As a successful business and tech entrepreneur, Renee is an inspiration and role model to other young female professionals and entrepreneurs who are either contemplating starting or have already started their own venture.

In 2005, Renee left the safety and security of corporate America (Senior Director @ NetApp) to start her own high tech, IT consulting services company. From bootstrapping to self–sustaining profitability, iTalent is now experiencing explosive growth even against big name consulting companies and has secured partnerships with heavy hitters such as Jive Software, Box, Salesforce, Zendesk and Lithium.

Renee also recently won the bronze Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year, spoke at the GSMA Connected Women conference, and launched a book she co–authored, Social Knowledge: Organizational Currencies in the New Knowledge Economy. Ms. La Londe has also been recognized as one of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence 2015 and was nominated as a Women 2.0 Founder to Watch.

Fred started his high-tech career at Apple, where he drove development and implementation of a broad spectrum of solutions (CRM, ERP, initial eCommerce and Internet presence, etc.). He continued implementation and business development activities at Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems, where he led efforts to deliver Internet solutions across the extended enterprise ecosystem. After establishing a proven track record with well-known high tech companies, Fred founded Before the Call, an integrated sales intelligence solution – an inaugural Salesforce.com AppExchange Partner.

At iTalent, Fred leads strategic and transformational practices in social, business intelligence, mobile and cloud areas along with business development activities leveraging a long history of enterprise system implementation leadership in Silicon Valley.

Raju earned a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, and has over 15 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software space. He currently leads iTalent’s long-term technology vision, and is responsible for the iTalent Hyderabad Development Center, by aligning it’s software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value.

He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of technology and product organization, including innovation, development and operations. Raju’s team is consistently delivering high quality solutions to exceed customer expectations.

Prior to joining iTalent in 2013, Raju held various positions at NetApp, including roles in Customer Self-Service enablement, an Enterprise Solutions Architect, Development, Project Management, and carries years of leadership experience.

Known for:
• Successful delivery of enterprise solutions across multiple business groups
• Leading successful projects across diverse groups globally, to drive positive impact for the Organization
• Strong financial acumen and running IT as a business

Raju’s goal has always been to work with a team of high performing IT professionals delivering innovative solutions to move the business forward with quality solutions. He firmly believes in leading by example and places great emphasis on creating innovative Culture.

Caleb joined iTalent in 2000 as a technology consultant and in 2005, after successfully holding various business systems consultant roles at high tech giants Cisco and Network Appliance, he joined the iTalent corporate operations team.

His past experience as a hands on client consultant plus his success in various operational roles in iTalent, over the past 10 years, gives him the broad perspective required to partner with our clients and to provide a great environment for our employees. His team is responsible for the day to day operations and ensuring customer and employee satisfaction. Caleb completed advanced training for maintaining a high-performing minority business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Jennifer Cashman has over 20 years of experience in the technology and consulting services industries. Prior to joining iTalent in 2016, Jennifer held senior leadership positions at Veritas and Cisco, including leading delivery of an award-winning, innovative services collaboration initiatives resulting in over $30 million in savings annually.

Besides helping iTalent expand into new markets, Jennifer also supports causes empowering women in technology and leadership positions. She not only serves as a role model to other young women but has also spoken at various events such as the Girl’s Leadership Academy.

Silvia joined iTalent in June 2013 and is responsible maintaining and growing iTalent’s most strategic accounts. She is also responsible for building new relationships with leading companies around the country. Before this role, she spent ten years as the founder of Industry Gems Sales Intelligence. In this role, she produced key account intelligence on Fortune 500 companies for some of America’s largest technology companies.

Prior to Industry Gems, Silvia spent 15 years working in the B2B sales arena in various sales and business development roles, including Merrill Lynch and Reuters America. She received her degree in business administration from California State East Bay. She enjoys wine tasting, strolling around San Francisco and playing fetch with her two dogs.

Vikas has 25 years of experience in providing technical leadership, architectural, functional solutions in CRM and custom applications for global organizations like Netapp, HP, Singapore Telecom and other hi-tech companies. He brings deep understanding of enterprise applications, architecture and integration, business intelligence, on-demand applications, and web development.

As the VP of Product Engineering at iTalent, he is responsible for shaping and implementing the product vision, design and strategy. He is passionate about adopting technology to solve business problems. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics from University of Mumbai, India.

Maritza has more than 15 years of experience working in the high-tech industry at companies such as Cisco and Network Appliance. Her expertise and passion lie in business process re-engineering, where her ability to streamline processes and design systems, tools and automation has resulted in dramatic improvements in accuracy, productivity and customer satisfaction.

Maritza has participated in a broad scope of business and IT projects providing exposure to numerous processes, applications and technologies. Her background in various customer service environments allows her to implement scalable solutions that benefit both customers and internal users. She has implemented numerous automation, online service, Internet commerce and technical support solutions in addition to implementing and driving major enhancements to CRM and ERP systems. Maritza holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and Spanish from UC Santa Barbara.

Leslie’s twenty plus year career in high-tech, highlighted by her leadership in driving change, positions businesses to be ready and willing to embrace digital transformation.

As part of iTalent's team, Leslie has led Fortune 100 enterprise-wide change management and enterprise collaboration (social) initiatives. Whether running strategic business development programs or transforming people, processes, data, and technology to ensure operational excellence, Leslie is passionate about achieving results through strong customer, partner, and team relationships. Her unique business and technical knowledge in the professional services and software industries, combined with her people and leadership skills, enables her to build successful sales, development, and operational teams that exceed expectations.

She has spearheaded the development of enterprise business solutions across various technology platforms, delivering significant financial process and resource benefits internationally. Leslie’s entrepreneurial, and collegial qualities and her spirit of enthusiasm. combined with her philosophy and practice towards clients, associates, and the marketplace embody the qualities of true leadership.

Valerie is an accomplished technology leader offering business development and innovation through technology planning, management, and architecture consulting. After beginning her career at First Union National Bank, she left to pursue a consulting career that included engagements with Fortune 500 companies that focused on business requirements, technology requirements, architecture, technology process, development, integration, deployment, planning, and management. A few of these clients include BB&T, Duke Energy, Kimberly Clark, and Lowe’s.

In 2004, until she joined iTalent in 2013, she owned her own business focused on assisting Fortune 500 companies with technology initiatives as well as technology planning programs for a variety of localized businesses that included municipal non-profits, executive recruitment, mergers and acquisitions, legal, medical, life sciences and technology focused start-ups.

She continues to provide technology and strategy direction for Fortune 100 organizations as the Social Knowledge Practice Leader. She demonstrates precise technology and business acumen, understands the value of process management, and has an ability to lead efforts in situations of ambiguity, shifts in technology, and organizational change.

David Hawke is a data extremist, big data activist, business intelligence leader, and a solution architect. He has a degree in Mathematics and Science and brings exceptional experience in business, technology and leadership. He was instrumental in combining search traffic of Yahoo and Bing and saving Microsoft over $20 million a year in paid search traffic ads. The scale of data was 1.5 terabytes of data a day and he worked on delivery of that into a data warehouse and analysis services.

David has extensive knowledge of big data and business intelligence solutions. At several fortune 100 companies, he has led the technology teams across the global in delivery of data solutions. He brings with him extensive knowledge of building large enterprise solutions and translating his critical thinking skills to teams, to deliver on time and on budget solutions.

Ramesh has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining iTalent in 2015, Ramesh held a variety of roles at Digi International, Effone Technologies and Sharper Logics INC.

His distinctive technical knowledge in the software industry combined with his managerial skills, enables him to build successful development teams that can deliver positive results. “Get it done” is his mantra at work, and he influences the team at Hyderabad Development Center with the same energy.

Ramesh has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and listening to music.

Mark has more than 35 years of experience as a high-tech executive. He was the founder and CEO of NCA Corp., a public software company specializing in design automation and MRP enterprise systems. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from London University and is a graduate of the Stanford University Business Executive Program.

Frédéric Rombaut is a Senior Executive in M&A and Venture Capital in International Technology companies. He's Chairman of FR Development, an investment holding specialized in business development with the large Corporates.

Frederic has served on over 20 board director seats and made over 35 investments for more than USD 10 Billion across the technology, telecoms and media sectors. Frederic used to lead Corporate Development activities throughout the International region at Cisco Systems, and previously at Qualcomm Inc. He's also a former Partner at APAX PARTNERS, and earlier in his career was a co-founder of Bouygues Telecom.

He is a frequent speaker at industry events on technology investments, and an active business angel in Western Europe and the USA.

James S. Greene is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Sky D Ventures, a private equity and advisory services company serving the financial services and FinTech global market. He was formerly a general partner of Frost Data Capital, LLC, an investment and incubator vehicle for "big data" companies.

He is also on the Board of Directors at Umpqua Bank. He was previously a Vice President with Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco in 2005 as Vice President and Global Head of its Financial Services Consulting Business. From there he served as leader of Cisco's global Strategic Partner Organization.

His experience and leadership spans business and technology strategy formulation, private equity and venture investing, business operations and information technology systems, solutions, sales and delivery. He has been serving the global financial services industry for 33 years.

Van has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry. Van was VP, Deputy General Counsel, at Cisco for 18 years. She's credited for playing a critical role in building a world-class legal department from the ground up and supported the company growth from less than $2B to $50B when she retired from Cisco. Her current activities include working with entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Van has substantial transactional and operational experience having led many diverse functions at Cisco, including product development and licensing, M&A, and strategic alliances. She was involved in over 70 acquisitions and investments for Cisco.

Van is known for her innovation and thought leadership of Internet solutions for the legal profession. She was instrumental in developing many of the first online legal applications. She was also the visionary behind the creation of the "Virtual Pro Bono Clinic" using on-line collaboration technology to provide free legal services to people with moderate means.

Van is the recipient of multiple awards, including Business Trailblazer, Woman of Influence, Lady Justice Innovator, Community Champion, and Women of Achievement.

Van lives in Silicon Valley. She enjoys running marathons, playing the piano, gardening, painting and cooking.