
Alesya Nasimova
Alesya Nasimova is the Senior Director & Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy at Fundbox where she leads and focuses on product counseling, data privacy & protection, and IP. Prior to Fundbox, she was Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel, Global DPO at Bolt where she has built and led the Compliance and Privacy Programs for scalability, sustainability, and international expansion, as well as spearheading the IP incentive program to drive product innovation. Alesya has served as in house counsel within the fintech industry for over 7 years holding positions such as Deputy General Counsel and Head of Legal and Compliance, having started her career working in the Commercial Real Estate and Investment Funding sector as well as devoting her time to pro bono work representing defendants in Consumer Debt Litigation. Alesya is an Advisory Board Member of the IAPP Privacy Education Board, and active member in the tech community advocating for innovation, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Libby Horne

Ahmad Danesh
Ahmad Danesh is a strategic marketing and product management director with 15+ years’ experience in semiconductor, software, storage, server and data center industries. He is focused on driving product strategy for new market segments by translating data center bottlenecks into profitable and competitive hardware and software product roadmaps using Compute Express Link™ technology.
Ahmad serves as Sr. Director of Product Management at Astera Labs and has been an active member of the CXL™ Consortium's Marketing Work Group since inception in 2019.

Marcel van Duin

Sandra Milligan

Shira Center

Mehdi Esmail
Mehdi Esmail is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Validmind, a VC-backed startup focused on simplifying Model Risk Management for Financial Services. He has over a decade of experience in data, analytics, and risk management for the Financial Services industry, having served as both an operator working with the Chief Data Officer at American Express, and as a consultant for Fortune 100 Financial Services companies.