Neschae Fernando is the CEO of Zone24x7, a 22-year-old technology engineering company headquartered in San Jose, California, with a major hub in Sri Lanka. With a dual background in electrical engineering (MS and BS from UCLA) and enterprise IT delivery at Cisco, Fernando leads a 270-person team that sits at a rare intersection: companies capable of integrating hardware and software end-to-end. Under his leadership since June 2022, Zone24x7 has won seven industry awards in 2025 alone, including Gold at NBQSA and the IoT Technology of the Year Award, while expanding its AI, RFID, and cognitive vision platforms across 50+ enterprise clients globally.
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-Canadian-American venture capitalist, founder of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. A former VP of User Growth at Facebook who helped scale the platform from 50M to 700M+ users, he left to build one of Silicon Valley's most distinctive investment firms. Known for contrarian takes, a welfare-to-billionaire origin story, and pioneering the 'growth hacking' playbook, he now manages $2.147B in AUM while running a top-ranked Substack newsletter and co-hosting one of tech's most listened-to podcasts.