Neela brings 25+ years of experience building scalable go-to-market (GTM) systems for scaleups, growth-stage companies, and global technology ecosystems. She co-founded Align Growth Global (AGG) to close the gap between strategy, execution and platform reality - a challenge she has navigated across vendor, partner, channel, service provider, and hyperscaler environments.
Her work blends platform-aligned GTM design, ecosystem-led expansion, and the operational discipline required to turn strategy into measurable revenue. Having built and managed high-performing teams at scaleups, Red Hat and SoftwareOne, she brings a combination of strategic clarity and hands-on execution to every project she undertakes.
Neela works closely with founders and leadership teams to design GTM models that scale, strengthen cross-functional alignment and build sustainable commercial performance. Her approach is grounded in trust, transparent communication, and a deep understanding of how teams work, enabling organisations to move faster and achieve meaningful outcomes.
Mike spent 35 years navigating multiple platform transitions at Microsoft and Red Hat understanding what platforms absorb versus what they partner with, from the inside. He watched the same pattern repeat: a company builds a product that looks like a feature to the platform. Revenue is healthy. Then the platform ships it natively. The company has six months to react and usually doesn't.
The same pattern is now playing out in the AI economy, only faster, broader, and with more capital at risk. Mike's platform transition pattern recognition is the intelligence layer that no VC platform team currently has access to.
His work at the intersection of platform strategy and partner ecosystem development forms the foundation of AGG's Intelligence Framework and the EIR network's deployment model.
Will architected Red Hat's open source business model over 18 years - revenue operations, licensing, and contract structures that are directly relevant as AI reshapes business model fundamentals across every sector. He understands the commercial mechanics of platform transitions at a level most strategists never reach.
His work building Red Hat's revenue architecture across open source ecosystem transitions gives AGG a distinctive capability: the ability to redesign portfolio company business models not just recommend changes, but architect the commercial structures that make repositioning commercially viable.
Will's commercial experience spans the full range from early-stage business model design through to enterprise revenue operations at scale.