Helping founders reach new heights

Nick Bhavsar is the founder of Bhavsar Consulting Group with a proven track record of helping startups go-to-market. Previously, Nick was VP of Marketing at Levelset, Bound, and Spiceworks.  He also ran product marketing at SolarWinds during their IPO. In addition, nick is a program leader at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

Steve Harriman is an experienced leader with over 30 years of experience helping early stage companies scale by implementing repeatable marketing and sales processes that produce predictable business results. Steve has led the marketing for Black Box, Packet Design, Science Logic, CA Technologies and others. He is now a fractional CMO and runs Steve Harriman Advisory and Consulting Service. 

Ryan Koonce is the founder of Mammoth Growth which is a growth marketing team as a service. Mammoth Growth helps companies ask the right business questions, extract the data to get the answers, and devise growth strategies based on the information. They work with all types of digitally-enabled businesses including SaaS, eCommerce, Social, Enterprise, and Mobile Gaming.

Seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience leading tech marketing in both the B2B and B2C sectors. Denise has taken 14 companies to market, resulting in 2 IPOs and four acquisitions. 

Denise serves as a mentor and previous entrepreneur in residence at the Capital Factory, mentor at Longhorn Startup and Techstars, where I was named one of the Top Mentors. She lives and breathes marketing and technology from product/market fit to go-to-market and scale to AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, and SaaS.

Named by Salesforce in 2021 as a top sales influencer, Richard Harris has spent his career helping hyper growth startups build and train their sales teams.  His clients include Intercom, Salesloft, Terminus, Gainsight, Pandadoc, and more. He has also helped Fortune 500 companies like Google, Visa and Salesforce. He is the owner of the Harris Group. 

After a decade as the Vice President of Information and Product Security at Salesforce, Izak joins Shasta as an Entrepreneur in Residence. At Salesforce, he was responsible for managing IT security, compliance, architecture, design, implementation, and operations. Prior to Salesforce, Izak served as the Chief Information Security Officer for multiple tech companies including Silicon Graphics, and Solectron. Izak founded the Customer Security Advisory Council and co-created the Bay Area CSO Council to share best practices and security-related intelligence information among peers where he served as President for more than a dozen years.

Most recently, Balaji was the executive vice president and general manager of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Business Unit. Previously as a Senior Vice President at Oracle he oversaw Business Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management products. Yelamanchili also held executive positions at EMC Corporation, Documentum Inc., and Rational Software Corporation (now part of IBM). Balaji holds an M.S. in Engineering from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Kati founded A Positive Adventure (APA), a learning and development consulting firm based in the Bay Area.  APA has built world class, award-winning training programs for companies like Instacart, Marine Layer, Bill.com, Gannett, LivingSocial, and others.  Kati’s passion is motivating founders, employees and making learning stick by helping others reach their full potential through a positive and successful learning adventure.

CEO and founder of Vanetta Partners, a highly specialized recruiting firm that has worked with some of technology fastest growing companies.