
Libby Horne

Ahmad Danesh
Ahmad Danesh is a strategic marketing and product management director with 15+ years’ experience in semiconductor, software, storage, server and data center industries. He is focused on driving product strategy for new market segments by translating data center bottlenecks into profitable and competitive hardware and software product roadmaps using Compute Express Link™ technology.
Ahmad serves as Sr. Director of Product Management at Astera Labs and has been an active member of the CXL™ Consortium's Marketing Work Group since inception in 2019.

Marcel van Duin

Sandra Milligan

Shira Center

Mehdi Esmail
Mehdi Esmail is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Validmind, a VC-backed startup focused on simplifying Model Risk Management for Financial Services. He has over a decade of experience in data, analytics, and risk management for the Financial Services industry, having served as both an operator working with the Chief Data Officer at American Express, and as a consultant for Fortune 100 Financial Services companies.

Bahar Malavan Naryndji

Dr. Philipp Aeby
Dr. Philipp Aeby is the CEO and co-founder of RepRisk. He is an expert in business conduct risk management, with a special interest in machine learning.
Before joining RepRisk in 2006, Philipp served in various managerial positions across Europe at Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical firm, and worked on a broad range of international assignments with the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a visiting scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia.
Philipp holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and a Master’s degree in Climatology and Hydrology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he earned the ETH Medal for outstanding research that involved applying neural networks to pattern recognition.