Keigo Okumura is Vice President of Marketing at ServiceNow Japan, bringing over two decades of marketing leadership across enterprise technology giants including Oracle, Adobe, Dell Technologies, and Citrix. Based in Japan, he oversees marketing strategy for ServiceNow's Japan region, helping drive the AI-powered workflow platform's expansion in one of the world's most demanding enterprise markets. His career arc - from systems engineer at Hitachi Solutions to VP at a $13B+ cloud company - reflects a rare blend of technical grounding and strategic marketing acumen.
Zain Aziz is the Founder and CEO of Atom, a San Francisco-based enterprise cloud and digital transformation company. A former Marine and Harvard alumnus, he built Atom in 2020 to tackle the gap between how people live and how enterprises work - delivering cloud transformations across HR, Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain in 26 weeks or less. Atom has raised $15.8M in total funding, including a $6.8M Series A in October 2022, and serves clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across 6 continents with ~220 employees.
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.
Connie Tang is the CEO and founder of CCT Technologies Inc., operating as ComputerLand of Silicon Valley - a San Jose-based IT solutions firm she built from a storefront computer shop in 1991 into a 55-person enterprise serving government agencies, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and commercial businesses across Northern California. After more than three decades at the helm, she led the company through a strategic acquisition by ISSQUARED Inc. in May 2024, positioning the combined entity to expand in cybersecurity, AI, and edge computing.
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
David Marks is the founder, President, and CEO of TEECOM, a California-based technology design and engineering firm he built from a one-man operation into a 200+ person global consultancy over nearly three decades. Starting at the Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco, he has since shaped the technology infrastructure of hospitals, Fortune 500 offices, universities, and civic institutions across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. A licensed Professional Engineer with credentials in communications distribution, design technology, and LEED, Marks is known for his belief that buildings should work as hard as the people inside them - and that the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Freddie Heygate is CEO, North America at Just After Midnight, a London-founded managed cloud services and 24/7 digital support company now part of the Ultima group. After spending five years building JAM's Asia-Pacific operations from Singapore, he relocated to Austin, Texas in January 2024 to lead the company's US expansion. With a background spanning digital consultancy, marketing, and business development at agencies including Reading Room and The Drum, Freddie brings over a decade of cross-continental experience helping global brands like Ford, Abbott, and Vodafone keep their digital infrastructure running around the clock.
Igor Repeta is the CEO of Empat Tech, a Kyiv-based software development and outsourcing firm with nearly 200 engineers serving clients across 17 countries. He rose from Project Manager to Chief Executive Officer in four years, formally taking the helm in February 2026 after co-authoring the company's operational playbook as COO. Empat ranked #5 globally on the Clutch 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2026 and holds back-to-back #1 Best IT Employer rankings in Ukraine (DOU 2024 and 2025). Beyond commercial growth, Repeta launched two civic tech projects during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RevengeFor, a military fundraising platform channeling funds to ComeBackAlive, and HealUA, a peer-to-peer medical consultation platform for Ukrainian doctors.
Jigish Shah is the Executive Chairman of ArchLynk, a global digital supply chain consulting firm headquartered in San Jose, California. He co-founded Krypt in 2008 and built it into an eminent player in the SAP Supply Chain ecosystem over 14 years before orchestrating its 2022 merger with Novigo to create ArchLynk - backed by BV Investment Partners. Under his leadership as CEO, ArchLynk further acquired WCS Consulting in 2023 and grew to approximately 350 employees with $35M in annual revenue, establishing itself as an SAP Gold Partner serving enterprises across 4 continents with expertise in SAP Transportation Management, Integrated Business Planning, Global Trade Services, and AI/ML-driven supply chain solutions.
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.
Joe Zarrehparvar is the President and CEO of Fresche Solutions, a Montreal-based IT advisory and modernization company specializing in IBM i (AS/400) systems serving 22,000+ global clients. A 30-year technology veteran who built his career at Microsoft, Juniper Networks, and Wicresoft, Zarrehparvar took the helm at Fresche in May 2023 and has since driven a wave of AI-powered modernization tools, strategic partnerships with IBM, and a transition to subscription-based service models - all while championing a platform-neutral approach that lets clients modernize on their own terms.
Michael Gold is the Chairman and CEO of Intermedia Intelligent Communications, a Sunnyvale-based AI-powered cloud communications company serving over 150,000 businesses through a network of 7,500 channel partners. Since co-leading Intermedia's acquisition in 2011, Gold has grown the company's revenues and profits more than 7x, transforming it from a hosted email provider into a comprehensive UCaaS and CCaaS platform. A Stanford MBA and electrical engineer by training, Gold is a veteran cloud services operator who previously founded Zlago, led Sphera (acquired by Parallels), and served as SVP at Qwest Communications. His signature strategy - selling through partners who resell under their own brands - has made Intermedia a quiet powerhouse behind some of the biggest names in business communications.
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.
Nilesh Jadhav is the CEO and Co-Founder of AMISEQ Inc., a Milpitas, California-based cybersecurity and intelligent automation company he co-founded in 2017. With over 18 years in IT — more than 12 of them in Silicon Valley — he has built AMISEQ into a globally recognized firm serving Fortune 500 clients across cybersecurity, RPA, product engineering, and UX design. In 2025, AMISEQ launched Z-Deploy, a zero-touch automation platform that compresses multi-day security deployments into under two hours, and expanded aggressively into the Middle East.
Ram Naresh is the CEO and co-founder of Brillius Technologies, a Pleasanton, California-based IT services company he built from zero to $30 million in annual revenue over a decade. Starting as Formac Inc. in 2014, he steered the company through early-stage grind - 100-hour work weeks in the first five years - to become an Inc. 5000 honoree and a trusted DevOps and cloud transformation partner for Fortune 100 clients including Amazon, Apple, Verizon, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente. A former HP executive turned entrepreneur, he is now eyeing a doubling of revenue twice over the next ten years while expanding into AI, Canada, and Mexico.
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Shrey Sharma is the CEO and co-founder of Cyntexa, one of the fastest-growing Salesforce and ServiceNow consulting firms globally, and founder of S2 Labs, Rajasthan's first Salesforce training institute. Known in the Salesforce ecosystem as 'Salesforce Hulk,' he became the world's youngest Salesforce MVP in 2019 while still in college. Starting from a basement in Jaipur with five friends and minimal capital in 2018, he grew Cyntexa to 400+ employees with 200% year-over-year revenue growth and an estimated annual revenue exceeding $83 million. Through his YouTube channel and S2 Labs, he has trained over 100,000 Salesforce professionals worldwide, and now leads Cyntexa's push into AI agents and Agentforce implementations.
Surej Kp is a Silicon Valley technology executive who became CEO of Intelliswift Software in March 2024 after five years as its President. With deep roots in global IT services - spanning TCS, Cognizant, and UST Global - he has spent decades scaling technology organizations across North America and beyond. Trained in Electronics Engineering and executive leadership at Harvard, he combines technical depth with business acumen, steering companies that bridge the gap between enterprise technology needs and skilled talent. At Intelliswift and previously connected to BayOne Solutions, he focuses on AI-powered workforce solutions, cloud enablement, and digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients.
Valerio Adrián Anacleto is the co-founder and CEO of Epidata, Latin America's first innovation outsourcing company, which he built from a three-person startup in Buenos Aires in 2003 into a 900-person firm operating across 10 Latin American countries and the United States with $30M in annual revenue. A product of Argentina's public university system who started working at age 10 in the La Matanza district, Anacleto also serves as First Vice President of CESSI, Argentina's software industry chamber, and is a longtime professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Universidad Católica Argentina.
Vaughn Paladin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcsona, a Salesforce consulting and IT services firm headquartered in Campbell, California. He co-founded Arcsona in 2010 alongside Stephan Thomsen, drawing on 15 years of consulting experience at Ernst & Young and as CEO of FocusFrame. Under his leadership, Arcsona has grown to 83 employees across three continents, completed over 200 Salesforce implementations, and shipped Spark - a no-code tool for Salesforce Experience Cloud - on the AppExchange.
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Laila Ahmadi is a Senior Program Manager at Ingram Micro, specializing in Cloud Growth Solutions, based in Ladera Ranch, California. A certified PMP and CSM, she works at the intersection of IT services, cloud technology, and business operations, driving cloud adoption programs within one of the world's largest IT distributors.
Umair Azam is the Founder and CEO of Integration Xperts, Pakistan's leading cloud implementation and enterprise software firm with 180+ employees and offices across Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, and the USA. As Pakistan's first Salesforce Value-Added Reseller and one of the largest Oracle and SAP Gold partners in the country, he built the company from scratch in 2016 after a career spanning Oracle, Avaya, and Inbox Business Technologies. He secured a seven-figure USD investment from the Atlas Group in 2020 and has set his sights on an IPO on the Pakistan Stock Exchange by 2027.