Kim Scott is the author of the NYT & WSJ bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity. Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick teams at Google and then joined Apple University to develop and teach “Managing at Apple.” Kim has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies, and is the Co-Founder of Radical Candor.

Manny co-founded Outreach in 2014 and now serves as CEO. Prior to Outreach, Manny was employee number three on Amazon’s AWS team, and led the Microsoft mobile division from launch to $50M in annual revenue. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Manny is a model of vulnerable and transparent leadership to his employees, from his heartfelt weekly email to his employees, to the traditional Friday get-together where the whole company shares their highs and lows of the week. He is a proponent of saving the planet by consuming less and purchasing second-hand whenever possible (he might be the only CEO to take the stage at industry events in shirts purchased from Goodwill).

Manny grew up in Ecuador and now lives with his wife and three children in Seattle.

Susan St. Ledger is President of Worldwide Field Operations for Splunk, overseeing global sales, customer success and marketing. She has more than 25 years of senior leadership experience in high-growth technology companies, including more than 11 years at Salesforce and more than 12 years at Sun Microsystems. Susan started her career in several technical jobs, including her first role out of college as a software engineer at the National Security Agency. Susan is a passionate learner and anchors her leadership principles in what she calls a high-growth mindset. Continually checking items off her “Career Bucket List,” Susan has demonstrated expertise in identifying market opportunity and business transformation needs for SaaS environments. As of November 2019, Susan serves as the first independent board member of HashiCorp, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. Susan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Scranton, where she was a student athlete and graduated magna cum laude. Today, Susan continues to propel her philosophy to be a student of life and a student for life.

Navin Chaddha leads Mayfield. He is a three-time entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who has invested in over 50 companies, of which over 37 have had IPOs or been acquired. He made his twelfth appearance on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors in 2020, being named in the Top Five.

He is passionate about nurturing the Rise of the Individual and an active philanthropist who has pledged 1% of Mayfield’s fee and carry to support diversity, education, health and hunger.  

 
He holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.

Devika Patil is a managing director in the Venture Capital Relationship Management Group at SVB, where she provides emerging to late-stage VCs and their portfolio companies with the banking tools they need to succeed. Her financial wheelhouse includes tailored strategic capital solutions; proprietary, operational, tactical and industry insights; private banking; and wealth advisory services. As a self-described extrovert, Devika (pronounced Dave-ika) is passionate about building and cultivating relationships with the VC community and bridging impactful connections in the tech community. She thrives on working with the CEOs and founders of investor-backed companies across all sectors — enterprise, consumer, fintech, hardware and the life sciences.

Her extensive background in corporate banking combined with her natural fluency in interpersonal skills makes Devika as accomplished at fostering relationships with C-suite execs as she is at analyzing credit risk profiles of complex businesses. Prior to joining SVB in 2018, Devika was a vice president at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where she was the West Coast corporate banking head of the gaming and homebuilding group. She launched her career at J.P. Morgan as an investment banker. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Tufts University in Medford, Mass.

Dedicated to giving back to her community and beyond, Devika serves in a variety of volunteer capacities. She is on the Board of Fellows at The Harker School, one of the nation’s top schools for high-quality, well-rounded education to students in pre-K through 12, located in Silicon Valley. She is also the Digital Ambassador at the Institute for Education, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit, whose mission is to recognize and promote leadership, civility and finding common ground, locally, nationally and globally. She is currently a member of the Town of Atherton’s Audit and Finance Committee and the Board Treasurer at The Weekend To Be Named Later, a nonprofit fostering collaboration between progressive leaders in government, the arts and entertainment, finance, nonprofits, technology and education.

These days, Devika calls Atherton, California, home, and enjoys traveling, cooking, reading and Kathak (Indian classical dance) in her free time. Another one of her great passions is wine; in fact, Devika first learned of SVB through its wine division. Ask her about her favorite sips, Melka Métisse and Favia Cabernet, and when you do, feel free to converse in French, Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi, as she speaks them all. You could also chat with her about the West Wing — not the TV show, but the actual offices; Devika and her family lived in Washington, D.C., and served in the West Wing for two years during the Obama administration.