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Andrew Fritts
Andrew Fritts is the CEO of Augment AI, a Seattle seed-stage startup building a 'Relationship Operating System' that pulls meetings, calls, notes, CRM data, Slack threads and buyer resources into a shared Decision Site so deals stop living in someone's inbox. A Dartmouth English and Government grad with 25-plus years running sales teams at firms like Accenture and N3, he's the rare sales lifer arguing that the salesperson should stop being the hero. His pitch, repeated across CustomerThink and SalesTechStar columns, is to flip B2B into 'Business with Business' (BwB): elevate the buyer, organize the chaos, and let AI handle the busywork so trust does the selling.
Mike Sroka
Mike Sroka is the CEO and co-founder of Dealpath, the leading deal management platform for institutional real estate investors. Founded in 2014 alongside Andy Lee and Kenter Wu, Dealpath has grown to support over $10 trillion in real estate transactions, raised $75M in total funding including a Morgan Stanley-led $43M Series C, and counts Blackstone, Nuveen, UBS, and MetLife among its clients. Sroka's background spans real estate finance at Hudson Advisors and growth roles at venture-backed software companies including Zynga and Fanhood, giving him a rare dual fluency in capital markets and product development. He serves on Blackstone's PropTech Advisory Board and is a vocal advocate for AI-powered deal workflow automation in commercial real estate.
Federico Baradello
Federico Baradello is the Founder and CEO of Finalis, an AI-powered investment banking platform he built from his frustration with a 30-year-old technology stack while executing M&A deals at Kirkland & Ellis. An Argentine-American multilingual attorney with degrees from Princeton, Harvard, LSE, and UC Berkeley, Baradello launched Finalis in 2020 and has grown it into one of the fastest-growing investment banking platforms in history - now powering over 900 bankers across 24 countries with $22.5B+ in closed transactions.