Sheryl Root

President and CEO, RootAnalysis;, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon - SV and Stanford University

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Sheryl Root is a strategy, marketing and product development executive with over 18 years of experience an Hewlett-Packard Company and 10 years of software systems experience and leadership in the financial and computing industries. Her strategic and program leadership experience focused on the definition and delivery of technology-based products and solutions, and her marketing operations experience has been in creating new business models, organizational structures, cost reductions, and revenue generation programs. She has demonstrated proven leadership in business strategy development/execution, marketing operations, and software systems delivery working across departments, functional areas and geographic regions.

Sheryl is currently President/Ceo of RootAnalysis, and consults in business strategy creation and execution, program management, and marketing effectiveness for companies like HP, PeopleSoft, Santa Clara University, Novell and Philips.

Sheryl sits on several boards, including Sloan School of Business, WITI (Women in Technology International) Teach for America, and the Stanford Institute on Research in Women and Gender. She holds as Sloan Masters in Business from Stanford University