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Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology company founded in 1975 that builds software, cloud services, devices and gaming platforms used by billions of people and organizations. Best known for Windows and the Office/Microsoft 365 productivity suite, it now anchors its future on the Azure cloud and Copilot AI, positioning itself as core infrastructure for enterprise computing and the generative-AI era.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
Tyba
Tyba is a San Francisco-based climate software company that helps energy companies develop, model, and operate battery energy storage projects more profitably. Its AI-driven platform pairs a Project Simulation product - which backtests and forecasts revenue for storage assets in development - with an Asset Operations product that automates real-time bidding and dispatch in wholesale power markets like ERCOT and CAISO. Founded in 2022 by former energy developers and infrastructure engineers, Tyba positions itself as the 'autopilot for batteries,' emphasizing transparent, non-black-box optimization. The company raised a $13.9M Series A led by Energize Capital in February 2025.
Stephanie Feraday
Stephanie Feraday is President and CEO of aPriori Technologies, a Concord, Massachusetts digital manufacturing simulation software company, where she has spent nearly 17 years steering the business from the 2009 financial crisis through a Series D funding round, turning cost and sustainability estimation for manufacturers into a cloud SaaS platform used across aerospace, automotive, and industrial sectors.
Jing Zhu
Jing Zhu is the Founder and CEO of Duet (Dashboard Story, Inc.), a B2B SaaS platform built for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers across the United States. A Cornell PhD-turned-Berkeley MBA, she spent a decade in corporate healthcare before founding Duet — first as a neighborhood carpooling app, then pivoting to a full-stack dispatching and billing platform that helps wheelchair, stretcher, and ambulatory transport operators run leaner and get paid faster. Based in San Francisco, Zhu leads a 12-person team and has raised $120K in seed funding.
Amit Dayal
Amit Dayal is Vice President and General Manager of Adobe's Digital Advertising, Learning, and Publishing Business - a portfolio that puts him at the intersection of AdTech, streaming media, and enterprise e-learning. With 30+ years of product leadership spanning Sequent Computer Systems, Oracle, Motorola, Yahoo, Samsung Electronics, and multiple Silicon Valley startups he co-founded or built PM functions from scratch, Dayal brings a rare depth of engineering-to-executive experience to one of tech's most creative companies. Based in Bengaluru, India, he leads strategy, product management, technology, marketing, and sales for Adobe Primetime and related platforms serving major media and entertainment companies globally.
Don Beckinsale
Don Beckinsale is Vice President of International Marketing at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies. Based in the Mysore division of Karnataka, India, he leads international marketing strategy across Microsoft's vast product ecosystem - spanning cloud services, enterprise software, AI, and consumer products. Operating at the intersection of global technology leadership and regional market execution, Beckinsale is part of the team driving Microsoft's presence in high-growth international markets.
James Howell
James Howell is VP of Windows Marketing at Microsoft, leading the company's push to define the AI PC era. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he has been at the forefront of marketing Copilot+ PCs and positioning Windows 11 as the platform for on-device AI. He has been a key Microsoft spokesperson on the AI PC transition, championing Copilot+ as a new hardware category and appearing in press and video series including 'Innovators Powered by Best Buy' to evangelize what AI can do for everyday PC users.
Jon Alexander
Jon Alexander is a technology professional at Google, one of the world's most influential technology companies. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he works within Google's vast ecosystem spanning cloud infrastructure, AI, software development, and internet services. His LinkedIn handle 'jonpalexander' and presence on Twitter reflect an individual embedded in the cutting edge of modern technology, operating from one of the Pacific Northwest's growing tech communities near Seattle.
Liza Magee
Liza Magee is the Chief of Staff for the Consumer Chief Marketing Officer & Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where she sits at the intersection of billion-dollar marketing strategy and cross-functional execution. With a career built at the nexus of tech and consumer behavior, she has led marketing across Microsoft's education division, Bing, MSN, and now the company's global consumer marketing apparatus. Before Microsoft, she honed product instincts at Amazon as a Senior Product Manager in Merchandising. Based in Seattle, Magee is a strategic operator whose career tracks the evolution of digital marketing from keyword portfolios to AI-powered consumer experiences.
Michael Keister
Michael Keister is a technology sales executive and AVP of Media & Entertainment at Adobe, based in Portland, Oregon. With over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and B2B SaaS sales, he has built and led high-performing revenue teams at companies including Zapproved (as CRO), Provana, Airship, Lytics, and Jive Software. Keister brings a track record of designing and executing revenue strategies in media, entertainment, retail, financial services, and technology sectors, and holds a BS in Finance from Oregon State University.
Michael Schechter
Michael Schechter is Corporate Vice President of Search Growth and Experiences at Microsoft, where he has spent over two decades shaping how people discover information on the web. A computer science graduate of the University of Maryland, he has been at the center of Bing's evolution - from leading the captions feature in its early days to orchestrating the AI-powered transformation of Bing with Copilot Search. Known for his candid voice on search industry trends and his willingness to engage publicly on topics like citation transparency and AI reliability, Schechter represents the rare executive who can speak both engineer and user fluently.
Nic Reese
Nic Reese is AVP of Digital Media Enterprise at Adobe, based in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 15 years of experience driving enterprise sales and adoption of Adobe's creative and marketing technology platforms. He has championed Adobe's generative AI initiative - Adobe Firefly - and works at the intersection of creative software, marketing cloud, and enterprise digital transformation at one of the world's leading software companies.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Quinton Pham
Quinton Pham is a founder at Jasper, the enterprise AI content platform that has raised over $130 million and serves marketing teams at major brands worldwide. Based in Coffeyville, Kansas, Pham is part of the founding team of a company generating roughly $88M in annual revenue with 300 employees. Jasper's platform gives marketing teams AI-powered tools for content creation, brand voice management, multi-channel campaigns, and workflow automation - serving clients including Boeing, L'Oreal, Wayfair, Adidas, and Cox Automotive.
Graham Gaylor
Graham Gaylor is the co-founder and CEO of VRChat Inc., the social virtual reality platform he built from a single Reddit-recruited room in 2014 into a $500M company with millions of custom avatars and hundreds of thousands of user-created worlds. A Vanderbilt-trained mathematician and software engineer who backed the original Oculus Kickstarter, Gaylor has spent over a decade building the infrastructure for human connection in virtual space - a platform where avatars meet, worlds multiply, and the line between game and community blurs entirely.
Kevin Zerber
Kevin Zerber is the Founder and CEO of Treering, the edtech company that turned the school yearbook into a personalized, sustainable, and digitally-native experience. Since co-founding Treering in 2009, Zerber has guided the company from a scrappy startup to a platform serving 15,000+ schools across the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - printing over 11 million yearbooks along the way. With $7.6M in funding backed by notable investors including Rich Barton (Expedia, Zillow) and Mike McCue (Flipboard), and recognition on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, Zerber has carved out a distinctive niche at the intersection of nostalgia, technology, and inclusivity.
Larry Gadea
Larry Gadea is the founder and CEO of Envoy, the San Francisco-based workplace platform that turned the humble office sign-in book into a $1.4 billion unicorn. A Romanian refugee who was recruited by Google at 17, created Twitter's 'Murder' infrastructure tool as one of its first 50 employees, and spotted a market gap nobody else noticed: enterprise software had completely ignored the physical office. From smuggled out of communist Romania to building the software that runs 14,000+ workplaces in 70 countries, Gadea's story is one of relentless pattern recognition, resilience, and the stubborn conviction that the office deserves the same engineering love as everything else in tech.
Michael Saracini
Michael Saracini is the CEO of Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company he has led since 2011. With over two decades building profitable high-growth software businesses across CRM, HCM, and supply chain, Saracini has positioned Aravo as the category-defining platform for third-party risk management - managing 10.5 million suppliers and vendors across 177 countries for global enterprises in financial services, pharma, high-tech, and consumer goods. Under his leadership, Aravo has earned five consecutive Chartis Category Leader designations, won the 2025 TPRM Innovator Award, and built an AI-driven TPRM platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies navigating an era of regulatory complexity.
Saar Safra
Saar Safra is the CEO and Co-founder of Beewise, the company behind the BeeHome - the world's first AI-powered autonomous robotic beehive. A serial entrepreneur with three prior exits, Safra pivoted from digital advertising tech to saving the global food supply when he returned to Israel and met a beekeeper who asked a deceptively simple question: could a computer do this better? Since founding Beewise in 2018, the company has deployed 1,240+ robotic beehives pollinating over 300,000 acres annually, raised nearly $170M in total funding including a $50M Series D in June 2025, and earned Safra a spot on Forbes' 2025 Sustainability Leaders list.
Sentry
Sentry is an application monitoring platform built for developers - giving engineering teams real-time visibility into errors, performance bottlenecks, and crashes across web, mobile, and backend stacks. Started as an open-source side project in 2008, it now serves more than four million developers and 100,000+ organizations including Disney, Microsoft, Atlassian, and GitHub.
Yonas Fisseha
Yonas Fisseha is the Co-Founder and CTO of Juniper Square, the San Francisco-based private markets platform that manages over $1 trillion in LP capital across 40,000+ funds. A Michigan State-trained computer engineer whose career spans Motorola, Shopping.com, and Huddler.com, Yonas joined Juniper Square in 2014 at the invitation of co-founder Adam Ginsburg, who called him one of the best engineers he had ever worked with. Under his technical leadership, Juniper Square has grown to 950 employees, raised $576M in funding at a $1.1B valuation, and launched JunieAI, the first enterprise-grade AI platform purpose-built for private markets GPs.
Florian Leibert
Florian Leibert is a German-born software engineer turned venture capitalist who co-founded 468 Capital, a Berlin-based VC firm managing $1.3 billion across 100+ technology companies. Before VC, he co-founded Mesosphere (later D2iQ), which raised $252M and built the infrastructure layer for companies like Apple, Netflix, and SAP - and before that, he was the engineer at Twitter who helped slay the Fail Whale by architecting the distributed systems that kept the platform from collapsing under its own weight.
Andrew Anagnost
Andrew Anagnost is the President and CEO of Autodesk, the $41+ billion design and engineering software giant behind AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, and Fusion 360. A PhD aeronautical engineer who once simulated Mars rovers at NASA Ames, he joined Autodesk as a product manager in 1997 and spent two decades reshaping it from the inside - architecting the company's landmark pivot from perpetual licenses to cloud subscriptions before taking the top job in 2017. Under his tenure, revenue has grown from ~$2B to over $6B and the company entered the Fortune 500. Off the clock, he is CSUN's largest-ever alumni donor, having committed $22.1 million to the public university that he credits with saving him from falling through the cracks.
Ashraf Habibullah
Ashraf Habibullah is the founder, President, and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI), the Berkeley-based company behind ETABS and SAP2000 - structural engineering software used in 160+ countries to design buildings like Taipei 101 and One World Trade Center. A Pakistani-American engineer who once dreamed of being a rockstar, Habibullah has spent 50 years turning the structural engineering profession from slide rules to software, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024. Equally passionate about ballet, photography, and the arts, he co-founded the Diablo Ballet and the Engineers' Alliance for the Arts, championing the idea that engineers need as much human skill as technical skill.
Christa Quarles
Christa Quarles is the CEO of Parallels, a KKR-backed desktop virtualization and remote-work software company spun out of Corel Corporation in 2026. A former Wall Street analyst who helped take Google public, she pivoted to operating roles at Playdom, Disney Interactive, Nextdoor, and OpenTable before becoming CEO of Corel Corporation in 2020. Known for her 'leadership by haiku' philosophy and a track record of driving subscription transformation, she grew Parallels Workspace to 49% net new ARR in 2025 and scaled Parallels Desktop to over one million customers. She also serves as Lead Independent Director at Affirm Holdings.
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.