A graduate’s cheeky question revealed the engineer inside Datacom’s future chief executive. Nearly three decades after joining Datacom, Greg Davidson is still interested in what sits beneath the next big thing.

After two decades inside law firms and legal technology, Actionstep's Chief Product Officer has a sharp test for AI: does it improve the whole workflow, or merely move the bottleneck to someone more expensive?

Mark Hurley is the co-founder and CEO of Caruso, an AI-native fund administration and registry platform for private markets that spun out of a property fund business in 2023 and now administers roughly $80 billion in assets across 900-plus funds. A serial New Zealand entrepreneur, he earlier built the digital agency Little Giant (sold to Dentsu Aegis Network in 2017) and co-founded the fractional commercial real estate firm Jasper in 2019. He splits his time between Auckland and Dallas and is an active early-stage investor in companies including Tracksuit, Sharesies and First AML.