- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Mika Yamamoto
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Engagement and Marketing Officer
F5
Mika Yamamoto is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Engagement and Marketing Officer at F5.
During her tenure, she has repositioned F5 from a hardware to software/SaaS company and from a house of brands to a branded house to better serve and support F5 customers who are building the digital experiences that we rely on. By evolving the marketing organization to be more customer-centric and data driven, she has helped F5 become a leading cybersecurity company trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. In 2023, Yamamoto was named one of the “Elite 18” by Influitive for customer-led marketing leadership.
Yamamoto joined F5 in 2019 from Marketo, where she was Global President, and led the company through the go-to-market integration after the acquisition by Adobe. Prior to Marketo, Mika was SAP’s Chief Digital Marketing Officer and CMO for the Small-to-Mid-Size Business segment. In addition, she has held senior leadership roles at Amazon Books, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Stores, Gartner Research and Accenture, establishing a strong track record of enterprise marketing results.
Yamamoto holds a B.A. in Commerce, Economics and Marketing from Queen’s University in Canada and serves on the board of the Rainer Valley Food Bank.
Follow her on Twitter: @mikayamamoto11
Kara Sprague
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
F5
Kara Sprague oversees F5’s entire portfolio of multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions.
Sprague joined F5 in 2017 to lead the Application Delivery Controller business. In her most recent role, she served as EVP, Application Delivery and Enterprise Product Ops, where she was responsible for the BIG-IP and NGINX product families, along with enterprise-wide product operations.
Prior to F5, Sprague spent 13 years with McKinsey & Company, where she held various leadership positions across their technology practice, including the Technology, Media, and Telecom Practice for the Western Region. Earlier in her career, Sprague was on the engineering staff of Oracle, Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard.
A trained computer scientist and electrical engineer, she holds a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has a passion for advancing diversity and inclusion in technology roles and served on the board of Girls Who Code from 2016 to 2022.
Follow her on Twitter: @ksprague08
Mike Fitzsimmons
Cofounder & CEO
Crosschq
Crosschq, an HR-Tech SaaS platform focused on Quality of Hire, is Fitzsimmons’ fourth entrepreneurial venture, having founded Advanced TV Advertising Company Connekt, Inc., and Interactive Commerce Company, Delivery Agent, which he ran for over 10 years and grew to $175M in revenue. Mike is also a founding partner of sports technology venture fund Intersect Ventures, which manages venture investing for top NBA players and other athletes and celebrities. Named a Forbes Next 1000 in 2021 and leader of a Fortune Great Place to Work company, Mike Fitzsimmons is an industry thought leader who has been featured on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, NY Times, WSJ, Forbes, and more.
Follow him on Twitter: @MikeRFitz
