Maribel Garcia is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at Sanity, the San Francisco company behind a content operating system used by developers and enterprises. She keeps the CEO's orbit running at a fast-scaling, Series C software company, drawing on a winding path that ran through public health at UC Berkeley, a food-in-schools mission at Revolution Foods, and the front lines of hospitality at AMC Theatres before landing in the tech world.
Susan Hobbs is the Global Operations Chief of Staff to the CEO at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and a portfolio of open-source web infrastructure. A veteran Silicon Valley operator who started as a public school teacher, she has spent two decades at the intersection of technology, media, and startups - as first hire at acquired companies (Codian, CoTweet), programming architect behind TechCrunch Disrupt, a partner at CrunchFund, and an operations leader at Cloudflare before landing at Automattic. An active angel investor, board member, and arts patron, she brings rare cross-functional range to high-stakes organizational roles.