Alexander Blessing is a product developer at Palantir Technologies.
He joined Palantir in 2013, was closely involved in the early development of Palantir Foundry and last served as the technical lead for Germany, Austria and Switzerland before switching to product development across a variety of Palantir’s offerings. Previously, Alexander co-founded a company that was backed by YCombinator and was acquired by Palantir.
Alexander graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. in Computer Science and holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
Alexander is currently at Stripe, where he works on new products and machine learning within payments. Previously, he co-founded an AI company that is backed by Sequoia, helped build Palantir's commercial and international government businesses, and did research at NASA. Rilee is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard University.
Andy has spent the last 11 years in Boston-based tech startups at the intersection of software, machine learning, and operations research. He is currently Senior Director of Software Engineering at Indigo Agriculture leading their marketplace platform organization in digitizing grain transactions. Prior to Indigo, Andy built the Data Science Engineering team at Catalant Technologies to match talent with project-based work for their consulting marketplace. Prior to Catalant, he worked in R&D at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics) building a simulation platform for rapid iteration of system design for mobile warehouse robots. He spent his early career in manufacturing at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University.
Annie Dean is VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian. Previously, she was Director of Remote Work at Facebook where she oversaw global strategy on remote work and the development of the remote work program. She is a globally recognized expert on remote and flexible working whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Cheddar TV, and more.
Prior to joining Facebook, Annie led new ways of working advisory as a Vice President at Deloitte. In 2016, Annie cofounded Werk.co, a remote working and flexibility data and analytics startup. Werk.co raised $5M in venture capital to support the Fortune 500 in strategically adopting the future of work; it was acquired in 2020.
Annie began her career on Wall Street as a corporate attorney representing institutional lenders in billions of dollars of transactions secured by real estate. She earned her BA summa cum laude from Syracuse University and her law degree from Fordham University. Annie is the proud parent of two beautiful sons, one with Kabuki Syndrome. She is a cofounder of the Kabuki Syndrome Foundation.
Beth Clymer is the Chief Financial Officer at Jobcase, Inc., a social platform dedicated to empowering and advocating for workers. Beth joined the company in 2019 to serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and board and accelerate the company’s growth and success in its mission to empower the world’s workers.
An avid supporter of stakeholder capitalism, Beth is committed to advocating for workers rights around topics such as living wages and the child care crisis. She believes that the job of the C-suite is to build a diverse and inclusive workforce and create access to economic opportunity - at Jobcase and beyond.
Prior to joining Jobcase, Beth spent a decade at Bain Capital Private Equity, where she helped build companies that treat workers with dignity and respect, including Canada Goose, Bob's Discount Furniture, Burlington Stores, WorldPay, and HD Supply. Before Bain Capital Private Equity, Beth was a consultant at the Parthenon Group, a Boston-based business strategy and consulting firm now owned by accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP.
Beth holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University. Beth and her husband, an Army veteran, are parents of two spirited daughters and active philanthropists in the Boston area.
Brian is currently the Head of Investing and Treasury and Co-Head of Lending at Column, a developer-oriented national bank providing financial services infrastructure to clients. At Column, Brian is responsible for managing the Bank's investment and lending strategy as well as the treasury function. Brian works with companies at all stages looking to offer a lending product to their customers.
Previously, Brian worked at Sixth Street Partners, where he focused on investing in financials within the U.S. Brian served as a Board member of Roosevelt Management Company, a residential mortgage asset manager and owner Rushmore Loan Management Services, an independent residential mortgage servicer. Prior to Sixth Street, Brian worked at Wafra and Goldman Sachs, where he focused on lending to financial services businesses and underwrote billions of dollars of asset backed securities and high yield debt.
Carlos Barroso is the founder and President of CJB and Associates, a boutique food and beverage R&D innovation firm offering Chef-to-Shelf® product development. His firm works with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding CJB, Mr. Barroso worked with The Campbell Soup Company as Senior Vice President of Global Research and Development and Quality (R&D) where he was a member of the Leadership Team and reported directly to the CEO.
Before that, Carlos was Senior Vice President of R&D at PepsiCo, where he oversaw all R&D efforts for PepsiCo Foods, including Frito-Lay North America and Quaker Foods and Snacks, a $27 billion business with more than 800 R&D associates. He played a key role in driving the company’s international growth by leading successful global new product development.
Carlos previously worked in R&D at Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he held roles of increasing responsibility in the company’s paper and coffee divisions in the U.S., Italy, and France.
Carlos earned his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and has an MBA from Arizona State University. He serves on several for-profit and non-profit advisory boards.
Chris is a consumer technology strategist based in San Francisco, CA. He currently works at Google, where he leads Fitbit's strategy team. Prior to Google, Chris held various finance and strategy roles at firms including Meta, McKinsey & Company, and UBS Investment Bank.
Chris graduated from Princeton University with a BA in History and Spanish Language and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He has significant expertise in developing strategy as well as scaling finance and operations functions in consumer, media, and tech-focuses businesses.
Chris built the Data & Analytics function at DeepMind, where he partners with leadership on research and technology strategy to drive the next wave of AI breakthroughs. In 2018 he joined DeepMind as a Founder's Associate to CEO Demis Hassabis after leaving consulting firm Bain & Company, where he worked across the private equity, airline, and industrial service sectors. Chris holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
Debbie Simpson, a former PwC partner and 12-year senior partner and CFO of Boston Consulting Group, is an experienced global finance and operations leader who helped BCG grow by double digits annually over her tenure, to $8.5B. Debbie is now leveraging her financial, international, and operating experience in board roles at two software companies: Trax Retail, and Formation, and also for Plan International, a global girls development organization. She is also a senior advisor to several start-ups and a PE fund, and continues to advise the Digital Ventures and Green Ventures teams for BCG on a part-time basis.
Eduardo is currently the EMEA Head of Product Strategy and Operations at Stripe, a fintech company building the financial infrastructure for the Internet. Based out of London, he oversees the product strategy by defining the key initiatives to drive P&L impact across products and Stripe’s investments in the region.
Previously, he spent over a decade at BCG, where he was a Partner in the New York office. Across the US and Europe, he helped the c-suite of Fortune 500 technology and consumer companies with go-to-market, growth, corporate development and transformation topics.
He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an MBA from Stanford, where he was a Ramon Areces scholar.
Ezgi is an Istanbul/Turkey native who is residing in London/UK after 12 years in the US. She studied Applied Maths in college and has been navigating different streams of data throughout her career. Previously, Ezgi worked at various small to medium data startups, all of which experienced considerable growth, many pivots, and lots of learnings.
She is passionate about facilitating better use of data, especially alternative data, to make better organizational and investment decisions. Building products from ground up can be challenging but she welcomes the challenge and loves connecting with others to share experiences and learnings. Currently learning about the payments world at Stripe, Ezgi is building products in open banking and local payment methods.
Grant is the Strategy and Operations Lead at Radar, supporting the company's expansion of its fully-integrated hardware and software solution that is powered by RFID and enhanced by computer vision.
He was previously at Stripe where his work focused on seed and early stage VC partnerships, in addition to supporting individual founders as they tackled challenges around go-to-market motions, product development, pricing, and implementing financial infrastructure. Before that, he spent several years at Goldman Sachs in their structured products business working on customized investments across multiple asset classes.
Grant graduated from Princeton University and was a member of the Varsity Heavyweight Rowing team.
JJ Agha is the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and IT at FanDuel. A security and technology professional with practical hands-on engineering and leadership experience, JJ has worked for and advised multiple startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to FanDuel, JJ was the Chief Information Security Officer at Compass. Previously, he served as Head of Information Security at WeWork, and as a Security Engineer at Vimeo, Priceline.com, and Edgecast.
JJ serves as an advisor to several security companies, focusing on operations, go-to-market strategy, product roadmap, and technology. He proudly mentors and sponsors underrepresented groups in the security space.
JJ holds a bachelor's degree in Information Science from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a certified CISSP and CompTIA Security+.
James Evans is co-founder and CEO of CommandBar, a user experience software company. Prior to CommandBar, he worked on enterprise software investments at Bain Capital's technology private equity group. James received his Computer Science degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University.
James Lee is the VP of Finance & Operations at Productboard, a product management platform that helps companies get the right products to market, faster, by understanding what customers need, prioritizing what to build next, and aligning everyone around the roadmap. James joined Productboard in early 2020 after its Series B round and has built and managed the company's foundational finance and internal operations functions, including Accounting, Strategic Finance, Legal, IT, Deal Desk, and Business Analytics.
Prior to Productboard, James helped build and lead Strategic Finance and Business Operations functions at GitHub from Series B through the Microsoft acquisition. James drove and contributed to numerous key initiatives, including launching new products, creating and operationalizing financial plans, and closing the acquisition with Microsoft. Before that, he worked as an investor at Accel-KKR and an investment banker at JPMorgan and Jefferies.
James holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives in San Francisco and enjoys playing golf on weekends.
Jason Park joined DraftKings as Chief Financial Officer in June 2019. Park is responsible for Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Investor Relations. In addition, Park provides strategic guidance to Jason Robins and the rest of the senior management team to help boost the Company’s success as it pursues its multi-year growth plan. Park played an instrumental role in executing the Company’s Business Combination and subsequent listing on the Nasdaq, as well as overseeing the successive rounds of capital market fundraising.
Prior to DraftKings, Park worked at Bain Capital Private Equity where he was an Operating Partner and focused on technology investments. For more than 10 years, Park worked collaboratively with CEOs, CFOs, and management teams of portfolio companies to develop and achieve value creation plans. Before Bain Capital, Park spent eight years with McKinsey & Company.
Park holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a MAcc (Master of Accountancy) and a BBA from the University of Michigan.
Global exec taming complexity for distributed global technology firms. An entrepreneurial leader, driving talent transformation aligned to strategic disruption and company vision. Award-winning thought leader, speaker and best-selling author on HCM, corporate culture, global workforce and data analytics. Board Member & Advisor. 5X Chief Learning Officer (SumTotal Systems, SunMicrosystems, Hewlett-Packard, SuccessFactors, SAP). 1X Chief Talent Officer (SAP). 1X Chief People Officer (Klaviyo). Degrees from American River College, UC Berkeley, Stanford University and San Jose State University. On the personal side - her homes are under perpetual renovation, she has lots of kids and she can't control her impulse to wear costumes to work.
Jonathan is currently at Stripe working on Corporate Strategy. Prior to Stripe, he was a Product Manager at Applied Intuition, a simulation software provider, and Cruise Automation, leading the autonomous vehicle software product team. He has over a decade of experience with technology companies from startup to growth stages and across multiple functions. Jonathan studied mathematics and economics at Northwestern University.
Kate is the CFO and CAO at Wayfair. Kate is responsible for Wayfair’s finance, legal, talent, real estate, and corporate affairs teams. Previously, she was the Global Head of Talent, running all global human capital management including recruiting, organizational design, talent management, talent analytics, DEI, compensation and learning and development. Prior to her role in Talent at Wayfair, Kate built and managed the company's Investor Relations function. In this role, Kate led all aspects of Wayfair’s IPO, raising $300M at a $2.4B valuation.
Previously, Kate worked as an investor for nearly five years at Bain Capital, the Boston based private equity firm. She started her career in consulting at McKinsey & Company. Kate serves on the Board of Advisors of 2020 Onsite. Kate holds a BA in political science from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In July 2019, Kate was recognized as one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40. She is a member of the 2020 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. Kate lives in Boston’s South End with her husband and three young children.
Kendall Miller is the SVP and Deputy Head of SCOR P&C Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SCOR Reinsurance, where she invests globally across the insurtech ecosystem. Drawn to innovation in unlikely industries, Kendall works with founders to identify new ways of framing big questions, and build the plans to tactically solve them. Previously, she was the VP Operations for TheGuarantors, a New York-based insurtech serving the real estate industry. During her time there Kendall led strategic partnerships, fundraising activities, and people operations, as well as overseeing marketing and other GTM efforts.
Prior to the startup world, Kendall stood up the first Innovation function for New York Life Insurance to foster design thinking and drive new product incubation as part of their corporate venture team. Her career started at Monitor Deloitte Consulting where she led engagement teams in their strategy practice across a number of industries and clients. Kendall holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS Finance from Indiana University. Outside of work you can find her cycling, rock climbing, and meditating, in personal practice and as a certified mindfulness instructor.
Libby has spent her career at the intersection of technology and healthcare. She is currently SVP, Strategy & Ops at Auxilius technology, financial and operational tech built for healthcare companies. Previously, she spent time in venture capital with Bessemer and Activant focused on b2b tech, and in healthcare investment banking with JPM and Bank of America. She has her B.A. from Columbia and M.B.A. from Harvard.
Most recently, Lisa served as a Managing Director and Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Intel’s Emerging Growth & Incubations Division where she led teams responsible for creating disruptive new businesses. From January 2012 through April 2019, she worked at GE Ventures where was responsible for launching and leading the Enterprise Software Investment practice as well as the EDGE program, a platform for portfolio companies to leverage the global scale, expertise, and resources of GE. From 2008 through 2011, she served as the Global Sustainability and Ecomagination Leader for GE Real Estate where she launched a program to leverage technology and operating best practices to reduce the environmental impact of its assets and improve financial performance. From 2005 through 2007, she was a Managing Director in GE Real Estate’s Commercial Initiatives Group where she collaborated with regional P&Ls to explore, develop, structure, and launch new lines of business. From 1998-2003, Lisa was a Director of Sales & Distribution at GE Real Estate where she managed distribution and investor relations for the real estate mezzanine debt and real estate opportunity funds.
Lisa serves on the Boards of BizWorld and the Girls Middle School. She is also an Independent Board Director for Broadscale Acquisition Corporation.
Lisa graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Liz Walsh is an operator turned Investor. Currently serving as CMO-in-Residence at ERA & Remarkable Ventures and an advisor to several startups. She's worked in Media, Tech & Advertising in APAC, Europe, and the Middle East, and she led marketing for Forbes, Spotify, Qatar Airways, and a hyper-growth startup with $1.6B in ARR- The Trade Desk.
Liz helped create, launch, and scale the Forbes Under 30 platform and community from its editorial inception to a highly engaged community and global franchise. In addition, as Entrepreneur-in-residence, Liz created founder-focused programs to help underrepresented founders get better access to funding, education, and mentorship - one output being first-of-their-kind accelerators across West Africa and Haiti. Liz was named (one of) Folio's Top Women in Media, and her brand, GTM, and most recently product-led work have achieved industry award recognition.
Michelle Bove has been in software sales for over a decade working at and with some of the most recognized names within the industry. She focuses on Business Value Selling which is understanding her customer's current state and ideal future state, and instrumenting a repeatable sales process.
Currently, she is a Sales Director at Zscaler where she leads the Sales Team for Major accounts (Fortune 2000) helping them through their cloud security journey. She was previously an Enterprise Sales Director at Thoughtspot, a pre-IPO business intelligence platform, where she was responsible for all new business across New England, New York, and Canada. She excels in the startup space having worked for three different pre-ipo companies and prior to Thoughtspot, was a top seller, then leader, at AppDynamics, where the company went from a valuation of $100M to $3.7B in four years. Prior to that, her career began at PTC, with four different roles in five years, mastering not only how to prospect and penetrate $1B+ revenue accounts, but also what a strong, repeatable sales process looks like and how to own the art of negotiation. In addition to the Sales part of her job, Michelle has also played an instrumental role in helping these companies execute their GTM strategy by assisting with sales training and development, recruiting, hiring, and retainment.
Michelle truly has a passion for software sales, networking, learning from others within the industry, and bringing people together which is why she thrives with helping companies solve problems with a consultative approach. Her experience working with the Fortune 100 companies gives her an invaluable perspective to understand the unique needs of each client, mapping the technology she sells to value and an ROI back to the company.
She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Quinnipiac University and grew up in Canton, MA. During her free time, she plays competitive soccer and basketball, watches The New England Patriots (as well as Tom Brady), and enjoys Italian food and red wine.
Dr. Jellinek earned his undergraduate degree at Columbia College and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed pediatrics training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, and residencies in child psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Currently he is Professor of Psychiatry and of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Social Policy and Health Care at the Heller School, Brandies University.
Dr. Jellinek was Chief of Child Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital for 32 years from 1979-2012. Dr. Jellinek has written or co-written over 350 original reports, articles and chapters, and served as Editor for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health. With Michael Murphy, Ed. D, he developed the Pediatric Symptom Checklist, which is the most widely used brief screening instrument to help primary care pediatricians identify children with emotional problems.
Dr. Jellinek has served in several administrative positions at Massachusetts General Hospital including Vice-President for Ambulatory Services (1990-1994), Senior Vice-President for Hospital Operations (1994-1996), and Senior Vice President for Administration (1996-2000). He led the hospital’s master-planning process and the Construction of the Yawkey Ambulatory Center. In 2000, he was named interim and then permanent President, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, (2000-2012). During his term he built a strong management team that turned a negative margin to positive, increased clinical revenue fourfold, and achieved 95th percentile in patient satisfaction. In 2012, Dr. Jellinek was promoted to Chief Clinical Officer, Partners HealthCare responsible for the implementation of the EPIC medical record system, a $1.2 billion-dollar initiative which required building a team of 600 people and facing difficult clinical integration issues. In 2014, Dr. Jellinek was named CEO, Community Network and EVP, Lahey Health System with responsibility for Population Health Management and $900 million of clinical revenue.
In 2016, Dr. Jellinek founded Ulysses Consulting, LLC focused CEO leadership and senior team development. Current clients include venture capital firms, rapidly growing start-up companies, real estate development firms, a construction company, and non-profits in health care. Recent assignments include developing the culture and management structures for a company that grew from 13 to over 120 employees ($30M to $500M in revenue), helping transition a several hundred million-dollar firm from father to son, helping resolve friction between a CEO and a critical member of the senior team, advising two companies near bankruptcy secondary to the impact of Covid, coaching a first time CEO founder building an artificial intelligence start-up now valued at $950M, and helping a senior partner begin to change the culture of an investment firm.
Dr. Jellinek lives in Newton with his wife Barbara, a retired nurse practioner, three children, and, currently, 5 grandchildren.
Mike Monovoukas is the Co-Founder and CEO of AcuityMD, an Enterprise SaaS company rethinking CRM technology for the medical device industry. AcuityMD is backed by Benchmark Capital, Ajax Health, and other leading SaaS and healthcare investors. Prior to founding AcuityMD, Mike worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in their Chicago and Boston offices, leading engagements in commercial strategy for biotech and medical device clients. He also was an early hire at PatientPing, a Boston-based care coordination platform, where he led Business Development and Finance as the company scaled through Seed to Series B. Mike is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Princeton University, where he served as the Captain of the Swimming and Diving Team and led the team to 4 consecutive Ivy League Championships.
Nick currently runs the Cards business for Column, a developer-oriented national bank providing financial services infrastructure to clients. At Column, Nick is responsible for supporting go-to-market efforts and product development related to Column's card solutions. Nick partners with companies looking to provide cards to their customers, which includes engaging with networks, issuer processors, and other ecosystem partners across prepaid, debit, and credit card programs.
Previously, Nick worked in enterprise SaaS in a variety of product partnerships and channel partnerships roles. Before joining Column, Nick led technology partnerships for Segment, a customer data platform which was acquired by Twilio in 2020. At Segment, Nick was responsible for relationships with large cloud platforms, integration partnerships with ISVs, and strategic OEM partnerships. Prior to Segment, Nick led Workplace from Meta’s channel partner team for North America which built and managed an ecosystem of regional, national and global reseller and services partners.
Nick also held roles in enterprise software investing (Scale Venture Partners), Business Development/BizOps (SquareTrade, acq. by Allstate), and investment banking (JPMorgan). He is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and daughter.
Patrick leads Product Finance at Ramp, where he also previously helped build the BizOps and GTM Analytics teams.
Prior to joining Ramp, he was an investor at Warburg Pincus and a consultant at BCG. Outside of work, he is either cooking and eating, or exercising to balance out all the cooking and eating.
Peter McCall is CMO at Nfinite, a retail-focused SaaS startup which has raised over $130M in funding from Insight and US Venture Partners. Previously, he was Head of Marketing at Lilt, an AI startup backed by over $90M from Sequoia and Redpoint. There, he built the marketing team from 1-25 people and took the company from Series A through Series C.
Prior to Lilt, he was at Salesforce, where he led product marketing for the company’s Manufacturing Cloud product line as part of the Salesforce Industry Cloud. Prior to Salesforce, he worked in corporate strategy at RELX Group, a FTSE 100 media and information company, and spent time at Optimizely, OpenView Venture Partners, and Bowery Capital.
Peter received an AB from Princeton and an MBA from MIT. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two young children.
Rebecca is on the Biz Ops team at Scale.ai and helping build the Federal go-to-market motion. She has previously spent time across fintech, insurtech, operations, and B2B SaaS; prior to Scale she led go-to-market for the insurance payments vertical at Modern Treasury and served as Head of Client Experience at Newfront Insurance.
Rebecca started her career at McKinsey working in the healthcare, aerospace, tech, and retail practices. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.
Rich Gardner is currently VP, Global Strategic Partnerships at Klaviyo, a leader in marketing SaaS. For 15 years, Rich has built and led high-performing global sales and business development teams at hyper-growth tech and tech-enabled services businesses, including Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) and Catalant. At Klaviyo, Rich’s team is responsible for identifying and cultivating best-in-class technology and services partners in the ecommerce ecosystem. Prior to his executive roles, Rich practiced law in Washington, DC, and worked as a political operative. Rich holds a J.D. from the UVA Law School and his A.B. at Harvard College. He lives in Boston with his husband, Darrell, and basset hound, Harvey.
Robert Khoury is a Software Engineer at Databricks, and a founding member of the Databricks SQL team. Previously, he helped build the Driver app at Uber, and new Industrial IoT product lines at Samsara. Rob is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Sri Batchu currently leads Growth at Ramp. He previously helped build the Advertising business at Instacart as well as lead growth strategy and operations. He was an early operational leader at Opendoor leading Sales, Pricing, Finance, and Analytics at various points. He started off his career in management consulting and investing roles. He angel invests in B2B SaaS and marketplaces across industries. He is an enthusiastically bad skier and surfer.
Stacey is currently at Stripe, where she has worked on strategy, product incubation, and commercialization for global money movement and Connect. Prior to Stripe, Stacey incubated various operations functions at Digit, a consumer fintech startup.
She started her career at Oliver Wyman and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Public Policy. Talk to Stacey about payments, Marketplaces, Vertical and Horizontal SaaS, and bringing new products to market.
Stanley is the Head of Pricing for all of Stripe’s SaaS and BaaS products. Talk to him about the intersection of pricing, product and GTM.
Prior to Stripe, Stanley worked at Bain & Company in San Francisco focusing on Technology and Private Equity and did a stint with Caesars in Las Vegas. He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University.
Steve Wietrecki has over 30 years of operating, advising and investing experience across a wide array of technology companies. His diverse background includes having served as CFO, CRO and COO, which provides a unique perspective on how organizations grow and thrive. Today Steve is an active investor and advisor in many companies, including Klaviyo, Sendoso and Decodable. Prior, Steve served as CRO at Klaviyo from 2017 until early 2021. Steve was COO of Rocana, which was sold to Splunk in 2017, and COO of Classpass from 2015 to 2016. Steve has also held various executive and advisory positions across many other technology companies including Bit9 (now CarbonBlack), iPhrase Technologies (sold to IBM) and ON Technology (sold to Symantec).
Wilfred Tso is currently Director of Product at Ribbon Health where he leads the healthcare infrastructure player’s Care Navigation business. Prior to Ribbon, Wilfred served as head of product for Hydrogen Health, a joint venture between Anthem and K Health building virtual-first care solutions for the employer and payer markets. Wilfred kickstarted his operating career by founding a last-mile delivery company in 2017.
Prior to his operating experience, Wilfred started off his career in investment banking and private equity at J.P. Morgan and Warburg Pincus. Wilfred graduated with honors from Miami University, where he currently serves on the alumni board.
Wyatt Smith is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and adviser based in Dallas.
Wyatt formerly served as a head of business development for Elevate, Uber's air mobility division. At Uber, Wyatt led a team responsible for 25+ commercial partnerships across the air mobility value chain, generating more than $5B in private sector investment across aerospace vehicle developers, infrastructure providers, and key suppliers of mobility data, battery systems, and related technologies.
Prior to Uber, Wyatt consulted at McKinsey & Company, Inc. for clients in the enterprise technology, mobility, energy, and education sectors. He is a 2013 recipient of the Sue Lehman Award for Teaching Excellence, Teach for America's national teacher of the year honor.
He holds a MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.S. with honors from Vanderbilt University, where he served as student body president and as a member of the Board of Trustees.
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Focus: Working with our founders and their leadership teams.
Hidden Talent: Can fold the heck out of a fitted sheet.
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, Fintech, and Insurtech
Dream Job: Anything where I get to build with my hands - potter, carpenter, lego connoisseur… you name it!
Focus: Healthcare IT, Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, and B2B Marketplaces.
Hidden Talent: Fake Australian accent (have yet to make it to Australia).
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, Healthcare IT, Digital / E-Commerce Platforms.
Travels: Try to visit at least a couple of new countries every year - New Zealand and Croatia are (separately) next on my list!
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS and B2B Marketplaces.
Hidden Talent: Spicy rigatoni better than Carbone.
Focus: Sarah runs the operations of the firm and fund and oversees investor relationships.
Travels: Biking and wine is always a good combo.
Focus: Working with our founders and their leadership teams.
Hidden Talent: Can fold the heck out of a fitted sheet.
Dream Job: Planning memorable trips for others, which would require personally vetting all hotels, restaurants, and activities…because I’d take my craft seriously.
Origins: Calls the Bay Area home but grew up in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai.
Accomplishment: Named a digital advertising product after a classic rap group.
Giving: Criminal justice reform, mental healthcare access, women’s rights protection.
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, Fintech, and Insurtech
Dream Job: Anything where I get to build with my hands - potter, carpenter, lego connoisseur… you name it!
Family: Grew up with one sister and 7 german shepherds.
Travel: Anywhere in the mountains makes me happy (hiking the Haute Route was an all-time favorite).
Origins: Proud Jersey kid.
Giving: Food Insecurity, and Women’s Health & Rights
Focus: Healthcare IT, Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, and B2B Marketplaces.
Hidden Talent: Fake Australian accent (have yet to make it to Australia).
Bucket list: Make it to space (without spending an absurd amount of money).
Interests: Skiing, neuroscience / anything to do with the brain, Latin music, cooking (aspirationally).
Sports: Huge tennis player / fan (Federer > Nadal).
Giving: Mental health and education.
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS, Healthcare IT, Digital / E-Commerce Platforms.
Travels: Try to visit at least a couple of new countries every year - New Zealand and Croatia are (separately) next on my list!
Origins: Born in Indiana, mostly grew up in the Boston area.
Family: Grew up as one of four brothers - my parents deserve an award!
Sports: Walked on to Yale’s Varsity Squash team as a Freshman, promptly rode the deep bench for the next three years and slipped into the starting lineup as a Senior.
Giving: Charities that work to treat mental illness - an important, complex, often misunderstood category of disease.
Focus: Horizontal & Vertical SaaS and B2B Marketplaces.
Hidden Talent: Spicy rigatoni better than Carbone.
Accomplishment: Turned down going on Shark Tank, but successfully cold-emailed Mark Cuban directly and raised the first money invested in Catalant.
Origins: New York by birth, Boston by choice, Wyoming by aspiration.
Bucket List: Summited 42 of the 48 White Mountain peaks above 4000’, going to finish all of them if it takes forever.
Giving: Passionate about childhood education and closing the achievement gap in the US.
Focus: Sarah runs the operations of the firm and fund and oversees investor relationships.
Travels: Biking and wine is always a good combo.
Hidden Talent: Can name all 50 states in alphabetical order in under 15 seconds.
Origins: Outside Philadelphia with a heavy dose of northwestern North Carolina mountains.
Family: Lots of pre-bed dance parties to the Encanto soundtrack with my girls (seriously, check it out).
Giving: Food insecurity, early education, women’s and maternal health.