John Sileo lost everything — his multi-million-dollar business, life savings, and two years as an absent dad — to cybercriminals who stole his identity and used it to commit a series of crimes. Wrongly implicated, in financial ruin, and facing jail time, John rose from the digital rubble with a mission: to turn his personal loss into a powerful force for good.

Today, he’s a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, award-winning author, and trusted cybersecurity expert to organizations like the Pentagon, Amazon, and Schwab. John has appeared on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper and in the WSJ to share his message of security and resilience. One of his true-life stories even inspired a blockbuster Hollywood film.

John is the CEO of The Sileo Group, a frequent board advisor, and a Harvard honors graduate. But his accomplishments have always taken a back seat to the time he spends with the family and friends who helped him turn life’s lemons into something far sweeter and more fulfilling.

Jason Sullivan is the founder and CEO of Distro, the Agentic AI Sales Platform purpose-built for wholesale distributors and manufacturers’ reps. He holds a master’s in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence from Stanford and an undergraduate degree in cognitive science from Yale. This rare pairing gives him both deep technical mastery and a sharp understanding of how people actually adopt and use technology.

Before building Distro, Jason spent months on the ground in distribution, visiting distributors and rep agencies across the country, standing at counters, sitting in on sales calls, and studying how inside sales teams, outside reps, and operations actually work. What he found was an industry powered by extraordinary human expertise, running on tools that had fallen far behind the people using them.

What sets Jason apart is that he doesn’t just lead the company. He’s deeply hands-on in shaping the product vision, working alongside his engineering team every day to ensure Distro sets the standard for the industry. Having co-founded a fintech startup, led data and engineering at hedge funds, and served as CTO of multiple startups, he brings a rare combination of technical depth and firsthand understanding of distribution to everything Distro builds. As AI evolves, Distro evolves with it, and that advantage goes directly to every distributor and rep on the platform.

Today, Distro powers sales teams across the industry, from family-owned distributors to global enterprises, proving that world-class AI belongs in distribution, not just Silicon Valley. Distro is backed by Y Combinator and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.