Godard Abel is the co-founder and CEO of G2 and Executive Chairman of both ThreeKit and Logik.io (acquired by ServiceNow). A 6x entrepreneur with 25 years of experience, he previously founded SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce) and BigMachines (acquired by Oracle). 

Earlier in his career, Godard consulted for McKinsey & Company and was GM at Niku prior to its IPO and subsequent acquisition by CA. Godard is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and holds degrees from MIT and Stanford.

Eric Gilpin is President of GTM at G2, where he leads G2’s unified GTM organization, aligning global marketing, sales, customer success, partnerships, enablement, and revenue operations under a single strategy. Eric joined G2 in September 2023 as CRO, bringing more than 20 years of experience scaling marketplace and technology businesses. Prior to G2, he was a senior leader at Upwork, where he oversaw a global team of 400+ and helped guide the company through its successful IPO in 2018, scaling the business to more than $600 million in annual revenue while serving roughly half of the Fortune 500. Earlier in his career, Eric held multiple leadership roles at CareerBuilder, most recently as President of Vertical Sales. He is a limited partner at GTMfund and an advisory board member at Sales Assembly. Based in Chicago, Eric holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

Tim Handorf is a G2 co-founder and Head of G2 Labs, which is focused on innovating new product opportunities that will fuel the company’s growth. He is also Executive Chairman of CarrierSource and previously led Product Management at BigMachines, which was acquired by Oracle. 

Active in the Chicago technology scene, Tim has been recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business Journal on their “Tech 50” list. He’s also a board member of Chicago Tech Academy and a member of the Young Professional Organization’s (YPO) Chicagoland Chapter. Having grown up on a farm in central Iowa, Tim currently resides in Southern Wisconsin with his wife and three kids.

Alexis Zheng is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at G2. She brings over a decade of experience building machine learning-powered products at scale, having held leadership roles at companies such as LinkedIn, Uber, Grab, and Cruise, and most recently serving as Vice President of AI Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 

Alex London is CMO at G2. A data-driven marketing leader, Alex is known for building growth engines designed for acceleration, accountability, and long-term value creation. Prior to G2, Alex served as Head of Digital at Zoom, where she led full-funnel performance marketing and experimentation across a global user base. Earlier, she spent more than eight years at Expedia Group, leading brand strategy, performance marketing, and customer acquisition, including launching the company’s first customer data platform.

Tim Sanders is Chief Innovation Officer at G2. He’s also an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and a New York Times bestselling author of five books, including Love is the Killer App.  Tim has 25 years of experience leading brands, including Upwork and Yahoo. At Yahoo, he was Chief Solutions Officer and a leadership coach, and also served as the company’s lead go-to-market (GTM) evangelist for its digital marketing business. The ValueLab group he founded and led there also produced research on industries, digital advertising effectiveness, search-data-as-predictor, and online promotions. Before Yahoo, he was an early-stage member of Mark Cuban's broadcast.com, and a faculty member of the Global Institute of Leadership Development. 

Alex David is an AI and software product leader at G2. He leads work across AI-powered research, software discovery, and products that turn trusted customer evidence into better decisions. Alex previously co-founded unSurvey, a conversational AI company acquired by G2 in 2025. Before becoming a founder, he built pricing at Segment and led software and digital practices at Simon-Kucher. His talks connect emerging technology to the practical product, customer, and business decisions leaders have to make now.

Fiona Erickson is G2’s Director of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). An experienced search and web expert, Fiona is passionate about data and creating positive user experiences for human and robot users alike. Before G2, she was Organic Acquisition Team Lead at MongoDB, where she spearheaded a company-wide AI growth strategy designed to influence the modern developer journey across LLM tools, AI search, and agentic platforms. 

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