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Martin Vanderploeg knows where the head start comes from
The Workiva co-founder spent years making complicated work easier to follow. His gifts to public universities put the same question to a different test: who gets the chance to begin?
Yasser Mahmud Built a Marketing Career Around the Hardest Product to Sell: Trust
The Workiva CMO began as a systems engineer, learned to translate complex products into plain stakes, and now markets software for work nobody can afford to get wrong.
Workiva
Workiva is a cloud software company that turns the painful, deadline-driven work of regulatory, financial, and sustainability reporting into a connected, audit-ready process. Founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2008 as WebFilings, its platform links data, documents, and people in real time so finance, risk, audit, and ESG teams can collect, manage, and report critical business data with full version control and traceability. Today Workiva serves more than 6,000 organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is layering agentic AI across finance, GRC, and sustainability workflows.