Tech Up for Women

Anne M. Mulcahy is a 30-year veteran of Xerox and led the company through a massive transformation – reinventing Xerox into an innovative technology and services enterprise during her time as Chairman and CEO (2001 – 2010). Ms. Mulcahy and her management team were responsible for an aggressive, multibillion-dollar turnaround plan that returned Xerox…

Google’s Bronagh Friel is an insights driven decision maker, with a passion for creative storytelling, and loves collaborating across diverse groups to execute on big, bold ideas. She has worked in Google for 8 years, starting off in Ireland, then moving to San Francisco before landing in New York this year.

Molly Beck is founder of podcast creation site Messy Bun; the author of Reach Out; the creator of the lifestyle blog Smart, Pretty & Awkward; and a marketing expert who provides digital strategies for companies including Forbes, Venmo, Rice University, and Hearst. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, Parade, Huffington Post, Redbook, and more.

Sabina A. Ewing is Vice President, Business Technology (BT) for Pfizer’s Corporate Functions and Business Services. Her responsibilities include the BT partnership and delivery of technology solutions for the Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, and Legal divisions as well as…

Nancy Calderon is KPMG’s Global Lead Partner for IBM, responsible for building and managing the firm’s global relationship with the company. In this position, she manages a global team of 500 partners and professionals in more than 50 countries providing a range of services to this Fortune 50 company and its customers via alliance offerings, including Cloud…

Lois Herzeca is the COO of MouthMedia Network, as well as a leading fashion and retail lawyer. She Co-founded the Fashion, Retail and Consumer Products practice group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and Co-authored Fashion Law and Business: Brands & Retailers (2013). She is a Lecturer in Law at the University of…

Tameika N. Hollis is the Executive Director for the Cyber and Intelligence Mission Solutions, a division within Northrop Grumman’s $10.7B Mission Systems sector. In this position she is responsible for ensuring a portfolio of over 100 programs spanning the federal, defense, and intelligence markets which operates at the highest performance standards. Ms. Hollis applies her experience…

Kathy Murray, Founder & Co-Chair of Executive Forum Angels, is an experienced and creative business growth executive, angel investor, and advisor. Kathy’s background includes senior management roles at publicly traded firms and partnerships such as PwC, Aetna and FARO Tech. Kathy is also President of Harvard Business School Women’s Association of NY and…

Maria Tapia is an experienced leader with over 25 years of experience in the technology industry. Throughout her career, she has re-invented herself several times. Maria began her career with IBM as an Applications Programmer in Southbury, CT supporting IBM internal security applications. Maria was also a project manager in the technology services…

Wendy Chin has over 25 years of senior management experience working in Fortune 50 companies and leading start-up businesses. Wendy is the Managing Partner of Creative Technology Group with a key focus in Cyber Security advisory practice. She also managed and developed an NLP-based travel assistant called Ezzie, and created the business strategy…

Steve Garrow is the host of the award-winning Provocateur’s Lab workshops. Steve is Managing Partner of the business development and investment firm Kayon Partners, and is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Berkley Innovation Lab at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He holds talks with corporations, communities, and universities on the habits…

As EVP of Partnership Strategy, Snjezana is responsible for building delightful partnership-focused experiences, and promoting culture where Softvision’s success is directly linked to success of our client partners. She comes to Softvision with over 25 years of experience in the high-tech and entertainment industries with a passion for delivering technology-enabled…

Katie Dixon is a global business professional focused on enabling customers and partners to achieve their unique business outcomes. A data access expert, Katie brings deep technical expertise on platforms including Microsoft, Informatica, Salesforce.com, Oracle and SAP BI. She helps organizations unlock data silos to use…

Jennifer Jackson currently serves as the Supervisory Economic Development Specialist for the New York District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).  In this capacity,  Jennifer is responsible for developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships with small business stakeholders with federal, state, regional and local government organizations…

Ariana Dugan is the Director of Education Product Management at GA. GA’s education products help companies and individuals define, measure, and develop the skills they need to succeed in analytics, data science, coding, product, design and marketing.

Natasha Green is currently a community manager at AnitaB.org, an entrepreneur, and a former mathematics teacher for the New York City Department of Education. She has touched on each letter in the acronym S.T.E.M and wants to improve the lives of youth in the New York city area.

Joshua Ashley Klayman is Of Counsel in the Financial Transactions Group and is a founding member and the head of MoFo’s Blockchain + Smart Contracts Group. Ms. Klayman is resident in the New York office and is a member of the firm-wide Women’s Strategy Committee, as well as Co-Chair of the New York Women’s Affinity Group…

Shannon Platz is SAP’s Global Vice President for Platform Ecosystem, responsible for sales and marketing strategy and revenue generation via digital solutions focused on analytics, databases, big data, cloud, IoT platforms and applications. Shannon manages a …

Leslie F. Varon is a retired Chief Financial Officer and current Board Director with an extensive record of financial and business leadership in investor relations and corporate financial management. An executive with more than 30 years’ experience at Xerox, …

Lauren Stevens is Vice President, Senior Strategist, for FactSet’s Content and Technology Solutions. Specifically, Mrs. Stevens is responsible for analyzing market research and determining the direction of the FactSet content, cloud and technology strategy. Since joining FactSet in 2006…

Meet Ellen Keithline Byrne. How can we use the power of our mind to generate the confidence necessary to show up as a leader with presence? Successful leaders know this! Now you can too. Research indicates that what we tell ourselves impacts our behavior in ways we don’t even realize…

Rima Alameddine leads the Enterprise business for Nvidia for the Eastern half of the US and Canada. Along with her team she’s responsible for helping Fortune 500 customers grow and transform their businesses by leveraging Artificial Intelligence…

Jessica DeLuca is a data scientist for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Einstein team. She builds big data analytical tools which help transform clickstream, ad impression, and user behavior data into meaningful analyses and user experiences. She’s an IBM Women In Data Science Scholarship recipient and…

Diane Rogerson is Director of Information Technology (IT) Cybersecurity &
Technology Controls (CTC). In addition to managing Global Chase Consumer & Community Banking IT Risk & Controls and Cyber Security, Diane also manages Identity & Access Management, Vulnerability Management and Chase Security Operations…

Bill Zierolf is the Executive Director, Sales North America, Enterprise & Intelligence Solutions at Syniverse. Bill is a Sales & Account Management professional with meaningful experience working with Mobile Marketing, Digital Media & CRM Solutions with Syniverse…

Anuja Singh runs Advanced Services Business Development for the US Public Sector business for Cisco Systems. Along with her team, she focuses on helping customers drive innovation and productivity to grow and transform their business. Anuja has over 20 years of diverse experience from having worked in…

Samanvitha Kumar, a technical specialist in the areas of Identity & Access Management and Mobile Security, has over 13 years of product architecture and development experience. As a member of Oracle Identity Cloud Service team, she is involved in building world class access and authentication…

Angie Ruan joined Nasdaq in May 2018 as Senior Vice President, Technology and Cloud Migration. She is responsible for Global Infrastructure as well as key Market Technology engineering. She previously held technology executive positions at American Express, Paypal and eBay, where she transformed technology…

Sapna Shah is an angel investor, retail expert and three-time entrepreneur. Through Red Giraffe Advisors, Sapna makes angel and early-stage seed investments in retail tech, fashion tech and e-commerce startups and offers advisory services to early-stage companies.

Margaret Niche is currently the Head of the ICE Global Network for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which operates exchanges, clearing houses and information services that customers rely upon to invest, trade and manage risk across global financial and commodity markets…

Amy DuVernet, Ph.D., CPTM, is the director of certification programs at Training Industry, Inc., where she oversees all processes related to continuing education programs, including development and evaluation…

Taryn Oesch, CPTM, is the editor of web content at Training Industry, Inc., where she also co-hosts “The Business of Learning,” the Training Industry podcast. Her series on cybersecurity training won a 2017 APEX Award of Excellence, and she has also received a regional bronze Azbee Award…

Jessica Madrid grew up in boutique digital agencies in the late ‘90s and early 2000s finding herself at the advent of ecommerce. Jessica worked with brands like Ralph Lauren, J Crew, Ann Taylor, and several Estée Lauder Companies brands to design and develop some of their first ecommerce websites…

Jen Vescio is Global Head of Development at Oath, a Verizon Company. Starting in 1992 coaching soccer in the Olympic Development program in PA and NJ and at Carnegie Mellon and Princeton, she embarked on a star-studded media development…

Dana Shaw-Arimoto has always left a legacy behind. She believes strongly in leaving things better than she found them, and her record shows it. While working at SIA as Senior VP of Strategy and Solutions, Dana co-launched the industry’s first-ever buyside conference, research council…

Shelby Chamberlain is currently the CFO at Patient Discovery and has additional responsibility for overall market development, corporate strategy and investor relations. Shelby initially had the vision for Patient Discovery while sourcing, investing and coaching early stage companies…

Erin Heinmiller is the Senior Director of Digital Compliance for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), a leader in the global building systems and aerospace industries with more than 200,000 employees globally.  Erin leads a team focused on developing UTC’s cybersecurity vision and strategy…

Abby Fuller is a technical evangelist/agony aunt at Amazon Web Services. She currently is involved in developer relations. Prior to joining Amazon, she worked for a number of startups, including Airtime and Hailo. She is a graduate of Tufts University and Tuck School of Business Bridge Program…

Stephanie DePalma  is an engineering design manager at GE Additive where she is responsible for driving customer and industry additive adoption through disruptive design.  As part of the AddWorks^TM team Stephanie works with customers to help them understand…

Marcy Paterson has spent the last 25 years working in the technology sector in a range of capacities. As an early embracer of customer relationship management software, Marcy had the opportunity to experience how technology can truly change the way a company conducts business…

Anju S. Chopra is Vice President, Technology with Kroll’s Identity Theft and Breach Notification practice, based in Pittsburgh. In a career spanning 22 years, Anju has continually delivered innovative, often ground-breaking advances in complex technology systems…

Lisa Paccione is responsible for leading the sales of Syniverse’s full portfolio of mobile marketing, engagement and identity solutions for enterprises across the Americas market. Previously, as Vice President, Sales, Global Sales Development, she managed global…

Amanda Patterson is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Call List, which works with brands like MAC Cosmetics to monetize interactive video and deepen relationships with Millennial and Gen Z consumers. Prior to The Call List, Amanda was a strategy consultant, applying technology solutions within Fortune 500 companies…

Shelia Cockburn is experienced in the industries dealing with businesses, non-profits, pharmaceutical, automotive and construction.  Shelia is the principal of Cockburn Law P.C. (“CLPC”); where she functions as a remote General Counsel to businesses.  She is a P.E. mechanical engineer and attorney. Shelia Cockburn loves to travel…

Alicia Syrett is the Founder/CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments, and The Point 25 Initiative. She is a recurring panelist on CNBC’s Power Pitch and MSNBC’s Your Business, a Contributor for Inc. magazine, and an Instructor for Steve Blank’s Lean Launchpad course at Columbia University. She serves on the Board…