Leadership Collective
Leadership Collective
Andrew Hogan
10:30 - 10:45P
Leadership Collective Welcome
10:45 - 11:30A
Finding the right problem to solve, from Instagram to Artifact and beyond
10:30 - 10:45P
Leadership Collective Welcome
Shaunt Voskanian
he/him
Chief Revenue Officer at Figma
Shaunt Voskanian is the Chief Revenue Officer at Figma, where he leads the collaborative design startup’s global sales team and revenue strategy. Prior to joining Figma, Shaunt was Senior Vice President (SVP) of Global Sales at Datadog, where he was a key part of the company's journey from $100M to $1B+ in revenue. Shaunt has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle and Google.
Sheila Vashee
She / her
Chief Marketing Officer at Figma
Sheila Vashee is the Chief Marketing Officer at Figma, overseeing the GTM + Product Support teams. Prior to joining Figma, Sheila served as CMO at Ethos, a VP of Marketing and Growth at Opendoor, and was the second marketing hire at Dropbox. Sheila is also an advisor at Basis Set Ventures, an early stage investing firm. She started her career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a BA from Stanford in Economics.
10:45 - 11:30A
Finding the right problem to solve, from Instagram to Artifact and beyond
Join Ellen McGirt, Editor in Chief of Design Observer, and Kevin Systrom, CEO of Artifact and former CEO of Instagram, as they discuss the challenges of identifying the right problems to solve, and how relentless focus on user needs drives product development innovation.
Kevin Systrom
he/him
Chief Executive Officer at Artifact
Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram. Born in Holliston, Massachusetts, Systrom graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Management Science and Engineering. He started his career as an intern at Odeo, which later became Twitter and then worked at Google. In 2010, Systrom co-founded Instagram with Mike Krieger, and within a few years, the app had hundreds of millions users. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, and Systrom continued to lead the company until 2018. He then resigned to pursue research for his next company, Artifact, a personalized news and content reading application driven by the latest advances in machine learning.
Ellen McGirt
she/her
Editor-in-Chief at Design Observer
Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, an independent media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.
session hosts
Andrew Hogan
he/him
Head of Insights at Figma
Andrew leads Insights at Figma. His research focuses on the digital product and design industry and the ways the most successful teams work. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.