Ashwini Rao
Ashwini is a cybersecurity expert, former CISO and the co-founder and CEO of Eydle, a fraud intelligence platform that protects brands from scams and phishing. She had MS and PhD in computer science and computer security and 20+ publications and patents in cybersecurity.
Chris Heard
Chris is a 3X Founder and prior to his entrepreneurship was an experienced sales leader with a background in leading successful SaaS platforms and helping them increase their market share. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Olive an AI Platform helping IT leaders evaluate technology decisions faster in ⅓ of the time helping increase user adoption and speed to market.
Joshua Fedie
Josh Fedie is the Founder and CEO of SalesReach. Sales & Marketing have always been his passion, but after seeing how sales has changed over his 20 years in the industry he decided to create a better system to help business development representatives create personalized experiences for their prospects. He believes that trust and velocity are closely aligned and that organizations are more successful when marketing and sales teams work together.
Nate Nasralla
Nate is a 3x Sales Leader, 2-time founder, and sales conversation aficionado who is the Founder of Fluint which is designed to help sales reps stop losing deals when they aren’t in their buyer’s room by creating and selling with champions on the buying team.
Jonathan Conelias
Jon is a serial C-Suite aficionado with a degree in economics and finance from Bentley University who is the co-founder and CEO at Elevent – a marketplace connecting experience providers and companies to deliver unique, memorable virtual and physical experiences to build trust, and connections and just have fun, they’ve raised $5.1M in funding since their inception in September of 2020 with their most recent seed round of $2.8M happening in Q1 2022.
Mia Davis
After building her first startup in the sexual wellness space, Mia Davis is now working on her latest venture, Niche — a therapist-driven marketplace that empowers modern clinicians and democratizes mental health. She is a product designer by trade and a serial entrepreneur by heart.
Stephen Ruff & Todd Busler
Stephen Ruff was a top rep at Samsara and then Heap, where he leveraged data to work smarter and 4x his number. One of his top strategies then became productized as Champify.
Todd Busler was an early sales rep at Square, built the sales team from scratch to 50 reps at Heap.io, and most recently advised early state B2B revenue teams in the Unusual Ventures portfolio.
Kris Rudeegraap
Kris is a former tenured sales professional turned founder and CEO while also acting as an advisor to several growth-stage companies. His company Sendoso helps companies stand out by giving them new ways to engage with customers throughout the buyer’s journey.
Michelle Bacharach
Michelle is an advisor and angel investor in primarily female-founded companies, who founded a complex product that helped marquee brands keep their businesses stable during the pandemic. She shares her learnings from being a first-time founder and talks about the importance of founders being well educated in all things early-stage startups.
Kendrick Trotter
Kendrick shares with us his story from breaking into tech as a former Uber driver, how he climbed the corporate ladder, helped others do the same, and then turned that into a DEI hiring platform with an entire community involved in assisting underrepresented folks to break into tech.