Ricky Choi is the co-founder and CEO of Outerspace, a brand-centric 3PL that runs picking, packing, kitting and shipping for direct-to-consumer companies out of a 200,000+ sq ft campus in northern New Jersey and additional coasts. Before Outerspace, he co-founded Nice Laundry, a Kickstarter-launched premium socks and underwear brand that set an opening-day backer record in fashion. He is a Wharton graduate who worked in venture capital and at LivingSocial before starting companies of his own.
Donny Salazar is the founder and CEO of MasonHub, a software-led fulfillment and logistics company he started in 2018 to give fast-scaling beauty, wellness, and fashion brands the kind of order management and warehousing technology he wished he had earlier in his career. Before MasonHub he spent roughly two decades inside high-growth retail operations - COO of sneaker marketplace Flight Club, SVP of Operations at jewelry brand Chloe+Isabel, and a four-year run at Gilt Groupe where his supply-chain team helped scale revenue from $10M to over $500M. A Stanford MBA who once ran marketing at Revlon, Salazar built MasonHub around a headless, API-driven architecture and a bicoastal warehouse footprint, raising seed funding led by Canvas Ventures.
Justin Hall is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Augment, a San Francisco-based AI startup building 'Augie' — an AI teammate purpose-built for logistics operations. With 25 years spent founding, scaling, and selling logistics companies, Hall has held executive roles at YRC Worldwide (a $5B LTL carrier), PRIMO Logistics, and his own firm Logistics Planning Services before it was acquired by GlobalTranz. At Augment, he helped raise $110M in under six months — a $25M seed round in early 2025 and an $85M Series A in September 2025 — to automate complex freight workflows end-to-end. Outside of logistics, Hall founded Change Starts with Me, a nonprofit supporting BIPOC founders and underserved communities in the Twin Cities.
Dr. Srinivasan 'KG' Ganapathi is the founder and CEO of Vimaan Robotics, a Silicon Valley AI company deploying computer vision and machine learning to bring 100% inventory accuracy to warehouses. A serial entrepreneur with nearly 50 patents spanning magnetic recording, MEMS sensors, and supply chain digitization, Ganapathi previously founded Fidelica Microsystems (acquired by Lenovo) and Verreon Inc. (acquired by Qualcomm). With Vimaan, he is transforming how the world's largest 3PLs, retailers, and Fortune 10 companies track goods from dock to shelf - and became the first computer vision startup to receive investment from Amazon's $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund.
Sushanth Raman is the co-founder and CEO of Pallet, a San Francisco-based AI company building an autonomous workforce for the logistics industry. Drawing on family roots in food distribution and stints at Microsoft, Google, and Retool, he founded Pallet in 2022 with fellow Retool engineer Andrew Spencer. The company has raised $50M total — including a $27M Series B led by General Catalyst in May 2025 — and its CoPallet platform automates the manual back-office operations (order entry, quoting, portal updates, shipment tracking) that still consume billions of dollars annually in a $12 trillion global logistics market.
Te (Thomas) Tang is Co-Founder and CEO of Anyware Robotics, a Fremont, California-based startup building AI-powered mobile robots for warehouse logistics. A UC Berkeley robotics PhD and founding member of FANUC's Silicon Valley research center, Tang combines deep academic research with industrial commercialization experience. His flagship robot, Pixmo, autonomously unloads shipping containers at 1,000 boxes per hour, won MHI's Best New Innovation award at ProMat 2025, and helps customers reduce receiving labor costs by up to 60%. In March 2025 Anyware Robotics closed a $12M seed round led by GFT Ventures, accelerating commercial deployments with leading third-party logistics providers.