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Yash Sabharwal and the problem next door
An optical scientist learned to run companies, found himself wrestling with spreadsheets, and asked his neighbor to help. At QbDVision, Yash Sabharwal is still working on how knowledge travels - and when a founder should get out of its way.
Thomas Boucher-Charest and the value of what already works
A Montreal stock-market competitor grew into an investor and software operator. At Valstone, Thomas Boucher-Charest is helping build a manufacturing portfolio around a practical question: what should an acquisition preserve?
When the Shop’s Best Knowledge Walks Out at Five, Shawn LaVana Wants the System to Remember
After a career selling complicated software, ProShop ERP’s chief marketing officer has arrived at a wonderfully concrete brief: help precision manufacturers keep what their best people know.
Sarah McAuley Almost Passed on Manufacturing. Then She Saw What the Machines Were Making.
A Supreme Court campaign, three children, countless youth practices, and one supposedly dull software category. Sarah McAuley built a career by noticing how the small pieces fit together - especially after a factory floor changed the way she looked at the world.
Andrea Walter Put a Lean Factory Mindset Inside the Marketing Department
The Ease.io CMO has spent more than 20 years moving from brand campaigns to enterprise software. Her sharpest idea is also her simplest: marketing should work like a good production system - visible, useful and built to improve.
Heather Boyd Took the Scenic Route to the C-Suite
A Bali-bound travel mix-up became an adventure. Heather Boyd has applied the same composure to a 20-plus-year marketing career spanning CEB, Oracle, Auctane and now Revalize.
Tom Hennessey Makes the Factory Floor Legible
The iBASEt CMO has spent a career turning factory complexity into plain language. His recurring argument is simple: reliable work begins when the right information reaches the right person at the right moment.
Hoon Paek Is Teaching Old Machines New Tricks
The EdgeCross CEO has spent three decades moving intelligence closer to the physical world. His latest wager is practical: the next useful AI interface may be attached to a pump, compressor or aging factory machine.
Nazli Danis Learned to Scale the Machine. Now She Wants to Fix the Factory Floor.
The art-history graduate who helped turn Deel's spreadsheet prototype into a vast business is taking her 11-star product obsession somewhere less polished: the manual workflows of companies that make real things.
Praneeth Guduguntla Asked 263 Executives a Better Question
After an early product stalled, the engineer-turned-founder left the dashboard, crossed 13 states and learned to look for industrial software problems on the floor.
Brad Bullington’s Long Bet on the Physical World
Before factory software, Brad Bullington worked through disk drives, LEDs and open networks. At Amper, that career became a playbook for turning stubborn physical systems into useful data.
Amar Singh Is Teaching Factories to Remember
Before Amar Singh built software for factory floors, he studied the living systems inside controlled environments. Elevated Signals began when that scientific habit met an industry still recording its most important work on paper.
Garth Coleman
Garth Coleman is the CEO of Canvas GFX (Canvas Envision), a Boston-based manufacturing software company building tools that turn engineering data into interactive, 3D visual work instructions for frontline factory workers. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from Babson, he spent roughly 19 years at Dassault Systemes leading global strategy for 3D visualization, PLM, AR/VR, and generative AI before taking the top job at Canvas. He champions a 'connected knowledge' approach to manufacturing, arguing that the industry modernized its products and processes but left the people on the floor relying on static PDFs and printed checklists.
Vikas Murali
Vikas Murali is the co-founder and CEO of Offsight, a San Francisco software company that gives prefab, modular and offsite construction factories real-time visibility into production, quality, materials and labor. A University of Pennsylvania systems engineer who cut his teeth shipping enterprise software at Texas Instruments and Barclays, Murali spent years as a consultant watching engineered-to-order manufacturers run multimillion-dollar projects on brittle spreadsheets. In 2020 he and co-founder Andrew Xue built Offsight to replace those spreadsheets with mobile-first tracking, betting that the factories building the future of housing need to prove they actually deliver on speed, cost and quality.
Adam Gluck
Adam Gluck is the CEO and co-founder of Copia Automation, a New York startup bringing Git-based source control and DevOps practices to the world of industrial controls and PLC programming. A former staff software engineer at Uber, where he was a founding member of the Engineering Strategy team and helped design DOMA, Uber's microservice architecture, Gluck set out to give the engineers who program factory floors the same modern tooling that software teams take for granted. He co-founded Copia with Matthew Lee, raised over $16 million from investors including Lux Capital and Construct Capital, and was named to the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Manufacturing and Industry.
Adam Wegel
Adam Wegel is the Chief Executive Officer of Ease.io, the Irvine-based manufacturing audit and plant-floor platform used by Dana, Tenneco, Eaton and other manufacturers in 50+ countries. Appointed in October 2025, he succeeded Eric Stoop after more than a decade of Stoop's leadership. Wegel previously ran AI Application Development product at Salesforce, where his teams shipped the Agentforce Chat Client, and earlier worked as a manufacturing engineer at Delphi Automotive.