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Tess Mitchell Has Spent 30 Years Marketing the Moment Before the Stakes Become Real
From patient simulators to remote exams, the Honorlock CMO has built a career around technology used when people are being tested - and the small human details that keep the machinery from taking over.
Kevin Rockmael Has Spent a Career Marketing the Thing Education Cannot Buy: Trust
Across Kaplan, Guild, Sounding Board and now Proctorio, the fractional CMO has kept returning to one difficult brief: make institutions more useful, more credible and more open to the people they routinely overlook.
Alon Yamin
A copied website gave Alon Yamin a problem to solve. A decade later, Copyleaks sits at the uncomfortable intersection of authorship, software and trust, trying to show where machines end and human judgment begins.
Max Spero
Max Spero is the cofounder and CEO of Pangram Labs, a New York based startup building the most accurate AI-text detector on the market. A Stanford-trained machine learning engineer who worked at Google, Two Sigma, Yelp, and the self-driving company Nuro, Spero co-founded Pangram in 2023 with college dormmate Bradley Emi to draw a clean line between human and machine writing. His obsession is the false positive rate: he refused to ship at one wrong call in a hundred and pushed his team to one in ten thousand. Pangram now powers AI verification for journalism platforms, schools, and trust and safety teams, and raised about $4M in seed funding in 2025.
Edward Tian
Edward Tian is the co-founder and CEO of GPTZero, the AI-detection tool he wrote in three days at a cafe over the 2023 New Year holiday while a senior at Princeton. Within days, tens of thousands of teachers swarmed the app and crashed its server. Two years on, GPTZero has raised $13.5 million, reached millions of users, turned profitable, and become a default check for educators, recruiters, and grant agencies trying to tell human writing from machine writing.