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Daniel Suchi
Daniel Suchi is a New York-based operating executive at Grips Intelligence, an e-commerce market intelligence platform that tracks online sales across marketplaces and brands. He leads operations and finance, having previously built and scaled businesses at Akooda and Yotpo. With an MBA from MIT Sloan and time at Harvard Kennedy School, Suchi works at the intersection of data, revenue operations, and go-to-market strategy, helping retailers, manufacturers, and investors turn digital sales signals into growth decisions.
Fez Zafar
Fez Zafar is Chief of Staff at Mercor, the AI talent marketplace that vets, matches, and pays experts powering frontier AI labs. A 2024 Harvard graduate who was elected First Marshal of his class, he helped scale Mercor through one of the fastest revenue ramps on record and now leads hiring and cross-functional operations across its San Francisco and New York teams. Before Mercor he was an analyst at Village Global, a research assistant to economist Larry Summers, and a campus builder known for comedy, community events, and a student interview podcast.
Matt Wetrich
Matt Wetrich is the CEO of Stellar, a Dallas-based technology marketplace connecting large property owners with vetted tradespeople across single-family rental homes. He arrived as VP of Operations in May 2023, was handed the CEO seat during a liquidity crisis, and within 24 hours cut 70% of the company. Before Stellar he scaled Veho's US operations 15x, incubated Uber Eats' advertising and alcohol businesses, and started his career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Michael Zacharski
Michael Zacharski is a strategic technology executive with more than 20 years in programmatic advertising and consumer AI. He is Interim CEO of Decide (formerly LockerDome) in St. Louis, following a career that includes CEO roles at EMX Digital / ENGINE Media Exchange, bRealTime, Balihoo, and Brand Engagement Network (Nasdaq: BNAI), plus advisory work through his own firm M2M5 Co and Progress Partners.
Olivia Lew
Olivia Lew runs Casana, a Rochester, New York company that turned a toilet seat into an FDA-cleared cardiovascular monitor. A former General Catalyst principal and Capgemini consultant with an MBA from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, she was an early investor in Casana before joining as an operator. She sits on the Boston American Heart Association board and has spent the last few years arguing, in podcasts and press, that the most reliable way to check on someone's heart is to stop asking them to do anything at all.
Prabhdeep Singh
Prabhdeep Singh is the CEO of Steno, a tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support company that recently closed a $49M Series C. He joined as COO in 2024 and was elevated to CEO in June 2026, succeeding co-founder Greg Hong. Before Steno he ran Marketplace at WeWork, Enterprise at Uber Eats, was Chief Growth Officer at Clover Health, and served as Operating Partner at Armory Square Ventures.
Ray Wolf
Ray Wolf is the CEO of Televero Behavioral Health, an Austin-based virtual mental health practice that ranked No. 54 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with 4,962% three-year growth. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from Rensselaer and executive education at Harvard and Stanford, he has spent three decades running operations at Pratt & Whitney, Dell, Brocade, Lumeris, Redirect Health and A2K Partners before taking Televero from a small telepsychiatry practice to a 110-person, multi-state provider network.
Sara Providence
Sara Providence is Vice President and Chief of Staff to the CEO at SeatGeek, the New York-based ticketing marketplace. She arrived from McKinsey & Company in 2023, bringing an unusual triple-degree background - a BA from Harvard, a JD from Columbia Law, and an MBA from Columbia Business School - to the corner office of a company whose product is essentially the trust that a stranger's PDF will get you into a stadium.
Hannah Schlesinger
Hannah Schlesinger is Head of the Office of the CEO at Pano AI, the San Francisco wildfire-detection company named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2025. A strategy-and-operations specialist, she built her craft across Google's product and ops teams, then moved into climate work as VP of Strategy & Operations at carbon-markets startup Pachama before landing at Pano, where she also served as VP of Strategy & Operations and interim VP of Product. She works from Bend, Oregon, and holds a B.S. in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.
Jenna Parker
Jenna Parker is a former world-ranked professional triathlete turned actress, writer and health-tech operator. A Harvard psychology graduate who once ranked No. 1 in the USA and No. 17 in the world, she won the 2013 New York City Triathlon, represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympic Trials, then reinvented herself in front of the camera and, later, inside the startup room. Today she works in New York's health-technology scene, having served as Chief of Staff at Healthie and been listed as chief executive at fertility-focused startup Dandi Fertility, bringing an endurance athlete's discipline to building companies.
Jonathan Sherry
Jonathan Sherry is the CEO and co-founder of Alium, a New York-based buyer intelligence platform that replaces pay-to-play analyst ratings with structured, AI-analyzed interviews from real enterprise practitioners. A Columbia MBA and Penn engineering grad, Sherry previously co-founded CB Insights alongside Anand Sanwal - building it from a near-shuttered startup in 2009 into the venture industry's premier market intelligence platform with 250+ employees and eight-figure revenue. Alium, which operated in stealth for four years before publicly launching in January 2025 with $7M in seed funding from Greycroft and Primary Venture Partners, has already conducted 1,000+ in-depth vendor performance interviews with decision-makers at companies including Walmart, Nike, Marriott, and Spotify.
Fatima Husain
Fatima Husain is the Chief Business Officer at Numeral, a San Francisco-based AI-powered sales tax automation platform that raised $35M in Series B funding (led by Mayfield) at a $350M valuation in September 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $57M. By that round Numeral had processed $5B+ in transaction volume, filed 150,000 returns, tripled revenue year over year, and served 2,000+ ecommerce and SaaS brands across 11,000+ jurisdictions - and has since expanded into international VAT/GST compliance across 70+ countries. A Yale-educated operator-turned-investor originally from India, she spent six years leading growth and product at Airbnb - achieving 20x+ YoY growth on the supply side - before co-founding Mosaic General Partnership (formerly Mastry Ventures) with NBA champion Andre Iguodala. She was an early angel investor in Numeral and joined as CBO to build again, bringing two decades of operational instincts and venture capital pattern recognition to one of fintech's most unsexy yet massive problems.
Brent Chudoba
Brent Chudoba is the CEO of Biteable, a remote-first video creation platform that has helped more than seven million people make studio-quality videos. He spent a decade as a senior operator (COO, CFO, CRO and GM roles) at some of the internet's best-known productivity companies including Calendly, Thrive Global, PicMonkey and SurveyMonkey, where he was employee number fourteen. Before operating, he was an investor at Spectrum Equity and an investment banker at Piper Jaffray. Today he also teaches a cohort-based course on Maven, Startup Leadership Unleashed, distilling what he learned scaling teams.
Charlie Newark-French
Charlie Newark-French is the CEO of Cascade, an AI-powered strategy execution platform used by roughly 400 enterprises including PepsiCo, Roche, St. Jude and the World Wildlife Fund. A four-time enterprise software CEO who previously ran Hyperscience and Sharpen, he started at McKinsey, holds a BA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard, and argues that strategy should run like a live operating system rather than a PowerPoint deck. He hosts the executive podcast 'This Way Forward.'
Elan Greenberg
Elan Greenberg is the CEO of Augury, the Industrial AI company that listens to factory machines and predicts their failures before they happen. A former US Marine Corps captain who went from Morgan Stanley M&A to launching DoorDash's non-restaurant business to running operations at Flock Safety, he took the top job at the roughly $1 billion-valued Augury in October 2025 after a year as its COO. His through-line is operations at scale: taking proven technology and putting it in front of every customer who needs it.
Evan Armstrong
Evan Armstrong writes about profit and power in technology. He spent four years as lead writer at Every, where his column Napkin Math turned finance terms like revenue, COGS, and net income into deeply reported, deeply funny explainers for an audience of more than 100,000. In April 2026 he walked away to launch The Leverage, a solo publication promising rigorous, actionable, beautiful analysis of tech markets for founders, investors, and senior operators. He had never been paid to write before joining Every, and went on to publish almost 500,000 words there.
Anthony Costello
Anthony Costello is the CEO of Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systèmes company, and one of clinical research technology's most seasoned architects. With nearly 30 years in the field, he started as a data manager at Genentech, co-founded two companies (Nextrials and Mytrus), and was acquired by Medidata before rising to lead it. Today he oversees over 8,000 active clinical studies globally each year, championing AI-driven trial innovation, decentralized models, and patient-centric design at the White House Clinical Trials Forum and beyond.
Bob McCollum
Bob McCollum is the long-serving CEO and driving force behind R.S. Hughes Co., Inc., an employee-owned industrial distributor headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that has grown into a $527 million enterprise spanning North America. A University of Michigan alumnus and former college quarterback, McCollum spent decades building RS Hughes into one of North America's top 50 industrial distributors, known for its culture of integrity and genuine care for employees. He has been recognized for significant philanthropic contributions to the University of Michigan athletics program, endowing the quarterbacks coaching position with a $2 million gift in 2022.
David Ripley
David 'Dave' Ripley is Co-CEO of Kraken, one of the world's largest and longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges. He joined via Kraken's 2016 acquisition of Glidera, a bitcoin wallet service he co-founded, and rose from COO to CEO to Co-CEO as Kraken expanded aggressively — completing $1.5B acquisitions, raising $800M in 2025, and filing confidentially for a U.S. IPO. A former BCG principal and electrical engineer turned crypto operator, Ripley has shepherded Kraken from a 50-person startup to a 2,600+ employee global exchange while navigating major SEC enforcement actions and a shifting regulatory landscape.
Dennis Woodside
Dennis Woodside is the CEO and President of Freshworks, a Nasdaq-listed SaaS company serving 75,000 customers worldwide with AI-powered business software. A Cornell rower turned Stanford lawyer turned McKinsey consultant turned tech executive, he has spent two decades building and scaling iconic companies - leading Google's EMEA sales engine, running Motorola Mobility after its $12.5B acquisition by Google, scaling Dropbox from $250M to a $1B+ IPO, and betting on plant-based food at Impossible Foods before landing at Freshworks in 2022. Off the screen, he is a 15-time Ironman Triathlon finisher who qualified for the World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.
Jessa Reus
Jessa Reus traded twenty years of digital marketing leadership for three boutique stretch studios in San Francisco. She founded Redhead Ventures in 2023 and now runs StretchLab Castro, Union Street, and a third city location, building a portfolio of premium consumer wellness brands from the ground up.
Martina Tam
Martina Tam is the CEO of Paper, the Montreal-based edtech company that runs one of North America's largest virtual tutoring services for K-12 districts. A Stanford and Wharton alum, she stepped in at the start of 2025 after operator stints at Brightwheel, MasterClass, and Eventbrite, and is now steering Paper's pivot toward its high-impact tutoring program, GROW.
Kerem Ozkay
Kerem Ozkay is the CEO of Carbon Health, the modern primary and urgent care chain. An aerospace engineer turned marketer turned operator, he ran growth and operations at Carbon for years before founder Eren Bali handed him the top job in August 2024. He now steers the company through a Chapter 11 restructuring designed to refocus on its hybrid care model and homegrown EHR.
Nina Herold
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.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is the CEO of Xero, the New Zealand-headquartered cloud accounting platform serving small businesses globally. A 25-year Silicon Valley operator, she co-founded Yodlee, ran Asia Pacific and Latin America for Google, served as President of StubHub, founded Joyus and theBoardlist, and authored the WSJ bestseller Choose Possibility.
Babak Nivi
Babak Nivi is the co-founder of AngelList, the platform that rewired how startups raise money and find talent. Alongside Naval Ravikant, he turned a casual email list of angel investors into a $3.5B+ funding infrastructure that backed over 7,000 startups and produced 200+ unicorns. Before AngelList, Nivi co-created Venture Hacks, the blog that demystified term sheets and negotiation for a generation of founders. An MIT-trained engineer who once co-invented the first printed inorganic transistor, he brings both scientific rigor and street-level startup pragmatism to everything he builds.