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Evan Walden Built a Career Out of the Warm Introduction
After two exits and one near-death startup, the New York founder is still working on the same stubborn problem: how to turn a network of names into a useful human connection.
David Klein Put Network Observability in a Perfume Bottle
Kentik’s CMO makes deeply technical infrastructure memorable with audience research, cheap cameras, quick jokes and the occasional fictional fragrance.
Drew Sechrist Bet His Career on One Cold Email - Then Built a Company to Make Sales Warmer
A cold email put him inside Salesforce before it had paying customers. Twenty-seven years later, Drew Sechrist is still proving that the shortest route through business is usually a trusted human being.
Arun Singh Built a Career Around the Question: Who Gets In?
From cryptography research to the CEO's chair, Arun K. Singh has spent more than 25 years turning identity from an IT chore into a business question: who gets access, why, and for how long?
Kurt Dobbins
Kurt Dobbins is the founder and CEO of Nrby, a New Hampshire company building AI-driven predictive network intelligence for broadband and telecom operators. A serial entrepreneur and networking engineer with more than three decades in the industry, he previously founded Ellacoya Networks (acquired by Arbor Networks) and Deep Information Sciences, and earlier served as technical director at Cabletron Systems. He is the named inventor on more than a dozen networking and communications patents and describes himself as a lifelong builder of ideas that challenge convention and reshape industries.
Remko Vos
Remko Vos is the CEO of CUJO AI, a cybersecurity and network intelligence platform protecting over 60 million homes globally by monitoring more than 3 billion connected devices. A Dutch-born engineer turned MIT Sloan MBA, Vos spent five years at Comcast before stepping into the CEO chair in April 2022, bringing rare firsthand experience as a CUJO AI customer to a company that blocks over 17,000 threats per minute. Under his leadership, CUJO AI has landed Tier-1 wins including T-Mobile USA and EE, earned recognition as a Cybersecurity Visionary at RSAC 2025, and become a voice at forums from the World Economic Forum to MWC.