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Suresh Srinivas
Suresh Srinivas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Collate and the creator of OpenMetadata, an open-source data intelligence platform. A longtime figure in the big-data world, he was an early Apache Hadoop developer and HDFS committer at Yahoo, co-founded Hortonworks, and served as Chief Architect for data at Uber before building Collate to help enterprises make their data usable, trustworthy, and well-governed.
Varun Banka
Varun Banka is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlan, the active metadata platform and data governance control plane trusted by 200+ enterprise customers across 50+ countries. Originally from Ranchi, India, Varun co-founded SocialCops with Prukalpa Sankar while studying at Nanyang Technological University - a data-for-social-good company that powered India's national data platform used by PM Modi and impacted over a billion lives. When their internal data tooling made their own team 6x more agile, they realized the world's data teams needed the same. Atlan was born, raised $105M Series C in May 2024 at a $750M valuation, and is now building what it calls the 'context layer for the AI-native enterprise.'