Jeff Kunins
Chief Product Officer & Chief Technology Officer
Axon
- AI Product Manager
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
Jeff leads Axon's global product management, software and hardware engineering, AI, design and security teams. He joined Axon in 2019. Before that he was Vice President of Alexa Entertainment and of Kindle's global reading experience at Amazon, led product and design at Skype, and ran Windows Live Messenger at Microsoft. Carnegie Mellon graduate.
Previously: VP, Alexa Entertainment and VP, Kindle at Amazon; GM, Product & Design at Skype; Microsoft; Tellme Networks
Dr. Jeremy Welland
Chief AI & Data Officer
Measure Well
- Data Analyst / Data Scientist
- Program Manager / TPM / AI Ops
Jeremy has spent nearly 30 years building and leading data teams. At Gusto he built the AI data team behind the assistant Gus, and he led data and analytics at Google, PayPal and Pandora. He is Executive in Residence at Marquette University's AI Leadership Lab and serves on the national board of YMCA USA. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Previously: Chief Data Officer, Gusto; Global Head of Data Science & Analytics, Google; PayPal; Pandora
Kacy Harding
Chief Product Officer, Advanced Analytics
ING
- Data Analyst / Data Scientist
- AI Product Manager
Kacy leads AI product work for ING's Wholesale Banking Advanced Analytics division. At Culligan International she scaled connected IoT and data platforms that generated more than $400M in new revenue. At Royal Philips she led IoT data analytics for connected products including Sonicare and SmartSleep. She is based in the Netherlands.
Previously: VP, Global Consumer Solutions, Culligan; Head of IoT Data Analytics, Philips; comScore; Antler
Ranga Komanduri
Head of Engineering
OptiMantra
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
Ranga leads engineering at OptiMantra. He was previously a Director at FINRA and a Senior Engineering Manager at Oracle Energy and Water, and spent more than eight years as Principal Architect for business intelligence at Advisory Board. Earlier he was a technical architect at AT&T and Amdocs. MS in Computer Engineering, University of Florida.
Previously: Director, FINRA; Senior Engineering Manager, Oracle Energy and Water; Advisory Board; AT&T; Amdocs
Ludo Hauduc
CEO & Co-founder
Empwr.ai
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
Ludo co-founded Empwr.ai, an AI PM for engineering teams. He was VP of Engineering for AI Infrastructure at Meta. In 26 years at Microsoft he went from software design engineer on Microsoft Project to Corporate Vice President of Core Platform Engineering, a 1,500-person global organization.
Previously: VP Engineering, AI Infrastructure, Meta; Corporate VP, Core Platform Engineering, Microsoft; CTO, Envorso
Keshav Puttaswamy
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Empwr.ai
- Product Designer
- AI Product Manager
Keshav co-founded Empwr.ai and is CEO of Envorso Sports. At Meta he directed product for the communications platform behind Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. At Atlassian he grew the Data Center product line 5x as the company passed $1B ARR. At Microsoft he led Project 2010 and 2013. Dartmouth, computer science and economics.
Previously: Director of PM, Meta; Head of Product, Server & Data Center, Atlassian; Partner Director of PM, Microsoft
Bhavesh Mehta
Vice President of Engineering, CyberSecurity
Meta
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
Bhavesh leads Meta's Central Security engineering teams. He spent 18 years at Google leading engineering for Google Maps, Google My Business, Google Shopping, Display Ads and the Robotics software division, where he unified eight acquired companies onto one platform. He created AdWords Express, the first monetization product for Google Maps.
Previously: VP Engineering, Google Maps and Google Shopping; Sr. Director, Robotics, Google; Yahoo; Oracle
Neal Zuckerman
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Boston Consulting Group
- At-large
- Account Executive / Solutions Engineer
Neal chairs BCG's Global Institute for the Future of Television and Streaming and previously headed the firm's Media Practice. Before BCG he worked in strategic planning at Time Warner and at McKinsey. He served as a U.S. Army aviation officer and helicopter pilot. West Point and Harvard Business School graduate.
Previously: Head of Media Practice, BCG; Time Warner; McKinsey; Captain, U.S. Army Aviation
Dr. Sandeep Krishnamurthy
Singelyn Family Dean, College of Business Administration
Cal Poly Pomona
- At-large
- Growth / AI-Enabled Marketer
Sandeep is the inaugural Singelyn Family Dean of Cal Poly Pomona's College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business. He spent more than two decades at the University of Washington, where he was founding dean of the UW Bothell School of Business. His research has been cited more than 5,000 times. Ph.D., University of Arizona; IIT Bombay.
Previously: Founding Dean, UW Bothell School of Business; co-founder, AACSB Digital Transformation Affinity Group
Erin Rifkin
Founder
Mountain High Consulting
- Program Manager / TPM / AI Ops
- Account Executive / Solutions Engineer
Erin helps organizations close AI and technology skills gaps. She led Google Cloud training and certification as Managing Director, Cloud Learning Services, and was Vice President of Developer Relations at Microsoft, responsible for Microsoft Learn. At AWS she launched the Well-Architected Framework and scaled support training by 1,500 engineers.
Previously: MD, Cloud Learning Services, Google; VP, Developer Relations, Microsoft; AWS; Amazon Alexa
Lynn Girotto
Chief Marketing Officer
Gradial
- Growth / AI-Enabled Marketer
- Account Executive / Solutions Engineer
Lynn leads marketing at Gradial. She was previously CMO at Qualtrics and Vimeo, and Heap's first CMO. At Tableau she scaled a global team of more than 300 marketers as revenue grew from $300M to $1.3B. Harvard MBA.
Previously: CMO at Qualtrics, Vimeo and Heap; SVP Marketing, Tableau; Getty Images
Anish Chadalavada
Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer
Gradial
- Growth / AI-Enabled Marketer
Anish co-founded Gradial, which builds agentic AI for marketing teams. He invested in early-stage deep tech at Point72 Ventures. As Manager of AI Strategy at Microsoft he worked on the $20B Nuance acquisition and on bringing large language models into Dynamics. Dartmouth, computer science and economics.
Previously: Point72 Ventures; Manager, AI Strategy, Microsoft; Oliver Wyman; Centerview Partners
Ganesh Baskaran
Chief Product & Technology Officer
arrivia
- AI Product Manager
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
Ganesh is turning arrivia's team of travel technologists into AI builders. He led product for Expedia B2B, a unit that reached 40% of Expedia's revenue, and was CPTO of Core Scientific's blockchain business. He was Chief Product Officer at Woot and part of the founding team at AWS. MBA, UW Foster School of Business.
Previously: Head of Product, Expedia B2B; CPTO, Core Scientific; Twitch Prime; CPO, Woot; founding team, AWS
Naria Santa Lucia
General Manager, Microsoft Elevate
Microsoft
- Program Manager / TPM / AI Ops
- At-large
Naria oversees Microsoft's strategy, investments and partnerships to bring digital and AI skills to millions of people. As Executive Director of the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship she raised more than $200M in public-private support. She co-chairs the World Bank's Solutions for Youth Employment initiative. JD, University of Chicago Law School.
Previously: Executive Director, Washington State Opportunity Scholarship; Legal Foundation of Washington; Kirkland & Ellis
Neha Monga
VP of Product & GM
HubSpot
- AI Product Manager
- Account Executive / Solutions Engineer
Neha leads HubSpot's Sales Hub product line, a $1B+ ARR business, and its AI-agentic selling products. She was CPO at Lattice, grew commerce advertising for Instagram and Facebook Shops at Meta, and brought Alexa to phones at Amazon. At Microsoft she launched the first Office apps on mobile.
Previously: CPO, Lattice; Director of PM, Meta; GM & Head of Product, Amazon Alexa; Expedia; Microsoft Office
Tom Leung
Director of Product Management
Meta
- AI Product Manager
- Product Designer
Tom builds new products for creators at Meta. At YouTube he rebuilt the creator platform as daily viewers grew from 1B to 2B, and at Google he led product for AI-based applied research incubations. He co-founded Poachable, acquired in 2018. Harvard MBA.
Previously: Director of PM, Google and YouTube; co-founder & CEO, Poachable; SVP Product, Marchex
Forrest Corbett
VP, Product Experience
arrivia
- Product Designer
- AI Product Manager
Forrest leads product experience at arrivia. At Kickstarter he led design across web, iOS and Android, built a design system and cut production accessibility errors by more than 80%. He has led design at Xpanse and PayScale, founded a WordPress host that grew to 4,000 subscribers, and helped bring the first Kindle Fire to market.
Previously: Director, Product Design, Kickstarter; Director, Product Design, Xpanse; Director, UX, PayScale; Amazon (Kindle Fire)
Ryan Kubacki
Operating Partner
M33 Growth
- Account Executive / Solutions Engineer
- Growth / AI-Enabled Marketer
As CEO of Contruent, Ryan moved the business to SaaS, tripled software revenue, grew valuation 7x and led an exit to The Riverside Company. He was Chief Revenue Officer of Flexera and Chief Growth Officer of Vista Consulting Group. He co-wrote The New Power Base Selling: Lessons from 28,000 Sellers & 50,000 Deals. Harvard AB and MBA.
Previously: CEO, Contruent; CRO, Flexera; Chief Growth Officer, Vista Consulting Group; Microsoft
Jay Bartot
Chief Technology Officer
Lev
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
Jay is CTO of Lev, co-founder and CTO of AirSignal, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, where he teaches software entrepreneurship. He co-founded startups acquired by Microsoft, Hulu, Alliance Health Networks and Nielsen/NetRatings, including Farecast, which used machine learning to predict airfares.
Previously: CTO & Managing Director, Madrona Venture Labs; CEO, Zeitworks; VP Data & Analytics, Hulu; co-founder, Farecast
Rich Evans
Founder & CTO
AZX
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- AI / Agentic Software Engineer
Rich founded AZX, PBC. He previously founded Meetingflow, a real-time meeting intelligence platform, and was Chief Software Architect at Augment AI. At Microsoft he built data and machine learning pipelines for Microsoft 365. At ARM he earned a patent for GPU-accelerated vector graphics, later adopted by Skia and Chromium.
Previously: Chief Software Architect, Augment AI; founder & CTO, Meetingflow; Microsoft; ARM
