About Us

Wayne is a 30-year compute and data infrastructure builder and leader, angel investor, and advisor. Most recently he was Vice President and General Manager of Storage, Edge, and Data services at AWS, where he built and scaled 12 of 16 AWS Data storage businesses serving over a million enterprises globally, including Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and municipalities, and all DoD branches and NatSec agencies. As the first hire AWS made on the East Coast, starting in 2012 he built the led AWS Boston, a site which grew to 4K+ Amazonians during his 11-year tenure.

Wayne has designed and built several generations of both enterprise and cloud-native data storage, data integration, and data security products, holding over 40 related patents. He received a BS in Computer Sciences from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. When not in-the-seat, you’ll find him adventuring by land, sea, and sky, and growing something he can whip-up into a delicious dish as he practices becoming a respectable cook.

Udi Ledergor is a five-time Marketing leader at B2B start-ups and currently the Chief Evangelist at Gong. As Chief Evangelist, Udi oversees Gong’s market leadership through new product launches and thought leadership. On his journey from Marketer #1 to Gong’s Chief Marketing Officer, he led the creation of the revenue intelligence category, pioneered an iconic, human-centric brand, and led Gong's Marketing efforts from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue.

Passionate about startups and brands during the day, whisky, music, and social activism at night, Udi is also an author, speaker, mentor, angel investor, board director, and advisor based in San Francisco.

Dr. Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the computer security lab.

Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, cryptography for blockchains, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over 150 publications in the field, and a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize, the 2013 Godel prize, the RSA award in mathematics, and six best paper awards. In 2016, Dr. Boneh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Davi has served as head of security across multiple industries, including data storage and management vendors (EMC, MongoDB, Yahoo!), one of the world’s largest investment fund managers (BGI), an international retailer/wholesaler (West Marine), and higher education and aerospace (UCSC, UARC, U Iowa).

Davi is an expert in regulations and compliance, and served as Board Member for the Payment Card Industry Security Alliance and the Silicon Valley chapters of ISACA and OWASP.

Dan is a Venture Partner at Oak HC/FT. He brings two decades of experience in capital markets and asset management, with a focus on infrastructure and tech. Dan was Senior Vice President at Intralinks, responsible for customer success and technology operations. He joined the company from Verilume, a cloud computing company he co-founded and sold to Intralinks.

He is a former Partner and Global Head of Technology for investment management at Goldman Sachs. He has also served as Chief Information Officer at Fidelity Investments, Co-Chief Information Officer at Morgan Stanley, and Global Head of Equity Prime Services Technology at Deutsche Bank AG. Dan is a Board Member for Pagaya and a Board Observer for NextCapital. He holds a BA degree from Moravian College and a law degree from Seton Hall University Law School.

Matt is a serial founder, angel investor, and advisor. Most recently, he co-founded 21 (later Earn.com), one of the earliest blockchain companies that was sold in 2018 to Coinbase. Prior to that, Matt co-founded Voltage Security, an enterprise cybersecurity company originally formed in his dorm room at Stanford in 2002.

Widely considered one of the originators of the data-centric security model, Voltage was acquired in 2015 by HP Enterprise. Matt is the author of more than two dozen cryptography, security, and payments patents and was a key contributor in the development of several NIST & IETF security standards. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.

Chia-Che Tsai is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. After completing his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the RISELab of UC Berkeley. His research interests include operating system design, trusted execution, and cloud computing.

He is also the main developer of the Graphene library OS, an open-source project for isolating Linux applications on Intel SGX and non-POSIX platforms. His work has been published at many conferences, including SOSP, Eurosys, CCS, and USENIX ATC.

Michael Johnson serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Meta Financial Technologies, Meta Platforms, Inc., overseeing security for all of Meta’s payments and financial services. Previously Michael served as Capital One’s CISO and Senior Vice President, leading and managing information security, cybersecurity operations, and security technology innovation. Prior to joining Capital One, Michael served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Department of Energy, and in other key cyber-focused executive roles in the U.S. Government at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the White House Executive Office of the President.

Mark was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Skydio, where he led all operations and go-to-market for the company. Prior to that he was COO at Signalfx, an operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and he led worldwide-field operations for Opsware and Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata). Mark came to Silicon Valley after serving as Vice President of Americas at Boston-based Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC).