
After helping turn streaming data into a software category, the former StreamBase CEO and TIBCO product chief is working on a new translation problem: giving enterprise AI the context to produce answers people can defend.

The arts-minded daughter of two engineers built her career finding human stories in numbers. At Pindrop, that instinct has led her to a harder question: what happens when a familiar voice is no longer proof of a familiar person?

After petabyte queries, self-driving reliability, and real-time video, Ellen Hui tried to repair the place where company data so often goes to lose its freshness: the slide deck.

An early startup taught him to find the customer before polishing the product. A decade later, the Toucan CEO is still turning complicated technology into something people can actually use.

Will Salcido is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Analytics, an AI-powered CPG data analytics platform that transforms syndicated and retailer data into compelling sales stories for consumer goods manufacturers. A Cornell-trained economist who cut his teeth at Nestlé, Novartis, Ghirardelli, and Lindt & Sprüngli across 12 countries, Salcido bet half his 401(k) on the idea that data storytelling - not raw dashboards - was the missing link between CPG brands and retail shelf space. Today, Bedrock tracks over $100 billion in CPG sales monthly, serves clients across 350+ product categories, and runs a multi-model AI stack using ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama to automate insight generation at scale.