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The Notable Women of Silicon Valley in 2018

The Notable Women of Silicon Valley in 2018

<p>The chasm between how high a man can stand in the world and how high a woman can stand in this world is rapidly being bridged&period; Silicon Valley retains a hefty handful of the most intelligent and<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vecosys&period;com"> hardworking women that are creating<&sol;a> waves in their respective industry&period; Who isn’t enchanted by a determined&comma; headstrong and brainy woman&quest; Here we’ve made a list of the women that are both growing&comma; and acing in Silicon Valley and we hope you get the chance to get an insight of their mind someday too&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&period; Janeen Uzzell<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Former Head of Women in Technology &commat; <strong>GE<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Janeen Uzzell is passionate about lifting women up to the echelon where they bask in the glory of freedom and power&period; Her stellar achievements are that she&&num;8217&semi;s been a Global Technology Executive&comma; People Developer&comma; Transformational Leader&comma; Storyteller&comma; Engineer and just recently&comma; the Head of Women in Technology for GE&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Kamini Dandapani<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senior Director&comma; Engineering &commat; <strong>LinkedIn<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamini is a Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn who has had a major impact in firms through her work in engineering&comma; test organizations&comma; and tools&period; As of now&comma; she’s leading the Infrastructure and Productivity Engineering Team for the core flagship app for LinkedIn&period; She simultaneously heads the Women in Tech &lpar;WIT&rpar; Invest Program at LinkedIn that’s dedicated to boosting careers for women&period; Kamini also spent 11 years in eBay where she fought above the ranks and went from an engineer to the management and leadership level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>3&period; Anu Deshpande<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The host of <strong>Tech Talk with Anu<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Recognized as the first woman in the history of Silicon Valley’s tech&sol;startup&sol;finance world to have a globally recognized and highly acclaimed video series&comma; &lpar;Tech Talk With Anu&rpar;&period; Anu is an American investment banker and investor who also happens to be the creator of her show&comma; Tech Talk with Anu&period;  Some of her guests have included Ken Goldman&comma; former CFO of Yahoo&excl; and Willem Jonker&comma; CEO of EIT Digital&period; She is recognized and admired for her ease and authenticity in communicating with her guests&comma; and bringing out the best in her guests while asking challenging&comma; thought-provoking questions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>4&period; Mai Le<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Director of Engineering &commat; <strong>Uber Technologies<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mai Le is the engineering director for the Product Platforms division of Uber which globally helps Uber function intelligently and efficiently&period; Her profile spans over 20 years in organizational&comma; cultural and technical transformation&period; She’s held senior leadership roles at Yahoo&comma; Walmart&comma; Microsoft&comma; and Symantec&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>5&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Wendy M&period; Pfeiffer<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief Information Officer &commat; <strong>Nutanix<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She has delivered the best digital technologies across the world and is highly innovative&period; She is currently the CIO at Nutanix but has pioneered technical mechanisms for GoPro&comma; Yahoo&excl; and Cisco&comma; and proudly chairs the board at Girls In Tech&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>6&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Amy Buckner Chowdhry<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>CEO and Founder of AnswerLab &commat; <strong>AnswerLab<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the power and expertise of her position&comma; Amy’s mission is to rectify UX challenges for the world’s most innovative brands&period; She’s been acknowledged in Fortune’s Most Promising Female Entrepreneur and proudly holds the award for AnswerLab to be named a Great Place to Work three years consecutively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>7&period; Jeanette Calandra<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Managing Partner &commat; <strong>PwC San Jose<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Leading a team of more than 1300 professionals working towards providing premium&comma; innovative business solutions across multiple platforms like tax solutions and consulting&comma; she is Managing Partner for PwC’s San Jose market&period; Her profile evens stars her successful leadership and management of Fortune 500 engagements&comma; along with other technology start-ups&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>8&period; Aerin Lim<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>VP &commat; <strong>Silicon Valley Bank<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aerin is responsible for providing banking and ventures debt financing for early and growth stage &lpar;annual revenue &gt&semi;&dollar;100mm&rpar; consumer technology companies in the bay area while building and maintaining relationships with them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>9&period; Maya Patterson<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Product Designer &commat; <strong>Facebook<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A self-taught Product Designer responsible for the Augmented Reality experiences at Facebook&period;  She writes articles in her spare time and mentors designers to get to their peak skill level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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