
Keynote Speakers

Burt Podbere
Chief Financial Officer
CrowdStrike

Burt Podbere serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for CrowdStrike. Since joining the company, Mr. Podbere has been instrumental in establishing the company’s long-term financial management strategy and developing the company’s global expansion strategy.Since joining CrowdStrike in 2015, he has helped secure approximately $1B in equity financing through several funding rounds, including the company’s 2019 IPO, and approximately $1.5B in secured and unsecured debt.Mr. Podbere has worked in Canada, Europe, and the U.S., garnering extensive knowledge of domestic and international finance, SaaS businesses, and international operations.EXPERIENCE• CFO, OpenDNS, Inc.• CFO, Net Optics, Inc.EDUCATION• B.A., McGill University• C.P.A., Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants

David Golub
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Golub Capital

David Golub is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Golub Capital, a leading direct lender and private credit manager with over $90 billion in capital under management as of April 1, 2026. The firm partners with institutional investors and family offices, providing customized credit solutions and financing for private equity-backed companies. Golub Capital has ranked among the Top 3 U.S. Middle Market Bookrunners for senior secured leveraged buyout loans every year since 2008 and has earned numerous industry honors, including multiple Private Debt Investor awards recognizing it as Lender of the Year and Senior Lender of the Year.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mr. Golub is deeply involved in philanthropy and nonprofit leadership. He serves on the Founder’s Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and is Co-Founder and Chair of the Golub Capital Nonprofit Board Fellows Network, which prepares MBA students to serve as effective nonprofit directors.
Prior to joining Golub Capital in 2003, he was a Managing Director at Centre Partners and Corporate Partners, a Lazard-sponsored private equity fund. Mr. Golub earned degrees from Harvard, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Michael Gerstenhaber
Vice President, Product Management, Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud
Alphabet

Michael Gerstenhaber is the Vice President of Product Management for Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud. In this leadership role, he is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a critical portfolio designed to power the next generation of intelligent applications. His key responsibilities include capitalizing on the Gen AI API business by integrating Gemini models into customer workflows, defining the product vision for Agents across Google Cloud, and ensuring Gemini Enterprise remains the comprehensive platform for leveraging Google’s AI offerings.Michael joined Google for the unique opportunity to apply frontier AI to the complex, real-world business processes of customers at a global scale.Previously, Michael was the Head of Product for the API Platform at Anthropic, where he led product for the Claude models. His work was a central driver of the company's commercial success, accounting for 87% of its business revenue and contributing to billions of dollars in total revenue through widespread market adoption.Prior to Anthropic, Michael spent seven years at Datadog as the Vice President of Product Management, where he managed infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes products. Earlier in his career, he served as the Director of Product and Operations at The Happy Cloud and began his career as an engineer with iSkoot and Cisco.
Speakers

James Babski
Managing Director, Technology, Media & Telecom Investment & Corporate Banking
Mizuho Americas

James Babski joined Greenhill in July 2000 and is a Managing Director in the TMT Group where he covers Fintech firms. Based in New York, James has over 25 years of investment banking experience covering fintech companies. James earned a BS in Commerce from University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John Buchanan
Deputy Head of Global CIB, and Chief Information Officer & Chief Operations Officer
Mizuho Americas

John R. Buchanan is Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer for Mizuho Americas. As Chief Information Officer, John is responsible for the technology operations and enterprise change programs in the region. As Chief Operating Officer, he is also responsible for the management of Operations IT and Facilities at Mizuho Securities USA. John has held various leadership positions since joining Mizuho in 2009, including Head of Corporate Development and Head of Strategy, and has contributed to the firm’s record growth and expansion in the region. Prior to joining Mizuho, John spent 20 years at ABN Amro in several management roles in sales, strategy, and business operations. John is a member of Mizuho’s Management, Risk, IT SteerCo (Chair), Executive Management Change Committee (EMCC+), and New Product Committees. He is also the Executive Sponsor of the firm’s DO&I employee resource groups. John holds a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.

John Roberts
Senior Analyst, US Industrials – Chemicals and Packaging
Mizuho Americas

John joined Mizuho in November 2023 as a Senior Analyst covering the chemicals and packaging industries. John brings to Mizuho nearly 40 years of sell-side research experience covering chemicals, having served at several bulge-bracket firms and a leading boutique.
He was ranked #9 in Institutional Investor’s 2023 All-America Research Team for his team’s work in chemicals. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and a Master’s in Finance, Accounting, MIS, Operations and Marketing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
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Michael Regelski
Senior Vice President, R&D, Intelligent Power Management Solutions and Chief Technology Officer, Electrical Sector
Eaton

Michael Regelski is the Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Intelligent Power Management Solutions and Chief Technology Officer for the Electrical Sector of Eaton, a global power management company.
In this role, he is responsible for the delivery of innovative digital solutions and the company’s centralized software research and development organization. In addition, he is working with engineering and business leaders to develop and implement the electrical sector technology strategy. He is also responsible for providing overall direction and guidance for all engineering, program management and technology enhancement initiatives within the business.
Michael joined Eaton in 2015. Prior to joining Eaton, he was Vice President, Systems and Controls Engineering for UTC Building and Industrial Systems, where he was responsible for growing advanced model based engineering methods and developing core electronic, controls and software technology platforms across Building and Industrial Systems business units.
Michael was one of the founding members and Vice President, Engineering for Lenel Systems which was acquired by United Technologies in 2005. Upon joining UTC, he held various positions including Vice President, Engineering for Global Security Products and Vice President, Engineering and Product Management for Automation and Control Solutions.

David Golub
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Golub Capital

David Golub is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Golub Capital, a leading direct lender and private credit manager with over $90 billion in capital under management as of April 1, 2026. The firm partners with institutional investors and family offices, providing customized credit solutions and financing for private equity-backed companies. Golub Capital has ranked among the Top 3 U.S. Middle Market Bookrunners for senior secured leveraged buyout loans every year since 2008 and has earned numerous industry honors, including multiple Private Debt Investor awards recognizing it as Lender of the Year and Senior Lender of the Year.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mr. Golub is deeply involved in philanthropy and nonprofit leadership. He serves on the Founder’s Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and is Co-Founder and Chair of the Golub Capital Nonprofit Board Fellows Network, which prepares MBA students to serve as effective nonprofit directors.
Prior to joining Golub Capital in 2003, he was a Managing Director at Centre Partners and Corporate Partners, a Lazard-sponsored private equity fund. Mr. Golub earned degrees from Harvard, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Michael Gerstenhaber
Vice President, Product Management, Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud
Alphabet

Michael Gerstenhaber is the Vice President of Product Management for Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud. In this leadership role, he is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a critical portfolio designed to power the next generation of intelligent applications. His key responsibilities include capitalizing on the Gen AI API business by integrating Gemini models into customer workflows, defining the product vision for Agents across Google Cloud, and ensuring Gemini Enterprise remains the comprehensive platform for leveraging Google’s AI offerings.Michael joined Google for the unique opportunity to apply frontier AI to the complex, real-world business processes of customers at a global scale.Previously, Michael was the Head of Product for the API Platform at Anthropic, where he led product for the Claude models. His work was a central driver of the company's commercial success, accounting for 87% of its business revenue and contributing to billions of dollars in total revenue through widespread market adoption.Prior to Anthropic, Michael spent seven years at Datadog as the Vice President of Product Management, where he managed infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes products. Earlier in his career, he served as the Director of Product and Operations at The Happy Cloud and began his career as an engineer with iSkoot and Cisco.
Moderators

Michael Gerstenhaber
Vice President, Product Management, Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud
Alphabet

Michael Gerstenhaber is the Vice President of Product Management for Gemini Enterprise at Google Cloud. In this leadership role, he is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a critical portfolio designed to power the next generation of intelligent applications. His key responsibilities include capitalizing on the Gen AI API business by integrating Gemini models into customer workflows, defining the product vision for Agents across Google Cloud, and ensuring Gemini Enterprise remains the comprehensive platform for leveraging Google’s AI offerings.Michael joined Google for the unique opportunity to apply frontier AI to the complex, real-world business processes of customers at a global scale.Previously, Michael was the Head of Product for the API Platform at Anthropic, where he led product for the Claude models. His work was a central driver of the company's commercial success, accounting for 87% of its business revenue and contributing to billions of dollars in total revenue through widespread market adoption.Prior to Anthropic, Michael spent seven years at Datadog as the Vice President of Product Management, where he managed infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes products. Earlier in his career, he served as the Director of Product and Operations at The Happy Cloud and began his career as an engineer with iSkoot and Cisco.

Pascal Desroches
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
AT&T

Pascal serves as AT&T’s Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, where he and his team oversee the financial strategy for AT&T’s $122 billion connectivity business. He is responsible for leading the company’s financial planning, accounting, tax, auditing, treasury, investor relations and corporate real estate functions.Since joining AT&T in 2021, Pascal has spearheaded the company’s significant cost transformation efforts, simplified and strengthened its balance sheet and overseen historic levels of 5G and fiber investment. This investment-led approach has made AT&T one of the top annual investors in the United States, positioned it as the leader in converged connectivity and helped the company deliver on its long-term growth strategy.Prior to joining AT&T, Pascal was the EVP and CFO of WarnerMedia and the Administrative Officer of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and previously, was Turner’s CFO and Global Controller of Time Warner. Before joining the WarnerMedia family, Pascal was a partner at KPMG and served as a professional accounting fellow with the office of the chief accountant at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Pascal serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Board of Directors, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Board of Directors, and the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep. He was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for Honeywell Aerospace, effective upon its planned spinoff from Honeywell. He previously was a Trustee of St. John’s University and served on the Board of Directors of Davita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) where he chaired the Audit Committee.Pascal graduated with honors and received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from St. John’s University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. He and his wife, Yvette, live in Dallas and have two adult children, Erika and Justin.
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