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Josh Green

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I am a senior investment professional and operating executive, passionate about launching and scaling new ventures. I thrive in fast-paced, creative environments and am a builder at heart, whether launching my own business or working as part of a dynamic team to help scale a business as it adds new products, services or geographies. I’ve had success in various roles, including as an operating executive, investor, entrepreneur, strategic advisor and board member. I have launched and managed new geographies for several companies, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and Europe. Industry expertise: VC/PE, clean energy / sustainability, Impact Investing, and real estate technology.

Michelle Ekwoge

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People First Enthusiast I believe processes, computer programs, and rules can always be learned, but genuine care for people cannot. As Senior Business Recruiter at Tools for Humanity, I make sure candidates have the skillsets needed to make an impact on our organization but assess their character to make sure there is alignment to our company values and empower my team to do the same.

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I build scalable, data-powered platforms and lead teams that deliver real results. My focus is on systems where performance, cost efficiency, and reliability matter — and where tight coordination across product, engineering, and business is the only way through. At Heap (by Contentsquare), I led the shift to a decoupled storage–compute data platform, resulting in: • $2M+ in annual cost savings • 60× faster ingestion • 25% reduction in COGS • Sub-second query performance across 3M events/sec and 1B+ events/month That effort set the tone for how I approach product leadership: deeply technical, outcome-focused, and aligned with long-term scale. Since then, I’ve continued driving foundational improvements across infrastructure, compliance, and team design: • Cut platform costs by another $2M/year, reducing our cost per million events by over 50% • Launched a fully EU-hosted platform, enabling expansion into regulated markets and generating >$1M in new ARR • Brought customer data delivery times down from hours to under 30 minutes, while halving support volume • Closed every critical privacy and security gap to earn our first ISO certification • Built and scaled a new product team, hiring 3 PMs and mentoring junior talent into leadership roles • Drove research and buy-in for a unified data architecture, defining the technical path forward What I bring: • Clarity in decision-making when tradeoffs are complex • Steady focus under shifting priorities and high stakes • Alignment across product, engineering, and business • Momentum that turns ambitious plans into delivered results I advise growth-stage companies on balancing retention, customer demands, and scale — especially in the chaotic moments where everything feels on fire.

Farris W.

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Farris is an investor-turned entrepreneur with success in three areas: startups, venture capital and real estate. Farris conceived of, co-founded, and served as CEO of a VC-backed fast growing company: DecorMatters. DecorMatters is building the world’s first blockchain-based creator ecosystem to reshape the trillion-dollar interior design and furniture shopping industry. By using the power of creativity and converting the stressful home renovation process into a relaxing social gaming experience, DecorMatters is re-inventing the massive industry. With 10 million creators, 5 million free designs, 30+ national brands, and unlimited collaboration opportunities, the leading creativity platform continues its rapid growth by leveraging AR, AI and Blockchain technology in the Web3 era. Prior to DecorMatters, Farris co-founded ZenStone Venture Capital, to bridge China capital and innovations in Silicon Valley. He invested in 40 technology companies at early stages. The entire portfolio has been valued $24+ Billion and raised $2+ Billion capital with 5 Unicorns, 1 IPO, and 10+ M&A exits with profit. Farris was named to Top 20 Best Cross-Border Venture Capitalists by both China Venture and Hurun Midas List in 2016. Prior to ZenStone, Farris co-founded Alpha Realty Capital (ARC), a vertically integrated firm offering commercial real estate investment and property management service to HNW families and financial institutions in China. This firm currently has more than $100M asset under management, and generates more than 8% annual cash distribution and 25% IRR to limited partners. Prior to ARC, Farris developed the most sophisticated fast computing algorithms for solving cutting-edge physics problems. After Ph.D. graduation, he joined Applied Materials to conduct strategic project development and help executives bring strategic technology from concept to product. Farris obtained Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin, and B.S. and M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He published 30+ papers in top academic journals and 8+ technology patents on fast parallel computing algorithms for large-scale engineering challenges.

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Blaize Wallace most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Rentlytics, building the company from 3 to 55 employees until its acquisition by Realpage (NASDAQ: RP) in Oct 2018. At Rentlytics he was responsible for growing the non-technical side of the company: building and managing the customer success, integrations, finance, accounting, FP&A, recruiting, and operations functions. He also led, with the CEO, Rentlytics' strategy, venture fundraising, and M&A efforts. Previously, Blaize was Cofounder and COO of Bluelight, a mobile banking company targeting emerging markets, and was involved in advisory and support capacities at a variety of early-stage companies, including Locu (acquired by GoDaddy in 2013), Podimetrics, and TrustedStudents. Blaize started his career as a technology strategy consultant with Deloitte Consulting. Blaize earned his MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and his BS in Cognitive Science and Computing from UCLA.