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Carolyn Manning Builds Brands at Human Speed
Across lululemon, Meetup, Outdoor Voices, Galileo and now Sage, Carolyn Manning has practiced a deliberate kind of marketing: listen closely, build the relationship, then let the brand earn its place.
Brynn Putnam
Brynn Putnam is the founder and CEO of Board, a New York startup making a face-to-face game console that blends board games and video games on a 24-inch touchscreen that reads physical pieces. A former professional ballerina with the New York City Ballet and a Harvard graduate, she built the boutique studio Refine Method and then Mirror, the connected-fitness company she sold to Lululemon for $500 million in 2020. In 2026 Board raised a $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with the device already in tens of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants.