Executive Spotlights

Executive Spotlight: Alex Circei, Co-Founder and CEO of Waydev (2027)Alex Circei is the co-founder and CEO of Waydev, a Y Combinator-backed engineering intelligence company. His career, how Executive Spotlight: Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta (2027)Alexandr Wang is Meta's first Chief AI Officer and leads Meta Superintelligence Labs. Career, Scale AI, Muse Spark and M Executive Spotlight: Ali Rowghani, Founder of Maxq (2027)Ali Rowghani founded Maxq, a San Francisco seed-stage venture firm. His path from Pixar CFO to Twitter COO to YC Continu Executive Spotlight: Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder and CEO of Databricks (2027)Ali Ghodsi is co-founder and CEO of Databricks, CEO since 2016. Career, Apache Spark roots, the $190 billion round and c Executive Spotlight: Amjad Masad, Co-Founder and CEO of Replit (2027)Amjad Masad is co-founder and CEO of Replit, the company he founded in 2016. Career, the pivot to non-programmers, the $ Executive Spotlight: Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger, Founder and CEO of Grounded Work (2027)Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger is founder and CEO of Grounded Work, an AI consultancy. Her IBM Watson, Figure Eight and Blue Executive Spotlight: Amy Hood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft (2027)Amy Hood is Executive Vice President and CFO of Microsoft, CFO since 2013. Her career, the deals she worked on and compa Executive Spotlight: Who Is Amy Butte, Board Director and Former CFO of Navan? (2027)Amy Butte is a public-company board director and former CFO of Navan and the NYSE. Current roles, career path, Navan IPO Executive Spotlight: Andrej Karpathy, AI Researcher on Pretraining at Anthropic (2027)Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pretraining team in May 2026 after Eureka Labs, Tesla and OpenAI. Career, known work Executive Spotlight: Who Is Amy Spurling, Founder and CEO of Compt? (2027)Amy Spurling is the founder and CEO of Compt, a lifestyle spending account platform. Her career path, views and Compt's Executive Spotlight: Who Is Ari Lightman, Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University? (2027)Ari Lightman is a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College and directs its CIO Institute. His Executive Spotlight: Who Is Anna Baird, Venture Partner at Madrona? (2027)Anna Baird is a Venture Partner at Madrona and a former Outreach CRO and COO. Her path from KPMG and McAfee to Outreach, Executive Spotlight: Who Is Arif Janmohamed, Lightspeed's Venture Partner? (2027)Arif Janmohamed is a Venture Partner at Lightspeed, where he has invested since 2008. His path from chip designer to ent Executive Spotlight: Who Is Astasia Myers, Senior Venture Partner at Felicis? (2027)Astasia Myers is a Senior Venture Partner at Felicis who invests in AI, data, open source and developer tools. Her path Executive Spotlight: Avon Puri, Chief Digital and Information Officer of Sequoia Capital (2027)Avon Puri is Chief Digital and Information Officer at Sequoia Capital. See his path from VMware to Rubrik's first CIO an Executive Spotlight: Who Is Atif Rafiq, Co-founder and CEO of Ritual? (2027)Atif Rafiq is co-founder and CEO of Ritual, an AI workspace company. His path from Amazon and McDonald's to Volvo Cars a Executive Spotlight: Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President, People eXperience and Technology of Amazon (2027)Beth Galetti is Amazon's Senior Vice President of People eXperience and Technology. See her path from transportation tec Executive Spotlight: Barr Moses, Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo (2027)Barr Moses is Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, the agent trust platform. See her path from Bain and Gainsight to data Executive Spotlight: Brad Lightcap, Former Chief Operating Officer of OpenAI (2027)Brad Lightcap was OpenAI's CFO, then COO, before announcing in August 2026 that he is leaving to start something new. Se Executive Spotlight: Bret Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO of Sierra (2027)Bret Taylor is Co-Founder and CEO of Sierra and chairs OpenAI's board. See his path from Google Maps and Facebook CTO to Executive Spotlight: Camille Ricketts, Operating Partner and Head of Marketing at XYZ Venture Capital (2027)Camille Ricketts is Operating Partner and Head of Marketing at XYZ Venture Capital. See her path from The Wall Street Jo Executive Spotlight: Carlos Delatorre, President, Go To Market at Harness (2027)Carlos Delatorre is President, Go To Market at Harness. See his path from MongoDB CRO and Navan sales chief to leading s Executive Spotlight: Who Is Catie Ivey, GrowthZone's Chief Revenue Officer? (2027)Catie Ivey is Chief Revenue Officer at GrowthZone. See her path through Salesforce, Marketo, Demandbase, Pendo and Walnu Executive Spotlight: Who Is Chris Orlob, Caliber's Founder and CEO? (2027)Chris Orlob is Founder and CEO of Caliber, formerly pClub, a sales skills training company. See his Gong years, what Cal Executive Spotlight: Claire Hughes Johnson, Former Chief Operating Officer of Stripe (2027)Claire Hughes Johnson is a former Stripe COO and author of Scaling People. See her Stripe and Google career, board seats Executive Spotlight: Dave Morton, Chief Financial Officer of Intapp (2027)Dave Morton is Intapp's Chief Financial Officer since August 2023. See his path through DigiCert, Anaplan and Tesla, plu Executive Spotlight: Dave Gerhardt, Founder of Exit Five (2027)Dave Gerhardt is the founder of Exit Five, a B2B marketing community. See his Drift and Privy career, his Founder Brand Executive Spotlight: Dhivya Suryadevara, Former President of Fiserv (2027)Dhivya Suryadevara resigned as Fiserv's president in July 2026. See her path from General Motors CFO to Stripe, Optum an Executive Spotlight: Who Is Dennis Lyandres, CaptivateIQ Board Director? (2027)Dennis Lyandres, former Procore chief revenue officer, is a CaptivateIQ board director and ICONIQ Capital advisor. See h Executive Spotlight: DJ Patil, Co-founder of Warp Sciences (2027)DJ Patil co-founded Warp Sciences, which launched in October 2026 with $215 million. See his path from the White House t Executive Spotlight: Dylan Field, Co-Founder and CEO of Figma (2027)Dylan Field is Figma's co-founder and CEO. See his path from the Thiel Fellowship to the 2025 IPO, with Figma's Q2 2026 Executive Spotlight: Elissa Fink, Former Chief Marketing Officer of Tableau (2027)Elissa Fink is the former Tableau CMO who now teaches at UW Foster and advises tech firms. See her career, board roles a Executive Spotlight: Elena Grewal, Founder of Data 2 the People (2027)Elena Grewal founded Data 2 the People after leading data science at Airbnb. See her path, her Yale teaching and her ice Executive Spotlight: Who Is Gianna Driver, One Workplace's Chief People Officer? (2027)Gianna Driver is Chief People Officer of One Workplace, hired in April 2026 after OpenTable, Lattice and Exabeam. See he Executive Spotlight: Guillaume Pousaz, Founder and CEO of Checkout.com (2027)Guillaume Pousaz founded Checkout.com in 2012 and still runs it as CEO. See his path, the company's 2025 results and dat Executive Spotlight: Who Is Guillermo Rauch, Founder and CEO of Vercel? (2027)Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. See his path, Vercel's $9.3 billion Executive Spotlight: Gwynne Shotwell, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX (2027)Gwynne Shotwell is President and COO of SpaceX, which went public in June 2026. See her path from Aerospace Corp to Spac Executive Spotlight: Harjeet Taggar, Managing Partner of Y Combinator (2027)Harjeet (Harj) Taggar is a Managing Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Triplebyte. See his career, YC-reported nu Executive Spotlight: Harrison Chase, Co-Founder and CEO of LangChain (2027)Harrison Chase is Co-Founder and CEO of LangChain, which raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation in October 202 Executive Spotlight: Henry Ward, Co-Founder and CEO of Carta (2027)Henry Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Carta, the equity management company. See his career path, company-described num Executive Spotlight: Hilary Mason, Co-Founder and CEO of Hidden Door (2027)Hilary Mason is co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door and founder of Fast Forward Labs. See her career, company-reported num Executive Spotlight: Who Is Holly May, Petco's Chief Human Resources Officer? (2027)Holly May is Petco's Chief Human Resources Officer, formerly of Walgreens Boots Alliance. See her career path, a July 20 Executive Spotlight: Jared Friedman, Managing Director, Software at Y Combinator (2027)Jared Friedman is Managing Director, Software at Y Combinator and a co-founder of Scribd. See his career, YC-reported nu Executive Spotlight: Who Is Howie Liu, Airtable's Co-Founder and CEO? (2027)Howie Liu is co-founder and CEO of Airtable. See his career from Etacts to Airtable, his stated product philosophy, comp Executive Spotlight: Who Is Javier Olivan, Meta's Chief Operating Officer? (2027)Javier Olivan is Chief Operating Officer of Meta. See his career since 2007, what he oversees, company-reported numbers Executive Spotlight: Who Is Jason Lemkin, Founder and CEO of SaaStr? (2027)Jason Lemkin is founder and CEO of SaaStr and co-founder of EchoSign. See his career, company-reported numbers and dated Executive Spotlight: Who Is Jeb Blount, Founder and CEO of Sales Gravy? (2027)Jeb Blount is founder and CEO of Sales Gravy and author of 18 books. See his role, company-reported numbers and dated so Executive Spotlight: Who Is Jeremey Donovan, Executive Vice President, Revenue Operations and Strategy at Insight Partners? (2027)Jeremey Donovan is EVP, Revenue Operations and Strategy at Insight Partners and a sales author. See his career and dated Executive Spotlight: Who Is Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer of Saviynt? (2027)Jim Routh is Chief Trust Officer at Saviynt and a former CISO at MassMutual, Aetna and American Express. See his role, c Executive Spotlight: Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners (2027)Jocelyn Goldfein is Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners and a former Facebook and VMware engineering leader. See