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Tom Chernaik
Tom Chernaik is a New York entrepreneur and lawyer who turned a single 2009 FTC rule change into a business. As CEO and co-founder of CMP.LY (later CommandPost), he built a patented system for squeezing legally required advertising disclosures into character-limited social media posts, using short codes like CMP.ly/0 through CMP.ly/5. A former music-industry marketer with a JD from Cardozo, he raised over $4 million in venture capital, earned a 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor nod, and became a go-to voice on social media ethics as co-chair of WOMMA's ethics panel.
Saket Saurabh
Saket Saurabh is the co-founder and CEO of Nexla, an AI-powered data integration platform built for the age of generative AI. A serial entrepreneur who started as an engineer at NVIDIA — where he worked on GPU tech for the PlayStation 3 and automotive computing — he went on to co-found Mobsmith, a mobile ad-serving startup that was acquired by Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI). Armed with a BTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Wharton School, Saket founded Nexla in 2016 to automate the hardest parts of data engineering, earning recognition as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor and landing enterprise customers like DoorDash, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. Nexla has raised $33.5 million in funding.