Founder & CEO | Ambient Strategy
Founder & CEOAmbient Strategy
April Dunford is the world’s leading expert on product positioning. She has worked with hundreds of fast-growing technology companies to accelerate their growth through clear, compelling positioning. Previously April has run marketing and product teams at a series of seven successful technology startups. She is also a board member, investor, and advisor to dozens of high-growth businesses and is the author of the bestselling book Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get it, Buy it, Love it.
Co-founder & CEO | Synthesia
Victor Riparbelli is the CEO and co-founder of Synthesia, the world’s leading AI video creation platform for enterprises, making video production simple and intuitive without the need for cameras or studios. After 10 years helping build tech companies, Victor started Synthesia in 2017 alongside Prof. Matthias Niessner, Prof. Lourdes Agapito, and Steffen Tjerril.
Chief Product Officer | Contentsquare
Chief Product OfficerContentsquare
Lucie Buisson is Contentsquare’s Chief Product Officer. She joined the company in 2014
and today leads the product vision, strategy and co-leads go-to-market. Her team’s mission
is to develop innovative products that empower businesses to make the digital world more
human. Product addiction, autonomy, and uniqueness are key areas of focus for the product
team, as they work on making Contentsquare the world’s leading customer experience
optimization platform. Lucie moved to New York in September 2018 to help crack the
American market and empower brands to stay ahead of tomorrow’s digital challenges.
Partner | Bessemer Venture Partners
Alex joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2005. He led Shopify’s Series A for BVP in 2010. Today he serves on the boards of Pipedrive, BigID, Hunters.ai, Dashlane, ManyChat, Manta and Optibus among others. He primarily invests in enterprise SaaS, SMB software, and cybersecurity and is particularly focused on European startups https://www.bvp.com/europe. He is an avid cyclist and Zwifter.
Founder & CEO | SaaStock
Alex Theuma is the Founder & CEO of SaaStock, an events and media company focused on supporting B2B SaaS founders to gain traction, grow and scale their businesses. In 2015, Alex began SaaScribe, a blog focused on all things SaaS which quickly developed into a podcast, The SaaS Revolution Show, and eventually launching SaaStock the world’s only SaaS festival. Today SaaStock comprises two world famous SaaS festivals, Dublin & Austin, local meetups across the globe, an exclusive founders only membership program, educational content and more.
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Marketing | Chili Piper
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem MarketingChili Piper
Alexis Petrichos is currently the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Marketing at Chili Piper and the Regional Head of EMEA for Partnership Leaders, and he lives and works from Athens, Greece. His journey in the B2B tech market started about five years ago when he landed his first job as a Sales Development Representative (SDR) in one of the most prestigious Greek tech companies, Workable. Then he moved to Chili Piper as a sales rep, before taking over technology partnerships. Recently he was also named as the Regional Head of EMEA for Partnership Leaders, taking the opportunity to help his region’s partnership professionals be heard.
Founder & Chief Marketer | Trusted CMO
Founder & Chief MarketerTrusted CMO
Alison Murdock is the founder and chief marketer of Trusted CMO. Trusted CMO provides early-stage B2B startups with foundational marketing expertise, tactical execution, and GTM resources to companies to stand out, differentiate, and drive measurable business impact. Before founding Trusted CMO, Alison was CMO at FirstUp (previously SocialChorus), SVP marketing at Finland-based Verto Analytics (acquired), VP of marketing, and the 11th employee at 6sense. She is based in San Francisco but is a frequent traveler to the UK, France, and Scandinavia.
Executive Chairman | Sisense
Executive ChairmanSisense
Amir is the chairman of analytics leader Sisense, and has been the CEO for eight years prior. Under his CEO leadership, Sisense revenue grew 17X to approximately $150M, transitioned to a native cloud SaaS offering, and achieved profitability. Sisense is serving thousands of customers such as GE, UiPath, ZoomInfo, Seismic, Nasdaq and others, and has been recognized as a Visionary/Leader by Gartner, G2 Crowd and Forrester.
Before Sisense, Orad was the CEO of NICE Actimize the financial crime analytics leader, monitoring billions of transactions for fraud and organized crime at the world’s top financial institutions. Orad led the company’s business 10x growth to a $200M revenue run rate, over 25% operating income, and the company transition to a SaaS / Subscription business.
Partner | Bessemer Venture Partners
PartnerBessemer Venture Partners
Anant Vidur Puri is a partner in the Bangalore office where he focuses on high potential opportunities in internet marketplaces and India SaaS.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Anant was at Boston Consulting Group where he worked with clients in financial and IT services across India and North America.
CEO | DigitalRoute
CEODigitalRoute
Andreas Zartmann is the CEO of DigitalRoute, a global frontrunner in Subscription Data and Billing Management. With a career spanning over 18 years in executive positions across the tech industry, he has demonstrated leadership in enterprises ranging from startups to large, publicly traded firms. At DigitalRoute, Andreas champions the importance of Usage Data for companies transitioning from product-based to service-based offerings. He has conceptualized and promoted the idea of a Usage
Data Platform to address the complexities of emerging, usage-based business models.
Andreas earned his MBA from Linköping University in Sweden.
CMO | Paddle
Andrew Davies is the CMO of Paddle, a payments infrastructure platform for high-growth SaaS companies serving over 3000 customers. He has more than 20 years of experience in start-ups ranging from leading global demand, advisory and consultancy, and even teaching.
CCO | Resourcify
CCOResourcify
Angeley Mullins is a seasoned commercial executive with leadership roles across the US, EMEA, & APAC including: Amazon, Intuit, GoDaddy, and her most recent role as Chief Commercial Officer at Resourcify, a digital recycling platform that helps companies achieve a zero-waste future, and promote a circular economy. Her experience focuses on commercial growth: revenue, marketing, brand, sales, product, and international expansion in both technology scale-ups & larger corporations. In 2023 Crunchbase recognised her, along with other prominent technology leaders, as one of the most influential women in sales. Furthermore she also holds advisory roles with various technology and media companies. She has a special interest for advancing the conversation around women in leadership and diversity at the executive level.
Founder & CEO | Ambient Strategy
Founder & CEOAmbient Strategy
April Dunford is the world’s leading expert on product positioning. She has worked with hundreds of fast-growing technology companies to accelerate their growth through clear, compelling positioning. Previously April has run marketing and product teams at a series of seven successful technology startups. She is also a board member, investor, and advisor to dozens of high-growth businesses and is the author of the bestselling book Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get it, Buy it, Love it.
CEO | Breadcrumbs
Armando Biondi is a serial entrepreneur, senior executive and angel investor in over 300 startups. Currently leading Breadcrumbs.io, the first no-code scoring engine that will surface a companies’ hidden revenue opportunities in just a few clicks. Before Breadcrumbs, in late 2013 he co-founded AdEspresso, which became the #1 Facebook Ads Partner worldwide by the number of customers, processing ~$1B in Facebook Ads budget.
Co-founder & CEO | Replyco
Founder & CEO of Replyco, an eCommerce help desk software built from the ground up for SMBs (recently acquired by Billbee, Germany’s leading multi-channel OMS provider for SMBs). Prior to Replyco, Artem was a founding team member at Linnworks, the UK’s largest OMS provider, where he spent nine years scaling the company to serve over 3,000 customers worldwide.
Founder & CEO | DemandMaven
Asia Orangio helps SaaS teams and startups reach their growth goals through tried-and-true go-to-market strategy, customer research, positioning and messaging, and growth practices. In early 2018, Asia founded DemandMaven — a growth consultancy that helps SaaS, software, and internet-based companies troubleshoot their growth, identify new growth opportunities, and successfully go-to-market.
Chief Business Officer | Piper
Aydan is a GTM revenue leader, content creator and community builder. Aydan has spent 13+ years as an operator and sales leader in fast-paced startups including Hopin, Hired and currently Chief Business Officer at Piper, AI-powered Management Intelligence Platform – scaling these VC backed startups from Seed & Series A investments into global organisations and well known tech brands.
CMO | DigitalRoute
CMODigitalRoute
Behdad Banian is the Chief Marketing Officer at DigitalRoute, where he heads a global marketing team dedicated to value-driven messaging and revenue generation. With more than 24 years of professional experience, Behdad has honed his expertise across various sectors, including technology (Telecom and IT), banking and finance, automotive, and utilities through diverse cross-industry initiatives. At DigitalRoute, he is instrumental in steering marketing strategies that amplify the company’s impact and drive global revenue.
Behdad earned his MBA from Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.
Advisor & Coach | Peak
Advisor & CoachPeak
Beth is a board member and advisor to three awesome AI companies, Peak, ToffeeAM and DeepOpinion – helping them with their GTM and scaling. Beth is also the co-host of The Operations Room Podcast, the place that brings quality content to tech startup and scale up COOs.