Change Wave

As Pantheon's Head of Product, Josh is focused on making the Open Web a first class platform for delivering results. Championing the value of the developer experience, and the need to demonstrate impact with data, his work combines the visionary ideals of Open Source with the pragmatic utility of the agile approach. Prior to founding Pantheon, Josh was part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003.

Dave has taken on a dizzying variety of challenges that range from building an enterprise product from scratch to acquisition (Foundstone) to transforming a consumer product line (Norton). He was CPO of CrowdStrike when it had a handful of customers and established its product line as a disruptive force in the industry which has fueled the company’s explosive growth. Most recently, he was CPO of Tenable where he steered the team through an aggressive expansion, culminating in a successful IPO.

Stacie M. de Armas is a storyteller, consumer behaviorist, thought leader and subject matter expert on the Hispanic market. She is Vice President in Nielsen’s Diversity & Inclusion practice,  and responsible for researching, uncovering and sharing insights on the power of the Hispanic consumer. 

She is the recipient of many industry awards for excellence and was most recently named one of the most powerful and influential Latinos in entertainment by Imagen Foundation.

Tobi is an experienced Software Engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. He helped scale Airbnb to millions of users worldwide as technical lead. Research work on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning.

Tobi co-founded a company at the age of 15.

Specialties: Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Fraud Detection, Security, JVM, R, Ruby on Rails

Ruth Crowley joined Lowe’s in 2016 as Vice President, Customer Experience Design. Using Human-centered design methodology, she was responsible for leading her team’s

efforts to create cohesive customer experiences that are emotionally and seasonally relevant and aligned with strategic company objectives.

Rafal builds delightful, innovative products and ignites passion in others to do the same. He builds his engineering team's culture, growing people and supporting them at different stages of their careers.

Rafal's engineering experience spans from building SMB products to large enterprise software. His leadership & managerial experience includes building teams from scratch and managing other managers.

A seasoned technology executive, Dave joined Impact in February 2017 and has been providing strategic leadership to premier SaaS companies in the technology space for more than 20 years. Dave is a dynamic, results-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance in turnaround and fast-paced global marketing services and SaaS organizations, including in public company settings.

Christian Gormsen is the CEO of Eargo, the health tech company destigmatizing hearing loss through consumer-driven innovation, where he brings more than 20 years experience in hearing health to bring a new form factor and modern approach to hearing aids.

Shaul is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Digital Asset where he is responsible for the company’s overall technology strategy, including the architecture and engineering of its distributed ledger and DAML, Digital Asset’s smart contract modeling language.

Ben Peterson is co-founder and CEO of BambooHR, one of the world’s most successful HR software companies serving over 15,000 small and medium businesses. Among other awards, BambooHR was recently ranked #10 in Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 Workplaces in Technology. Entrepreneur, Fortune, Glassdoor and more continue to recognize BambooHR’s company culture and software as one of the world’s best. Ben brings more than 20 years of industry experience and a clear focus on building people first.