Kurt Schrader is the co-founder and CEO of Shortcut, the New York project management platform for software teams that started life as Clubhouse in 2014. After years of building and scaling engineering organizations, including a stint as CTO of Intent Media where he grew the team from one person to more than 40, he set out to build tooling that stays simple for daily users while giving leaders real visibility. In 2025 he steered Shortcut into the AI era with Korey, an AI product manager that turns plain-language ideas into build-ready plans.
Raheel Zubairi is a Pakistani-born, Malaysia-based technology founder and product builder who has bounced from mobile games to fintech to deep-tech medical imaging. He is the CEO of Pixelence, a Cyberjaya startup using AI to produce contrast-like brain scans without injected dyes, which won the Deep-X track of the 2025 Selangor Twin Accelerator. Before that he founded the mobile gaming studio The Game Loop and led BMN Enterprise Solutions, and he has logged stints around Antler, MYPINPAD, EBP and GoodCore Software as an AI/ML product manager working across the Web2 and Web3 worlds.