Featured Speakers
Brian Feinstein
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Brian joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2008 serving as Partner and specializes on early and growth-stage investments in enterprise software. Brian led the firm's investments in Procore, Clio, LiveAuctioneers, Restaurant365, Weave, and a stealth mobile gaming business. He has also been involved in the firm’s investments in Gainsight, Mindbody, Playdom, and United Capital and helped found Columbia Lake Partners, a European venture debt fund. Prior to BVP, Brian worked in the private equity group at Blackstone and founded an online advertising agency. He graduated from Harvard University and sits on the board of the Heckscher Foundation for Children. Brian was honored by Forbes 30 Under 30: Finance list in 2014.
Sacha Labourey
CEO and Co-Founder
CloudBees
Sacha was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and graduated in 1999 from EPFL. It was during Sacha’s studies in 1996 that he started his first consulting business - Cogito Informatique. In 2001, he joined Marc Fleury’s JBoss project as a core contributor and implemented JBoss’ original clustering features. In 2003, Sacha founded the European headquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company’s growth in that region. While in this position, he led the recruitment of some of JBoss’ key talent and acquisition of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, Inc. and oversaw all of JBoss engineering. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc. was acquired by Red Hat (NYSE:RHT). After the acquisition, Sacha remained JBoss CTO and played a crucial role in integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division. He ultimately left Red Hat in April 2009 and founded CloudBees in April 2010. CloudBees is an enterprise software delivery company that provides the industry’s leading DevOps technology platform and enables developers to focus on what they do best: Build stuff that matters, while providing peace of mind to management with powerful risk mitigation, compliance and governance tools.
Dan Rodrigues
Founder and CEO
Kareo
Dan Rodrigues is the Founder and CEO of Kareo. He founded the company in 2004 with a vision of simplifying medical offices with web-based medical billing software that replaces the expensive and complex medical billing and practice management systems doctors have today. Under Dan's leadership, Kareo has since created the most user-friendly, easy-to-buy, and easy-to-setup software on the market offering immediate benefits with reduced risks and costs. Dan grew up with entrepreneurial parents, a factor which contributed to his success. Dan attended University of Washington then transferred to and graduated from UCLA with a BS in Computer Science.
Prior to launching Kareo, Dan started creating technology for the healthcare industry in 2001 as a co-founder and managing partner of Skematix, a software consulting firm based in Southern California. Among the various projects he led, Dan designed and built a web-based medical billing software and healthcare information system for a national medical billing company. During his tenure at Skematix, Dan also designed an online auction service for industrial equipment, a self-service Internet kiosk for airports, and an online music service.
In the late 1990's, Dan was the Co-Founder and CEO of Scour, a very popular search engine for finding music and video files online used by more than 10 million consumers. Scour played a transformational role in driving the music and entertainment industries towards the digital distribution of their content over the Internet. With Scour, Dan raised $12.5 million in venture capital financing from Michael Ovitz, Ron Burkle, and Ron Conway, led a 70-person organization, designed the Scour Exchange peer-to-peer software downloaded by more than 7 million registered users, developed other patented technologies, and sold the company in 2000.
Dan began his career as a software developer for RealNetworks and Visio. With RealNetworks, Dan developed the first ad-insertion and pay-per-view technologies for streaming music and video on the Internet. With Visio, Dan developed Internet software enabling users to find and download shapes directly into Visio, the award-winning business diagramming software that was later acquired by Microsoft in 1999 and integrated with the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity software.
Moderator
Andy Steuerman
Head of Middle Market Lending and Late Stage Lending
Golub Capital
Mr. Steuerman joined Golub Capital in 2004 and heads the Firm’s Middle Market Lending and Late Stage Lending groups. He is responsible for overseeing origination, deal execution and capital markets, and is a member of the Firm’s Investment and Watchlist Committees. Prior to joining Golub Capital, Mr. Steuerman was a Managing Director at Albion Alliance, where he originated, executed and supervised subordinated debt and equity investments for two private partnerships. Prior to this position, he worked as a Vice President at Bankers Trust Alex Brown, and was formerly a member of New York Life Insurance Company’s Private Equity group, managing leveraged senior loans, mezzanine investments, private equity securities and limited partnership assets. Mr. Steuerman earned his BBA degree in Finance from Pace University. He received an MBA in Finance from St. John’s University.
