Stephanie Buscemi

SVP Marketing

Salesforce

Stephanie leads product marketing, demand generation and messaging for Salesforce’s newest product – Analytics Cloud, reimagining the Analytics market in a cloud, social, mobile and connected world. Most recently, she served as a CMO & SVP at IHS Inc., a premier provider of global, market, industry and technical information and expertise. Prior, she was SVP of Solution Marketing at SAP, responsible for the positioning, messaging and definition of value propositions across all of SAP's offerings and led in the acquisition and integration of Business Objects. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly a decade at Hyperion, acquired by Oracle, in marketing leadership roles building the performance management category and Hyperion's presence within. She is co-author of Driven to Perform, a book for business professionals, providing them the tools to improve their business performance by showing them how to connect strategy to execution. Ms. Buscemi holds a Bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Vijay Chakravarthy

Chief Product Officer, Analytics

Salesforce

Mr. Vijay Chakravarthy, Phd founded EdgeSpring, Inc., in 2010 and served as its Chief Executive Officer, before it was acquired by Salesforce.com, where the EdgeSpring technology powers Salesforce Wave Analytics. He now serves as Chief Product Officer, Analytics for Salesforce.com, and also previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Aentropy and Salesforce.com. Mr. Chakravarthy has a wealth of technological and domain expertise in the area of enterprise software for supply chains, and procurement. As Chief Technologist for VerticalNet Solutions, he was responsible for the technological direction of the company, where he worked closely with the Product Management function to align product and technology strategies. Prior to VerticalNet Solutions, Vijay was a Senior Architect at i2 Technologies, where he was one of the core team members defining the TradeMatrix Platform. He also was primarily responsible for building i2's integration products, which are the backbone of i2's connection to ERP systems. He has 20+ years of experience as an architect/technologist at companies ranging from i2, IBM, and Salesforce.com. He has a Ph.D. in Chaos Theory and an M.S. in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University, and a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Anurag Gupta

VP, AWS Database Engines

Amazon Web Services

Anurag Gupta runs four services within the AWS Database Services team: Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, and AWS Data Pipeline. In his 25 year career, he’s held a mix of engineering management and technology leadership roles across low-level systems and apps, at a range of company sizes. Whether at giants like Oracle or Ariba, or start-ups he founded or joined early, Anurag’s consistently held a bias towards high-growth environments, early-version products and deep IP, and has 40+ patents granted or pending. Anurag holds a BSEE/CE from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dan Jewett

Vice President, Product Management

Tableau Software

Dan Jewett is Tableau Software’s VP of Product Management. Dan has more than 20 years of product management and development experience in a variety of technical and marketing positions particularly for business intelligence software companies. Prior to Tableau, Dan was an early employee at Brio Software where he served in numerous senior roles including VP, Business Intelligence and VP, System Architecture. Dan helped build Brio to hundreds of employees and thousands of customers and continued through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Hyperion Solution. Dan holds an MBA from California State University, Long Beach, and a BA in business (MIS) from California State University, Sacramento.

Brad Peters

Chairman and Chief Product Officer

Birst

Brad Peters is the Chairman and Chief Product Officer of Birst. Brad spent the last dozen years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Recognizing the limitations of enterprise analytics offerings and the revolutionary power of Cloud technologies, Brad founded Birst in 2005. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues.

Brad received a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ann Lewnes

SVP and CMO

Adobe

As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe's corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company's corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe's brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world.

Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful "Intel Inside" program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands.

In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation's Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY).

Lewnes holds a bachelor's degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University. She serves on the boards of the Advertising Council and the Adobe Foundation.

Dave Nettleton

Principal Director, Program Management

Microsoft

Dave Nettleton is the Director of Program Management for Information Management at Microsoft. He is responsible for the Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics and for the Enterprise Information Management capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server. Over the last 10 years Dave has worked in various leadership roles in Microsoft’s Data Platform and Azure Groups including SQL Server Database / Data Warehouse, Azure HDInsight (Hadoop), Azure Storage and Big Data / IoT / HPC solutions. Prior to Microsoft he was a founder of startup in speech and natural language processing. Dave has an MSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Durham, UK.

Noam Reininger

SVP Data as a Service Solutions

Dun & Bradstreet

Noam has more than 15 years of product, sales and engineering leadership experience bringing innovative products to market for B2B and B2C organizations in the information systems, mobile payments and data & analytics markets. He joined D&B as VP of Product in 2012, where he was responsible for leading D&B’s integrations into CRM.

Prior to joining D&B, Noam was Director of Dell’s Enterprise Solution Centers in the Americas, where he started up and led state of the art customer solution labs across the US. Prior to Dell, he was Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at SalesVu, a startup in the mobile payments space where he was responsible for offshore operations, sales and strategic alliances.

Noam Reininger holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and East Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mike Saliter

Vice President

Global Industry Solutions

Mike Saliter has nearly 20 years of hands on experience in the Business Intelligence and Analytics market. At Qlik, he is head of the Industry Solutions organization which is comprised of global industry experts who lead Qlik’s industry and functional go-to-market initiatives spanning sales, marketing, solutions and partners. Prior to joining Qlik in 2011, Mike spent 3 years as Business Unit Executive for global Industry Solutions within IBM’s Business Analytics division. He also worked 6 years at Cognos in various presales, sales and marketing leadership roles. Prior to Cognos, he consulted for Accenture on various BI related projects. Mike has a BS in Engineering from Virginia Tech and lives in the Washington, DC region.

Hatim Shafique

Chief Customer Success Officer, & Senior Vice President of Technical Operations

AppDynamics

Hatim joined AppDynamics as the first hire to help support customer success. Since then he has helped build a world-class organization that has produced groundbreaking Net Promoter Score results, indicating strong customer satisfaction and loyalty among the AppDynamics customer base. As Chief Customer Success Officer, & Senior Vice President of Technical Operations, Hatim is responsible for helping customers through technical support and continuous education & enablement; he is also responsible for SAAS & IT operations as well as sales enablement engineering. Before joining Appdynamics, Hatim was Director of Quality Engineering at CA Wily where he helped build and grow the onshore and offshore quality engineering teams and led the overall quality initiative for the Wily APM product suite including their flagship Introscope product. Hatim also played a key role in Wily's expansion into .Net and End User Monitoring. Before joining Wily, Hatim held several development and QE positions working on Java /J2EE products. Hatim holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

Steve Sloan

SVP, Products and Engineering

Marketo

Steve leads all engineering, QA, product management, user experience and site operations at Marketo. He joins Marketo from Amazon Web Services, where he led product management for one of AWS’s emerging services and helped open the Silicon Valley development center. Prior to Amazon, Steve led product management for a range of products at Microsoft including Office 365, Exchange, Windows Azure and BizTalk. Steve also led various efforts at the XML and Web Services security startup Reactivity prior to its acquisition by Cisco. Steve holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.