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Scott Wolfe Jr. and the unfinished business of getting paid
He grew up working in grocery stores, built Levelset around contractors’ payment problems, and sold the company to Procore for approximately $500 million. Now Scott Wolfe Jr. is back at the contract table as CEO of AIA Contract Documents.
Evan Kirkham and the trouble with a good idea
A Cowboys fan built an app to improve the commentary. Then Evan Kirkham and his co-founders changed the business - and put the customer on the other side of the invoice.
The Publicist Who Knows What Holds a City Together
Denise A. Estopinal has spent her career between New Orleans institutions and the people they serve. Twenty-five years after founding The Estopinal Group, her story runs from City Hall and the federal courts to the women who put on Muses.
Cleveland Spears III Set the Table. New Orleans Needed More Room.
He started a communications firm at 25 and helped turn a friend’s fried chicken idea into a citywide gathering. Cleveland Spears III keeps finding reasons for people to meet - and reasons for New Orleans to benefit when they do.
Rebekah Gee and the art of starting again
A chance meeting at Jazz Fest brought Rebekah Gee to New Orleans. Her next act would take her from a $14 billion public institution to the daily work of building Nest Health.
Drew Marsh and the arithmetic of keeping the lights on
He spent 24 years inside Entergy before becoming its CEO. Now Drew Marsh is trying to make the Gulf South’s appetite for electricity add up for the people who already live there.
Sevetri Wilson and the work that stays behind
A consultant can leave. The work cannot. From a Louisiana services firm to Resilia, Sevetri Wilson built a career around that problem - and is carrying its lessons into her next chapter.
John McNamara and the business of staying the course
From a California wire factory to a New Orleans investment firm, John McNamara has built a career around helping businesses take their next step. His other investments include a tuition-free school, seventh-grade financial lessons, and time at the finish line.
Ted Elliott Wants Software to Ship Before Dinner
After 18 years building software inside the Salesforce ecosystem, Copado’s CEO has reduced the future of DevOps to two human ambitions: fewer broken releases and more dinners at home.
Charlie Schaefer Left the Clubhouse and Built a Pack
He left a 13-year design career at Ralph Lauren with fabric on his mind, a wolf for a symbol and no appetite for timid golf clothes. A decade later, Greyson is still selling the same proposition: dress for the life beyond the course.
Henry Chassaignac Built a Career by Making Creative Work Accountable
The copywriter who opened Zehnder's Nashville office now runs the employee-owned agency. His career is a study in joining a good line with a hard number.
Justin Wohlstadter
Justin Wohlstadter is the founder and CEO of Waldo, a New Orleans-based AI research platform that helps marketing agencies and brands get smart fast for pitches, brand strategy, and creative work. Before Waldo, he spent nearly a decade running Wonder (AskWonder.com), an on-demand human research service powered by thousands of analysts worldwide, and earlier co-founded BOLDstart Ventures, where he backed companies later acquired by Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Akamai. A Harvard and Oxford graduate who wrote his master's dissertation on how the internet would reshape access to education, he has spent his entire career chasing one obsession: making it faster for a curious person to know more than they did a minute ago.
Rebekah Gee
Dr. Rebekah Gee is the founder and CEO of Nest Health, the first value-based primary, behavioral, and social care provider built for whole families on Medicaid, delivered through house calls and virtual visits from a base in New Orleans. An obstetrician-gynecologist and health-policy researcher, she ran the Louisiana Department of Health from 2016 to 2020, where she led Medicaid expansion and pioneered a subscription drug-payment model for hepatitis C. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and now runs a startup that has raised a $22.5M Series A to scale care for the families the system tends to forget.