Navan (formerly TripActions) is a Palo Alto-based travel and expense platform that combines corporate travel booking, company cards, and automated expense reporting into a single product. Founded in 2015 by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, it built its reputation by replacing legacy tools like SAP Concur with a consumer-grade interface, and has since leaned heavily into agentic AI through its assistant Ava and the Navan Cognition platform. The company went public on Nasdaq in October 2025 under the ticker NAVN.
Nina Herold is the CEO of Reed & Mackay, a Navan company, leading one of the most storied names in luxury corporate travel as it merges with the technology platform that acquired it. Previously COO of Navan (formerly TripActions), she built and scaled the travel side of a hyper-growth fintech-and-travel SaaS company through a pandemic, an acquisition spree, and a market-defining pivot into expense management.
Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners with over 16 years backing enterprise AI, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS companies. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate and Wharton MBA, he has been the first institutional check behind companies like Netskope (Nasdaq: NTSK, IPO 2025) and Navan, and was on the Moveworks board from Day 1 through its $2.85B acquisition by ServiceNow in 2025. A Canadian with Ismaili-East African roots, fluent in French, and a self-taught ice hockey player, Arif blends deep technical fluency with a founder-first philosophy - often describing himself as part coach, part psychologist to the entrepreneurs he backs. As of early 2026, he is stepping back from day-to-day Lightspeed duties to launch a new early-stage investment firm.
Oren Zeev is an Israeli-American billionaire venture capitalist and the most successful solo general partner in VC history. Operating entirely alone from Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto - no partners, no office, no employees - he manages $2.5B+ in assets under management across 9 funds. His concentrated, conviction-driven approach has delivered ~100% IRR since 2008, with landmark investments in Navan (TripActions), Tipalti, Houzz, Chegg, and Next Insurance. His $50,000 'relationship check' in Navan's founders before they had even incorporated the company eventually became a $1B+ payday when Navan IPO'd in October 2025.
Meagen Eisenberg is the Chief Marketing Officer at Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the industrial IoT company redefining connected operations. A former IT engineer turned marketing powerhouse, she has led marketing at MongoDB (through its 2017 IPO), TripActions/Navan, Lacework, and DocuSign. With 30+ advisory roles and 18 successful exits including 3 IPOs and 15 M&A transactions, she is one of B2B tech's most decorated CMOs — blending engineering rigor, data obsession, and a fierce belief that writing is the most underrated skill in marketing.