
Goldcast began with events. Palash Soni kept following what customers did after they ended - a trail from the webinar stage to video, AI and an acquisition by Cvent.

The Goldcast CMO made her name by treating marketing as a long game: earn trust before buyers raise their hands, turn events into durable stories, and let honest experiments beat tidy attribution theater.
Sam Fahmy is the President and CEO of Ripcord, the Hayward-based robotic digitization company turning paper archives into searchable, structured data. A physics major turned enterprise-software operator, he previously helped take Cvent from $2M to $400M+ in revenue and led commercial strategy at WorkFusion before taking the top job at Ripcord in February 2022.