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Jim Evans Built a Company for the Unflashy Work That Makes Everything Else Work
A West Point engineer moved from airborne operations to Wall Street, military housing and global retail programs. Then he built Sevan around a durable idea: complicated work gets easier when one team owns the handoffs.
Erin Wieland
Erin Russell Wieland is a Program & Communications Lead at Microsoft, serving in the Office of the EVP & CRO for Global Enterprise Sales in Seattle. With over a decade at the intersection of consulting and technology, she built her career from Bridge Partners Consulting - where she rose from Consultant to Manager over seven years - to Microsoft, where she has led readiness, communications, and social strategy for some of the company's largest commercial partner and sales organizations. Her work on the first-ever digital Microsoft Inspire conference earned her a Delivering Success Award, and she has also received the Microsoft Gold Club Award for extraordinary individual performance. She operates at the nerve center of Microsoft's enterprise revenue engine, translating complex organizational priorities into programs and communications that land across thousands of field sellers and partners worldwide.
Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood is a Senior Executive Business Partner at GoFundMe and the founder of Easy Living Collective, a household management company supporting working women and caregivers. A 15-year veteran of Google across roles in learning & development, program management, people operations, and Google.org, she brings operational depth and a people-first philosophy to everything she touches. Based in Los Angeles, she has been instrumental in GoFundMe's partnerships supporting women-owned businesses recovering from the 2025 LA wildfires.
Vu Pham
Vu Pham is an Operations Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. As a deal operations partner supporting the Venture teams, he bridges strategy and execution at a firm that has backed companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, GitHub, and Roblox. His career traces a methodical rise through fintech and enterprise tech - from being the second support agent at WePay to leading product programs at Chime, technical programs at Palantir, and operations at Stripe - before landing at a16z where he helps portfolio companies scale and operationalize their ambitions.