Angela Shah is the editor of Xconomy Texas. She has written about startups along a wide entrepreneurial spectrum, from Silicon Valley transplants to Austin partying in the '90s tech boom to 20-something women defying cultural norms as they seek to build vital IT infrastructure in a war-torn Afghanistan. As a foreign correspondent based in Dubai, her work appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek/Daily Beast and Forbes Asia.

Before moving overseas, Shah was a staff writer and columnist with The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a 2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. With the launch of Xconomy Texas, she's returned to her hometown of Houston and now writes about innovation in the Lone Star State.

Kris Gale is the co-founder and CTO of Clover Health, the first and only health insurance company successfully using technology to improve health outcomes. Kris is a recognized leader in building and scaling engineering teams and was part of the founding engineering team at Yammer. During his six years there as vice president of engineering, he helped grow Yammer's engineering organization from three people to over 200. Kris also spearheaded the platform’s direction and ensured its ability to scale, culminating in its acquisition by Microsoft in 2012.

Kris has been a software developer since 1998 and held positions at companies such as Oversee.net and American Express. He is active in the healthcare space and is an advisor to Flatiron Health.