On Thursday, January 9, 2025, Galaxy partnered with Workday and Acuity Tech Partners to organize a fireside chat with Heather Brunner, who shared her career story of being the CEO and Chairwoman at WP Engine, the #1 platform for WordPress and has raised over $250M in funding. Afterward, guests engaged Heather in a Q&A session, followed by a buffet networking dinner.

Invited guests ranged from tech investors and executives:

• David Buttross — Private Investor
• Stan Sukhinin — CEO at Sorso
• George Wetz — CEO at Yumpingo
• Matt Doyle — CEO at Array
• Ken Womack — SVP at Northern Trust
• Vincent Balagia — CEO at Stallion Capital
• Alex Bondarevskyi — Engineering Lead at Blueacorn Tech
• Xiaofei Deng — Senior Manager at Accenture
• Gunnar Teltow — Founding Partner at UpShift Capital
• Sahin Boydas — CEO at CompanyDNA
• Ryan Barcza — COO at Summit
• Leanna Rossmann — CFO at SXSW
• Krishnan Sarangapani — CTO at Inspectorio
• Eiman Ebrahimi — CEO at Protopia AI
• Linda Ginac — CEO at TalentGuard
• Monica Landers — CEO at StoryFit
• Bhavnesh Patel — CSO at Infinitum
• Samantha Diamond — VP at Axiell Group
• Meghan Cassin — SVP of Content at SXSW
• Hugh Forrest — President at SXSW
• Morgan Flager — Managing Partner at Silverton Partners
• Jagath Narayan — CEO at Ordoro
• Thom Singer — CEO at Austin Technology Council
• Kevin McKeand — Private Investor
• Jennifer Carroll — Advisor at Veruna
• Ross Meglathery — CEO at Integritek
• Carl McCauley — CEO at 360factors
• Sridhar Sudarsan — CTO at Avathon
• Boris Portman — Founder at Salsa Ventures
• Kevin Smith — Private Investor
• Patrick Jean — CTO at ABBYY

Join Galaxy to attend unlimited weekly fireside dinners, as well as access vetted investment deal flow, private chef deal flow discussion dinners, join our online community, and receive concierge introductions to high-caliber peers.