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Richard Stone, Founder & Chairman of Private Ocean

Richard Stone joined the Alliance during a critical time in his firm when he needed help working through “uncharted territory.” By counseling CEOs in different industries, it brought him strategies that he was able to use within his own firm. Richard is the Founder & Chairman of Private Ocean, which…

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Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems

Paulo Rosado describes the “balcony time” received when participating in the Alliance - time spent away from day-to-day operations and look into the “ballroom” of your business and its moving parts. Paulo lives in Portugal and travels to the Bay Area to participate in the Alliance. He is the CEO…

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Ed Lehrman, CEO of Vine Connections

Ed Lehrman, member since 2008, says the amount of value he gains and the number of better decisions, new implementations and ideas he receives from the Alliance, far outweigh the time he commits to it. Ed is the CEO of Vine Connections, a Sausalito, California-based importer and the exclusive U.S.…

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Grant Pickering, President & CEO of SutroVax

Grant Pickering discusses the peer-to-peer relationships that one can establish by participating in the Alliance of Chief Executives. Grant is the President & CEO of SutroVax, a biotech firm that harnesses the Xpress CF™ proprietary cell-free protein synthesis platform to develop novel vaccines against major infectious diseases.

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Peter Hladun, VP & General Manager at Cork Supply USA

Hear why Peter Hladun describes the Alliance of Chief Executives as a strong, business, family community. Peter is the Vice President & General Manager at Cork Supply USA, which supplies premium quality natural corks for the world's finest wines.

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Oliver Mellows, Principal/Controller of MBH Architects

Oliver Mellows talks about how the Alliance provides fresh ideas outside his own architectural industry, which allows him to look at challenges and issues in a completely different way. Oliver is the Principal/Controller of MBH Architects, which provides professional architectural services in the retail, commercial, hospitality, restaurant, and multi-family housing…

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Jerry Turin, CFO of Intematix

Jerry Turin discusses the Alliance methodology and structure of a typical Alliance group meeting, and the benefit of being a “receptacle of input” from the other attending members. Jerry is the CFO of Intematix, which offers the widest selection of phosphor solutions to the largest LED lighting companies in the…

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Karan Yaramada, President & CEO of Jade

Karan Yaramada talks about the candid and honest culture of the Alliance, and how he feels the Alliance is like an extended “business family.” Karan is the President & CEO of Jade, a global information technology systems and solutions company. Karan Yaramada and Jade were named to the INC 5000…

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Jeff Kuhn, Managing Partner of FLG Partners

Jeff Kuhn talks about the power of diversity within the Alliance of Chief Executives, and why the culture of confidentiality is important to him. Jeff is the Managing Partner of FLG Partners, the premier solution for comprehensive board advisory and CFO consulting services for Silicon Valley companies, ranging from A-round…

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Glenn Fishler, Founder/CEO/President of EORM

Glenn Fishler describes the Alliance culture, and how he benefits from the connections he's made. Glenn is the Founder/CEO/President of EORM (Environmental & Occupational Risk Management, Inc.), which provides a range of strategic, management and technical consulting solutions with its clients to achieve their environmental, health, safety and sustainability goals.

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Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale

Hear what Gene Banman says about his Alliance of Chief Executives experience, and why he's been a long-time member since 2004. Gene is the CEO of DriveScale, a stealth-mode startup composed of a highly experienced team creating solutions for agility, balance, and scale of Big Data infrastructure.

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Dirk Schapeler, VP Digital for Bayer LifeHUB

Dirk Schapeler discusses his experience with the Alliance of Chief Executives, and why he joined in 2011. Dirk is the VP Digital for Bayer LifeHUB, the Digital Health division of Bayer HealthCare, which seeks innovation opportunities that can support drug development, patient monitoring, clinical trials, research and marketing/sales. Prior to…

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Nathan Harding, CEO and Co-Founder of FoxEye Robotics

Nathan Harding describes the Alliance as a support group for CEOs and says there is always someone to talk to with the CEO point-of-view. He discusses the challenges of the CEO role – always being “on,” and having the feeling of personal responsibility to your company. Nathan is the CEO…

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Curtis Allen, President & CEO of AcceleRAD Technologies

Curtis Allen, President & CEO of AcceleRAD Technologies and Alliance member since 2005, talks about his long-time involvement and experience with the Alliance of Chief Executives. He is the former President & CEO of Altair Technologies.

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Alliance of Chief Executives

The Alliance of Chief Executives is an active community of business leaders that focuses on deep strategic exchanges, challenging existing assumptions and generating fresh ideas. Through private, high-level, confidential groups, Alliance members share unique insights, perspectives and experiences that lead to breakthrough ideas and competitive advantage.

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Alliance of Chief Executives

The Alliance of Chief Executives is an active community of business leaders that focuses on deep strategic exchanges, challenging existing assumptions and generating fresh ideas. Through private, high-level, confidential groups, Alliance members share unique insights, perspectives and experiences that lead to breakthrough ideas and competitive advantage.

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Phani Nagarjuna in CEO.com: “Why The C-Suite Needs Big Data Analytics”

Every CEO is on the lookout for new insights that will help keep his or her company viable. In recent years, big data analytics has critical to the way business leaders make high-level decisions. According to McKinsey & Company, executive teams that make extensive use of customer big data analytics…

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CFO: Need to Know

On October 24, 2014, a live video broadcast was held to discuss what every CFO needs to know about digital. Alliance member, Rick Martig, was a panelist, along with other CFOs and Ernst & Young professionals. Rick Martig is the Chief Financial Officer of Nexenta, the inventor and global leader…

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Sutro Biopharma & Celgene Corporation Enter Strategic Collaboration and Option to Acquire Agreement

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – Sutro Biopharma announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration and option agreement with Celgene Corporation to discover and develop multispecific antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). This new agreement follows the December 2012 collaboration between the two companies and focuses on the field of immuno-oncology,…

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Member Rob Conant Speaks: External Skills Solving Internal Problems

The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a recently purchased company, whose parent seemed unwilling to loosen the purse strings and invest in growing his company. With minimal traction at the board level, he and his executive team were frustrated. If you were in this…

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Word-Parsing Wizard Idibon Picks Up $5.5M

Idibon, a startup that has developed applications that make sense of text in scores of languages, has raised $5.5 million in new funding. Following its launch in January, Idibon has attracted business from Edmunds.com, Samsung, the United Nations, and some global consulting firms, among others. And the startup has worked…

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RCH Appoints Neal Ringquist to EVP of Sales & Marketing

Charlotte, NC - Retirement Clearinghouse (RCH), the retirement savings industry’s only provider of automatic and managed portability solutions, has appointed industry veteran Neal Ringquist as executive vice president of sales and marketing with responsibility for the company’s marketing strategy and plan sponsor sales channel. Ringquist, who has an extensive background…

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Member Burt Cummings Speaks: Sell Yourself Through the Pain You Solve

The Challenge: The case at hand involves a CEO who was the focus of an Alliance meeting. After the group heard his presentation, they challenged him to more clearly explain his company’s value proposition. The CEO engaged the group in a fruitful brainstorm to better understand what his company offers.…

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Steve Beck

Steve Beck is the Founder & Managing Partner of cg42, a consultancy that was founded on the idea of helping businesses in high pressure situations rise to the challenge; to find growth when current prospects are at the most difficult. Steve's experience as FutureBrand’s Chief Strategy Officer, where he faced…

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Heritage Bank of Commerce Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Bay View Funding

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Heritage Commerce Corp (Nasdaq:HTBK) parent company of Heritage Bank of Commerce, announced today that Heritage Bank of Commerce has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement to acquire BVF/CSNK Acquisition Corp. (“BVF”) for $22.5 million in cash. Based in Santa Clara, California, BVF is the parent company of CSNK…

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Member Brad Freitag Speaks: Go Direct, Go Small, Learn Lots

The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by an SVP whose company was reinventing itself as a cloud provider offering SaaS in place of their current hardware/software package. He wanted to convince his CEO that a SaaS model doesn’t support their current three-tier distribution system due to lack of…

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Calithera Biosciences, First Bay Area IPO in 2 Months, Raises $80M

The first IPO by a Bay Area company since late July encountered mixed success on Thursday. South San Francisco-based Calithera Biosciences priced its IPO at $10, well below its target range of between $13 and $15. But it sold an extra 2 million shares to hit $80 million in funds…

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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “How to Build a Creative Organization Without Any Authority”

Many great books on creativity and innovation have been written by professors and researchers, and I’ve read quite a few. The best book I’ve read by an actual CEO on how he personally developed a real-world creative organization is Ed Catmull’s recent work, “Creativity, Inc.” Catmull, founder of animated movie…

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