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Sean Wu Is Betting the Future of Freight on Everything That Refuses to Fit
The former finance chief now runs a marketplace for pianos, hot tubs and other logistical misfits. His wager is that freight’s awkward edges are where software - and judgment - matter most.
Jeffery Chancellor Wants AI to Improve the Decision, Not Just Accelerate It
After two decades in telecom and enterprise software, Oversight’s CMO has arrived at a sober thesis for the AI era: speed is plentiful, but judgment, trust and operating discipline remain scarce.
Courtney Rains Makes Insurance Software Sound Human
At Applied Systems, Courtney Rains has spent more than a decade translating the machinery of insurance into a language of connection, confidence and growth.
Jennifer Hopkins Puts a Number on Marketing’s Back
Buildout’s chief marketing officer has spent her career turning brand into a revenue discipline. Her method is plainspoken: own the number, share the goal, and bring sales into the room.
Ed Rusch Has Spent 20 Years Making B2B Software Sound Like People
The Magaya CMO built a career in unglamorous corners of enterprise software by asking a disarmingly human question: are you speaking in your customer's language?
Tim Brown Is Selling the Afterlife of Your Phone
The Apkudo revenue chief works in the unglamorous, consequential minutes after a phone is returned - when data, trust and a second life are all still up for grabs.
Akshay Birla Makes a Career of Asking What Happens Next
From an economics classroom to healthcare technology, a curious interview podcast and the operational edge of emergency management, Akshay Birla has built his career around a deceptively practical question: how do people coordinate when the stakes rise?
From Sports Desk to Revenue Engine: Tim Lamb’s Playbook for Making Marketing Count
The Limble CMO began as a sports journalist and built a career around a durable idea: marketing earns influence when it can show its work. His route through Xero, Rubicon, PRGX and Simpro reveals a practical operator who treats story, systems and revenue as parts of the same job.
Cary Bainbridge Built a Revenue Engine Inside a 116-Year-Old Company
At ABM Industries, Cary Bainbridge turned marketing from a support function into part of the operating system - aligning sales, culture, technology, and 100,000-plus employees around a story the business could prove.
Jennifer Personette and the Work of Naming What Comes Next
She started by coding games, learned her craft in small agencies, and later helped split a 140-year-old name into two public-company identities. The through-line is a practical belief: constraints should sharpen ambition, not shrink it.
Elicia Azali Is Bringing Heart Into the Floor Plan
After building brands in consumer goods and insurance, Elicia Azali took on an unusually emotional product: the American home. Her playbook starts with listening, turns marketing into company-wide work, and keeps both the spreadsheet and the heart in the room.
Alisa Barber Is Turning Payments Into Something People Can Feel
After two decades in payments, Paysafe’s CMO is making a fragmented global brand coherent - and betting that curiosity, community and human judgment will matter even more in an AI-shaped market.
Michelle Montgomery
Michelle Montgomery has spent her career making complicated businesses easier to believe in. At Crawford & Company, her method begins with an unfashionable idea: the brand lives with the people doing the work.
Manish Shrivastava
At PulteGroup, Manish Shrivastava turned a career built on brands and shopper behavior toward a purchase where price, place, design and identity arrive in the same decision. His work shows what marketing becomes when the product must be bought, built and then inhabited.