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Sasha Kipervarg and the bill that outlived the migration
Moving the servers was only the beginning. After leading cloud operations at LiveRamp, Sasha Kipervarg co-founded Ternary to help finance and engineering agree on what their technology is worth.
David Yaffe and the work that should disappear
Before Estuary, David Yaffe helped build advertising systems, sold Arbor to LiveRamp, and became its COO. His next company grew from a stubborn question: why does moving data still require so much looking after?
Travis May and the value of the space between
From LiveRamp to Protege, Travis May keeps finding businesses in the gaps between other businesses. At Shaper Capital, he is trying to turn that habit into a company-building practice.
Sagar Batchu
Sagar Batchu is the co-founder and CEO of Speakeasy, a San Francisco developer-tools company that turns OpenAPI specs into production-grade SDKs, Terraform providers, and MCP servers. A computational physicist by training who spent a decade building data infrastructure - including scaling LiveRamp's London engineering office from zero to 50+ engineers - he started Speakeasy in 2022 with Simon Yu to fix the unglamorous, error-prone work of shipping and consuming APIs. The company has raised roughly $29 million, including a $15 million Series A led by FPV Ventures, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, and Verizon among its users.
Shubh Sinha
Shubh Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Integral Privacy Technologies, a San Francisco company that certifies, transforms, and activates privacy-regulated data (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) for healthcare and other regulated industries. Integral compresses compliance workflows that once took months into hours. Before Integral, Sinha led regulated-data product work at LiveRamp. He is a Purdue-trained computer engineer, an angel investor, and a Forbes Technology Council member. In July 2026 the company raised its Series A, bringing total funding to about $25M.
Ethan Aaron
Ethan Aaron is the founder and CEO of Portable, a New York based ETL/ELT company that builds the data connectors nobody else wants to build. Where the rest of the data-pipeline industry chases the same handful of popular sources, Portable went after the long tail - thousands of niche, bespoke business applications - with no-code connectors and flat, no-volume pricing. A Penn-trained mechanical engineer and Wharton economist who passed through Goldman Sachs and LiveRamp before founding the company, Aaron is one of the data world's most prolific public voices, posting daily on LinkedIn and pushing a blunt thesis: data teams exist to make money, not to collect tools.
Rishabh Jain
Rishabh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of FERMÀT, a San Francisco AI-native commerce platform that builds personalized, content-native shopping experiences for direct-to-consumer and enterprise brands. A LiveRamp alum who saw Apple's privacy changes coming before most, he launched FERMÀT in late 2021 to rewire how brands sell when shoppers can no longer be tracked across the web. The company has raised roughly $86M across rounds, capped by a $45M Series B in June 2025, and counts Glossier, GNC, ILIA Beauty, BISSELL and Unilever's Olly among its customers.
Scott Howe
Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp, the San Francisco-based data collaboration platform that helps the world's largest brands stitch together customer signal across walled gardens, clean rooms, and a cookieless web. He took the job in October 2018 after seven years running Acxiom, LiveRamp's former parent, and before that ran Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar advertising business and helped build Avenue A | Razorfish at aQuantive.
Omar Tawakol
Omar Tawakol is a serial entrepreneur and AI advertising pioneer who turned audience data, voice AI, and now spatially-aware AI into three consecutive company exits. He founded BlueKai (acquired by Oracle for $400M+), Voicea (acquired by Cisco), and currently leads Rembrand, an AI-powered virtual product placement platform that embeds brands invisibly into video content. He holds board seats at The Trade Desk and LiveRamp, and in 2025 merged Rembrand with Spaceback to build an AI-powered ad factory that reaches across CTV, digital video, and display.
Auren Hoffman
Auren Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur, data-industry pioneer, and hyper-connected Silicon Valley networker who turned a $60 million exit (LiveRamp to Acxiom, 2014) into a second act as a venture capitalist at Flex Capital, founder of location-data company SafeGraph, and co-founder of the invitation-only Dialog society with Peter Thiel. He publishes the Summation newsletter and podcast - reaching 41,000+ Substack subscribers - exploring non-obvious ideas at the intersection of data, technology, and business.