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Karen Feldman Is Rewriting What Iron Mountain Means
The first CMO in Iron Mountain's 70-year history has one job: convince the world that the company famous for storing your paper also runs the data centers of the future.
Jake Cronin
Jake Cronin is the founder and CEO of Siro, a New York based conversation intelligence platform that records and analyzes the face-to-face conversations of field sales reps and turns them into AI coaching. He learned the sales craft the hard way, selling Cutco knives door to door as a teenager and ranking among the company's top reps worldwide, then spent two years as a McKinsey business analyst before leaving in 2020 to code Siro's first product himself. The company has raised roughly $75 million, including a $50 million Series B led by SignalFire in 2025, and works with home services, telecom, and multifamily sales teams across the country.
Richard Novak
Richard Novak is a bioengineer and entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Unravel Biosciences, a rare disease therapeutics company built on its BioNAV platform that uses RNA network analysis to ask whether a drug will help real patients before working backward to find its target. A former lead engineer at Harvard's Wyss Institute with 15+ years in drug discovery systems, he also founded the swab company Rhinostics during the COVID-19 pandemic and the science-education nonprofit Future Scientist. Novak holds a PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and a BS in Biology from Emory, and is a 2024 Termeer Fellow.
Dean Leavitt
Dean M. Leavitt is the founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, a New York fintech he launched in 2009 to build commercial card and B2B payment rails for large enterprises. A 30-plus-year payments veteran who previously ran public and bankruptcy-rescued processing companies, he spotted a vacuum in the roughly $125 trillion global B2B market and built patented straight-through processing technology now used across 45-plus countries by more than half the Fortune 100. Boost has landed on the Inc. 5000 five times and raised a $22 million Series C led by Invictus Growth Partners in 2021.