Ecommerce & consumer goods
Charisma Glassman - Portfolio Head Consumer Products, Luxury&Fashion, Capgemini
A global industry leader in delivering revenue-generation and value-creation with a background in business and technology strategy -development to execution. Certified, award-winning digital strategy leader with nearly two decades of international experience delivering world-class digital customer experiences creating product strategies for Fortune 500 companies, and working with CEOs, CIOs, and CMOs (CxOs) across lines of businesses.
Sneha Narahalli - Vice President Product Management, Sephora US
In this role, Sneha oversees all aspects of technical product development for the prestige beauty omni retailer, including digital, brick-and-mortar stores, data, and marketing technology.
Since joining Sephora in 2021, Sneha has served in various leadership roles governing product development. Utilizing her creativity, she has been instrumental in launching and improving the experience of client convenience offerings, such as Same Day Delivery, Auto Replenish and Buy Online, Pickup In-Store
Andre Bechtold - SVP Solution & Innovation Experience, SAP SE
Andre Bechtold, a distinguished figure in omnichannel retail, leads as Senior Vice President, Head of Solution & Innovation Experience at SAP SE. His tenure at SAP, beginning in 2007, includes notable roles such as Head of Value Experience, underscoring his extensive expertise in retail and e-commerce. Andre is an enthusiastic proponent of emerging technologies like AI and blockchain, emphasizing their revolutionary potential in retail. He plays a crucial role in unveiling SAP's diverse and modular solutions, spanning 25 industries including retail, e-commerce, and discrete manufacturing. Andre's background in professional sports has shaped his work ethic, fostering a team-player attitude and a belief in the power of collective wisdom. This philosophy has been integral to the successful roll-out of new products and enhancements under his guidance at SAP, solidifying his reputation as a visionary leader in the tech industry.
B2B SAAS
Anil Dharni- Founder & CEO, SenseHQ
Anil Dharni is the CEO and co-founder of Sense. Sense empowers fast growing companies to simplify and personalize recruiting through AI-driven talent engagement. Sense has raised over $90M led by SoftBank, Accel, and Google Ventures. Before founding Sense, Anil was co-founder and COO at Funzio, which was acquired by GREE in 2012 for $210M, where Anil continued his work as COO. Prior to Funzio, Anil led Product and Design at the third largest Social Networking company, hi5. Anil has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
Aditya Nair - VP, Turing
Aditya Nair is a seasoned leader & operator with deep experience across technology, finance and management consulting. Aditya is currently Head of Fulfillment and Member of the Executive team at Turing, the world’s leading tech services company in the cloud powered by AI and intelligent automation. Turing's groundbreaking Talent Cloud provides access to the world’s most deeply vetted developers, matched by AI. The company has over three million developers across 150 countries and over 900 customers, including global household names Disney, Pepsi, and Volvo.
Sarvarth Misra - CEO, ContractPodAI
Sarvarth Misra is Co-founder and CEO of ContractPodAi®, and a leading legal innovator with extensive experience in the legal technology and legal services sector. Sarvarth is responsible for ContractPodAi’s development, strategy, and growth. He has led the conceptualizing, design, and development of ContractPodAi, and continues to lead all innovation initiatives, new routes to market, and commercialization strategy. A thought leader in the legal sector, Sarvarth has written several articles and spoken at numerous conferences in the legal technology and legal services space. And as a corporate and commercial lawyer, he worked in private practice with leading law firms in Asia, focussing on M&A, capital markets, corporate restructuring transactions, and cross border joint venture agreements in the insurance, information technology, and financial sectors. Often, Sarvarth was called upon by clients to advise on complex regulatory issues, foreign investments, and taxation matters.
Sandeep Agrawal - Partner, PWC
Sandeep is a Partner at PwC UK and leads legal technology, alliances and legal GenAi for PwC globally. Sandeep has spent over 18 years in transforming enterprise legal departments. He has extensive experience of implementing leading Saas technology across US, Europe and India. In his alliance role, Sandeep works with several software companies in helping them expand their footprint into enterprise customers of PwC.
Sandeep is also an investor in several start ups and supports on advisory committees of SaaS companies. He also advises a few PE firms and venture capitalists as an AI advisor on their investment portfolio. He is an active speaker at several legal industry forums on technology and generativeAI. FT has recognised Sandeep as one of top 6 GenerativeAI leaders in the global legal industry.
media & entertainment
Kevin Riley - Chief Technology Officer and SVP of Technology & Innovation, Avid Technology
Kevin joined as CTO in 2020 and brings unique expertise to the leadership team with specific experience in SaaS and subscription business and delivery models as well as cloud architectures. Kevin is responsible for Avid’s technology vision and innovation strategy and is helping to steer the company’s top-to-bottom technology strategy to support its digital transformation. Kevin has more than 25 years of experience anticipating and capitalizing on technology inflection points. He most recently served as CTO and EVP of Advanced R&D at Ribbon Communications.
Michelle Micon - VP Strategic & Innovative Initiatives, Boston Globe
Rahul Sharma - Product Head Brand Ads, TikTok
FIN TECH
Lance Katigbak - General Manager, Clair
Lance is the General Manager at Clair, a fintech startup that provides a banking app to America's workers that lets them get paid before payday — for free. Lance was the first employee at Clair, which has now raised over $50Mn in venture funding, serves over 10,000 businesses across the country, and has won numerous awards and recognitions from Forbes, CB Insights, and Inc. Magazine. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group and is originally from the Philippines. He graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a degree in film production.
Les Matthews - EVP, Head of Services North America, Mastercard
Les Matthews is the Executive Vice President and Head of Services for North America at Mastercard, with over 14 years at the company. His role involves overseeing Data & Services and Cyber and Intelligence in North America to aid Mastercard partners in achieving better outcomes. He previously managed relationships with U.S. regional banks and played a crucial role in developing strategies for mutual growth. Les also worked in Silicon Valley for three years, handling relationships with digital partners like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and more. His career includes senior roles at Washington Mutual, Bank of America, and American Express, focusing on innovative product and marketing strategies. Les holds a BA in psychology and an MBA in marketing from Clark Atlanta University.
Michael Greenwald - Global Head Financial Innovation and Digital Assets, Amazon Web Services
Michael B. Greenwald is a senior executive at Amazon Web Services (AWS) serving as the Global Head for Financial Innovation and Digital Assets. Michael is Head of the AWS Global Executive Relations team. Michael represents Amazon on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee. He co-authored an Amazon publication titled: The convergence of artificial intelligence and digital assets: A new dawn for financial infrastructure. Previously, he was a managing director of Digital Asset Education and Chief Geopolitical Risk Officer for global asset management firm AlTi Tiedemann Global.
Scott Russian - Senior Director of Finance and Fund Manager, Stride Funding
ed TECH
Sohan Choudhury - CEO / Founder, Flint
Sohan is the co-founder and CEO of Flint, a startup in the Y Combinator accelerator. Flint enables schools to bring 1-1 AI tutors to every student in any subject, language, and curriculum. Before founding Flint, Sohan built a video chat company and studied Computer Science at Georgia Tech, where he was a Stamps Presidential Scholar.
Jackson Shuttleworth - Lead Retention PM, Duolingo
Jackson leads Duolingo’s user retention teams, focusing on building features that retain Duolingo’s largely free user base. In his 3.5 years at Duolingo, he’s done everything from writing notification copy from the perspective of the Duolingo characters, including Zari - a high school girl, to building some of Duolingo’s biggest gamification features, like quests and achievements. He has also lost dozens of Duolingo streaks, even though that is the single most important feature he works on. He graduated from HBS in 2020, before which he was a management consultant. He currently lives in Kansas City with his wife and two kids.
Alexandra Walsh - Chief Product Officer, Amplify
As chief product officer, Alexandra develops, leads, and implements a strategic vision that delivers product coherence and common platform excellence. Previously, she was senior vice president and general manager of ELA curriculum, leading the ELA business and overseeing product development on the company’s curriculum platform. Prior to Amplify, Alexandra was at The Bridgespan Group, where she provided strategic advisory services to social sector leaders on a range of issues, including education, child welfare, and government effectiveness. She started her career with Teach for America as a high school biology teacher in Louisiana. Alexandra holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.P.P. from The University of California at Berkeley.
Ryan O’Connell - Senior Director of Product, EdX
Ryan O'Connell is an accomplished leader in edtech, currently serving as the Senior Director of Product, Learning Platform at 2U/edX, a global firm catering to millions of online learners. With over 13 years of expertise in product management and a veteran of multiple successful corporate transactions, Ryan has been instrumental in shaping the strategy and execution of impactful academic technology solutions that support both on-campus and online learners on a massive scale. Ryan's influence is evident in the success stories of Anthology's Engage and Beacon student success applications, the innovative MicroBachelors programs at edX, and the continuous advancement of the Open edX open-source project. Beyond his professional achievements, Ryan derives joy from engaged fatherhood, actively participating in community initiatives, and passionately supporting his alma mater's IU Hoosiers Basketball teams.
BIO TECH
Gregg Griner - Partner, Orrick
Gregg Griner is a partner in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group. His practice encompasses all areas of general corporate and securities law, with extensive experience in corporate finance, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital fund formation.
Florian Hillen - CEO, VideaHealth
Ron Alfa - Co-founder & CEO, Noetik
Meridith Cass - Co-founder & CEO, Nix Biosensors
Michael Schrader - Co-founder & CEO, Vaxess Technologies
TOUCH TECH
Supratim Das - Corporate Development, Electric Hydrogen
Melissa Fensterstock - Company Building Advisor, Material Impact
Rebecca Z. Yeung - Corporate VP Operations Science & Advanced Technology, Fedex Corp
women in TECH
Shailaja Shankar - Senior Vice President, Engineering, Cisco Security Business Group (SBG).
A respected and transformative leader with strong executive management skills and deep technical experience, Shailaja is responsible for engineering—including strategy execution and architecture—to fundamentally simplify the security experience. Shailaja came to this role after holding numerous leadership positions within the security business including General Manager of the organization where she oversaw strategy, portfolio, and architecture. Shailaja was also Senior Vice President and GM of the Cloud and Networking Security business entity, where she focused on delivering the industry's most innovative solutions and leading Cisco through major technology shifts in cloud, network, and workload security through SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust.
Kathy Pham - VP, AI/ML, Workday
Kathy Pham is a computer scientist and product leader across industry, academia, non-profits, venture capital, and government. She is Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Workday, and is the Workday AI Ambassador.
Most recently, Kathy was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee, led as the Deputy Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, and was a founding Engineering and Product member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House where she helped build critical digital services in government across three presidential administrations. She is a Senior Advisor at Mozilla where she co-founded the Mozilla Builders Incubator and Mozilla Responsible Computing. She is on Faculty at Harvard where she created and teaches Product Management and Society and co-founded the Ethical Tech Working Group. She was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative. She also serves on various tech and non-profit boards and has a love for coaching grade school soccer. Prior, Kathy has spent over a decade building large scale systems in industry and healthcare at Google (Search, Health, People Operations), IBM, and Harris Healthcare.
Kathy completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Supelec in (Metz, France).
Srivani Amrutavakkula - Senior Manager of Product Management, Walmart Tech
Vivienne Zhang - Product Manager, Nvidia
TECH IN EMERGING MARKETS
Camille Ang - CEO, HIVEHEALTH
Camille Ang is the CEO and Co-Founder at Hive Health. Prior to Hive Health, she has worked across various roles in public-private partnership (PPP). As a Private Equity Executive at Macquarie, the world’s largest infrastructure fund manager with ~$US$573 billion assets under management, she has managed large global and local funds, and played critical roles in the acquisition and management of companies in the Philippines and across South East Asia.
Sagar Khatri - CEO, Multiplier
Sagar Khatri is the Co-founder and CEO of Multiplier, a global workforce management solution that empowers companies to achieve compliant and global employment in minutes across more than 150 countries. Before co-founding Multiplier, Sagar played a vital role on the leadership team at Hmlet, a community-centric living and lifestyle platform. He spearheaded Hmlet's successful Series B financing, raising a total of $40 million.
Frances Lanzone - Senior Manager Global Executive Relations, Amazon Web Services
When she’s not facilitating public-private-partnerships for Amazon Web Services, Frances enjoys a dynamic, altruistic lifestyle supporting social entrepreneurs and bureaucracy ninjas who are modernizing the U.S. government.
Before bringing her talents to AWS, Frances founded a boutique consulting firm called Chief Social Architects, supporting influential clients such as the State Department, XPRIZE, WeWork, Future of Fish, Global Entrepreneurship Network, Partners of the Americas, Sunshine Sachs, The Kennedy Forum, and the Pan American Health Organization.
Vijay Yalamanchili - CEO, Keka HR
Gabriel Grados - MD, Nexus Group
Alfonso Diaz - VP Operations and Tech, Interbank
Maria Jose Alfaro - Chief Digital Officer, La Tinka
Percy Rueda - Director, Nexus Group
CAREERS IN TECH: INVESTOR TRACK
Bryce Youngren - Managing Partner, Polaris Partners
Bryce is a managing partner of the Polaris Growth Fund based in Boston office. He joined the firm in 2002 and focuses on investments in profitable software and technology-enabled services businesses. Bryce currently serves on the boards of Amplifire, ARInsights, ATC, Baxter Planning, and Strata Health, and has also served on the boards of Blue Rabbit, Cardlytics (CDLX), Cityworks (Trimble), Cushcraft (Laird Group), Dealer Spike (True Wind Capital / TA Associates), Digicert (TA Associates), Liaison International (Warburg Pincus / Meritage) National Electronic Attachment (Accel-KKR), Research Now (Court Square Capital Partners), TRG (Pamlico Capital) and Xpressdocs (Reynolds and Reynolds).
Rob Go - Founding Partner, Nextview Ventures
Rob is a co-founder and Partner at NextView, a seed stage venture capital firm in New York, San Francisco, and Boston. NextView’s early investments include Attentive, Devoted Health, Triplelift, Whoop, Bobbie, and Grove Collaborative. Rob focuses on companies that use software to deliver transformative end-user experiences. This has led him to make investments in a wide range of industries including ecommerce, business productivity, labor marketplaces, and digital health. Prior to co-founding NextView, Rob was an investor at Spark Capital and held product and product marketing roles at Ebay. He began his career as a consultant at The Parthenon Group. Rob attended Duke University and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He was also a founding board member of Highrock Church in Brookline, MA.
Adam Valkin - Managing Director, General Catalyst
Adam Valkin is a managing director at venture capital firm General Catalyst. Adam co-leads the firm’s early-stage fund and has helped drive its international expansion. Prior to joining GC, Adam was a venture partner in the London office of Accel Partners. Before that, Adam was Global Head of Digital Media at the television production company Endemol, a partner at venture capital firm Arts Alliance, and was a co-founder of LOVEFiLM (acquired by Amazon). Adam has led investments or is actively involved with a number of GC companies and invests primarily in fintech, consumer, and gaming companies. Adam graduated with a BA in Economics from Harvard University.
CAREERS IN TECH: FOUNDER TRACK
Palash Soni - Goldcast
Oded Eran - Connie Health
Sam Li - Thoropass
CAREERS IN TECH: BIG TECH AND STARTUP JOINER TRACK
Shruti Haldea - SVP of Product, Sonos (Ex-Apple)
Shruti is a product leader and strategic storyteller with expertise in building high-performing teams that deliver category-defining products.
Justin Belmont - VP Product, Rokt (Ex-Uber & Spotify)
Justin is a product leader with deep experience launching and scaling digital marketplaces at Spotify and Uber, and now Rokt.
Vu Bui - Head of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations, Anthropic
Vu is currently Head of Strategic Finance and Investor Relations at Anthropic, an AI safety and research company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Previously, he was on the Corporate Development and Investor Relations team at Samsara, where he was one of the key members that helped take the IoT company public in 2021. Vu began his career in investment banking, most recently as Vice President at Morgan Stanley’s technology team. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside of work, Vu enjoys running and hiking and he currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, son, newborn daughter, and beloved labradoodle.
Maggie Yang - Senior Corporate Business Development Manager, Amazon
Maggie is currently working on strategic partnerships at Amazon, with a focus on healthcare and telecom. Previously, Maggie led the U.S. Global Development Team for VIPKid, an edtech start-up. Previous to that, she led University Partnerships for ofo, a micromobility start-up.