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Winter 2013
Inside the Winter 2013 Issue: High Speed, No Speed and Back Again When high-tech entrepreneur Mark Dzwonczyk took over as CEO of a troubled, 110-year-old telephone company in rural upstate New York, he discovered that the lessons of Silicon Valley don’t apply everywhere. However, he learned new lessons as he…
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Gary Kovacs
Gary Kovacs returned to the Alliance to discuss his observations on major technology trends from his very unique vantage point as the CEO of Mozilla. Mozilla’s mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet. Mozilla is best known for creating the Firefox Web browser but they have…
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Sanjay Bonde
Sanjay Bonde has more than 20 years of international corporate development experience in companies from single person incubated start-ups to $20 billion organizations. He is an expert at innovation-led global Go-to-Market strategies and corporate development. Sanjay co-founded Trade Capital Corporation in 2021. Most recently, Sanjay served as CEO and a…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “‘Corporate Soul’ ‘Planned Serendipity’”
I recently read two books discussing somewhat unique concepts, both of which initially appeared to be oxymorons and completely unrelated to leading serious organizations. However, upon further research, I found that they were actually quite relevant to the challenges that every CEO faces. In his book, “Lead by Greatness,” David…
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How to Avoid the Killer Acquisition
The odds of successful acquisitions are dismal. A Federal Trade Commission paper says 50% of deals for companies large and small are not successful. This is troubling news for mid-sized firms, which can’t afford the losses of a bad deal as easily as a Forbes Global 2000 company can. In…
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Ask.com Strategy Shift Starts to Pay Off
With its traffic soaring more than 35 percent in the last 18 months and advertising revenue up by tens of millions of dollars, Ask.com expects to boost hiring in its expanded Oakland headquarters. Fresh off last month’s $300 million purchase of the New York-based online reference site About.com, Ask.com intends…
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12 Alliance Members on the List of the Bay Area’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the Bay Area's list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2012 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Arborwell, led by President Peter Sortwell Carpenter/Robbins, led by Principal John Carpenter ClickAway, led by…
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Alliance Among the Fastest Growing Companies
The Alliance of Chief Executives was honored to be named to the 2012 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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Joy Chen of Yes To Inc. Among Most Admired CEOs in Bay Area
The Alliance is very proud of Joy Chen of Yes To Inc., who was named by the San Francisco Business Times as the 2012 Most Admired CEO in the “Small Business” category. She will be honored at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco on November…
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SciClone Pharmaceuticals on FORTUNE’s List of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies
FORTUNE Magazine has released its annual ranking of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in the country. SciClone is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a broad marketed product portfolio of differentiated therapies for oncology, infectious diseases and cardiovascular, urological, respiratory, and central nervous system disorders ranks #39. To qualify, a company- domestic…
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Gyft Launches Mobile Gift Card Platform
Gyft, Inc., a company devoted to making gift card management easy, today unveiled its new digital gift card platform. Gyft is poised to change the $100 billion gift card industry by enabling shoppers to manage all of their gift card needs from one simple mobile interface. The platform also provides…
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Alliance Named to the INC 5000 List
The Alliance of Chief Executives was honored to be named to the 2012 INC 5000 list of the Fastest-Growing Organizations in America. We thank each and every member of the Alliance for their willingness to come together to challenge and inspire each other to make a difference in our businesses,…
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13 Alliance Members Make the INC Fastest Growing List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the INC 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America. Akraya, led by Co-Founder & CEO Amar Panchal Arborwell, led by President Peter Sortwell ClickAway, led by Founder & CEO Rick Sutherland ClickMail Marketing, led by President &…
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Soren Kaplan
Soren Kaplan, the author of Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs joined us for this regional Alliance meeting to discuss “the power of surprise.” He revealed why today’s leaders need to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace surprise — the key to breakthrough innovation. Soren…
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Fall 2012
Inside the Fall 2012 Issue: Swinging for the Fences When Alain Couder was tasked with taking a mostly ignored optical components company and creating a major player, he had no choice but to go big. After two mergers, his company, Oclaro, is now number two in its market. But swinging…
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Performant Financial Rises on First Day of Trading
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Performant Financial Corp. posted double-digit gains on their first day of trading while the broader markets edged up slightly. The stock ended trading at $10.60, up 18 percent from its initial pricing at $9 a share. The initial public offering of 9 million shares,…
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Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore is a best selling author and chairman emeritus at TCG Advisors. His most recent book, published in September 2011, is Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Geoffrey has made the understanding and exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work.…
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Vendini & Other Ticket Sellers Add to Service on the Web
Online ticketing is gaining entry into a wider array of events and venues, fueling growth at several San Francisco Internet companies in the rapidly growing niche. The trend was highlighted this month when Ticketfly, a 100-person service launched in 2008, said it had raised $22 million. Also thriving in the…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “End ‘Idea’ Block”
I admit it — I’m fascinated by stories of breakthrough ideas that transform people, companies, industries and sometimes the world. Where did these brilliant ideas come from? Is it possible to create conditions from which breakthrough ideas happen more frequently and with greater impact? To answer these questions, I have…
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Creating and Maintaining a High-Performance Workplace
Keeping your team in a healthy state of dissatisfaction is an underlying element of any high-performance work environment. This presentation and event dove into this controversial notion developed from a deep pool of research into high-performance environments. Four key levers to change the performance environment were introduced and debated in…
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How Mid-Market Companies Can Develop High-Performers
By Robert Sher For the last 12 years, Gallup polls consistently indicate that more than two-thirds of employees at U.S. companies are not motivated to be productive. They are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged.” Even more important, companies with high “employee engagement” financially outperform those with low engagement. Clearly,…
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How Gild Aims to Turn Tech Hiring on its Head
FORTUNE—When a San Francisco-based job recruitment software firm called Gild was looking for a programmer this summer, it had to compete with tech companies in Silicon Valley also chasing local developers with stellar pedigrees. So Gild CEO Sheeroy Desai and his team decided they were going to try to hire…
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Sblend Sblendorio Honored by Northern California Super Lawyers
For the ninth consecutive year, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, a Northern California-based law firm, is pleased to announce attorneys honored by Northern California Super Lawyers, as published in the August edition of San Francisco Magazine and Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine. Approximately 5% of the Northern California Bar receives…
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Member Survey: CEO Compensation
CEOs put their heart and soul into the companies they lead or found. But with a poor contract or weak negotiations, the board or a sale can leave them significantly under-rewarded. Alliance members gathered on June 29th to help each other with these issues. Robert Sher led a discussion around…
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Schlumberger and Liquid Robotics Launch Joint Venture
Schlumberger, the global oil and gas technology behemoth, and Liquid Robotics launched a joint venture Thursday to deploy the Silicon Valley startup’s ocean-going robots to provide exploration and monitoring services for the offshore oil industry. The 250-pound, wave-and-solar-powered robots, called Wave Gliders, are about the size of a surfboard and…
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Lisa Im Named Entrepreneur of the Year
Ernst & Young LLP announced the winners of the Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in Northern California which includes Alliance member Lisa Im, the CEO of Performant Financial Corporation. The group of leading entrepreneurs was selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous winners of the award, leading…
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Bob Sutton
Famous author and Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, returned to the Alliance to discuss the lessons he is learning in his research on scaling-up excellence with many companies (Apple is a prime example).
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “The Future Will be Better”
Most of what we hear on the news is how the world is going downhill — and quickly. Economic chaos, terrorist and pandemic threats, political stagnation, budget deficits and global warming are only a few of the issues constantly bombarding us. Fortunately for me, these doomsayers are in direct contrast…
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Ross Fernandes
As the Q Analysts’ Founder and CEO, Ross is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company by working with his management team to establish the long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies of the firm. Since launching Q Analysts, Ross has steadily led the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of…
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Brian Pretti
Brian Pretti, the Managing Editor of ContraryInvestor.com and Senior Economist for Mechanics Bank joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting. Brian shared his insights into the “real-world” state of the economy.
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