Allison Blais is Vice President of Business & Strategic Operations and Chief of Staff to Adobe President David Wadhwani, running day-to-day operations of Digital Media - Adobe's largest business unit. A lawyer-turned-operator, she transitioned from 15+ years in financial services and corporate law into driving strategy for Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Adobe Firefly, the company's generative AI platform. Her path from FINRA regulatory analyst to VP at one of the world's most influential software companies is a masterclass in reinvention.
Bridget Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Squint, a San Francisco-based AI and augmented reality platform transforming how manufacturers digitize operational knowledge. Before joining Squint, she served in the Biden White House as Deputy Director of Presidential Scheduling, and held roles in political organizing and government scheduling. A University of Delaware graduate, she bridges the worlds of government operations and tech startups, bringing the precision of presidential logistics to one of industrial AI's fastest-growing companies.
Shelby Rhodes is the Senior Director of Product Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Strava, the world's leading fitness social network with 180+ million athletes across 190+ countries. She brings 11+ years of experience from Google and YouTube, where she oversaw products used by billions of people including YouTube Shorts, Gaming, Live, and Comments. Now at Strava during one of its most pivotal chapters - a confidential IPO filing and a surge past $500M in annual revenue - she sits at the intersection of product strategy and executive leadership at a company betting that movement beats doomscrolling.
Spencer Applegate is a technology operator and investor who built three software companies before becoming Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Gainsight, the leading customer success platform. With a foundation in nuclear engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School, he has moved fluidly between founding startups (Verusen, REscour, PainTheory), deploying capital at growth and buyout funds (M33 Growth, Pacific Lake Partners, Vector Capital), and now running strategy at a $1.25B enterprise SaaS company in San Francisco.
Susan Hobbs is the Global Operations Chief of Staff to the CEO at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and a portfolio of open-source web infrastructure. A veteran Silicon Valley operator who started as a public school teacher, she has spent two decades at the intersection of technology, media, and startups - as first hire at acquired companies (Codian, CoTweet), programming architect behind TechCrunch Disrupt, a partner at CrunchFund, and an operations leader at Cloudflare before landing at Automattic. An active angel investor, board member, and arts patron, she brings rare cross-functional range to high-stakes organizational roles.
Vedika Jain is General Partner at Weekend Fund, a pre-seed/seed fund with 350+ LP operators from Stripe, Figma, and Airbnb. She broke into VC by writing fantasy investment memos on public deals - standing out among 600+ applicants with zero capital deployed. Before Weekend Fund, she was the first PM at TrueLayer in London, scaling the fintech from 8 to 80+ employees. She co-founded Signature Block (a newsletter for emerging fund managers) with Ryan Hoover, and writes 'Draft mode' on Substack covering AI products, investing, and life. Her path ran from Bangalore to Berkeley to Stripe to London to San Francisco - five cities, multiple passports, one very deliberate climb.