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Covalent Metrology Acquires Riga Analytical Lab
SUNNYVALE, Calif.— Covalent Metrology, a leading provider of metrology and analytical services to advanced materials innovation companies, announced the acquisition of Riga Analytical Lab, an independent laboratory located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The acquisition is effective immediately. Giorgio Riga, CEO of Riga Analytical Lab, is a widely recognized…
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Ed Lyons
Ed Lyons is Socher Insurance Agency’s CEO and a shareholder of the company. He joined the family business in 2010. In addition to his duties as an officer of the company, Ed focuses on business financials, growth strategies, and manages the new business development team. He brought fresh insights to…
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9 Alliance Members Make the INC 5000 Fastest Growing List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the 2020 INC 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America. Impekable, led by CEO Pek Pongpaet Innowave Marketing Group, led by CEO Stu Birger Jade Global, led by CEO Karan Yaramada Office Libations, led by Founder &…
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Jade Global on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the 10th Year in a Row
For the 10th consecutive year, Jade Global was placed on the Inc. magazine’s prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest growing and most successful independent businesses. Jade Global ranked 3484 on Inc.’s 39th annual list with an impressive growth rate of 107.2%. This achievement makes Jade Global among the…
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Vishal Shukla
Vishal Shukla is the CEO of Rysun Labs, a global digital solutions and consulting company. With 20-plus years with Rysun, Vishal is successfully charting the trajectory of growth and expansion for the company, with unwavering focus on customer success, product innovation and operations modernization. As one of the founders of…
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Intercontinental Exchange to Acquire Ellie Mae for $11 Billion
Ellie Mae has announced that it entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Intercontinental Exchange for approximately $11 billion. The move comes 15 months after Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced it would acquire Ellie Mae in an all-cash transaction of $3.7 billion. “We are excited to…
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Aaron Silva
Aaron Silva is a recognized industry veteran, speaker and the President/CEO of Paladin fs, – a national research and consultancy firm. Paladin is the only company in the United States with a Blue Book of market intelligence and pricing data on every Core IT service provider. Since 2008 his firm…
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huddl.ai Wants to Bring More Intelligence to Online Meetings
As the pandemic has shut down in-person meetings, and pushed us online, products like Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become part of our daily lives. Into the fray jumps huddl.ai, a 3.5-year-old startup from a serial entrepreneur who wants to bring a dose of artificial intelligence…
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LiveRamp Acquires Acuity Data
LiveRamp has acquired the Paris-based retail marketing analytics startup Acuity Data, founded by Procter & Gamble vets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Acuity was a 10-person team, so it looks more like an acqui-hire. Acuity Data will be folded into LiveRamp’s Safe Haven product. Last year, LiveRamp…
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Member Edmundo Costa Speaks: To Improve Workplace Diversity, Focus on Retention After Initial Hire
The Challenge: In the situation at hand, a business leader was seeking insight into an HR strategy that would promote sustainable diversity in the company. If you were in this situation, what would you do? If I were in your shoes, I would create a mentoring program for new employees…
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Quidnet Energy’s $10M Series B Paves Way For Commercial Expansion
Quidnet Energy announced that it closed on a $10 million Series B round of financing and a contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for commercial demonstration of its Geomechanical Pumped Storage (GPS) technology. Based in Houston, Quidnet has offices in San Francisco and Saratoga Springs,…
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Contentful Secures $80M in Series E Funding
SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN — Contentful announced $80 million in Series E funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and five other new and existing backers. This round brings Contentful’s total funding to $158 million to date. Contentful also announced hiring a new CMO, Bridget…
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Jerome Grant
Jerome A. Grant was named Chief Executive Officer in November 2019. He joined Universal Technical Institute as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in November 2017. Jerome has more than two decades of executive leadership experience in post-secondary education, including digital strategy, strategic partnerships, marketing and technology. Previously, he…
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Erik Hayden
Erik Hayden has experience in acquisition, contract negotiation, due diligence, risk assessment, financing, construction, and disposition of multifamily, single family and large mixed-use and master planned developments. His relationships with a broad network of property owners, enabling him to identify and acquire prime investments. Hayden also has expertise navigating projects…
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Pliant Therapeutics Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. /PRNewswire/—Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapies for the treatment of fibrosis, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 10,350,000 shares of common stock, which includes the exercise in full by the underwriters…
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Travis Prouty
The passionate leader of The Call Gurus, Travis Prouty has focused his 20+ year career perfecting the art of monetizing leads with live call center agents. Travis began his career with MCI WorldCom and became the #1 producing agent of 1,000s worldwide. Travis immerses himself into The Call Gurus client’s…
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John Cumbers of SynBioBeta Profiled in San Francisco Business Times
John Cumbers told his graduate school supervisor that he didn’t think he was going to win a Nobel Prize. He did, however, think he might one day connect two people who would go on to win the Nobel Prize together. “I felt quite proud of that, that I would have…
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Wendy Gonzalez
Wendy Gonzalez has over 20 years of leadership in technology in startups and large enterprises. As the CEO for Sama, Wendy is responsible for the strategy and execution of the company's vision and mission. Founded over a decade ago, 25% of the Fortune 50 rely on Samas’ trusted platform for…
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Loretta Hillberry
Loretta Hillberry, VP of Human Resources for Triple Ring Technologies provided her strategies for enabling employees to work in their scientific laboratory environments in San Francisco and Boston.
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Mario Ochoa
Mario Ochoa, VP, Corporate Real Estate, Facilities & Employee Services for Flex, described how they are addressing the unique challenges within their global manufacturing facilities.
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Greg Chauhan
Greg Chauhan, SVP of Safety & Field Operations for Webcor Builders, told us about how they are enabling their workers to work safely in the construction industry.
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Terese Kemble
Terese Kemble, Corporate VP of Human Resources for Lattice Semiconductor, discussed her strategies for dealing with the wide range of employee issues related to returning employees to their workplaces.
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“Return to Workplace” Planning and Strategies During COVID-19
In the spirit of sharing the collective wisdom of our Alliance community during the COVID-19 crisis, we invited leaders from world-class organizations to share their critical considerations for “Return-to-Workplace” (RTW) planning at our Alliance Leadership Forum on April 29, 2020. Leaders in areas of Health Issues (One Medical), Employee Issues…
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Liz Muller
Liz Muller is co-founder and CEO of Deep Fission, and a serial entrepreneur in the nuclear and environmental sectors. Before joining Deep Fission, she was Chief Executive at Deep Isolation, a pioneering nuclear waste start-up, where she continues to serve as Board Chair. During her time at Deep Isolation, she…
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Eric Billingsley
Eric Billingsley joined e2f as COO in 2025. Previously, Eric was co-founder and CEO of Guide-Rails (acquired by CloudBees in 2022). Prior to Guide-Rails, Eric was the director of Apple's internet services operations and, was in charge of the back-end technology for iCloud. Before joining Apple, he was the Director…
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How COVID-19 Is Affecting Alliance Companies - Week 1
By Robert Sher Forbes Contributor, Founding Principal of CEO to CEO, and Alliance Director In a flash survey of San Francisco Bay Area CEOs taken on March 19, 2020 just a few days after the USA’s first shelter-in-place order, 75% of the CEOs report negative impacts while 9% are being…
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Spring 2020
Leadership in a Digital Age As Alliance members John Aisien of Blue Cedar, Linda Hand of Prealize Health, John Kelly of Zenreach, Johnny Loiacono of Movius, Alon Matas of BetterHelp.com, Rick O’Connor of Invicta Medical and Said Ouissal of ZEDEDA can attest, accelerated change has profoundly impacted the challenges they…
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Scott Seidewitz
A graduate of MIT, an ex-P&G branding expert and a former political activist, Scott Seidewitz has never shied away from challenging the conventional wisdom. With a sharp business perspective and deep understanding of market research best practices, Scott specializes in showing how conventional research often stifles innovation and growth. He…
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Pliant Therapeutics Snares $100M Crossover Round
Targeting scar tissue that builds up and blocks the lungs and bile ducts, Pliant Therapeutics Inc. raised a $100 million round from giant Novartis AG and a band of crossover investors that will launch its marquee drug through mid-phase clinical trials and set up the South San Francisco company for…
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