
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.

Before Diem Health became a marketplace, Ray Wahab had already spent years on the operator's side of care. His compact public record reveals a founder trying to turn credential folders, phone calls and uncovered shifts into a cleaner piece of software.

A consultant told him cannabis education should not exist. A decade later, Max Simon is building credentials with dozens of colleges and a hiring network designed to turn knowledge into work.

A cardboard-box career became a study in replacement: plant fiber for foam, paid work for closed doors, and persistence for the future his past seemed to dictate.