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The Marketer Who Keeps Switching Industries On Purpose
She has sold copiers, retirement plans, viral video, stadium sponsorships and ad technology. The through-line is not the product. It is the argument for why the product matters.
Joan Khoury and the Long Game of Brand
She has spent 25 years walking into financial firms mid-transformation and doing the unglamorous work: finding the culture, naming it, and getting everyone to own it.
LPL Financial
LPL Financial built a $2.6 trillion business by staying behind the advisor. Now its bet is that scale, open architecture and embedded AI can make independence feel less lonely - without making every practice look the same.
Albert Ko
Albert Ko is the CEO of Auctane, the Austin-based shipping software powerhouse behind ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipEngine, and Metapack. A Korean immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles speaking Korean and Farsi but no English, Ko climbed from McKinsey consultant to Yale/Harvard-educated operator who grew Zelle into the largest peer-to-peer payments network by dollar volume — then took the helm at Auctane in June 2023 to bring operational discipline to one of the most consequential companies in global e-commerce logistics.