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Jaimeson Rice
Jaimeson Rice is the CEO of Pinwheel, the New York fintech that has positioned itself as the income layer for financial services, connecting banks and fintechs to over 1,500 payroll platforms covering nearly 80% of U.S. paychecks. He stepped into the top job in July 2025 after three years as the company's CFO and chief of staff, succeeding co-founder Kurtis Lin. A Princeton engineer and Harvard MBA who passed through Goldman Sachs and Bain before founding his own SaaS CRM startup, Vlaris, Rice is now steering Pinwheel through marquee wins with KeyBank, Robinhood, DoorDash, and MoneyLion and the launch of its Switch Kit and Bill Navigator products.
Thomas Scott
Thomas Scott is the Chief Executive Officer of Wrike, the enterprise work management platform headquartered in San Diego. A self-described total company leader who arrived as CFO in 2022, he took the interim seat in July 2023 after Symphony Technology Group acquired the business, and was made permanent CEO in February 2024. His mandate: steady the ship after three ownership changes, push AI deeper into the product, and turn Wrike into a multi-product platform.