Greg Boone, as President & CEO of iCiDIGITAL, provides strategic direction at definitive junctures and strong leadership to surpass significant milestones. He uses insightful thinking, digital expertise, unflappable initiative, and at times, witty relief that drives iCiDIGITAL to be a nationally recognized leader in digital transformation.

A native of Durham, he graduated from NC A&T State University with a degree in Computer Science, and later from the NC State Poole College of Management Executive Education. Greg’s expertise and initiative was quickly rewarded as he grew from an Applications Engineer at I-Cubed in 2010 to a Senior Executive just 2 years later. In 2014, he was an integral part of the successful exit of I-Cubed that led to a victorious launch of the new iCiDIGITAL brand. Since its inception, Greg has led iCiDIGITAL to achieve over 2400% growth in revenue.

Greg continues to increase iCiDIGITAL’s North Carolina customer base, creating a global impact of outstanding digital experiences for their customers around the world. Over the past 6 years brands like SAS, Food Lion, NASCAR, Time Warner Cable, AICPA, Ingersoll Rand, Club Car, and Bose Audio have trusted Greg and his team with their digital initiatives.

Greg has shaped iCiDIGITAL into an industry top-tier digital experience agency that provides measurable, long term value to leading and aspiring B2B & B2C brands through strategy, design, development, and marketing services. In 2017, Beringer Capital took notice and acquired iCiDIGITAL to become part of their exclusive digital network.

Greg’s philosophy for success is "you don't build a business, you build people, and then people build the business." Under Greg’s leadership, iCiDIGITAL is growing the next generation of leaders in North Carolina through an internal training course that gives his employees the tools to both meet the demands of their current role and aspirations of future success. Over 80% of his employees come from NC based universities and colleges.

Outside of iCiDIGITAL, Greg serves as mentor to young entrepreneurs in NC. He lends his voice to the NC State Business Essentials course, bringing real world advice to the classroom. Greg is a leader among his peers and regularly mentors senior executives on leadership, growth, and technology.

Pierre Naudé is the chief executive officer of nCino, the worldwide leader in cloud banking. With over 30 years of financial technology experience, he is passionate about transforming the financial services industry through innovation, reputation and speed. Under his leadership, nCino has become one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the world. Today, nCino helps over 200 financial institutions increase efficiency, grow profitability and improve the customer experience. Prior to nCino, ierre held leadership positions at S1 Corporation and served in various global senior management roles at Unisys Corporation. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance and management from Upper Iowa University.

Todd Olson is co-founder and CEO of Pendo, a product cloud that helps product teams deliver software customers love. A three-time entrepreneur, Todd has experienced the highs and lows of running fast-growth technology companies. A proficient coder by age 14, he spent his teen years working as a database designer and software architect for MBNA Bank in Delaware. By graduation from Carnegie Mellon University, he’d invented a data integration product, co-founded Cerebellum Software, and raised seed capital. Cerebellum went on to raise $17 million in institutional capital and hire 65 people, only to shut down when funding dried up during the dotcom era. A role as vice president of product development at TogetherSoft brought Todd to Raleigh, where he eventually started 6th Sense Analytics, which he sold to Rally Software. The inspiration for Pendo came as Todd led the product team at Rally. With no product usage data available, he struggled to decide which of the dozens of feature requests that hit his desk each week were worth the investment of time and capital. After Rally’s IPO, he teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. The company has since raised $106 million in venture capital, landed nearly 700 customers and now employs 228 people across offices in Raleigh, San Francisco, New York and Israel. It was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and as an Inc. Best Workplace in 2018.

Todd prides himself on his product background, and the knowledge, experience and empathy it lends to customers of Pendo. He frequently speaks at industry events on Agile software development, product management, startup fundraising and entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Todd is typically enjoying life in Raleigh with his wife and four children, aged 1 to 21. He also loves to bake, especially cakes.

About AvidXchange

AvidXchange revolutionizes the way companies pay their bills. Serving more than 5,300 clients throughout North America, AvidXchange is an industry leader in automating invoice and payment processes for midmarket companies spanning multiple industries including Real Estate, Financial Services, Energy and Construction. AvidXchange has been recognized as one of the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Charlotte area for five consecutive years, as well as ranked among Deloitte’s Fast 500 this past year. In the midst of record growth, AvidXchange has remained true to its most valued competitive advantage—its people. AvidXchange has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Charlotte for eight consecutive years.

Michael Praeger
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Praeger is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AvidXchange, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand accounts payables management and automated payment solutions. Since founding AvidXchange in 2000, Michael has been an active participant and speaker on "payables and payment automation" at various industry conferences and considered a thought leader within the industry in developing creative solutions and best practices for payables and payment automation.

Michael has spent the last 20 years founding, managing, merging and selling technology and web services-related companies. Prior to establishing AvidXchange, Michael was Co-Founder of PlanetResume.com, a technology career enhancement and recruiting site that successfully completed its merger with CareerShop.com and CareerTV.net in November 1999. Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and CEO of InfoLink Partners and InfoVentures, LP. Michael also served as an Associate with Summit Partners, a Boston-based Venture Capital and Buyout partnership with more than $1 billion under management. He received a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Georgetown University. Michael is also a graduate of the "Birthing of Giants" executive entrepreneurship program at MIT.

Michael is currently active in the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), as well as the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Michael is also currently serving on the advisory board of the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA), and on Comdata's Customer Advisory Board. Michael is revered as a leading business-to-business provider of innovative electronic payment solutions.