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Erin LaCombe knows who should pick up the phone
After a career running television newsrooms, Erin LaCombe built CV Strategies to help public agencies tell their stories. Now she is connecting the people who answer the questions when an entire valley needs information.
Jeffrey J. Kimbell and the art of getting people in the room
A Washington career, a live-music business, a charity drag race, and a classroom without walls. Jeffrey J. Kimbell keeps finding reasons for people to show up.
TJ Parker and the trouble with arriving
He sold PillPack to Amazon, found a ski town, and discovered that finishing a company did not finish his appetite for building. Now TJ Parker is back in the CEO chair, with familiar collaborators and a different sense of what the work is for.
Mark Abbott and the Long Education of a Company Builder
He spent decades studying why companies lose their way, then built software to keep them aligned. The harder lesson came when his own fast-growing company tested every framework he believed in.
Chris Andrew Bet the Next Website Visitor Wouldn't Be Human
He noticed himself asking ChatGPT for answers instead of opening 20 tabs. Three years later, Scrunch had turned that small behavioral tell into a new kind of marketing infrastructure - and a place inside Sitecore.
Knut Eliassen
Knut Eliassen is a Norwegian-American snowboarder turned marketing executive who serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Nitro Snowboards. Born in Minneapolis to a Norwegian father and a Minnesotan mother, he won a USASA national boardercross title at 15, moved to Norway at 16, and rode professionally for Nitro while completing a business degree at Handelshoyskolen BI. He joined Nitro in 2005 as a rider and rep, became the brand's global team manager, and worked his way up through sports marketing, marketing director, and VP of global marketing roles before being named CMO in 2025. Based in Salt Lake City, he oversees brand, media, social, video, and team departments for Nitro and L1 Outerwear, has produced and appeared in snowboard films including Hyped!, Boom, The Bad Seeds, and the documentary 28 Winters, and hosts Nitro's ten-part Learn To Snowboard tutorial series. His stated goal is simple: get more people onto snowboards.
Scott Raskin
Scott Raskin is the CEO of Worldly, the sustainability-intelligence platform behind the Higg Index used by tens of thousands of consumer brands. A 35-year operator with deep SaaS pedigree, he previously led Mindjet through its Spigit acquisition and served as president of Quotient Technology before pivoting to climate-aligned enterprise software.
Jeff Markowitz
Jeff Markowitz is an Advisory Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he serves as a go-to resource for the firm and its portfolio companies on executive hiring. Before returning to Greylock in an advisory capacity, he spent over six years at Alphabet as Vice President and Talent Advisor directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, helping shape leadership and succession at the board and management team levels of one of the world's largest companies. His career bridges two worlds - the high-stakes art of executive recruiting (with stints at Heidrick & Struggles and a national search firm) and the operational intensity of venture-backed company building.
Matthew Prince
Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure giant that powers roughly 20% of all web traffic worldwide. A recovering lawyer turned serial entrepreneur, Prince built Cloudflare from a Harvard Business School business plan competition entry into a publicly traded company with a market cap in the tens of billions. Equally at home discussing BGP routing and content moderation philosophy, he is widely regarded as one of the most consequential figures shaping how the internet actually works - for better or for worse, depending on who you ask.