Brad Tompkins

Operations

A technology leader with over twenty years of experience navigating the intersection of corporate operations, community building, and people development. Known for bringing together practitioners, breaking down silos, and creating spaces where IT professionals can grow, share, and lead.

Passionate about the humans behind the technology — not just the systems they manage. That means investing in education, mentorship, and leadership development at every level, from early-career practitioners to seasoned executives.

Molly Saideman

Operations

Molly leads community growth, ensuring the community delivers meaningful, real world value to its members. With a strong background in community building and large scale event strategy, Molly specializes in turning engagement into action.

Molly brings deep experience partnering with organizations to design and scale high impact communities, and is known for creating programs that foster connection, learning, and long term engagement.

Richard Piasentin

Board Member | Cisco

Richard is a senior executive with a rare combination: decades of leadership spanning global sales, general management, operations, and large-scale business transformation — and genuine, hands-on fluency in the AI and infrastructure technologies now reshaping how enterprises compete.

At Cisco, he leads AI platform strategy, working at the center of how one of the world's most complex technology organizations thinks about AI at scale. What sets him apart isn't just understanding the business case — it's knowing the technology well enough to cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and help leadership teams grasp what thriving in the AI transformation actually requires.

Jessica Lee

Marketing

Jessica Lee is a digital strategist and community builder who has spent her career at the crossroads of technology, brand, and human connection.

Jess has a genuine passion for understanding how people engage with the brands and communities they care about — and an instinct for building the digital ecosystems that make those relationships thrive. What drives her isn't the campaign or the platform — it's the community on the other side of it. 

Krish Colon

Marketing

Krish is a digital marketing strategist with a passion for building brands and driving measurable impact. With a background that spans enterprise technology and agency environments, he brings a rare blend of corporate rigor and creative agility to every campaign he touches. At his core, Krish believes great marketing is about more than clicks and conversions — it's about creating moments that resonate, foster genuine connection, and bring communities together around ideas worth caring about.

Maggie Lehnen

Events

Maggie is an experienced event professional with a proven track record of bringing people together through thoughtfully executed, dynamic experiences. With years of experience spanning industries, she has built a reputation for transforming vision into reality — crafting events that are as polished and professional as they are memorable.