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Kristina Canada Wants Every Media Dollar to Answer a Harder Question
The Net Conversion CMO has spent two decades turning travel, entertainment and media into measurable business outcomes. Her latest campaign is for something harder to chart: human judgment.
Monica Kozak Makes Global Marketing Personal, Fifteen Minutes at a Time
At Bottomline, a 15-minute Monday ritual reveals Monica Kozak's operating idea: performance travels farther when people know one another. Her route to the C-suite runs through literature, sports broadcasting, agency work, e-commerce and the difficult art of making financial technology feel human.
The Vacation Business Is Built on Moments. Jeff Myers Runs the Machine Behind Them.
After 35 years inside one company, Jeff Myers still treats hospitality as a people business - only now the scoreboard includes 4,400 associates, 590,000 tours and more than $2.1 billion in annual sales.
Joe Nunziata Built a Mortgage Company, Sold It, Then Bought It Back
Joe Nunziata’s career is a study in the rarest corporate maneuver: building a company, selling it, and returning to buy it back. Two decades later, his Orlando card-table startup has become the base for a wider real estate services role.
Mark Daley Built the Last-Mile Machine Behind Clinical Trials
A biology graduate became a research coordinator, then built the local operating layer between ambitious study protocols and the people who make them possible. Conquest Research is now a six-location network across Florida, Virginia and Georgia.
She Built an Archaeology Firm Before the Field Had a Playbook
Anne Stokes started SEARCH as a graduate student in 1993. Three decades later, her career offers a field guide to turning patient science into an organization built for consequential work.
Tony Walker Sells the Vacation Before You Book It
He started on the timeshare floor and worked his way to the corner office of the biggest name in vacation ownership. The pitch never changed - only the size of the room.
Dusty Tonkin
He has spent nearly three decades learning how people decide to buy a piece of their own vacation. Now he runs sales and marketing for the company that turned that idea into a global business.
Robert Masson
Robert Masson is a neurosurgeon turned founder who runs eXeX (Expanded Existence), an AI and mixed-reality platform that captures surgical mastery and pipes holographic guidance into the sterile field. With more than three decades of spine surgery and 13,000-plus procedures behind him, he made global headlines for bringing the Apple Vision Pro into the operating room as a touch-free logistics tool. He is also the founder of the Masson Spine Institute and, at 52, raced to a podium at the Rolex 24 at Daytona alongside his eldest son.
Bill Catania
Bill Catania is the founder and CEO of OneRail, an Orlando-based last-mile delivery orchestration platform he started in 2018 with his wife Lisa at their kitchen table after a broken refrigerator exposed the gaps in same-day delivery. A three-time founder whose first company began in his Cornell dorm, Catania built OneRail into a venture-backed logistics technology company connecting enterprise retailers to a network of millions of drivers, raising a $42M Series C in late 2024 and earning recognition from Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Gartner and FreightWaves.