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Chuck Divita and the arithmetic of taking charge
He went from public accounting to running a $23 billion business. At Teladoc Health, Chuck Divita is putting that experience to a different test: turning priorities into daily decisions.
Rob Michael and the 31-year job interview
He entered Abbott through a finance development program in 1993. By the time Rob Michael became AbbVie’s second CEO, he had spent three decades learning the business he would inherit.
Aaron Wong’s education never quite ended
He moved from industrial finance to PayPal’s Singapore leadership, then kept returning to the same subject: how people learn. For Aaron Wong, payments, governance and the classroom have become closely connected work.
Federico Grosso and the conversation without an agenda
At Assurant Puerto Rico, Federico Grosso brought a finance executive’s discipline to a quieter management habit: making time to listen. His story runs from mobile-sector refinancing to coffee conversations where work was off the menu.
Steve Fisher and the second life of everything
An accountant became the CEO of Novelis. Now Steve Fisher’s long wager on recycled aluminum is taking physical shape in Alabama - with a few lessons about asking for help along the way.
Sam Hazen still has homework
Sam Hazen began in financial management in 1983 and became HCA Healthcare’s CEO in 2019. His long climb offers a view of leadership built through practice, patience and a willingness to keep learning.
Brian Evanko and the art of changing jobs without changing companies
He joined Cigna in 1998 with an actuarial science degree. Twenty-eight years, several countries and a succession of very different jobs later, Brian Evanko has taken the chief executive’s chair.
Chris Marantette and the Trouble With a Successful Sale
The Netrush co-founder learned ecommerce from the balance sheet outward. Twenty years after starting with a friend, he is still asking what happens after the customer clicks.
LeAnn Darland and the beer drinkers hiding in plain sight
A Navy intelligence officer turned Google finance manager, LeAnn Darland loved craft beer. With TALEA, she set out to make room for the friends who didn’t.
Bobby Pinero and the spreadsheet that wouldn't go away
Bobby Pinero spent years helping Intercom understand its numbers. Then he co-founded Equals to fix the work that kept getting between an analyst and an answer.
David Campbell and the fine art of keeping things together
Before he led Chernoff Newman, David Campbell worked in financial analysis and mortgage-backed securities. His second career has taken him through agency operations, advertising awards, library boards and the occasional barbecue judging table.
Tom Snedeker and the arithmetic behind the message
From telecom and digital communications to SCOUT and The Herald Group, Tom Snedeker has worked where business plans meet people. His career offers a look at the financial and operational work behind a public-facing firm.
The CFO Who Chose to Run Marketing
A Wharton accountant who founded software companies, ran a public company's finances, then took the marketing chair at a 3,300-person insurer. The numbers still follow him everywhere.
Danny Mayer
Danny Mayer is the co-founder and co-CEO of Windmill, the design-led air care company often called 'the iPhone of air conditioning.' A Harvard economics grad who spent a decade in investment banking, private equity and health-tech leadership, he teamed up with his brother Mike and third-generation AC expert Ryan Figlia in 2020 to reinvent the unloved window air conditioner. Windmill launched to thousands of waitlist sign-ups within 24 hours and has since expanded into air purifiers, fans and a connected smart-air suite, raising a $5M Series A in 2024.
Ulysse Saltiel
Ulysse Saltiel is an Associate in the Office of the CEO at Armada, the San Francisco edge-computing company building modular data centers and connectivity for the planet's most remote corners. A 2025 Pepperdine graduate who double-majored in finance and philosophy and finished summa cum laude, he founded the Pepperdine Finance Society and built the Coastal Capital Summit from a 50-person idea into a 350-plus person flagship event that has funneled students into JP Morgan, Citigroup and beyond. He came up through wealth management at Bordeaux Wealth Advisors and Pepperdine's $1.5B endowment office before landing at the right hand of Armada's leadership.
John Cochrane
John H. Cochrane is an American economist, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and author of the field-defining textbook Asset Pricing. A physicist-turned-finance scholar, he champions the fiscal theory of the price level, writes the popular free-market blog and Substack The Grumpy Economist, co-stars on Hoover's GoodFellows broadcast, and flies competition sailplanes in his spare time.
Ciaran Long
Ciaran Long is the CEO of a.k.a. Brands Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKA), a portfolio of next-generation fashion brands targeting Gen Z and millennial consumers. A qualified Irish Chartered Accountant with 25-plus years of financial and strategic leadership, Long joined a.k.a. Brands as CFO in 2021, stepped into an interim CEO role in 2023, and was named permanent CEO in January 2025. Under his leadership the company returned to net sales growth with three consecutive quarters of double-digit U.S. sales expansion, repositioning the portfolio around a demand-driven 'test-and-learn' merchandising model and a major bet on physical retail expansion. He previously served as CFO of Samsclub.com and held senior roles across Walmart's e-commerce division, and earlier in his career he co-founded CleanGrow, a water quality sensor technology startup.
Marc Morgan
Marc Morgan is the CEO and co-founder of Braven, a San Francisco consumer venture he started after more than a decade in finance. He spent his first career reading markets, building deal structures, and forging partnerships; he is now applying that operator's playbook to building a category-defining brand from scratch.
Yukiko Jenkins
Yukiko Jenkins is a General Partner and CFO at Cox Exponential (CX2), the early-stage AI and robotics venture vehicle backed by Cox Enterprises. Born in England and raised between England and Japan, she is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of finance and operations experience spanning Big Four auditing, startup consulting, and leadership at AI computer vision company Fyusion. At CX2 - a fund run by engineers for engineers - she bridges rigorous financial oversight with a deep insider knowledge of what it takes to build frontier AI companies from zero to product.
Dmitri Lepikhov
Dmitri Lepikhov is the CEO of MightyCall, a San Francisco-based cloud call center and VoIP platform built for small and mid-sized businesses. Since taking the helm in 2015, he has grown the company by over 500%, landed it on the Inc. 5000, and earned recognition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of America's most innovative small businesses. A CPA by training with roots in auditing and corporate finance at firms like Deloitte and Severstal, Lepikhov has positioned MightyCall as a G2 Leader in Contact Center Solutions and expanded its engineering footprint to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Max Adams
Max Adams is the CEO of Executech, one of the largest managed IT services providers in the western United States and a flagship company within Evergreen Services Group's portfolio. A licensed CPA who cut his teeth at KPMG auditing clients with up to $60 billion in revenue, Adams joined Executech as CFO in 2023 and climbed to CEO, bringing a finance-first discipline to an industry often run by technologists. He leads a 240-person team serving 700+ organizations with a 97.7% customer satisfaction rate, while advocating loudly for AI and automation as the dividing line between MSPs that survive and those that don't.
Pat Cotroneo
Pat Cotroneo is a seasoned life sciences financial executive who spent over two decades at FibroGen, Inc. (now Kyntra Bio), serving as Chief Financial Officer from 2008 to 2021. During his tenure, he guided FibroGen through two defining transformations: its landmark 2014 IPO - the largest biotech public offering in 12 years - and its evolution into a commercial-stage company with the launch of roxadustat in China in 2019. With 25+ years of senior financial leadership in life sciences, Cotroneo built his career at Deloitte & Touche, SyStemix (a Novartis subsidiary), and ultimately FibroGen, where he oversaw finance, accounting, human resources, and information technology before transitioning to Executive Advisor to the CEO.
Peter Lee
Peter Lee is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Coactive AI, a San Jose-based enterprise AI platform that helps Fortune 500 companies search, tag, and analyze visual content using multimodal AI. He brings over a decade of experience across algorithmic equity trading at PEAK6, strategic consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, and high-stakes M&A advisory at Guggenheim Securities - where he worked on transactions totaling more than $10 billion in enterprise value. A Wharton MBA and MIT Management Science graduate, Peter joined Coactive in 2025 as the company scaled following its $30 million Series B round.
Stephenie Zhang
Stephenie Zhang is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind Airbnb, Coinbase, and GitHub. A Phi Beta Kappa computer science graduate from MIT who grew up in Palo Alto, she joined a16z from Warburg Pincus, where she honed her instincts on growth and late-stage technology deals. At a16z, she backs enterprise technology companies at the growth stage, with investments spanning workflow orchestration (Temporal), AI-native presentations (Gamma), and internal developer tools. She also co-authored a16z's 'Big Ideas 2026' thesis on the agentic interface - the idea that software design is shifting from visual, human-first hierarchies to machine-legible structures built for AI agents.
Brian Roberts
Brian Roberts is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he works across the American Dynamism and AI Apps funds. Known as BK to those in the know, Roberts is a serial CFO turned investor who took Lyft public at a $24 billion valuation, helped Splunk get acquired by Cisco for $28 billion, and was OpenSea's first CFO during the NFT boom. With 30+ years spanning investment banking at Evercore, corporate development at Microsoft and Walmart, and C-suite finance roles at some of tech's most pivotal companies, he joined a16z in October 2024 to bring an operator's lens to early and growth-stage investments in enterprise software, fintech, and America's strategic tech infrastructure.
Christian Keil
Christian Keil is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the American Dynamism team, backing startups that build for the national interest - from aerospace to defense to infrastructure. Before turning investor, he spent seven years as a top executive at Astranis, the satellite company he helped scale from a 50-person R&D shop to a 500-person aerospace-grade factory with over $1 billion in sales. He may be the only venture capitalist who has personally bought a dedicated Falcon 9 rocket. A proud Midwesterner who moved to Silicon Valley in 2017, Keil writes, podcasts, and thinks deeply about what it means to build things that matter for America.
Giovanni Ahern
Giovanni Ahern is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms, where he focuses on growth-stage investments. A dual-degree MIT graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science with Economics, Ahern built his investment acumen through roles at Blackstone, Houlihan Lokey, and three years as a Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital specializing in healthcare and technology. Joining a16z in September 2025, he brings a quantitative rigor and cross-sector perspective to backing the next generation of market-defining technology companies.
Jen Kha
Jen Kha is the Operating Partner and Head of Investor Relations and Fundraising at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. She leads global partnerships, managing the firm's relationships with limited partners and orchestrating capital raises across all of a16z's investment strategies. Over her career she has been involved in raising over $55 billion in LP capital - an extraordinary track record that spans healthcare investment banking, corporate strategy at HSN, investor relations at TCV, and now the front lines of tech VC. In 2023 she registered as a lobbyist in California to help a16z tap major pension funds like CalPERS for the first time in the firm's history.
Kathleen Forte
Kathleen Forte is an Investor Relations Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most storied venture capital firms. With over two decades of experience across investor relations, business development, and fundraising, she has held senior roles at Lightspeed Venture Partners, SVB Financial Group, ADM Capital, and Clearwater Capital Partners. Known for her deep expertise in LP relationships and fund management, Forte joined Sequoia in July 2022, bringing a rare blend of financial acumen and relationship-driven dealmaking to one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious platforms.
Shali Peng
Shali Peng is a Carried Interest Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. Operating within a16z's People Practices team, she specializes in carried interest administration - the complex machinery that translates fund returns into partner compensation. Her work sits at the intersection of finance, talent, and the internal architecture of a $39B+ AUM firm, making her a behind-the-scenes force in how a16z structures and retains its top talent. With an educational background from Teachers College at Columbia University, she brings an unusual blend of people-centered thinking to a rigorously quantitative domain.