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Dan Waters and the Business of What Goes in the Bowl
After building brands around cheese, ingredient-conscious snacks and chocolate, Dan Waters has arrived in pet food with a familiar brief: turn a label into a promise people can understand.
Maggie Leen and the Education of an Education Company
A difficult chemistry class once made Maggie Leen doubt whether she belonged in college. Now the Top Hat CEO is betting that better courseware can keep the next student from asking the same question.
Colin Falls and the Long Arc from Three-Point Line to Bottom Line
A record-setting Notre Dame shooter found his second game in the machinery behind financial advice. At GeoWealth, patience, repetition and an eye for the open shot became a strategy for building wealth technology.
Colleen Barry Makes Privacy Sound Like a Conversation Worth Joining
The Ketch marketing leader began in sales, found her voice in an a cappella group, and now turns the machinery of data permissioning into a lively weekly conversation.
Cristina Rossman Built a Marketing Career With an Engineer’s Blueprint
Across 24 years at Morningstar and Relativity, Cristina Rossman made a specialty of translating complicated products into ideas people could trust - while learning to tell a more complicated story about herself.
Catherine Riedel Makes Complicated Companies Understandable
Across three decades, the Chicago communications executive has translated dense technology, corporate change and public-sector ambition into language people can actually use. Her method begins with a deceptively unfashionable question: should we do this at all?
Ana Perez Makes the Complicated Business of Benefits Feel Human
PlanSource's chief marketing officer has spent her career translating dense systems into clear choices. Her method joins revenue discipline to a warmer idea: technology earns attention only when people can trust what it helps them do.
Jaimie Kowalski Keeps Marketing Close to the Numbers
After big budgets at Chase and Sears, Jaimie Kowalski chose a harder brief: make growth measurable, make small teams dangerous, and never confuse a campaign with a business result.
Rebecca Heron Wants Marketing in the Room Where Growth Gets Decided
At PerkSpot, she built a marketing team from zero. At Lexipol, she helped turn a collection of acquired brands into one story. Rebecca Heron’s career makes a quiet case for marketing as operating discipline.
Ross Peevers Has Spent a Career Turning Messy Signals Into Useful Decisions
Before he worked at the center of an AI market-intelligence company, Ross Peevers helped turn rugby data into an award-winning fan product. The route from Dublin to Chicago has been less about changing subjects than learning how to make complexity legible.
Michael Klozotsky Took the Side Door to the C-Suite - and Kept It Open
Before Michael Klozotsky marketed clinical data, he taught English, worked behind a bar, and wrote about debt collection. The apparent detours became a practical education in attention, systems, and the useful art of asking a stranger question.
Jim Murphy Built for the Grid's Long Game
After 25 years beside founder Michael Polsky, Invenergy's finance-minded co-founder has taken the CEO seat. His operating idea is simple: relationships compound, execution matters, and the power grid cannot run on slogans.
Heather MacLeod
After three decades translating agencies, consultancies and emerging technologies for business audiences, Capgemini Americas CMO Heather MacLeod has built a career around one durable idea: complexity only creates value when people can see themselves inside the story.