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For More Than 20 Years, Felicia Diebley Has Turned Complex Technology Into Customer Value
Her career runs through radios, open source, and cybersecurity, but the method stays remarkably consistent: align sales, product, partners, and a clear customer promise.
Tatiane Almeida Is Teaching Open-Source Companies to Lead in the Open
After more than 15 years in technology HR, Tatiane Almeida has built a practical philosophy around an unfashionable idea: leaders earn trust by inviting questions, sharing purpose and knowing when to let someone else shine.
Fran Wilson Has a Map for Marketing’s Messiest Rooms
After helping Red Hat grow from its startup years to IBM’s $34 billion acquisition, Fran Wilson built a practical creed for enterprise marketing: share the map, choose fewer bets, and let trustworthy data settle the arguments.
Issac Roth
Issac Roth is a Silicon Valley founder, operator and investor who has spent 25-plus years turning hard infrastructure into products developers actually use. He created Red Hat OpenShift out of his startup Makara, was founding CEO of the Node.js company StrongLoop (acquired by IBM, where he became a cloud CTO), and invested as a Venture Partner at Shasta Ventures. Today he is co-founder and CEO of Orama, an open-source search and answer-engine company building a fourth-generation database that fuses full-text search, vector search and built-in LLMs to power AI agents and copilots.
Lydia Smyers
Lydia Smyers is Vice President of Customer and Partner Solutions for U.S. Telco, Media, and Gaming at Microsoft, leading a team of more than 400 professionals serving the top 200 enterprises in those sectors. Based in Massachusetts, she has spent over a decade at Microsoft in roles spanning U.S. Education, Americas Northeast, and now the converging industries of telco, media, and gaming. Before Microsoft she held senior executive roles at Oracle, Red Hat, and Ernst & Young, building a career defined by large-scale partnerships, channel strategy, and technology-driven transformation. She was named to CRN's Top 100 Women of the Channel five consecutive years and spoke at MWC Barcelona 2026 on AI and its societal implications.
Frank Calderoni
Frank Calderoni is a tech-industry lifer who spent a decade as Cisco's CFO, then jumped into the CEO seat at Anaplan in 2017, taking the connected-planning company through its 2018 IPO and a $10.7B sale to Thoma Bravo in 2022. He briefly ran Velocity Global, sits on Adobe's board as Lead Director, and wrote 'Upstanding,' a book arguing that company character is a competitive moat.
Anand Periasamy
Anand Babu 'AB' Periasamy is the Co-Founder and CEO of MinIO, the world's most widely deployed open-source object storage platform with over 2 million Docker pulls per day. A serial entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu, India, he previously co-founded Gluster Inc. — the distributed file system company acquired by Red Hat for $136 million in 2011. With MinIO, he built a Kubernetes-native, Amazon S3-compatible storage engine that became foundational infrastructure for AI, machine learning, and data-lake workloads. In January 2022, MinIO closed a $103M Series B at a $1 billion valuation, cementing its unicorn status with backing from Intel Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and Nexus Venture Partners.