| Speaker Bios:
July 2005: Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki is the author of The Art of the Start, the Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and a columnist for Forbes Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Mr. Kawasaki was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer.
Guy Kawasaki’s latest book, The Art of the Start, published in September 2004, draws parallels between entrepreneurs starting new companies and employees in established companies who are trying to create a new product or service. He is also the author of eight books including Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.
Mr. Guy Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
June 2005: Dipchand "Deep" Nishar
As Director of Wireless Products at Google, Deep Nishar develops and implements the product strategy for Google's mobile products worldwide. Prior to Google, Deep worked at Siebel Systems where he was a member of the founding team of the Universal Application Network (UAN) business unit which grew to a $40 million a year run rate in its first year.
Prior to Siebel, Deep founded Patkai Networks, a web services based software integration company. At Patkai, Deep built the product and engineering organizations and drove all of the business operations for the company. Additionally, Deep was an associate at The Boston Consulting Group and also held various product management, marketing, finance and engineering roles at Cummins Engine Company, where he was awarded three patents.
Deep received his Bachelors in Technology with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was awarded the Institute Silver Medal. Deep also received a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he graduated with highest honors as a Baker Scholar.
May 2005: Dennis Meister
Dennis Meister has been in product and general management for 25 years, most of it in the medical ultrasound imaging industry. He is currently responsible for Product Lifecycle Management of Ob/Gyn Ultrasound Imaging Solutions at Siemens Medical Solutions. Previous roles include Vice President, General Manager, and Product Lifecycle Manager for the Acuson Sequoia Ultrasound Imaging System, the worldwide industry sales leader for the last 7 years. His undergraduate studies are in biomedical engineering and his graduate work was in finance and marketing.
April 2005: Doug Stark
As Senior Director, Product Management at MedeFinance, Doug Stark is responsible for managing the company's suite of products, including overseeing strategic direction, product and customer requirements, pricing, and deployment. Doug has over 13 years of experience defining, developing and launching products and services in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, IBM and Manugistics.
March 2005: Raj Karamchedu
RAJ KARAMCHEDU is a Senior Product Marketing manager at Silicon Image, Inc., a pioneer and the world’s leading supplier of HDMI chips. His book, “It’s Not About the Technology: Developing the Craft of Thinking for a High Technology Corporation” was recently published by Springer. Raj also runs Slowread - a site for India entrepreneurial opportunities. His previous companies include Systemonic, Inc., a wireless LAN chip startup acquired by Philips Semiconductors, Chameleon Systems, a reconfigurable processor startup and before that, a startup of his own. Raj started his career at Cadence Design Systems in 1994, where he worked as a wireless and communication system level design engineer and project manager.
Raj earned his MSEE in computer engineering from Michigan Technological University.
February 2005: Martin Cagan
Martin Cagan is currently the managing partner of the Silicon Valley Product Group, where he helps companies with product strategy and product management skills and training. During the course of the past 20 years, Martin Cagan has served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world. Martin was most recently vice-president of product management and design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company's global e-commerce trading site. Prior to that, Martin was VP of Product at AOL and Netscape, and a software technology researcher at HP Labs.
Martin is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz with B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Applied Economics (1981), and of the Stanford University Executive Institute (1994).
January 2005: Allen Blue
Allen Blue was formerly Director of Product Design at SocialNet.com, a social networking service supporting dating, recreational and professional activities, where he was responsible for product design and implementation of SocialNet's member-data focused business model.
Previously, Allen has worked as a contract product and web designer for a variety of clients including PayPal and Microsoft's Virtual Worlds project. Allen also lectured in Drama for three years at Stanford, where he graduated with honors with a B.A. in Drama and a B.A. in English, and was winner of the Golden Medal for creative excellence.
November 13: Michael Knowles
Michael Knowles is adept at gathering information from his clients and presenting these facts through cogent programs that develop a straight line between core objectives and customer satisfaction. In the past 20 years, he has held a variety of leadership positions in product marketing, marketing communications, technical communications, and information technology. Michael has a BA in Technical Communications from Hartford University with a minor in Philosophy. mknowles@onestraightline.com.
November 3: John Mansour
John Mansour is the founder and CEO of ZIGZAG Marketing, Inc. In 2001 John packaged 15 years of high-tech industry experience into a 10-step "How To" methodology focused on the execution phases of planning, developing, and marketing high-tech products. Over the course of his career, John functioned in roles ranging from pre-sales, product marketing, product management, director, and vice president with blue-chip companies including MSA and Dun & Bradstreet, mid-market companies including Geac and Symix Systems, and start-ups with really bad names never to be mentioned. John's product experience includes everything from managing a portfolio of legacy products to planning and launching a multitude of new products
October 06: Sridhar Ramanathan
Sridhar Ramanathan is an 18-year veteran of enterprise technology companies.
As the Marketing executive for Hewlett-Packard's IT Outsourcing business, a
$1.1B unit, he was responsible for worldwide marketing. He also held profit &
loss responsibility for electronic messaging outsourcing and e-services business units.
Sridhar's efforts led to HP being the #1 ERP Outsourcer and to HP's growth in the data
warehouse market now a $1B revenue stream. Sridhar holds an MBA from the Wharton School of
Business, and is Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Golden Gate University
September 08: Brian Lawley
For the past six years Brian Lawley has run the 280 Group, a Marketing
and Product Management services firm that provides hand-picked
consultants and contractors to help companies define, launch and market
breakthrough new products. 280 Group clients include Fortune 500
companies such as Adobe and Palm, as well as dozens of startups and
mid-sized companies.
Prior to consulting Brian was Director of Product Marketing and Product
Management at Whistle Communications, a prominent Silicon Valley
startup, where he helped create and launch the award-winning Whistle
InterJet, an all-in-one Internet appliance for small businesses. At
Whistle he was responsible for press and analyst review programs and
helped the company go from being a completely unknown startup to winning
dozens of favorable reviews and awards, including Best New Networking
Product of the Year from PC World magazine. Prior to Whistle Brian was
Director of Java and C++ development tools at Symantec. He was also a
Senior Product Manager for the MacOS Human Interface and related
technologies at Apple Computer, was in charge of direct marketing, sales
tools, and market research at Claris corporation, and in charge of
channel sales and marketing at Digidesign, a digital audio software and
hardware company.
Brian holds a Masters in Business from San Jose State University as well
as a Bachelor's degree in Management Science and a minor in music
technology from the University of California at San Diego.
June 02: Sheryl Ehrlich
Sheryl Ehrlich has 15 years of research experience focusing on user research and usability, human perception, and human interaction with new
technologies. She is currently the User Research Manager at Adobe Systems, where she founded and developed the research team. Prior to joining Adobe, Sheryl was a Member of the Research Staff at Interval Research. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.
May 05: Cynthia Typaldos
Cynthia Typaldos is currently the founder and president of ProfGuilds.
ProfGuilds is a set of professional guilds for knowledge workers
(formerly known as the Software Product Marketing [SPM] eGroup), currently
consisting of 5 guilds in the software space (marketing, sales, engineering,
project management, and jobs in India), and over 5,000 members.
Typaldos is a two-time entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in software
and networking. She was previously founder and CEO of RealCommunities, an
enterprise software platform for collaboration (a.k.a. social networking)
applications (acquired by Mongoose Technology in 2001), founder and COO of
GolfWeb, one of the first dot.coms (acquired by CBS Sportsline in 1998),
Director of Software Product Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Group Manager of
Product Marketing at Data General, and Senior Systems Software Engineer at
Bank of America.
Sachin Gangupantula
Sachin Gangupantula is an independent consultant providing services in product
and technology strategy, Competitive Analysis, Product Marketing and business development.
Most recently, he helped iManage develop, market and deploy highly reliable
enterprise collaborative content management solutions. He has over 8 years of
experience in developing and bringing to market innovative web-based products
and services.
He is currently helping the ProfGuilds team in developing & delivering a
compelling open-source innovation with the ResumeBlog Service that redefines
Professional Visibility on the web. He is also on the board of SVPMA. Sachin
earned an undergraduate degree from BITS, Pilani and has a Master's in
Computer Science from Univ of Hawaii.
Heather Hamilton
Heather Hamilton has been working in the staffing industry for ten years and
is currently Senior Recruiter for Marketing Talent Acquisition at Microsoft.
She is responsible for creating and driving strategies for identifying
and attracting the industry's best marketing talent to Microsoft. Heather has
been with Microsoft for 5 years in different roles, supporting business and
technical organizations' staffing needs. Prior to Microsoft, Heather held
roles leading the technical recruiting team at a large multi-line insurance
company's corporate headquarters as well as staffing full-time consultants
for Y2K remediation and application development and application outsourcing
projects for a national IT consulting firm. Heather started her staffing
career at Robert Half International in the AccounTemps division after a
brief career excursion in accounting. Heather has a BS degree in Business
Administration from the University of Southern California and currently
resides in the Seattle area.
April 07: Jens Tellefsen
Jens Tellefsen joined Callidus Software, Inc. in 2002
as Vice President of Product Strategy. Jens has more
than 15 years of experience in enterprise software.
Prior to Callidus, Jens held executive, director and
management positions at Phiware (collaborative business
planning software company), Pervado Systems (internet-based
post-sale product ownership service company), Trilogy
Software (CRM software company), McKinsey & Company
(strategic consulting firm), among others. Tellefsen
graduated from Princeton University with studies in
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
March 04: Judy Kirkpatrick
Judy Kirkpatrick joined eBay in 2003 as Vice President,
Global Product Management and has a feedback rating
of over 100. While an active buyer and seller on eBay.com,
Judy leads a team of over 75 global product managers
who are responsible for enabling eBay's vision of a
Global Economic Democracy through product. This vision
is enabled every day through the translation of eBay's
business drivers into products that empower eBay's Community
to conduct commerce on the world's leading e-commerce
platform. Prior to eBay, Judy held executive positions
with Palm, Inc., Fatbrain.com and Adobe Systems where
she put Adobe Acrobat on the map.
February 04:
Susan Wheeler
For the past 20 years, Susan Wheeler has helped companies
operate with excellence by focusing on the most important
parts of their business. Before opening Pathfinder Consulting
Solutions, she held a number of senior level marketing
and product management positions at start-up and established
companies such as General Electric, AT&T, Interliant
and Pandesic. While at AT&T, Susan developed a $22B
business plan which was a major component of their revenue
stream. In her consulting practice, Susan works with
both start-up and established companies around the world.
Susan draws from her broad experience in Business Strategy,
Product Management, Product Marketing, Development,
Sales and Operations in working with her clients. Susan
finds that her undergraduate degree in Computer Science
from University of California, Berkeley and her MBA
from Columbia University provides her with a solid foundation
for helping businesses to succeed.
January
04: John
Addison
John Addison, as president of OPTIMARK Inc, has devoted
the last 11 years to helping corporations improve their
sales channel strategy and achieve partner excellence.
Mr. Addison's workshops and speeches are popular
in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Prior to consulting
and workshops, Mr. Addison was an area channel manager
for Sun Microsystems. In 3 years he led a sales team
to 300% annual growth from $4 to $110 million. John
Addison also teaches product marketing and channel marketing
courses at UCSC Extension. Mr. Addison is a graduate
of U.C. Irvine, where he also taught.
November 03: Barbara Nelson
Barbara Nelson has over 20 years of experience in the
software industry and successfully launched several
products. At Pragmatic Marketing® she has been an
instructor for the top-rated courses "Practical
Product Management" and “Requirements That
Work”.
Prior to joining Pragmatic Marketing®, Ms. Nelson
was Vice President of Product Marketing for Solomon
Software, a leading provider of business and accounting
applications for the middle market (now part of Microsoft).
Barbara attributes her success to "building products
people want to buy" and is a self-proclaimed "market-driven
product evangelist".
September 03: Ruth Hennigar
August 03: Geoffrey Huckleberry
Geoff Huckleberry has 10+ years of successful product
management experience for software products and services.
Geoff has a proven track record of launching successful
new products and driving revenue growth at Fortune 500
companies such as Intuit and CCH Incorporated as well
as startups such as ChemConnect.
Geoff is currently the Sr. Director, Product Management
at Instill, a leading provider of supply chain software
solutions to the foodservice industry. Prior to Instill,
Geoff was the VP of Product Development at ChemConnect,
where he led a 50+-person team that included product
management and all technical functions (engineering,
QA, tech support, IT). Previously, Geoff also held positions
at Intuit, CCH Incorporated and American Express.
Geoff holds an M.B.A. in marketing/strategy from the
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and a
B.Sc. in electrical engineering from University of California,
San Diego.
July 03: Andrew Reback
June 03: Atul Suklikar
May 03: Ivan Chong
Ivan Chong serves as Senior Director of Product Management
over the entire Informatica product portfolio. During
his 6 years at Informatica, he has worked to transform
the company's product evelopment process, enabling Informatica
to scale from a single product company to one with over
20 products spanning 40+ major release cycles.
Mr. Chong is a 6-year veteran of Oracle Corporation,
where he held various product management positions for
the Oracle Tools division and was awarded a patent in
the area of database visualization. His experience also
includes two years with internet advertising startup,
NetGravity, a company that developed mission critical
server products for high traffic commercial web sites.
Mr. Chong has spoken at numerous user conferences both
in the US and internationally.
He graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees
from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science.
April 03: David Hickman
David Hickman manages the ActivePortal product Line
for TIBCO Software where he is responsible for both
the Product Management and Product Marketing Functions.
David joined TIBCO in 1997 and has held various leadership
roles in the web software technology management for
over 9 years with companies such as SmithKline Beecham
Clinical Laboratories and Reuters NewMedia. Prior to
TIBCO, he managed the TIBCO.net hosting service that
delivered real-time stock quote technology to leading
financial portals including Yahoo!, Reuters, Netscape,
Altavista and Financial Times. David now oversees all
product management and marketing responsibilities including
product launch, customer requirements, sales support
and partner relationships for TIBCO's portal products.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and
minor in Biology from the University of Delaware.
Mar 03: Darlene Mann
Darlene Mann joined Siperian as CEO in 2003 after nearly
twenty years in the software industry, as both a venture
capitalist and operating executive. Prior to joining
Siperian, she was a General Partner leading the software
investment practice of ONSET Ventures, an early stage
venture firm specializing in seed stage investments.
Before becoming a VC, she spent more than 12 years specializing
in software product marketing and strategic planning
in high growth companies. Ms. Mann served as vice president
of marketing at Avantos Performance Systems, founding
vice president of marketing at BroadVision, Inc. and
held senior product marketing positions with Lotus Development
Corporation, Verity, and Paramount Communications.
Ms. Mann holds a bachelor's degree from the University
of California at San Diego, Revelle College. In addition
to Siperian, she is also a board member of the Software
Development Forum.
Feb 03: Dan Miller
Dan Miller brings over nine years experience to Digital
Impact, where he is responsible for the product marketing
& product management for Digital Impact’s
ASP software product, IMPACT. Digital Impact is the
leading provider of online direct marketing services
to the retail, financial services, technology &
telecommunications verticals. Mr. Miler joined Digital
Impact in February 1999.
Prior to Digital Impact, Mr. Miller founded the Internet
marketing firm, Reverse Markets, working with Office
Depot on utilizing online marketing to drive store traffic
and liquidate discontinued inventory. Before that, he
worked as a product marketing manager at enterprise
software maker pcOrder.com, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Trilogy Corporation. Prior to joining pcOrder.com,
Mr. Miller was a financial analyst at Cowen and Company
in their Corporate Finance department where he worked
on equity financings and mergers & acquisitions
in the high-growth technology & healthcare markets.
Mr. Miller holds an MBA from Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Business Administration and a B.S.
in engineering from Stanford University.
Jan 03: Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer has been with Google since June, 1999.
Currently product manager for Google.com and formerly
the technical lead for the user-interface team. While
at Google, she has worked on search classification,
the Google web directory, developed News search, inte
rnationalized Google's interface, and has lead much
of the UI design and development
effort including establishing user testing. Several
patents have been filed on her work.
Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Ms.
Mayer has taught introductory computer programming classes
at Stanford to over 3,000 students and has received
both the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe
Award for outstanding contribution to undergraduate
education. Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at
the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland
and SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
Ms. Mayer holds a B.S. with honors in Symbolic Systems
from Stanford as well as an M.S. in Computer Science
also from Stanford.
Nov 02: Paul Wiefels
Paul Wiefels is a Managing Director with The Chasm
Group, having joined Geoffrey Moore at the inception
of the firm. He provides counsel ranging from corporate,
business and market development strategy to acquisition
planning and marketing communications. Mr. Wiefels'
clients include recognized leaders in information technology
and biotechnology. His current focus is business-to-business
e-commerce and e-commerce infrastructure. Mr. Wiefels
aided in the development of many of the concepts detailed
in Geoffrey Moore's two books, Crossing the Chasm and
Inside the Tornado. Mr. Wiefels was also influential
in developing TCG's facilitative consulting model.
Oct 02: Robin Purohit
Robin Purohit is responsible for product management
for all VERITAS products – including on-line storage
management, data protection, high availability, and
SRM. He directs the business & product plans and
is a spokeperson for the company’s strategies.
Continually researching and delivering breakthrough
technologies to market, Robin also develops partnerships
to deliver complete solutions to the end user.
With more than 10 years experience as an architect,
product developer, and marketer in storage and enterprise
computing markets, Mr. Purohit has developed several
new businesses and contributed to numerous industry
standards efforts. As a widely regarded architect expert
in fibre channel switching storage and clustering he
holds several patents.
Robin previously spearheaded product strategy and marketing
programs in storage networking for at 3Com, McDATA,
and Hewlett-Packard Company.
Mr. Purohit earned a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo,
Canada, in 1989
Sept02: Barbara Nelson
Barbara Nelson joins Pragmatic Marketing with 21 years
of experience in the software industry. She implemented
the Pragmatic Marketing process and successfully launched
several products following this market-driven methodology.
She now works for Pragmatic Marketing as an instructor
for the top-rated course "Practical Product Management".
Prior to joining Pragmatic Marketing, Ms. Nelson was
Vice President of Product Marketing for a leading provider
of business and accounting applications for the middle
market. She worked with product managers, marketing
communications, and development to help the company
become more market-driven through the principles she
learned from Pragmatic Marketing.
Before her decade of product marketing experience,
she worked closely with customers in several capacities,
including technical support, training, implementation,
and systems analysis. These experiences taught her the
importance of listening to customers and the market
to solve their critical business issues. As Director
of Marketing, Ms. Nelson helped transform a development-driven
organization into a market-driven organization. She
was instrumental in moving the company from a direct
sales model to an indirect model, by building a strong,
loyal reseller channel. She attributes her success to
"building products people want to buy" and
became a self-proclaimed "market-driven product
evangelist".
July02: Erin Kinikin and John Ragsdale
Erin Kinikin
Erin Kinikin is a Vice President and Research Leader
at Giga Information Group. She leads Giga's Customer
Relationship Management practice, focusing on CRM strategy,
marketing, and customer analysis. Erin brings 15 years
of sales and marketing experience in the high tech industry,
including director-level positions at Broadbase, Informix,
and Sybase. She joined Giga Information Group in 1999.
John Ragsdale
John's area of expertise is selecting and implementing
CRM applications, including needs analysis and vendor
evaluation. John's research area includes ancillary
applications for CRM, such as eCRM, Knowledge Management,
and ERMS (Email Response Management Systems).
John has been involved in the design and implementation
of customer service and CRM solutions for most of his
career. Prior to joining Giga, John spent four years
with Clarify/Nortel as director of product management,
and as general manager of the eService business unit.
John worked for JCPenney for over 10 years, managing
both internal and external customer support organizations,
before moving to Silicon Valley in 1995 to manage product
management for Answer Systems, an early support automation
vendor.
Jun02: Robert Dunham
Robert Dunham is founder and CEO of Enterprise Design,
a management consulting company that specializes in
executive and management development, particularly enabling
successful executives and managers to take their performance
to the next level. His approach integrates 'hands-on'
management practices, individual coaching, and communication
skills that enable clients to increase organizational
performance. He is the designer and leader of the nation-wide
executive and management development program Action
In Management (AIM) offered by Enterprise Design (www.enterprise-design.com).
The company also does consulting engagements with CEO's
and their teams. Robert has trained hundreds of managers
in an action and practice based discipline of management
built on the foundations of the language-action approach,
embodied learning, and long-term practices as a path
to mastery.
Mar02: Ann Osborne and Jonathon
Koomey
Ann Osborne
Ann Osborne, President, Osborne Marketing Group, brings
creative, strategic thinking to the process of developing
competitive strategies. Adept at communicating complex
material effectively and lucidly, Ann will share her
knowledge of analytical tools and techniques as well
as often-overlooked sources on the Internet, including
the "Invisible Web."
Through critical and insightful use of internal, customer
and competitive intelligence, she works with companies
to develop strategies and competitive sales tools, both
print and interactive, which create distinctive positioning
and competitive advantage.
Among her clients are emerging-growth ventures as well
as Fortune 1000 companies, including Balaram, Palm,
Oracle, DHL Worldwide Express and IBM.
Ann leads marketing and competitive strategy seminars
and workshops, and teaches "Real-Time Competitive
Analysis" at U.C. Berkeley Extension. She graduated
from Northwestern University with Honors in Philosophy.
Jonathon Koomey, Ph.D.
Jon Koomey teaches the art of critical thinking to
business practitioners, students, and researchers. His
latest book, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering
the Art of Problem Solving, is a lively and entertaining
guide to making informed professional and personal choices.
Jon's insights help people beat information overload,
hone their decision-making skills, and achieve success
in this information- glutted world.
Jon is the author or co-author of seven books and more
than one hundred articles, and reports on energy efficiency,
climate change, and environmental policy.
He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Contemporary
Economic Policy, and has appeared on Nova/Frontline,
CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Tech Nation,
The California Report, CNET radio, and KQED radio.
Jon has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, Dow Jones Newswires, USA Today, SF
Chronicle, Science, American Scientist, Science News,
Interactive Week, Business 2.0, and Salon.com. He holds
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources
Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and
an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard University.
Feb02: Fritz Mueller, Sridhar
Ramanathan, Anna Sidana and Ted Salamone
Fritz Mueller
Fritz Mueller has over 15 years of technical and product
management expertise in networking products and services.
He is President of Velocity Product Management which
provides outsourced product management services. Previously,
Fritz was Senior Director of Product Management at Keynote
Systems, the pioneer in website performance services.
Prior to Keynote, Fritz was a Product Line Manager at
NetManage, the leading supplier of TCP/IP application
software for PCs and the fastest growing software company
in the U.S. from 1991 to 1995. Before NetManage, Fritz
served as Product Manager at Telebit for their line
of IP routers, the industry's first dial-up routers.
He worked as an engineer for Telebit Corporation writing
digital signal processing software. Fritz holds an MBA
from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Computer
Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Sridhar Ramanathan
Sridhar Ramanathan is President of SmartResults Consulting,
which provides early-stage software/services firms with
strategies and tactics to grow revenue aggressively,
often by serving as interim VP of Sales & Marketing.
Sridhar was the Division Marketing Manager at Hewlett-Packard's
Outsourcing Services business, a $1 billion services
business in which he led key growth strategies including
e-services, messaging, and ERP outsourcing offerings.
With over 11 years at HP, Sridhar has held senior management
positions in high growth enterprise middleware and server
platform businesses. He has extensive experience in
business strategy, product management, business development,
and outbound Marketing. After leaving HP, Sridhar was
Vice President of Marketing at Multitude, a managed
services provider for applications such as web conferencing,
collaboration, and unified messaging. Sridhar holds
a bachelor's of science degree in Engineering Physics
from U.C. Berkeley, and an MBA from the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Sidana
Anna Sidana is currently the VP of Marketing and Alliances
at Callixa, and has over sixteen years of marketing,
product and business development experience in enterprise
software, eCommerce, supply chain and financial services
for top-ranking companies. Prior to joining Callixa,
Anna was Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing
at eTime Capital, a financial supply chain solutions
company. At Netscape/AOL, Anna spearheaded global financial
services marketing while solidifying key strategic partnerships
with Sun Microsystems among others. Additionally, Anna
managed and developed a suite of B2B applications for
Actra/Netscape and directed Visa International's B2B
eCommerce strategies. Anna was also part of Ernst &
Young's management consulting practice focused on financial
services and she started her career with IBM UK, marketing
database management software to large financial institutions.
Ted Salamone
Ted Salamone has over 15 years of executive marketing
and product management experience. He is President of
Spin Marketing, a provider of interim executive and
consulting services; outsourced positions have included
VP of Marketing for HealthWise, the world leader in
knowledgebase and CRM software for the health care industry;
and COO of Real Foundations, a start-up provider of
innovative systems for retrofitting foundations of mobile
homes without relocating them. Prior to founding Spin
Marketing, Ted served as VP of Sales and Marketing at
Spur Products, co-founded a high-tech advertising agency,
and served as manager of channel and direct marketing
for PC software products at IBM. Ted also held senior
product manager positions at IBM and Ashton-Tate, in
which he managed product launches, implemented cost
controls, and negotiated contracts. He earned an MBA
in Marketing, Summa Cum Laude at the University of New
Haven, and a BS Cum Laude in Business Administration
from Marywood College.
Jan02: Kathleen Gogan
Kathleen is the Vice President of Marketing at
Eloquent, Inc. Kathleen oversees all marketing operations,
including marketing communications, product marketing,
lead generation programs, corporate website, public
relations and the production of sales tools to support
the Eloquent sales team.
With 20 years of experience in a variety of marketing
management positions several with enterprise software
companies, Kathleen and her team play a pivotal role
in creating product and company awareness and supporting
the sales effort.
Prior to joining Eloquent, Inc., Kathleen was Vice
President of Marketing for Docent, Inc., a leader in
E-learning software. In addition, Kathleen held senior
management positions in Decisive Technology and Informix.
Kathleen holds a bachelor's of science degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Notre Dame University and a Masters
of Management form the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School
of Management at Northwestern University.
7Nov01: Venk Shukla
An entrepreneur and veteran of two previous start-up
ventures, Venk brings 14 years of sales, marketing,
and general management experience to Everypath and a
proven track record of leading companies through rapid
growth.
He was previously Vice President in charge of the Ambit
group of Cadence Design Systems, a $1.2 billion electronic
design automation leader. Prior to acquisition by Cadence,
he was Vice President of Marketing for Ambit Design
Systems. At Systems & Networks, a network planning
software company, he was Vice President of Marketing
and Sales.
Venk started his career in Civil Service in India where
he was the Under Secretary to the federal government
of India. He holds a master's degree in management from
MIT's Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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