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Ed Stevens
Ed Stevens is the founder and CEO of Scoot, a Dallas-based platform that positions itself as an AI sales environment where buyers, sellers, and live AI agents meet in real time. A serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years in retail and software, he previously founded and led the ecommerce fulfillment company Shopatron (acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2015) and served as COO of Kibo Commerce. Scoot began life as Preciate, an appreciation and relationship platform, before rebranding and raising a $12M Series A in early 2023. Stevens is also an author, board member, and investor.
Glenn Weinstein
Glenn Weinstein is the CEO of Cloudsmith, the cloud-native software supply chain platform headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former naval flight officer who learned to code on a Commodore 64, he co-founded the cloud consultancy Appirio (sold to Wipro for $500M) and spent four years as Chief Customer Officer at Twilio before relocating from New York to Belfast in 2023 to lead Cloudsmith. Under his leadership Cloudsmith raised a $72M Series C in April 2026, positioning the company to secure software supply chains in the age of AI coding agents.
Joe Wolfel
Joe Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO of Terradepth, a Cedar Park, Texas company building an ocean data ecosystem that pairs autonomous underwater robots with a cloud platform to turn fragmented subsea readings into decision-ready intelligence for commercial and government customers. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Navy SEAL, Wolfel started the company in 2018 with fellow SEAL Judson Kauffman after concluding that humanity's ignorance of the ocean was a solvable data problem. He frames Terradepth less as a robotics maker and more as an 'Ocean Operating System,' shifting the maritime industry from buying platforms to buying the intelligence those platforms generate.
Tim Jenks
Tim Jenks is the Interim CEO of PowerLight Technologies, a Kent, Washington-based company pioneering laser-based wireless power beaming for drones, defense systems, and space infrastructure. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate with a nuclear engineering master's from MIT and an MBA from Stanford, Jenks spent over two decades building NeoPhotonics from a venture-backed startup into a NYSE-listed company before selling it to Lumentum Holdings for approximately $918 million in 2022. Now he's steering PowerLight through a pivotal moment: in April 2026, the company achieved the world's first wireless power beaming to a fielded military drone in flight, delivering kilowatt-class laser energy to a Kraus Hamdani Aerospace K1000ULE at 5,000 feet altitude - a breakthrough that could redefine how unmanned aircraft operate in contested environments.
Lee Haney
Lee Haney is Partner and Head of Corporate Partnerships at Greylock Partners, the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Workday. A Naval Academy graduate who served as a Marine Corps Human Intelligence Officer with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Haney took the long road to venture capital - through Goldman Sachs investment banking, then Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he served as COO of Vertica and helped engineer the spin-off that became DXC Technology. Since 2018 he has run Greylock's CXO Program, a matchmaking engine that connects early-stage portfolio companies with the senior technology executives at the world's largest enterprises, turning cold introductions into lighthouse customers and proof-of-value pilots.