Janet Dryer is a seasoned software industry executive with over 30 years of experience building and scaling technology companies. She served as CEO of Perforce Software from January 2016 through mid-2018, relocating headquarters from San Francisco to Minneapolis and growing the company from roughly 220 to 450 employees while doubling revenue to $150M. Previously, as CEO of HelpSystems for 16 years, she grew it from $20M to $110M in annual revenue. She now serves as Chair of the Board at Perforce, which provides version control, DevOps, and software development lifecycle tools to over half of the Fortune 500.
Vikash Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Infovity, Inc., a San Mateo-based Oracle Cloud consulting firm he built from scratch in 2008 into a 380-person, $85M-revenue enterprise serving clients across manufacturing, pharma, financial services, and more. A former Oracle engineer turned entrepreneur, he leads one of the most Oracle-obsessed consulting shops in North America - a company where nearly 70% of employees are former Oracle insiders, and where roughly 90% of new business comes from referrals. He is also a General Partner at BAT VC, a venture fund focused on fintech, healthtech, and web3 with a dual US-India investment thesis.