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Karin Netzer Makes the Invisible Work of Enterprise Software Legible
From photography and television to smart cities and cloud integration, Karin Netzer has built a career translating complicated systems into reasons to care.
Katie Soderberg Makes the Plumbing of Business Software Feel Personal
Across Microsoft, ClickDimensions and a decade at eOne Solutions, Katie Soderberg has built a career around a stubbornly human idea: software works better when its people, partners and data can actually connect.
Will Davis Is Making the Boring Part of AI Impossible to Ignore
After years selling data preparation and automation, CData’s CMO has arrived at a useful conviction: AI’s future depends on the plumbing everyone would rather ignore.
Michelle Blackmer Knows the Hard Part of Healthcare AI Is Everything Before the AI
After 25 years in healthcare data, Rhapsody's chief marketing officer has learned to look past the glossy interface and ask the stubborn question underneath: can the systems actually understand one another?
Scott Marshall Is Making Clinical Trial Data Behave
The QuartzBio CEO built his career around an unglamorous but expensive problem: a clinical sample can travel farther than the data that explains it. His answer is a connected system designed to catch the gaps before researchers have to play another round of spreadsheet detective.
Michel Tricot Kept Seeing the Same Data Problem. Then He Opened the Pipes.
A French engineer spent years watching teams rebuild the same brittle connectors. His response was not a clever feature, but an open system - and a company willing to pivot when the first market disappeared.
Suzanne Serwatuk Knows the Most Technical Product Still Needs a Human Story
From a provocative ice-cream shop to the C-suite of a geospatial software company, Serwatuk has built a career around the same practical question: how do you make people care?
Jonathan Stambolis learned to turn fragmented systems into one clear view
Before founding Zenysis, Jonathan Stambolis moved through corporate law, a housing venture, UN diplomacy and Palantir. The through-line is less glamorous than the résumé: making complicated institutions usable.
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson is the founder and CEO of Flume Health, a New York-based software company that connects the fragmented healthcare data ecosystem so payers and employers can build and run health plans more efficiently. A chemical engineer by training, he first made his name as co-inventor of Spectrom, a full-color 3D printing technology that won the 2014 Collegiate Inventors Competition and was acquired by MakerBot. He founded Flume Health in 2017 and has raised more than $40 million in venture funding, including a $30 million Series A in 2022.
Quentin Perrot
Quentin Perrot is Chief Product Officer at Zenysis Technologies, a Y Combinator-backed company that builds data integration software for ministries of health and government agencies across four continents. A Stanford-trained product leader who has lived and worked in six countries, he oversees the roadmap for Harmony, Zenysis's open-source platform used to knit together fragmented health data sources.
Andrew Kieve
Andrew Kieve is the co-founder and CEO of Tolemi, a Boston civic-technology company whose BuildingBlocks platform stitches together the messy, siloed property data that cities sit on and turns it into maps and insights officials can actually act on. Originally launched as OpportunitySpace in 2013 and rebranded after a 2017 run through Y Combinator, Tolemi now helps state and local governments fight blight, enforce housing codes, and protect affordable housing across dozens of American cities. A Stanford and IESE graduate and former Innosight consultant, Kieve has spent more than a decade convincing governments that the answer to neighborhood decline is hiding in their own databases.
Ethan Aaron
Ethan Aaron is the founder and CEO of Portable, a New York based ETL/ELT company that builds the data connectors nobody else wants to build. Where the rest of the data-pipeline industry chases the same handful of popular sources, Portable went after the long tail - thousands of niche, bespoke business applications - with no-code connectors and flat, no-volume pricing. A Penn-trained mechanical engineer and Wharton economist who passed through Goldman Sachs and LiveRamp before founding the company, Aaron is one of the data world's most prolific public voices, posting daily on LinkedIn and pushing a blunt thesis: data teams exist to make money, not to collect tools.
Ghalib Suleiman
Ghalib Suleiman is the CEO and co-founder of Polytomic, a San Francisco data-integration company that lets teams sync data between databases, warehouses, business systems like Salesforce and Stripe, spreadsheets, and arbitrary HTTP APIs without writing custom pipelines. He built the company with CTO Nathan Yergler after running the data team at PlanGrid during its growth from 25 to 350 people and its near-billion-dollar sale to Autodesk. Polytomic went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, pivoted during the program, and raised a $2.4M seed, winning early customers including Brex, Vanta, Sourcegraph, and ShipBob.
Angel Vina
Dr. Angel Vina is the Founder and CEO of Denodo Technologies, the global leader in data virtualization and data management platforms. A former academic who spent 25 years as a university professor at institutions including the Technical University of Madrid and the University of A Coruña - with postdoctoral research stints at UCLA and Stanford - Vina founded Denodo in Spain in 1999 after asking a deceptively simple question: how can we set data free? Today Denodo operates in 25 offices across 20 countries, has secured $336 million in Series B funding from TPG, and has been named a Gartner Leader in Data Integration Tools for five consecutive years. Vina's academic obsession with real-time distributed data systems became a commercial category - and a company that turned 25 in 2025.
Manish Jethani
Manish Jethani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hevo Data, a no-code data pipeline platform that helps over 2,000 companies in 40+ countries move data from 150+ sources into cloud data warehouses. A serial entrepreneur from Shahdol, India, who became the first person from his hometown to gain admission to IIT Roorkee, Jethani built two companies before Hevo - including food-delivery startup SpoonJoy, acquired by Grofers in 2015. Hevo has raised $43 million in total funding, including a $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India in 2021, and has reached approximately $46.9M in annual revenue.
Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of Grasp Technologies, a Dublin, Ohio-based company that has been the backbone of travel data management for corporate programs and travel management companies since 1996. He brought 28+ years of enterprise software sales and leadership experience to the role when he joined in June 2024, having previously scaled revenue at Hazelcast (six years as CRO) and PSPDFKit (two years as CRO), and earlier built high-performing sales teams at Oracle, Skytree, and Magnet Systems. Based in Los Altos, California, Wilson is known for his go-to-market expertise and his vision for Grasp as a platform at the intersection of travel data consolidation, virtual payments, and AI-ready analytics.
Ronen Schwartz
Ronen Schwartz is the CEO of K2view, an Israeli-founded data product company at the forefront of enterprise AI readiness. With 25 years in the data industry — including a 14-year run at Informatica and a stint at NetApp where he grew the cloud storage business 12-fold to dominate a $600M division — Schwartz took the helm at K2view in December 2023. He is focused on turning fragmented enterprise data into live, governed data products that power agentic AI applications at scale, positioning K2view as the infrastructure layer that makes real-time AI not just possible, but production-ready.
Ali Kutay
Ali Kutay is the founder, chairman and CEO of Striim, a Palo Alto streaming data integration company. A serial enterprise-software entrepreneur, he previously led GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle) and WebLogic (merged with BEA, acquired by Oracle), and ran Carnegie Mellon spin-out Formtek under Lockheed for seven years.
Nick Noone
Nick Noone is the co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, a San Francisco-based public safety data platform that unifies fragmented law enforcement data into a single system for real-time search, analysis, and decision-making. A Stanford-trained economist and statistician and former Palantir executive who led special operations data systems used by 18,000+ personnel across six continents, Noone co-founded Peregrine in 2017 to bring the same data-activation philosophy to local law enforcement. By early 2025, Peregrine had raised $250 million - including a $190M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.5 billion valuation - and serves agencies covering more than 80 million Americans.
Saket Saurabh
Saket Saurabh is the co-founder and CEO of Nexla, an AI-powered data integration platform built for the age of generative AI. A serial entrepreneur who started as an engineer at NVIDIA — where he worked on GPU tech for the PlayStation 3 and automotive computing — he went on to co-found Mobsmith, a mobile ad-serving startup that was acquired by Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI). Armed with a BTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Wharton School, Saket founded Nexla in 2016 to automate the hardest parts of data engineering, earning recognition as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor and landing enterprise customers like DoorDash, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. Nexla has raised $33.5 million in funding.
Nick Bonfiglio
Nick Bonfiglio is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syncari, a platform pioneering Agentic Master Data Management for enterprise AI initiatives. With 28+ years in enterprise software, he shaped product strategy at Marketo (acquired by Adobe) as EVP of Global Product, co-founded Aptrinsic (acquired by Gainsight as Gainsight PX), and now leads Syncari through a $45M total funding journey to help Fortune 1000 companies build trusted, AI-ready data foundations. A co-author of 'Mastering Product Experience in SaaS,' Nick has been a driving force behind emerging enterprise disciplines like RevOps, Marketing Ops, and Customer Success Ops.