Larry was formerly Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle’s Advanced Customer Services organization, where he led the business from $250 million to $1 billion in annual revenues. He has held senior leadership positions with Red Book Connect, USinternetworking and Appshop, where El Dorado Ventures named him “2004 Entrepreneur of the Year.”

Larry began his professional career with Arthur Andersen & Co., where he specialized in enterprise application implementations. He entered Andersen’s U.S. Partnership in 1998 and became an Andersen Worldwide Partner in 2000.

Larry was raised in Southern California and is a 1989 graduate of the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management with a double major in Accounting and Management Information Systems (MIS). Larry is a member of the Eller College’s MIS Board of Advisors as well as Eller’s National Board of Advisors.

Larry moved to Northern California in 1999 and lives in Orinda with his wife, Julie, and their two children.

Eric is the author of sendmail, syslog, tset, trek, and several other programs. He co-founded Sendmail, Inc. and is the author of several IETF RFCs. He started his career on the INGRES Relational Database Management System Project while a student at Berkeley, becoming the Lead Programmer. He then moved to Britton Lee doing interfaces for one of the first database servers. Eric also worked at The International Computer Science Institute on the Ring Array Processor Project for neural-net-based speech recognition and SQLstream doing streaming data analytics. He is currently at the Swarm Lab at U.C. Berkeley, working on open platforms to support large swarms of sensors and actuators for ubiquitous distributed computing (sometimes called the Internet of Things).

Eric is a founding member of the Editorial Review Board of ACM Queue magazine, a member of the ACM Council, and on the Board of Trustees for Cal Performances. Previously, he was Vice President and Treasurer of USENIX Association. Eric is co-author of the O’Reilly book Sendmail. He wrote a chapter for The Architecture of Open Source Applications and has authored many papers, articles, and columns.

Elie Antoun is currently serving as CEO for Akros Silicon. Elie is the former President and CEO of Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ: GNSS), a leading supplier of display image processors in both the flat-panel TV and LCD monitor markets. Previously, Elie was President and CEO of Pixim and President and CEO of MediaQ, an EDV portfolio company that was acquired by Nvidia Corp. in 2003. Prior to MediaQ, Elie spent nine years at LSI Logic Corp. in a variety of executive management roles. His last position was EVP of the Consumer Products Division, with overall responsibility for LSI Logic’s PlayStation, DVD, Digital Camera, and Digital Set-Top Box businesses. He also served for six years at LSI Logic KK in Japan, spending the last three as President, increasing revenue to $350 million. Earlier in his career, Elie held process engineering and engineering management positions at Xicor and AMI. He received BSEE and MSEE degrees from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.

Brian is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Sport NGIN, a Rally Ventures Portfolio company.  Prior to Sport NGIN, Brian leveraged more than 20 years of experience building and inspiring teams in his previous role as president and COO for Code42 Software. Brian also served as Executive Director of Sales – Americas for enterprise storage at Dell. Before that, he was Vice President of Global Sales at Compellent Technologies, which was acquired by Dell for $960 million. Previously, Brian held an executive role at StorageNetworks, and also served as a Captain and instructor pilot in the United States Air Force flying F-16 fighter jets.

Khaled Bichara is Group President and Chief Operating Officer of VimpelCom Ltd, Group Executive Chairman of Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (OTH), and Chairman of Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. (Wind Italy). Khaled played a pivotal role in the merger of VimpelCom with Wind Telecom for a total consideration of $25.7 billion to create the world’s sixth largest telecommunications carrier. He ran ten operations across the globe through OTH and Wind Italy and 22 operations worldwide through VimpelCom. He was the Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of LINKdotNET. Khaled currently serves as a Board Member of various telecom and IT companies, including Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding S.A.E.,  SUPERNAP International S.A., Joyent Inc., MT Telecom SCRL, as well as the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (ECMS). He is the Chairman of the Board of DADA S.p.A. and of Italiaonline S.p.A.

Ian has built a strong reputation for driving corporate value and operational growth over his 30-plus year career. He has been the CEO of multiple high-growth companies, and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of numerous private and public companies in the high-tech space. In his spare time, Ian enjoys golfing, spending time with his family, and following European soccer.

Peter Bourne is a senior executive with leadership achievements spanning all company operations including board level, P&L, sales and marketing, and R&D. He has spent 18 years in director, CEO, COO, EVP and GM roles at both public and private companies, from early stage through revenue to profitability and exits. Peter’s key strengths include establishing successful company strategies, customer acquisition, building and resizing organizations, and motivating teams. He possesses M&A experience as both target and acquirer from initial contact through final integration, including complex and international transactions.

Marc Brown, JD is a General Manager, Managing Director in the Corporate Development Group and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisition and Strategic Investments at Microsoft (since January 2000). Prior to joining Microsoft, Marc practiced corporate law at a firm in Boston, was a high school teacher and coach, and an investment banker in New York. From May 1998 to December 1999, he was an Associate in the Private Equity and Emerging Companies Group of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP. Before that, from 1987 to 1991, Marc was an Associate in the Mergers & Acquisition and Merchant Banking groups at the Union Bank of Switzerland. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director for Perform Group plc. since March 2011. He is a Member of Advisory Board of Taldan Capital Limited. He served as a Director of Asia Global Crossing, Chyron Corporation, CommVault Systems, Inc., Enterprise Mobile, Inspur Int’l, JCOM, Sendo Holdings plc, and Venturcom, Inc. He also serves a Member of Executive Advisory Board of Merus Capital, Greenspring Advisors, and Volition Capital LLC. Marc holds a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, an MBA in Finance from New York University, and a BA in Economics from Colgate University.

Mark is a Partner in True’s Boston office focused on Retained Executive Searches for high growth technology companies. Prior to True, Mark was with Heidrick & Struggles in the Global Technology and Venture Capital Practice. Mark joined Heidrick & Struggles from IronHill Partners, a venture-focused retained search firm which was acquired by Heidrick & Struggles in 2008. Prior to IronHill, Mark was the Human Capital Partner for St. Paul Venture Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. Mark began his professional career at Arthur Andersen.

Michael Carrel joined AtriCure in 2012. Under his leadership, AtriCure is executing on the company’s promise to decrease the global atrial fibrillation (Afib) epidemic by investing significantly in education, clinical science, and product innovation. He is developing a customer-centric culture; his team listens intently to physicians and patients and responds with products that make Afib treatment safer and less complex to encourage adoption by more physicians around the world.

Prior to AtriCure, Michael served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vital Images (NASDAQ: VTAL), a global leader of advanced imaging software for use in disease screening, clinical diagnosis, and therapy decision-making and planning for over 6,000 customers in 90 countries – acquired by Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation in June 2011. Previously he was President and CEO of Zamba Corporation, a publicly-traded technology company, and Chief Financial Officer of NextNet Wireless, a privately-held provider of non-line-of-sight plug and play broadband wireless access systems, now part of Motorola.

Michael is currently on the American Heart Association Board of Directors for the Cincinnati and Minneapolis chapters. He holds a BS in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Copman has more than 25 years of business and leadership experience. He served as Executive Officer of Corporate Development and Mergers And Acquisitions -Staff and Shared Services at 3M Company. He served as Managing Director in the investment banking unit of Piper Jaffray, where he served from 1990 to 2003. He was a U.S. Navy officer from 1981 to 1988. Mr. Copman received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Art Coviello is Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Art is responsible for RSA’s strategy and overall operations as it delivers EMC’s global vision of information-centric security. He was Chief Executive Officer of RSA Security, Inc. prior to its acquisition by EMC in 2006. He joined the company in 1995 and has been a driving force in its rapid growth since that time. Art’s expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry, where he plays a key role in several national cybersecurity initiatives.

Art has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high-technology companies. In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors at EnerNOC, a leader in demand response systems for energy conservation, and AtHoc, a leading provider of enterprise-class, network-based mass notification systems for the security, life safety and defense sectors. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts.

Bill is a senior engineering manager for technology-spirited companies. His specialties include: Consumer Web, Network Security, SaaS and System Software. He offers:

• Interim technical management
• Technical due diligence
• Agile development
• Coaching and recruiting

A veteran of routing and switching technology, Mark is currently the CEO of infinite io, inc., a company that has created a disruptive solution to traditional data storage. As the CEO of Storspeed, Mark had several patents filed related to storage caching. Mark led Cisco Systems’ entry into the storage networking market as the General Manager of Cisco Systems Storage Router Business Unit. Mark joined Cisco Systems through the acquisition of NuSpeed, a company he founded that delivered the first commercial iSCSI storage over IP product which became the foundation of a multi-billion dollar market. Between 1989 and 1995 Mark was part of a team that delivered one of the first IP routers and firewalls at technology pioneer Network Systems Corporation (NSC). Mark holds an MBA from the University of St. Thomas and a BS in MIS from the University of Minnesota.

Prior to founding Denning & Company, Paul was at Hambrecht & Quist, as Managing Director of the Private Equity Market Group in San Francisco and integrated into the Private Fund Group as co-head following the Chase Manhattan acquisition in 1999, and subsequently the merger with J.P. Morgan in 2001. Previously, Paul was a Managing Director at Robertson, Stephens & Company, a Limited Partner at Montgomery Securities and a Principal at Sutro & Company. Paul has been involved in the investment banking industry for over 35 years and served seven years, pro bono, as a Trustee and Commissioner of the City and County of San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, a $15 billion public pension plan. He has published several industry publications including: “How to Sell Restricted Securities, a Guide to Rule 144” and “Stock Distribution, a Guide for Venture Capitalists”. He inaugurated and hosted The Annual Private Equity CFO conference in San Francisco, Hong Kong and London from 1990-2001. Paul graduated with honors from the University of Akron, Ohio and later received his Master’s Degree in Public Finance. He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer and carrier based aviator from 1966 to 1970.

Kevin DeNuccio is Violin’s President and Chief Executive Officer and has served as a member of the Board of Directors since February 2014. Previously, Kevin served as Chief Executive Officer of Metaswitch Networks Ltd., a telecommunications hardware and software company, from February 2010 until June 2012. He remained a member of the Metaswitch Networks’ Board of Directors until joining Violin. Kevin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Redback Networks Inc., a provider of edge routers, from August 2001 until its acquisition by Ericsson in January 2007 after emerging from bankruptcy in 2004. From 1995 to 2001, he held a number of executive positions at Cisco Systems, including Senior Vice President of worldwide service provider operations. Prior to joining Cisco, Kevin was President and CEO of Bell Atlantic Network Integration, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications). He has also held senior management positions at both Unisys Corporation and Wang Laboratories network integration and worldwide channel partner business.
Kevin previously served on numerous public and private Boards of Directors including Redback Networks, JDS Uniphase Corporation, KPMG consulting (BearingPoint), Netpliance (TippingPoint), Salesnet and SanDisk. He earned an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Northeastern University.

Chris is the Director of Open Source for Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. Additionally, he looks after Google Making Science, an emerging scientific outreach program. For Google Ideas, he looks after Uproxy and Project Shield, among other programs.

Chris is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and the This Week in Google podcasts. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to a number of firms.

Before joining Google, Chris was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org. He also co-edited the award-winning essay compilations “Open Sources” and “Open Sources 2.0” and writes for several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte and made a number of appearances on TechTV’s “The Screensavers” and on the Cranky Geeks.

Shawn delivers Unified’s technology strategy and architects the company’s rapidly expanding SaaS offerings in cross-platform data management, analytics and reporting. He has been a cloud visionary and key contributor to the emerging enterprise cloud operating model for over a decade. Shawn has held roles as Operating Executive, Technologist, Advisor and Investor. Most recently responsible for the strategy and vision of the Prior to ServiceMesh, he was managing director at EMC Ventures where he drove strategic investments in cloud, security, big data/analytics, and disruptive technology and business models. He has served on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Technical Steering Committee for the Enterprise CSC/ServiceMesh Agility Platform, contributing to IT transformation at Global 2000 enterprises, Grid Alliance (EGA), and on the Board of Directors at Joyent, a high-performance cloud infrastructure provider. He is a winner of the Always On 2012 Power Players in the Cloud award and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security, and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October 2013. Prior to that, he was CEO of Silver Tail Systems from March 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to that, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB-focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies, and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.

Staffan has more than 30 years of experience as a technologist, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. He came to Vesbridge from SPVC, where he had been a Venture Partner since 2000. Staffan founded Vivo Software in 1992 and served as its first CEO and later as Chairman until the company was acquired by RealNetworks in 1998. After Vivo’s acquisition, Staffan joined RealNetworks as a special consultant to the CEO and spearheaded RealNetworks’ entry into the mobile market. Before founding Vivo, Staffan spent seven years at PictureTel. While he was Director of Research, he invented HVQ (Hierarchical Vector Quantization), enabling the company to become the leader in group videoconferencing. As Director of International Sales, he built up a worldwide distribution network for PictureTel’s products. Staffan holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His PhD Thesis formed the basis for the European research efforts that led to the international standards for video compression (MPEG, H.261, H.263). He holds 14 patents related to video compression and is especially active with seed-stage startups.

Mark is the Head of Marketplace Intelligence Group at Google, founding the globally focused business intelligence organization building a platform for all of Google’s Adsense ad network products and platforms. Previously, Mark was Head of Media Relationships and was responsible for business relationships with key strategic media partners pertaining to Google’s entry into the Display market.

As Director in the eBay Strategic Partnerships Group, Mark led a group responsible for multi-million dollar revenue quotas for key partnerships with blue chip companies such as AOL, Toyota, and General Motors. He was instrumental in developing, evaluating, and managing multiple business models such as an innovative “pay-for-performance” internal ad network for eBay merchants for eBay search terms.

Before joining eBay, he founded and served as CEO of MarketIt Right.com, an online marketing service that integrates automated marketing planning with a vendor marketplace. Prior to that he worked as Director of National Advertising Sales, Media Planning, Operations & Program Development at Netscape Communications where he spearheaded Netscape’s entrance into web-based advertising and led the multi-million dollar advertising business unit for many years. Mark also co-founded and served as General Partner at full-service advertising agency Bricker-Evans, working with 130 startups as well as publicly-traded companies.

Mark Floyd was most recently the CEO of SafeNet. He was formerly a Venture Partner with El Dorado Ventures and the CEO of Entrisphere, a communications equipment company (and El Dorado Ventures portfolio company) that was acquired by Ericcson.

Mark became CEO of Entrisphere after completing the successful $1.5 billion acquisition of Efficient Networks by Siemens in 2001. Prior to founding Efficient Networks (also an El Dorado Ventures portfolio company) in 1993, Mark served as Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Networth Inc., and was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Interphase Corp.

Mark holds a BBA in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and was the Recipient of the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southwest region.

Putting Computer Science to Work

Patrick founded Leader Ventures in 2005 and is also a Managing Director of Dominion Capital Management. Previously, Patrick was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development for ShoppingList.com, Inc., a venture-backed start-up. He also served as President and CEO of Paragon Electronic Systems, Inc., a leading backplane manufacturer, and President of Cima Capital Group, a growth equity firm where he concentrated on investment opportunities in the technology and healthcare services sectors. Mr. Gordan holds an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar, and an AB in Social Studies magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Dale has over 20 years of product management and marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as the President of the San Jose Grand Prix for three years. Dale earned his BSEE at the University of Saskatchewan in 1982. For the next eight years, he served as Marketing Director for Develcon Electronics. Dale then held similar positions at Alberta Microelectronics Centre and Sci-Tec Instruments Ltd. During Dale’s eight-year tenure at Cisco Systems, he held the positions of Product Line Manager, Director of Marketing, and Director of Business Development. More recently, Dale has served as Director, Product Management for Luminous Networks, Inc., Vice President of Tiara Networks, and Director, Product Management for Procket Networks, Inc.

Throughout his career, Dale has managed large teams of technical product management and marketing professionals while overseeing multi-million dollar project accounts. Dale possesses a wealth of technical skills and in-depth leadership experience.

Michael has more than 25 years of experience in information systems and business development. He was the co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development at Appshop, a leading provider of hosted Oracle application and database technology. Michael’s experience includes positions with El Dorado Ventures, United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, InfoSolutions and SimulTrans. Michael has designed and built industry-leading hosting and software delivery platforms, built and managed global information system support organizations, supported over 300 technology sales cycle wins, managed the implementation of more than 30 ERP and CRM deployments, and founded and built three companies.

Jack is a founder and CEO of Trusper, a mobile marketplace for lifestyle tips with 17 million users. He is also a partner of GSR Ventures and an angel investor. Previously, Jack was a founding CEO of Baynote, Inc., a leading recommendation software company valued at $100 million. Prior to Baynote, Jack was the founding CTO at Interwoven Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV, now HP), a leading software company that pioneered the CMS category and is valued at $7 billion. Before Interwoven, he was a founder and CEO of V-max America, making Micron the #1 Tech PC in China in the mid-1990s. Jack also led Unix kernel development at Sun, SGI, Stratus, and NASA.

Jack received an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MSEE from NYU-Poly, and a BSEE/MSCE from Beijing Jiaotong University. He was recognized in the 2012 Top 10 Chinese Business Leaders – the highest business recognition in China. He was also named one of the 40 most accomplished overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and scholars by the Chinese central government. Jack holds more than 20 technology patents. He is also a board member and former president of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA).

Dennis is experienced at all levels from entry level sales to CEO. He has had proven results building start-up companies and repositioning those that are underperforming. Dennis is adept at designing distribution and sales strategies for direct or indirect teams. He is successful in building and implementing software, hardware, professional services, and customer service programs. Dennis’s goal is to work on advisory boards and to provide consulting services.

Galen Johnson ​currently ​serves as a Director for American Investors Bank​, where he chairs the Audit and Compensation Committees. He also serves as an advisor to the Board for Comply Global and serves on the Cargill Pension Investment Committee. Galen previously served on the Board at ​Morningside College and he served as a Director of Analysts International Corp. ​(AIC) ​from May 2008 until it was sold on October 11, 2013​. During his career at Cargill, Inc., an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services​, Galen served as the Corporate Vice President and Controller​. He previously served as Cargill’s Vice President and Director of Worldwide Audit and Controller ​and Administrative Manager ​for Cargill’s Salt ​business.

Jack Judd has served as Chief Financial Officer of ProtoLabs since June 2011. From June 2006 to June 2011, Jack served as Chief Financial Officer of Compellent Technologies, Inc., a network storage company. From October 2003 to July 2006, he served as Chief Financial Officer of ATS Medical, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. From June 2000 to October 2003, he served as Controller of American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. From 1997 to 1999, Jack served as Chief Financial Officer of the Autoglass Division of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., a glass technology company.

Montgomery Kersten works with development-stage companies as an independent board member, and CEO advisor on strategic initiatives and the full life cycle of startups from founding to success. Montgomery is an active angel investor in high technology companies and L.P. in venture firms. His expertise focuses on creating, financing and developing young companies, building effective sales and marketing strategies, forging strategic relationships, designing and implementing strong intellectual property protection, advising and safeguarding founders and board members, and accomplishing successful mergers and acquisitions throughout the complete venture life-cycle.

Acting as CEO, Montgomery co-founded VitalSigns Software together with Jim Goetz, which was successfully acquired by INS. Since then, he has been fundamental in the creation of several new successful ventures. Before founding VitalSigns, he served in various positions in sales, marketing, business development, legal affairs, and M&A at large, high technology companies as well as startup companies. Montgomery has also served for over a decade as a board member and donor to the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, which oversees five charities. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame (member of Phi Beta Kappa), and a JD degree from Stanford Law School.

Tom Kieffer co-founded Virteva in 2005 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Virteva, Tom founded Agiliti in 1999, a pioneer in the Cloud Computing and SaaS marketplace. In March 2005, after transforming Agiliti into an IT-managed hosting (data center outsourcing) provider, he merged Agiliti with Houston-based VeriCenter and served on the Board of Directors until August 2007 when the company was sold to SunGard. Prior to founding Agiliti, Tom founded Connect Computer, an information technology consulting and services company, in 1986. Following Connects merger with Norstan in 1996, he served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development until 1998. Tom currently serves as Chair of the Minnesota High Technology Association. He is also a member of the Itasca Project and past Task Force Chair, and serves on the Board of the MMOPA airplane owner pilot organization.

Tom has been a technology thought leader and practitioner since 1983 when he was awarded a technology device patent and author of the book Get Connected, A Guide to Telecommunications. Tom is a graduate of Iowa State University with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and was a member of the Track and Field team.

As President of Denning & Company, Jill is responsible for all aspects of private equity advisory services. Prior to joining Denning & Company, Jill was a senior member of the Partners Group at Whitney & Company responsible for working with the firm’s institutional limited partners worldwide across multiple investment areas including private equity, private debt (mezzanine), public equity (hedge funds), and public debt (structured products).

Prior to joining Whitney, Jill was Vice President in the Private Equity Market Group with Paul from 1996-2000 at Hambrecht & Quist (later, JP Morgan H&Q) and was responsible for origination and placement of private equity partnerships worldwide. Prior to joining H&Q, Jill worked at PaineWebber as an institutional equities trader, advising large international money managers. She also worked as a global commodities trader for a Washington, D.C.-based trading company and specialized in counter-trade activity for Asian, European, Russian, and US clients.

Jill graduated with a BA in International Affairs and East Asian Studies, and an MBA in International Finance from The George Washington University. Jill currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PE WIN).

Atam Lalchandani is a long-time veteran of the information technology industry. He served as CFO and CAO of the National Advanced Systems subsidiary of National Semiconductor from 1983 to 1989, after joining National in a financial management position in 1977. In 1990, he was the CFO of Oracle Corp.’s domestic operations. From 1990 to 1992, he served initially as CFO and later as CEO of Objectivity, a database software company. Since 1992, Atam has been a financial and strategy consultant for various technology companies, including @Home Network, Juniper Networks, Cerent and Equinix, especially in their early stages. His non-profit activities include Board positions with Sierra Nevada College. Atam received a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from IIT, Bombay, India and an MS and PhD in operations research from Cornell University.

Laz works with Fortune 500 and emerging technology companies in building IT security, IT risk, and compliance solutions to combat advanced cyber threats.

He is a two-time former CISO, former PCI QSA, and recognized visionary for building Information Security and Fraud big data analytics solutions. Laz’s work in the areas of cyber threat research and big data analytics have been widely praised by industry analysts at Gartner.

No stranger to the boardroom, media, or podium, Laz has presented to thousands of attendees at numerous industry conferences and privately to executives and practitioners. He has contributed, as a writer and with interviews, to business and technology media outlets such as Bloomberg, The Chicago Tribune, ComputerWorld, Dark Reading, Gartner, MarketWired, SC Magazine, SiliconAngle, and USA Today.

Laz is the inventor of several patents for Information Security, has served in the United States Air Force (USAF), and is a contributor to several Open Source Information Security efforts. He holds a Master in Computer Information Security (MCIS) from the University of Denver, an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has earned several security and audit certifications.

Mark Lewis is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Formation Data Systems. Formation is a venture-backed company revolutionizing how enterprise data is stored, managed, and delivered.

Mark is a veteran of the storage industry. His previous roles have included both CTO and Chief Development Officer for EMC, VP and General Manager of HP/Compaq’s Storage Business, and a variety of senior engineering and business roles.

Mark holds eight U.S. patents in storage technology. He also serves on the board of Riverbed Systems, is a senior technical advisor to Silver Lake, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, and is the co-founder of TekRocket, an angel investing and incubation firm.

Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Alexander was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he oversaw the development of its seed-stage investment strategy. Before working in Venture Capital, Alexander was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley office responsible for relationships with the West Coast venture capital and startup community. Alexander has also worked at SGI, Activision and Apple Computer, beginning his career at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst.

Born in New York City, Alexander was raised in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Alexander earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School. Alexander is very involved in arts and education. He recently joined the board of SlideLuck and has previously sat on the boards of SF Camerawork, Junior Achievement of San Francisco, and the Contemporary Extension of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). In 1998 he founded the San Francisco Media Arts Council (SMAC) and served as a commissioner for the San Francisco Art Commission.

Shekhar Mandal is a Partner at Cyras Partners, LLC. Previously, he was VP of Finance & Administration for the Metro Switching Division of Ciena Corporation, and was a founder and CFO of Cyras Systems, an EDV-funded company that was acquired by Ciena in March 2001. Shekhar has over 25 years of experience in managing the finances of high-tech companies and has held key management positions in international operations, manufacturing, sales and service at various world-class technology companies. He was the Controller at Fiberlane Communications. Prior to that, he managed Worldwide Sales & Service Finance for Lam Research. During his tenure at Sun Microsystems, he was the Controller of Customer Service (North America Division). At National Semiconductor, he was the Operations Controller. He also helped launch several Silicon Valley startups (including Stratum One and Luxxon).
Shekhar served on the Board of Directors at Appshop, an EDV-funded company. He is also a Limited Partner at various Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Bethany Mayer is an experienced senior executive and results-oriented leader with over 30 years of experience in product management, marketing and operations. Bethany has had repeated success improving business results of underperforming teams. She also has the ability to develop long-term strategies as well as focus on tactical execution with a collaborative management style that enables cross-functional teamwork and consistently delivers business results. She has unique experience in leading and managing a wholly-owned subsidiary (H3C) in China and is conversational in Mandarin. Bethany has extensive experience building and leading teams across all areas of the company in highly competitive markets.
Bethany previously held senior executive roles at HP, Cisco, Blue Coat, Apple, and startups. She drove a 300% increase in revenue at Blue Coat and raised $24 million in VC-based funding in Skystream, which was sold successfully in 2004 to TandbergTV (now Ericsson).

Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His interests include the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. Kirk earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has twice been president of the board of the Usenix Association. He is currently a committer to the FreeBSD Project, a member of the *(Fb Foundation Board of Directors, a member of the editorial board of both ACM’s Queue magazine and FreeBSD Magazine, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Usenix Association, ACM, and AAAS. In his spare time, Kirk enjoys swimming, scuba diving, and wine collecting. He lives with Eric Allman, his partner of 35-and-some-odd years and husband since 2013.

John has spent his career helping enterprise customers push the leading edge of IT transformation to deliver business outcomes. He is a highly respected technologist who moves others to action. With 12 patents awarded or in process, market-leading inventions delivered in database, distributed computing, virtual/cloud management, multi-channel web application portals, Service Virtualization (LISA), and many others, John is a factory of innovation. He joined CA Technologies in 2011 through its acquisition of ITKO, a company John founded and drove successfully for 12 years. At CA Technologies, he is responsible for setting the strategic direction for service virtualization and driving the continuous innovation vision. Prior to ITKO, John’s broad technology experience includes leading SaaS and E-commerce transformations for global enterprises.

Shridhar is the CEO of Zimperium, the leader in enterprise mobile threat defense. Previously Shridhar was the GM of the Application Delivery business unit at CA Technologies (CA), where he was responsible for creating the DevOps vision and establishing CA as a leader in the high-growth space. At CA, Shridhar ran a global organization and led the acquisition of Nolio, an Israel-based company focused on Continuous Delivery. Shridhar came to CA with its successful $330 million acquisition of ITKO. Prior to ITKO, Shridhar spent 11 years with i2 Technologies in various roles including pre-sales leadership, sales leadership, and various marketing and general management positions, finishing his tenure there as Chief Marketing Officer. Shridhar is a native of India and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Delhi. A holder of multiple patents, he has also earned a Master’s degree in industrial engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo and has a doctorate in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

George Neville-Neil is a computer scientist, author, and practicing software engineer who consults in the areas of high speed, low latency networking as well as security and network time protocols. George is the co-author of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, the only university quality textbook to cover a broadly deployed, open source operating system, used daily by software engineers around the world. He has been a member of ACM since his undergraduate days at Northeastern University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. For the last 10 years Neville-Neil has been an integral part of ACM’s Queue magazine editorial board, joining it before the first edition of the magazine was published and helping to find, select, and bring to publication the best writing from practitioners in the field.

Cosmos (Cos) Nicolaou is an Engineering VP at Google where he is responsible for various infrastructure projects. In the past he has managed Google’s Systems Infrastructure team and before that the Search Infrastructure team in addition to various consumer properties such as Google Image Search, News, Video and Froogle. Prior to Google, Cos was director of software at Fabric7 Systems and at Akamai Technologies where he led the video streaming and storage teams. Before moving to the US, he co-founded Nemesys Research, a spin-off from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory that pioneered real-time video delivery and conferencing over ATM networks. Nemesys Research was sold to FORE Systems in 1996 and Cos moved on to manage FORE’s switch and routing group in San Jose as Senior Director. Cos holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Lab and a BSc(I) in Computer Science from University College London.

Dr. Pedro Nosnik is a neurologist in Plano, Texas and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano and Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake. He received his medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been practicing for 38 years.

Mike brings to Blackstone and their Operating Companies more than 25 years of Information Technology and Outsource experience across a broad range of industries. He has extensive experience leading large integration projects and large carve-out efforts including Hilton Corporation, SeaWorld, and Lendmark. Mike served as Vice President/General Manager for General Motors, EDS’ largest client. He was responsible for providing global information technology services for General Motors and GMAC with annual revenues in excess of $1.7 billion and an EDS account team of approximately 12,000 Information Technology (IT) professionals assigned to over 40 countries supporting all technology aspects of GM’s business. Mike holds a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa.

Vince serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Cavium, Inc. Prior to joining Cavium, he was a member of the business department at the law firm of Cooley LLP from 1993 to 2011, serving as a partner from 2001 to 2011. At Cooley, Vince represented high-growth technology companies and venture capital firms in a variety of matters, including financing, technology licensing, employment, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic relationships. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Vice President and General Counsel for Women.com Networks, Inc., a network of online sites featuring content and services for women. From 1985 to 1993, Vince worked as an electrical engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in the areas of power generation and distribution. He received a BS degree in 1985 in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University and a law degree cum laude from Loyola Law School in 1993, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a member and editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Vince is a member of the State Bar of California and a Licensed Electrical Engineer.

Marc Parrish has more than 20 years of diverse and pioneering E-commerce and mobile experience and has been on the cutting edge of digital marketing since its inception. He has built large data and direct marketing-driven E-commerce sites and online communities, and has executed many multi-channel digital strategies. Marc is an advisor to many early- and mid-stage companies and has held senior management and marketing roles at both Fortune 500 companies and startups. He has an MBA from UCLA and an
 engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Since 2002 John has been providing interim CEO and CEO coaching/consulting services to portfolio companies of leading venture capital firms. John has been CEO or President of several venture capital backed companies including Voltage Security, Cyphort, ViVOtech, Adaptive Insights, ShotSpotter, Anagran, Reconnex, PocketThis, Yipes Enterprise Services, Netli, and Sigma Networks. Prior to Sigma Networks, John was executive vice president for Concentric Network Corporation, a business-oriented ISP, where he held various senior management roles leading the operations, engineering, product development, product management, Web hosting services, and corporate development organizations. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Pacific Bell Information Services where he helped launch and operate the residential and business voice mail services for PacBell in California. John has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS degree in statistics from Stanford University.

Joshua Pickus is Chief Executive Officer of high-growth software companies. He is focused on SaaS opportunities in enterprise markets. Joshua has expertise in Strategy, Executive Management, M&A, Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Finance, with core skills in team-building, communications and operations.

Rafat Pirzada is a serial entrepreneur and a 20+-year veteran of the telecom industry. He has the unique experience of working at a service provider, an equipment manufacturer for a service provider, and one of the largest customer for offerings from a service provider. Currently Rafat is fostering entrepreneurship by mentoring and serving on the Boards and Advisory Boards of private companies. He has also formally mentored students and helped the faculty at the Haas Business School (University of California at Berkeley) teach entrepreneurship. He is actively involved as a Charter Member with organizations that foster entrepreneurship like OPEN and TiE (where he was driving the Pakistan initiative).

Rafat was a Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Cyras (acquired by Ciena for over $2 billion in 2001), where he developed the product strategy. As the company’s “evangelist” he played a large part in enabling Cyras to secure $72 million in VC funding from over a dozen top-tier VCs as well as securing $150 million for Cyras in a greatly oversubscribed convertible debt offering from some of the leading institutional investors, enabling Cyras to be the only private company to be able to structure such an offering.

Marty Sanders served as the Vice President of Technology and Services at Compellent, which provides Fluid Data storage solutions that automate the movement and management of data, enabling organizations to adapt constantly, slash costs, and avoid risk. Marty heads up Compellent’s storage architects, technical solutions experts, and Copilot support services. Under his leadership, the storage architect and solutions teams evaluate, integrate, and develop new technologies that will continue to propel the industry forward. The teams also work in the field with channel partners to optimize the design and deployment of Compellent storage products. Marty joined Compellent in 2002 as Director of Business Development. At that time, he formed the Compellent Customer Council (C3), an end-user focus group that continues to provide input on product design and development today. Prior to Compellent, Marty served in product management and technical services roles at XIOtech Corp. from 1998 to 2002, most recently as Director of Strategic Technologies. He started his career in 1989 as a technical support engineer. He holds an associate of applied science degree in electronics from the DeVry Institute of Technology in Kansas City, Mo.

Theo founded Circonus in 2010, and continues to be its principal architect. In 1997, he founded OmniTI, which has established itself as the go-to source for organizations facing today’s most challenging scalability, performance and security problems. He was also the principal architect of the Momentum MTA, which is now the flagship product of Message Systems, Inc. Additionally, he was the principal architect of Fontdeck, which delivers professional typefaces optimized for the web.

A widely respected industry thought leader, Theo is the author of Scalable Internet Architectures (Sams) and a frequent speaker at worldwide IT conferences. He is a member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He serves on the editoral board of the ACM’s Queue Magazine. Theo earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science with a focus on graphics and randomized algorithms in distributed systems. He resides in Maryland with his wife and three daughters.

Thomas Schnettler is Vice Chairman of Piper Jaffray & Co., Managing Director in the Merchant Banking Group and member of the General Partner. He initiated the Merchant Banking practice at Piper Jaffray in 2007 and has overseen the business since that time. Thomas previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Piper Jaffray from 2008 to 2011, and as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, he served as head of the Piper Jaffray Corporate and Institutional Services business beginning in 2002, and as head / co-head of Investment Banking beginning in 2000. From 1989 to 2000, he co-founded and led the Healthcare Investment Banking Group. Thomas joined the Piper Jaffray Investment Banking Group in 1986. He serves on the St. John’s University Board of Trustees and on the Advisory Board for the Lillehei Heart Institute at the University of Minnesota. Thomas graduated from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. and holds a Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

Mike Shapiro is a VP of Software Engineering at EMC’s DSSD Division, following EMC’s acquisition of stealth-storage startup DSSD, where Mike was one of the co-Founders. At DSSD, Mike led the design and implementation of a new family of high-speed Flash storage products designed for big data applications.

Prior to DSSD, Mike was a Distinguished Engineer in Sun Microsystem’s Solaris kernel group, the engineering lead for Sun’s Fishworks team and the development of the ZFS Storage 7000-series product line, and later the Vice President for Storage at Sun and then Oracle, following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

While at Sun, Mike led the effort to design and build the Solaris kernel architecture for Fault Management, co-created the DTrace instrumentation tool, and implemented Sun’s kernel debugger (MDB), among many other projects. In Sun’s 25-year history, Mike was one of only two three-time winners of the Sun Chairman’s Award for Innovation. He has also received an InfoWorld Innovation Award for DTrace and Predictive Self-Healing in 2005, and was one of Sun’s recipients of the Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from the Wall Street Journal in 2006.

Robert Allen (Al) Shipp, a veteran technology executive, serves as Chief Executive Officer of 3VR, Inc. Al joined 3VR from Apple, where he built a world-class sales and marketing group, tripling business in 18 months. Under Al’s leadership, Apple’s Enterprise Division quickly became one of its most profitable business units. His extensive executive experience at the company also included hands-on responsibility for worldwide support and the formation of key industry partnerships. Prior to Apple, Al served as President of Critical Path, Inc., Senior Vice President at Inktomi Corporation, and as President of the eCommerce Server and Worldwide Sales Divisions at BEA Systems. Al holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute.

Alnoor is a visionary, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of five technology companies that have generated over $12.5 billion in shareholder value. As an entrepreneur and a veteran executive, Alnoor is skilled at raising capital, building highly skilled interdisciplinary teams, and emerging products from nascent technologies. He has raised hundreds of million dollars in capital from high net worth investors, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds for his companies.

Alnoor co-founded optical switching startup Cyras Systems and served as its President and CEO until it was acquired by CIENA for $1.5 billion in 2001. Alnoor co-founded networking startup Fiberlane Communications, which changed the face of the networking communications industry when it split into Cerent (acquired by Cisco for $6.9 billion) and Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks for $4.3 billion). He also co-founded OSIware, a communications software company that was sold to Infonet.

Mr. Shivji currently serves on the board of Azure Biosystems and in the past served on boards including WaferGen, Involver/Oracle, OneAccess, Silecs, Redwave, Neophotonics (NYSE: NPTN), and Zytera. He is a Charter Member of entrepreneurial organizations like TiE and OPEN and has advised and invested in a range of Silicon Valley startups.

Michael Snyder founded WEB Products in 1989, which was sold to the Lackey Group in 2009. The Lackey Group is a privately-owned consumer product company with numerous licensed HVAC brands including Arm & Hammer, DuPont, and Glade. Michael now serves as the Chief Executive Officer of WEB Products. WEB Products manufactures and distributes air-conditioning and furnace filters, allergy filters and accessories used to improve residential air quality. Its products are sold by retailers such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target, Wal-Mart and Westlake Hardware.

Mark Tanoury is a partner in Cooley Godward’s Business department based in Palo Alto. He has been with the firm since 1982, serving as chair of the Business department from 1999 to 2002 and currently serving on the Firm’s Compensation Committee. His practice includes all areas of corporate, partnership and securities laws, with a focus on the formation and financing of emerging growth companies and venture capital partnerships. He has served as lead counsel in a wide variety of public and private financings over the years and has been a speaker at numerous seminars on the topic. Mark was named in Chambers USA 2008 as a national leader in Investment Funds: Venture Capital and in California as a leader in Corporate/M&A: Venture Capital. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1982 and received an MBA in Finance in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Ohio State University in 1977, graduating summa cum laude and was previously a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Scott Taylor is Symantec’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, reporting to Symantec’s CEO. In addition to serving on the executive team and managing Symantec’s global legal function, he manages Symantec’s government relations, corporate responsibility, and ethics and compliance functions. Before joining Symantec, Scott served as Chief Administrative Officer, Senior Vice President, and General Counsel of Phoenix Technologies Ltd., managing all legal, human resources, facilities, and IT functions worldwide. Before that, he served as Vice President and General Counsel of Narus, Inc. Scott began his legal career as an attorney with the San Francisco-based law firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). Prior to law school, Scott worked briefly as a financial economist for the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He serves as a Director on the corporate board of VirnetX, and is a national advisory board member of the Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies on Race and Ethnicity. Scott holds a juris doctorate from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Sunil Tomar is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He was a founder of Cyras Systems, a developer and manufacturer of new optical switching technologies that was sold to Ciena in 2001 for $1.1 billion. Sunil is currently an independent investor and is the Founder and CEO of Brillus, Inc., a consulting company advising startups in the technology space. He is an active investor in the public and private markets in equities and real estate.

Sunil has over 20 years experience in conceiving, designing, developing and delivering both telecom and data networking equipment. His executive experience spans managing the design and development of ASICS, FPGAs, high-density circuit boards, and hardware subsystems and software for both telecom and datacom systems. Sunil was instrumental in LSI Logic’s development of the ATMizer chipset in addition to developing ASICs for the Apple Newton PDA. At Fiberlane (Cerent), Sunil led the engineering team that developed the world’s largest SONET cross-connect ASIC. Sunil is also co-founder of TransOral Pharmaceuticals, leading the seed round of funding in February 2002. Coincident with co-founding Cyras Systems, Sunil founded TomarIC, a firm specializing in providing ASICs and hardware sub-systems to communications companies. He holds an MS in Engineering (Digital Systems & VLSI) from San Jose State University and a business degree from Sydenham College, Bombay, India.

Tom Wadlow, a security and systems operations consultant, was co-founder and VP of Security Research and Development at Pilot Network Services, an EDV-funded company. Prior to Pilot, Tom was a senior research network architect at Sun Microsystems. Tom has held senior technical staff and management positions with Xerox PARC, Schlumberger, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and ParcPlace Systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on computer and network security.

Jim Waldo is the Chief Technology Officer for Harvard University, where he is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the technology environment. He is also a Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, where he teaches courses in distributed systems and privacy. Jim has designed clouds at VMWare, and was a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Prior to (re)joining Sun Labs, he was the lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java. Jim has also done research and product development in the areas of medical sensing, object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing, and user environments. Before joining Sun, Jim spent eight years at Apollo Computer and Hewlett Packard. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first Object Request Broker, and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first OMG CORBA specification. Jim received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and also holds M.A. degrees in both linguistics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Sven Wehrwein has been an independent financial consultant to emerging companies since 1999 and has more than 35 years of experience as an investment banker, chief financial officer, and certified public accountant. Sven is a Director of public and private companies and a freelance finance journalist. He was a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand, and was an investment banker with Dean Witter Reynolds, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, serving as a Managing Director at both Drexel and Wessels. Sven worked as a CFO for InStent and Digi International, as well as a director of public companies and as Chair of the Audit Committee at Compellent Technologies, Imaging Sensing Systems, SPS Commerce, Synovis Life Technologies, Uroplasty, and Vital Images. He served on the Board of Directors of Compellent Technologies, Inc. from April 2007 until its acquisition by Dell Inc. in February 2011. Sven has a Master’s in Management from the Sloan School, MIT and a Bachelor’s from Loyola University of Chicago.

Donna Wells is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of three successful Silicon Valley startups, including over $100 million raised, two exits, and one TBD. Donna is currently CEO of Mindflash Technologies, a company on a mission to make employee training radically simpler and actually measurable. Since its launch in 2010, the cloud-based Mindflash.com platform has rapidly grown to market leadership, with over 1,000 customers including McDonalds, Microsoft, Airbnb, Shutterfly, Ben and Jerry’s, and the Four Seasons Hotels.

Prior to Mindflash, Donna was CMO for Mint.com, a free, online personal finance tool, where she brought in over 2 million users until Intuit’s acquisition for $170 million in November 2009. Prior to Mint, Donna led client acquisition/retention, brand-building, and product development for organizations ranging from startups to global brands — including Expedia, myCFO, Intuit, Charles Schwab and American Express.

Donna serves on the Board of the Boston Private Financial Holdings company (NASDAQ: BPFH). Her teams’ work has won multiple Webby’s and recognition as a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos. She has been named a Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch by Accenture and a Marketing Executive of the Year Finalist by the Wall Street Journal.