Distinguished Alumni

Christopher Barron

Christopher Barron

former Associate

Now EVP & Chief Information Officer at EMF Broadcasting.

Brad Bell

Brad Bell

former Associate

Now SVP CIO at Infoblox.

 

 

Rich Braen

Rich Braen

former Associate

Now CFO at ONSHOREems.

Mike Cashman

Mike Cashman

former Associate

Retired to the golf course.

 

Ed Caufield

Ed Caufield

former Associate

Head of IT at SightGlass Vision, Inc.

 

 

Mark Conway

Mark Conway

former Associate

Now CIO of 2020 Software.

 

Gloria Falcinelli

Gloria Falcinelli

former Associate

Now Director of Technical Operations at Anaplan.

 

 

 

Frank Ha

Frank Ha

former Associate

Now Senior Systems Admin at Pure Storage.

 

Frank Hannig

Frank Hannig

Retired Partner

Frank was one of the original six founders of the firm.  He achored one of our early key accounts at Rambus as well as other clients. He has retired to spend time travelling the world. We wish him well in retirement.

 

 

Tak Hirai

Tak Hirai

Chief Life Officer Tak Hirai 2.0

Tak helped to found the firm and make it what it is today.  We thank him for his years of contributions and wish him well in retirement.

 

 

Cameron Kelly

Cameron Kelly

former Associate

Now Chief Information Officer at Contec with direct end-to-end responsibility for Information Technology strategy and its execution.

 

 

Neil Kole

Neil Kole

former Principal

Now CIO at Cadence Design Systems

 

 

George Lin

George Lin

former Principal

Now CIO at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

 

 

Kristi McGee

Kristi McGee

former Principal

Now Senior Business Leader, Visa

 

 

Joel Odelson

Joel Odelson

former Associate

Now CSO at Maxim Integrated Circuits.

 

Geeta Pyne

Geeta Pyne

former Associate

Now Chief Enterprise Architect - Platform and Architecture at Intuit.

 

Situ Ramaswamy

Situ Ramaswamy

former Associate

Now General Manager, Information Technology, Colorado Springs Utilities

 

 

Venky Rangachari

Venky Rangachari

former Associate

Now VP of IT Enterprise Architecture at HPE.

 

 

Rob Shearin

Rob Shearin

former Associate

Now Senior Director of Architecture and Engineering at Robert Half.

 

Scott Smith

Scott Smith

Associate

Now Security leader for the SAP Ariba cloud.

Mark Tonnesen

Mark Tonnesen

Now CIO at our client Freedom Financial Network.

 

 

 

Mike Vedda

Mike Vedda

former Associate

Now Vice President of Information Technology at Codexis

 

Rocky Vienna

Rocky Vienna

former Principal

Now Chief Operating Officer at KIO Networks USA.

 

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