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Nabin Banskota and the years before the first sale
After Citi, a tea business and a fintech exit, Nabin Banskota chose a patient route into payroll: build the machinery first. At Niural AI, that choice now shapes his ambitions for software that can carry out the work.
Adarsh Katyal Built VARITE for the Work Between the Work
For 25 years, the VARITE founder has worked in the unglamorous machinery of enterprise talent - matching people, programs and trust across borders. His record offers a useful lesson: durable companies are often built where coordination matters more than applause.
Jim McCoy
Jim McCoy is the CEO of Atlas HXM, the company that pioneered the direct Employer of Record model for hiring across 160-plus countries. He took the top job in December 2023 after 14 years at ManpowerGroup, where he scaled the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing business into 56 countries and managed a quarter-million placements a year. He builds for scale while obsessing over the local user experience, borrows ideas from B2C playbooks for a B2B world, and frames the work as democratizing access to economic opportunity.
Joyce Salas
Joyce Salas is a Founder at Deel, the San Francisco-based global HR and payroll platform that has redefined how companies hire, pay, and manage international teams. Based in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, she brings a finance and accounting lens to one of the fastest-growing HR tech companies in the world - a company that has raised over $1.27 billion in funding, crossed $1 billion in annual revenue, and employs more than 8,400 people serving businesses in 150+ countries.