Lara Cohen is Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Media, Creators & AI at Cloudflare, where she leads efforts to help publishers and creators control, protect, and monetize their content in the age of AI crawlers. A veteran of Twitter (two stints spanning nearly a decade), she orchestrated some of the platform's most iconic cultural moments - including Ellen DeGeneres' record-shattering 2014 Oscars selfie - before serving as SVP at Linktree, championing fair creator compensation at scale. Now at Cloudflare, she sits at the intersection of internet infrastructure and the creator economy, building the policy and partnership frameworks that will define how human-created content interacts with AI systems.
Vinod Devan is a senior technology executive and strategic operator who has built partner ecosystems and commercial organizations at the intersection of enterprise AI, SaaS, and consulting. With a career spanning Strategy&, Deloitte, Confluent (through its 2021 IPO), Globality, Cohere, and most recently Ema Unlimited as Chief Commercial Officer, Devan brings a rare combination of engineering depth, management consulting rigor, and hands-on go-to-market execution to high-growth AI companies.
Mayank Bawa is the CEO and co-founder of WorkSpan, the leading Ecosystem Business Management platform that manages over $50 billion in joint pipeline for the world's top technology companies. Before WorkSpan, he co-founded Aster Data Systems - a Big Data pioneer acquired by Teradata for $325 million in 2011. Armed with a PhD from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay (where he ranked 4th in the national entrance exam), Bawa has spent his career building category-defining companies at the intersection of data, automation, and enterprise collaboration. WorkSpan's Series D funding in 2025 marked the company's pivot toward AI-powered partnership automation, with 15,000 companies on its network.
Samantha Walter is a Healthcare Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she helps portfolio companies grow by building strategic partnerships across the care delivery ecosystem - payors, providers, employers, and retail. A University of Wisconsin-Madison finance graduate originally from Minneapolis, she brings deep operational credibility to the VC world: before joining a16z, she built a Direct Contracting Entity at Carelon (then CareMore/Aspire under Anthem/Elevance) in 2020, drove customer success at Quartet Health, and cut her teeth as a healthcare revenue cycle consultant at Huron Consulting Group in New York City. She lives and works in NYC, bridging Silicon Valley capital with real-world healthcare infrastructure.
Sharon Williams is a business development Partner on the Enterprise team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. Based in Seattle, she leads go-to-market strategy and partnership efforts within a16z's infrastructure and enterprise portfolio. Her career spans hedge fund investing in London and Boston, building cloud partner programs at Microsoft, P&L management at fintech startup Remitly, and leading strategic alliances at customer data platform Amperity — before landing at a16z in 2023. She holds an MBA from MIT and has been recognized as a champion for women in cloud technology.
Megan Mackh is Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce, where she leads teams driving customer success across cloud solutions. A Stanford and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business alumna, she spent nearly 15 years at Google - rising through AdWords, inside sales, and ultimately heading Global Telecommunications Partnerships for Google Cloud across 60+ telco partners worldwide. Named to CRN's Women of the Channel in 2020 and 2021, she is known for building high-performing teams and taking bold leaps into leadership from an unusually early age - she managed 18 people at AT&T at 22. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sara Ittelson is a Partner at Accel, the global venture capital firm, where she invests in early-stage AI, consumer, enterprise, and SMB technology companies. Before joining Accel in 2022, she spent four years at Faire as Head of Strategic Partnerships, helping the wholesale marketplace grow from a $535M to a $12.4B valuation, and four years at Uber spanning ride-share and Uber Eats. A Stanford MBA and GSE alum originally from Chico, California, Sara brings a rare blend of operator grit and investor acuity to founders building category-defining companies.