
An engineer by training, a consultant by experience, and now Fortive’s CEO, Olumide Soroye has built a career around improving how work gets done. His next test is a company that became smaller just as his responsibilities grew.
LANDAUER turned a small radiation badge into a service that follows workers, checks the numbers, and keeps the paperwork moving. The revealing part is what happens after someone forgets to send a badge back.
A medical procedure ends. The paperwork has other plans. Provation built a business worth $1.425 billion to its buyer by making that second act less troublesome.

The Accruent executive began in sales support, learned her way across product and marketing, and discovered that the assignments other people sidestepped were often the ones with the longest runway.