socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , a developer of hosted software for managing sales leads, reported yesterday that the firm has signed on Infinity Auto Insurance, a unit of Infinity Property and Casualty Group. Leads360 is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and headed by former Overture Services CIO Dan Morefield. READ MORE>>.

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Rustic Canyon CIO SaaS Sales 177

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2009

Hydra said that Dilmer will lead the firm's technology strategy and development. The ad network said that Dimler has served at companies such as DirecTV, Transamerica, and Mail.com Media Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Advertising Media Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

San Diego-based ID Analytics , a developer of identity and risk management software for the financial and other industries, said Monday that it has hired on Jim Pathman as the firm's new Chief Information Officer. ID Analytics is backed by Canaan Partners, Investor Growth Capital Ltd., Mission Ventures, and Trinity Ventures READ MORE>>.

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CIO Mission Ventures San Diego Software 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers. Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace.

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Angel CIO Southern California USC 173

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Everbridge , which develops incident notification and mass calling systems, said Thursday that it has named Scott Sullivan as the firm's Chief Technology Officer. Sullivan has also served at Edmunds.com, where he was CIO, and Yahoo!/Overture Overture Services, where he was SVP Technology Operations and Engineering.

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Chief Technology Officer CIO Yahoo Los Angeles 145

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. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Software Development Software Product 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Irvine-based Quality Systems , the developer of practice management, electronic health record, and other software for medical and dental groups and small hospitals, has named Daniel J. Prior to that, he was CIO at Overture Services. Morefield as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Software Services Develop 147

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based TigerConnect , which develops communications tools for the healthcare and other industries, said on Wednesday that it has named Tim Goodwin as the company's new Chief Technology Officer. Goodwin also served as CIO and Senior Vice President at Fiserv Digital Channels.

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Chief Technology Officer CIO Santa Monica Tool 157

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , which develops software that makes it easy for companies to convert their legacy applications into software-as-a-service, has added a new advisor, the firm said this week. Corent said it has added Mario Leone, former CIO of Ingram Micro, FIAT, Federal-Mogul and Dow Chemical, as an advisor.

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PHP Java SaaS CIO 138

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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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CIO Los Angeles Software Capital 113

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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Angel Tech Coast Angels Funding CIO 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2011

Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , the developer of Internet security software, said Thursday afternoon that it has named co-founder Igor Barash as its Chief Operating Officer. Barash was most recently CIO for the firm. In addition, the company said it has eliminated the position of Chief Revenue Officer.

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CIO Los Angeles Software Angel 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales? One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup.

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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2019

According to HyreCar, it has appointed Jay Vijayan, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tesla, and current CEO of Tekion, to its board. Tekion is a startup developing business applications in the automotive retail market. Vijayan previously also served at VMware and Oracle, and sits on the board of Nic Inc.

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CIO Oracle Los Angeles Marketing 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2015

Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor , which develops performance monitoring products for IT infrastructure, said today that it has launched a new dashboard product. The company said its new, Executive Dashboard product helps CIOs and CTOs with a dashbaord of the overall health and performance of their critical IT infrastructure.

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Product CIO Santa Barbara Pricing 100

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

In Vegas, though, developers won’t be able to use relatively new services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run yet. “Cloud technologies enable two important outcomes for us,” said James Alvarez, CIO of Aristocrat. Some other features, including Cloud HSM and Secret Manager, are also not available yet.

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Google CIO Outsource Development Demand 155

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based Leads360, a developer of lead management software, has tapped Dan Morefield as the firm's new President and CEO, the firm announced this morning. Morefield is the former COO of Experian Consumer Direct, as well as CIO at Overture Services. Morefield has also served at PayMyBills and at Home Savings of America.

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Rustic Canyon CIO Web Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

San Diego-based Shoreline Biosciences, a developer of cell immunotherapies for treating solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, has raised $140M in a financing round, the company said today. The company said that Frank Yu, Founder, CEO and CIO of Ally Bridge Group, joined the company's board of directors as part of the funding.

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CIO San Diego Capital Invest 113

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 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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CIO Santa Monica Services Product 100

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the developer of social aggregation tools for music and entertainment brands, has raised $1.2M 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.

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Tool CIO Seed Funding Entertainment 100

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2016

Sapho develops software which helps pull together information across hundreds of enterprise apps, and presents them to employees as "micro apps". ElNaggar was most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at CBS Interactive; he co-founded Sapho with fellow CBS Interactive alum Peter Yared, who was CBSi's CTO and CIO. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint CIO Venture Capital Startup 100

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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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

But we do have great technology developers. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You don’t. Get over it.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing. That’s real viral marketing. IBM learned a lot from Microsoft on this one.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur CIO 169

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.

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Cloud Computing CIO Networking Organization 100

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. We''ve done a lot of development on the front end, to make it super easy for consumers of those resources to use them. But, the way we do it is different. Does what you do compete with the public cloud providers like Amazon?

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Now let’s think about retention.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech.Co

JUNE 26, 2017

Continuing professional development or continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives. The IT Summit was selected as one of the top ten “must-attend” events for CIOs and IT Marketers. April 2013 CTOsOnTheMove.com.

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Los Angeles Angel CIO Southern California 70

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. She was previously the CIO for Holy Cross Health System in South Bend, IN, a 13-hospital chain where she was responsible for strategic IT planning from Maryland to California. Balgrosky is MD Revolution’s chief information officer.

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San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For example, we have people currently working in video and film production, who want to get into coding, who want to become a web developer, and who want to become cybersecurity professionals. They're seeking a career change.

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UCLA Education CIO Examples 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

One way Appallicious is already helping the City of San Francisco better connect with its citizens is the free Rec & Park app, developed in 2012, which utilizes open data to provide information on the city’s many parks. Ginsburg reminds citizens that no personal information is shared with app developers.

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Technical Review Software Review CIO Web Design 105

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Matthew’s passion is partnering with brands to help build community, optimize operations, and develop a strong digital strategy. Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. Garth will speak about successes in partner development, using case studies from his experience at Klout.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. Brad Brooks: You''d be amazed at the amount of information transmitted.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

LATechDigest

AUGUST 3, 2019

Most recently, Hand served as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) in Kansas City, Missouri the first woman in the nations history to serve as a municipal CIO.

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Technology CIO Chief Technology Officer Los Angeles 52

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. How did you get into this? That's how we started.

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