Lina Taylor with Diaz Nesamoney, CEO of Jivox and former co-founder of Informatica

Diaz Nesamoney is founder and CEO of Jivox - a company delivering a technology platform for personalized digital marketing. He has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999 Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with over $2 billion in revenue and a $6 billion market cap. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market's first Business Intelligence appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. In 2020, Diaz was selected by The Software Report as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs. Diaz is a member of the Council of Global Advisors at the Yale University, School of Management and has been a board member for over 11 years, of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of eight technology patents. Diaz is also author of the first book on Personalized Digital Advertising. To see more interviews with leaders in science, business, and elite sports go to LinaTaylor.com