STRIDES - Key Persons
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- CEO and Managing Partner, DBR and Associates
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- Partner Consulting CFO at FLG Partners, LLC
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- President and CCO, Co - Founder Kenzen
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- Group Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini
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- Co - Founder
- Senior Executives
- Technology Business Leader
Malur is a proven technology business leader with over 30 years of experience in technology industry having worked in five continents. He has held a broad range of senior management roles at Nortel and Tata ranging from product engineering, sales, business development, product management. He also has significant experience as an advisor to several tech startups.
As STRIDES co-founder, Malur has been instrumental in leading the technology vision and business strategy.
Influenced by strong women throughout his life and being an immigrant minority, he understands deeply the importance of leadership diversity in the workplace.
Malur holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and in Management. He pioneered self-managed teams in software development in the early 90s. His research in Reverse Engineering, Inverse resolution & Induction led to the development of Adaptive learning algorithms in Machine Learning.
He has been speaker on International business for EMBA programs at Cornell Univ., Imperial College, London and Queens Univ. in Canada.
He is known for his positive attitude, sense of humor, and is immensely passionate about trail hiking, creating music, gardening and sports. He is actively involved in charitable activities for mental health awareness.
Malur is based in Austin, Texas.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Senior Leader
Rika is a senior leader, entrepreneur, investor, and frequent public speaker on technology-powered business transformation. Her 15+ years experience spans orchestrating cross-functional engineering and business teams, activating open innovation, designing business development initiatives, and applying innovation strategy for market traction at speed.
As STRIDES co-founder and CEO, Rika has been focused on go-to-market and partnership, and being the overall face for STRIDES' mission.
Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies - NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express - and Silicon Valley startups. She is a digital transformation veteran and has served on multiple venture boards in next-generation computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems.
Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for stakeholder capitalism (ESG) and especially advancing women's leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions.
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- SVP, Strategy, M & a, Skyview Capital
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- CEO CMO Digital Marketing OMNI Channel Digital Transformation Retail Merchant Brand Strategist Interior & Construction Design Board Member Advisor Founder Women 's Corporate Board Readiness Program
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- CEO, AnyContext. Veteran Marketing & Comms Pro. Board Member, Mentor, Advisor and Coach to Executives, Startups, Founders