Vas Bhandarkar is the co-founder and CEO of ScoreData Corporation, a Palo Alto machine-learning company whose ScoreFast platform builds and monitors predictive models for insurers, banks, and call centers. A serial entrepreneur, he was an early employee at two AI companies that IPO'd on Nasdaq (Remedy and Selectica), ran Unimobile through a sale to Electronics for Imaging, and sat on the board of GlobalLogic during a 30x revenue run. He trained as a physicist at IIT Bombay before turning to computer science and decades of company-building in Silicon Valley.
Mikael Carlsson is the CEO of Forte Group, an AI-native product development partner with 900+ specialists and 25 years of history. A Swedish-born technology executive with 20+ years in digital engineering, he scaled Lohika 5X before joining Forte in October 2022. Under his leadership, Forte Group closed 2025 at an all-time financial high and has positioned itself around AI transformation, data engineering, and outcome-driven software delivery for Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across North America, Europe, and Latin America.