Alex Nikulkov

Eversight, the leader in Offer Innovation software, announced Alex Nikulkov Head of Data Science. He joins from Facebook where he was a research scientist on the optimization and computation team. Prior to that, he developed and built out the pricing strategy for UberEats. Alex also spent time at McKinsey and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Sidney Chang

Neurotrack, a digital health company on a mission to transform the measurement and management of cognition and memory loss, announced Sidney Chang Chief Business Officer. Sidney brings nearly 15 years of experience in business development and product management. He joins from Tile where he was running business development. Prior to that, he spent a decade at Google in a variety of roles from business development to product management for their wearable technology initiative. Sidney also spent time at Yahoo! as a senior product manager and he began his career at Merrill Lynch.

Erica Yamamoto

MealPal, the subscription service that provides members with affordable daily lunch options from restaurants near where they live or work, announced Erica Yamamoto Vice President of Marketing. Erica joins from Zulily where she spent 6 years gaining experience running acquisition, retention and brand marketing. She initially joined as Head of Investor Relations having started her career with J.P. Morgan in investment banking. During her time with Zulily, she picked up a broad spectrum of consumer marketing experience holding roles as Director of Lifecycle Marketing as well as Director of Brand Marketing and Customer Experience. In her most recent role, she was Vice President of Acquisition and Growth.

Gabe Larsen

Kustomer, the SaaS platform that is reimagining enterprise customer service, announced Gabe Larsen as Vice President of Marketing. Gabe joins from Xant (formerly InsideSales.com) where he was Vice President of Marketing. He joined in the strategic sales consulting division where he created the sales acceleration category and grew the team to 28 consultants before moving onto marketing where he ran demand generation and corporate communications. Prior to InsideSales.com, he spent several years at Gallup as a senior managing consultant. Additionally, Gabe was an equity derivative specialist at Goldman Sachs and a business analyst at Accenture.

Sid Suri

SendBird, the fully customizable chat and messaging API service for mobile and web applications, announced Sid Suri Vice President of Marketing. Sid brings more than 15 years of technology marketing experience joining from ManyChat where he was Head of Marketing. Prior to that, he ran marketing for JIRA Service Desk at Atlassian for 4 years. Sid also was Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce.com joining via its acquisition of InQuira where he had managed product strategy and marketing. Additionally, Sid spent 5 years at TIBCO as Senior Product Marketing Manager and led the execution of their Master Data Management (MDM) business unit. Sid also held roles at SAP Labs and C-bridge Solutions and he began his career at the Cambridge Technology Group as Director of Technology.

Matt McLaughlin

Conversica, the leader in conversational AI for business and the only provider of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations, announced Matt McLaughlin Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Matt brings extensive experience leading enterprise and global sales. He spent the last five years at Jobvite overseeing international enterprise sales and was Senior Vice President of Sales at Actiance prior to that. Matt also led worldwide field operations at Abiquo, StrongView, and Azul Systems. Additionally, he spent several years at BEA Systems running global sales. Matt began his career at BackWeb Technologies.

Ruth Sun

Force Therapeutics, the leading episode-based digital care platform and research network, announced Ruth Sun Chief Operating Officer. Ruth brings over 20 years of software SaaS leadership experience. She joins from Welltok where she served as Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development and was responsible for a 30-person organization across sales, business development, and account management. Prior to that, she led global strategic development at Blackboard. Ruth also spent 14 years at IBM working her way up through the organization to ultimately lead the global expansion and executive leadership for IBM Watson Health.

Michael Londgren

Seismic Software, a recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, announced Michael Londgren Chief Marketing Officer. Michael joins from Google where he led product marketing for G Suite. Prior to that, he spent 6 years at DocuSign. During his time there, he was responsible for customer enablement and product marketing and helped scale the company from 180 employees to more than 2,000. Michael also led worldwide marketing at Adobe for the Acrobat and the Adobe Connect Business units. Additionally, he was Vice President of Marketing at BoardVantage and Encover, Director of Product Marketing at Blue Martini Software, and he began his career as a marketing manager at Apple.

Bobby Marhamat

Raydiant, a startup promising to turn TVs into interactive digital signs, announced Bobby Marhamat Chief Executive Officer. Bobby brings over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, revenue, and operations. Most recently, he was Chief Revenue Officer at Highfive. Prior to that, he spent three years at Revel Systems in chief revenue and operating roles. Bobby also led sales at Limos.com and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for several years at Verizon Wireless. Additionally, he co-founded socialpda and held leadership roles at LookSmart, ServerPlex Networks, and Sprint/Nextel.

Hau Le

Renew Health, the company transforming medication management, announced Hau Le Chief Pharmacy Officer. Hau joins from Magellan Health where he ran all pharmacy operations for their PBM. Prior to that, he was Head of Clinical Operations at Aetna for several years. Hau also served as Division Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at HCA and ran clinical services for the CVS Caremark Corporation. Additionally, he spent nine years as a clinical assistant professor of pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah Health Sciences and ran pharmacy services for the Western Region at HealthSouth. Hau began his career as a clinical pharmacist in the hospitals and clinics at the University of Utah.

Rick Wilmer

Chowbotics, a provider of robots for the food service sector, announced Rick Wilmer Chief Executive Officer. Rick brings more than 30 years of industry experience. Most recently, he was General Manager at Arista Networks joining via its acquisition of Mojo Networks where he had been Chief Executive Officer several years. Prior to that, Rick was President and Chief Executive Officer at Leyden Energy and spent time as an EIR at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Pliant Technology and Chief Operating Officer at Santur Corporation and was part of the management team at Aruba Networks as it conducted its IPO. Additionally, Rick ran operations at Procket Networks and 2Wire and began his career in engineering and operations positions at Seagate and Maxtor.

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Mahendra Gianchandani

Interana, maker of the world’s most advanced solution for product analytics in a GDPR era, announced Mahendra Gianchandani Vice President, Customer Operations. Mahendra brings over 22 years of experience joining from TIBCO Mashery where he was Global Head Customer Success. Prior to that, he ran client success and services at Cognizant Technology Solutions and was responsible for account leadership and strategic business relationship with P&L responsibility for running and growing customers in media, communications, and technology sectors. Additionally, he spent several years at Patni Telecom Solutions as a Senior Director and Client Partner, managed engineering at deCarta, and was a senior technical lead at entrabase. Mahendra began his career at US Interactive as a technical team lead.

Cameron Orr

ringDNA, a sales engagement platform that helps businesses scale revenue growth through AI and the leading choice for the Salesforce platform, announced Cameron Orr as the company’s Chief Sales Officer. Cameron brings over 20 years of SaaS sales success. Most recently, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Customer Success at  NationBuilder. Prior to that, he spent several years at Blue Jeans Network responsible for worldwide channel sales and strategy. Cameron also managed worldwide service provider sales, channel field sales, and North America Partner Sales at Cisco and WebEx.

Itamar Kandel

HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-driven autonomous MRI solutions, announced Itamar Kandel Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Itamar was the interim Chief Operating Officer at NKP Medical Marketing. Prior to that, he led the TigerConnect Business Unit at TigerText and served as Chief Strategy Officer. Itamar also served as the  Chief Operating Officer at Voxer. Itamar spent his early career at Symantec, beginning as a strategic alliances manager before moving on to manage emerging products.

Reed Taussig

ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security and compliance, announced Reed Tausig to its board of directors. Reed brings more than 30 years of product development leadership, operating insights and financial strategy experience. Most recently, he was President and Chief Executive Officer at Apptimize and he spent the decade prior at ThreatMetrix as President and Chief Executive Officer. Reed was also President and Chief Executive Officer at Jam Metrics, Vormetric, and Callidus Software where he led the company from its inception through a successful IPO. Additionally, he was President and Chief Executive Officer at inquiry.com and ran worldwide marketing, U.S. and Asia-Pacific sales, customer service and professional services at Gupta. Reed began his career as Vice President of Sales at Unify. 

Karim Varela

FanAI, the first and only full-funnel sponsorship effectiveness company in eSports, announced Karim Varela Vice President of Technology. Karim joins from Safara which he co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at. Prior to that, he ran engineering and was a managing partner at Beam Financial. Karim also served as Chief Technology Officer at Coffee Meets Bagel and built the Android teams at Tinder and Beachbody. Additionally, he spent time at Fandango and AT&T in their development program. Karim began his career as a software engineer at Infospace Mobile.

Gadi Shamia

Replicant, a cutting-edge provider of artificial intelligence-enabled voice technologies, announced Gadi Shamia Chief Executive Officer. Gadi brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise software and 13 years in SaaS. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Talkdesk where he helped the company grow from a seed stage to a unicorn in under four years. Prior to that, he co-founded and led Magneto as Chief Executive Officer and also served as Chief Operating Officer at Adobe having joined to help integrate EchoSign. Additionally, he was President and General Manager of ReachLocal and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Storm Ventures. Early in his career, Gadi spent several years at SAP where he built and managed the global team in the small business product group. He joined SAP via its acquisition of his first company, TopManage, where he led product, marketing, local and global sales and business development.

Manny Bernard

Flow Commerce, the most advanced solution for cross-border e-commerce, announced Manny Bernard as Head of Talent Acquisition. Manny joins from Celonis where he was the third person on the North American team and helped build the team to over 150 people. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research and Recruitment Operations at The Melanie Andersen Agency.  Manny began his career in recruiting and research at JBK Associates International.

Alok Gupta

Strateos, the company automating chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed loop robotic labs that accelerate drug discovery programs, announced Alok Gupta Vice President of Engineering. Alok joins from Avitas where he ran engineering and product. Prior to that, he was an early member of the GE digital team where he launched their flagship IoT product. Alok also spent time at SurfBI in product development and managed software engineering at e*Trade. Additionally, he was an engineering manager at Cashedge and he began his career at TCS.

Gillian Printon

Centivo, a new type of self-funded health plan administrator, announced Gillian Printon Head of National Accounts. Gillian brings more than two decades of experience in the health benefits industry. She joins from Mercer’s health business where she was a senior partner for over 23 years with a focus on growth and service delivery for large, progressive employers. Prior to Mercer, Gillian managed employer health and welfare benefits in both the public and private sectors while working for Anthem, American International Group, and PwC.

Elan Frantz

goTenna, the first and only company to enable completely off-grid, long-range mobile communications on regular smartphones regardless of cell service, wifi, satellites or even base stations, announced Elan Frantz Lead, Product Strategy. Elan joins from Airobotics where he was Director of Product and ran strategic technology discovery and development. Prior to that, he was an engineer and business developer at PiMEMS and also spent time as a research engineer at FS Technology Center. Elan began his career as a researcher at the Center for Energy Efficient Materials.

Olivia Borsje

Ladder, the smart, simple, online life insurance company, announced Olivia Borsje Vice President of Marketing. Olivia joins from Earnin where she was Vice President of Marketing. Prior to that, she built the brand strategy team at Thumbtack where she led the successful, comprehensive relaunch of its brand. Olivia also was an early marketing hire at Dropbox where she drove paid adoption across consumer and enterprise via product marketing, growth and integrated campaigns. She began her career at Symantec in product and digital marketing.

John Smith

Clio, the leading practice management, time, billing and client collaboration platform for small- to mid-sized law firms, announced John Smith Senior Vice President of Sales. John brings 23 years of selling experience and go-to-market strategy joining from CareerBuilder where he spent over 16 years. He began with the company as a national account executive moving upward to head the recruiter business unit before leading enterprise sales for 7 years. John ultimately served as Chief Sales Officer for several years. Prior to CareerBuilder, he was a national account executive at Lucent Technologies and vice president at Mercer Partners and Joseph Stevens. John began his career as an account executive at AS Goldman.

Jeff Moray

Aledade, a national leader in value-based care, announced Jeff Moray Vice President of Business Development. Jeff spent the last year providing strategic advisory services to private equity and venture capital firms, medical device companies and physician clinics. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Strategy and Payer Engagement at Surgical Care Affiliates where he ran the Western region and led the managed care team. Jeff also served as Vice President of Managed Care at Dignity Health for 3 years. Additionally, Jeff spent a decade with Blue Shield of California managing sales, operations and marketing. He began his career as an associate at Booz & Company. 

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Rajat Kongovi

Vouch Insurance, a new type of insurance company serving early stage startups, announced Rajat Kongovi Chief Product Officer. Most recently, Rajat was Vice President of Product and Platforms at NerdWallet joining via its acquisition of aboutLife where he served as Chief Executive Officer after co-founding the company. Prior to that, he spent time as Chief Operating Officer at Magi.com and led business operations and development at Hi5. Additionally, he was with the Boston Consulting Group for 8 years and spent time early in his career at Honeywell Aerospace and Caltech.

Jonah Sigel

Marble, the robotics company re-imagining urban logistics, announced Jonah Sigel Vice President of Business Development. He joins from Amazon where he was Senior Manager of Business Development and Marketing. Prior to that, he ran digital strategy at Holt Renfrew and served as Director of Digital Network & Entertainment at Starbucks. Additionally, Jonah was President and Chief Executive Officer at iStopOver following the merger with PlanetEye where he had led business development and also served as President and Chief Executive Officer. He also founded Toronto Sports Media and was the Director of International Business Development and Corporate Counsel at AOL Canada. Jonah also spent time at Greenberg Traurig and was a consultant to the Miami Heat Basketball Team and the Florida Panthers Hockey Team.

David Caldwell

Lumere, a leading provider of evidence-based analytics and services to reduce unwarranted and costly clinical variation, named David Caldwell Vice President of Sales. Most recently, David was the Chief Commerical Officer at Practice Fusion. Prior to that, he ran commercial operations at Transcend Insights and was Executive Vice President at Certify Data Systems for several years. Additionally, David served as Vice President of Sales at Thermo Fisher Scientific and Focus Diagnostics and he began his career as Vice President Of Commercial Operations at Quest Diagnostics. Lumere has received funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Blueprint Health, FCA Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital Partners, Health Insight Capital, and Heritage Group.

Gina Orlando

goTenna, the first and only company to enable completely off-grid, long-range mobile communications on regular smartphones regardless of cell service, wifi, satellites or even base stations, announced Gina Orlando Lead, Public Sector Marketing. Gina joins from Mark43 where she was a Product Marketing Manager. Prior to that, she was a business analyst and deployment specialist for the public sector at Dataminr. Gina also spent time at The White House as a federal government affairs and public policy associate at Aetna.

Cheryl Scott

Neurotrack, a developer of cognitive tests that can detect impairments in the hippocampus, the first structure in the brain to be affected by Alzheimer’s, announced Cheryl Scott to the Board of Directors. Cheryl brings extensive experience as an advisor and board member providing strategic counsel and support to a variety of companies. Most recently, she served on the board of Evolent Health and Sutter Health. She also served as the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Advisor for the Gates Foundation. Previously, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Group Health Cooperative.

Chase Zaputil

Wellframe, the leading mobile-enabled care management solution provider, announced Chase Zaputil Vice President of Sales. Chase brings over 20 years experience in healthcare and healthcare technology. Most recently, he was the Chief Sales Officer at Mercer. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Wolters Kluwer Health where he began in a clinical sales support director role before moving upward to manage commerce and then global sales and clinical drug information. Ultimately, he served as Vice President of Sales for the Americas. Additionally, Chase was Director of Healthcare Systems at Supervalu and he began his career as a medication management clinical pharmacist for Walgreens Health Initiatives.

Eric Bolling

Kit Check, the leader in hospital pharmacy medication tracking software and drug spend optimization analytics, announced Eric Bolling as Executive Vice President of Sales. Eric brings over 30 years of experience to the Company.  Prior to joining Kit Check in January 2019, Eric spent over fifteen years at Cardinal Health, most recently serving as General Manager of Enterprise Corporate Accounts.  Eric began his career with Bergen Brunswig in strategic business development.

Brion O'Connor

Samsara, the IoT platform for connected operations, announced Brion O’Connor Vice President of Marketing. Brion joins from AppDirect where he served as Senior Vice President of Network Services. Prior to that, he led the global marketing, insights and strategy operations team at LinkedIn. Brion also was responsible for growth and product marketing at Hostelworld.com and was Head of Digital Search Campaigns at GroupM. He joined GroupM via its acquisition of 24/7 Real Media where he was a search campaign manager. Brion began his career at Computershare.

Tsongming Kao

Butterfly Network, the first ultrasound on a chip and world’s first and only whole body imaging probe, announced TsongMing Kao Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering. TsongMing is well versed at working through packaging complexities and bringing products into mass manufacturing and production. He joins from Qualcomm where he spent nearly 14 years and was an early team member in their engineering group. Prior to that, he was an engineering manager at both Intevac and Dpix. TsongMing Kao also ran engineering at Skywork Solutions for six years and he began his career as an engineer at Hewlett Packard.

Carlos Hernandez

Lumiata, a provider of AI driven analytics for healthcare, announced Carlos Hernandez as Head of Commercial Business.  Prior to joining Lumiata, Carlos was Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Availity responsible for the health plan line of business. At Willis Towers Watson, Carlos was the Vice President of Sales for the Acclaris business unit specializing in consumer directed programs. Earlier, he held leadership roles at United Healthcare and Optum focused on health plan and employer engagement solutions. Earlier in his career, Carlos worked for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in sales, marketing and clinical management as well as partner development and management as a member of Microsoft’s Global Healthcare team.

Mark Arnoldy

Asana, the leading workflow management and collaboration platform for teams, announced Mark Arnoldy as Head of Customer Success. Mark joins from Possible where he spent seven years as the first Chief Executive Officer leading overall strategy, raising capital, developing partnerships, and building the team (to 340+). Mark was a passionate and avid Asana customer while at Possible.

Andy Hung

RigUp, the energy industry’s largest and fastest-growing marketplace for contractors and service providers, announced Andy Hung Head of Marketing. Andy joins from Uber where he spent the last five years. He began as General Manager for Chicago before moving on to lead all of marketing for the South. Prior to that, he was a senior consultant at Ogilvy Consulting. Additionally, Andy ran marketing at The Heartland Mobile Council and was a strategy consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. He began his career at Cason Nightingale.

Lucia Cecchetti

Eyeview, the industry leader in one-to-one outcome-based video marketing, announced Lucia Cecchetti Senior Vice President of Analytics. Lucia brings over twenty years of CPG and retail analytics consulting experience. She joins from Catalina where she spent the last 6 years. During her time there, she served as the Executive Director or Manufacturer Analytics before moving on to head retail analytics and lead a team of 27 analytics professionals across 20+ retail clients. Prior to joining Catalina, Lucia spent 12 years as Vice President of Analytics at IRI.

Bob Scarperi

Amobee, the world’s leading independent advertising platform across all channels, announced Bob Scarperi Chief Commerical Officer. Bob spent the last eight years at MediaMath most recently as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Electronifie and Head of Global Sales at Rocket Fuel. Bob was also a sales director at DoubleClick and he began his career at ADP in sales. Amobee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel, one of the largest communications technology companies in the world, which reaches more than 700 million mobile subscribers in 21 countries. Amobee operates across North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Doug Leonard

VBrick Systems, the leader in enterprise video platform solutions, announced that Doug Leonard has joined as Chief Revenue Officer. Doug was most recently the Chief Sales Officer at HireVue, and previously had led Cornerstone OnDemand’s North American Sales team focusing on enterprise and global strategic accounts, helping to drive revenues through IPO and beyond. Earlier in his career, Doug spent time at Gevity, Ceridian and ADP.

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Will Paulus

InfluxData, the open source time series DB platform for metrics & events, announced Will Paulus Vice President of Sales. Will joins from Algolia where he served as Head of U.S. Sales. Prior to that, he spent several years at Mixpanel initially leading mid-market sales before moving on to manage enterprise sales. Will began his career at Google building teams to support growth for Google’s G Suite.

Christine Heckart

Scalyr, the company that helps engineers troubleshoot issues faster with its blazing-fast log management solution, announced Christine Heckart Chief Executive Officer. Christine brings more than 25 years of experience growing emerging technologies into multibillion dollar businesses from ground zero. She most recently served as Senior Vice President at Cisco and as Executive Vice President at Brocade. In addition, Heckart has held multiple executive and C-level positions at global technology brands, including NetApp, Microsoft, and Juniper Networks. Christine is also currently on the board of directors at Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) and 6sense.

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Michael Lee

Blueboard, the recognition platform that enables companies to reward their employees with curated experiences and activities at the click of a button, announced Michael Lee Vice President of Sales. Michael joins from Clearbit where he was Head of Sales. Prior to that, he ran North American Enterprise Sales for SurveyMonkey. Michael previously spent nearly 7 years at Google, ultimately as Enterprise Territory Manager selling Google Apps for Business. He began his career in sales at JotSpot (acquired by Google) and PushMX Software.

Jennifer Bellin

Artemis Health, a provider of a health data analytics platform for employee benefits managers, announced Jennifer Bellin Vice President of Marketing. Jennifer joins from Paycor where she spent nearly a decade. She began as a marketing manager before moving on to lead marketing and ultimately serve as Vice President of Strategic Programs and Marketing. Prior to that, she was the director of public relations at the Cincinnati Opera and she began her career at the Music Teachers National Association directing all aspects of the annual conference as well as board, leadership, and committee meetings in addition to managing special projects and leading a team of 100+ volunteers.

Charles Colligan

Aledade, a national leader in value-based care, announced Charlie Colligan Chief Financial Officer. Charlie brings more than 25 years of experience in finance with expertise in developing and leading major strategic initiatives in sectors including financial services, technology, real estate, insurance, and government. He joins from CoStar Group where he served as Treasurer. Prior to that, was the Senior Vice President of Finance for Sallie Mae where he spent the bulk of his career. Charlie began his career at Merrill Lynch in the Capital Markets Group.

Dork Alahydoian

theSkimm, a digital-media company built on a daily newsletter aimed at millennial women, announced Dork Alahydoian as Senior Vice President of Membership Marketing. Dork brings extensive digital product and media experience joining from the The New York Times where he spent just over six years.  He began his career with the Times in strategy and business development before moving on to manage the team responsible for customer experience and retention. In his most recent role, Dork was Vice President of Partnerships and B2B Subscriptions and helped build their digital subscription business. Prior to the Times, Dork was is various startups including, NetSeer, Fandango and LookSmart.

Jessica Gladden

Aledade, the health tech startup putting doctors back in control of health care, announced Jessica Gladden Vice President, Human Resources. Jessica joins from Applied Predictive Technologies where she spent 11 years in human resources and helped build the company from 50 people to over 650. Prior to that she was the senior human resources specialist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.