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Vanessa Danziger Has Been Asking What People Would Do Since the Sixth Grade
Long before she marketed workforce technology, Danziger won a science fair by studying how children make ethical choices. The same curiosity now runs through a career built around people, data, and purpose.
Gus Blanchard Spent 36 Years Learning the Customer Before He Marketed the Company
Before leading ADP marketing, Gus Blanchard spent decades across its sales floor. His career makes a quiet argument for patience, customer fluency and a marketing department that earns its place in the buying journey.
Sarah Hodges Put On the Boots Before She Wrote the Message
The UKG chief marketing officer built her career by leaving the conference room - onto construction sites, into product teams, and closer to the people her companies serve.
Mike Vannoy Has Spent 30 Years Turning HR Complexity Into a Growth Story
Before HR became a cloud platform and marketing became an AI workflow, Mike Vannoy was already learning how work gets measured, sold and explained. His career is a case study in staying with one stubborn business problem long enough to watch the tools change completely.
Bernadette Bressler Made Payroll Sound Human
Across printers, connected care, senior-living software, and healthcare payroll, Bernadette Bressler has kept returning to one deceptively difficult brief: make complicated technology feel useful to an actual person.
Katy Bunn Is Making the Customer the Meeting’s Most Important Voice
After a decade helping Paycor grow from a regional HR company into a public business acquired by Paychex, Katy Bunn has a new brief: turn marketing from an order-taking function into a source of customer truth.
Samantha Orihuela Is Building ADP's Next Growth Story Around People
After two decades moving between brand, experience, innovation and growth, Samantha Orihuela has returned to ADP with a clear brief: make a global company feel coherent, useful and human.
Luke Fryer
Luke Fryer is the founder and CEO of Harri, a New York-based workforce management and human capital management platform built for the hospitality industry and other service-driven businesses. A former restaurateur who opened Australia's first Burger King franchise and later held the Australian rights to wagamama, Fryer moved to New York in 2007 and co-founded Harri in December 2011 to fix the fragmented, low-tech process of finding, hiring, scheduling and retaining frontline workers. Today Harri serves over 500 enterprise customers across 35,000+ restaurant and hotel locations and roughly four million hospitality employees, and in 2023 it raised $43 million in growth equity to expand its AI capabilities and move into retail and healthcare.