Jon V. Ferrara (born January 22, 1960) is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Nimble LLC, his most recent venture. Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, [1] [2] one of the early pioneers in the Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software categories for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs).
Ferrara has been recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 1997 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. His company GoldMine Software, ranked #154 on the 1997 Inc. 500, a national "Fast 500" company, swept the computer industry awards. Highlights include being awarded back-to-back-to-back-to-back PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" (August 1993, August 1995, April 1996 and August 1997). He is a graduate of California State University, Northridge. [3]
Prior to founding GoldMine Software, Ferrara was one of the early employees at Banyan Vines.
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It currently serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016.
Peter Norton is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his PC software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990.
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Thomas M. Siebel is an American billionaire businessman, technologist, and author. He was the founder of enterprise software company Siebel Systems and is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.ai, an artificial intelligence software platform and applications company.
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James Monroe High School (JMHS) is a high school in the North Hills area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school is located at 9229 Haskell Avenue, North Hills, CA 91343. It is home to Small Learning Communities (SLCs) and two magnet schools. The school's mascot is the Viking.
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Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including payments, marketing, shipping and "customer engagement tools".
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John C. “Bud” Colligan is a community activist, social entrepreneur, investor and company builder. He was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom as his Senior Advisor for International Affairs and Trade in March, 2019. He is Co-Founder of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP), a non-profit community-development organization, former partner at Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm, and former Chairman and CEO of Macromedia, a multimedia software company.
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