Tom Hale is the CEO of ŌURA, the Finnish-American health technology company behind the Oura Ring - a smart ring that tracks sleep, recovery, and biometric data. A Harvard-educated technologist with 30+ years spanning Macromedia, Adobe, Linden Lab (Second Life), HomeAway, and SurveyMonkey, Hale came to Oura after a personal health crisis led him to the ring itself. He joined in March 2022 after writing a persuasive letter to the board after initially being rejected. Under his leadership, Oura has grown from a niche wearable to an $11 billion company on a path toward $2 billion in annual revenue, with the U.S. Department of Defense among its largest enterprise customers.
Roy Rapoport is a veteran engineering leader and writer whose work has quietly reshaped how tech companies think about people, reliability, and operational culture. Best known for his two stints at Netflix (where he built Insight Engineering and its operational platform) and a stint at Slack, Roy popularized the Manager README format and authored influential frameworks on feedback, trust, and performance improvement. He writes on Medium about the subtler mechanics of leadership, raises goats in California, and insists he will never retire.