Edward Yoon, MD
Amish Desai
Amish Desai is a seasoned executive known for leadership in consumer retail across financial, retail, and strategic development areas. As CEO and Board Member of Embark Veterinary, Inc., a global leader in dog health and genetics, he drives customer-centric innovation and multi-channel growth strategies.
Appointed CEO in December 2023 after serving as CFO since July 2022, Amish brings over 20 years of consumer-focused leadership across multi-scale global brands. His extensive retail experience includes transformational roles at Victoria's Secret, Henri Bendel, and J. Jill, where he played a key role in the company's transition from private equity to a successful public offering. Previously, as Senior Vice President at Rue Gilt Groupe, he led comprehensive finance functions including M&A and strategic planning.
Amish's expertise spans strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, retail operations, customer insights, and business acquisition integration across multinational public and private companies. His focus at Embark centers on accelerating innovation, expanding category awareness, and growing multi-channel distribution while supporting pet parents through core DNA offerings and new product development.
He began his career at Deloitte and holds an MBA from Lehigh University. Amish is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, serves as an advisory board member to Stylecard, Vice Chairman and board member of the South Shore YMCA, and is a founding member of The F Suite, connecting executives across leading venture capital and high-growth technology companies.
Taylor Smith
Taylor Smith is a Senior AI Advocate at Red Hat, where she champions open source innovation and the responsible adoption of AI at scale. With a background in software development, Kubernetes, Linux, and technical partnerships, she focuses on helping organizations build and operationalize AI using modern infrastructure. Taylor is passionate about making AI more accessible, trustworthy, and grounded in real-world use cases.
Dipak Sakharkar
Charles Rosenblatt
A seasoned innovator in the payments industry, Charles Rosenblatt has held executive leadership positions at major global banks, including Capital One and Chase, as well as prominent fintech organizations. He served on the management teams that led to the sale of Hyperwallet to PayPal and Payoneer going public, and is now Chief Commercial Officer at Butter—the payments technology leader in revenue retention for subscription businesses. Charles is a graduate with a B.A. in Economics and Politics from Pomona College and received an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Vijay Menon
Vijay Menon is the Founder of Butter, a payments intelligence platform that helps subscription companies recapture revenue lost to accidental payment declines. He started his career at Microsoft, where he came up with the idea for Butter while recovering 12 million subscriptions across Xbox Live, followed by roles at Dropbox and Scribd. In 2020, Vijay launched Butter and has since gone on to raise $30 million and recover millions in revenue for hundreds of brands.
Serge Ilin-Schneider
