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Tim Regnier
Tim Regnier is the CEO and co-founder of Smart Access, a frontline performance management software company he started in Edmonton, Alberta in 2015 and now runs from San Francisco. After nearly a decade running retail-tech ventures, Regnier built Smart Access to solve the visibility gap for managers on warehouse, manufacturing, and store floors, turning static SOPs into living documents and pairing them with AI-driven observations, coaching, and analytics. His guiding belief that 'all truth is found on the floor' has shaped a platform used by top retail and logistics enterprises, and the company raised a $12M Series A in 2026.
Tanya Bakalov
Tanya Bakalov is the CEO and founder of HelloTeam, a Boston-based employee engagement and performance management platform she started in 2016. A Bulgarian immigrant and University of Delaware accounting graduate, she left Deloitte in 2005 to co-found SevOne, the network monitoring company she scaled with her husband from three people to more than 500 employees and roughly $100M in revenue before its acquisition. A 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Inc. Female Founders 500 honoree, she raised a $10M Series A led in large part by payroll billionaire Tom Golisano and is pointing HelloTeam at AI-driven employee retention.
Adrienne Prentice
Adrienne Prentice is the co-founder and CEO of Keep Company, a Bethesda, Maryland group-learning platform that gathers employees into coach-led peer groups to fight isolation, prevent burnout, and keep parents and caregivers from quitting. A former technology attorney at Cooley and Pillsbury who built and led a 35-person global legal team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she traded the partner track to build the support system she wished she'd had as a working parent. Keep Company has raised roughly $2 million in venture funding and was named by Techstars and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures among the top ten companies innovating in the care economy.