
After marketing law, creators, performance and AI, the Minnesota operator chose Valant for a reason that arrived through her own family. Her career is a study in making complicated products legible - and then building the team to sell them.

Before leading marketing at an AI-native sales platform, Brigid Ling spent two decades making complicated ideas easier to act on - for small businesses, young football players and enterprise sellers alike.

Across nearly three decades at 3M, Holly Semerad built a marketing career by moving through the machinery behind the message - sales, people, transformation, digital channels and customer operations.