Keith Pearce is a seasoned marketing executive and two-time Chief Marketing Officer, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Zendesk. He brings more than two decades of leadership experience across the customer service and customer success technology markets, having held senior roles at Genesys and Salesforce Service Cloud, where he helped define the modern CCaaS service category and drive demand. Most recently, Keith served as Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight, where he led the company’s repositioning around its agentic AI capabilities and expanded its leadership in the Customer Success market. He has also driven marketing for both high-growth start-ups and multinational enterprise software leaders across Analytics, AI, and Customer Experience, with a proven track record of building market categories, launching transformative platforms, and driving demand on a global scale. Keith holds degrees from the University of Florida and Georgetown University, and lives with his family in Moraga, California.

Sanjai is the Chief Marketing Officer of Coherent Corp.  He joined Coherent in 2003 and has held various progressive senior leadership roles in R&D, product management, business operations, strategy and marketing.  He was appointed the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer in 2019.  Sanjai played a pivotal role in the charting the strategy and driving the execution of the company’s transformation into an industry leading photonics powerhouse.  Over his 35+ year career he has broad technology industry experience across many markets, including datacenter, telecom, industrial, instrumentation, automotive and consumer.  Prior to Coherent, Sanjai held senior business and technical leadership positions in Oplink Communications, TeraStor, Western Digital, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

Sanjai has a B.Tech from IIT-Madras, M.S. from University of Virginia and Ph.D. from Penn State.

George Huff is the founder and CEO of Opal, the platform that helps marketing teams connect strategy to execution through unified, visual planning. Since founding Opal in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, George has led the company’s evolution from a creative collaboration tool into the marketing industry’s system of record for connected planning. Today, leading brands including Starbucks, SAP Concur, Target, General Motors, and Boeing use Opal to bring clarity, alignment, and confidence to their marketing operations. A lifelong builder and problem solver, George is passionate about helping marketers work with greater purpose and creativity by eliminating the friction that slows great ideas down.

Nizzi Karai Renaud is chief brand officer at Zazzle, the global print-on-demand marketplace, based in Menlo Park. Previously, she was a leader in marketing and merchandising at Refinery29 and Etsy. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in marketing from Emerson College and a master's in applied positive psychology from the Unniversity of Pennsylvania.

Andrea leads growth for Upwork’s SMB marketplace, building the cross-channel engine that turns attention into revenue. She owns acquisition, activation, and monetization for the platform’s highest-velocity customers, integrating martech ecosystems, paid and organic acquisition, lifecycle engagement, and AI-driven creative workflows.

Previously, she held marketing leadership roles at Amazon, Disney, and Yahoo. She was the co-founder Foodily, a Webby Award-winning social recipe network for food, which was acquired by IAC. She earned her BA in mass communication and media studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

James Kessinger is Group Vice President of Marketing at SolarWinds, where he leads global demand generation, product and digital marketing, partner and field marketing, content, campaigns, and SDR/BDR teams. At SolarWinds, James is focused on applying AI and data-driven experimentation to modernize go-to-market execution—using machine learning–powered insights to improve targeting, pipeline efficiency, and customer experience across the full revenue funnel.

A full‑stack marketing leader and operating executive, James has scaled organizations from early growth to multi‑billion‑dollar revenue, managing large global teams and budgets exceeding $50M across complex enterprise environments, private equity–backed companies, and growth-stage SaaS ventures. He has repeatedly transformed digital demand engines, built account-based and partner-led motions, and standardized data-driven operating models that connect marketing investment to revenue, profitability, and shareholder value.

Allison Gillespie is the Vice President, Marketing at O'Reilly Media.

Olga Bobin is a global mobility and immigration executive with over 20 years of experience leading enterprise workforce strategy, cross-border compliance, and scalable operating models. At EPAM Systems, she heads global mobility and immigration programs supporting a large-scale technology workforce across multiple regions, ensuring seamless talent deployment through periods of rapid growth and geopolitical disruption. Her work has earned industry recognition, including the FEM Award for Agility & Crisis Management.

Olga also serves as Executive Sponsor of Women@EPAM, where she champions equitable access to global opportunities and inclusive workplace culture.

She holds a degree in Linguistics with IT Specialization and completed executive education at Harvard Business School. Based in Southern California, Olga is passionate about workplace culture, social impact, professional growth and empowering diverse talent.

Henrique Loyola is the Head of Content & Discovery at Google.

Bala Desikamani is VP of marketing at Temenos, a Swiss-based global leader in banking software. It provides core banking, digital, payments, and wealth management software to more than 3,000 financial institutions worldwide

Sachin Saxena is the Vice President Marketing at Innovaccer.

Rosalie Chan is a senior editor for Insider’s big tech team, which covers the biggest tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and more. Previously, she covered cloud computing and enterprise tech, where she reported on companies like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba Cloud, Atlassian, GitHub, VMware, and more. She has written extensively on topics including cloud computing, developer companies, and open source. She received the Excellence in Business / Consumer / Tech Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association for her investigation into the coding bootcamp Holberton School.

Rosalie joined Insider after working as a software engineer and freelance journalist. She studied journalism, computer science, and technology and business law at Northwestern University. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, the Huffington Post, VICE, Pacific Standard, Inverse, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Reporter, and more. She's currently based in San Francisco.