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Cognizant
Cognizant built a $21.1 billion business by doing the unglamorous work behind modern companies. Now it wants to own the last mile between an impressive AI demo and a system a bank, hospital or factory can actually trust.
Robert Clare
Robert (Bob) Clare is the founder, CEO and board chairman of Fispoke, a wealth-infrastructure startup he co-founded in 2023 with Nathan Berk. Fispoke gives independent financial advisors a white-labeled private banking layer - cash, credit, securities-based loans and mortgages - traditionally locked inside wirehouses and private banks. A Georgetown MBA, Clare spent years in operating and consulting roles at Bank of America, Cognizant and JDX Consulting before deciding the advisor channel needed banking tools of its own. Fispoke has raised roughly $5.45M and signed partnerships with Broadridge, Bell Bank, Wealthbox and Sage Home Loans.
Sam Rehman
Sam Rehman is the CEO of Hitachi Cyber (Hitachi Systems Trusted Cyber Management Inc.), appointed in December 2025. A 30+ year cybersecurity and software engineering veteran, he was previously CISO and SVP, Head of Cybersecurity Business at EPAM Systems, CTO of Arxan Technologies, head of Cognizant's Digital Engineering Business, and VP of Engineering at Oracle. He holds patents in software security, cloud, storage and distributed computing.