Interview with Test Tester

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT

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Interview with Lena West

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Lena L. West is an award-winning social media consultant, blogger, speaker, journalist and technologist.

She is also the CEO & Chief Strategist at xynoMedia Technology, a consulting firm that helps business-to-business companies harness the power of social media to consistently increase thought leadership, online revenues and visibility. West says, "Our mission...

Interview with Jessica Flannery

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:00:00 GMT

In the spring of 2004, Jessica boarded a plane to Kenya, about to begin a new job doing microenterprise development throughout East Africa. While she was there, Jessica formed powerful connections with entrepreneurs who had started small businesses with just a few hundred dollars, working themselves and their families out...

Interview with Lee Kennedy

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Lee Kennedy’s 25-year high tech career includes several entrepreneurial successes, most recently as CIO of Webroot Software. Previously Lee was vice president of Business Development for Panopticon (acquired by Kana for over $100 million), Executive in Residence for Kindling, a California Venture Capital Firm, and vice president of Strategic...

Interview with Jean Kovacs

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT

At Sterling Commerce, Kovacs is expanding the company’s reach through closer relationships with key partners – including AT&T, the company’s parent, and leading systems integrators. Kovacs also has been instrumental in elevating the company’s corporate marketing and communications efforts, ensuring the company is communicating a strong message to all its key constituents.

Kovacs...

Interview with Audrey MacLean

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Audrey MacLean has been on the Forbes Midas Touch list and named by BusinessWeek as one of the 50 most influential business women in America. She also has been featured by Forbes in a cover article on angel investing. MacLean has over three decades of combined experience in...

Interview with Kristin Asleson McDonnell

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Kristin McDonnell has over 15 years experience in growing and operating consumer digital media companies. She has held senior management positions in a number of Silicon Valley companies including HearMe/Mpath (IPO), AT&T's ImagiNation Network (sold to AOL), and

Interview with Nancy Phillips

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT

As co-founder and COO, Nancy Phillips has a vested interest in establishing ViaWest as a leader in the market. Phillips, who has over 15 years of management experience in technology, oversees ViaWest's operations, engineering and technical support divisions. Previously Vice President of Operations for RMI.net, Phillips...

Interview with Margaret Wallace

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Margaret Wallace is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rebel Monkey, a New York-based game development studio focusing on casual games. Before Rebel Monkey, Margaret co-founded and was CEO of Skunk Studios. Prior to the establishment of Skunk Studios, Ms. Wallace produced and designed games at

Interview with Bambi Francisco

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Bambi Francisco is a co-founder and CEO of Vator.tv, the professional network for launching ideas and innovation. Vator.tv is a web platform for anyone, across all industries, at any stage, to share ideas, products, services and businesses with the rest of the world, mainly through video. People use...

Interview with Jeanette Symons

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Jeanette Symons is the founder, Chief Executive Officer of Industrious Kid, and mother of two. Prior to founding Industrious Kid, Ms. Symons co-founded Zhone Technologies, a telecommunications company that builds "last mile" access solutions, where she served as the company's Chief Technology Officer and Vice...

Interview with Anousheh Ansari

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Anousheh Ansari earned a place in history in 2006 as the fourth private explorer, the first woman private explorer, and the first astronaut of Iranian descent to visit space. Back on Earth, Anousheh returned to her job as co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, a company that hopes...

Interview with Marketta Silvera

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Since joining Apptera in 2005 as chief executive and board member, Marketta Silvera has led the company to be the first provider of v-Business solutions (e-Business over the phone) that help enterprises increase revenues through ad-serving technologies, 1-to-1 marketing, and personalized e-commerce over the phone channel. Previously, as an entrepreneur and...

Interview with Judy Estrin

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Judy Estrin is President & CEO of Packet Design, LLC, a network technology company she co-founded in May 2000. Prior to co-founding Packet Design, LLC, Estrin was Chief Technology Officer for Cisco Systems. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies with Bill Carrico. Bridge...

Interview with Shellye Archambeau

Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT

As the CEO of MetricStream, Shellye Archambeau is responsible for running all facets of the business. Ms. Archambeau has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Prior to joining MetricStream, Ms. Archambeau was Chief Marketing...

Interview with Ping Fu

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Ping Fu is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Geomagic. She co-founded Geomagic and has led its growth from start-up to worldwide leader in the digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) industry. Geomagic has attracted more than $8 million in capital from private and institutional investors, and...

Interview with Heidi Roizen

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Heidi Roizen has spent her entire life in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Silicon Valley, first as an entrepreneur and ultimately as a venture capitalist helping other entrepreneurs build the great companies of tomorrow. She is currently a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital, a venture fund with over $2 billion...

Interview with Gillian Caldwell

Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Gillian Caldwell is the Executive Director of WITNESS (www.witness.org), which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. By partnering with local organizations around the globe, WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video as a tool to shine a light...

Interview with Selina Tobaccowala

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Selina Tobaccowala is Senior Vice President of Product and Technology at Ticketmaster's Europe division, where she manages the 200-person Product, Technology and Operations team. In addition to launching an entire rebuild of the division's websites, in this capacity Selina is responsible for introducing new products into the...

Interview with Elizabeth Charnock

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Elizabeth Charnock founded Cataphora and has led it from concept to profitability, funded entirely by revenues from clients and without any outside investment. The company's genesis was a fundamental insight that Elizabeth had about a revolutionary approach to information retrieval. Starting from that idea, and a kitchen table group of...

Interview with Kim Polese

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Kim Polese is the CEO of SpikeSource, Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. The company is backed by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has developed an advanced automated testing technology for certifying interoperability of open source software, creating a continual "UL"-style certification for Global 2000...

Interview with Eileen Gittins

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Throughout her career, Eileen Gittins has been at the intersection of the Internet, consumer and enterprise software, imaging systems, search, and digital photography. A passionate advocate for enabling technologies that offer new ways to do valuable things, Eileen is now democratizing publishing for the rest of us with her...

Interview with Sangita Verma

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Sangita Verma leveraged 13 years of executive experience in the videogame industry to found the world’s preeminent interactive games-on-demand network in May 2003 -- TAG Television. Providing a full service, turnkey solution, TAG Networks provides the nation’s first massively deployable games channel for cable and IPTV television. TAG TV...

Interview with Donna Auguste

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Donna Auguste founded Freshwater Software, Inc. in 1996 to provide companies with tools that would help them monitor and enhance their presence on the Internet. She served as CEO of Freshwater until she sold it in 2000 for $147 million. She went on to found the

Interview with Elaine Wherry

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Elaine Wherry is co-founder of meebo.com and responsible for meebo's product development. meebo provides free web-based instant messaging to all of the major network services and records approximately 1.5 million logons per day. Elaine grew up on a goat farm in southwest Missouri and then migrated west to...

Interview with Helen Greiner

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT

In the early days of iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq:IRBT), co-founder and Chairman of the Board Helen Greiner envisioned robots as the basis for an entirely new class of products that would improve life by taking on dangerous and undesirable tasks. Greiner's vision has been brought to life by products such as...

Interview with Lucy Sanders

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has an extensive industry background, having worked in R&D and executive positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent...

National Center for Women & Information Technology Interview Series