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Anne Murray
Anne Murray is the Executive Business Partner in the Office of the CEO at Karat, the Seattle company that runs technical interviews as a service for companies hiring software engineers. She is the person who keeps a fast-moving executive suite running: calendars, communications, relationships, and the thousand small logistics behind a Series C startup. Before Karat she spent years as a senior executive assistant to C-suite leaders at Outreach and Zillow Group, ran her own consulting shop, and worked inside the studio that built Second Life. She is also connected to Karat's Brilliant Black Minds initiative, the company's mission to open access to engineering careers.
Bradford Oberwager
Bradford Oberwager is the Executive Chairman of Linden Lab and CEO of Tilia, the fintech arm powering Second Life's virtual economy. A serial entrepreneur who built and sold companies in personalized vitamins, healthy snacks (Bare Snacks, acquired by PepsiCo), and labor technology (Jyve, acquired by Advantage Solutions), Oberwager led the 2020 acquisition of Linden Lab alongside investor Randy Waterfield. Since then he has staked $35 million on securing money transmitter licenses in all U.S. states to enable real-money payouts from Second Life's Linden dollar economy, grown monthly active users to 600,000, and championed a mobile-forward future for the world's original metaverse.
Tom Hale
Tom Hale is the CEO of ŌURA, the Finnish-American health technology company behind the Oura Ring - a smart ring that tracks sleep, recovery, and biometric data. A Harvard-educated technologist with 30+ years spanning Macromedia, Adobe, Linden Lab (Second Life), HomeAway, and SurveyMonkey, Hale came to Oura after a personal health crisis led him to the ring itself. He joined in March 2022 after writing a persuasive letter to the board after initially being rejected. Under his leadership, Oura has grown from a niche wearable to an $11 billion company on a path toward $2 billion in annual revenue, with the U.S. Department of Defense among its largest enterprise customers.