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Adrian McDermott has guided Zendesk’s technology since its early days, helping scale it into a global platform. His philosophy reframes customer service from a cost center into a source of brand loyalty, with human-centered AI supporting engineering and automation.
Rick Song is co-founder and CEO of Persona, a unified identity platform. Experience with fraud and risk at Square shaped his conviction that identity verification requires flexible infrastructure rather than one static tool, especially as generative AI changes the fraud landscape.
Shreya Shankar is a computer science researcher focused on reliable data systems for machine learning and creator of DocETL, an open-source declarative system for unstructured data. Her work connects AI evaluation, MLOps, and human-computer interaction with production-level engineering problems.
Allison Fisch is President and Portfolio Manager at Pzena Investment Management and a deep value investor in global and emerging markets. Her contrarian discipline turns on a crucial judgment: distinguishing a temporary setback from terminal decline amid shifting market psychology.
Ricky Sandler managed the long-short equity hedge fund Eminence Capital until it closed. His “change in perception” strategy sought quality businesses as market consensus began to shift, combining fundamental research with risk management and attention to the growing influence of passive investing.
Kenneth Rogoff is a Harvard economist, former IMF chief economist, and chess grandmaster whose research with Carmen Reinhart traces predictable patterns in debt-fueled collapses, sharpening questions about sovereign debt and structural risks across the global financial system.
Paul Johnson was a British historian and journalist whose narrative histories ranged from the American people to Christianity and Judaism, advancing a conservative challenge to natural human progress, moral relativism, state power, and intellectuals managing society.
Rahul Moodgal is a business development and investor relations veteran who led capital raising for major hedge funds, building his reputation by replacing high-pressure sales tactics with a patient, relationship-first approach to institutional allocators and high-stakes business.