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David Bradley Has Spent a Career Making Silos Talk
From turning ibm.com into a $12 billion sales channel to redirecting surplus produce toward families, the r4 executive has built a career around one stubborn idea: useful information should travel farther than the department that owns it.
Bowie Cheung Is Teaching the Back Room to Think
After helping turn Uber Eats from an experiment into an everyday habit, Bowie Cheung went upstream. At Pepper, he is building software for the independent distributors who keep restaurants supplied - one voicemail, catalog and paper check at a time.
The Marketer Who Sells the Trucks, Not the Cereal Box
She markets a company with no cereal box on the shelf - just 30,000 people, a fleet of trucks, and a promise to show up. Here is how a music major became the voice of a $39 billion foodservice giant.
Eli Chait
Eli Chait is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wholesail, a San Francisco-based B2B payment risk management platform modernizing accounts receivable for food and beverage distributors. His origin story is unusually grounded: at age 12, he was entering invoices for his father's restaurant in Los Angeles. That early hands-on encounter with the pain of paper-based B2B trade became the north star for his entire career - from co-founding Copilot (a restaurant analytics startup acquired by OpenTable) to leading Wholesail through a $22.6M Series A. With a team of repeat entrepreneurs forged at OpenTable, Wholesail is building the credit and payments network for the $1+ trillion US food distribution market.