2014 SVBA PANELISTS
Andrew Marks
Head of Customer Success at Voxer
Andrew Marks is the head of customer success at Voxer, a pioneer in the area of real-time audio messaging with more than 600 paying business customers and 50 million consumer users. He is also a co-founder and advisor of Osprey Data, an industry leader in physical systems intelligence for the industrial internet. Prior to Voxer he held executive positions at Birst, Adobe, Intacct, Business Objects, Savvion, Mobileum, Genesys and Scopus Technology. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker at technology industry conferences. He holds a B.S. in Marketing Management from the University of California at Chico.
Andrew Steele
SVP, Emerging Business at Regalix Inc.
Andrew Steele, an entrepreneur by nature, brings over two decades of experience to Regalix. In his role as Senior Vice President-Emerging Business, Andrew leads Regalix's efforts to expand the company's partnerships with leading technology companies. Before joining Regalix, Andrew was CEO at Knoodle, a B2B collaborative learning business spun out of SK Telecom. Andrew holds a Bachelors in International Finance and Marketing with Honors from the University of Miami, and an MBA from Georgia State University.
Bill Rappos
Head of Product at Fleksy
Bill Rappos is currently the Head of Product for Fleksy. With an ergonomics engineering background and a passion for UX, Bill joined Fleksy to help create a painless, even fun keyboard that is an extension of one's self. With his experience in rapid prototyping methods, organizing and facilitating usability tests, Bill enjoys maintaining the balance between engineers, product managers and UX designers, always moving towards the product vision.
Byrne Reese
Vice President of Product at Bitreserve.
Crafting innovative user experiences for more than 15 years, Byrne Reese is currently the Vice President of Product at Bitreserve where he spearheads Bitreserve’s product development, user experience, and API. Prior to joining Bitreserve, Byrne has had product and/or leadership roles at ToyTalk, TokBox, Six Apart, and Grand Central. Plus, he has played an important role in shaping the technologies used by developers around the world, including the protocol behind the world’s first web services at Grand Central Communications to participating in working groups defining the standards of the Open Web.
Debjani Deb
CEO and Co-Founder at ZineOne
Debjani is CEO and Co-Founder of ZineOne, which she started in 2013 with the mission to re-imagine customer experience and support for an increasingly mobile world. Debjani is a serial entrepreneur whose previous company EmPower, a leader in social analytics, was sold to Genpact Worldwide (NYSE G)in 2012. Prior to starting EmPower, Debjani was Chief Strategy Officer at GCI Group at WPP company. She also worked at Booz Allen and Hamilton and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Debjani has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a MS from Stanford University.
Greg Sherwin
EVP Products at Regalix Inc.
Greg brings 25 years of professional technology experience in Internet media and product development. Over the past decade, he has served as VP of Engineering at a number of Silicon Valley start-ups and more established companies, including several years at CNET Networks (now CBS Interactive), NBC Internet, TeeBeeDee.com, Meta Interfaces, and SVP of Engineering at Yola.com. Prior to working in the online world, Greg contributed as a technologist at several university research labs including The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He also co-authored a book on Internet public relations and is a former columnist for ClickZ.
Jay Diamond
VP of Business Development at KNIME
Jay Diamond is VP of Business Development at KNIME, overseeing business operations for an open platform for data analytics. Prior to KNIME, Mr. Diamond spent many years at Intel Corp., driving new business strategy across platforms world-wide, running new media and global accounts for the Intel Inside program, and driving corporate internet strategy. In 2000, Mr. Diamond became CEO of Mediadome, a software & services company combining a unique graphical web interface with deep customer relationship management and analytics. The start-up was acquired by the company’s largest investor, Intel Corporation, in 2002. Mr. Diamond holds dual masters degrees in electrical engineering and business.
Mike Goldgof
VP of Marketing at Agnitio
Mike is currently the VP of Marketing at AGNITiO in San Francisco. A peep into his Mike’s career history would throw light on a host of start-up and large corporations he has championed over the years. With a track record of delivering positive revenue, growth and increased marketing share, Mike has been at numerous executive levels of myriad departments.Be it raising funds for a product entry, building OEM or VAR relationships, he has been the common factor behind formulating strategies that have led many organizations to achieve operational excellence in the global scheme of things.Product Management, Business Development, Product Management, Product Roadmap, New Product Launch, Go-to-market strategy, you name it, and Mike would have made a mark you can barely overlook.
Philip Airey
Owner at tonbridge partners
Philip has spent 25 years understanding consumer and user behavior. Philip is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to starting tonbridge, Philip was founder and CEO of OurHouse, an Internet retail business, a partner at Boston Consulting Group, a senior partner at a Chicago-based consulting firm and has worked with private equity sponsors. He has been featured in multiple national publications including Forbes, Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. Philip has an MBA from London Business School, a BA from the University of Sheffield and holds a professional accounting qualification.
Rajiv R Maheshwary
Senior Director, World-wide Business Development, Synopsys
Rajiv is a creative and accomplished leader with 25 years of corporate and start-up experience that spans technology product marketing, new business development, strategic customer collaborations, and executive communication.
Under his stewardship several product lines have gained #1 market position generating over $100M+ in revenues. The Synopsys Journal Mobile Application targeted senior executives at semiconductor companies was awarded Best Electronics Mobile Application in 2012 MobileWebAward Competition for creativity, ease-of-use, design and content.

In his current role, Rajiv is focused on growing Synopsys revenue in $1B+ verification market through customer-focused products, services and new business initiatives.
Ravi Keswani
CTO at Auction.com
With more than 20 years in the Technology Industry, Ravi brings a wealth of operating experience. Leading software and infrastructure development, from start-ups to established companies, Ravi has been consistently successful in bringing top performing products to market. He has built successful technology businesses in the Silicon Valley and is named inventor on several web technology patents. He currently is CTO at Auction.com and has held executive positions at companies such as, Kabam, Betfair, Coupons.com, PocketThis and CNET Networks.
Vinita Jakhanwal
Director at IHS
Vinita is one of the world’s leading authorities, known for her actionable strategic industry analysis and insight on mobile and emerging displays and technologies. She is extensively quoted in leading dailies and publications and is invited to speak at major conferences worldwide. Her clients include the top makers of tablets, handsets and other mobile devices, wireless service providers, display manufacturers, component makers and financial services firms. Vinita has become known for providing exceptionally accurate market forecasts, even for new and emerging display applications and technologies. 

She currently leads the IHS analyst team covering mobile and emerging displays and technology and provides advisory consulting services to companies in the areas of displays sourcing, market sizing, market entry strategies, technology dynamics and adoption.
Yu Fang
Vice President of Engineering at Tanjarine
Currently working as the SVP for Tanjarine, Fang brings his education from some of the best schools in the world like University of California and Rochester. His areas of expertise lie in a host of subjects ranging from networking systems to end-to-end software solutions. The seamless fusion of his experience in technological world and the business world puts him in an authoritative place and makes him deservingly commanding. Maximizing market impact, enhancing customer satisfaction and meeting delivery quality has always been his strongest suites.