Snafu Conference

Head of Product, Enterprise and Platform,
Asana

David Shackelford is a product leader, lifelong learner, and unapologetic nerd who thrives on solving complex customer, business, and organizational problems. At Asana, he leads the Workflow Pillar, helping teams manage their most mission-critical processes through automation, integration, and platform innovation. With a background spanning engineering and product strategy, David brings a systems-level curiosity and a love of practical problem-solving to everything he does.

Market Maker,
Accenture

Dan Cavenaugh spent more than three decades at Accenture, leading sales for the company’s largest global client group and shaping billion-dollar partnerships across the tech industry. Over 33 years, he’s learned that the best deals aren’t won through pressure or polish — they’re built on trust, curiosity, and genuine human connection. Now retired, Dan teaches and speaks about a more human approach to selling — one that replaces manipulation with meaning, and performance metrics with long-term relationships.

Senior Sales Development,
Snowflake

If data and AI are the new gold, Jackson Cavenaugh spends his days in the mine. As a Senior Sales Development rep at Snowflake, he makes a hundred cold calls a day — connecting teams to the tools that turn raw data into real value. His world runs on automation, efficiency, and speed. Alongside his father, Dan Cavenaugh, Jackson will explore the role of connection — and what it means to stay human in a world built on outbound sales.

Director, Internal Communications, Prologis

Mandy Mooney is a communications leader, performer, and storyteller who helps organizations find their voice. As Director of Internal Communications at Prologis, she leads a global team focused on engaging employees through authentic storytelling and human connection at scale. Equal parts strategist and showwoman, Mandy brings a theatrical flair to the corporate stage — blending decades of experience in branding, culture, and live performance to help people show up with confidence, clarity, and heart.

Co-Founder, General Partner
Hustle Fund

Eric Bahn is a kind killer — a venture capitalist who leads with empathy but plays to win. As Co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, he backs scrappy, ambitious founders and helps them turn hustle into traction. A former founder and product leader turned investor, Eric blends heart and strategy, generosity and precision — proving that kindness and competitiveness aren’t opposites, but a powerful combination for getting things done.

VC Relationship Manager, Burkland Associates

Chris Hodge doesn’t sell over golf and steak dinners — he sells through experience. As VC Relationship Manager at Burkland Associates, he works with venture partners and portfolio companies to scale Finance and PeopleOps teams from Seed to Series C and beyond. A founder turned connector, Chris has built thriving communities like the 800+ member Talent Thought Talk and advised dozens of startups on how to grow without losing their humanity. He believes great sales — like great startups — are built on curiosity, trust, and the stories you create together.

Founder,
I Hate Sales

John Kennelly hates sales — at least the kind everyone else teaches. A veteran revenue builder who’s scaled streams up to $20M ARR and sold to everyone from Fortune 500s to scrappy startups, John has learned that the difference betweencompanies that pop and those that flop is simple: world-class outbound. After exits to Google and Apple (and a few humbling shutdowns along the way), he founded I Hate Sales to help founders break through the ceiling of inbound and build sales systems that actually scale. John’s approach is blunt, practical, and refreshingly human — no jargon, no tricks, just real conversations that turn into revenue.

Co-Founder & General Partner, 1517 Fund

Danielle Strachman is the Founder and General Partner at 1517 Fund, a venture capital firm that backs bold technologists often outside traditional institutions. Since 2015, she’s led 1517’s work supporting hackers, makers, and scientists through grant, pre-seed, and seed funding, with a focus on founders who forge their own path and learn by doing. Before launching 1517, Danielle helped design and lead the Thiel Fellowship, where she worked with Peter Thiel to reimagine what’s possible when young people build instead of enroll. As a founding team member and program director, she helped shape the Fellowship and build the Thiel Foundation Summit community of over 1,000 emerging innovators.

SemperVirens Venture Capital
Co-founder and General Partner

Robby Peters has spent the last 12 years building one of the most connected networks in HR — from startups with ten employees to global companies with a hundred thousand. As Co-Founder of SemperVirens, an investment firm focused on workforce, healthcare, and fintech companies, Robby helps back the tools shaping the future of work. He’s also Co-Founder of PeopleTech Partners and VP of Business Development at Sequoia Consulting Group. Across these roles, his mission is simple: to move HR from compliance and admin to the strategy table — where it belongs. Robby has built a community of more than 300 CHROs and leaders from companies like Netflix, Visa, Slack, and Disney, all united by a belief that people strategy is business strategy.