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Jim Reesing Is Learning to Conduct the Machine
After three decades moving between global giants and entrepreneurial firms, Quantiphi's new CEO has a precise assignment: add scale without sanding away the culture that made the company worth joining.
Jahn Surette and the Virtue of Knowing More Than One Playbook
She built a career by moving sideways as often as upward, learning call centers, procurement, transformation and global operations. Now the founder of JM Surette Advisors argues that breadth is not a lack of specialty - it is a specialty of its own.
The Global Product Stack Has a Translation Problem
Pendo localizes the product experience. Thematic normalizes the customer voice. Global teams need both jobs done without turning regions into rival versions of the truth.
Raj Velagapudi Keeps Building for the Moment After the Pitch
Across three decades, Raj Velagapudi has returned to the same operating idea: make technology answer to outcomes, then build the team that can carry the promise across borders.
Claire Bonilla Left the Corner Office to Ask Better Questions
After 16 years at Microsoft and four years leading SightLife, Claire Bonilla chose a career built around judgment, candor and what she calls a higher purpose: helping leaders and their organizations do better by the world.
Ian Pinner Has Spent 26 Years Learning How Food Moves
Seventeen roles, every region, one company. Ian Pinner's route from wheat trading to ADM's nutrition business shows what happens when a career is built by learning the whole system.