About Russ
Russ Heddleston is the CEO and co-founder of DocSend, which he started in 2013 with Tony Cassanego and Dave Koslow. Previously, Russ was a co-founder of Pursuit, a social referral company that helped source referral candidates and a product manager at Facebook. Russ received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

DocSend

DocSend is a secure documents sharing platform that lets you share business-critical documents with ease and get real-time actionable analytics. With DocSend's unique blend of security and control, everyone — from startup founders to investors to sales and business development professionals — can build business partnerships that have a lasting impact. Over 16,000 customers of all sizes trust DocSend with their critical documents.

Phil is an Evangelist in SVB's Startup Banking Group where he helps clients connect with investors, prospective investors, and potential partners. Prior to SVB, Phil worked for Techstars and a pair of early stage VC firms where he spent his time scouting for high potential companies, conducting market research and performing due diligence

As a Director at Silicon Valley Bank, Kamir Kothari connects SVB and VC/startup communities and is a senior member of the Early Stage Practice. He has spent past years as a venture investor and an operator. Having been on both the side of the table, Kamir brings a holistic experience allowing our founders to benefit in navigating product development, scaling and financing while working with other venture investors in the community towards identifying breakthrough companies.

Kamir started his career at Parthenon Consulting. As part of the Emerging Market group in Singapore, Kamir worked with some of the leading tech startups in Mobility, E commerce and Fintech space, helping them expand into India, China, Africa and LatAm.

With a keen interest in the evolving marketplaces businesses, Kamir moved to San Francisco to join Lendinghome, an online mortgage lender, as a Product Manager. During his time, he helped scale Lendinghome to over 23 states while growing the origination volume to over $1 billion.

With a curiosity to enable access to cheap financing in emerging markets, Kamir joined Asaak as a founding team member, to help build a platform to provide financing to small business in East Africa. Kamir headed the capital markets for Asaak, helping the team secure venture financing from leading global investors while creating one of the first marketplaces in the world for debt investors to access African business loans as an asset class.

Kamir earned his investment stripes as an investor with Social Capital, where he led investments in companies like Jobox, Clara among others.