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Kendra Seaman Makes Ambiguity Behave
Across PTC, Toast and Calix, Kendra Seaman has built a career in the consequential space between a strategy and the people expected to carry it out.
Ashley Wells Chadash Keeps Choosing the Work Beneath the Waterline
From campaign offices and Deloitte casework to Adobe's Latin America business and Stripe's global marketing engine, Ashley Wells Chadash has built a career out of making complicated organizations move.
Manu Sivanandam Has Spent a Career Turning Complexity Into a Customer Story
From Orbitz deal rooms to immigration operations and software for the trades, Manu Sivanandam has built a career around a durable idea: understand the complicated system, then make it useful to the person at the other end.
Ashish Kataria Wants You to Watch the Work Before You Buy the Software
At Epik Solutions, the founder and CEO starts transformation with a stubbornly analog move: watch how people actually work. His playbook favors workflow maps, measured adoption and patient growth over fashionable software decisions.
Puneet Mittal’s Quiet Bet: The Spreadsheet Era of Partnerships Is Ending
After Capital One, Wall Street and ThoughtSpot, Puneet Mittal brought a finance operator’s eye to WorkSpan - and to the messy arithmetic of companies trying to sell together.
Meghan Easley-Park Makes the Messy Middle Work
Before edge AI and e-ink glasses, there were pencils taped into a prototype. Meghan Easley-Park has built a career around the same practical instinct: take an ambitious idea, ask what it is for, then make it work in the real world.
Tommy Mello Put a Garage Door Business on Rails
He began with a paint sprayer, a battered car and a useful place in the phone book. The real breakthrough came when Tommy Mello stopped trying to be the best technician in the truck and started building a company that could move without him.
Benji Twerskoi Plays the Position, Not the Noise
A CRM operator with a chess player’s patience, Benji Twerskoi has built a public record around connected systems, careful decisions and the occasional well-timed upset.
Debi Dowling
Debi Dowling is Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Onapsis, the Boston-based leader in SAP and ERP application security. Wearing three hats at once, she sets the company's marketing strategy, keeps cross-functional priorities aligned as a strategic partner to the CEO, and runs the operational machinery that ties day-to-day work to company goals. Before Onapsis she spent years at Juniper Networks as Chief of Staff and business-enablement leader across Global Services and Sales Engineering, with earlier management roles at Vodafone, Siemens, and Acision in the UK. She is based in Greater Boston.
Eugénie Fontugne
Eugénie Fontugne is a Swiss-French operator who runs Strategy & Operations inside the Office of the CEO at Inkitt, the reader-powered, AI-driven publishing startup behind the Galatea app. She built a career that jumped from selling chocolate and flavor at Firmenich to leading community at Global Shapers Geneva, writing about French food and culture for MerciSF in the Bay Area, advising the AI firm VCG.AI, and pulling together a 90-person Lovable x Project Europe hackathon in Stockholm on little more than a walk-around-London hunch. She works where storytelling, product, and operations overlap.
Winston Lin
Winston Lin is a Program Manager in the Office of the CEO at Juniper Square, the San Francisco fintech that builds investment management software for private markets. Based in Austin, Texas, he sits at the operational center of a Series D company with roughly 950 employees, working close to the chief executive on the business operations and systems that keep a fast-scaling SaaS company running. Before fintech he spent his career in education technology, rising to Senior Director of Data Engineering at the charter-school network Achievement First. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
Lauren Green
Lauren Green is the Chief of Staff to the CEO and Head of Business Operations at Medeloop, a San Francisco-based AI clinical research platform that raised a $15.5M Series A in November 2024. A Stanford Management Science & Engineering graduate (Class of 2021) and former Division I swimmer who earned All-American honors, Lauren moved from PayPal's operations and engineering program management teams into the high-growth healthcare AI startup world, where she helps orchestrate strategy, business operations, and organizational development for a company rebuilding how medical research gets done.