2017 Winners | Golden Bridge Awards

OnProcess has been a pioneer in post-sale supply chain managed services since our founding. We’re thrilled that, in awarding us Best New Services, Golden Bridge judges have recognized the profound impact our unique offerings have on global businesses. By combining deep domain and advanced analytics expertise with our proprietary OPTvision microanalytics and visibility platform, we’re able to deliver game-changing efficiencies, savings and customer satisfaction improvements for leading brands around the world.

Mike Wooden, CEO
OnProcess Technology | Ashland, MA USA

We are extremely honored to have our identity theft protection mobile app recognized by the Golden Bridge Awards. This award is especially meaningful as we truly believe that our beta-release approach of our mobile app bridged the gap between our product development roadmap and the expectations of our members. The collaboration between our user community, along with the organizations that rely on us every day to protect the personal identities of their employees and clients, is at the forefront of our product development strategy. IdentityForce Mobile is a tangible example of that.

Steven Bearak, Chief Executive Officer
IdentityForce | Framingham, MA USA

We are honored to be named a Gold Startup of the Year by the Golden Bridge Award organization. Since launching in 2014, BetterWorks has experienced immense growth in revenue and a steady increase in enterprise customers, and built a team that is second to none in the industry. This award validates our leadership in the competitive HR software market. We look forward to the continued success and growth of the BetterWorks team as we support the evolution continuous performance management in the modern workplace.

Bianca McCann, Chief Human Resources Officer
BetterWorks | Redwood City, CA USA

Our mission is to free our customers from the worry and inconvenience of home emergencies. This starts with developing high quality products that provide real value to our customers when they need them most. We’re thrilled to receive this award as recognition of our product team’s effort to continuously raise the bar and deliver the best possible plans for our customers.

Tom Rusin, CEO
HomeServe USA | Norwalk, CT USA

Attivo Networks is honored to receive multiple award recognitions from the Golden Bridge Award. This marks the sixteenth innovation award that Attivo Networks has received in 2017 alone and highlights the value that deception technology provides in combating advanced threats that are lurking within user networks, cloud, data centers and specialized networks such as Industrial Control (ICS-SCADA), Internet-of-Things (IOT), Point-of-Sale (POS), telecommunications, and SWIFT financial services.

Carolyn Crandall, Chief Marketing Officer
Attivo Networks | Fremont, CA USA

Malware’s constant evolution and increasing sophistication requires an innovative approach that gives enterprise security teams the full visibility and context they need to detect, blueprint, and fully mitigate a network breach before it can cause serious damage.These Golden Bridge Awards are reflective of our success in protecting enterprises from advanced malware, and we are honored to receive this industry recognition.

Bert Rankin, Chief Marketing Officer
Lastline, Inc. | Redwood City, CA USA

We’re honored to be recognized by the Golden Bridge Business awards for our work in IT software. We’ve worked hard to build a ‘customer first’ culture, closely collaborating with our customers when considering product enhancements. This latest accolade further underscores our commitment to continuously innovate and push the boundaries for business strategy software in an effort to help our customers make better business decisions.

Craig Catley, Managing Director
StrategyBlocks | Wellington, New Zealand

It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer recognition. These awards are a testament to RippleNami’s commitment to positively impacting the lives of many by making a difference in the way people connect using our novel blockchain and mapping solution. More importantly, I am honored to be working alongside our great executive management team including Phil Gahn, Chief Business Development Officer; Kendra Berger, Chief Financial Officer; Amy Johnson, Vice President of Operations; and Luis Valles, Vice President of Engineering.

Jaye Connolly-LaBelle, Presdient and CEO
RippleNami, Inc. | Cardiff, CA USA

Empire Today is honored to be chosen as the Gold recipient for the Customer Service Department of the Year Award. As the largest in-home sales provider of carpet and hard surface flooring in the United States, it is our mission to “Make beautiful new floors easy,” for our nationwide customers. It is our values of respect, integrity, teamwork, customers first, and quality results that helps us achieve our mission and makes us America’s first and best choice for installed flooring.

Keith Weinberger, Chief Executive Officer
Empire Today LLC | Northlake, IL USA

SchoolMint is thrilled to win the Gold award and be recognized for delivering an unmatched mobile experience for families enrolling their children in school. We look forward to continuing our mission to provide PreK-12 schools with a streamlined and modern approach to enrolling students, while improving the connection between parents and schools. Our cloud-based solution – including Student Recruitment Management, Application and Lottery Management, Registration Management, and Year-Round Forms – has helped approximately 6,000 schools and the families they serve. Our app has made the online enrollment process accessible and equitable for these families, including those without home internet access.

Jinal Jhaveri, Founder and CEO
SchoolMint | San Francisco, CA USA

We are extremely pleased to be the Training, Education and Video Training platform of choice for the companies and organizations across the globe. The Gold and Bronze Golden Bridge Awards are just another indication of Inspired eLearning’s ability to exceed today’s educational requirements for cyber security and compliance training.

Kyle Metcalf, CEO
Inspired eLearning | San Antonio, TX USA

RoboCyberWall, Inc. is gratified by the recognition the Golden Bridge Award provides our highly targeted Linux Web Server perimeter firewall. For a start-up company to win even a Bronze Award is most encouraging. RoboCyberWallTM version 1.0, is designed to protect Apache and NGINX servers from all known and unknown exploits at an affordable $8.95 per month or $99.95 per year. Our “Modular Security” paradigm couples protecting the Web Server foundation by RoboCyberWallTM along with a 3rd party specific web application firewall certified to be 100% compatible with RoboCyberWall for precise Linux server perimeter security. RoboCyberWall launches in September.

John Martinson Sr., President & CEO
RoboCyberWall Inc. | Koeln, Houston, TX USA

We are honored to be recognized by the Golden Bridge Awards for our industry-leading device intelligence capabilities. This award validates and underscores the importance of the work InAuth is doing to help secure organizations against fraud and to mitigate risks stemming from increasing reliance on mobile devices.

Lisa Stanton, President
InAuth | Boston, MA USA

It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer recognition. This award is another testament to the great traction WireX Systems investigation and response platform is getting in the market this year.

Tomer Saban, CEO & Co-Founder
WireX Systems | Sunnyvale, CA USA

Sanjay Sathe, Founder, President and CEO
RiseSmart Inc. | San Jose, CA USA

It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer recognition. These awards are a testament to Digi’s commitment to providing OEMs with simple, cost-effective cellular connectivity options to building IoT products.

Kevin C. Riley, Chief Operating Officer
Digi International | Minnetonka, MN USA

Due to the spread of many wrong and unacceptable behaviors in the community in general, and in schools in specific, such as knives, sexual harassment, negative and laziness and underachievement. As we don’t want to reach to the state of addiction, criminality, terrorism and fraud and in order to strength national identity, instill loyalty, build a conscious generation and stable family and self-immune generation, electronic awareness games were developed and provided by Khalifa Empowerment Program for Students (Aqdar) to contribute in building immune and empowered generation that is able to cope with current and future challenges.

Dr. Ibrahim Al Dabal, General coordinator of the Khalifa Student Empowerment Programme
Khalifa Empowerment Program for Students (Aqdar) | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Being selected for the Golden Bridge Award is an honor towards Javelin Networks Innovation and commitment to address the significant cyber problem of credential theft and lateral movement, said Greg Fitzgerald, COO Javelin Networks. "What all cyber prevention attempts is to mitigate the risk and investment in protecting their enterprise and employees. Javelin's AD Protect is unique in protecting the main Corporate asset, Active Directory, that houses every resource an attacker wants.

Greg Fitzgerald, Chief Operating Officer
Javelin Networks, Inc. | Austin, Texas USA

ZOOM International is delighted to win silver for the “Customer Service Achievement of the Year” Golden Bridge Award. We are in great company with winners like Ceridian, Oracle, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, and 1800Flowers. I am humbled and honored.

Our customer support leaders and team members deserve the recognition - both from the industry as well as our customers, partners, and employees. Our 80+ NPS for 2.5+ years and spike to 86 in 1H 2017 speaks volumes. Every day, they work to be the best in the world at helping customers solve problems. ZOOM is thankful to have such a world-class team.

Brian Shore, CEO
ZOOM International | Atlanta, GA USA

We are thrilled to be recognized by Golden Bridge Awards. Less than two years ago, we launched the USI ONE Advantage®, setting a new standard for customized risk management and benefit programs that generate positive economic impact for our clients. The USI ONE® video – produced completely in-house – has been well received by thousands of employees, prospects and clients, illustrating USI has the right plan and is the right partner to protect their most valuable assets. This dynamic video has had great success in demonstrating what better and different looks, and we are honored to receive this prestigious award.

Mike Sicard, Chairman and CEO
USI Insurance Services | Valhalla, NY USA

The strength of iWorkGlobal is in our people--our team of experienced industry experts are an authority in global workforce management. We wanted to combine that expertise with real-time insight to provide an even better customer experience, which is why we created MyVista. We're thrilled to receive recognition as a Gold Winner from the Golden Bridge Awards and it is certainly a result of the hard work and dedication of our team.

Jeff Phelps, CEO
iWorkGlobal | San Francisco, CA USA

Advance Financial is experiencing incredible growth around the state and it’s humbling to be a part of the vision for its future. The passion and knowledge of our team is what drives me each day to develop innovative ways to reach our customers and expand our business. This is an exciting time for us as we reach new markets and open more stores throughout Tennessee, I am continuously grateful for this role and how it allows me to challenge myself in ways I never anticipated. It is great to be a part of the Advance Financial family.

Pat Conroy, CFO
Advance Financial | Nashville, TN USA

Being part of the fast-paced, changing software industry where cloud, mobile and on-premise ERP solutions continuously evolve, SYSPRO has created a substantial footprint with manufacturers and distributors in specific industries. The company is built on innovation and building trust with our customers, and is forward-looking as it focuses on functionality in areas like artificial intelligence, big data, IoT and mobile availability. To be honored by the Golden Bridge Awards is important for the SYSPRO community and helps grow our impact on the industry.

Joey Benadretti, President
SYSPRO USA | Costa Mesa, CA USA

We are delighted to be honored as a winner by Golden Bridge Awards in the categories Product Management/ Development Achievement and Human Resources Achievement of the year with our HR-Products "IT-based solution self-service for job references" and "Time2Change - More work-life balance in a digital world". With "Time2Change" we aligned classic part-time work to modern requirements offering multiple, flexible and quickly workable part-time modules. With the implementation of our "IT-based solution self-service for job reference tool", we managed to offer a highly automated, lean and simple service to our employees and managers alike. We thank all the judges for recognition.

Dr. Wolfgang Brnjak, Vice President HR Production Management
Deutsche Telekom Services Europe GmbH | Koeln, North-Rhein-Westphalia, Germany

Eaton is committed to providing IT professionals with power management hardware, software and services that help them ensure continuous uptime and enable business continuity. These awards provide tremendous validation of our innovation in this market, and we’ll continue to develop and introduce new products that make power management a critical driver of business value across industries.

Herve Tardy, Vice President IT Channel Sales & Marketing, Americas
Eaton | Raleigh, NC USA

We are excited to be recognized as a Winner by experts in the BI and analytics software industry. As an established leader in embedded analytics, Jinfonet Software has released our latest version of JReport as the most flexible and scalable embedded analytics software solution on the market. Jinfonet empowers ISVs and enterprises to embed sophisticated reports and dashboards into their applications to serve the largest user communities.

Dean Yao, Director of Marketing
Jinfonet Software | San Francisco, CA USA

It’s an honor to be named a gold winner by the Golden Bridge Awards with this esteemed industry and peer recognition. These awards are a testament to Teles Properties’ commitment to provide clients with an extraordinary level of service and professionalism. I look forward to building upon this excellence with Douglas Elliman who recently acquired our great company. I consider this union to be our best growth initiative yet. We are gaining exposure in markets around the world via Elliman’s global alliance with Knight Frank and elevating our strategic planning to optimize growth as well as agent and customer satisfaction.

Peter Loewy, Chairman & CEO
Teles Properties Inc. | Beverly Hills, CA USA

Generali Global Assistance is honored to win our first Golden Bridge Awards this year, recognizing our outstanding customer service and marketing. We couldn’t be prouder of our Resolution Center and Marketing teams, whose hard work and dedication continue to put people first, in every way.

Paige Schaffer, President & COO, Identity and Cyber Protection Services
Generali Global Assistance | Bethesda, MD USA

It’s a great honor to be recognized by the Golden Bridge for marketing. I truly believe we are in the golden age of marketing. There is so much we can do online and so much data available to evaluate campaigns and pivot if needed. Embrace the data and embrace failure!

Michelle Snyder, CMO
Welltok | San Francisco, CA USA

It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards for this esteemed industry and peer recognition. These awards are a testament to ADTRAN’s commitment to meet the demand for cloud managed applications, particularly for our MSP partners and their SMB customers who don’t have the IT resources to manage disparate systems.

Meggin Sawyer, Vice President of Sales
ADTRAN | Huntsville, AL USA

If you just keep product development on a predetermined plan, it would all be a lot easier. But if you listen to your customers and learn from them, you can push yourself to innovate.

Tim Law, President
Novarad | American Fork, UT USA

NSS Labs is honored to have our CAWS Continuous Security Validation platform selected as an ‘Information Security and Risk Management Innovations’ winner in the ‘Best Product or Service of the Year’ category. This recognition underscores CAWS’ innovative capabilities and the platform’s groundbreaking ability to help enterprises continuously evaluate the effectiveness of their security controls and gain peace of mind. CAWS represents a major milestone for advancing NSS Labs’ vision and capitalizes on our core technology foundation to empower enterprises to make informed decisions and strengthen their security and risk posture.

Gautam Aggarwal, CMO & Head of Products
NSS Labs, Inc. | Austin, TX USA

We are truly excited to have been recognized in four categories at the Golden Bridge Awards. These accolades are a testament to the disruptive technology we harness here at Darktrace. Cyber security fueled by machine learning and AI algorithms will help organizations stay ahead of today’s ever-changing threat landscape.

Nicole Eagan, CEO
Darktrace | San Francisco, CA USA

TechStorey, as a budding tech media startup has set its goals on making the best use of the "open source" to teach, develop products and solutions. Because what matters is what we give, we also train others as we carry out our learning and give it back to this cycle of 'learn-implement-tech-learn'. This award, we believe, will give us the right impetus to promote our cause and realize our value that execution is the best way to learn and action is the biggest measurement of knowledge. We thank Golden Bridge Awards for giving this opportunity and recognizing our efforts.

Zaman Mecci & Yunus Mecci, CEO & Co-Founder
TechStorey Systems Pvt Ltd | Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Quoting, contracts and revenue management are all intertwined. I made it my personal mission to overhaul the contract management industry by creating a solution that enables enterprises to run smoother, faster, and more efficient revenue operations. The creation of the Apttus Intelligent Cloud, and more broadly the Quote-to-Cash market, is a proud milestone in my career and I’d like to thank the Golden Bridge Awards for this honor in recognizing my passion and vision for building a great company. One that I believe is truly changing the market by delivering successful business outcomes to some of the world’s largest organizations.

Kirk Krappe, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
APTTUS | San Mateo, CA USA

We are honored to receive this award. Our mission in giving organizations the upper hand in detection, investigation, and mitigation is ongoing. This growing recognition of the effectiveness of cyber deception is a telling characteristic of Cymmetria's successes in leveling the current asymmetry of cyber.

Gadi Evron, CEO
Cymmetria | Palo Alto, CA USA

When I founded Sun Light & Power 41 years ago there was no solar industry, no market to speak of, no supply chain and little competition. Solar now employs 250,000 people in the US, with a market value of around $30 billion. I am proud that my company has been recognized for our leadership in the Environmental Products and Services category. We are especially proud of our long history of maintaining the extraordinary standards of quality that keep our customers returning, and equally proud of our Benefit Corporation commitment to People, Planet and Prosperity. We put the Soul in Solar!

Gary Gerber, President & CEO
Sun Light & Power | Berkeley, CA USA

Spireon is honored to receive a Golden Bridge award, which celebrates building bridges to connect companies with their customers. This is what we strive to do across all areas of our business, but particularly in Customer Service, where we pride ourselves on delivering an experience that has resulted in exceptionally high NPS scores and renewal rates from our customers. I’m so pleased to see our dedicated and talented customer service team win Gold – they earn it every day!

Kevin Weiss, CEO
Spireon, Inc. | Irvine, CA USA

AirXpanders is honored to be named a 2017 Golden Bridge Award winner in the "Innovations in Technology" category. We take great pride in modernizing breast reconstruction options for breast cancer patients and are thrilled to offer women an alternative to saline injections following an already difficult process. It’s a pleasure to hear first-hand how the AeroForm Tissue Expander System has empowered women on their individual journeys and we look forward to making this cutting-edge technology available to more patients.

Scott Dodson, President & CEO
AirXpanders | Palo Alto, CA USA

From a one-person start-up a few years ago, Hilton Software is now a multi-million-dollar Department of Defense prime contractor. We consider ourselves mobile innovators. Our flagship app, WingX, is loaded with innovation. Our dedication and high-quality software has led to our being selected by the US DoD to develop and maintain a multi-platform navigation app used by US warfighters and foreign government partners to plan and fly missions. Each month, we process and securely deliver many gigabytes of aviation data in a consistent, reliable manner to pilots world-wide. We thank Golden Bridge for the recognition. Our entire team is honored.

Dr. Hilton Goldstein, CEO & Chief Architect
Hilton Software | Coral Springs, FL USA

Receiving a Golden Bridge Award for Energy Industry Innovation confirms the demand for cost-saving, intelligent wireless networks in the energy industry. As Industrial IoT drives technology innovation, communication solutions continue to evolve. The ZumLink Series of App Programmable radios offers a first-of-its-kind technology that supports modern networks by combining rugged, long range, low power, remote communication platforms with the capability to host third party Process Control and productivity apps. Programmability and intelligence at the network edge not only supports modern communication needs, it also helps control the quality of data and drives operational savings.

Eddie Garcia, Technical Marketing Manager
FreeWave Technologies | Boulder, CO USA

We are delighted to have been singled-out by the esteemed judges of the Golden Bridge Awards and named a Silver honoree – especially as it is in the Best Deployments and Success Stories category in recognition of superior end-client results. It is not only a testament to StaffConnect’s commitment to transforming employee engagement through innovative technology, but to our progressive clients like the YMCA of Greater Charlotte who had the foresight to recognize the bottom-line importance of connecting, communicating and engaging with their distributed workforce.

Geraldine Osman, VP Marketing
StaffConnect | London, United Kingdom

Nintex has always been at the forefront of process automation, and with the Nintex Workflow Cloud, we are opening up new opportunities for companies around the world to truly drive digital transformation by addressing the long tale of process automation needs. It's an honor to receive such a prestigious award for the Nintex Workflow Cloud, recognizing the innovation and hard work that we've poured in to our intelligent process automation platform.

Ryan Duguid, Senior VP, Technology Strategy
Nintex | Bellevue, WA USA

We’re very excited to be receiving multiple Golden Bridge awards for our innovation in managed Wi-Fi and home networking. Everyone recognizes the need for faster, smarter, and more reliable Wi-Fi, so it’s encouraging to have an panel of industry experts name our solutions the most promising on the market today. Our Optim™ Wi-Fi portfolio is already giving our service provider customers unprecedented visibility into the home network, and improving the way that tens of thousands of people connect to the Internet and to the content they love.

Brian Henrichs, Chief Business Development Officer
Actiontec Electronics | Sunnyvale, CA USA

Our HR team provides critical foundational elements of learning, employee growth, and structure to ensure that our we are able, find, retain, and grow employees to meet our business requirements. Our HR business partners take the time to understand what is driving our requirements and then focus on helping develop the right solution, this is a highly valued approach. The IT team at NAB strongly believes we do our job better because we have a highly skilled deeply engaged team members in HR.

James Parkinson, Chief Information Officer
North American Bancard | Troy, MI USA

It's an honor to be recognized for Globoforce's revolutionary work in the employee recognition industry. We are committed to helping companies, business leaders and employees realize and unlock the potential of a more human-centric workplace. Globoforce's WorkHuman movement and conference serve as the catalyst for creating a more inclusive and human workplace. We are committed to instilling this change through WorkHuman, and transforming the future of work.

Eric Mosley, Co-founder and CEO
Globoforce, Inc. | Framingham, MA USA

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Mike Banic is the vice president of marketing at Vectra. Previously, he was vice president of global marketing for networking at Hewlett-Packard. Mike joined HP from Juniper Networks where he held the roles of VP of enterprise marketing and VP of marketing for Ethernet switching. Mike joined Juniper through the acquisition of Peribit Networks where he was VP of corporate marketing. Mike has held product marketing and product management roles at Trapeze Networks, Rhapsody Networks and Extreme Networks. He started his career as a system engineer at Artel Communications.

Mike is originally from Connecticut. He professes amnesia regarding the futility of the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox during his youth and now takes great pride in the championships of the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins. Mike’s passions include architecture, impressionist art, music, history, and travel. His kids are famous for saying “please, no audio tour of the museum.”

Mike holds a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.

Mike Banic, VP, Marketing
Vectra | Los Altos, CA USA

Eveline has been with SPRG since 1997, and has assisted the Group’s regional establishment of offices in Guangzhou, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. She as a senior director of Asia and general manager of Guangzhou office to servicing and coordinating for the Group’s regional clients and international affiliation network, which covers over 140 cities and countries. She has handled various IPO communications programmes and investor relations campaigns, and is experienced in organizing roadshows in Asia. She has devised large-scale marketing communications programmes for corporate clients, including semi-government organizations and professional institutions, as well as key players in the M.I.C.E. and different industries.

Eveline Wan, Senior Director
Strategic Public Relations Group Limited | Hong Kong, China