Summit SF2 Speaker Bios

Josh Elman

@JoshElman

Partner, Greylock Partners

Josh joined Greylock as a principal in 2011. Over the past 15 years, Josh has worked in product and engineering roles at some of the leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Prior to Greylock, Josh was a product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, and helped Twitter grow it’s active user base by nearly 10x. Before Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect.

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Ken Norton

@KenNortonhttps://www.kennethnorton.com

Partner, Google Ventures

Ken is a partner at Google Ventures. Prior to joining Google Ventures, Ken was a group product manager at Google. Ken joined Google in 2006 with the acquisition of JotSpot, where he was vice president of products. He has a BA from Boston University and an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a dad to two boys and really likes to ride his bike.

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Dan Olsen

@DanOlsen

Interim VP of Product Management, Product Management Consultant at Olsen Solutions

Dan helps web and mobile companies build and optimize their products, usually as interim VP of Product. Dan is a Stanford MBA with a strong technical background, broad general management skills, and deep expertise in product management and marketing. He has held senior management positions at established companies and executive roles at start-ups working on software, web, and mobile products.

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Ian Kennedy

@IanKennedyhttp://everwas.com

Director of Product at GigaOM

Ian works the spaces in between. With experience in Product, Sales, and Corporate Development in the Finance, Media and Technology industries, he connect the dots from a unique perspective. Ian has worked in Japan, US East & West coasts, and most recently, Finland. He has worked in both large corporations and small startups. Ian works best with small teams building and improving solutions for our customers. He derives happiness from shipping products early and often.

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Glen Lipka

@GlenLipkahttp://commadot.com

Vice President, UX at Marketo

Glen Lipka joined Marketo in Dec, 2006. He was the first employee after the founders and wore many hats including Product Manager, UX Architect, Desktop Support (He built the first desks!), CSS/HTML/Web guy, Trainer, Sales Consultant, Product Support, Network Administrator and namer of Munchkin. Currently, he heads the User Experience department and tries to bring love to every new feature.

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Delyn Simons

@delynatorhttp://delynsimons.blogspot.com

Vice President, Developer Platform at Mashery

Delyn Simons brings remarkable knowledge of API platforms and developer opportunities to Mashery. Delyn created the Mashery API Network, an open data commons of RESTful APIs and an ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of developers who build web and mobile applications. Along with her band of Mashery API evangelists, Delyn works both with developers building great apps and with leading companies looking to extend the reach of their brands and businesses. Prior to joining Mashery, Delyn led developer community and platform marketing for eBay’s pioneering open API platform.

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Donna Boyer

@DonnaBoyer

Chief Product Officer at Blurb

Donna Boyer is a self-confessed product geek obsessed with building smart technology that enables new ways of creating and consuming content. Donna started out at the Harvard Business School where she researched the global economic impact of technology innovations. Since then she has focused on how to empower creative people to bring beauty and outstanding user experience into the digital world, working with companies like Starbucks and New York Times to create new digital content experiences.

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Rich Miranov

@RichMironovhttp://www.mironov.com

Serial Entrepreneur & Author, Art of Product Management

Rich Mironov is a serial entrepreneur, including as founder/CEO, VP Product Management and VP Marketing for start-ups, as well as go-to-market strategist and agile “product guy”. Rich is a veteran of six tech start-ups and dozens of consulting engagements. Since 2006, he’s provided full-time and interim consulting/mentoring to large and small technology companies. – See more at: http://www.mironov.com/profile/#sthash.e6Y8EroS.dpuf

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Tristan Kromer

@TriKrohttp://tristankromer.com

Lean Startup Coach, Luxr.co

His career goal is to create (not capture) value. He is particularly interested in creative collaboration, education, and social behavior hacks. Lean Startup Coach, Mentor, and/or Facilitator trainer at Tech Accelerator programs such as Seedcamp (EU), Startup Wise Guys (Estonia), NEST’up (Belgium), Happy Farm (Ukraine), N-motion (USA), Fast Forward (Palestine), TechBA (USA/Mexico), Startup Monthly (USA), Lean Startup Machine (Various), Luxr residency program (USA).

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Tatiana Josephy

@TatianaJosephy

Head of Products, Crowdflower

Tatiana makes sure we’re focusing on the highest impact development for our job creation platform and quality control mechanisms. Before joining CrowdFlower, initially as a Product Manager, Tatiana founded and ran a mobile app company with over a hundred thousand users, and led Marketing and User Experience at DonorsChoose.org. Tatiana graduated from Princeton University with a degree in public policy. She enjoys the particular variety of chess that Product and Engineering play at CrowdFlower.

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Stephanie Geerlings

@geerlinger

General Manager, Cloud City Development

Stephanie has worked with technology & design for 10 years. She believes good engineering and design should be done with artistic and scientific methods. She strives to be whole-minded, collaborative, and flexible. Her specialties are product design, LeanUX, agile, customer development, & usability.

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Kyle Henderson

@KyleHenderson

Co-Founder, YouEye

The benefits and pains of conducting user research and acceptance testing in dynamic, high speed environments led Kyle to cofound YouEye. He felt there could be a better, faster, and more affordable way to involve audiences in product development, and confirm his team developed impactful solutions.

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Derek Carter

@TriKrohttps://www.youeye.com/blog/tag/derek-carter

Co-Founder, YouEye

Derek is the other co-founder of YouEye. He is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and CTO with plenty of modern web framework experience (mostly rails), location-based & geographic application development, User Experience engineer, application architect, JavaScript wizard, and versatile techie.

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Lori Stewart

@Lori19Stewart‎

Chief Operating Officer, EZ-Robot

Software business geek, Silicon Valley survivor, Cleantech wannabe, civic-minded, Nenshi election handler, City Hall neophyte … and aspiring author! With 15 years experience in the software development world (Enterprise, Internet and Saas) in various parts of the world, she has come to the conclusion that the secret for success is simply having the right ideas, at the right time … with the right team in place to execute.

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jason Chicola

@JasonChicola‎

CEO, Rev.com

Jason Chicola is founder and CEO of Rev. Prior to starting Rev, Jason was the 3rd employee at oDesk. Jason was also an investment professional with H.I.G. Capital and an associate with Globespan Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, he was a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. Jason earned BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Carol Golsch

@CarolGolsch

Director of Product Management, Redline Solutions

Experienced software product management professional, with 10+ years increasing level of responsibility in product design, product management, and strategic planning. Expertise in cloud computing, web development and mobile handset application design and development. Champion of the user and the user experience.

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Teresa Torres

@ttorreshttp://teresatorres.com/producttalk

Vice President of Products, AfterCollege

Teresa is a product consultant and coach who works with early-stage companies helping them translate their big ideas into great products. My focus is on helping product managers be better at what they do by sharing knowledge, building know-how, and refining practice.

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Jason Shah

@jasonyogeshshahhttp://jasonshah.org

Product Manager, Yammer

Founder and product manager who loves to learn from others, think from first principles, and build products that meaningfully change the world for the better.

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Kristy Kocher

https://clearstreetinc.com/blogs/12

Head of Product Management, ClearStreet, Inc.

Kristy Kocher is currently Head of Product Management at ClearStreet. Kristy Kocher is an experienced Product Manager who enjoys the challenges of developing quality software products. Kristy has over 25 years of experience in the software industry in Silicon Valley, working with companies such as Electronic Arts, NetSchools, Oracle, Adecco, Informix and IntelliCorp. Her previous work includes the implementation and management of complex enterprise software solutions for large corporations, as well as leading efforts at startups to develop educational software for educators and consumers.

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Sean Campbell

@Sean_Campbell

Co-Founder, Cascade Insights

Sean’s competitive intelligence knowledge is rooted in nearly 20 years of working with leading-edge hardware and software technologies long before they became mainstream. As a recognized thought leader in the competitive intelligence community, Sean is regularly requested to speak at national events on competitive intelligence and industry analysis. He received the Catalyst Award from SCIP and co-chaired the Oregon SCIP chapter. Additionally, Sean is a contributing assistant professor at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management, where he teaches industry analysis and competitive intelligence.

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Burt Herman

@BurtHermanhttp://www.burtherman.com/

Co-founder of Storify

I am an entrepreneurial journalist who is working to combine the worlds of journalism and technology to build the future of media. I am co-founder of Storify, which builds tools for journalists, bloggers and anyone to make stories by curating the social Web. I am also co-founder of Hacks/Hackers, an international non-profit organization that brings together journalists and technologists to collaborate on projects.

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Edith Harbaugh

http://www.tripit.com/blog/author/edith-harbaugh

Director of Product, TripIt

Edith leads product strategy for TripIt and was a founding team member of TripIt for Teams, an easier way to organize office travel. Edith has more than 10 years of experience with both consumer and enterprise startups. From her work on portal sharing, she has two patents. Edith received a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a degree in Economics from Pomona College.