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John Marshall
John Marshall is the President and CEO of Userful, the software company that swapped racks of proprietary AV hardware for a browser and a network cable. Named CEO in October 2018, he pivoted a video-wall vendor into a software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness, the Userful Infinity Platform, now used by hundreds of enterprises across control rooms, command centers and digital signage. A Northwestern and University of Michigan graduate with 25-plus years leading wireless, IoT and networking startups, he ran Userful to 50% year-over-year enterprise sales growth in 2024 with 80% of revenue flowing through a global channel of roughly 100 partners. Off the clock he is a former backcountry guide and adventure racer turned birder.
Neil Ray
Neil P. Ray, MD is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist who traded the operating room for a startup. As founder and CEO of Raydiant Oximetry, he is building Lumerah, a non-invasive fetal pulse oximeter that reads a baby's oxygen levels through the mother's abdomen, and Daisy, a surgical device to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. His goal: retire a 50-year-old fetal monitor he calls no better than a coin toss, and cut the number of unnecessary C-sections that follow from it.
Moataz Rashad
Moataz Rashad is the founder and CEO of DeepVu, a San Ramon, California startup building autonomous, shock-resilient supply chain planning. He pioneers a category he calls autonomous resilient planning: generative AI planning agents trained on digital twins that simulate disruptions from commodity spikes to river droughts. A Stanford-trained engineer and PhD dropout, Moataz spent two decades architecting software at Samsung, Conexant, Mindspeed and Sony Mobile before founding the computer-vision ecommerce startup Vufind, which evolved into DeepVu. He describes himself as an AI and computer-vision hacker, a Mediterranean wisdom-seeker, a space enthusiast, and a keeper of diamond doves and finches.
Joe Burton
Joe Burton is the Chief Executive Officer of Reputation, the San Ramon-based reputation experience management platform. A career technologist who started as a software engineer and was acquired into Cisco in 2001, he went on to lead Plantronics (later Poly) as CEO, then Telesign, before taking the helm at Reputation in October 2023. His operating range spans big data, machine learning, SaaS, unified communications, and IoT.
Scott Harris
Scott Harris is the CEO and co-founder of Experience.com, the San Ramon-based experience management platform that started life in 2015 as SocialSurvey and was reborn in 2021 around real-time CX. He spent two decades selling mortgages and running real estate offices before deciding the industry's review problem was worth fixing, and now writes, speaks, and builds tools for the ranks-on-Google (and increasingly, ranks-on-ChatGPT) crowd.