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Keshav Pingali is the CEO and co-founder of Katana Graph, the AI-powered Graph Intelligence Platform providing faster, deeper, and more accurate insights on massive and complex data. 

Keshav holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He received his Masters in Electrical Engineering and his Doctorate in Science from MIT. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University

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David Hoffman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Beam, the easiest way to design and remodel your home. From the DIY’er, to the hands-off-I-need-to-hire, Beam provides you with all of the tools you need to remodel better. Previously, David co-founded Next Big Sound, which was named one of the 10 best music startups of 2010 by Billboard Magazine before the company was acquired by Pandora in 2015.

 When David isn’t growing Beam, he’s likely working on his own remodeling projects or making memories with his wife and two daughters. To learn more about Beam or to start your next remodeling project with ease, visit www.buildwithbeam.com 

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Born in France, founded HireSweet in 2016 - we help companies hire for roles where they lack applicants (like software engineering, sales, etc.). Spearheaded sales and marketing from the 1st to 1000th client, grew the team to 40 people while raising a single Seed round of $1.5M, and got selected by Y Combinator. 

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Rafael Cosman is the CEO & Co-founder of TrustToken, the core team building TrueFi into the protocol for global lending. TrueFi lets portfolio managers launch uncollateralized lending opportunities on-chain to a global base of lenders and borrowers. Since November 2020, has completed $1.5B of origination and +$1B of repayments with no defaults. 

Prior to TrustToken, Rafael helped build StreetCode, a non-profit that teaches East Palo Alto youth technical skills, and worked at Google Brain, Palantir, and Kernel. 

Rafael graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. In his free time, you’ll find Rafael reading or surfing.

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Matt Cutler is CEO & Co-Founder of Blocknative, the leading real-time infrastructure for monitoring pre-chain data, optimizing gas spend, and predicting transaction settlement. Matt has founded multiple technology startups, including Web analytics pioneer NetGenesis, which went public in 2000 at the height of the Web 1.0 boom. 

His most recent startup, mobile collaboration platform Collaborate.com, was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Along the way, Matt has consistently made meaningful contributions to emerging technology ecosystems, including serving as chair of the first-ever Webmasters Guild, co-authoring the award winning E-Metrics Whitepaper, championing AdWeek’s Viral Video Awards, establishing Cisco’s global Design Thinking initiative, and more

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Michael Broughton is the founder and CEO of Altro. He founded Altro in 2019, following personal frustrations with access to credit and financial tools. Prior to Altro, Michael spent time in Venture Capital, scouting for Sequoia Capital and working with early stage startups such as - Madefor, working with Blake Mycosike on launching the brand, shipping first product and understanding consumer spending (starting as us 4 out of his office at Toms); to Launching DOAPKitchens product at unis and creating their University Program, with the program starting at USC and expanding to local universities. 

Michael currently sits on the board of a ~900M Credit Union, turning from a board member to Vice Chairman in the past 4 years. He now spends his time in consumer finance, investing/advising companies such as Burst, StreetFins, LendMe, Of All Trades, Barcode, and others. Altro, since inception, has raised over $20M and grown its team across the United States. Altro aims to serve the 86M Americans who do not have access to finance.

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Brendan P. Keegan serves as Chief Executive Officer [CEO] at Merchants Fleet and was recently named the world’s Most Innovative CEO by CEO World Awards®; Executive of the Year, silver winner by Best in Biz Awards; and a Stevie Awards® bronze winner by American Business Awards®. He has been involved with Merchants since 2009—as a client, board member, and strategic advisor. Brendan is focused on transforming the company’s business model and creating a new category within the fleet industry known as FleetTech. Brendan’s innovative leadership has fueled the company’s strategic direction and positioned Merchants as the fastest-growing fleet management company in North America.

Brendan is an award winning, 6-time President & CEO of companies ranging from 500 to over 10,000 employees located in nearly 150 countries in the tech & financial services sectors. He served as the Fortune 100’s youngest Chief Sales Officer for EDS, a $22-billion tech leader. Brendan has raised nearly $2.0B in capital and returned over $4.0B to investors. He has trained over 350,000 leaders, led nearly 50,000 employees, and driven sales of $100B+.

Previously, Brendan was named a Distinguished Fellow by Dartmouth College, Fast50 Executive by FastCompany, successful entrepreneur by Enterprise Bank, US Business Delegate to Africa, Best-of-the-Best CEOs by Incentive, 100 Fastest Growing Companies by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Business of the Year by NH Business Journal, Top 10 Coach of the Year by USA Football, and Volunteer of the Year & Youth Coach of the Year in NH.

Brendan received his Bachelor’s Degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MBA from the George Washington University, and Executive Certificates from Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania & University of Chicago. 

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Sahil is the CEO and co-founder of Dots, a Y Combinator company building a developer-friendly API that lets businesses pay their contractors through just a few lines of code. Whether it's gig workers like Uber drivers, sellers on marketplaces like Etsy, or simply just your local handyman - Dots’ abstracts away the complexity of payouts completely. 

Sahil is dedicated to providing a simple-to-use API that makes money movement as flexible as the modern workforce. Prior to Dots, Sahil worked at Google Research and Google X on early stage projects. Sahil received a M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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Dan Raju is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Tradier. As one of the larger volume producing brokerage platforms, Tradier has grown in the last 5 years to become the preferred destination for Active Investing. 

Tradier offers a MarketPlace of Investor Platforms and the most widely used brokerage web APIs for Trading Platforms, Advisors, and Developers to build embedded or complete investing experiences. Trader today powers some of the biggest and most innovative financial services platforms in the market.

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As co-founder and CEO of Future, Jean-Louis Warnholz oversees Future’s overall strategy, forges impactful partnerships, and develops financial tools to simplify climate-smart living for families and individuals. Jean-Louis possesses years of entrepreneurial experience. 

As the Founding Principal and Managing Director of the BlackIvy Group, he was responsible for the company’s growth strategy and development of new businesses. Anchored in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania, BlackIvy delivers life's essentials to consumers in Africa across five verticals in health, housing, food, logistics, and warehousing. Previously, Jean-Louis worked for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office, the Soros Economic Development Fund, and the World Bank.

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