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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 Software 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.
Nathan Henderson
Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East of GitHub
Nathan Henderson is the Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Robert Balousek
Director of Engineering of Carta
Robert Balousek is the Director of Engineering at Carta
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About Carta, Luna – Moonlit Deliveries, Radeeus: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
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.
Jay Rosen
Art Director of B&H Photo
Jay teaches journalism at NYU, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2004 he was chair. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism’s ordeals in the age of the Web, which he launched in 2003. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which was about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Jay has a Ph.D in media studies from NYU. He writes and speaks frequently about new media and the predicament of the press in a time of rapid transformation. In March 2017 he founded the Membership Puzzle Project, funded by the Knight Foundation and Democracy Fund. It will study what works in membership models in news.
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About B&H Photo, New York University: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
Jay Rosen
Art Director of B&H Photo
Jay teaches journalism at NYU, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2004 he was chair. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism’s ordeals in the age of the Web, which he launched in 2003. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which was about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Jay has a Ph.D in media studies from NYU. He writes and speaks frequently about new media and the predicament of the press in a time of rapid transformation. In March 2017 he founded the Membership Puzzle Project, funded by the Knight Foundation and Democracy Fund. It will study what works in membership models in news.
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About B&H Photo, New York University: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
Sia Ea
Executive Creative Director, Global Ecommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anne Fuchs
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
Anne Sutherland Fuchs, 66, consultant to private equity firms. Formerly group president Growth Brands Division Digital Ventures a division of J. C. Penney Company Inc. a retailer November 2010 – April 2012; former Chair of the Commission on Women’s Issues for New York City 2002-2013. Director since 2005. (Also a director of Gartner Inc.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Bryan Dunn
Director, Acquisitions & Business Development of Life House
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About Life House, SnowSearch: Life House is a vertically integrated hotel software and management platform on the mission to make hotels operationally autonomous.
Gabriel Cheng
Director of Growth Marketing of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
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.
John Box
Executive Director, APAC of Meltwater
John Box is the Executive Director of Meltwater’s Asia Pacific (APAC) division. He oversees operations, client acquisition and client success, enterprise sales, and marketing for 12 offices across the region. John joined Meltwater in 2006 and has worked in sales management positions all over the globe. He’s well-known for pioneering and implementing new sales and management techniques to produce an unwavering success rate in revenue.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Scott Marshall
Board Director of Simplebet
Scott was the Co-Founder & COO of ActionX, which was acquired by WPP in 2015. Prior to that, he was the COO & CFO of Thumbplay, which was acquired by Clear Channel in 2011 and is now iHeartRadio. Prior to that, he was the CFO of CSTV Networks, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Classic Sports Network, which was acquired by ESPN in 1997 and is now ESPN Classic.
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About ActionX, On Location Experiences: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Sunil Hirani
Managing Director of Digital Asset
Sunil Hirani was the Founder of TassatPay and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at trueEX. He finished his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. from Washington University.
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About Digital Asset, TassatPay, trueEX: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
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.
Scott Mullins
Managing Director, Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development of Amazon Web Services
Scott Mullins is the Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for leading the development and execution of AWS’s strategic initiatives in the financial services industry around the world. Prior to joining AWS in 2014, Scott’s 20 year career in financial services included roles at JPMorgan Chase, Nasdaq, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Scott is a subject matter expert quoted in industry media, a recognized speaker at industry events, and serves on the advisory board of the FinTech Sandbox.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Mary McDowell
Member of Board of Directors of Autodesk
Mary T. McDowell is president and CEO at Mitel
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About Informa, Mitel Networks Corporation: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
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.
Aaron Welch
Director of Delivery of Contino
Aaron Welch is a Director of Delivery at Contino. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and SVP of Product at Packet.
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About Contino: Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
Gregory Kotlar
Director of Product & IT Development of ProTrak
Gregory is ProTrak’s Director of Product Development and has been with the ProTrak team for the past 14 years. Greg has more than 20 years’ experience in commercial software development as a software engineer and consultant with special concentration in the areas of Statistics and Engineering models. Greg holds an M.S. degree in Mathematics from Kharkov State University. While at the University of Maryland at College Park studying for his Ph.D. degree, Greg was also a teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics.
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About ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
Hania Jacobson
Director of Consulting of ProTrak
Hania is ProTrak’s Director of Consulting Services and has been with the ProTrak team since the inception of the company. Hania has been instrumental in implementing ProTrak’s Data Conversion/Migration policies & procedures. Hania and her team have successfully completed every ProTrak Client’s migration from existing legacy systems to the ProTrak CRM platform. She works alongside the technical staff and provides operational support, new product design expertise and overall project management. Hania has more than 25 years of industry experience, working at major consulting and securities trading organizations, including Monchik-Weber. Prior to joining ProTrak, Hania was a Director of Pharos, Inc., where she played a key role in the design of a new options trading system. She later traded stock options and managed client portfolios using options as a hedging tool. Hania holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
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About ProTrak: The Complete Project & Communications Tool for General Contractors
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.
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.
Emily Watson
Director, Payments and Global Banking of Flywire
Emily has been working in cross-border payments her entire career, spending time in Operations, Technology, Payment Network and Product Management roles at Western Union Business Solutions and Citibank before joining Flywire in October 2018. At Flywire, Emily spends her time working with global banking partners to ensure the optimization and continuous expansion of the company’s payment network. Emily is a graduate of American University in Washington, DC, with a B.A. in Anthropology and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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About Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Debra Walton
Global Managing Director, Customer Proposition of Thomson Reuters
Debra is Chief Content Officer for Thomson Reuters and a veteran of the financial services industry. She leads a team of 4,000+ Thomson Reuters employees globally. Her team has end‐to‐end responsibility for setting the strategy and managing the operations of Thomson Reuters’ world‐class information and analytics to power the world’s financial markets. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Debra held senior executive roles at Cantor Fitzgerald, Nucleus Financial and Dow Jones Telerate.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Michael MacCombie
Director of Platform of ff Venture Capital
Mike MacCombie is Director of Platform at ff Venture Capital, an early stage firm based in New York City that has invested in financial technology, insurance tech, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, and real estate technology, among other sectors. He focuses on platforms, marketplaces, and consumer brands that will change the behaviors of millions of people.
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About ff Venture Capital, NextGen Venture Partners, Techstars: ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Scott Dubin
Director of Investor Relations of ff Venture Capital
Scott Dubin, OurCrowd’s Director of Investor Relations, has over ten years of experience leveraging the power of communities. Prior to joining OurCrowd, Scott was the founder of The AIPAC Technology Division, a network of pro-Israel political activists, and worked as an operative on municipal, gubernatorial, and US Senate campaigns in addition to consulting for advocacy campaigns and not-for-profits in the United States, Canada, and Israel. A lifelong advocate of Israel, Scott Dubin has served in leadership roles at the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel, and was elected to the Zionist General Council and Zionist Congress. He received his BA from the New York University, and served in the IDF’s Artillery Corp.
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About ff Venture Capital: ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Matt Vella
Director of Engineering of Viam
As VP of Engineering at Unqork, Matt is thrilled to be tasked with building out the team and platform that is changing the way the world builds software. Prior to Unqork, Matt held engineering leadership roles with companies in the fields of education, advertising, financial services and media – most recently leading solutions architecture at Schoology and Engineering at Impact/Forensiq. His work at Unqork continues to build on his track record and passion of building innovative and scalable SAAS products. Matt received a BS in Computing and Information Technology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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About Viam: Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that helps people’s daily life.
Bennett Crumbling
Director – TV of The Trade Desk
Bennett Crumbling leads The Trade Desk’s strategy & business development within the $300B TV advertising ecosystem. Bennett is an angel investor in early stage companies. He is especially interested in data-centric companies that solve logical problems for consumers & knowledge workers inside of industries such as marketing & advertising, media, ecommerce & consumer services and real estate
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Nick Neumann
Director of Sales & Staffing of Compunnel Digital
Nick Neumann is Compunnel’s Director of Sales and Staffing and is responsible for developing partnerships with potential companies, while working with existing clients to ensure they are 100% satisfied. Nick has over two decades of experience working with Fortune 500 companies to solve the most challenging resource requirements in the IT Industry. With this experience comes a phenomenal level of understanding for Technology in the corporate world, making him one of the most valuable members of the Compunnel Staffing Team. Before beginning work at Compunnel, Nick Neumann was an extremely successful business owner for the company Mindtrust Consulting Services, which eventually was acquired by Compunnel in 2014. His previous roles include Vice President at GE Capital Consulting, AmeriData, and PSI Net Consulting. Nick holds a BS in Business Management from Kean University in New Jersey and he is Six Sigma Certified.
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About Compunnel Digital: Compunnel Digital Software Group IT consulting and staffing, custom business application development, eLearning and enterprise applications.
Mike Russo
Director of Sales of Compunnel Digital
Mike Russo has been placing IT consultants in global organizations for over 20 years. As the Director of Sales at Compunnel, he directly oversees the acquisition of new clients and maintains relationships with existing clients. Mike specializes in working with clients that require a tremendous amount of flexibility and urgency from their staffing needs, often creating custom-tailored recruitment and placement approaches for each new client. Mike was the President of Diversified Technical Solutions for 15 years before it was acquired by Compunnel in 2013. At his position, Mike grew the company from a humble start-up to being the premier staff augmentation vendor for several Fortune customers. In his 15 years at the company, Mike performed the job duties for almost every role in the staff augmentation business, which he accredits to most of his success today.
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About Compunnel Digital: Compunnel Digital Software Group IT consulting and staffing, custom business application development, eLearning and enterprise applications.
Anup Singh
Managing Director & Co-founder of MARG ERP Limited
Thakur Anup Singh born on 24 th June 1972 is a true leader and Chairman & Managing Director at Marg Erp Ltd. He is also the founder of NGO HASI (Human Association for Smiling India) & Dial2pharma (Pharma Helpline). He holds a PGDM degree in Computer Application. Thakur Anup Singh’s started his career as a Software Programmer and had a vision that MSME & SME’s are a major contributor towards Indian GDP and their growth in future would definitely boost the overall economy. Being inquisitive and a solution finder he started looking for a software which could make the business run in an easier and a more organized way. The first ever software solution of his life in 1992 gave him the true faith and believe that his software solution has the capacity to manage the accounting of the company with great ease. Having a deep understanding and tasting the initial success of the ongoing market he knew that a customized trade specific and an advanced solution based ERP will be an indigenous and an affordable solution for all types of businesses. Thakur Anup Singh understood the need and took this daunting step along with his younger brother Mr. Sudhir Singh and friend Mr. Mahender Singh to start a software company in 1992. The first Marg Partner was made in 2003 and since then, thousands of people have joined the company as a partner.
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About MARG ERP Limited: MARG Compusoft is focused on the development of software solutions that focus on POS, billing, and manufacturing.
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
Bryan Dougherty
Managing Director and Head of Technology of Arcesium
Bryan Dougherty is a Managing Director and the Head of Technology for Arcesium, overseeing platform development, infrastructure and security. Prior to the formation of Arcesium, Bryan was Head of Middle and Back Office Technology at the D. E. Shaw group for nine years. Bryan started his career at Random Walk Computing, a technology consultancy focused on the capital markets where he worked on a variety of projects for exchanges/marketplaces, investment banks, and hedge funds.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
David Nable
Managing Director and Head of Sales of Arcesium
David Nable is a Senior Vice President and the Head of Sales for Arcesium. Prior to joining Arcesium, David was the Head of U.S. Sales and a member of the global operating committee for Credit Suisse Prime Fund Services, a fund services business that was acquired by BNP Paribas. Prior to that, David spent nine years at Goldman Sachs in sales and client management roles across both the Prime Brokerage and Fund Administration businesses.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Zachary Smith
Managing Director, Bare Metal of Equinix
Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automation that sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.
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About Equinix, MerchantPlus, Voxel (Internap): Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Arun Mukerjee
Regional Sales Director of Quantcast
Arun Mukerjee is a global sales leader with over a decade of international experience in the Digital Advertising landscape. As Sales Director at Quantcast in New York, Arun and his team of strategic account executives partner with pioneer brands in the b2b space, such as Microsoft, WordPress, Vonage and their agencies, to deeply understand consumer behavior. Leveraging best in class real time programmatic technology, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to reach influence, and convert prospective customers.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Morgan Hitzig
Senior Director of Global Operations of Dataminr
Morgan Hitzig is the Senior Director of Global Operations at Dataminr.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Sarah Manning
Director, Engineering of Dataminr
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
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.
Snir Ben Shimol
Executive Director of Varonis Systems
Snir is the Head of Cyber Security at Varonis, leading the security research, forensics and incident response teams. Snir began his career in the IDF Technology and Intelligence unit and continued as a Security Researcher in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. Since then, he has worked in the Advanced Security Center of EY as the Cyber Security Advisory leader, managing red-team operations and risk assessments. He has advised major international corporates and high-profile individuals to build their security resilience and protect their organization. Prior to his current role, he led Radware’s Cyber Security Research division, responsible for innovation and security solution capabilities.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Robert Sobers
Director of Inbound Marketing of Varonis Systems
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech 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.
Alex Kassirer
Director of Physical Security and Counterterrorism of Flashpoint
Alex is Flashpoint’s counterterrorism team lead and on-air analyst for NBC. She has assisted law enforcement and intelligence agencies in terrorism investigations and prosecutions, and consults private sector organizations on both physical and cyber security. Ms. Kassirer has presented to various audiences, including law enforcement, on monitoring and addressing the threat that stems from jihadists. Ms. Kassirer holds an MS in Global Affairs with a concentration in Transnational Security from New York University and BA in International Affairs with a concentration in Conflict & Security and a minor in Religion from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where she also studied Arabic.
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About Flashpoint, Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Nick Hayes
Director of Content Marketing and Communications of Flashpoint
More than 12 years in the cybersecurity technology industry holding senior positions in product, strategy, and marketing.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Eric Hembree
Director of IoT of Ingram Micro
Eric Hembree is the Director of IoT at Ingam Micro where he leads the US go-to-market team. He is responsible for leading the overall vision, development, strategy and execution of the Internet of Things business and go-to-market programs.
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About Ingram Micro: Ingram Micro is a provider of technology products and supply chain management services.
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.
Chris Gaun
Director of Product of Solo.io
Physics nerd turned tech geek. Manage Gloo Platforms at Solo.io
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
George McNamee
Director of iRobot
George McNamee has served as a director since August 1999; he brings extensive experience with the management of public and private companies, as well as deep financial expertise. Currently a private investor, McNamee served as a managing partner of FA Technology Ventures Corporation, an information and energy technology venture capital firm, from 2000 until 2012. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of Plug Power Inc., a leading fuel cell developer, and is a director of several private companies, a Sterling Fellow of Yale and a Trustee of the Albany Academies and The American Friends of Eton College. McNamee previously served on the board of directors of Broadpoint (now Gleacher) Securities as well as serving from 1984 to 2007 as chairman of its predecessor First Albany Companies and was also a board member of the New York Stock Exchange Inc., Maplnfo, Home Shopping Network, Inc. and the Meta Group. He holds a B.A. from Yale University. McNamee will be retiring from the board of directors and is not standing for re-election at this annual meeting.
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About AmberWave, iRobot, Plug Power, Yale University: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Dambisa Moyo
Non Executive Director of Seagate Technology
Dambisa Moyo is a global economist and author who analyzes the macroeconomy and international affairs. In particular, her work examines the interplay of international business, technology, and the global economy, while highlighting the key opportunities for investment; capitalizing on her rare ability to translate trends in markets, innovation, politics, regulatory matters and economics into their likely impact on global business. Dambisa was named by TIME Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World and was the Thinkers50 Thinker of the Month in April 2015. She was an early investor in Silver Creek and is a keynote speaker at the 2015 Global Drucker Forum. Her writing appears regularly appears in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, covering key topics for businesses in the 21st century and the relationship between technology, global economic growth, and the private sector.
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About : Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Timothy Cochran
Technical Director of Financial Services of Thoughtworks
Tim Cochran currently works for ThoughtWorks NYC, and has been full stack developer and architect for over 15 years. Working on everything from large distributed enterprise projects to small NGO visualization apps. He recently has been helping companies with digital transformation, moving towards continuous delivery and building a DevOps culture. He also is an automated testing zealot, practices TDD almost exclusively, he builds test strategy using the right combinations of unit, E2E and functional testing for clients.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Billy D. Aldea-Martinez
Regional Director of Piano
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About Piano: Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior through one complete platform.
Omar Darwazah
Managing Director and General Partner of AAF Management Ltd.
Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, strategy, investor relations and venture capital. He is a Managing Director and General Partner at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. AAF focuses on top tier venture-backed Seed and Series A investment opportunities in US-based startups that have international expansion potential and currently has over $100M in assets under management. AAF invests across Fintech, Consumer, Enterprise Software and Healthcare and its portfolio includes Synthego, Tamara Mellon, Current, Even Financial, Portfolium (acquired by Instructure), HeyDoctor (acquired by GoodRx), Prodigy (acquired by Upstart), TruOptik (acquired by Transunion) among others. Omar is also an angel investor in various technology companies including Andela, Blockstack and FiscalNote. He sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on strategy, corporate finance, and investor relations where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, he was with Deloitte in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London. Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Omar was born in Cairo and lived in London, Chicago, Montreal and Paris. He now resides in New York City with his wife Bouchra and twin son and daughter Zayn and Layla. Omar enjoys scuba diving and is an avid travel photographer having visited 85 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018). He was named one of Wharton’s 40 Under 40 in 2017.
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About AAF Management Ltd., GoldCleats Global: AAF Management Ltd. is an early-stage VC firm focused on Seed and Series A technology 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.
Ryan Mackey
Managing Director of Lightkeeper
Mackey” comes to Lightkeeper from Advent Software, where he was the Director of Global Sales for the Tamale business unit, charged with worldwide marketing and sales success for the company’s Research Management division. At Advent, Mackey determined market strategy, product direction, sales, and client relationship management. His supported client base comprised of firms from around the globe and across various investment strategies — including hedge funds, asset managers, private equity, foundations, endowments, and funds of funds. Mackey was among the original employees with Tamale Software in 2004. Initially focused on consulting with those first Tamale clients, he soon found himself filling broader roles in Account Management and Sales. Having worked previously in institutional sales and services at firms such as CIBC World Markets and StreetEvents, Mackey worked to help define requirements and standards. In working with clients, Mackey strives for a consultative approach — he works toward finding the right solutions for the client, including evaluation and understanding of the needs of the enterprise and value to the individual users. He is well known for his ability to address concerns at all levels throughout the sales and implementation process. When not working with clients, Mackey enjoys all sports and can often be found playing golf. He earned his undergraduate degree at Saint Lawrence University and lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York with his wife and two daughters.
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About Lightkeeper: Lightkeeper provides managers immediate and relevant information for making critical investment decisions .
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.
Nico Snyder
Director of Sales of Code Climate
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About Code Climate: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
Kären Engelbrecht
Director of Marketing of Code Climate
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About Code Climate: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
Kären Engelbrecht
Director of Marketing of Code Climate
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About Code Climate: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
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.
Robert Holland, Jr.
Board of Director of Lexmark
Mr. Robert Holland, Jr., age 74, has been a Director of the Company since December 1998. Mr. Holland is a General Partner of The West Africa Fund and continues to maintain a consulting practice for strategic development assistance to senior management of Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Mr. Holland served as a General Partner and Industry Specialist with Cordova, Smart and Williams. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer of WorkPlace Integrators, a company he acquired in June 1997 and sold in April 2001. Mr. Holland also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. from February 1995 to December 1996, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rokher-J Inc. from 1991 to 1995 and from 1981 to 1984, Chairman of Gilreath Manufacturing, Inc. from 1987 to 1991 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of City Marketing from 1984 to 1987. Mr. Holland is a former partner with McKinsey & Company, Inc. and held various positions at Mobil Oil Corporation from 1962 to 1968. Mr. Holland also serves as a director of Carver Bancorp, Inc., LTD.
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About : Lexmark creates innovative imaging solutions and technologies that help you print, secure and manage information with ease, efficiency.
Ralph Gomory
Board of Director of Lexmark
Mr. Ralph E. Gomory, age 85, has been a Director of the Company since March 1991. Since 2007, Mr. Gomory has served as a Research Professor at the Stern School of Business at the New York University and President Emeritus of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Mr. Gomory served as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1989 through his retirement in 2007. Prior to such time, Mr. Gomory was Senior Vice President for Science and Technology at International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”).
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About : Lexmark creates innovative imaging solutions and technologies that help you print, secure and manage information with ease, efficiency.
Michael Radocchio
Director of Customer Success, New York of PeerNova
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About PeerNova: PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data.
Michael Radocchio
Director of Customer Success, New York of PeerNova
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About PeerNova: PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data.
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.
Dave Goldstein
Director of Business Development of Braze
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
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.
Dario Laverde
Director of Developer Relations of HTC
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About HTC: HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of virtual reality hardware, smartphones and tablets in Taiwan.
Victoria Chang
Director, VIVE Arts & Culture of HTC
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About HTC: HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of virtual reality hardware, smartphones and tablets in Taiwan.
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.
