Greg Strickland is the CEO of Ignition, a Sydney-founded revenue operations platform used by over 7,500 professional services businesses globally. A Silicon Valley veteran with 20+ years of experience scaling SaaS companies, Greg helped grow Box from 18 employees to a publicly traded enterprise, served as COO at Periscope Data and Productboard, and advised startups including Loom, Preset, and Grain before joining Ignition as Global President in 2024. In his first year he drove a 50% year-over-year revenue increase in North America, and in early 2025 he stepped up as CEO as co-founder Guy Pearson moved to Executive Chairman.
Tomas Barreto is an Operating Partner for Engineering at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms. He was the 5th engineer and 14th employee at Box, where he scaled engineering through IPO and past $500M in revenue, eventually leading 150+ person teams as VP of Engineering. He later joined Checkr as its first VP of Engineering, then co-founded Okay - an engineering analytics startup backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins that was acquired by Stripe in 2023. Now at Kleiner Perkins, he advises 20+ portfolio companies on building and scaling world-class engineering organizations, drawing on two decades of experience that spans IBM, Microsoft, Box, Checkr, and his own startup.
Byron Deeter is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and one of the defining voices in cloud and SaaS investing over the past two decades. A former founder who built and sold Trigo Technologies to IBM, he brings hard-won operator empathy to backing companies like Twilio, DocuSign, Box, ServiceTitan, Canva, and Anthropic - with 26 unicorn investments and 13 IPOs to his name. A four-time NCAA rugby national champion and former Ironman triathlete, Deeter applies an athlete's discipline to both portfolio management and founder wellness, having created STRIVE, Bessemer's holistic health program for CEOs. He is also a minority owner of the San Francisco 49ers.