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Aqil Chishty Is Building for the Days Between the Appointments
The TimeDoc Health chief executive has spent his career turning complicated care models into repeatable operations. His current thesis is disarmingly simple: the consequential work often happens after the appointment ends.
Joseph Caruso Took a Year Off Before Law School. Thirty-One Years Later, He’s Still Counting Votes.
A detour before law school became a career spent decoding the machinery behind corporate democracy. Now the Alliance Advisors co-founder wants public companies to know who owns them - and to speak to those owners before the ballots arrive.
Annie Smith Makes a Business of Making the Complicated Clear
At Ocozzio, Annie Smith has built a career translating an intricate corner of business into language people can use - first as a strategist, then as president, and now as CEO.
Jill Adams Makes Complicated Software Companies Easier to Understand
After three decades in B2B technology, the HeroDevs CMO has reduced her operating philosophy to a clean test: keep what works, remove what does not, and never lose the people inside the system.
Michele Schicchi Markets the Machinery Behind the Modern Lab
From an Army armory across the river from Manhattan to the executive team of a global laboratory-software company, Michele Schicchi has built a career around a stubborn idea: the mission matters, but people make it move.
Steve Graziano Spent a Career Reading Markets. Now He Wants Executives to Read Their Own Data.
After four decades in asset management, the former Touchstone president has traded the corner office for a stubborn question: what good is a clever dashboard if the numbers beneath it cannot agree?
Adrianna Hosford Is Teaching Marketers to Build With AI - Without Surrendering Judgment
After two decades of shaping reputations, Adrianna Hosford is giving her whole team coding tools and one weekly prompt: what did you build? Her bet is that the future belongs to marketers who can automate the work without automating their judgment.
Priya Abani Learned BASIC at 12. She Has Been Scaling Complex Systems Ever Since.
Before she ran AliveCor, Priya Abani wrote validation tools for microprocessors and helped Alexa escape the Echo. Her career is a study in one portable skill: making complicated technology useful to ordinary people.
Fares Mubarak Is Making Wireless Sweat the Small Stuff
After three decades inside the chip business, Fares Mubarak is betting that the next computing bottleneck is not thought but conversation - the tiny, power-hungry wireless exchanges between intelligent devices.
Christie Raymond Made the Department Store Listen
An industrial engineer turned retail marketer, Christie Raymond built her career by treating attention as data and loyalty as a promise. Her final chapter at Kohl's reveals what modern brand leadership looks like when the spreadsheet and the shopping cart have to agree.
Betsy Palmer Makes Financial Action Feel Possible
From the Reagan White House to a newly independent financial brand, Betsy Palmer has built a career around one difficult craft: turning institutional complexity into a reason for people to act.
Chris Mead’s Long Game: Make Insurance Matter Between the Games
Gallagher’s chief marketing officer treats sports sponsorship as a long relationship, not a logo rental. His playbook turns ballparks, rugby pitches and athlete transitions into a patient lesson in how a business earns attention.
Rosanne Goetz and the Quiet Architecture of Being Heard
For a decade at The Mustard Seed, Rosanne Goetz has worked where attention, trust and practical help meet. Her career offers a grounded lesson in nonprofit marketing: the story matters because someone is waiting on the other side of it.
Stacy Hammond Learned Finance From the Client Side
Before she ran marketing at Charles Schwab, Stacy Hammond was the young customer who thought an IRA was the investment. That beginner’s confusion became a durable operating advantage: stay curious, translate the machinery, and keep the client in the room.
Jennifer Reel Built a Career by Making a Growing Bank Make Sense
She joined FNB as a temp when it had fewer than 30 branches. Twenty-five years later, Jennifer Reel is shaping how a much larger bank speaks to employees, customers and the cities it serves.
Melissa Stevens Built a Banking Career by Connecting What Others Kept Apart
The English literature graduate who once ran Citi innovation labs now connects algorithms, branches, workplaces and brand into one customer experience at Fifth Third.
Lin-Hua Wu Is Putting GM's Brand and Reputation on the Same Road
A Stanford-trained lawyer became the executive joining GM's marketing and communications. Her career explains why the company now treats brand, reputation and business strategy as one conversation.
Jennifer Burke Learned Customer Data at the Checkout. Now She Sells Its AI Future.
From consumer goods and checkout data to cloud platforms and media AI, Jennifer Burke has spent her career translating new technology into a business case people can trust.
Steven Cragle Built a Career by Staying Curious
Across city government, agencies, Medtronic, Merck and UnitedHealth Group, Steven Cragle kept returning to one deceptively simple idea: good communication begins with curiosity about the whole person.
Michael Lacorazza Is Teaching a 160-Year-Old Bank to Move at Culture Speed
The U.S. Bank CMO has a practical brief: make a sprawling financial institution feel coherent, culturally present and unmistakably useful - without confusing novelty for judgment.
Ruth Harper
Ruth Harper began by teaching people how to read maps. Now she helps a global workforce company navigate the two forces redrawing work itself: artificial intelligence and the green transition.
David Schechter
David Schechter built a career at Merck by moving across categories while holding on to one operating idea: make the room sharper, then give people space to lead. His path from vaccines and diabetes to U.S. oncology shows what long-tenure leadership can look like when candor and autonomy travel together.
Deanna Capel
At Busey, Deanna Capel turned a first job in communications into a career shaping how a regional bank sounds, serves and shows up. Her path runs through brand systems, merger moments and the unglamorous work of being present in Champaign.
Tracy Cassady
Tracy Cassady built her career by treating change as part of the job. At Penske Automotive Group, that habit carried her from director to chief marketing officer - and gave her a practical philosophy for leading through retail's digital rewrite.
Priscilla Sims Brown
From the newsroom to the bank boardroom, Priscilla Sims Brown has spent four decades translating institutions for the people they serve - and testing what purpose looks like on a balance sheet.
Kelly Mannard
At Northern Trust, Kelly Mannard turned a quiet institutional name into a measurable global brand - while keeping relationships and community work at the center of the job.
Tania Brown
Tania Brown is an ACCA-qualified executive and entrepreneur who serves as Area Vice President of APAC Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company. A digital and accounting leader with roots in venture capital, tech startups, and real estate, she has built a career spanning Brisbane, London, Melbourne, Singapore, and Sydney. Alongside her corporate career, she co-founded Jacq Leigh, a women's leather laptop bag brand launched in 2019 after noticing a gap in the market for functional, stylish bags designed for corporate women.
Avital Cohen
Avital Cohen is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in Beverly Hills, California. With a legal education from Cardozo School of Law and prior experience as a Marketing Manager at Facebook, she has built a career at the intersection of technology and strategic brand communication. At Microsoft - a company generating over $281 billion in annual revenue and employing 228,000 people globally - she drives marketing strategy across one of the world's most influential technology portfolios, spanning cloud computing, AI, productivity software, and enterprise solutions.
Eric Hunter
Eric Hunter is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of World Market (Cost Plus World Market), the specialty retail chain known for globally sourced furniture, home decor, artisanal foods, and international gifts. Based in Alameda, California, Hunter joined World Market in May 2021 as Chief Commercial Officer, was elevated to President in June 2022, and became CEO in July 2023. He brings deep retail marketing expertise from executive roles at Pier 1 Imports, JCPenney, Kellwood Company, and Ascena Retail Group's plus-size division (Lane Bryant, Cacique, Catherines). Under his leadership, World Market has pursued digital transformation, flexible payment solutions, and continued its mission of delivering unique, globally inspired products across nearly 250 stores and online.
William Gilbert
William Gilbert is a senior healthcare executive associated with Regional Medical Center of San Jose, the East San Jose hospital long operated within HCA Healthcare's Good Samaritan Health System. His LinkedIn profile lists CEO-level leadership at the medical center, an institution known for its Level II trauma program, comprehensive stroke designation, STEMI receiving status and Leapfrog top-quartile patient safety recognition.