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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.
Rachael Nemeth
Rachael Nemeth is the CEO and co-founder of Opus Training, a mobile, AI-powered training platform for distributed, frontline workforces used by multi-unit restaurants and hospitality operators. She spent more than a decade running operations and people functions across New York kitchens, including Union Square Hospitality Group, Baked NYC, and Hot Bread Kitchen, and is a certified ESL instructor who first built ESL Works to teach industry English by text message. Opus, founded in 2020, has raised roughly $10.8M with a $6.8M Series A in 2023 and translates training into 130 languages.
Scott Moran
Scott Moran is the founder and CEO of Go2, a Philadelphia-based AI-powered remote staffing and workforce management platform. A former touring multi-instrumentalist who recorded with bands including Menomena, Man Man and his own group Sarsaparilla, Scott pivoted from the road to building software that helps workers keep leverage as AI reshapes the economy. He also founded Cowork.ai, a data and AI stack spun out of Go2.
Sean Behr
Sean Behr is the CEO of Fountain, the San Francisco-based hiring platform that moves frontline and hourly workers from application to onboarded in minutes. Before Fountain he founded Stratim (acquired by KAR) and helped scale Adap.tv into AOL. He has spent two decades turning Series A and B companies into acquisition stories, and now spends his time arguing that high-volume hiring is where AI actually earns its keep.