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Jessica Wesley Makes the Cloud Feel Human
The Onix CMO has spent her career giving complicated technology a clear public face. Her method is less about louder claims than stronger signals: a logo with a job, customers invited into the room, and a small team trusted with a very large story.
Wayne Jin Makes Invisible Software Matter
After Google Cloud, GitHub, AppDynamics, and Grafana, the computer-science graduate has taken on a peculiar marketing assignment: make companies care about the failures they cannot yet see.
Valerie Zlotsky Is Marketing the Hour After the Last Appointment
After more than eight years helping Google Cloud grow, Valerie Zlotsky joined Freed to sell something more intimate than software: the possibility that work can end when the workday does.
Ashley Chandler Has Spent 25 Years Making Complicated Technology Feel Human
Before Peregrine, she helped explain cloud software, payments infrastructure, 3D search, and autonomous delivery. The products changed. Her real assignment did not: make the difficult legible.
Moustafa Noureddine Has Spent Three Decades Making Software Survive the Real World
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, he was studying cloud bottlenecks, shipping collaboration software and teaching engineers how to think. Acksession is the latest expression of a career built around one stubborn question: will the system still work when reality arrives?
Brooks Borcherding Keeps Betting on the Next Technology Shift
After three company sales and decades spent near technology's turning points, the Pythian CEO is applying an old operator's discipline to enterprise AI: prepare the data, bring people along, and move while the opening is real.
Ashish Vengsarkar Builds Networks Like Crosswords: One Connection at a Time
At Bell Labs, in startups and at Google, he learned to make light carry more of the world’s traffic. Now the nEye.ai CEO is applying three decades of optical-networking lessons to the physical limits of AI.
Adam Berlew Keeps Coming Back to the Machines
He wrote his first programs as a teenager, then spent 25 years explaining machines to the people who buy them. Now he markets the buildings where the AI boom actually lives.
Alison Wagonfeld
Before taking on NVIDIA's story, Alison Wagonfeld spent three decades learning how technology businesses are built - from a mortgage website and Harvard case studies to venture capital and Google Cloud.
Andreea Bodnari
Andreea Bodnari is the founder and CEO of ALIGNMT AI, a New York and Boston based startup building governance-first compliance infrastructure for healthcare AI. An MIT-trained machine learning scientist who built and scaled the B2B healthcare AI division at Google Cloud and served as a product VP at UnitedHealth Group, she now runs a company that monitors AI risk in real time across the model lifecycle. In August 2025 ALIGNMT AI emerged from stealth with a $6.5M seed round led by AIX Ventures. Bodnari sits on national AI safety bodies, has reviewed for the JAMIA journal for over a decade, and argues that transparency is the price of trust in clinical AI.
Ross Kennedy
Ross Kennedy is the Global Vice President of AI Startups & Emerging Growth at Microsoft, based in New York. With two decades of experience scaling technology organizations from startup to hyperscale, he leads Microsoft's efforts to help AI startups innovate, grow, and become market makers. Before Microsoft, he was a key force behind Google Cloud's expansion from $5.8B to over $30B in revenue, leading the global Strategic Deal Pursuit division for four years. Earlier, he scaled Liferay's international operations from 200 to 900 employees across 30+ countries. His guiding philosophy: culture beats strategy.
Carrie Tharp
Carrie Tharp is the GTM COO & VP Customer Experience at Google Cloud, where she oversees end-to-end customer experience strategy and connects product innovation to customer outcomes across priority industries including Retail, Financial Services, and Manufacturing. A veteran of major retail and digital commerce transformations, she spent nearly three years as EVP and Chief Digital & Marketing Officer at Neiman Marcus Group before joining Google Cloud in 2019. With roots in a family bakery in Erie, Pennsylvania and an MBA from Kellogg, she has become one of the most prominent voices on generative AI adoption and agentic AI in enterprise commerce.
Jon Alexander
Jon Alexander is a technology professional at Google, one of the world's most influential technology companies. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he works within Google's vast ecosystem spanning cloud infrastructure, AI, software development, and internet services. His LinkedIn handle 'jonpalexander' and presence on Twitter reflect an individual embedded in the cutting edge of modern technology, operating from one of the Pacific Northwest's growing tech communities near Seattle.
Sarah Kennedy Ellis
Sarah Kennedy Ellis is Vice President of Global Marketing at Google Cloud and Google Workspace, where she leads demand generation, account-based marketing, and digital strategy for two of Google's fastest-growing enterprise businesses. A two-decade veteran of B2B tech marketing, she previously served as CMO at Marketo - orchestrating its $4.75 billion acquisition by Adobe in 2018 - and then led a 400-person global marketing organization at Adobe Experience Cloud. At Google, she has been central to repositioning Google Cloud as 'the first choice in AI,' helping grow the business from a $12 billion to over $39 billion run rate.
Amitabh Sinha
Amitabh Sinha is the Co-Founder of Workspot, Inc., a cloud PC and virtual desktop infrastructure company based in Campbell, California. After earning a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he built a career across Oracle, Informix, and Citrix - where he ran the XenDesktop product line as VP of Product Management - before co-founding Workspot in 2012 with Puneet Chawla and Ty Wang. He served as CEO for over a decade, steering the company through five funding rounds to $86.75M in total capital raised, and pioneering innovations like the industry's first cloud PC with 99.99% SLA availability. In April 2024, he transitioned to Chief Strategy Officer.
Vasili Triant
Vasili Triant is the CEO of UJET, an AI-powered cloud contact center platform backed by $183M in funding and built on Google Cloud. With over 20 years spanning Cisco, Serenova, LiveOps, and ShoreTel, he has navigated virtually every inflection point in enterprise communications - from on-premise PBX to cloud-native AI. Appointed sole CEO in April 2025 after serving as CBO, COO, and Co-CEO, Triant now leads UJET's push to reshape customer experience with agentic AI orchestration, deep CRM integration, and a mobile-first architecture that treats the smartphone as the default CX channel.
Venkat Thiruvengadam
Venkat Thiruvengadam is the founder and CEO of DuploCloud, a no-code/low-code DevSecOps platform headquartered in San Jose, California. A founding member of Microsoft Azure's networking team, he wrote core parts of Azure's compute and network controller stack before building DuploCloud to bring hyperscale cloud automation - previously available only to giants like AWS and Microsoft - to mainstream enterprises. Under his leadership, DuploCloud has raised $52M in total funding (including a $32M Series B in 2023), grown ARR by 700% since 2021, and serves 100+ customers across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise software.
Natalie Vais
Natalie Vais is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, where she backs early-stage founders building developer-first tools, platforms, and infrastructure. A former Oracle engineer, Google Cloud product lead, and Amplify Partners principal, she brings rare technical depth to VC - having personally shipped databases and distributed systems before writing checks. Her portfolio includes TigerBeetle, MotherDuck, Polar Signals, and ElectricSQL. While at Google, her team's carbon-monitoring satellite imagery project was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2020.
Zachary Bratun-Glennon
Zachary 'Zach' Bratun-Glennon is a General Partner at Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund based in San Francisco. With a rare trifecta of a CS/Applied Math degree from UVA, a JD and MBA from UCLA, and hands-on stints as a quant at an energy trading hedge fund, an investment banker, and a Google Cloud M&A dealmaker, Zach has directed investments in over 35 companies and held more than 25 board seats. He focuses on AI/ML, data science, vertical software, B2B marketplaces, and fintech, writing checks from $1M to $10M at pre-seed through Series A. Notable portfolio companies include Lambda, Openly, Rad AI, CentML, Stack AI, and Forge.
Bryan Gobbett
Bryan Gobbett is the Chief Executive Officer of RackWare, a San Jose-based multi-cloud mobility and resiliency platform that has migrated over one million workloads across 60+ countries. With nearly two decades of engineering leadership at companies including Cisco, Ericsson, Dell, and Gigamon, Gobbett brings deep technical credibility to a company quietly becoming essential infrastructure for enterprises navigating hybrid and multi-cloud complexity. Under his leadership, RackWare grew revenue 74.5% to $10.5M ARR in 2024 and secured preferred license partnerships with Oracle, IBM, and Google Cloud.
Debanjan Saha
Debanjan Saha is the CEO of DataRobot, leading one of the most widely deployed enterprise AI platforms in the world. A PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, he built his career across IBM, Amazon Web Services (where he launched Amazon Aurora), and Google Cloud (where he oversaw BigQuery Omni and Dataplex). He joined DataRobot in February 2022, became interim CEO in July 2022, and was formally appointed CEO in September 2022. He holds 50+ patents, is an IEEE Fellow, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
John Grady
John Grady is the CEO of Ayla Networks, a San Jose-based IoT and smart home software platform that powers over 15 million connected devices and 250 billion annual transactions for brands like SharkNinja, De'Longhi, Canadian Tire, and Schneider Electric. A Boston College and Indiana University Kelley School of Business graduate with 20+ years in technology sales and operations, Grady rose through roles at Brown Brothers Harriman, Covad Communications, Pace PLC, ChargePoint, and Solar Mosaic before joining Ayla in January 2022 as Head of Global Sales and ascending to CEO in 2024. Under his leadership, Ayla was ranked the #1 US-based Smart Home Platform by ABI Research and announced a major Google Cloud partnership in April 2025.
Adaire Fox-Martin
Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world's largest data-center company. A Trinity College Dublin graduate who once taught school in Ireland, she spent 18 years at Oracle, 14 at SAP, and three at Google Cloud before taking the top job at Equinix in 2024. She runs 280 data centers across 77 markets and calls the internet 'the fourth utility'.
Siddhartha Agarwal
Siddhartha Agarwal is CEO of JazzX AI, the first end-to-end AI platform built for the mortgage industry. With over 30 years steering product strategy and go-to-market transformation at Oracle, Google Cloud, Databricks, and Freshworks — where he helped drive more than $700M in annual recurring revenue — he now leads a SAIGroup-backed company that is rewiring mortgage lending with governed, auditable AI automation. He holds degrees from Grinnell College, Caltech, and Stanford, sits on the Wisconsin School of Business advisory board, and publishes widely on why digital employees will eventually outnumber human ones by a factor of 10 to 20.
Wayne Goeckeritz
Wayne Goeckeritz is a seasoned cybersecurity channel executive serving as Security Channel Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's Go-To-Market Network across venture teams. With a career spanning decades in IT channel sales, he has held leadership roles at Cisco, Juniper, Crossbeam, NetWitness, Prolexic, Demisto, Palo Alto Networks, Siemplify (acquired by Google Cloud), and SentinelOne, building a reputation as one of the most impactful channel leaders in the cybersecurity industry.
Diane Greene
Diane Greene co-founded VMware and built it into the company that pioneered x86 virtualization, leading it through the largest tech IPO of 2007. After being ousted from VMware in 2008, she co-founded Bebop, sold it to Google for ~$380 million, and became CEO of Google Cloud - growing it from $2.1B to $8B in annual revenue. A naval architect and competitive sailor before turning to software, she is the first woman to chair the MIT Corporation and sits on the boards of Stripe, SAP, Intuit, and Maersk.