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Bozidar Jovicevic
Bozidar Jovicevic is the CEO and co-founder of Evermed, a New York startup that lets medical societies and healthcare organizations launch a Netflix-style, on-demand video library in about 90 days. A medical doctor and FIDE chess master who spent 17 years running global digital initiatives at Novartis and Sanofi, he now builds technology that turns conference recordings and expert lectures into searchable, monetizable continuing-education libraries for physicians. He also hosts the Pharma Launch Secrets and Digital Innovators Circle podcasts.
David Durand
David Durand is the CEO and co-founder of Tizra, the Providence-based digital publishing platform that helps associations and scholarly publishers sell, organize, and deliver high-value content. A PhD computer scientist who has worked with markup languages and hypertext since 1984, he helped shape the standards that quietly run the web - XML, TEI, HyTime, XLink, and WebDAV - and co-wrote the first in-depth guide to HyTime. He taught at Brown, served as Chief Scientist at its Scholarly Technology Group, and turned decades of document-engineering research into a company that powers digital libraries for groups like the American Dental Association.
Shane Hegde
Shane Hegde is the co-founder and CEO of Air, the New York company building a system of record for creative work. Air helps more than 100,000 creatives across 2,100 businesses collect, approve, and share visual content, managing 120M+ assets. A Stanford grad from Mangalore, India, Hegde started in TMT private equity, co-founded a fintech startup called Swap, and ran digital strategy at REVOLT before teaming up with college roommate Tyler Strand to build Air in 2017. In January 2025 the company raised a $35M Series B led by Avenir, backed by a syndicate of around 100 former CMOs and brand founders.
Anirudh Singla
Anirudh Singla is the Founder & CEO of Pepper, an AI-powered content marketing platform headquartered in San Francisco. He co-founded Pepper from his BITS Pilani dorm room in 2017, bootstrapped it to profitability by graduation, and has since scaled it to serve Google, Meta, Amazon, Adobe, and 85% of India's unicorns — raising $23.5M from Bessemer Venture Partners and Lightspeed along the way. Recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021, he is building what he calls the infrastructure for the global content economy.
Paulo Martins
Paulo Martins is the Brazilian-born founder and CEO of Arena (arena.im), a San Francisco-based AI-powered community engagement platform that lets brands embed live chat, live blogs, and audience interaction tools directly on their own websites with a single line of code. After stints at NASA, Ubisoft, and Hulu — where he helped grow the streaming company from 100K to 7 million paying subscribers — Martins founded Arena in 2017 with a clear thesis: businesses should own their audience, not rent it from social platforms. By 2022, Arena had grown to 25,000 customers across 150 countries and closed a $13.6M Series A led by CRV, with backing from heavyweights like David Sacks, Des Traynor, and Olivier Pomel.
Elizabeth Douglas
Elizabeth Douglas is the CEO of wikiHow, the world's leading how-to platform visited by more than 150 million people monthly across 230 countries. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and Stanford MBA, she joined wikiHow in 2009 as COO and rose to CEO, overseeing more than 1,500% growth in traffic. Under her leadership, wikiHow has become a trusted, judgment-free resource with 100,000+ guides in English and 300,000+ across 18+ languages, earning a reputation as one of the nicest places on the internet.