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Srini Raghavan is Chief Product Officer at Freshworks, bringing nearly 20 years of experience building and leading teams in Enterprise SaaS.
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Ankit Raheja is an AI product leader with over a decade of experience building machine learning and data products across retail, automotive, and technology sectors. As Principal Product Manager at Walmart E-Commerce, he leads customer-facing ML initiatives and the ML Ranking Platform, delivering over $360M in GMV impact within his first six months. Previously, as Product Lead for AI Initiatives at CDK Global, the largest car dealership software company in the U.S., he launched the company's first generative AI platform and rebuilt a critical identity graph product that had failed twice previously. He has led teams of up to 100 people and managed product portfolios spanning generative AI chatbots, ML ranking systems, and data platforms at scale. His work sits at the intersection of advanced AI research and real-world product impact. He holds a Master's in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Indiana University.
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Ankor Rai is the Chief Executive Officer of Straive, bringing over two decades of leadership experience in data, analytics, and digital transformation. Before joining Straive, he was Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer at EXL, where he also served as a member of the Executive Committee.
Throughout his 20+ year career, Ankor has led the growth of high-value, data-driven technology businesses, developing impactful solutions for Fortune 1000 companies across North America, the UK, and Asia. At EXL, he was instrumental in transforming the company’s Analytics business from a niche practice into a full-stack analytics powerhouse. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Inductis, one of the early pioneers of data and analytics.
At Straive, Ankor continues to leverage his deep expertise in building analytics and AI businesses at scale, driving the company’s evolution as a global leader in data-driven technology and content solutions.
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Krishna Raj Raja is the founder and CEO of SupportLogic. Krishna has a long history in the customer service and support industry. As the first hire for VMware India, he built the company’s support team into a multi-thousand-headcount global organization. After leaving VMware, Krishna saw that major shifts in the B2B model were creating critical gaps in the capabilities of support teams. He founded SupportLogic in 2016 and now helps some of the largest B2B technology companies in the world use AI to optimize their support experience. Krishna lives with his growing family in Santa Clara, CA. Visit SupportLogic: https://www.supportlogic.com/
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Pakshi Rajan is Co-founder and Chief AI and Product Officer at Portal26, focused on building enterprise software that customers love and that delivers real business value. Known for deep customer engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and rapid domain learning, Pakshi turns market insight into scalable products that solve real problems.
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Arti Raman is the founder and CEO of Portal26, formerly Titaniam. She specializes in responsible use frameworks for enterprise consumption of Generative AI. She is also an expert in advanced data protection techniques, including high-performance encryption-in-use. Before Portal26, she was a senior product leader and head of UX and competitive intelligence for Symantec’s enterprise business. Arti holds a number of patents. She was the youngest and the first female recipient of the Rosenthal Award for outstanding contribution to the field of investment and finance for her work with the late Dr. Ed Lazear, former US Chief Economist, and Nobel laureate Dr. Michael Spence. Arti holds degrees in Business, Economics, and Mathematics.
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Jags is a data technology veteran and Cloud CTO for MariaDB plc. With over 20 years leading distributed data products, his career includes co-founding VMWare GemFire (now Apache Geode), a pioneering distributed in-memory data grid. Later, he co-founded SnappyData (acquired by Tibco) to define a new unified data fabric, where he helped lead work on hybrid translytical processing. Most recently, he leveraged his cloud-native expertise to help develop the world-class SkySQL database-as-a-service, which was acquired by MariaDB.
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Graham Rance is a Global Sales Engineering EMEA at CyCognito. Graham's career is marked by progressive leadership and technical roles, including Consulting Engineering Lead for EMEA at BitSight Technologies, Senior Sales Engineer at Imperva, and Systems Engineer at Fortinet with a focus on the Financial Services vertical. Prior experiences include significant stints as an Independent Network Security Professional for Streym Ltd, Director and Area Manager at Citi, and VP of Architecture and Infrastructure at SGX, not to mention earlier roles at Barclays Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Societe Generale.
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With a career spanning 30 years, Alan has held a variety of sales, marketing and leadership roles, both in start-up and large enterprise software companies. Before joining Cognigy, he led global market development at LivePerson where, during his six-year tenure, revenues doubled from $223m to $470m. As Cognigy’s VP Marketing, Alan’s focus is on leading and inspiring his high-performance global team to deliver programmes across branding, product marketing, demand generation, events and social media. Alan is also responsible for leading market expansion in high growth regions such as the USA, UK and APAC, and building a global community of Cognigy advocates, including customers, industry experts, partners and prospects.
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Kishore Ranjan is an Embedded Software Engineering Leader with over 20 years of global experience across ASML, Intel, Samsung, Nokia, and DRDO, delivering high-reliability telecom and semiconductor platforms. He has led distributed engineering organizations across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, driving full-lifecycle SDLC execution and large-scale automation and CI/CD transformations in hardware-coupled environments. His work focuses on reliability engineering, simulation-driven validation, and scaling DevOps practices for mission-critical embedded systems that power advanced semiconductor manufacturing and AI infrastructure.
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Venkata Kondepati is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience driving digital transformation and cloud architecture initiatives across global enterprises. As former Director of Software Engineering at S&P Global, he led multi-million dollar modernization projects, including the migration of 60+ applications to AWS cloud infrastructure and the development of AI-driven data platforms that delivered 70% cost savings. Currently serving as Manager of Data Architecture & Engineering at Ascentt, Venkat specializes in cloud-native architectures, generative AI implementation, and building high-performance engineering teams across distributed global organizations. He holds multiple certifications including AWS Solutions Architect, PMP, and has completed advanced studies in Data Science and Generative AI for Business Transformation.
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Hazel Raoult is a freelance tech writer and works with PRmention. She has more than eight years of experience writing about technology, entrepreneurship and all things SaaS. Hazel loves to split her time between writing, editing and hanging out with her family.
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Philip Rathle is Chief Technology Officer at Neo4j. He is focused on vision, evangelism, and cultivating executive relationships across the tech ecosystem. Additionally, he was the company’s first product leader for more than a decade, establishing Neo4j as a leading player in the modern database landscape and growing its offering from a single database product to a rich portfolio that includes the Neo4j graph database, data science & analytics, visualization, and tools & connectors. Philip is an early pioneer in customer data integration and previously led Product Management for Embarcadero Technologies, overseeing a portfolio of 10 database and developer products. As a consultant earlier in his career, Philip spent nearly a decade solving large-scale information processing problems for the Fortune 500, working at Tanning Technology and Accenture, with a focus on database, architecture, and data modeling. He is based in Silicon Valley.
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Sebastian Rau is Director Advanced Analytics, Head of Data Science at ICIS.
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Archana Ravi is a product manager at a Fortune 500 software company with more than 10 years of experience in technical program management, customer experience, product development, and operations. Her current focus is on improving the customer experience, leveraging her expertise in product management, customer experience optimization, innovation, and strategic planning. Archana Ravi is dedicated to driving cross-functional collaboration and implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. Connect with Archana Ravi on LinkedIn.
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Raghu Ravinutala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Yellow.ai, a global leader in Conversational AI that delivers autonomous, human-like experiences for customers and employees to accelerate enterprise growth. Yellow.ai’s presence spans the U.S., Southeast Asia, Europe, Middle East, Japan, Australia and Latin America with 1000+ customers in 85+ countries. Previously, Raghu worked for Texas Instruments, and Broadcom across leadership roles in Engineering, Product Management and Business Development. He is an elected member of the NASSCOM Executive Council 2021-23, and has been recently recognized as the CX Leader of the Year at the CX Awards 2022, organized by CX Today.
Rajat Rawal
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Rajat Rawal is a technology professional working on cloud architecture, AI adoption, and system reliability. His experience includes building secure and scalable systems in regulated environments, with a focus on applying AI in high-impact use cases.
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Joshua Ray is the founder and CEO of Blackwire Labs, bringing over 24 years of experience in combating advanced cyber threats across commercial, private, public, and military sectors. As a U.S. Navy veteran and cybersecurity executive, Ray has consistently built and led high-performing teams to protect critical networks and organizations. His career includes key roles at Accenture Security, Verisign, Raytheon, and the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he drove innovation and built capabilities to defend some of the world’s largest organizations against a myriad of advanced cyber adversaries.
Ray's blend of technical expertise and business acumen has been instrumental in driving growth and innovation in the cybersecurity industry. Educated at George Mason University with a BS in Information Technology and holding Executive Certificates from MIT Sloan School of Management, he combines strategic vision with operational excellence. As CEO of Blackwire Labs, Ray leads the company's mission to build trusted and expert AI cybersecurity solutions, leveraging his extensive experience to navigate the complex intersection of technology, security, and business.
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Khalid Raza is the CEO and Founder of Graphiant.
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Marshall Reddy is the president of Franchise Network, based in Jacksonville, Florida. He works with leading Franchise companies worldwide to help find qualified, pre-screened franchise owners. Marshall’s background includes more than 39 years of business ownership, sales, marketing, and consulting. You can connect with Marshall on LinkedIn.
Aishwarya Reehl
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Aishwarya Reehl is an experienced software engineer specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a strong background in full-stack and cloud-based application development. She has worked extensively in government and regulated environments, building reliable systems that handle sensitive data at scale. Her work focuses on applying modern AI techniques, including large language models, to real-world engineering challenges.
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Lexi Reese is CEO and co-founder of Lanai, the enterprise AI observability platform. Previously, she scaled billion-dollar systems at Google (ad platform) and Gusto (HR infrastructure), giving her deep experience in enterprise transformation. Lexi is a “practical visionary” focused on building the next generation of jobs and workforce transformation, but deeply focused on making AI enterprise adoption strategic and less chaotic. A former U.S. Senate candidate, combines technical expertise with strategic leadership insights.
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Jim Richberg’s role as Fortinet’s Head of Cyber Policy and Global Field CISO leverages his nearly 40 years’ experience driving innovation in cybersecurity and threat intelligence. Prior to joining Fortinet, Jim served as the US National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led the creation and implementation of cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threat, and served as the senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence on cyber issues. He brings a broad enterprise-level approach to cybersecurity honed as a member of the Executive team that oversaw implementation of a whole-of-government US Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative for two Presidents.
Since joining Fortinet, Jim has been named a “Fed 100” and a “Pinnacle” awardee for his influence on technology in the U.S. Federal government, a “State Scoop 50” leader for driving innovation in state IT, and he was nominated as a “Security Pioneer” for his sustained contribution to cybersecurity. He is a member of the US IT Sector Coordinating Council, the CNBC Technology Executive Council, the Forbes Technology Council, and the World Economic Forum’s Cybersecurity Leadership Community. He leads industry working groups focused on national cyber strategy, implementing Federal cybersecurity initiatives with the private sector, and on helping state and local government improve their cybersecurity. Jim received his undergraduate degree at the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio University and attended graduate school at M.I.T. and Stanford.
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Izzy Rivera is the HVAC & Gas Service Manager at Emerson. Rivera has been involved with ultrasonic flow measurement for 40 years, spanning the history and development of this technology. He was involved in developing the first fully integrated ultrasonic gas meter. He co-founded FLEXIM AMERICAS back in 2005, which is now a part of Emerson Electric.
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Zameer Rizvi is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Odesso where he oversees product vision and innovation roadmap. Rizvi brings over twenty years of experience with digital automation systems for industry names including Citrix, Amazon, Amgen, FDA and General Motors.
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John Roa is a lifelong entrepreneur, technologist, philanthropist, business investor, and writer. He has founded and managed seven technology companies since learning to program as a teenager. His largest company, ÄKTA, went on to be one of the fastest-growing companies in America in both 2013 and 2014 and was acquired by Salesforce Inc. in September 2015. He is currently the CEO of AnthologyAI, a consumer intelligence company in New York City.
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Gina Robertson is Vice President of Client Services at Ansafone Contact Centers, the parent company of Endicott Call Centers. She leads a national team of experienced account executives who strive to consistently exceed client expectations by delivering outstanding customer service. She has more than 30 years of call center experience and has played leadership roles in various areas including operation management, project management and client services.
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From the time she was 10 years old and her father gave her an electric typewriter for Christmas, Teri Robinson knew she wanted to be a writer. What she didn’t know is how the path from graduate school at LSU, where she earned a Masters degree in Journalism, would lead her on a decades-long journey from her native Louisiana to Washington, D.C. and eventually to New York City where she established a thriving practice as a writer, editor, content specialist and consultant, covering cybersecurity, business and technology, finance, regulatory, policy and customer service, among other topics; contributed to a book on the first year of motherhood; penned award-winning screenplays; and filmed a series of short movies. Most recently, as the executive editor of SC Media, Teri helped transform a 30-year-old, well-respected brand into a digital powerhouse that delivers thought leadership, high-impact journalism and the most relevant, actionable information to an audience of cybersecurity professionals, policymakers and practitioners.
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Bradon Rogers leads Island’s customer relationships as Chief Customer Officer. His focus is on assuring technical field excellence and customer satisfaction as Island builds its market. With more than 20 years’ experience in the cyber security industry, Bradon was most recently on the executive team at Mimecast where he led global sales engineering.
Prior to his tenure at Mimecast, Bradon was Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering and Product Marketing at D2iQ within the Cloud Native Computing infrastructure space. Before joining D2iQ, Bradon was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineering and Product Marketing at Symantec. As a part of the executive management team at Symantec, Bradon built a consolidated global sales engineering organization where he was responsible for combining the go-to-market messaging and strategy of the company’s enterprise product portfolio and its many acquisitions. He joined Symantec after its acquisition of Bluecoat where he held similar executive roles in guiding technical excellence across the field sales teams and in leading product strategy and messaging for the entire portfolio. Bradon also held similar executive and technical leadership roles at McAfee, Secure Computing and CipherTrust.
Bradon holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Auburn University where he has also served on the advisory boards of the College of Business and the Department of Athletics. Bradon also serves as a board member for the Exceptional Foundation, which is a non-profit serving the needs of special needs adults.
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Gina Rosenthal is a Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect. She’s led a Product Marketing agency she founded, and worked for industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware.
Martin Rowinski
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Martin Rowinski is a visionary leader in the global technology landscape, boasting 25 years of top-level executive experience. As the co-founder and CEO of Boardsi, I take immense pride in our recent accomplishment of securing the #640 position on the esteemed Inc5000 list. At Boardsi, we've revolutionized executive recruitment with our SAAS-based platform, driven by proprietary software I developed. This innovative tool empowers companies to seamlessly pinpoint the most qualified Boards of Directors and Advisors from a vast pool of elite executives across the U.S. and beyond. Executives, too, benefit from our platform, easily discovering coveted board positions within premier companies through a straightforward and streamlined process.
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Dave Russell is Vice President, Enterprise Strategy at Veeam Software. Dave has 33 years of experience in the backup/recovery and storage management industry as a developer (IBM), industry analyst (Gartner) and strategist (IBM and Veeam). At Veeam, Dave is responsible for driving strategic product and go-to-market programs, spearheading industry engagement, and evangelizing Veeam’s vision for Modern Data Protection and Veeam in the Enterprise at key events across the globe.
