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Nadja Bellan-White and the art of questioning the room
She studied foreign affairs, sold the promise of the internet and moved her family to Nairobi. Now Nadja Bellan-White is bringing those lessons to the business of culture at M+C Saatchi.
Maja Neable makes the spreadsheet and the story share one brain
The former programmer now leading TD's global marketing has built a career around a practical idea: data earns attention inside the business, while human insight earns it outside.
The Brand Builder Behind Mizuho's American Rise
She joined a bank few Americans could name and spent a decade making its brand impossible to ignore - one campaign, one hire, one employee network at a time.
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.
Melanie Kaloski
Melanie Kaloski is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's largest nonprofit supporting Hispanic American higher education. A brand-builder by training, she spent more than a decade shaping consumer brands at Capital Group's American Funds, Nestle and Beachbody before turning her marketing craft toward mission work - helping Latino students and families find the resources to earn a college degree. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and is fluent in French.
Karen Bennett
Karen Bennett is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Cox Enterprises, the privately held Atlanta conglomerate with nearly 50,000 employees across automotive, communications, and media. She oversees talent, benefits, HR technology, inclusion, and corporate brand. A Terry College of Business alumna twice over, she spent nearly 14 years at Turner Broadcasting before climbing through Cox Media Group and Cox Communications to the parent company's top people role in January 2023.
Coco Brown
Coco Brown is the founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, a digital leadership platform that has placed nearly 600 women on corporate boards and helped thousands of executives build what she calls a Portfolio of Impact. A five-time entrepreneur who scaled the IT services firm Taos to $54M before its acquisition by IBM, she sits on the Nasdaq Governance Insights Council, has been named one of Silicon Valley's 100 Most Powerful People, and is now building Pantheon, an AI-enabled Career Care infrastructure for an economy being reshaped by automation.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Kristen Lee is the General Counsel and Operating Partner at Basis Set Ventures, the AI-native venture fund that closed a $250 million Fund IV in January 2026. A third-generation San Franciscan whose great-great-grandfather worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, Jennifer spent over 15 years advising founders and investors at global law firm DLA Piper - rising to partner and co-chairing its Corporate Venture Capital practice - before crossing over to the other side of the cap table. She brings a rare dual lens to venture: over 15 years guiding startups from formation to exit, combined with operational depth that makes her the firm's internal compass on legal strategy, deals, and governance. Named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal's 2022 40 Under 40 list, she holds a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a JD/MBA from Santa Clara University.
Matt Logan
Matt Logan is General Partner at Earthshot Ventures, a $60M San Francisco-based climate tech fund he helped build from the ground up. Formerly with Elemental Excelerator and Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Logan brings a rare blend of project finance, corporate partnerships, and data-driven sourcing to early-stage climate investing. He built Earthshot's proprietary outbound sourcing engine and focuses on companies where powerful technology waves - AI, robotics, materials, and energy - intersect with outsized climate benefit.
Elizabeth Ames
Elizabeth Ames is a technology executive and advocate for women in product management, best known as the CEO who led Women In Product from 2019 to 2024. Under her leadership, the nonprofit community doubled to over 34,000 members across 24 local chapters, growing from a single annual conference into a year-round platform for training, coaching, and career development. Before Women In Product, she spent five years as SVP of Strategic Marketing, Alliances, and Programs at AnitaB.org, the organization behind the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Her earlier career spans marketing and strategy roles at Apple, Verifone, Netcentives, Vontu, Certive, and Plastic Logic, plus a stint as Founder and CEO of RETHINK Partners.
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson is the Chief Business Officer and Head of Storytelling Studio at Pocket Gems, the San Francisco mobile gaming studio behind Episode and War Dragons. With a background spanning management consulting, clean-tech startups, and entrepreneurship, Dawson joined Pocket Gems in 2011 and helped scale it into one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world — overseeing products that have been downloaded over 325 million times and platforms where billions of story episodes have been read. He holds degrees from Yale (Ethics, Politics & Economics) and Stanford (MBA, MS in Environment & Resources), and has become one of the sharper strategic voices in mobile interactive storytelling.
Whitney Rockley
Whitney Rockley is the co-founder and managing partner of McRock Capital, Canada's leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on Industrial IoT and digital industrial transformation. With over 25 years in venture capital, she made history as the first woman to chair the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) in its 43-year history and was appointed to the Order of Canada in December 2025 for her pioneering work in venture capital and championing diversity and inclusion across the industry.
Abadesi Osunsade
Abadesi Osunsade is a British entrepreneur, author, podcast co-host, and inclusion advocate who founded Hustle Crew in 2016 to advance underrepresented talent in tech. A third-culture kid born in Washington D.C. to a Nigerian father and Filipina mother, she studied Economics & Government at LSE before scaling teams at Groupon, Amazon, and HotelTonight. She co-created Elpha (YC S19), co-hosts the Top 20 Apple Podcasts tech show Techish, scouts for Ada Ventures, and currently serves as Ecosystem Lead at Geovation. Recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (2019) and the Financial Times' Top 100 Influential Leaders in Tech (2018), she is one of the UK tech ecosystem's most visible champions of equitable hiring and inclusive culture.