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Shubham Palriwala
Shubham Palriwala is the co-founder and CEO of Agnost AI (YC S26), a startup building the self-improving layer for AI agents in production. A backend engineer by trade, he was the youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team and the first hire at open-source survey company Formbricks before teaming up with childhood friend Parth Ajmera to read production AI conversations and automatically ship fixes back to the agents that generate them.
Sudeep Goswami
Sudeep Goswami is the CEO of Traefik Labs, the open-source company behind the widely used Traefik Proxy and the cloud-native API gateway platform Traefik Hub. He stepped into the top job on February 1, 2024, after serving as Chief Revenue Officer, with founder Emile Vauge moving to CTO. Goswami's career spans roughly 25 years across software engineering, network design, product management, marketing, and sales, with earlier stops at Cisco, Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), Tempo Automation, and Very Good Security. He is known for translating deep infrastructure engineering into commercial growth for developer-focused companies.
Ché Wijesinghe
Ché Wijesinghe is the CEO of Cape.ai (formerly Cape Privacy), a New York and Halifax based company that builds AI for confidentially processing sensitive data across vision, voice and language models. A 25-year veteran of the enterprise software industry, he has led field operations and revenue at data and analytics companies including Cisco, Composite Software, OmniSci/HEAVY.ai and Neokami before taking the helm at Cape, where he has steered the company from an encrypted machine learning platform toward AI tools for document validation, compliance and financial services.
Raju Datla
Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley (legally CCT Technologies Inc.) is a San Jose-based technology solutions provider and value-added reseller founded in 1991. Over three decades it grew from a storefront computer sales-and-service shop into a full-service IT partner delivering cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, network infrastructure, virtualization, unified communications and IT logistics to government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and commercial businesses across California and beyond. A longtime approved E-Rate and NASPO ValuePoint reseller and Microsoft authorized education reseller, the company was acquired by cloud and cybersecurity firm ISSQUARED Inc. on May 1, 2024.
Nick Grewal
Nick Grewal is the founder, chairman and CEO of ePropelled, a Laconia, New Hampshire company building smart-propulsion and energy-management systems for drones, marine craft, and light electric vehicles. He founded ePropelled in 2018 after selling his previous startup Nashoba Networks to Cisco Systems for roughly $100 million in 1996 and spending two decades as an angel investor in more than 40 high-tech companies. He was inducted into the 2025 Boston Smart Business Dealmakers Hall of Fame.
Nitay Milner
Nitay Milner is co-founder and CEO of ORION Security, a New York and Tel Aviv-based startup rebuilding data loss prevention around AI that learns how data actually moves inside a company. He raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest in February 2026, with IBM participating, less than a year after a $6M seed. Before ORION he was a senior product leader at Epsagon (acquired by Cisco for around $500M) and previously co-founded DatsMi, an event-media startup.
SmarTrak.ai
SmarTrak.ai is an AI-native sales engine built by Cisco partners for Cisco partners. It unifies fragmented install-base data pulled from 30-40 sources across Cisco, distributors, partners, and customers, then turns it into prescriptive intelligence that tells channel partners what to sell, when to sell it, and how to grow adoption. Instead of static dashboards, the platform surfaces renewals, upsell gaps, and expansion opportunities so sales, customer success, and operations teams work from a single view of recurring revenue.
Diya Mathew
Diya Mathew is a Senior Manager for Customer Engagement Strategy in the Office of the President & COO at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company valued at over $100 billion. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and NIT Tiruchirappalli, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic acumen forged across Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, and now ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, she works at the intersection of executive strategy, customer engagement, and enterprise operations.
Jahangir Mohammed
Jahangir Mohammed is a serial entrepreneur and inventor who built Jasper Technologies into the world's largest IoT platform - sold to Cisco for $1.4 billion in 2016 - then turned his attention to metabolic disease. As Founder and CEO of Twin Health, he is using AI-powered whole-body digital twin technology to reverse chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes, with clinical results published in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst showing 71% of participants achieving A1C below 6.5% while eliminating most medications. Twin Health has raised $335 million total and reached a $950 million valuation in 2025.
Bimohit Bawa
Bimohit Bawa is the co-founder and CEO of TrueCare24, a San Francisco-based health and wellness marketplace that connects families and employers with vetted nurses, caregivers, and clinicians for in-home care, telehealth, and on-site COVID-19 testing and vaccination. A software engineer by training - IIT Roorkee, a master's from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Berkeley Haas - Bawa spent nearly a decade building systems at Cisco and ServiceSource before joining TrueCare24 as its founding technical lead in 2015. He has since steered the company through 500 Startups' accelerator, a pivot into pandemic-era testing logistics, and a current chapter rebuilding senior care around AI and automation.
Issac Roth
Issac Roth is a Silicon Valley founder, operator and investor who has spent 25-plus years turning hard infrastructure into products developers actually use. He created Red Hat OpenShift out of his startup Makara, was founding CEO of the Node.js company StrongLoop (acquired by IBM, where he became a cloud CTO), and invested as a Venture Partner at Shasta Ventures. Today he is co-founder and CEO of Orama, an open-source search and answer-engine company building a fourth-generation database that fuses full-text search, vector search and built-in LLMs to power AI agents and copilots.
PrideVel Consulting LLC
PrideVel Consulting LLC is a Naperville, Illinois-based IT services and consulting firm that has spent two decades as an SAP Services Partner and a global professional-services partner for Cisco. The company helps mid-size and large North American enterprises run S/4HANA and SAP HANA migrations, cloud infrastructure, IoT and mobile projects, leaning on proprietary automation (ABAP optimization, BW migration) and a 'Rapid Business Solutions' plus Design Thinking method it says cuts cost and time-to-market by roughly 40%. More recently PrideVel has repositioned its website around 'The Control Layer for Enterprise AI,' extending its SAP-and-cloud heritage toward AI governance and chatbots.
Questivity
Questivity is a Santa Clara IT infrastructure integrator and training house. Founded in 1999, it designs, deploys, and supports the unglamorous plumbing of enterprise technology - networking, security, servers, storage, and virtualization - for mid-size and large organizations, and runs a parallel learning arm that hires, trains, and deploys engineers in Cisco, VMware, and data center disciplines. Its pitch is vendor-neutral: solve the client's problem with the right gear, on budget, rather than whatever a single manufacturer is selling.
Webex
Webex is the collaboration platform born from one of the web's first conferencing companies and now run by Cisco. It bundles meetings, calling, messaging, webinars, contact center, and a line of conference-room hardware into a single suite, layered with AI for transcription, real-time translation across dozens of languages, and agent assistance. It serves enterprises, governments, schools, and hospitals that need secure, large-scale communication for distributed teams.
Ashraf Karim
Ashraf Karim is Senior Vice President of Connected Customer Experiences & Technology at ServiceNow, where he leads the charge on transforming how enterprises engage customers through AI-powered digital workflows. With over two decades spanning engineering, product management, and executive leadership at Google, PayPal, Affirm, and Cisco, Karim bridges the gap between deep technical fluency and strategic business thinking. He is known for championing simplicity-first design, advocating that reducing cognitive load at every customer touchpoint is the defining discipline of great product leadership.
Christina Olmsted
Christina Olmsted is Vice President of AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA, where she leads global marketing and PR teams at the epicenter of the AI revolution. With nearly a decade at NVIDIA and 15 years prior at Cisco, she built and championed campaigns that repositioned entire computing paradigms - from Cisco's Internet of Everything brand movement to NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing narrative. A UC Berkeley dual-degree alumna with a flair for connecting technology to human impact, she operates at the intersection of deep technical product marketing and culture-shaping storytelling.
Mala Anand
Mala Anand is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Microsoft, leading the Customer Experience & Success division. A 25-year technology veteran who immigrated from Mumbai at 17 on a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship, she has shaped enterprise software at Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft, driving AI-powered transformations that measurably improve how customers get support. She is also executive sponsor of Women at Microsoft and an independent board director at Agilent Technologies.
Alvin Nicolas
Alvin Nicolas is a technology professional at Webex, Cisco's enterprise collaboration platform headquartered in San Jose, California. With a career spanning telecommunications giants including MCI WorldCom, Microsoft, and Yipes Enterprise Services, Nicolas brings deep networking expertise to one of the world's leading collaboration and video conferencing platforms. He is associated with the AI Titans initiative at Webex, reflecting the company's aggressive push into AI-powered communications and collaboration tools.
Ayman Sayed
Ayman Sayed is President and CEO of BMC Software, the $2.3-billion enterprise software company serving 86% of the Forbes Global 50. He joined BMC in 2019 after senior roles at CA Technologies (President and Chief Product Officer) and Cisco (SVP, leading 2,500+ engineers). Under his tenure, BMC pivoted toward AI-driven IT automation under the 'Autonomous Digital Enterprise' framework, and in 2024 he announced a landmark split of BMC into two independent companies - one focused on mainframe software and one on digital services management.
Frank Calderoni
Frank Calderoni is a tech-industry lifer who spent a decade as Cisco's CFO, then jumped into the CEO seat at Anaplan in 2017, taking the connected-planning company through its 2018 IPO and a $10.7B sale to Thoma Bravo in 2022. He briefly ran Velocity Global, sits on Adobe's board as Lead Director, and wrote 'Upstanding,' a book arguing that company character is a competitive moat.
Joe Burton
Joe Burton is the Chief Executive Officer of Reputation, the San Ramon-based reputation experience management platform. A career technologist who started as a software engineer and was acquired into Cisco in 2001, he went on to lead Plantronics (later Poly) as CEO, then Telesign, before taking the helm at Reputation in October 2023. His operating range spans big data, machine learning, SaaS, unified communications, and IoT.
Rajiv Ramaswami
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.
Kannan Kothandaraman
Kannan Kothandaraman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Selector AI, a Santa Clara-based AIOps and network observability platform that uses large language models, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to help Fortune 1000 enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure issues faster. Before founding Selector in 2019, Kannan spent nearly two decades at Juniper Networks - rising from senior software engineer to Vice President of Product Line Management - and before that at Cisco Systems. Selector has raised $104 million in total funding, including a $32M Series B in February 2026 at a valuation of $375 million, and counts Fortune 20 companies in manufacturing and healthcare among its customers.
Tarun Raisoni
Tarun Raisoni is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gruve, a Redwood City-based AI services company he launched in February 2024 after selling his previous venture, Rahi Systems, to Wesco International. Rahi Systems scaled to $500M+ in annual revenue across 25 countries with no external funding - then Tarun pivoted immediately to AI, co-founding Gruve with a mission to deliver outcome-based enterprise AI services. Within months, Gruve raised $87.5M in total funding, completed multiple acquisitions, grew to 500+ employees, and unlocked 500+ MW of distributed AI inference capacity across the United States. He is one of the rare founders who has built and exited multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and come back for more.
Vasili Triant
Vasili Triant is the CEO of UJET, an AI-powered cloud contact center platform backed by $183M in funding and built on Google Cloud. With over 20 years spanning Cisco, Serenova, LiveOps, and ShoreTel, he has navigated virtually every inflection point in enterprise communications - from on-premise PBX to cloud-native AI. Appointed sole CEO in April 2025 after serving as CBO, COO, and Co-CEO, Triant now leads UJET's push to reshape customer experience with agentic AI orchestration, deep CRM integration, and a mobile-first architecture that treats the smartphone as the default CX channel.
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen is a General Partner at DCVC (Data Collective), the Palo Alto deep tech venture firm. He invests in AI-enabled health tech, energy, security, and enterprise companies after a 25+ year run as an operator at Cisco, Nicira, Airespace, and Illumio. He led DCVC's exits at Element AI, Evolv Technology, and Caption Health, and helped originate the firm's 'TechMed' thesis.
Cheng Wu
Cheng Wu is a General Partner at Taiwania Capital and a four-time founder whose networking and video startups have returned over $6 billion to investors. Best known for selling ArrowPoint Communications to Cisco for $5.7 billion in 2000, he now invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies bridging Silicon Valley, Taiwan, and Asia.
Connie Tang
Connie Tang is the CEO and founder of CCT Technologies Inc., operating as ComputerLand of Silicon Valley - a San Jose-based IT solutions firm she built from a storefront computer shop in 1991 into a 55-person enterprise serving government agencies, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and commercial businesses across Northern California. After more than three decades at the helm, she led the company through a strategic acquisition by ISSQUARED Inc. in May 2024, positioning the combined entity to expand in cybersecurity, AI, and edge computing.
Jake Seid
Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.