National Center for Women & Information Technology Interview Series

Interview with Clara Shih

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Clara Shih is bestselling author of The Facebook Era and founder/CEO of Hearsay Social, one of the fastest-growing and most exciting technology companies in Silicon Valley. Clara is a renowned social media authority and technology leader whose New York Times-featured book has been translated into nine languages and is used...

Interview with Shanna Tellerman

Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Shanna Tellerman is passionate about the intersection of design and technology as it relates to interactive media. She thrives on working with passionate and talented people to bring a vision to reality. Currently, she is the Product Line Manager for Autodesk Cloud Services and Applications. She is responsible for driving...

Interview with Niniane Wang

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Niniane is the CTO of Minted, a San Francisco startup that crowdsources graphic designs from a global community and allows consumers can customize and purchase online. Niniane was formerly an engineering manager at Google (5 years) and Microsoft (5 years). She was a member of the founding team on...

Interview with Stephanie Boyle

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Stephanie Boyle is a Founder at Rogue Paper, Inc. Rogue Paper provides television and media properties increased engagement opportunities with their viewers via mobile applications, such as category leading co-viewing applications VH1 Co-Star and MTV WatchWith. Stephanie has been in the mobile industry her entire career working at the...

Interview with Sarah Lipman

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Sarah Lipman is CTO of Power2B and inventor of its cutting-edge 3D touch screen technology.

With two decades as a User Experience professional (the last...

Interview with Victoria Ransom

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed three companies. As founder & CEO of Wildfire, Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and has built the company to tens of thousands of customers, over 100 employees, and...

Interview with Gillian Muessig

Mon, 9 May 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Gillian Muessig is the President and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, providers of the world's most popular search marketing applications. SEOmoz.org serves a community of 300,000 search marketers around the world. The SEOmoz blog is read by 50,000 SEOs each month.

Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian has provided keynotes and sessions...

Interview with Laura Fitton

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Credited with explaining Twitter's business value to @GuyKawasaki, in a Google TechTalk, at top business schools and to thousands of others tech leaders, Laura Fitton has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007.

She launched the first Twitter for Business consultancy in 2008 and began work...

Interview with Cathy Edwards

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Cathy Edwards is the CTO and co-founder at Chomp, a search engine for mobile apps. She created Chomp's proprietary algorithm that understands the function of each app, allowing you to search for apps based on what they do rather than just what they're called. Chomp launched on iPhone in January...

Interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:00:00 GMT

With over twelve years of international experience in luxury goods and retail, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer of Gilt Groupe, an innovative company that has revolutionized the fashion industry and ecommerce in general. Each day, Gilt offers its members insider prices for a curated selection of...

Interview with Bettina Hein

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Bettina Hein is the Founder and CEO of Pixability. Pixability helps small and medium-sized businesses increase sales by using video. Bettina is a repeat entrepreneur based in Cambridge, MA. Prior to Pixability Bettina co-founded Swiss-based SVOX AG in 2001 and led the venture-backed speech software company to profitability....

Interview with Alicia Morga

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Alicia Morga is the creator of GottaFeeling, an iPhone application and the founder of a new stealth startup. She is also the founder and former CEO of Consorte Media, a digital media and marketing company focused on the Hispanic market and funded by leading Silicon Valley...

Interview with Diane Greene

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Diane Greene was the CEO of the virtualization company, VMware (VMW), from 1998 to 2008, taking the company from founding to public with a $2B run-rate.

Prior to VMware Diane was also the founding CEO of VXtreme which was sold to Microsoft in 1997 as the basis for their media player....

Interview with Sarah Allen

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Sarah Allen is CTO of Mightyverse, a mobile startup focused on...

Interview with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading consumer internet and media executive with over 18 years of leadership experience at global and early stage companies including Google, Amazon, Yodlee, and News Corp.

Most recently, Ms Singh Cassidy served as CEO and Chairman of the board at the leading global fashion community site,...

Interview with Leila Boujnane

Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Leila Boujnane is the co-founder and CEO of Idée Inc., a firm focused on large scale image search. Idée launched TinEye the world's first reverse image search engine. Our goal is to build useful image search solutions and to make the world's images searchable.

Leila...

Interview with Amanda Steinberg

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Amanda Steinberg started DailyWorth.com as a way to give women key insights into building real net worth. DailyWorth stands out as the go-to source about personal finance for smart, ambitious, working women. Since its inception in January 2009, DailyWorth has garnered 50,000+ subscribers and a stream of media...

Interview with Saman Dias

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Saman Dias embodies the American entrepreneurial spirit. Upon exposure to the nascent, fragmented San Francisco Bay Area computer training industry in the late 1980s, Saman realized the opportunity for potential growth. In 1992, Saman founded AIM Computer Training, focusing on the lucrative large-scale business training market segment. Through determination, hard...

Interview with Asra Rasheed

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Asra Rasheed is CEO of RRKidz. RRKidz develops and publishes engaging, educational interactive content for today’s digital kids. Curated by Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, RRKidz brings learning and skill based experiences to children within a safe social environment online and on handheld devices. Asra is an industry executive...

Interview with Marcie Black

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Dr. Marcie Black is Co-founder and CTO of Bandgap Engineering, which has pioneered the development of highly tunable and inexpensive methods for nano-structuring silicon for application to high efficiency photovoltaic...

Interview with Krista Marks

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Krista Marks is the General Manager of Disney Online Kerpoof Studios. Prior to the acquisition by the Disney Interactive Media Group in July 2008, Krista was the CEO and Co-Founder of Kerpoof. As a new member of the Disney Family, Kerpoof is continuing on the path it set out on...

Interview with Katie Hall

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Dr. Katie Hall joined WiTricity in 2007 as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining WiTricity, Katie was a founder of Wide Net Technologies, Inc., which developed unique optical communication and sensing systems for both government and industry. From 1999-2003, Katie was Chief Technology Officer, co-founder and Director at PhotonEx Corporation,...

Interview with Julia Hartz

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Julia serves as Co-Founder & President of Eventbrite and is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the company.

Julia is a reformed Television Network Executive and comes to Eventbrite by way of Hollywood. During her tenure in the television industry, Julia was a creative executive at FX Networks and...

Interview with Margaret Burd

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Margaret is a recognized leader in building and growing organizations that are constantly improving, acquiring skills, and implementing new and best-in-class development practices. She was previously director of engineering at Lucent Technologies, leading mobile internet and other telecommunications applications development. Margaret has over 15 years of experience in software development...

Interview with Pooja Nath

Mon, 17 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Pooja Nath is the CEO of Piazzza, a new kind of collaboration tool for students and instructors to maximize learning – inside and outside the classroom. Prior to Piazzza, Pooja worked at Facebook on their News Feed Team. She was also a developer at Kosmix and a developer at Oracle....

Interview with ML Mackey

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

ML Mackey is the CEO and co-founder of Beacon Interactive Systems. Beacon was started 16 years ago out of a rent-controlled apartment on Beacon Street in Massachusetts. Since then, the company has experienced significant growth by delivering its collaborative enterprise software solutions to customers in both the private and public...

Interview with Candace Fleming

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Candace Fleming has worked to take Crimson Hexagon from a nascent research technology to a successful commercial application. She and her merry band of believers in social media have created a technology that large and small companies use to derive meaning from the online conversation. Via a software-as-a-service offering, their...

Interview with Maria Cirino

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

As a co-founder and Managing Director of .406 Ventures, Maria brings 23 years of entrepreneurial, operating and senior management sales and marketing experience in venture-backed technology companies, with particular strengths in IT security and technology driven services (e.g. managed services, SAAS etc.). As such, Maria focuses on investments in the...

Interview with Gail Goodman

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

A small business expert and visionary, Gail has revolutionized the way that small businesses and organizations can effectively and affordably communicate with their customers, clients, and members. Since taking leadership of Constant Contact in April 1999, she has led the company to more than 350,000 customers worldwide and its initial...

Interview with Chris Shipley

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Chris Shipley is Chair and CEO of Guidewire Group, Inc., a global analyst and advisory firm focused on early-stage technology companies. A leading technology and product analyst for 25 years, Chris is dedicated to the success of technology entrepreneurs, focusing exclusively on identifying market opportunities and building value...

Interview with Beth Marcus

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Beth Marcus has worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology related consulting services. Dr. Marcus is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert for several of the major players in the industry in support of prior patents litigations. She has raised equity numerous...

Interview with Caterina Fake

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Caterina Fake is the cofounder of Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site that helped transform the web into the participatory environment it is today. Flickr launched in early 2004, but she has been involved in web development since 1994, working as an art director at Salon.com and greatly involved in the...

Interview with Yoky Matsuoka

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Yoky Matsuoka is Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. At the Neurobotics Laboratory, robotic models and virtual environments are used to understand the biomechanics and neuromuscular control of human limbs. In parallel, robotic and virtual environments are developed to augment, replace and enhance human sensorimotor...

Interview with Charlene Li

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Charlene Li is the Founder of Altimeter Group, a digital consulting firm that provides thought leadership, research, and consulting on digital strategies, with a focus on social and emerging technologies. Previously, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999,...

Interview with Mitchell Baker

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT

As the leader of the Mozilla Project, Mitchell Baker is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide collective of employees and volunteers who are breathing new life into the Internet with the Firefox Web browser and other Mozilla products.

Baker was born and raised in Berkeley, California, receiving her BA...

Interview with Emily Olson

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT