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Big Switch Networks & Dell Announce a Strategic Agreement
Mountain View, CA—Big Switch Networks and Dell announced a strategic agreement that will bring state of the art SDN solutions to an increasingly broad audience. Dell will resell the Big Switch Big Tap application, as well as the Switch Light Operating System, running on Dell's high performance Open Networking switches.…
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Total Defense Announces Merger of Consumer Business & Launches Stand-alone Corporate Cloud Business
Redwood Shores, Calif. – Total Defense, Inc., a leading Internet security company, has entered into an agreement with Untangle, Inc., a leading network software and appliance company, whereby Untangle will merge with its consumer (B2C) business line. In conjunction with this transaction, a new company has been formed under the…
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5 Alliance Members on the List of the Best Places to Work
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to this year's list of the “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area!” Keas - Josh Stevens, CEO Kaiser Permanente - Sandra Pham, VP & CFO Private Ocean - Richard Stone, Founder & CEO Remedy Interactive - Kim Weiss,…
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Profile of Ben Davis and Phizzle
What it does: Web-based platform for marketing campaigns. HQ: San Francisco. 2013 revenue: $7 million. Employees: 25. Founded: 2005. Source of startup capital: Ira and Jackie Shapiro invested $75,000. Background: Started 2003 mobile gaming company called Pixiem and was an early developer of video games for cell phones. First job:…
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Bob Sutton
Famous author and Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, returned to the Alliance to discuss the lessons he has learned through his research into scaling-up excellence with many companies (Apple is a prime example) and writing his new book, Scaling Up Excellence: The Problem of More.
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Patxi’s Raises Dough to Add 60 Pizzerias
Sausalito-based Patxi’s Pizza is about to embark on major West Coast expansion plans, including the rollout of almost 60 new outlets in the next five years and new ovens that will help the full-service, 12-unit company compete with fast-casual pizza chains. In a quiet move in February, Patxi’s closed on…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Five Steps You Can Take to Instill Clarity & Courage”
I’ve read hundreds of great quotes from amazing leaders describing “leadership.” One of the simplest comes from Fuchan Yuan, who identified three essentials: “humility, clarity and courage.” Humility seems to be a character trait that people either have or don’t. Although many people perceive CEOs to have large egos, great…
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Versartis Boosts IPO Plan by Half
Versartis, a startup working on treatments for growth hormone deficiency, boosted the expected size of the IPO it plans later this week by nearly 50 percent. The Redwood City company led by CEO Jeffrey Cleland now says it could raise a total of $144.9 million, including shares set aside for…
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LawRoom Training Program Wins Gold NASPA Excellence Award
Think About It, CampusClarity’s online substance abuse and sexual violence training program for colleges and universities, won the 2014 Gold NASPA Excellence Award for Violence Education and Prevention. CampusClarity is a service of LawRoom. NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, is the leading association of student affairs professionals in…
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Russ Harrison Speaks: Change the Nature of the Conversation
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a fellow Alliance member who wanted to acquire a company that would not allow any due diligence on its critical technology. Here’s what Russ Harrison, President and CEO of The Leadership Group and an Alliance Director, shared with his Alliance peers.…
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Spring 2014
Inside the Spring 2014 Issue: The Lonely Job of Leadership Evan Bailyn (Group 271) of First Page Sage spent the first five years out of college building several successful businesses, but his ambition came at a cost. “I wasn’t happy at all. I was emotionally absent all the time,” he…
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Tom Kippola
Tom Kippola, a Managing Director with The Chasm Group, joined us for this regional Alliance meeting. Tom assisted in the early strategy development for several of the most successful tech companies of the last 15 years and also provided consulting and/or training for many well-known and established companies including Microsoft,…
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Vineet Gulati
Vineet Gulati is a senior life sciences and healthcare industry executive with over nineteen years of supply chain planning, execution, logistics and information technology strategy experience. Prior to founding Trust.Care in 2019, Vineet was CEO of HealthExpense, Prior to HealthExpense, Vineet was President & CEO of NGenuity Consulting, an advisory…
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2 Alliance Members Named to the “Build 100 List ”
Congratulations to Peter Sortwell, CEO of Arborwell, and Rick Sutherland, CEO of ClickAway, whose companies were named to INC magazine’s inaugural “Build 100” list. The Build 100, is a new business index that honors an elite tier of companies that have expanded their employment in each of the past five…
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Claudia Wentworth Named One of the Top Ten Women of Solar Energy
Quick Mount PV CEO and Alliance member, Claudia Wentworth, has been included in theenergycollective.com’s list of the Top Ten Women of Solar Energy, authored by Lisa Ann Pinkerton. The impressive list praises leading women in solar, “Whether it's educating women on installing systems or empowering them to speak out against…
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Krishna Rajagopal
Krishna is the CEO of Narish International. Prior to founding Narish, Krishna formed Prosint, and acquired A1-Laser International Inc. in 2015. At Prosint, Krishna provided strategic vision to enable aggressive growth paired with profitability. Krishna began his career as a Technical Sales Manager at Sequoia Automatic, where he increased sales…
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Getting Ready for the Exit Day
Many mid-market CEOs sell their companies for far less than what they hoped because they are unprepared for the “Exit Day”. CEOs underinvest in preparing themselves and their firms for an exit, and in building business acumen for exiting. Because most CEOs are inexperienced with selling a business, and because…
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Adam Leipzig
Adam Leipzig is the former Senior VP with Walt Disney Pictures and President of National Geographic Films who oversaw some of the most financially successful and iconic films ever – including March of the Penguins, Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Now, as the…
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Peter Koshland
Peter Koshland, founder of Koshland Pharm, is a graduate of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and a member of the Alumni Association's Board of Directors. Before starting Koshland Pharm, he was the Director of Pharmacy and Compounding for Elephant Pharm,…
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Ekso Bionics Featured in People Magazine
The moment Gary Linfoot stood up from his wheelchair, he looked his wife, Mari, in the eyes and gave her the best hug they'd had in years. “We've always had to hug around the waist,” Gary says of their wheelchair embraces. “This is how it was meant to be.” Then…
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Second Genome Featured in 2014 Biotech Forecast
The Bay Area’s biotech industry is showing a middle-age problem: It’s soft in the middle. With biotech giant Amgen Inc.’s $10 billion acquisition in October of South San Francisco’s Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., few companies are ready to fill the Goldilocks role of being just the right size — large enough…
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Paul Lipman Interview on MSNBC
Alex Witt of MSNBC talked to Paul Lipman, CEO of Total Defense, about banks' decision to limit debit card withdrawals after the Target security breach. View the full interview here.
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Turn the Tables on Your Competitors”
Breakthrough ideas are typically the result of someone who was able to challenge conventional wisdom and think differently. Author Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates this in his newest book, “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.” David’s victory over Goliath is widely accepted as a monumental victory for…
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Sutro Biopharma Closes $26 Million Financing
SAN FRANCISCO - Sutro Biopharma today announced that the company has secured $26 million in a Series D financing. The additional financing will fund the expansion of Sutro’s proprietary immuno-oncology product pipeline. Sutro is developing a new generation of protein therapeutics, including next-generation antibody drug conjugates and bispecific antibodies, utilizing…
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Winter 2014
Inside the Winter 2014 Issue: CEO Succession Planning Important as it may be, many CEOs fear succession planning because they feel they may be putting themselves out of a job. And yet, says David Traversi (Group 275), “the ability to build an organization that will operate effectively in their absence…
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Joe Saunders
As executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Visa Inc., Joe Saunders led a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. During his tenure, Saunders strengthened Visa’s position as the world’s leading payments technology company. Under his…
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Maynard Webb
From the start of his professional life as an entry-level employee at IBM, Maynard Webb has become one of tech industry’s most respected veterans. After working his way up through increasingly senior ranks at technology firms, he has held executive roles including COO at eBay and CEO at customer service…
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Joy Chen Relaunched Yes To, Helping it Become the No. 2 Natural Skin Care Brand in the US
For most people, becoming general manager of a $1 billion division of Clorox might be the pinnacle of their career. But for Joy Chen, it was an event that made her see she wanted something more. With 20 years’ experience in consumer-packaged goods, Chen hoped to work with a smaller,…
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embedUR Among the Top 25 Engineering Services Firms Run by Indians in the US
Embedded technology is evolving rapidly. At the blink of an eye, there is a faster chipset, a smarter CPU and greater product complexity. Telecom product revamp and churn moves extremely fast and equipment vendors need to address these ever shortening product cycles. Unless one focusses on engineering solutions exclusively, it…
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13 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 2013 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Alta Vista Solutions, led by Principal Patrick Lowry Arborwell, led by President Peter Sortwell BEEcube,…
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