Daniel Kogan
Daniel Kogan is the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at ZiphyCare, a New York–based digital health startup that offers remote patient triage and telemedicine services via connected devices. He has been CTO at ZiphyCare since 2018 and co-founded the company, bringing over a decade of experience in healthcare tech innovation. Beyond ZiphyCare, he’s a serial […]
Joseph Delong
Joseph Delong is a leading blockchain technologist based in San Antonio, Texas. He made his mark as CTO of SushiSwap, helping build one of the most prominent decentralized finance platforms before resigning in December 2021 amidst internal governance challenges. Following his departure, he co-founded Astaria, an NFT lending protocol that launched into open beta in mid-2024. Most […]
Liz Sweney
Liz Sweney is a veteran retail executive and nonprofit leader based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. As former Executive Vice President and Chief Merchant at J.C. Penney, she managed an $18 billion merchandising portfolio and played a key role in the company’s turnaround efforts. As President of the Board of Directors at the Children’s Advocacy Center […]
Payal Kadakia
Payal Kadakia is the visionary founder and Executive Chairman of ClassPass, the revolutionary fitness class subscription platform she launched in 2013. A trained dancer and MIT graduate, she pivoted multiple times before scaling the company to over $1 billion in valuation and global presence—booking over 100 million classes across 28+ countries by 2020. In 2017, […]
Shane Atchison
Shane Atchison is a seasoned marketing and product leader based in Seattle, known for founding Zaaz, a digital marketing agency which he has since revived. He’s an active content creator on LinkedIn, writing on AI and marketing, and is currently leading strategic and tech-driven marketing efforts at Possible, a prominent agency in the financial services […]
Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal is a seasoned enterprise software executive and investor. He spent over a decade at Datadog—initially as Chief Product Officer from 2012 and later serving as President from August 2022 until stepping down at the end of 2024. During his tenure, he shaped Datadog’s product roadmap, helped scale its cloud-monitoring platform, and led the […]
Ankit Mathuria
Ankit Mathuria is a seasoned technology executive who served as Chief Technology Officer at OYO from February 2021 to June 2023. He previously held leadership roles at Amazon, including CTO of Souq (now Amazon.ae), where he scaled operations across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. His deep expertise in platform engineering, multi-country launches, and AI/ML […]
Erhan Bilici
Erhan Bilici is a seasoned risk management and capital planning expert, currently serving as Chief Investment Officer at Aspen Creek Digital (since March 2022) after years in regulatory reporting, stress testing, and capital adequacy roles at UBS (2018–2023) and HSBC (2016–2018) . A Certified FRM with graduate degrees in finance, he’s also active in startup investing, […]
Brian Hilgendorf
Brian Hilgendorf is a seasoned financial executive and serial entrepreneur based in Seattle. He is the Founding Principal of Hilgendorf & Associates, where he partners with venture-funded startups and emerging businesses to guide financial strategy and company development. He’s built and led multiple companies including Vendaria Media (acquired by Omni Retail Group, 2013) and NetPodium (acquired by […]