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Biju D. Vincent and the Trouble With More
Biju D. Vincent built DigiMent Research around a practical conviction: a news mention becomes useful when someone understands it. His career is an argument for keeping human judgment in the monitoring business.
David H. Lasker and the value of yesterday’s news
David H. Lasker spent the 1990s filming Chicago’s breaking news. At News Exposure, he built a business around a longer deadline: keeping the broadcast for the person who would need it years later.
Eric Koefoot and the trouble with counting everything
Before he co-founded PublicRelay, Eric Koefoot sold hotel rooms and helped take news online. His recurring question has been what people can actually do with all that information.
Alex Northcott and the unfinished business of the contact book
He helped build Gorkana, sold it, then returned to compete with it. For Roxhill Media founder Alex Northcott, knowing a journalist’s name has always been only the start.
Josh Ginsberg and the trouble with being talked about
A campaign veteran helped turn the war room into Zignal Labs. His journey from presidential politics to Meta follows a stubborn question: what should you do when the world starts talking?
Bernd Hitzemann and the distance between noise and knowledge
From automotive research to AITASTIC, Bernd Hitzemann has built a career around reading what people say about change. His other laboratory has wheels: German Car of the Year puts new models, and the claims surrounding them, on the road.
Jason Downie and the art of starting over
Before Google and PublicRelay, Jason Downie toured with an a cappella group and owned a bar. His route into communications intelligence keeps returning to the same practical question: how do you get people to work well together?
Gaugarin Oliver Built a Career Around the Signal Inside the Noise
From speech recognition to media intelligence and enterprise AI, Oliver has spent decades turning unruly information into useful decisions - then carrying that habit from Boston boardrooms back to the place his family calls home in southern India.
Guy Abramo Has Spent Four Decades Turning Signals Into Decisions
The Cision CEO began with fuel chemistry, earned five patents, and kept following data into the executive suite. Now he is asking an old communications business to turn a fractured information stream into useful intelligence.
Gregory Galant Was Early to Everything - Then Learned to Wait
Before podcasts had an app and tweets had awards, Gregory Galant was already building around them. His most revealing achievement, though, took 13 years of profitable patience.
At Cision, Amy Jones Is Making the Case for Better Signals
After 25 years building growth systems, Amy Jones has arrived at the company that tracks what the world is saying. Her new brief is equal parts marketing problem and measurement puzzle.
Adam Beaugh Built a Machine for the 24-Minute News Cycle. Now It Watches for What Comes Next
From campaign war rooms to agent-driven intelligence, the Zignal Labs co-founder has spent 15 years turning public noise into decisions - while insisting that useful technology starts with a human problem.
Adam Joseph
Adam Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, the AI system of record for communications and public affairs teams. A Harvard summa cum laude graduate and Fulbright Scholar, he bootstrapped Clipbook to $1M ARR before landing a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban - won through a single cold email. Before building Clipbook, he served as Communications Director for Abdul El-Sayed's historic 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign and as a Strategy Consultant at BCG, where he led healthcare and government transformation work. Clipbook now monitors 1M+ media and policy sources for 200+ clients including Weber Shandwick and BCG.