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Ryan Ahern and the value of being in the same room
A call to a former supervisor. An office gathering that outgrew its guest list. Ryan Ahern built his place at Truveta by connecting people - and now shares responsibility for leading the company.
Andy Singh and the case for a smaller room
He built Teqfocus across borders. Now Andy Singh keeps bringing technology leaders back to the same table, asking what it takes to make AI useful inside a business.
Tyler Jones Is Selling Insurance a Future It Can Audit
After two decades moving between data, operations and customer experience, Duck Creek's CMO has a precise brief for AI in insurance: make it useful, keep it accountable, and leave judgment where it belongs.
Paul Lewis Has a Rule for Enterprise AI: Make It Useful, Then Make It Replaceable
After three decades across banking, industrial technology, cloud and data, Pythian CTO Paul Lewis has arrived at a blunt test for AI: does it change the work, and can the architecture survive what comes next?
Kim Parikh
Kim Parikh is Co-Founder and SVP of Data and Content at Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto-based company building the first safety-focused large language model for healthcare. With a background spanning leveraged finance at PIMCO and Western Asset Management and strategy operations at Health IQ, Parikh brings a cross-disciplinary lens to one of AI's most consequential bets: putting voice-enabled AI agents into direct, empathetic contact with patients. Hippocratic AI has raised over $438M, most recently a $126M Series C in November 2025, and has completed over 1.8 million patient calls at a 8.95/10 satisfaction rating.
Owen Frivold
Owen Frivold is the CEO of Cleartelligence, a modern data and AI consulting firm headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. A Stanford-educated co-founder of Hero Digital, Frivold brings 14+ years of experience shaping customer experience and digital transformation for brands like Apple, Sephora, Airbnb, and Lucid Motors. After founding Winter Sun LLC as a boutique strategy advisory, he joined Cleartelligence as President in April 2024 - when the company acquired Winter Sun - and was elevated to CEO in April 2025. He is known for turning complex data problems into actionable intelligence and driving enterprise AI readiness across financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, and retail.
Benn Stancil
Benn Stancil is a co-founder of Mode Analytics (acquired by ThoughtSpot for $200M in 2023), one of the most widely read voices in the data and analytics world, and an angel investor. He writes the popular newsletter at benn.substack.com - known for its witty, intellectually honest takes on the modern data stack, BI, AI, and startup culture. After a stint as Field CTO at ThoughtSpot post-acquisition, he now runs independently via benn.company, investing and writing with signature Friday dispatches that open with 'it's friday, and...' - a ritual his thousands of subscribers recognize instantly.