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Angela Whiteford Makes Complex Technology Sound Like a Business Decision
The electrical engineer turned repeat CMO has spent more than two decades translating difficult technology into a reason to act. At bolt, her latest assignment is to make insurance distribution simpler, faster, and easier to explain.
Christopher Hugman Turned the Site Walk’s Messy Minutes Into a Living Map
A customer’s awkward question exposed a failure hiding in plain sight. Hugman’s answer was to give cameras, doors, notes and decisions one visual place to live.
Derek Richardson Spent Six Weekends Rewiring His House. Then He Rewired the Business of Light
A fiddly home project gave an electrical engineer a useful obsession: make the light switch easier to install, easier to upgrade and almost boring to use. Eleven years later, Derek Richardson is still chasing the same elegant click.
Jim Plante Keeps Changing Industries. The Operating System Stays the Same.
Across radios, road safety, genomics, biotechnology, and financial markets, Jim Plante has kept returning to the same difficult question: how do you turn complicated science into something people can actually use?
Mark Chiappetta
Mark Chiappetta is the president and CEO of Oxipital AI, a Bedford, Massachusetts company that builds AI-driven machine vision for factory lines that pick, count, and inspect food. He is an electrical engineer who spent 30-plus years in robotics, including a run as a corporate VP at iRobot and eight years growing Soft Robotics from an early gripper startup. In 2024 he took the top job at Soft Robotics, then engineered the pivot that spun the company's 3D vision and AI software into Oxipital AI while the gripper hardware business was sold off. His pitch is that food processors will not rip out human lines for robots overnight, so Oxipital sells the eyes and brains first and the hands later.
Ryan Begin
Ryan Begin is the co-founder and CEO of Divert, a Concord, Massachusetts impact-technology company that grew from a two-person idea in 2007 into a nationwide network of anaerobic digestion facilities. Divert prevents wasted food across roughly 7,800 retail locations, donates edible surplus, and turns the rest into renewable natural gas. A Maine native and Clarkson-trained electrical engineer, Begin left Raytheon to build the company alongside co-founder Nick Whitman.
Ara Knaian
Ara Knaian is an MIT-trained electrical engineer and inventor on more than 36 U.S. patents who now runs Acceleron Fusion, a Cambridge company chasing energy from muon-catalyzed fusion - a route that runs closer to 1,000 degrees C instead of the 100-million-degree plasmas everyone else fights. Before fusion he co-founded the product-design firm NK Labs, architected Google's modular Project Ara phone, tuned the drive waveforms behind Amazon's Kindle, and built the Milli-Motein, a self-folding robot chain at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. Acceleron raised a $24M Series A led by Lowercarbon Capital and Collaborative Fund and logged over 100 hours of continuous fusion at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.
Jamal Burki
Jamal Burki is the co-founder and CEO of Renewance, Inc., an Elmhurst, Illinois company that manages industrial and grid-scale batteries across their full lifecycle - installation, monitoring, decommissioning, repurposing, and recycling. A former Motorola telecom engineer turned energy-storage operator, he built Renewance in 2015 with two ex-GE Energy Storage colleagues to solve a problem few were watching: what happens to the millions of batteries powering the clean-energy transition once they wear out. Under his leadership the company has commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of storage, decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours, and built RenewanceConnect, an AI-assisted platform for battery asset management and regulatory compliance.
Talal Shamoon
Talal G. Shamoon is a Silicon Valley-based CEO, electrical engineer, and computer scientist who has led Intertrust Technologies since 2003. A Cornell-trained PhD, he helped pioneer digital rights management in the late 1990s and has since built Intertrust into a global leader in trusted computing, data governance, and IoT security. Under his leadership, Intertrust's patents and products now underpin billions of licensed devices worldwide, spanning entertainment, energy, and connected infrastructure.
Chang Li
Chang Li is the Marketing Partner at Greylock Partners, the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Workday. An electrical engineer turned marketing strategist, she has spent her career translating deeply technical products into market-defining narratives. Before Greylock, she helped HashiCorp manage pricing and monetization across a $500M+ ARR portfolio, then led product marketing at Metronome where she helped define usage-based billing as an emerging software category. Now she brings that zero-to-one positioning expertise to Greylock's founders at the exact moment it matters most.