Ethan is a Partner at Khosla Ventures with a focus on growth-stage companies.

Prior to KV, Ethan was a partner at Accel where he focused on growth investments across AI, enterprise software, e-commerce, and fintech infrastructure companies, including Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO), Pismo (Visa), 1Password, Nuvemshop, and commercetools, among others.

Before Accel, he was at Spectrum Equity where he made investments in Lynda.com (LinkedIn), ExamSoft (Turnitin), PicMonkey (Shutterstock), Headspace, and Lucid Software.

Ethan studied information systems and economics at the University of Sydney before serving a two-year mission for his church, after which he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University.

Greggory Bordes has 20+ years of direct investment experience across venture capital, private equity and public market investment strategies. Mr. Bordes is the Managing Partner of Front Porch Venture Partners, which is based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle and provides LPs properly diversified exposure to the Southeast's top venture capital funds and startups.

Prior to co-founding Front Porch, Mr. Bordes helped oversee a multibillion-dollar family office's investment strategy where he was responsible for new private market investments. Prior to this role, he was the VP/Head of Research at venture backed Fintech Unicorn YipitData in New York City.

Previously, Mr. Bordes was a Partner at Hurley Capital in New York City, where he executed a long/short equity strategy in the public markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bordes was a hybrid public/private equity investor at Blum Capital Partners in San Francisco, as well as a private equity investor at Stone Tower Capital (now Apollo Global Management) and AEA Investors in New York City. Gregg started his career as an Analyst in the Merger & Acquisitions group at Merrill Lynch.

Gregg received a Master's in Business Administration, with honors, from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a bachelor's degree in Finance and Economics, cum laude, from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mr. Bordes grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky.

Jewel Burks Solomon is Managing Partner at Collab Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund she launched to close the funding gap for Black entrepreneurs.

Prior to leading Collab Capital, Jewel was Head of Google for Startups US, where she created initiatives that have deployed over $45M in non-dilutive capital to Black and Latino-led businesses since 2020. Jewel's passion for leveling the playing field for Black founders was born from her own experience. Jewel was the Founder/CEO of Partpic, a startup that was acquired by Amazon in 2016, which streamlined the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology.

Jewel serves on the boards of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Endeavor Atlanta, JP Morgan's Advancing Black Pathways and the Center for American Entrepreneurship. She is a member of the 2019 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. Jewel received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Howard University. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and son.

Mark is a Founding and Co-Managing Partner at Las Olas Venture Capital. He serves as a Board Member at Mosaic, Bainbridge, Leverage, and OpenReel, and as a Board Observer at Leasecake, Rotabull, and UserInterviews. Prior to founding LOVC, Mark spent 15 years as CFO, Chairman, and then CEO of Higher One, a company he co-founded in 2000 while a senior at college. He successfully steered the company through multiple rounds of venture funding and a successful IPO in 2010. While at Higher One, Mark won EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010 and was a finalist for the award in 2011. When Mark left Higher One in 2014, their products and services supported more than 1,900 schools and approximately 13 million enrolled students. Mark currently serves on the executive committee of Florida Venture Forum as their Program Chair and is also Vice Chair of the Fort Lauderdale Aviation Advisory Board. He previously served as Director of the Founder Institute in South Florida, helping budding entrepreneurs start their companies. He has also personally angel-invested in over thirty companies since 2008. Mark enjoys flying airplanes, scuba diving, and traveling the world in his free time. Mark received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Yale University, where he founded the Yale Entrepreneurial Society.

YB Choi is a Partner at Cercano Management LLC where he is the Head of Venture Capital and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Prior to Cercano, he began venture investing in 2008 as a member of the VC team at Vulcan Capital. YB led investments in and managed oversight of 50+ portfolio companies across a broad spectrum of industry verticals including AI Reverie (acquired by Meta), Ally (acquired by Microsoft), BlackSky (BKSY), Pointy (acquired by Google), and Remitly (RELY).

YB joined Vulcan from Microsoft, where he was a Manager in IP Acquisitions and Investments and began his career in investment banking at Oppenheimer & Co. in the mergers & acquisitions group and Cowen & Co. in healthcare investment banking.
YB received a B.S. in Engineering and Management Systems from Columbia University.

Sid Mookerji is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Road Ventures, a family of US funds with over $100M under management, investing in early-stage tech startups disrupting the retail, e-commerce, and CPG industries. Sid is also a General Partner in Bengaluru-based fund StartupXseed and has made many angel investments through his family office. In addition, Sid is co-founder and CEO of Silver Spirit Global LLC which operates tech parks in the US and India. Sid Mookerji is also a Founding Partner of the Atlanta chapter of the Creative Destruction Labs and President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE Atlanta). Sid’s contributions to industry and the city of Atlanta were celebrated as he was inducted into the Kennesaw State’s Coles College Hall of Fame for 2019. Sid was also recognized as an Entrepreneurial Leader for South East USA by TechBridge in 2019.

Prior, in 1994, Sid founded Software Paradigms International (SPI) and served as its CEO and Chairman. SPI provided technology solutions to 350+ retail businesses on five continents. Under Sid’s leadership, SPI completed 14 acquisitions and employed over 3000 employees across the globe. SPI delivered tech services and products to marquee retail, e-commerce, and CPG firms such as Macy’s, Saks, Walmart, P&G, and GroupOn. In September 2016, Sid stepped down from his position of SPI’s CEO after 22 years at the helm, and the company was eventually acquired by IT giant Cognizant.

Apart from business pursuits, Sid supports philanthropies in the United States and India through the Mookerji Foundation. In the U.S., he led the foundation’s relief effort for communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other natural disasters. The Mookerji Foundation made a substantial gift to the Georgia Tech Foundation in 2016 to establish a retail tech innovation program. The Mookerji Foundation also helped set up the “Mookerji Innovation Fund” for entrepreneurs at the Kennesaw State University.

Stefanie Diaz leads industry discovery and venture deal flow at Catalyst by Wellstar. Investing in both early-stage startups and emerging fund managers, her reputation for advancing gender and racial equity extends to the White House. She is a notable figure in the Atlanta startup ecosystem, Host of the She Conquers Capital Podcast, and was named an “Atlanta Startup Wonder Woman.”

Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a Partner in 2016 and focuses on Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Services investing. She is passionate about technology, services and products that enable people to be more productive and efficient at work and at home. Vanessa has led investments in EvidentID, Cleo, Greenlight Card, Feather, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Robinhood and OmniSci.

Prior to joining NEA, she was the Director of Product Management at Box (NYSE: BOX) where she worked on building the next generation of productivity apps across web and mobile. Her passion for design and analytics stems from her experience in the gaming industry, which includes leading the Speech Recognition Experience team at Xbox Kinect v1, and building a top grossing gaming studio at Disney Social.

Vanessa holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Blaise Warren is COO, Multi-Asset Strategies at Invesco, Ltd., an investment management firm based in Atlanta. In this role, he is responsible for operations, business planning, and strategy execution for the firm’s global multi-asset strategies team, spanning macro investing, systematic equities, portfolio advisory, and custom indexing. Blaise is also one of Invesco’s founding committee members with Engage Ventures, serving in various functions with Engage since 2018.

Previously, Blaise worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Atlanta and Washington, DC, and as a practicing attorney with the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Earlier in his career, Blaise served as a law clerk to judges on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Blaise earned a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Blaise currently serves as President-Elect of the University of Virginia Engineering Foundation and on the board of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation.

Ryan Barretto is the CEO of Sprout Social (NYSE:SPT), an industry leading Social Media Management platform and G2's #1 rated Product in Software. He has been leading at Sprout for 8+ years from a $30m scale-up through IPO, and was previously serving as the President. Before joining Sprout, Ryan spent 10+ years at Salesforce.com in a variety of Sales Leadership roles and left as the Vice President of Global Sales of Pardot. Ryan currently sits on the board of FullStory and re:work Training. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master’s degree in International Marketing from the University of Strathclyde. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and 2 daughters. 

Tom Buiocchi has helped lead 5 companies to exits as CEO, founder, and executive over a 30+ year career. Most recently, Tom was CEO of ServiceChannel, which was acquired for $1.2 billion in 2021.  Tom has served on boards of venture, private-equity, and non-profit enterprises and currently advises a wide range of early-stage companies.  His global experience also includes the good fortune of having worked in Silicon Valley, New York, Europe, and Asia.  Tom holds an electrical engineering degree from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Carilu Dietrich is a former CMO, most notably the head of marketing that took Atlassian public. These days she advises CEOs and CMOs of high growth B2B tech companies. Current and past clients include Sprout Social, Bill, ActiveCampaign, 1Password, Segment, Miro and more.

Marty is an influential and inspiring leader with a fascinating career. He is the mastermind behind Marty’s Minutes, a weekly blog dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and business leaders win at the game of business and life. Marty helped start a company with three people and built it into an industry leader that was then acquired by a Fortune 100 Global Enterprise consulting company. How did he do that? It started with the premise of “building a company he and his employees wanted to work for.” 

With a vast understanding of business strategy, sales, and marketing, Marty has built his career on relationships with others, and that continues to drive him today. His specialty: challenging those around him to dream big. One of Marty’s greatest joys is sharing what he’s learning, and he’s looking forward to sharing that with you.

He is the author of the forthcoming book, You Don’t Have to Be an Asshole to Be a Leader: 5 Keys to Building Your Leadership Brand and Becoming the Leader People Are Happy to See, in which he introduces the concept of “leadership brand” and what it takes to have a brand people will want to follow.

Rami Reyes is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at NextEquity Partners, a mid-stage venture firm founded by executives from Apple and Elevation Partners. Rami co-leads all investments at the firm, where he’s invested in leading companies, like SentinelOne, Masterclass, Ring, Bridg, and Arctic Wolf.

Previously, Rami was a principal at Elevation Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital and private equity firm, where he worked on investments in leading companies, like Facebook, Marketshare, Sonos, and Airbnb.

Rami graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Dean's Award for Excellence, the school's top graduation award.

In his spare time, Rami is very involved in giving back and co-founded LatinxVC, a non profit focused on getting more Latinos into venture, and the Leadership Council for the SEO Scholars San Francisco Scholars Program, which helps talented lower income San Francisco high school students get into and through college.

Katie Roof is a reporter at Bloomberg News where she writes about tech and venture deals and appears on TV. Previously, she covered venture capital for the Wall Street Journal. Before that, she was at TechCrunch.

Jon Shieber is the chief editor and a venture partner at FootPrint Coalition Robert Downey Jr.'s initiative focused on accelerating solutions for climate change mitigation, adaptation and planetary restoration. For the last 15 years, he's covered climate tech investment for Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch from Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Shanghai.

Gabby’s an HR leader passionate about creating great work environments, scaling culture and finding, growing, and keeping talented people. Many of Gabby’s philosophies were shaped by her time at Google, where she focused on building a culture of openness, autonomy, and transparency. She's used that experience to help organizations big and small build thriving cultures. Currently, Gabby is the Chief People Office for FullStory, where she has led its growth from 50 to 600+ employees.

Gabby has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Morris and sons Lev (7) and Aiden (4). A native NYer, she's on the quest for the best bagel in the ATL.

Melissa works closely with founders and CEOs to build, develop, and retain best-in-class executive teams and boards. She designed the CEO leadership program, Invictus, to foster a community of NEA leaders who support one another and propagate best practices across the portfolio. Melissa brings broad operating experience from the technology and healthcare sectors, along with a passion for building relationships, to cultivate leaders who will build life-changing companies with global reach.

Melissa began her career in technology at Qualcomm (supply chain management), Hewlett Packard (global contract manufacturing strategy) and Netopia (strategic technology alliances). She then transitioned to healthcare as President of Drip Drop, Inc., building an oral-rehydration product and realizing her passion for improving human health through creative technology solutions. She joined Khosla Ventures as an Operating Partner before joining NEA as a Partner in 2015.

Melissa grew up in South Africa before coming to the United States to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of San Diego, where she earned her MBA. South Africa provided her with her guiding philosophy, Ubuntu, which recognizes that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye and that we rise by lifting others.

Catapulting South Carolina into the national spotlight, Dawn Staley has made the Gamecocks a mainstay in the battle for SEC and national championships. Under her leadership, the Gamecocks have reached many firsts – National Championships, NCAA Final Fours, No. 1 rankings, SEC regular-season and tournament titles, SEC Players of the Year, National Players of the Year, WNBA No. 1 Draft picks and No. 1 recruiting classes – to
name the most notable.

Staley’s 16 seasons at the helm of the Gamecocks include:
- Three NCAA National Championships (2017, 2022, 2024)
- Six NCAA Final Fours in the last seven tournaments (2015, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Seven 30-win seasons, including a program-record 38 wins in 2023-24
- Eight SEC regular-season championships (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Eight SEC Tournament titles (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)
- Ten NCAA Attendance titles (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Four-time Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year award winner (2022, 2023, 2024)

While her coaching career is in full bloom, Staley is still recognized for her body of work as a one of the most decorated participants in United States women’s basketball history. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame solidified that legacy with her enshrinement as part of the Class of 2013. The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia established the Dawn Staley Award recognizing the nation’s top guard in women’s Division I basketball in 2013 as well. Staley was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2012 and was one of the final nominees for induction to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame the same year. In the summer of 2011, the WNBA recognized her as one of the league’s “Top 15,” honoring the most influential players in the league’s history.

In 24 seasons as a head coach, Staley has led her college teams to 14 25-win seasons, a total of 20 postseason appearances (two WNIT) including an undefeated (38-0) season in 2023-24.

Also a force in USA Basketball, Staley was named the U.S. Women’s National Team head coach for 2017-21, leading the U.S. to 2018 FIBA World Cup gold to earn USAB National Coach of the Year honors that year, adding gold medals at the 2019 and 2021 FIBA AmeriCups and stretching the U.S. Olympic gold medal streak to seven straight at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Prior to that appointment, Staley led three other U.S. teams to gold medals – 2015 FIBA U19 World Championships, 2014 FIBA U18 Americas Championship, 2007 Pan Am Games – and served as an assistant on the Senior National Team 2006-08 and again 2014-16, during which the U.S. claimed gold in the 2014 FIBA World Championship and the 2008 and 2016 Olympics.

At the helm of the Gamecocks over the last 16 seasons, Staley has been named National Coach of the Year five times (2014, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024) with her 2020 unanimous selection making her the first former Naismith Player of the Year to earn the Naismith Coach of the Year award. She is the first men’s or women’s coach to receive the award in three consecutive seasons (2022, 2023, 2024). She is a seven-time SEC Coach of
the Year and was the 2012 BCA Female Coach of the Year. She is the only Gamecock basketball coach – men’s or women’s – to amass 300 victories at South Carolina and became the fastest coach to 200 wins in program history, needing just 277 games at South Carolina to reach the plateau. She is the program’s all-time winningest coach (440) with a program-record 13 postseason appearances and is the only black head coach in men’s or women’s basketball to win multiple national championships.

Andrew Davis is Senior Vice President of Strategy & Investments for Cox Enterprises. He oversees the strategic planning, new venture development, Socium Ventures, and sustainability teams.

Prior to joining Cox, Andrew spent nearly 12 years with T. Rowe Price in the U.S. Equity Division. As an investment analyst at T. Rowe, he researched and managed public company investments in the North American transportation industry. During his last three years at T. Rowe, Andrew was the Director of Private Investments, managing the firm’s $20B private venture investment portfolio. His responsibilities included management of sourcing, investment diligence, ongoing analysis, and external relationships.

Prior to his career as an investor, Andrew spent 7 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP where he was a manager in the business valuation services group. There he was responsible for client projects related to acquisition accounting, tax valuations, and bankruptcy reorganizations.

Andrew has an MBA in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Berry College in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.

Kobie brings to Upfront deep expertise in enterprise SAAS and emerging technologies including VR and AR. Over his career he has invested early in notable companies including Exact Target (sold to Salesforce for $2.5B) and Oculus (sold to Facebook for $2B).

Kobie joined Upfront in June 2016 after having previously been an investor at Accel. Prior to Accel, Kobie was the Chief Marketing Officer at LA-based REVOLVE, one of the largest global fashion e-commerce players. Earlier in his career, Kobie helped found OpenView Venture Partners and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners. Kobie graduated from Harvard College.

Maya Noeth joined Accel in 2018 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund.

She invests in both consumer technology and software businesses, with a particular interest in companies serving the B2C and B2B2C landscapes across internet, mobile, marketplace, and subscription/SaaS platforms.

Maya helped source and lead Accel’s investments in Bumble and goPuff, and represented Accel on Bumble’s board.

Prior to Accel, Maya spent seven years at TCV, where she invested in businesses including Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Electronic Arts, TripAdvisor, Rent the Runway, Rover, GoFundMe, VICE Media, Klook, and more. Prior to TCV, Maya was the fourth employee at Paperless Post, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. Maya began her career in TMT banking at Morgan Stanley. She has also spent time doing early stage investing at Thrive Capital.

Maya graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Ellie joined Greycroft in 2011 and is based in New York City. She leads the health tech team and invests across consumer and enterprise models within the sector.

Ellie’s active investments include Baublebar, Boulder Care, Cometeer, Eden Health, Elevate, Expel, Extra, ianacare, Octave, RightMove, and Thirty Madison. Her notable exits include NuORDER (acquired by Lightspeed), Flashpoint (acquired by Audax), Nom Nom (acquired by Mars), Blinkist (acquired by Go1), ELOQUII (acquired by Walmart), and Cotopaxi (interest sold to Bain Capital).

Prior to Greycroft, Ellie evaluated investment opportunities at Lowercase Capital. Ellie also worked at Cisco in corporate development doing acquisitions, investments, and strategy. While at Cisco, she was involved in multiple acquisitions and investments, including PostPath, Jabber, Xobni, and Tandberg. She began her career in growth capital private equity at Summit Partners in Boston.

Ellie holds a BA in Psychology magna cum laude from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is also a board director of Venture Forward.

Jon (also known by friends and co-workers as "Rosie") joined Insight in 2014. He focuses on vertical and horizontal application software and is responsible for executing transactions and assisting in portfolio management post-close. He has also specialized in helping portfolio companies source and execute M&A.

He currently is a board director at a number of Insight companies, including 6sense, LeanTaaS, SimpleNexus, Templafy, Florence, ComplianceQuest, and Earnix. Some of his exits include DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO), Frontline Education (acquired by Thoma Bravo), and CloudCraze (acquired by Salesforce).

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, where he received the Spade Award and was the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Commencement Speaker.

Outside of work, Jon plays soccer in NYC intramural leagues, enjoys reading, struggles to learn guitar, and is an unabashed Philadelphia sports fan.

Alan Taetle joined NMP in 1998 and leads the firm’s IT investment practice, which focuses on software, SaaS, internet security and tech-enabled service businesses. He currently represents NMP on the boards of MacStadium, PureWRX, Red Canary, Revenue Analytics and Whitebox. Alan was previously a director for several successful prior NMP investments, including TrendKite (sold to Cision Ltd.), FSLogix (sold to Microsoft), Clearleap (sold to IBM), Virtustream (sold to Dell EMC), and Vocalocity (sold to Vonage Holdings Corp.)

Prior to joining NMP, Alan was the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for MindSpring (which merged with EarthLink in 2000). Alan joined MindSpring as its 13th employee in 1995, and oversaw the company’s subscriber growth from 4,000 to over 325,000 in just three years.

Alan is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Georgia Tech College of Computing. Alan received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Clara is a Partner and co-founder at Revolution Ventures. She began working with Revolution in 2010 and joined full-time as a member of the investment team in 2012, when she helped launch Revolution’s San Francisco office. Clara serves on the boards of Bright Cellars, GoodBuy Gear, Paro, Sila, and Wagmo and previously worked with Blend Labs (NYSE: BLND), PolicyGenius (Acquired), and SRS Acquiom (Acquired). Clara was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital and named one of LinkedIn’s Next Wave: Top 10 Professionals Under 35 for VC & Finance.

Prior to joining Revolution Ventures, Clara managed alternative investment fund opportunities and associated secondary activities at Probitas Partners. Clara began her career at UBS Investment Bank in the Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance group, where she focused on technology and media companies.

Clara received her B.A. in Economics with a minor in German from Stanford University. Clara was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Donie Lochan is a highly accomplished Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for global strategy and execution at Invesco Technology.

Since joining Invesco in 2015, Mr. Lochan has been instrumental in transforming the firm's technology into a modern, agile accelerator for the business.

Prior to joining Invesco, he served as head of corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions for LPL Financial, and was a partner with Bain and Company, a global strategy consulting firm.

Mr. Lochan's achievements have been widely recognized. He was named Georgia CIO of the Year in 2020 and National CIO of the Year in 2021 by the ORBIE awards. He earned a BSc degree with first-class honors in mathematics, statistics, and computing, demonstrating his deep expertise in quantitative analysis and data science.

Dami is a partner at Open Opportunity Fund. Previously she was Co-Head of the SoftBank Opportunity Fund, where she helped launched and manage a $100M+ early stage and growth stage vehicle for tech-enabled companies in the U.S. SBOF has invested in over 80 tech companies since 2020, including Quicknode, Squire, Paystand, 8Sleep, Mayvenn, Drift, CareerKarma, Praxis Labs, Noya, Atomic and Lendtable.

Robert Herjavec is a globally recognized business leader and trusted cybersecurity expert. For the last 14 years Robert has been well known as one of the founding Sharks and executive producer of ABC’s Emmy-award winning hit show, Shark Tank.

Born in Communist Yugoslavia, Robert and his parents left with very little for a better life in Canada. Boarding a boat called the Cristeforo Columbo in Italy, they made their way a new world. From delivering newspapers, to waiting tables, to launching a billion-dollar, global computer company from his basement, Robert’s drive to achieve has led him to the fulfillment of a better life in a classic rags to riches story.

He has served as a Cybersecurity Advisor for the Government of Canada, participated in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and is a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Task Force for Cybersecurity.

Robert’s inspiring books have all appeared on bestsellers’ lists, two of them being notably featured in the Top 10 at the same time. A well-known motivational speaker, Robert has spoken to purpose driven companies around the world ranging from IBM to HP and many more. He has spoken to crowds as small as 50 to ones as large as 20,000 and has shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Oprah, and many others. He has also been featured inside and on the cover of multiple lifestyle and business magazines including Inc, Success, Forbes, Fortune and more.

Yuri is responsible for ensuring that CAST AI is growing in the right direction every single day. His executive and entrepreneurial career spans over twenty years. Throughout that time, he has built 5 successful ventures, earning more than $750 million in successful exits for investors. His previous ventures include Viewdle (acquired by Google), Zenedge (acquired by Oracle), The Frayman Group (acquired by Intapp), LegalKEY (acquired by Hummingbird), and CUJO.

Emily Morris is an award-winning entrepreneur and is currently the Founder & CEO of Emrgy, a renewable energy technology company that is transforming the vast real estate segment of water infrastructure into clean energy projects. Emrgy is currently operating commercial distributed energy projects in 4 US States and is developing an initial portfolio of 50 megawatts of distributed hydro, solar, and storage to be online by the end of 2024.

Emily has secured over $30 million in venture capital to launch Emrgy on the global stage. She is also the Commercial Leader on $5 million in DOE contracts, and she is an inventor on 5 technology patents. The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Emily “Top 30 Under 30” in 2016, and she led Emrgy to be awarded Georgia’s Top Startup in 2017. Emily is an Atlanta native and lives in west Buckhead with her husband Jason and four-year-old son, Bennett.

Tyler is currently the Founder & CEO of Saltbox, a venture-backed startup building co-warehousing workspace for the millions of entrepreneurs that operate in the world of physical commerce and need warehouse space but don’t want to surrender their expectations of modern flexibility, comfort, and convenience. Saltbox provides purpose-built, highly functional micro-warehousing facilities complemented by traditional co-working and community spaces that members can feel proud to call home. He also serves as Chairman of True Glory Brands, a leading e-commerce retailer of multicultural hair and beauty products.

Previously, Tyler has served as the Managing Director of Techstars as well as a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies, where he was Chief of Staff to the President and Head of Operations, including people operations, recruiting, IT, real estate, and corporate development. During his tenure with Palantir, he was broadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees and saw the company grow to become one of the most valuable in Silicon Valley.

Tyler began his career with J.P. Morgan and worked in the fields of private equity and investment banking. He received a bachelor's degree in American Studies and Economics from The University of Virginia. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife and son.

Tony Summerville is the Founder & Chairman of Fleetio, a SaaS platform that helps organizations worldwide manage and optimize their fleet vehicles and drivers. He founded Fleetio in 2011, scaling it to over 200 employees as CEO with 5,000+ customers in 70+ countries before becoming Executive Chairman in 2023. Tony is also an Endeavor Entrepreneur and a prominent figure in Birmingham's startup community. He has received recognition as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2022 by The Software Report and was named one of Birmingham's "Top 40 Under 40" by the Birmingham Business Journal in 2018. Tony graduated from Auburn University in 2004, majoring in Management Information Systems.

Maria Derchi is the VP of Platform & Community at Florida Funders, a venture capital fund and investor network focused on finding, funding and building the next generation of tech companies. She also serves as the Executive Director of Refresh Miami, South Florida’s oldest and largest tech and startup community - a position she has held since 2015.

Passionate about diversifying the tech industry, Maria founded Women in Miami Tech, a group dedicated to connecting and supporting women in technology, in 2016. The community has now grown to over 3,000 women strong. She also co-hosts the Miami Tech Pod, a weekly podcast covering the latest news and events happening in the ecosystem.

Maya Noeth joined Accel in 2018 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund.

She invests in both consumer technology and software businesses, with a particular interest in companies serving the B2C and B2B2C landscapes across internet, mobile, marketplace, and subscription/SaaS platforms.

Maya helped source and lead Accel’s investments in Bumble and goPuff, and represented Accel on Bumble’s board.

Prior to Accel, Maya spent seven years at TCV, where she invested in businesses including Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Electronic Arts, TripAdvisor, Rent the Runway, Rover, GoFundMe, VICE Media, Klook, and more. Prior to TCV, Maya was the fourth employee at Paperless Post, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. Maya began her career in TMT banking at Morgan Stanley. She has also spent time doing early stage investing at Thrive Capital.

Maya graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.