GROWTH:SUMMIT:26
The line-up

Speakers

Operators, founders and engineers running the systems that compound.

Jon Dick
Jon Dick
Chief Customer Officer · HubSpot
Jon leads HubSpot's global customer organisation, helping millions of businesses grow better through revenue strategy, customer success and go-to-market execution.
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Sarah McDevitt
Sarah McDevitt
Senior Director · HubSpot
Senior Director of Partner Strategy, Operations & Capabilities at HubSpot, building AI-enabled partner ecosystems and unifying GTM across HubSpot's global partner network. A Dublin-based SaaS and partnerships leader with over six years at HubSpot, she is the author of The Roundtable, a book on relational intelligence and the human advantage in the AI age, a TEDx speaker, and host of the Owning the Outcome podcast.
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Joe Glover
Joe Glover
Co-Founder · The Marketing Meetup
Joe founded The Marketing Meetup, one of the largest marketing communities in the world, built on kindness, generosity and good thinking.
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Rich Wood
Rich Wood
Founder & CEO · Six & Flow
Rich is the Founder & CEO of Six & Flow, a growth consultancy specialising in CRM implementation, Customer Experience Automation, and AI. He's also the co-author of From Hype to Habit.
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Conor Moynagh
Conor Moynagh
Head of VC · HubSpot For Startups
Conor leads the HubSpot for Startups VC Program, working with venture funds and startup ecosystems to accelerate growth. He has partnered with hundreds of VC-backed startups across EMEA on GTM strategy, execution, and the systems that turn early traction into repeatable growth.
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Nelleke van Santen
Nelleke van Santen
Managing Director, NL · Six & Flow
Nelleke van Santen is a commercially minded business leader who holds a Master’s degree in Organisational Psychology. She is passionate about organisational transformation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth, combining commercial insight with a deep understanding of people and organisational dynamics. Known for connecting strategy, people, processes, and commercial objectives, she currently leads the operational growth of Six & Flow NL, driving organisational alignment and building a scalable foundation for long-term success.
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Aimane Ben M Hand
Aimane Ben M Hand
Head of AI & Innovation · Six & Flow
Aimane is Head of AI & Innovation at Six & Flow. He works with boards and management teams to turn AI and emerging technology into practical business innovation by solving real operational problems, improving processes, accelerating commercial teams and building more scalable ways of working. Constantly exploring new AI developments and their real world applications, his focus is on creating measurable impact through strategy, adoption and execution, with technology always serving a clear business purpose.
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Eoin Hallahan
Eoin Hallahan
CRO · SplitMetrics

Eoin Hallahan is a commercial leader with over 16 years building and scaling global B2B SaaS and adtech businesses across EMEA, APAC, the US and Greater China. At Google, Meta, AdRoll, Supermetrics and now SplitMetrics, he has taken products from single-digit to nine-figure ARR, running revenue organisations end to end: sales, customer success, partnerships, revenue operations and pricing, with customers and partners including Apple, Google and the world's largest brands.

That vantage point is exactly why he is at GROWTH:SUMMIT:26. Eoin joins the panel on how AI is changing the startup game to talk about what AI has actually changed inside a revenue organisation: which parts of forecasting, pipeline discipline and coaching it genuinely improves, and which parts still come down to healthy culture and good leadership. Expect production numbers, not predictions.

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Susan O'Neill
Susan O'Neill
CEO · Paygentic
Susan O’Neill is co-founder and CEO of Paygentic, the AI-native billing and payments platform helping companies monetise AI products. With a background in finance, Susan saw firsthand how legacy billing and payment systems struggle to support modern AI business models. She and her co-founder Sam built Paygentic to give finance teams real-time control over metering, pricing, billing, and payments as AI reshapes software economics. Susan also serves on the Fintech Ireland Advisory Council.
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Tom Dunlop
Tom Dunlop
CEO · Summize
CEO of Summize, Tom Dunlop, co-founded Summize alongside Chief Information Security Officer David Smith after experiencing first-hand the challenges legal teams face when working with complex contracts. A qualified lawyer by background, Tom began his career in sport and commercial law before moving in-house at technology companies, where he developed a strong passion for innovation and product-led problem solving. As CEO of Summize, Tom’s focus is on setting the company’s vision, building a collaborative, global team and ensuring Summize's contract intelligence platform continues to solve meaningful problems for legal teams at scale.
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Ed Barrett
Ed Barrett
CEO · Crovation
A Board member and startup/scaleup advisor, Ed is CEO of Crovation, an AI GTM specialist consultancy. Operating in the tech sector for over 25 years, Ed has had roles as CRO for Channelengine, CSO for Supermetrics and VP EMEA Sales at HubSpot and Global SMB Sales leadership at Google Cloud.

Ed has a wealth of experience in go-to-market models and growth strategies, through data analysis, an understanding of the evolution of commercial channels and an overall interest in commerce. A people centric leader, Ed has build GTM teams across international markets to drive exponential growth across EMEA, JAPAC and the Americas.

Ed is on a Board with Delta-Equity Partners and has an advisory role with Optivian.ai among other engagements.

Prior to establishing Crovation Ed was CSO for Supermetrics, a marketing data analytics platform, before which he was CRO as ChannelEngine, an eCommerce marketplace platform.

With previous roles leading HubSpot’s EMEA sales organisation and Google Cloud’s global SMB sales channels, Ed has seen GTM in big and small companies. Ed’s early career was with Omron Electronics, a Japanese multinational and IBM.

Originally from Ireland Ed has lived and worked in UK and US, engaging clients from every continent.

A graduate in Marketing Management from Trinity College Dublin, and later receiving his MBA from Henley Management College, Ed has also held board level posts in charities focused on helping to bridge the ‘digital divide’.
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Visa-Pekka Laurila
Visa-Pekka Laurila
Co-Founder · Optivian
Visa is co-founder of Optivian, whose AI co-worker, Ollie, helps enterprise sales teams win more deals. From autofilling the CRM from every interaction to creating tailored business cases for prospects, Ollie does the heavy lifting so reps can focus on selling. Before Optivian, Visa spent seven years as COO of Smarp, later Haiilo, helping scale the company from $3M to $40M ARR and 500+ enterprise customers, including Google, Salesforce and PwC. Earlier, he worked at McKinsey & Company on strategy and operations for global enterprises. At Haiilo, he saw that a small group of top reps was winning most of the deals, and he co-founded Optivian to bring those winning behaviours to every rep by having AI complete work on their behalf.
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Ana Fernandez
Ana Fernandez
Investment Associate · Nauta
Ana is an Investor at Nauta, based in London. Nauta backs B2B software founders at pre-seed to Series A across the UK and Spain, looking for strong teams disrupting large, often overlooked markets. She works closely with 3 enterprise software companies in the portfolio (Unravel, Neurolabs, ESProfiler) and is actively investing from Fund 6. Before joining Nauta, Ana spent 3 years as an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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Naomi Timperley
Naomi Timperley
Co-Founder · Tech North Advocates
Naomi Timperley is an award-winning innovation and growth consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and ecosystem builder with more than 15 years' experience supporting founders, businesses and organisations to innovate, grow and make better strategic decisions. She is Co-Founder of End Game, Co-Founder of Tech North Advocates and UK Lead for Global Tech Advocates, and has played a significant role in developing and connecting the technology and innovation ecosystem across the North of England and beyond. Naomi works with startups, scaleups, corporates, universities and public-sector organisations on innovation, AI adoption, growth and leadership. A passionate advocate for greater diversity in technology and entrepreneurship, Naomi has championed women, underrepresented founders and unconventional routes into the sector throughout her career. Her own late ADHD diagnosis has also shaped her interest in neurodiversity, different ways of thinking and the value diverse perspectives bring to innovation and business. Naomi was named Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in UK Tech in 2025, following almost a decade of recognition on its influential women list, and in 2026 enters the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame. At the heart of Naomi's work is a simple belief: different people see different things and better questions lead to better businesses.
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Stay tuned

More speakers to be announced in the coming weeks.