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Alliance Among the Fastest Growing Companies
The Alliance of Chief Executives was honored to be named to the 2013 list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. We thank each and every member of the Alliance for their willingness to…
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Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki joined us for this Top Team regional Alliance meeting. Guy is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki is the author of ten books…
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William Freeman of Patxi’s Pizza Among Most Admired CEOs in Bay Area
The Alliance is very proud of William Freeman of Patxi's Pizza, who was named by the San Francisco Business Times as one of 2013's Most Admired CEOs. Bill will be honored at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco on November 12th. The Alliance is very…
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Christine Comaford
For over 30 years New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford has been helping leaders navigate growth and change. She is best known for helping her clients create predictable revenue, deeply engaged and passionate teams, and highly profitable growth. She delivers these impactful outcomes as a result of her decades…
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Manuel Terranova
Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova is a technology veteran with a long track record of bringing emerging technologies to market. He has a broad range of P&L and technical leadership experience in oil and gas, subsea equipment, software application development, pipeline inspection robotics, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure. Before…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Secrets to Greater Creativity”
Exceptional leaders constantly seek opportunities and ideas that will enable their organizations to achieve their mission and objectives. For years, I have been studying how creativity happens so the Alliance of Chief Executives can be a place where leaders come to challenge their assumptions, generate fresh approaches and breakthrough ideas.…
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Jorge Titinger Returned Silicon Graphics International to Profitability
Jorge Titinger’s first day as president and CEO of technical computing leader, Silicon Graphics International Corp. was Feb. 27, 2012 — and the next day, instead of having time to ease into his new role, he was telling investors about the company’s shortcomings the quarter before. “There were a lot…
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Member Sudhir Aggarwal Speaks: Not All Companies Are High-Growth
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO who wanted to know how to double his company's sales in five years in order to sell it, even though the company had limited cash to put into growth efforts. If you were…
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Member Anthony Sperling Speaks: Let Your Hunters Hunt
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a fellow Alliance member who presented a sales team structuring challenge. The firm, which sells bundled hardware and software, had two dozen salespeople who each handled all sales opportunities in their geographic areas, large and small direct customers, channel development and…
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Member Jerry Turin Speaks: Try Being More Subtle First
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance Member, GM of a business unit who had been asked by his CEO to contribute more at the corporate level. The member decided the firm needed a more formalized planning structure, but his efforts…
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Member John Weber Speaks: Be Honest With Yourself
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO who was considering whether or not to take the company public, but was concerned about his responsibility to employees who have been issued equity. If you were in this situation, what would you…
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Member Israel Niv Speaks: Create a Fuller Solution
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO who believed his company's stock price was extremely undervalued because of past missteps by prior management. Here's what Israel Niv, CEO of DCG Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductor diagnostic, characterization and…
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Mike Kamm Speaks: Have an Expert Help Make the Case
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a fellow Alliance member who had an issue with his company's board. The company needed to make investments to ensure long-term growth. However, the board was more concerned with quarterly growth and meeting the expectations of Wall Street. As a result,…
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Member Alain Couder Speaks: Wait, Then Make the Call
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO whose company had a major acquisition in the works. As a result of the acquisition, the CEO believed that the company needed to change from a functional structure to a business unit structure.…
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Member John Senaldi Speaks: Start Small Before Going Big
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO whose investor-backed firm was considering whether to gamble big by going after a difficult segment of the market, which would take major investment and take years but could yield big results. The company's…
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Member Prem Uppaluru Speaks: Be Careful About Switching to Product Business
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO whose consulting company was considering whether to create a successful new product or transform itself into a product company. If you were in this situation, what would you do? Service companies have to…
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Member Ittai Bareket Speaks: You Need Someone You Can Trust
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a fellow Alliance member who was preparing to enter Japan with a huge partner that would resell its software. The member wanted to know what to do to succeed and whether to hire locally or not. If you were in this…
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Member Dan Peterson Speaks: When Picking a Team, Put Values First
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought to a recent Alliance meeting by an Alliance CEO whose early stage startup company was about to close a B round of financing. The CEO was preparing to build the executive team with some key hires. If you were in this situation,…
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LawRoom Takes Home Gold and Silver at the Annual Stevie Awards
LawRoom was honored with two Stevie Awards for Best Training Site at the 11th Annual American Business Awards held at San Francisco's Julia Morgan Ballroom on September 16. Winning Gold was LawRoom's Think About It, an online training program aimed at reducing sexual violence and substance abuse on college campus.…
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Accelrys Acquires ChemSW
SAN DIEGO, Calif.,—Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced that it has acquired ChemSW, Inc., an Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) compliance solutions provider. This acquisition furthers Accelrys' scientific innovation lifecycle management strategy by providing solutions for managing and tracking the source,…
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How Doug Leeds is Working to Create a Better User Experience at Ask.com
It’s hard to label something that happened 17 years ago as ancient history, but in the world of technology, specifically the Internet, something that happened 17 years ago is beyond ancient. It’s practically prehistoric. Remember something called Ask Jeeves? Before this other company called Google came around, Ask Jeeves was…
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Fall 2013
Inside the Fall 2013 Issue: Defining the Art of the ‘Pivot’ When it comes to “pivoting,” Aaron Mann (Group 275), isn’t a big fan of how most folks use the term. “In Silicon Valley, it’s usually used to describe the scenario, ‘our first business model failed completely and now we…
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Jeff Hayzlett
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a global business celebrity and former Fortune 100 c-suite executive. From small business to international corporations, he has put his creativity and extraordinary entrepreneurial skills into play, launching ventures blending his leadership perspectives, insights into professional development, mass marketing prowess and affinity for social media. He is…
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David Gensler
David Gensler, who leads the world’s premier design firm, Gensler Architecture, Design & Planning, joined us for this regional Alliance meeting. As architects, designers, planners and consultants, Gensler partners with their clients on over 3,000 projects each year – projects as small as a wine label or as large as…
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John Bates
John Bates is one of the masterminds behind the TEDx Speaker Boot Camp. He is a seasoned TEDx Talker having given Talks for TEDx and TEDActive. John has coached hundreds of TEDx Talkers. At this Regional Alliance meeting, John will share his TEDx and TED experiences, his philosophies on speaking…
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Grockit Sells Social Learning Platform To Kaplan, Goes All-In On Learnist
If you haven’t heard, some of the former giants of the education world haven’t been doing too well, particularly academic publishers, as evidenced by McGraw-Hill’s recent sale and Cengage’s filing for bankruptcy earlier this month. The bigs are faced with a slow death, or slow rehabilitation (with death still a…
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Abbott to Enter Laser Cataract Surgery Market through Acquisition of OptiMedica
ABBOTT PARK, Ill – Abbott today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase OptiMedica Corporation, a privately held, Silicon Valley-based ophthalmic device company. The acquisition will enable Abbott to expand its vision care business into the femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery market. Under the terms of the agreement, Abbott…
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Godfrey Sullivan
Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman & CEO of Splunk, joined us for this Top Team Regional Alliance meeting. One of the hottest tech IPOs in 2012, Splunk was founded in 2004 to build a “Google for machine data” - essentially a search engine for all the data that servers, network switches and…
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Skyera CEO Wins Gold in Tech Awards Circle
San Jose, Calif. – Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder of Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the solid-state, storage and networking arenas, has been awarded Gold for the 2013 Tech Awards Circle in the Emerging Company Executive of the Year – Enterprise category.…
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Patxi’s is Seeking a Wider Slice of Pizza Market
Patxi’s Pizza has found a recipe to quintuple its business in three years. The fast-growing Bay Area pizza pie maker — which serves four varieties, from ultra thin crust to a hefty Chicago-style deep dish — has been on a massive growth spurt lately, with four new stores opening in…
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