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Nicole Zheng Knows What Comes After the Big Launch
She helped turn a networking startup into a $55 million public company. Now the engineer-turned-CMO works on the quieter machinery of growth: judgment, positioning, and the leaders who must carry both.
Brittainy Lovett
Brittainy Lovett is a Meta operator who works inside the Office of the CEO, one of the highest-trust seats in a 77,000-person company. A Northwestern-trained mechanical engineer who started in consulting at Deloitte, she has built a career on privacy critical incident response - the unglamorous, high-stakes work of keeping user data safe when something goes wrong. Based in New York, she is the kind of behind-the-scenes operator who makes very large machines run quietly.
Spencer Applegate
Spencer Applegate is a technology operator and investor who built three software companies before becoming Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Gainsight, the leading customer success platform. With a foundation in nuclear engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School, he has moved fluidly between founding startups (Verusen, REscour, PainTheory), deploying capital at growth and buyout funds (M33 Growth, Pacific Lake Partners, Vector Capital), and now running strategy at a $1.25B enterprise SaaS company in San Francisco.