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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 Manager operating in the Collaboration space. If you think a Manager 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.
Andersen Yu
Customer Success Manager of Front
1st Customer Success Manager at FrontApp.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
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Nicolas Ritz
Product Manager of Asana
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Jina Anne
Product Design Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility of Asana
Jina is a designer, community builder, and advocate with a passion for design systems, minimalism, typography, and art. At Salesforce, she was lead designer on the Lightning Design System. She organizes Clarity, the first Design Systems conference. She also started the Design Systems Coaltion and its SF chapter, and she created and moderates the Design Systems Slack. She maintains the design and website for Sass.
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About Asana, Google Developers Experts, Salesforce: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Greg Slovacek
Engineering Manager of Asana
Greg Slovacek is an engineer at [Asana](/organization/asana). Greg Slovacek worked at [Google](/organization/google). on vertical search experiences within Calendar and Maps, in addition to working on Flu Trends and the accounts system. He was previously an engineer at There.com and studied computer science at Brown University.
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Terri Lomax Burden
Asana’s Dedicated Customer Success Manager of Asana
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Ryan Tong
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances of Zoom
Ryan Tong is working as the Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances of Zoom.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Nitasha Walia
Group Product Manager of Zoom
Nitasha Walia is a group product manager at Zoom Video Communications.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Paulius Dragunas
Sr. Engineering Manager of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Brittany Layton
Product Design Manager of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Desiree Garcia
Product Design Manager of Loom
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Gaurav Bhushan
Product Design Manager of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Scott Walker
Senior Manager/Head of People Analytics of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Steve Marx
Product Manager of Dropbox
Steve Marx is a Product Manager for Dropbox, helping developers make better applications with the power of Dropbox’s platform. Prior to joining Dropbox, Steve founded Webscript.io and Site44, which uses Dropbox’s API to turn Dropbox folders into websites. Previously, Steve spent 10 years at Microsoft working on developer platforms and Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure.
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Carolyn Shmunis
Marketing Manager of RingCentral
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About RingCentral, RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Alain Mowad
Senior Product Marketing Manager of RingCentral
Alain Mowad is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at RingCentral.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Michael Piccininni
Global Account Manager – Cloud Service Providers of Dell EMC
Michael Piccininni is the Global Account Manager of Cloud Service Providers at EMC since December 2009. Engaged in the Technology industry for more than 15 years in business development and management roles, Michael supports several of EMC’s most strategic Cloud Service Provider relationships, including Windstream. Michael’s organization focuses on identification, solution development and joint go-to-market execution. Previously, Michael was the Manager of Business Development at Amentra Inc. Michael earned his B.S. degree in Business from LIU Post.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Jason Spinell
Manager of Slack
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About Slack, Slack Fund: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Mat Mullen
Senior Product Manager: Enterprise Products of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Helen Zeng
Senior Product Manager of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Oliver Fross
Engineering Manager of Slack
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About Slack, Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Rocio Delgado
Sr. Engineering Manager of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Ben Gibson
Global Lead, Manager Development of Slack
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About Gibson Advantage, Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Chris Beaven
Manager, Customer Success Team of Slack
Chris Beaven leads a team of High Touch Customer Success Managers, focused on the Enterprise and Large Enterprise customer segments in the AMER West region. He is responsible for the strategy and execution of the team, ensuring the successful adoption, maturity and growth of Slack across a diverse customer base. Given the rapid growth of Slack’s business, Chris plays a central role in hiring, training, coaching and developing a world-class team of CSMs. He is also responsible for building processes and systems that enable Slack to operationalize and scale Customer Success best practices. A key part of his role is engaging with customer executives, working to understand their business objectives, serving as a trusted advisor and ensuring they realize business value from their investment in Slack. Prior to joining Slack in 2017, Chris led the Enterprise Customer Success Team at Gainsight. Before that, he was one of the founding members of the Enterprise Customer Success team at New Relic.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Elizabeth Kinsey
Developer Marketing Manager of Slack
Elizabeth Kinsey serves as a developer marketing manager at Slack. Most recently, she was a marketing director, director of community, and senior manager at Branch. Elizabeth is also a former marketing programs manager at Hawk Ridge Systems.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Austin Sandmeyer
Sr. Marketing Manager of Beekeeper
Dedicated to achieving, willing to try, always passionate.
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About Beekeeper: Beekeeper is a workplace app that connects the non-desk workforce to operational systems and communication channels.
Kaushal Saxena
Manager of Intermedia
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Samir Meharali
Sales Engineering Manager of Zoho
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About Zoho, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Matthew Ellis
Senior Product Manager and Head of Open Source Software of TIBCO
Matt Ellis is a senior product manager and head of open source software at TIBCO Software, where he focuses on product and strategy around open source and Project Flogo, an open source edge microservices framework built entirely in Go. As of late, Matt has spent his time focusing on two key technical shifts: machine learning and serverless compute. Matt has brought many technical achievements to the Golang open source community in areas related to edge machine learning with TensorFlow and serverless compute constructs in Golang with AWS Lambda. Matt has been involved in the tech industry for over two decades and has held a number of roles. Early in his career, he developed 3D rendering engines in both OpenGL and Direct3D and authored a number of technical manuals and books on the topic. During an independent consulting opportunity in Brazil, Matt authored two additional books focusing on RESTful services and APIs.
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About TIBCO, TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Anne Wertz
Vice President, OnSemble Product Manager of OnBoard
Anne Wertz joined Passageways in February, 2005 as a Technical Support Specialist. After serving customers in that capacity, she joined the developer team as a QA Specialist. Her passion for Customer Service brought her back into Customer Support as a Manager. Anne earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Ball State University. She brings to Passageways over 5 years of programming experience and over 15 years of customer service experience.
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About OnBoard: Passageways provides board management software OnBoard and enterprise collaboration software OnSemble.
Nashia Kamal
Marketing Manager of Airtable
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Megan Anctil
Site Reliability Engineering Manager of Airtable
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Brian Hagen
General Manager Austin Office of Airtable
Brian began his career in digital media at Google where he oversaw partnership within the Dining and Home Services categories. Brian was later an early member of Twitter where he helped open the Chicago office in 2010. Most recently he led Twitter’s CPG team and Retail partners. Brian is currently the Director of BD at Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors.
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Charlie Mohn
Demand Generation Manager of Fieldwire
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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.
Claudia King
Strategic Business Operations Manager of Fieldwire
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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.
Claudia King
Strategic Business Operations Manager of Fieldwire
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About Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field management platform that offers a wide range of device-agnostic features for general and specialty contractors.
CJ Miller
Marketing Manager of Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP
– Marketing Manager for Fastmetrics, since 2008. – Strong focus on inbound marketing campaigns with proven ROI. – YOY growth to leads, sales and revenue, attributed to marketing campaigns under my leadership. – Main competitors are two of the largest com
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About Fastmetrics, Inc. Building & Business ISP: Specialist building & business ISP. Dedicated Ethernet, managed fiber, direct cloud connect, hosted voice, WiFi & network service solutions.
Noa Levin
Marketing Manager of Swit
Noa Levin is the marketing manager of SWIT Technologies. She is the former student account manager of Capitol Advertising.
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About Swit: Swit is a collaboration suite for Teams.
Michaela Prouzova
Community Engagement Manager of Nimble CRM
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About Nimble CRM: Nimble is the CRM for Office 365 and G Suite that builds award-winning contact management solutions for teams and individuals.
Matt Lovato
Senior Marketing Operations Manager of Samepage Labs
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About Samepage Labs: Samepage makes collaboration software to help teams get work done. Chat, share files, and manage tasks – all in real-time and in one app.
John Kenney
Director & Principal Researcher/Senior Research Manager of Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Dr. John Kenney is Director of networking research and a Principal Researcher at the Toyota InfoTechnology Center in Mountain View, California. He represents Toyota in international standards organizations and industry research consortia, including SAE, IEEE, ETSI and the Car2Car Communications Consortium. He also represents Toyota in DSRC Spectrum Sharing discussions with the US Government and the Wi-Fi industry. His research focuses on DSRC performance, congestion control, and standardization. Prior to his work with Toyota, John was a member of the Tellabs Research Center and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has graduate degrees from Stanford and Notre Dame.
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About Toyota InfoTechnology Center: Find and create information technology discoveries and business models for toyota.
Aditi Parashar
Product Manager of CloudFuze
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About CloudFuze: CloudFuze, a secure cloud platform, simplifies file transfer, file collaboration and file security, no matter where your files are stored.
Aditi Parashar
Product Manager of CloudFuze
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About CloudFuze: CloudFuze, a secure cloud platform, simplifies file transfer, file collaboration and file security, no matter where your files are stored.
Court Sansom
QA Manager of Dasheroo
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About Dasheroo: What we do? Give you awesome business dashboards. What we pin? Amazing data stuff.
Jim Mohr
Sales Manager of InLoox
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About InLoox: The Project Management Software for Desktop, Web and Smartphone – integrated in Microsoft Outlook
Allison Riggs
Global Marketing Manager of e-Core
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About e-Core: Evolution is our core. Your business transformation powered by our talents.
Molly Wigand
Project Manager of Terumo BCT
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About Terumo BCT: Terumo BCT develops and provides blood component and cellular technologies.
Matthew Dirienzo
Product Manager, UC of ReadyTalk
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About ReadyTalk: ReadyTalk provides audio and web conferencing services.
Rafi Pryntz-Nadworny
Marketing Operations Manager of Jorsek
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About Jorsek: Jorsek, Inc is the publisher of easyDITA, an end-to-end solution for collaboratively authoring, managing, and publishing
Matthew Martin
Product Marketing Manager of Unika.ai
Matthew Martin is the Product Marketing Manager at Unika.ai and Neudesic.
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About Unika.ai: Unika.ai is a cloud-based Digital Content & Experience Management SaaS solution for sales and legal.
