The 6th Annual Ascent Conference
Oct 30th, 2023, NY
Join 1,000+ industry thought-leaders. Designed for CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CROs, VPs and Directors of $10M-to-$1BN companies to immerse themselves in a knowledge-rich experience. Supplement the information you gain from the sessions and take a deep-dive into the specific topics and challenges you’re facing today at work.
Attend the only invite-only (free) SaaS industry conference focused on providing the relevant, actionable insights and strategies that you can implement immediately to elevate your success!
Custom Events for Executives to Connect
6
Years
200+
Sponsors
100+
Events
40,000+
Past Event Attendees
85%
C-Suite & VP
100%
Invite Only
Companies that attend Ascent events
Events
A note from our CEO
Ascent was just an idea that started on the back of a napkin like many other startups. The mission at first was to make it easier for CEOs and top VC Investors to connect. That mission would quickly evolve into arming the CEO with all the connections to grow his (or her) company, and that task of course required that we build a community for the whole C-Suite to connect.
That first conference in 2018 was thrown on a meager bootstrapped budget and had an overwhelming 1500 attendees. In 2019, we doubled in size by including members of the whole C-suite. COVID canceled our in-person events in 2020 and 2021 but it couldn’t hold back the spirit of our audience who have been consuming our virtual events in record numbers. Our latest function specific events (Spotlight Series) are where you can share insights with true peers with the exact same title as you. This event style was born out of requests from our sponsors. Our story has taken some exciting turns and we are excited to help all ambitious executives grow their companies and develop the connections that help solve problems.
Our Flagship Events
The Ascent Annual NYC & Ascent Summit SF are where our audiences converge for a State of the Union in SaaS. These 2-day events convene engaged executives for a bespoke networking and learning. Attendee titles include; CEO, CFO, CRO, CMO, and VPs at $20M or larger companies.
What to expect:
- +3,000 connections made on the app
- +1,000 meetings conducted
- 150 Roundtables Infinite networking opportunities
Single Sponsored Event Series
In addition to our flagship events, we will be convening subsets of our attendees throughout the year in monthly webinars and roadshow dinners in SF and NYC. These single sponsored events focus on specific functional areas, and allow us to curate an agenda featuring content and speakers that are highly relevant to the audience. Business functions we work with include; Cybersecurity, Finance, Human Capital, Marketing, and Revenue Leadership. All events will be invite-only, and restricted to professionals who meet the attendee profile requirements of Director+, $20M+ ARR. Lastly, Ascent’s Spotlight on Startups gathers founders and investors.
Sponsorship
Unrivaled Access to Your Target Audience
NETWORKING & BRANDING
Virtual Stage Branding, Website & Email Collateral.SPEAKING OPPORTUNITY
Drive thought leadership through a Keynote Address, Panel or Fireside Chat.LEAD GENERATION
Drive pipeline through engagement with key decision makers and access to the full attendee contact list.Past Speakers
Sarah Bird
CEO
Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner
Neal Sales-Griffin
Managing Director
Esther Dyson
Executive Founder
Chris Savage
CEO & Founder
David Siegel
CEO
Christi Olson
Head of Evangelism for Search
Rand Fishkin
CEO
Michael Tannenbaum
CBO
Elizabeth Yin
Co-Founder & General Partner
Darrin Marshall
VP, Enterprise Sales
James Chan
VP, Global Pre-Sales
John Barrows
Greg Segall
CEO
Massimo Arrigoni
CEO
Paul Paget
CEO
Nick Mehta
CEO
Prashanth Chandrasekar
Krish Subramanian
CEO
Tom Keiser
CEO
Daniel Chait
CEO
Olga Afanasyeva
Andy Yang
CEO
Jager McConnell
CEO
Dennis Fois
CEO
Jennifer Mercer
CEO
Oded Zehavi
CEO & Co-Founder
Waseem Daher
CEO & Co-Founder
Henry Schuck
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniel McGaw
CEO & Founder
Sameer Gulati
CEO & Founder
Thejo Kote
CEO & Founder
Marcus Wagner
CEO & Founder
Steffen Schebesta
CEO of North America
Elizabeth Soloman
CFO
Marty Meyer
Dan Fletcher
CFO
Aneal Vallurupalli
CFO
Michael Ellis
CFO
Fuad Ahmad
CFO
Roxi Wen
CFO
Bob Mahan
Chief Human Resources Officer
Jason Loomis
Chief Information Security Officer
Lena Smart
Chief Information Security Officer
Saj Naseem
Chief Information Security Officer
Rob Hornbuckle
Chief Information Security Officer
Todd McGuire
Chief of Staff
Sandi Kochar
Chief People Officer
Robert Zimmermann
Chief Revenue Officer
Frank Boulben
Chief Revenue Officer
Naomi Rozenfeld
Chief Revenue Officer
Diane Albano
Chief Revenue Officer
Adrian Ludwig
Chief Trust Officer
Tyler Lessard
VP Marketing
Doug Inamine
CHRO
Anna Fisher
CMO
Johann Wrede
CMO
Patrick Smith
CMO
Rowan Tonkin
CMO
Amanda Malko
CMO
Randi Barshack
CMO
Shane Murphy-Reuter
CMO
Genefa Murphy
CMO
Nick Panayi
CMO
Jeff Reekers
CMO
Udi Ledergor
Chief Evangelist
Matt Epstein
CMO
Latané Conant
CMO
Deirdre Bigley
CMO
Carl Tsukahara
CMO
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff
CMO
Jeff Titterton
CMO
Harris Beber
CMO
Joanna Lord
CMO
Randy Frisch
CMO & Co-Founder
Harry Glaser
CMO & GM of San Francisco
James Slezak
Alon Alroy
Co-Founder
Brendan Kamm
Co-Founder & CEO
Taylor Smith
Co-Founder & CEO
Kris Rudeegraap
Co-Founder & CEO
Henry Blodget
Co-Founder & CEO
Business Insider
Kathryn Minshew
Co-Founder & CEO
Luis von Ahn
Co-Founder & CEO
Vasco Pedro
Co-Founder & CEO
Dan Carroll
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Paul Liberman
Co-Founder & COO
Alex Bean
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer
Trei Brundrett
COO
Omar Nawaz
CPO
Jamie Anderson
CRO
Kevin Tate
Chief Marketing Officer
Chloe Stewart
CRO
Kevin Knieriem
CRO
Allison Metcalfe
CRO
Jayme Smithers
Adam Tesan
CRO
Christos Kalantzis
Nick Rockwell
Alex Solomon
CTO & Co-Founder
Grad Conn
CXMO
Ash Finnegan
Digital Transformation Officer
Christina Bechhold Russ
Director, Ventures
Alyson Shontell
Editor-in-Chief
Business Insider
Marc Paust
Executive Director, Information Security and IT Operations
Ben Murray
Founder
Nathan Latka
Founder
Nate Smith
Founder & CEO
Patrick Campbell
Founder & CEO
Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO
Jason Field
Founder & CEO
Kenneth Lin
Founder & CEO
Isaac Oates
Founder & CEO
Howard Lerman
Founder & CEO
Jan Arendtsz
Founder & CEO
Mary Shea
Global Innovation Evangelist
Saba Karim
Global Startup Pipeline Manager
Conor Nolen
Global Vice President, Customers for Life
Kim Walsh
Global VP
Matt Vickers
GM Product – New Markets
Alex Song
Head of Finance and Capital Markets
Arthur Jun
Head of Performance Marketing
Matt Hulett
President
Katie Bullard
President & Chief Growth Officer
Jamie Finn
President & Co-Founder
Tolga Kurtoğlu
President PARC
Larry Cashdollar
Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer
Geoff Sindel
Principal Web Application and API Security Architect
Samantha Schwartz
Reporter
Kamaron Leach
Reporter
Jade Scipioni
Reporter
Akiko Fujita
Reporter & Anchor
Reggie Bradford
Senior Vice President
Jeff Ford
Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations
Marcus Fowler
SVP, Strategic Engagements and Threats
Peter Boyce
Sean Sheppard
VC & Co-Founder
Jackey Wang
Venture Partner
Kamran Ansari
Venture Partner
Jackson Jeyanayagam
Vice President & General Manager
Brody Ehrlich
Vice President of Channel Sales
George DiGuido
Vice President, Subscription Marketing
Business Insider
Mark Kilens
VP of Content & Community
Sarah McConnell
VP of Demand Generation
Kate Athmer
VP of Growth
Rachel Krug
VP of Growth Operation
Ali Haeri
VP of Marketing
Allyson Tom
VP of People and Culture
Rod Lacey
VP of People, North America
Lisa Kant
VP of Product Marketing
Edna Conway
VP, Chief Security & Risk Officer, Azure
Sarah Bird
CEO Moz
Sarah Bird serves as the CEO of Moz, the world leader in Search Engine Optimization software. With Sarah’s leadership, the company has grown to over 34,000 customers, 150 employees, $60+mm annual revenue, raised $30mm venture capital, launched multiple software products, and created a beloved marketing brand. Prior to Moz, Sarah practiced law and travelled the world. She regularly speaks about entrepreneurship, business models, search marketing, women in tech, and fostering an inspiring company culture. She has served on the boards of Sitrion, a private company, and the Washington Technology Industry Association. Sarah was named a Henry Crown Fellow, Geekwire CEO of the Year Finalist three times, Role Model of the Year, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, a Top 100 Women in Tech.Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner Fusion Fund
Lu Zhang, Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, is a renowned Silicon Valley based investor, a serial entrepreneur, and a Stanford Engineering alumna.
Lu is a World Economic Forum(Davos) Young Global Leader (Class of 2018) and was recently selected as a Best 25 Female Investor by Business Insider. She has also garnered other accolades including the Featured Honoree in VC of Forbes 30 Under 30, Silicon Valley Women of Influence, and Town & Country 50 Modern Swans – Entrepreneurship Influencer. Prior to starting Fusion Fund, she was the Founder and CEO of Acetone.inc, a medical device company focused on non-invasive technology for the early diagnosis of Type II diabetes (acq. 2013). Lu is a frequent speaker at tech events and conferences such as Davos Economic Forum, Future Investment Initiative (FII), Forbes, Web Summit, SuperReturn, etc. and also serves as a mentor and
advisor to several tech innovation programs in Silicon Valley. Lu is the board member of the Youth Council of Future Forum and Future Science Award. Lu is also on the Jury Board of the Cartier Young Leader Award. She received her M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.Neal Sales-Griffin
Managing Director Techstars
Neal Sáles-Griffin is an entrepreneur, teacher, and nonprofit leader. He co-founded the first beginner-focused in-person coding bootcamp, and most recently ran for mayor of Chicago. He’s currently the Managing Director of Techstars Chicago, serves as co-chair of the School of the Art Institute’s MakeWork council, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering where he teaches entrepreneurship.Esther Dyson
Executive Founder Wellville
Esther Dyson(@edyson) is executive founder of Wellville(@WaytoWellville), a 10-year nonprofit project (2015-2024) to nudge society towards long-term and equitable thinking by showing the social and financial value of investing in health for all. She is also an active angel investor, focusing on human capital and health (more than “care”), space travel and a variety of useful innovations in areas such as agtech and logistics. She started her career as a proofreader, journalist, Wall Street analyst and finally editor/publisher/conference manager (Release 1.0 and PC Forum – 1982-2007). In 1996, she wrote the best-seller “Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age (Broadway Books). In addition to a Harvard BA in economics, she earned a certificate of completion from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (2009) outside Moscow, for her six months of training as a backup cosmonaut.Chris Savage
CEO & Founder Wistia
Chris Savage is the co-founder and CEO of Wistia, a web-based software solution that helps marketers turn viewers into brand advocates to grow their businesses. After graduating from Brown University, Chris and his co-founder Brendan Schwartz, started Wistia in Brendan’s living room in 2006. They founded the company with the goal of helping businesses effectively market their products or services more creatively through video. Recently, Savage and Schwartz turned down an offer to sell Wistia and took on $17.3M in debt instead, which allowed them to buy out their investors, gain full control of Wistia, and take the path less traveled in the tech industry. Now, more than 500,000 businesses across 50 countries depend on Wistia’s products to build their brands and their businesses, including HubSpot, MailChimp, Sephora, Starbucks, and Tiffany & Co.David Siegel
CEO Meetup
David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local community. He has over 20 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration. Prior to joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and before that, President of Seeking Alpha. David holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University where he teaches strategic planning and entrepreneurship. He hosts Keep Connected, a podcast dedicated to the power of community, which ranks among the top 3% of global podcasts. David’s bestselling book, Decide & Conquer (HarperCollins) shares the framework for decision-making that leaders can use to ensure organizational and personal success.Christi Olson
Head of Evangelism for Search Microsoft
Christi is the Head of Evangelism for Bing at Microsoft, and since 2015 has been annually recognized by PPC Hero and her peers as one of the 25 Most Influential PPC Experts. For over a decade she has managed digital marketing and analytics teams across Enterprises, Agencies and Start-Ups. Her love for digital and expertise in search has led her to keynote and speak at hundreds of conferences globally, including at over 80 conferences in 2018. She is a contributing author about all things search, conversational AI, and digital marketing across the web at Entrepreneur, TheNextWeb, MarketingProfs, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Journal.Rand Fishkin
CEO SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his blogging, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s most likely to be in the company of his partner in marriage and (mostly petty) crime, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you feed him great pasta or great whisky, he’ll give you the cheat code to rank #1 on Google.Michael Tannenbaum
CBO Brex
Michael Tannenbaum is the Chief Financial Officer of Brex. He was the Company’s first employee and oversees Finance, Credit, Marketing, Business Development, Marketing and Capital Markets. Tannenbaum joined Brex from online lender SoFi where he was promoted six times in three years, ultimately to Chief Revenue Officer. During his time at SoFi, Tannenbaum was VP of Finance where he negotiated Softbank’s record-breaking $1 billion Series E investment and also ran the mortgage business. Tannenbaum began his career in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan and graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance in 2016 and the SF Business Times 40 Under 40 in 2017.Elizabeth Yin
Co-Founder & General Partner Hustle Fund
Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.John Barrows
Greg Segall
CEO Alyce
A serial entrepreneur, Greg Segall founded his third company, Alyce in December 2015 with the goal to fundamentally change the way people invest in business relationships using corporate gifting, swag and more. The mission is to help everyone create personal bonds with everyone they do business with.Each “investable” moment create by Alyce is built on the 3 pillars of giving:
- How to create an experience that can authentically bring people closer together
- How to give back to planet
- How to give to those in need
Greg lives in Massachusetts with his wife and 5-year old ninja warrior. He is a tech geek, fitness freak, podcast junkie, baseball monkey and 6-string shredder.
Massimo Arrigoni
CEO BEE
Massimo is CEO of BEE, a product-led scaleup that is making email & landing page design easy and fast for anyone. BEE’s no-code visual builders are used over 6,000,000 times per month, online at beefree.io and embedded in over 1,000 SaaS applications. Massimo has over two decades of experience in product management & product-led growth. Before taking the helm at BEE, a business unit of Growens (GROW:IM), Massimo was Head of Product for the group for several years. Prior to Growens, Massimo was co-founder and CEO of Early Impact, developer of a small business ecommerce system called ProductCart, popular in the 2000s and still powering thousands of online stores today (the company was sold in 2013).Nick Mehta
CEO Gainsight
Nick Mehta (he/him), is the CEO of Gainsight, The Customer Success Company—a five time Forbes Cloud 100 recipient. He works with a team of 800 people who together have created the customer success category that’s currently taking over the SaaS business model worldwide. Nick has been named one of the Top SaaS CEOs by the Software Report three years in a row, one of the Top CEOs of 2018 by Comparably, and was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Northern California Award winner. On top of all that, he was recently rated the #1 CEO in the world (the award committee was just his mom, but the details are irrelevant). He is a member of the Board of Directors at F5 and has also co-authored two books on the customer success field, Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue, and The Customer Success Economy: Why Every Aspect of Your Business Model Needs A Paradigm Shift. He is passionate about family, football, philosophy, physics, fashion, feminism, and SaaS customer success. People told him it’s impossible to combine all of those interests, but Nick has made it his life’s mission to try.Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO Stack Overflow
Prashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history. Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine. Prashanth is married and has two children.Krish Subramanian
CEO Chargebee
Krish Subramanian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chargebee, a Subscription Management & Billing Solution for Recurring Revenue Businesses. Krish is an engineer by profession and a problem solver at heart. For Krish, everything comes down to service and experience. Krish has prior stints at reputed software enterprises like Tata Consultancy Services and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He started his career as a software engineer at Matexnet Private Limited, a company specialising in online auctions of excess inventory. In his services consultant avatar, Krish used to work with fortune 500 customers, managing enterprise implementations of Ariba products, integrated with Oracle & SAP. He was a techno-functional consultant, specialising in Sourcing, Contracts, Buyer & Invoicing Solutions pertaining to Indirect Purchasing. His passion to build for the future, combined with over 20 years of experience in the world of software, along with his co-founders has helped fuel Chargebee’s 100% growth in revenue year on year. He is referred to as the “nice guy” within the company, the tech community, media, and by his mom.Daniel Chait
CEO Greenhouse
Daniel Chait is CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse Software, which builds tools to help companies make recruiting a competitive advantage. Daniel has been a technology entrepreneur in New York for over 20 years. Before Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing technology consulting solutions for the world’s leading investment banks.Olga Afanasyeva
Andy Yang
CEO Indiegogo
Andy is the CEO of Indiegogo, a platform for empowering people to unite around the
innovative ideas that inspire them, and together make those ideas come to life. His
career has spanned two decades in a variety of roles in tech – operator, investor
(angel and VC), banker, consultant, and advisor. Prior to Indiegogo, Andy headed core product at Reddit where he stewarded
Community Experiences. Before that, Andy was CEO of 500px, where he
successfully led a turnaround of the startup until it was successfully acquired. Andy
has also spent time at leading companies such as Netflix, Chegg, Goldman Sachs,
and Accenture. Andy holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a
BSc from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a native Californian and is
happily living the dream with his wife and two daughters.Jager McConnell
CEO Crunchbase
Jager McConnell is the CEO of Crunchbase, the leading platform used by millions of entrepreneurs and investors looking to discover innovative companies and the people behind them. Jager joined Crunchbase as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development. In his last role at Salesforce, Jager was a VP of Product in the Sales Cloud where he oversaw the core sales force automation product line.Dennis Fois
CEO Copper
Dennis Fois is the CEO of Copper, the leading CRM for G Suite. Copper is his latest stop in an international career spanning over 25 years in various countries across Europe and the U.S. During this time, Dennis has developed and led high-performing multicultural teams at both startups and public companies in the technology and financial services sector. Most recently, Dennis was the CEO at NewVoiceMedia, where he led the company to accelerate international growth and ultimately an acquisition by Vonage. Before NewVoiceMedia, Dennis was the CEO at Rant & Rave. He’s also held senior leadership positions at eGain, Barclays, Solera and ADP. Since joining Copper as CEO, Dennis has accelerated Copper’s growth journey by leading its expansion into Canada.Jennifer Mercer
CEO Metazoa
Jennifer is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO of Metazoa where she applies her extensive experience in B2B enterprise SaaS. Prior to founding Metazoa, Jennifer co-founded and exited DreamFactory Software where she launched half a dozen Salesforce AppExchange products and built a RESTful API Platform for mobile application developers. DreamFactory raised over $20 million in capital and culminated in a successful exit.Waseem Daher
CEO & Co-Founder Pilot
Waseem Daher is CEO and co-founder of Pilot, which specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth technology startups. He is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits: his first company, Ksplice, was acquired by Oracle in 2011 and his second, Zulip, was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. He has a degree in computer science from MIT.Henry Schuck
CEO & Co-Founder Zoominfo
Henry Schuck is the founder and CEO of DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo, the leading sources of business information driving the go-to-market initiative of over 15,000 companies worldwide.Sameer Gulati
CEO & Founder Ordway
After having launched several billion-dollar finance applications at some of the world’s leading ERP companies, Sameer founded Ordway in 2018 with the vision of building a more flexible billing and revenue automation platform. He wanted to free customers from the constraints that many of the incumbent, rigid financial systems suffered. Over the past few years, Sameer has led Ordway through a period of rapid growth and outside investment as the company has begun to disrupt the recurring billing and subscription management category. Sameer brings over 20 years of experience in developing innovative financial products at some of the world’s leading technology companies. Prior to Ordway, Sameer was the Chief Product Officer at Spree Commerce before the acquisition by payments leader, First Data. At Zynga, he led the launch of Frontierville — one of the highest monetizing apps of all time. Earlier in his career Sameer worked at various tech startups, including roles as one of the first product managers during the early days of Zuora, Workday, and Intacct. An entrepreneur at heart, Sameer is also an active venture partner with NextGen Venture Partners and angel investor in startups such as UrbanStems, Social Tables, TrackMaven, and Advantia Health.Thejo Kote
CEO & Founder Airbase
Thejo Kote is the co-founder and CEO of Airbase, the leading spend management platform for small and midsize companies. Founded in 2017, Airbase raised over $30m from Bain Capital Ventures and First Round Capital. Thejo’s first company, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for over $100m.Marcus Wagner
CEO & Founder AcctTwo
Marcus Wagner is the Founder and CEO of AcctTwo, a finance and accounting technology and services provider with a heavy focus on SaaS companies. He has over 25 years of experience in finance and accounting, auditing, internal controls and risk management, system implementation, process design and re-engineering, finance transformation, outsourcing and shared services. Prior to founding AcctTwo, he was a Co-Founder, Partner and Advisory Practice Leader at Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C., a Houston-based accounting firm. He started his career at Price Waterhouse LLP (now PwC) where he spent 11 years in audit and consulting and left as a Senior Manager. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and 3 children.Steffen Schebesta
CEO of North America Sendinblue
Steffen Schebesta is the CEO of North America and VP of Corporate Development at Sendinblue. He has over 15 years of experience as a business and digital marketing leader. Prior to joining Sendinblue, Steffen was the founder and co-CEO of Newsletter2Go, the leading email marketing provider in the German market. Under Steffen’s leadership, Newsletter2Go became one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe. In 2019, Newsletter2Go was acquired by Sendinblue and Steffen earned the title of co-CEO in Germany. Steffen holds a master’s degree in business and electrical engineering from The Technical University of Berlin.Elizabeth Soloman
CFO Xactly
CFO Elizabeth Salomon is a trusted executive advisor with a consistent track record of providing sound financial guidance in complex settings demanding financial and business acumen.Marty Meyer
CFO GAN Integrity
Marty brings more than 20 years of financial and operational experience to the team with deep domain expertise in e-commerce, SaaS, and enterprise software. He has raised over $250M in venture funding and has closed significant M&A transactions with companies such as Motorola, IBM, and Cisco.Dan Fletcher
CFO Planful
Dan Fletcher is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Planful, with experience in high-growth SaaS and PE-backed companies. Prior to joining Planful, Dan served as the CFO for MarkLogic where he helped guide the company through acquisition transformation and growth. Before this role, Dan served in a variety of management roles for high-growth companies, including at Planful as CFO, following the acquisition by Vector Capital in late 2018.Dan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a B.S. and Masters from the University of Missouri, where he graduated with honors.Aneal Vallurupalli
CFO Airbase
Aneal Vallurupalli is the CFO of Airbase, a spend management company. His background includes scaling early to late-stage corporate finance, corporate development, operations, and tech M&A. Most recently, Aneal was the VP of Finance & Operations at Mattermost, growing the company’s enterprise value—with a 4x increase in revenue growth and by leading its $50M Series B. He also managed the company’s fully distributed global growth the number of countries it operates in. Prior to that, he was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company’s $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank, and was the founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire, helping to grow it from an $800M private company to a $7B public company. His career began in technology investment banking at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions.Michael Ellis
CFO Flywire
Michael Ellis, Flywire’s Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for the company’s financial and treasury operations. With 30 years of experience, he brings a tested and proven approach to these functions ranging from solving accounting and reporting challenges for large, complex businesses to driving scale and building capital efficiency within high-growth and early stage enterprises. Prior to Flywire, Michael was the CFO at two other Financial technology companies (CashStar and Eze Castle Software) after spending nearly a decade in Public Accounting with PwC and Grant Thornton. Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting and politics & government from Ohio Wesleyan University.Fuad Ahmad
CFO Chargebee
High-energy, focused, analytical, career-driven executive with high-caliber management qualifications, acute technical skills, and vast experience in building and leading corporate finance and general accounting organizations. Key provider of financial advisory and consulting services to the Board and CEO, and contributor to enterprise-level vision, strategy and decision-making.Roxi Wen
CFO Mozilla
As Mozilla’s Chief Financial Officer, Roxi leads the teams in charge of building the growth engine for the company through healthy finances, diverse revenues, data-driven business decisions, carbon-neutral business practices, and fueling innovation inside Mozilla and within a large network of entrepreneurs. Roxi drives the implementation of Mozilla’s strategic roadmap, enabling the business to scale and to identify and capture revenue growth and new investment opportunities. She is responsible for directing capital allocation, delivering technology-driven business services and solutions, providing analytics and performance results, as well as day-to-day management of the finance & business operations teams and their core functions. Prior to Mozilla, Roxi was Chief Financial Officer at Elo Touch Solutions. She held senior-level positions at General Electric, Medtronic, and Royal Bank of Canada and successfully led many private and public financing and M&A transactions. Roxi is a CFA charterholder, earned a Bachelor of Economics from Xiamen University, China, and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.Bob Mahan
Chief Human Resources Officer Cloudera
As chief human resources officer, Bob brings a wealth of knowledge stemming from a 20-year career in technology. Bob is focused on fostering innovation within Cloudera’s global team and creating a culture that attracts and retains key talent. Before joining Cloudera, Bob was most recently EVP of human resources at Docker. Prior to that, he was the VP of human resources at Hortonworks, where he helped grow the company from 30 employees to over 1,400. He supported Hortonworks through its IPO in 2014 as well as its merger with Cloudera in 2019. He also held roles in education and professional services at VMware, SpringSource, JBoss, and Red Hat. Bob also serves as a board member for Sparrows Nest, a nonprofit organization in Athens, GA.Jason Loomis
Chief Information Security Officer Mindbody
Jason Loomis is the Chief Information Security Officer for Mindbody. Mindbody is a global SAAS business solutions provider for the health, beauty, and wellness industries. Jason has a BS in MIS from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the University of Oregon. Jason is; CISSP, CISM, CISA, multiple GIAC, and SCUBA certified. While Cybersecurity may be his chosen career path, his passion, drive, and intellectual curiosity is in leadership, organizational decision making, and giving to those who have less. He also frequently argues the case with himself that those interests make him a better Cybersecurity practitioner.Lena Smart
Chief Information Security Officer MongoDB
Lena joined MongoDB with more than 20 years of cyber security experience. Before joining MongoDB, she was the Global Chief Information Security Officer for the international fintech company, Tradeweb, where she was responsible for all aspects of cybersecurity. She also served as CIO and Chief Security Officer for the New York Power Authority, the largest state power organization in the country. Lena is a founding member of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, formerly the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, which allows security leaders in academia and the private sector to collaborate on tackling the most challenging security issues.Saj Naseem
Chief Information Security Officer New Jersey Courts
Sajed Naseem (“Saj”), is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of New Jersey Courts. Sajed has over twenty years of experience with information security and information technology across many industries. As the Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”) of the New Jersey Courts, Sajed has focused on Cybersecurity Readiness & Performance, Information Governance, and Network Security. Sajed holds Masters Degrees from St. John’s University and Columbia University. Sajed routinely speaks at Cybersecurity conferences nationally, Europe and with the New Jersey Bar Association. Sajed is also an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University in Information Security since 2010 and a native of New York City.Rob Hornbuckle
Chief Information Security Officer Allegiant Airlines
Rob is a results-oriented technology leader currently serving as the CISO for Allegiant Airlines. He is responsible for all aspects of information security, risk, compliance, and privacy for the leading ultra-low cost airline in the United States. Prior to Allegiant Airlines, Rob served as the Interim CISO for United Technologies Aerospace Systems, a leading airplane parts manufacturer for both the private and government sectors as well as CISO for the Arby’s Restaurant Group, a leading international fast food chain. With over 17 years of experience, Rob also has experience in telecommunications, fintech, business to business, and health care sectors. Multi-industry experience allows Rob to develop innovative solutions to complex business challenges, positioning him as a trusted adviser among senior leadership. Rob also holds both an MBA in Innovation Management and Business Model Disruption as well as a MS of Information Security, which is unique among information technology experts. He is passionate about aligning information security to business needs and leveraging technology for strategic advantage. Rob is a sought-after consultant for startups, private equity, investment firms, and research institutions and has also served on the board of advisors for startup organizations.Sandi Kochar
Chief People Officer Gong
Sandi Kochar is the Chief People Officer at Gong. Sandi brings a wealth of knowledge and over 2 decades of people experience at companies including SuccessFactors, Atlassian, and most recently, Ripple.Naomi Rozenfeld
Chief Revenue Officer Wix Answers
Naomi Rozenfeld is the Chief Revenue Officer and leads the global Marketing and Sales strategy for Wix Answers. Naomi is passionate about helping companies and startups provide best-in-class customer experiences and transform the way companies provide Customer Support. Prior to joining Wix.com, Naomi was an Entrepreneur and founded two travel startups.Diane Albano
Chief Revenue Officer Globalization Partners
Accomplished sales and marketing leader with a history of record-breaking results through the development of high-performing teams in organizations ranging from start-up to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Skilled in building new and profitable distribution channels for technology, SaaS, and business intelligence. Deep international experience in establishing and growing global markets, including EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Adept at sales organizational design, strategy, and structure. Line management experience includes full P&L responsibility for business units ranging in size from $40M to $500M. Trusted advisor to CEO, Board of Directors, and other members of executive management teams. P&L Strategic Leadership: Results-oriented leader who has built and scaled businesses, including Ipswitch, from $70M to $85M, and SmartBear, from $48M to $62M, while maintaining appropriate cost structure and high EBITDA growth. Energetic and innovative thinker who is able to assess situations quickly to seize opportunities and create competitive strategies and growth plans to optimize outcomes. Sales Execution: Creator of metric-driven sales models and builder of high-performance sales teams. Demonstrated track record of shortened sales cycles, through improved conversion rates. Strategic and predictive sales forecasting through “waterfall” or sales cycle analysis. Marketing: Led all aspects of marketing, including lead generation, branding, product development/introduction, demand generation, marcom, events, and social media marketing. Recognized by Channelomics for Ipswitch’s unique International PartnerSynergy Program. Specialties: Sales Management and Leadership, Marketing expertise, SaaS solutions, Cloud Computing, Security Expertise, Strategic Account Management, & Compensation planning.
My passion is leading and developing organizations to achieve success and to drive exponential growth, while having fun and motivating with integrity and inspiration.Adrian Ludwig
Chief Trust Officer Atlassian
Adrian Ludwig is the Chief Trust Officer at Atlassian. He is responsible for Atlassian’s security, risk & compliance and privacy practices. Adrian joined the company in May 2018 and previously held the role of Chief Information Security Officer where he oversaw Atlassian’s security team and initiatives. Prior to joining Atlassian, Adrian held a number of leadership positions, including building out the security capabilities at Nest, Macromedia, Adobe, and Android (Google). As a self-described hacker in his early years, Adrian was recruited by the Department of Defense when he was 16. They put him through college and, after graduation, put him to work for several years finding security flaws in cryptographic and computer network systems. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College.Tyler Lessard
VP Marketing Vidyard
Tyler is a marketing executive with a passion for creative storytelling, data-driven marketing, and creating exceptional customer experiences. As VP of Marketing at Vidyard, he’s spent 6+ years immersed in the world of online video and content marketing, helping to define and share best practices for businesses of all shapes and sizes. He’s a frequent speaker and author on topics spanning video marketing, content marketing, B2B sales, and account-based marketing, and is the host of the Creating Connections podcast and Video in Focus show.Doug Inamine
CHRO Tipalti
Doug has a tremendous amount of experience in leading the human resource function in both privately-held and publicly-traded, multinational technology companies. Most recently he was the CHRO for Coupang, an e-commerce startup based in South Korea where he was part of an aggressive growth phase as they expanded their global footprint. Prior to that, he was the Chief People Officer for Kabam, a mobile gaming startup, and Xyratex, a publicly-traded enterprise data storage company. Doug graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S in Economics.Anna Fisher
CMO Spiff
Anna is a results-oriented marketing leader with a proven track-record building integrated marketing organizations by blending brand strategy and demand generation. Prior to joining Spiff, Anna served as the Vice President of Marketing at ZoomInfo where she led lead generation, brand awareness, product marketing, and customer marketing. Anna is currently based in Boston where she lives with her husband and 3 children.Johann Wrede
CMO Xactly
CMO Johann Wrede is a transformational leader with a diverse background and a history of delivering high-impact marketing to inspire brand advocacy among customers.Patrick Smith
CMO Cvent
Patrick Smith is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cvent. He brings more than 20 years of experience developing and managing marketing strategies for enterprise software firms.At Cvent, Patrick leads the company’s global marketing efforts, which include the development and execution of marketing initiatives that drive Cvent’s business around the world. Patrick leads a large, global team of marketers across Demand Generation, Corporate Communications, Product Marketing, Events Marketing, Customer Marketing, Content Marketing, and Global Demand Center teams, and has helped further establish Cvent as the de-facto leader in the meetings, event, and hospitality technology space. Prior to Cvent, Patrick was the CMO at Deltek, a global enterprise software company with nearly 21,000 customers around the world, where he built and promoted Deltek’s global brand.Rowan Tonkin
CMO Planful
Rowan Tonkin is an experienced Sales and Marketing leader in fast-growing, global organizations. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at Planful, where he is responsible for leading the go-to-market strategy and operations. Rowan most recently led growth for OmniSci as VP of Revenue Operations and Marketing Demand Center and prior to that was responsible for Sales and Marketing Solutions at Anaplan. Rowan holds a Bachelor of Internet Science and Technology from the University of Wollongong, Australia.Amanda Malko
CMO G2
Amanda Malko is the CMO of G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. Amanda is an award-winning go-to-market leader with deep experience accelerating the growth and reputations of category-disruptor brands and the entrepreneurial cultures behind them. Her career spans both marketing and operational leadership roles at digital software and services companies, including Mailchimp where she most recently led the company’s partner program and marketplace business. Her expertise includes customer experience, brand building, and community-led growth.Randi Barshack
CMO RollWorks
With over 20 years’ experience building and scaling global marketing teams, Randi Barshack has established brands and categories across a variety of sectors. As a contemporary marketer and creative storyteller, Randi has worked in TV and film production and was a multimedia producer. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, which offers ambitious companies an account-based platform to align their marketing and sales teams and confidently grow revenue. Prior to RollWorks, Randi served as Chief Marketing Officer of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen), the leading provider of artificial training data. Prior to that, Barshack held senior-level roles at xMatters, Inc. and Mashery (acquired by Intel). She co-founded the customer experience pioneer company TeaLeaf Technology (acquired by IBM), the first spin-off of SAP. Barshack holds a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.Shane Murphy-Reuter
CMO Zoominfo
Shane Murphy-Reuter joins ZoomInfo as Chief Marketing Officer from Intercom, a global customer messaging platform company, where he was SVP of Global Marketing. Prior to Intercom, he served as Vice President of North American Sales and Marketing at AdRoll, a growth marketing platform.Genefa Murphy
CMO Five9
Genefa Murphy is the Chief Marketing Officer for Five9. With over 15 years of global experience in the field of technology from consulting, to product management, strategy and marketing, she is an accomplished leader and has led worldwide teams in creating and executing compelling and effective go-to-market strategies and campaigns. She is a passionate business executive, with experience across various IT domains. Always a technology enthusiast, she consistently looks for new opportunities to break the mold and push boundaries, to lift her teams to the next level. Most recently, Genefa was the SVP and CMO for Micro Focus, a multi-billion dollar enterprise software company. In this role, she led her team through the separation from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, acquisition into Micro Focus and the subsequent transformation of the marketing and enablement teams. She also helped transform the underlying marketing tech stack, helping deliver scale and exceptional ROI for the company, its customers and partners. Genefa previously, held various global roles across products, marketing, enablement and communications at HPE and HP. She is also an active supporter of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and helped launch Micro Focus’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program, INSPIRE. As executive sponsor she spearheaded the INSPIRE20 podcast series to help create awareness of DE&I initiatives within global enterprises. Genefa holds a BSc in Business IT and a PhD, which focused on the intersection of technology and sociology in determining technology adoption in the enterprise. Genefa has been recognized as a global CMO of the year and CRN Woman of the Channel for her contributions to the partner and channel eco-system.Nick Panayi
CMO Amelia
Nick is Chief Marketing Officer at Amelia, a leading software firm in Conversational AI. Before joining Amelia as CMO in 2019, Nick was Vice President of Brand, Demand and Digital Marketing at DXC Technology (a $20B global IT Services leader, formed in 2017 after a merger of CSC and HPE Enterprise Services). In addition to DXC, Nick’s 20+ years of marketing experience in the technology industry includes a variety of marketing leadership roles with Hewlett Packard (previously Compaq Corp) and Avaya. Nick was named to the list of “Top 25 Digital Marketers” by BtoB Magazine and his marketing teams have won multiple awards and distinctions by Sirius Decisions, ITSMA and other marketing analyst firms in recent years. He holds a Bachelors in Marketing and an MBA in Management. Nick lives in Northern Virginia.Jeff Reekers
CMO Aircall
Building Aircall. I believe in setting stretch goals and hitting them. Life’s too short for less.Udi Ledergor
Chief Evangelist Gong
Udi Ledergor is a five-time Marketing leader at B2B start-ups and currently the Chief Evangelist at Gong. As Chief Evangelist, Udi oversees Gong’s category leadership in the Revenue Intelligence space through bringing new products to market and advancing thought leadership. While serving as Gong’s Chief Marketing Officer, he led the creation and leadership of the revenue intelligence category, pioneered an iconic, human-centric brand, and led Gong’s Marketing efforts from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue. Passionate about startups and brands during the day, whisky and music in the evening, he’s also an author, speaker, angel investor, and startup advisor based in San Francisco.Matt Epstein
CMO Rippling
Matt Epstein is Chief Marketing Officer at Rippling where he’s responsible for the company’s brand, growth and marketing strategy. Previously, as the first employee and Head of Marketing at Zenefits, Matt created a leading HR brand and helped grow the company from $0 to $65M ARR. He’s a self-described former D-List YouTube celebrity who loves storytelling and hockey stick growth curves. He splits his time between New York and San Francisco.Latané Conant
CMO 6sense
Latané Conant is the Chief Market Officer of 6sense and author of the bestselling book, No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls. She’s passionate about empowering marketing leaders to confidently lead their teams, company, and industry into the future. Latané is laser-focused on leveraging technology and data to build marketing programs that result in deals, not just leads. She’s known across the industry for her creativity, competitiveness, and boundless energy.Deirdre Bigley
CMO Bloomberg
Deirdre Bigley is a seasoned marketing communications executive whose 25 year career has focused on high-technology and financial services industries. As Chief Marketing Officer, Deirdre oversees the marketing for all Bloomberg businesses including Financial Products, Media and the Vertical Industries globally. This includes all market management, brand strategy, digital, content, events and the in-house creative agency. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2009, Bigley spent 13 years at IBM, served in increasingly more senior positions, managing a variety of marketing and sales initiatives and serving her final years as Vice President of World Wide Advertising and Interactive, and Vice President of Worldwide Brand. Bigley began her career on the agency side, having worked at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in New York and additional agencies in Boston, New Jersey and Dallas, eventually joining her client at IBM in 1996.
Bigley was appointed to Shutterstock, Inc. Board of Directors in 2016. She was also appointed to the Wix.com Board of Directors in 2017. Deirdre serves on the Ad Council Board of Directors and the Makers Board of Directors. She has been honored with a number of awards throughout her career, including AWNY Top 50 Women in Advertising, the Gertrude Crain Award for Top Women in Business Marketing, B2B Magazine Top Marketer and Top Integrated Campaign and Working Mother Magazine’s Top “Established Mom” Award.Carl Tsukahara
CMO Optimizely
Carl Tsukahara is Chief Marketing Officer at Optimizely and is responsible for all global marketing strategy and execution. A 25+ year veteran of Silicon Valley, Carl Tsukahara was most recently Chief Marketing Officer for Birst, a category leader in delivering enterprise business analytics to major global corporations. Prior to Birst, Carl was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Products for Evolv (NASDAQ:CSOD), a provider of predictive analytics/machine learning solutions, where he managed marketing, engineering and product management. At Evolv, Carl drove explosive market awareness and product innovation, leading to an acquisition of Evolv by Cornerstone On Demand. Previously, Carl was Global CMO for Monitise PLC (MONI:LSE), a leader in mobile payments and mobile banking, headquartered in London. He also has held executive management roles at other high growth entities as head of marketing for Oracle’s database products and VP of marketing and products for Vitria Technology, which eventually led to a multi-billion dollar initial public offering. As a strategy and marketing consultant, Carl also worked with companies and product groups such as Workday, Microsoft, Riverbed Technology, Taleo, D&B, Hyperion, Symantec and VMware, working directly with the executive management of those organizations.Jascha Kaykas-Wolff
CMO Mozilla
As Chief Marketing Officer, Jascha Kaykas-Wolff leads Mozilla’s global marketing strategy and organization. Jascha believes in two key principles: Find opportunities where no one else is looking; And, never fail the same way twice. It’s a methodology centered around Agile marketing practices and marketing technology. Coupled with a B.A. in Psychology from Whittier College, it’s one that’s served him well professionally and personally. Prior to joining Mozilla, Jascha most recently served as CMO for BitTorrent, CMO for Mindjet, senior vice president of marketing and customer success at Involver and he previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends. He also has experience at Microsoft and Yahoo! Jascha’s marketing specialties span B2C and B2B including product positioning, marketing strategy, marketing technology, demand creation, brand building, brand repositioning, organizational improvements, agile marketing, and sales enablement. Outside of work Jascha is a passionate volunteer and mentor with TheLastMile.org. He published Growing Up Fast with Kevin Fann in August 2014. He calls Marin County home with his wife Rebecca, 3 whip-smart children, 1 grey haired hamster, 2 frogs, 6 or 7 fish and one cat that wants to eat them all.Jeff Titterton
CMO Zendesk
Jeff currently leads Zendesk’s marketing organization. He brings 18 years of experience leading marketing, product marketing, and conversion and retention optimization from early-stage startups to enterprise companies. Prior to Zendesk, Jeff led engagement marketing at Adobe. He has also served as CMO at 99designs and VP of Marketing at Zoosk and holds a B.A. in English and Economics from Cornell University.Harris Beber
CMO Vimeo
Harris Beber is CMO of Vimeo, the world’s largest ad-free open video platform. In this role, Harris is responsible for expanding the reach of the platform and scaling the community of video creators, filmmakers and brands using Vimeo. An accomplished entrepreneur and Chief Marketing Officer, Harris has strategically innovated, uncovering growth and profit for prominent brands including Amazon, Shutterfly and 1-800-Flowers.com. He has also successfully sold his retail eCommmerce business that pioneered pairing charitable giving with everyday transactions. Harris lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.Joanna Lord
CMO ClassPass
14+ years of technology startups and marketing leadership where I have focused on revenue growth, marketing strategy and managed high performing teams. Tech mentor (Techstars, NEXT, UpGlobal, Startup Weekend) and educator (UW professor, Advanced Digital Marketing). Board advisor at Attendly & SparkTrend. Blogger at Entrepreneur.com, MarketingLand.com and JoannaLord.com. Winner of Seattle’s 40 Under 40. Digital evangelist and keynote. I’ve spoken around the globe at shows like: Web Summit Dublin, Traction Conference, SMX Advanced/East, Growth Marketing Conference East, SXSW 13/14/15, Naspers Growth Summit, Reforge Growth Forums, Rainmaker Conference, C3, The Conference Sweden, CTA Conference, SIC, SearchExchange, EdSocialMedia, Sydney eRetailer, Dreamforce, MozCon, DomainFest, PubCon Vegas/South, SEMpdx 11/12/13/14, Affiliate Summit, and many more. Dedicated to building brilliant brands that leave an impact, connect us in beautiful ways, and do great things.Harry Glaser
CMO & GM of San Francisco Sisense
Harry Glaser is a Co-Founder and CEO of Periscope Data, an end-to-end BI and analytics platform for anyone looking to answer complex questions with data. Prior to founding Periscope Data in 2012, Glaser was a product manager at Google. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.James Slezak
Alon Alroy
Co-Founder Bizzabo
Alon is the Co-Founder of Bizzabo, the world’s fastest growing event technology platform for hybrid, virtual and in-person events. Bizzabo is helping marketers and event organizers from world leading brands to promote, manage and maximize their professional events, to create memorable and impactful experiences. Alon has built Bizzabo’s business operations from the ground up and is now overseeing its marketing, strategy, and customer success teams. Alon began his career in the Israeli Air Force, where he served as a team commander for 6 years. Prior to founding Bizzabo, Alon was a senior startups analyst at ISP Financials. He graduated with high honors from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where he did his BA in Business and LLB in Law. He was selected to participate in the prestigious Zell Entrepreneurship program, and in New York’s exclusive Venture Fellows Program. Alon was named as:
The Meetings industry’s “40 under 40 young leaders” by Collaborate Magazine
Top 10 Israeli CMOs by Geektime Magazine
100 most influential People in The Event Industry By EventexTaylor Smith
Co-Founder & CEO Blueboard
Taylor is a seasoned HR Tech entrepreneur passionate about all things people, engagement and culture. As Co-founder and CEO of Blueboard, a San Francisco-based employee rewards and recognition company, Taylor enables organizations worldwide to recognize their top employees in a more meaningful way, through curated experiences as rewards. Taylor is an avid writer, with articles focused on leadership and employee engagement recently published on FastCompany.com and HR.com, and is a seasoned professional speaker having presented on HR through-leadership at NCHRA’s HR TechXpo, HR West, HR Tech Congress’ HR Tech World, HR Tech Conference, and From Day One.Kris Rudeegraap
Co-Founder & CEO Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is the co-founder and CEO of Sendoso, the leading Sending Platform. Kris has more than a decade of sales experience and has spent time at Talkdesk, Yapstone, and Piqora. During that time, he discovered that creating meaningful engagements through direct mail and gifting was an effective way to drive demand and increase sales—which helped inspire the idea for Sendoso. Kris is a California native and CSU-Chico alum currently residing in the Bay Area.Henry Blodget
Co-Founder & CEO Business Insider
Henry Blodget is cofounder, CEO, and Editorial Director of Insider, Inc. Insider publishes “Business Insider,” “Tech Insider,” “INSIDER,” and other publications and is a global journalism organization with more than 500 staff members and offices and affiliates in more than 17 countries. Insider’s publications reach more than 200 million people worldwide each month. Henry started Insider Inc., then called “Silicon Alley Insider,” in the loading dock of another New York-based startup in 2007. He served as CEO and Editor in Chief until 2017. Insider was initially funded by RRE Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Jeff Bezos, and other investors. Axel Springer, the leading digital publisher in Europe, bought the company in 2015. A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, the Financial Times, and other publications. He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of “The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Investing.” He is a member of the International Media Council and Technology Pioneers selection committee of the World Economic Forum. During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Henry was a top-ranked Wall Street internet analyst. He was later keelhauled by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over conflicts of interest between the research and banking divisions of brokerage firms. Henry received a B.A. from Yale University. He was born in New York.Luis von Ahn
Co-Founder & CEO Duolingo
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow and selling two companies to Google in his 20s. Luis is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a language-learning platform created to bring free language education to the world. With over 200 million users, it is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app worldwide. Luis has been named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Scientists by Popular Science Magazine, one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover, one of the Top Young Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of the 100 Most Innovative People in Business by Fast Company Magazine.Vasco Pedro
Co-Founder & CEO Unbabel
Vasco Pedro is the co-founder and CEO of Unbabel. Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, Vasco holds a Ph.D. in Language technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and is a faculty member of Singularity University. Vasco has played a key role in strengthening the Portuguese tech ecosystem, through mentorship initiatives including Beta-i, Startup Portugal, and the Founders Initiative. Under Vasco’s leadership, Unbabel has raised a total of $91 million in funding to enable enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels.Dan Carroll
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Wealthfront
Dan Carroll and fellow co-founder Andy Rachleff launched Wealthfront in 2011 after realizing they both shared a mission — to democratize access to sophisticated financial advice — and agreed that software was the best medium to unlock great investing for everyone. Today, the space that Dan pioneered is known as the ‘robo-advisor’ industry. Dan’s mission has encouraged many people in their 30s and 40s to start planning for their future financial freedom, many for the first time. He has drawn upon his own life experiences to build customer-centric products that guide financial goals including retirement, saving for a child’s college education or buying a home. And he is not done yet. Dan’s vision is to turn the dirty aspects of Wall Street on its head and build a digital financial services company that truly cares about its clients and their ambitions. Dan has the energy and passion to do just that.Paul Liberman
Co-Founder & COO DraftKings
Paul Liberman is Chief Operations Officer of DraftKings, the innovative sports-tech media
entertainment platform that is changing the way consumers around the world engage with and consume sports. Liberman co-founded DraftKings in 2012 and oversees all of the company’s product development while leading efforts in maintaining the company’s current product set. Liberman has acted as both CTO and CMO before moving into his current position as COO. Paul’s data-driven mindset has been instrumental in catapulting DraftKings from a small Boston start-up to a global sports-tech entertainment enterprise. Liberman’s ability to work with large, complex data sets highlight his superior analytic skills but it’s his keen eye on how to apply this data towards product development that really shines. Under his leadership, Paul’s team of over 150 people have developed award-winning, stand-alone apps and products including DraftKings’ DK Live and Leagues while scaling the DraftKings platform with a backend system that is capable of rolling out new types of games and variants of each sport based on demand as well as launching in new states and countries in a short time period once regulatory approved. Liberman’s work has been recognized by the media and his peers, both nationally and locally in the Boston region. Among his recent accolades, he was named to Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list of the most influential people in Boston. Under his leadership, DraftKings has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50,” is a three-time winner of Bostinno’s “50 On Fire” award (2013, 2014 and 2015), has won “Best Daily Fantasy Sports Mobile App” and “Best Mobile App-Service or Tool (DK Live)” by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and “Best Mobile Website & App” by the American Business Association, among more. Liberman attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he received his degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He resides with his wife and twin sons in the Boston area.Alex Bean
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer Divvy
Driven by a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation, Alex co-founded Divvy in 2016 when he realized the financial sector—one of the world’s largest industries—lacked an innovative product to help companies manage their spending. He now oversees all strategic initiatives at Divvy with a special focus on growth and partnerships. With a B.S. in global studies from Brigham Young University, Alex is a student of the world. He once camped on the Great Wall of China and is slowly making his way across all seven continents (with three to go).Trei Brundrett
COO Vox Media
Trei Brundrett is the Chief Operating Officer at Vox Media, the leading independent modern media company known for building the best media brands and the platforms that enable them. He oversees the highest priority cross-company initiatives and heads the Design, Technology and Product group. Trei also leads Chorus, Vox Media’s modern publishing, audience, and revenue SaaS platform, the only all-in-one solution used by newsrooms, digital publishers and entertainment companies. Over the past decade, Trei has been instrumental in growing Vox Media from a collection of sports blogs to an innovative modern media organization with leading networks that include SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Eater, Curbed and Vox. Previously, as the co-founder of the boutique digital strategy firm Handwire, Trei led large scale internet strategy, advertising and development projects for Fortune 500 companies, national non-profits and media clients. In addition to building the first web presence for Texas Monthly and helping to launch several early internet startups, Trei also led the digital technology and strategy efforts for Senator Mark Warner’s 2008 presidential bid. He sits on the board of directors for The Texas Tribune, is an advisor to Open News, is a member of the board of visitors for the McDonald Observatory and studied Astronomy and History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Omar Nawaz
CPO Chargebee
Omar is the Chief Product Officer at Chargebee. He is passionate about building incredible products and teams with demonstrated leadership success in delivering innovative solutions that significantly impact business outcomes. He has a significant track record of scaling products, businesses, and processes to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Omar is experienced in architecting high-performing distributed teams, bringing clarity, vision, and solutions to large and very complex problems and opportunities. Consistently delivering against mission-critical, strategic company goals through adopting and implementing disruptive and innovative technologies to scale.Jamie Anderson
CRO Xactly
Jamie Anderson is a proven tech executive with a reputation for building and scaling global sales and go-to-market organizations. Prior to joining Xactly Jamie held senior executive roles with Adobe, Marketo, and SAP.Kevin Tate
Chief Marketing Officer Clearbit
Kevin Tate is the CMO of Clearbit, a marketing intelligence solution that enables B2B teams to better understand their customers and optimize their digital funnel. Kevin has led sales & marketing for data-driven solutions for over 20 years, in sectors ranging from Enterprise SaaS to eCommerce and IoT.Chloe Stewart
CRO Pilot
Chloe Stewart is CRO at Pilot, which powers the financial back office for startups and small businesses. She has spent the last 15+ years in sales and GTM leadership at high growth startups, including serving as VP, Global Sales at Eventbrite (2018 IPO). Chloe lives in San Francisco.Allison Metcalfe
CRO Demandbase
Allison Metcalfe is the Chief Revenue Officer of Demandbase. Metcalfe joined Demandbase after a successful seven-year stint at the leading advertising technology company LiveRamp. Throughout her career, Metcalfe has had extensive experience creating business lines and building teams to drive growth. She was responsible for creating LiveRamp’s customer success function before moving onto building LiveRamp TV, the company’s TV advertising division, which helped them establish a net new revenue stream from the $80+ billion TV advertising industry, and now accounts for 10 percent of their over $300M in annual recurring revenue. Metcalfe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Sociology from the University of St. Thomas in St.Paul, Minnesota.Jayme Smithers
CRO ThoughtExchange
As the Chief Revenue Officer at ThoughtExchange Jayme leads the Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and overall Go to Market (GTM) teams. With over 20+ years of experience in sales and revenue, he has led high-growth tech companies resulting in impressive revenue growth and exits to IPOs at Fortune 500 companies like Oracle, NetSuite and SAP. He joined ThoughtExchange in 2017 as VP of Revenue and now serves as the CRO as a proven global sales leader consistently exceeding revenue targets and demonstrating strong YOY growth. While at ThoughtExchange, he has seen over 600% year-over-year user growth in the first three months of the pandemic and contributed to the hyper growth of the company resulting in the $34M Series B round in 2020, totaling $50 million in funding to date. Outside of work, he has been involved in philanthropic efforts with the StrachanHartley Legacy Foundation and raised over $50K donations for local youth sport and education charities for nearly 10 years.Adam Tesan
CRO Chargebee
With 20 year’s experience in the technology industry Adam has a unique understanding of driving high growth in SaaS and Digital Marketing businesses globally in both the Public and Private sectors. Adam currently manages Chargebee’s Revenue Organization which includes Sales, Customer Success and Partnerships. Prior to joining Chargebee Adam was running Sales & Marketing for Empyr to transform the digital advertising Online-to-Offline (O2O) space. Previously Adam worked as VP Global Sales & Marketing at Everyone Counts, a SaaS platform for election administration and VP of Sales at Active Network, a global marketplace and insights platform for activities and events helping them grow from $30M to $500M and IPO.Christos Kalantzis
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Alex Solomon
CTO & Co-Founder PagerDuty
Alex Solomon is the CTO and Co-Founder of PagerDuty. He is a passionate advocate for growing the community of PagerDuty practitioners by cultivating and sharing best practices that advance real-time operations. Alex started PagerDuty in 2009 as founding CEO. He led the company through the first several stages of growth, from inception, product-market fit, multiple rounds of fundraising, building out the core functions of the company, and expansion of the product vision. He has served as a member of the PagerDuty board of directors since 2010. Prior to PagerDuty, Alex was a software engineer at Amazon, where he built and maintained large-scale systems to help Amazon’s supply chain run efficiently and reliably. Alex graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.S. in Software Engineering.Grad Conn
CXMO Sprinklr
As Sprinklr’s Chief Experience & Marketing Officer, Grad leads a team of modern marketers focused on helping the world’s most loved brands create happier customers. His title, CXMO, reflects Sprinklr’s view that – in a world where customers are connected and empowered like never before – experience is the new brand. Before joining Sprinklr, Grad spent 11 years at Microsoft, with the last 7 years as CMO for the Microsoft U.S. commercial business. There, powered by Sprinklr, he built the world’s largest customer experience center, analyzing and responding to 150+ million social messages per year. Prior to that, Grad worked as CEO or CMO at a number of startups, and began his career at Procter & Gamble. He brings deep expertise in ABM, marketing automation, social selling, social engagement, event marketing, content marketing, and scale programs for commercial selling motions.Ash Finnegan
Digital Transformation Officer Conga
As Digital Transformation Officer at Conga, Ash Finnegan works with customers and partners on their transformation programs, she also ensures the focus around our technology is implemented to drive real business outcomes for our customers. With over 20 years of experience in the digital space, Finnegan works with sales and marketing teams on the positioning of the Conga Suite, as well as looking at Conga’s own internal operational processes to see where and how she can improve the use of its own technology. Ash’s passion is to take real-world problems and apply technical solutions to them – identifying and removing operational roadblocks, aiding corporate growth, and increasing profitability.Christina Bechhold Russ
Director, Ventures Samsung NEXT
Based in London, Christina is a Director for Samsung NEXT Ventures, focusing on early stage investments across software and services, particularly in Mobile SaaS, mobility, consumer and IoT. A passionate supporter of young entrepreneurs, Christina is active in both the London and New York VC scenes, with multiple transatlantic investments already under her belt.Alyson Shontell
Editor-in-Chief Business Insider
Alyson is Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider. She joined Business Insider in July 2008 as its sixth employee. She started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010, where she became a startup reporter and was first to cover some of today’s largest tech companies, including Pinterest, Tinder, Instagram, Uber and Snap. Alyson rose to become a senior correspondent, then became Business Insider’s Executive Editor. She was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2016, at which point she became the youngest and only woman to run a global business publication. Business Insider is now one of the largest publications in the world, with over 300 million monthly readers.Marc Paust
Executive Director, Information Security and IT Operations Hyosung America
Marc is responsible for driving Hyosung’s Information Technology Strategy and Operations. Marc also leads the Information Security team and champions resilient, secure and adaptive technology solutions. Marc believes in being excellent at the basics and the elegance of simplicity. Marc brings over 25 years of experience to the industry and has held key technology and security leadership roles. Marc holds an Executive Certificate in Leadership and Management from The MIT Sloan School of Management and attended Rockhurst University and DeVRY University studying Organizational Leadership and Technical Operations Management. Prior to entering the world of technology, Marc served as an Infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division (LI) of the US Army. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcpaust/ You can be secure, and compliant – and nothing is “out-of-scope”.Ben Murray
Founder TheSaaSCFO.com
Ben has 25 years of finance and accounting experience in the airline and software industries. From debits and credits to strategic finance, he rose from the ranks of FP&A analyst to SaaS CFO. Throughout his roles, he has improved the finance function with a focus on people, process, and technology. He shares his knowledge of SaaS finance at TheSaaSCFO.com, SaaSin60.com, and TheSaaSAcademy.comNathan Latka
Founder GetLatka
Nathan Latka is the founder of GetLatka, a database featuring saas companies and their key metrics. Latka’s podcast features daily interviews with CEO’s and has passed 10m downloads. His most recent book was #3 WSJ Bestseller worldwide with 30k copies sold.Nate Smith
Founder & CEO Lever
Nate is Founder and CEO of Lever, one of the most recognized brands in recruiting software for startup, mid-sized, and enterprise companies. He is passionate about enterprise software’s potential for business transformation, user experience, and human connection. Prior to Lever, Nate was a product manager on Google Analytics and the Google Search team. He led the first major redesign of Google’s image search UI, which launched in July 2010. Nate received a degree in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College, at which he was a member of the school’s second ever graduating class.Patrick Campbell
Founder & CEO ProfitWell
Patrick Campbell is the Founder and CEO of ProfitWell, the suite of tools that plug right into your subscription management system and provide turnkey solutions to reducing your churn, optimizing your pricing, and ensuring your revenue recognition is audit proof. ProfitWell’s flagship metrics product also powers the subscription financial metrics for over twenty thousand subscription companies (it’s free and takes less than five minutes to setup – seriously). Prior to ProfitWell Patrick led Strategic Initiatives for Boston based Gemvara and was an Economist at Google and the US Intelligence community.Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO Morning Brew
Alex Lieberman, founder and CEO of Morning Brew, a free daily business email newsletter, is responsible for managing overall operations and resources for the company. Prior to founding
Morning Brew in 2015, Alex was an Agency MBS Trader at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with intentions to follow his family’s career path in finance. While at the University of Michigan, Alex ran a successful interview prep email service. Through this work, he realized his classmates – all aspiring business leaders – wanted a more engaging way to consume the news each day. This ultimately sparked his idea to launch Morning Brew. Today, Morning Brew provides quick and digestible business news to more than one million readers, successfully changing the way young business professionals engage with the media.Jason Field
Founder & CEO Brainstation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in workforce transformation and digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through premium corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at state-of-the-art campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked directly with over 350 corporations, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.Kenneth Lin
Founder & CEO Credit Karma
Kenneth started Credit Karma in 2007 to offer free credit scores and bring transparency and simplicity to the credit industry – an industry that was built around and has long prioritized banks and not consumers. Kenneth Lin has guided the company from a small team of three to several hundred employees who are disrupting consumer finance, serving over 45 million people. Kenneth spent his early career working with mission-driven businesses like Upromise and Eloan, and he was inspired to build Credit Karma – a platform where consumers can manage their full financial lives with more certainty, supported by a unique business model that creates genuine, organic value by reducing marketing inefficiency for banks and empowering consumers with information. Like LinkedIn has done for professional identity and Facebook for social lives, Kenneth’s vision is that one day Credit Karma can create a simple way for Americans to manage their financial identities. Kenneth also founded Multilytics Marketing in 2006 and has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Boston University.Isaac Oates
Founder & CEO Justworks
Isaac Oates is the CEO and founder of Justworks, a simple all-in-one platform that automates HR, payments, and benefits. He built Justworks to help entrepreneurs build their business and create a great place to work. The importance of an unshakeable team became clear through Isaac’s twelve years as an intelligence officer in the National Guard and Army Reserve. He reaffirmed this belief while working as a software engineer at Amazon, followed by his first startup Adtuitive, which was acquired by Etsy. At both Adtuitive and Etsy, where Isaac led the HR and payments team, he recognized the system was broken. Frustrated by paperwork, exorbitant costs, and endless hours spent on administration, he saw the need for an easy, fast, one-stop platform. The idea behind Justworks was born in 2012. Isaac holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BS in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Lindsey, their son James, and their dog Milo.Howard Lerman
Founder & CEO Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.Jan Arendtsz
Founder & CEO Celigo
Jan Arendtsz is a veteran of the software industry with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, product development, and customer success. He founded Celigo with the goal of simplifying how companies integrate business applications together for a connected enterprise. He is responsible for overseeing all company operations. Prior to Celigo, Jan was a Director at NetSuite, the leading cloud-based ERP platform, where he launched their integration platform. Prior to that, Jan worked for Cambridge Technology Partners, where he implemented complex business solutions for a multitude of customers ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies. Jan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.Mary Shea
Global Innovation Evangelist Outreach
As Outreach’s Global Innovation Evangelist, Mary is responsible for conducting thought-provoking research covering the sales technology landscape, the future of buying and selling, and the criticality of having a diverse, equitable, and inclusive B2S sales organization.
Prior to joining Outreach, Mary was a principal analyst at Forrester, an adjunct professor of marketing at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and a chief revenue officer at various global technology companies. Mary is a well-known industry thought leader, keynote speaker, podcast host, author, as well as an advisor to many of the world’s leading B2B brands.
Mary’s work is regularly featured in various academic and commercial publications including, The Journal of Selling, Selling Power, Forbes, Business Insider, The Telegraph, and many more. Mary currently serves as the executive sponsor for Outreach’s Rainbow Employee Resource Group.Saba Karim
Global Startup Pipeline Manager Techstars
Based out of Denver, Colorado, Saba Karim is the Global Startup Pipeline Manager of Techstars, the global platform of investment and innovation – responsible for sourcing about 30% of the 500 startups from across the world that are accepted into its distinguished accelerator. Saba is a public speaker, often delivering workshops on Pitching, Growth Marketing and Fundraising, and is called upon as a judge at startup pitch competitions such as Web Summit in Lisbon (considered the largest tech conference in the world), Denver Startup Week (the largest free event of its kind) and many more. Prior to Techstars, Saba was on the founding team of; Evolve – the world’s first dating CRM, which went on to be acquired by Hubspot (NYSE:HUB), and, Orai – an AI powered public speaking app (backed by Comcast and Menlo). Additionally, Saba loves coaching founders; serving as a growth advisor to a number of consumer / B2C startups most commonly in the fields of Future of Work, Marketplaces, Mobile Apps and Retail, and through the recent creation of the Saba Says Podcast.Conor Nolen
Global Vice President, Customers for Life Clari
Conor is currently Global Vice President, Customers for Life, at Clari. As such, Conor leads the team that encompasses account managers (responsible for renewals and upsell) as well as customer success managers (focused on product adoption, customer experience, and overall engagement). Prior to that, Conor has held executive leadership roles in customer success and sales at companies such as Teradata, Salesforce, and Oracle, to name a fewKim Walsh
Global VP Hubspot for Startups
Kim serves as Global VP, HubSpot for Startups, a business designed to help startups grow and scale. She was formerly the Head of Enterprise Sales, West Coast for HubSpot in Cambridge, MA. Kim joined HubSpot in 2010. Since then, the company has grown from 800 to more than 60,000 customers and from 50 to more than 2,700 employees. As head of sales, Kim launched the GTM strategy, built the operating model and expanded the team, globally. Prior to joining HubSpot, Kim led global sales for a technology-based startup footwear company, SpringBoost. Kim has an MBA from Babson College and was a finalist in the MIT 100K business challenge. She grew up in Alberta, Canada and ventured to the United States on a soccer scholarship after playing for her country.Alex Song
Head of Finance and Capital Markets Ramp
Alex Song is the Head of Finance and Capital Markets at Ramp, a corporate credit card issuer and expense management company based in New York. Prior to joining Ramp in 2020, he spent more than a decade as a private credit and structured credit investor in the hedge fund industry, working at firms including Sculptor Capital Management, Crayhill Capital Management, Bain Capital, and Morgan Stanley. Alex holds two degrees from Stanford, in Biomechanical Engineering and in Economics. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Alex is a CFA charterholder.Matt Hulett
President Rosetta Stone
Matt has more than 30 years of experience building and leading world-class SaaS and consumer companies. Throughout his career, he’s led the growth of companies including Rosetta Stone, RealNetworks, Expedia and more, and has had multiple turnaround successes as a public company president as well as a private company CEO. At Rosetta Stone, he drove the transformation and growth of all aspects of Rosetta Stone’s Consumer and Enterprise & Education language businesses. He also led the company’s evolution from a declining perpetual business to a thriving software subscription business. Currently, Matt is working with entrepreneurs and business leaders to help them drive growth for their organizations and is in the process of publishing his upcoming book, “UNLOCK: 5 Questions to Discover Your Business Potential”Katie Bullard
President & Chief Growth Officer DiscoverOrg
Katie is an award-winning technology executive and board member focused on scaling businesses for transformational growth through deep go-to-market expertise, cross-functional operational excellence and M&A leadership. She has 15 years of experience in high-growth, PE-backed and public technology and data businesses from $20M to over $1B. She has built an exceptional track record of working with founder-led business to deliver consistent and predictable results, build high-performing teams, and advance short- and long-term goals that deliver profitable outcomes. The result: businesses that are transformed from strong industry players into clear market leaders with massive increases in valuations and successful exits. In 2019, she was named one of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council and of the Top 20 Women to Watch by the Sales Management Association. Katie holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia.Jamie Finn
President & Co-Founder Securitize
Jamie Finn is a seasoned executive who has worked in 6 countries in both startups and corporations, and is currently the President and Co-Founder of Securitize, Inc. During his nearly 20 years of experience he has participated in over $500m worth of transactions, including Kontera, Sansa Security, Jajah, Tokbox, RingRing Media, and Zingy. Most recently, Jamie helped grow Aki Technologies from an 8 person, $1m company, to a profitable enterprise with over 60 people and tens of millions in revenue. His previous employers include Ericsson and Telefònica o2, and Jamie also held the position of AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T, as well as executive positions at numerous startups. He has been in San Francisco for the past 5 years, after spending 6 years in London. Jamie grew up in Puerto Rico and is a native English and Spanish speaker.Geoff Sindel
Principal Web Application and API Security Architect Palo Alto Networks
Geoff Sindel is a Principal Web Application and API Security Architect with more than two decades of experience designing and implementing secure software on the web. An agilist and polyglot, I have helped organizations, from small startups to multinational enterprises, create cloud-native web applications and APIs. I am passionate about DevSecOps and eager to understand how we can help you simplify and strengthen your web application and API security.Samantha Schwartz
Reporter Cybersecurity Dive
Samantha Schwartz is a reporter for Cybersecurity Dive. Since graduating from the University of Central Florida, she worked in education and content writing. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 2017 and began reporting for enterprise technology, with a focus on cybersecurity and privacy.Jade Scipioni
Reporter FOX Business
Jade Scipioni is a health and business reporter for FOX Business Digital. Over the last three years, she has sat down with many high profile CEOs, celebrities, athletes and politicians. She also served as politics reporter throughout the 2016 election. Fun fact: In 2017, she was named New York’s funniest reporter.Akiko Fujita
Reporter & Anchor Yahoo Finance
Akiko Fujita is a reporter and anchor for Yahoo Finance, where she covers the intersection of geopolitics and tech. With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the biggest stories across the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Yahoo Finance, Akiko was an anchor at CNBC International, where she hosted “Squawk Box Asia” out of Hong Kong. In that role, she interviewed some of the top newsmakers in business and politics, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda. Prior to her time at CNBC, Akiko was a Correspondent at ABC News, where she covered news across the Asia Pacific region.