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Mike Neal Keeps Asking the Price of Tomorrow
After three analytics companies and decades spent modeling volatile markets, the DecisionNext co-founder still insists the useful forecast is the one that changes a decision.
Amr Aloufi
Amr Aloufi is a Co-Founder at Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing), a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that uses AI and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize revenue for short-term rental property managers and vacation rental hosts worldwide. With roots in Saudi Arabia and a background in business administration and human resources, Aloufi brought operational and business development acumen to a company that has grown to serve 715,000+ listings across 44,000+ cities, raised $46M in funding, and priced over $15 billion in bookings.
Andrew Butt
Andrew Butt is the co-founder and CEO of Enable, the San Francisco-based B2B rebate management platform that reached unicorn status in 2023 with a $1.12 billion valuation after raising $120 million in Series D funding. A UK-born entrepreneur who left school at 15 and became the youngest qualified helicopter pilot in his region at 17, Butt built his first software business from a flying school in Coventry and has spent over two decades turning overlooked operational problems in distribution and manufacturing into category-defining software companies. Enable now serves over 10,000 brands across 50+ industries and has raised more than $275 million total, with Butt positioning it as the system of record for all B2B rebate and trading agreements between manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Prem Kiran
Prem Kiran is the Founder and CEO of Hypersonix Inc., an agentic AI platform that helps retail and commerce businesses maximize profit through autonomous pricing, forecasting, and promotion optimization. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in enterprise technology, Kiran previously served as Global VP at SAP, founded and exited CLYP Technology, and held C-suite roles at Fishbowl before building Hypersonix into a $200M-valued company backed by B Capital, Intel Capital, and investor Gokul Rajaram. His ProfitGPT platform now makes over 100,000 autonomous daily pricing decisions across 5M+ SKUs for 100+ retail brands.