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Enrique Tapia Built Cisco's AI Marketing Team From Zero
He walked into Cisco with a mandate and no team. A few years later, marketing strategy at an 87,000-person company runs on the AI group he built out of nothing.
Aakar Khanna
Aakar Khanna is the co-founder and CEO of Marble (formerly Truffle), a Y Combinator S26 startup building an AI-native operating system for the restaurant back-of-house. He grew up inside his family's multi-unit restaurant business, cut his teeth as a Goldman Sachs analyst covering restaurants and food & beverage, then spent years in operations roles at venture-backed startups AtoB and Kouper before building software to tackle the two costs that quietly sink restaurants: inventory and labor.
Rahul Pangam
Rahul Pangam is the co-founder and CEO of RapidCanvas, an Austin-based enterprise AI platform that pairs autonomous AI agents with human data scientists to help non-technical business teams build and deploy models. A serial founder, he previously co-founded Simility, a fraud detection platform PayPal acquired for roughly $120M in 2018, and spent years running Trust and Safety operations at Google.