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Bob Vormittag and the Business of Staying
Buyers brought offers. Customers brought questions. Since founding VAI in 1978, Bob Vormittag has kept choosing the next software release - and the people who will use it.
Corbin Tognoni and the business of staying
After a decade helping build a European software group, Corbin Tognoni founded Mirador with a different promise: buy specialized ERP businesses and keep them. His wager rests on the people, products and customer relationships that take years to build.
Seth Ravin and the expensive habit of starting over
Seth A. Ravin built Rimini Street around a question software buyers rarely get to ask: what if we kept what already works? Two decades, a public listing and a long legal fight later, he is asking it again in the age of AI.
Alexander Solomon and the art of being the person to call
A business graduate entered the technology trade with a service problem in mind. Thirty years after founding Net at Work with his brother, Alexander Solomon is still working on who takes responsibility when the systems stop agreeing.
Kevin Samuelson and the business of staying useful
Before he helped assemble Infor, Kevin Samuelson taught in Sofia. His route from English literature to enterprise software leads to a practical question: what happens after the sale?
Axel Allgeier and the Second Draft of Enterprise Software
Three decades after helping enterprise software travel across incompatible machines, Axel Allgeier is still chasing the same stubborn idea: complexity belongs in the architecture, not in the user's day.
Kylee McVaney Learned Enterprise Software at the Copier - Then Returned to Rewrite It
She grew up inside the machinery of J.D. Edwards, left software to build institutions, and came back with a stubborn idea: enterprise systems should bend without breaking. Her other classroom is a dressage arena, where nerves travel straight down the reins.
Lisa Vormittag Keeps One Eye on the Ledger and the Other on What Comes Next
For three decades at VAI, Lisa Vormittag has worked where finance meets marketing - turning customer signals, careful planning and a family company’s long memory into a practical operating system for change.
Marc Visent
Marc Visent is the co-founder and CEO of Knowify, a New York-based cloud software company that helps trade contractors and small construction businesses run job costing, project management, billing, and accounting in one place. A trained computer engineer and lawyer turned software entrepreneur, he started Knowify in 2012 with Daniel de Roulet Jr. and has grown it into a platform used by thousands of contractors, an Intuit QuickBooks partner, and a 2025 Inc. 5000 honoree.
Tim Spencer
Tim Spencer is the co-founder and CEO of Didero, a New York company building agentic AI that sits on top of enterprise ERP systems and automates the email-and-phone-call grind of global procurement. He got the idea running Markai, an e-commerce startup he operated across Asia during the pandemic and sold in 2023, where thousands of suppliers and dozens of countries taught him how much of global trade still runs on people manually chasing purchase orders. He founded Didero in December 2023 with McKinsey procurement veteran Lorenz Pallhuber and engineer Tom Petit, and in early 2026 raised a $30 million Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline, with Microsoft's M12 participating.
Kyle Hency
Kyle Hency is the co-founder and CEO of GoodDay Software, an AI-native ERP built for Shopify-era consumer brands. He previously co-founded Chubbies, the Stanford-born shorts company that ran on irreverence and FridayAtFive energy until Solo Stove acquired it in 2021. Now based in Austin, he's rebuilding the unsexy guts of e-commerce: inventory, orders, finance.
Andres Carranza
Andres Carranza is the co-founder and CEO of Luzid, a San Francisco startup building David, an agentic AI copilot that orchestrates SAP and Salesforce implementations. A Stanford dropout and former AI researcher, he interned at NASA, Harvard, MIT and was the youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history before leaving school to build a company that aims to turn months-long enterprise software rollouts into something closer to a software update.
Gabriel Paunescu
Gabriel Paunescu is the founder and CEO of Naologic, a no-code platform that lets companies build and customize enterprise software (ERP, CRM, workflow apps) without a development team, and now layers multi-agent AI on top of legacy business systems. A Romanian-born serial entrepreneur with seven startups and two exits behind him, he started exporting essential oils at 17 and now keynotes at Google Next, mentors at UC Berkeley, and writes about building AI agents that catch their own hallucinations. His core belief: buying software you cannot modify is like buying a horse instead of a car.
Kees Hertogh
Kees Hertogh is Vice President of Public Sector & Healthcare Marketing at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. A Netherlands-born executive who joined Microsoft via the 2002 Navision acquisition, he has spent over two decades at the company rising from product management on Microsoft Dynamics AX through to VP-level leadership over the global marketing strategy for Microsoft's healthcare, life sciences, education, and government verticals. He is the primary public face of Microsoft Dragon Copilot - the AI clinical workflow assistant reaching 100,000+ clinicians - and a prolific industry blogger and conference speaker on responsible AI in healthcare.
Peter Russo
Peter Russo is VP of Core Business Workflows, Product & Solution Marketing at ServiceNow, where he leads go-to-market strategy for the platform's finance, supply chain, and creator workflow product lines. A seasoned technology marketing executive with roots in SAP and Oracle, he has spent his career helping enterprise software companies articulate the value of complex platforms to buyers who care about outcomes, not features. Based in Austin, TX, he is known in the industry for championing the 'beyond ERP' narrative and for helping ServiceNow stake its claim in the mid-market with the 2025 Core Business Suite launch.
Shawn Lane
Shawn Lane is the Chief Executive Officer of Ottimate, an AI-powered accounts payable automation and payments platform serving mid-market businesses across hospitality, healthcare, construction, retail, and manufacturing. With more than 30 years of experience scaling enterprise SaaS and supply chain software companies - from Procter & Gamble to i2 Technologies to E2open - Lane brings rare operational depth to one of fintech's fastest-growing categories. His career is a through-line of companies that challenged legacy processes with intelligent automation, and Ottimate is his biggest stage yet.
Wiley Jones
Wiley Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of DOSS, a San Francisco-based AI-native operations cloud for physical goods companies. A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Wiley spent his early career at Sprite Robotics in China, then at Verkada and Athelas before co-founding DOSS in 2022 with Arnav Mishra. DOSS has raised $73M in total funding including a $55M Series B in March 2026, positioning itself as the inventory and supply chain intelligence layer for modern ERP stacks.
Darwin Thangappan
Darwin Thangappan is the CEO and founder of ASIR Technologies, a bootstrapped enterprise technology company headquartered in Milpitas, California, with development operations in Bangalore, India. A mechanical engineering graduate turned software entrepreneur, Darwin spent nine years at Oracle building and managing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne before launching ASIR Technologies in 2014. Under his leadership, the company has grown to 75+ employees and developed ACRA Suite, a 100% no-code automation platform that slashes regression testing time by 60% across JD Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, and Salesforce environments. Honored by Marquis Who's Who in 2025 for excellence in technology and product development, Darwin also holds a U.S. patent for computer user interface technology.
Loren Straub
Loren Straub is a General Partner at Bowery Capital, a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise software and B2B SaaS. Based in San Francisco, she spearheaded Bowery's West Coast expansion in 2019, leads investments in supply chain, B2B marketplaces, and enterprise resource planning (ERP), and serves on the boards of nine portfolio companies. Before joining venture capital, she held roles at Goldman Sachs (investment banking), Groupon (corporate finance and APAC FP&A), and Activision Blizzard (investor relations). She is also a Venture Committee Member at The Vinetta Project, supporting female founders.
John Glasgow
John Glasgow is the founder, CEO, and CFO of Campfire, the AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies. A 15-year finance veteran who passed through Adobe, Invoice2go, and Bill.com before founding Campfire during parental leave in 2023, Glasgow has raised over $100 million in funding — $35M Series A and $65M Series B in just 12 weeks — and is steering the company toward an IPO. His platform's proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) achieves 95% accuracy on financial workflows, and customers like Replit, Decagon, and PostHog have traded NetSuite for Campfire's AI-first stack.
Michael Jaszczyk
Michael Jaszczyk is the CEO (US) of NEWWORK Software, a Berlin and Palo Alto-based startup founded in 2023 by former SAP and Workday veterans to rebuild enterprise software for the AI era. With over two decades of technology leadership - including 15 years at GK Software SE where he rose from CTO to Chief Digital Transformation Officer and CEO of GK Americas - he is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and enterprise workflow automation. Jaszczyk helped pioneer retail AI as far back as 2003 through the Metro Group Future Store initiative, and today leads NEWWORK's mission to replace legacy ERP, CRM, and HR systems with AI-native, agentic platforms that understand business requirements and generate working solutions in minutes.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Venkat Bhat
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Vijay Gopineedi
Vijay Gopineedi is the CEO and serial entrepreneur behind Rootshell Inc, a Santa Clara-based IT consulting firm he has led since 2010. Starting his career as a software developer in 1999, he went on to found EZ Info Systems, consult at PwC and Deloitte, and eventually build Rootshell into a ~93-person global IT services company specializing in CPQ, ServiceNow, Salesforce, DevOps, and digital transformation. He is also an early investor in Deepfactor, the developer application security platform acquired by Cisco in August 2024.
Vikash Kothari
Vikash Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Infovity, Inc., a San Mateo-based Oracle Cloud consulting firm he built from scratch in 2008 into a 380-person, $85M-revenue enterprise serving clients across manufacturing, pharma, financial services, and more. A former Oracle engineer turned entrepreneur, he leads one of the most Oracle-obsessed consulting shops in North America - a company where nearly 70% of employees are former Oracle insiders, and where roughly 90% of new business comes from referrals. He is also a General Partner at BAT VC, a venture fund focused on fintech, healthtech, and web3 with a dual US-India investment thesis.
Vina D'Souza
Vina D'Souza is the Chief Executive Officer and President of WalkWater Technologies, a San Jose-based IT services and cloud solutions firm she leads with over two decades of experience in technology recruiting and enterprise services. Under her leadership, WalkWater has grown into an Oracle Gold Partner with 58 employees, specializing in Oracle Fusion Cloud, ServiceNow, ERP systems, cloud migration, and IT staff augmentation for clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and the non-profit sector.
Cornelius Menke
Cornelius Menke is a former Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he spent roughly three years building the firm's European investment portfolio from London. A German national educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, Menke moved from management consulting at Boston Consulting Group to venture capital after an earlier stint inside Klarna's CFO office - one of Sequoia's landmark European bets. At Sequoia, he backed companies across industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and enterprise fintech, co-investing in Robco, Tacto, LangChain, Flow, Pennylane, and Rillet while also running the firm's Arc accelerator cohorts for European pre-seed and seed founders. He departed Sequoia in 2025/2026 and his next move remains to be announced.
Umair Nizam
Umair Azam is the Founder and CEO of Integration Xperts, Pakistan's leading cloud implementation and enterprise software firm with 180+ employees and offices across Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, and the USA. As Pakistan's first Salesforce Value-Added Reseller and one of the largest Oracle and SAP Gold partners in the country, he built the company from scratch in 2016 after a career spanning Oracle, Avaya, and Inbox Business Technologies. He secured a seven-figure USD investment from the Atlas Group in 2020 and has set his sights on an IPO on the Pakistan Stock Exchange by 2027.