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EMC Communications knows who should do the talking
A business owner asking for higher wages. A banker stepping out of crisis mode. EMC Communications helps good causes find the people, evidence, and timing that make a story travel.
Julie Uhrman Built Angel City Like a Startup - Then Changed Seats
Julie Uhrman turned a post-World Cup conversation into a Los Angeles soccer club with a startup's appetite and a civic brief. Her 2026 move from CEO to principal advisor reveals a second act built around the hardest founder skill: knowing when to change seats.
Tracy Saunders Knows the Job Market’s Unwritten Rules. Now She Teaches Women to Rewrite Them
After two decades recruiting leaders for Google, Amazon, Cisco, and fast-growing technology companies, Tracy Saunders changed sides of the hiring table. BossmakeHer is her answer to a quiet career problem: accomplished women making consequential moves without the inside information employers already possess.
When Tennis Canada’s $60 Million Summer Vanished, It Exposed the Flywheel Behind the Sport
A two-city tournament pays for courts, coaches and champions across a continent-sized country. The pandemic revealed how fragile that bargain was - and the rebuild offers a playbook for any mission-led organization with one very profitable product.
The Recruiter Who Went Rogue for Women in the C-Suite
Tracy Saunders spent two decades placing executives for Google, Amazon and Cisco. Then she flipped the model - and built a discreet network that gets senior women hired, paid and promoted without the noise.
Level Forward
Level Forward is a Los Angeles-based public benefit entertainment company co-founded in 2018 by philanthropist and filmmaker Abigail Disney and producer Adrienne Becker. It develops, produces, and finances films, documentaries, and stage productions that pair commercial ambition with social progress, backing work such as the film The Assistant and the Tony-nominated Broadway shows Jagged Little Pill, Slave Play, and What the Constitution Means to Me. Legally bound to weigh profit against public benefit, the company routes a share of proceeds and cultural attention toward nonprofit partners working on gender and racial equity, youth empowerment, and gun-violence prevention.
Adrienne Becker
Adrienne Becker is the CEO and co-founder of Level Forward, the public-benefit entertainment studio she launched in 2018 with filmmaker Abigail Disney. From a Los Angeles base, she finances and produces films and stage work that pair compelling stories with real-world advocacy - a slate that has earned a combined 37 Tony nominations (Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Suffs) and Oscar-recognized films (The Assistant, Red White and Blue). A former CEO of DailyCandy and SVP at Nielsen and IAC who got her start on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, Becker treats entertainment as a tool for economic and cultural change.
Rami Elghandour
Rami Elghandour is Chairman and CEO of Arcellx (NASDAQ: ACLX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation cell therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. An engineer turned venture capitalist turned serial CEO, he has led two successful IPOs, built two multibillion-dollar public companies, and raised over $1.75 billion in capital. At Arcellx, he transformed the company from an early-stage startup into a commercial-ready organization with a peak valuation exceeding $6 billion, advancing the anito-cel BCMA CAR-T therapy toward FDA approval for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. A TEDx speaker on unconscious bias and gender equity, Rami is also an executive producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' and the Sundance-premiered 'American Doctor.'