
A family expectation of equal opportunity led Laura O’Reilly from history and law into building businesses. After more than four years leading Hireup, she handed over the CEO role in January 2026 and remains involved in the company’s future.

Marcy Sutton Todd is a senior frontend infrastructure engineer at Khan Academy and one of the most recognized voices in web accessibility. A former Deque Systems engineer who helped shape axe-core, she pivoted from photojournalism to web development, built the Testing Accessibility workshop series, and has spent over a decade making the web usable for everyone - framing it as a civil rights issue, not a compliance checkbox.