Meet the Team
Leadership Team
Wendy Turner-Williams
Pioneering digital transformations for 20+ years and enabling much of today’s cloud services, Wendy has led architecture, data, IT, and product organizations at world-renowned technology giants.
Wendy blends a strategic-tactician mindset and her strengths in communication, community building, and big-picture thinking to drive change, innovation, and transformation and deliver big impact.
Andrew Beers
Most recently the CTO of Tableau, Andrew oversaw product and engineering organizations while making technical contributions. He established new data and analytics products during his tenure and led a future-focused research and prototyping effort.
Before his time at Tableau, Andrew was at another successful startup venture, leading engineering for Invisalign.
Peggy Tsai
Currently serving as the Chief Data Officer at BigID, Peggy is a distinguished data governance executive with extensive experience in financial services companies like Morgan Stanley, AIG, and S&P Global Ratings.
With expertise in AI governance and management, she has spoken at institutions including Gartner, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Manny Rivera
Manny, formerly a CMO at Aon Affinity, is an experienced marketing and digital transformation executive who optimizes employee skill sets while enhancing marketing engagements with technology.
He has a notable history of transforming organizations into performance-driven marketing departments for some of the world’s most recognizable brands, including Salesforce, Aon, Abbott Laboratories, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, and Ford Motor Company.
Jim Goldman
Jim is the CEO and co-founder of Trava Security, Inc. and an internationally published author with market-leading data communications and networking books.
Possessing 30+ years of experience in cyber security and risk management, he has served as the CISO for Exact Target, the Global Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) at Salesforce, and an FBI Cyber Crime Task Force Officer.
Core Team
David Stevens
With over 20 years of experience in the event industry, David has a proven track record of creating and executing impactful and memorable experiences that drive engagement, awareness, and revenue for leading brands and organizations.
Passionate about delivering innovative and meaningful solutions that connect people, his core competencies include experiential marketing, networking events, public speaking, media planning and buying, and sustainable and wellness-focused event management.
Ira Santamaria-Guilles
Ira has smoothly pivoted and adapted to various roles during her 6.5 years at Salesforce. Most recently, she was a trusted technical writer specializing in content and communications experience for Security GRC and M&A integration for technology and products.
Ira is a versatile and dedicated partner known for her empathetic, customer-centric approach and adeptness in cross-functional collaboration with global teams.
Jesse Butler
Jesse is a professor at the University of Central Arkansas, where he teaches and does research in philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, critical thinking, and philosophy for living.
He is also a published author and a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, where he taught courses on self-knowledge and American philosophy.
Kaydee James
As a managing partner at Constantin & James, Kaydee has guided over 1000 professionals, senior leaders, and executives through internal and external transitions at companies like Meta, Salesforce, and Randstad USA.
Filling over $.5B in technology and engineering positions across the U.S. and Canada, she has enabled organizations and professionals to excel in attracting, acquiring, and retaining top talent.
Nikki Nolan
Nikki is our Director of Product Design. She has a remarkable design career spanning 15+ years. She has served as a creative leader at esteemed organizations such as Slack, Patreon, and the California Academy of Sciences.
Her approach to design is characterized by empathy, resourcefulness, and an unyielding dedication to delivering innovative solutions.
Rajesh Kumar Butteddi
Rajesh is an accomplished software engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and developing reliable, scalable software systems in e-commerce, CRM, network management, and electronic design and automation. Transforming his research, he positions products ahead of the market curve.
He has previously contributed his talents to some of the most notable technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce.
Ruchi Arora
Ruchi is a technology and data executive with vast experience transforming and scaling businesses. Her unique problem-solving capabilities and proven AI/ML, analytics, and data product experience have consistently resulted in top-line growth, operational efficiency, and delighted customers.
She is also a diversity, equality, and inclusion advocate and an active Women in Technology and Data community member.
Shanu Gupta
A highly analytical IT professional with 20+ years of experience, Shanu has worked at companies like Horizon BCBS, Salesforce, HCSC, Aetna, Prudential Financial, Citibank, and Thales.
With a track record of successfully managing complex projects and aligning IT initiatives with organizational goals, she has led and managed complex enterprise-level projects, having multiple cross-functional agile scrum teams and playing various roles and responsibilities in her career.
Wendy Zhang
Wendy is a seasoned leader renowned for her expertise in data and analytics transformations across diverse industries, including Financial Services, Defense, Retail, and Biotech.
With a proven ability to navigate complex regulatory landscapes while maintaining a strategic, big-picture perspective, Wendy excels at orchestrating data-driven metamorphoses that generate impactful and sustainable business impact.