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Member Menko Deroos Speaks: Want fresh direction? Get some fresh air.
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a technology company that saw huge opportunity to expand into the EU market. Yet, he was running into brick walls convincing his team to embrace this vision. If you were in this situation, what would you do? If…
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VeloCloud Reports Record Sales, Large Customer Wins and an Expanding High-Profile Ecosystem
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—VeloCloud Networks Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN™ company, announced record sales in 2015 which rose 30 times over the previous year. The company also reported that it added more than 100 customers and more than 30 ecosystem partners in 2015. The company's workforce also expanded by 50 percent globally.…
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Member Pat Lashinsky Speaks: Hire Your First Chief Culture Officer
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO who had achieved much positive change in a short amount of time, but was still challenged by a counterproductive corporate culture that was damaging customer relationships. The CEO was looking for strategies to catalyze change. If you were in…
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Linden Labs’ “Second Life” Prepares for Its Second Act
Long before Oculus Rift, there was Second Life: the desktop-based virtual world, created by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, now recognized as one of the most successful early experiments in virtual reality. Throughout its lifetime – launched originally in 2003, Second Life is ancient in Internet years – the platform has…
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BullGuard Appoints Security Veteran Paul Lipman as New CEO
SAN FRANCISCO—Internet and mobile security leader BullGuard has announced the appointment of security industry veteran Paul Lipman as CEO. Lipman has spent the last decade developing consumer security businesses into transformational category leaders. “BullGuard is a highly successful player in the consumer security market, a fast growing and profitable operation…
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Member Marco Marini Speaks: Take Advantage of Your Small Size
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the President of a consumer company selling products to offices. However, similar offerings from large e-tailers were squeezing the company. During an Alliance meeting, he sought advice to counter his larger competition from driving down price and stealing market share. If…
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Member David Matheson Speaks: Is Change Always a Bottom Up Revolution?
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a mobile app company that was seeking to give users more transparency in billing and better tracking of their spending. He was at the outset of designing the user experience and interface. If you were in this situation,…
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Member Nadim Maluf Speaks: Civilized Discourse is Mandatory
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a CEO, whose board efficacy was derailed by a problematic board member. He wanted to unlock the board’s potential to mentor and open doors for the company, but felt hamstrung by this individual. If you were in this situation, what would…
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Jes Pedersen Helped Take the Fear Out of Change at Webcor Builders
Jes Pedersen was five years away from becoming president and CEO at Webcor Builders when the company found itself at a critical point in its history. After years of taking on nothing but private construction projects including office buildings, hotels and residential units, the sector began to dry up in…
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Audentes Therapeutics Plans to Raise up to $86M in IPO
Gene therapy startup Audentes Therapeutics filed for an IPO that would raise up to $86 million. The San Francisco company led by CEO Matthew R. Patterson develops gene therapy treatments for X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy (XLMTM), a condition that primarily affects muscles used for movement and occurs nearly exclusively in males.…
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Cat Lincoln Thrives on Transparency
Cat Lincoln, co-founder and CEO of Clever Girls Collective, started her marketing agency in the middle of the recession. Despite the economic downturn, the small network of marketing consultants was able to grow and thrive. Lincoln led the collective during its 2013 partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to create the…
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Curt Carlson
Prior to founding the Practice of Innovation, Curt Carlson was President and CEO of SRI International. During Curt's 16-year tenure at SRI, its revenue more than tripled and SRI became a global model for the systematic creation of high-value innovations. Carlson is widely sought as a speaker and thought leader…
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Vendini Acquires CrowdTorch
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Vendini, the company that makes the business of live events simple, announced that it has acquired CrowdTorch, a consumer ticket solution and live event platform previously owned by Cvent (NYSE: CVT). This acquisition will help position Vendini to grow its customer base, strategically incorporate key technologies and personnel…
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Rachel Haurwitz
Dr. Haurwitz is a co-founder of Caribou Biosciences and has been President and CEO since its inception. She has extensive research experience in the field of CRISPRs and has contributed both to the discovery of components of the CRISPR immune system and to the invention of new technologies based on…
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Lori Bush Has Changed the Way Direct Selling is Done at Rodan + Fields
It was a number of years ago when Lori Bush was approached with some sage advice about what she should do with her career. “A colleague of mine said, ‘At some point in your career, you should start a company or be involved in the startup of a company. It’s…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Stop Worrying About Your Own Personal Gain”
Over the past 20 years, I have met roughly 5,000 CEOs and senior executives who lead companies in virtually every industry and are reinventing how the world works. Not everyone has the opportunity to meet so many intelligent and passionate leaders in their normal course of business. If you want…
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Fonta Hadley
Fonta Hadley is a verbal and nonverbal communication educator. Using perceptual and behavioral tools, she teaches a rich mix of logical and emotional communication for professional development. Her research focuses on the relationship between what you are saying (verbal) and how you are saying it (nonverbal) with particular emphasis on…
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3 Alliance Members on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the 2015 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List. This list represents the leading technology awards program in North America. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies—large, small, public, and private—hail from cities far and wide across North…
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Joe Abraham
Joe Abraham is the founder of BOSI Global – a group of entrepreneurship initiatives including bosiDNA.com, BOSI Fast 50 and The BOSI Growth Fund. A professional entrepreneur himself, Joe has started up, grown and exited three companies of his own and invested in over 20 small businesses. He is author…
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Winter 2016
Inside the Winter 2016 Issue: Learning High Velocity Leadership In today's fast-moving, hyper-connected economy, opportunities come fast and furious. Speed affects everything—from launching new products or signing new deals to how companies respond to abrupt market changes. But exactly how fast do today's leaders need to be? And when it…
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Member Andy Barrons Speaks: Instead of a New Team, Consider a New Division
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the Managing Director of a multinational organization. He wanted to pounce on emerging opportunities in a new industry, and was mulling over how best to activate his company’s involvement. If you were in this situation, what would you do? If I…
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Ellie Mae’s CEO Leads the Company’s Hottest Growth Spurt
Ellie Mae was in fintech long before the term “fintech” entered the lexicon, much less become one of the hottest sectors for startups. The Pleasanton-based software company, which is estimated to process almost a quarter of all U.S. mortgages, is enjoying rapid growth. Its enterprise software-as-a-service product Encompass jumped to…
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Jorge Titinger Named to the Hispanic IT Executive Council’s HITEC 100
MILPITAS, CA — SGI (NASDAQ:SGI), a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics, and data management, is proud to announce that Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, was named by the Hispanic IT Executive Council to the HITEC 100, a comprehensive list of the top 100 Hispanic…
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Phil Solk
Phil has over 30 years of experience in selling and delivering technology solutions to Fortune 100 companies. He has held executive and founder roles at a four successful start-ups: Seer Technology, Netigy, MidEdge and Vitria. He founded the consulting services group for Symantec, created the first international consulting group for…
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Christine Heckart named to the list of “Top 50 Women in Tech”
Every year, the National Diversity Council compiles a list of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology to feature the highest caliber of executive female leaders within the technology industry. These women are the most prominent leaders, and they have reached the top of their profession by being effective…
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With Words and Brushes, Brocade’s CMO, Christine Heckart, Indulges Her Inner Artist
Christine Heckart has been Brocade Communications Systems’ chief marketing officer for almost two years, but she first came to the Bay Area in the early 2000s to work for Juniper Networks. Outside of work, Heckart has a wide range of interests, including writing and painting. In the early 1990s, she…
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Scaling Up Starts with Looking In
This case study features Rajesh C. Subramaniam, CEO & Founder of embedUR systems. In 2014, Rajesh was feeling limited in his ability to scale his business and decided to use an Alliance meeting to address the problem. The particular meeting he chose was his Focus Executive presentation, an opportunity that…
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Two Alliance Members Among the Top 30 of the Bay Area’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
Congratulations to Alliance members Lars Barfod of Vapore and Chris Burnley of Corefact for their recognition by the San Francisco Business Times as 2015 Fastest-Growing Private Companies and reaching the stage together! Vapore took second place in the Bay Area and first place in the East Bay while Corefact took…
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Five Alliance Members on the List of the Bay Area’s Fastest Growing
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the Bay Area's list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2015 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Arborwell, led by President Peter Sortwell BAM Software & Services, led by CEO John Ford…
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Reflektion Named Winner of Shop.org Startup of the Year Competition
Shop.org today announced the group’s Digital Commerce Startup of the Year competition winner. After being named a finalist in September, Reflektion was selected by several esteemed leaders in the retail industry as the winner of the competition. The company’s technology aims to capture and respond to individual shopper intent in…
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