BWIB WE Summit 2026: Winning Wonders

Greta Bajrami

Rootless

https://www.linkedin.com/in/greta-bajrami-970916140/

Greta Bajrami is the CEO and founder of Golden Group Roofing, a roofing services company, and Rootless, a tech platform focused on e-learning and consulting services. An immigrant from Tirana, Albania, Greta moved to the U.S. at age nine and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she attended Worcester State University.

During her senior year of college, Greta turned inspiration into a multimillion-dollar brand. With no prior roots in exterior remodeling, she identified a need for higher quality and better use of technology to enhance the customer experience. She innovated construction processes and elevated industry standards, earning both local and national recognition.

Her leadership in a male-dominated industry has earned her numerous accolades, including Worcester Business Journal 40 Under 40 (2017), Remodelers Magazine Big 50 (2019), Pro Remodeler 40 Under 40 (2021), Female Roofer of the Year finalist (2021), and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New England Award winner.

Greta is committed to changing the face of construction and advocating for women in the industry. She serves as Executive Board Director and 2nd Vice President of the North East Roofing Contractors Association and sits on the Foundation Board and Scholarship Committee of Worcester State University.

Sheikha Al-Otaibi

Co-Founder

Rootless Social and Interlix Staffing

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikha-al-otaibi/

Sheikha Al-Otaibi is the Co-Founder of Interlix Staffing, a staffing company that connects remote professionals from Latin America with U.S.-based companies to build scalable cross-border teams. She also works in sales and talent strategy, helping businesses grow through strategic hiring solutions. As a content creator on LinkedIn with over 18,000 followers, she shares insights on sales, staffing, and entrepreneurship while building a community around global workforce opportunity.

Violet Wittig

Director of Sales, Healthcare & Life Sciences

Cloudera

https://www.linkedin.com/in/violetwittig/

Violet Wittig, MBA is Director of Sales, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Cloudera, where she partners with enterprise leaders to harness the power of data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes. With over 15 years of experience across healthcare, life sciences, finance, and media, she helps organizations transform complex use cases into secure, scalable, AI-driven solutions.

Violet works with industry leaders to advance unified data platforms that support agentic AI, data lineage, governance, and cybersecurity across both cloud and on-premises environments. Her approach combines strategic selling, executive-level engagement, and AI transformation, empowering teams to accelerate time to insight while building trust in their data ecosystems.

Throughout her career, she has scaled key accounts including Experian and Disney, brought in major clients such as Capital Group and First American Financial, and partnered with Wall Street firms at IBM to implement enterprise-grade data and analytics solutions. Known as a trusted advisor at the C-suite level, she helps organizations translate bold visions into boardroom-ready strategy.

Susanne Seitinger

VP, Product Marketing

CoreWeave

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanne-seitinger/

Susanne is the VP of Product Marketing at CoreWeave, where she defines core positioning and messaging for the company’s AI cloud platform. She directs the end-to-end go-to-market execution for high-priority releases, including the CoreWeave Mission Control or CoreWeave ARENA. By establishing a high-velocity cadence for product announcements, she aligns engineering and GTM teams to drive brand awareness and a positive perception of full-stack AI capabilities.

Previously, Susanne served as the AI and Machine Learning Marketing Director at AWS, directing global strategies for flagship products like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. Her work focused on driving service adoption across diverse technical personas and providing momentum for AWS's AI products. Her background also includes leadership roles at Verizon and Signify in smart cities, IoT, and connected lighting. Susanne holds a PhD and two Master's degrees from MIT and a B.A. from Princeton University. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two kids.

Marian Salzman

SVP Corporate Development

Philip Morris International

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariansalzman/

A globally respected communications leader, Marian Salzman has held senior roles at Philip Morris International since 2018, including Senior Vice President, Global Communications, and Senior Vice President & Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer, U.S., before being named to her current position as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Senior Advisor to the U.S. CEO in April 2025.

Before joining PMI, Marian headed Havas PR North America for nearly a decade, beginning in 2009. She served as President before becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2011. During that time, she co-created and chaired the Global Collective, the Havas PR operation across several continents.

Marian was Chief Marketing Officer at PR firm Porter Novelli from 2008–2009, CMO at JWT Worldwide from 2005–2008, and Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Euro RSCG Worldwide (Havas) from 2001–2004. In the early 1990s, she co-founded CyberDialogue, where she pioneered the use of online focus groups for social research.

Marian is the author or co-author of 18 books, most recently The New Megatrends: Seeing Clearly in the Age of Disruption. She holds a degree in sociology from Brown University and, in recent years, has completed half the credits toward a graduate degree in international affairs at Johns Hopkins.

Stephanie Roulic

Founder and CEO

Startup Boston

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephroulic/

Stephanie Roulic is dedicated to strengthening and connecting the New England startup community. As the Founder and CEO of Startup Boston, she helps founders, startup operators, and startup-curious individuals find the resources, opportunities, and connections they need to succeed. Startup Boston hosts events and creates content designed to educate, support, and celebrate the region’s startup ecosystem. Previously she co-founded nDash, a martech startup accepted into MassChallenge in 2017. After her time at nDash, she joined Goldcast as the 11th employee - and their first non-engineering hire - shortly after the company closed its Seed Round. During her tenure, she built out the entire Post-Sales team. She left the company after it had raised its Series A and grown to 150 employees. Her work has earned recognition, including BostInno’s 2024 Fire Award for Ecosystem Support and Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

Kelly Megel

Chief Marketing Officer

Wayfair Specialty Brands

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-megel/

An Executive Officer & General Management Leader with 20+ years across technology, retail, financial services, and CPG, known for uniting data-driven precision with creative relevance to deliver outsized results. Proven success leading billion-dollar P&Ls, scaling breakthrough innovations, and building high-performing teams that turn insights into impact and ideas into enduring brand love. Combines commercial acumen, storytelling mastery, and innovation leadership to drive growth that lasts. 

Julie Lerner

Angel Investor, Blogger

37 Angels, The Failure Report

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-lerner/

Julie Lerner is an Angel Investor with 37 Angels and Angel Squad/Hustle Fund. She is the Founder of The Failure Report, a blog dedicated to discovering what not to do through interviews with successful entrepreneurs and investors, including Kathleen King of Tate's Cookies with a $500M exit, and Paul English of Kayak with a $1.8B exit. She is a Board Member at The Lower East Side Girls Club and is committed to helping girls achieve their dreams. Julie is a graduate of the Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France, with an MBA, and Northwestern University, with a BS in Radio, Television, and Film. She also has certificates from the International Culinary Center in culinary arts and wine.  After surviving cancer in her twenties, she co-authored the book Lerner's Consumer Guide to Health Care, for which she was featured in The New York Times business section and a five-part series on NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric. Julie is a startup mentor at Babson, Columbia University Almaworks, Zahn Innovation Center (City College of New York), and EntreFEST in Iowa. She resides in NYC but always keeps her passport on hand as she seeks to visit every country in the world.  

 

Patty Pytlik

Founder

Peak Return Ventures

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patty-pytlik/

Patty Pytlik is an entrepreneur, investor, and operator. She is the founder of Peak Return Ventures and a dynamic leader with more than 15 years of institutional private equity real estate experience, having held investment roles at firms including Goldman Sachs. Over the course of her career, she has led more than $2.4 billion in transactions across multifamily, industrial, hospitality, life sciences, and mixed use assets, bringing a deep foundation in value creation, capital strategy, and growth.



She is also passionate about social impact and building mission driven ventures at the intersection of wellness, emotional resilience, and human development.



A dual graduate of Babson College and a summa cum laude honoree, Pytlik’s work is rooted in entrepreneurial leadership and the belief that businesses can drive meaningful personal and societal change. At Babson, she was recognized as a 2025 Babson Entrepreneurship Award recipient, Beta Gamma Sigma High Honors inductee, and a Frank & Eileen Leadership Scholar. She remains deeply engaged with the Babson community, serving on the Babson Board of Trustees and supporting student and alumni initiatives across the ecosystem.

Gabrielle Dalvet

Co-Founder

MKTG WMN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmdalvet/

Gabrielle Dalvet is a marketing strategist, operator, and community builder who helps companies cut through noise and build go-to-market foundations that actually hold up in the real world. She’s the Principal Consultant at Coterie Mktg, where she partners with early- and growth-stage teams to clarify positioning, align stakeholders, and ship marketing that drives momentum, not just activity.

She’s also the co-founder of MKTG WMN, a paid community for women and non-binary marketers focused on confidence, career growth, and pay transparency. Since launching in 2020, MKTG WMN has grown into a trusted space for mentorship, salary benchmarking, skill-building, and honest conversations about navigating marketing careers inside imperfect systems.

Gabrielle has worked across brand and B2B, from consumer and global brands to SaaS and tech startups, and is known for being a strong generalist with a bias toward clarity, practicality, and execution. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, systems, and building more equitable careers in marketing.

MK Getler-Porizkova

Chief Marketing Officer at Loop & Tie, Founder of Branded Inferior

Loop & Tie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkgetler/

Human to human marketing executive and public speaker, MK Getler, is on a mission to bring authenticity and empathy into B2B organizations around the globe. With over a decade of experience building and leading marketing and business development teams, a keen ability to make meaningful marketing, and a passion for bringing inclusion and equity to the conversation, MK thrives on empowering others to actualize their potential in and out of the workplace.



When MK is not flipping tables in the marketing world, they’re found either in the surf or snow. Or perhaps off finding adventures big or small with their fiancé, Natasha, and pup, Kody.