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.
Levi Malott is a Missouri-native software engineer turned startup operator and venture capitalist who tested Falcon 9 rocket systems at SpaceX, built ML infrastructure at BetterUp, scaled Pachama's engineering team from 7 to 40 people as VP of Engineering through a $700M valuation, then co-founded Weave Bio as CTO - an AI platform accelerating pharmaceutical regulatory filings that raised a $10M seed round in 2023. Today he serves as Venture Partner at Redbud VC in Columbia, Missouri, backing early-stage tech founders from the heartland.