Steve Pinedo serves as the chief operating officer at ExcelSense, an enterprise application software company where he is responsible for sales, marketing, services, and support. Prior to ExcelSense, Mr. Pinedo served in a variety of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketing, product, customer adoption and success roles at BEA Systems, Oracle, Guidewire Software, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Steve is an expert in the methodologies for how enterprises successfully adopt and thrive using transformative SaaS technology. He has helped over 70 global firms successfully adopt SaaS delivery models and is a leading expert in the field of enterprise software computing and adoption. Earlier in his career, Steve served as a U.S. Navy officer and pilot. As a Berggruen Fellow, he will work with Yakov Feygin to write a white paper, tentatively titled “The National Security of our Compute infrastructure – Economy wide effects of an interruption in availability and the need to build and secure emergency capacity.“