
A Buffalo return brought her to Crowley Webb in 2003. One improbable acquisition, a hand-lettered office reminder to “Serve,” and two decades later, she is leading the independent agency into its next forty years.

Before Y Combinator said yes, the HealthKey founder logged 727 days, five product iterations and one memorably stubborn sales campaign. His story is a study in turning rejection into operating data.

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.
Bask Gill is the Co-Founder of Power (withpower.com), a San Francisco-based clinical trial platform that uses AI to match patients with clinical trials. After watching his father struggle to navigate a broken clinical trial discovery system following a multiple myeloma diagnosis, Bask co-founded Power in May 2021 alongside Brandon Li. The platform has connected over 600,000 patients to trials across 10,000+ medical conditions, with 40% being non-white patients - a deliberate focus on diversity and access. Power has raised $19M in funding including a $12M Series A in early 2024, and grown to 230 employees.