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Dave Hendricks
Dave Hendricks is the co-founder and CEO of Vertalo, an Austin-based platform that acts as an SEC-registered transfer agent and tokenization engine for real-world assets. He has spent close to a decade building infrastructure to turn illiquid private securities into compliant, transferable digital assets. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded LiveIntent, the programmatic email advertising platform, and helped build CheetahMail into the world's largest email service provider before its 2004 sale to Experian. Earlier he ran the worldwide relationship between Arthur Andersen and Oracle and worked on large securitization projects. He is known for a pragmatic, institution-focused view of crypto and a habit of dismissing hype cycles in favor of durable financial plumbing.
Scott Bowen
Scott Bowen is the CEO of Tenovos, a New York based digital asset management and content intelligence company he co-founded in 2018 with Sal Hakimi. Often described as one of the founding fathers of the DAM category, Bowen co-founded Artesia Technologies in the late 1990s, an early DAM pioneer acquired by OpenText in 2004, where he went on to launch the company's Customer Experience Management and Cloud Services divisions. A Yale-trained electrical engineer and economist, he has spent more than two decades building software at the intersection of digital media, marketing, data analytics and the cloud, including senior roles at Vistaprint and ICX Media. At Tenovos he is pushing the idea that modern marketing teams should treat content as measurable, data-rich infrastructure rather than files in a folder.
Shane Hegde
Shane Hegde is the co-founder and CEO of Air, the New York company building a system of record for creative work. Air helps more than 100,000 creatives across 2,100 businesses collect, approve, and share visual content, managing 120M+ assets. A Stanford grad from Mangalore, India, Hegde started in TMT private equity, co-founded a fintech startup called Swap, and ran digital strategy at REVOLT before teaming up with college roommate Tyler Strand to build Air in 2017. In January 2025 the company raised a $35M Series B led by Avenir, backed by a syndicate of around 100 former CMOs and brand founders.