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Chris Bontempo Is Teaching a 140-Year-Old Brand New Tricks
He followed a girlfriend to Europe, got fired from his own startup and spent nearly two decades at IBM. Now Chris Bontempo is turning building technology into a story about attention, accountability and AI.
Stella Prefach Is Making Complexity Useful
After eight years at IBM, Stella Prefach took on a harder translation job: making pharmacy automation legible, useful, and human. Her method starts with partners, crosses silos, and ends where good marketing should - with a customer who can act.
Danielle Pensack Learned to Build Fintech by Calling 150 Retirement Homes
Before Rightfoot built data infrastructure for lenders, its co-founder moved into a retirement community to test an entirely different idea. The experiment failed cleanly - and became the operating system for everything that followed.
Maria Winans Built a New Brand From 90,000 Old Habits
After 29 years at IBM, Maria Bartolome Winans became employee No. 2 at its infrastructure-services spinoff. Her assignment was bigger than a name and a logo: give tens of thousands of people a reason to feel like founders.