Leadership

Andrew serves as Hyperscience’s CEO. He brings a wealth of experience and proven track record that advances the company’s overall strategy and growth initiatives—at a time in which Hyperscience is experiencing rapidly expanding demand. Prior to Hyperscience, Andrew was CEO of InMoment, a recognized leader in the customer experience (CX) software industry, where he oversaw significant growth and expansion. He has also held strategic executive positions at several other successful technology companies, including HP Software, where he was responsible for driving key innovation, product development, and revenue growth. Before that, he led the high-growth business unit within HP Autonomy, a $1.1 billion market leader in unstructured data applications and solutions, focusing on customer experience and marketing technology. In 2006, his firm Singlecast Technologies was acquired and brought into Autonomy via ZANTAZ.

Caron serves as Chief People Officer at Hyperscience. She has held senior HR roles at ADP, Turner Broadcasting (now Warner Media), Siemens, and Colonial Pipeline Company. Caron holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Management, and an MBA with a concentration in Finance – both from the Keller Graduate School of Management. She also holds certifications in Strategic Workforce Planning and Change Management.

Erin serves as General Counsel at Hyperscience. She has responsibility for providing day-to-day legal and strategic advice to the Executive Leadership Team, and manages all aspects of the legal function. She has nearly 20 years’ experience counseling clients in corporate financing transactions, complex commercial litigation and intellectual property matters, and advising growth stage companies on general corporate matters. Erin holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker University School of Law. She also serves as a member of our AI Ethics Board.

JJ serves as Executive Vice President of Global Revenue at Hyperscience. He is a proven leader with a strong track record in building world-class Go-To-Market (GTM) teams that deliver consistent, year-over-year revenue growth. 

Most recently, Trahan was SVP of Revenue at UserTesting, a leader in video based, human insight and backed by private equity firm, Thoma Bravo. Prior to UserTesting, Trahan led monumental growth at two well-known software companies and category creators: Qualtrics, a global leader in experience management, and PTC, a global leader in product lifecycle management. At PTC, he gained valuable experience successfully selling into the federal market and government agencies. He built exceptional commercial teams through the years helping both Qualtrics and PTC mature and accelerate through multiple stages of their evolution. 

Trahan brings a strong leadership pedigree – he graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, and served as an Air Force officer.

Randy serves as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Hyperscience. He has over 20 years of experience in communications and marketing roles for business-to-business technology companies, specializing in campaigns to grow revenues and engage markets. Randy spent 8 years at Business Objects, one of the original business intelligence software companies, scaling with the company as it grew from $200 M to $1.5 billion, before being acquired by SAP. After Business Objects, Randy led Communications for web content management vendor Interwoven. Prior to joining Hyperscience, Randy spent 12 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in multiple communications leadership roles.

Steven serves as Chief Financial Officer at Hyperscience. He has 20 years experience in Enterprise and Self-Serve SaaS. He joined Insurance.com pre-revenue in 2002 where he built and managed FP&A until the company was acquired by Quinstreet in 2010. He then spent 3 years working at Synacor and helped take them public in 2012, running FP&A and Investor Relations. Most recently he spent nearly 6 years at Vimeo where he scaled the finance function and helped create a unicorn SaaS company. Steven earned a BSBA in Finance from John Carroll University.

Elliott is a partner in the San Francisco office of Bessemer Venture Partners where he focuses primarily on growth investments in SaaS and cloud companies. He started his career with Syncom Venture Partners, investing in both early and growth stage enterprise software and frontier tech companies such as CLEAR and Iridium Satellite (IPO).  He then joined Georgian Partners, investing in a number of successful growth stage software companies such as Kinnser (acquired by Mediware), TurnItIn (acquired by Advance), and eSentire. Prior to joining Bessemer, Elliott was a partner with M12, leading investments in companies such as Livongo, BlueVine, Trusona, and Cooler Screens. Elliott earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Morehouse College.

Betsy is a three-time CEO and serial entrepreneur co-founding enterprise software companies in the energy, healthcare and software industries. She scaled companies through hyper growth, and led companies to successful IPO and acquisitions such as Clear Standards bought by SAP and Ascend Communications, $5.4B in revenue acquired by Lucent for $23B.  Betsy brings operational knowledge of how-to tech enable your business and use tech to accelerate business solutions and “time-to-insight” for enterprise customers. She leverages broad contemporary knowledge of digital technology to reduce costs, drive efficiency and productivity using AI machine learning analytics to streamline processes.

Matt is a Partner at venture capital firm FirstMark, where he focuses mostly on early-stage enterprise and B2B investing.  He was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start.  Matt was also the co-founder of TripleHop, an enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle, and then an executive at Oracle following the acquisition. Matt is passionate about building communities. Since 2011, he has been running Data Driven NYC, the largest data and AI community in the US. He also organizes Hardwired NYC, a community focused on deep tech. Matt graduated from Sciences-Po (IEP) Paris and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School.

Ron is a Partner at Stripes focusing on working with founders of software and technology companies that are scaling rapidly around the world. Ron is currently most actively involved with Hyperscience as well as Stripes partner companies FullStory, Remitly, Sift, SPINS, Remine, and GlobalWebIndex. He was also involved with successfully realized investments in MyWebGrocer, Craftsy, Flatiron Health, Upwork, and eMarketer. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Duke University and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Dali Rajic serves as COO at Zscaler.  He holds nearly 25 years of experience in sales leadership and go-to-market operational roles. At Zscaler, Dali has worldwide responsibility for all aspects related to revenue growth and go-to-market strategy. His career includes leadership roles with AppDynamics, most recent as Chief Customer and Revenue Officer. He played a significant role in AppDynamics’ rapid ascent to market leader. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Mr. Rajic held several senior sales leadership positions at BMC Software and Verint.  Dali has earned an MBA, Financial and Strategic Management from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science, International Marketing from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Cedric is a partner of Global Founders Capital where he oversees global operations and heads their growth equity strategy.  He started his career at Waterland Private Equity, investing in Buy-and-Build strategies across Europe. Cedric earned a Master of Science in Business Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Grace is an investor with Bessemer’s growth investment practice in San Francisco, where she primarily focuses on cloud software and internet investments.

Prior to joining Bessemer, Grace was an Associate at Centana Growth Partners, where she worked on early-stage growth investments in software and fintech. She was also previously at Oliver Wyman as a strategy consultant, advising Fortune 500 companies in M&A, organizational effectiveness, and growth strategy.

Grace earned her B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Business Administration and minored in Public Policy. Outside of work, Grace enjoys yoga, traveling, and following Formula 1.

Aliza is a Vice President at Stripes where she’s responsible for sourcing, executing, and supporting investments with a focus on software and healthcare. Aliza is most actively involved with Hyperscience as well as Stripes partner companies Pomelo Care, Oyster, GlobalWebIndex, and Hello Heart. She earned a BA in Economics & Political Science from Brown University.

Wesley Chan is the co-founder and managing partner of FPV Ventures, a $450M early-stage fund dedicated to partnering with world-changing founders. Wesley has over 15 years of investment experience and was an early investor in five “decacorns.” Most notably, Wesley led Canva’s Series A and Series C rounds, which is now valued at $40 billion, and serves on the company’s board of directors. Prior to starting  FPV Ventures, Wesley was a managing director at Felicis Ventures and one of the first General Partners at Google Ventures. 

Among Wesley’s 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote first checks into Plaid, Flexport, Gusto, Lucid, Ring and RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD), and led investments into AngelList, Carta, Guild Education, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Zipline, Astranis, TrialSpark, and Ring (acq. AMZN).