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The Little Agency That Made a Lead Knock Twice
Merit Mile is small enough to sit close to the work and experienced enough to sell into complicated rooms. Its most revealing trick is also its simplest: attention does not become a lead until it shows up twice.
Rafael Moiseev Is Building a Marketing Department That Remembers
At Customertimes, Rafael Moiseev has turned a varied career in sales, SaaS and logistics into a practical thesis: AI can multiply a marketing team’s output, but only people can supply its judgment, memory and point of view.
Michael Labate Put a Number on Trust - Now He Is Selling the AI Shift
Before enterprise AI became the boardroom’s favorite noun, Michael Labate was testing how trust travels through a sales organization. His career is a study in turning relationships into measurable systems - and then rebuilding those systems when the technology changes.
Gerald Purgay’s Marketing Playbook: Make Complex Work Feel Human
After decades marketing talent businesses, Cross Country Healthcare’s CMO has learned that data earns attention, but clarity and trust are what move people.
The Home-Theater Company That Built Its Best Room Inside a Bank Vault
A former GM operating-systems engineer turned an old Boca Raton bank into a smart-home laboratory - vault theater included - and now sells the finished picture before the first cable is run.
The Startup Betting Your Ears Know Your Heart Better Than Your Wrist
synseer's HealthBuds skip the wrist and the fingertip, reading your heartbeat through sound inside your ear canal. It is a bet that the next big health tracker is a thing you were already wearing to take calls.
Black Dragon Capital Wants to Be the Operator in the Deal Room
The Boca Raton private equity firm buys technology businesses where software is rewriting an old industry - then sends operators, not just spreadsheets, into the work of rebuilding them.
From the Grocery Aisle to the Cap Table
Justin Dye grew Albertsons by tens of billions. Now his Boca Raton firm buys seafood distributors, RV power tech and cannabis lenders - and runs each one like an operator, not a spreadsheet.
BASE4 - Architects, Engineers, Designers
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.
Forte Group
Forte Group is an AI-first software development and consulting firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Bootstrapped since day one, it delivers custom software, data and analytics, quality engineering, and Salesforce services through roughly 800-900 engineers across a dozen locations in the Americas and Europe. The company built its reputation on outcome-based engineering - tying its work to measurable business results rather than billable hours - and now embeds AI across the full product lifecycle for clients in finance, healthcare, logistics, retail, SaaS, and beyond.
Autobrain
Autobrain is a Boca Raton-based connected-car company that turns almost any post-1995 vehicle into a 'smart car' with a plug-and-play OBD-II device paired to a mobile app. Built with input from EMTs and first responders, it delivers automatic crash response that dials 911 to your exact location, real-time GPS tracking, teen/senior/baby safety modes, vehicle-health diagnostics, roadside assistance, and fleet monitoring - all on a low-cost device and monthly subscription aimed at families and small businesses.
Jeremy Gelbart
Jeremy Gelbart is the co-founder and CEO of Autobrain, a Boca Raton company that turns any ordinary car into a connected 'smart car' through a plug-and-play device offering GPS tracking, diagnostics, automatic crash response, and family-safety alerts. A serial entrepreneur who has been building since college, he first drew national attention as co-founder of Ultrinsic, a platform that let students legally wager cash on their own grades, and later founded the medical-notification startup BeeperMD. His through-line is a simple bet: that the right incentive, or the right piece of hardware, can change everyday behavior.
Mikael Carlsson
Mikael Carlsson is the CEO of Forte Group, an AI-native product development partner with 900+ specialists and 25 years of history. A Swedish-born technology executive with 20+ years in digital engineering, he scaled Lohika 5X before joining Forte in October 2022. Under his leadership, Forte Group closed 2025 at an all-time financial high and has positioned itself around AI transformation, data engineering, and outcome-driven software delivery for Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Sher Baig
Sher Baig is the Founder and CEO of CyberSalus (Cyber Salus Inc.), a global MedTech cybersecurity company protecting medical devices and clinical ecosystems across 150+ hospitals worldwide. With 17+ years of healthcare experience - including a decade building GE Healthcare's global Medical Device Cybersecurity commercial organization from the ground up - Baig launched CyberSalus around 2022, scaling it to manage over 2-3 million medical device endpoints. He also serves as an Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Singapore on medical device cybersecurity policy, and is a recognized speaker at HIMSS, Arab Health, and Hospital Management Asia conferences.