Emily Mikailli is the CHRO and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Signifyd, the commerce protection platform based in San Jose, California. A former lawyer who traded the bar for the tech industry, she has led People and Culture at Signifyd since 2016, scaling the company's global workforce nearly 5X in headcount and over 25X in annual recurring revenue across offices in San Jose, London, Belfast and New York. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she is known for a candid, human-centric approach to building teams and serves as Vice Chair of the board at Parisi House on the Hill, a nonprofit supporting mothers and children affected by addiction.
Brent Chudoba is the CEO of Biteable, a remote-first video creation platform that has helped more than seven million people make studio-quality videos. He spent a decade as a senior operator (COO, CFO, CRO and GM roles) at some of the internet's best-known productivity companies including Calendly, Thrive Global, PicMonkey and SurveyMonkey, where he was employee number fourteen. Before operating, he was an investor at Spectrum Equity and an investment banker at Piper Jaffray. Today he also teaches a cohort-based course on Maven, Startup Leadership Unleashed, distilling what he learned scaling teams.
Tom Hale is the CEO of ŌURA, the Finnish-American health technology company behind the Oura Ring - a smart ring that tracks sleep, recovery, and biometric data. A Harvard-educated technologist with 30+ years spanning Macromedia, Adobe, Linden Lab (Second Life), HomeAway, and SurveyMonkey, Hale came to Oura after a personal health crisis led him to the ring itself. He joined in March 2022 after writing a persuasive letter to the board after initially being rejected. Under his leadership, Oura has grown from a niche wearable to an $11 billion company on a path toward $2 billion in annual revenue, with the U.S. Department of Defense among its largest enterprise customers.

Kevin Hale is the co-founder of Wufoo, the online form builder acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011 for $35 million - a 30,000%+ return on just $118,000 raised. A fine arts graduate turned product visionary, he spent seven years as a Y Combinator partner shaping how thousands of founders think about product design, customer love, and growth. Known online as @ilikevests, he's an angel investor, startup educator, and one of the rare designers who built a profitable SaaS company before most people had heard the term.

Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley's most respected growth operators - a former SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey, interim CMO at Miro, and current Head of Growth at Lovable (the AI app-builder that hit $200M ARR in under a year). Known for popularizing Product-Led Growth frameworks, she runs 'Elena's Growth Scoop' newsletter with 89,000+ subscribers and a 40% open rate, and is a Partner at Reforge. She immigrated from Russia at 14 with $100 and no English, and has built a career on the principle: 'I will figure it out.'