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Clare Computer Solutions Named One of 2016 Tech Elite Solution Providers by CRN
Clare Computer Solutions (CCS) announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Clare Computer Solutions to its 2016 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list honors an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading…
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Doug Dooley Participates in Venture Capital CIO Briefing Program
IRVINE, Calif.,—Trace3, a pioneer in digital business transformation, has added a new research component to its popular Venture Capital CIO Briefing program which brings together Trace3 clients, venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs to accelerate the successful adoption of disruptive technologies in the enterprise. “This Venture Capital CIO Briefing program radically…
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Member Paul White Speaks: Take that Downturn and Flip it Upside-Down
The Challenge: As the stock market and economy teetered in the first few months of the year, group discussions centered on how best to prepare for a softening of the economy. A case study was presented by the CEO of a company in a strong market position who has specifically…
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Linden Lab Opens Pp VR World Project Sansar to Outside Creators
Linden Lab has announced that its in-development VR virtual world, Project Sansar, will open up to a select number of third-party creators immediately. The company is calling Sansar a “platform for user-created social VR experiences.” The company's most notable project is the virtual world Second Life, which had a similar…
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Member Anne Bisagno Speaks: Make Sure Your Customer is Winning, Too
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by the CEO of a service business who wished to switch from an “hourly billable” to a “fixed monthly price” model. However, he had reservations as to the feasibility of such a transition, both for his customers and employees. If you were…
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Anomali Raises $30 M in Series C Round
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Anomali, the provider of the market-leading ThreatStream threat intelligence and Anomali Enterprise platforms, today announced it has raised $30 million in series C funding. The round, led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), includes significant investments from General Catalyst Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Paladin Capital…
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Patelco Celebrates 80 Years of Service
PLEASANTON, Calif., — As Patelco Credit Union celebrates its 80th year serving Bay Area communities, it brings a focused commitment to helping members save for the future. By delivering nearly $39 million dollars in member benefits last year in the form of fewer fees, lower interest rates on loans, and…
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Second Genome Raises $42.6 M Series B Round
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Second Genome, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines through innovative microbiome science, today announced that it has closed an oversubscribed Series B investment round with $42.6 million in financing. The round was co-led by Pfizer Venture Investments and Roche Venture Fund, and brings…
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John De Santis and Gary Gysin Participate in Atlantic Council’s Captains of Industry Series
On Tuesday evening April 19, 2016, as part of the Council’s Captains of Industry series, our Lund Fellow Steve Grundman hosted a panel discussion amongst the CEOs of three Californian startup firms. Mylea Charvat's Savonix is building a “mobile, clinically valid, reliable, neuro-cognitive assessment and brain health platform.” John De…
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Brad Freitag Promoted to Vice President, Worldwide Sales for FileMaker
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – FileMaker has named Brad Freitag as vice president, Worldwide Sales. He previously served as vice president, Americas Sales, for the company. In his new position, Freitag will lead FileMaker’s sales teams in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) along with the company’s sales…
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Big Switch Networks Recognized on CRN’s Virtualization 50 List
SANTA CLARA, CA—Big Switch Networks®, the leader in bringing hyperscale-inspired networking to data centers worldwide, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Big Switch to its 2016 Virtualization 50 list. The annual list recognizes channel-friendly companies that provide some of the most innovative virtualization technology…
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VeloCloud Among “Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2016”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - VeloCloud™ Networks Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN™ company, announced it has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the “Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2016” report by Gartner, Inc. VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN enables enterprises to simplify remote and branch office deployments while delivering secure optimized access to applications…
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Phani Nagarjuna Wants People Who Share His Vision at Nuevora
Phani Nagarjuna understands the approach that most business leaders take when they need to fill a position in their business. But the rules are a little bit different when you’re an entrepreneur trying to build a business from the ground up. “The most crucial piece of the puzzle with a…
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Chris Rivielle Has Taken a Different Approach to Employee Development at Plant Construction
Chris Rivielle had never worked for a construction company that earned less than $1 billion per year before he took the job as president and CEO at Plant Construction Co. LP in March 2015. “They are great in the sense that they have these systems, procedures and depth of bench,”…
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John De Santis Featured in Recent Forbes “Leadership” Column
Forcing up-and-coming leaders to sink or swim in the pool of real experience is one way to develop future executive team members. It’s also a sure-fire method to drown some managers who have real potential. There are far better ways to develop managers than by foisting a big and unfamiliar…
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Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld Magazine’s 2016 “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management”
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced that is has been named to KMWorld’s 2016 list of the ‘100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management’. “Being named to our list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management is…
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ACG’s 2015 Omega Award Winners Include Big Switch Networks
ACG Research is honored to announce the 2015 Omega Awards. The award recognizes excellence in message marketing for either a HotSeat, Whiteboard or Spotlight Innovation video as well as vendor operational excellence. The 2015 winners are Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, and iXia. Winners were cited and honored because “of…
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Rachel Haurwitz Among “40 Under 40” Award Winners
Congratulations to Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences, who is among San Francisco Business Times' 2016 40 Under 40 class. This list represents the most influential young leaders across the spectrum of Bay Area businesses who are leaders within their companies, industries and communities. What the company does: A biotechnology…
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8 Alliance Members on the List of the Best Places to Work
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to this year's list of the “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area!” Burr Pilger Mayer - Curtis Burr, Founder Ellie Mae - Jonathan Corr, President & CEO Genesys - Merijn te Booij, EVP Product & Solution Strategy Hanson…
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Paxti’s Pizza Continues Hot Streak
For years, Bill Freeman enjoyed the Chicago-style pizzas that this friend Francisco “Patxi” Azpiroz turned out. Freeman thought others might like the recipes, too, and the serial entrepreneur set out to grow the Paxti’s Pizza brand. It’s now 17 stores with an average three-year growth rate of more than 100…
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James White
It was a telling moment. Before James White, the recently retired Chairman & CEO of Jamba Juice, launched into his fireside talk at the Alliance Regional Meeting on March 10th in Santa Clara, he gave a simple piece of advice: prioritize your personal life, and then let your work flow…
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Mathai Mammen joins Merck as a Senior R&D Executive
The emergence of Martin Shkreli as the face of pharma has frustrated many within the industry, particularly the physicians and scientists drawn to this work by the challenge of developing new medicines for difficult diseases. In this context, it comes as especially welcome news that Mathai Mammen–one the industry’s really…
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Paul Witkay in Smart Business: “Trust and Authenticity Must Be Part of the Equation”
I’ve worked closely with hundreds of business leaders and I strongly believe that leadership matters — a lot! So, you might imagine my surprise when I saw the latest book from Jeffrey Pfeffer, a highly respected leadership author and Stanford professor, was titled Leadership BS. Pfeffer researched a wide range…
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Spring 2016
Inside the Spring 2016 Issue: Two Decades of Innovation As the Alliance celebrates its 20-year anniversary, our members look back at some of the technologies and trends that transformed their industries, and in some cases the world. Throughout the Silicon Valley, technology has had a profound impact on the nature…
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Reflektion raises $18M
E-commerce analytics startup Reflektion raised $18 million in new funding led by a familiar face at a new venture firm. The San Mateo company's Series B round was led by Battery Ventures' Dharmesh Thakker, who also led Reflektion's Series A round in 2014 when he was at Intel Capital. He…
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An Interview with Mathai Mammen
In the late nineties, a company named “Advanced Medicine” came together with the 4Cs of entrepreneurship in place: a concept, co-founders, capital, and some well-placed cold-calls. Mathai Mammen was one of those co-founders, still living in a dorm at the time. The company’s investors evolved, it renamed itself, went public,…
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Adam Leipzig
Adam Leipzig is the former Senior VP with Walt Disney Pictures and President of National Geographic Films who oversaw some of the most financially successful and iconic films ever – including March of the Penguins, Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Now, as the…
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Member Navin Nagiah Speaks: You are not ready (yet) to make a decision.
The Challenge: If I were in your saddle, I would start with the numbers: revenue, billings, customer retention, revenue retention and so forth. Then analyze both the real and perceived strength of your product, which drives those numbers. Finally, understand the human talent that builds and sells your product. Then…
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Eamonn Kelly
Some look to the ever-changing future with trepidation. Not Eamonn Kelly. Over the course of his enthralling keynote discussion on February 12th to Alliance members gathered at the San Francisco Bently Reserve, it was clear that Eamonn looks at the future and sees beautiful, sometimes scary, awe-inspiring and ultimately beneficial…
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John De Santis & HyTrust on Forbes’ List of the “Best Cloud Computing Companies & CEOs To Work For”
Employees would most recommend Zerto, FusionOps, Google, OutSystems, AppDirect, Sumo Logic, Cloudera, HyTrust, Tableau Software and Domo to their friends looking for a cloud computing company to work for in 2016. These and other insights are from a recently completed analysis to determine the best cloud computing companies and CEOs…
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