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Romaric Philogène
Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery, a platform-engineering company that turns cloud infrastructure into a self-service experience for developers. A former site reliability engineer with a decade in ad-tech and financial systems, he started Qovery in 2019 with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry and, in September 2025, raised a $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners, with angel checks from Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.
Russell Feldman
Russell Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of IMTC, a New York-based fintech building cloud-based portfolio management software for fixed income teams. He took the CEO seat in May 2022 when IMTC raised its first outside capital led by Nyca Partners, and has grown the company from serving small RIAs to top-tier asset managers. Before IMTC he worked in institutional sales and client advisory at Deutsche Asset Management, an experience he says was his real education in how broken fixed income tooling was.
Steve Corndell
Steve Corndell is the CEO of env0, a Boston-based infrastructure-as-code management platform. A career sales leader, he spent roughly a decade at Turbonomic climbing from Senior Channel Manager to Chief Revenue Officer, helping steer the company to a $2 billion acquisition by IBM in 2021. He joined env0 as COO in January 2024 and was unanimously promoted to CEO by the board in May 2025, taking the top job from co-founder Ohad Maislish and assembling a new enterprise-focused leadership team.
A Billion Dollars Walks Into a Marketplace and Asks AI to Behave
On May 6, 2026, at its Knowledge 2026 conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow announced that its transactions through AWS Marketplace had surpassed $1 billion, a milestone the company framed as proof that enterprises have moved from experimenting with AI to operationalizing it at scale. Alongside the number, ServiceNow and AWS unveiled a platform expansion that pairs the ServiceNow AI Control Tower with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to give mutual customers a single governance architecture for deploying, auditing, and scaling AI agents across security, IT operations, and telecommunications workflows.
Gavin King
Gavin King is VP of Portfolio Marketing at ServiceNow, where he connects the platform's sprawling product launches, AI vision, and strategic narrative into one coherent story. After 25 years at Microsoft - including a stint as Chief of Staff to CEO Satya Nadella - he brings a rare combination of brand-scaling experience, executive proximity, and B2B marketing depth to one of enterprise tech's most ambitious growth stories.
FriendliAI
FriendliAI is a San Francisco-based AI inference cloud built by the researchers who invented continuous batching - the technique now standard across the industry. Its platform serves open-weight and custom generative AI models in production with high throughput, lower GPU costs, and 99.99% reliability, used by customers including LG and Twelve Labs.
Gluon Solutions, Inc.
Gluon Solutions is a Livermore, California software company building IoT and cloud platforms that quietly run the unglamorous back office of fuel stations, convenience stores, and auto-parts sellers. Its three product lines - Petromo (c-store and fuel-station management), Gluon Auto (vehicle and fleet monitoring), and EZ Lister (auto parts catalog and marketplace listing) - stitch together pumps, tanks, point-of-sale terminals, vehicles, and e-commerce inventories into a single connected system.
Eric Bensley
Eric Bensley is VP of Product Marketing - CRM at ServiceNow, bringing over 25 years of experience in CRM solutions and enterprise software marketing. A self-described 'recovering perfectionist' and introvert who built product marketing functions at Citrix, Salesforce, and Asana before joining ServiceNow, he is known for translating complex enterprise platforms into crisp, sticky messaging - and for believing that great leaders grow people, not just products.
Neurealm
Neurealm is an AI-first technology services company - formerly GS Lab | GAVS - that helps 250+ global enterprises engineer, modernize, and run their technology stacks across Healthcare, BFSI, High-Tech, and Semiconductor. Backed by private equity firm Kedaara Capital and led by CEO Harmeet Chauhan, it blends human ingenuity with its NeuGAIN AI platform to deliver digital product engineering, data and AI, cybersecurity, and technology operations from delivery centers in India and the US.
Techling (Private) Limited
Techling (Private) Limited is an AI-first software development and IT consulting firm that designs full-cycle, production-grade software for businesses across healthcare, mobility, fintech, retail and SaaS. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Muhammad Akif Malhi, the company pairs a US footprint in Austin, Texas with engineering teams in Pakistan, shipping generative AI, agentic AI frameworks, machine learning, and custom web and mobile applications. Its stated mission is to empower 100 businesses over five years with technology that improves efficiency, innovation, and competitive edge.
Tranzeal Incorporated
Tranzeal Incorporated is a San Jose, California-based global business transformation and IT consulting firm. An SAP Certified Services Partner, it pairs domain knowledge with technical competency across enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, supply chain, CRM, cloud, data analytics, testing, and staffing - delivering full-lifecycle technology solutions to clients across high-tech, retail, banking, healthcare, logistics, energy, and aerospace.
Ross Kennedy
Ross Kennedy is the Global Vice President of AI Startups & Emerging Growth at Microsoft, based in New York. With two decades of experience scaling technology organizations from startup to hyperscale, he leads Microsoft's efforts to help AI startups innovate, grow, and become market makers. Before Microsoft, he was a key force behind Google Cloud's expansion from $5.8B to over $30B in revenue, leading the global Strategic Deal Pursuit division for four years. Earlier, he scaled Liferay's international operations from 200 to 900 employees across 30+ countries. His guiding philosophy: culture beats strategy.
Naren Kini
Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.
Jahanzaib Khan
Jahanzaib Khan is a software engineer at DigitalOcean (Engineer II) working on AI and cloud products, including the company's agentic cloud direction. A Ruby on Rails and React/Next.js developer based in Lahore, Pakistan, he joined DigitalOcean's orbit through Cloudways, the Lahore-rooted managed-hosting company DigitalOcean acquired. He describes himself as an AI and LLM enthusiast and has spoken about building an agentic cloud at DigitalOcean.
TraceLink
TraceLink runs the largest digital network for the pharmaceutical supply chain, connecting roughly 280,000 companies so drugs can be tracked from factory to pharmacy shelf. Born to fight counterfeit medicines, the Massachusetts company became the backbone for global serialization and DSCSA compliance, and is now pushing into no-code and agentic AI tools that let trading partners resolve shortages, recalls, and exceptions across the network.
Roy Mill
Roy Mill is the Co-Founder and CEO of Joshu, a no-code insurance product platform that lets carriers and MGAs launch digital distribution channels in weeks rather than years. A Stanford PhD economist who pivoted into product, he spent years at Ancestry and At-Bay before founding Joshu in 2020. The company has raised $11.7M in total funding and was named to the InsurTech100 list in 2024.
UJET
UJET is an AI-powered cloud contact center platform built on a CRM-first, mobile-native architecture. Used by Instacart, Turo, Wag!, Atom Tickets, and Capital on Tap, it pairs voice, digital, and media-rich channels with generative AI for agents and self-service. UJET partners exclusively with Google Cloud to deliver Google Cloud CCaaS, and in 2026 launched Agentic Experience Orchestration (AXO), an AI orchestration layer that builds on its 2025 acquisition of conversational-analytics company Spiral.
Freshworks
Freshworks is a cloud-based business software company that builds easy-to-use customer service, IT service management and CRM tools for companies that found legacy enterprise software too complicated and too expensive. Founded in Chennai in 2010 as Freshdesk, it became the first India-born SaaS company to list on Nasdaq in 2021 and now serves tens of thousands of customers worldwide with an AI assistant, Freddy, woven through its products.
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.
NetSuite CRM
NetSuite is the world's first cloud ERP and CRM platform, founded in 1998 by Evan Goldberg and now owned by Oracle. Trusted by 43,000+ organizations across 220 countries, NetSuite unifies financials, CRM, e-commerce, HR, and supply chain in a single cloud-native suite — making it the go-to business operating system for companies scaling from startup to enterprise.
Sage CRM
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the world's leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, connecting companies and their customers across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. Founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff and co-founders in a San Francisco apartment, the company pioneered cloud-based enterprise software and has since expanded into a full AI-powered platform - Agentforce 360 - serving over 150,000 organizations worldwide, including 90% of the Fortune 500. With $41.5 billion in FY2026 revenue and a market-dominant 21% share of the global CRM industry, Salesforce is reshaping how companies deploy autonomous AI agents to run their operations.
Apptivo
Apptivo is a cloud-based, all-in-one business management platform founded in 2009 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company offers 65+ integrated business applications — from CRM and project management to invoicing and field service — under a single affordable subscription starting at $15/user/month. Bootstrapped and self-funded, Apptivo has grown to serve 200,000+ customers across 193 countries, reaching approximately $75M in annual revenue by 2025. Its core value proposition: enterprise-grade software at small-business prices, with 24/7 human customer support at every tier.
Bitrix24
Bitrix24 is an all-in-one online workspace that bundles CRM, project management, HR, communication, and AI automation into a single platform. Launched in 2012 and used by over 15 million organizations in 16 languages, it is the only major CRM in the world that prices per organization rather than per user - a structural bet that has made it a go-to for SMBs and growing teams that refuse to pay headcount taxes to their software stack.
Cortney Lusignan
Cortney Lusignan is a seasoned communications and public relations executive currently serving as Senior Program Manager, AWS Communications, supporting the AWS Global Communications Vice President at Amazon Web Services. With a career spanning major PR agencies including Weber Shandwick and Edelman, and deep industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, and technology PR, Lusignan has built a reputation as a trusted operator at the intersection of enterprise cloud and strategic communications.
Danit Moni
Danit Moni is Vice President of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world's largest and most influential cloud computing platforms. Based in Seattle, Washington, she leads marketing efforts for a platform that powers a significant portion of the internet's infrastructure - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Operating at the intersection of enterprise technology and brand storytelling, Moni oversees marketing for a cloud portfolio that spans compute, storage, AI/ML, security, and developer tools used by millions worldwide.
Devasena Rajamohan
Devasena Rajamohan is Corporate Vice President of Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Applications at Microsoft, leading global teams of product managers, engineers, and data scientists driving innovation across Customer Insights, Sales, Customer Service, and Copilot. With a career spanning over two decades in enterprise CRM and cloud software—including senior leadership at SAP and early engineering roles at TATA Infotech—she has shaped how large organizations deliver AI-powered customer engagement. Under her leadership, Microsoft earned recognition as a Leader in both the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center and The Forrester Wave Customer Service Solutions Q1 2026.