Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur - How to Build Sales

As VP Corporate Strategy for Siemens' Factory Automation business unit, Sam is responsible for executing the company’s digitalization vision and evolution of the Industrial shop floor. One of the original pioneers of edge computing, at the age of 23 Sam founded and grew his edge computing startup Pixeom to over $25M in annual revenue, 100+ employees, and 60+ Fortune 500 enterprise customers. He assumed his current position following Pixeom's acquisition by Siemens in 2019, after 6 years of growing the startup.

Gary Oliver has over 30 years’ experience building early stage, mid-size and global technology companies. Gary currently serves as CEO of Excelerate which was created to bridge the gap between innovators looking to scale and enterprises looking for game changing innovation. Excelerate selects the most promising scale ready startups and helps them prepare for and access global markets and strategic partnerships. Through a worldwide network of corporate leaders, advisors and mentors, Excelerate facilitates highly curated connections to accelerate revenue, strategic partnerships and scale.Gary is a graduate of UCLA and serves on multiple company and non-profit boards.

Shyam Rao is the Co-founder and CEO of Punchh, which was recently acquired for $500M by Par Technology Corporation, a leading global provider of restaurant technology. Punchh delivers dynamic, one-to-one customer engagement through data-driven, omnichannel loyalty, offers, and customer engagement for restaurants, c-stores, and other retailers. Shyam holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a MBA from the University of Chicago.