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Khari Austin-Rawls
Khari Austin-Rawls is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Goldcast, a Boston-based B2B video and events software company backed by roughly $40M in venture funding. He built his early career in streaming media at Disney, where he rose to Senior Manager on ESPN+ acquisition and engagement, then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2025 before moving into a startup leadership seat. A University of Pennsylvania graduate who studied East Asian Languages and International Relations, he is known for candid reflections on being the only Black person in the room and for a personal creed about not squandering time.
Melanie Okuneye-Williams
Melanie Okuneye-Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Nerdio, the Chicago-based Azure automation company that raised a $500M Series C from General Atlantic in 2025 after crossing $100M in ARR. Before Nerdio she founded Akoma Health, a teletherapy platform serving Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, grew it to profitability and exited. Earlier she spent nearly five years at Goldman Sachs in private wealth and markets coverage in London and New York, was a general partner at Baron Davis Ventures and worked with WME's corporate arm. Stanford GSB MBA, PPE from the University of York.
Will Holtz
Will Holtz runs strategy and operations at Prescient AI, the marketing mix modeling platform that tells omnichannel brands where the next dollar should go. He listed as Interim CEO on the company page and VP of Strategy & Operations across recent profiles - a range of hats at a fast-moving Series A startup. A Cornell economics-and-psychology grad with a Wharton MBA, he started in finance at Morgan Stanley and Soros Fund Management before spending a decade in the trenches of DTC operations at Recess, Grove Collaborative, SourceMedium and his own ventures. On the side he co-founded and hosts Don't V*LOOKUP, a podcast about how the best operators actually use their data.
Vip Andleigh
Vip Andleigh is Head of Strategy & Operations and Office of the CEO at Moloco, the machine-learning advertising company based in Menlo Park. He partners with CEO Ikkjin Ahn and the leadership team on business planning, leadership cadence, and cross-company strategy. Before Moloco he spent over a decade at Google, where he led multiple Strategy & Operations teams, served as Director of Ads Strategy & Operations and Chief of Staff for the App Ads and Display Ads businesses, and founded Google's Ads Incubator. Earlier he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from Wharton and a double-major BA from UC Berkeley.