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Christian Ferreira
Christian Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Procurement Sciences AI, an AI-native platform built to help businesses find, win, and deliver government contracts. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who deployed to Afghanistan before turning 21, he spent nearly a decade in government contracting - moving from full-stack engineer to senior solutions architect to director of business strategy - before founding the company in 2022 when generative AI matured. In November 2025 the company closed a $30 million Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $40 million, having grown to more than 300 organizations on its platform and enabled billions of dollars in customer contract wins.
Jenna Wells
Jenna Wells is the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Supply Wisdom, a real-time risk intelligence platform based in New York. A former U.S. Marine Corps signals intelligence officer and Purdue University graduate, she spent nearly two decades in intelligence and third-party risk management, including leadership roles at Wellington Management and Iron Mountain, before joining Supply Wisdom. She rose through the company from Head of Customer Experience to Head of Product to Chief Operating Officer, and was named CEO in June 2025 alongside a $14 million Series B funding round led by Jurassic Capital. Notably, she used the Supply Wisdom platform as a customer before joining the team that builds it.
Lane Hornung
Lane Hornung is the CEO and Co-Founder of zavvie, a Boulder-based proptech platform that helps brokerages present every buying and selling option to their clients. A Stanford-trained industrial engineer, former Cobra attack helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps, and two-time Inman Innovator, he also founded 8z Real Estate and built it into one of Colorado's top brokerages.
Alexander Candelario
Alexander C. Candelario is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Intiva Health, an Austin-based healthcare company that began by rebuilding medical credentialing and has since grown into a multi-vertical group spanning the Incredable credentialing platform, the Nova Vita wellness centers, and Gummi World nutraceutical manufacturing. A CPA-trained forensic accountant and roughly 15-year Marine Corps veteran who rose from enlisted Force Recon to commissioned officer, he carries an unusual mix: combat-tested discipline, big-firm audit rigor from his Coopers & Lybrand days, and degrees from Texas A&M and Harvard. In 2025 he pushed credentialing onto the blockchain with the TIVA token, listed on MEXC Global, betting that verified professional trust can extend far beyond medicine.
James Brown
James Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Schemata, a San Francisco startup building an AI-powered spatial intelligence platform that turns ordinary 2D imagery into photorealistic 3D environments with a built-in AI instructor. A former US Marine Corps infantry and information operations officer who once briefed the Secretary of the Navy, he was the first in his family to earn a college degree, went on to a Stanford MBA and MS in Symbolic Systems, and now sells rapid-deployment virtual training to defense, energy, and infrastructure customers. Schemata emerged from stealth in May 2025 with a $5M seed round led by Owl Ventures and $3.4M in early Department of Defense contracts.
James Gallagher
James Gallagher is the CEO and co-founder of GreenLite, a New York based construction technology company that pairs AI with licensed architects, engineers, and former regulators to deliver code-compliant building permits in days rather than months. A former Marine infantry and intelligence officer who deployed to Afghanistan, Gallagher spent a decade scaling the physical footprints of venture-backed companies like Gopuff, Bandit, and Good Uncle before realizing that permitting was the real bottleneck holding builders back. He founded GreenLite in 2022 with fellow Gopuff alum Ben Allen, and has since raised $86M across three rounds, including a $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners in September 2025.