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VP of Engineering at Planet Argon

Josh Schlanger is the Vice President of DevOps and IT at Demandbase.

Alexander Gladshtein is the Director of Software Development at CBORD, which powers access, card, foodservice, housing, nutrition and diet office management systems for healthcare, higher education, and business campuses.

Nathan Stott is the VP of Architecture at Influence Health.

Nathan Mumm is the Chief Technology Officer at BluZEBRA Technologies and the Chief Information Security Officer at Copiers Northwest.

Ted Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience.

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax.

Dan Harden is an Engineering Manager at Condé Nast.

Tal Broner is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egnyte, overseeing product development and innovation.

Chris Cortez is Vice President of Engineering for Apex Clearing, the technology platform for the most innovative Fintech and Financial Services firms.

Virgil Beaston is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Powin Energy and has over 10 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industry.

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males.

Raj Gupta is a Silicon Valley executive with over 25yrs of experience in leading product strategy, innovation, and global software development teams at technology startups as well as multinationals like Oracle Corporation. He is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering at Navis Inc., a leader in supply chain and maritime software, where he leads all product and engineering activities.

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites.

Raghu Konka is the Vice President of Engineering at iPass Inc. an industry pioneer in global Wi-Fi and Intelligent mobile connectivity platform. Since joining iPass Engineering in 2001, he developed & architected various service components and led different teams. He is now responsible for all aspects of iPass SmartConnect SaaS platform that comprise of iPass SmartClients & SDK, Big Data & Veri-Fi Analytics, Authentication Fabric, Billing & Reporting systems and Location...

Rob Reesor is Senior Vice President of Product Development at Planview, Inc., where he is currently responsible for all development and testing of three of Planview’s Work and Resource Management applications.

Dmitry Fonarev has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise, Application, SaaS and embedded software development, as well as extensive experience with managing multiple on and offshore teams across various product development functions. He is currently SVP of Product Dev at SmartBear Software, formerly the VP of Engineering at Dell Software Group, which he joined through their vKernel acquisition

Arun Samuga is the Vice President of Platform Engineering at Elemica, a digital supply chain company. Over the last 23 years, he has delivered software solutions for the aviation, retail, finance, utility and process industry verticals in various countries namely India, UAE, Japan, the UK and the USA.

John Bullard is the Vice President of Engineering at Distil Networks. Based in San Francisco, he leads the edge platform and data engineering team. Before joining Distil John confounded two tech startups, both of which are still active. Prior to entering the startup world John was a member of the Office 365 launch team at Microsoft where he focused on cloud security and scalability.

Chris McCooey is VP of Engineering for B2C at Purch. He oversees engineering teams delivering web and mobile experiences to Purch’s brands. Purch helps people buy better. Chris’ mission is to build technology that honors the intent of Purch’s users. With over 20 years leading software teams, Chris is passionate about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users. Previously, Chris worked at Cnet and CBS Interactive running search, API and platform teams.

Robert Stewart is the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight Health and has been with Castlight since 2011. He led the engineering teams that built Castlight Action, a fully-automated platform for benefits professionals to leverage data and machine learning algorithms to connect employees to the right benefits and programs. Robert previously held senior development and management positions at Voxify, Avaya, and Lucent Bell Labs, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Rice...

Don Thompson is VP of Software Development at Nextech Systems, a leading specialty specific Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software company. He has worked his entire career at Nextech, starting at a coop position 18 years ago as the company grew from 10 employees to its current size of over 250. Don received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Dayton in Computer Science. Don currently lives in Tampa, FL.

Ben Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security & privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years.