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Nick Ganju Is Teaching a Phone Call to Think in Time
Zocdoc's founding engineer spent years making appointments work on a screen. Now he is back in the code, trying to make an automated voice understand when a human has finished a sentence.
Kerrie Jordan Learned Software by Listening to the People Who Use It
An artist's daughter and an engineer's daughter learned to translate factory-floor problems into stories. Now she is carrying that habit from Epicor's product roadmap to its global brand.
Sara Holtz Is Teaching Mortgage Marketing to Think Before It Speeds Up
After two decades in marketing, Sara Holtz has traded the reflex to have every answer for a harder discipline: creating clarity. Her playbook for mortgage technology begins with purpose, invites iteration and leaves room for people to think.
Chris Mahl
Chris Mahl is President and CEO of Pryon, a Raleigh-based enterprise AI company building a retrieval-augmented generation platform that turns unstructured enterprise data into accurate, source-attributed answers. With more than two decades in enterprise software, he was part of the early leadership teams at Salesforce and Informatica, later ran revenue and operations as CRO at Botkeeper and Opentron Labworks, and held an executive role at Right Media Exchange before it was acquired by Yahoo. He focuses on scaling go-to-market and operations for technology companies and positions Pryon at what he calls the 'knowledge layer' of the AI stack.
Mahesh Devalla
Mahesh Devalla is the Chief Technology Officer of Players Health, a Minneapolis-based sports insurance and risk-management company that protects youth athletes and sports organizations. He leads product and engineering strategy and applies human-centered, ethical AI to athlete safety and real-time decision support. Before Players Health, where he rose from Director of Engineering, he architected enterprise-scale AI platforms across finance, utilities and software at firms including Citi, Bank of America, American Water, Hexagon and App Orchid. He holds a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence from Dartmouth College, authored the book 'The AI Dilemma: Why Businesses Still Fail to Embrace AI,' and has been named a USA 40 Under 40 honoree and ranked among global top AI leaders.