Tien Tzuo is the Chief Executive Officer at Zuora, Inc.
Tien was one of the "original forces" at salesforce.com, which he joined in 1999 as the 11th employee, when the company was still operating out of a house on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. In his 9 years there, Tien held a variety of executive roles in salesforce.com's technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as salsforce's first Chief Marketing Officer, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer.
Tien personally oversaw the vision, direction, and design of the first 17 releases of salesforce.com's award winning product line, including overseeing the launch of salesforce.com and the AppExchange. In 2004, Tien was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine. Tien is also widely recognized as one of the thought leaders in the software-as-a-service industry. His podcast on the Secrets of Salesforce is widely cited and has been downloaded over 250,000 times.
Tien Tzuo holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master's in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lena Kannappan is the Founder, President & CEO of FuGen Solutions, an independent provider of managed identity services.
Lena Kannappan has held both senior technical and managerial roles in various software industry segments including Digital Identity Management systems, Telecommunications Convergence services and applications, and E-Commerce applications.
Before founding FuGen Solutions, Kannappan was the Director for Identity and Messaging group at France Telecom R&D driving the efforts around Address Book, IM, Presence, SMS, Geo Location services and Social Networking looking at subscriber identity and privacy related issues. Kannappan chaired multiple industry standards committees including Liberty Alliance and Open Mobile Alliance in the areas of Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security. Prior to France Telecom, Kannappan was the Technology Strategist at Oblix (acquired by Oracle) where he worked with number of enterprise vendors to bring the architecture integration models including the first enterprise SSO integration for Siebel systems.
Lena Kannappan holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India and Bachelors in Electronics and Instrumentation from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India.
Jay H. Shah currently serves as Hersha Hospitality Trust's Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Trustees. Shah is involved in all areas of the business with a particular emphasis on investor relations, capital transactions and acquisitions.
Previously, Shah served the Company as President and Chief Operating Officer and prior to that he served as the Managing Director of the Hersha Group, a private affiliate of Hersha Hospitality Trust that provides hotel management, development and construction management services to hotel owners.
Prior to joining the Hersha organization, Shah was principal in the law firm of Shah & Byler, LLP, a real estate and construction specialty practice, which he founded. Shah was previously a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand LLP, a legislative assistant to the late Senator John Heinz and worked with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Jay Shah received a Bachelor of Science degree for the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, a Law degree from the Temple University School of Law and an M.B.A. from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
Gautam Chandra joined Washington Gas in 2002. In his current role as Vice President, Mr. Chandra is responsible for directing corporate-wide initiatives to improve the operating and financial performance of the company. In addition, he also oversees the company's non-utility operations and facilities and fleet operations.
Prior to joining Washington Gas, Chandra was founder and CEO of an energy company until its sale to another large energy company in 2001.
Gautam Chandra holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and a Masters in Business Administration from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.