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Albert Ko
Albert Ko is the CEO of Auctane, the Austin-based shipping software powerhouse behind ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipEngine, and Metapack. A Korean immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles speaking Korean and Farsi but no English, Ko climbed from McKinsey consultant to Yale/Harvard-educated operator who grew Zelle into the largest peer-to-peer payments network by dollar volume — then took the helm at Auctane in June 2023 to bring operational discipline to one of the most consequential companies in global e-commerce logistics.
Frank Calderoni
Frank Calderoni is a tech-industry lifer who spent a decade as Cisco's CFO, then jumped into the CEO seat at Anaplan in 2017, taking the connected-planning company through its 2018 IPO and a $10.7B sale to Thoma Bravo in 2022. He briefly ran Velocity Global, sits on Adobe's board as Lead Director, and wrote 'Upstanding,' a book arguing that company character is a competitive moat.
Jitesh Ghai
Jitesh S. Ghai is the President and CEO of Hyland, the Thoma Bravo-owned content services and intelligent automation company based in Westlake, Ohio. A University of Waterloo electrical engineer who began his career building hardware, Ghai spent 14 years at Informatica reshaping it into a cloud and AI leader before stepping into Hyland's top job in May 2024 to push the firm deeper into agentic AI and unstructured content.
Brendan O'Connor
Brendan O'Connor co-founded AppOmni in 2018 after a decade as Salesforce's Chief Security Officer and a stint as Security CTO at ServiceNow. Frustrated by the lack of proper tooling to secure enterprise SaaS environments, he built the solution he wished he'd had. AppOmni pioneered the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) category, raised over $202 million in funding, protects more than 100 million SaaS user accounts, and counts 25% of the Fortune 100 among its customers. O'Connor now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder.
Tre Sayle
Robert 'Tre' Sayle is a Partner at Thoma Bravo, one of the world's largest software-focused private equity firms, where he has spent nearly two decades building the Growth platform - a minority equity investing practice targeting breakout software companies. He orchestrated roughly 22 deals worth ~$50 billion in transaction value, led the $1B Thoma Bravo Advantage SPAC as CEO through its $11.1B merger with IronSource, and was named one of GrowthCap's Top 25 Software Investors of 2021. A Harvard economics graduate who started his career in tech investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist and JPMorgan, Sayle is known for his patience, his preference for informal first meetings over stiff boardrooms, and a global outlook that includes aggressive investment in Israeli cybersecurity.