KPMG Tech and Innovation Symposium

Gamiel has a unique passion for helping drive corporate innovation and grow Mayfield’s early-stage portfolio. He runs the business development function for Mayfield and focuses specifically on accelerating product-market fit and early customer adoption for Mayfield’s investments. Gamiel has supported hundreds of CXOs who look for advice and best practices in corporate innovation, and has built a playbook known as the 3 “I”s of Corporate Innovation – Ideation, Incubation and Investment.

Gamiel’s role in supporting Mayfield’s founders in their journey from inception to iconic is captured in the Founders Masterclass that he frequently presents, which supports key themes of how best to fund-raise capital, realize “violent” product-market fit, and the three stages of early go-to-market traction.

He and his team have built a global network of CXOs, called the Mayfield Innovation Network, made up of CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and business leaders from across all industries, who need access to new ideas to compete in their own markets. This is a highly engaged global network whose members join CXO Insight forums, CXO of the Future Podcasts, and provide their annual priorities in formal reports.

Gamiel brings more than 25 years of operational and venture capital experience to the Mayfield team. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for SOASTA (acquired by Akamai) and was responsible for ongoing operational improvements in sales, marketing, channels, plus strategic partnerships, corporate development, and investment support. Gamiel was also a partner at Sierra Ventures, responsible for leading the Sierra CIO Summit attended by over 150 Global CIOs for eight years. He has also held executive leadership roles at IBM, Oracle, BEA (acquired by Oracle), Appcelerator (acquired by Axway), and Cassatt (acquired by CA).

Gamiel is a California native, father of three, and husband of more than 30 years. He loves to give back as a volunteer to his community and to local universities. He frequently supports students and founders who want to turn ideas into businesses

Ted Schilowitz is the first-ever Futurist-in-Residence for Paramount Pictures. In his new role, Schilowitz, who was previously a consulting futurist at Fox, will work closely with the Paramount and Viacom technology teams to explore all forms of new and emerging technologies, with an emphasis on virtual reality and augmented reality.

At Fox, Schilowitz worked on the evolving art and science of advanced motion picture creation and devised strategies on future technology and the vision of cinema for the next generation of movie entertainment.

He was a founding member of the product development team at RED Digital Cinema, producing ultra-high resolution digital movie cameras. He also is one of the founders and creators of the G-Tech product line of advanced hard-drive storage products implemented worldwide for professional TV and multimedia content creation. Prior to RED Digital Cinema and G-Tech, he was on the team that developed and launched the Macintosh products desktop-video division of AJA Video Systems that created the groundbreaking Kona Cards and IO boxes in tandem with Apple.

Schilowitz also continues in his role as chief creative officer at Barco Escape, where he's been spearheading the creative aspects of the Barco Escape cinema project, which adds immersive right and left screens to movie theaters. Previous titles that have used the technology include The Maze Runner and Star Trek: Beyond.

Dr. W. Scott Stornetta is considered by many to be the co-inventor of the Blockchain. From 1991, his pioneering series of papers and patents, written with co-author Dr. Stuart Haber, laid the foundation for Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Haber and Stornetta co-founded Surety Technologies, which offered the first commercial deployment of a blockchain.

Stornetta is a partner at Yugen Partners, a blockchain and AI-focused venture capital firm and serves on various boards, consults on blockchain policy and strategy, and is a frequent lecturer at universities. He is also a fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab associated with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as chairman of SureMark Digital Identity Services, which provides AI DeepFake protection for high visibility individuals.

An investor, diplomat, former ambassador and seasoned entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded five startups and invested in many others. Sold five companies to buyers like MasterCard, Microsoft and Intuit. Also involved in food and wine with vineyards in the Napa Valley. Served on many non-profit boards like the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Princeton University Art Museum, Venetian Heritage, Grace Cathedral, The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Vision of Hope (inner city education) and the Cathedral School for Boys. MBA from Berkeley. Studied International Relations and Politics as a grad student at Oxford (St Catherine's College) and undergrad at Princeton. Given three scholarships to Oxford. Collector of art - primarily contemporary photography and other things.

Anju Gupta is vice president of artificial intelligence at Northwestern Mutual. In this role, she is accountable for providing technical leadership, guiding the company’s AI roadmap and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver business-driven AI solutions. Anju joined the company in October 2020 and has been instrumental in helping to shape Northwestern Mutual’s AI initiatives, including building an ethical framework for implementing AI products. She is also a member of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute executive steering team, which is a partnership that contributes to the formation of a technology ecosystem and advances southeastern Wisconsin as a national hub for technology. Anju also serves on the AI advisory board for LIMRA/LOMA, the Milky Way Tech Hub Coalition and a few AI startups. She has been recognized as the 2023 Women of Influence by Marquis, 2023 & 2024 Top 50 Global Data Power Women and 2024 Top 100 AI professionals in the U.S.