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Heather Boyd Took the Scenic Route to the C-Suite
A Bali-bound travel mix-up became an adventure. Heather Boyd has applied the same composure to a 20-plus-year marketing career spanning CEB, Oracle, Auctane and now Revalize.
Lori McInerney Makes Complex Software Sound Human
After a career spent marketing jobs, screens, insights, and software, Tacton's global CMO is tackling a stubborn industrial problem: how to make a complicated sale feel clear.
Godard Abel
Godard Abel is the co-founder and CEO of G2, the software review platform that brought Yelp-style peer reviews to enterprise software buying. A third-generation entrepreneur born in Germany and raised in Pittsburgh, he built and sold two SaaS companies before G2: BigMachines (acquired by Oracle for a reported $400M+) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce). At G2 he has raised more than $260M, weathered a near-bankruptcy earlier in his career, and is now steering the company through the AI wave with its buying agent Monty and the 2026 acquisition of Gartner's Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice.
Mark Walker
Mark Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Nue.io, a San Francisco-based revenue lifecycle management platform that modernizes CPQ, billing, and order management natively on Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of business experience, Walker previously founded Strongpoint (acquired by Netwrix in 2021) and held executive roles at ScribbleLive and Skyytek. Under his leadership, Nue raised a $20M Series A in January 2025, achieved $10M ARR, and counts OpenAI among its customers.
Sharath Dorbala
Sharath Dorbala is the CEO of Vendavo, the Denver-based B2B pricing and commercial-excellence software company. A two-decade veteran of enterprise SaaS, CPQ, and subscription billing - with stops at Oracle, Amdocs, Conga, and the corner office at Vindicia - he now runs the company that helps the world's manufacturers and distributors squeeze margin out of every quote.
Vijay Gopineedi
Vijay Gopineedi is the CEO and serial entrepreneur behind Rootshell Inc, a Santa Clara-based IT consulting firm he has led since 2010. Starting his career as a software developer in 1999, he went on to found EZ Info Systems, consult at PwC and Deloitte, and eventually build Rootshell into a ~93-person global IT services company specializing in CPQ, ServiceNow, Salesforce, DevOps, and digital transformation. He is also an early investor in Deepfactor, the developer application security platform acquired by Cisco in August 2024.
Joubin Mirzadegan
Joubin Mirzadegan is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins and CEO/co-founder of Roadrunner, the firm's first incubation since Glean. A former sandwich artisan turned elite sales operator, he scaled Palo Alto Networks' cloud business from $2M to $50M ARR in four quarters, then joined KP in 2019 to help technical founders build go-to-market machines. Along the way he launched Grit, a top-1%-worldwide podcast where he interviews the builders behind breakout companies - guests have included John Doerr, Evan Spiegel, Michelle Zatlyn, and Bret Taylor. Now he's betting his own chips on Roadrunner, an AI-native CPQ platform rebuilding enterprise quoting from the ground up.