2015 Global Innovation Summit
Envisioning the Modern Enterprise in Today’s Age of Disruptive Innovation
Many of today’s successful companies use innovation as a market disruptor to drive competitive advantage and increased profits. Information Technology is driving a vast majority of these opportunities and new ideas. Since IT leaders are uniquely poised to see across the enterprise, CIOs are fostering new company cultures around innovation yielding unprecedented transformational shifts.
This event is designed exclusively for CIO/IT leaders who want to further their knowledge around IT transformation, innovation and change; who want to build a significant network of business relationships with other IT leaders; and who want to gain the latest insights and best practices for driving increased business value through the use of information technology.
Speaker Bios
Arif Janmohamed
Venture Capitalist
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Arif Janmohamed
It’s a privilege to work with talented entrepreneurs who are exceptional at seeing emerging markets, quickly adapting, and building for those markets.
Arif joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions.
Arif is currently working closely with the teams at Avi Networks, Memoir Systems, Netskope, Nutanix, Pertino Networks, Qubole, Xova Labs and Virtual Instruments. He was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense) and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software).
Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and investments in the Unified Communications, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile, and SaaS market segments. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm.
Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsystems.
Arif is a charter Member and member of the Organizing Committee for the C100, a non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership and investment. He also foundedWVP Ventures, a student-run venture capital fund, while in business school.
Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Something most people don’t know about Arif:
I’m a proud Canadian who learned how to play ice hockey in my late 20s… and I continue to skate regularly. I am also Fluent in French – with an accent that’s partly Swiss, partly Canadian, and very Anglophone.
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