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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Ian Gover Built Three HR-Tech Companies. His Latest Bet Is an AI Coach That Shows Up Before the Awkward Meeting
Founder · Executive · Operator

Ian Gover Built Three HR-Tech Companies. His Latest Bet Is an AI Coach That Shows Up Before the Awkward Meeting

After 25 years in workplace technology, Gover stopped asking whether AI could replace a human coach. He asked what it could do for the millions of managers who never had one.

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Parker Mitchell
Founder · Executive · Operator

Parker Mitchell

Parker Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Valence, the New York company behind Nadia, billed as the world's first enterprise AI coach. He spent two decades before that building Engineers Without Borders Canada, the charity he co-founded out of the University of Waterloo in 2000, and advising Fortune 500 leaders at McKinsey. In 2025 Valence raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nadia deployed across companies like Delta, Experian, Kraft Heinz and General Mills, having logged more than a million coaching conversations.

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