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Khaled Bitar
Khaled Bitar is the co-founder and CEO of Avtal, an Austin-based fintech building a white-labeled, AI-powered digital collections platform for third-party debt collection agencies. In March 2026 the company announced $24 million in combined Seed and Series A funding led by S3 Ventures. Before Avtal, Bitar co-founded and ran LeftLane Software, a subprime auto lending platform, led Supply Operations at ServiceChannel (acquired by Fortive for $1.2B), and spent four years as a consultant at Bain & Company. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Patti Soch
Patti Soch is the Chief Executive Officer of Liquibase, an Austin-based database DevOps company that started life as Datical. She joined in 2016 as CFO after finance leadership roles at Gazzang (acquired by Cloudera), Phurnace Software (acquired by BMC), and Tango Health, and stepped into the CEO seat in 2022. She is known for an inclusive, transparent leadership style and for pushing Liquibase's open-source database change management platform into enterprise and public-sector accounts.