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Neha Govindraj is the founder and CEO of Bonside, Inc., the future of financing for brick-and-mortar businesses. Bonside is currently operating in a members-only Beta and financing best-in-class businesses up to $1m in growth capital. 

At Bonside, rather than investing to own a percentage of the business, we invest to own a percentage of their revenue. Prior to founding Bonside, Neha co-founded Glowbar after working in the consumer and private equity practices of Bain & Company. 

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Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Boom & Bucket. Adam has built 3 enterprise B2B businesses with a combined value of more than $10B as an early exec and operations leader. Prior to Boom & Bucket he was the COO at Bolt where he has partnered with visionary founders to lead 40x revenue and 11x headcount growth (from 15 to 175) over three years. 

Prior to Bolt he started, built, and sold an HR tech company. Early in his career he was the first employee at Addepar and partnered with the founders from seed to post Series C. 

Adam is a leader for high-growth environments with significant ambiguity, shifting roles, and changing priorities. He has a strong ability to synthesize complex business challenges and build operational and action-focused plans. He enjoys all aspects of business operations from sales and marketing to human resources and finance but is particularly passionate about recruiting and building teams.

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Chrissa McFarlane founded Patientory after working more than a decade in the healthcare technology industry and realizing there was a need for more personalized, secure and consumer-driven health information management solutions.

Devoted to fostering digital innovation in the healthcare industry, McFarlane served as co-chair of the HIMSS18 Blockchain Workgroup, the HIMSS Interoperability & Health Information Exchange Committee Named one of the top women, “leaving their mark on the MedTech field in health IT,” by Becker’s Hospital Review and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, McFarlane has published multiple international healthcare research articles. In 2019, McFarlane authored her first book titled Future Women: Minority Female Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Era of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

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Andrew Gazdecki is a 4x founder with 3x exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Axios, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

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Dan is a marketing technology executive and the founder/CEO of Marpipe. Prior to founding Marpipe, Dan launched a marketing consultancy from his dorm room in college, which turned into a fast-growing agency based in Soho, Manhattan that specialized in creative production and demand generation for DTC businesses.

Marpipe was initially developed when the agency ran into trouble with creative testing, and today, Marpipe has raised over $10m from the likes of Adobe, Samsung, and executives at Buzzfeed, Hubspot, MediaMath, and Criteo. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022 in marketing and advertising.

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Dakota Younger is the Founder and CEO of Boon, a gamified employee referral marketplace that engages and incentivizes your organization's existing talent pool to create the highest caliber pipeline of talent.

Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Dakota originally landed in Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy. The years he spent working grounds and staying quick on his feet helped build both the framework and the flexibility for transitioning into entrepreneurship.

After a decade helping Fortune 500 companies and hot new startups source top talent in industries like tech, healthcare, education, hospitality, aviation, and finance, Dakota sold his successful recruitment firms and founded Boon to solve new challenges arising in the recruitment industry.

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Tony Smith is the CEO & Co-Founder of Restaurant365, a rapidly growing, industry leading restaurant software platform. In his current role, he focuses energy on company vision & long-term strategy, building an engaging & inviting culture, and the growth of individuals & the business. 

A lifelong learner, he earned his bachelor’s degree in business management and information systems from Brigham Young University, Magna Cum Laude, and has been recognized for leadership with awards such as Innovator of the Year from the OC Business Journal. A dad-joke connoisseur, Smith enjoys having fun while trying out new restaurants, spending time with his wife and 4 lovely daughters, singing, and watching college football.

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Grant is currently the founder and CEO of Replicated Inc, a platform that enables commercial software vendors to operationalize and scale the distribution of their applications to complex enterprise environments. Their platform is used by many software vendors including UiPath, HashiCorp, Nylas, CircleCI (and many others), and as a result, over 60% of the Fortune 100 have applications deployed by Replicated in their infrastructure.

Grant is also the creator of EnterpriseReady.io & host of the EnterpriseReady Podcast which both aim to help SaaS & software companies build the features that enterprises love. Prior to Replicated, Grant was the founder and CEO of Look.io, which was acquired by LivePerson, Inc (Nasdaq: LPSN).

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Alex is co-founder and CEO of Plug Pagamentos, a LatAm payments platform. For the past 12-years, he's worked with startups around the globe — living in cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, and Madrid. Previous to starting Plug, Alex managed southern Europe for Braintree — a PayPal company, where he saw his best clients attempting integrating multiple PSPs. When not talking about payments or LatAm startups, Alex can be found surfing or training jiu-jitsu.

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Gary Hagmueller is the CEO of Arcion, the world’s only cloud-native, CDC-based data mobility platform. Gary is a proven CEO who has created over $7.5B in enterprise value through two IPOs and four M&A exits over his 20+ years in the tech industry.

Gary holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he was named Sheth Fellow, as well as a bachelor’s in Business Administration from Arizona State University. As a father to twin teenage boys, he is clearly experienced in project management and negotiation skills.

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