Eric Wu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Go-To-Market Network team, focused on SEO and growth marketing. Before joining a16z, he was director of product at PayPal where he led the shopping experience team. Prior to PayPal’s acquisition of Honey, he served as the vice president of product growth for Honey. Over […]
Eduardo Fonseca is a technologist, entrepreneur, startup advisor, and board member with over 30 years of experience in software engineering and more than 20 years in leadership roles. As the former CTO of GoodRx, Eduardo scaled the team from 7 to 120+ engineers, data scientists, compliance experts, and security professionals, guiding the company from startup
Dana Stalder is a Silicon Valley based general partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests in early stage software and fintech companies. Dana’s experience cuts across multiple disciplines including sales, marketing, finance, technology and product management at companies such as eBay, Netscape, PayPal and Respond.com. He has managed nimble ventures as well as 2,500-person teams.
I've been involved with startups and growth companies my entire career focused on the GTM ("Go To Market") function, building teams and revenue models that result in exponential growth. My primary vertical is fintech with an expertise in fraud management and payments. I've had four exists over 25 years with the latest, Verifi, selling to
Dr. Irina Kukuyeva is a business operations-focused technology leader who helps companies understand and unlock customer behavior and feedback loops to build scalable, profitable companies with market fit. She has collaborated with over 100 companies and is a frequent speaker on the topic of building and scaling companies with product-led growth and AI, most recently
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Michael McGuire is President of XR Pay, XR’s division dedicated to comprehensive payroll and financial solutions for the advertising and entertainment industries. Michael brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in enterprise hardware, software and services spanning the financial, technology and entertainment industries. He was most recently COO of FilmTrack, the industry leader in
Ari Engelberg serves as Head of Communications and Strategic Initiatives at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, a position he has held since 2015. In that role, he manages the school’s brand and its portfolio of print and electronic communications efforts. He also oversees a wide range of strategic projects, from new curriculum and programs to
Jennifer Loo most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer at Tala, overseeing the company’s capital markets efforts across both debt and equity and leading the development and expansion of Tala’s diverse portfolio of services. During her tenure there, she was instrumental in growing the business and supporting continuous product innovation, geographic expansion and regulatory
Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. He has invested in the first round of over 100 startups: 6 of which went public, 12 of which were acquired for over $100M such as Zappos, Zynga, Nutanix, Braze and others. Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures,
Noah was the founder and CEO of Stitcher, the podcast platform (acquired by Sirius XM for $325M in 2020) and was on the founding executive team of StubHub, the ticketing company. He also ran the Early Stage Startup team at AWS, have been an EIR at a venture firm and invested in 20+ startups. Prior
