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Hannes Lenke
Hannes Lenke is the CEO and co-founder of Checkly, a code-first synthetic monitoring platform that helps engineering teams detect and resolve production issues faster. A serial founder in the software testing and reliability space, he earlier built TestObject, a mobile testing startup acquired by Sauce Labs in 2016, where he then ran EMEA operations. He teamed up with Tim Nolet and Timo Euteneuer to launch Checkly, popularizing the 'Monitoring as Code' approach built around Playwright and OpenTelemetry. Checkly has raised $32.25M to date, including a $20M Series B led by Balderton Capital in 2024.
Dave Rhodes
Dave Rhodes is the Chief Executive Officer of Verint, the AI-driven customer experience automation company formed through the combination of Verint and Calabrio under Thoma Bravo. A career software executive, Rhodes spent 11 years at Autodesk as VP of the Americas before joining Unity Software as Chief Revenue Officer — where he scaled revenue from $130M to $600M — and later as SVP/GM of the Digital Twins business. He then served as CEO of Sauce Labs and CEO of Calabrio before taking the Verint helm in February 2026, leading one of the largest CX data sets in the world spanning workforce engagement, agentic AI, and customer analytics.