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Angela Winegar Learned to Market AI by Thinking Like an Investor
The Invisible Technologies CMO has moved from consulting to commerce, from Harvard policy research to venture capital, and from Carta to enterprise AI. Across every turn, she has kept one useful habit: treating marketing as a portfolio of bets, with judgment reserved for the moments machines cannot settle.
Leslie Hahn Has Spent 25 Years Asking the Question Growth Teams Avoid
After two decades inside ecommerce, agencies, platforms and operating teams, Leslie Hahn has built a practice around one unfashionable discipline: deciding what matters before the marketing machine starts moving.
Brad Rosenfeld Is Making the Complicated Parts of Finance Easier to Act On
His career has moved through affinity marketing, payments, digital identity and private-market software. Now back at Biz2X, Brad Rosenfeld is applying the same practical idea to AI-powered lending: technology matters when people can understand it, trust it and use it.
Ken Dec Has Spent 40 Years Turning Technical Products Into Stories People Trust
The fractional CMO at TruVideo built his career where brand, demand and sales meet. His durable lesson is disarmingly simple: serve the customer, tell the truth well, and make marketing prove its value.
Sean McGinty Is Building the Machine Behind TaxSlayer’s Marketing
He started in paid search, learned to steer a $300 million portfolio through a sudden shock, and arrived at TaxSlayer obsessed with the plumbing beneath good marketing. Now Sean McGinty is pairing measurement with a talking calculator named Calvin.
Justyna Evlogiadis Learned to Market What People Cannot Afford to Misunderstand
Across sixteen years, six technology companies and one steadily widening remit, Justyna Evlogiadis has built a career around a deceptively hard task: making complicated products clear enough to act on.
Scott Stevenson Built Audiences. Now He Is Building Trust in the Machines Between Us.
From a free magazine at The Beer Store to intelligent lockers on campus, Scott Stevenson's career keeps returning to one question: how do you turn an overlooked point of contact into a relationship that works?
Christine Latour Turns Marketing Into a Growth System
From a regional nonprofit to global entertainment technology and mobile stages, the Quebec executive has built a career around making growth legible - then making it repeatable.
Brady Josephson Is Turning Generosity Into a Growth Discipline
After two decades spent testing how people give, the Canadian marketer has returned home to lead World Vision Canada - carrying a career built on curiosity, experiments and a stubborn belief that generosity can grow.
Melanie Babcock-Brown Is Building the System Behind the Sentiment
She learned the web when it was new, learned customer data when it was intimidating, and helped turn a retailer's ad network into an operating business. Now Melanie Babcock-Brown has to make a portfolio of gifts feel like one connected act of care.
Chantal Rapport
Before Chantal Rapport marketed algorithms, she learned to read customers from a cable truck. That habit - get close, notice the friction, then build the model - followed her all the way to Upstart's C-suite.
Shelly Wilson
Shelly Wilson is a C-level digital, eCommerce and marketing executive based in San Diego who now works as a fractional and interim leader for consumer brands. She is Fractional Chief Marketing Officer at the Australian bohemian-fashion label SPELL, Interim CEO and Chief Marketing Officer at fragrance brand Vitruvi, and a senior advisor to lifestyle brands including Nixon and tentree. Earlier she was SVP Digital at Saje Natural Wellness, where she is known for leading platform migrations and building high-growth direct-to-consumer operations. She pairs deep operational eCommerce experience with brand-building instincts across fashion, wellness and consumer goods.
Madeleine Ormond
Madeleine Ormond is a New York based business strategist and co-founder of The Backflip Group, a boutique consulting firm built to move companies from strategy to reality. She spent more than a decade working inside tech startups and larger technology companies before co-founding the firm, where she leads on product strategy, financial modeling, go-to-market planning, and the kind of hands-on execution that turns a plan into a working operation. Her work centers on helping growing companies test ideas at low risk, sharpen their thinking, and build foundations that scale.
Patricia Obermaier
Patricia 'Patty' Obermaier is Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer at Acentra Health, where she leads business development, marketing, and product management for a technology and health solutions company serving government and commercial clients. A biology graduate of MIT with a Darden MBA, she spent the bulk of her career at Microsoft - most recently as Chief Growth Officer for Global Health and Life Sciences overseeing a $12 billion portfolio and helping integrate the $20 billion Nuance acquisition. Before that she doubled Microsoft's U.S. Health and Life Sciences business from $3 billion to $6 billion, founded the consultancy Resigility, and spent five-plus years as a senior executive at IQVIA. She sits on the boards of ASGN Incorporated and Applied Information Sciences and was named to Fierce Healthcare's 2021 Women of Influence.
Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Yang Zhao
Yang Zhao is the Chief Business Officer of Handshake AI, where he runs business and operations for a fast-scaling human-data business serving frontier AI labs. He spent four years at Scale AI as Head of Product Deployment and Operations before joining Handshake, and earlier led growth and strategy at the consumer-rentals company Zumper. He pitches Handshake's edge not as tooling but as raw access to the largest expert network in the US.
Brett Browman
Brett Browman is a Growth Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, bringing a hands-on, ER-doctor approach to diagnosing and scaling portfolio companies. A veteran of Silicon Valley's most storied growth stories - first growth hire at both Square and Opendoor - he spent seven years as Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz advising companies like ElevenLabs, Character.ai, and Luma.ai before joining Khosla in 2024. Known for getting in the trenches as a fractional growth leader, Browman has helped shape the go-to-market playbooks of some of the fastest-growing startups in tech history.
Elena Verna
Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley's most respected growth operators - a former SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey, interim CMO at Miro, and current Head of Growth at Lovable (the AI app-builder that hit $200M ARR in under a year). Known for popularizing Product-Led Growth frameworks, she runs 'Elena's Growth Scoop' newsletter with 89,000+ subscribers and a 40% open rate, and is a Partner at Reforge. She immigrated from Russia at 14 with $100 and no English, and has built a career on the principle: 'I will figure it out.'
Leah Tharin
Leah Tharin is a Swiss product management veteran, solopreneur, and one of the most influential voices on Product-led Growth (PLG) in B2B SaaS. With 25+ years of operator experience — scaling Smallpdf to 50M monthly active users and GotPhoto to 20M+ ARR — she left full-time employment in November 2023 to build an independent advisory and content business. Her newsletter 'Leah's ProducTea' on Substack, her podcast, and her 58,000+ LinkedIn followers have made her a go-to resource for product and growth leaders navigating the shift from sales-led to product-led business models.