The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top Software CEOs of 2025. Over the past decade, software has shifted from an enabling tool to core infrastructure for how modern organizations operate. Enterprise software platforms have expanded in scale, scope, and importance, increasingly determining how data is managed, decisions are made, and work is executed across the economy. That expansion has only accelerated as AI has entered the scene and operational complexity has increased—placing software companies, and the CEOs who lead them, at the center of how institutions function and evolve.
The leaders recognized on this year’s list shape how that influence gets applied in practice. Azul Co-Founder and CEO Scott Sellers expanded Azul’s enterprise Java stack with the December 2025 acquisition of Payara, adding Jakarta EE capabilities as organizations modernize Java applications across hybrid and cloud-native environments. Actian CEO Marc Potter advanced governed data access for AI with the Actian Data Intelligence Platform and the October 2025 release of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, connecting AI assistants to curated enterprise data through a knowledge-graph catalog.
Capital formation has been just as decisive. DDN Co-Founder and CEO Alex Bouzari secured a $300 million strategic investment from Blackstone at a $5 billion valuation, while Clay Co-Founder and CEO Kareem Amin raised a $100 million Series C led by CapitalG at an approximate $3 billion valuation. Starburst Co-Founder and CEO Justin Borgman drove the company’s strongest year yet, including its largest multi-year, eight-figure contract with a global financial institution and adoption across 10 of the top 15 global banks.
These headline milestones capture only part of the year. Across this year’s awardees, each CEO has delivered concrete progress through product launches, acquisitions, and major financings—scaling platforms that help organizations build, secure, and operate software as AI raises the bar across the industry. Please join us in celebrating The Top Software CEOs of 2025.
Justin Borgman
Company: Starburst
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Justin Borgman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Starburst, a data platform for applications and AI. He has led the company’s push to help enterprises securely access, govern, and operate on data across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments without moving it. Starburst has become a core layer for enterprise analytics and AI, with adoption across highly regulated sectors including global banking, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications.
Under his leadership, Starburst has raised over $414 million, including a $250 million Series D and a 2025 strategic investment from Citi. Fiscal 2025 was Starburst’s strongest year yet, with 20% growth in net new customers, a 76% jump in Starburst Galaxy adoption, and the signing of its largest-ever contract—a multi-year, eight-figure agreement with a global financial institution. Its technology now powers analytics for 10 of the top 15 global banks, including HSBC, where it supports a virtual data lake for AI-driven insights.
Before starting Starburst, Justin was VP and general manager at Teradata following its acquisition of Hadapt, where he was co-founder and CEO. At Hadapt, he helped pioneer SQL-on-Hadoop, shaping early foundations for open, federated analytics. Justin earned an MBA from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Mark Moffat
Company: IFS
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Mark Moffat is the Chief Executive Officer of IFS, where he leads the company’s strategy to deliver Industrial AI software for organizations that manufacture, service, and manage complex assets. He joined IFS in 2022 as chief customer officer, setting ambitious growth, profitability, and quality targets before being appointed CEO in January 2024. Since then, he has focused on embedding Industrial AI at the core of IFS’s products, culture, and customer outcomes. With more than 7,000 employees across 80 countries, IFS supports industrial businesses as they modernize processes, strengthen productivity, and improve asset performance.
Under Mark’s leadership, the company advanced its position in Industrial AI through major product and strategic moves, including the release of IFS Cloud 25R2, which introduced agentic Digital Workers capable of executing governed, end-to-end tasks across enterprise systems. IFS also acquired TheLoops to expand autonomous AI capabilities and launched Nexus Black, an innovation accelerator focused on scalable, secure AI solutions for industrial environments.
Before IFS, Mark held senior leadership roles at PwC, most recently as chief technology officer and technology consulting leader for PwC’s UK and EMEA Consulting business. He began his career in finance, training as a Chartered Accountant. Mark is a member of the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales).
Alex Bouzari
Company: DDN
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Alex Bouzari is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DDN, an AI and data intelligence company that builds infrastructure for high-performance AI and high-performance computing workloads. He co-founded DDN more than 25 years ago with Paul Bloch after seeing early supercomputing require a new class of storage and data systems, and has since led the company’s expansion into an end-to-end platform used by enterprises, AI hyperscalers, and cloud providers. Today, DDN supports thousands of customers and more than 500,000 NVIDIA GPUs, serving organizations across financial services, life sciences, the public sector, and AI infrastructure.
In January 2025, Blackstone made a $300 million strategic investment in DDN at a $5 billion valuation to support the company’s continued growth as demand accelerates for AI and HPC software and infrastructure. Alex’s leadership has remained closely tied to DDN’s core platforms, including EXAScaler for high-performance parallel file systems and Infinia for unifying AI data intelligence across core, cloud, and edge environments. He studied engineering at both MIT and Stanford University.
Eli Finkelshteyn
Company: Constructor
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Eli Finkelshteyn is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Constructor, an e-commerce search and product discovery software company. A data engineer by training, he has built systems focused on large-scale data and machine learning, with prior roles at companies including Tumblr and Shutterstock.
Eli co-founded Constructor in 2015 with Dan McCormick and has led the company’s product strategy around using behavioral and clickstream data to improve search relevance and on-site discovery for retailers. By 2025, Constructor reported that enterprise customers were seeing $10 million-plus revenue lifts and that the platform outperformed competing solutions by an average of 3% in controlled A/B tests.
Eli holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, and economics from Brandeis University, followed by a master’s degree in computational linguistics, where his work focused on language analysis and machine learning.
Kareem Amin
Company: Clay
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Kareem Amin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clay, where he leads the company’s mission to build creative tools that help growth teams find and reach their best-fit customers. Founded in 2017, Clay brings first-party data, intent signals, and more than 100 third-party enrichments into a single environment, enabling individuals and small teams to run sophisticated go-to-market campaigns that once required full GTM organizations.
Kareem has led Clay’s shift toward AI-driven go-to-market workflows, with a focus on turning fragmented data sources into repeatable research and outreach systems for lean teams. In August 2025, the company raised a $100 million Series C led by CapitalG at an approximate $3 billion valuation and completed a tender offer allowing employees to sell shares.
Before Clay, Kareem held senior product roles at The Wall Street Journal and Sailthru, and earlier worked as a program manager at Microsoft. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from McGill University.
Chris Walters
Company: Finastra
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Chris Walters leads Finastra, a financial services software provider supporting payments, lending, and treasury operations for more than 8,000 institutions in over 130 countries, including 45 of the world’s top 50 banks. Under his leadership, the company has sharpened its focus on banking and payments technology, including an agreement in May 2025 to sell its Treasury and Capital Markets division to funds advised by Apax Partners. In September 2025, Finastra launched a modern ACH payment solution within its Global PAYplus platform, enabling U.S. banks to manage ACH, wires, and real-time payments through a unified payments hub.
Previously, Chris served as CEO of Pluralsight and held senior leadership roles, including CEO of Encompass Digital Media, COO of The Weather Company, and COO of Bloomberg’s Industry Verticals Group. He has also been a partner at McKinsey & Company and a senior partner at Activate Consulting. Chris serves on the Board of PrizePicks and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Vermont.
Marc Potter
Company: Actian
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Marc Potter serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Actian, leading the company’s strategy and execution as it helps enterprises turn complex data environments into AI-ready assets. He joined in 2019 as chief revenue and operations officer and was appointed CEO in January 2023, bringing more than two decades of experience across enterprise software, cloud, and data platforms.
Under Marc’s leadership, Actian has sharpened its focus on data intelligence and governance. A defining 2025 milestone was the launch of the Actian Data Intelligence Platform in March, which unified metadata management, data cataloging, and governance following the Zeenea acquisition. In October 2025, Actian released its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an addition to the Actian Data Intelligence Platform. The MCP Server connects AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to governed, high-quality data through a knowledge-graph catalog, making it easier to find related information and understand how data fits together.
Before Actian, Marc led cloud security and management sales initiatives at Oracle and held senior leadership roles at ObserveIT, Quest Software, Dell, Computer Associates, and Cabletron Systems. Across these roles, he built and scaled global sales and partner organizations, with a strong emphasis on execution and team development. Marc holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire.
Chaim Indig
Company: Phreesia
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Chaim Indig has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Phreesia since co-founding the company in 2005, dedicating his career to improving how patients engage with healthcare. Under his leadership, Phreesia has grown into a national platform that supports registration, scheduling, payments, and clinical workflows, facilitating approximately 170 million patient visits annually. Chaim also guided the company through its IPO in 2019, marking a major step in scaling its patient-centered mission.
In 2025, the company took two major steps forward in its mission to improve patient access and affordability. It announced plans to acquire AccessOne for $160 million in September 2025, expanding its payment capabilities with patient-friendly financing solutions used by large U.S. health systems. Earlier that year, the company also launched Phreesia VoiceAI, an always-on conversational AI solution designed to reduce call wait times and improve access by intelligently routing and resolving patient calls.
Before Phreesia, Chaim helped introduce analytics software company Spotfire into the pharmaceutical marketing space, building experience at the intersection of data and healthcare. Chaim attended Carleton University.
Pete Schmied
Company: Appspace
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Pete Schmied is the Chief Executive Officer of Appspace, a workplace experience platform that combines employee communications, intranet, digital signage, and space management in one system. Under his leadership, the platform has been adopted by more than 170 Fortune 500 organizations worldwide. In September 2025, Appspace agreed to acquire Igloo Software, adding more than 325 customers and expanding its footprint in intranet and employee communications for distributed workforces.
Pete joined Appspace in 2020 and previously served as chief customer officer and president before being named CEO. His background spans enterprise software and cloud services, including co-founding Concerto Cloud Services, serving as EVP and GM for DXC Americas, and holding senior leadership roles at OpenText and Metastorm.
Benjamin Marchal
Company: 360Learning
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Benjamin Marchal is the CEO and Co-Founder of 360Learning, where he leads the company’s mission to transform corporate learning from a top-down process into a collaborative, skills-driven engine for business performance. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where exposure to large-scale transformations shaped his focus on how learning programs connect to workforce skills and performance.
He joined 360Learning in 2019 and quickly became central to its scale-up, helping grow the organization from roughly 100 to more than 400 employees and supporting its Series C funding round. Over time, Benjamin took on expanding responsibility across product, marketing, HR, and U.S. revenue, shaping how the platform blends collaborative learning with AI to identify skills gaps and deliver learning at the moment of need.
The next chapter of that journey began when Benjamin was appointed Chief Executive Officer in April 2025, stepping into the role to guide 360Learning through its next phase of global growth. Benjamin holds a master’s degree in management from ESSEC Business School and completed an MBA exchange program at HKUST, with a focus on finance, entrepreneurship, and business in China.
Eric Laughlin
Company: Agiloft
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Eric Laughlin is the Chief Executive Officer of Agiloft, a contract lifecycle management software company serving enterprises worldwide. Under his leadership, Agiloft has continued expanding its AI capabilities across the contract lifecycle, including the December 2025 launch of enterprise-grade, AI-driven Obligation Management. The release helps organizations translate post-signature contract commitments into structured outputs that support compliance, monitoring, and execution across teams.
Before joining Agiloft, Eric was global leader of legal managed services at Ernst & Young, overseeing the Pangea3 and Riverview Law teams and delivering contract, e-discovery, and compliance solutions to Fortune 1000 clients. Earlier, he spent over a decade at Thomson Reuters, where he held senior leadership roles including managing director of the corporate segment and general manager of Serengeti, shaping software and services for in-house legal teams. Eric holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University.
Jabbok Schlacks
Company: EquipmentShare
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Jabbok Schlacks is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EquipmentShare, a construction technology company that combines equipment rental, sales, service, and connected jobsite software. Since co-founding the company in 2015 with his brother, Willy Schlacks, he has led its expansion into a national platform powered by EquipmentShare’s T3 operating system, which connects fleets, jobsites, and operations data in real time. Today, EquipmentShare operates more than 370 locations across 45 states and supports contractors with tools designed to reduce downtime and improve equipment utilization at scale.
Jabbok has also overseen the company’s buildout of infrastructure to support large, connected fleets, including the October 2025 opening of its Technology Development Center, first Distribution Center, and 24/7 Uptime Center to monitor connected equipment in real time. A core pillar of EquipmentShare’s growth strategy is the OWN Program, a capital-light model that sells fleet assets to investors who lease them back under EquipmentShare management; as of March 2025, the program represented $3.6 billion in fleet value. With $3.9 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, EquipmentShare ranks among the largest equipment rental providers in the U.S.
David Pinn
Company: Brain Corp
Title: Chief Executive Officer
David Pinn has served as Chief Executive Officer of Brain Corp since 2022, following several years in executive leadership roles after joining the company in 2017. During his tenure, he has been central to Brain Corp’s evolution from a robotics hardware business into a high-margin SaaS company, with BrainOS now powering tens of thousands of autonomous mobile robots across retail, logistics, education, and healthcare environments worldwide.
Before becoming CEO, David held roles including CFO and CSO, where he led over $100 million in capital raises and helped establish strategic partnerships with global OEMs. Under David’s leadership, Brain Corp launched its Trust Center in August 2025, reinforcing transparency, safety, and data privacy standards as autonomous robots scale across public and commercial spaces.
Earlier in his career, he was head of finance at Antenna79 and co-founded Snaptracs, a Qualcomm subsidiary that was later sold in a $117 million acquisition by Mars following its merger with Whistle. David holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Chris Sullens
Company: CentralReach
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Chris Sullens is the Chief Executive Officer of CentralReach, where he leads the company’s mission to help children and adults with autism and related intellectual and developmental disabilities unlock potential, achieve better outcomes, and live more independent lives. Since joining the company in 2018, he has focused on building a customer-centric culture and expanding CentralReach from a core system of record into a broader, AI-driven platform supporting care delivery, operations, and outcomes across the autism and IDD ecosystem.
Under his leadership, CentralReach agreed to be acquired by Roper Technologies in March 2025 for approximately $1.65 billion. The deal is expected to add about $175 million in revenue and $75 million in EBITDA for the year ending June 30, 2026. Later in the year, CentralReach also acquired SpectrumAi and AI.Measures, integrating video capture, clinician decision support, and severity-adjusted assessments to help shift the industry toward outcomes-based care alongside traditional fee-for-service models.
Before CentralReach, Chris spent a decade as president and CEO of WorkWave, where he transformed the business into a multi-product SaaS platform through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Chris holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech.
Scott Sellers
Company: Azul Systems
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Scott Sellers is the Co-Founder and CEO of Azul Systems, where he sets the company’s strategy and long-range vision for building the Java platform for modern cloud enterprises. With more than 30 years of leading high-technology companies, Scott oversees product direction as Azul supports organizations running Java at scale across production systems. Under his leadership, Azul acquired Payara in December 2025, expanding Azul’s enterprise Java stack with Jakarta EE (Java EE) capabilities and deepening its ability to support large-scale application modernization across hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Before Azul, Scott co-founded 3dfx Interactive and served as VP of engineering, CTO, and a board member, helping pioneer 3D graphics for PCs and game consoles. After 3dfx’s IPO, the company was later acquired by NVIDIA. Earlier in his career, Scott worked as a CPU systems architect at Pellucid (later acquired by MediaVision) and was on the technical staff at Silicon Graphics, designing high-performance workstations. Scott earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
Rajat Mishra
Company: Prezent
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Rajat Mishra is the Co-Founder and CEO of Prezent, an AI-powered business communication platform built to help global teams turn complex ideas into clear, persuasive narratives. Before launching Prezent, he was SVP at Cisco Systems, where he held P&L responsibility for Cisco’s $14 billion CX business and led a 1,000+ person organization spanning strategy, product management, and marketing. His earlier leadership experience includes roles at Mu Sigma, McKinsey & Company, and Microsoft.
At Prezent, Rajat has scaled the platform into a trusted communication layer for more than 150 Fortune 2000 companies, helping teams produce on-brand, executive-ready presentations up to 90% faster while reducing reliance on external design agencies. In October 2025, Prezent acquired Prezentium, expanding its AI-plus-human delivery model and extending its presence in regulated industries such as life sciences.
Rajat also led the development of Astrid, Prezent’s proprietary communication framework, and has pushed for instructor-led workshops and coaching partnerships so technology amplifies human thinking rather than replacing it. He earned an MBA in strategic management from The Wharton School and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Delhi.
Amjad Masad
Company: Replit
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Amjad Masad is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Replit, an AI-enabled software creation platform that lets users build applications through code and natural language. Under his leadership, Replit reported rapid growth in 2025, including scaling annual recurring revenue from $10 million to more than $100 million within roughly five and a half months as usage expanded. The company has described its approach as “agentic” development, using AI to help users generate, iterate, and ship software faster.
Before founding Replit in 2016, Amjad was a tech lead on Facebook’s JavaScript infrastructure team, contributing to widely used developer tooling including Babel, Jest, and the React Native packager. Earlier, he was the first employee at Codecademy, where he helped shape early product and infrastructure, and he also worked as a software engineer at Yahoo. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Princess Sumaya University for Technology.
Grant Demaree
Company: Onebrief
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Grant Demaree is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onebrief, a software platform used by military teams to plan, coordinate, and update operational plans. Grant served in the U.S. Army and drew on firsthand experience with large-scale planning in operational environments, including deployments tied to the Ebola response in Liberia and later with SOJTF-OIR in Iraq, where he began developing the early concepts that became Onebrief.
Since founding Onebrief in 2019, Grant has led the company’s development for use by operational commands. In 2025, the platform expanded live operation across networks including NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, and coalition environments, supporting synchronized planning workflows across classifications. Grant is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in international relations and nuclear engineering.
Jesse Zhang
Company: Decagon
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Jesse Zhang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Decagon, a conversational AI platform built to help brands deliver concierge customer experiences at scale. He started Decagon after seeing firsthand how rigid, legacy customer support systems struggled to meet modern expectations. His focus has been on turning customer experience operations into a strategic growth lever. The company uses AI agents that resolve complex issues, reduce support costs, and deepen customer relationships without increasing headcount.
Under Jesse’s leadership, Decagon has become a trusted platform for global brands across consumer, fintech, and enterprise sectors. The company raised a $131 million Series C round at a $1.5 billion valuation in June 2025, just one year after emerging from stealth. Before Decagon, Jesse founded Lowkey, which was acquired by Niantic, and gained early technical and financial experience through internships at Google, Hudson River Trading, and Citadel. He studied computer science at Harvard University.
Ryan Alshak
Company: Laurel
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Ryan Alshak is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Laurel, a time-capture and analytics platform used by professional services firms. A former practicing attorney, Ryan founded Laurel after firsthand experience with manual timekeeping workflows, including tracking work in six-minute increments.
Founded in 2018, Laurel focuses on capturing work activity across channels such as email, meetings, and documents and turning it into reviewable time entries and time data that firms can analyze. In June 2025, Laurel raised a $100 million Series C led by IVP, with participation from investors including GV and 01 Advisors.
Before founding Laurel, Ryan practiced law at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, after earlier work in financial analysis. He earned his JD from USC Gould School of Law and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Brian Long
Company: Adaptive Security
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Brian Long is the Co-Founder and CEO of Adaptive Security, a platform built to prepare organizations for AI-powered social engineering, such as deepfakes, vishing, smishing, and GenAI phishing, through realistic simulations and highly personalized security training. After building TapCommerce and later scaling Attentive, Brian and co-founder Andrew Jones founded the company in response to how little data attackers now need—often seconds of public audio or video—to impersonate executives and target employees.
At Adaptive, Brian leads a product-first approach to employee readiness, using AI to run impersonation scenarios across voice, SMS, video, and email, then tailoring training based on how individuals respond. A notable 2025 milestone came in April 2025, when Adaptive raised a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz and the OpenAI Startup Fund. Brian studied at the University of Pennsylvania and later attended the NYU Stern School of Business, pursuing an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship.
John Nay
Company: Norm Ai
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
John Nay is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Norm Ai, a legal and compliance AI company that turns laws, regulations, and internal policies into AI agents that support regulatory review and compliance workflows. He founded the company after more than a decade of work at the intersection of AI and law, including research with Stanford’s CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics.
In November 2025, John led Norm Ai’s expanded partnership with Blackstone through an additional $50 million investment, bringing total funding to more than $140 million. That same month, John supported the launch of Norm Law LLP, an independent, AI-native law firm designed to integrate Norm Ai’s technology directly into legal workflows, initially with a focus on financial services clients.
Before Norm Ai, John started and led Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence, an AI-powered investment platform and SEC-registered investment adviser that was acquired by Nuveen in 2025. That experience shaped Norm Ai’s focus on deploying AI in highly regulated, high-stakes settings.
John earned a PhD from Vanderbilt University for research on AI and decision-making and completed postdoctoral research at New York University focused on AI and law. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, where he co-created one of the first AI-focused law courses.
Rahul Vohra
Company: Superhuman
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superhuman, an AI-native email product used by professionals to manage high-volume communication. After previously co-founding Rapportive, acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, he started Superhuman to rebuild the inbox from the ground up, helping customers move through email faster and reclaim hours every week.
In 2025 under Rahul’s leadership, Superhuman became part of Grammarly. Later that year, Grammarly rebranded its parent company name to Superhuman and introduced the Superhuman Suite, bringing together Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new assistant called Superhuman Go. Superhuman Go launched through the Grammarly browser extension and can connect across web-based tools, including options such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Jira, to support workflow tasks in context.
Rahul studied computer science at the University of Cambridge, earning a bachelor’s degree and beginning a PhD (on leave), before building products at the intersection of communication, workflow, and productivity.
Alex Bovee
Company: ConductorOne
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Alex Bovee is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConductorOne, an identity security company focused on identity governance and privileged access management for modern enterprise environments. ConductorOne was built to unify identity governance, access management, and privileged access into a single AI-native platform. Before founding ConductorOne in 2020, Alex held product leadership roles at Okta, where he worked across areas including authentication and Zero Trust initiatives.
In October 2025, Alex oversaw ConductorOne’s $79 million Series B round led by Greycroft, with participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and existing investors including Accel and Felicis Ventures, bringing total funding to more than $100 million. The financing supported continued investment in the company’s AI-native approach to securing human, non-human, and AI identities at scale. ConductorOne’s enterprise customers include Zscaler, Ramp, DoorDash, and Instacart.
Before founding ConductorOne, Alex held senior product leadership roles at Lookout, where he helped transition the company from consumer security to enterprise mobile threat defense. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University.
Harjot Gill
Company: CodeRabbit
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Harjot Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of CodeRabbit, an AI-first developer tools company focused on augmenting software quality workflows. He founded the company after seeing a clear bottleneck emerge as AI code generation accelerated. While developers could write code faster, reviews became slower, more complex, and harder to scale. CodeRabbit was built to address that gap with context-aware, human-like AI code reviews that help teams ship faster without sacrificing quality. Under his leadership, CodeRabbit raised a $60 million Series B in September 2025, valuing the company at $550 million and pushing annual recurring revenue beyond $15 million as adoption accelerated across thousands of engineering teams.
Before CodeRabbit, Harjot was a repeat founder and senior technology leader. He previously co-founded Netsil, which pioneered network-centric application observability and was acquired by Nutanix, where he later served as Senior Director of Technology. He also founded FluxNinja, a platform focused on advanced rate limiting and request prioritization for modern, AI-driven systems. Harjot holds two master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, one in computer science and another in computer systems networking and telecommunications.
Slavik Markovich
Company: Descope
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Slavik Markovich is the Co-Founder and CEO of Descope, an external identity and access management platform built to simplify authentication and authorization for modern applications, partners, and AI agents. A serial entrepreneur with decades of enterprise security experience, Slavik has spent his career tackling complex infrastructure problems at scale.
A major 2025 milestone for Descope came when the company extended and closed its seed round in September at $88 million total funding, alongside launching new agentic identity capabilities designed to govern authentication and authorization for AI agents and MCP ecosystems.
Before starting Descope in 2022, Slavik co-founded and led Demisto, a pioneer in security orchestration, automation, and response. Following Demisto’s acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, he served as SVP of products, helping scale Cortex XSOAR into a hypergrowth platform. Earlier, he was VP and CTO of database technologies at McAfee after the company acquired Sentrigo, a database security startup he also co-founded and served as CTO. Slavik holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and is an active investor, board member, and advisor to multiple security startups.
Will Bryk
Company: Exa
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Will Bryk is the Co-Founder and CEO of Exa, an applied AI company building a search engine designed specifically for AI systems rather than ads or keywords. Exa’s mission is to deliver precise, high-quality web knowledge at scale, giving both humans and machines full control over the world’s shared data.
In September 2025, Will led Exa’s $85 million Series B raise at a $700 million valuation, with Benchmark leading the round and participation from Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and NVentures. The funding marked Exa’s transition into its next growth phase, scaling web-scale indexing infrastructure and GPU compute to power search for thousands of AI-driven applications across industries.
Before founding Exa in 2021, Will was one of the first engineers at Cresta, where he built real-time AI products for human support workflows. His technical foundation was shaped at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and physics, and researched human-AI interaction.
Alex Halliday
Company: AirOps
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Alex Halliday is the Founder and CEO of AirOps, a content engineering platform helping brands stay visible as discovery shifts from traditional search to AI-driven answers. AirOps gives marketing teams the systems to design, optimize, and scale high-quality content that performs across SEO and AI search without sacrificing accuracy or brand voice. The company raised a Series B round led by Greylock in November 2025, fueling team growth, international expansion into Europe, and continued product innovation as brands adapt to AI-first discovery.
Before starting AirOps in 2022, Alex built a career at the intersection of product, growth, and infrastructure. He was the first product hire at MasterClass, where he built the product organization from scratch, helped scale revenue tenfold, and led the shift from one-time purchases to a subscription model. Earlier roles included leading product initiatives at Teespring and serving as VP of product at Bungalow, alongside founding two earlier startups. Alex studied at the London School of Economics.
Gianni Cuozzo
Company: Exein
Title: Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Gianni Cuozzo is the Founder and CEO of Exein, a Rome-headquartered cybersecurity company building what it describes as the digital immune system for connected devices. He founded Exein in 2018 to address a growing gap in device-level security, as the majority of firmware across IoT and industrial systems remained vulnerable to attack. Under his leadership, Exein embeds AI-powered runtime security directly into firmware, enabling real-time threat detection and response at the edge.
Exein raised €100 million in new funding in December 2025, following its Series C, to accelerate global expansion across the U.S. and APAC, advance AI-driven embedded security, and support a multi-deal M&A strategy as device-level cyber risk continues to grow worldwide.
Before Exein, Gianni founded and led Aspisec, an Italian security firm specializing in penetration testing for complex industrial, financial, and medical systems. His early career also included advisory work in economic policy, including consulting for the Italian Senate. Gianni completed executive education at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he studied business administration and management.