Vanessa Camones

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Ms. Vanessa Camonesis is the Founder of AnyContext, where she serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Partner. Ms. Camonesis also served as Venture Principal at Tech Wildcatters. She serves as an Advisor at Fabric VC. She also serves as Chief Marketing Officer & Board Member at Strides. She has been a strategic marketing and communication consultant in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, first working with Pixar Animation Studios and later managing content in the house at Cisco Systems, she's also held management roles with several global communication firms including Niehaus Ryan Wong, Schwartz Communications and The Hoffman Agency. In 2007 she founded theMIX agency (re-branded as AnyContext in 2016), a Silicon Valley-based firm specializing in integrated communications, digital and content strategy, developer relations, and event production, with satellite offices based in Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Shanghai. Past and present clients include Samsung, Nokia, SendGrid, the Institute for the Future, the Stanford Center of Longevity, TED Speaker Amber Case, PlayFirst, RockYou, and Boku, among many others. She is an advisor to South by Southwest Interactive, The Design Museum Foundation, and a frequent guest essay contributor to Latina Geeks, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, and Digiday, where she authored, "Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley's Bully" about famed former Editor in Chief, Michael Arrington. Currently based in Los Angeles, she was born in Lima, Peru, raised in the Bay Area, and holds a double major in Mass Communication/Media Studies & English Literature from Santa Clara University.