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Melanie Okuneye-Williams
Melanie Okuneye-Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Nerdio, the Chicago-based Azure automation company that raised a $500M Series C from General Atlantic in 2025 after crossing $100M in ARR. Before Nerdio she founded Akoma Health, a teletherapy platform serving Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, grew it to profitability and exited. Earlier she spent nearly five years at Goldman Sachs in private wealth and markets coverage in London and New York, was a general partner at Baron Davis Ventures and worked with WME's corporate arm. Stanford GSB MBA, PPE from the University of York.
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.
Nerdio
Nerdio builds software that automates and simplifies the deployment, management, and cost optimization of Microsoft cloud technologies - Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft 365, and Intune. Born as an internal tool at a Chicago managed service provider, Nerdio spun out in 2020 and now serves over 23,000 customers worldwide through two flagship products: Nerdio Manager for Enterprise and Nerdio Manager for MSP. In March 2025 it raised $500 million from General Atlantic at a $1 billion+ valuation.
Stefan Kinnestrand
Stefan Kinnestrand is Vice President of Product Marketing at Microsoft, where he leads go-to-market strategy for cloud endpoints and commercial end user computing - spanning Windows Commercial Client, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Cloud & AI Devices, and Microsoft Intune. A 23-year Microsoft veteran originally from Stockholm, Sweden, he has built a track record of transforming products from incubation to billion-dollar businesses and driving multiple-billion-dollar incremental revenue for Microsoft and its partners.
ControlUp
ControlUp is a digital employee experience (DEX) and autonomous endpoint management platform that helps IT teams see, score, and fix problems on every desktop, virtual session, and SaaS app before users start filing tickets. Born in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers and was named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEX Tools.