Keith Pearce is a seasoned marketing executive and two-time Chief Marketing Officer, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Zendesk. He brings more than two decades of leadership experience across the customer service and customer success technology markets, having held senior roles at Genesys and Salesforce Service Cloud, where he helped define the modern CCaaS service category and drive demand. Most recently, Keith served as Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight, where he led the company’s repositioning around its agentic AI capabilities and expanded its leadership in the Customer Success market. He has also driven marketing for both high-growth start-ups and multinational enterprise software leaders across Analytics, AI, and Customer Experience, with a proven track record of building market categories, launching transformative platforms, and driving demand on a global scale. Keith holds degrees from the University of Florida and Georgetown University, and lives with his family in Moraga, California.

Sanjai is the Chief Marketing Officer of Coherent Corp.  He joined Coherent in 2003 and has held various progressive senior leadership roles in R&D, product management, business operations, strategy and marketing.  He was appointed the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer in 2019.  Sanjai played a pivotal role in the charting the strategy and driving the execution of the company’s transformation into an industry leading photonics powerhouse.  Over his 35+ year career he has broad technology industry experience across many markets, including datacenter, telecom, industrial, instrumentation, automotive and consumer.  Prior to Coherent, Sanjai held senior business and technical leadership positions in Oplink Communications, TeraStor, Western Digital, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

Sanjai has a B.Tech from IIT-Madras, M.S. from University of Virginia and Ph.D. from Penn State.

George Huff is the founder and CEO of Opal, the platform that helps marketing teams connect strategy to execution through unified, visual planning. Since founding Opal in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, George has led the company’s evolution from a creative collaboration tool into the marketing industry’s system of record for connected planning. Today, leading brands including Starbucks, SAP Concur, Target, General Motors, and Boeing use Opal to bring clarity, alignment, and confidence to their marketing operations. A lifelong builder and problem solver, George is passionate about helping marketers work with greater purpose and creativity by eliminating the friction that slows great ideas down.

Nizzi Karai Renaud is chief brand officer at Zazzle, the global print-on-demand marketplace, based in Menlo Park. Previously, she was a leader in marketing and merchandising at Refinery29 and Etsy. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in marketing from Emerson College and a master's in applied positive psychology from the Unniversity of Pennsylvania.

Andrea leads growth for Upwork’s SMB marketplace, building the cross-channel engine that turns attention into revenue. She owns acquisition, activation, and monetization for the platform’s highest-velocity customers, integrating martech ecosystems, paid and organic acquisition, lifecycle engagement, and AI-driven creative workflows.

Previously, she held marketing leadership roles at Amazon, Disney, and Yahoo. She was the co-founder Foodily, a Webby Award-winning social recipe network for food, which was acquired by IAC. She earned her BA in mass communication and media studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

At SolarWinds, a leading U.S. software company specializing in IT infrastructure management, observability, and network monitoring, James has a host of leadership responsibilities. They include Field Marketing, Partner Marketing, Content Marketing, Campaign Marketing, Account Marketing, Digital Marketing (Web, SEO, SEM, Paid Media), Product Marketing, Strategy and Analytics, Corporate Communications, SDR and BDR.

Previously, he was the chief operating officer and chief marketing officer at Hushly, an all-in-one conversion cloud, and held leadership positions at VMware and Cisco. He earned his bachelor of science degree at Florida State University.