Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 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 York based Director operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dev Patel
Director of Strategic Growth of Infobip
Dev Patel has been serving as Director of Strategic Growth at Infobip since January 2019.
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Andy Parsons
Sr. Director, Content Authenticity Initiative of Adobe
Andy Parsons is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Workframe. Mr. Parsons was a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Happify. He has deep expertise in building search, data analysis and photo technologies. He has also served as the founding Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey Academy. Mr. Parsons has been a frequent speaker on Web technologies, mentor and advisor to many companies and investors and is an accomplished jazz saxophonist.
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About Adobe, Kontor Inc: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Matt Richmond
Director of Experience Design of Adobe
Matthew Richmond is Director of Experience Design at Adobe. Together with his exceptional team, he is designing and building the current (and next) generation of Adobe’s Digital Imaging and Photography products for the next generation of creative professionals, like you. For the past twenty years, Matthew has presented and instructed on all aspects of digital and analog design, photography and illustration. When not in the office, Matthew can be found teaching digital illustration, branding, identity and advanced techniques to the graduate students at the School of Visual Arts.
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About Adobe, School of Visual Arts: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Khoi Vinh
Senior Director of Product Design of Adobe
Khoi Vinh joined Adobe as Senior Director of Product Design in 2019.Khoi Vinh is a user experience designer, speaker, blogger and author of the book “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design” from New Riders. Until recently, he was the design director at NYTimes.com, where he led the in-house design team in user experience innovation for digital products of all kinds. For over a decade, he published his thoughts on design, technology and culture at the widely-read blog Subtraction.com. He is the Interactions columnist for Print Magazine, and has lectured all over the world on design matters. Previously, Khoi was the co-founder of the award-winning New York design studio Behavior, LLC. He studied communication design at Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and practiced branding and graphic design in print for several years in Washington, D.C., before moving to New York.
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About Adobe, Lascaux: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Itir Aloba-Curi
Sr. Director of Microsoft Advertising Sales, East Region of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Sven Seger
Global Creative Director of Brand of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Nick Katsivelos
Global Media Industry Digital Strategy Director of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, NYC Media Lab, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, RLab: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Chandra Stevens
Global Director, Microsoft Marketing Solutions of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jonathan Silverman
Director, WW Insurance Industry Solutions of Microsoft
Jonathan Silverman is the director of WW Insurance Industry Solutions at Microsoft.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Siddharth Muzumdar
CIO Advisory Senior Director of Salesforce
“Business oriented technology leader. Extensive experience leading global cross-functional initiatives on multi-million dollar projects. Broad experience in Life Sciences, Financial Services and Publishing domains with organizations such as Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pearson, Citibank, and Fannie Mae. Experienced in envisioning and implementing customer facing and enterprise solutions using Mobile, Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Big Data and Data Warehousing.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Aashish Rangwalla
Senior Director | Oracle Data Cloud of Oracle
Aashish leads Client Strategy and Solutions for Oracle Data Cloud’s Retail & Restaurants vertical. He and his team helps the retail and restaurant industry clients develop and execute long-term strategic roadmaps on how to use Data as a Service and the Oracle DMP to conquer business objectives. His team will not rest easy until every retailer and restauranteur best understands their customers, measure each interaction with prospective and existing customers and rid the world of wasted media spend! Prior to joining Oracle Data Cloud, Aashish was at Sony Corporation of America where he led multichannel, integrated marketing strategy and execution for cross-Sony programs where he developed customer insights based on behaviors within and outside the Sony ecosystem to deliver innovative customer-centric activation that unlocked the full value of paid, owned and earned assets. He earned his undergraduate degree from Penn State and obtained a master’s degree from Temple University.
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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 Meiner
Director Of Engineering, Product Management of Oracle
Michael Meiner is an Engineering Director at Oracle Corporation since 2010. Michael’s organization is responsible for lifecycle Quality Assurance of the Fusion Middleware Suite of products, including: installation, configuration, upgrade, test-to-production and interoperability on a range of computing platforms and Operating Systems. The Fusion Middleware product suite supports both On-Premise as well as Cloud offerings. Prior to his current role Michael was a Senior Software Development Manager at Oracle Corporation. Previously, Michael was the Senior Manager of Engineering at BEA Systems and a Software Engineer at Bellcore now Telcordia Technologies. Michael earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Douglas Tait
Director Communications Product Marketing of Oracle
Douglas Tait Setting the telecommunications marketing strategy for Oracle and the industry, Mr. Tait is accelerating Digital Transformation through Cloud Communications. As Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications, Mr. Tait is driving the strategy and tactics for Internet of Things, Digital Business, and Customer Experience. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Tait was the director for Global Telecom Markets at BEA and founded the JAIN initiative defining Java™ technology for communications at Sun. He organized international standards, community, and user group meetings for creating standards and driving the communications market toward standard based interfaces, platforms, and protocols.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Daryn McCool
Director of Cloud Engineering of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Marc Sewtz
Director of Software Development of Oracle
Marc Sewtz is the Director of Software Development at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Preston So
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Oracle
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About Oracle, Tag1nsulting: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Rob Preston
Senior Director of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Rob Preston
Senior Director of Oracle
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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 Hickins
Senior Director of Strategic Communications of Oracle
Michael Hickins is an American fiction writer, journalist, and former editor at The Wall Street Journal. He currently works at Oracle Corp. as director of strategic communications.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Scott Feldman
Managing Director of Susquehanna Growth Equity
Scott Feldman is a Managing Director with SGE and has been with the group since its inception. He focuses on financial services, healthcare IT and human resources technology. He currently serves on the boards of Credit Karma, Fundera, HMP Communications, iCIMS, iContracts and MMIT. He previously served on the board of Clearleap (acquired by IBM) and JK Group (acquired by CyberGrants). Before joining SGE, Scott was an investment banker with Broadmark Capital, a boutique investment banking firm serving telecom, technology and internet companies. He started his career at Gabelli & Company and worked directly for the founder Mario Gabelli, widely considered one of the greatest value investors of all time. A product of the 1980s, Scott was a serious video game junkie and today boasts one of the most complete collections of games and game consoles for the Vectrex, Odyssey, Atari, Commodore 64, Vic20, Intellivision, Colecovision and Sega. Scott’s favorite games include 1-on-1 Larry Bird vs Dr J, Pitfall, Yars Revenge, Tecmo Bowl and The Bard’s Tale. Scott also considers himself one of the greatest Chexx Dome Hockey players of all time and still owns one of the original machines featuring the “Miracle on Ice” game from the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics where amateur and collegiate players from the USA defeated the Soviet Union national team on their way to winning the gold medal. Having been a New York Knicks fan his entire life, Scott has learned how to be humble and intimately understands how to manage through failure and significant losses; lessons he regularly shares with the entrepreneurs with whom he works. Scott graduated with a B.S. in Finance from the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College with concentrations in Economics and Computer Science.
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About Susquehanna Growth Equity: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests in growth stage technology companies in the software, information services, and internet.
Prashant Bhatia
Managing Director, Enterprise Strategy & Corporate Development of TD Ameritrade
Prashant Bhatia oversees corporate strategy, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and industry and competitive analysis. He also serves as a member of the Company’s senior operating committee, which shapes the strategic focus of the organization. Bhatia has more than two decades of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining TD Ameritrade in 2009, Bhatia served as a director in equity research at Citigroup, and before that he worked within the office of the Chairman for UBS America. He also spent time as a finance manager with Morgan Stanley & Co. and as a senior associate for Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. His career experiences include: public accounting, controller of an investment banking and equities division, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and equity analysis covering brokers, banks, and asset management firms.
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About TD Ameritrade: TD Ameritrade is a finance company in online stock trading.
Elisha Carsrud
Account Director of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Rachel Martin
Director of International Partnerships of Yext
Rachel Martin is Director of Global Partnerships, Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
David “Rev” Ciancio
Director Partner Marketing of Yext
David is a senior marketing, branding and digital strategist with 20 years of experience in digital marketing and business development, specializing in hospitality marketing, content and local SEO. He has led many clients to new levels of local, national and international success in the hospitality, financial service and entertainment sectors, and recently joined Yext as their director of partner marketing. Rev is an “expert burger taster” and pens burgerconquest.com one of the world’s top 3 Burger blogs where he provides marketing insight and tips.
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About LuckyDiem, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ryan Linden
Senior Director, Client Delivery of Yext
Ryan is currently the Senior Director of Client Delivery at Yext, where he has helped grow the Enterprise Client Success organization over the past 6 years holding various positions in Operations & Services. He currently leads the teams responsible for Onboarding and Implementation at Yext. Prior to his role at Yext, he worked as an Associate at KPMG LLP focused in the Media and Technology industries.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Noah Smith
Director of Business Development of LendingFront
Currently running business development for LendingFront, a cloud-based small business lending platform for banks and alternative lenders. Three-time founder. Three years in private equity before that. Began my career in China, where I got my first taste of startups and investing, and also did print and television reporting. Companies I founded or co-founded: • OCX, a marketplace business lender that taps into existing networks to signal creditworthiness, efficiently source high-quality borrowers, and reward investors for backing businesses they know. • Dwelleo, an online service for communicating with people and services around where you live and that brings residential real estate to life. • AirMaid, hotel-quality services for private homes, focused on the short-term rental market. I also served as Director of Finance and Operations at OmniTrail, a mobile technology firm, and have advised a number of growth-stage companies. Earlier in my career, I worked at private equity firm KP Capital Partners, where I led the execution of controlling investments in companies in the electronics, logistics, apparel and specialty foods sectors and was actively involved in overseeing portfolio company management and served on several boards. I was part of the early team at business intelligence firm ChinaLaw (now part of Thomson Reuters) in Beijing, where I also worked as a journalist and started the first American-style brunch in the Chinese capital. Hold an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Gil Schpero
Senior Director of Sales of Snappy
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About Snappy: Snappy is an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that allows companies to send gifts to their customers and team members.
Rick Heitzmann
Founder, Partner, and Managing Director of FirstMark
Rick Heitzmann is a Founder and Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. Mr. Heitzmann focuses on investments in emerging media, advertising, data, and information services. Rick has led or co-led many investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (Tapad), media (Pinterest), and more. Previously, Rick was a Managing Director at Pequot Ventures, and a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV). At US Search, Rick, as the Senior Vice President of corporate development and member of the Board of Directors, led the public company turnaround. Mr. Heitzmann graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration and earned his M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School. Rick sits on the Board of Directors of Pinterest, Dashlane, Omaze, and Hubble Contacts among others. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Kimberly White
Director – Worldwide Solution Providers of VMware
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Steeves
Senior Director, Worldwide Partner Programs of VMware
Richard Steeves is a senior director at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
David Kroner
Managing Director, Financial Services of Afiniti
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Lisa Anderson
Director of Administration of Lead Edge Capital
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Lisa Anderson
Director of Administration of Lead Edge Capital
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Lauren Guilbeaux
Sales Director of Culture Amp
Lauren Guilbeaux serves as the Sales Director at Culture Amp.
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About Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics.
Jenn Schiffer
Director of Community Engineering of Glitch
Jenn Schiffer is community engineer for Glitch.com at Fog Creek. Along with making art and jokes and apps, she runs the web developer meetup JerseyScript in Jersey City and co-emcees and organizes the JavaScript meetup BrooklynJS. She is incredibly strong and logged on.
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About Glitch: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Joe Benso
Director Of Communications of CasperLabs
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About CasperLabs, Training Meals: CasperLabs is building the first provably live pure Proof-of-Stake (PoS) CBC-Casper blockchain designed for real-world applications.
Emma Chiu
Creative Innovation Director of J Walter Thompson
Emma Chiu leads creative innovation at J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group, the agency’s in-house futures and innovation think-tank (JWTIntelligence.com). She curates all visual content, leads creative consultancy, presents across all Innovation Group verticals and she heads up creative execution of Innovation Lab projects. Emma provides strategic insight and trend consultancy for brands including Campari, Finnair, Northwell, Shiseido and Unilever. Emma is on the board of advisers for Digital Hollywood’s Influencer Awards 2018. She was also part of the Color Awards 2017 judging panel and often speaks at international conferences, including Luxe Pack, Pause Fest, The Media Summit, SXSW and Zee Melt. Emma is the former art director of Monocle, leading the art direction and design for the international Monocle brand. She also led project collaborations with brands including, ANA, InterContinental, Mandarin Oriental, Turkish Airlines and UBS.
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About J Walter Thompson: J. Walter Thompson is a New York-based global marketing communications provider with over 200 offices in over 90 countries.
Amanda Mulay
Director of Talent of Lerer Hippeau
Amanda Mulay currently works as the Director of Talent for Lerer Hippeau.
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About Lerer Hippeau: Lerer Hippeau helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.
Ari Winkleman
Director, Product Management of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Mark Nash
Managing Director, Webex of Cisco
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About Cisco, Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Rob Amster
Director – Americas Contact Center Sales of Cisco
Rob Amster is Cisco’s Director of Contact Center Sales for the Americas. He is responsible for the sale of Cisco’s Customer Care Solutions portfolio within North and Latin America. In his 8 years in this role, Cisco’s contact center sales have enjoyed perennial year over year growth – the last four years growing double digits. This growth has also led to Cisco being considered the market share leader in the North American Contact Center market. Rob started his career at Cisco in 2009 as a business development manager in the Collaboration Architecture group. Prior to Cisco, Rob spent 24 years at Avaya, Lucent Technologies and AT&T including roles in sales, sales management, pre-sales, and product development. He started his career at AT&T Bell Labs where he spent 9 years in product development and engineering – including work on early versions of AT&T’s (now Avaya’s) ACD and CTI products. During the next 15 years at AT&T, Lucent and Avaya, Rob held a variety of sales, pre-sales and leadership roles across the US and UK markets focused on Contact Center, Unified Communications and Emerging Technologies. Rob holds a MS in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rutgers College, Rutgers University. He resides in Readington Twp, NJ with this wife and two children.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Mark Weislow
Engagement Director of Pivotal
Mark started his career in Software Engineering, helping to develop and support a C language cross-compiler for embedded devices, developed medical research applications and moved into Professional Services Management for multiple product companies. Mark now works at Pivotal, Inc, in the Customer Success team as an Engagement Director.
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About Pivotal, Tetrate: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Matt Doheny
Member of the Board of Directors of Kodak
Matt Doheny, 44, currently serves as President of North Country Capital LLC, an advisory and investment firm focusing on board advisory assignments and investing in alternative investments, where he has served since 2011. Previously, Doheny served as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Advisory Inc., a fund focusing on operational turnarounds and undervalued securities, from June 2008 to October 2010. He previously served as Managing Director of the Distressed Assets Group of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. from January 2000 to March 2008. Prior to his career with financial institutions, Doheny was an attorney in the Corporate Restructuring Departments of Orrick LLP and Kelley Drye & Warren and in the Business and Corporate Department of Hancock & Estabrook. Doheny currently serves on the board of YRC Worldwide, Inc. (since July 2011) and Affinity Gaming (since May 2013) and has served on the boards of several private companies in the financial services and venture capital industries.
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About North Country Capital, LLC: Kodak is a technology company that provides imaging solutions and services for enterprises and consumers.
Arthur Pober
Director of Education & Outreach of Privacy Vaults Online, Inc., d/b/a PRIVO
Dr. Pober has lectured throughout the world on topics ranging from early childhood education, the media, to areas of international and national policy and industry self-regulation. Dr. Pober has been praised by advocacy groups, governments and industry leaders around the world for creating the most comprehensive media rating system in the U.S. and parts of Europe for all interactive software, videogames, and internet sites. With a doctorate in Educational Psychology and Organizational Development and two masters’ degrees, Dr. Pober has spent over twenty five years in the areas of gifted and talented and early childhood education prior to his work in industry self-regulation. He is a recognized authority in the Structure of the Intellect model for intelligence training as well as having developed multi-media and gifted education programs for cultural institutions throughout New York City. He has recently completed a series of introductory commentaries for the new Classic Starts series for Sterling Publishing. Dr. Pober is the founder of the Center for Social Responsibility and Innovation in the Digital Age. Besides active participation in private and government meetings as the American Associate to the European Advertising Standards Alliance, Dr. Pober acts as consultant to various media outlets in the areas of self-regulation and media compliance issues. Dr. Pober serves on the advisory boards of several academic and non-profit institutions. He is currently serving as senior fellow for the Center for the Digital Future based at USC. Most recently he has been part of the Cartoon Network’s Pre-School Launch, educational consultant to Disney’s Hannah Montana, The Replacements and the Emperor’s New Groove, Studio One Networks, CBS Television, and the former Chief Educational Advisor to the first channel dedicated to babies- Baby First Television.
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About : The leader in minors privacy, customer identity and permission management.
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Jamie Levy
Director, EDR Team of Tanium
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Tom Wasserman
Managing Director of Constellation Technology Ventures
Mr. Wasserman is a Managing Director of HPS. At HPS, Mr. Wasserman focuses primarily on investments in communications, IT and media. Prior to joining HPS in 2008, Mr. Wasserman was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns. He currently serves as chairman of the board for Bridgevine, Inc. and previously held the same role for GamerDNA Media. Additionally, Mr. Wasserman is currently an active member of the boards of Zakiris (a joint venture with Cirque du Soleil), Hibernia Atlantic, OnePhone AB, LiveGamer, Bridgevine and MTM Technologies. Previously, Mr. Wasserman served as a board member or observer for SAVVIS, Origin Digital, the Gospel Music Channel and Vivid Logic, each of which was successfully exited. Previously, Mr. Wasserman worked in the Corporate Development group at 360Networks, a global telecommunications service provider. Mr. Wasserman began his career as an investment banking analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and also served as an associate with the private equity fund, Charterhouse Group International. Mr. Wasserman received a BA in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, graduating with distinction.
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About Altimar Acquisition Corporation, Constellation Technology Ventures: Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon Corporation
Matthew Tendler
Senior Director, Product, Data and Analytics of Medidata Solutions
Start up and Product guy
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Linda Magrath
Vice President, Senior Director, Customer Success of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Joel Albyn
Director of Experience Design of Sage Group
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Stacy Chan
Senior Director Programmatic Solutions of Accuen
Stacy is the Programmatic Solutions Director and Regional Programmatic Discipline lead for Resolution Media. She manages and influences key partnerships across publishers, advertising technologies, and vendors to drive curated client results and success. During her tenure, she has worked on Audi, Bleecker Street Media, Newell, MailChimp and HBO. Prior to joining the Resolution family, she worked on a variety of accounts including, H&R Block, Dominos, McDonalds, Royal Caribbean, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Bacardi. With a passion for volunteering and charity work, Stacy is an active member of Project by Project and Hope For New York. Feeding the local community through The Bowery Mission is one of her favorite weekly activities to give back. Stacy holds an Economics and International Studies degree from the University of California Irvine. In her free time, she enjoys travelling and cooking.
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About Accuen, PHD Worldwide: Accuen is Omnicom Media Group’s programmatic agency.
John Joe Smith
Sr. Director, Solutions Partnerships of mParticle
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Max Kirby
Director, Cloud Solutions Practice of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Tom McOsker
Founder & Director of BloxTrade
Thomas McOsker joined BCMG as Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About BCMG, BCMG Technologies, BloxTrade, Copper Hill Farm, Map Plus, TRACE Platform: BloxTrade is the world’s first full service broker for tax liens and deeds.
Paul Zovighian
Senior Director & Exchange Optimization of Index Exchange
As the Senior Director of Exchange Optimization at Index Exchange, Paul Zovighian and his team are hyper-focused on studying the billions of auctions hosted on the exchange each day, searching for opportunities and inefficiencies. Paul joined Index six years ago in Toronto as one of its first analyst hires, later moving to New York in support of the company’s global expansion. During his tenure, he’s played a leading role in building a client-facing analytics team, focused on developing and utilizing data-driven tactics to optimize client revenue and market performance. While the analyst team started with just two employees in Toronto, the team today has a global presence in New York, San Francisco, London, Dusseldorf, and Sydney. Paul studied Economics with an emphasis in Econometrics at Queen’s University, and brings a diverse perspective to Index after having lived in six different countries.
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
John Alschuler
Board Member and Director of Macerich
John Alschuler is a Chairman of HR&A Advisors Inc.
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About Columbia University, Columbia University, HR&A Advisors: Macerich is an independent real estate investment trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Robert Primm
Director, IT Security of CA Technologies
Robert Primm, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, is a Director of Cyber Security at CA Technologies, with over ten years experience in Cyber Security, IT Auditing, Compliance, and SAP Security. For the past 5 years, Robert has been managing the team responsible for all aspects of Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Access Management, Role Based Access Control, and SSO.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>James Jenkins
Sr Director, Solution Sales of CA Technologies
James Jenkins, Sr Director, Solution Sales Payment Security at CA Technologies, has earned a wealth of thought leadership experience in 3D-Secure, SaaS, payments, and cyber security. While leading the CA Northern Europe Payment Security division, he drove a range of innovative solutions in authentication and fraud detection for issuers. Now located in the U.S., James leads CA’s North America client & strategic partnership engagement, promoting 3D-Secure best practice to support key business objectives, payment innovation and enhanced security for cardholders.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Britt Ivy
Director of Operations of Prism Skylabs
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About Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
John Hogan
Senior Managing Director of Technology of Broadridge
Hogan is the Senior Managing Director of Technology. He served as Broadridge’s President from 2007 until September 2013 and as our Chief Operating Officer from 2007 until September 2012. Prior to the spin-off, Hogan served as Group President of the Brokerage Services Group of ADP and as a member of the Executive Committee and a Corporate Officer of ADP, positions he held since June 1996. In this role, he shared the responsibility of running the Brokerage Services Group with Daly and was directly responsible for our Securities Processing Solutions and Clearing and Outsourcing Solutions businesses. He joined ADP in 1993 as Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of the Proxy Services business.
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Jocelyn Borgner
Director of Customer Success of Pixalate
Jocelyn has joined Kinetic as a Director to lead the growth of our display team, to build out our product offerings and work closely to bridge the gap between social media and display. She is constantly driven to find new, innovative solutions to help her clients raise awareness and increase engagement with their brands. Prior to joining the team she was a senior member of the Operations team at 33Across, responsible for campaign and yield management for brands across the US and Europe. Outside of Kinetic, Jocelyn is a member of the American Cancer Society’s DetermiNation endurance team and volunteer committee. She runs half marathons and marathons around the country year-round to raise awareness about cancer research and support. Jocelyn is also an active member of the Surprise Lake Camp Alumni Association, raising money to support scholarship initiatives that help send kids to summer camp each year. Jocelyn started her career in digital media shortly after completing her MBA in Marketing at Keller Graduate School of Management. She also holds a BA in Business from the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
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About American Cancer Society, Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
James Murphy
Managing Director of Forum Ventures
James is the Co-Founder of Robly, a marketing automation platform based in New York City. He is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous early stage SaaS startups. Before starting Robly, he was a Vice President of Credit Trading at Barclays Capital.
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About Forum Ventures, Robly: Forum Ventures is the leading fund, program, platform and community for B2B SaaS startups. (Formerly known as Acceleprise)
Andreas Spartalis
Executive Conversion Director & Co-Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Shane McWilliams
Sr. Director, Business Development of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Chane Cullens
Director of Strategy and IT Operations Management of Micro Focus
Chane Cullens is the Director of Strategy and IT Operations Management at Micro Focus.
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About Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Leonard Sherman
Board of Director of Interwise
Len Sherman brings over thirty years of business experience and academic research on growth strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship to Columbia Business School. At CBS, Professor Sherman teaches “Integrated Marketing Strategy” and “Entrepreneurship in Large Enterprises to MBA and EMBA students, earning the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Dr. Sherman was a Senior Partner at Accenture, where he served in a variety of positions including President of two Business Process Outsourcing units: Accenture Procurement Solutions and Accenture Learning. At Accenture, he also served as a founding General Partner of Accenture Technology Ventures, where he led Accenture’s investment activities in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and eLearning. He sat on the Boards of Directors of five technology-based firms in the procurement, supply chain and eLearning domains. Prior to these positions Dr. Sherman also led Accenture’s Global Strategic Services Practice covering client services in the Automotive & Industrial Equipment, Transportation & Travel Services, Food & Consumer Package Goods, Retail and Pharmaceuticals/Medical Products industries. Dr. Sherman joined Accenture in 1995 from J. D. Power and Associates where he had been managing partner of the firm’s management consulting practice and responsible for European business operations. Prior to that, he was a partner with Booz, Allen & Hamilton with responsibility for its U.S. automotive practice. Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Sherman taught “Innovation and Enterprise Growth” in Northeastern University’s MBA program. He has published and presented widely on automotive marketing and distribution strategy, customer satisfaction measurement and effective approaches to corporate education. Since joining CBS, Sherman has authored case studies in the automotive, retail, consumer packaged goods and hard goods industries. His book on growth strategy – If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth – will be published in January, 2017 by Columbia University Press. Dr. Sherman has a BS in aeronautical engineering, a MS in transportation systems and a Ph.D. in transportation economics, all from M.I.T.
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About : Interwise, a software-based company, offers AT&T Connect, an IP software that enables voice, web, and video conferencing.
Sophie Leon-Argue
Director of Marketing of Meelo Logic
Marketing/Branding/Research expert providing advertising, product, editorial, and business development departments with crucial consumer data required for business decisions. Specialties: Marketing, Branding, Promotions, Social Networking, E-newsletters, and Data Analysis Certifications: Advanced Microsoft Excel
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About Meelo Logic: A causal reasoning enterprise AI that transforms underutilized data into intelligence for optimization, automation, compliance, and growth.
Orla Delpon
Client Experience Director of Wishlife
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About Wishlife: A private communication platform that guides families and trusted advisors to build a living legacy of emotional wealth and protection.
Cian Cotter
Director of Fenergo
Cian Cotter joined Insight in 2003 and leads Insight’s capital markets activities. Cian focuses on creating strategic outcomes for Insight’s portfolio companies including IPO preparation and execution, recapitalizations and M&A advisory. He leads Insight’s relationships with strategic acquirers in the software and Internet sectors and helps strengthen corporate and business development activities on behalf of Insight’s portfolio companies. Cian maintains relationships with the global investment banking community and also manages Insight’s inbound private placement investment opportunities. During Cian’s tenure at the firm, 6 of Insight’s portfolio companies have achieved an IPO. Cian has influenced several strategic acquisitions of portfolio companies including IBM’s acquisition of DWL, Oracle’s acquisition of Primavera, Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Paisley Software and Nordstrom’s acquisition of HauteLook. Cian also leads Insight’s capital formation activities and is responsible for coordinating Insight’s relationships with potential and existing investors. During his time at the firm, Insight has raised approximately $3 billion in capital commitments to augment prior assets under management. Prior to joining Insight, Cian was a Product Marketing Manager with Canon, Inc. and a Product Strategy Manager with Cable & Wireless, plc. Cian has a BBS from the University of Limerick, Ireland and an MBA from HEC, France. He is fluent in French.
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About Fenergo, Insight Partners: Fenergo provides client lifecycle management software solutions for financial institutions.
Aaron Melamed
Director of Sales of Greenhouse Software
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About Greenhouse Software: Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.
Morley Ivers
President & Board Director of OS33
Morley is an entrepreneur specializing in partnership & corporate development, team & culture building, and operations within rapid growth business tech environments. Morley has developed leadership experience in both software and hardware companies; and he is an expert in loyalty and reward program marketing. He has extensive experience helping to grow early to mid-stage venture capital backed businesses and is known for his energetic and passionate approach to leadership and helping businesses mature quickly through the delivery of significant revenue growth. Morley is President & CRO at OS33 in NYC. Workplace by OS33 is the leading SaaS platform for compliance and productivity enablement for the wealth management marketplace. Morley is a Co-Founder and was most recently President at Nucleus. Backed by its lead investor – Amazon – Nucleus created, launched and sold the first 3P far-field Alexa enabled device – Nucleus Intercom. Post Amazon’s launch of Echo Show, Nucleus pivoted its retail and direct consumer model to focus on the elderly care and healthcare marketplaces. Morley spends some of his time helping other entrepreneurs. He is an Advisor with: • LevelUp • Maxwell Health • Olo • PlayFull • BlueSleep • RewardOps • Viziphi • Ride Kleen Previously, Morley was President & COO, and Board Director at FanXchange. Morley is a Co-Founder and former President and Board Director at Maxwell Health. Maxwell Health is a fast-growing industry leader in health and insurance tech. Morley was previously CRO for RecycleBank, where he led the team in building RecycleBank’s Rewards Program; and was accountable for directing Business Dev. During Morley’s tenure, RecycleBank was Wall Street Journal’s #1 venture capital-backed Cleantech company. Ivers was also involved in the formative years of Points.com where he was VP Business Strategy and an officer of the company through its IPO.
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About OS33: Empowering employees to securely log in and work anytime, anywhere without compromising data security or regulatory compliance.
Joe Rugilio
Director of UX, Product Management of ServiceChannel
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About ServiceChannel: ServiceChannel is the cloud-based service automation platform for facility maintenance and repair services.
Igall Buzilo
Director of Strategic Solutions of ServiceChannel
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About ServiceChannel: ServiceChannel is the cloud-based service automation platform for facility maintenance and repair services.
Roger Bernardino
Director, Enterprise Sales of 1Huddle
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About 1Huddle: The Fastest Way to Fire Up Your Team // Enterprise SaaS
Andrew Rawana
Founder, Director of Bridger
Andrew Rawana is the Founder and currently serves as Director, Business Development for Bridger Consulting Group, where he manages and oversees all business operations including strategies for acquiring enterprise clients, driving revenue, and establishing brand awareness. Andrew is a former Vice President, Business Development of Guidepoint, the second-largest expert network firm. There he managed a portfolio of institutional investors composed of hedge funds, private equity firms, and strategy consulting firms.
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About Bridger: A tech-enabled consulting platform connecting businesses with industry professionals to share knowledge, on-demand.
Randi Davis
Director for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment of UNDP
Randi is the Director of the United Nations Development Program, Gender Equality Team. She is passionate about equality, freedom, justice, and rights. She was part of the founding team that designed and launched the United Nations Democracy Fund, and she spearheaded UNDP’s global practice on parliamentary development. She was also responsible for bringing gender equality and women’s empowerment into UNDP’s electoral support.
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About UNDP: UNDP is an active United Nations program that focuses on poverty eradication, crisis prevention, and social development.
Warren Breakstone
Managing Director & Chief Product Officer of S&P Global
Warren Breakstone is the Managing Director & Chief Product Officer at S&P Global.
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About S&P Global: S&P Global is a market intelligence company that provides financial information and data analytics services.
Marc Barrachin
Managing Director of S&P Global
Marc focuses on innovation across strategic initiatives, new business segments and regions. Projects cover counterparty risk management, cyber risk quantification, leveraging AI and big data. He is always looking for new ideas so reach out.
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About S&P Global: S&P Global is a market intelligence company that provides financial information and data analytics services.
Brian Schmidt
Director of Operations, General Counsel of Trello
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About Trello: Trello is a visual collaboration tool that provides a shared perspective on any project.
Bobby Gormsen
Director, Executive Search of Riviera
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About Riviera: Riviera is an innovative Executive Recruiting firm focused exclusively on software Engineering, Product and Design executive search.
Michelle Russey McCarthy
Managing Director of Verizon Ventures
Michelle McCarthy makes strategic investments for Verizon’s venture capital group focused principally in the consumer space, in addition to overseeing the venture team’s operations and events. She was recognized as a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star in 2016 and has been a board observer for select portfolio companies in the areas of advertising technology, media, fin tech, and IoT. Before joining Verizon Ventures, Michelle headed acquisitions and asset management of a large portfolio of affordable housing tax credit investments at Verizon Capital and, prior to that, was involved in Verizon’s corporate strategy formulation and domestic and international M&A. Michelle earned an MBA in finance from Georgetown University and a B.A. in International Studies from American University.
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About Verizon Ventures: Verizon Ventures invests in entrepreneurial companies to drive innovation in Verizon Communications.
Jeffrey Black
Managing Director of Verizon Ventures
Jeffrey Black joined Verizon Ventures in 2012. Prior to Verizon Ventures, Jeffrey joined Verizon in 2009 and was involved in numerous M&A and strategic investment transactions. Previously, he worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, structuring debt, equity, and M&A transactions. Prior to J.P. Morgan, he worked in the corporate finance department at Delta Air Lines. Jeffrey received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
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About Verizon Ventures: Verizon Ventures invests in entrepreneurial companies to drive innovation in Verizon Communications.
Alden Mahabir
Manager & Director – Strategy & Planning of Verizon Ventures
Alden Mahabir joined Verizon Ventures in 2013 and supports its strategic marketing and venture development efforts, while also evaluating investment opportunities across industries. Alden brings over 12 years of experience in corporate venture capital, investment banking, and investment research, all focused on technology, media, and telecom. Prior to Verizon Ventures, he worked at Goodrich Capital, where he advised startups and private companies on their business strategies and helped them to raise growth equity capital. He has also held leadership positions at Utendahl Capital Partners, CIBC World Markets, Lehman Brothers, and C.E. Unterberg, Towbin. At a young age, Alden co-founded Vintage Research (age 25), an investment research & consulting firm, and Good Buy Realty (age 19). Alden received his B.A. in Economics at Rutgers University and his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About Verizon Ventures: Verizon Ventures invests in entrepreneurial companies to drive innovation in Verizon Communications.
Bobby Tumpak
Director of Marketing of Lua
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About Lua: Lua specializes in powering HIPAA compliant messaging for the healthcare industry.
Lauren Piazza
Director Of Operations of HireArt
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About HireArt: HireArt is an online recruitment platform that engages in the pre-screening process for suitable job seekers.
Jason Lalk
Director of CloserIQ
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About CloserIQ: CloserIQ empowers sustainable growth by helping companies build high-performing teams.
Matthew Ray
Director of Marketing of CloudSmartz, Inc.
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About CloudSmartz, Inc.: SDN/NFV Productization, Agile Development, Digital Transformation, DCX Portals, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO)
JP Nacier
Director of Engineering of Ubersmith, Inc.
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About Ubersmith, Inc.: Ubersmith is a global leader in subscription business management software for organizations of all sizes.
Dan Brenner
Director of Solution Architecture of Ubersmith, Inc.
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About Ubersmith, Inc.: Ubersmith is a global leader in subscription business management software for organizations of all sizes.
Michael Styne
Director of Operations of Ubersmith, Inc.
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About Ubersmith, Inc.: Ubersmith is a global leader in subscription business management software for organizations of all sizes.
Carol Huang
Director of Marketing and Community of Ubersmith, Inc.
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About Ubersmith, Inc.: Ubersmith is a global leader in subscription business management software for organizations of all sizes.
Sam Curcuruto
Director of Product Marketing of Panaseer
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Jacinta Mathis
Senior Director of Services & Marketing Partnerships of KeyMe
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About KeyMe: KeyMe is a mobile app that allows users to store, share, and duplicate their physical keys based on a digital image.
Dov Seidman
Founder, CEO & Board of Directors of LRN
Dov Seidman’s professional career has focused on how companies and their people can operate in both a principled and profitable way. Dov is the founder and CEO of LRN. Since 1994, LRN has helped hundreds of companies simultaneously navigate complex legal and regulatory environments and foster ethical cultures. Today, LRN operates globally and reaches, works with, and helps shape winning organizational cultures inspired by sustainable values in hundreds of companies with over 20 million people working in more than 100 countries around the world. Dov is the author of HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything recently published by Wiley & Sons in an expanded edition with a foreword by President Bill Clinton and a new preface from Dov on why how we behave, lead, govern and relate to others matters more than ever and in ways it never has before. Fortune called Dov the “hottest advisor on the corporate virtue circuit” and Economic Times named him a “Top 60 Global Thinker of the Last Decade.” Dov became the exclusive corporate sponsor of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics in 2008. He is a Harvard Law School graduate who also earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in moral philosophy from UCLA and a BA with honors in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.
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About LRN: LRN provides integrated solutions through strategic advice, content, tools, online platforms, and support for organizations worldwide.
Andrew Rashkow
Board of Directors of Scanbuy
Imbibe, a leading creator and producer of beverage flavors, beverage ingredient systems and finished products for the beverage industry. Mr. Rashkow joined the company in 2001 and helped pioneer its transformation from a 35-year old niche flavor manufacturer to one of the beverage industry’s leading technical and creative innovators. Imbibe currently operates various production facilities in both North and South America. In the decade prior to joining Imbibe, Mr. Rashkow served as the Managing Partner of SilverYoung Private Equity, an early-stage private equity fund, whose primary investment focus was marketing companies with unique technological platforms. Previously, Mr. Rashkow was a Partner at Chapman Partners investment bankers, specializing in mid-market mergers and acquisitions. In the early nineties, Mr. Rashkow began his professional career as part of the executive team of French home-improvement retailer OBI, based in Lille, France. Mr. Rashkow currently serves on the boards of the following organizations: Scanbuy, Enjoy Life Natural Brands, MAB Capital Management, One Million Degrees, Upsize Chicago, Arie Crown Hebrew Day School, and the Skokie Community Kollel. Mr. Rashkow is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.
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About : Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.
Simon Pelman
Board of Directors of Scanbuy
With nearly four decades of business experience, Simon Pelman is a pioneer and innovator in the industry of health care administration. He served as President and CEO of numerous New York City-area residential health care facilities that included over 1,000 beds and generated in excess of $100 million per year. Mr. Pelman brings his unparalleled business acumen to guide the company’s expansion to serve the healthcare industry’s connection to barcode technology. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Bernard M. Baruch College, along with a Post Masters Certificate in Gerontological Practice from Adelphi University, and an Associate Degree in Community Health Education from Hunter/Mt. Sinai Geriatric Health Center. Mr. Pelman has received numerous congressional citations and an accommodation for 25 years of community board service from the Queens Borough President.
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About : Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.
Manjunath Kolar Bhaskar Pandit
Program Director of ITC Infotech
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About ITC Infotech: ITC Infotech offers domain, data, design, digital solutions for supply chain & service based companies.
Alejandro Laplana
Director at Horizon Latin America LTD of One Horizon Group
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About One Horizon Group: One Horizon Group provides the world’s first carrier-grade mobile VoIP solution.
Colbey Arden
Member of Board of Directors of GPS Industries
Colbey Arden is a Member of Board of Directors at GPS Industries.
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About : GPS Industries is developing and implementing cutting edge technology all over the globe while providing an exciting and dynamic workplace.
