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Andrew Goldberg and the Art of Making Fragments Agree
HealthVerity's co-founder built a career out of joining what institutions leave scattered. His operating philosophy begins with a modest idea: before data can tell a story, somebody has to make the pieces trustworthy.
Cliff Obrecht and the Small Kingdom That Learned to Think in Billions
Before Canva reached a quarter of a billion monthly users, Cliff Obrecht helped rule a tiny realm: Australian school yearbooks. The habits that carried him out of Perth - candour, thrift and a taste for the practical - still shape what came next.
Kelly Esten Keeps Toast Close to the Table
A sales-floor education, a four-and-a-half-year detour through Europe, and years beside restaurant operators shaped an executive who treats marketing and operations as two views of the same customer.
Paul Gormley
Paul Gormley is the EVP and Chief Operating Officer of PayNearMe, the Silicon Valley payments company that helps businesses in lending, iGaming, and consumer finance collect payments across cash, cards, ACH, and mobile wallets. He joined in 2023 as SVP of Operations and stepped into the COO seat, bringing a resume that runs from partner at McKinsey & Company to a long run at Google leading Commerce and Payments Partnerships and finance for the Infrastructure and AI/ML groups. He holds a BA from Northwestern and an MBA from Harvard, and is known around the office for long, slow bike rides in the hills above Silicon Valley.
Jonathan Gardner
Jonathan Gardner is the founding CEO of Harris Quest, the AI-powered research and brand-management platform built by The Harris Poll and Stagwell's The Marketing Cloud. Appointed in December 2025, he brings more than 30 years in market research and polling, including nearly a decade as Chief Operating Officer of The Harris Poll and senior operating roles at Penn Schoen Berland, Subject Matter, and The Marketing Cloud. He began his career writing in the Clinton White House speechwriting office, and now translates decades of client-side research craft into software.