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Matthew Bowley Is Selling the Most Valuable Kind of IT: A Quiet Phone
The ZENOPS chief executive has built his public case around an unfashionable promise: fewer interruptions, clearer systems and technology quiet enough to let people leave work at work.
Kevin Rudahinduka Learned to Speak Business. Then the Systems Started Moving.
The Eden Care Rwanda CEO built his career by translating between engineers, executives and customers. His useful lesson is simple: technical fluency gets systems built; business fluency gets them used.
Devasena Rajamohan
Devasena Rajamohan is Corporate Vice President of Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Applications at Microsoft, leading global teams of product managers, engineers, and data scientists driving innovation across Customer Insights, Sales, Customer Service, and Copilot. With a career spanning over two decades in enterprise CRM and cloud software—including senior leadership at SAP and early engineering roles at TATA Infotech—she has shaped how large organizations deliver AI-powered customer engagement. Under her leadership, Microsoft earned recognition as a Leader in both the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center and The Forrester Wave Customer Service Solutions Q1 2026.
Andrea Johnston
Andrea Johnston is a seasoned revenue and operations executive with over 30 years of building high-growth businesses across SaaS, consumer tech, and marketplace platforms. After a decade at OpenTable — rising from VP of Western Region Sales to Chief Operating Officer — she led global revenue at Corel/Alludo, joined Truckstop as Chief Revenue Officer in 2024, and is now CEO at Franki, the video-led restaurant discovery and rewards app that is rewriting how 25,000+ monthly users find their next great meal. Johnston is a go-to-market architect, board advisor to multiple tech startups, and speaker at the 2025 Khosla Ventures CEO Summit.
Anuj Jalan
Anuj Jalan is the Vice President of Sales Marketing at Microsoft, based in Chandigarh, India. He has built his career across major technology and services firms, moving from process development at Genpact and customer support at Dell to senior sales and marketing leadership at one of the world's largest technology companies. With an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a background spanning recruitment, operations, and client engagement, Jalan represents the archetype of a career professional who climbed the ranks through diverse industry exposure in India's booming tech sector.
Emily Brittain
Emily Brittain is a Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, working within the Office of the Americas Markets & Industries President. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she crafts the stories that shape how Microsoft's largest regional business - spanning Canada, the United States, and Latin America - communicates its vision internally and externally. A Northwestern University-trained journalist with over 11 years at Microsoft, she brought a multimedia storyteller's instincts to one of the world's most consequential technology companies, producing town halls, executive narratives, and brand messaging at scale.
Joe Chin
Joe Chin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sparrow, a New York-based sports AI startup using edge AI and computer vision to analyze athletic motion in real time. A 4x serial entrepreneur with 22+ years of leadership experience and three prior exits, Joe built Sparrow around a simple observation: golfers forget lessons the moment they leave the range. Sparrow's flagship golf app has helped 250,000+ golfers analyze their swing against a dataset of 1 million pro golf data points, delivering instant, personalized feedback via smartphone. The company has raised $8.27M in total funding and is expanding into soccer, basketball, and other major sports.
Diya Mathew
Diya Mathew is a Senior Manager for Customer Engagement Strategy in the Office of the President & COO at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company valued at over $100 billion. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and NIT Tiruchirappalli, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic acumen forged across Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, and now ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, she works at the intersection of executive strategy, customer engagement, and enterprise operations.
Avital Cohen
Avital Cohen is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in Beverly Hills, California. With a legal education from Cardozo School of Law and prior experience as a Marketing Manager at Facebook, she has built a career at the intersection of technology and strategic brand communication. At Microsoft - a company generating over $281 billion in annual revenue and employing 228,000 people globally - she drives marketing strategy across one of the world's most influential technology portfolios, spanning cloud computing, AI, productivity software, and enterprise solutions.
Adam Justis
Adam Justis is VP of Solution Marketing & Evangelism at Adobe, where he leads go-to-market strategy for Adobe Experience Cloud. With 20+ years spanning digital advertising at Microsoft, web analytics at Omniture, and more than a decade at Adobe, he sits at the intersection of AI, personalization, and customer experience. He is a speaker at Adobe Summit, an instructor at UC Irvine's Digital Marketing Certification Program, and a prolific author on Adobe's business blog. Based in Sandy, Utah, he is one of the faces Adobe puts in front of enterprise marketers to explain what modern customer experience looks like.
Amit Dayal
Amit Dayal is Vice President and General Manager of Adobe's Digital Advertising, Learning, and Publishing Business - a portfolio that puts him at the intersection of AdTech, streaming media, and enterprise e-learning. With 30+ years of product leadership spanning Sequent Computer Systems, Oracle, Motorola, Yahoo, Samsung Electronics, and multiple Silicon Valley startups he co-founded or built PM functions from scratch, Dayal brings a rare depth of engineering-to-executive experience to one of tech's most creative companies. Based in Bengaluru, India, he leads strategy, product management, technology, marketing, and sales for Adobe Primetime and related platforms serving major media and entertainment companies globally.
Andrew Conway
Andrew Conway is Vice President of Security Marketing at Microsoft, where he has spent over 20 years driving the go-to-market strategy for one of the world's largest security businesses. A prolific author on the Microsoft Security Blog and a regular media voice on cybersecurity workforce challenges and AI-powered defense, Conway has shepherded Microsoft's security marketing from the Enterprise Mobility + Security era through to today's AI-native Security Copilot and Defender Experts Suite. He is the senior-most marketing executive dedicated to Microsoft's $20B+ security business and an outspoken advocate for using AI as a force multiplier for overwhelmed security defenders.
Chris Ogburn
Chris Ogburn is a seasoned technology marketing executive currently serving as GM/VP of Marketing, Global Partners and Alliances at Adobe, where he oversees partner ecosystem marketing strategy for one of the world's leading digital experience and creative software companies. With over three decades spanning Compaq, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, and Anthropic, Ogburn has built a reputation as a go-to architect of partner marketing programs that scale globally. He is a three-time CRN Top 50 Most Influential Channel Chief honoree and a sought-after speaker at venues including MWC Barcelona and HPE Global Partner Summit.
Cortney Lusignan
Cortney Lusignan is a seasoned communications and public relations executive currently serving as Senior Program Manager, AWS Communications, supporting the AWS Global Communications Vice President at Amazon Web Services. With a career spanning major PR agencies including Weber Shandwick and Edelman, and deep industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, and technology PR, Lusignan has built a reputation as a trusted operator at the intersection of enterprise cloud and strategic communications.
Danielle McMeekin
Danielle McMeekin is Vice President and Head of Global Media Sales (also titled Head of Global Performance Sales) at Microsoft Advertising, where she leads the company's worldwide media and performance sales strategy. Based in Orlando, Florida, she brings over two decades of experience in digital advertising, having risen through sales leadership roles at Yahoo! before joining Microsoft. A recognized voice on the future of search and AI-powered advertising, she co-authors thought leadership on conversational search, multimodal discovery, and generative AI's transformation of performance marketing. She received Microsoft Advertising's Client Obsession FY25 Award for her work building powerful partnerships with clients and partners.
Don Beckinsale
Don Beckinsale is Vice President of International Marketing at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies. Based in the Mysore division of Karnataka, India, he leads international marketing strategy across Microsoft's vast product ecosystem - spanning cloud services, enterprise software, AI, and consumer products. Operating at the intersection of global technology leadership and regional market execution, Beckinsale is part of the team driving Microsoft's presence in high-growth international markets.
Douglas Pearce
Douglas Pearce is Corporate Vice President of Product Management for M365 Copilot Growth at Microsoft, where he leads the strategy to bring AI-powered productivity tools to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Based in the Seattle area, he has spent over two decades at Microsoft, previously heading product management for Office Growth and Fundamentals before pivoting to spearhead the company's flagship AI copilot initiative across Microsoft 365.
George Strathern
George Strathern is VP of Adobe Content Supply Chain, leading Adobe's push to help enterprise brands create, manage, and distribute content at scale using AI and automation. A two-decade sales and operations veteran, he built his career through ScribbleLive, Experian, Gartner, and Workfront before ascending to one of Adobe's most forward-facing roles at the intersection of AI-powered creativity and marketing efficiency.
Gregory Kiey
Gregory M. Kiey is the Area Vice President of Solution Led (Content Supply Chain) at Adobe, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An award-winning enterprise sales leader with 12+ years of experience spanning SaaS, IT outsourcing, and telecommunications, he spearheads Adobe's Content Supply Chain go-to-market strategy - helping Fortune 500 companies like Delta Air Lines streamline their creative operations at scale. He joined Adobe through its 2020 acquisition of Workfront, where he held an AVP Enterprise Sales role, and has since become a visible advocate for solution-led selling at events like Adobe Summit 2025.
Jackie Walsh
Jackie Walsh is a Senior Vice President of Media at Microsoft, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Operating within one of the world's largest technology companies - with $281 billion in annual revenue and 228,000 employees - she leads at the intersection of enterprise technology and media. Her role places her inside Microsoft's vast ecosystem spanning cloud infrastructure, AI services, productivity tools, and advertising platforms including Microsoft Advertising, MSN, and Xbox media properties.
Jacqueline Ramos
Jacqueline Ramos is a seasoned Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience, currently supporting the COO, CMO for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMA), and VP for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) in the EMEA region. Based in Dubai, UAE, she has built her Microsoft career from the ground up - starting as an Executive Assistant to the Gulf Services Director in 2008, rising through roles in business operations, and eventually becoming an executive-level administrator supporting some of the company's most senior regional leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in the Philippines and has leveraged her technical grounding alongside exceptional organizational and leadership skills to become one of Microsoft's most trusted operational connectors across its vast Middle East and global operations.
Jeffrey Whipps
Jeffrey Whipps is Vice President of Marketing at Google, where he leads the company's global brand studio and holds global responsibility for strategic brand and reputation topics spanning sustainability, digital wellbeing, crisis response, and diversity and inclusion. Before Google, he spent seven years at Apple as Director of Worldwide Advertising, contributing to iconic campaigns including the iPod Silhouettes and Mac vs. PC series. His career spans over two decades at the intersection of technology and storytelling, with earlier roles at Netscape, Shutterfly, Sun Microsystems, and McCann Worldgroup.
Jennie Strobeck
Jennie Strobeck is AVP of State & Local Sales, Digital Media at Adobe, where she leads government sales strategy across city, county, and state agencies. With a career spanning enterprise tech sales at DLT Solutions, immixGroup, and Avaya Government Solutions, she has spent over two decades at the intersection of technology and public sector transformation. At Adobe, she previously served as Chief of Staff and Channel Sales Manager before stepping into the AVP role in 2022. She is particularly focused on digital accessibility, helping governments meet DOJ WCAG compliance requirements and modernize document workflows at scale.
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.
Jonathan Johnsongriffin
Jonathan Johnsongriffin is VP of Global Brand & Creative at Google, where he leads the Global Brand Studio's creative strategy. A veteran of Nike's most iconic campaigns - including 'You Can't Stop Us' and 'Just Do It Crazy Dreams' - he spent nearly five years shaping Nike's global brand narrative before joining Google in January 2023. Co-founder of the Serena Williams Design Crew program, jury member at Cannes Lions 2023 and 2024, and board trustee at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Johnsongriffin blends industrial design roots with cultural storytelling at the intersection of sport, technology, and purpose.
Jonathan Manalo
Jonathan Manalo is VP of Growth at Microsoft, operating from Central Luzon, Philippines. In this role he drives commercial expansion across one of the world's most influential technology companies - a company whose annual revenue exceeds $281 billion and whose technologies power enterprises from startups to sovereign governments. Based in the Philippines, Manalo sits at the intersection of Microsoft's deep enterprise portfolio - Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Dynamics 365 - and the rapidly digitizing Southeast Asian market.
Joshua Christensen
Joshua Christensen is the AVP of Customer Growth at Adobe, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. With a career spanning nearly two decades in enterprise software sales and business development, he has grown from frontline sales roles at companies like Workfront to senior leadership at one of the world's largest digital media and marketing technology companies. He holds an MBA from Westminster College and a BASc from the University of Utah, combining formal business education with deep SaaS industry expertise. Colleagues describe him as a results-driven leader who genuinely invests in developing the people around him.
Justin Lehrbaum
Justin Lehrbaum is an Area Vice President at Adobe leading Customer Experience Orchestration, based in Portland, Oregon. Over 14 years in enterprise B2B sales, he climbed from a sports-industry account executive role to senior VP territory leadership at one of the world's most recognized software companies, spanning Bizible, Marketo, and multiple Adobe business units. A five-time President's Club achiever, he oversees Adobe's data-driven customer journey solutions that help enterprise brands orchestrate personalized experiences at scale.
Marissa Dacay
Marissa Dacay is the Global Vice President of Enterprise Marketing at Adobe, where she leads demand generation, account-based marketing, and AI-driven marketing innovation across Adobe's enterprise portfolio. With 17+ years of experience spanning digital marketing, events, content, operations, and analytics - plus a distinctive three-year detour into HR leadership - she brings an unusually broad perspective to building high-performing marketing organizations. Based in San Francisco, she is known for bold decision-making, trust-first leadership, and a data-meets-creativity approach that has delivered double-digit annual growth.
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith is VP of Creative Cloud Strategy & Growth at Adobe, where he leads strategy, design, and emerging products across Adobe Stock, Behance, Adobe Podcast, and AI/ML content initiatives. A product leader and founder, he previously served as SVP of Product at Vimeo and co-founded Workframe, a commercial real estate workflow platform acquired by Newmark in 2019. Based in New York, Smith sits at the intersection of creativity, technology, and the creator economy.