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Mariel Reed
Mariel Reed is the co-founder and CEO of Pavilion (formerly CoProcure), a San Francisco software company building a search engine for the $2 trillion world of state and local government purchasing. A Georgetown valedictorian who taught in Xinjiang and helped Coursera expand across Asia before working inside San Francisco's Mayor's Office, she became obsessed with one unglamorous lever for changing lives at scale: procurement. Pavilion lets public servants find and reuse contracts other agencies have already competitively bid, cutting months of duplicated paperwork. She launched it during the COVID-19 pandemic and grew it from a two-person team into a venture-backed company.
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is the British founder and CEO of AutogenAI, a generative-AI platform that drafts winning bids and proposals up to eight times faster than humans. A Cambridge philosophy graduate who studied logic and feminist philosophy, he spent a decade designing large-scale public employment programs before building and selling the training company Corndel for a reported 47 million pounds. He launched AutogenAI in late 2021, shipped its first product in September 2022, and raised more than 60 million dollars across Series A and B rounds backed by Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Blossom Capital. Off the clock he is a serious open-level backgammon player and a collector of rare guitars.