Speakers

Ken Yagen is a Principal and Operating Executive on the Portfolio Success team at Norwest Venture Partners, where he advises CEOs, CTOs, and product leaders on AI enablement, product strategy, and technology transformation.

Ken brings several decades of experience at the forefront of enterprise technology. He was an early executive at MuleSoft, helping grow the company from an open-source project to a $200M+ business, IPO, and $6.5B Salesforce acquisition. He later held executive product roles at Box and Symphony, and served as CPO at CData, where he led the company's pivot toward enterprise AI infrastructure.

Prior to Norwest, Ken spent six years as SVP, Value Creation at Warburg Pincus, where he led the firm's generative AI evaluation efforts following the launch of ChatGPT and drove transformation initiatives across the portfolio.

Ken holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Norwest Bio

Norwest is a global venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $15.5 billion in capital. Since its inception, Norwest has invested in more than 700 companies and currently partners with more than 250 companies in its venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early- to late-stage businesses across key sectors with a focus on enterprise, healthcare, and consumer. The Norwest team offers a deep network of connections, extensive operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses. Norwest has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, Calif.; Mumbai, India; and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit www.norwest.com.