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Debbie is an award winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, board member, thought leader, author and advisor with a 26 year track record of scaling profitable technology startups.

She is currently the founder and chairwoman of Stride Consulting, an agile software development firm. She has been CEO of 3 technology startups, 2 of which she founded. She has scaled 4 high performing technology companies through 2 global dow...

Andrew has a strong track record of growing and leading early and mid-stage companies into stable organizations. He co-founded CREDANT Technologies in 2001 (data encryption software) and was acquired by Dell in December 2012 and he is a former Chairman of the Graduate School Alumni Board at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. Andrew is now the CEO of Backbox, a market leader in network automation, security, an...

Shelley Perry has 25 years of experience as a software executive, including with NTT, HP, and TicketMaster. She also spent four years as a Venture and Operating Partner with Insight Partners, and today works with Nexa Equity Partners and with us at Elsewhere Partners as an Independent Advisor. She recently held the Executive Chair role at Airbrake, an Elsewhere Partners investment, supporting the company's growth leading to its...

Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software.

His exposure to information security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying securit...

Peter Kirby is a long-time entrepreneur and early pioneer in the blockchain space. He co-founded a Bitcoin hardware company in 2013 and a blockchain technology company in 2014. Peter also executed one of the earliest ICOs in 2015 as CEO of Factom, Inc. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, and Forbes. He has been a featured speaker at The World Bank, Money 20/20, The US State Department, a...

Amanda developed her business acumen by repeatedly scaling metrics and creating value for a number of VC-backed startups and established technology companies like Rackspace, Dell, SolarWinds, NetQoS (bought by CA), PeopleAdmin (a Vista Equity Portfolio Co), and Pervasive Software. She has taken 4 companies through exits and is a longtime startup mentor at Capital Factory and Tech Stars Austin. Amanda is an accomplished speaker, boa...

Ramon Chen, Chief Product Officer, oversees ActivTrak’s product strategy with a passion for all things data. He’s dedicated to helping organizations and their employees #workwiser through ActivTrak’s workforce analytics platform; ensuring a win-win that improves productivity, while fostering individual well-being. He brings more than 30+ years of leadership experience in product marketing and management to ActivTrak with expert...

Ron is currently the founder and CEO of xtype, a Value Stream and DevOps platform for ServiceNow. Ron has over 25 years of experience in enterprise tech and a proven track record of taking innovative solutions to market. Ron started at test automation company Mercury interactive, spent ten years in the application performance management space, and has been a driving force in enterprise DevOps technologies since 2010. Ron lives in T...

Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop and best-selling author of Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he built the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development environments with Agile and DevOps tools while working on his Computer Science PhD at the ...

This week on Capital GEEK we host a panel discussion with industry experts Heidi Farris, Dan Schoenbaum, and Wes Bush on the evolution of Product-led growth.  This event was recorded in partnership with Elsewhere Partners, and we had a great panel discussion and several awesome questions from the audience.  I'm excited to share this with you, so let's get to it.

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Lisa Xu serves as Chief Executive Officer where she is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic and operational functions for NopSec. Lisa has a passion for connecting business with technology and thrives in transforming disruptive technology into leading solutions. Over the past two decades, Lisa has advised Fortune 500 enterprises on data security, privacy and technology risk management, and led many diverse teams at Ally...

Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, has over 20 year of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managin...

Kevin Fishner is the Chief of Staff at HashiCorp, where he treats the company as a product. He joined the cloud infrastructure automation company in 2014 as the first business hire, going on to spin up the sales, solutions engineering, account management, and marketing teams. Afterwards, he spent 3 years building the product management and education groups as VP of Product. Kevin graduated from Duke and studied Philosophy.

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