Natalie Ma
Sarah Dejebara
Joel Van Mierlo
Nader Mahmoud
I started my career with BASF, 26 years ago, as Regional Marketing Manager in the United States after earning a M.B.A. in Marketing, Finance and International Business from University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently, I am vice president of Business Management Personal Care in North America and located in Florham Park, NJ. Prior to this role, I was Vice President of Market and Customer Development focusing on our customer centricity approach across BASF in North America. Prior to moving back to the USA, I spend 9 years with BASF abroad in different roles. I moved back to the USA from Singapore, after 4.5 years in Asia Pacific as Vice President of Marketing in our crop protection business. I moved to Asia from South Europe, where I lived in Barcelona, and as Regional Director, I led the crop protection business in Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal. I moved to South Europe from Germany, where I spend 1 year in our global headquarters as Global Marketing Manager. Prior to my international assignments, I spend 12 years in different marketing and business development roles in North America in our crop protection division.
Arun Ravisankar
Dr. Charles Fan
Charles Fan is CEO and co-founder of MemVerge. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was the CTO of Cheetah Mobile leading its global technology teams, and an SVP/GM at VMware, founding the storage business unit that developed the Virtual SAN product. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of the EMC China R&D Center. Charles joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.
Steve Scargall
Steve Scargall is a Persistent Memory Technical Sales Specialist at Intel® Corporation. He wrote the highly popular “Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers” book and is responsible for supporting the enabling and development effort to integrate persistent memory technology into software stacks, applications, and hardware architectures. This includes Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) with both proprietary or open source development, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Steve received a B.Sc in Computer Science and Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK where he studied Neural Networks, AI, and Robotics. He has over 19 years’ experience providing support and development of the Solaris Kernel, ZFS and UFS file systems, and Performance Analysis on x86 and SPARC using DTrace debugging in enterprise and cloud environments during his tenure at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Steve now focuses on Optane persistent memory and SSD technology solutions.
Matt Hughes
