The room behind the people decisions that shape companies.

A business leader in the tech sector for over 30 years in Silicon Valley, Elisa has broad experience across consumer and enterprise businesses. She’s led transformations to scale; growing and driving impact across many organizations, both large and small.

Elisa currently serves on the Board of Directors of publicly traded companies JFrog (FROG), Nextdoor (NXDR) and Procore Technologies (PCOR). She also serves on the boards of VC-backed Backstory and Tonal.

She formerly served on the boards of Amplitude (AMPL) and Bumble (BMBL); before and after IPO. She also served on the boards of Splunk (SPLK), acquired by Cisco; Cornerstone (CSOD), serving as Chair, and the Global Advisory Board for Salesforce. Elisa contributes time to programs committed to advancing women in business (McKinsey, ZRG Partners) and teaches at the Leavey School of Business (Santa Clara University) as an adjunct professor.

Elisa served as CEO & Chair of the Board at Namely, previously serving as CEO at Jive (JIVE). Prior to Jive, Elisa was CVP & CMO of consumer apps and services at Microsoft, CMO at Skype, EVP & CMO at Yahoo! and SVP of Marketing at NetApp.

Elisa earned her M.B.A. from San Francisco State University (Distinguished Alumni) and her bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire (Phi Kappa Phi Honors).

Hari Kolam is the CEO and co-founder of Findem, an AI platform for people intelligence powered by expert-labeled, AI-ready 3D data.

An entrepreneur and technologist with more than two decades of experience building companies, he has co-authored more than 50 patents.

Hari brings deep expertise in AI, data, and product innovation, with a focus on translating complex technology into practical solutions that help organizations make better decisions about people.

Kelley is the co-founder and CEO of Novaworks, an AI-native CoreHR operating system for Total Workforce Management.

Before launching Novaworks, she served as Chief Transformation Officer at ServiceNow, leading large-scale digital and AI transformation initiatives across the company's global customer base. She's also the founder and former CEO of Hitch, the AI-powered internal mobility platform she built and scaled before its acquisition by ServiceNow in 2022 — and earlier in her career, she spent 13 years as a CHRO, including as EVP and Chief Innovation Officer at HERE Technologies.

Beyond her operating roles, Kelley serves on the board of FormFactor (Nasdaq: FORM), where she chairs the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Nominating & Governance Committee, and she's an independent director at CiraSync. She previously chaired the board of ALearn.org.

Kelley is also a two-time published author, having written both Valley Girls and The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity — and she's a frequent Forbes contributor and keynote speaker on AI and the future of work. She is married and the mother of four children.

Pat Wadors grew up as the youngest of 8 siblings. Diagnosed with dyslexia while in college but has leaned on her neurodiversity as a strength. She is a mother to 3 millennials, grandmother x2, and wife of 30 years. Introvert by nature, Pat is an advocate for results over talk and works feverishly to embrace the quieter voices. A driver for writing this book is her personal purpose, “I need to leave the world better than I found it, to be kind, to give more than I get, to make a difference.”

Known for transformational and strategic HR leadership, Pat believes that organizations thrive when they have a blend of people with differing backgrounds and ways of thinking, and who feel they belong as a contributor to the company’s success. As a LinkedIn Learning instructor, Pat is known for her course on “Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging” which was recognized in 2021 as a top 10 Global course on LinkedIn.

Pat joined Intuitive as their chief human resource officer in October 2024. She has held various HR leadership and chief human resource officer positions in the technology sector, including roles at UKG, Procore Technologies, ServiceNow, LinkedIn; Plantronics, Inc.; and Yahoo! She has served on the boards of Accolade, Inc., UKG, Second Harvest Food Bank, and El Camino Hospital. Currently, she holds a board position at Moloco.

A multiple-time recipient of the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology award, Pat is renowned for her transformative and strategic HR leadership. She is a sought-after speaker on diversity and inclusion topics. Pat earned a BS in business management and human resource management from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Biography dated April 2025.

Kristin Smith is a talent executive who drives business growth through people. She spent over 15 years leading large, complex retail organizations, including the Saks Fifth Avenue NYC flagship, and numerous Nordstrom metro locations. Over the past five years, she has partnered directly with Chief People Officers and talent leaders across more than 45 organizations, advising their senior leadership talent at The Leadership Consortium.

Her point of view is: see the talent, shape the strategy, mobilize the organization.

Becky McCullough is the VP of Talent & People Experience at HubSpot, where she leads the teams responsible for how HubSpot attracts, hires, onboards, connects, and grows its people globally. Her remit spans talent acquisition, employee experience & inclusion, internal communications & employer brand, responsible business, and global mobility.

Since joining HubSpot in 2015 when the company had under 1,000 employees, Becky has helped scale the global recruiting function, build a People Analytics function, and develop a holistic people strategy. Prior to HubSpot, she led experienced hire recruiting for McKinsey & Company’s North American offices and was an executive search consultant with Heidrick & Struggles.

Becky has an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BA in Psychology from Tufts University, and lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband, three children, and two dogs.

Shane was SVP and Chief Talent Officer at T-Mobile from April 2024 to June 2026, leading talent for one of the largest workforces in US telecom. In June 2026 he founded Threshold Resonance, bringing an AI lab, studio and advisory practice together in one place.

He has spent more than twenty years building and scaling multinational HR teams, with leadership roles at LinkedIn, Oracle and Rockwell Automation. At ServiceNow he ran talent acquisition and people operations and served as interim CHRO, and in 2022 he was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer at EverCommerce, where he owned global people strategy across employee experience, compensation and benefits, organizational design, talent acquisition and talent development.

His work spans talent acquisition, organizational effectiveness, talent management and people operations, usually in companies going through large-scale, complex change.

Nipul Patel is an executive and advisor operating at the intersection of professional services and AI. Today, he advises and consults with several high-growth, pre-IPO software companies on talent and strategy execution.

His background in talent includes serving as Senior Vice President of Human Capital at Serent Capital and Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates. At Serent, Nipul partnered closely with portfolio company leadership teams and boards on talent strategies and executive recruitment designed to help their businesses win in their respective markets.

Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO of Townsquared, an online community that enabled local business owners to connect and form partnerships, which was acquired by Gannett/New Media Investment Group. Earlier in his career, he was a Director at Corporate Executive Board (CEB), where he drove market analysis, operating strategy, and new product development.