Jenkin Richard is the co-founder and CEO of ChatLabs, an AI platform that turns social media traffic into personalized, on-brand shopping journeys for luxury and consumer brands. Incubated inside LVMH's innovation accelerator, ChatLabs raised a $3.2M seed round led by Silicon Road Ventures in December 2024 and counts LVMH houses like Dior and Tiffany, plus Kering, Richemont and Samsung among its partners. Before ChatLabs, Richard founded and served as CTO of the social commerce firm Chatly, which was acquired by Salesforce. He holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School and an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.
Sam Wong is Chief Business Officer at ChatLabs - the LVMH Innovation Award-winning AI social commerce platform serving luxury and consumer brands - and CEO of FundableStartups.com, a startup training academy. A five-time startup executive with 30+ years in the trenches and three successful exits under his belt, Wong has turned serial entrepreneurship into a second act: coaching founders and investing through Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest angel group. He's also the author of '21 Secrets of Successful Startups' and a regular fixture at TechCrunch Disrupt, Fortune, and the startup conference circuit.