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Ben Hernandez
Ben Hernandez is the founder and CEO of Numat, a Chicago deep-tech company that treats chemistry like software. Numat designs metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), nanoscale materials that capture, hold, and even destroy specific molecules with atomic precision. Trained as an engineer with a law degree and an MBA, and a former private equity investor, Hernandez turned a Northwestern lab idea into the world's first industrial-scale MOF manufacturing campus, powering safer hazardous-gas storage for the semiconductor industry through its ION-X product and pushing toward industrial decarbonization.
Mathew Elenjickal
Mathew (Matt) Elenjickal is the founder and CEO of FourKites, the Chicago-based supply chain visibility company he started in 2014 after realizing he could track a pair of Amazon shoes to the doorstep but not a $100,000 shipment of industrial equipment. A mechanical engineer from Kerala turned logistics-software operator, he spent seven years at i2 Technologies and Oracle before building FourKites into a platform that now tracks more than 3.2 million supply chain events a day for 1,600+ global brands. He has raised roughly $247 million across four rounds and is now pushing the company past dashboards into AI-native orchestration with products like the Intelligent Control Tower and Loft.
Dan Rubin
Dan Rubin is President and CEO of PARx Solutions, a Burlington, Massachusetts healthtech company that runs the Prior Authorization Support System (PASS), a service that helps physician offices push prescriptions past insurer prior-authorization roadblocks at no cost to the practice. A chemical engineer by training who switched to building businesses, Rubin co-founded medication-adherence pioneer Adheris in 1993, ran it for fifteen years, then took the helm at PARx in 2012. He has spent three decades on a single problem: the gap between a doctor writing a prescription and a patient actually getting the medicine.
Robert Huntington
Robert (Rob) Huntington is the CEO of Oakscale Franchise Partners and of Metric Collective, a New York-based group that builds, markets, and invests in franchise brands. A former high-school history teacher who ran the single largest Huntington Learning Center before earning an MBA at Kellogg and consulting at BCG, he now applies data, software, and digital marketing to a slow-moving industry, connecting entrepreneurs with franchise concepts and helping emerging brands scale. He led the angel round that seeded Oakscale with $1.2M in 2019 and frames franchising's challenge bluntly: the industry has been coasting downhill and now has to pedal.
Vinay Goel
Vinay Goel is the CEO and co-founder of Wald.ai, a Palo Alto startup building contextual data-loss protection for the age of generative AI. After more than 30 years in product and technology - a decade at Google leading Maps and Local, then top product roles at JLL, Kiavi, Check Point and Webroot - he co-founded Wald.ai in 2024 to solve the 'shadow AI' problem: employees feeding sensitive company data into ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Wald.ai redacts sensitive data inline, lets the AI answer, then restores the original context before the user sees it. He raised a $4M seed round in December 2024 and sits on the Forbes Technology Council.
Sanuj Ravindran
Sanuj Ravindran, M.D., is the CEO of Simcha Therapeutics, a New Haven clinical-stage immunobiology company turning a once-overlooked immune molecule, interleukin-18, into a cancer weapon. A board-certified physician who spent a decade as a venture capitalist before becoming a serial biotech company-builder, Ravindran took the helm in 2022 to push ST-067, a decoy-resistant IL-18 designed to slip past the body's own off-switch and reawaken the immune system inside tumors. He has run drug programs across oncology and rare disease, structured more than $2 billion in deals, and bets his career on therapies that promise more than incremental gains.
Ashish Desai
Ashish Desai is the CEO of Monograph, the San Francisco software company that helps architecture and engineering firms run the business side of the practice - budgets, staffing, forecasting and billing. An electrical engineer turned product leader, he scaled product at 99designs, Handshake and Shutterfly before joining Monograph as Chief Product Officer in July 2023 and stepping up to CEO in 2026, succeeding co-founder Robert Yuen. His pitch is simple: software that understands how architects actually work, so firms can spend more time on design and less time guessing at their numbers.
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.
Adrienne Lofton
Adrienne Lofton is the Global Vice President of Product & Integrated Consumer Marketing for Google's Platforms & Devices Division, where she leads end-to-end marketing for the Pixel ecosystem and drives activation across Android, Chromebook, Chrome Browser, Google Play, and Google Health & Home. A Howard University graduate and Kellogg MBA, she built her career on brand authenticity — from multicultural marketing at Target, to CMO of Dockers at Levi's, to Senior VP of Global Brand Marketing at Under Armour, to VP Head of North America Marketing at Nike. An Ad Age Brand Genius award winner, Adweek Most Powerful Women in Sports honoree, and board director at Alaska Air Group, Lofton is one of the most recognized voices at the intersection of sports, culture, and consumer marketing.
Cecilia Aviles
Cecilia Aviles, MBA, BSN, RN, is the Chief Executive Officer of LifeLong Medical Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving over 55,000 patients across Contra Costa and Alameda Counties in the East Bay. A native San Franciscan who started her career as a trauma nurse, she brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience — including 11 years at Sutter Health and earlier stints at Kaiser Permanente, UCSF, KPMG, and McKesson — to lead one of the Bay Area's most vital safety-net providers. A Carol Emmott Fellow and recognized among the Bay Area's top Hispanic nurses, she is committed to making healthcare accessible, equitable, and affordable for underserved communities.
Eliot Hodges
Eliot Hodges is the CEO of Anduin Transactions, a Silicon Valley fintech company building critical infrastructure to modernize the $14 trillion private capital markets. A Harvard and Kellogg MBA graduate fluent in five languages, Hodges came up through Palantir, Blend, and Anchorage before being recruited by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale to lead Anduin. Under his leadership, the platform has grown to serve 510+ funds and facilitate $55B+ in capital raises for 27,000+ investors globally.
Shub Bhowmick
Shub Bhowmick is the Co-founder and CEO of Tredence Inc., a data science and AI engineering company he built from a three-bedroom apartment in Bangalore in 2013 into a $350M-revenue powerhouse serving eight of the world's top ten global retailers. A chemical engineer turned management consultant turned founder, Bhowmick spent 17 years in corporate life at Infosys, Mu Sigma, Diamond Consultants, and Liberty Advisor Group before co-founding Tredence with Sumit Mehra and Shashank Dubey. Tredence raised $205M in total funding including a $175M Series B from Advent International in December 2022, employs 4,000+ people, and has a stated goal of reaching $1 billion in revenue by 2030.
Ashish Aggarwal
Ashish Aggarwal is a General Partner at Chamaeleon, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm. He invests in seed and Series A consumer, vertical SaaS, AI, and crypto startups, drawing on 18+ years as an operator, two-time founder, and investor. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 24), he previously led investments at Grishin Robotics in companies like Ziva Dynamics (acquired by Unity), Taskade, ClubFeast, and Spin (acquired by Ford). Before VC, he ran M&A and corporate strategy at Opera Software, marketing analytics at Dell, and built ad infrastructure at Yahoo!.
Joydeep Bhattacharyya
Joydeep Bhattacharyya is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, a leading venture capital firm, where he focuses on enterprise and cloud platform investments - particularly in cybersecurity and automation. A former Microsoft engineer who helped shape Office 365 and Skype for Business, and a one-time enterprise investor at Shasta Ventures, he brings deep operational and strategic experience to early-stage companies. An immigrant from India, he is a known advocate for international founders navigating the U.S. startup ecosystem. His portfolio includes companies like Dragos, Snyk, Human Security, MindTickle, and Contentsquare. Outside the boardroom, he plays the sitar, roots for the Indian cricket team, and co-founded a rural welfare initiative in India.
Nagraj Kashyap
Nagraj Kashyap is co-founder and General Partner of Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed a $330 million Fund I in September 2025 focused on AI-powered SaaS companies at the early-growth stage. He brings 20+ years of venture capital experience, having previously founded Qualcomm Ventures (2003), launched M12 (Microsoft's venture arm, 2016), and served as Managing Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund II. His portfolio includes breakout companies such as Zoom, Waze (10x return, acquired by Google), Xiaomi, Cloudflare, Fitbit, Kahoot!, Livongo, and Outreach.
Woody Marshall
Woody Marshall is a General Partner at TCV (Technology Crossover Ventures), one of the world's leading growth equity firms. With nearly three decades in venture capital, he has backed some of the defining technology companies of the internet era - including Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, Nubank, and Peloton. He joined TCV in 2008 after 12 years at Trident Capital and today sits on the boards of Spotify, Payoneer, GoFundMe, Nerdy, Newsela, and onX. A multiple Forbes Midas List honoree, Marshall focuses on fintech, mobile, and digital media investments with a philosophy rooted in backing exceptional entrepreneurs and patient, long-term capital deployment.
Sasan Goodarzi
Sasan Goodarzi is the Chairman and CEO of Intuit, the financial-software company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma and Mailchimp. Born in Tehran and raised in Orlando, the electrical engineer turned operator has pushed Intuit from a desktop tax shop into an AI-driven platform, growing annual revenue from roughly $7.7B to nearly $19B during his tenure.
Jalak Jobanputra
Jalak Jobanputra is the founder and managing partner of Future\Perfect Ventures, one of the world's first VC funds dedicated to blockchain technology, launched in 2014. Born in Nairobi, Kenya to parents of Indian descent and raised in rural New Jersey, she brings a rare global lens to venture investing - from backing Bitcoin infrastructure at seed stage (Blockchain.com, Blockstream) to building microfinance programs in Tanzania. A Wharton and Kellogg alumna, she started investing in Bitcoin in 2013 before it was remotely fashionable, and has since built a portfolio of 50+ companies at the intersection of decentralized technology, AI, and financial inclusion. Her blog 'The Barefoot VC' has run since 2009 and was named a top 10 investor blog by Business Insider.