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Rob LoCascio is the Founder of LivePerson, Inc. (LPSN: NASDAQ ), and has been its Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1995. He is the guiding force behind the company’s vision of creating meaningful connections between brands and consumers. LivePerson has come a long way since its early years having survived the dot com crash, and grown to become the leader in intelligent engagement solutions, currently serving over 18,000 clients, with 1,000 employees and offices across the globe. Rob is one of the longest-standing founding CEOs of a tech company today. Rob’s interests extend beyond his business and reflect his close ties to New York City. He is a founding member of the NYC Entrepreneurs Council of the Partnership for New York City. In 2001, he started the Dream Big Foundation with its first program FeedingNYC, which gives families in need a Thanksgiving dinner. To date, FeedingNYC has donated more than 40,000 meals. Its second program, the Dream Big Entrepreneurship Initiative, launched in 2014 to fund, mentor, coach, and empower local entrepreneurs in underserved communities. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, cloud-based technologies, using the Internet to create meaningful connections.

Wael Mohamed is the driving force behind the success of important cybersecurity companies. With a unique combination of cybersecurity, digital transformation, and executive leadership expertise, Wael has been the go-to advisor for boards and executives for nearly 30 years. Most recently, he served as President & COO, and board member at Trend Micro Group, one of Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange 225 index companies, where he helped transform the company into a global cybersecurity leader and added over $4B in shareholder value during his 11-year tenure. Mohamed joined Trend Micro in 2009 after the acquisition of Third Brigade, a company he co-founded and was the President and CEO since its inception in 2004. Previous roles included serving as the vice president of global sales and distribution for ZixCorp. He built and transformed the company into a global, high-performance and high revenue growth team. He also held senior management positions with internet security company Entrust. Wael boasts a wealth of corporate board experience gained from 15 years of sitting on boards of businesses as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor. He is chairman of the Board at CYSIV, an innovator in the field of security operations center-as-a-service (SOCaaS) and is a frequent lecturer and speaker at the Queen's Graduate School of Business in Ontario, Canada, where he completed an Executive Program in 2004. Wael holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Dalhousie University and the Executive Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School. Wael resides in Dallas, Texas with his family. In his spare time, he focuses on his hobbies, including judo, chess and meditation.

A proven global business leader with 20 years of international experience across multiple countries. Proactive and high energy, with a track record of success in growing, transforming and turning around manufacturing, software, cloud & services businesses across various industries. Adept at building & delivering multi-faceted business plans, with extensive experience at a Board of Director level and with Private Equity partners.Proven ability to build high performing teams that deliver targeted objectives. Graduate of GE’s Finance program, followed by functional expertise in Six Sigma/Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Customer Care, Product Management, Sales & Sales Operations, Service/Cloud leadership and as a CEO.

Experienced senior executive and general manager with a proven track record of success in the IT industry, spanning hardware, software, and services. Professional ‘signature’ is the achievement of strategic, transformational change in businesses at scale.Stephen has a BSc (Hons) in Physics and is married with four daughters.

As a leader in the communications industry for more than 30 years, I serve as the president, CEO, and director of Spok, a market leader in healthcare communications. I became a director, president, and CEO of USA Mobility, Inc. (now Spok) in November 2004 when the company was formed through the merger of Metrocall, Inc. and Arch Wireless, Inc., focusing on narrowband PCS paging services. I held various roles at Metrocall including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and executive vice president. In 2011, we completed the acquisition of Amcom software, rebranded from USA Mobility to Spok in 2014 and executed a multi-year pivot for USA Mobility, now Spok into clinical communications solutions which include both paging and software solutions, including our new cloud native clinical communications platform, Spok Go. I also serve as the president, CEO, and director for all of the Spok subsidiaries, except for GTES, LLC, an indirect wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, of which I am a director. At Spok we deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. I am passionate about our solutions, which ultimately enable smarter, faster clinical communication.

Joseph Jones is a Chief Executive Officer at RightNow Technologies Inc.

Tim Sherwin is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of CardinalCommerce. Under Tim’s leadership, CardinalCommerce has become the leader in enabling authenticated payment transactions in the eCommerce, mCommerce and other remote commerce markets. Working in the payments industry, Tim has had a lead role in redefining the Consumer Authentication landscape, developing innovative payment services that help merchants increase sales, reduce fraud, and eliminate chargeback exposure without disrupting the consumer checkout experience. Tim has more than 20 issued and pending patents related to secure payment processing, mobile payments and tokenization. Prior to founding Cardinal, Tim was Senior Vice President of Business Development at QIS, an IT and internet services firm. Earlier, he was with STERIS Corporation as Controller of the North American Division, and spent time with Oracle Corporation working with Invacare Corporation, where he developed a sound and streamlined system for processing all financial transactions. Tim is a graduate of Wittenberg University with a BA in Business, and earned his MBA in finance from Case Western Reserve's Weatherhead School of Management