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Ellen Faulkner Took the Long Way to the Top - Then Made Room for Others
She accepted half her salary to learn the agency business. Three decades later, Lewis chose its first woman CEO - a determined operator who believes the real work of leadership is knowing when to let go.
Karen Wood Spent 15 Years Teaching Machines to See Customers. Then AI Changed the Assignment.
The Treasure AI CMO began with creative writing, built a career translating complicated software, and arrived at a useful answer to the AI frenzy: keep learning, keep testing, and distrust anyone who claims the map is finished.
Eric Damassa Built a Career on Knowing When to Say No
Anomaly’s Global Partner and CMO has spent 15 years making restraint look like a growth strategy. Now he is helping redesign the agency model for an era when hours matter less and intelligence matters more.
Kate Colacelli Built a Marketing Career From Two Chairs and a Table
Before AI assistants and data platforms, there was a startup office with two chairs and a table. Kate Colacelli's career shows what automotive marketing looks like when the message is built around the work people actually need done.
George Popstefanov Built an Agency With $960. Now He Is Selling a Better Operating System for Growth
A Commodore 64, a German manual and a teenage leap from Macedonia to Wisconsin shaped a founder who treats change as raw material. Fifteen years after starting PMG with $960, George Popstefanov is trying to turn marketing intelligence into action - without losing the culture that made the company work.
Etai Beck Is Building for the Buyer Who Never Knocks
He left a comfortable corporate climb to fix a problem hiding in plain sight: B2B buyers were being tracked everywhere and understood almost nowhere. A decade later, AI has made that argument urgent.
Matt Hixson Has Spent 15 Years Teaching AI to Read the Room
The former CPA behind Tellagence made a career out of a deceptively human question: what does online conversation actually mean? Fifteen years in, context is finally having its moment.
Shonodeep Modak
A chemical engineer learned to sell the value behind the machinery. Now Shonodeep Modak is applying the same customer-first discipline to AI, energy management and the changing architecture of a global marketing team.
Shubham Mishra
Shubham Mishra is the co-founder and Global CEO of Pixis, a Burlingame, California company building codeless AI infrastructure that lets marketers deploy AI models without writing code. He dropped out of BITS Pilani to build a virtual reality headset with the startup Absentia, then pivoted into AI-driven marketing and grew Pixis from an early bet on AI to roughly $85M in ARR, raising $209M across its funding rounds. His pitch is consistent: strip the friction out of AI so any team can use it in minutes, not months.
Quinton Pham
Quinton Pham is a founder at Jasper, the enterprise AI content platform that has raised over $130 million and serves marketing teams at major brands worldwide. Based in Coffeyville, Kansas, Pham is part of the founding team of a company generating roughly $88M in annual revenue with 300 employees. Jasper's platform gives marketing teams AI-powered tools for content creation, brand voice management, multi-channel campaigns, and workflow automation - serving clients including Boeing, L'Oreal, Wayfair, Adidas, and Cox Automotive.
Chris Hull
Chris Hull is Co-Founder of Jasper, the enterprise AI platform for marketing teams that went from zero to $90M ARR in under three years. A serial entrepreneur from Austin, Texas, Hull co-built three companies with the same two partners - Dave Rogenmoser and JP Morgan - cycling through a digital marketing agency, a Y Combinator-backed social proof tool called Proof, and finally Jasper, which became one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies of the AI era, raising $130M and hitting unicorn status in roughly 18 months.
Julia Vasconcelos
Julia Vasconcelos is Sr. Director of Strategy & Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Typeface, the enterprise generative AI platform backed by Lightspeed, GV, and Salesforce Ventures. A Brazilian attorney-turned-operator who pivoted from M&A law to fintech at Stone (where she helped drive the company's Nasdaq IPO), then earned an MS at Stanford GSB before landing at one of AI's hottest unicorns. She co-led Brazil at Silicon Valley, built a community of 200k in two months, and now sits at the intersection of AI strategy and executive operations in Palo Alto.