Change Wave

Mike Boufford is the CTO of Greenhouse Software and an advisor to several NY startups. He scaled up from Greenhouse's first line of code to running a 100-person cross-functional team.

Miguel is Senior Vice President at Bleacher Report with responsibility for the Engineering and Video Production teams. 

He spent the first chunk of his career as a programmer across a number of companies and industries. Over the last 10 years he has built technology and teams inside of media companies such as Flixster, RottenTomatoes, and, Bleacher Report. He has been on all sides of acquisitions, speeding up, slowing down, success and failures.

From building the team which launched Amazon's Echo product to heading Talent and Culture for companies like Socrata and now Rover.com, Jovana Teodorovic has built a career on the notion that employee happiness is a competitive advantage in any business. Hiring strong teams and fostering a positive work culture is essential to the success and innovation of companies, particularly in the fast moving tech industry.

Christy Phillips is the Chief Talent Officer for WillowTree, a mobile innovation agency building products for some of the world’s leading brands. Christy leads the teams responsible for hiring the best talent from all over the country and creating a world-class employee experience. She feels fortunate to work for a company committed to creating an inclusive work environment, which has helped WillowTree earn national awards such as Fortune Magazine’s and Glassdoor’s Best Place to Work lists.

Jason Warner joined GitHub in June 2017 as the Senior Vice President of Technology. He serves on the company’s executive team and is responsible for GitHub’s product, engineering, support, and security departments.

Technology and business executive with experience in both high growth startup and Fortune 500 companies. Experience managing domestic and international engineering and operation teams.

Specialties: High performance team development and management

Executive coaching

Corporate and Technology Strategy Development

Software Engineering Processes and Management

Systems Architecture for Highly Available, High Transaction Rate Web Services

Technical executive with over thirty years of management and programming experience. Founder of multiple successful technical companies. Advanced technical management skills with the proven ability to build and run profitable business entities.

As a co-founder of Credit Karma and Chief Technical Officer, Ryan Graciano has grown the company’s engineering department from a one-man band into a team of

hundreds, developing a technical framework to support the company’s rapid growth. His expertise and innovation has helped bring new levels of usability and

sophistication to financial services technologies, providing value to over 85 million members.

John joined Qualtrics in February of 2015 as their Global Head of Engineering. Prior to Qualtrics, John spent 10 years at Amazon in a wide variety of roles. His most recent role at Amazon was as an Engineering Director and founding member of the Amazon Echo team, where he was responsible for building the Alexa service. Prior to Amazon, he worked at Microsoft, Active Voice Corporation, and Openwave Systems as a Software Engineer.

C-level technology executive, product strategist and thought leader with over 20 years of experience innovating enterprise software products across the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC), manufacturing and film and game industries.