Rohit Ghai is the President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, appointed September 2025 after nearly eight years leading RSA Security through its spin-out from Dell Technologies and its pivot toward identity security. A two-decade veteran of enterprise security and SaaS - including Symantec, EMC and CA Technologies - he sits on the boards of Pegasystems, D-Wave Systems and MHC Software, and is known on the RSA Conference keynote stage for arguing that the human element, not the machine, is what wins in cybersecurity.
Anisa Kumar is the CEO of Narvar, a retail technology platform serving 1,500+ global brands with AI-powered post-purchase experiences. With over 23 years across Target, Walmart.com, and Levi Strauss where she helped lead the company's IPO, she became Narvar's Chief Customer Officer in 2021 and was elevated to CEO in October 2024. Under her leadership, Narvar launched its IRIS AI engine - analyzing 42-74 billion consumer interactions annually - to transform the moment after checkout from a cost center into a growth engine.
Jason Ambrose is the Chief Executive Officer of People.ai (rebranding as Backstory.ai), a San Francisco-based AI revenue intelligence platform backed by ICONIQ Growth. Appointed CEO in October 2025 after serving as SVP of Marketing and Strategy, Ambrose brings over two decades of enterprise software leadership spanning McKinsey's Digital Labs, Motive Partners, Anaplan, Unqork, and Appirio. A Stanford Psychology graduate who started as a network engineer, he now leads a platform used by enterprise customers including AMD, Verizon, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Okta - turning raw sales activity data into actionable answers for both human sellers and AI agents.
Dr. Dino Dina is a Genoa-born physician-scientist who spent 15 years building Dynavax Technologies as its President and CEO, shepherding the company through the long road toward HEPLISAV-B, a two-dose hepatitis B vaccine whose CpG 1018 adjuvant technology later became a cornerstone of global COVID-19 vaccine programs. Before Dynavax, he built the Vaccine Group at Chiron Corporation and led Chiron Vaccines to the first-ever approval of an adjuvanted influenza vaccine in Italy. Since retiring in 2013, he has poured equal scientific rigor into his Cimarossa estate on Howell Mountain, Napa Valley - 60 mountain acres of vines and 1,200 olive trees named for the Italian phrase meaning 'red hilltop.'
Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed Technology in 2002 and spent 16 years building it from a two-person startup into a billion-dollar enterprise serving 30,000 customers across every Forbes Global 100 company. A finance executive turned visionary operator, Kennelly combined rigorous business discipline with Silicon Valley boldness - taking Riverbed public on NASDAQ in 2006, engineering nine acquisitions, and watching its market cap peak near $6 billion in 2011. After retiring from Riverbed in April 2018, he became Chairman and CEO of Scandic Capital LLC and joined the board of cybersecurity firm Tenable.
Rob Tarkoff is the CEO of Seismic, the AI-powered sales enablement platform serving enterprise revenue teams worldwide. A Harvard Law graduate who pivoted from investment banking to building some of tech's most consequential enterprise platforms, Tarkoff spent seven years as CEO of Lithium Technologies, growing it 5x before selling to Vista Equity Partners, then seven more years running Oracle's Customer Experience suite. He joined Seismic in October 2025 as a former Seismic customer himself, and promptly orchestrated a landmark merger with rival Highspot in February 2026, positioning the combined company toward a $1 billion revenue run rate.
David Kopp is the CEO of Sleep Doctor, a direct-to-consumer sleep health company operating SleepDoctor.com, SleepFoundation.org, and SleepApnea.org. A Harvard-educated literature major who pivoted from journalism into internet media, Kopp spent a decade as CEO of Healthline Media - growing it from 1 million to 70 million monthly US visitors and engineering a 5X private equity return before stepping down in 2020. He now brings that playbook to Sleep Doctor, where he's betting the same formula of trusted health content plus e-commerce can crack a market where 50+ million Americans suffer from sleep disorders but access to quality care remains stubbornly difficult.
Scott Weiss is a Silicon Valley veteran who was employee #13 at Hotmail, co-founded and sold IronPort Systems to Cisco for $830 million, and joined Andreessen Horowitz as its fourth general partner in 2011. Known for candid writing about leadership, parenting, and the hard trade-offs of startup life, he stepped back from new investments at a16z in 2016 to prioritize family before his three children left for college.
Tiffany Luck is a Partner at NEA (New Enterprise Associates), one of the world's largest and oldest venture capital firms, where she focuses on early-stage investments in AI, APIs, and B2B SaaS. Previously a Partner at GGV Capital (now Notable Capital), she brings deep experience across enterprise software, fintech, and the AI application layer. Tiffany has a rare blend of operating, banking, and investing experience - having worked at Forbes, Amazon, and Morgan Stanley before entering venture. She is known for backing founders obsessed with their problems and for her thesis around vertical AI closing the 'last mile' gap that horizontal LLMs leave wide open.
Meagen Eisenberg is the Chief Marketing Officer at Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the industrial IoT company redefining connected operations. A former IT engineer turned marketing powerhouse, she has led marketing at MongoDB (through its 2017 IPO), TripActions/Navan, Lacework, and DocuSign. With 30+ advisory roles and 18 successful exits including 3 IPOs and 15 M&A transactions, she is one of B2B tech's most decorated CMOs — blending engineering rigor, data obsession, and a fierce belief that writing is the most underrated skill in marketing.
Nick Mehta co-founded Gainsight in 2013 and spent 13 years as CEO building the defining customer success platform - growing it from a startup into a $1.1 billion unicorn acquired by Vista Equity Partners, and in the process creating an entirely new job category of Customer Success Manager now held by hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide. A Harvard-educated biochemist turned serial entrepreneur with a penchant for Taylor Swift parody rap videos, he stepped down as CEO in August 2025 to make way for his hand-picked successor while continuing on the board.