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Ken Asada is a Partner at Salesforce Ventures, where he serves as Head of Japan. His areas of focus include venture capital investment, private equity, business strategy, and project management.

Paul Drews is a Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures, a venture fund with $6 billion in assets under management that invests in enterprise technology companies from seed stage through IPO. The fund makes investments ranging from $10 million to over $100 million, with holdings that include Anthropic, Box, Databricks, DocuSign, Snowflake, Twilio, Wiz, and Zoom.

Alex Haskell is Director of Legal at Salesforce Ventures, where he oversees legal matters for investments across Europe, Latin America, India, Australia, and the US. Previously, he worked on the Salesforce M&A team in San Francisco on acquisitions ranging from tech talent acquisitions to large public transactions, and practiced tech M&A and venture capital law at Cooley and Morrison & Foerster.

Alexandra Quie is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures, a venture fund with over $6 billion in assets under management that invests in enterprise technology companies. The fund invests off the Salesforce balance sheet across stages from Seed to IPO, with check sizes ranging from $5 million to over $100 million, and its portfolio includes companies such as Anthropic, Databricks, Snowflake, Twilio, and Zoom.

Willy Chu is Director of Portfolio Development at Salesforce Ventures, where he works with the companies in Salesforce's investment portfolio. He previously worked on Salesforce's Ignite team with financial services customers, and led go-to-market at Wage, a payroll data API startup, closing its first paying customers. His earlier roles included strategy and business development at home improvement lender Ygrene, an operational strategy position at Stitch Fix, and co-founding the loan crowdfunding startup WeFinance.

Kristi King is a Senior Event Manager at Salesforce Ventures with experience executing large-scale corporate events for up to 18,000 attendees across the United States, Canada, England, and the United Arab Emirates. She has managed events for companies including Hilton, Google, Nike, Samsung, Keller Williams Realty, and Target, and her team received the 2017 Special Events Magazine Gala Award for Best Achievement in Logistics after reorganizing a real estate convention into a disaster relief event within eight days following Hurricane Harvey.

Trista Myers is Head of Global Events at Salesforce Ventures, where over eight years she built the firm's events program from its inception into a portfolio of more than 30 events per year. She has over 14 years of experience in event management within the technology and venture capital sectors, including four years leading logistics at Dreamforce for audiences exceeding 170,000 attendees. Myers was named to Event Marketer Magazine's 35 Under 35 in Experiential Marketing in 2018.