Maria (Rioumine) Davidson | Source | founder and CEO at Kojo

Maria is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kojo, a tech company that’s modernizing the materials supply chain for the construction industry. To date, Kojo has raised $45m from Tiger Global, 8VC, Index Ventures, Tishman Speyer, Suffolk Construction, Kevin Hartz, Michael Ovitz, and Jerry Yang. She was previously Chief of Staff to Joe Lonsdale and helped him build 8VC, a venture fund with over $3.5bn in AUM. In 2020, Maria was selected for Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technology. Maria started her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University where she was President of the Oxford Union.