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This list showcases the top Washington based VP’ operating in the Software 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.
Elizabeth Pemmerl
Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector & Channels of GitHub
Elizabeth Pemmerl is the Vice President, Global MSFT GTM, Public Sector and Alliances at GitHub.
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Bret Arsenault
Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President of Microsoft
As VP and CISO at Microsoft, Bret Arsenault is responsible for information security and risk management; setting the company’s security incidence response strategy. He leads a global team of security professionals focused on protecting the company’s assets through programs that span education and awareness, governance, identity and access management, enterprise business continuity management, and security assessments. He chairs Microsoft’s Information Risk Management Council, which brings together teams from across the company focused on protecting data, and hosts Microsoft’s Security Council – an enterprise customer forum that drives product direction and operational best practices. He holds advisory board roles in the public and private sectors and is a founding member of the Executive Security Action Forum and Security 50.
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Julia Liuson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Julia Liuson is Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, overseeing software development for Visual Studio and .NET framework, including CLR, .NET x-plat effort, all programming languages, user interface, mobile and cloud development tools. Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, and has held a variety of technical and management positions while at Microsoft. She was General Manager of Visual Studio Business Applications where she was responsible for enabling developers to easily build applications on Microsoft client, server and service platforms. Liuson has also served as General Manager for Server and Tools business from MS Shanghai office in China for two years while running engineering teams on both sides of the Pacific. Previously, Liuson has served as development manager, and later as Partner Product Unit Manager for Visual Basic. She was also a core member of the leadership team that led the successful development and launch of Visual Studio Team System in 2005.
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Rajesh Jha
Executive Vice President, Experiences and Devices of Microsoft
As executive vice president of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group, Rajesh Jha leads the team that includes Devices, Windows client, New Experiences and Technology, Enterprise Mobility and Management, and Office Product Group
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Dayne Sampson
CVP of Global Foundation Services of Microsoft
Dayne Sampson is the CVP of Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dayne served as VP of operations at Yahoo! Inc. He held positions at various companies including IAC, Ask.com, and Bowne Global Solutions.
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Brendan Burns
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Lori Wright
Vice President, Gaming / Xbox Business Development of Microsoft
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Jared Spataro
Corporate Vice President, Office and Windows of Microsoft
Spataro is responsible for the Windows Commercial business; the Office SMB business; Office apps product marketing, and Microsoft 365 digital marketing. He also manages several cross-company initiatives, including Modern Desktop (focused on driving upgrades to Windows 10 and Office 365) and Modern Productivity (aimed at creating new productivity scenarios that span devices, operating systems, apps, and cloud services).
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Kareem Choudhry
Corporate Vice President, Gaming Cloud of Microsoft
Kareem currently works as Microsoft’s corporate VP of gaming.
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Chris Weber
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Chris Weber is a corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business. He leads the Small, Medium, and Corporate business segment and plays a key role in driving growth and new customer acquisition across four solution areas – Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Apps & Infrastructure, and Data & AI. Chris’s group drives global strategy and digital sales for corporate accounts, and small to medium-sized businesses, along with Software Asset Management. Chris previously worked for Nokia as a senior vice president, Markets, to lead the company’s re-entry into the North American market. In July 2012, he was named to the Nokia Leadership Team to lead sales and marketing globally. Prior to his tenure at Nokia, Chris held executive positions in sales, marketing and professional services at Microsoft for 15 years.
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Shilpa Ranganathan
Corporate Vice President, Mobile & Cross device Experiences of Microsoft
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Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
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Judson Althoff
Executive Vice President of Microsoft
As president of Microsoft North America, Althoff is responsible for Microsoft’s commercial and public sector customers and partners, and the consumer business in retail and through operator channels across the United States and Canada. Althoff leads strategic planning, business operations and key growth initiatives across the region. As a senior leader, he brings solid experience developing and leading successful direct and indirect businesses globally. Recognized for building organizations with a culture of excellence in execution his strengths include building relationships, communicating, innovating, and motivating organizations to produce results. Althoff joined Microsoft in March 2013. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales for Oracle. Before joining Oracle, Althoff was an Area Business Development Manager and District Sales Manager for EMC Corporation. Althoff was named a Top Channel Leader or Executive by CRN magazine 2008-2012 and was named Channel Chief 2009-2012. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Jeff Teper
Corporate Vice President – Microsoft 365 Collaboration of Microsoft
Jeff joined Microsoft in 1992 to lead corporate developer evangelism for Windows NT. He then served as a Group Program Manager in Microsoft’s Internet Business Unit. In 1998, he led the creation of SharePoint Portal Server, which became one of Microsoft’s fastest growing businesses, exceeding $3 billion in revenues. Jeff next served as Corporate Vice President for Program Management across Office 365 Services and Servers, which is the foundation of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud leadership. He then led Corporate Strategy supporting Satya Nadella and Amy Hood on Microsoft’s mobile-first/cloud-first transformation and acquisitions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeff was vice president for software development for an investment firm in New York. He leads Office shared experiences and core applications, as well as OneDrive and SharePoint consumer and business services in Office 365. Jeff holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems and finance from New York University.
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Amanda Silver
CVP of Product for Developer Tools of Microsoft
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Jordi Ribas
Corporate Vice President, Bing Program Management, Microsoft of Microsoft
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Rish Tandon
Corporate Vice President, Teams Engineering of Microsoft
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Ann Johnson
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Ann Johnson leads the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group in their mission is to accelerate customers’ digital transformation with trusted solutions and expertise to build the secure modern enterprise. Before joining Microsoft, Ann was CEO at Boundless, an open source geospatial software and services provider. Prior to Boundless, Ann was with Qualys, Inc., as president and chief operating officer, a provider of cloud security and compliance solutions that enable organizations to identify security risks to their information technology infrastructures, help protect their information technology systems and applications from cyber-attacks and achieve compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Prior to Qualys, Ann was vice president of World Wide Sales/IPV and Global Accounts at RSA Security LLC, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation which provides solutions to protect customer online identities and digital assets. Ann is a recognized cybersecurity industry leader with a proven track record for building and leading high-performing global enterprise software operations. Ann has a background in cybersecurity, infrastructure and storage and is a frequent speaker on topics of online banking fraud, information security, healthcare security, mobile security, privacy and compliance. Ann is a graduate of Weber State University in Utah where she completed a dual major in political science and communications. Ann is passionate about horseback riding, skiing and any water-related activity as well as cooking and organic gardening. She lives with her husband, son, and three rescue dogs in the Puget Sound area.
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Tom Burt
Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust of Microsoft
Burt leads the company’s Customer Security and Trust (CST) team. This cross disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, policy advocates, project managers, business professionals, data analysts and cybercrime investigators drives continuous improvement of customer security in our products and online services. Working with engineering and security teams across the company, CST is responsible for ensuring our products and online services comply with our internal security engineering policies and oversees programs to provide security transparency to global governments. Burt’s team is formulating and advocating cybersecurity policy globally, advancing the Digital Geneva Convention, the Tech Accord, and the Defending Democracy Project, is collaborating with public and private organizations to disrupt cyberattacks and support deterrence efforts. Engineering compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, global readiness of our products and services, responding to law enforcement requests for access while protecting customer privacy and adherence to trade sanctions globally are also key focus areas for the team as it seeks to advance its core mission of ensuring customers can rely on and trust all Microsoft products and online services. Burt joined Microsoft in 1995 and has held several leadership roles in the Corporate External and Legal Affairs Department. He led the company’s Litigation Group from 1996 to 2007, and most recently led the Digital Trust team.
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Rohan Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Data of Microsoft
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Lorraine Bardeen
VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) WW Enterprise and Commercial Industries of Microsoft
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Todd Holmdahl
CVP of Microsoft
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Tad Brockway
Corporate Vice President for Azure Storage, Media, and Edge of Microsoft
Tad is a 20-year veteran of Microsoft and has been in leadership roles on the Microsoft Azure team since 2011. Currently, his team is responsible for Azure Storage, which is the durability layer for the Azure cloud, including: Object Storage, Files, Disks, etc. His team is also responsible for Azure Media Services and Azure’s overall strategy in the Media & Entertainment industry. In addition, his team owns Azure Intelligent Edge products like: Azure Stack and Data Box. Tad has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Gurdeep Singh Pall
Corporate VP, Information Platform & Experience of Microsoft
Gurdeep Singh Pall is the corporate vice president for the Information Platform & Experience team at Microsoft Corp., and is part of the Online Services Division’s senior leadership team. He is responsible for vision, product strategy and R&D for the Bing services and platform that includes mobile, mapping, and speech. Pall joined Microsoft in January 1990 as a software design engineer. He has worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure, starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. Pall was part of the Windows NT development team, working on the first version of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 as a software design engineer, all the way through Windows XP in 2001 as general manager of Windows Networking. During his work on Windows, he led design and implementation of core networking technologies such as PPP, TCP/IP, UPnP, VPNs, routing and Wi-Fi, and parts of the operating system. Pall co-authored the first VPN protocol in the industry – Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) – which received the prestigious Innovation of the Year award from PC Magazine in 1996. He also authored several documents and standards in the networking area in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body in the mid-1990s. Pall was previously the corporate vice president for the Office Lync & Speech Group, overseeing the vision, product strategy and R&D for the Microsoft Lync family of products and Microsoft Tellme services. He was appointed general manager of Windows Real-Time Communications efforts in January 2002 and helped develop a broad strategy that led to the formation of the Real Time Collaboration division and acquisition of PlaceWare Inc. (now called Microsoft Office Live Meeting). Since then, Pall has led acquisitions of media-streams.com AG and Parlano, and key industry partnerships with HP, Polycom and Aspect. Microsoft’s Unified Communications efforts have received many technical and design industry awards. Pall was named one of the “15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference” in 2008 by Information Week. He co-authored “Institutional Memory Goes Digital,” which was published by Harvard Business Review as part of “Breakthrough Ideas for 2009” and subsequently presented at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos. Pall has more than 20 patents (in process or approved) in networking, VoIP and collaboration areas. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Oregon and an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India. Pall is on the board of trustees of Ashesi University.
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Mitra Azizirad
Corporate Vice President and Microsoft AI of Microsoft
Mitra Azizirad is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft AI where she is responsible for defining and accelerating the productisation of Microsoft’s portfolio of AI innovation, and shaping and driving the perception of Microsoft AI. Mitra leads Microsoft’s vision to democratise access to AI, empowering developers to innovate, industries to transform, and ultimately empowering every individual to transform society with AI. A 27-year veteran of Microsoft, Mitra has held key leadership positions at Microsoft across a wide array of technical, marketing and sales functions, both in the field and corporate. Prior to Microsoft, she held technical leadership positions at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD/NASDAQ), and International Telecommunications and Satellite Organisation (Intelsat).
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Eric Doerr
VP, Cloud Security of Microsoft
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Anthony Salcito
VP of Worldwide Education of Microsoft
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Rik van der Kooi
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Advertising of Microsoft
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Joe Whittinghill
Corporate Vice President, Talent, Learning, and Insights of Microsoft
Joe Whittinghill is the corporate vice president of talent, learning, and insights at Microsoft.
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Nick Parker
Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions of Microsoft
Nick Parker serves as a Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft.
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Bobby Morrison
VP and Head of WW Small, Medium, and Corporate Segments of Microsoft
Bobby Morrison is president of the Pacific Northwest Region for Verizon Wireless, responsible for sales, marketing, operations, customer service, business development and network expansion in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska, which has more than 1,500 employees. Morrison’s 14-year career with Verizon is marked by sales success and strategic, pioneering leadership delivering company-leading results. Prior to his current role, he was executive director of Marketing in the Midwest Area, responsible for the Business-to-Business (B2B) and telesales channels as well as planning and strategy for the enterprise segment across 18 states. Prior to that, Morrison was regional director of business and enterprise sales headquartered in Chicago, IL. Morrison serves on the board of directors of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), the largest statewide association of technology companies and executives in the world. He is a regular speaker at technology events across the Northwest. Morrison graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Business Administration from Walsh University in Ohio.
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Alex Simons
Corporate Vice President Program Management of Microsoft
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Joe Belfiore
CVP, Office Product Group of Microsoft
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Matt Barlow
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Joy Chik
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Joy’s teams are responsible for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graph, Information Protection, and Forefront Identity Management suites, which are delivered to customers as cloud services or on-premises products. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 as a software engineer contributing to Terminal Services in Windows 2000, she has steadily risen in the company as an established leader of some of the industry’s most impactful engineering teams. Joy was also recognized as one of Business Insider’s “39 Most Powerful Women Engineers of 2018″.
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Alysa Taylor
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Global Industry of Microsoft
Alysa Taylor is the Corporate Vice President responsible for Microsoft’s Business Applications and Global Industry Marketing. She leads the product marketing teams responsible for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (Power BI, Common Data Services, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow) as well as the global industry product marketing team.
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Kudo Tsunoda
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Albert Shum
CVP of Design of Microsoft
Albert leads a collaborative team of designers, writers, and researchers imagining the future of experiences and devices at Microsoft. With over 20 years of product, brand, and digital design expertise, Albert has led initiatives at Nike and Microsoft to scale design thinking and create compelling experiences for millions. His team currently drives incubation for the Windows ecosystem, focused on coherent, inclusive design across diverse platforms to bridge the gap between humans and technology. Albert is known to muse on creativity, ambient computing, the responsibility of designers in the fourth industrial revolution, and the perfect bowl of ramen.
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Megan Saunders
Vice President Connected Care of Microsoft
Megan Saunders is the Windows 3D Initiative General Manager for Microsoft.
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Ilan Spillinger
Corporate VP, HoloLens Development of Microsoft
Dr. Ilan Spillinger, CVP of Microsoft HoloLens and Silicon, has been with Microsoft since late 2007. He currently leads HoloLens and Silicon organization, which consists of the HoloLens Hardware engineering team, as well as Silicon and sensor development for HoloLens, Xbox, and accessories. During his previous six-year tenure with IBM, Ilan was as a Distinguished Engineer and VP of Advanced Processor Design. In that role, he was responsible for development of all Power Architecture-based processors at IBM: server processor; embedded processors; and client-driven solutions (e.g., Xbox 360, Wii). Ilan joined IBM Haifa, Israel development laboratory in 2001, where he managed the IBM Microelectronics Infiniband activity. Prior to that, Ilan was a principal engineer and the manager of the architecture team in Intel Israel responsible for the definition of X86-based low-cost and low-power microprocessors, specifically the first Intel mobile processor in the Intel Centrino roadmap.
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Kelly Nojaim
RVP, North America Corporate Sales of Microsoft
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Ron Huddleston
CVP, Ecosystem of Microsoft
Ron Huddleston is the Corporate Vice President of MBS Partner Strategy and Ecosystem. He joined Microsoft on June 13th, 2016. As the leader of the “Partner Team Unit” (PTU), Ron is responsible for the transformation of our through Partner business, including recruiting and developing the premiere, industry leading partner ecosystem for Microsoft first and third party business applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ron was the Senior Vice President of Global ISV & Channels at salesforce.com where he is credited with developing “the AppExchange” – the world’s largest enterprise cloud marketplace. In this role, Ron led an organization responsible for cultivating and managing salesforce.com’s extensive and successful partner channel, with a focus on supporting cloud computing solutions on the salesforce platform. Ron joined salesforce.com in 2008, following more than a 13-year career at Oracle in channel development and direct sales management, with the last five years spent as the vice president of ISV and OEM sales. During his tenure, Ron grew the program to more than 2,000 North American-based OEMs and ISVs, and managed over $500 million in partner business. Ron has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family in his hometown of San Diego, surfing, and restoring classic cars.
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Fred Humphries
TitleCorporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs of Microsoft
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Gavriella Schuster
Corporate Vice President, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs of Microsoft
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Julie Brill
Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft
Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission on April 6, 2010. Since joining the Commission, Julie Brill has been working actively on issues of critical importance to today’s consumers, including protecting consumers’ privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from financial fraud, and maintaining competition in industries involving health care and high-tech. Prior to becoming a Commissioner, Julie Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice. Commissioner Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s School of Law. Before serving as Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust in North Carolina, Commissioner Brill served as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years. Prior to coming to the Vermont Attorney General’s office, Commissioner Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. Commissioner Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and from New York University School of Law, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.
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Andrew Shuman
Corporate Vice President – Products – Experiences and Devices Group of Microsoft
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Toni Townes-Whitley
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
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Kathleen Hall
CVP of Brand, Global Advertising and Research of Microsoft
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Kathleen Hall
CVP of Brand, Global Advertising and Research of Microsoft
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Judith Platz
Senior Vice President, Service Cloud Support of Salesforce
Judith Platz brings over 25 years of in-depth customer support experience to TSIA. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President of the Global Customer Success team for Approva Corporation. Judith was responsible for supervising & coordinating multiple functional, strategic, organizational development & technical work streams, including Technical Support, Account Management, Business Consulting, implementation management, and Training. Judith developed and nurtured a world-class professional services, support & training culture. She led the recruitment and motivation of a talented management team & staff. She led her team to three consecutive TSIA STAR Awards. Prior to Approva, she spent seven years at Oracle in a number of critical customer service positions where she led a team that developed and implemented customer confidence programs focused on increasing customer satisfaction and retention for highly complex global accounts. In this role, she was recognized by the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) for her sustained efforts advocating on their behalf and educating and communicating with the Oracle user community. Judith brings significant systems integration and operations experience to TSIA. Prior to her tenure at Oracle, Judith worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she supervised support operations across three continents and developed and implemented information technology standards to achieve quality improvements. Judith also has extensive experience in computerized learning in both the public and commercial sectors.
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Jason Lee
Vice President of Salesforce
Jason Lee is the Vice President of Security Operations at Salesforce which includes companywide network and system security, incident response, threat intel, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, identity and access management, and the red team. He has 20 years of experience in technology with a primary focus on information security and cryptography. Prior to his current role, he held the position of Principle Director of Security Engineering for the Windows and Devices division in Microsoft with the charter of protecting the online services of Windows Update, XBOX live, and the Microsoft online store. He also was Senior Director of Developer Services where he was responsible for the design and management of the mission critical PKI for all products across Microsoft. This included cryptographic services baked in boxed products such as Windows and SQL Server, and cloud services such as Azure and Office 365. Additionally, Jason was responsible for the codesigning and anti-malware services supporting Microsoft in that role. Previous roles included leading various security functions such as application security, attack and penetration testing, security strategy and architecture, and regulatory compliance.
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Vinay Kumar
Senior Vice President, Cloud Engineering of Oracle
Vinay Kumar is Sr. Director Product Management at Oracle, responsible for Oracle Infrastructure product strategy. He leads product teams focused on compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an expanding set of foundational services. He has wide range experience in building distributed systems, and specializes in building V1.0 products. Before joining Oracle, he led product teams at Amazon S3 and EBS, where he built multiple new services including EBS GP2 and S3 IA. He has held various product management and engineering roles at Akamai, EMC, and Wipro. He holds MBA from Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Michael Hichwa
VP Software Development of Oracle
Oracle database and application development specialist. Original architect and developer of Oracle APEX. Original author of popular Oracle web sites including AskTom.oracle.com, LiveSQL.oracle.com, and apex.oracle.com. Current passion is developing the tools and frameworks that facilitate development of complete systems using a data-first architecture. Includes QuickSQL data modeling, Oracle APEX application development and publishing of RESTful web services using Oracle REST Data Services.
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Scott Neuman
Senior VP, Oracle || Head of Opower of Oracle
Vice President, Oracle Utilities (@OracleUtilities, @Oracle) and @Opower pre-Oracle acquisition. Advises utilities on customer engagement and energy efficiency. Alumni of @McKinsey, @Harvard_Law and @Stanford. Former Silicon Valley coder.
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Don Johnson
Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
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Shawn Haigh
VP, Growth Marketing of Fundbox
Shawn Haigh is the Vice President of Growth Marketing at Fundbox. Before that, he was the Head of Paid Search for US Card and Senior Business Director of Capital One.
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Haroon Mokhtarzada
VP Digital Products of Cimpress
Haroon Mokhtarzada, together with two of his brothers founded Freewebs in 2001. In 2006 Haroon raised $12m in capital for Freewebs (later renamed to [Webs]. In 2007, he co-Founded [SGN], the Social Gaming Network, and spun it out as a separate company after raising $15m in venture capital. SGN was acquired by [Mindjolt] in 2010. Webs was acquired by Vistaprint in 2011 for $117.5 million. Haroon is now VP of Digital Products at Vistaprint and is an active angel investor and advisor.
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About Cimpress, The Aspen Institute, Truebill: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Chris Pitchford
VP of Sales of Ally.io
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About Ally.io: Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software.
Fletcher Jones
Senior Vice President, Product Management of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Derek Hanson
Vice President Solutions Architecture and Alliances of Yubico
Derek Hanson is the Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Standards for Yubico. Derek and his team are tasked with assisting organizations and standards bodies everywhere to develop and deploy authentication solutions utilizing the YubiKey.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Stephen Schmidt
VP & Chief Information Security Officer of Amazon Web Services
Stephen Schmidt is a VP & Chief Information Security Officer at Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Deepak Singh
Vice President, Compute Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President and General Manager, Amazon S3 of Amazon Web Services
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is the Vice President and General Manager of Amazon S3, the object storage service of Amazon Web Services. Mai-Lan has been on Amazon Web Services since 2010. During her tenure at Amazon Web Services, Mai-Lan has also been General Manager of AWS computing services, such as Amazon Simple Workflow, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Wilson
VP/Distinguished Engineer of Amazon Web Services
Matt Wilson is a vice president, distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services, which he joined as a principal systems engineer for the kernel and operating system team. Perviously, he was the chief architect and a founding engineer at rPath, where he codesigned and coauthored Conary, a software version control system, making building and maintaining complex software systems with multiple versions and interdependencies possible. He was responsible for the technical quality of rPath’s products and was instrumental in identifying the needs and solutions for rPath’s most important customers. As one of the first three employees, he had his hands in a little bit of everything at the company. Matt also was the manager of the base operating system team at Red Hat, which he joined as a part time programmer and ended up there full time. His first programming assignment was the maintenance and feature enhancement of the system installer. He was one of the original authors of Anaconda, the installation system used by Red Hat today. As a senior engineer, he lead the team of developers responsible for Anaconda. Matt represented Red Hat as a member of the Linux Standard Base Specification working group. Outside of work, Matt is active in the Linux and free/open source software community. He’s been a member of the Programme Committee of the annual Linux Symposium, traditionally held in Ottawa, Canada, each year. He also served on the board of directors for the Software Freedom Conservancy. The conservancy is a 501©(3) organization providing administrative and financial services to free and open source software projects including Samba, Boost, and jQuery.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matt Wood
Vice President of Amazon Web Services
Matt Wood works at Amazon Web Services, pulling from over a decade of expertise in distributed systems, architecture, web-scale analytics, big data, machine learning and high performance computing to help customers bring their ideas to life through technology. After medical school, Dr. Wood completed his PhD in machine learning and bioinformatics, joined Cornell as a research fellow, and contributed to the next generation DNA sequencing platform at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Since joining Amazon Web Services in early 2010, he has played a role in introducing many significant new features and services to customers on the AWS Cloud, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Machine Learning.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Swami Sivasubramanian
VP, Amazon AI of Amazon Web Services
Swami Sivasubramanian works as a GM and Architect in Amazon Web Services where he builds large scale cloud computing platforms and also manages different groups within AWS Database services. Swami has built several large scale systems in the past. Some of the well known ones include Amazon Dynamo, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon RDS (including the replication engine for RDS that does synchronous replication with automated failover). He also wrote a major part of the Amazon’s distributed lock service that is used as a foundational building block for various Amazon service infrastructure. Swami obtained his Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from the Computer Systems Group headed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. Swami has authored more than 40 refereed journals and conference papers. He also holds more than 10 patents and has more than 60 pending patent applications. He also serves in program committees of different ACM/USENIX/IEEE conferences, and also as guest editors for different IEEE/ACM magazines.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Steve Rabuchin
VP, AWS World Wide Revenue Operations of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Bill Vass
VP Engineering of Amazon Web Services
Bill Vass is the VP Engineering of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Tejal Engman
SVP Investor Relations of DoubleVerify
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
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.
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Platform Strategy of Acumatica
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy heads the Cloud xRP Division of Acumatica, a leading cloud ERP platform provider for mid-sized customers. In this role he is responsible for the Vertical ISV ecosystem, Platform business P&L and developer marketing. He is also responsible for strategic alliances and product incubation with strategic partners including DocuSign, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Prior to Acumatica, Ajoy spent 10 years at Microsoft driving business success across a wide range of product management, alliance and marketing roles. Ajoy has co-authored half a dozen books on various MS technologies including ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Ajoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Masters in Computer Science and also earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Richard Duffy
VP Partner Strategy and Enablement of Acumatica
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Will Coggins
Vice President of Tola Capital
Will Coggins is a Vice President at Tola Capital.
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About Tola Capital, Tola Capital: Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that invests globally in enterprise software companies across multiple stages.
Craig McLuckie
Vice President of VMware
Craig is the VP of R&D for VMware’s Cloud Native Applicationsbusiness unit. Craig arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a company that he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig spenttime in senior positions at Microsoft and Google; at the latter he made significant contributions to Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes. Craig also co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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About Kubernetes, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Doug Lombardi
VP, Marketing of Valve Software
Doug Lombardi is the VP, Marketing at Valve Corporation. After years in the music industry, Doug decided to get a real job. Then he came to his senses and got into the gaming industry instead. As Valve’s Vice President of Marketing, Doug helps manage and coordinate third-party relations, marketing, and press activities.
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About Valve Software: Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.
Paul Rempfer
Senior Vice President of Business Development of STG Group
Executive Vice President at DirectViz Solutions, LLC.
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About DirectViz Solutions, LLC, STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
Joseph Nicholas
Senior Vice President of Cyber Security & Secure Information Systems of STG Group
Joe Nicholas is responsible for the operation and oversight of STG’s cybersecurity and secure information systems practice, which provides operational support for information systems and IT operations for all Federal Government client requirements. This includes enterprise network and operations security (NOC/SOC), cyber systems and technology service management, cyber transport and computing infrastructure, secure voice and unified communications, application security; disaster recovery / business continuity planning, risk management framework, information security and assurance, end user support, and service desk/center operations. Mr. Nicholas brings to STG extensive experience in creating, transforming and leading development teams that have delivered groundbreaking information technology innovations across the national security and intelligence sectors. With over 25 years of experience driving strong organic growth within both new and established enterprises, Mr. Nicholas possesses insights and know-how to help expand STG’s strategic opportunities, build partnerships and advance its business model.
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About STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
Alesia Pinney
EVP & General Counsel of Avalara
Prior to joining Avalara, Alesia served as an operational and legal executive for private and publicly traded companies. Her broad background includes leadership positions in legal, accounting, and operations. Additionally, Alesia has deep experience managing public offerings and private financings, as well as mergers, acquisitions and strategic transactions. She has served as general counsel of InfoSpace, Inc., and drugstore.com and also practiced law at Perkins Coie, LLP. Alesia began her career as a certified public accountant at Deloitte Haskins and Sells.
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About Avalara, Deloitte: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Peter Horadan
EVP, Engineering of Avalara
Peter Horadan leads software development and operations at Avalara. His background includes leadership positions in engineering, operations, and client services. In addition to building and operating SAAS services, Peter has a long history of creating industry-leading commercial software products. Before joining Avalara, Peter served as a technology executive for several private and publicly traded companies, most recently Scout Analytics. Additionally, he has directed research and development at Concur Technologies, and has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Corillian, and BEA Systems.
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About Avalara: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Jim Poole
Vice President, Ecosystem Business Development of Equinix
Jim Poole is the vice president of ecosystem development and global service providers at [Equinix](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/equinix). Prior to that, he was the general manager of global networks and mobility at the same company. He joined Equinix from Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, where he led business development and sales. Before Roundbox, he was vice president and general manager of network services at CenturyLink. He also held senior leadership positions at C&W Americas, dynamicsoft, American University Washington College of Law, and UUNET. Poole holds a bachelor’s degree from American University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jim Ivers
Vice President, Marketing, Software Integrity Group of Synopsys
Jim Ivers leads all aspects of Cigital’s global marketing strategies, branding initiatives and programs, as well as product management and product marketing. Jim is a 30-year technology veteran who has spent the last ten years in IT security. Prior to Cigital, Jim was the CMO at companies such as Covata, Triumfant, Vovici, and Cybertrust, a $200M security solutions provider that was sold to Verizon Business. Jim also served as VP of Marketing for webMethods and VP of Product Management for Information Builders.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Roshan Popal
SVP, Cloud Operations and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of MicroStrategy
Roshan Popal is working as an SVP, Cloud Operations and Chief Information Security Officer at MicroStrategy (CISO). A technology and security executive with a proven track record of service delivery and information security risk mitigation, Mr. Popal is known for building, developing, and leading high-performance IT and security teams across global SMBs and large enterprises. Utilizing his strong business acumen and broad technical knowledge, he strategically aligns IT and security services for organizational success. A global leader with a love for people, the environment, and a focus on providing a benefit to humanity. Mr. Popal currently serves as the VP of Corporate IT and Chief Information Security Officer at MicroStrategy, business intelligence & analytics firm with headquarters in the D.C. metro area. Prior to MicroStrategy, he led the global IT & information security teams for Cigital, Inc., a global software security firm focused on “Building Security In.” In his spare time, he enjoys reading about morality and ethics, social issues, and expanding on his language skills. He is fluent in more than 5 international languages.
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About MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy provides enterprise software for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and network applications.
Hugh Owen
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of MicroStrategy
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About MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy provides enterprise software for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and network applications.
Cam Salem
Vice President of Updata Partners
Cam focuses on investing in later-stage growth companies. Prior to joining GC, Cam worked as a Business Development Associate at AGC Partners in Boston. Cam previously interned at Tilden Park Capital Management, a boutique hedge fund based in New York. Cam is a graduate of Trinity College, earning a B.A. in Economics.
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About Updata Partners: Updata provides growth equity and operating expertise to the next generation of technology leaders.
Bharet Malhotra
Senior Vice President of Sales of Cvent
As Senior Vice President of Sales at Cvent, Bharet drives the strategic direction and development for the Cvent Supplier Network, a leading eRFP channel that connects event planners with more than 200,000 venues throughout the world. Under Bharet’s leadership, in 2014 Cvent Supplier Network processed $8 billion in meeting and event RFP volume. Through Bharet’s leadership, Cvent established relationships with nearly all of the leading hotel chains around the world, including Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Marriott, Ritz Carlton and Starwood. Bharet and his team work closely with hotel executives to help enhance the properties’ exposure on the Cvent Supplier Network and capture more group business. Bharet earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University, where he triple majored in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Economics. While at Duke, Bharet competed against world-ranked players on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour. Following graduation, Bharet served on the Duke University Alumni Board of Directors and was President of the Engineering Alumni Association.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Brad Gillespie
Vice President of Enterprise Sales of Cvent
Brad currently leads Enterprise Solutions Consulting for Cvent, the leading provider of Meetings and Events SaaS software. A former CMO, Brad works with select Enterprise customers to modernize and transform event marketing programs with an emphasis on process, technology, integrations, and analytics. Cvent was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2016 in a take-private transaction and later merged with Lanyon to form the largest technology provider in category. Today Cvent has over 4,300 employees and over 28,000 customers around the world. Prior to Cvent Brad was Chief Marketing Officer for Octiv (acquired by Conga), a document automation platform for sales and legal documents. From 2012-2016 Brad was Global Vice President of Marketing (CMO) for SiriusDecisions (acquired by Forrester), the leading global research and advisory firm for b-to-b sales, marketing, and product organizations. Prior to joining SiriusDecisions, Brad was Vice President of Marketing for the global technology solutions firm, ROLTA (BSE:ROLTA.BO), where he led marketing for the Americas, Europe and MENA regions. He was also Vice President of Marketing for Zanett, a leading mid-market business and technology consulting firm (acquired by KPMG in June 2014). The majority of Brad’s career has focused on go-to-market. Following the Dot Com crash in 2002 Brad co-founded MFGA where he led marketing strategy engagements for organizations in Advanced Manufacturing, Biotech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Software and Professional Services. While at MFGA, Brad also co-founded two start-ups based on patented technologies and serves as President or PEARL Protected. PEARL was an award-winning fire safety device whose IP was acquired by the Werner Company in 2009. Brad’s career began in human resources at Columbia/HCA (now Hospital Corporation of America (NYSE:HCA) and at Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX). During the Dot Com boom Brad transitioned to sales and marketing as employee #11 at Atlanta-based Newton Park which grew by 2000% over a four-year period. He also worked at digital pioneer Red Sky Interactive which was part of the Omnicon group of agencies. Brad grew up in central Kentucky and attended the University of Kentucky where he studied Political Science and Public Policy. About PEARL Protected While at MFGA, Brad co-founded two start-ups based on patented technologies and served as President of one of those companies, PEARL Protected, from 2005-2007. PEARL gained national exposure for its unique solution for fire safety. The PEARL product is a patented escape ladder that is installed permanently into an interior wall allowing egress through a window or other opening. Following its launch in 2005, the PEARL ladder became one of the most recognized home safety products in the market. PEARL appeared on several episodes of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and was showcased on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show. In 2006 PEARL earned the Product Innovation Award from the Home Safety Council. Widely supported by fire safety professionals across the US, former California State Fire Marshall, James McMullen, referred to PEARL at the time as “the most innovative fire safety product since the advent of the residential smoke alarm”. The National Institute of Fire and Safety Training called PEARL a “must-have” in the home. The product was launched in 2005 primarily into the new home construction market at the height of the housing boom. PEARL quickly saw mass appeal in the channel and was recognized by Building Products magazine as one of the Top 100 Building Products for 2007. The housing decline in 2007-08 significantly impacted PEARL’s traction in the market. The product saw a brief resurgence in the college and university housing community following the mass shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech in 2007. In 2009 PEARL entered a licensing and distribution agreement with Werner Ladder Company, the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of ladders, climbing equipment and ladder accessories.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Nitin Malhotra
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Cvent
Nitin drives strategic corporate initiatives across a broad range of Cvent’s businesses. In this role, he leads all acquisition initiatives, identifies new product opportunities, and serves as an advisor regarding 3rd party partnerships and integrations. Prior to Cvent, Nitin was a successful entrepreneur—having founded and sold three technology-based startups over a 20-year career. His expertise ranges from online gaming and telecommunications to non-profits and associations. Nitin graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He then went on to attend George Washington University for a Master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Ashley Baber
Vice President of Account Management of Cvent
Ashley Baber is the director of account management at [Cvent](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cvent#/entity), an event management platform that enables planners to manage all aspects of an event. Prior to that, he was a senior manager for account management at the same company. Baber obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology from James Madison University. She lives in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Lawrence Samuelson
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Cvent
As a key member of Cvent’s senior management team and the company’s principal legal officer, Larry is responsible for overseeing Cvent’s legal affairs and providing leadership in all aspects of the business, including strategic corporate initiatives, board activities, compliance and corporate governance. Before joining Cvent, Larry was the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at NeuStar, Inc., a leading provider of real-time information and analysis to the Internet, telecommunications, information services, financial services, retail, media and advertising sectors. In this position, he oversaw all legal aspects of the company’s transactional, corporate, governance, finance, executive compensation and securities issues. In addition, he was responsible for advising the human resource department on employment matters. Larry earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Tufts University. He then received his Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and his Juris Doctor degree from Boston University’s School of Law.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Alex Rolfe
Vice President of Sales, Event Solutions of Cvent
Alex Rolfe is the Vice President of Sales, at Cvent.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Michael Lu
Vice President of Product Development of Cvent
He is the Vice President of Product Development at Cvent. Before he joined Cvent, Michael provided technical consulting services to Intelsat, a global satellite services provider. Prior to Intelsat, Michael worked as a principal consultant at Price Waterhouse, later PricewaterhouseCoopers. At Price Waterhouse, Michael led teams that designed and developed workflow management and financial applications for the public sector. Michael holds an MS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is a certified Microsoft professional and Java developer.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Daniel Lapus
Senior Vice President of Product Management of Cvent
Daniel Lapus has been with Cvent since November 1999 and has been instrumental in the design and delivery of Cvent’s product offering since the first beta release of the Event Management software. Today Dan is responsible for both the Product Management and Quality Assurance teams within Cvent’s technology department. He remains heavily involved in the overall success of Cvent’s current products offerings and spearheads the research and design efforts for new products and any enhancements to existing products. Prior to Cvent, Dan worked as a technical consultant in the telecommunications industry. Dan worked with MCI WorldCom as a quality assurance manager for their local telephone billing system. Dan led and organized test procedures, ensured accurate testing coverage, and collaborated with team members and other leaders to provide superior product delivery. Previous to this, Dan worked as a technical analyst for AT&T and was responsible for software programming, software testing, and product support. Dan holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems, with a concentration in Programming and Analysis, from James Madison University.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
David Johnson
SVP, Engineering of Cvent
With more than 20 years of experience delivering software products to millions of customers, David Johnson specializes in fostering organizational growth and ensuring optimal utilization of engineering resources. He is currently vice president of product development at Cvent and is responsible for leading the research & development division, overseeing the company’s technology and process innovation, while ensuring optimal utilization of engineering. Most recently, David was the chief technology officer at Zynga’s east coast office and game studio. In this position, he oversaw the development of massively scalable, cloud-based software architectures. Prior to Zynga, David was vice president of content integration and ecommerce at Entourage Systems, Inc. He was responsible for engineering the mobile communication platform and digital ecosystem for the Google Android-based enTourageeDGe™ and Pocket eDGe™ tablets and e-readers. These products were sold at major retailers across the country, including Amazon, Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Before his work at Entourage Systems, Inc. David was vice president of engineering at CyberData Technologies, Inc. He was responsible for leading the engineering and quality assurance departments through a period of rapid corporate growth and success. Throughout David’s career, he has obtained in-depth knowledge of complex technology development within a diverse range of industries including hospitality, eCommerce, gaming, and mobile. David earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 1992.
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About Cvent, Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Brian Ludwig
Senior Vice President of Sales of Cvent
As SVP of Sales, he oversees Cvent’s worldwide sales of the flagship event management solutions division and the mobile app solutions division. To this end, Brian travels across the globe and is often called upon to speak at conferences regarding technology trends in the meetings industry. Brian works very closely with leadership across the organization to help shape strategy and direction in terms of product roadmap, client services, marketing initiatives, operational efficiencies, and acquisitions. Brian arrived at Cvent with a strong technology sales foundation. Brian worked as a Regional Sales Director for Lutron Electronics, an industry-leading lighting control systems manufacturer. Brian dramatically grew Lutron’s footprint in the southern part of the United States. Brian’s technical acumen landed him as a regular instructor of architects, engineers, and electrical contractors at Lutron’s training institute. Brian graduated with an MBA from University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith Business School, where he studied Entrepreneurship and Marketing. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Pete Floros
Senior Vice President, Product of Cvent
He is a Senior Vice President, Product at Cvent. Prior to Cvent, Pete worked at Artesia Technologies, a leader in enterprise Digital Asset Management solutions, where he focused on the implementation of Artesia’s flagship product for numerous large and medium-size enterprises. Pete’s clients included Sony Electronics, Home Box Office (HBO) and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Pete also worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting services, where he developed custom applications for large clients including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the Eurasia Foundation and the United States Postal Service. Pete holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, with a concentration in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
John Watson
VP Sales & Business Development Mobile Networking & Security of Akamai Technologies
John Watson is the VP Sales & Business Development Mobile Networking & Security at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Tim Solms
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Government Security of Forcepoint
Tim Solms is Forcepoint’s senior vice president and general manager of global government security, where he is responsible for the P&L and growth strategy for the Global Governments business. He is chartered with further extending Forcepoint’s leadership in the cross domain and insider threat markets within domestic customers and in delivering capabilities that support international government customers. Solms brings more than 30 years of progressive leadership experience in both the military and private sector to Forcepoint. Most recently, Solms was vice president, Federal and managing director, worldwide government at Juniper Networks where he held senior leadership responsibility for the company’s worldwide government business. Before joining Juniper, Solms was the general manager, U.S. Department of Defense at Microsoft Corp. and senior director, DoD, NATO and Federal international at VMware. Solms also held a series of government market-focused leadership roles at Dell. Before joining Dell, Solms spent more than 18 years with the U.S. Army. He also served in various leadership roles at AFCEA’s DC Chapter, including a stint as president. Solms earned a bachelor’s degree in administration from The Citadel.
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About Dun & Bradstreet, Forcepoint, WildRock Security Group: Forcepoint empowers organizations to concentrate on what’s most important to them while automating routine security tasks.
Ben Gitenstein
Vice President of Product Management of Qumulo
Ben Gitenstein runs Product at Qumulo. He and his team of product managers and data scientists have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews with storage users and analyzed millions of data points to understand customer needs and the direction of the storage market. Prior to working at Qumulo, Ben spent five years at Microsoft, where he split his time between Corporate Strategy and Product Planning.
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About Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo, Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Molly Brown
Vice President Of Engineering of Qumulo
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About Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Scott Frank
Vice President of Marketing of Airbiquity
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About Airbiquity: Airbiquity designs, operates and manages telematics connectivity infrastructure.
