Name: North America Summit
Start: 2021-09-15T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-09-15T14:00:00-07:00

Paul Powers

Physna

Paul Powers is the Founder & CEO of Physna. Paul was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019, and is regularly featured in national and international media highlighting his perspective on the next generation of software and the growing role of 3D.

Mika Kayt

Outgage

"Mika Kayt is the CEO of Outgage, a marketing-first B2B direct mail and gifting platform. Working with companies such as Cisco, SAP, Zendesk, and more. Mika is an American-Israeli entrepreneur, splitting her time between Colorado and Israel. Leading to Outgage, Mika founded Take&Make - an influencer DIY kit platform turned corporate gifting company. Mika has over 7 years of experience in solving for creativity through streamlined supply chains."

Shuo Wang

Deel

Shuo Wang is a technology entrepreneur most notable for co-founding Deel, the market-leading international compliance and payments platform that automates international hiring and payroll for companies of all sizes. Prior to founding Deel, Shuo co-founded Aeris, a cutting-edge smart home health technology company. Shuo holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, concentrate on Robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kristen Faris

Checkr

"As SVP, Sales Solutions, Kristen works to develop and implement the go-to-market strategies, solutions consulting, and enablement programs. She has 20 plus years of experience growing revenue and market share at technology and SaaS companies. Coming from a founder background, she has an entrepreneurial mindset and believes in personal accountability."

Jason Williamson

Oracle

Jason Williamson is vice president of the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem, Oracle’s startup program for entrepreneurs worldwide. In this capacity, he leads the business development initiatives and strategies across the program’s key audiences, including startups, customers, partners and Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Jason was at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created and led several key initiatives within the investment and startup community. He has a background in both Fortune 500 firms and the startup world. Among his startup efforts, he co-founded the construction industry’s first CRM SaaS offering, an International NGO for Entrepreneurial Development, and is currently launching a company in the pediatric healthcare space. Jason also served as an assistant professor for five years at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and has authored three books. He served his country as a United States Marine and lives in Raleigh with his wife and four children, where he coaches high school girls’ basketball, drinks sweet tea and eats bbq as much as possible.

Joanie Wang

Expensify

As Director of Marketing and Brand at Expensify, Joanie's goal is to generate generational brand loyalty through amplifying exceptional product experience and creating unforgettable brand moments through unconventional means.

Jimmy Stephens

Brex

Jimmy was among the first employees at Brex and was deeply involved in the early iterations of the company, from building out the sales motion and strategy, to helping grow the initial Brex Customer Success and Relationship Management team. Jimmy has managed the SMB & Mid-Market sales team, driving top line revenue, and built out the Brex hub in Salt Lake City. Today Jimmy runs the strategic partnerships team including events, content, and partnerships focused on Brex’s core early stage customers. He is the father to a 2.5 year old daughter who was the 1st baby born at Brex and has the nickname "Brexie".

Courtney Ederle

MainStreet

Courtney Ederle is the VP of People at MainStreet where she leads the people & recruiting teams. Throughout her career she has worked at companies, helping them scale and grow from 50 employees to over 900. She is a mom to a one year old girl and lives in the Boston area.

Jessica McKellar

Pilot

Jessica is a co-founder and the CTO of Pilot. She has worked with the same founding team for 10 years, through three startups and two acquisitions (the first by Oracle, and the second by Dropbox). When she’s not working on Pilot, she’s working on criminal justice reform initiatives and diversity and inclusion initiatives in the Python community.

Ojus Sharma

Applify

Ojus is CEO and Co-founder at Applify. Applify, a digital transformation, and Startup Tech enabling company, enables global enterprises & startups to expedite their digital transformation initiatives through a combination of cutting-edge technologies, agile practices, and a customer-driven approach.

Nikki Rubin

Twilio

Nikki is a former entrepreneur and investor committed to helping startups grow and scale. Previously, she founded travel itinerary planning platform Bon Voyaging (acquired by Passported), advised at New York Venture Partners, and launched Creative Destruction Lab NYC and Endless Frontier Labs at Stern School of Business. She is passionate about helping founders, especially with fundraising, building product roadmaps, and forging strategic partnerships. She has an MA and an MBA with a focus in product management from NYU.

Reed McBride

Carta

"Reed is a former startup lawyer (Orrick) and 2x operator (VSCO, Rigetti). He's raised venture funding and advised on billions of dollars in VC and M&A transactions.Reed joined Carta 2 years ago and currently leads BD & Partnerships; he also works on strategy and new product innovation (incl. Carta Launch, SAFEs automated on Carta, dilution modeling, and live market data). Outside of Carta, Reed is an active start-up investor and advisor, as well as a scout for Index Ventures. "

Teodora Curelciuc

GetApp

Teodora is the Brand Marketing Manager of GetApp.com, a software discovery platform for entrepreneurs and small biz owners. She regularly consults local businesses on product and growth marketing, and contributed to Techstars Startup Week in Barcelona.

Ivana Taylor

DIYMarketers.com

Ivana Taylor is the publisher of DIYMarketers.com where small business owners get low-cost tools, tips and strategies to do marketing on about $17 a day. Her popular #BizapaloozaChat weekly Twitter chat teaches about 2 million small business owners each week. She’s been a contributor to AMEX OPENForum and has appeared in MSNBC.

Joel Griffith

Newly Goods

"Joel has an MA in Intercultural Studies and spent 15 years in non-profits focusing primarily on youth and child empowerment programs. In 2014 he began consulting mission driven ventures to tell their stories more effectively.In 2016 Joel co-founded Newly with a few friends identifying what they believed to be a serious problem: not enough consumer goods are made with recycled content. They launched Newly to 1) make beautiful homegoods, and 2) make them from 100% recycled materials. Newly became a certified B Corp in 2019 and is focused on innovative, resource-efficient production by driving consumer demand for recycled products."

Carrie Shaw

Copper

Carrie is a seasoned marketing executive with deep roots in product management. Most recently she was CMO of Quandl, a fintech startup acquired by Nasdaq in 2018. Prior to that she helped the venture capital arm of Rogers Communications incubate several startups in Canada. She began her career as a product manager at Microsoft, where she built products for the company's Consumer Division. Carrie is a long-time volunteer for Progress Place, a non-profit organization providing support to people with severe and persistent mental illness. She currently serves as board chair. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo, and a Masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Carrie lives in Toronto with her husband, daughter, and two dogs.

Derek Andersen

Bevy / Startup Grind

For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the Co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 15,000 events for more than 500,000 people. In 2010, he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife and four children.

Lauren Marturano

Ternary

Lauren spent seven years in corporate technology at Microsoft and Salesforce before pursuing entrepreneurship full-time. She serves as COO for Ternary, an early stage tech startup changing the way creators run their businesses. As her passion project, she serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Drink Local Think Global, a nonprofit focused on the global water crisis. Lauren currently splits her time between Charlotte, North Carolina and Miami, Florida.

Scott Edwards

Dropwater

Scott Edwards is a packaging engineer with a passion for robotics and the outdoors. At Cal Poly, Scott studied Industrial Technology and packaging. Instead of taking the path of making margin "improvements" to packaging such as making bottle caps smaller or bottles thinner, Scott realized for meaningful impact to be achieved it is not the packaging that must change, but the entire supply chain. With a systems thinking approach, Scott and the Drop Water team developed a highly scalable way to make bottled drinks sustainable and more profitable.

Kristen Nolte

Dell Technologies

Kristen Nolte is Senior Vice President, Consumer & Small Business Field Marketing at DellTechnologies. Prior to joining the CSB team in January, she led a team of Rockstar data and digital geniuses who delivered our new Customer data platform (CEP), brought events into the digital forefront and elevated DellTechnologies.com as a premium destination for our technology solutions. Kristen is an ambassador for digital transformation and is a firm believer in using data to drive insights that lead to awesome customer experiences. Kristen has spent the last 20+ years driving consumer brands globally; Dell has been her home for over 12 years in two separate tours of duty. In between her rounds at Dell, she served as the Head of eCommerce at YETI and was a member of the senior leadership team who took the company public. During her time there, her team grew the direct to consumer business by double digits while driving a platform migration and international expansion strategy. Prior to YETI, Kristen served as SVP of Brand and Integrated Marketing at HomeAway / Vrbo where she led brand, communications, regional marketing and customer retention for both the commercial and consumer businesses. Kristen is a University of Texas Alumnae holding a B.S. in Communications and representsDell Technologies as a member of the UT Austin Kendra Scott WEL Institute AlumnaeAdvisory Board. Kristen lives a little bit in Austin and a little bit in Colorado with her wife, Jill and two adorable rescue pups.

Joseph West

Studio Pod

Joseph West is a highly regarded professional photographer based in Houston, TX, with 15+ years of photography and of development experience. Both Joseph and fellow Co-founder, Chris, have built multiple successful photography brands, and developed Studio Pod to address the pain points they and their customers routinely encountered while scheduling and taking headshots photos. With in depth knowledge of portrait photography and a keen understanding of what it takes to provide a great photography experience, Joseph is excited to build Studio Pod into the world’s first truly automated professional level studio brand.

Karen Plotkin

Dell Technologies

Karen is Senior Vice President responsible for Dell’s Client Solutions business in the Americas region. Her functional responsibilities include the sales specialist teams, a business planning organization (COC), field marketing and E-Commerce for B2B sales. Having been at Dell for more than 19 years, Karen has heldmultiple roles in sales and marketing including Business Planning leadership (COC), Small Business Sales General Manager, Consumer Merchandising and Small Business Marketing. Karen has an MBA from McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Economics from Washington & Lee University. In her free time, Karen spends time watching her twin girls pursue their passions for dance and soccer.

Chris Bailey

Studio Pod

Chris Bailey is a highly regarded professional photographer based in Houston, TX, with a combined 25+ years of photography experience. Chris and fellow Co-founder, Joseph, have built multiple successful photography brands, and developed Studio Pod to address the pain points they and their customers routinely encountered while scheduling and taking headshots photos. With in depth knowledge of portrait photography and a keen understanding of what it takes to provide a great photography experience, Chris is excited to build Studio Pod into the world’s first truly automated professional level studio brand.

Adam Glick

Dell Technologies

Adam Glick is the Senior Director of APEX Portfolio Marketing for Dell Technologies. He leadsthe organization responsible for the APEX portfolio of as-a-service offerings including offer selection, naming, messaging, go to market, thought leadership, strategic differentiation, and is integral to the as-a-service organizational transformation of Dell Technologies. Before joining Dell, Adam had spent the previous 20 years working in technology and aiding customers in their digital transformation journeys. This includes work as an engineer on Internet Explorer (technology that brought the web to most people’s computers), Product Manager on Exchange ActiveSync (technology that probably sits in your pocket right now), and Outlook Web Access (The group that created the AJAX technology that enabled modern interactive WebApps). He then helped transition Microsoft Office from a packaged product to a SaaS offering with Office 365 before moving to be the first full time product marketer on AWS. At Google Cloud he led the effort to make Google Cloud one of the “big 3” public cloud vendors and was responsible for the launch of their hybrid and multi-cloud strategies with Anthos as well as being a founder and host of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. Adam has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Seattle University.

Chris Hillock

Dell Technologies

Chris Hillock is Vice President and Head of Portfolio Development at Dell Technologies Capital (DTC), the Venture Capital arm of Dell Technologies. He is chartered with creating go to market partnerships and scaling strategies for DTC portfolio companies within Dell Technologies' business units and partner ecosystem; as well as fostering direct engagements with large enterprise and innovative customers interested in transformational technology solutions. Chris brings 20 years of Sales Leadership and General Managementexperience leading cross functional global sales teams and scaling emerging HW & SW solutions within enterprise accounts. Prior to joining DT Capital, Chris was a General Manager within the DT Selectdivision of Dell Technologies Global Accounts practice, led sales for the Media, Entertainment, and Sports Vertical within EMC Corporation, and held several sales leadership and specialty positions with Xerox Corporation.

Erik Day

Dell Technologies

Erik Day is the head of Dell Technologies Small Business division, driving initiatives that support the company’s goals around helping entrepreneurs scale and prosper globally. Day has been at Dell Technologies for more than 21 years and has held multiple sales, merchandising and marketing leadership roles, which have taken him to 25+ countries on over five continents, giving him keen insight into what entrepreneurs need to succeed. Day is actively involved in the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN), ensuring under-representedwomen entrepreneurs get the access to resources including capital, new markets, networks and technology that help them scale. He is also the global chair of Dell Technologies’ PRIDE (LGBTQ+) Employee Resource Group and sits on the board of directors for Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. Day also serves as a strategic advisor to Gender Cool (www.gendercool.org), a newer, growing non-profit focused on the Transgender Youth Movement. Because of Erik’s work in this space, he was awarded #5 of the Yahoo Finance Outstanding Top 100 Role Model LGBT+ Executives of 2020 (https://news.yahoo.com/involve-yahoo-finance-outstanding-top-100-role-model-lgbt-executives-2020-000140579.html). He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and Master of Business Administration degree fromSouthern Methodist University in Dallas. He was awarded Poet and Quant’s 100 Global Best and Brightest EMBAs of 2018 (https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/2018/06/20/best-brightest-executive-mbas-class-of-2018/). Erik is an avid Peloton Rider, Runner, Tennis Player and loves to spend time in Northern Michigan and Colorado with his husband, Craig and their Samoyeds, Chase & Chevy.

Dee Bryant

Boozy Bites

Boozy Bites is the world’s first premium edible cocktail brand and we are on a mission to revolutionize how people celebrate. By re-inventing the old school jello shot into a luxury, vegan, and stylish Boozy Bite, we deliver a unique, innovative, and fun experience to any celebration.

Rod Arnot

Dell Technologies

Since February 2014 Rod Arnot has led Sales of End User Computing Solutions, North America. He is a member of the Americas End User Computing Solutions senior management team within the End User Computing Business Unit. Previously, Rod led Sales of Desktop Virtualization for Dell across the Americas, EMEA and APJ. Prior to this, Rod held a number of senior positions in Dell including Executive Director Operations Planning and Strategy for the Large Enterprise Business Unit, Executive Director Services Product Management, Executive Director Dell Global End User Computing Consulting Practice and Director EMEA Services & Solutions Business Development. Rod joined Dell in January 1999 as Senior Manager, responsible for the Technical Account Management of Dell UK’s top 50 customers

Ryan Rosenbaum

Phlex

Ryan is a competitive swimmer and Iron Man triathlete with a background in video production and software development. As a student athlete at the University of Florida, Ryan cofounded Phlex and put his passion for technology and content development towards providing accessibility and knowledge to swimmers across the globe.

Sudhir Srinivasan Ph.D.

Dell Technologies

Sudhir Srinivasan is the Sr. Vice President of Engineering for Unstructured and Secondary Storage at Dell Technologies. In this role, he leads a 2500-person global engineering team developing a portfolio of products that contribute ~$5B of revenue. Prior to this, he was the CTO of the erstwhile Storage Division where he was responsible for coordinating the technology strategy across the entire storage product portfolio and for driving innovation everywhere. Sudhir is a 22-year veteran of the information infrastructure industry with particularexpertise in scalable storage architectures where he has authored many patents. He was a pioneer in scale-out and software-defined storage architectures before they were known as such in the industry. Prior to Dell, Sudhir held leadership roles at start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

YJ Lin

Dell Technologies

YJ exists as a collaborating visionary to enable discovery for communities to see what is possible. As the Sr. Program Manager for Dell for Startups team at Dell Technologies, he leads the team in engaging with startup communities and leaders all across the U.S. to drive more corporate and technology partnerships to support entrepreneurs. Passionate about developing sustainable communities, YJ helps lead conversations on developing culture, creating insight, and scaling communities with entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and employee resource groups.

Kelly Pracht

nVenue

Kelly Pracht led some of the most advanced tech in the world for nearly 20 years when she decided to apply that knowledge and experience towards one of her biggest passions - sports. A die-hard Astros fan, she was checking scores while in a supercomputing conference in Germany when the aha moment happened. "Why aren't analytics keeping up with the real-time game in the same ways we are predicting live weather patterns?" Out of that moment, nVenue was born. Kelly earned her BSEE from the Colorado School of Mines, and her MSEE from Colorado state. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Mobolaji Sokunbi

Dell Technologies

Mobolaji Sokunbi is the Director, Alternative Routes to Market (ARM) for Dell Technologies Small Business in North America. Over the course of his career at Dell he has held key Sales, Digital Marketing and Merchandising roles across the Consumer, Commercial and Small Business divisions. In his current role, Mobolaji is focused on helping MSPs, Entrepreneurs, and Small Businesses thrive by identifying and equipping them with the right technology that will meet their business needs. Mobolaji has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a BA in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work, he is an author (The Nigerian Time Machine Activity Book), serves on the board of a couple of non-profit foundations and enjoys spending time with his family.

Scott Austin Key

Every Shelter

Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from John Brown University and a Masters of Architecture from Rice University. Scott managed complex research facility spaces for MD Anderson Cancer Center and spent 5 years as the Director of Product Design for METALAB Studio prior to founding Every Shelter where he spearheaded the design development and replacement of San Antonio's River Boat fleet (1.5+ million riders per year). Every Shelter’s first refugee shelter product, Emergency Floor, has received coveted USAID-DIV funding and is one of only a handful of shelter products to successfully scale.

Ben Gotfredson

Snowflake

Ben Gotfredson manages startup focused programs for Snowflake.

Prodan Statev

Snowflake

Prodan is the technical lead for the Startup Program at Snowflake. He's been with Snowflake for over 3 years and has worked with both startups and large corporations on helping them build their products. Before that, he cofounded an analytics company called Laylo and worked as a product manager and a developer. He enjoys listening to podcasts while rock climbing and writing his bio in the 3rd person, which is not weird at all.

North America Summit

Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 8:00 AM (PDT)

About this event

Speakers

Paul Powers

Mika Kayt

Shuo Wang

Kristen Faris

Jason Williamson

Joanie Wang

Jimmy Stephens

Courtney Ederle

Jessica McKellar

Ojus Sharma

Nikki Rubin

Reed McBride

Teodora Curelciuc

Ivana Taylor

Joel Griffith

Carrie Shaw

Derek Andersen

Lauren Marturano

Scott Edwards

Kristen Nolte

Joseph West

Karen Plotkin

Chris Bailey

Adam Glick

Chris Hillock

Erik Day

Dee Bryant

Rod Arnot

Ryan Rosenbaum

Sudhir Srinivasan Ph.D.

YJ Lin

Kelly Pracht

Mobolaji Sokunbi

Scott Austin Key

Ben Gotfredson

Prodan Statev

Paul Powers

Physna

Mika Kayt

Outgage

Shuo Wang

Deel

Kristen Faris

Checkr

Jason Williamson

Oracle

Joanie Wang

Expensify

Jimmy Stephens

Brex

Courtney Ederle

MainStreet

Jessica McKellar

Pilot

Ojus Sharma

Applify

Nikki Rubin

Twilio

Reed McBride

Carta

Teodora Curelciuc

GetApp

Ivana Taylor

DIYMarketers.com

Joel Griffith

Newly Goods

Carrie Shaw

Copper

Derek Andersen

Bevy / Startup Grind

Lauren Marturano

Ternary

Scott Edwards

Dropwater

Kristen Nolte

Dell Technologies

Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area
Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 8:00 AM (PDT)