Mike Bachman, affectionately dubbed “Bachman” by peers, is Boomi’s Principal Architect for Emerging Technology. With over two decades of expertise, he has assisted executives and their teams in overcoming complex obstacles through innovative tech solutions. Bachman’s background encompasses AI R&D, data pipeline development, infrastructure planning, application integration, performance analysis, and the exploration of nascent technologies.

Samantha Bussard is the Director, Talent Strategy for Compass Business Solutions, a WBENC certified organization focused on driving organizational performance through proven business and people strategies. Samantha is an established talent strategist and expert recruiter who has placed over 1,000 resources in the technology, engineering, cyber security, management consulting, and manufacturing domains in her career. Samantha’s philosophy is rooted in data to drive talent goals and explore opportunities for organizational efficiencies.  Her passion is creating meaningful partnerships between talent and business teams to ensure news hires fit seamlessly into the culture of organizations.

John Cowan is serial entrepreneur, business builder, founder, and CEO of more than 20 years. Mr. Cowan is an expert at developing and leading company strategy and execution, including raising and managing venture capital, financial modelling, identifying and executing potential mergers and acquisitions, and recruiting and developing high performance teams and advisory boards. He is also a prolific public speaker and writer, often called upon to deliver keynote address presentations and contribute to major industry publications around the world. From 2012 to 2019 Mr. Cowan was a regular guest lecturer for the University of North Carolina and Duke University MBA programs venture capital curriculum.

Mr. Cowan co-created EJDX, the pioneering edge computing software company. At EDJX he oversaw all aspects of business planning, financial modeling, recruiting and development, go to market strategy, public-facing industry evangelism and content publications. During his tenure with EDJX he filed multiple patent applications in the field of multi-tenant system metering and decentralized economic systems involving distributed ledger technologies.

Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce, has been with the company for over15 years. His global work supports C-suite teams, data governance professionals, and innovators in connected product and “big data” domains in many industries and institutions.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Peter spent eighteen years as a technology analyst, columnist, editor, and frequent contributor for IT publications including eWEEK, PC Week, Computer Language and AI Expert. He has written widely on cloud security and privacy, and was a chapter contributor to Prentice Hall’s Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity. He previously served as the first Manager for Desktop Computing Planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space-asset applications of AI techniques. Before that, he held project management roles at Exxon Corporation ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic.

Peter received his engineering degree from MIT in 1978 and an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1985; he has held college faculty appointments in expert-systems programming, IT management, and business analytics, while also lecturing at Stanford, CalTech, Harvard Business School, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT as well as other institutions in Europe, Asia and South America. He advises on curriculum and degree program planning in analytics and “big data” initiatives for three U.S. universities. He is co-founder and President of the Foundation for Intelligent Life on Earth, a Seattle-based sponsor of efforts addressing climate change, conservation, STEAM education, and exploration of earth and space.

Sean is a lifelong technologist who grew up in a small, rural town in Ohio and started his career in the U.S. intelligence community, holding leadership positions in the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency. Sean served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Bronze Star Medal for his service. After government service, Sean started his life as an entrepreneur, and has founded several technology companies dealing with big data, advanced analytics, entity resolution, and most recently, artificial intelligence. Sean has raised over $900M in venture capital, and is now a leading expert in applying Al in healthcare. He is a graduate of Miami University with an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Rio Grande, and was named previously Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also author of The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors. His papers have been published in top management journals and have won multiple awards. His work on crowdfunding is the most cited article in management published in the last five years.

Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he currently advises a number of startups and organizations. As the academic director and co-founder of Wharton Interactive, he works to transform entrepreneurship education using games and simulations. He has long had interest in using games for teaching, and he coauthored a book on the intersection between video games and business that was named one of the American Library Association’s top 10 business books of the year. He has built numerous teaching games, which are used by tens of thousands of students around the world.

Mollick received his PhD and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, magna cum laude.

Dr. Irene Rombel is the CEO and Co-Founder of BioCurie, a biotechnology software startup that is at the nexus of AI and advanced therapeutics, inspired by the vision of revolutionizing the development and manufacture of cell and gene medicines. She is deeply committed to transforming great science and technology into disruptive products that will help patients and society, while creating shareholder value.

Irene’s experience spans Biotech, Big Pharma, Consulting, Investing, and Academia, and her passion lies at the interface of science and business. Prior to BioCurie, she was Chief of Staff, Research, at Spark Therapeutics; Senior Director of Strategy and External Innovation at Janssen, J&J; Founder and President of Biomedical Intelligence LLC, a life science consulting company; and an investment analyst for public and private equities. Irene has advised and mentored many start-up companies over the past 20 years, including serving as a JPAL for the J&J JLABS Incubator companies, and is on Columbia University’s Translational Therapeutics Accelerator Steering Committee and the Columbia University Irving Cancer Drug Discovery Advisory Board.

Irene started her career as an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she conducted research on DNA vaccines and cell targeting, and her post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley and UC Davis contributed to the fundamental understanding of gene regulation. She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. (First Class Hon.) in Biochemistry from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and her MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Irene is also a registered US Patent Agent.

President and CFO of Boomi, Arlen is a global technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high-growth businesses, driving financial and capital management strategies and business development, incubating new business models, and overseeing investments and mergers and acquisitions at multi-billion dollar public enterprise software companies. He formerly served as EVP and CFO of Citrix Systems, Inc., and prior to Citrix held multiple executive roles at SAP, including EVP and Global Head of Business Development and Ecosystems, CFO of SAP North America (SAP’s largest business unit), and Global Head of Corporate Development. He was a principal architect of SAP’s rapid transformation into a cloud company.

Arlen has a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, an M.B.A. from the Fox School of Business at Temple University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University. He has also completed the London Business School’s Corporate Finance Program.

Parth Thaker is Executive Director, Strategy within Strategic Development, Comcast Cable. Strategic Development is a group of future-focused entrepreneurs answering “what’s next” for Comcast and our customers, via partnerships, investments, and new ventures. Parth’s team helps lead growth and product strategy initiatives and he is currently leading the company’s focus on generative AI strategy and applications. Prior to Comcast, Parth worked at Deloitte in a strategy and new ventures team and Deutsche Bank in mergers and acquisitions focused on the technology, media, and telecommunications sector. Parth started his career as a full-stack software engineer. Parth has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and a computer science and electrical engineering degree from the University of Virginia.

James Thomason is a Managing Partner at Next Wave Partners, a venture studio focused on the next long wave of innovation including AI, augmented reality, data infrastructure, and alternative energy. He is a career technology innovator with over 25 years of Silicon Valley experience building and exiting early-stage startup companies. James holds 7 patents in areas of machine learning, cloud computing, virtualization, peer to peer networks, and internet routing. He has written for Forbes, Network World, Information Week, VMBlog, ZDNet, Information Age, and numerous other publications as a thought leader. James has guest lectured on entrepreneurship and innovation at Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as the United Nations Inter-governmental Consultations Migration, Asylum and Refugees on cyber trafficking and exploitation.

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.

Allen Born focuses on originating and executing middle-market investment banking transactions in the technology sector. He has advised on exclusive sale assignments, buy-side transactions, financings, and various other strategic advisory assignments and has completed more than 50 transactions totaling over $13 billion in consideration.

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO of dbt Labs. dbt is an emerging leader in the data transformation space. It’s used by 16,000 companies including JetBlue, HubSpot, Dunelm, and SunRun. Tristan has over two decades of experience as a data practitioner working in both large enterprises and startups. His expertise and data industry best practices have influenced thousands of subscribers and listeners weekly via his newsletter and podcast covering analytics engineering.

Terry Kerwin is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP, and is co-chair of the Firm’s Technology Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Practice Group.  Terry advises start-up and growth-stage companies from formation to exit, including with respect to entity structure and governance, commercial contracts, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.  Terry has been national ranked by Chambers USA as a leading attorney in the practice areas of Startups & Emerging Companies as well as Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, and has also been recognized by the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer as a Lawyer on the Fast Track.

Ed Macosky is the Chief Innovation Officer at Boomi (CINO). He has more than 15 years of experience building high performing agile teams, designing and launching new software and service products, solution delivery and customer retention. Ed works to establish and execute Boomi’s product vision and roadmap – delivering an intelligent, flexible and scalable integration platform that accelerates business outcomes by making information, interactions and innovations flow faster.

Prior to joining Boomi in early 2019, Ed spent almost five years at Oracle, where he served as Vice President of Middleware/PaaS DevOps & Release Engineering. Prior to Oracle, he spent some time at Dell. In addition, starting in 2003, Ed spent more than seven years at Boomi during the formative years of the company.

Named one of the Top 25 Software Product Executives of 2022, Ed studied Information Technology at Penn State and holds two U.S. patents for integrating software systems.

Philip Moyer is Vice President, Global AI Business at Google Cloud and a member of the CEOs Executive team. He leads the global go-to-market and technical teams driving Google Cloud’s AI strategy. Previously he led Strategic Industries for Google Cloud which included Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Media, and Gaming. He was Director of Financial Services at Amazon Web Services, and Managing Director at Venture Capital firm Safeguard Scientifics. He was CEO of EDGAR Online and Co-founder/Co-CEO of the French FinTech, Cassiopae (sold to BNP Paribas). Earlier in his career, Philip worked at Microsoft for 15 years in various General Manager roles.  Philip started his career as software engineer for nuclear submarines at GE Aerospace. He has a degree in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh and has been on 11 private and public company boards as Chairman or Lead Director.

Andy Santacroce is Deputy CIO & Vice President for Tokio Marine North America Services (TMNAS), delivering technology solutions to select Tokio Marine group insurance companies nationally. Throughout his tenure at TMNAS, he has transformed delivery across multiple domains including Digital, Data & Analytics, Business Experience (Business Analysis & Quality Management), Human Resource Systems and Organizational Change Management. Prior to joining TMNAS in 2016, he served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Global Applications & Digital Products at BDP International in Philadelphia. He has held key leadership positions across infrastructure, program management, marketing support and sales engineering throughout his career for the Verizon companies, Cable & Wireless, SmithKline Beecham, PECO Energy, The PMA Group and Prudential Insurance.  Andy is passionate about giving back to the community and has served on the Boards of Directors for Encore Series, Inc. (The Philly POPS), Cradles to Crayons, Settlement Music School, on the Executive Board of the Penn State Alumni Association and is currently President of the Penn State Eberly College of Science Alumni Society.  He has also served as an elected official and director on several non-profit, governmental and quasi-governmental boards and is actively engaged as an Advisor for key technology incubators. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Penn State University. In 2016 he received industry recognition as a Premier 100 Technology Leader by Computerworld Magazine and as an Alumni Fellow by Penn State University.

Jim Singer is a partner with the law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP, where Jim co-chairs the firm’s Technology Practice and formerly chaired the Intellectual Property Department. Jim draws on a deep well of experience to support clients in patents, technology transactions, software and platform licensing, tech-focused supply chain agreements, and IP due diligence. Jim also leverages his past experience as an engineering project manager to ensure that clients receive practical advice, clear communications, responsive support and efficient service.

Jim has guided the development of IP portfolios that led to successful exits through acquisition by global technology leaders, including Amazon, Autodesk, Eaton, Ford, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Nielsen, Proofpoint, Sandvik, Signify and Xerox.

Dr. Snyder is a recognized thought leader in technology and innovation. He has more than 30 years of experience in emerging technologies, business strategy and innovation, and digital transformation for Global 1000 companies and startup ventures.  He is the co-author of Goliath’s Revenge: How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors and the author of The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution and numerous other articles on emerging technologies and innovation. Dr. Snyder is a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured at MIT, Babson, Duke, Georgia Tech and INSEAD on Digital Innovation, Decision-making, Business and IT Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Product Design and Development, and Big Data/Analytics.  Dr. Snyder has been a Digital Economy Project Fellow for the World Economic Forum.  He also holds three patents for personalization engines and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including CIO Magazine, WIRED, Forbes, Knowledge@Wharton, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and the Financial Times. Dr. Snyder is currently the Chief Digital Officer of EVERSANA focused on accelerating the life sciences commercialization model.  Dr. Snyder earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Wang is a Principal and the head of the Center for Analytics and Insights at Vanguard. Her group is responsible for uncovering client insights through data analytics and market research, and partnering with businesses across Vanguard to develop solutions for product development, client experience and operations improvement by applying big data analytics and insights.

Earlier, Ms. Wang was the responsible for Vanguard Retirement Plan Access™, a comprehensive suite of 401(k) retirement plan services for small businesses, as part of Vanguard Institutional Investor Group. Ms. Wang also had the experience of running the sales channel management group in Vanguard Financial Advisor Services™. She joined Vanguard in 2009 after several years with the Boston Consulting Group. Ms. Wang earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Matt Winkler is Head of Omnichannel Products at Takeda Oncology Pharmaceuticals focused on using digital innovation to improve the customer experience. He is currently using AI to predict patient progression to inform clinical trial recruitment and improve commercialization communications with customers.  He is responsible for managing the product evolution for Next Best Engine, Marketing Technology Stack, and oncology websites and digital campaigns.  Prior to Takeda, Matt was with IQVIA for 7 years as the Head of Omnichannel Partnerships and Products, where he managed data partnerships to inform customer insights, AI / ML creation, omnichannel orchestration, and digital marketing optimization.  With over 25 yrs in healthcare marketing, Matt has worked for several top 10 pharma companies leading marketing strategy (HCP and Consumer), as well as digital, and omnichannel marketing roles. As a previous P&L owner, he has strong understanding of the commercialization process where he used marketing innovation to drive top line growth and adapt good operating practices to scale and contribute to meaningful bottom-line results.

Caroline serves as the Director – AI Practice at Google Cloud where her team is responsible for accelerating customer transformations with AI. Before joining Google Cloud, Caroline was Field CIO & Partner at Dell Technologies. With an extensive and diverse background in applied infrastructure across networking, security and cloud, Caroline is passionate about helping customers innovate from vision to reality — responsibly moving AI into production systems and driving better business outcomes.