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Pendo
The companies winning the AI era ship software people genuinely love to use. Pendo surfaces where users and agents struggle and then helps you act on it, turning experience gaps into business results.
Peter Millar
Peter Millar is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based luxury lifestyle apparel brand founded in 2001 around a single cashmere sweater. It has grown into a full men's and women's collection spanning tailored clothing, sportswear, resort wear and technical golf apparel, sold through its own retail stores, e-commerce site, and premium wholesale channels such as golf pro shops and department stores. Owned by Swiss luxury group Richemont since 2012, Peter Millar pairs classic American style with performance fabrication and also operates the golf-lifestyle brand G/FORE, which it acquired in 2018.
Chris Mahl
Chris Mahl is President and CEO of Pryon, a Raleigh-based enterprise AI company building a retrieval-augmented generation platform that turns unstructured enterprise data into accurate, source-attributed answers. With more than two decades in enterprise software, he was part of the early leadership teams at Salesforce and Informatica, later ran revenue and operations as CRO at Botkeeper and Opentron Labworks, and held an executive role at Right Media Exchange before it was acquired by Yahoo. He focuses on scaling go-to-market and operations for technology companies and positions Pryon at what he calls the 'knowledge layer' of the AI stack.
DynPro Inc.
DynPro Inc. is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based global IT consulting and services firm founded in 1996. It helps Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations orchestrate fragmented data, processes and customer experiences across enterprise platforms, with practice areas in Process Transformation, Data & Integration, and Automation & Advanced Analytics. DynPro implements and integrates SAP, Salesforce, Workato, Snowflake and related cloud ecosystems, and complements delivery with IT staffing and talent solutions from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Morocco.
Alex Westner
Alex Westner is the co-founder and CEO of Xander, a Raleigh-based startup building AR smart glasses that print live captions of in-person conversations directly into the wearer's field of view. An MIT Media Lab-trained audio engineer who spent nearly two decades shipping sound software (including the Emmy-winning iZotope RX, nicknamed the Photoshop for Sound), Westner now turns his obsession with the cocktail party problem into a self-contained, no-cloud, no-phone device that helps people follow conversations they can no longer fully hear.