Supply Chain
Innovations and Investments in the Supply Chain Industry
About This Talk
Supply chain technology investments were on the rise before the pandemic and now that digitization is needed by everyone to stay in business, startup activitity in supply chain technology is at an all time high. Hear from investment leaders and innovative startups about how they are solving some of the challenges in the supply chain using unique technologies of digital twins, AI/ML and no-code automation.
Speakers
Dr. Anderson is a General Managing Partner of Supply Chain Ventures, LLC, a venture capital company specializing in early and late stage investing in AI enabled supply chain planning and execution software, ecommerce logistics, digital freight networks, visibility, and 3PLs. He is a retired managing partner of supply chain consulting at Accenture, a global technology consulting company. He has served on the Board of Directors of Descartes Systems Group, of Waterloo, Ontario, Steelwedge Software , of Pleasanton, California, Placester of Boston, Massachusetts, and NBD Nanotechnology of Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of New England and a member of the Boston College Technology Council. Dr. Anderson received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Econometrics and Finance from Boston College and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
Carl Eschenbach focuses on infrastructure technologies, cloud, and SaaS investments. He is a director of Aurora, Cohesity, Cresta, Gong, Grafana, Palo Alto Networks, Salt, Snowflake, UiPath, Workday and Zoom. He has been or is still involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies including CaptivateIQ, GitHub, Medallia, Retool, Rockset, StackRox and ThousandEyes. Carl has thirty years of high-tech industry experience including infrastructure software, cloud, SaaS, networking, telephony and storage. Prior to Sequoia, Carl was President and COO of VMware, where he helped grow the company from $31 million in his first full year to $7 billion in revenues and from 200 people to 20,000. Prior to joining VMware, Carl held various sales leadership positions with Inktomi, 3Com, EMC, and Lucent Technologies. Carl is passionate about leadership and the importance it plays in building iconic companies.
Harsh Koppula
COO and Co-Founder
Tada Cognitive
Tada Cognitive
Harsh is a global business leader with years of experience in industrial manufacturing and supply chain networks, digital marketing, and technology. He is passionate about helping Tada transform the business and supply chain world. His work has taken him around the world, managing global supply chains, manufacturing, and R&D for CGN Global, Avon, Schlumberger, and Sumida America. Harsh is passionate about driving speed and reducing complexity in supply networks. Harsh has a BTech degree from IIT Bombay and graduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati. Harsh is on the Board of the American Red Cross of Illinois and other entrepreneurial companies.
Manju Devadas
CEO and Founder
Pluto 7
Pluto 7
Manju Devadas, the CEO and Founder of Pluto7 and Google Partner of the Year Award winner for data and analytics has helped 500+ customers across the globe successfully transform their businesses. With over 20+ years of experience, Manju has built a stellar portfolio by leading organizations, building predictive analytics, and being a business architect for companies like Cisco, Vmware, Synaptics, Igloo, Netgear, Levis, AbInbev, Hero Motors, and many more. He continues to work closely with a passionate group of executives who share his vision for change and innovation as we enter Industry 4.0. Manju plays an advisory role at the University of Southern California Marshall School.
Dr. Sue Xu
Managing Partner
Amino Capital
Amino Capital
Dr. Sue Xu is a Managing Partner at Amino Capital, and her focus areas of investment include data-driven solutions. She was interim CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi. Since 2012, she has involved with more than 260 investments mostly in seed and Series A, with 13 unicorns, including Chime Bank, Webflow, Rippling, Weee, Headspin, Grail (acquired by Illumina), OmiseGo and DFINITY (launched with $45B market cap), Mobike (acquired by Maituan), and industry leading fast growing startups, such as Wyze, Avail MedSystems,, Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou), Dataform (acquired by Google), Voyage (acquired by Cruise) and et al. Dr. Sue Xu began her early stage entrepreneurship when she was the founding scientist of GlycoMira (also involved in undergrad and PhD laboratory spin-offs). She has three patents and over 20 journal publications, and previously was a Postdoc fellow at Stanford University.