PwC
Larry is a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he specializes in Oracle Cloud Applications and Engineered Systems. He was formerly Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle’s Advanced Customer Services where he and his team developed products such as Advanced Monitoring & Resolution, Platinum Support, Solution Support Center, Technical Account Management, Exadata Installation & Support, and other advanced services. Larry began his professional career with Arthur Andersen where he worked with Oracle technologies. He entered Andersen’s US partnership in 1998 and its worldwide partnership in 2000. After Andersen, Larry joined Appshop, one of the first Oracle Application Service Providers and an early innovator in Cloud Services for Oracle Applications. In 2004 Larry was named 2004 Entrepreneur of the year by El Dorado Ventures for his works as Appshop’s CEO. Larry is a 1989 graduate of the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management with a double major in Accounting and Management Information Systems. Larry is a member of the Eller College’s National Board of Advisors.
Director, Digital Engagement Strategy, Oracle
Franco Amalfi is Director, Digital Engagement Strategy, for Oracle Public Sector North America. In this capacity, Franco leads a strategic program focused on constituent-focused digital engagement technology, tools and strategies. Franco helps guide government officials at every level – U.S. federal, U.S. state & local, and in Canada – to effectively use modern cloud based customer experience technologies to enhance transparency to citizens while helping agencies deliver on their mission. In addition to working with customers, Franco authors, publishes white papers and articles on leveraging technology to drive business value for governments.
Managing Director, Accenture
Stephanie Arnette is Managing Director — Oracle Cloud Applications. Stephanie Arnette leads Accenture's global Oracle Cloud Applications and Customer Experience Capability for the Oracle practice. In addition to working directly with client teams in the design and solutioning of complex business applications, Stephanie is responsible for defining Accenture's Oracle Cloud strategy to support both sales and delivery efforts across the globe.
Senior Product Manager
@WesleyABarnes
Wes Barnes leads Social Network Partnerships and Social CX Integration enablement. He has over fifteen years of experience leading enterprise application development. Wes has spent the last 5 years helping brands win fans and influence followers with Social. He has worked with the top Fortune 500 companies across several industries and has worn many software development hats. Wes is a tech evangelist and customer advocate.
Senior Director Product Marketing, Oracle
Rimi Bewtra, Sr. Director Product Marketing is responsible for driving Oracle's Digital Engagement, Mobile and Internet of things go-to-market strategy and product marketing within the Oracle Cloud Business Group. A proven product marketing leader with over 15 years of experience, Rimi's background spans across PaaS, SaaS and Enterprise Applications including Midsize, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Data hub solutions. A graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara and Pepperdine University, her favorite pastime is playing at the beach with her boys and dog.
Vice President, Mobile GTM, Oracle
Amritesh is one of the leaders of the Oracle Cloud team responsible for driving all aspects of growth and adoption for Oracle’s Mobile business. Oracle Cloud is the only cloud that delivers a broad portfolio of integrated services across data, applications, platform, and infrastructure areas. It currently supports 62 million users and 23 billion transactions each day. Amritesh owns Go-to-market for mobile globally which is the leading the disruption in the existing enterprise business as companies are continuously looking to a mobile platform to consume their enterprise apps whether they are On-premise, in a private or public (SaaS) cloud. Amritesh is responsible for setting the leadership vision and execution strategy to achieve top-line growth for mobile at Oracle which is a key pillar of Oracle’s cloud business.
Senior Principal Product Director, Oracle
Sandra Cheevers is Senior Principal Product Director for Cloud Product Marketing at Oracle. Ms. Cheevers has been with Oracle for over 20 years, and has worked in various positions in Customer Support, Customer Education, Product Management and most recently, Cloud Product Marketing. Ms. Cheevers handled a variety of product management functions for the Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager, and is now focused on Cloud Product marketing for Oracle. She is a frequent contributor and speaker at Oracle events and conferences worldwide, due to her broad industry knowledge and experience.
Director of Cloud ISV Strategy and Business Development, Oracle
Will Childs is Director of Cloud ISV Strategy and Business Development for North and South America. He regularly consults with global SaaS / ISV companies to help develop business, technical and operational strategies to enable and accelerate their SaaS and cloud growth. Will also has responsibility for executing Oracle's strategy, and program offerings to support Oracle's partner community in transitioning to the cloud. Previous to Oracle, he worked in the managed hosting and cloud industry.
Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle
@chorley_jon
Jon Chorley is Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle’s supply chain management applications and leads the team responsible for driving the business requirements and product roadmaps for these applications. Mr. Chorley is also the Chief Sustainability Officer for Oracle. In this role, he drives and coordinates all initiatives, both internally and externally, related to environmental sustainability. Mr. Chorley has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry in a broad set of roles including sales, implementation, and development. Mr. Chorley has been with Oracle since 1997.
Vice President, North America Business Development, Inspirage
Jonathan Corbett is a Vice President of Inspirage and a member of the executive team. He brings more than 25 years of technology industry experience, software knowledge, and services expertise to his role where he focuses on customer success, strategy, leadership, and delivering innovative solutions to Inspirage's many customers. Prior to joining Inspirage, Jonathan spent 16 years at Oracle Corporation in a number of management positions covering software and consulting services roles where he consistently focused his efforts on driving value to his customers. Earlier, he spent 12 years in the UK where he held a variety of technology management roles leading to a focus on Oracle products and services. He earned a degree with honors in Law and Accountancy at De Montford University in Leicester, UK.
Director Product Management, Oracle
Praveen Deshpande is part of Oracle Public Cloud Product Management team focused on Oracle Infrastructure Services(IaaS). Praveen has been working with Oracle since last 16 years and held various roles within the product development teams viz. Engineering and Product Management. Prior to Oracle IaaS engagement, Praveen focused on building Oracle Business Analytics Platform products.
Senior Manager, Cloud ERP Practice, Deloitte
Varun is a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Technology consulting practice, serving Tech, Media, and Telecom (TMT) clients through package enabled business transformations. He has been advising clients on end-to-end front and back office transformations with specific focus on Customer Master data, Quote-to-Cash processes, Services and Repair Operations and Financials transformations for more than 14 years. He leads the national initiative to enhance Cloud ERP skills of Deloitte's cloud ERP practice.
Director Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Oracle
Tim Dwyer, Director of Go-to-Market Cloud Partner Programs for Oracle, joined the company in 1998. Prior to Oracle he was part of a technology startup in GIS/spatial technologies. At Oracle he has held positions in product management, marketing, consulting and M&A. Presently Tim is part of the Worldwide Alliances and Channels organization focused on helping to build and deliver programs for Oracle Partners transformation into Cloud computing.
Director, Higher Education Solutions, Oracle
As Director of Higher Education Solutions, Joe meets with scores of higher education institutions every year, learning about their emerging business needs and challenges, advising on ways technology can improve both efficiency and effectiveness across all the operations of higher education striving for institutional excellence, increasing student success and improving the student experience.
Director of Product Marketing, Oracle
Kaila is a Director of Product Marketing at Oracle with many years of experience in fast-past technology companies leading marketing teams and marketing strategy. For the Oracle Marketing Cloud, Kaila leads Product Marketing for B2C Cross-Channel, Mobile, and Social Marketing where she is focused on driving go to market strategy and the supporting initiatives.
Director, Product Strategy, Oracle
Katrina Gosek is Director of Commerce Product Strategy at Oracle. Her team sits within product development and collaborates across many internal cross-functional and industry teams touching competitive intelligence, sales, marketing, campaigns, press, analysts, sales, education, and partners, and is responsible for go-to-market strategy for Oracle's commerce products. She works closely with customers and partners to develop product strategy and best practices for ecommerce implementations. Prior to Oracle, Katrina spent her early career at Endeca, a leader in innovative customer experience applications used top online retailers, manufacturers, and communications companies. Katrina holds a BA from Vanderbilt University, an MA from Harvard University, and MBA from Babson College.
Director of Product Marketing, Oracle Service Cloud
Brenda Harris is the Director of Product Marketing in the CX Global GTM Group for Oracle Service Cloud. She is responsible for supporting sales teams to deliver expertise and in depth market, buyer and product information to clients and customers. Previously she served as a Product Manager for Oracle Siebel CRM. Brenda brings 15 years of experience as a consultant implementing CRM and other enterprise software systems.
Director, Product Management, Oracle
Jon Huang is Director of Product Management with Oracle Middleware Cloud Platform (PaaS). In this role, he focuses on go-to-market, business operations and strategy across Oracle Middleware Cloud Platform product units, and helping customers worldwide drive business results through Oracle Middleware Cloud Platform. In the nine years prior to his current role in Product Management, Jon held various positions in Oracle North America Sales Consulting, responsible for leading all pre-sales Fusion Middleware activities with a keen ability to realize the clients underlying needs.
Chief Executive Officer, Oracle
Mark Hurd is chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company’s board of directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. Hurd is also a member of the Baylor University Board of Regents.
Senior Director, Product Strategy, Oracle
Matt Johnson is Senior Director of Product Strategy at Oracle, focused on Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration applications. Matt has over 30 years of experience in enterprise software, including roles as a Chief Technology Officer, Industry Analyst, Application Architect and Software Engineer. In 1998, he co-founded Syncra Systems, a SaaS-based B2B supply chain software company, which was eventually acquired in 2005. While at Oracle, Matt has also led the Consumer Goods Industry Strategy team, and represented the Oracle SCM product development organization in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region during the initial rollout of Fusion applications.
Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics, Oracle
Clint Kaiser serves as the Senior Director of Strategy & Analytics for the Oracle Marketing Cloud North America. Clint and his team are responsible for informing and impacting clients’ digital marketing efforts with their customers using data science. Prior to Oracle, Clint managed the digital strategy team at Merkle where he worked with clients such as Royal Caribbean, Disney, and DIRECTV. He has been in the digital marketing space since 1997 when he started at one of the first email marketing companies in the marketplace.
Director of Product Marketing, Oracle
Paul Kaptein is a Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, a leading global business database and applications provider. Over the past 20 years, he has led over 300 successful HCM and ERP software selection and implementation projects across North America. He recently completed a master’s degree in business management. Paul has won numerous awards as a business consultant, conference speaker, and professional writer.
Director of Product Marketing, Oracle
@sunitakhatri
Sunita is Oracle’s Product Marketing Director for the HCM Talent Management Cloud solution. Prior to joining Oracle, she brought products to life for Monster Worldwide’s recruitment & consumer advertising business. While leading sizeable growth for Monster’s business, she also braved the world of online marketing. Today, blogging is a new-found passion of hers—Sunita is now the managing editors of Oracle’s Modern HR Blog and writes to inspire readers who are in search of professional and personal awareness.
Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Blair Kin is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and has more than 20 years of technology transformation experience. Blair focuses on driving business value for client organizations using an approach centered on business-led solutions enabled by leading technology. Most recently, Kin has been part of Deloitte's Oracle Cloud leadership team. In this role, Blair has concentrated on expanding Deloitte's Oracle ERP Cloud market offerings, tools, and accelerators.
Principal Sales Consultant – National North East Accounts – North America Sales, Oracle
As a Principal Sales Consultant, Naomi has been leading business-focused, enterprise-level, architecture initiatives. Naomi has engaged with business and IT customer stakeholders, partners, and Oracle sales consulting teams to develop customers' architectures, visions and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of Oracle solutions.
Vice President IT Priorities & Strategies, IDC Manufacturing Insights
As a research vice president, Kimberly Knickle is responsible for research and analysis of business and IT issues for manufacturers. She leads the IT Priorities & Strategies program, which focuses on hot topics that are changing the way manufacturers buy and use IT, such as big data and analytics, cloud, IoT, mobility, social, and sustainability. The program also includes research based on IDC survey data related to manufacturers' IT investment priorities and plans. Knickle also manages the Product Innovation, Service Innovation, and Connected Products research.
Prior to joining IDC in 2006, Ms. Knickle served as an independent consultant specializing in business and information technology (IT) strategy and held senior positions at industry analyst firms including AMR Research, Hurwitz Group, Inc., and Charles River Strategies. As research director at AMR Research, she was well recognized as an industry thought leader in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
Earlier in her career, Ms. Knickle held various roles in marketing, engineering and executive management at companies such as Entre Computer Center, Boston Center for Computer Applications, and Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. Ms. Knickle has more than 20 years of experience in market research and the IT industry.
In addition to regularly speaking at industry conferences, Ms. Knickle is a highly regarded source for the news media on IT issues in business, with coverage from BusinessWeek, ComputerWorld, and Information Week.
She received the Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management, where she earned her MBA degree. Knickle also holds a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
Ms. Knickle contributes regularly to the IDC Manufacturing Insights Community and tweets @kimknickle about business issues relevant to manufacturers.
Noah Kotch, Vice President, Credit Acceptance Corporation
Noah Kotch is the Vice President of Business Information Services at Credit Acceptance Corporation. He has 18 years of experience in application development, enterprise architecture, project management and technical delivery. He joined Credit Acceptance in 2011, and is responsible for Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, ERP applications, Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Portal development. His focus is on delivering value to the organization effectively and efficiently.
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Database, Oracle
@mbkumar
Monica Kumar is a 23+ years technology industry veteran. As part of the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) team, Monica drives global marketing and sales programs for Oracle's flagship Database and Big Data portfolio which includes Oracle Database, Oracle Database Cloud Services, MySQL, and Big Data Cloud Services. Monica is a frequent speaker at sales, marketing, and customer events.
Director, Director of System Integrations, Analytics, DataScience and Enterprise Data Management, Avaya
Swamynathan (Swamy) Kuppuswamy is Director of System Integrations, Analytics, DataScience and Enterprise Data Management at Avaya. The company provides a wide range of solutions that enable customer and team engagements for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced financial performance. Swamy has played a key role in Avaya’s journey to PaaS and to Cloud-based solutions. The result has been a dramatic increase in Avaya’s customer satisfaction scores and an anticipated decrease of 30% in the company’s IT maintenance costs. Before joining Avaya, Swamy worked as a director and software architect at such companies as Verizon, Oracle and Protech.
Sales Consulting Senior Director, Oracle
As the Sales Consulting Senior Director for Oracle, Bill provides leadership to our North America Applications Sales Consulting organization evolution to Cloud ERP applications.
Senior Manager, Oracle Marketing Cloud Practice Lead
Lucia Lesar serves as the Global Oracle Marketing Cloud Lead within Accenture. She has over 20 year of experience working for/with large global enterprises as they deliver strategic sales and marketing technologies. Most recently, Lucia has focused on working with clients to help them leverage the various Oracle Marketing Cloud platforms and deliver a more personalized customer experience.
Chairman and Principal, MAYA Design; Co-author of Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
Mickey McManus is a pioneer in the field of collaborative innovation, pervasive computing, human-centered design and education. He is a principal of MAYA Design and the chairman of the board. For over a decade, Mickey served as MAYA’s president, delivering above industry average profit margins—year over year—while consistently re-investing substantial funds back into MAYA’s R&D efforts. These investments form the core of a pool of intellectual property, trade secrets—and most importantly talent—that drives MAYA’s agility, adaptability, and success.
Executive Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle
Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle's applications and related cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle's newest products for customer service and support, commerce, and talent management. Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle's next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda's leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.
Senior Vice President, Oracle Global Cloud Go-to-Market and Product Business Groups, Oracle
@shawnprice1000
Shawn Price is Senior Vice President, Global Cloud Go-to-Market for Oracle. Shawn is a proven leader in building and transforming cloud companies at scale on a global basis. His 20+ years of experience include leading several companies from founding to successful IPO. Most recently he was the president of SuccessFactors Cloud and his responsibilities expanded to manage all of the SAP Cloud portfolio, reporting to the SAP Board of Directors.
Director of HRIS and Workforce Analytics, Ansell Healthcare
Vikrant Rajput is the Director of HRIS & Workforce Analytics at Ansell Healthcare and has 15 years of experience in HR technology strategy, planning and implementation. At Ansell, Vikrant is leading HR transformation initiative through deploying best in class HCM technology and workforce analytics.Vikrant's vision is to make HR a data driven strategic partner to the organization. Vikrant holds MBA degree from NYU Stern School of Business and Bachelors' degree in Technology (B.Tech) from IIT Varanasi, India.
ERP Cloud Strategic Programs Lead, Public Sector Solutions, Oracle
Bob Sabo has worked for or with State and local government for over 30 years. He served in various administrative positions in government. He also served 4 years as a City Manager in NJ. After leaving direct government service he continued to work for several private sector companies that provide software and services to government organizations. Bob has been with Oracle's public sector practice for over 19 years. Bob works with Industry groups such as NASACT and GFOA as well as existing and potential customers. He advises them on current industry trends and how Oracle customers successfully run their operations using Oracle software.
Director of Product Marketing, Oracle
Di Seghposs is Senior Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, where she is responsible for go to market strategies for ERP Cloud, Financials, and Project Management solutions. Ms. Seghposs is an energetic and disciplined marketing professional with 20+ years of enterprise and retail software marketing experience. Prior to Oracle, Ms. Seghposs was the Vice President of Marketing at OnDemand Software (a division of Global Knowledge), where she was responsible for marketing strategy and execution. She was also Vice President of McAfee Retail Division leading the retail sales, marketing, development and product management teams. Previously she held various marketing roles at Radius and Claris and began her career at Microsoft.
Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Brian Spendolini is currently a Product Manager for Oracle’s Database Cloud Service Offering. He has been using Oracle technology for 15 years concentrating in the database and database application development areas.
Senior Director, CX, Sales Automation
Greg Swender leads global Product Marketing for CPQ Cloud products. Previously, Greg held leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, and Sales Operations for BigMachines, acquired by Oracle in 2013. He has also led successful marketing and business transformation in technology for Dell and Accenture. Greg holds an MBA from Michigan’s Ross School of Business and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell.
Senior Principal Product Marketing Director, Business Analytics Product Group, Oracle
Jennifer Toomey is Senior Product Marketing Director at Oracle Corporation, with over 18 years experience in the high tech and services industries. At Oracle, she focuses on Business Analytics and Cloud. Jennifer has a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Senior Manager, Business Analytics Product Group, Oracle
José Villacís focuses on Oracle Cloud solutions for Business Analytics within the Global Market Development organization—Business Analytics Product Group. Previously he focused on Mobility and Engineered Systems for Business Analytics products. José has over 16 years in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management industry in a variety of corporate product, field, and customer-facing roles. José has excellent strategy, positioning, training, and field enablement abilities, and is experienced with analytic and performance management applications; relational & OLAP query / reporting & visualization; master data management technologies, and SaaS/Cloud computing solutions.
Director, HCM Product Marketing, Oracle
@mikevilimek
Mike Vilimek is an experienced technology professional and an active blogger and presenter on topics including recruiting and HR technology. At Oracle he is responsible for global positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies for Oracle HCM Cloud solutions. Prior to joining Oracle, Mike led the product marketing teams at Talemetry, a recruiting technology provider, and data analytics provider ACL Services. Mike graduated from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Marketing and International Business and was a member of the SFU Football team. Following graduation, Mike had a 7-year professional football career in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
VP HCM Transformation, Oracle
@AYWellinghoff
As VP of HCM Transformation at Oracle, Annette works closely with CHRO's, CIO's and other C-suite leaders as a trusted advisor and strategic resource. When clients need to determine the best way to translate business goals into human capital strategies that create value for their organizations Annette is a sounding board. Annette also helps HR teams shape their talent strategy and architecture to align with transformational business objectives. Annette provides insights and best practices for the design and execution of change management programs to support improved performance, build the capabilities of people and organizations, and align behaviors for sustainable success.
Managing Director, BlackRock
Dr. Hubert Winter is Managing Director at BlackRock, one of the world's largest asset management firms, providing guidance to individuals, financial professionals and institutions. Dr. Winter leads the third-party application group in Corporate Applications within the Technology group. In his role he oversees the team responsible for the company-wide support of third-party technology that includes technology for HR, Finance, Legal & Compliance as well as Corporate Services. He was one of the leaders of Blackrock's modernization of its current corporate applications landscape. That effort was aimed at improving operational efficiency by eliminating manual processes and increasing transparency for managers.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2008, Dr. Winter held technology and operations positions at Deutsche Bank and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Dr. Winter earned an MS degree and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Sales Consultant, Oracle
Staci Woods works with Oracle CX customers to bring together people, process & technology to innovate and transform business results and customer experience. Before joining Oracle, Staci drove transformations as a Sales and Marketing Executive at a $3 billion senior living brand.