Ziad Asghar
Ziad Asghar is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI). He leads Snapdragon roadmap planning and Application processor technologies, covering all QC product lines. Ziad drives the definition of the products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable best in class user experiences while making tradeoffs between features, power, performance and cost. He also leads Application Processor technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Camera, Graphics, CPU, Audio, Video and Security. He also has responsibility for Competitive Analysis. Ziad works across all teams including engineering and product management to ensure that we have the leading roadmap in the industry and continue to set the standard on all application processor technologies. He works across all business units including Mobile, Automotive, Compute, XR, Edge Cloud and IoT.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless semiconductor industry where he has held a broad set of leadership positions from R&D to product management. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ziad was at Texas Instruments where he worked on systems design of UMTS & LTE and OMAP Product Management.
Ziad holds an MBA from UCSD and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and Southern Methodist University.
Marc Tremblay
Marc Tremblay, Ph.D.: Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.
Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.
Bobby Modi
Bobby currently sits as Vice President of Pet Growth & Strategy at J.M Smucker with over 18 years of service working in the consumer goods industry.
Education
- Northwestern University – MBA, Marketing, Finance, Strategy with Distinction
- University of Cincinnati – Bachelor’s, Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
YEARS OF SERVICE
18 years
CURRENT ROLE
Vice President, Pet Growth & Strategy
May 29, 2018
SMUCKER ROLE HISTORY
Vice President, General Manager, Away From Home
Vice President, General Manager - Smucker Natural Foods
Vice President, Marketing – Canada
Director, Marketing – Coffee
Manager, Marketing – Coffee
Manager, Marketing
Brand Manager – Coffee
2018
2014-2018
2012-2014
2011-2012
2009-2011
2008-2009
2002-2008
EXPERIENCE
PRIOR TO SMUCKER
Procter & Gamble – Brand Manager (Folgers)
Senior Engineer R&D – North American/Latin American Laundry
EDUCATION
Northwestern University – MBA, Marketing, Finance, Strategy with Distinction
University of Cincinnati – Bachelor’s, Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
Nick Holzherr
Jonathan Relph
Nancy Hassel
Nancy Hassel is the founder and President of American Pet Professionals, an award winning business networking, educational and multimedia organization for the pet industry since 2009. Leading over 125 in-person educational networking events, seminars, fundraisers and online events for pet industry professionals. A Public Relations specialist for the pet industry, Nancy works with pet companies in many aspects of PR, event planning, media relations and training for pet professionals. Nancy also co-hosts the boutique B2B trade-show, NYC Re-Tails & Sales Pet Expo, with Dana Humphrey every spring. Also, Nancy is a speaker at various pet industry conferences, a writer for pet trade and consumer magazines, blogger, avid photographer, and was a TV producer and production coordinator for 10+ years. Nancy created a Responsible Dog Ownership program and taught over 2,500 pet parents in a 5-year period. Recently awarded the 2018 Women of Influence by Pet Age Magazine and her American Pet Professionals was voted Best Networking organization three years in a row by LI Press newspaper. Nancy resides on Long Island, NY and is the proud pet parent of Cody, a rescued American Pit Bull Terrier.
Connect socially: @AmericanPetPros on Twitter and Instagram
