
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.

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.
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.