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Larry Berger
Larry Berger is the co-founder and CEO of Amplify, the Brooklyn-based education company he started in 2000 as Wireless Generation. A Yale-trained English major, Rhodes Scholar, and former White House Fellow at NASA, he built mobile assessment tools that put data in teachers' hands, then steered the company through a $360M News Corp acquisition and a 2015 spinout backed by Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective. Today Amplify's curricula reach millions of students across all 50 states. Berger is also a published poet and the rare edtech CEO who wrote a public 'confession' questioning the hype around the very personalized-learning future he once championed.
Sarita James
Sarita James is the CEO of Embark, the New York admissions-software company whose application portals route millions of student dossiers to Harvard, Dartmouth, NYU, the Rhodes Scholarships and the Fulbright Program. A Harvard computer scientist and Oxford MBA who once won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair as a teenager, she has shipped software at Microsoft (two patents), advised companies at McKinsey, run a microloan program as a White House Fellow under Obama, and steered strategy for New York City's economic-development arm under Bloomberg. She also writes, sits on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and lists Salman Rushdie as her favorite author.
Ajay Amlani
Ajay Amlani is President and CEO of Aware, Inc., a Burlington, Massachusetts biometrics company. He co-founded the company that became CLEAR, founded YOU Technology (acquired by Kroger), helped launch the Defense Innovation Unit, served as a White House Fellow at the early Department of Homeland Security, and led the Americas for iProov before taking the top job at Aware in February 2025.
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner is a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sold GPS-in-cell-phones pioneer SnapTrack to Qualcomm for $1 billion, served as California Insurance Commissioner, ran for governor, taught high school for a year, wrote a New York Times bestseller, and is now back in the lab as Co-Founder and CEO of oneNav - building the world's first L5-direct GNSS receiver ASIC to make GPS jamming-proof for drones, autonomous vehicles, and defense applications.