Andrew Schafer is a seasoned Sales and Marketing professional whose contributions were pivotal to Cloudflare's transformation from a startup into a globally recognized entity with over $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). With a history of working across major cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, Beijing, Singapore, and Sydney, Andrew played a critical role in Cloudflare's journey from its early days as the 70th employee through to its successful IPO, leveraging his expertise to boost sales, marketing, and customer retention. Now, he leverages this rich experience to mentor early-stage tech companies, guiding them in the launch and growth of complex SaaS products.

Martijn Gonlag is a skilled tech professional with a focus on Information Security, System Administration, and enhancing user experiences through effective Product Management. At Cloudflare, he led significant projects, including the seamless migration of billing systems and the development of scalable partner solutions, showcasing his ability to bridge technical expertise with strategic product development. With a strong educational background and a proven track record in solving complex problems, Martijn excels in driving product innovations and customer satisfaction.

Oren served as the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Area 1 Security, prior to its acquisition by Cloudflare (NYSE: NET). Previously he was the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of sqrrl, prior to its acquisition by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).

He began his career in public service. Oren served within the Department of Defense at the National Security Agency where he held roles as a ballistic missiles analyst, computer hacker, and computer science researcher; as well as at the United States Cyber Command.

His expertise extends beyond entrepreneurship; Oren has also been a valued advisor to Gigasheet, Wallaroo.AI, and Synack, providing invaluable insights and guidance to these innovative organizations.

We are proud to have Oren as an advisor to Levitate and our clients. 

Rebecca leads Upgrade’s Financial Institutions Team nationally. An experienced FinTech executive, she covers all bank and credit union partnerships at Upgrade. Rebecca has worked closely with a variety of regulated Financial Institutions (“FIs”) from Banks/Credit Unions as small as $90M to as large as $900 billion. She has developed custom forward flow programs across a variety of consumer asset classes, unsecured personal installment loans, cards, autos and home improvement. In her time at Upgrade, Rebecca has developed and sold forward flow programs with over 200 Financial Institutions in the United States, far exceeding any marketplace lending platform in history. Most recently, Rebecca and her team have begun offering their 200+ partners an additional Upgrade product (deposits) to bring a brand new liquidity source to regulated financial institutions, creating match funding solutions for FIs with deposit pressure. Since the launch of deposits in late 2022 over $750M has been swept to existing partners. Rebecca also currently serves as an advisor to a pre-seed B2B FinTech start-up.

Santiago Becerra is a veteran entrepreneur and 2x tech startup founder with successful exits. As CTO of Xcelsius he created a business intelligence and visualization tool that revolutionized the industry, creating a thriving and fervent community of users. As VP of Engineering at Sequoia-backed Roambi, Santiago was responsible for the development of an award-winning business intelligence mobile app and led the development team through a period of rapid growth and significant expansion of the product portfolio. He holds four patents in the area of data visualization. Santiago has recently led teams at Salesforce/Tableau focusing on Augmented Analytics and Generative AI. He sits on several advisory boards and invests in early-stage tech startups.

Over the last 20 years, Sam has helped founders raise over a billion dollars in venture capital—from companies in the nascent idea stage to publicly traded companies.

With over a decade in sales engineering and product management, Tom is a power user and builder of technical tools. Tom has seen success at a number of early stage companies and be through some exciting exits with Cloudflare and Auth0. He now works at Kong, where he leads product management for the API Gateway Product.