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Chris Repetto and the business of getting people to listen
A software story that went to the North Pole. A team spread across seven countries. Chris Repetto’s communications career keeps returning to a practical question: what will make this matter to the person listening?
Martha Marchesi Has Spent 40 Years Making Every Word Earn Its Place
The Madison Avenue copywriter became JK Communications' first female CEO by keeping faith with an unfashionable idea: clarity is not the garnish on strategy. It is the strategy.
Julie Inouye Runs Toward the Hard Parts
Her first day at CNN was September 11, 2001. Two decades later, the Outcast CEO still builds her work around the same instinct: move toward uncertainty, find the truth, and help people make sense of change.
Catherine Turner Built an Agency by Following the Paths Nobody Had Paved
A freelance job in Madrid gave her the pulse of live events. A collapsed employer gave her an opening. Sixteen years later, the company she began at home had become a nearly 100-person experiment in courage, reinvention and letting people draw their own route.
Jesse Comart Wants Every Corporate Message to Earn Its Keep
From the Senate to ad tech, quantitative finance and home-energy lending, Jesse Comart has built a career around one stubborn idea: communication works best when it is connected to the business, the employees and the people outside the building.
Tarek Kamil Built a Career Around One Question: What Is Worth Making?
A school-board volunteer project became Cerkl, but the deeper pattern began much earlier: use software to save people time, make information relevant, and choose the path with fewer regrets.
Francisco Chamorro Builds Marketing From the Inside Out
After a career spanning entertainment, internet services, telecom and enterprise software, Francisco Chamorro has a practical thesis for B2B growth: earn internal belief, protect room to experiment and make every useful idea repeatable.
Gaurav Saini
Gaurav Saini is the co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco AI platform that merges marketing and people operations so HR teams can run employee programs the way marketers run campaigns. A go-to-market and customer success operator, he has spent his career turning early-stage SaaS companies into scaling businesses, including senior growth roles at WorkSpan and UserVoice, and a stint co-founding the advisory firm GTM Venture Studio. At ChangeEngine he leads the charge to collapse the sprawl of HR point tools into one platform, often citing conversations with more than 100 HR teams as the source of the company's roadmap.
Andrew Higashi
Andrew Higashi is the Co-founder and CEO of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps companies communicate with and engage their people the way the best brands engage customers. A three-time company builder, he spent a decade honing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy at Gigya, WorkSpan, and Sendoso before founding ChangeEngine in 2021 with the same co-founding team he has worked alongside for ten years. ChangeEngine has raised $15.5 million in total funding, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures in 2024, and serves 310+ employees globally with operations in the US, UK, and Latin America.