David Mandel is a Los Angeles entrepreneur and tech investor who co-founded and chairs YEBO, a no-code platform that helps brands build and manage Web3 digital assets, NFTs and blockchain loyalty programs. He is also co-founder and chairman of Bitvore, an AI and machine-learning company whose risk and business-signal data has been used across Wall Street by firms including S&P, Moody's, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, UBS and AIG. A math graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he holds patents in data visualization and was an early seed investor in companies such as Broadcom, Access360 (acquired by IBM) and Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel).
Rajiv Ramaswami is the President and CEO of Nutanix, the San Jose-based hybrid multicloud software company. An optical networking PhD who built a 30-year career at IBM Research, Nortel, Cisco, Broadcom and VMware before taking the top job at Nutanix in December 2020, he holds 36 patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Sushil Kumar is CEO of Cyara, the AI-powered customer experience assurance platform trusted by global enterprises to test and monitor over 350 million customer interactions annually across 135+ countries. A builder with 25+ years scaling category-defining platforms, he co-founded RelicX.ai (acquired by Harness), scaled Oracle Enterprise Manager into a $1B+ business, and led CA Technologies' $500M AIOps division and Broadcom's $200M+ DevOps portfolio before taking the helm at Cyara in December 2025 to lead the next phase of AI-driven CX assurance.
Raghu Raghuram is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on AI infrastructure and growth-stage investments. Born Rangarajan Raghuram, he spent nearly two decades at VMware - joining when it was a five-year-old startup and leaving as its CEO after guiding the company through the largest software acquisition in history: Broadcom's $69 billion deal. Before VMware, Ben Horowitz hired him at Netscape during the browser wars. That 30-year relationship brought him back together at a16z in October 2025, where he now helps lead the firm's AI infrastructure charge while serving as a consigliere to Horowitz himself.