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Salma Bakouk is the CEO and co-founder of Sifflet, a Full Data Stack Observability platform. Before Sifflet, Salma was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Sales & Trading in Asia, leading key Data & Analytics initiatives. Salma holds an Engineering Degree from École Centrale Paris in Applied Mathematics and a Master's in Statistics and Data Science.
Alexa Grabell is the co-founder and CEO of Pocus, a Revenue Data platform that is purpose-built for GTM teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers.
Alexa’s passion for Product-Led Sales started when she led sales strategy & operations at Dataminr, where she built internal solutions to equip sales teams with data. She studied engineering at Vanderbilt University and received her MBA from Stanford University.
Grace Isford is a Partner based in Lux Capital's New York City office. She invests in companies innovating at the nexus of the computational sciences – data, AI and ML infrastructure, network and compute infrastructure, and cutting-edge technological applications, especially in healthcare and financial services. She focuses on data and machine-learning startups that are hyper-personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries, as well as fintech and blockchain infrastructure companies building the next-gen developer stack and payment rails.
Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild.
Astasia Myers is a Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data infrastructure, open-source, developer tools, and security. She focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A.
Prior to joining Quiet, Astasia was an investor in Redpoint's early-stage enterprise team, where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Preset, Hex, Cyral, among others. Before that, she worked at Cisco Investments, where she focused on cloud-infrastructure M&A and investments, including Cohesity, Datos IO, Elastifile, Guardicore, Springpath, and the funding of internal stealth projects.
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa, a VC-backed company enabling teams of any size and level of expertise to build real-time data pipelines in minutes, not months.
Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time, at the stove whipping up the finest delicacies, or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.
Douwe Maan is the founder and CEO of Meltano, an open-source DataOps platform. Before joining Meltano, he was hired as the tenth employee at GitLab, later becoming an Engineering Manager. While at GitLab, he spent six months traveling the world, visiting colleagues in 14 different countries. In 2019, he joined the internal Meltano project at GitLab and quickly became its General Manager. In early 2021, Douwe led Meltano in spinning out of GitLab to become an independent startup, raising seed funding from investors led by Alphabet's GV.
Ville Tuulos has been developing tools and infrastructure for data science and machine learning for over two decades. At Netflix, he led the machine learning infrastructure team. Currently, he is the CEO and co-founder of Outerbounds - where he’s building the modern, human-centric ML infrastructure stack, continuing the open-source product called Metaflow that he developed and managed during his Netflix days.
Michael Kaminsky is the co-founder of Recast, a marketing optimization platform, and the co-founder of Analytics Engineers Club, a training course for data analysts looking to improve their engineering skills. He is passionate about helping organizations “make better decisions faster.” He has experience applying econometric research methods to environmental economics, child welfare policy, and medical treatment efficacy. He studies Spanish, reads, and pets dogs around Mexico City in his spare time.
Alessya Visnjic is the CEO and co-founder of WhyLabs, the AI Observability company on a mission to build the interface between AI and human operators. Prior to WhyLabs, Alessya was a CTO-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), where she evaluated the commercial potential for the latest advancements in AI research.
Earlier in her career, Alessya spent nine years at Amazon, leading Machine Learning adoption and tooling efforts. She was a founding member of Amazon’s first ML research center in Berlin, Germany. Alessya is also the founder of Rsqrd AI, a global community of 1,000+ AI practitioners who are committed to making AI technology Robust & Responsible.
