waskelis holds a B.S. in Management, Information Technology and has extensive experience in media relations including radio, press and live television appearances.
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Josh Goodell
VP, Intelligent Edge of AT&T
Josh Goodell is currently delivering market-leading capabilities that provide AT&T’s business customers dynamic, virtualized and intelligent edge solutions. With a focus on both premise and cloud technologies, Josh is expanding AT&T’s core networking value proposition to customer’s endpoints by delivering on the promises of software-defined networking – improved end-to-end performance, security and control. Over his tenure with AT&T, Josh has focused on driving transformation at scale. Prior to his current role, Josh led the initiative to redefine the way AT&T Business delivers software-centric solutions. In 2014, Josh debuted AT&T’s first deployment of software-defined networking capability, AT&T Switched Ethernet on Demand. Recognized as one of AT&T’s largest and most complex Agile Development transformations, his team scaled the service to over 1,000 customer networks across 170 metropolitan areas within 10 months. He was recognized for his work by FierceTelecom, with the publication naming him an “Emerging Innovator in Wireline: Future leaders to watch in 2015.” Josh later introduced the company’s first virtualized service, AT&T Dedicated Internet on Demand in over 170 metropolitan areas in a matter of months. He then expanded AT&T’s virtualized offerings by spearheading the delivery of AT&T’s first global software-based solution AT&T FlexWareSM in July 2016. Under Josh’s leadership, FlexWare has expanded to more than 200 countries, and continues to add new virtual network function (VNF) options for its customers. AT&T Network on Demand solutions are now being used in more than 6,000 locations across the globe, and have received many industry awards from leading publications such as Light Reading and FierceTelecom, to technology associations like MEF. Prior to leading Network on Demand, Josh initiated the transformation of AT&T’s Wi-Fi business to drive growth in a highly competitive environment. He introduced new business models such as Analytics as a Service and Advertising Monetization while shifting the architecture to a cloud model to reduce the overall cost of customer solutions. A proven operator, Josh led a large network operations team that provided core AT&T services to customers. His teams’ consistently rated in the top 25 percentile across the company. He also led large call center teams and was one of two general managers recognized for “Going Beyond the Call” for his work leading force operations within all of California’s consumer organization. Josh enjoys mentoring managers across the business and was recently selected to promote diversity and gender equality throughout AT&T. Josh has served on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement in Northern California. A California native, he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Psychology from The University of California at Irvine.
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Roshen Matthew
AVP of Digital Media and Emerging Technology of AT&T
Roshen Matthew is an AVP of digital media and emerging technology at AT&T.
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Hank Hultquist
Vice President-Federal Regulatory of AT&T
Vice President of Federal Regulatory, Hank Hultquist represents AT&T at the Federal Communications Commission on a number of issues, including spectrum and wireless policy, Internet and broadband policy, interconnection, and intercarrier compensation. Hank joined AT&T in 2004. Prior to joining AT&T, Hank was with MCI for eight years. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Exchange Carrier Association. Hank is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children.
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Blake Jorgensen
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts
Blake Jorgensen is the EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts where he is responsible for EA’s financial management. Blake joined EA in 2012 with over 20 years of experience in finance spanning across different industries, with a deep understanding of technology, consumer products, online commerce and entertainment. Prior to joining EA, Blake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! Inc., from June 2007 to June 2009. Before joining Yahoo! Inc., Blake was the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Director of Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners, which he co-founded in 1998. He has also held financial and operational positions at Montgomery Securities, MAC Group/Gemini Consulting and Marakon Associates. Blake holds a degree in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife Debbie live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Christina Sawyer
VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts
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