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Michael Freeman Is Marketing to the People Behind the Front Desk
After two decades of selling software, Michael Freeman has arrived at a deceptively human brief: give veterinary teams time back, respect the customer’s habits, and never confuse a clever answer with a useful one.
Colton Pace
Colton Pace is the co-founder and CEO of Ownwell, an Austin-based proptech company that helps property owners lower the cost of real estate ownership by appealing over-assessed property taxes. A former asset manager who oversaw billions for wealthy families, Pace built Ownwell in 2020 to give everyday homeowners the same optimization tools that sophisticated investors use. The company has processed more than 1 million appeals, saved customers over $400 million, and raised a $50 million Series B in early 2026.
Saurabh Jain
Saurabh Jain is the founder and CEO of Spire.AI, a domain-intelligent AI copilot for talent that uses a Large Graph Model for skills to help enterprises match, mobilize, and reskill their workforce. A three-decade veteran of enterprise software with earlier stops at Oracle, SAP, Yahoo, and Apigee, he now writes and speaks about skills-based organizations, ethical AI, and treating the CHRO and CFO as equal partners.
Lorenz Esguerra
Lorenz Esguerra is the chief executive of Folklore, a Minneapolis-area design and technology agency he has grown roughly 40% in under a year. A Filipino American agency veteran with a 30-year career spanning Procter & Gamble, Bain & Co., Weber Shandwick and Edelman, he is known for turning offices into growth engines and for championing diversity in the advertising profession as treasurer of the nonprofit The BrandLab.
Peter Yorke
Peter Yorke is the CEO and co-founder of Voyomotive, a San Francisco connected-car company whose VOYO device turns an ordinary car's OBD-II port into a smartphone-controlled second brain. A native Californian who has worn the hats of scientist, venture capitalist, and serial entrepreneur, Yorke built a platform that locks doors by proximity, reads manufacturer fault codes, logs trips, and crowdsources road-hazard alerts. VOYO swept the 2015 SEMA show awards and exhibited as one of the most advanced after-market connected-car systems at CES 2016.
Sonia G.
Sonia G. is the VP of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Dubai, UAE, where she leads marketing strategy for one of the world's most dominant cloud platforms across the MENA region. With an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and prior experience at Accenture, she operates at the intersection of enterprise cloud solutions, demand generation, and go-to-market strategy for a company that serves millions of customers globally.
Joseph Kim
Joseph Kim is the CEO and co-founder of LILA Games, a venture-backed mobile game studio headquartered in Bengaluru, India, building Project Black - an ambitious free-to-play extraction shooter for mobile. With a career spanning two decades across Gaia Interactive, FunPlus (King of Avalon), Demiurge Studios, SEGA Networks, and NBCUniversal, Kim brings rare publishing-to-studio expertise to one of gaming's most competitive genres. Backed by $12.8M from BITKRAFT Ventures and top gaming angels, he's on a mission to prove India can be the next great hub for world-class game development.