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ZEDEDA Named a 2019 Cool Vendor in Edge Computing
SAN JOSE, Calif.,— ZEDEDA, the leader in edge virtualization, announced it has been named as a 2019 Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in Edge Computing report by Gartner, Inc. Cool Vendors are considered to be interesting, new and innovative. According to the report, “Edge computing is a rapidly growing…
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Jeff Sprau
Jeffrey Sprau was named Chief Executive Officer of Legence in 2019. Throughout his career Jeff has successfully led branch-based commercial and industrial service businesses. Earlier in his career, he spent 20+ years with Trane and Johnson Controls before becoming President of the U.S. Division of Safway. Most recently, he served…
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Maddy Dychtwald
On October 11th, Alliance members welcomed Maddy Dychtwald, Co-Founder of Age Wave, to the San Francisco Bently Reserve for a private, insightful conversation. For more than 30 years, Maddy has been deeply involved in exploring all aspects of the age wave and how it’s transforming the marketplace, the workplace, our…
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Fall 2019
The Power of Collaboration The Alliance of Chief Executives creates private, safe environments where leaders have confidential conversations, exchange strategic insights, and challenge conventional thinking. Something magical often happens when talented leaders with diverse backgrounds and experiences come together. They find ways to collaborate on new strategies, extraordinary ideas and…
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Alliance Founder Paul Witkay Interviewed on Small Business Show Podcast
In this Small Business Show episode, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay talks with hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton, sharing the story of why and how he started the Alliance in 1996. He discusses the importance of diversity, trading places, focusing on clarity, and exchanging strategic insights with other…
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Anne Bisagno Recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as One of the 2019 Women Who Lead
OAKLAND, Calif.,—Xantrion Inc., announced that Anne Bisagno, has been honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 2019 Women Who Lead. The honorees were unveiled on September 27, 2019 issue of the San Francisco Business Times. The Women Who Lead Reception and Panel of Entrepreneurs took place…
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Philippe Bouissou
Philippe Bouissou joined us to discuss his unique methodology to helping companies build sustainable revenue growth engines. During his 29 years in Silicon Valley, he has led over 120 management consulting projects and served on the board of 20 companies. As a venture capitalist, he successfully invested $43M and generated…
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Blue Cedar Receives BlackBerry 2019 ISV Innovation Award
Blue Cedar, the company that provides rapid, no code mobile app security integration to enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs), announced its acceptance of the BlackBerry 2019 ISV Innovation award, which recognizes Blue Cedar for its speed and depth of its BlackBerry Dynamics integration at the BlackBerry World Tour in…
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Infogain Acquires Silicus Technologies
Infogain, a Silicon Valley based global leader in software platform engineering services and solutions, announced its acquisition of Silicus Technologies (Silicus), a Houston-headquartered Microsoft (MSFT) Gold Partner and Microsoft Azure Expert MSP. Sunil Bhatia, Chief Executive Officer, Infogain, said, “This acquisition is a significant milestone for Infogain. The acquisition expands…
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Oportun Financial Hits IPO Targets
Oportun Financial Corp., a lender that focuses on low- and moderate-income borrowers, hit the bottom of its IPO target range in an offering that sold nearly $94 million in shares. The San Carlos-based company's stock rose by as much as 9 percent in early trading on its first day on…
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Complete Solar Raises $9 Million
SAN RAMON, Calif. /PRNewswire/—Complete Solar announced it has raised $9 million in equity funding led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund. Additional participating investment came from the Libra Foundation. This capital is supporting Complete Solar's market expansion, which includes enabling non-solar sales channels to expand their respective product offerings through Complete Solar's…
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Franz’s Knowledge Graph Platform Solution Named to Big Data 50
Franz, an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph and Document Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, announced that it has been named to Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) – Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2019. A new generation of tools is making it…
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Tom Sego
Tom Sego is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of BlastWave. Tom is a veteran business leader with over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries, ranging from heavy equipment manufacturing to consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals to mobile telephony, solar energy storage to industrial products. This breadth of…
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Jennifer Ernst To Introduce ClearUP At Launch!
SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/—Tivic Health Systems announced that, ClearUP Sinus Pain Relief, a game-changing treatment for sinus pain due to allergic rhinitis, has been named a finalist at the Health 2.0 Annual Launch! competition. Health 2.0 will take place September 16-18 at Santa Clara Convention Center and the Launch! competition will…
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Member Jim Flatt Speaks: Scaling? Dust Off That Organizational Chart
The Challenge: In the case at hand, a CEO was presiding over a company undergoing rapid growth. He was seeking ways to transform his top managers from being great individual contributors to those with the ability to focus on developing their teams and the long-term objectives of the company. If…
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8 Alliance Members Make the INC 5000 Fastest Growing List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the 2019 INC 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America. Corefact, led by Founder & CEO Chris Burnley Impekable, led by CEO Pek Pongpaet Innowave Marketing Group, led by CEO Stu Birger Jade Global, led by CEO…
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BullGuard Wins 2019 Stevie International Business Award
Award-winning consumer cybersecurity company, BullGuard announced that BullGuard VPN was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the Consumer Products category in the 16th Annual Stevie International Business Awards®. The Stevie International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public…
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Automation Anywhere Acquires Klevops
San Jose, CA – Automation Anywhere, a global leader in robotic process automation (RPA), announced that it has acquired Klevops, a privately-held company based in Paris. With the acquisition, Automation Anywhere fast forwards the RPA category to Attended Automation 2.0, where managers can easily orchestrate workstreams across a team of…
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How Tech-Infused Primary Care Centers Turned One Medical Into a $2 Billion Business
Two years after leaving the traditional health-care world to lead primary care upstart One Medical, Amir Dan Rubin now faces a clear challenge. With competition heating up, he needs to rapidly expand the business into new areas without sacrificing the luxe service that patients have come to expect. Founded in…
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Tivic Health Raises $8 Million Series Seed Round
SAN FRANCISCO—Tivic Health™ Systems, a bioelectronic medical device company that treats chronic conditions, announced an $8 million Series Seed investment from Sand Hill Angels, Astia Angels, Golden Seeds, HBS Angels, Sierra Angels, Lateral Capital, Skylight Investments, a physician network and individual investors. The company has raised funds in a series…
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Dan Warmenhoven
Dan Warmenhoven is the former CEO of NetApp and, under Dan‘s leadership, NetApp grew to become a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage, a concept the company pioneered. He led the company’s IPO in November 1995 and was named one of the “50 Most Powerful People…
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Enlighted Earns New Product Innovation Award for Its Building IoT Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/—Frost & Sullivan recognized Enlighted, the leading provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for commercial buildings and healthcare facilities, with the 2019 North American New Product Innovation Award following a recent analysis of the North American commercial smart building market. Enlighted received this prestigious award for…
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Alliance Voices
At our June 21st East Bay Regional Meeting, in the spirit of sharing the awesome collective wisdom of our Alliance community, we were treated to outstanding examples of the extraordinary wisdom and experience of our community of Alliance members as four members presented their “Alliance Voices”: Evan Bailyn, CEO of…
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Rob Chamberlain Opens Security 101 San Francisco Bay Area Office
San Francisco—Security 101, one of the nation’s fastest growing security integrators, continues to expand nationally with the addition of a new office in the San Francisco Bay Area. The office will serve San Francisco and the surrounding metropolitan area, and will engineer, install, operate, monitor, manage and maintain integrated security…
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Joe Zhou
Joe Zhou was named CEO of Quidnet Energy in 2017. Prior to joining Quidnet, Joe was an associate with MNL Partners, a company that develops energy and environmental projects in global markets, with a focus on China. While with MNL, Joe began working on alternative storage solutions for green energy…
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Ann Winblad
Ann Winblad is a Founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a venture capital firm she co-founded in 1989. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and years of experience in the software industry have been chronicled in many national and international business…
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Summer 2019
CEOs Who Give Back When it comes to finding ways to give back to our communities and the world at large, Alliance members contribute an enormous amount of their time, energy and passions to a wide range of worthy initiatives inside and out of their professional roles. Here, we highlight…
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John Chambers
We were excited to welcome John Chambers, retired CEO of Cisco, back to the Alliance of Chief Executives. In 2016, John spoke with us shortly after retiring from his brilliant career growing Cisco from $70 million, when he joined in 1991, to $47 billion, when he retired in 2015! John…
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CEOs Who Give Back
By Warren Lutz In the Bay Area, Marc Guillet is known as the CEO of Agile Physical Therapy, one of California’s premier private clinics specializing in the evaluation and treatment of sports related injuries. Globally, however, Guillet is known for something else entirely. Eleven years ago, Guillet started a non-profit…
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Knee Replacement Patients Enjoy Life-Changing Surgical Outcomes with RSIP Vision’s Revolutionary AI
JERUSALEM /PRNewswire/—RSIP Vision, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and image processing technology, has announced the release of a new AI module that promises a life-changing impact on the millions of patients who undergo knee surgery every year. For most, knee replacement surgery is a difficult option,…
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