Kris Beevers is the co-founder and CEO of NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the open-source NetBox platform that has become a default system of record for network and infrastructure teams. An engineer with a Ph.D. in computer science from RPI, he previously co-founded and led NS1, the DNS and application-delivery company acquired by IBM in 2023. NetBox Labs raised a $35M Series B in July 2025, bringing total funding to $55M, and serves tens of thousands of organizations including hyperscalers, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies as AI drives surging demand for infrastructure.

Mike Zimmerman is the founder and CEO of Z-Polymers, the Lowell, Massachusetts company behind Tullomer, a melt-spun super polymer marketed as stronger than PEEK and stainless steel yet light enough to print on a desktop 3D machine. A career materials scientist with a PhD in mechanical engineering, he spent nearly 15 years at Bell Labs and Saint-Gobain before founding a string of deep-tech ventures including Quantum Leap Packaging and the solid-state battery company Ionic Materials. He has also taught materials science at Tufts University for more than three decades.