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Vin Sharma
Vin Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Vijil, a Menlo Park startup building trust infrastructure that helps enterprises deploy AI agents that are reliable, secure, and safe. He spent roughly three decades in AI, data, cloud, operating systems, and security, most recently as GM and Director of Engineering at AWS AI, where he worked on the deep-learning engines behind Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Earlier he ran a division at Intel that built a bespoke datacenter for BMW's autonomous-driving research and held product and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard across open source, big data, cloud, and Linux. Founded in 2023, Vijil has raised $23 million, counts SmartRecruiters, DigitalOcean, and DuploCloud among its users, and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.
Ravin Thambapillai
Ravin Thambapillai is the co-founder and CEO of Credal.ai, a New York security-first platform that lets large, regulated enterprises deploy AI agents without leaking the data those agents touch. A philosophy-politics-economics graduate from Oxford who taught himself to code into a job at Google, he spent seven years at Palantir building AI systems for banks, life-sciences firms, and public-health institutions before starting Credal in 2022, months ahead of the ChatGPT wave. Backed by Y Combinator and a $4.8M seed led by Spark Capital, Credal serves customers like MongoDB, Wise, Checkr, and the US government, processing over a million LLM queries a month.