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Jill Wiltfong
She left the anchor desk two decades ago. She still runs Korn Ferry's marketing like a newsroom - find the story, prove the value, hit the deadline.
Syed T. Husain
Syed T. Husain is the Chairman and CEO of Made Scientific, a Princeton, New Jersey cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that he relaunched in 2025 out of the former BioCentriq. Backed by GC Corporation, the company runs a 60,000-square-foot GMP facility built to move autologous and allogeneic cell therapies from clinical batches to commercial supply. A chemical engineer by training who started on the manufacturing floor at Wyeth and Pfizer, Husain spent more than two decades in CDMO leadership at Lonza, Alcami, Emergent BioSolutions, and Resilience before taking the top job. He named the rebranded company MADE for Manufacturing and Development Excellence.
Jack O'Hara
Jack O'Hara is the co-founder and CEO of Translucent, an AI-native financial operating system for healthcare. After eight years running technology and transformation inside multi-billion-dollar provider organizations - including a stint as CIO at value-based care group ChenMed and CIO/Chief Transformation Officer at Springfield Clinic - he started Translucent in 2024 to give every hospital and medical group its own always-on AI financial analyst. The company pairs operational, clinical, and financial data into a single view that surfaces real-time insight and root-cause analysis. Translucent raised a $7M seed in August 2025 and a $27M Series A led by GV in March 2026.
Terry Kennon
Terry Kennon is a chemical engineer turned investment banker turned clean-energy builder who serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Proteum Energy in Phoenix, Arizona. He took on the President role in March 2019 after roughly four years as CTO. With more than 30 years across chemical engineering, biofuels investment banking at J.P. Morgan, and renewable-energy entrepreneurship, Kennon now leads Proteum's patented technology that reforms renewable ethanol into low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen and 'designer fuels' - and turns wasted flare gas into usable product. He is a named inventor on the company's core patents and directs both its technology roadmap and its intellectual-property strategy.
Chad Collins
Chad Collins is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Corganics, a Dallas-based clinical cannabinoid company that sells pharmaceutical-grade, broad-spectrum CBD exclusively through healthcare professionals. A 20-year veteran of biopharma, payor systems and medical devices - including stints as a VP at Galderma and CEO of Boston Select Asset Group - he co-founded Corganics in January 2020 with Reggie Gatewood to drag CBD out of what he calls the retail 'Wild West' and into the clinic. He is also the author of 'Run to the Fire,' the true story of his father, a doubly amputated Vietnam veteran, with a foreword by NFL Hall of Famer Roger Staubach.
David Liebler
David Liebler is a New York-based media and adtech operator who currently leads automotive strategic partnerships at Locala (formerly S4M / Ask Locala), a Paris-headquartered drive-to-store advertising platform. He is best known as the founder and publisher of COED Media Group, the college-life brand he launched as a print magazine in 2004 and grew into a national digital property. Over a 20-plus-year career he has founded companies, built sales organizations, and worked across digital media, mobile, and automotive marketing, later earning an MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Idan Bar-Dov
Idan Bar-Dov is the co-founder and CEO of Heka Global, a New York and Tel Aviv company that turns the public web into real-time, audit-ready digital identities for banks, insurers, and pension funds. A fintech lawyer turned operator, he started Heka during the pandemic to reconnect people with lost financial assets and grew it into a fraud-fighting web-intelligence engine used by institutions like Barclays and Pictet. In July 2025 Heka closed a $14M Series A led by Windare Ventures, with Bar-Dov arguing that the credit bureaus built for a paper era cannot see a world where both consumers and risk now live online.