Meriton is an Irving, Texas-based national alliance of independent commercial HVAC manufacturer representatives. Founded in 2019 and led by Chairman & CEO Jerry Braun, it unites market-leading rep firms under a shared-services model - giving local businesses access to national scale, engineering depth, and corporate support in finance, HR, IT, safety, training, and marketing while letting them keep their names and local autonomy. Through more than two dozen acquisitions, Meriton now spans 19 operating brands, 44 locations, roughly 26 states, and 2,100+ employees serving manufacturers, contractors, engineers, and building owners across commercial, industrial, and institutional markets.
Walt Weyler is a Portland, Oregon entrepreneur and chemical engineer who turned a career running factories into a second act buying, fixing, and building industrial companies. He is President and CEO of SequenceUSA, a private holding and lending company that backs Pacific Northwest manufacturing and technology firms, and President and Managing Director of Clarus LLC (Clarus Water Solutions), a water-filtration and stormwater venture spun from his work at Crystal Clear Technologies. Before founding his own companies he co-owned Kinetics, a metal-injection-molding shop he grew from a struggling $3M operation to roughly 100 employees and sold to mining giant Phelps Dodge. He sits on the Supply Chain & Logistics Management Advisory Council at Oregon State University's College of Business.
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.

Michael J. Pengue is the Chief Executive Officer of Hint Inc., the San Francisco-based maker of unsweetened fruit-infused water that pioneered the better-for-you flavored water category. With more than 30 years in the beverage industry, Pengue has led multibillion-dollar businesses at Nestlé Waters North America, helped orchestrate the $1.65 billion sale of Bai Brands to Dr Pepper Snapple, and built ZOA Energy into the fastest-growing energy drink in the US before its acquisition by Molson Coors. Appointed CEO of Hint in November 2024, he is leading a comprehensive 2026 brand relaunch designed to reframe hydration as desire rather than discipline.
John Delfino is Partner and General Counsel at TCV (Technology Crossover Ventures), the Menlo Park-based growth equity firm behind transformative investments in Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, Facebook, and over 350 technology companies. Joining TCV in 2014 after nearly a decade at elite law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Delfino sits at the intersection of law and venture capital - structuring deals, executing investments and exits, and managing the full legal and operational footprint of one of tech's most storied growth investors. With a J.D./M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and undergraduate roots at the College of the Holy Cross (including a year abroad at Oxford), he brings a rare dual lens of legal rigor and business strategy to a firm that has backed category-defining companies since 1995.

Andrew Wilkinson is a Canadian entrepreneur, investor, and author who built Tiny - a publicly traded holding company (TSX: TINY) often called 'the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet' - from a one-man design agency he started with $200 at age 20. Having dropped out of university after less than a year, he transformed a $6.50/hour barista gig into a billion-dollar empire of 32+ internet businesses including Dribbble, AeroPress, Letterboxd, and Serato. His 2024 memoir 'Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire' became a USA Today bestseller and candidly explores why wealth didn't bring happiness, his ADHD diagnosis, and his commitment to giving away most of his fortune through the Giving Pledge.