GrowthTommy McNulty
Banker · Erebor
Tommy McNulty is a Banker at Erebor, the newly chartered digital bank built for startups and crypto-native firms. Before Erebor, he spent two and a half years as Chief Revenue Officer at Rho, the business banking and spend management platform, and before that founded Rhythm, an AI-enabled revenue modeling platform. Earlier, he spent nearly six years at Fundera as VP of Sales and Customer Success, helping scale the company from roughly $0 to $45M in annual revenue through its acquisition by NerdWallet.
ProductNeha Monga
Ex-CPO, Director of Product Management · Meta, Amazon
Neha Monga is a product executive and former CPO with experience scaling companies from early traction to multi-billion-dollar businesses. At Lattice, she led the company's AI-first transformation, driving growth and retention. Previously at Meta and Amazon, she built new products that generated billions in revenue and served millions of users. She now advises founders on product strategy, go-to-market, and scaling teams.
OperationsThomas Germack
SVP, Revenue Operations · Oracle
With over 30 years of experience in forensic accounting, finance, sales, and operations, Thomas has dedicated his career to driving business growth. Currently in his 17th year at Oracle as SVP of Revenue Operations, his scope of work spans go-to-market, sales planning and analysis, systems, and enablement — including playing a role in scaling Oracle NetSuite to $3 billion in annual recurring revenue.
DesignLauren Von Dehsen
Co-Founder · Stealth
Lauren Von Dehsen is a design and research executive with 15+ years building consumer and enterprise products at the intersection of hardware, software, and human behavior. She most recently spent six years at SoFi, rising from Director of Design to VP, Design & Research, leading a ~100-person org across Product Design, Content Design, Research, and Design Systems. Before SoFi, she was Senior UX Manager at Google Health and spent four years at Nest Labs, leading design on the Nest Thermostat E and second-gen Nest Protect. As of 2026, she has stepped away to co-found a stealth startup in San Francisco.
ProductJeff Gothelf
Co-founder · Sense & Respond Learning
Jeff Gothelf is co-founder of Sense & Respond Learning, where he trains product, design, and innovation leaders to turn AI capability into products customers actually want. He is the co-author of five books on product management and organizational agility, including Lean UX, the book credited with popularizing lean, evidence-based product design across the industry, and Sense & Respond, published by Harvard Business Review Press. He now writes and speaks widely on the gap between AI adoption and AI ROI.
Brand/MarketingMatt Stewart
General Manager, West Coast · Method Communications
Matt is a seasoned tech communications leader with 20+ years of experience elevating profiles for B2B startups and enterprises, frontier tech pioneers, AI/data/robotics platforms, industrial innovators, venture firms, and more. He revels in coming up with eye-catching angles and inventive strategies to help clients win the news, drive growth, and shape markets.
Brand/MarketingDavid Meerman Scott
Marketing Strategist · David Meerman Scott
David Meerman Scott spotted the real-time marketing revolution in its infancy and wrote multiple books about it, including The New Rules of Marketing and PR, now in its 9th edition with more than 500,000 copies sold in English across 29 languages. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Fanocracy, on why relationships with customers matter more than the products sold to them. David is an advisor to emerging companies, serves on the HubSpot advisory board, and delivers keynotes and masterclasses around the world.
GrowthKaren Page
Board Partner · B Capital
Karen Page is a General Partner at B Capital Group. She is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and board member, known and respected as a business leader. Karen worked on the Enterprise GTM team at Apple, leading the commercial channel, strategic partners, the Mobility Partner Program, and the Industry team. She was one of the founding executives at Box, leading GTM activities, defining Box's approach to partnerships and business development, and cultivating C-level relationships. She serves on the board of Centivo, Certn, and Overstory, and as a board observer to Pendo, Highspot, Phenom, Remote, Isaac Health, and Story Health.
TalentAl-Husein Madhany
Chief People Officer / Advisor · Overjet.ai
Al-Husein Madhany is a 2x AI Chief Human Resource Officer, first for Moveworks.ai (acquired by ServiceNow for $2.85B) and now with Overjet.ai (Series C). When not in the trenches as a startup operator, he works closely with founders as a design partner and strategic operational advisor to early-stage companies and executive teams. He is a GP and LP in a handful of funds and serves as an active advisor to over a dozen VC-backed companies.
TechnologyVarun Gupta
SVP, Software Engineering · Salesforce
Varun is a senior engineering leader who has spent more than a decade building and scaling large distributed systems at Salesforce, where he led platform engineering teams as VP and later SVP. His work spans high-reliability cloud infrastructure, large-scale service delivery, and technical architectures that support millions of daily transactions. Earlier in his career, he helped shape engineering at ServiceNow, Percolate, and multiple startups. Varun joins Team Ignite as an operator who helps founders architect resilient platforms and navigate hyper-growth.
Brand/MarketingColin McIntosh
CEO · Sheets & Giggles
Colin is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful companies under his belt. At Sheets & Giggles (Techstars 2019), he launched a sustainable bedding brand with a $284,000 Indiegogo preorder campaign, reaching his first million-dollar sales month two years later. Prior to that, Colin was a technical recruiter and knows hiring deeply from both sides of the table — his free resume template has been used by over 4 million people, which led him to build SheetsResume.com, an AI resume builder, in 2024.
Leadership/CoachingRichard Frankel
CEO · Chatwin, Inc.
Richard Frankel is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, and startup advisor whose career spans from engineering to founding one of the defining companies of the AI advertising era. A Princeton graduate who began at NASA Ames Research Center, he went on to hold leadership positions at NetGravity, DoubleClick, and Yahoo before co-founding Rocket Fuel in 2008, pioneering the use of machine learning and big data to optimize digital advertising at scale through a billion-dollar IPO in 2013. He now advises early-stage companies as a partner to the UC Launch and Alchemist accelerators.
