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EverFi Expands Higher Education and Enterprise Focus with Acquisition of LawRoom
Washington, D.C. – EverFi, the leading education technology company focused on critical skills and prevention education for K-12, higher education and adult learners, today announced the acquisition of compliance education leader LawRoom. With the addition of LawRoom, EverFi grows its customer base to 3,300 partners, including 2,000 corporations, foundations, and…
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Profile of Albert Yanez and Asteelflash
In today’s climate, major electronic manufacturing services companies are often categorized like a wedding cake with several tier’s defining the size and scale of the company. Asteelflash prefers to associate its identity not on size or revenue, but on its core strengths and capabilities on a global footprint. The company’s…
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Cyber adAPT: Balancing the BYOD-Security Equation
The number of active mobile devices on earth is quickly reaching that of the human population-and of U.S. millennials alone, nearly all own a smartphone and use it for business. In the march towards productivity, flexible working hours, and mobile-centric computing, Gartner predicts that half of employers around the world…
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2 Alliance Members Among the 2016 Entrepreneurs of the Year for Northern California
Congratulations to Alliance members Jonathan Corr, CEO & President of Ellie Mae and Jes Pedersen, CEO & President of Webcor Builders who are among the EY Entrepreneurs of the Year 2016 for Northern California. The EY Entrepreneur of the Year reaches across the country to encompass nearly 10,000 distinguished American…
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An Innovation Straight From the Heart
Performance reviews can be dreaded by management and employees alike. Cookie-cutter questions, stultified meetings and heightened competition among employees abound during this annual corporate tradition. That’s not to say that performance reviews are all bad. To the contrary, management needs a way to identify their most productive employees and award…
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Spirometrix Raises $17.4 Million Series C Financing
PLEASANTON, Calif.—Spirometrix, an emerging technology healthcare company focused on research, development and commercialization of novel breath analysis devices for applications in disease diagnosis and management, announced the closing of $17.4 million in the first round of a Series C financing. The financing was led by Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co.,…
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Gild Wins CEO World Award and Big 50 Award for Innovation in Hiring
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Gild, the company that powers the way companies find, engage, and hire talent with data and intelligence, today celebrates being honored with two industry-leading awards, the CEO World Awards and the Big 50 Startup Report for Artificial Intelligence. Gild's CEO Sheeroy Desai was honored with a CEO World…
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Member Sheeroy Desai Speaks: Cut Through The Noise
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a company whose services were innovative and easily won him meetings with CMOs. However, despite their enthusiasm for his offering, this CEO was often left in “we’ll get back to you” purgatory. He wanted to close more deals.…
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Russ Harrison
Alliance Director Russ Harrison joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting. During his 40+ year career, Russ has led both Fortune 100 and entrepreneurial organizations. Russ was one of the early employees at EDS with Ross Perot, the first CIO at McKesson, developed Bank of America’s international banking systems, and…
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Xantrion Receives 2016 Best of Oakland Award
Xantrion Inc., a top 100 worldwide provider of IT services for small and midsize companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been selected for the 2016 Best of Oakland Award Program. Each year, the Oakland Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their…
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Leonard Bertolami
Leonard has more than 20 years design build experience in mechanical contracting. Prior to joining UMI in early 2014, he served as Vice President in charge of the Northern California Project Group for an established west coast mechanical and plumbing contractor. Starting his career as a designer and project engineer…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Prepare for the Next Evolution of Digital Technology”
The best CEOs are able to look ahead without losing focus on leading their organizations to high levels of performance today. Being able to see changes in their environment before they happen is the mark of visionary leaders. Whether they lead large companies or new ventures, visionary leaders recognize that…
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Summer 2016
Inside the Summer 2016 Issue: Technology’s Fast-Forward Future As we examined in our recent Spring 2016 Alliance newsletter, Bay Area leaders have largely been responsible for creating the technologies that drive today’s global economy. As the Alliance celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, we’re proud that many of these leaders…
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Slic Will Bid in $500 Million New York Broadband Auction
At least one state has thoroughly embraced the idea that everyone deserves high-speed broadband. The State of New York has allocated $500 million in the New NY Broadband Program to help cover the costs of making broadband available throughout the state by 2018. Funding will be awarded through a reverse…
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Vendini Raises $20M
Event management and ticketing startup Vendini raised $20 million in funding, hoping to fill the void between Eventbrite and Ticketmaster. Level Equity led the Series A round. This is the first public venture round for the San Francisco company, which boasts that it bootstrapped its way to $1 billion in…
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Member Camillo Martino Speaks: Study Deeply and Engage Discretely Before Deciding
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a technology company whose sector was rapidly consolidating. He was discussing considerations for deciding whether to sell the company or continue to compete as an independent entity. If you were in this situation, what would you do? If…
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Rocket Fuel’s Randy Wootton Seeks New Challenges and Finds New Ways to Serve
Much like trying to turn around a company, Rocket Fuel CEO Randy Wootton is constantly seeking new challenges. His life has been full of them, from serving his country to fundraising for disease sufferers. The head of the ad technology company shares his thoughts in this Q&A, which has been…
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Eric Kaufmann
Eric Kaufmann's diverse and varied life is a commitment to understanding and teaching wisdom. His book, Leadership as a Hero’s Journey, shares practical ideas and tools that deepen a leader’s ability to be efficient, effective and deliberate; a leader whom people are drawn to follow. The crucible of Eric’s journey…
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$88 Million in Series E Financing for Kateeva
NEWARK, Calif., — Kateeva today announced that it has closed its Series E funding round with $88 million in new financing. The Silicon Valley technology leader disrupted the flat panel display industry when it launched a breakthrough equipment solution to mass-produce flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). Flexible OLED technology…
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Caribou Biosciences Raises $30M to Expand Its Gene-Editing Technology
Biotech startup Caribou Biosciences has raised $30 million in funding for its gene-editing technology. New investors that participated in the Series B round include Anterra Capital, Heritage Group, Maverick Capital Ventures and Pontifax AgTech. They joined existing investors F-Prime Capital Partners, Novartis, Mission Bay Capital and 5 Prime Ventures. Philip…
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Alliance Voices
At this Alliance Regional Meeting at the San Francisco Bently Reserve, we were proud to roll out a new presentation format called “Alliance Voices,” which showcased interesting, influential and valuable topics from six of our members. Over the course of sixty minutes of rapid-fire insight, these business leaders delivered 5-minute…
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Member Glenda Anderson Speaks: License Back by Vertical
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a company receiving interest from private equity firms to purchase the company’s vertical solutions at reasonable multiples of revenue. However, these firms were not valuing this IP. If you were in this situation, what would you do? After…
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TGAC Installs Largest SGI UV 300 Supercomputer for Life Sciences Worldwide
LONDON and MILPITAS, CA — With the world's largest SGI® UV™ 300 installation for Life Sciences, with one of the largest Intel® SSD for PCIe*deployments worldwide, TGAC's new supercomputing platform gives the research Institute access to the next-generation of SGI UV technology for genomics. This will enable TGAC researchers to…
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Technology’s Fast-Forward Future
By Warren Lutz Addressing CEOs at a recent Regional Alliance meeting, Eamonn Kelly, author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World, encouraged Alliance members to begin adapting new business models for the future. “It’s not like everything’s going away,” he said. “But the configuration of how…
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Geoffrey Moore
There was hardly a more apt subject for a talk given in the heart of Silicon Valley to CEOs at the Alliance Regional Meeting on May 6th in Santa Clara: How can we compete in the age of digital disruption? To answer this question, Geoffrey Moore, technology marketing icon and…
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ABD Insurance and Financial Services Acquires SharedHR
SAN MATEO, CA – ABD, a boutique consulting firm offering risk management, insurance brokerage, employee benefits and retirement solutions, announced today its acquisition of SharedHR, a leading human resources consulting firm. The acquisition launches the company’s new HR services practice, ABD SharedHR, offering human resource administrative and consulting services to…
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Craig Goehring Has Helped Brown and Caldwell Find Success In the Virtual Realm
Craig Goehring is a professional engineer and a student of leadership. Both skills have been put to the test in recent years as he has steadily changed the organizational structure of Brown and Caldwell. “We have morphed over time from a very locally led business to a matrix-type organization to…
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Graybug Vision Announces $44.5 Million Series B Financing
Redwood City, CA – Graybug Vision, a venture-stage pharmaceutical company committed to developing potentially transformative therapies for ocular diseases including wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma, today announced the closing of a $44.5 million Series B financing. The proceeds will be used to further the development of GB-102, Graybug…
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2 Alliance Members on the List of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business
Congratulations to Alliance members Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences and Erin Mendez, President/CEO of Patelco Credit Union who were named to the 2016 list of the “Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business!” Compiled by the San Francisco Business Times, this annual list of the Most Influential Women in…
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Member John Dicconson Speaks: Get Beyond ROI with Your Investors
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a technology startup in the hyper growth stage who was raising a second round of financing. He was hampered by his existing board that was prioritizing short-term cost cutting over hitting long-term revenue targets. If you were in…
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