Alistair McLeay is the Wellington-raised, Cambridge-trained machine learning engineer who co-founded Grw AI, a San Francisco startup building Taylor, an AI sales teammate that coaches and lifts entire sales teams. He shipped product to a million Xero customers, wrote a master's thesis training LLM agents through self-play, built two software companies, and raised Silicon Valley money after a now-legendary poker game. He serves as Co-Founder and Co-CEO.
Jason Ambrose is the Chief Executive Officer of People.ai (rebranding as Backstory.ai), a San Francisco-based AI revenue intelligence platform backed by ICONIQ Growth. Appointed CEO in October 2025 after serving as SVP of Marketing and Strategy, Ambrose brings over two decades of enterprise software leadership spanning McKinsey's Digital Labs, Motive Partners, Anaplan, Unqork, and Appirio. A Stanford Psychology graduate who started as a network engineer, he now leads a platform used by enterprise customers including AMD, Verizon, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Okta - turning raw sales activity data into actionable answers for both human sellers and AI agents.