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Ileana Quintas Built a 30-Year Business Out of Making Complexity Clear
She began with one employee and an unfashionable conviction: difficult information should still be useful. Three decades later, that idea remains the operating system of IQ Solutions.
Rick Cantu Built Redapt by Treating Every Tech Boom Like a Customer Problem
He started with refurbished UNIX machines and kept changing the company before the market could change it. Thirty years later, Rick Cantu's durable advantage still sounds almost unfashionably simple: listen closely, own the outcome, and earn the next call.
Christopher Fevry Put Cannabis Delivery on a Clock - Then Built the Software Behind It
A laid-off founder, a regulatory maze, seven outfitted vehicles and a habit of calling on the day a license lands: how Christopher Fevry turned Massachusetts cannabis delivery into an operating system.
Julio Casado
Julio Casado is the CEO of ANJA Life, the first adult-use cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, New Jersey, and the founder and managing partner of Full Funnel Growth, a NYC-based growth marketing agency. A Cornell-educated, Bronx-raised operator with a decade-plus background spanning Deloitte, AXA, Success Academy and Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, he now sits at the unlikely intersection of management consulting, e-commerce growth funnels, and a Sanskrit-rooted cannabis brand named for the act of manifesting.
Yaser Masoudnia
Yaser Masoudnia is the co-founder and CEO of BlueTape, a fintech company that gives the construction industry's suppliers, contractors and distributors the payment tools and working capital they have long been denied. A serial entrepreneur and a licensed general contractor with over a decade swinging a hammer, he previously built and exited the cybersecurity startup NoPassword (acquired by LogMeIn), then ran the LastPass product team. He started coding games on a Commodore 64 at 13 in Iran and now splits his identity between two worlds most people keep apart: software and construction sites.
Carolyn Joshua
Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based IT staffing and workforce solutions firm she has led since 2009. Under her leadership, Trilyon has grown into a globally recognized, women-owned and minority-certified enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies including Google, Cisco, Samsung, Hitachi, and Oracle across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. A champion of diversity, inclusion, and women's empowerment, she serves as Co-Chair of USPAACC WISE and has been recognized with the J.P. Morgan Unity in Action Award (2025), the SheLeads Impact Award (2024), and named a Top 50 Women Leader of San Francisco (2023).