Meet our Members
The Alliance community is all about our amazing members. Alliance members lead companies in virtually every industry and market sector ranging from early-stage private companies to global public companies. And, to be expected, their personal backgrounds are as diverse and wide-ranging as their companies. We’ve never been able to figure out how to describe the Alliance to someone who hasn’t experienced it. Therefore, we invited a few of our members to describe their "Alliance Experience" using their own words.
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Mark Dzwonczyk, CEO of Nicholville Telephone Company
Company: Adirondack Broadband, Inc.
Member Since: 2008
Mark Dzwonczyk is the CEO of Nicholville Telephone Company, headquartered in New York State. He travels to the Bay Area to participate in the Alliance. He appreciates the candor of the Alliance and the open advice that is available to him. He feels that the Alliance is a great opportunity for people to share ideas at the peer level and stretch their minds. Nicholville Telephone Company delivers high quality, reliable telecommunication, Internet and technology services to its customers. Their service territory stretches 200 square miles across northwestern rural St. Lawrence County in northern New York State.
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John Murphy, CEO of Virtual Incision
Company: Virtual Incision Corporation
Member Since: 2009
John Murphy is a life-long learner and feels the Alliance is a critical part of his learning. He is amazed by the perspectives gained at every Alliance meeting he attends. John is the CEO of Virtual Incision, which focuses on minimally-invasive abdominal procedures.
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Maria Latushkin, SVP of Engineering at Omada Health
Maria Latushkin was inspired by the notion of a safe place where executives can share confidential, top of mind issues, in an open, honest environment. She appreciates the perspectives gained from talented Alliance business leaders who come from different industries and roles. All of this provides a well-rounded view for Maria. She describes the Alliance as welcoming, supportive and honest. Maria is the SVP of Engineering at Omada Health, and the former CTO of One Kings Lane.
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Burt Cummings, CEO & Chairman of Versaic
Burt Cummings was looking for a group of like-minded CEOs where he could freely discuss situations, opportunities and strategies in a candid environment. He appreciates the solid feedback he receives from other members of his Alliance group, and the tight bond of friendship that has formed. Burt is the CEO & Chairman of Versaic, an online software solution for grants, sponsorship & donation management. Versaic's clients include Starwood Hotels, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, PetSmart, Oakley, JetBlue, SAP, Panera, and Anheuser-Busch.
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Steve Severaid, Principal of the Greenspan Company/Adjusters International
Steve Severaid says the Alliance takes you out of your bubble, and exposes you to executives who are goal-oriented with a common purpose to drive their careers forward. Coming from a sales and marking background, Steve appreciates the diversity of members within his group, which include a CFO and CTO, among others, from a variety of industries. Steve is Principal of the Greenspan Company/Adjusters International, a premier provider of public adjusting services.
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Dean Tang, CEO of ABBYY USA
Dean Tang realizes that as his company grows, he faces different kinds of issues and challenges. He leverages the experiences and insights of his Alliance colleagues to learn from their processes. Dean is the CEO of ABBYY USA, which creates artificial intelligence technologies and solutions and services that capture, translate, extract and transform information into accessible and useful knowledge. More than 40 million people from over 150 countries use ABBYY products, technologies, solutions and services, including ABBYY FineReader.
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Menko Deroos, CEO & Co-Founder of Xicato
Menko Deroos says there is nothing to loose by giving the Alliance a try. He appreciates the environment of trust that the Alliance provides, where he can openly discuss true strategic issues. Coming to monthly Alliance meetings gives him the discipline of breaking up the "day-to-day." He describes this is a "parachute effect" and often comes back to his business with new, cool things to think about and apply to his business. Menko is the CEO & Co-Founder of Xicato. A leading developer of superior light quality from LED modules, Xicato’s innovations produced the LED module category.
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Mathai Mammen, Senior Vice President of Research Sciences at Merck
To Mathai Mammen, the Alliance is about learning how to be a best-in-class executive. He appreciates the opportunity to bounce ideas and brainstorm freely with his Alliance peers, and describes its culture as "unfettered learning." Mathai is the Senior Vice President of Research Sciences at Merck, whose vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through its innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products.
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Sanjay Bonde, CEO of Wintec Industries
Company: Trade Capital Corporation
Member Since: 2012
Sanjay Bonde is passionate about building something that is good for the world, good for investors, and good for the people who work in the business. He was delighted by the very first conversations that he had with his Alliance peers, which were open, honest and trustworthy. His experiences since then have only grew more positive. The set of CEOs in his Alliance group are very seasoned executives, who fit well with his mental and business style. Sanjay is the CEO of Wintec Industries, which designs and manufactures memory modules and embedded products. He is the former COO of Kiverdi.
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Prem Uppaluru, Chairman & CEO of Transera Communications
Prem Uppaluru talks about the responsibilities and challenges of a CEO, who must be visionary, strategic and communicative - with the ability to "see around the corner." Prem is the Chairman & CEO of Transera Communications, a leading provider for contact centers, where “Big Data” technologies are delivered to improve business performance.
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Kristen McAlister, President of Cerius Interim Executive Solutions
Kristen McAlister talks about the perspectives she gains through the Alliance of Chief Executives. Kristen is the President of Cerius Interim Executive Solutions, the largest provider of interim executive management services with experience in helping small to medium-sized enterprises achieve their strategic and tactical business objectives.
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Yorgen Edholm, CEO & President of Accellion
Yorgen Edholm talks about how the Alliance of Chief Executives is populated with people who are "just like him," but outside of his own industry. This diversity allows for an effective "pooling of ideas" that go beyond standard best practices. Yorgen is the CEO & President of Accellion, which provides mobile solutions to enterprise organizations. Accellion was named to Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™ list.
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Cat Lincoln, Founder & CEO of CLEVER
Cat recognizes that women make up 53% of the workforce today, and only 3% of female CEOs run Fortune 500 companies. For them, she recommends they consider joining a co-ed organization, like the Alliance, where both male and female perspectives on business leadership can be shared. It's also a great opportunity for other leaders in the Alliance to learn from Cat what running a women-owned, women-focused company, like CLEVER, is like. During Alliance meetings, Cat appreciates the process of brainstorming solutions to other people's problems, which she says is helpful in her day-to-day. Cat is the Founder & CEO of CLEVER, an esteemed content marketing and native advertising agency specializing in connecting top brands with influential women online. CLEVER was listed on the 2015 list of Silicon Valley’s 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies.
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Kim Weiss, Former CEO of Remedy Interactive
Kim Weiss was initially interested in the Alliance because she was looking for a network of people who would understand the unique challenges that CEOs, like her, face. Kim is the former CEO of Remedy Interactive, a technology company that delivers software to large businesses to help them manage their health and safety functions. Remedy Interactive was named among the “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area” for 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Today, she is the EVP, Strategy and Operations for Enviance, Inc., a leader in cloud-based Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) software.
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David Traversi, CEO of Traversi Capital Advisors
David Traversi describes the Alliance culture as honest, unvarnished, unpretentious, and provocative. David is the CEO of Traversi Capital Advisors, a San Francisco-based investment banking and corporate advisory firm committed to providing institutional-quality services.
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Dan Peterson, Founder and Chairman of Loyale
Dan Peterson describes the three main responsibilities of a CEO - to navigate, to communicate and to motivate. He mentions that regardless of industry, most CEOs share these same responsibilities. Loyale’s Founding Principal, Dan Peterson, also the Founder of CashNet, Dan was among the first to recognize that technology could solve chronic, costly operating inefficiencies and enhance the customer experience. With ePAY Healthcare, Dan extended the same principles into healthcare, building one of the industry’s most robust patient engagement portals. Loyale’s end-to-end Patient Financial Engagement model is the culmination of a collaborative effort to empower healthcare providers with the ability to deliver financial care as exceptional as their clinical care.
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