Del Grande Dealer Group (DGDG) is the largest family-owned automotive group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1998 with a single dealership, it now operates a portfolio of franchised new- and used-car dealerships across Northern California, representing more than a dozen brands. DGDG pairs a high-volume retail operation with a culture obsession - it has been named a Bay Area Top Workplace for more than a decade - and a digital-first buying experience it markets as No Brainer Pricing and No Brainer Checkout.
Cecilia Aviles, MBA, BSN, RN, is the Chief Executive Officer of LifeLong Medical Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving over 55,000 patients across Contra Costa and Alameda Counties in the East Bay. A native San Franciscan who started her career as a trauma nurse, she brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience — including 11 years at Sutter Health and earlier stints at Kaiser Permanente, UCSF, KPMG, and McKesson — to lead one of the Bay Area's most vital safety-net providers. A Carol Emmott Fellow and recognized among the Bay Area's top Hispanic nurses, she is committed to making healthcare accessible, equitable, and affordable for underserved communities.
Chuck Collins (Charles M. Collins) is a Harvard-trained lawyer, MIT city planner, and former real estate developer who spent nearly two decades as President and CEO of YMCA of Greater San Francisco, transforming it into an organization serving more than 42,000 children annually across three Bay Area counties. Born in San Francisco's Fillmore district in 1947 and raised as one of the first Black families in Mill Valley, he brings a lifetime of crossing boundaries to his work at the intersection of community, equity, and opportunity. Now a Presidential Fellow at USF's Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service, he continues to shape the region's civic life.
Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.
Adarsh Hiremath is the Co-Founder and CTO of Mercor, the AI-powered talent marketplace connecting domain experts with AI labs for model training, evaluation, and data creation. At 22, he dropped out of Harvard, received a Thiel Fellowship, and co-built Mercor from a São Paulo hackathon idea into a $10 billion company generating over $500 million in annual revenue - making him one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires alongside co-founders Brendan Foody and Surya Midha.
Adnan Iqbal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Luma Health, a San Mateo-based healthcare technology company that has built an AI-native Patient Success Platform used by 750+ healthcare organizations, 100 million patients, and 500,000+ providers. A second-generation Pakistani-American and serial entrepreneur, Iqbal studied environmental biology at UC Berkeley, earned an MPhil in BioScience from Cambridge University, and an MS/MBA from Stanford GSB. Before Luma, he spent five years in management at Genentech and co-founded AutoTB, a tuberculosis diagnostic startup that won both Cambridge and UC Berkeley entrepreneurship competitions. Luma Health has raised $160 million in funding and enabled $3.2 billion in healthcare revenue.
Anish Dhar is the Cofounder and CEO of Cortex, a San Francisco-based internal developer portal company he co-founded in 2019 after spending nearly five years as an engineer at Uber. Watching Uber's microservices sprawl into chaos—thousands of undocumented services named after video games, ownership lost every time someone quit—he rented an Airbnb for a weekend hackathon with two friends and built the first version of what would become a $470M company backed by Sequoia, Scale Venture Partners, IVP, and the Collison brothers. Cortex raised $60M in Series C funding in September 2024 and is used by engineering teams at Adobe, Grammarly, Xero, TripAdvisor, and Canva to catalog, score, and continuously improve their software services.
Larry Liu is the Founder and CEO of Weee!, North America's largest and fastest-growing Asian online grocery platform. Born in Wuhan, China, he came to the US via an Intel engineering role in 2003, earned an MBA from UC Davis in 2008, and launched Weee! in 2015 after noticing Chinese immigrants using WeChat to organize group grocery buys. He built the company from a Bay Area WeChat group into a $4.1 billion unicorn with $1 billion in annual revenue, delivering 1 million orders per month across 40+ states and serving seven ethnic cuisines including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, and Hispanic communities.
Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based IT staffing and workforce solutions firm she has led since 2009. Under her leadership, Trilyon has grown into a globally recognized, women-owned and minority-certified enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies including Google, Cisco, Samsung, Hitachi, and Oracle across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. A champion of diversity, inclusion, and women's empowerment, she serves as Co-Chair of USPAACC WISE and has been recognized with the J.P. Morgan Unity in Action Award (2025), the SheLeads Impact Award (2024), and named a Top 50 Women Leader of San Francisco (2023).
Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
Surej Kp is a Silicon Valley technology executive who became CEO of Intelliswift Software in March 2024 after five years as its President. With deep roots in global IT services - spanning TCS, Cognizant, and UST Global - he has spent decades scaling technology organizations across North America and beyond. Trained in Electronics Engineering and executive leadership at Harvard, he combines technical depth with business acumen, steering companies that bridge the gap between enterprise technology needs and skilled talent. At Intelliswift and previously connected to BayOne Solutions, he focuses on AI-powered workforce solutions, cloud enablement, and digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients.
Jennifer Nuckles is the Chairperson and CEO of R-Zero, a San Francisco-based smart building technology company that deploys UV-C light, IoT sensors, and AI to make indoor environments safer, healthier, and more energy-efficient. With 25+ years spanning consumer goods giants (Clorox), social gaming (Zynga), digital health (Doctor on Demand), and fintech (SoFi), she is one of the rare executives who has led marketing and operations at scale across radically different industries. She took the helm at R-Zero in October 2022, raised a $105M Series C, and is on a mission to fix the fact that we spend 90% of our lives inside buildings that were never designed to keep us healthy.
Laurence Allen is the co-founder and CEO of Terranova, a Berkeley-based startup building autonomous terraforming robots that literally lift flood-prone land out of harm's way by injecting wood waste slurry deep underground. A UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering graduate (Class of 2024) who dreamed up the idea during a 2021 SpaceX internship, Allen launched the company - originally called Levitree - to save his own hometown of San Rafael, California, which floods to waist depth several times a decade. Terranova raised a $7M seed round in 2025 at a $25.1M valuation led by Congruent Ventures and Outlander, and can lift one acre of land by one foot per day at a fraction of the cost of traditional seawalls.