Speaker List
Tom Bressie
Hg
Portfolio CMO
Tom brings significant expertise across marketing disciplines (with focus on demand generation and product marketing), product development, media and analyst relations, and organizational design to the Hg growth team. He has strong cultural competence leading global teams and has generated success in executive leadership roles with some of the most...
Alan Cline
Hg
Partner, Head of North America
Alan is Hg’s Head of North America, a Partner and a member of Hg’s Senior Leadership Team. He leads our activity across the USA and Canada. Alan is a highly respected software investor with 20 years’ experience of backing great companies as one of the early employees of Vista Equity Partners. Alan has a long and impressive track record across l...
Simon Comfort
Hg
Pricing Specialist
Simon is a member of the Value Creation Team where he works with Hg’s portfolio companies on value-creation initiatives, with a focus on proposition development and pricing strategy. Prior to joining Hg, Simon spent four years at Simon-Kucher & Partners advising clients across a variety of industries on marketing, pricing, and sales topics. Simo...
Jeff Eggers
Senior Policy Advisor, Security Professional & Leadership Consultant
Jeff Eggers is a best-selling author, organisational performance expert, and former Executive Director of the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute. With over 20 years of experience in strategic management and leading high-performing teams, Eggers has worked with the White House, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Navy. He was a former Special Ass...
Amr Ellabban
Hg
Head of Data & AI
Amr joined Hg from the Boston Consulting Group where he worked in the Gamma Advanced Analytics & Data Science team. During his time at BCG, Amr worked on analytics projects for clients across Europe in financial services, retail and industrial goods sectors. Prior to this he worked on retail and services projects in the OC&C Analytics team. Amr sta...
Matt Gallagher
Hg
Portfolio CRO
Matt Gallagher is a Portfolio CRO within the Portfolio Growth team at Hg, bringing with him 12 years of experience in sales and marketing excellence, with a focus on software and SaaS. He has helped create several Hg best practices including our sales training offering, CaPDB targeting, and sales team sizing tool. Matt combines experience in pri...
Carlos Granda
Hg
Portfolio CCO
Carlos brings over 30 years of experience leading functions across the critical area of Customer Experience including leading Customer Success, Professional Services, Training/Enablement, and Customer Support. Carlos was most recently SVP Global Customer success at RingCentral and prior to that led Customer Success functions at Google Cloud, SAP an...
Tim Harrison
Hg
Associate Director Data & AI
Tim joined Hg from Oliver Wyman Labs where he worked on a range of analytics, coding and Data Science projects primarily in Finance and Credit Risk. He also previously worked at Applied Predicted Technologies (APT), a SaaS company providing software for large consumer facing businesses for systematic initiative testing and analytics, which was acqu...
Tracy Jawhar
Dext
VP of Growth
Tracy is the VP of Growth at Dext, where she leads the Product-Led Growth (PLG) business, delivering financial process automation to SMBs in a direct, self-serve way. With over 12 years of experience in strategy, marketing, and innovation, Tracy has enabled growth for numerous Tech companies by anchoring strategies in deep customer insights and ana...
Chris Kindt
Hg Capital
Partner, Head of Value Creation
Chris is a partner at Hg and Head of Value Creation, leading our in-house group dedicated to working directly with management to help shape and support their ambitions in creating value. The team provides experts, Hg’s proprietary operational IP, and project execution support to drive impact across the most critical business levers: Growth & Prici...
Sean Munafo
Litera
Chief Sales Officer
As Chief Sales Officer, Sean is a seasoned sales professional with a stellar reputation for accelerating sales growth and cultivating dynamic teams that exceed expectations. His expertise in strategic sales initiatives and his passion for innovation make him the ideal leader to drive our sales operations to success.
Shiv Pabari
Hg
Pricing Specialist
Shiv is a member of the Value Creation Team where he works with Hg’s portfolio companies on value creation initiatives. He has a particular focus on proposition development and pricing strategy. Prior to joining Hg, Shiv spent nearly seven years at Simon-Kucher & Partners where he specialised on advising B2B software and service companies. Durin...
Chris Ross
Hg
Head of Portfolio Growth
Chris brings 30 years of Sales and Marketing experience, having held leadership roles for public and PE backed tech businesses. He was most recently CRO at Barracuda, where he drove the company through two PE cycles over the last 8+ years, overseeing a GTM engine that’s successfully scaled from under $300M to $650M+ revenue. His experience also inc...
David Toms
Hg
Head of Research
David is Head of Research at Hg, leveraging over two decades of technology sector experience to provide broad market context to Hg’s deep cluster knowledge, researching how market trends and data impact new investment opportunities, existing portfolio companies, and potential exits. David joined in 2018, after nearly twenty years in the public mar...
Rion Walker
Litera
Head of Pricing
As Vice President of Pricing & Packaging, Rion is responsible for pricings contribution to Litera's growth and GTM strategy. This includes pricing design, implementation, and execution for new products and innovations, monitoring pricing performance, recommendation of list price changes, renewals and migration strategies. Rion has 12+ experience wo...
Mark Williams
The Channel Company
Sr. Consultant
Mark has over 30 years of operational experience helping high tech companies generate greater revenue through indirect channels. Mark is one of the lead channel consultants for the IPED Consulting team and currently is part of The Channel Company’s IoT Advisory Board. Mark specializes in helping companies of all sizes drive partner ecosystem dev...