Insight Partners

Jerry Murdock co-founded Insight Partners and, though largely retired from day-to-day investing, earned a Midas List debut on the strength of his 2009 investment in Twitter.

Drew Harman has over thirty years of enterprise software experience in executive strategy, product, and marketing roles, and serves as a board member and strategic advisor to portfolio companies. He previously held VP roles at Ariba and has served on boards of numerous early and growth-stage software companies tied to Shasta Ventures, Insight Partners, and InterWest Partners.

Jamie Cavanaugh first joined The Halifax Group in 2012 and rejoined in 2018 after business school; he sources and evaluates investments, monitors portfolio companies, and executes transactions. He previously worked as an investment banking analyst at Fidus Partners and began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, holding an MBA from Chicago Booth and a B.S. from the University of Virginia.

Michelle Gaiotto pairs statistical training with $1B+ cross‑asset investment experience, offering a quantitative edge as a CEO who leads financings and serves on boards of medical companies globally from Italy.

Arjun Mehta is a Managing Director at Insight Partners with experience sourcing, structuring, and leading private equity investments. He serves on the boards of ten companies and focuses on founder-led software and technology-enabled businesses, particularly in supply chain, compliance, legal, government, and vertical software and payments sectors.

Aiden Aceves is a Principal, Investments at Insight Partners focused on AI and biotech. He holds a PhD in machine learning and has founded multiple companies in the life sciences sector before transitioning to venture capital.

Adam Vartabedian is Senior Vice President, Talent at Insight Partners, where he leads the firm's Talent Center of Excellence in Europe. His work supports portfolio companies with executive hiring, HR advisory, and talent operations, and involves collaboration with founders and CEOs of European startups and scaleups.

Ajay Gandhi is Executive Vice President at Insight Partners, where his work focuses on marketing and go-to-market strategy across areas including AI, machine learning, data analytics, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity. His earlier experience includes management consulting at McKinsey & Company in Palo Alto, Toronto, and Seoul, and product management at E.piphany, where he oversaw the analytics and real-time personalization product lines.

Alea Kennedy is Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations & Strategy at Insight Partners, with more than 20 years of experience across sales strategy, client service, corporate strategy, and investment banking. For over a decade, she has focused on revenue operations and strategy, sales enablement, and sales development to support company scaling. Kennedy authored the book Leading Sales Development, teaches at the Chicago Booth School of Business, and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from Gannon University.

Amir Ravandoust is Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where he leads the Sales & Customer Success Center of Excellence. He works with B2B SaaS companies to design go-to-market operating models, AI-driven workflows, and playbooks aimed at improving revenue predictability and seller productivity. His background spans product, engineering, sales engineering, solutions, and revenue leadership.

Andrew Prodromos is Executive Vice President at Insight Partners. His work spans corporate communications, media and investor relations, crisis communications, marketing, and growth strategy.

Barrie Markowitz is Executive Vice President of Insight Onsite at Insight Partners, focused on early and growth stage technology companies. His work spans investor due diligence, strategic and operational consulting, and business execution, covering areas such as marketing and demand generation, customer analytics and segmentation, product marketing, and financial planning. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and completed an undergraduate degree through the Management & Technology (M&T) Program at Wharton and Penn Engineering.

Carina Moran is an Operating Partner for AI Transformation at Insight Partners, where she leads AI transformation engagements with CEOs and C-suite leaders across select portfolio companies, spanning go-to-market, finance, product, engineering, HR, and legal functions. Before joining Insight Partners, she spent more than 15 years in sales operations at Fortune 500 companies, working on data infrastructure, compensation frameworks, and territory models. She has approximately 20 years of experience in revenue operations.

Charlene Chen is Executive Vice President of Insight Onsite at Insight Partners, where her work focuses on early and growth stage technology companies. Her experience spans investor due diligence, strategic and operational consulting, and business operations, covering areas such as marketing and demand generation, customer analytics and segmentation, product marketing and management, financial modeling, and strategy. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton/Penn Engineering M&T Program.

Citiana Belayneh serves as Investments Director at the Wyoming Business Council and Managing Director at WYVC. Her areas of work include online marketing, digital experience, and development, spanning affiliate marketing, comparison shopping engines, paid and organic search, social media, content, UX, and brand management.

Dave Cook is a Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where he focuses on go-to-market and AI advisory. His work centers on scaling SaaS businesses, with a background in marketing spanning campaigns, SEO, SEM, social media, analytics, branding, public relations, email marketing, and event management.

David Stark is a Vice President at Insight Partners, based in the firm's New York office. He previously spent 2.5 years at the digital health company K Health, where his work included launching the company's B2B unit for enterprise customers. Earlier in his career, he spent about four years at McKinsey, working as a consultant in New York and London on areas such as growth, eCommerce, and go-to-market strategy, and later leading hi-tech client development in Israel.

Dilan Tank is a Senior Partner at Silver Lake, where he works with portfolio companies. He serves as Executive Chair of Qualtrics, Chair of Unity Technologies, and on the boards of CO2 AI and The Conservation Fund. His earlier career included roles as President at IBM (following its acquisition of Red Hat), chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines, and partner positions at The Boston Consulting Group; he holds a bachelor's degree in economics and computer science from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard.

Dominic Olszowski is Senior Vice President, Executive Talent at Insight Partners, where he focuses on helping technology companies recruit and retain go-to-market leaders. He has more than 20 years of experience in executive search and leadership advisory across the US and EMEA, with domain coverage spanning software/SaaS, cloud services, communications, digital media, advertising and marketing technology, internet, eCommerce, IT services, security, and fintech. His assignments have included searches for roles such as President of Revenue, CRO, VP of Sales, CMO, VP of Marketing, CEO, President, and Managing Director.

Elizabeth DeSimone is a Principal in Private Equity / Venture Capital at OrbiMed. She previously worked at Bank of America as a Vice President in Equity Research covering the medical technology industry and as an Investment Banking Associate in the Healthcare group, and earlier held a role in management consulting at Accenture Strategy focused on operations. She holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

Eric Gilroy is EVP and Leader of Late Stage and Buyout Advisory at Insight Partners, where he heads a team of CxO-level senior advisors with functional expertise across Sales, Marketing, Product, IT, and Strategy. The team works with portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams to integrate AI into internal operations and products, focusing on moving beyond isolated pilots to broader organizational adoption.

Gary Survis is an Operating Partner for AI Transformation at Insight Partners and a lecturer at the Wharton School. His work focuses on artificial intelligence, marketing, and sustainability, the last of which he has taught for over a decade. He has experience in marketing strategy and in guiding early-stage ventures through growth and functional scaling.

Isabela Peralta is a Principal at Insight Partners, where she focuses on healthcare venture investing. Originally from Costa Rica, she graduated from Wharton Business School with concentrations in Finance, Marketing, and Data Science.

Jeremey Donovan is Executive Vice President, Revenue Operations & Strategy at Insight Partners, where his team supports the firm's portfolio companies. Over a career of more than 25 years, he has held roles in semiconductor engineering, product management, and sales and marketing leadership at Xilinx, Gartner, AMA, GLG, CB Insights, and Salesloft. He is the author of five books, including "How to Deliver a TED Talk" and "Predictable Prospecting," holds a CFA and degrees from Cornell University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the University of Virginia, and hosts the "Hey Salespeople" podcast.

Jonathan Grossman is a Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where he advises portfolio companies on marketing strategy, including analyst relations, brand, and thought leadership, as part of the firm's Marketing Center of Excellence. He previously worked as a senior analyst at Forrester Research, advising companies on content strategies and technologies, and produced content at IDG, where he developed episodic programming such as World Tech Update. A Boston University alumnus, he taught journalism and marketing there for more than a decade.

Jordan Mittler is an Investment Analyst at Insight Partners and a senior at Harvard College, where he concentrates in Economics and Computer Science with a secondary in Music. His experience spans venture capital, growth equity, high-tech, sales and marketing, and public relations. He has lived in New York, Tel Aviv, and Boston.

Kevin Hurth is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, which he joined in 2016 in a capital markets role focused on managing relationships with financing partners and investment banks and coordinating debt and equity capital markets activities across the firm, including the structuring and execution of debt facilities for portfolio companies. Before Insight, he spent eight years in Chicago with BMO Capital Markets and BMO Harris Bank in leveraged finance roles, most recently as a Vice President in BMO Harris Bank's Sponsor Finance group. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA in Finance, Investment, and Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kuran Malhotra is a Vice President at Insight Partners, where he works as an investor. He also serves as an advisor to Compass Coffee in Washington, DC. Malhotra earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 2020.

Margaret Doherty-Caris is a member of the investment team at Insight Partners, a global software investor with $90B in assets under management. She studied pure mathematics at Harvard and Oxford, and holds an RYT-200 yoga teaching certification completed in India.

Meg Fitzgerald is an Executive Vice President at Insight Partners, where she leads the Marketing Center of Excellence and advises founders, CEOs, and CMOs on go-to-market strategy. Her work covers product marketing, demand generation, category and brand strategy, ecosystem partnerships, and the application of AI to go-to-market processes. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in marketing and partnerships roles across B2B SaaS and marketplace companies.

Michelle Johnson is a Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where she advises early and growth-stage founders and CEOs on go-to-market strategy, team building, and revenue leadership hiring. Her career spans sales, marketing, revenue operations, and channel roles, including work with a go-to-market organization that grew from $0 to $100M in revenue. She has also developed employee resource group programs, sales recruiting events, and mentorship initiatives focused on women in leadership.

Mike Hayes is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, a New York-based global software investment firm. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer at VMware, where he oversaw global business operations and the company's SaaS transition and was involved in its $69B sale to Broadcom, and earlier held senior executive roles at Cognizant and Bridgewater Associates. His prior career includes service as a White House Fellow and Director of Defense Policy and Strategy at the National Security Council and a 20-year Navy SEAL career; he authored the book "Never Enough" (Macmillan, 2021) and serves on the boards of Immuta and the National Medal of Honor Museum.

Mir Zayid Alam serves as Global Head of Human Resources at OrbiMed. He works in the investment management industry, with areas of focus including recruiting, compensation, benefits, employee relations, performance management, training and development, strategic planning, and facilities management.

Nalanie Nath is Executive Vice President, Business Transformation & Operations at Insight Partners, where she leads a team focused on the firm's internal operating capabilities across five disciplines: strategy, operating model, AI and technology, transformation, and execution. Her work centers on aligning people, processes, data, and tooling through governance, workflows, and organizational design. Prior to Insight Partners, she held leadership roles in operations, consulting, and transformation.

Nick Barber is a Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where he serves as a GTM advisor within the Marketing Center of Excellence, counseling portfolio company leaders on marketing strategy, analyst relations, brand, and thought leadership. He previously worked as a senior analyst at Forrester Research, advising companies on content strategies and technologies and helping develop the firm's video content strategy, and earlier produced content at IDG, where he expanded the company's global video network to include programming such as World Tech Update. A graduate of Boston University, he also taught journalism and marketing there for more than a decade.

Nick Sinai is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, which he joined in 2014, where he runs the firm's Government Advisory Board and serves as a board director or advisor to companies including Onebrief, LeoLabs, Shift5, Hawkeye360, Rebellion Defense, and Govly. He previously served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House, worked on the National Broadband Plan at the FCC, co-founded the U.S. Digital Corps, and taught as adjunct faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School; he is currently an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. With Marina Nitze, he co-authored Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team.

Nikki Parker is Executive Vice President at Insight Partners. Her work spans corporate communications, media relations, investor relations, crisis communications, and marketing, including product marketing, events, and social media. She has managed global marketing, growth, public relations, and investor relations campaigns.

Pablo Dominguez is an Operating Partner at Insight Partners, where he leads the Onsite Advisory practice, a team of former operators who work with portfolio company founders and executive teams on scaling, organizational design, talent, pricing, product, and revenue execution. His work includes a focus on AI transformation as a company-wide operating model shift, partnering with CEOs and executive teams on integrating AI into business processes. He is a co-author of the book What a Unicorn Knows.

Rachel Weston Rowell is EVP, R&D COE at Insight Partners, where she advises executives on developing organizational capabilities. She has more than 20 years of experience across coaching engagements in various industries, working with leaders and organizations on business transformation.

Richard Matus is Senior Partner and Chief Operating Partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm, where he has worked for more than 10 years leading its operating team of product, technology, go-to-market, and talent professionals. He has nearly 30 years of experience building and scaling cloud/SaaS, software, embedded software, and technology-enabled services companies, having held roles including CEO, President, COO, CTO, and Chief Product Officer across consumer and enterprise domains. He holds multiple certifications and patents in security, networking, service management, and cloud technologies.

Richard Sgro is Senior Vice President and Sales & Customer Success Center of Excellence Lead at Insight Partners, where he works with B2B SaaS companies to design go-to-market operating models and revenue systems. He has partnered with more than 100 companies on efforts spanning operating model design, workflow development, and AI-driven processes. His background includes roles in product, engineering, sales engineering, solutions, and revenue leadership.

Roland Carter serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Chief Operating Officer at Omidyar Network. His work focuses on developing organizations that pursue market-oriented approaches to inclusive and sustainable growth.

Soumya Pondugula is an investor at Insight Partners, where they serve on the investment team. Their work focuses on early- and growth-stage technology companies.

Stuart Mayer is EVP and Leader of Late Stage and Buyout Advisory at Insight Partners. He leads a team of CxO-level senior advisors with functional expertise across sales, marketing, product, IT, and strategy, working with portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams on AI transformation. The team's focus includes both internal operations and embedding AI into portfolio companies' products.

Travis Kassay is a Principal at Insight Partners. A native of Costa Rica, he graduated from the Wharton School with concentrations in finance, marketing, and data science, and focuses on healthcare venture investing.

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Zack Willis is Senior Manager, Grants and Contracts at Omidyar Network. He has experience working in the private foundation and nonprofit sector.

Anika Agarwal is a managing director known for a problem-solving approach to leveraged buyouts and large application and infrastructure software investments; she serves on boards like mission-driven EveryAction.

Deven Parekh has led over 130 software investments across early-stage to buyouts, using a process-driven approach to build go-to-market and global expansion strategies while serving as the firm's public voice.

Jeff Lieberman has one of the longest continuous growth-software investing tenures since 1998, has led 100+ deals across four continents, and built a hands-on apprenticeship safety culture empowering junior teammates.

Matt Gatto, managing director after over a decade at one firm, leverages Penn M&T training and experience in advertising, debt restructuring and risk management to align software with capital markets.

Nikitas Koutoupes combines finance experience, ongoing theoretical physics study at Columbia, and ex-software-founder experience to bridge Greek tech and international capital markets, highlighting resilience and lean culture as competitive advantages.

Peter Sobiloff, a nearly 30‑year software CEO turned investor, leverages operating expertise—his first deal sold for $150M in five months—and targets B2B software in regulated sectors like legal and healthcare.

Rachel Geller is an operator-style, transaction-focused investor who led an internal strategy and M&A team, evaluated hundreds of deals, and helped 50+ portfolio companies sharpen value propositions and scale go-to-market.

Richard Wells, whose mixed Ecuadorian and white American heritage informs advocacy on representation, is a software investor who led an initiative to back emerging managers and underrepresented venture capitalists.

Ryan Hinkle rose from summer analyst to managing director over 15+ years, built an analyst-first culture, combines electrical engineering and finance, focuses on education software, invested from $1M to multi-billion.

Brandon Scott is Director, Talent at Mayfield Fund, where he works with portfolio companies including HashiCorp, Outreach, and Mammoth Bio on talent-related challenges from the inception stage onward. He previously worked at Egon Zehnder, contributing to leadership team building for companies such as Shopify, Okta, and Toast. He studied economics, entrepreneurship, and astrophysics at Tufts University and completed a software development and data analytics bootcamp at UC Berkeley.

Connie Lau is an Operating Partner at Insight Partners, where she leads the Onsite Advisory practice, a team of former operators that works with portfolio company founders and executive teams on scaling, organizational design, talent, pricing, product, and revenue execution. Her focus includes AI transformation as a company-wide operating model shift, partnering with CEOs and executive teams on adapting processes to AI. She is a co-author of the book What a Unicorn Knows.

Cris Ross is a Venture Partner at Aegis Ventures with over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology. He is a former Chief Information Officer at Mayo Clinic, and previously held CIO roles at CVSHealth/MinuteClinic and Optum Behavioral Health, and served as Executive Vice President for Interoperability at Surescripts. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Yale School of Management, and co-authored the book Diagnosed with Ed Marx.

Filip Kisdobranski is Senior Vice President, Executive Talent at Insight Partners, where he focuses on helping technology companies identify and retain go-to-market leaders. He has over 20 years of executive search and leadership advisory experience across the US and EMEA, with domain expertise spanning Software/SaaS, cloud services, communications, digital media, advertising and marketing technology, internet, eCommerce, IT services, security, and fintech. His search assignments have included roles such as President of Revenue, CRO, VP Sales, CMO, VP Marketing, CEO, President, and Managing Director.

Govind Shivkumar is a Director of Investments at Omidyar Network, where he oversees for-profit investments in AI and emerging technology companies, funds, and non-profits, along with portfolios and grants in open-source technologies and public interest AI initiatives. His investment and portfolio work includes Anthropic, Groq, Sakana AI, EleutherAI, Stanford HAI, the UC Berkeley Skydeck VC Fund, Collab, and the Open Forum for AI at Carnegie Mellon University.

Leads early and growth advisory and portfolio programs at Stage 2 Capital; also associated with Insight Partners.

John True is a General Partner at Cultivation Capital focused on software and geospatial technology companies. He previously served as SVP of Field Operations at Guidewire, an enterprise software firm that went public in 2012, and spent about 20 years in executive sales and general management roles at early-stage technology companies including Fortify (acquired by HP), Equallogic (acquired by Dell), Ariba (acquired by SAP), and PTC.

Jordan Halpern-Leistner is a member of the investment team at Insight Partners, focusing on early and growth stage technology companies.

Katie Cheng is a Vice President at Insight Partners, based in the firm's New York office. She previously spent 2.5 years at K Health, a late-stage digital health company, where she worked across several areas of the business including the launch of its B2B unit for enterprise customers. Cheng began her career at McKinsey, spending about four years as a consultant in New York and London focused on growth, eCommerce, digital marketing, and go-to-market strategy, and later leading hi-tech client development in Israel.

Malavika Tandon is a Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where she works with early and growth-stage founders and CEOs on go-to-market strategy, team building, and revenue leadership hiring. Her career spans sales, marketing, revenue operations, and channel roles, including work on a go-to-market organization that scaled from $0 to $100M in revenue. She has also developed employee resource group programs, sales recruiting events, and mentorship initiatives focused on supporting women in leadership and technology.

Marty Swant is Senior Vice President at Insight Partners, where he works in GTM and AI advisory. His background is in marketing, with a focus on scaling SaaS businesses, and areas of specialty including campaigns, SEO, SEM, social media, analytics, branding and positioning, public relations, email marketing, and event management.

Partner at OrbiMed holding an M.D.

Abdi Adan is an investor at Insight Partners focusing on growth-stage vertical and horizontal application software companies. He joined Insight Partners in 2022 after previous roles at Blackstone and Red & Blue Ventures. Adan holds a BA in American History from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Adam Berger has nearly two decades as CEO and President, focuses on majority-stake, buyout and structured $10M–$350M deals, often serves as Chairman or Executive Chairman, blending private-equity operational leadership with growth investing.

AJ Malhotra treats proptech as any technology across a building’s lifecycle—from land acquisition to repair—and emphasizes applying AI/ML to building, occupancy, climate, and economic data for design, retrofitting, and resiliency.

Alessandro Luciano is a Principal at Insight Partners, where he leads the firm's investment activities in Europe. He is based in London.

Apoorva Goyal applies a Marwari family-business operator mindset to thesis-driven fintech infrastructure and embedded finance, helping Indian SaaS/tech startups scale globally and is unusually reachable via email or LinkedIn.

Blair Flicker joined 645 Ventures as a Senior Advisor in January 2024, where he focuses on firm operations and management. He previously spent over two decades at Insight Partners as General Counsel and Managing Director, overseeing the firm's legal activities, and earlier worked at Johnson & Johnson and the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He holds a BA in Economics from Tufts University, a JD from Columbia Law School, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Byron Lichtenstein is an in-house IPO and public-markets specialist who prepares companies for listing and crafts buyer-led, programmatic M&A strategies to build repeatable acquisition machines at scale.

Cian Cotter combines operator experience at Canon and Cable & Wireless with direct IPO and M&A advisory, capital formation and LP relationships, and strong ties to Ireland's tech ecosystem.

Connor Guess is a Vice President at Insight Partners, a New York City-based investment firm managing over $75 billion in assets. At Insight Partners, he invests in and partners with high-growth technology companies.

Darius Johnson is an investor at Insight Partners, where he focuses on early, growth, and late-stage technology companies.

Dave Cates is a hands-on managing director who prioritizes scaling portfolio operations, offers unusually accessible direct contact, and publicly connects startups to policy conversations beyond product and finance.

Dionne Chingkoe combines Google global growth experience across North America, EMEA, APAC and emerging markets with hands-on startup operating and founder-facing strategy work at Oyster Books, advising on portfolio construction.

Dylan Morris, a computational biologist who modeled immune cells across biochemistry and computer science, leads a software-first bio practice focused on computational biology, tech-enabled drug discovery and ending involuntary dying.

Eoin Duane focuses on structured equity for later-stage tech ($10M–$350M), with 13 years investing in private tech at Guggenheim and Elliott—where he led Flexible Capital—and joined Insight in 2021.

Ganesh Bell pairs Fortune 500 leadership—having led GE Power's shift to data-driven subscriptions—with enterprise and industrial energy expertise, investing in AI and industrial software while prioritizing workflow-embedded, intelligence-first agents.

George Mathew is a builder-turned-investor with 20+ years scaling data/AI firms (Kespry CEO; Alteryx President & COO through IPO), focusing on data infrastructure, MLOps, and apps atop foundation models.

Hagi Schwartz is a Managing Director at Insight Partners. He previously served as CFO of Check Point Software Technologies and Mercury Interactive Corporation during their IPOs, as well as CFO of Atrica Inc. and HyperRoll Inc. Schwartz holds a B.Sc. in economics and accounting from Bar Ilan University and serves on the board of Rackable Systems and advisory boards of several technology companies.

Hilary Gosher leads a 120+ person Onsite team she built—an early operator-led growth function in a VC platform that guides portfolio executives on hiring, metrics, global expansion and exit planning.

John Wolff leads the public-equities effort as MD and CIO, creating concentrated positions in late-stage private and public tech, combining founder experience with senior public- and private-markets investment roles.

Josh Fredberg leverages leadership roles at Ansys, PTC and Ariba to serve as investor and operating partner for industrial, engineering-focused SaaS firms like SimScale and nTopology, scaling go-to-market.

Julian Marcu is a Vice President at Insight Partners with nearly a decade of experience investing in software companies across cybersecurity, infrastructure, and vertical SaaS/AI from Series A through exit. His investment approach focuses on identifying category-defining platforms that serve as operational infrastructure for their industries, particularly in large, established markets where technological shifts create opportunities to displace legacy systems. He targets mission-critical software that embeds into customer workflows and expands across adjacent functions over time.

Krishnan Sastry is a Louisville-based investor with 30+ years across product, engineering, strategy and operations, a unique portfolio-CEO-to-managing-director path as CEO of Appriss, multiple tech patents, and broad sector coverage.

Lonne Jaffe leverages CEO and strategy leadership at Syncsort, CA Technologies and IBM to pursue multi‑decade compounding software growth, viewing generative AI challenges like hallucinations and alignment as opportunities.

Michael DeSantis is a crossover investor who uses a private-market lens on public tech and late-stage private companies, focusing on internet/software—especially messaging, media/content and social networks—with $10M–$350M Series A–B checks.

Former Forrester analyst Michael Yamnitsky brings a research-first, market-sizing and technical-analysis approach to investing in developer-experience and infrastructure tools—especially AI-driven stack simplifiers—while offering macro guidance for disciplined execution.

Nicole Shimer is a Principal at Insight Partners who has deployed over $1 billion across 20 venture and growth investments during her nine-year career in the industry. Her portfolio includes multiple enterprise SaaS investments such as TaxJar, Apprentice, Intenseye, and OneTrust. She holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Brown University and serves on the university's Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship.

Nikhil Sachdev leads expansion into India and emerging markets, focuses on regulated infrastructure-style fintech that enables businesses, and brings fintech/crypto infrastructure expertise plus Altimeter Capital growth and public-market experience.

Peter Segall, a former CEO who built HealthcareSource into a hospital talent platform, is a late-stage growth investor focused on healthcare IT/SaaS and coaches CEOs on scaling and M&A.

Praveen Akkiraju, former CEO who scaled VCE and Viptela, brings expertise in enterprise networks and data flows and guides founders building agentic SaaS with abstraction layers for interchangeable AI models.

Rebecca Liu-Doyle champions customer intelligence and expects founders to lead customer conversations, backing AI infrastructure that productizes models and abstraction layers (not pure algorithms), plus mission-critical workflow and science-led beauty.

Scott Barclay developed the Computational Care thesis and pairs infrastructure work—helping build U.S. e-prescribing ecosystem and running iScribe—with capital markets, consulting and CVS Health experience he draws on with founders.

Stephen Ward leverages 20+ years in cybersecurity—U.S. Secret Service, JPMorgan Chase, and CISO at The Home Depot—plus patented malware tech, industry awards, co-founding Brightmind Partners, and a $10M–$350M fintech-risk/cyber focus.

Stu Phillips is a growth investor in enterprise software and deep tech with nearly 20 years operating experience—including a Cisco VP who led Cisco IOS—and an operator, product-first evaluation style.

Sunny Singh is Vice President at Insight Partners, bringing experience in software and internet sector investments. Singh has background in consulting and research, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College with a major in Government and minor in Latino Studies.

Teddie Wardi is a Nordic engineer-turned-investor focused on early-growth B2B software, bringing SaaS scaling experience from SendGrid, prior VC at Atomico, an AI data/infrastructure focus, and a practitioner product-engineering approach.

Thilo Semmelbauer is a plan-first leader with deep operating experience scaling WeightWatchers Online and Shutterstock (through IPO), who focuses on selecting and developing hungry, next-step talent rather than seasoned profiles.

Thomas Krane applies an astrophysics-trained, hypothesis-driven, data-heavy approach to investing, building a concentrated cybersecurity and DevOps track record with multiple IPOs and active engagement in developer communities.

Whitney describes herself as a lifelong food lover who enjoys cuisines from around the world. She has spent 30+ years as a high tech executive and now works at a venture capital firm, where she helps early-stage startups scale and grow. She runs a personal food blog to share recipes, culinary adventures, and reflections on food and wine.