Congratulations to the 2022 Bay Area ORBIE winners!
Leadership
Dave Smoley
Super Global
Ravi Naik
Global
Milind Wagle
Large Enterprise
Amy Farrow
Enterprise
Tony Sorensen
Large Corporate
Ellora Sengupta
Corporate
Carter Busse
Healthcare
Lisa Davis
Super Global Finalists
Jyothi
Gorti
Jason
Hsieh
Heather
Mickman
Ravi
Naik
Global Finalists
Marc
Berson
Ganesh V.
Iyer
Sharon
Mandell
Snehashish
Sarkar
Milind
Wagle
Large Enterprise Finalists
Prith
Banerjee
Amy
Farrow
Shanthi
Iyer
Praveen
Madhavankutty
Anisha
Vaswani
Enterprise Finalists
Brian
Ochipinti
Mark
Rohrwasser
Ajay
Sabhlok
Tony
Sorensen
Eric
Tan
Large Corporate Finalists
Opinder
Bawa
Abbas
Faiq
Linh
Lam
Prasad
Ramakrishnan
Ellora
Sengupta
Corporate Finalists
Noni
Azhar
Carter
Busse
Mike
Riep
Michael
Skaff
Sean
Smiley
Healthcare Finalists
Mark
Amey
Kevin
Cornish
Lisa
Davis
Deborah
Muro
Pankaj
Tiwari
2022 Keynote
Dheeraj Pandey , CEO
Dheeraj is the co-founder, CEO & Chairman of DevRev.ai, and was the founder, CEO & Chairman of Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX). Other than Nutanix, he currently also sits on the board of Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) and is a member of their Audit Committee. Dheeraj co-founded Nutanix in 2009, which has gone on to become a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees in over 60 countries. NTNX was the largest software IPO in all of 2016. Prior to founding Nutanix, he was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (later Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team from the ground up. At Oracle, he co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases.Dheeraj’s entrepreneurial spirit has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards including Dell’s Founders 50 and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon Valley.
Leadership Award Recipient
Dave Smoley, Apple
Dave Smoley has more than 30 years of experience leading technology change at large, multinational companies including Apple, AstraZeneca, GE, Honeywell, and Flex. Currently, Smoley is a Vice President of software engineering at Apple where his team is responsible for building, deploying, and running digital solutions across the $365 billion revenue company. Prior to Apple, Smoley helped reduce drug development cycle times and improve physician and patient engagement at AstraZeneca; introducing new, innovative systems and services which differentiated AZ from the competition. While partnering closely with the business to drive tech innovation, Smoley reduced IT spending by more than 48% over three years achieving the team’s stated ambition of being “twice as good for half the cost”. In doing so, he restructured the IT workforce, the application strategy, and the IT infrastructure footprint. Over this period multiple new cloud systems were deployed, new technology centers were staffed in India and Mexico, digital innovation has accelerated, and customer satisfaction reached an all-time high.