Voices from the ecosystem

Speakers

Executives and channel leaders who shaped the conversation on cloud partnerships.

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Eileen Boerger

President, Agilis Solutions

Eileen joined Agilis Solutions in 2000 and has led the delivery of its outsourced engineering services ever since, overseeing software development and maintenance projects outsourced to Vietnam, India, and New Zealand. Before Agilis, she served as VP of Operations at QualityLogic, and earlier held management roles at Mentor Graphics Corporation as well as the presidency of Software Technology at Unisys Corporation.

She serves on the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC), the Board of Directors of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO), and the Women in Technology International (WITI) Foundation. Open Computing magazine named her one of its "Top 100 Women in Computing."

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Peter Chase

Founder and Executive Vice President, Business Development, Scribe Software

Peter co-founded Scribe Software with Jim Clarke in 1996. As Executive Vice President of Business Development, he leads the effort to establish and grow partnerships with other leading technology companies, supporting Scribe's overall market and product strategy.

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Stephen P. Cho, Ph.D.

Director, Channels and Business Development, Google Enterprise

As Director of Channels and Business Development for Google Enterprise, Stephen is responsible for bringing new products to Google's channel partners. He launched the Google Apps Reseller program in 2009, building out reseller, solutions, and services partners across North America and worldwide for Google Apps - Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Sites, Video, and more. That partner base has since grown to well over 2,000 VARs, IT consultants, large professional services firms, global systems integrators, ISPs and telecom providers, and a wide range of SaaS vendors and Cloud Service Providers.

Earlier at Google, Stephen was Director of Product Management for Google Apps and Partner Products across telco/ISP, media/portal, social, mobile, and OEM partners; Director of Online Sales and Operations, where he handled millions of Google Apps users and online customers; and Director of Content Partnerships, driving business development around YouTube and Google Video, Google Maps and Earth, Google Books and Scholar, and newer areas such as non-music audio, government content, and news. Before Google, he held leadership positions at Cisco, McKinsey & Co., and the Boston Consulting Group.

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Russell Hertzberg

Vice President, SaaS and ISV Solutions, SoftServe

Russ brings 12 continuous years of executive and entrepreneurial product-ownership experience in Cloud Computing. From 1997 to 2000, through a technology acquisition, he developed and grew the most successful commercial managed hosting service in Scantron's history. From 2003 to 2007 he was an operating angel in one of the first SaaS providers of on-demand document and data sites. Between 2008 and 2011 he consulted on a series of cloud projects, including the Workxpress PaaS, the M86 email and web security cloud, and the Aria Systems SaaS billing and subscription platform. He joined SoftServe Inc. in May 2011 as Vice President, SaaS and ISV Solutions.

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Daniel Saks

President and CEO, AppDirect

Daniel concentrates on the growth of AppDirect and on building relationships with the company's customers and partners. He holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University and studied Finance and Accounting at Harvard. His earlier experience includes Viant Capital, a boutique investment bank offering sell-side advisory services to technology companies, and RBC Dominion Securities, and he has taken part in several other entrepreneurial ventures. Away from business, Dan is an avid traveler and hockey fan with a fondness for contemporary architecture, impressionist painting, and Chinese art from the Qing Dynasty.

Full speaker roster

Additional confirmed speakers across editions of the summit.

NB
Nima Badiey
Pivotal
KB
Kris Bliesner
2nd Watch
EB
Eileen Boerger
CorSource
RC
Rhianna Collier
SIIA
DC
Darren Cunningham
SnapLogic
MD
Mike Desai
PingIdentity
FF
Feyzi Fatehi
Corent Technology
TF
Tim FitzGerald
Avnet
NF
Nick Freund
BetterCloud
SG
Scott Geffre
Informatica Cloud
MG
Michael Gerardi
Aria Systems
SG
Sharon Gordon
Birst
TH
Tom Halle
Savvis/CenturyLink
RH
Russell Hertzberg
SoftServe Inc.
DH
David Hoff
Cloud Sherpas
RH
Ron Huddleston
Salesforce.com
KH
Katherine Hunt
CompTIA
NK
Nikesh Kalra
Equinix
JK
Jeff Kaplan
THINKstrategies
MK
Matthew Kenneally
CallidusCloud
EK
Eric Keosky-Smith
InfusionSoft
RM
Ross Mason
MuleSoft
BM
Brian Matsubara
Amazon Web Services
SM
Sean McCaffery
ViaWest
JM
James Mumma
Comcast
AN
Adam Nelson
Dropbox
KO
Kevin O’Brien
Oracle
DO
Dave O’Callaghan
VMware
DP
Dipan Patel
Cox Communications
JP
Jamie Perlman
Box
CR
Chris Rimer
Google Enterprise
CR
Carlos Román
InsightCloud Solutions
DS
Daniel Saks
AppDirect
JS
Jonathan Sass
Spiceworks
AS
Andy Schroepfer
Big Cloud Sales
CS
Colleen Smith
Progress Software

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