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Quentin Gallivan
Quentin Gallivan is a Silicon Valley serial technology CEO with over 25 years of experience scaling enterprise software and cloud companies from startup to acquisition. He led BlueJeans Network through its $400-500M acquisition by Verizon in 2020, and previously sold Postini to Google, Aster Data to Teradata, and Pentaho to Hitachi Vantara. Known for taking companies through rapid growth phases and successful exits, he has served as CEO of at least six technology companies across cloud security, SaaS BI, big data, video conferencing, and enterprise architecture.
Mayank Bawa
Mayank Bawa is the CEO and co-founder of WorkSpan, the leading Ecosystem Business Management platform that manages over $50 billion in joint pipeline for the world's top technology companies. Before WorkSpan, he co-founded Aster Data Systems - a Big Data pioneer acquired by Teradata for $325 million in 2011. Armed with a PhD from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay (where he ranked 4th in the national entrance exam), Bawa has spent his career building category-defining companies at the intersection of data, automation, and enterprise collaboration. WorkSpan's Series D funding in 2025 marked the company's pivot toward AI-powered partnership automation, with 15,000 companies on its network.