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Karam Rajab and the distance between a sketch and a sofa
The Baytonia co-founder has moved from systems engineering to home furnishings and Saudi-inspired design. His next problem is a practical one: helping local creativity find its way into everyday rooms.
Dibyendu Panda and the hundred-store education
A small retail team became a hundred-store network. Now Wooden Street’s Chief Business Officer brings two decades across electronics, luggage, jewellery and furniture to the business of helping customers choose.
Lokendra Ranawat and the long way home
He returned from London to Udaipur to build a business close to Rajasthan’s furniture makers. A decade later, WoodenStreet’s co-founder is still working out how to make a personal purchase work at national scale.
Daniel Scandian and the race to build a hundred-year company
A Formula 3 Light champion helped turn the remains of his family’s flooring business into MadeiraMadeira. Now Daniel Scandian is working on a different measure of success: a company that outlasts its founders.
Ellie Cunningham
Ellie Cunningham is the CEO of Canoa, a Brooklyn-based design-technology company building a browser canvas that unifies mood boards, scaled floor plans, real product data and FF&E schedules for interior designers. A Pratt-trained interior designer who spent years running global design operations at WeWork, she stepped up from COO to chief executive in October 2024 and is steering Canoa toward a circular, low-carbon future for commercial furniture, where good pieces get reused instead of dumped.
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.