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BILL and Brex Are Fighting for the Same Finance Desk
One began with invoices, the other with cards. Their race toward an all-in-one finance desk reveals what CFOs gain, what they risk, and why ownership now matters.
Capital One Built a Bank Like Software. Now It Has a Payment Network.
The credit-card upstart spent three decades turning data into a bank. With Discover's network and Brex's software now inside the company, its next test is whether one institution can make lending, payments and financial tools feel like a single product.
Aparna Sarin Is Putting the Customer Inside the Revenue Equation
After building products for small-business owners, the former Capital One and American Express executive has taken on a broader experiment at Hiscox: joining customer insight, product, distribution and growth in one job.
Gene Hall Runs Marketing Where the Math Never Sleeps
Inside Capital One, one of America's most data-obsessed banks, a divisional CMO answers a harder question than most marketers ever face: can you prove it worked?
Patrice Boone Sells the Thing She Swore She Never Could
She once decided she could never work in sales. Now she runs marketing for one of America's biggest consumer lenders, and the whole job is relationships.
Adam Wenchel
He was studying how AI fails before most people believed it worked. Now he builds the guardrails that keep everyone else's models honest.
Max Kauderer
Max Kauderer is the co-founder and CEO of Yuzu Health, a New York-based third-party administrator building an operating system for health insurance. After stints at LinkedIn, Capital One, and Bain & Company, he started Yuzu in 2022 with Russell Pekala and Ryan Lee to let small businesses spin up flexible, transparent health plans in days rather than months. Yuzu raised a $35M Series A in April 2026 led by General Catalyst and Chemistry, bringing total funding to about $40M.
Eric Glyman
Eric Glyman is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the New York fintech that turned the corporate credit card upside down by rewarding companies for spending less, not more. A Las Vegas native and Harvard economics graduate, he first built the price-tracking app Paribus, sold it to Capital One in 2016, then launched Ramp in 2019 with Karim Atiyeh and Gene Lee. In under seven years he grew Ramp to more than 40,000 business customers and a $32 billion valuation, championing a vision of AI-run 'self-driving money' where finance work happens in the background without anyone asking.
Dan O'Malley
Dan O'Malley is the CEO of Engageware, the AI-powered customer engagement platform trusted by more than 600 enterprises in regulated industries. A Princeton-trained financial engineer, he spent more than 20 years building and selling fintech: he co-founded PerkStreet Financial, one of the first U.S. neobanks; ran digital at Eastern Bank; launched its Eastern Labs innovation arm; and from it spun out Numerated, an AI lending platform that powered over $70 billion in commercial loans before Moody's acquired it in 2024. He took the Engageware top job in September 2025.
Ranga Mohan
Ranga Mohan is a technology executive with roughly two decades of experience building digital platforms at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market strategy. Currently VP of Digital Technology (GTM-Marketing) at ServiceNow, he joined the Santa Clara-based enterprise cloud leader in 2025 after five years as VP of Digital Technology & International at 7-Eleven, where he led the construction of a global convenience tech platform. Earlier stints at Capital One - where he helped create the industry's first online-only mortgage pre-approval experience - and Bank of America shaped his deep fluency in scaling digital customer experiences inside large, complex organizations.
Yasin Ehsan
Yasin Ehsan is a New York-bred software engineer turned edtech founder and venture scout. After winning 13 hackathons, landing a job at Capital One the week he graduated, and filing two AWS patents on the Eno chatbot, he co-founded Headstarter - an edtech platform that has helped generate 60+ six-figure job offers for undergrads. In 2025, he joined Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator as a scout, bridging the gap between emerging technical talent and Silicon Valley capital.
Henrique Dubugras
Henrique Dubugras is the Brazilian co-founder of Brex, the corporate card and spend management company he built from a Y Combinator pivot at age 21 into a $12.3B peak-valuation fintech unicorn - ultimately acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in 2026. He taught himself to code at 12 to avoid paying for a Korean MMO, sold his first payments company (Pagar.me) at 20 while processing $1.5B annually, dropped out of Stanford after 8 months, and found his billion-dollar idea by simply failing to get a credit card for his own startup. Now operating in stealth, he has said he found his 'calling' again.
Pedro Franceschi
Pedro Franceschi is the co-founder and CEO of Brex, the corporate credit card company valued at over $10 billion and acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in 2026. A Brazilian programming prodigy who jailbroke the iPhone 3G at 13 and co-founded payments processor Pagar.me at 16, Franceschi dropped out of Stanford after one year to build Brex with co-founder Henrique Dubugras. Under his leadership, Brex grew from a Y Combinator startup in 2017 to serving thousands of high-growth companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, and Carta, fundamentally transforming how startups access corporate credit.