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Seb Poole Is Teaching the Help Desk to Finish the Job
After a decade inside startups, Seb Poole has developed a particular dislike for software that records a problem and leaves a human to solve it. His new company, Modern, is an attempt to make enterprise IT software do the work hiding behind the ticket.
Paul Mazzo
Paul Mazzo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Integrators, Inc., an IT services firm specializing in structured cabling, network integration, physical security, audio/visual systems, and managed services. He has led the company since January 2004, following a stint as Project Director of Information Technology at Pfizer. His work sits at the seam where copper meets code - the unglamorous plumbing that keeps modern enterprises running.
Jed Ayres
Jed Ayres is the CEO of ControlUp, the $1B+ autonomous IT platform that executes over 14 million automated remediations per week across 6 million enterprise endpoints. A 20-year veteran of the end-user computing industry, Ayres has an unusual track record: he's joined companies in transformation, then handed them to acquirers. He turned IGEL from a hardware vendor into a software-first powerhouse that sold to TA Associates, scaled AppSense to an Thoma Bravo acquisition, and helped MCPc grow to $300M+ before it was acquired by Logicalis. At ControlUp since August 2023, he's steering the company's evolution from Digital Employee Experience (DEX) to what he calls a generational shift in IT - self-healing, AI-driven autonomous endpoint management. Off the clock, he completes Ironman triathlons and ultramarathons, which explains a lot about his leadership style.
Connie Tang
Connie Tang is the CEO and founder of CCT Technologies Inc., operating as ComputerLand of Silicon Valley - a San Jose-based IT solutions firm she built from a storefront computer shop in 1991 into a 55-person enterprise serving government agencies, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and commercial businesses across Northern California. After more than three decades at the helm, she led the company through a strategic acquisition by ISSQUARED Inc. in May 2024, positioning the combined entity to expand in cybersecurity, AI, and edge computing.
Sameer Kishore
Sameer Kishore is the President and CEO of Milestone Technologies, a Fremont-based global IT managed services firm with roughly 2,600 employees. He took the top job in January 2020 after running multi-billion-dollar divisions at IBM, NTT Data and Wipro.