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John Ahlman Wants the Solar App to Be the Thing You Show Your Neighbors
SolarEdge's North America marketing chief has a practical theory of the energy transition: make the hardware work together, make the data legible, and give a happy homeowner something worth showing at the kitchen table.
Susan Macke Built a Career by Moving From the Machine Room to the Strategy Table
Before she advised CMOs on strategy, Susan Macke built operating systems, embedded software, and smartphones. Her career is a case study in how technical fluency becomes commercial judgment - one deliberate translation at a time.
Catherine Kniker
Catherine Kniker began by decoding crashed computers. Now the Irish-born PTC executive is working on a larger systems problem: helping manufacturers connect product data, business strategy and sustainability before the first part reaches the factory floor.
Simon Biddiscombe
Simon Biddiscombe is a British-born technology executive and chartered accountant who has spent more than two decades in senior finance and leadership roles across Silicon Valley. He is Executive Vice Chairman and a board member of MicroVision, the Redmond-based laser beam scanning and lidar company, a role he took in September 2025. He is best known for leading enterprise security firm MobileIron as CEO through its 2020 sale to Ivanti, and earlier for rising from CFO to CEO at semiconductor networking company QLogic. His career began at PricewaterhouseCoopers and includes CFO stints at Mindspeed Technologies and Wyle Electronics, plus an Executive Partner role at private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Sudeep Goswami
Sudeep Goswami is the CEO of Traefik Labs, the open-source company behind the widely used Traefik Proxy and the cloud-native API gateway platform Traefik Hub. He stepped into the top job on February 1, 2024, after serving as Chief Revenue Officer, with founder Emile Vauge moving to CTO. Goswami's career spans roughly 25 years across software engineering, network design, product management, marketing, and sales, with earlier stops at Cisco, Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), Tempo Automation, and Very Good Security. He is known for translating deep infrastructure engineering into commercial growth for developer-focused companies.
Jim Keller
Jim Keller is the AWS Global CEO at Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering firm and AWS Premier Tier consulting partner. He runs the company's AWS business unit, where he has helped land marquee designations including Quantiphi being named the First Preferred Amazon Quick SI Partner by the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. A Boston-area technology leader with more than 25 years building and scaling public and private companies, Keller has moved through sales, marketing, and general-management roles across cloud, analytics, and software before focusing on enterprise generative and agentic AI.
Jim Reinhart
Jim Reinhart is the CEO of TEKVOX, a New Braunfels, Texas company reshaping the professional audiovisual industry with factory-built, pre-programmed Drop-In AV systems for classrooms, meeting rooms and complex spaces. A Rice University electrical engineer with more than 35 years in technology, he built his career across semiconductors and startups, co-founding and leading Luminary Micro, the lead partner on ARM's Cortex-M3 processor, through its 2009 acquisition by Texas Instruments. At TEKVOX he pushes a simple conviction: AV is IT, and it deserves the same discipline, standardization and lifecycle management as the rest of an organization's technology stack.
Mahesh Devalla
Mahesh Devalla is the Chief Technology Officer of Players Health, a Minneapolis-based sports insurance and risk-management company that protects youth athletes and sports organizations. He leads product and engineering strategy and applies human-centered, ethical AI to athlete safety and real-time decision support. Before Players Health, where he rose from Director of Engineering, he architected enterprise-scale AI platforms across finance, utilities and software at firms including Citi, Bank of America, American Water, Hexagon and App Orchid. He holds a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence from Dartmouth College, authored the book 'The AI Dilemma: Why Businesses Still Fail to Embrace AI,' and has been named a USA 40 Under 40 honoree and ranked among global top AI leaders.
Christina Olmsted
Christina Olmsted is Vice President of AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA, where she leads global marketing and PR teams at the epicenter of the AI revolution. With nearly a decade at NVIDIA and 15 years prior at Cisco, she built and championed campaigns that repositioned entire computing paradigms - from Cisco's Internet of Everything brand movement to NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing narrative. A UC Berkeley dual-degree alumna with a flair for connecting technology to human impact, she operates at the intersection of deep technical product marketing and culture-shaping storytelling.
Darrin Chen
Darrin Chen is the VP of Global Partners (NPN) GTM & Operations at NVIDIA, where he leads go-to-market strategy and operations for the NVIDIA Partner Network - the company's global partner ecosystem spanning solution providers, systems integrators, and channel partners. With 30+ years in technology from storage to networking to AI infrastructure, Chen joined NVIDIA through the 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, where he had spent over a decade building worldwide channel programs. In mid-2023, NVIDIA expanded his mandate as it split its global channel chief role in two, tapping Chen to oversee its entire NPN program as the company transformed into a full-stack AI computing company.
Kya Sainsbury-Carter
Kya Sainsbury-Carter spent over 20 years at Microsoft, most recently as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising, where she led a global ads business generating more than $18 billion in annual gross revenue. She oversaw the division's transformation through AI-powered and agentic advertising, expanded retail media, and enterprise partnerships before departing in May 2026 - with LinkedIn's Matt Derella named to succeed her.
Stephanie Ferguson
Stephanie Ferguson is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Global Demand Center (GDC), the unified engine that powers all of Microsoft's global digital customer engagement. With 25+ years at Microsoft and a career that spans IBM, the insurance industry, and a family fashion business, she built the GDC from the ground up — combining data, digital marketing, and AI into a single connected sales-and-marketing machine. A Wharton MBA and Dartmouth economics graduate, she is also a passionate advocate for equity in education and served as Board President of the Bellevue Schools Foundation.
Bob Donahue
Robert 'Bob' Donahue is a veteran technology and fintech executive who led Authorize.Net Holdings as President and CEO from 2004 to 2007, steering the company through its landmark $565 million acquisition by CyberSource Corporation - one of the defining deals in digital payments history. After joining CyberSource's board post-acquisition, he went on to serve as an independent director at NETSCOUT Systems and Sycamore Networks. With a career spanning senior executive roles at Manufacturers Services Ltd., Stratus Computer, and Celestica, Donahue has been a consistent presence at the intersection of technology infrastructure and financial services for over two decades.
Bob Kupbens
Bob Kupbens is the Chief Executive Officer of StubHub International, the world's largest ticket marketplace, a role he assumed in January 2024. A seasoned digital commerce executive with an MIT engineering pedigree and Michigan MBA, Kupbens has spent three decades reshaping how consumers interact with major brands - from launching the Fly Delta mobile app at Delta Air Lines to running Apple's global online retail operation to orchestrating the ADT-Google partnership. Now based in Madrid while living in Millbrae, California, he is focused on deploying AI-driven customer experience improvements and defending StubHub International's position in key markets like the UK.
Dhrupad Trivedi
Dhrupad Trivedi is the President, CEO, and Chairman of A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a San Jose-based cybersecurity and application delivery company. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance from Duke's Fuqua School of Business, he brings over 30 years of deep technical and operational expertise across networking, cybersecurity, and telecommunications. Since taking the helm in December 2019, Trivedi has repositioned A10 as an AI-era security company — landing Microsoft as a customer to protect mission-critical generative AI infrastructure — while driving double-digit revenue growth and expanding the company's portfolio to include AI firewalls, DDoS protection, and next-generation web application firewalls.
Gary Little
Gary Little is President and CEO of Foursquare, the world's leading independent location technology platform. A rare operator-investor hybrid, he spent six years running internet monetization at Yahoo, then pivoted into investment banking at Credit Suisse, Lazard, and UBS before co-founding Buckthorn Partners and rising to Managing Director at The Raine Group. At Raine he led the $150M Foursquare investment and negotiated the company's transformative acquisitions of Placed and Factual - then stepped into the CEO seat himself in January 2021. Under his leadership, Foursquare has evolved from a nostalgic social check-in app into the dominant infrastructure layer for location intelligence, covering 190 countries, indexing over 200 million points of interest, and powering the geospatial stacks of enterprises across retail, advertising, real estate, and urban planning.