Eric Free is the Chief Growth Officer at Flexera, the IT lifecycle management platform used by enterprises to govern software, cloud spend, and technology assets. With a career spanning Intel, Rovi Corporation, and now Flexera, Free has spent two decades driving growth at the intersection of enterprise software, IoT, and cloud strategy. At Flexera, he oversees corporate strategy, M&A, business development, and go-to-market operations — steering a company with $221M+ in annual revenue and $5.85B in total funding toward what it calls the 'value era' of cloud.
Scott Andrew Shane is one of the most cited entrepreneurship scholars alive, holding the A. Malachi Mixon III Professorship at Case Western Reserve University while simultaneously running Comeback Capital, a pre-seed VC fund backing Heartland startups, and advising Right Side Capital Management. He has written or edited 16 books, published over 94 scholarly articles, won the 2009 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, and manages a personal angel portfolio of 50+ companies - all while arguing, with data, that most things people believe about entrepreneurship are wrong.