Career Snapshot Q&A with Glenn Lurie, Synchronoss

Q1- What was your first job? I played professional soccer for a couple years right out of college but my first job in telecom was as an outside sales rep

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Career Snapshot: Lionel Chmilewsky, CEO, Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL)

What was your first job? My first role was a six-month internship with Honeywell in the USA. This took place one year before I completed my MBA in Finance at

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Career Snapshot: Dave Labuda, founder, CEO and CTO of MATRIXX Software

What was your first job? As a teenager, I worked at a car-wash in Pennsylvania where I grew up. During this time, I learned two fundamental things: first, I wanted

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Career Snapshot: Herbert Merz, CEO of RFS

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Herbert Merz: As part of my studies at the Technical University of Munich, I wrote a thesis on gas analytics which included creating pattern recognition

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Career Snapshot: James Morgan, ‎vice president UK & Ireland at ‎Juniper Networks

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? James Morgan: My first job was a Saturday job as a shelf stacker at Waitrose, up at 6am to catch the bus – horrendous

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Career Snapshot: Nathan Rader, ‎director of NFV strategy at Canonical

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Nathan Rader: When I was in High School I had a job working at a lumber company loading boards into customers vehicles.

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Career Snapshot: Janne Ohtonen, director of customer experience management, Openet

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Dr. Janne Ohtonen: My first unofficial job was in programming, a software that calculated axle masses for trucks. I was less than 10 years old

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Career Snapshot: Sven Hammar, founder & CSO of Apica

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Sven Hammar: I was a sales manager for Luxor Computers, a Sweden-based PC Sales company.

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Career Snapshot: Biju Nair, CEO of HYLA Mobile

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Biju Nair: Growing up in India, I manned a milk delivery booth. The milk would be delivered to a refrigerated tank by truck to

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Snapshot : Anthony Goonetilleke, chief technologist & head of Product, Amdocs

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Anthony Goonetilleke: Do you want to know my honest answer? A friend of the family owned a local butcher store, and on Saturday mornings, he

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