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Naveen Rajdev
After four years at AWS, Naveen Rajdev returned to enterprise services with a wider brief: connect brand, market development and the people living with technological change.
Gartner
For 47 years, Gartner has sold executives something rarer than information: a defensible way to choose. Now the firm behind the Magic Quadrant is turning its own research library into an AI product - while protecting the human network that makes the library valuable.
BayOne Solutions
BayOne built a sizable business by selling two things enterprises usually buy separately: the technology work and the people who make it run. Now its bet on AI, managed delivery and diverse talent is turning a staffing heritage into a broader transformation play.
Alium
Alium is a New York-based startup building an AI-powered vendor intelligence platform for enterprise software buyers. It runs structured, compensated 1-on-1 interviews with practitioners - the VPs of marketing, CISOs, and IT directors who actually use the tools - then uses AI to synthesize those conversations into ratings and insights. Founded in 2020 by former CB Insights operators Jonathan Sherry and Alexandre Testu, Alium emerged from stealth in January 2025 with $7M in seed funding, aiming to replace pay-for-play review sites and analyst reports with unbiased peer intelligence, starting with marketing and ecommerce technology.
Lakshmanan Chidambaram
Lakshmanan Chidambaram, known across the industry as CTL, is the CEO and Managing Director of Bristlecone, the Mahindra Group's pure-play supply chain services company, a post he took up on July 1, 2025. With more than three decades in global technology services, he previously ran Tech Mahindra's Americas enterprise business, helped steer the post-Satyam turnaround that became a Harvard case study, and built a North American startup from scratch. He also serves as Americas Head for the Mahindra Group and sits on its Executive Board, with seats on the US-India Business Council and the CNBC CEO Council.
Darrin Chen
Darrin Chen is the VP of Global Partners (NPN) GTM & Operations at NVIDIA, where he leads go-to-market strategy and operations for the NVIDIA Partner Network - the company's global partner ecosystem spanning solution providers, systems integrators, and channel partners. With 30+ years in technology from storage to networking to AI infrastructure, Chen joined NVIDIA through the 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, where he had spent over a decade building worldwide channel programs. In mid-2023, NVIDIA expanded his mandate as it split its global channel chief role in two, tapping Chen to oversee its entire NPN program as the company transformed into a full-stack AI computing company.
Sampson Han
Sampson Han is Vice President of AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA, the Santa Clara-based technology powerhouse behind the GPU revolution driving modern artificial intelligence. Operating at the intersection of cutting-edge silicon and the enterprise market, Han oversees marketing strategy for NVIDIA's data center and AI product portfolio - the very infrastructure powering the global AI buildout. He works within one of the most influential technology companies in history, helping define how hyperscalers, enterprises, and sovereign AI initiatives understand and adopt NVIDIA's data center solutions.
Ramin Ettehad
Ramin Ettehad is a Silicon Valley-raised entrepreneur who co-founded Oomnitza in 2012 alongside Arthur Lozinski and Trent Seed, building it into a leading Enterprise Technology Management platform that has raised $37M and serves organizations across financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more. As Co-Founder with responsibilities spanning marketing and revenue, he brings a rare combination of hands-on sales intelligence, product intuition, and brand evangelism to the challenge of modernizing how enterprises manage their entire IT estate from a single pane of glass.
Ethel Chen
Ethel Chen is General Partner at Sentinel Global, a San Francisco-based multi-stage venture capital firm that raised a $213.5 million inaugural fund to back enterprise technology founders worldwide. She brings 20+ years of investing experience across GIC (Singapore's sovereign wealth fund), Sequoia Capital Global Equities, CPP Investments, and Norwest Venture Partners - a career that includes early bets on Anthropic, Databricks, Zoom, Snowflake, Coinbase, Airbnb, DoorDash, Affirm, Chainalysis, and Uber, collectively contributing to 20+ IPOs and tens of billions in returns.
Kevin Spain
Kevin Spain is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, one of Silicon Valley's leading early-stage enterprise technology venture firms. A native Texan who cut his teeth founding atMadison.com after winning the inaugural Wharton Business Plan Competition, Spain brings an operator's instincts to his investing — shaped by stints at Electronic Arts (where he helped launch the online gaming division) and Microsoft's Corporate Development group. At Emergence, he has led landmark investments including Doximity (NYSE: DOCS, ~$10B market cap), Blend (NYSE: BLND), and Augmedix (NASDAQ: AUGX), and sits on the Doximity board. More recently he has focused on physical robotics, AI-native services, and healthcare GenAI, with positions in Physical Intelligence and Bedrock Robotics.
Derek Garnier
Derek Garnier is the CEO of Evocative, a global digital infrastructure provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. With over 35 years in the industry, he has built, operated, and sold multiple companies across data centers, fiber networks, and managed services. A former engineer turned strategist, Garnier co-founded Arcadian Infracom, led Layer42 Networks through a successful acquisition by Wave Broadband in 2015, and returned to Evocative as CEO in February 2023. He champions hybrid cloud, AI-ready infrastructure, and inclusion as core business pillars, guiding Evocative through a significant debt financing round in December 2025 to expand high-density colocation and network capacity for next-generation AI applications.
Vishal Gauri
Vishal Gauri is the CEO of Seclore, a data-centric security company protecting enterprise information in the AI era. A scientist-turned-entrepreneur with 18 patents and a PhD from Ohio State, he built his career from General Electric labs to Silicon Valley boardrooms, co-founded a venture capital fund (IvyCap Ventures), and now leads a $59.5M-revenue company that guards sensitive data as it flows across organizations, borders, and AI systems.
Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent deep-tech venture firms, where he focuses on enterprise technology and digital healthcare. A rare breed of operator-turned-investor, Armstrong brings over 25 years of hands-on leadership at the helm of enterprise software companies - from being one of Teradata's first 20 employees to CEO stints at KNOVA Software, Kickfire, and PivotLink - giving him a founder's instincts on board seats at companies like GitLab (IPO 2021), Cylance (acquired by BlackBerry), SingleStore, and Vectra. When he's not sourcing the next breakout enterprise deal, he's logging podium finishes in mountain bike races or seeing 50+ bands annually at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival.
Dave Strohm
Dave Strohm is one of Silicon Valley's longest-tenured venture investors, joining Greylock Partners in 1980 and opening the firm's West Coast office in 1983. Over four decades, he has been an early or founding investor in more than 30 companies - more than a dozen of which went public - spanning enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and e-commerce. His most storied bets include DoubleClick (sold to Google), SuccessFactors (sold to SAP), Internet Security Systems (sold to IBM), OpenDNS (sold to Cisco), Mentor Graphics (sold to Siemens), and Ascend Communications. He served as Chairman of SuccessFactors for nearly a decade and as Lead Independent Director of EMC Corporation for twelve years. Today he serves as Venture Partner at Greylock and Special Advisor at 83North, with active board positions at Oportun, ASAPP, MATRIXX Software, RichRelevance, and Bounty Jobs.
Shangda Xu
Shangda Xu is an Investing Partner on the Growth team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. Focused on enterprise technology companies - from AI infrastructure to enterprise SaaS - he brings a dual lens: the analytical rigor of a Harvard summa cum laude economist-mathematician and the operator pattern-recognition of someone who has worked across private equity (Warburg Pincus), investment banking (PJT Partners), and corporate strategy (Disney, Warner Bros.). At a16z, he co-authors influential research on enterprise AI adoption, including how Fortune 500 CIOs are actually deploying generative AI - making him one of the more data-grounded voices in an arena full of hype.
Ravi Mhatre
Ravi Mhatre is a Partner and Co-Founder of Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the world's premier venture capital firms. Over 25 years, he has built Lightspeed's enterprise practice into a powerhouse, backing transformative companies like Anthropic, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Nutanix, Rubrik, ThoughtSpot, and Zscaler. A five-time Forbes Midas List honoree (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2025), Mhatre led Lightspeed's $1 billion investment in Anthropic's $3.5B Series E and helped raise over $9 billion across six funds in 2025. The son of an Indian immigrant and a Brooklyn-born mother who lived on three continents before turning 18, Mhatre holds three degrees from Stanford and has dedicated his career to partnering with founders innovating in enterprise IT, AI, blockchain, and cloud technologies.