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Nekesa Echols Built a Business Around One Point of Accountability
An 18-year Army veteran turned founder, Echols is building a Texas contractor around a deceptively simple promise: one team owns the work from first survey to final system.
Sarah McAuley Almost Passed on Manufacturing. Then She Saw What the Machines Were Making.
A Supreme Court campaign, three children, countless youth practices, and one supposedly dull software category. Sarah McAuley built a career by noticing how the small pieces fit together - especially after a factory floor changed the way she looked at the world.
Kurt Andersen Learned the Factory Floor. Then He Made Enterprise Software Speak Human.
The BillingPlatform CMO built his career where machinery, software and revenue meet - turning complicated systems into practical stories that sales teams, finance leaders and customers can use.
Heather Adkins Is Rebuilding Marketing Like a Job Site
At Trimble, Heather Adkins is turning a 300-person marketing organization into one shared growth engine. Her method is less campaign magic than construction discipline: align the plans, pour the foundation, and make every name earn its place.
Ron McMurtrie Makes the Complex Useful
Honeywell's chief marketing officer built his career by translating complicated systems into customer outcomes - and by treating marketing as an operating job, not a department of slogans.
Elaine Kanak Is Turning the Gas Pump Into a Customer Interface
Vontier's first enterprise CMO has an unusual brief: make a sprawling portfolio of pumps, payments, chargers, software, and repair tools feel like one useful system. Her method starts with the ordinary moments drivers barely notice.
Jackie Helfrich Sells the Invisible Parts That Hold the World Together
She markets connectors and sensors most people never see - the components inside airplanes, hospitals, factories and power grids - and has spent 20 years turning quiet industrial hardware into a story buyers can follow.
Dallas Hogensen
Dallas Hogensen is the co-founder and CEO of Felux, a Cleveland-based digital marketplace and operating platform for the steel and metals industry. A ranch-raised Oregonian and former college football player turned serial startup operator, he scaled Lyft Business toward $1 billion in revenue and co-founded two companies (Liveli and Signal HQ) before relocating his family to Ohio to digitize a $2 trillion industry famous for handshakes and fax machines. Under the irreverent banner #makingsteelsexy, he has grown Felux's platform volume from roughly $10M to hundreds of millions in transactions, raised more than $24M in venture capital, and set out to put Cleveland back on the map as a hub for industrial technology.