Adi has over 7 years of Entrepreneurship and Management consulting experience. He helps companies ideate, launch, and scale products globally through his work with Higher Ed institutes. He is deeply passionate about creating Diversity equity and inclusion efforts and expanding access for women-owned businesses. His expertise in management consulting involves Program innovation, Strategic planning, Business development, and Corporate/B2B strategy.

Aditya has a Bachelors in Business Administration from City Premier College, India, and has completed his MBA in global management from Babson College.

Correy is the emerging fund manager of Scope Venture Partners and the CEO of Hearts of Empowerment, a nonprofit that exists to provide equitable opportunities to marginalized cities. Correy is driven by impact, he is on a mission to provide capital and resources to diverse entrepreneurs all over the country. He is highly inspired by founders that are dedicated, passionate, and devoted to changing the world!

David is a highly accomplished sales leader with over 25 years of experience driving revenue growth and building high-performing sales teams. David has held senior-level positions at several successful SaaS startups including Miro, Flowspace and Velocify. He has a deep understanding of the sales process, customer behavior, and market trends, which enables him to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities.

As an independent Fractional CRO, David is responsible for leading the revenue generation efforts of his client’s organization, including sales, marketing, and customer success.

Derek Anderson has over 25 years of Executive Product Leadership experience with Enterprise B2B SaaS companies. His passion is growing great businesses by leveraging ground-breaking technologies to thrill customers and solve real problems for real people. His career has centered around bridging the gap between executive leadership and technical execution in the worlds.

Derek has a Bachelors in Business from Georgia State University, a Masters in Strategic Management from Indiana University and a Masters in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Erik Heuer has over 20 years of Executive leadership experience & success in product building for the healthcare industry. His broad areas of expertise include software engineering, agile development, medical devices, diagnostic imaging, healthcare informatics, telehealth, cloud computing, DevOps, and AI/ML big data, and digital transformations.

Erik holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Southeast Norway and an MBA from the Norwegian Business School of Management (BI).

Joel is a professor at Lebanon Valley College (@LVC). Partner in EdTech startup Allegro Learning Solutions. He is a tech junkie curious about e-commerce, entrepreneurship, edTech, and innovation.

Key themes in his work life are Design Thinking, UX, HCD, storytelling, engagement, collaboration, learning, and skills development. Specific research interests in UX, brainstorming, and workforce development.

Kiran brings around 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career as an entrepreneur and established and managed businesses within the USA & India. He spent a significant amount of time in Product Management including ideation, development, go-to-market strategies, setting up product engineering teams both onshore & offshore. Advised various startups and mentored founders in different aspects of product life cycle, marketing strategies, financial projections, valuations, and funding strategies.

Kiran holds a BE in Computer Science from India, and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

As the Founder and Managing Principal of Egress Solutions, a boutique product consultancy he helps tech companies achieve market success and sometimes gets to play with very cool things. He brings more than 20 years of experience with lean techniques in product strategy, product adoption, product launch and customer acquisition.

Mike has provided product management and product marketing expertise and consulted to companies such as, Apttus, Adobe, Bain Capital, FireEye, Netapp, Revel Systems, TouchBistro, VMware and Vista Equity Partners.

A city dweller loves sports, traveling, and participating in outdoor activities. Niraj has 8+ years of marketing & community-building experience in industries ranging from Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Sportstech to Gaming. Nothing satisfies Niraj more than meeting new people, developing new relationships, solving problems, and contributing to the overall growth of businesses and society.

Niraj resides in Bangalore, India, and holds a Master’s in Strategic Marketing & Communications from MICA. He is also a host of the sports podcast “The Gifted?”.

Pat is the Founder of Lightster, a platform that helps user-centric founders and product teams connect with users for continuous feedback. Pat has 10+ years of experience in Product and Design and has launched several award-winning products to millions of users globally.

He has led teams in product management, design, and strategy functions in corporate, start-up, and professional services firms.

Pradeep Sujuar has over 20 years of Executive leadership experience & success in product building (concept to launch) for the Autonomous Vehicle, IoT, and EV charging industries. His broad areas of expertise include System Engineering (includes SW and HW), Engineering Strategy Program Management, Autonomous System Solutions, EV Charging Infrastructure, and IoT end2end solutions for E-Bikes/Scooters.

Pradeep holds a Master’s in Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Computer Science from the NIT India and Executive Leadership from Harvard Business School.

Rob has over 15 years of experience in product management, sales, and marketing for both B2B and B2C software platform businesses. Rob has a passion for enabling sales and marketing teams to communicate the true value of their products with customers and users. In addition, Rob has a broad range of industry experience including IT, Cloud, Telecom, Social Media, and Manufacturing.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from the University of California, Davis.

Vandan brings around 20 years of experience in product management and sales. He started his career as a software engineer and has spent the last 15 years working with customers and engineering teams, delivering and taking products to market. He loves to work with teams to communicate the value prop and get customers to derive actual value from products. Vandan brings a broad range of experience from multiple domains ranging from Media & Broadcast, Search Engine, Cloud, and Supply Chain.

Vandan completed his MS, in Computer Science from India and later pursued an MBA from the University of California, Davis.