Guests of Can I get that software in blue?

Forrest Colyer

Forrest Colyer is a deep technologist with a focus on driving the adoption of blockchain, cryptocurrency and other innovative technologies in the public and private sectors. Currently, he is responsible for defining an actionable blockchain adoption strategy for clients, designing high-impact blockchain solutions, and guiding the development and implementation of blockchain applications in industry. His passion lies in educating people about blockchain and its impact across the gamut of industry verticals and enabling them to capture that value with innovative solutions that operate at the convergence of multiple bleeding-edge technologies.

Francesca Krihely-Price

Francesca Krihely-Price is Head of Marketing at Oso, and was previously ran Marketing for enormously successful companies like MongoDB and Snyk. She’s also an active angel investor in companies like Pocus and a Venture Scout for Spark Capital.

Gary Deduke

Gary started his career in finance as a Foreign Exchange analyst with one of the first online currency brokers in 2005, later moving on to trading client funds in foreign exchange and commodity markets. For the past 12 years, Gary has straddled the worlds of financial analysis and reporting, serving as a broadcast analyst and editor at TradeTheNews and more recently TheFly, where he reports on breaking news impacting U.S. equities. Garys’s cross-asset reporting and analysis have been featured on Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal.

Gaurav Gupta

Gaurav Gupta is a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he has led investment rounds into notable startups such as Grafana Labs, Clickhouse, Hasura and others. Before moving into the VC world, Gaurav was VP of Product at Elastic and Splunk.

Ian Spandow

Ian Spandow is a seasoned Enablement Leader & Sales Trainer with extensive global and intercultural expertise and over 30 years of experience.

He has a proven track record of upskilling Sales Teams to high-performance through his unique and somewhat radical sales training.

Ian has held several leadership roles in the technology industry, including Director of Sales Training & Enablement at Riverbed, Senior Director of Sales Training & Enablement at Marin Software, and Director of Training & Development at MongoDB and Global Field Readiness Leader at WalkMe.

Jason Apollo Voss

Jason Apollo Voss is CEO of Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.), Inc. which provides deception and truth analysis of almost any document with double-blind scientifically tested accuracy of 88.4% that is 380x faster than pros.

Jason was co-portfolio manager of the Davis Appreciation & Income Fund, which bested the S&P 500 by 49.1% during his tenure, was Lipper #1, and one of the first ten funds awarded Morningstar’s Stewardship Grade “A”. Prior to that he was CEO of Active Investment Management (AIM) Consulting, LLC.

Jeff Yoshimura

Jeff Yoshimura has over 20+ years of operating and management experience. CMO @ Snyk ($2.2B to $7.4B valuation in 2.5 years); 3x IPOs: Elastic (ESTC, 6 years), Zuora (ZUO, 5 years), Salesforce (CRM, 5 years).

Snyk: Helped build and scale the GTM function, preparing Snyk for future IPO. Facilitated the process of category creation, product led growth (PLG), and market leadership for “Developer Security.”

Elastic: Built and led the worldwide marketing and developer relations team for ~6 years, part of the core IPO team for Elastic’s IPO in October 2018, reported to the CEO/founder. Employee ~130.

Zuora: Founding team with CEO/founder, incubated the company out of Salesforce; created the Subscription Economy messaging and category, built out all the initial and core GTM functions (marketing, SDR, sales, SE, services, support).

Salesforce: First ~300 employees, $30M to $1B in revenues; part of the enterprise GTM team; led the first 10K and 25K deployments of Salesforce; initial core team member of the AppExchange.

Other: launched Ayasdi (ML/AI) company from Stanford Mathematics; awarded WSJ/Sage Big Data Marketeer of the Year in 2014; Advisor to CEO/founder of StorReduce (acquired by Pure Storage (PSTG); advisory CMO, helped Zuora co-founder K.V. Rao launch Aviso.

John Engates

As a VP and Field CTO at Cloudflare, John explores the convergence of AI and cloud infrastructure, drawing from three decades of experience in Internet evolution. Through global customer and partner engagements, he examines how these technologies reshape business value and human potential. He is very passionate about understanding technology’s role in our collective future, particularly how AI and ubiquitous computing will transform how we work, create, and connect.

John was previously the Chief Client Technology Officer at NTT Global Networks and the CTO at Rackspace. He is also a very active startup investor and mentor with the Techstars Cloud program.

Jon Soini

Jon Soini is the founder of ProofSight, a platform to capture and verify real-world work with photos, video, voice, and location, and then write reports or integrate those insights into other workflows. He has previously worked in similar field facing roles at Cruise (acquired by GM), Mercedes-Benz, and T-Mobile.

Kevin Hanson

Kevin Hanson is the Co-Founder of Vectroid, a Vector Database startup. Kevin started his career as a Solution Architect and while at MongoDB successfully made the transition to Account Executive. He later worked at Google Cloud in Partner Sales and then Grafana Labs as a Sales Leader before heading back to the startup world as a Co-Founder.