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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
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Career Conversations: Making it in the Valley
Career Conversations connect you with other Concordia alumni and industry professionals around the world via desktop or mobile for quick, one-on-one, text-based chats.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017: 12–1 p.m. Eastern Time
Alumni professionals working in Silicon Valley share their experience and give tips on how to grow your career and make the move to the Valley.
Chat online one on one with a pro for 10 minutes to get personalized feedback, then head over to the discussion booth to get answers to your more general questions.
Meet the pros
Fay Arjomandi, BEng 98
Serial Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor, Advisor, Board Member
Faye has forged a career as a serial entrepreneur and thought leader with a strong technology background and a solid understanding of marketing, finance and business development. She was the co-founder of Vodaone xone brand and became the CEO, technology incubator and R&D center in Silicon Valley until July 2014.
Zack Urlocker, BCompSc 84
COO, Duo Security
Zack helped lead software companies to billion dollar exits, including Active Software, MySQL and Zendesk. He has been an advisor and board member to venture-backed software companies that have had significant growth in revenue and value including DataStax, HubSpot, Level Eleven, PagerDuty, Pentaho, PuppetLabs, PubNub, Sailthru and SugarCRM.
Vito Salvaggio, BEng 86
VP, Product Management, Loggly
Now VP of product management at Loggly, a cloud based search company, Vito has over 25 years experience in product development and management. Vito is an experienced, hands-on, senior leader equally comfortable in Fortune 100 or startup environments – from fund raising through IPO.
Jim Bletas, BEng 69
President and CEO, WNI Global Inc.
Jim is the founder, president and CEO at WNI Global Inc., a global distributor of networking and wireless communications products and services. Prior to this he served as the VP of sales at Wireless Inc, as well as the VP of sales at Harris Corporation-Farinon Division.
Ibrahim Haddad, PhD 06
Vice-President, R&D, and Head of the Open Source Group, Samsung Research America
Ibrahim is responsible for overseeing software and open-source strategy and execution, internal and external collaborative R&D projects, supporting M&A and Corporate VC activities, and representing Samsung on the board of open source foundations and industry consortia. He also serves as vice-president of the Open Connectivity Foundation. He is known for his writing and speaking on topics ranging from legal compliance to using open source as a business strategy and an R&D tool to drive collaboration and innovation.
Richard Howe, BEng 88
Chairman & CEO, Inuvo, Inc.
Now CEO at Inuvo, a public internet marketing technology developer, Richard has worked as a strategically-minded marketing and M&A innovator for 25 years. He has recruited and inspired teams who have implemented numerous breakthrough uses of information with applications in marketing, risk management and fraud detection.