Jesse Demmel
Vice President, Engineering
MapMyFitness

Jesse is the Vice President, Engineering and is responsible for all engineering development at MapMyFitness. He’s been with MapMyFitness since September 2010. Prior to joining the team, Jesse led engineering at Useful Networks (a Liberty Media company) and was also a technical lead at Intuit and Openwave. Jesse has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and is based in Denver, CO.





Nitin Gupta
Director of Industry Marketing
Box

Nitin Gupta is Director of Industry Marketing at Box, and is leading its professional services vertical.  Prior to Box, Nitin was the founder of LawPivot, the largest online marketplace for consumers and businesses to connect with lawyers.  LawPivot, which was recently acquired, was funded by Google Ventures and has been featured in many industry leading publications including Law.com, ABA Journal, and Daily Journal.  Prior to LawPivot, Nitin practiced law as an intellectual property lawyer at Townsend and Townsend, a top national intellectual property law firm.  Nitin has authored many articles on legal technology related matters in leading publications and is a frequent panelist on emerging legal technologies.




Ben Haines
VP IT/Chief Information Officer
Box

A transformational CIO, Ben is focused on liberating companies from the legacy world of expensive and unproductive Enterprise Software and Information Technology. As the first VP IT/CIO for Box Ben is responsible for building out the Enterprise IT function utilizing the existing suite of cloud based solutions and enhancing where needed. Prior to joining Box Ben was the CIO for Pabst Brewing Co. where he transformed the traditional IT infrastructure and application environment into a service orientated organization delivering business value. Prior to Pabst Ben spent 9 years with Red Bull leading teams across Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas. With grounding in ITSM Ben quickly moved into the application and BI space delivering mobile applications, BI solutions and a global portal and a collaboration platform.

 

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages overall research operations, develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars, and advises clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, and advanced network services.





Sam O'Daniel
IT Manager
SendGrid Inc.   

Sam has worked at a variety of companies large and small, where his primary focus is simplification of processes, systems, and infrastructure. After receiving a BA in English/Creative Writing at San Diego State University, Sam worked at a Mac-only chain in the San Francisco Bay area before moving on to software sales at Dantz Development, a backup software company. Sam was transferred within the company to webmaster assistant, where his interest in technological infrastructure grew. After moving back to Colorado in 2002, Sam focused on internal IT and sought to elevate his managerial and strategic planning skills, enrolling in 2007 at the University of Denver, where he completed his Masters in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Information Systems.