Justin Slaten

CEO

Agoura Hills, California, United States25 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of technology management experience.
Expert in transforming and disrupting business processes.
Proven track record in leading large technology budgets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technology Executive with expertise in IT Services and InsurTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipStrategic Planning For Growth

Other Skills

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipIT Security Policies & ProceduresData PrivacyTechnical LeadershipEmerging TechnologiesMobile ComputingBudgetingKey Performance IndicatorsIT Infrastructure ManagementProject ImplementationVirtualizationSecurityData Center

About

An accomplished Technology Executive with over 20 years of management experience. Known for taking cutting edge approaches to building products, improving business processes, scaling businesses and teams, and improving productivity. Highly technical, yet able to effectively communicate to all aspects of businesses technical or not. Specialties: • Coaching, mentoring, and building teams • Responsibly managing very large Technology budgets • Helping companies and employees get through tough technology changes • Cross-functional project leadership • Implementing and supporting global growth of businesses • Working with leadership to transform and disrupt the status quo

Experience

25 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

10 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Venbrook companies

Chief Information Officer

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Woodland Hills, CA

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipIT Security Policies & Procedures+8

Avinew

Chief Technology Officer

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Avinew is the InsurTech company using driving data to reinvent auto insurance for autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. The California-based, venture-backed company is committed to embracing the future of mobility to help enable the safety, savings, and freedom that comes with autonomous driving.

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipIT Security Policies & Procedures+8

Truecar, inc.

SVP, IT & Security (CIO)

Jan 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Santa Monica, California

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipIT Security Policies & Procedures+8

Salesforce

Member, CIO Advisory Board

Jan 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Advised the Senior Executive team of Salesforce on product roadmap and customer adoption

CommunicationTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEmerging Technologies+1

Own the room

Global Advisory Board Member

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

http://www.owntheroom.com/

CommunicationTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEmerging Technologies+2

Opendns - now a part of cisco

Customer Advisory Board Member

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

CommunicationTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEmerging Technologies+1

Netflix

Engineering Leader

Nov 2012 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Los Gatos, California

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipIT Security Policies & Procedures+8

Microsoft

Advisor

Feb 2009 – Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Member, Online Services/O365 Advisory Board

CommunicationTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEmerging Technologies+1

Wasserman

Sr. Director, Global IT

Apr 2006 – Nov 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Most senior IT Leader and reporting directly to the CFO, I was responsible for all global IT growth and vision. Mentored and trained a highly effective global IT team with 24/7/365 availability. Worked extremely close with vendors/partners to ensure great relationships and transparency. Led the charge to move from a traditional infrastructure to a highly virtualized infrastructure, Saas, and PaaS where it fit. Helped facilitate a large, successful move of Corporate HQ, as well as global office build outs. Led technology diligence and architected technical integration of multiple acquisitions.

CommunicationTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipTechnical LeadershipEmerging Technologies+1

Tightline technology

VP, Information Technology

May 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

This company built AI for the online gaming industry, and processed extreme amounts of data. Led all aspects of technology from architecture and design to implementation of a highly scalable, extremely virtualized, and very performant collocated server farm. Mentored and hired all IT employees, trained and scaled India based BPO, negotiated and maintained all vendor contracts.

CommunicationBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning for GrowthTechnology LeadershipIT Security Policies & Procedures+6

Rapattoni corporation

IT Manager

Mar 2001 – May 2005 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Managed and mentored Jr. Admins on a daily basis
Deployed open source VoIP phone system interconnected to traditional PBX to give remote workers an “in office” feeling
Primary contact for 3rd party IT vendors
Deployed real-time monitoring system to proactively alert staff about looming server failures
Architected and implemented multiple SAN technologies
Early adopter of VMWare virtualization technology for production and DR environments
Primary person involved in DR plan, and migrating data center to colocation in Irvine
Architected and deployed MS SQL, VMware, and RHEL file server clusters
Deployed video conferencing technology to interconnect East and West Coast offices