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BOE Honors Kateeva
NEWARK, Calif.—At its annual Supply Partner Conference held recently in Chengdu, China, BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd., a leading IoT technologies, products and services supplier, honored Kateeva with an award for Collaborative Innovation. The award recognizes BOE suppliers who have demonstrated technology leadership, and improved BOE’s product competitiveness through close…
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Thom Shea
It is not every day that you are treated to an inspirational talk from a former Navy SEAL, especially in a business setting. Yet, the intersection of military and business is exactly the foundation on which Thom Shea, CEO of Adamantine Alliance, has made his exemplary career. On Friday, June…
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Everett Harper
Everett Harper was an A.B. Duke Scholar at Duke University, majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering at Duke. He also won a NCAA National Championship in soccer and was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame in 2019. Everett graduated with an MBA and a M.Ed in Learning,…
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Member Rob Stump Speaks: Falling Behind? Disrupt Back!
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a company that had been disrupted by some major players in his space. He was finding it more difficult than ever to communicate his company’s true value and beat back the competition. If you were in this situation,…
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Summer 2017
Inside the Summer 2017 Issue: Who Will Lead the Robot Revolution? Robots will soon reshape the way we work in very profound ways. While Alliance leaders agree that automation will eliminate jobs, they also recognize its enormous economic and societal benefits. One thing is certain. We’ll be counting on the…
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Network Control Cited in Two Key Industry Guides
Network Control, a pioneer and leader in Telecom Expense Management (TEM) managed services, announced that the company has been selected for inclusion into two recent and influential industry reports from IT analyst firm Gartner and TEM industry strategic advisors AOTMP. Both publications seek to educate businesses about, and reduce confusion…
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Cyber AdAPT Named Gartner Cool Vendor for 2017
Cyber AdAPT, a company that markets a platform that analyzes network traffic in real time for signs of malicious activity, was named the Gartner Cool Vendor for 2017 at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit on June 12, 2017. Cyber AdAPT’s product Skwiid extends its reach to mobile and…
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Madhavan Ramanujam
Product innovation is paramount to success, especially in Silicon Valley. However, the pricing strategy is just as important. This was the central thesis of our Keynote Speaker Madhavan Ramanujam, who led an insightful discussion during our Alliance Regional meeting on March 9th in Santa Clara. Madhavan, a partner at Simon-Kucher…
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Evan Singer of SmartBiz On Sprouting More Loans
When your largest client asks for a favor, you tend to do everything you can to help. For fintech company SmartBiz, that led to completely changing its business model. The San Francisco-based company began life as an online consumer lender in 2010. However, three years in, the company switched gears…
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How Calithera Biosciences Won Big With Its Cancer Treatment
Calithera Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: CALA) shares made a decent gain recently after the company announced that it had been granted a “Fast Track Designation” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The designation is for CB-839 in combination with everolimus, for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell…
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Stefan Heck
Stefan Heck is a globally recognized business strategist, entrepreneur, author and who currently serves as the Chair of Empiric Earth, which was formed in 2026 by the merger of Nauto and Nexar. Previously, Stefan served as the CEO of Nauto, an urban transportation data and hardware system. He is also…
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Paul Lipman’s Smart Home Security Vision for BullGuard
A few months back, Paul Lipman, CEO of cybersecurity company BullGuard, decided to experiment by plugging a new product from his company into the WiFi network of his own home. The product, Dojo, which was launched yesterday, is designed to identify and protect connected devices in smart homes. Dojo quickly…
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Jorge Titinger
We were pleased to have Alliance member, Jorge Titinger, join us for this Regional Alliance meeting to discuss his lessons learned from a very successful career leading Silicon Valley companies. Most recently, Jorge was the CEO of SGI which he sold to HPE in 2016. Jorge joined SGI and executed…
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Who Will Lead the Robot Revolution?
By Warren Lutz We hardly notice they exist, but they are everywhere—quietly making our lives easier, our businesses more productive and our world a safer place to live. In fact, a robot might one day even save your life. Capable of incredibly precise movements and imaging that is far superior…
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Member Jeff Cleland Speaks: How About a Win-Win-Win Situation?
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a SaaS company whose major marketing partner was just acquired by a private equity firm. The PE firm was interested in also acquiring the CEO’s company in order to have an integrated suite of product offerings that was…
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Real-Time Innovations Seeks Internet of Things Revolution
SUNNYVALE — Real-Time Innovations (RTI) aims to do more than jump into the emerging world of the internet of things. It has devised software that enables companies and other organizations to connect industrial, transportation, medical and energy devices so they can communicate with each other and operate more efficiently. Sunnyvale-based…
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Mike Jellen of Velodyne LiDAR Featured in New York Times Article
Giant tech companies are fighting over the technology in court. Start-ups around the world are racing to develop new versions of it. And engineers say it is essential to making autonomous cars safe. The obscure object of desire: lidar. “We believe it will be the basis for autonomous driving,” said…
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Member Jorge Titinger Speaks: You are the CEO. Time to Turn up the Heat.
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a company that had developed technology with the potential to create hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue in the near term. Yet, a strategic investor on the board had first right of refusal for an acquisition and…
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2 Alliance Member Companies on ENR List of Top 400 Contractors
Congratulations to Chris Rivielle, President & CEO of Plant Construction, and Jes Pedersen CEO; Tony Rango, COO; and Shelley Doran, SVP, of Webcor Builders, whose companies were among Engineering News-Record‘s “Top 400 Contractors of 2017.”
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VeloCloud Earns 2017 Cloud Product of the Year Stevie Award
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—VeloCloud™ Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, announced it earned a coveted Stevie® Award in the 15th Annual American Business Awards program this month. VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN earned the Bronze Stevie Award in the New Product of the Year - Software - Cloud Platform awards category. The American…
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Barrett Cohn Interviewed on Bay Area Ventures Radio Program
Alliance member Barrett Cohn, Managing Director of Scenic Advisement, was recently interviewed on the Bay Area Ventures radio program, on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Alliance Director Doug Collom is a Bay Area Ventures co-host. The segment may be heard on this link.
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Folio3 Awarded 2017 SuiteCommerce Partner Of The Year
Folio3 announced that it has been awarded the 2017 SuiteCommerce Partner of the Year Award by the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit (GBU), the industry’s leading provider of cloud financials / ERP and omni-channel commerce software suites. The award, announced at SuiteWorld 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, honored Folio3 for…
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The FruitGuys Built A $30M Business Selling Fresh Fruit To Offices—And Promoting Small Farms
Twenty years ago, Chris Mittelstaedt had the idea to sell fruit to San Francisco’s offices where stressed-out, dot-com employees were living on caffeine and sugar. He cold-called companies, then packed up fruit from the local farmers’ markets and delivered it himself in his Honda Civic. Today, South San Francisco-based FruitGuys…
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Caribou Biosciences Announces Grant of a Key CRISPR-Cas9 Patent
BERKELEY, Calif.—Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a leading company in CRISPR-Cas genome engineering, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Vilnius University a CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing patent. Caribou has rights to this intellectual property in multiple fields of use, including exclusive access in the research tools field.…
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Rahul Bammi
Rahul Bammi is the CEO & President of Verdagy, the first company to provide green hydrogen at fossil parity costs and enable the profitable decarbonization of low carbon fuels, chemicals, refining and steel. Rahul has over 25 years of experience leading category creation and scaling global semiconductor, technology and clean…
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Duncan Channon Snags “Campaign of the Year” at 2017 sfBIG Star Awards
SAN FRANCISCO—Duncan Channon, a 2016 Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, claimed “Campaign of the Year” honors for its “Stir the Pot” campaign for Kettle Brand at the 2017 San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Group’s BIG Star Awards last week. The win marked the second consecutive year Duncan Channon…
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Circle Pharma Announces Expansion of Series A Financing
Circle Pharma, Inc. announced that it has completed an expansion of its Series A financing, with new investors WI Harper Group, Elements Partners, LLC, Whitesun Healthcare Ventures Limited and LifeForce Capital joining the round. Mission Bay Capital led Circle’s Series A, with Pfizer Inc. (PFE), ShangPharma Investment Group, Ltd. and…
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Wi-Fi Supplier Xirrus Acquired
Wireless networking equipment manufacturer Xirrus Inc. has been acquired by Riverbed Technologies, a San Francisco technology firm. The Thousand Oaks company will expand Riverbed’s wide area network and cloud networking products with the integration of its equipment for Wi-Fi connections used in large venues such as colleges, convention centers, hotels,…
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VeloCloud Earns 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 19, 2017 – VeloCloud™ Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has again given VeloCloud a 5-Star rating in its 2017 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors…
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Rado Danilak Addresses Future Trends in IT Technology at GLOBSEC 2017 Forum
CAMPBELL, Calif.—Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Co-Founder and CEO at Tachyum Ltd., will speak as part of a group of world leaders and dignitaries about future trends and innovations within the Information Technology (IT) industry to accelerate technological advancement as a panelist at the GLOBSEC Future 2017 Forum May 26-28. GLOBSEC Future…
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