socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

El Seguno-based iRise , which develops enterprise software visualization products, said Tuesday that it has named Bryan MacDonald to its board of advisors. MacDonald was formerly a Regional Managing Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, and also served as CIO of an un-named energy company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2010

San Diego-based IntraStage , a developer of quality management software for companies who design and manufacture electronic products, including statistical process control (SPC) and other testing and data analytics tools, has raised a round of angel funding. According to the firm, it raised a Series A investment led by the Tech Coast Angels.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based Saviynt , a venture backed developer of cybersecurity software for the hybrid cloud, said on Tuesday that it has added Jim DuBois, the former CIO of Microsoft, to its board of advisors. Saviynt said that DeBois had been at Microosft for over 24 years. Amit Saha is CEO of Saviynt. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. You’re stressed. Your solution?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2017

Los Angeles-based MANDT VR , an augmented reality and virtual reality production company, said on Thursday that it has named Mike Dunn as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Mandt was most recently CIO at VER, and also had previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Time Warner, Hearst Interactive Media and TrueCar.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2015

The company said that TJ Thinakaran, Co-Founder and COO, has become Chief Services Officer for the company, and that Punit Shah, Co-Founder and CIO, will become Chief Product Officer. CallFire is led by Ron Burr.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

For Las Vegas, Google’s launch partner is Aristocrat , which fittingly offers digital products for the gambling industry. “Cloud technologies enable two important outcomes for us,” said James Alvarez, CIO of Aristocrat. So far, it doesn’t look like the COVID-19 pandemic is slowing down these plans.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Morefield is the former COO of Experian Consumer Direct, as well as CIO at Overture Services. According to the firm, founding CEO Jeff Solomon becomes Senior Vice President and will focus on product and technology development at the company. Morefield has also served at PayMyBills and at Home Savings of America.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

Irvine-based antivirus and endpoint protection software developer Cylance has named a trio of new executives, saying that it has named Grant Johnson as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Kumud Kalia as Chief Information Officer (CIO), and promoted Eric Cornelius to Chief Product Officer (CPO).

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Symantec CIO Software Development Software 100

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

The startup--led by Jeremy Gocke--said the funding came from Scout Ventures, Rick Dalzell (former Amazon CIO), Rich Heise (early Groupon investor), Hivers & Strivers, Kelly Perdew, and other angels. The company said it will use the funds to bolster its product team and expand into new verticals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Customers can stream your companys content, shop for goods, search for local products and services, and receive personalized serviceall from their mobile phones. Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Mobile Apps: The New Direct-To-Consumer Channel. Mobile Apps enable businesses to relate to customers one-to-one. Come join the discussion!

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Bruce Maches: Consultant and contributor to Cloud Magazine Josh Crowe: Vice President of Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing, Savvis Communications Paul Laskin: Co-founder and CIO, Cirrhus9 Joe Luna: Managing Partner, Logic Security Sylvia Garcia: Director IT, Santarus, Inc. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You’re not in the grind of your staff being constantly approached by every other start-up within 10 miles. So it’s always a trade-off.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 12, 2012

The officials from the San Francisco Department of Environment told CIO Journal that, ” Apple does not therefore qualify any purchase using city funds” In the coming two weeks officials are planning to send out letters to all their 50 agencies not to buy Apple’s Macs and desktops lack the green electronics certification.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve created a really simple product, which is simple to deploy, simple to administer, looks and feels like SMS, and works like an app over the top, and has al the features and capabilities to unlock lots of utility to someone. Our fourth generation product allows for multiple directories in the app. That''s what we''re devoted to.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The pandemic allowed us to experiment with working from home, which has proven to be quite successful without sacrificing productivity. We want to understand the why & how before tackling the what so that we can deliver high quality products to our users.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I go to lots of events in Los Angeles, and there are many entrepreneurs who want to start companies, are bootstrapping, and everyone has a great idea and is figuring out how to launch their products and launch their startup. They're seeking a career change.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Businesses of all sizes are realizing cost savings, efficiencies and productivity gains they never thought possible. He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

His firm works to infuse projects with the management, social and production assistance needed to break away from the pack. Founder’s Table, CEO, CTO, CIO, COO, and President, CallFire. Matthew’s passion is partnering with brands to help build community, optimize operations, and develop a strong digital strategy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. What we want to do is solve that problem, and build the first, live project and product collaboration tool. So we built this product, and we believe we're the first ones to have it in the market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. It's all about leverage. I know all of that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Because we're able to help people invset in digital channels online, and with mobile apps, and the rest, wer're attracting a whole new group of folks to their lending products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Ship a minimum product now. For a true scientist, the product is never good enough, so it’s never done.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

My counterpart, Mark Attaway, our CIO, was at Fidelity national and LSI, both title companies, building automated platforms for the title process. We're looking to start increasing the number of lenders, and building out the product, expanding it, and really being able to leverage it to get the costs of producing down.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The chief executive has to take notice of the slue of mandates & regulations aimed at making electronic goods (along with their production & disposal) less harmful to the environment. The CIO: The optimal use of information & communication technology is critical to the CIO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Make sure you have team members covering both domains, to balance your decision input. You are the business scientist, to balance data scientists.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! This won’t be one of those talks.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As we know, developers always give their product a code name. African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). Why the name? We liked the Z on the beginning and the Z on the end. The name just stuck! African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail. Gadgets Tablet Applications Architecture Business BYOD CIO Cloud Computing Communicating Data Management Marketing Mobility network security Scalability Smartphones' The post IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption appeared first on TechZulu.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

After all, it’s a Microsoft product and, as we all know, Microsoft is all about world domination and the end of free and open source software as we know it. Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. Well, seriously why.Net?

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. What’s your role in your ecosystem? Aaron: I am Cleveland native, but have also spent time living in San Francisco, New York, India, London, and Paris.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

After all, it’s a Microsoft product and, as we all know, Microsoft is all about world domination and the end of free and open source software as we know it. Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. Well, seriously why.Net?

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LAMP PHP Java CTO Hire 40

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

After all, it’s a Microsoft product and, as we all know, Microsoft is all about world domination and the end of free and open source software as we know it. Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. Well, seriously why.Net?

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PHP LAMP Java CTO Hire 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. While in years past that technology had much to do with production, today’s technology has more to do with marketing, Intel and communication.

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