Speakers

Alex Atzberger is the CEO of Optimizely. Under his leadership, the company has grown over 4X over the last six years and has transformed into the leading AI platform for marketing. He also serves on the Board of Oro Labs, the leading AI orchestration platform for procurement. Prior to scaling up companies, Alex spent over a decade at SAP in various executive roles, including President of SAP hybris, President of SAP Ariba, and as the Chief of Staff to the CEO, Bill McDermott.

Assaf Resnick is the founder and CEO of BigPanda, where he leads the company's vision to automate the $250 billion market for enterprise IT operations. Under his leadership, BigPanda is defining Agentic ITOps: a team of connected agents grounded in a continuously learning IT Knowledge Graph, replacing the manual, error-prone, outsourced work that has kept IT operations slow and expensive for decades.

Before founding BigPanda, Assaf was an investor at Sequoia Capital, where he watched enterprises rebuild every layer of their technology stack except the one responsible for operating it. He left to build that layer.

Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is CSO & CVP, Corporate Strategy at Microsoft. In this role is responsible for helping the Senior Leadership Team identify and execute on the most important strategic priorities for the company. His mandate spans both existing business areas and new potential areas for Microsoft.

Bobby serves on the board of Global Foundries and Density AI. He is Chair at Genome Therapeutics and is a board observer at Biomodal, both companies he co-founded. He also serves on the advisory board of the Harvard AI Institute.

Bobby was previously a venture capitalist investing in growth stage technology companies, a partner at McKinsey and a post-doctoral research engineer in robotics. He is based in Redmond, Washington.

Chitra Nawbatt is a unique multi-industry and multidisciplinary executive, recognized for her extensive expertise as a business launcher and builder, growth operator, investor and media creator. From advising Fortune 500 CEOs to pioneering innovation in technology and venture capital, she has proven time and again that vision, audacity, and execution can turn the impossible into the inevitable.

Chitra’s investor and growth advisor expertise was built over prior roles including as an investment partner (General Catalyst), TV news anchor in NYC, the #1 media market in the world (Reuters, BNNBloomberg), financial services and fintech (Deutsche Bank), and consulting (Genpact, EY).

Chitra is the author and host of The CodeBreaker Mindset™ book and podcast. The book, an official #1 USA TODAY Bestseller in Business and Economics, provides a pattern recognition, professional judgement and decision-making framework for accelerating business growth, leadership and career pivots. The podcast is where leaders share their pursuit journeys to life opportunities, business building and value creation, as well as the rules, pivots and serendipity that propel them forward.

Chitra has served previously on the President of the United States Advance Team (The White House) and as an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers Business School. She has a CPA designation and is a graduate of Harvard Business School and University of Toronto.

Visit chitranawbatt.com for additional information and connect with her on all social media platforms @chitranawbatt.

Daniel Shimoni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Modus, the Context Warehouse for Enterprise AI. Modus continuously mines context from the systems where engineering and data teams already work (code, pipelines, tickets, dashboards, docs) and delivers only the relevant slice to any agent, with governance enforced before context reaches the model. Before founding Modus, Daniel was VP of Product at the GTM data unicorn Lusha, where he owned the company's product roadmap and strategy. Modus came out of stealth in July 2026 with $10M in seed funding led by Insight Partners.

Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Partners. Since joining Insight in 2000, he has made more than 140 investments in enterprise software, data, and consumer internet businesses globally, including in North America, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, Israel, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.

Currently, Deven serves on the Boards of Directors for Alteryx, Checkout.com, CoreLogic, Diligent, DistroKid, Fanatics, Gamma, iad, and PDI. Other companies within his portfolio include Calm, Kpler, FloQast, Chargebee, Splitwise, Zest.ai, Slice, Saks.com and Saks OFF 5th, Vinted, and Automattic (WordPress).

Deven’s previous investments include Duck Creek (IPO), Appriss Insights (sale to Equifax), Twitter (IPO), eVestment (sale to NASDAQ), Alibaba (IPO), JD.com (IPO), Bullhorn (sale to Stone Point Capital), Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce), Website Pros (IPO), Yext (IPO), Enverus (sale to Genstar), EveryAction (sale to Apax), and Turnitin (sale to Advance).

In addition to his work at Insight, Deven currently serves as a Board Member for the Council on Foreign Relations, NYU Langone, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Tisch New York MS Research Center, and the Economic Council of New York. He was also confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the Board of Directors for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.

He has previously served on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and on a Technical Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Publicolor, a non-profit organization focused on New York City public schools, and also served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.

In December 2021, Deven was named a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award. He is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Prior to joining Insight, Deven was a Principal at Berenson Minella & Company, a New York-based merchant banking firm, where he served on the M&A Committee. He also worked for Blackstone on M&A and other investment activities. Deven has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Francois Ajenstat has spent nearly 30 years making data easier for the people who actually use it. He was CPO at Tableau from the early startup days through its IPO and Salesforce acquisition, then CPO at Amplitude. He's helped shape two of the most important product companies in analytics history, and he's watched every wave of this industry from the inside. Now he's founder and CEO of Golden Analytics. Golden is built for data teams who are tired of the tradeoffs: the depth of self-service analytics without the rigidity, the accessibility of modern design tools, and AI that actually augments how analysts work instead of getting in the way. It launched in April 2026 with backing from NEA and Madrona. Francois believes the best products are love letters to the people who use them. He's been in this industry long enough to know what's broken. Golden is his answer.

Ganesh Bell joined Insight Partners as a Managing Director to invest in and help entrepreneurs build great software & data companies that will define modern enterprise and digital business. He is a profound student of the enterprise software market and industries reimagined by data.

Ganesh has over 25+ years of rare experience as a builder and operating executive across startups, high-growth scaleups, global conglomerates, unicorns, successful exits, IPO, and M&A.

Before joining Insight Partners, he ran Uptake, an AI/ML platform & applications company, was Corporate Officer at General Electric, and CEO of its largest IoT & Analytics software business. Previously he held senior leadership roles at market-defining enterprise software companies including SAP, PeopleSoft, and J.D.Edwards. He started as a developer and has led corporate strategy, engineering, product management, marketing, and sales teams over his career.

He has keynoted large conferences, been featured in business books, leading media, and recognized for his work, including being named #11 in Fast Company’s list of 100 Most Creative People in Business World.

Ganesh Bell holds a B.S in Mathematics from the University of Madras, India, and an M.S in Computer Science from North Dakota State University. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their Australian Cobberdog Moto, named after his passion for motorcycling.

George Mathew joins Insight Partners as a Managing Director focused on venture stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing product/market Fit.

He brings 20+ years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. Prior to Kespry, George was President & COO of Alteryx where he scaled the company through its IPO (AYX). Previously he held senior leadership positions at SAP and salesforce.com. He has driven company strategy, led product management and development, and built sales and marketing teams.

George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.

Gregor Stewart was most recently Chief AI Officer at SentinelOne, leading AI strategy, platform, product, and research to deliver truly autonomous cybersecurity capabilities. He previously served as VP of Artificial Intelligence and Detection Engineering at SentinelOne, and before that as VP of Engineering at Medallia, where he led global teams delivering AI and machine learning productsthat helped the world's largest organisations truly understand and serve their customers.

He also advises Insight Partners and its portfolio on AI investment strategy and transformation, in particular Hawkeye360 (NYSE: HAWK), a leader in space-based defense and maritime monitoring.

Gregor holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, an MSc in Philosophy and History of Science from LSE, and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.

Working in AI since 2006, his expertise spans Machine Learning, bio-informatics, Generative and agentic AI, and cybersecurity, with a focus on applications in defense and high stakes decision making.

Since joining Insight Partners more than two decades ago, I’ve had a front row seat to some of the most exciting ScaleUp growth journeys in SaaS history. However, as the founder and leader of Insight Onsite — our amazing team of operators and growth experts who accelerate and scale our portfolio companies — my favorite growth story is our internal one. We’ve scaled Onsite from a handful of experts to a full-blown growth engine of 130+ people who are ready to support our portfolio companies whenever and however we’re needed.

When I’m not helping scale the most innovative software companies in the world, you’ll find me sharing learnings as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business School. I serve on the Growth Equity working committee and the Board of Directors of the NVCA, which fuels my passion for ensuring we have an industry that blossoms the next generation of tech disruptors. I believe our software ecosystem provides unparalleled opportunity for global communities, no more so than in healthcare, where I’m backing companies like Clarify Health and Alma — examples of companies doing well by doing good.

One of my goals is to lift other women and underrepresented leaders up so our industry reflects our society. My prior role as co-founder and board member of Declare (now part of Luminary) helped me work toward that goal by allowing me to support and develop women leaders. Today, I sit on the Investment Committee of Vision Capital 2020, Insight’s fund of funds investing in emerging underrepresented managers. So far, we’ve backed more than ~20 new venture capital firms all of whom have founders with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

Beyond work, you will find me cycling in France (including an annual ascent of Mont Ventoux), practicing my French, or traveling to visit family in South Africa and Ireland.

Jackson Stokes is the co-founder and CEO of TrainLoop, which helps enterprises train their expertise into models they own and continually improve, creating a compounding intelligence advantage. Before TrainLoop, Jackson worked on Gemini performance at Google.

Krishna Gade is the Founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, where he is building the control plane for AI systems - helping enterprises monitor, evaluate, and control models and autonomous agents in production. Previously, he spent time at Microsoft working on search ranking for Bing, and later led data and machine learning teams at Twitter and Pinterest. He is most known for his work on AI Explainability at Facebook/Meta and these days he is now focused on making AI systems trustworthy, scalable, and production-ready for the enterprise.

Lonne Jaffe is a managing director at Insight Partners, and joined the firm in 2017. He was previously the CEO of Insight portfolio company Syncsort, which he joined in 2013 after serving as the senior vice president for corporate strategy at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, Lonne spent over a decade at IBM, where he led a number of sizable software acquisitions and held various technology strategy and operating executive roles.

Lonne received undergraduate (Walt Disney Company Foundation Scholarship, Detur Book Prize, Phi Beta Kappa) and master’s degrees from Harvard University.

Mario Ciabarra is the Founder and CEO of Quantum Metric, the agentic digital analytics platform designed to help enterprises quickly understand and act on customer behavior. In 2015, Mario began a journey to solve the single greatest friction in the enterprise: the fact that while data is everywhere, understanding is elusive. He has spent the last decade evolving Quantum Metric from a deep-dive customer analytics tool into the agentic digital analytics platform designed specifically for democratized understanding with Agentic AI. This moves the industry beyond dashboard-led insight and to autonomous analysis of the experiences that matter most. Under his leadership, Quantum Metric has become the enterprise standard for the Fortune 500, replacing manual investigation with AI-driven agents that provide context, clarity, and the confidence to act in seconds. Today, Quantum Metric captures insights from 50% of the world’s internet users, supporting 9 billion sessions monthly for the world’s leading brands in retail, travel, healthcare, and finance.

Michael D'Angelo is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, where he works on Cyber Products to help teams secure AI systems and find software vulnerabilities using AI. He co-founded Promptfoo, an open-source AI evaluation and security platform, and was its CTO before OpenAI acquired the company in March 2026. Previously, he was VP of Engineering and Head of AI at Smile ID, where he led teams building machine learning systems for identity verification.

Nick Sinai is a Managing Director at Insight Partners. Nick works with portfolio companies entering and growing in the public sector, runs Insight’s Government Advisory Board, and helps invest in national security and dual-use companies. Nick is a board member at Rebellion Defense, HawkEye360, LeoLabs, Shift5, and Govly.

Nick joined Insight in 2014 from the White House, where he was U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Nick led President Obama’s Open Data Initiatives, co-led the Open Government Initiative, and helped start the Presidential Innovation Fellow program. Prior, Nick played a key role in crafting the National Broadband Plan at the FCC.

Nick is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and has served as Adjunct Faculty since 2016. He taught digital government in the core curriculum; previously, he designed and taught an award-winning field course: Tech and Innovation in Government. Nick also serves as a board member of nonprofit Coding It Forward.

Nick writes and teaches about technology in government, and served as a commissioner on the Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption. He’s been quoted in the New York Times, Economist, and WSJ, and has testified in front of Congress.

Nick helped found the U.S. Digital Corps, a new two-year federal fellowship for early-career technologists, launched in the summer of 2021.

Nick is the co-author, with Marina Nitze, of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role On Any Team, published in 2022.

Growing up, I used to bike to the edge of an airfield to watch the planes take off. I always imagined jumping on one and figuring out how things worked. The entirety of my career has been filled with leaps of faith, climbing on board a metaphorical aircraft and figuring out how to make it rise and fly to far-off destinations.

I spent the early part of my career building products and scaling engineering teams to build world-class platforms in highly competitive market segments. At Cisco, I worked on some of the foundational protocols and platforms underlying the largest distributed system ever built — the Internet. The lessons learned at Cisco led me to the CEO role at VCE, a Cloud Infrastructure company where we created a new market category and became one of the fastest companies to achieve US$1bn in revenue. Later on I became CEO at Viptela, where I led the early-stage Enterprise SaaS platform to $100M+ in run-rate revenues.

As Managing Director at Insight Partners, I aim to bring a product and operational lens to investing for those seeking to challenge the status quo in the areas of automation, data platforms, DevOps, security and infrastructure software. For me, the joy lies in diving in with passionate entrepreneurs to understand how they translate their market insights, technical skills, and ambition into a strategy for the market.

I believe great companies are built by individuals who dare to take a chance, trust their abilities and insight, and go for it. Above all, I value relationships and working with great people who bring exceptional clarity into how they will create value and joy for the customer well beyond what is on offer in the market. Investing is a journey with founders. I bring my hands-on product experience and Insight’s unparalleled resources to the task of building an enduring company.

Raphael Ouzan is the co-founder and CEO of A.Team, an enterprise AI company that builds production-ready intelligence systems for Fortune 500 enterprises. A.Team works with leading consumer brands, CPG companies, and global enterprises to close the gap between AI strategy and measurable business results. The company builds proprietary systems inside client environments that learn and compound with every business cycle. Backed by Insight Partners, Tiger Global, and others, A.Team has been recognized by Microsoft through their invite-only Pegasus Program.

At Databricks, Ron is the Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for managing the worldwide sales organization and go-to-market strategy. He’s helped grow the company from a $1M startup to a multi-billion-dollar AI leader, which today serves more than 70% of the Fortune 500. Ron holds an MBA and a master's in engineering from Stanford University. He also has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, where he was an Academic All-American baseball player and was awarded the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor.

Ryan New is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. He leads the infrastructure and technical operations that run ICE's global markets across 26 regulatory jurisdictions, spanning everything from GPU clusters to mainframe engineering. His current focus is scaling ICE’s AI Factory and enabling productivity through the use of third party AI offerings, and working with the ICE Aurora team on a standardized hybrid AI Factory architecture that keeps sensitive data and performance-critical workloads on-premises while using the cloud for elasticity, with governance and cost controls built into the pipeline from day one. He recently shared that approach on stage at NVIDIA GTC.

Sarah Yager is the first Human Rights & Responsible Deployment Lead at OpenAI. She was previously the Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. Yager was the first senior advisor on human rights in the Office of the Chairman of The Joint Staff at the Pentagon and, prior, the deputy chief of staff to Ambassador Samantha Power at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. For nearly a decade, Yager was executive director of Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), advising warring parties on civilian protection and responsible use of force. She worked extensively with the U.S. military and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, CAR, Burma, and elsewhere.

Yager was a member of the second Clinton Administration White House AIDS Policy team, a senior associate at the speechwriting firm West Wing Writers, and a senior fellow at Open Society Foundations and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Sarah holds degrees from Georgetown and Columbia Universities, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board director at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he is the author of six books, including More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite and The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, which have become investment classics. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.

An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby's interests cover a wide variety of domestic and international issues, including the technology sector, central banks, financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics and international relations. His study of American economic statecraft, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan, won the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2017 George S. Eccles Prize in Economic Writing. Before joining CFR, Mallaby served eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post and spent thirteen years with The Economist, serving as Washington bureau chief (1997–1999). He also co-hosts the weekly CFR podcast The Spillover. Mallaby was educated at Oxford, graduating in 1986 with a first-class degree in modern history.

Sonali Basak is the Chief Investment Strategist at iCapital®, a global fintech leader transforming access to alternative investments. In her role, Sonali leads the firm’s strategic thought leadership across public and private markets, delivering data-driven insights and actionable content to financial advisors, investors, and asset managers. She plays a pivotal role in shaping iCapital’s investment outlook and strengthening its position as a trusted voice in the global investment ecosystem.

Prior to joining iCapital, Sonali was Bloomberg Television’s lead global finance correspondent and anchor. She covered major financial institutions, hosted the flagship morning show Open Interest, and led Bloomberg’s premier annual conference Bloomberg Invest. Her newsletter, Wall Street, By Basak., earned acclaim for its sharp commentary on market trends and industry shifts. She also created and hosted Bullish, a docuseries spotlighting influential voices in finance. Renowned for securing exclusive interviews with top Wall Street CEOs and breaking news on market-moving deals, Sonali has built a reputation as one of the most insightful voices in financial journalism. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University, a Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School, and an MBA in Quantitative and Corporate Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business. She is based in New York City.

Srikant is the senior vice president for Oracle AI and Analytics, responsible for Oracle’s AI Data Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, and packaged AI-driven analytic applications for Fusion. He's passionate about helping customers succeed by enabling them to turn trusted enterprise data into AI solutions, governed analytics, embedded intelligence, and AI-assisted workflows that drive business transformation. He previously served as chief analytics officer at ThoughtSpot, where he was responsible for product, engineering, and customer support. Srikant joined ThoughtSpot through its acquisition of Mode, where he was COO. He co-founded business analytics startup Numerify (acquired by TPG). In an earlier role at Oracle, he was a vice president of product development, responsible for Oracle’s analytical application products. He's held prior positions at Hyperion, MicroStrategy, and BCG. He received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering.

Sri is the founder and CEO of Rocketlane, the #1 modern PSA and agentic implementation platform. Rocketlane recently completed its Series C funding round with Insight Partners and Atlassian ventures, and previously raised money from 8VC, Nexus Ventures, and Z47. The company works with services teams at 20 of the Forbes Cloud 100, and also public companies like Atlassian, ServiceNow, Sprinklr, etc.

Sri is a two-time entrepreneur; his previous venture, Konotor, was acquired by Freshworks (NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015. He held product leadership roles before starting up. Sri completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and then attended business school at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is passionate about category creation, community building, customer experience, and technology.

Tasso Argyros is VP, Engineering & NYC Site Lead at Databricks. He is a two-time entrepreneur, having started and exited a database pioneer (Aster Data, acquired by Teradata for $325M) and Customer Data Platform category leader ActionIQ (merged with Uniphore in 2024). Previously he researched databases, AI, and distributed systems at Stanford's CS PhD program.

General (Ret) Timothy D. Haugh most recently served as the 4th Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and 19th Director of the National Security Agency. In these roles, Gen Haugh served as the National Manager for all federal government National Security Systems and led all DoD cyber operations.

A native of Hughesville, Pennsylvania, Gen (Ret) Haugh earned his commission in 1991 from the ROTC program at Lehigh University. During his career, Gen (Ret) Haugh commanded at the squadron, group, wing, numbered air force, and joint levels. His other notable tours included assignments as Deputy Commander of Joint Task Force Ares, Commander of Cyber National Mission Force, and Commander of Sixteenth Air Force.

In addition to earning his Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies from Lehigh University, Gen (Ret) Haugh holds Master of Science degrees from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Southern Methodist University.

Gen (Ret) Haugh and his bride, Mrs. Sherie Haugh, have been married for more than 34 years, and have a son, daughter, daughter in law, and granddaughter.

Gen (Ret) Haugh also serves as the Blue Center Distinguished Fellow at the Yale University Jackson School of Global Affairs and is a Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service; a Trustee at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and serves as an advisor to multiple companies.