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Guy Abramo Has Spent Four Decades Turning Signals Into Decisions
The Cision CEO began with fuel chemistry, earned five patents, and kept following data into the executive suite. Now he is asking an old communications business to turn a fractured information stream into useful intelligence.
Christopher Carroll Built His Career Where the Numbers Have to Hold
For nearly two decades at Interpublic, Christopher Carroll worked behind the creative industry's bright lights - building controls, systems and financial discipline across a global agency group.
Leo Tarkovsky Is Turning a Flood of Science Into Something Clinicians Can Use
After three decades spent building healthcare agencies, Leo Tarkovsky has taken on a more exacting problem: helping useful evidence survive the noise between scientific discovery and everyday clinical practice.
Matt Aucella Sells the Part of an SAP Transformation Nobody Wants to Think About
After years selling technology from the classroom to the corporate core, smartShift’s sales chief has learned where big transformations get stuck: in the old code everyone depends on and nobody wants to touch.
Chris Byrne Has Spent 30 Years Making Big Companies Feel New Again
From consulting decks to copiers, brown trucks, restaurant technology and corporate payments, Corpay's CMO has built a career around one deceptively hard brief: helping established companies see themselves with fresh eyes.
Alison Moore Built Her Career on the Next Screen. Now She’s Betting on the Room.
After helping television, publishing, music, and philanthropy find their next audience, Alison Moore is taking on a more intimate design problem: how senior women build power together when the old career ladder no longer fits.
Deidre Paknad Built a Company Around the Work Between Strategy and Results
After IBM bought her previous startup, Deidre Paknad discovered that scale could turn strategy into slides, meetings and stale status reports. WorkBoard is her long campaign to give leaders a living system for turning ambition into visible outcomes.
Esi Eggleston Bracey Built Brands by Looking for Who Was Missing
An engineer by training and an accidental marketer by her own account, Esi Eggleston Bracey has spent 35 years finding the people brands overlook - then turning that attention into products, growth, representation, and durable change.
Holly Semerad
Across nearly three decades at 3M, Holly Semerad built a marketing career by moving through the machinery behind the message - sales, people, transformation, digital channels and customer operations.
Alberto Cajiga
Across P&G, SCA and Essity, Alberto Cajiga built a career by treating brand strategy as an operating discipline - one that links customers, products, markets and the people asked to make change real.
Lakshmanan Chidambaram
Lakshmanan Chidambaram, known across the industry as CTL, is the CEO and Managing Director of Bristlecone, the Mahindra Group's pure-play supply chain services company, a post he took up on July 1, 2025. With more than three decades in global technology services, he previously ran Tech Mahindra's Americas enterprise business, helped steer the post-Satyam turnaround that became a Harvard case study, and built a North American startup from scratch. He also serves as Americas Head for the Mahindra Group and sits on its Executive Board, with seats on the US-India Business Council and the CNBC CEO Council.
Akhil Khera
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.