Joel Beal is the CEO and co-founder of Alloy.ai, a demand and inventory control tower that helps consumer goods brands like Bic, Bosch, Crayola and Ferrero turn messy retailer data into daily, SKU-store-level decisions. A would-be economics academic who walked away from a Stanford PhD because it felt too theoretical, Beal built a career in applied data science at Applied Predictive Technologies and helped scale fintech Addepar from pre-revenue to $300B in assets before founding Alloy in 2016. The idea came from his sister, who spent her weeks manually stitching together retailer spreadsheets for a luxury shoe brand.
Paul Monasterio is the CEO and co-founder of Kalepa, a New York AI company building decision-support software for commercial insurance underwriters. A Venezuelan-born nuclear physicist with a PhD from MIT, he traded particle research for big-data analytics at Applied Predictive Technologies (acquired by Mastercard for $600M) and Facebook before launching Kalepa in 2018. Its Copilot platform helps underwriters 'bind with confidence,' and the company raised a $14M Series A from Inspired Capital in 2021.