Julie is responsible for the global marketing organization at Unit4 which spans product, brand, creative, influencer and analyst relations, demand generation, communications, sales enablement, and events. Since joining Unit4 in June 2019, she has led the company through a successful brand and positioning transformation, strategic redesign of marketing, and the development of an award-winning demand growth engine.

As an international marketing executive, she brings more than 20 years of experience in designing and implementing successful marketing strategies and building high-performing global teams.

Julie has held senior-level marketing positions for public and private companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500 including SuccessFactors SAP, Cisco, Reflektive, and Zendesk.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and has participated in Columbia University’s executive education program.

Kathie is chief marketing officer at Talkdesk ®, the premier cloud-native contact center solution headquartered in San Francisco. Prior to Talkdesk, Kathie has over 25 years of global marketing experience, most recently in executive marketing positions at Salesforce, Demandware, and Dassault Systemes. At Salesforce, Kathie was the Senior Vice President of Marketing where she was responsible for eighteen verticals within seven focused industries: Financial Services, Healthcare & LIfe Sciences, Retail & Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Automotive & Energy, Public Sector, Communications & Media, and Travel, Transportation & Hospitality. Prior to this, Kathie was VP of Marketing responsible for the Salesforce Commerce Cloud business. Kathie’s work has been recognized through both domestic and international awards, including the CX Today, Women in Technology Award, The CMO Club Growth & Transformation Award, European Excellence Award, the Communicator Award, IMA Impact Award, and Telly Award. Kathie received her MBA in International Business and Marketing from Babson College and her BA in English from the University of Michigan.

Mariana Cogan is the CMO at People.ai. Most recently SVP of Digital Experience and Engagement at PTC, Cogan pioneered the application of People.ai’s technology to build the revenue engine of the future, leading PTC to win Forrester’s Program of the Year for her “RO&I Engine.” Prior to PTC, Mexico-born Cogan held various roles of increasing responsibility in the software industry, and she is an advocate for diversity, inclusion, and uplifting minorities in the tech space. She believes deeply that diverse companies are more innovative and outperform less diverse ones. Cogan earned a master of business administration (MBA) from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree from Jochi University in Tokyo, Japan.

Mike has spent more than 15 years building, pitching, and growing products at various stages of many successful companies. His passion for customer experience and storytelling led him on a journey deep into Product Marketing, starting with AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for almost $4B) where he played a critical role in transforming the story of application analytics into business performance. Most recently, Mike led Product Marketing for the Amazon Web Services Observability Portfolio (Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray) and then for AWS Container Services.

Mike holds a B.S. from UC Davis and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Tae Hea co-founded Storm Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm investing in B2B start-ups worldwide. There, he was founding CEO and investor in Airespace, which was later sold to Cisco for $450m. Storm invested in 7 unicorns: Com2uS, Marketo, MobileIron, Pipedrive, Talkdesk, Tekion, and Workato. The storm has over 60 active investments, including Algolia, Haegin, Salesloft, SolarisBank.

Tae Hea also co-authored Survival to Thrival, which demystifies how to build enterprise startups. He is an adjunct professor at KAIST and a frequent speaker on Building Enterprise Leaders.

Prior to Storm, Tae Hea was an attorney specializing in startups at Venture Law Group and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Tae Hea majored in applied math at Harvard and likes building models and playing simulation games. He also has a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. He was born in Seoul, Korea.

Yashwanth(Yash)Hemarajis a venture capital investor and partner at Benhamou GlobalVentures, an early-stage venture firm investing in Enterprise 4.0 startups, a new wave ofcloud native startups that combine artificial intelligence, intelligentautomation andproprietary access to data to transform enterprise businesses globally.

Yash serves on theboard of several venture backed private enterprise technology companies that aredisrupting traditional enterprise markets including Macrometa, AIDash, BoostUp, Folloze,Tagnos, Totango, and 6dbytes. He also cofounded and leads the operations of ArkaVenture Labs, an accelerator platform for India based B2B companies to scale up globally.Yash is a product expert and focuses his work on intelligent automation, robotics andcustomer centric applications powered by a combination of enabling technologies such asAI, ML, Blockchain and computer vision. Prior to BGV, Yash was one of the first engineers andproduct manager at SpiderCloud Wireless (acquired by Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW)),a venture backed bay area startup building indoor wireless systems. He graduated with MBAfrom Kellogg School of Management, MS from University of Maryland and B.Eng from theNational Institute of Technology Karnataka,India. He is also a fellow of the StartupLeadership Program, Silicon Valley and has been board member at various non-profitorganizations such as United Way Silicon Valley.

Apoorva’s deep understanding of go-to-market design and appreciation for technical insight gives him a unique lens when it comes to all aspects of investing and working with founding teams. A born engineer, Apoorva has a wealth of operating experience that spans product development, deployment, P&L management and go-to market. After almost a decade as a founder and operator, Apoorva returned to his venture roots in early 2019, joining Foundation Capital as a partner focused on data infrastructure, developer tools, machine learning, and cloud-based applications. Apoorva has invested in Outerbounds (Metaflow), Tabular (Apache Iceberg), Levo, Electric Sheep, ’nuffsaid, and Memora Health. He works closely with Foundation’s portfolio companies OpsMx and Arize. His journey with venture capital started more than a decade back when he joined Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focused on enterprise and consumer investments.

Prior to Foundation, Apoorva was the Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Quid, a growth stage NLP and ML platform. At Quid, Apoorva helped establish a new business vertical that soon became a multi-million-dollar business. He identified the market need, established product market fit and built a playbook to scale the business. He’s worked closely with CXOs and GMs of business units in Fortune 500 companies to understand their challenges and design use cases that uniquely address those needs. Along the way, he surveyed the ML landscape and also partnered with technologies across the ML stack to enable more use-cases and  build differentiated go-to-market models.

As a co-founder of Funnl Labs, Apoorva developed an ML platform focused on aggregating and personalizing communication across channels – email, social media and messaging. Funnl was selected in the Wharton Venture Initiation Program and won the Wharton Innovation Award and the Snider Seed Award.

Apoorva earned his MBA from the Wharton School and a bachelor’s in engineering from IIT Delhi.