2026 speakers
Amanda Whalen
Chief Financial Officer, Klaviyo
Amanda Whalen is the Chief Financial Officer at Klaviyo, the B2C CRM that gives businesses a real-time understanding of their customers and the ability to act on it instantly. She helped guide Klaviyo through its successful public debut on the New York Stock Exchange and leads the company’s global financial strategy as it scales in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. Her experiences span high-growth technology and large-scale global operations, giving her a rare combination of founder-ready agility and enterprise-tested discipline.
Before joining Klaviyo, Amanda served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Walmart International and spent more than a decade advising businesses at Bain & Company. She is known for building high-performing teams, partnering closely with founders, and steering companies through pivotal moments of transformation. Today she is focused on helping Klaviyo and its customers compete and win in the emerging era of autonomous, AI-powered customer relationships.
Elena Gomez
President and Chief Financial Officer, Toast, Inc.
Elena Gomez is the President and Chief Financial Officer at Toast, Inc., where she oversees global finance, investor relations, corporate development and business operations. Under her leadership, Toast launched its initial public offering in 2021. Prior to Toast, Elena was the CFO of Zendesk, and held finance leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies, including Salesforce, Visa, and Charles Schwab. Elena has a passion for helping organizations drive scale through cycles of massive growth. She was named to the list of Most Influential Women in Business in 2017 by the San Francisco Business Times.
Elena currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at PagerDuty. She is Chair of the board for the Haas Business School at Berkeley. She also serves on the non-profit boards of Ladies Who Launch and the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.
Elena graduated with a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. In her spare time, Elena enjoys spending time with her two daughters, traveling and coaching a couple of basketball teams.
Gina Mastantuono
President and Chief Financial Officer, ServiceNow
Gina Mastantuono is President and Chief Financial Officer at ServiceNow and one of the only women in the Fortune 500 leading both Finance and Corporate Strategy & Development. Promoted to the dual role in January 2025, she oversees global finance, enterprise strategy, corporate development, and capital allocation, helping architect the company’s AI-driven growth agenda. Under her leadership, ServiceNow has scaled to $15 billion in revenue, joined the S&P 100, and strengthened its position as a defining enterprise technology platform.
In 2025, she led two of the most significant transactions in the company’s history—the acquisitions of Moveworks and Armis—while advancing a disciplined AI investment strategy across frontier partnerships and ServiceNow Ventures. She co-authored the company’s AI-Native Finance & Strategy Playbook, transforming her organization into a proactive, data-driven decision engine shaping enterprise strategy.
Previously CFO of Ingram Micro and Revlon, Gina is a first-generation college graduate of SUNY Albany. She serves on the boards of Roblox and Gong as Audit Committee Chair, and is a limited partner at Operator Collective. Her leadership has been recognized nationally: she was named a 2026 CNBC Changemaker, to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Power 100, the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology, and CRN’s Power 100, and was honored as CFO of the Year (Public Company, Large) by the San Francisco Business Times. She continues to champion the next generation of leaders as a co-founder of The Next Seat, an executive forum designed to prepare rising executives for Fortune 500 CFO roles.
Jenna Fisher
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
Jenna Fisher is committed to finding transformational leaders who can guide companies forward in a changing world. Over the past 20 years, she has developed strong relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape. Having completed more than 400 CFO and board searches, she has a deep understanding of what professional and personal experiences, as well as the personality traits, are needed at the top. She knows that the most successful companies—in terms of any metric—are led by inclusive teams who understand and reflect their products, services, employees, and audiences. As a senior partner, Jenna co-leads the firm's Global Financial Officers Practice and conducts senior financial officer assignments for leading global companies across industries.
Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Jenna was a consultant with Bain & Co., where she advised private equity clients and senior management of Fortune 500 firms in technology, consumer goods, and retail. She began her career as an entrepreneur, founding and successfully selling an educational services company in Houston.
Jenna received her BA, with honors, in sociology from Rice University and her MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She also attended Duke University Law School and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Jenna wrote a Wall Street Journal best-selling book, To the Top (Wiley, 2023), about the importance of gender equity in business leadership. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two teenagers and two poodles.
Jeremy Fox-Geen
Chief Financial Officer, Circle Internet Group
Jeremy Fox-Geen is Chief Financial Officer of Circle (NYSE: CRCL) - one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through programmable blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, and payment applications. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
He leads Circle’s corporate development, financial control, financial operations, strategic finance, investor relations, tax, treasury and venture investment functions, including the core liquidity and reserve management infrastructure of USDC.
He was previously chief financial officer of both iStar (NYSE: STAR) and Safehold (NYSE: SAFE), innovative real estate finance companies. Prior, he served as chief financial officer of McKinsey & Co. North America, where he had also served a leader in the financial services consulting practice, helping clients craft compelling strategies, accelerate go-to-markets, build effective and efficient organizations, manage risk, and create enduring value. Other executive roles include banking strategy leader at PwC, and finance transformation leader at Citi. He began his career as an investment banker in London with what is now JPMorgan.
He holds an MA in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Oxford.
Kelly Steckelberg
Chief Financial Officer, Canva
Kelly Steckelberg is the Chief Financial Officer at Canva, where she leads the global finance organization, supporting the company’s mission to empower the world to design. Since its launch in 2013, Canva has become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, generating over $3 billion in annualised revenue and serving more than 240 million users across the globe.
Prior to joining Canva, Kelly served as CFO at Zoom, where she helped guide the company through its initial public offering and a subsequent period of hypergrowth stemming from the pandemic. She has also held leadership roles as CFO and CEO of Zoosk and divisional CFO for the Consumer Segment and WebEx at Cisco. Kelly began her career at KPMG, working in both tax and audit.
Outside of work, she loves to travel and has explored over 70 countries, always seeking to learn from and connect with new cultures. You can learn more about Canva at canva.com/newsroom.
Lynn Martin
President, NYSE Group
Lynn Martin is President of NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest stock market.
Martin is the 68th President of the New York Stock Exchange and the second woman to lead the exchange in more than 230-year history. The NYSE, the premier venue for capital raising, is the listing home to the world’s most influential and innovative companies.
In addition to the exchange, NYSE Group includes four fully electronic equity markets, including NYSE Arca, the industry leader in ETFs, and two options exchanges.
Martin is also Chair of Fixed Income & Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), the parent of NYSE Group. Most recently, she was President of that business, responsible for ICE Bonds execution venues, securities pricing and analytics, reference data, indices, desktop solutions, consolidated feeds and connectivity services that cover all major asset classes.
She previously served as President of ICE Data Services, COO of ICE Clear U.S., and in a number of leadership roles including CEO of NYSE Liffe U.S. and CEO of New York Portfolio Clearing. Martin began her career at IBM in its Global Services organization.
Martin holds a BS in Computer Science from Manhattan College and an MA in Statistics from Columbia University. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and the New York State Emerging Technology Advisory Board. Martin also serves on the Manhattan College Board of Trustees.
Mark Hawkins
Former President & CFO Emeritus, Salesforce
Mr. Hawkins served as President and CFO Emeritus for Salesforce from February 2021 to November 2021. Prior to that, Hawkins served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce from August 2017 to January 2021, and as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President from August 2014 to August 2017.
From 2009 to 2014, Hawkins served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Autodesk. His prior roles include Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Information Technology at Logitech International S.A. (2006-2009), Vice President of Finance at Dell (2000-2006), and various executive positions at Hewlett-Packard (1981-2000), including a two-year assignment in Europe and board directorships in Japan and China.
Hawkins currently serves on the public Board of Directors of Workday (vice chairman & lead independent director), Cloudflare, and Toast (chairman). He also serves as an Operating Partner for BDT & MSD Partners, a Venture Partner for NEA, a Senior Advisor and Board member to private companies. Hawkins is a founding member of the USA Chapter of His Majesty King Charles’ sponsored A4S.org CFO Leadership Network, and Chaired the A4S Global Advisory Council (2021 – 2025) before being appointed to an A4S.org Ambassador. Hawkins also served on the NYSE Listed Company Advisory Board from 2019 to 2022.
Hawkins holds a B.A. in Operations Management from Michigan State University and an M.B.A from the University of Colorado. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Sheryl Estrada
Senior Finance Writer, Fortune
Sheryl Estrada has been a senior writer at Fortune since 2021, where she covers corporate finance, Wall Street, and corporate leadership. She is the founding writer of Fortune’s CFO newsletter, reporting on the latest trends and news impacting finance leaders. She is also a co-chair of Fortune’s CFO Collaborative. Sheryl earned her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her graduate degree from New York University.
Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer, Workday
Zane Rowe is chief financial officer at Workday, responsible for accounting, business finance, investor relations, real estate and workplace safety, tax, and treasury, in addition to advising on Workday business strategy and product development.
Prior to joining Workday, Zane was executive vice president and CFO of VMware, where he oversaw the company’s finance and accounting functions, and led the strategy and development team. He also served as interim CEO of VMware from February to May 2021. Prior to his time at VMware, Zane was CFO at EMC and CFO at United Airlines, and led North America sales for Apple
He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of eBay, Inc. and as a member of the board of trustees of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has previously served as a member of the board of directors of Sabre.
Zane holds a bachelor’s degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA from San Diego State University.
