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GoDaddy
The company that sold the world its first web address is betting that AI can run the small-business back office too.
Matt Barba
Matt Barba is the co-founder and CEO of Placester, a Boston-based SaaS platform that gives real estate agents and brokers websites, IDX/MLS integration, CRM, and marketing automation. He started coding as a kid, worked as a Boston real estate agent while at BU, built a widely used WordPress real estate plugin called Builder, and launched Placester in 2011 with CTO Frederick Townes. The company raised roughly $115M across rounds from NEA, Romulus Capital, and Techstars. Barba appeared on the Swanepoel POWER 200 list of top real estate industry leaders in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Ben Ho
Ben Ho is the Singapore-based founder of Hex (hex.sg), a web design and development studio, and the creator of Sendy - a widely-used self-hosted email newsletter application powered by Amazon SES. A self-taught designer and programmer, Ben co-founded Hex with Melly Fong in 2007, building websites and web applications for major brands like Sony, Nokia, Levi's, Changi Airport, and Tiger Beer. His best-known product, Sendy, launched in August 2012 and transformed the email marketing economics for thousands of businesses by offering a one-time $69 fee to send newsletters at a fraction of the cost of platforms like Campaign Monitor - roughly $1 versus $150 per 10,000 emails via Amazon SES.
Sameer Kazi
Sameer Kazi is the CEO of Pantheon, the leading WebOps platform powering websites for The Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, and Doctors Without Borders. A two-decade SaaS veteran who scaled ExactTarget through its $2.7B Salesforce acquisition, ran Cheetah Digital across 18 countries, and served as ActiveCampaign's first-ever president, Kazi brings a rare combination of operational rigor and growth instinct to Pantheon's 10,000-customer platform.
Pantheon
Pantheon is a San Francisco WebOps platform that runs Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites for over 12,000 organizations - from MIT to Patagonia to the United Nations Foundation - giving marketing and engineering teams a shared environment to ship the open web faster.
Sachin Puri
Sachin Puri is the Chief Executive Officer of Bluehost Group (Newfold Digital), the umbrella that houses Bluehost, HostGator, Yoast, and YITH. An IIT Kanpur engineer with a Michigan Ross MBA, he spent two decades marketing and operating high-growth SaaS, security, and commerce brands - WP Engine, McAfee, StubHub, eBay, HP, Liquid Web - before taking the corner office in May 2025 with a mandate to rebuild the open web for the AI era.
Susan Hobbs
Susan Hobbs is the Global Operations Chief of Staff to the CEO at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and a portfolio of open-source web infrastructure. A veteran Silicon Valley operator who started as a public school teacher, she has spent two decades at the intersection of technology, media, and startups - as first hire at acquired companies (Codian, CoTweet), programming architect behind TechCrunch Disrupt, a partner at CrunchFund, and an operations leader at Cloudflare before landing at Automattic. An active angel investor, board member, and arts patron, she brings rare cross-functional range to high-stakes organizational roles.
Nicola Ballotta
Nicola Ballotta is an Italian engineering leader with 25+ years of internet industry experience, currently serving as Director of Cloud at Namecheap where he built EasyWP — one of the world's most affordable managed WordPress hosting platforms — from prototype to production. He is best known as the creator of The Hybrid Hacker, a newsletter that grew from zero to 30,000 subscribers in 18 months before being acquired by Refactoring in June 2024. The combined publication now reaches 120,000+ readers and serves a 900+ member private community of engineering leaders.