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Michael DeSimone
Michael DeSimone is the Chief Executive Officer of NewStore, the Boston-based unified commerce platform for global retail brands. He took the role in April 2024 after a career leading commerce-technology companies through IPOs, acquisitions, and scale-ups, including Borderfree (IPO on NASDAQ, sold to Pitney Bowes), ShopKeep (acquired by Lightspeed for a reported $750 million), and SmartRecruiters, where he was CEO.
Vincent Diallo
Vincent Diallo is a French-born, trilingual (French, English, Mandarin) venture capitalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who brings a rare tri-continental lens to consumer and commerce investing. He is General Partner at Progression, a TikTok-alumni-led fund backing AI-native consumer products, and founder and Managing Partner of Interlace Ventures, a $14M debut fund dedicated to commerce technology. Before moving into venture, he served as CFO of Sinodis in Shanghai — scaling the largest independent Western food distributor in China from $50M to $200M in revenue before its exit — and spent seven years at Deloitte across Paris and Shanghai auditing global giants including LVMH, WPP, and Pernod Ricard. He is also co-founder of Bleu Capital, a transatlantic climate-focused family office.