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Ori Goshen

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
AI21 Labs

Ori Goshen is Co-CEO of AI21 Labs alongside Yoav Shoham. A seasoned entrepreneur, Ori Goshen has over 15 years of experience in technology and product leadership roles. Prior achievements include co-founding the network analytics company Crowdx, and spearheaded the development of VoIP.

Ori Goshen

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
AI21 Labs

Ori Goshen

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
AI21 Labs

Ori Goshen is Co-CEO of AI21 Labs alongside Yoav Shoham. A seasoned entrepreneur, Ori Goshen has over 15 years of experience in technology and product leadership roles. Prior achievements include co-founding the network analytics company Crowdx, and spearheaded the development of VoIP.

 

Meerah Rajavel

Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

As Chief Information Officer, Meerah is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ global information technology functions, driving a comprehensive strategy to scale and rapidly deliver innovative solutions for our worldwide teams.

Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2022, Meerah was CIO at Citrix and held past leadership roles at McAfee, Forcepoint, Cisco and Infosys. Meerah deeply understands the IT challenges across the industry, among organizations of all sizes.

Meerah Rajavel

Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

Meerah Rajavel

Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

As Chief Information Officer, Meerah is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ global information technology functions, driving a comprehensive strategy to scale and rapidly deliver innovative solutions for our worldwide teams.

Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2022, Meerah was CIO at Citrix and held past leadership roles at McAfee, Forcepoint, Cisco and Infosys. Meerah deeply understands the IT challenges across the industry, among organizations of all sizes.

Meerah holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from the Thiagarajar College of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, India. She also holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

 

 

Nils Jaeger

President, Volvo Autonomous Solutions
Volvo

Nils Jaeger is President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions and a Member of the Group Management of Volvo Group, reporting directly to CEO Martin Lundstedt. Previously, Nils was President of Volvo Financial Services EMEA and, prior thereto, several management positions within Deere & Company.

Nils Jaeger

President, Volvo Autonomous Solutions
Volvo

Nils Jaeger

President, Volvo Autonomous Solutions
Volvo

Nils Jaeger is President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions and a Member of the Group Management of Volvo Group, reporting directly to CEO Martin Lundstedt. Previously, Nils was President of Volvo Financial Services EMEA and, prior thereto, several management positions within Deere & Company.

 

Fiona Tan

Chief Technology Officer
Wayfair

Fiona Tan is Wayfair’s Chief Technology Officer, and oversees a global innovation team responsible for creating market-leading experiences through its world-class e-commerce platform. Prior to Wayfair, Fiona served as senior vice president of U.S. Technology at Walmart where she was responsible for innovation and engineering execution spanning its site, mobile app and all associate and merchant-facing technology across its e-commerce and stores business in the U.S. Her prior roles at Walmart include senior vice president of Customer Technology and vice president of Engineering.

Fiona Tan

Chief Technology Officer
Wayfair

Fiona Tan

Chief Technology Officer
Wayfair

Fiona Tan is Wayfair’s Chief Technology Officer, and oversees a global innovation team responsible for creating market-leading experiences through its world-class e-commerce platform. Prior to Wayfair, Fiona served as senior vice president of U.S. Technology at Walmart where she was responsible for innovation and engineering execution spanning its site, mobile app and all associate and merchant-facing technology across its e-commerce and stores business in the U.S. Her prior roles at Walmart include senior vice president of Customer Technology and vice president of Engineering. Prior to Walmart, Fiona served in a number of leadership roles at Ariba, where she led a global engineering organization responsible for the strategy, lifecycle, and delivery of the Ariba Commerce Network, as well as TIBCO Software. Fiona has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

 

Jeetu Patel

President & Chief Product Officer
Cisco

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class products that solve Cisco customers’ biggest problems—bringing the power of the Cisco portfolio together to connect and protect every aspect of their organization in the era of AI.

Jeetu Patel

President & Chief Product Officer
Cisco

Jeetu Patel

President & Chief Product Officer
Cisco

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class products that solve Cisco customers’ biggest problems—bringing the power of the Cisco portfolio together to connect and protect every aspect of their organization in the era of AI.

Previously he was Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration where he led the strategy and development for these businesses and held P&L responsibility for the multibillion-dollar portfolio. In this role, Jeetu led with his creative vision and intense focus on innovation and swift execution. Together with his team, he transformed and positioned our Security and Collaboration portfolios for success and growth. In both areas, he reinvigorated organic innovation, championed key inorganic investments, and drove simplification across these portfolios with a fanatical focus on design and user experience.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2020, Jeetu was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Box, a role he pioneered. He led the company’s product and platform strategy, setting the company’s long-term vision and roadmap for cloud content management in the enterprise. He transformed Box from a single product application to a multi-product platform used by 100K customers representing 69% of the Fortune 500. The discipline, quality standards, performance metrics, and stability Jeetu instilled fueled the platform’s growth – nearly quadrupling revenues to $700M+. Box’s growth scaled to reach over 60M users with over 50% of customers using multiple products. He also created the Box Platform business unit where he led product strategy, marketing and developer relations – driving products from incubation stage to mature offerings.

Before joining Box, Jeetu was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s newly acquired Syncplicity business unit, a cloud service for Enterprise File Sync Sharing (EFSS) and collaboration. One of the first SaaS-based solutions offered by EMC, Jeetu spearheaded the company’s acquisition. He created a world class leadership team, secured some of the market’s largest customers and led the group to become one of the fastest growing EFSS companies in a highly competitive market. Other key roles at EMC included CMO for the Information Intelligence Group and Chief Strategy Officer, where he drove the organic and inorganic strategy for the division’s cloud and mobile growth.

Previously, Jeetu was President of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm co-owned by Forrester Research. The firm focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences.

 

Magnus Östberg

Chief Software Officer
Mercedes-Benz

Magnus Östberg is the Chief Software Officer (CSO) at Mercedes-Benz, where he spearheads the development and implementation of the MB.OS vehicle operating system. Born in Sweden, Östberg holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and an Executive MBA from the University of Gothenburg. With a career deeply rooted in automotive software, Östberg brings extensive experience from leadership roles at Mecel, Delphi, and Aptiv.

Magnus Östberg

Chief Software Officer
Mercedes-Benz

Magnus Östberg

Chief Software Officer
Mercedes-Benz

Magnus Östberg is the Chief Software Officer (CSO) at Mercedes-Benz, where he spearheads the development and implementation of the MB.OS vehicle operating system. Born in Sweden, Östberg holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and an Executive MBA from the University of Gothenburg. With a career deeply rooted in automotive software, Östberg brings extensive experience from leadership roles at Mecel, Delphi, and Aptiv. His expertise spans vehicle software, infotainment, telematics, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Notably, at Aptiv, he was instrumental in the development and launch of the ADAS Satellite Architecture for multiple automotive manufacturers.