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Jason Dorfman
Jason Dorfman is the co-founder and CEO of Orum, a live conversation platform that uses a parallel dialer and speech recognition to help sales reps skip busy signals, voicemails, and dead numbers so they reach live prospects faster. He built the idea out of a problem he lived through as the first sales hire at Rubrik, where reps dialed 100 times a day to get a handful of pickups. Since founding Orum in 2019 with Karthik Viswanathan, he has raised more than $50 million and grown the company into a widely used tool across outbound sales teams. He is based in Austin, Texas.
Trey Gibson
Trey Gibson is the co-founder and CEO of SPOTIO, a Dallas-area field sales software company he started in 2014 after a visibility crisis on his own outside sales team, where reps worked territories blind and managers had no idea what was happening in the field. A Texas Tech MBA who spent his early career running foam insulation and construction businesses in the DFW area, Gibson built SPOTIO into a mobile-first platform used by thousands of field reps for GPS activity tracking, territory mapping, and sales engagement. He raised a $4.5M Series A from Ballast Point Ventures in 2020 and now hosts the 'From the Field' podcast, interviewing sales leaders about how modern teams sell, scale, and win.
Matthew Bellows
Matthew Bellows is a serial founder turned investor who is now Acting CEO of Averi, an AI-plus-human marketing platform in New York. He built and sold three companies - the mobile-games media bet WGR Media (to CNET), the sales-software pioneer Yesware (to Vendasta), and the digital financial-planning startup BodesWell (to American Express) - and now invests as a General Partner at Grit Capital. A longtime meditation teacher who studied Buddhist and Western psychology at Naropa, he is known for pairing hard-nosed sales discipline with a calm, mindfulness-first leadership style.
Jason Ambrose
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.
Mark Godley
Mark Godley is the CEO of LeadGenius, a Berkeley-based B2B data intelligence platform that combines AI with human computation to deliver precision contact data for enterprise go-to-market teams. A self-described C-suite startup junkie with 30 years of SaaS expertise, Godley joined LeadGenius in 2017 — first as President, then stepping into the CEO role — and has driven the company's pivot from a service-heavy model to a scalable SaaS platform serving 400+ enterprise customers across 42 countries including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and Autodesk. Under his leadership, LeadGenius has distinguished itself as the first crowdsourcing company to set a minimum wage tied to the cost of living in each country of operation, building a global decentralized workforce of data researchers while remaining GDPR and CCPA compliant.
Rob Tarkoff
Rob Tarkoff is the CEO of Seismic, the AI-powered sales enablement platform serving enterprise revenue teams worldwide. A Harvard Law graduate who pivoted from investment banking to building some of tech's most consequential enterprise platforms, Tarkoff spent seven years as CEO of Lithium Technologies, growing it 5x before selling to Vista Equity Partners, then seven more years running Oracle's Customer Experience suite. He joined Seismic in October 2025 as a former Seismic customer himself, and promptly orchestrated a landmark merger with rival Highspot in February 2026, positioning the combined company toward a $1 billion revenue run rate.
Jonathan Spier
Jonathan Spier is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with 20+ years of experience building AI-driven B2B technology companies. He currently leads Rev Intelligence (formerly LeadCrunch), a San Diego-based platform that uses exegraphics and machine learning to help enterprise sales teams identify and prioritize their best-fit accounts - claiming 3x higher win rates and 50% faster sales cycles. Previously, he co-founded NetBase, a natural language processing pioneer that became the category leader in social media analytics before its acquisition and rebrand as NetBaseQuid. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has shepherded companies from founding through tens of millions in revenue.