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1 Executive Search Built on Relationships April 2016 Great New Opportunities! Check These Out... Vice President, IoT Applications (Automotive) ( ) This South Bay client is a leader in the IoT/M2M market delivering end-to-end IoT services. If you have executive-level presence, thought process and GM-like skills as well as IoT experience, let's talk. Director, Product Management ( ) Director, Product Marketing ( ) Technical Marketing Engineer ( a) Our client is a small growing company in the South Bay They are playing in a hot markt sector -- security for cloud applications and services. If you have a background in security and data analytics we want to talk to you. In This Issue What's New Events Recent Successes The Devoto Group Senior Product Manager ( ) Our client is mid-sized public company with networking and security products located in the Silicon Valley. Strong understanding of DNS and network security required. Channel Marketing Manager ( ) Director, Product Marketing ( ) Located in the Silicon Valley and San Jose, this small growing cybersecurity client is at the forefront of providing innovative security management solutions and is poised to take off! Please contact me at the number below and I would be happy to discuss in more detail. - Jeff WHAT'S NEW Announcements, Articles, New Information... It's Not Just About the Product...Lessons Learned Check out Rohini Venatraman's article from pragmaticmarketing.com on three lessons that surprisingly apply to both startups and mature

2 on three lessons that surprisingly apply to both startups and mature products. Read the full article here. How IoT is Changing Online Marketing...Lessons Learned Neil Patel and Forbes share how The Internet of Things increases consumer expectations of convenience and how you need to cater to that expectation. Read the full article here. Devoto Group Executive Lunch w/ Dan Olsen...Join us on April 28th in Palo Alto Our special guest, Dan Olsen of Olsen Solutions, will talk about his work with both early stage and established technology companies and how he helps them "build and optimize their products and product teams." Dan's new book The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. To reserve your seat for the luncheon or the luncheon and a copy of the book, please visit our Eventbrite site. Dan is an entrepreneur with expertise in product management, Lean Startup, UX design, and analytics. At Intuit, he led product management for Quicken. Dan also led product management at Friendster. He was CEO and cofounder of YourVersion, a personalized news startup that won the People's Choice Award at TechCrunch50. I have attended a couple of Devoto Group Exective Luncheons and always find them to be informative, interesting and a great way to make connections with others in the high tech industry. Pan Kamal, VP - Marketing & Product Management AlertEnterprise "Jeff and Andrea put together a great event with their Executive Lunch series." Jeff Karan, Managing Director Woodside Capital Partners "Great stuff yesterday! The topic, attendees and venue were spot on. Thanks again for inviting me." Tim Bardzil Citrix Dan consults to companies, usually as interim VP of Product. His clients include Facebook, Box, YouSendIt, Chartboost, Epocrates, and Medallia. He also runs the Lean Product Meetup. Dan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern, a Master's in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, and an MBA from Stanford. "The only strategy that is guaranted to fail is not taking risks." Mark Zuckerberg

3 From Randy Glasbergen... EVENTS Upcoming events... April / May Global Cyber Events - click to view all the events around the world April 23rd Silicon Valley Product Camp - for more information click here. April 28th Devoto Group Executive Luncheon with Dan Olsen of Olsen Solutions. Check out the event and purchase tickets here. May 2-6th Interop Las Vegas - click here for more info. May 4th Silicon Valley Product Management Association's Monthly Meeting with Mike Trigg, COO of Hightail. For more information click here. May 9-12th Marketo Conference - The Marketing Nation Summit. To learn more click here. KEY SUCCESSES Devoto Group Placements & Testimonials... Sr. Director, Product Marketing - Leading CASB (Cloud As a Service Broker) located in the Silivon Valley

4 Valley Director, Demand Generation - Cyber security company in San Jose Vice President, Product Management Director, Product Marketing Senior Product Marketing Manager Technical Marketing Engineer - Leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization in the Bay Area Vice President, Product Management Director, Product Management Several Product Marketing & Product Manager positions - Established public company that has made its mark in cloud solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, networking, cloud platforms, collaboration, and data sharing Director, Product Marketing Digital Marketing Manager - ecommerce start-up company in San Francisco Senior Product Manager Senior Manager, Channel Marketing Director, Product Management - Leading provider of security and compliance solutions Director, DemandGen - Venture-backed start-up company that provides cost optimization solutions for the rapidly evolving enterprise cloud Testimonials "I have been working with The Devoto Group for the past several years on various job searches. Jeff has always been a good source of quality opportunities with both large established high tech companies as well as the smaller but fast growing ones. He placed me at Blue Coat Sytems and I was very happy with my PM role there. Jeff was very good at presenting the opportunity and he made sure I was always well-prepared for my interviews. If you are looking for your next product management or product marketing job, I would highly recommend Jeff and his team! Bryan Embrey, Director of Product Management, Pertino "Jeff and his team introduced me to a great Marketing Director role at PayNearMe and I was delighted to join them in April of The Devoto Group subsequently assisted me in filling several key positions on my marketing team. They are very professional, good at identifying marketing talent, and I would highly recommend them,

5 identifying marketing talent, and I would highly recommend them, especially for small, growing companies." Danielle Gotkis, Senior Director of Marketing, PayNearMe "The Devoto Group is very focused on filling product marketing, product management and technical marketing roles for his clients in networking, security, cloud, and mobile market sectors. He recently presented me with two excellent product marketing opportunities including Blue Coat and I was very pleased with their services." Kevin Flynn, Director of Product Marketing, Blue Coat Systems I would highly recommend Jeff and his team at The Devoto Group if you want someone to help you find your next great job but also stay in touch and impact your career. Sukesh Garg, Director of Product Management & Marketing, Cisco ABOUT THE DEVOTO GROUP Executive Search Built on Relationships Founded in 1995, The Devoto Group is a leading executive search firm located in the Silicon Valley. Our focus is finding talented individuals for sales, marketing and product management positions for our clients -- early stage and mature high technology companies. We work with only the leading edge Internet companies and we pride ourselves in locating high quality talent very quickly. Our current focus is working with technology companies involved in networking, security, cloud and mobility markets. Jeff Devoto, Managing Director jeff@devotogroup.com Andrea Devoto, Founder andrea@devotogroup.com The Devoto Group Click to view this in a browser If you no longer wish to receive these s, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe Click here to forward this to a friend

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