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Madhu Tera
Madhu Tera is the founder and CEO of TERA (tera.cloud), an AI-powered finance automation platform that bundles corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, procurement and payments into a single command center for finance teams. Before founding TERA in 2018, Madhu spent years as a solutions architect inside the engine rooms of American finance - Fidelity Investments and State Street - an experience that shaped a conviction that small and mid-size businesses are badly underserved by traditional banks. TERA today reports more than 1,200 customers across healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, agritech and logistics.
Dean Leavitt
Dean M. Leavitt is the founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, a New York fintech he launched in 2009 to build commercial card and B2B payment rails for large enterprises. A 30-plus-year payments veteran who previously ran public and bankruptcy-rescued processing companies, he spotted a vacuum in the roughly $125 trillion global B2B market and built patented straight-through processing technology now used across 45-plus countries by more than half the Fortune 100. Boost has landed on the Inc. 5000 five times and raised a $22 million Series C led by Invictus Growth Partners in 2021.
Matt Garippa
Matt Garippa is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Order.co, the New York B2B purchasing platform formerly known as Negotiatus. A former fixed income trader who pivoted from Wall Street trading desks to building software, he and his brother Zach started the company in 2016 after a friend running a CrossFit gym complained about the grind of ordering supplies. Today Order.co helps hundreds of finance and operations teams - including WeWork and SoulCycle - consolidate purchasing, payments, and spend control, and Matt leads its business strategy, partnerships, and analytics, now centered on AI-driven procurement.