Dr. Angel Vina is the Founder and CEO of Denodo Technologies, the global leader in data virtualization and data management platforms. A former academic who spent 25 years as a university professor at institutions including the Technical University of Madrid and the University of A Coruña - with postdoctoral research stints at UCLA and Stanford - Vina founded Denodo in Spain in 1999 after asking a deceptively simple question: how can we set data free? Today Denodo operates in 25 offices across 20 countries, has secured $336 million in Series B funding from TPG, and has been named a Gartner Leader in Data Integration Tools for five consecutive years. Vina's academic obsession with real-time distributed data systems became a commercial category - and a company that turned 25 in 2025.
Evan Neu is Partner and General Counsel at Venrock, the storied venture capital firm born out of the Rockefeller family's investment legacy. Based in Palo Alto, he leads the firm's legal and regulatory strategy while overseeing operations and administration. Before joining Venrock in November 2022, Neu served as Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel at TPG, one of the world's leading global alternative asset managers, and earlier built his legal foundation as an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Sonya Huang is a Partner at Sequoia Capital where she has become one of Silicon Valley's most influential voices on AI investing. A Princeton economics graduate (summa cum laude) with a minors in Computer Science and Statistics/Machine Learning, she co-leads Sequoia's AI thesis through the annual AI Ascent conference and the Training Data podcast. Her portfolio includes OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, Glean, Mercury, Gong, and Harvey. Known for her conviction that the application layer - not infrastructure - is where AI's value ultimately concentrates, she has bet over $1.5 billion of Sequoia's capital on that view.