Diya Mathew is a Senior Manager for Customer Engagement Strategy in the Office of the President & COO at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company valued at over $100 billion. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and NIT Tiruchirappalli, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic acumen forged across Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, and now ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, she works at the intersection of executive strategy, customer engagement, and enterprise operations.
Orisa Cherenfant is SVP of Industry Relations & Strategic Growth at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering billions of messages, calls, and interactions globally. A first-generation college graduate from Cape Verde who earned dual degrees in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, she built her career through GE's leadership development programs before moving into tech. At Twilio, she leads industry partnerships and growth strategy, speaks at major conferences like MWC Barcelona and Twilio Signal, and was named a 2025 Entreprenista 100 Award winner. She is based in Los Angeles with her partner Eli and their twins, Margaux and Maverick.
Peter Cray is VP Strategy & Operations for AWS Sales, Marketing and Global Services at Amazon Web Services, where he oversees go-to-market strategy, business and sales operations, competitive strategy, and field marketing across 122 subsidiaries worldwide. With nearly three decades in enterprise technology, he spent 15 years at Microsoft in increasingly senior roles - including COO & Chief Business Officer for Microsoft China & Greater China Region - before joining AWS in 2022. He reports to Greg Pearson as part of AWS's integrated global sales organization alongside peers Dave Levy and Robert Chu.
Abby McGarey serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hinge Health, the San Francisco-based digital health company that has redefined musculoskeletal care through AI-powered physical therapy and wearable technology. A UC Berkeley MPH graduate, she moved through healthcare strategy and operations roles - from biopharma research at IQVIA to primary care innovation at Aledade - before joining Hinge Health where she rose to her current role supporting CEO Daniel Perez as the company went public in May 2025. Off the clock, she sits on the board of 100+ Women Who Care San Francisco and volunteers with Project Open Hand.
Alex Bergonia is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Babylist, the leading baby registry and family commerce platform headquartered in Emeryville, California. With a background bridging impact investing and high-growth consumer tech, she has spent her career at the intersection of strategy, operations, and mission-driven work. Before joining Babylist, she held progressive strategy and operations leadership roles at Farmer's Business Network (FBN Financial), and earlier built expertise in impact investing through fellowships and roles at Komaza, The Nature Conservancy, DBL Partners, and RSF Social Finance. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BA in International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.
Alfonso Villanueva is the EVP, Chief Transformation Officer and Interim CEO of Verizon Consumer Group - the largest consumer wireless carrier in the United States. A former McKinsey Senior Partner and PayPal EVP, he joined Verizon in November 2025 at the invitation of new CEO Dan Schulman, his former PayPal colleague, to lead a sweeping $5B+ operational transformation. With roots in strategy consulting across Asia-Pacific and two decades of experience in telecom, media, and technology, Villanueva brings a rare blend of corporate venture expertise, AI-driven data strategy, and global transformation leadership to one of America's biggest companies.
Mark Primeau is a San Francisco based healthcare executive currently associated with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and operating as CEO of P B Strategies, a consulting practice focused on healthcare strategy and operations.
Eight Inc. is a globally recognized strategic design firm founded in 1989 by Tim Kobe. Best known for designing the original Apple Store with Steve Jobs, the firm now operates across San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai and Dubai, helping brands like Nike, Virgin Atlantic, Citibank, Dolby, McLaren, Lincoln and Nissan turn ideas into human experiences across architecture, retail, products, identity and digital.
Julia Vasconcelos is Sr. Director of Strategy & Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Typeface, the enterprise generative AI platform backed by Lightspeed, GV, and Salesforce Ventures. A Brazilian attorney-turned-operator who pivoted from M&A law to fintech at Stone (where she helped drive the company's Nasdaq IPO), then earned an MS at Stanford GSB before landing at one of AI's hottest unicorns. She co-led Brazil at Silicon Valley, built a community of 200k in two months, and now sits at the intersection of AI strategy and executive operations in Palo Alto.
Katy Allen is EVP of Professional Services Strategy & Operations at Salesforce, where she has spent over a decade steadily ascending through the company's professional services organization. A Harvard-educated East Asian Studies graduate who added a Stanford MBA, she crossed from economic research to Deloitte consulting to fintech at Metromile before landing at Salesforce - where she has since helped manage a $2.5 billion revenue professional services business, overseeing P&L, strategy development, and M&A. She is a rare operator who combines analytical rigor with enterprise-scale execution.
Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez are the co-founders of Every (every.to), a subscription-based AI media and product company that bills itself as 'the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI.' Dan serves as CEO, writing the weekly 'Chain of Thought' column and hosting the 'AI & I' podcast, while Nathan spun out Lex, an AI-powered word processor, as a separate venture. Together they merged their respective newsletters - Dan's Superorganizers and Nathan's Divinations - in April 2020, and have since built Every into a 25-person company with 7-figure annual revenue, five software products, and a daily newsletter reaching 70,000+ subscribers.
Steven Sinofsky spent 23 years at Microsoft building some of the most-used software in history - Office, Windows 7, Windows 8, and secretly, the Surface tablet. A meticulous operator who refused to promise features until they were ready, he rose to become President of the Windows Division and Microsoft's most likely successor to Steve Ballmer before his abrupt departure in 2012. Today he's a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and writes Hardcore Software, a serialized Substack memoir chronicling the rise and fall of the PC revolution from the inside.
Scott Galloway is a serial entrepreneur, NYU Stern professor, five-time New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most outspoken voices in business and tech. Known for his unfiltered analysis of Big Tech, wealth inequality, and generational economics, he built and sold L2 Inc to Gartner for $155 million, co-hosts the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher, writes the Webby Award-winning No Mercy / No Malice newsletter, and reaches millions through his Prof G Pod. His books - from The Four to The Algebra of Wealth - have made him a trusted, provocative guide to navigating capitalism in the 21st century.