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Stephanie Buscemi Put Marketing Where the Product Meets the Ledger
She took the long way into technology, then spent a quarter-century turning difficult software into a story customers, developers and finance chiefs could share. Her method is unusually plain: get close to the product, count what matters and listen before speaking.
Melissa Czapiga Knows the Product Is Only Half the Story
The marketer behind MuleSoft's public-market chapter has made a career of translating difficult technology into a reason to care. At Redpanda, her new assignment is trust - the stubborn gap between an impressive AI demo and software a company will actually let near its data.
Jacqueline Cheong
Jacqueline Cheong is the co-founder and CEO of Artie, a San Francisco data infrastructure company that streams changes from production databases into warehouses in real time using change data capture. A UC Berkeley applied math graduate who spent her early career as an equity analyst at Bank of America and a software investor at the hedge fund Balyasny, she switched sides of the table in 2023 to build the kind of company she used to underwrite, co-founding Artie with her husband and CTO Robin Tang. After going through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, the pair grew Artie to a roster of enterprise customers including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy processing more than 700 billion rows a year, and raised a $12 million Series A led by Standard Capital's Dalton Caldwell in January 2026, on top of a $3.3 million seed.
Jay Kreps
Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the data-streaming company built around Apache Kafka, the open-source platform he co-created at LinkedIn in 2010. In December 2025, IBM announced a deal to acquire Confluent for roughly $11 billion. He also serves on Anthropic's Board of Directors and wrote the book I Heart Logs.