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Mike Hicks Has Spent a Career Making Workplace Software Feel Less Like Work
From BlackBerry to Igloo, Beezy, and Appspace, the Kitchener executive has followed one stubborn idea: workplace technology should remove friction, not manufacture another tab to keep open.
Andy Chen Is Building the Operating System Behind Your Dinner
The former banker and MIT entrepreneur found his arena in the least theatrical corner of a restaurant: the machinery that makes dinner run on time.
Vineet Mehra Learned Marketing With $50 and a Hallway Full of Lollipops
A teacher's $50 bet became a career spanning consumer goods, genealogy, pharmacy, grocery and fintech. At Chime, Mehra is still working the same problem: how to turn attention into durable, measurable growth.
Tabata Gomez Knows the Brand Begins at the Table
From cosmetics to power tools to the spice rack, Tabata Gomez has carried one operating idea across categories: get close to the consumer, give teams a clear vision, and move while the moment is still alive.
Ryan Heller
Ryan Heller is the Chief Marketing Officer of Fabletics, the membership-based activewear brand headquartered in El Segundo, California. He leads the company's creative, media and acquisition, CRM, brand partnerships and PR functions. A data-driven marketer with more than a decade inside the TechStyle Fashion Group family of brands, he rose from Vice President to Senior Vice President of Marketing and helped launch customer acquisition for Savage X Fenty before taking the top marketing seat at Fabletics in early 2021.
Patricia Obermaier
Patricia 'Patty' Obermaier is Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer at Acentra Health, where she leads business development, marketing, and product management for a technology and health solutions company serving government and commercial clients. A biology graduate of MIT with a Darden MBA, she spent the bulk of her career at Microsoft - most recently as Chief Growth Officer for Global Health and Life Sciences overseeing a $12 billion portfolio and helping integrate the $20 billion Nuance acquisition. Before that she doubled Microsoft's U.S. Health and Life Sciences business from $3 billion to $6 billion, founded the consultancy Resigility, and spent five-plus years as a senior executive at IQVIA. She sits on the boards of ASGN Incorporated and Applied Information Sciences and was named to Fierce Healthcare's 2021 Women of Influence.
Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Eric Free
Eric Free is the Chief Growth Officer at Flexera, the IT lifecycle management platform used by enterprises to govern software, cloud spend, and technology assets. With a career spanning Intel, Rovi Corporation, and now Flexera, Free has spent two decades driving growth at the intersection of enterprise software, IoT, and cloud strategy. At Flexera, he oversees corporate strategy, M&A, business development, and go-to-market operations — steering a company with $221M+ in annual revenue and $5.85B in total funding toward what it calls the 'value era' of cloud.