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Karl Van Den Bergh Makes Marketing Answer a Harder Question
A physicist turned developer turned CMO, Karl Van Den Bergh has spent 25 years translating technical complexity into plans that boards, sellers and buyers can act on. His favorite instrument is not a grand manifesto. It is one page.
Andrew Rubin
Andrew Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of Illumio, the company that pioneered Zero Trust Segmentation - the idea that once a breach happens (and it will), you stop it from spreading. A Brooklyn native who built his career through sales, he founded Illumio in 2013 and scaled it to a $2.75B valuation with $225M in Series F funding, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, General Catalyst, and investors including Marc Benioff and John W. Thompson. Named to Goldman Sachs' '100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs' seven times, he earned EY Bay Area Entrepreneur of the Year in 2024 and remains one of cybersecurity's most vocal advocates for rethinking how organizations think about inevitable breaches.
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen is a General Partner at DCVC (Data Collective), the Palo Alto deep tech venture firm. He invests in AI-enabled health tech, energy, security, and enterprise companies after a 25+ year run as an operator at Cisco, Nicira, Airespace, and Illumio. He led DCVC's exits at Element AI, Evolv Technology, and Caption Health, and helped originate the firm's 'TechMed' thesis.