Guest Speakers
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President
Clearworks
Noël Adams is a new product development expert with15 years of experience building, launching and marketing products for high technology companies. She is currently President of Clearworks, a firm that specializes in product management and helping companies from idea through launch to create and introduce new products. Clients include companies like Plantronics, Trend Micro, Visa International and McIntosh Labs.
Skilled at integrating the voice of the customer into the product lifecycle, Noël has helped both large and small high tech companies launch market-driven products and services. Noël is Past President of the Northern California chapter of the PDMA (Product Development and Management Association). She holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Maryland and earned her MBA at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Anne Bakstad
Product Launch Consultant
Clearworks
Anne Bakstad is a product launch expert with over 15 years experience leading operations, marketing, and information technology teams for technology and telecommunications companies. Skilled at managing large teams and using process reengineering and market research to launch new products, companies and business initiatives, Anne's approach allows companies to improve customer experience and often reduce costs.
Anne has experience with both consumer and enterprise products in both start up and Fortune 500 environments for companies like Cable & Wireless, Metricom, and Pacific Bell/SBC Communications. Anne earned her BA in Communications at the University of California, Davis and her MA in Organizational Development at the University of San Francisco.
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Jennifer Bouani
Manager of Interactive Communications
Manheim
Jennifer Bouani is Manager of Interactive Communications at Manheim, the world's leading provider of used vehicle remarketing services. She introduced social media communication tools to 15,000 Manheim employees via the corporate intranet and led Manheim to win two IABC Atlanta Golden Flames awards for Blogs and Intranets and a Bronze Flame for Podcasts.
She has been a project manager, manager of business analysts and a consultant spanning the retail, insurance, automotive, telecommunications and publishing industries. Jennifer graduated Summa Cum Laude from Auburn University with a degree in Computer Engineering.
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Cindy Costa
Marketing Manager
Yum Brands
Cindy Costa is a Marketing Manager for the Know-How & Innovation Center at Yum! Brands, Inc. the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. In her role, Cindy leads the product launch, marketing, and adoption of iCHING, Yum!'s new internal business network for global knowledge sharing and collaboration. Cindy also facilitates a series of proprietary training and education programs through Yum! University Marketing College. She previously served in brand marketing roles for KFC in Brand Management and Consumer Insights. Cindy holds a Masters in Marketing from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Journalism & Mass Communication from Samford University.
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Mike Crocker
Internal Community Manager
NetApp
Mike follows an eclectic career path using his B.S. in Computer Science, MS in System Management, Certification as Project Management Professional, and a Certification in Ethical Hacking. His experience includes working for the U.S. government, in aerospace, at a global computer hardware and software company, pro bono work for non-profits, and 10 years at an AI research center. He led his first web development team creating a B2B system in 1993. Mike joined NetApp in Aug 2008 as their first Internal Community Manager.
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Bob Duffy
Sr. Social Media Strategist
Intel
Bob Duffy is a former VP of Technical Services for Onsite Broadband and Phatpipe and established their online ecommerce strategies in the dot-com era. Bob joined Intel in 2005 managing their online small business strategies. In 2006 Bob established a community marketing strategy for Intel and launched Open Port, Intel's first end-user community in August of 2007. Bob is now a Sr. Social Media Strategist working to evangelize new strategies and guidelines for further adoption of social media at Intel.
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Claire Flanagan
Sr. Manager of Knowledge Management and Enterprise Social Software Strategy
CSC
Claire Flanagan is a Senior Manager of Knowledge Management and Enterprise Social Collaboration strategy in CSC's Office of Innovation. She has over 20 years experience in information design, electronic communications, collaboration applications and knowledge management. In her recent assignment she led a corporate-wide initiative bringing Jive SBS to CSC's global employees.
Previously she has held management roles at IBM and Lotus Development Corporation. She holds an A.S. Management and a B.S. in Marketing from Bentley University. She earned her MBA from Northeastern University.
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Navneet Grewal
Director, Online Marketing Programs
NetApp
Navneet drives the strategy of NetApp's online user and subscription programs which include its technical user community, newsletter, and magazine through social media and integration with outbound go-to-market strategies. Under her leadership, the NetApp community has seen tremendous growth in membership and engagement since launching in April 2008. Prior to NetApp, Navneet was part of corporate marketing organizations at Oracle and Siebel Systems. She has managed teams chartered with demand generation, customer affinity, loyalty, and online interactive programs targeted at various levels of business and technical audiences.
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Chris Holmes
Director of Enterprise Solutions
Six3 Systems, Inc.
Chris Holmes is responsible for leading technology initiatives related to Application and Development Services, and for many years has focused on Enterprise Information Sharing, Process Analysis and Integration, and Collaborative Technologies.
Chris has architected, designed, and developed solutions that are enterprise capable systems in the emerging Enterprise 2.0 vertical. Most recently, he has architected and designed Social Web 2.0 eco-systems, Data on-demand services, Service Oriented Architectures, and Cloud-like Infrastructures for many programs to include the Analyst Space (A-Space) for DNI/DIA, the United States Private and Public Partnership (USP3) for the FBI/DHS, and the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) for DHS.
As technology director and chief architect of the A-Space and IC Data Layer programs Chris and his team achieved a fully functioning and award-winning environment that brings many Web 2.0 capabilities to one of the most difficult communities to share within. Today, the A-Space social network has over 12,000 total users with access to over 90 million classified data records. The network capabilities are being used of for many real missions by analysts at the HCS/G security levels.
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Ted Hopton
Wiki Community Manager
United Business Media
Ted Hopton is responsible for adoption and engagement of United Business Media's (UBM) online community among 6,500+ employees across 13 divisions and six continents. In this role he is accountable to senior management for adoption of the tool and engagement with the community, as well as developing a transparent and open collaborative online culture.
Previously, Ted was the Membership Director and conference program director for ICMI, a division of UBM providing educational resources for call center professionals. He has an English degree from Brown University and completed his MBA. coursework in Finance at Drexel University.
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Francesca Karpel
Senior Manager Corporate Relations
NetApp
Francesca led the cross functional team that selected Jive platform for communities at NetApp as part of the NetApp brand launch. She led the efforts behind NetApp Live, the internal community, as it grew to over 8000 registered users in less than 6 months. She is a communications expert with experience in industries including technology, education and financial services. She has grown internal communications at NetApp as the company has grown and become recognized as the #1 Best Place to Work in the US. Francesca earned a BA from Smith College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Dianne Kibbey
Global Head of ePortals and eProcurement
Premiere Farnell
Dianne has global responsibilities for customer eProcurement solutions, content management, internal and external portals and online communities at Premier Farnell, a global distributor of electronic components. She recently led the development and introduction of the first global online collaboration and research community servicing needs of electronic design engineers. Premier Farnell plc is a leading, high service, multi-channel distribution group supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally through its Group companies.
Dianne has more than 20 years of E-commerce, information technology, and software development experience. Prior to joining Premier Farnell, Dianne worked in the development of Internet based business solutions for CNA Insurance. She has also held manager level information technology positions at Hyatt Hotels, Comdisco, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Dianne has a B.S. in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Business from DePaul University.
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Tristan Kime
Support & Community, Product Lead
Sprint
Tristan Kime has been a driving force in the evolution of the social media on Sprint.com. In 2007, Tristan launched Buzz About Wireless, an external loyalty-building site focused on customer support and product ratings. Under his leadership, Buzz About Wireless, became an impetus for change at Sprint and the basis for the major guiding principle of Sprint.com's ongoing redesign.
Throughout his career, Tristan has been an advocate for customer engagement. From beginning his career as a Churn Analyst at Nextel to becoming the Content and Personalization lead for Sprint.com, Tristan has made it his mission to bring the voice of the customer to upper management, and lead companies to be more responsive to customer input.
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Joe Kraus
Director of Product Management
Google
Joe Kraus is a Director of Product Management at Google. Previously he co-founded Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org. Since the acquisition of Jotspot by Google in 2006, Kraus has worked on OpenSocial, Google's effort to develop API standards for social networking platforms. Joe graduated from Stanford University in 1993 with a BA in Political Science.
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Claire Lash
Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture
Gap Inc.
Claire Lash is a Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at Gap Inc. where her current focus is on collaboration and emerging technologies which includes portal, unified communications and social media. She was the IT leader in the selection and implementation of Jive SBS for Gap Inc., and she continues to play an active role in the ongoing governance and support of Jive. Claire has 30 years of IT experience, primarily in the areas of transportation and retail.
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Stephen Maiello
Senior Manager
Schwab
Stephen Maiello is a Senior Manager in Schwab's Active Investor Client Experience group. Stephen's primary focus involves the strategic planning of live educational experiences for the active trader segment. This includes the online community, live educational forums and webinars for Schwab clients. Stephen's involvement in Schwab's online community started about 6 months after launch and he has managed the initiative since then with primary focus on expanding and evolving the client community. Stephen is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has been employed by Charles Schwab & Co for 9 years.
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Lydia Markoff
Specialist, Corporate Communications
Gap Inc.
Lydia Markoff is Editor of gapinc.com, writer of Off the Cuff (Gap Inc.'s official internal blog), and Community Manager at the Inc. level for Sketchbook, the company's implementation of Jive. With more than ten years of experience in external and internal online communications, she is part of the core team for rollout and governance of Sketchbook companywide.
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Corey Mathews
Web Marketing Manager
Forrester Research
Corey Mathews manages social media and online community at Forrester Research, an independent business and technology research firm. As senior manager, interactive marketing, he is also responsible for eCommerce, web analytics, and acquisition marketing.
Prior to joining Forrester, he earned an MBA from Boston College and spent over 10 years in technology and marketing consulting for such agencies as Accenture and Razorfish.
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Eric Nielsen
Director of Web Communities
VMware
Eric currently drives the VMware Social Media and Web Communities efforts at VMware. His team is responsible for Social Media outreach, external communities as well as the vmworld online conference experience. The VMware communities have over 1 million members and include more than50 active individual communities using Jive Software. Eric has been with VMware for 4 years, and has been innovating in the online communities space using Web 2.0 concepts since 1997, after building Sun Microsystem's "BigAdmin" technical community website.
Eric has more than 20 years of industry software experience and has worked at other large industry leading companies such as IBM, Kodak and Pepsi Co.
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Sean O'Driscoll
President & Co-Founder
Ant's Eye View
Sean O'Driscoll is the President and co-founder of Ant's Eye View, a leading consultancy focused on delivering differentiation through Social Customer Engagement. The Ant's Eye View team helps its clients transform customer experience and engagement by embedding and activating customer voice in every aspect of the business. Prior to co-founding AEV, Sean was a 15 year veteran at Microsoft Corporation. In his most recent capacity as General Manager, Community Support Services, Sean was responsible for developing social media and community-based support models and leading the global Microsoft MVP program. The MVP program was designed to award and recognize amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Sean is the co-chair of the influencer council for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, and graduated from Pacific University (92) in Forest Grove, Oregon, with degrees in business administration and philosophy. He now lives just outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife Kari, and two daughters, Erin and Lauren.
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Noreen Poli
Product Manager of Social Media and Collaboration
Kaiser Permanente
Noreen Poli is Product Manager of Social Networking and Collaboration for Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit health plan, serving more than 8.6 million members. Noreen's background is a blend of product management, marketing, business intelligence, organizational psychology, and evangelism. Noreen has over 15 years of experience launching innovative products and services with companies such as Amdocs, IBM, Wells Fargo, and Citibank.
Her education includes doctorate studies in Organizational Psychology at Alliant International University-San Francisco Bay Campus. She holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business from University of San Francisco; and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Michael Pusateri
Senior Vice President, Technology
Disney • ABC Television Group
Michael Pusateri is the Senior Vice President, Technology at the Disney • ABC Television Group in Burbank, California. Although he started out studying Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute specializing in electromagnetic theory, he began his career designing television production facilities for National TeleConsultants and Sony. He joined Disney in 1995 and soon found himself managing not just Broadcast Engineering, but Information Technology as well. Due to his inability to say no to his boss, he now finds himself also overseeing facilities, a number of radio stations, and a Company-wide asset management system. A strong believer in stealing simple easy concepts from the Internet and bringing them to the Enterprise to look like a trailblazer, he's helped bring the use of weblog software, syndication aggregators, wikis, and social networks into Disney.
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Rives
Poet
Rives is a poet and pop-up book designer from New York City. He favors romance, wordplay and jokes that don't suck. He is a regular on "HBO's Def Poetry Jam" and the annual TED Conference and was co-host of the Bravo TV special "Ironic Iconic America."
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Michael Sims
Director, Global Software and Technology Partners
SAP
Michael Sims joined SAP in 2000 and has worked in various roles in product marketing, business development, and partner alliances. Michael leads the internal operations for the Global Software and Technology Partners (GSTP) organization, which touches thousands of partners, large and small. As part of the team that rolled out Collaboration Workspace from SAP, Michael was instrumental in ensuring pervasive and effective utilization throughout GSTP. Launched in May 2008, the Collaboration Workspace has grown to more than 45,000 users and 3456 private workspaces, enabling 48 programs at SAP to scale and accelerate co-innovation by providing our Ecosystem a fast, easy, global, secure, enterprise IP-protected collaboration solution.
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Shan Sinha
Founder and CEO
DocVerse
Shan Sinha is the Founder / CEO of DocVerse, which offers the first real-time collaboration tool for Microsoft Office. He has spent the last 12 years in the software industry and is an experienced entrepreneur. Most recently, Shan founded DocVerse after leaving Microsoft where he was responsible for SharePoint and SQL Server product strategy, two of Microsoft's fastest growing products. Shan holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
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Jessica Sisto
Manager, Learning & Development
Gap Brand
As part of the HR team, Jessica Sisto is the Community Manager for Gap Brand. Her primary responsibility is to train and inspire 25,000 Gap sales associates and her current work focuses on employee engagement, technology and evaluation/measurement. With a varied background in human capital consulting, instructional design and writing, she brings a range of experience to her role.
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Ritesh Soni
Director of Technology
Sapient
Ritesh Soni is a Director of Technology at Sapient, a leading global services company and interactive agency. Concentrating on the telecommunications space, Ritesh focuses on the emerging trends in dot-com, device and network arenas to create transformational strategies for mobile and social applications. In his role, he advises Fortune 100 companies on how to best align their investment spend in these fast-growing and dynamic areas in order to achieve top performance in multi-channel commerce, multi-channel support, loyalty and mobility.
As a Director of Technology for the Sprint.com program, Ritesh helped lay and execute upon the site's architectural foundation so as to effectively integrate the social framework into the Sprint.com ecosystem—all the way from identity to commerce to self service.
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Heidi Staats
Senior User Experience Designer
Manpower
Heidi Staats is the Senior User Experience Designer for MyPath.com, a community-based career management resource guided by Manpower. She oversees information architecture, design and Jive administration. Heidi's also an active participant in MyPath, contributing regularly to the site's Work-Life Balance blog.
Heidi rarely strays far from the world of social media. She launched her own blog, singleworkingmama.com, last November and has attracted a steadily growing readership.
She earned her B.A. at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in Communication Design. In her eleven years of designing user experiences for both internal and public-facing sites, she has worked with such companies as USWeb/CKS, Whittman-Hart, Northwestern Mutual Life, American Family Insurance, and Harley-Davidson. She loves both the technical and creative side of her work and is happiest when she's 100-percent engaged in a project.
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Paul Stillmank
President and CEO
7Summits
Paul is President & CEO of 7Summits. The Midwest-based agency's mission is to help your customers, employees and partners build your business. Prior to founding 7Summits, Paul was Global Solutions Vice President at Manpower, Inc. with direct responsibility for externally facing global web applications serving millions of registered users. These rich internet applications leverage the most contemporary technologies including open-source, Web 2.0 and Social Media. Manpower is a $22 Billion Global Fortune 200 Company with offices in over 80 countries. Prior to joining Manpower, Paul was a partner at WHITTMANHART where he served as Vice President overseeing their Global Solutions portfolio. He was responsible for all National Practices and directly managed the firm's Milwaukee Office - a known hub in WHITTMANHART's Interactive Business. WHITTMANHART-Interactive was recently ranked among the most capable digital agencies by Forrester. In his roles at WHITTMANHART, Paul was responsible for all areas of business operations, including sales, marketing, creation of business-focused solutions, and the delivery of solutions to clients. Paul joined WHITTMANHART in 1997 after a 10-year career at Rockwell Automation.
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John Summers
Communities Manager
NetApp
John Summers an experienced professional with notable accomplishments in online community management, brand affinity, product management, and customer support in both start-up and enterprise companies. John has been involved with NetApp's public-facing communities since Jive was first implemented and is an expert on web 2.0 technologies. His understanding of user interface and design has allowed him to build a vibrant community at NetApp that achieved it participation and engagement goals by 10X over the first 6 months of the initial go-live date.
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Douglas Wager
Sr. Strategist
Cerner
Mr. Wager is a Sr. Strategist at Cerner Corporation who has combined his background in instructional design with an entrepreneurial spirit to launch a variety of learning and workforce-related businesses. These range from Cerner's Learning Services business, which provides Cerner clients with web, simulation, and classroom based training, to Cerner Workforce Management solutions that help hospitals staff appropriately to meet patient needs. Most recently, Mr. Wager has been involved in the design and launch of Cerner's business social networking platform, uCern, which is enabling associates and clients to connect, learn, share, and innovate in new ways.
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Deirdre Walsh
Community & Social Media Marketing Manager
National Instruments
As the community & social media manager at National Instruments, Deirdre manages and promotes an award-winning global community of 120,000 engineers working on applications ranging from LEGO software to hardware for the CERN supercollider.
She also provides social media marketing strategy for product launches and spearheads word-of-mouth campaigns that involve lead evangelists, brand blogs, viral videos, and social networks.
Prior to this role, Deirdre was a media relations specialist for high-profile organizations like Allstate and Hewlett-Packard. She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor of science in public relations and minors in business and English from The University of Texas.
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Jive & Other Speakers
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Robert Brown
SVP of Client Services
Jive Software
Robert serves as the SVP of Client Services at Jive. He is responsible for Services, Support, Education, and System Integrator Alliances. Prior to joining Jive, Robert was the Vice President of Sales for Innotas, a SaaS provider in the Project Portfolio Management realm. Previously, Robert held executive positions in Professional Services with Mercury, Kintana, Oracle, Price Waterhouse; and US Steel. During his career, Robert has supported and coached the customer base of these organizations, working with client side executives to ensure maximum return on their software investments.
Robert holds a B.A. in Accounting from West Virginia University and an M.B.A in Finance from Cleveland State University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.
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Cameron Deatsch
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Jive Software
Cameron joined Jive Software in May 2008. As Product Marketing Manager, he is responsible for ensuring Jive's employee engagement and customer support solutions continuously evolve to meet the rigorous demands of global enterprises. He also plays an integral role in helping clients identify and measure the business value of Social Business Software. Before joining Jive, Cameron was Product Marketing Manager at BEA Systems focused on portal and social computing technologies.
Cameron holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Davis and an MBA from the University of Montana.
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Kathryn Everest
Director of Strategic Consulting
Jive Software
Kathryn Everest is a Director of Strategic Consulting at Jive Software, specializing in the business aspects of deployment of Social Business Software. She joined Jive in October 2008. Kathryn consults with leading organizations to help them successfully implement social networking and collaboration to support their unique business strategy. She has over 20 years of experience helping organizations achieve measurable business results from knowledge sharing and collaboration. Her approach incorporates perspectives from multiple sectors, including pharmaceutical, legal, government, insurance, financial, professional services, manufacturing, education and utilities.
Kathryn is on the Advisory Board of the Monieson Centre at Queen's School of Business, and a member of the Knowledge Mobilization Steering Committee of the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.
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Dave Hersh
CEO
Jive Software
As CEO of Jive Software, Dave Hersh is responsible for overseeing the company's strategic direction, planning and implementation. In seven short years, Dave has led Jive Software from a small open source project to an Inc. 500 company with 100 percent annual growth rates.
Previously, Dave held the roles of CFO and product strategist at 4charity. Prior to that, he was a management consultant to Hewlett Packard, focused on HP's Worldwide Information Management Strategy. Dave began his career as a strategy and change management consultant at VIA International in Chicago and London.
Dave has gained a reputation for his deep industry knowledge of collaboration, knowledge management and open source, and he is frequently tapped to present at industry events and serve as a media reference. He holds a B.S. in Economics from DePauw University.
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Nick Hill
Director, Product Design
Jive Software
Nick Hill leads the product design team at Jive Software. He is responsible for designing the way our applications work, exploring new concepts and flushing out every last detail. He is passionate about designing and building products that perfectly blend innovation and usability. Prior to serving as the Director of Product Design, Nick was a manager on our engineering team, helping build the engineering organization and create our flagship product, Jive SBS. Nick joined Jive in early 2005 as a software engineer.
Prior to joining Jive, Nick helped drive innovation at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, working to bridge the gap between academia and industry by developing and deploying prototypes for testing new research solutions in a real-world context. Nick received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.
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Aaron Johnson
VP of Engineering
Jive Software
As Jive's senior director of engineering, Aaron Johnson oversees the engineering team, which includes core engineering, QA, product design and UI design. He joined the company in April 2006, and was one of the original members of the team that built Clearspace 1.0, which has gone on to earn numerous software awards.
Previously, Aaron was the Web Software Development Manager at Acushnet Company, where he was responsible for managing the technical aspects of the development and maintenance of over 25 consumer websites executed by three external agencies. He was also the senior software architect at Mindseye Technology.
Aaron holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Biola University and has completed course work toward a Masters of Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
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Bill Lynch
VP of Product Management and Co-Founder
Jive Software
Bill Lynch, Jive co-founder and VP of Product Management, is responsible for the product roadmap and has helped drive the product strategy that has earned Jive its position as the global leader in Social Business Software. Along with Matt Tucker, Bill Lynch founded Jive Software in 2001. Prior to Jive, Bill worked as a software engineer at an internet startup in San Francisco called 4charity. Bill holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.
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Gia Lyons
Director of Strategic Consulting
Jive Software
Gia Lyons joined Jive Software in June 2008 as a strategic consultant. She crafts custom-fit Jive Social Business Software adoption implementation strategies for her clients' employees, partners, and customers. Lately, she's worked with healthcare clients, including insurance providers, medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and clinics.
Gia has been developing, providing consulting services for, or selling socio-collaborative solutions since 1996. She spent four years as a collaborative application instructor and developer, another eight years as a socio-collaborative technical specialist and evangelist, serving large organizations in the U.S. Midwest. She holds a B.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Tulsa.
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Mike Marfise
Senior Director of Product Management
Jive Software
Mike Marfise joined Jive Software in Spring 2009. As Senior Director of Product Management for Jive's solution centers, he is responsible for setting the vision and defining market-leading solutions that focus on strategic enterprise business imperatives.
Over the past 17 years, Mike has been leading product management and engineering departments at emerging high-tech organizations. Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University and is the current President of the Northern California Product Development & Management Association.
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Kevin Mazzola
Director of Sales Engineering
Jive Software
Kevin Mazzola joined Jive as Director of World Wide Sales Engineering in April of 2009. He is responsible for driving the technical success of Jive's Enterprise customers and works closely with them to ensure a solution is crafted to meet their needs. He also leverages his broad background in technology and business to assist customers with technical guidance, ROI analysis, and Business Case development.
Kevin has been in the software industry for 15 years and has held Professional Services, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Leadership positions at Compuware, Covalent Technologies, Mercury Interactive, and Hewlett-Packard. He holds degrees in Engineering and Business Administration from Arizona State University.
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Adam Mertz
Product Marketing Manager
Jive Software
Adam Mertz joined Jive in December 2007. He brings 14 years in software product management and marketing to the company. As a Product Marketing Manager, Adam is responsible for for ensuring Jive's Innovation and Marketing and Sales SBS solutions continuously evolve to meet the rigorous demands of global enterprises. He also serves as Community Strategist for Jive's own community focused on business conversations. Adam was also a lead speaker for Jive's 2008 seminar series Integrating Social Media into Your Marketing Strategy. He holds a B.S. in Marketing and Management from the University of Oregon with Honors.
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Christopher Morace
Senior VP of Products
Jive Software
Chris Morace joined Jive in October 2007 to lead its Social Business Software product strategy and oversee engineering, product management, and product marketing. He brings with him a 15-year track record for building high-growth, high-value businesses in the technology sector. Previously, Chris has held executive positions at Sindhara, Awaken, Mercury and Kintana. He began his career architecting supply chain solutions and facilitating enterprise change management with Price Waterhouse for companies such as Cisco, Western Digital, and Xerox.
Chris holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University with Honors in Humanities.
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Erik Onnen
Principal Software Engineer
Jive Software
Erik is a Principal Software Engineer with Jive and leads the Customer Engineering Team where he focuses on scalability, performance, security, platform architecture and strategic customer initiatives with an engineering focus.
Erik joined Jive in 2007 from Liberty Mutual where his team reported to the office of the CTO. He holds a B.A in Political Science from Dartmouth College.
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Rick Palmer
Education Manager
Jive Software
Rick Palmer is Jive's Education Manager and brings 15 years of software development, management and consulting experience to the company. He joined Jive as a professional services engineer in August 2007, and then took over the Education Department in early 2008. Rick did his undergraduate work at Portland State University and began his career as a civil engineer working on improving salmon survival rates through Columbia River dams. He quickly discovered an aptitude for software engineering while writing water modeling software programs, and happily jumped into business software development. He is also an adjunct professor at Portland Community College where he has taught Java Web Programming for 4 years.
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Seth Rosenblatt
Market Development Evangelist
Jive Software
Seth focuses on go-to-market strategies, partner strategy and enablement, equipping our field teams, and working with Jive's customers to measure and evangelize their success.
Prior to Jive, Seth was Interwoven's Vice President of Product Marketing and the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Optimost. Seth was also President/COO of technology startups PocketScience and Bluefish Wireless. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions at Ziff-Davis and was an investment banker.
Seth holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is also an elected Trustee of the San Carlos (CA) School Board.
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Dan Short
Director of Analytics
Jive Software
Dan Short is Jive Software's Director of Analytics, responsible for advancing the products and services that enable the reporting, analysis and measurement of Social Business Software. Dan joined Jive in December 2007 and brings with him 15 years of experience working in a variety of business analytics and market research capacities. Prior to joining Jive Software, Dan was Director of Workforce Analytics at Kronos, a leader in workforce productivity solutions; a senior analytics consultant with WebCriteria, (acquired by CoreMetrics) and a market research analyst with Griggs-Anderson Research (acquired by Gartner Group). He began his career as a Technology industry analyst for Ernst and Young.
Dan holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Colgate University and an M.A . in Journalism from the University of Montana.
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Barry Tallis
Strategic Consulting Director
Jive Software
Barry Tallis joined Jive Software in 2004. As Strategic Consulting Director, Barry is responsible for working with Fortune 500 corporations such as Bank of America, Intel, Cognos, Apple, GE Healthcare and NetApp to establish and execute strategies to develop and grow corporate internal and external communities.
Barry's past experience includes his role product manager at Greens.com and the Portal Practice Director at Rapidigm / Fujitsu. Barry holds a B.S. in Communications with an emphasis on Artificial Communication and Information Technology from Oregon State University.
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Olivia Teich
Director of Product Management
Jive Software
Olivia Teich joined Jive in August 2009 to lead its Foundation strategy and continue the evolution of social business software. She brings with her deep experience launching and growing technology platform products for businesses and consumers. Olivia has held product leadership roles at companies including Yahoo! and Kleiner Perkins-backed recommendation engine leader Aggregate Knowledge. She started her career managing marketing and operations at an ice cream company that established organic farming cooperatives in the Amazon.
Olivia holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University, with Honors in International Security Studies.
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Matt Tucker
CTO and Co-Founder
Jive Software
Matt Tucker, Jive co-founder and CTO, is responsible for the long-term technical and strategic direction of Jive's products. Along with Bill Lynch, Matt founded Jive Software in 2001. Matt is an active member in open standards communities including having served on the board of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Prior to Jive, Matt worked as a software engineer at an internet startup in San Francisco called 4charity. Matt holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.
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Greg Unrein
Product Manager
Jive Software
Greg Unrein joined Jive Software in July 2004 and leads the Product Engineering team which focuses on customer-driven product improvements. During his time at Jive, Greg has also served as a Senior Product Manager responsible for Jive Social Business Software as well as the manager of the Support team.
Greg has over 10 years of experience in technology companies ranging from video games to dispatch automation software. His career has been focused on creating software that benefits the individuals who use it. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and an MBA from Marylhurst University.
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Erskine Williams
Director of Professional Services
Jive Software
Erskine Williams joined Jive Software in 2005 to lead the Professional Services team. The primary focus of Erskine's career has been in tackling challenges concerning data/content management and human computer interaction. The emergence of Social Business Software provides a rich environment for Erskine to transform customer vision in to business value.
He has a deep technical background across many industries including biotech (CAChe Software, a Fujitsu Biosciences Company), financial services (Barclays Global Investors), and manufacturing (Intel). Erskine holds B.A. degrees in Biochemistry and Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia.
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