Instructors and Guest Speakers

Dave Cameron is a seasoned data science and predictive analytics leader in corporate and startup spaces. He brings over twenty-five years of experience to the University of Chicago. As a forward-thinking executive, Cameron has built and led teams on analytics thought leadership, statistical and...

Sergio Corbo is a senior executive who helps Fortune 100 corporations serve customers and deliver measurable results to investors. He currently works as chief commercial officer at Veolia North America, the global leader in energy, water, waste, and environmental services. He also consults with...

Over the past 25+ years, Jeremy Donovan has forged a career spanning semiconductor engineering, product development and management, and sales and marketing leadership. He is the executive vice president of Revenue Strategy and Operations at Insight Partners, a private equity firm.

Donovan is the...

Dan Frailey is a three-time CRO, founder of the start-up Joy of Thanks, and a revenue and sales enthusiast. Previously, Frailey was the global Topic Lead for B2B Go-To-Market Boston Consulting Group’s PIPE private equity practice, where he advised Chief Revenue Officers, CEOs, and other sales...

Dr. Victoria Gustafson is a transformational leader with a passion for business growth. She is a senior partner at Verde Associates, a boutique growth consulting firm. Previously, she worked for IRI and Philips in various key roles. Throughout her career, Gustafson has helped leading brands find...

Rachael Rohn has nearly twenty years of experience in catalyzing business expansion and scalability. She is currently the senior vice president of Strategic Partner Engagement at Techstars, a premiere early-stage venture capital firm, where she leads Techstars’ accelerator programs. Before this role...

Chris Trendler is the managing director and the head of Portfolio Talent at Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm that has raised over $26 billion in capital since its inception in 1992. It operates in various verticals, including software services, financial services, healthcare, and...

Danielle Wilkie is a tech company veteran with a twenty-five-year history of scaling B2B and B2C businesses across various industries, including property management, home improvement, insurance, stock footage licensing, online learning, e-commerce, and residential real estate. She is a coach and...

Jiten Behl has held multiple leadership positions at Rivian, including chief strategy officer and chief growth officer. An early employee of Rivian, he built and scaled multiple functions across the business from a clean sheet, overseeing the growth of the company from ~25 employees to 14K+ over...

Dennis Boyle is a partner and a founding team member of IDEO. Dennis helps guide the Design for Health Studio at IDEO as part of its San Francisco office. Design for Health is the part of IDEO’s business that works with clients in medical and health-related industries to develop innovative physical...

Kevin Egan serves as the chief sales officer at Atlassian and brings more than twenty-five years of enterprise sales experience and leadership to the company.

Prior to his current role, he was the vice president of North America Sales for Slack and Dropbox and held various senior sales leadership...

Mark Roberge is a cofounder and managing director at Stage 2 Capital and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School.

Prior to these roles, he was the founding CRO at HubSpot, where he scaled annualized revenue from $0 to $100 million and expanded his team from one to 450 employees. Roberge was...

Scott Silverman is the chief revenue officer of Liftoff, joining the company in 2021 after its merger with Vungle, where he held the same role. Prior to Vungle, Scott was a cofounder and CRO of AerServ, a leading mobile in-app exchange and mediation platform. Silverman oversaw the sale of AerServ to...