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Doug Layne
Doug Layne is the President and CEO of ClearCube Technology, a Cedar Park, Texas manufacturer of secure endpoint devices for virtual desktop infrastructure. He joined ClearCube in 2001 and rose through general management and global sales leadership before taking the top job. He now steers the company's focus on US-built zero clients, thin clients, blade PCs and secure KVM hardware serving government, military, healthcare and enterprise customers.
Karen Gondoly
Karen Gondoly is the CEO of Leostream Corporation, the Boston-area company whose vendor-neutral connection broker and gateway software quietly runs the remote desktops of Hollywood studios, oil rigs, trading floors, and government agencies. An MIT-trained aeronautical engineer who once left tech to become a head pastry chef, she answered a Craigslist ad for a technical writing gig, was offered a product manager role instead, and rose to run the company by 2016. Under her leadership Leostream won a 2022 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy and stayed cash-flow positive without new funding since 2008.
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.
Amitabh Sinha
Amitabh Sinha is the Co-Founder of Workspot, Inc., a cloud PC and virtual desktop infrastructure company based in Campbell, California. After earning a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he built a career across Oracle, Informix, and Citrix - where he ran the XenDesktop product line as VP of Product Management - before co-founding Workspot in 2012 with Puneet Chawla and Ty Wang. He served as CEO for over a decade, steering the company through five funding rounds to $86.75M in total capital raised, and pioneering innovations like the industry's first cloud PC with 99.99% SLA availability. In April 2024, he transitioned to Chief Strategy Officer.
Asaf Ganot
Asaf Ganot is the co-founder of ControlUp, the company that pioneered the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management category. He spent a decade as CEO building ControlUp from an Israeli VDI monitoring tool into a global enterprise software leader backed by $141M in funding, before transitioning to Executive Chairman and CEO of ControlUp Labs in 2023 to focus on product vision and innovation.