Sharmila Mulligan is a longtime Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur, executive and strategic advisor who has shaped multiple multibillion-dollar technology categories. She serves on the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips and several Northwestern University boards. Sharmila has been a senior executive and early team member at six technology companies from inception through IPO and acquisition, including General Magic, Aster Data and Netscape and Opsware with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Most recently, she founded and served as CEO of an analytics company acquired by a public company. She has also been an early advisor to Databricks, Cloudera, Anyscale AI, Cohere AI, Wiz security and more, and is currently deeply involved in all aspects of AI.