Building Blocks of Diversity

Christina is the VP of Engineering at Harry’s, a successful men’s grooming brand that launched in 2013 focused on quality craftsmanship, simple design and modern convenience. At Harry’s — which includes Flamingo, the women’s brand launched in 2018 — Christina is building teams, processes, and technology that continue to disrupt markets in the US and UK. Before Harry’s, Christina’s roles have ranged from running Product, Design and Engineering at Venmo, to defining strategies and building services in the mobile and devices space at Amazon, to AOL where she started as a software engineer and rose to the level of Sr. Technical Director responsible for over 50 consumer-facing mobile apps and websites and where she received an Apple Design Award for the Best iPhone Entertainment Application, AOL Radio, in June 2008.

Mamta has 15 years of experience building products with data and advanced technologies. She leads Quartet's data science, machine learning, and causal inference efforts. She heads a team of talented data scientists working to detect underlying mental health needs and generate care recommendations for providers and patients. Previously, Mamta worked in the healthcare practice at ZS Associates and as a software engineer at Infosys and Google. She holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Anil Beniwal is VP of Engineering at Betterment, a smart money manager that helps empower you to make the most of your money so you can live better. Anil heads the product development engineering teams, responsible for all mobile, fullstack, and backend development across business lines. Prior to Betterment, Anil spent several years at Bloomberg building in-house CRM tools to enable the Sales and Marketing teams to be more strategic and efficient. When he isn't glued to a laptop, he enjoys writing and recording music, as well as spending time with his wife and kids.

Dave “Dizzy” Smith is VP of Engineering at Packet. A software industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, he has a broad range of experience across real-time messaging systems, identity federation and authentication, low-latency peer-to-peer data stores and building clouds from the ground up. He has been an active contributor to many open source projects.