Brook Mayer is a senior technology executive at OpenTable, the global restaurant reservation and discovery platform owned by Booking Holdings. With over 25 years of experience spanning engineering, product, and executive leadership roles - including stints as CTO, CPO, Chief Architect, and VP of Engineering - Mayer brings a deep technical foundation to the hospitality technology space. Based in San Jose, California, Mayer has been associated with OpenTable's leadership during a period when the company manages millions of diners and tens of thousands of restaurant partners worldwide. The Facebook and Twitter accounts linked to Mayer's profile point to Foodspotting, the restaurant dish-discovery app acquired by OpenTable in 2013 for approximately $10 million, suggesting an involvement with that product's leadership and integration.
Kevin Gounden is the Chief Executive Officer of Buildkite, the CI/CD platform trusted by Airbnb, Uber, Shopify, Slack, and Canva to ship software at scale. Appointed in August 2025, he brings over two decades of experience founding and scaling SaaS ventures, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Lightcast and Randstad where he drove product strategy across 70+ countries. His mandate at Buildkite: lead the platform's next chapter at the intersection of AI and software delivery.
Sharath Dorbala is the CEO of Vendavo, the Denver-based B2B pricing and commercial-excellence software company. A two-decade veteran of enterprise SaaS, CPQ, and subscription billing - with stops at Oracle, Amdocs, Conga, and the corner office at Vindicia - he now runs the company that helps the world's manufacturers and distributors squeeze margin out of every quote.
Belsasar 'Bel' Lepe is co-founder and CEO of Cerby, the identity automation platform built to secure the applications that traditional identity tools ignore - the sprawling layer of disconnected, nonstandard, and unmanageable apps that enterprises actually run on. A first-generation Mexican-American and Stanford Computer Science graduate, Lepe started at Google at 18, then co-founded Ooyala - a video technology company that achieved two exits totaling over $440M - before turning his attention to the gaping hole in enterprise identity security. Cerby raised $54M in Series B funding in 2025, counts L'Oréal, Fox, and Allstate among its customers, and has grown ARR 10x in under two years.
Gagan Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of Blackpoint Cyber, a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company protecting small and mid-sized businesses through a channel-first MSP model. With 20+ years leading product and operations at McAfee, NortonLifeLock, and Avast, Singh joined Blackpoint in June 2025 with a clear thesis: small businesses are the most underserved, most targeted segment in cybersecurity, and the MSPs serving them are the true front line. Under his leadership, Blackpoint has launched CompassOne, a unified security posture platform, and continues expanding internationally while building on a claim that no partner or their customers has suffered a ransomware incident under Blackpoint's watch.
Tomer Cohen spent 14 years reshaping LinkedIn from a dusty resume repository into a platform used by a billion professionals daily. As Chief Product Officer, he oversaw the transformation of the feed, led the charge into AI-first product development, and coined the 'Full Stack Builder' model that is rewriting how product teams work. Born in Beer Sheba to Tunisian immigrant parents who lived in transit camps, he coded BASIC at age 10, served in IDF intelligence, backpacked through Latin America and Southeast Asia, earned an MBA from Stanford, and arrived at LinkedIn in 2012 - leaving more than a decade later as one of the most influential product minds in Silicon Valley.
Ken Norton is a veteran Silicon Valley product leader turned executive coach. After co-founding Grand Central Communications (acquired by Google as Google Voice), spending 14 years at Google and GV shaping products used by over three billion people, he pivoted to running Bring the Donuts - a coaching practice for CPOs, VPs of Product, and Founder/CEOs. His 2005 essay 'How to Hire a Product Manager' is still considered the canonical PM career bible two decades on.
Marty Cagan is the founder and partner of Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), widely credited with defining modern tech product management. A former SVP of Product at eBay and veteran of Netscape and HP Labs, he has spent two decades coaching the world's leading tech companies - Google, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb - through his books INSPIRED, EMPOWERED, and TRANSFORMED. His core conviction: great products come from empowered teams of missionaries, not mercenaries executing feature lists.