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Christian Kunkel Wants Marketing to Be Useful Before It Is Clever
The Fingercheck CMO began with a prank, once turned location data into a comic book, and now treats customer support calls as required reading. His method is disarmingly plain: make people feel smarter, then get out of their way.
Josh McCullough Learned Marketing from the Revenue Side of the Table
After two decades spanning sales, HR technology, collaboration software, and AI contracts, Greenshades' CMO has a plain conviction: marketing works when it shares a scoreboard with revenue.
Asher Adeniyi Turned Payday Into a Product
Before payroll became his product, people were already his business. Asher Adeniyi's path from a shy recruitment founder to Eazipay CEO is a study in second chances, dependable systems and the quiet drama of paying everyone on time.
Paul Kimani Bet the Company on the Boring Part
A profitable consultancy had customers, staff and momentum. Paul Kimani closed it anyway, kept five people, and built Workpay around the overlooked machinery that makes payday feel ordinary across Africa.
Vijay Yalamanchili
Vijay Yalamanchili is the founder and CEO of Keka HR, a Hyderabad-born HR and payroll software company he built after growing frustrated with the clunky HR tools on the market. An engineer by training with earlier startups behind him, he bootstrapped Keka for roughly six years before raising a $57 million round from WestBridge Capital in 2022, reported at the time as India's largest Series A for a SaaS company. Keka now serves thousands of organizations and processes payroll for millions of employees each month, built around a focus on employee experience and disciplined, profit-led growth.
Jordan Wallach
Jordan Wallach is the co-founder and CEO of Belfry, a New York-based vertical SaaS company building the operating system for physical security firms. A Stanford math-and-computing grad who passed through Microsoft and McKinsey, he bet his career on one of the least glamorous corners of the economy: the back office of America's 8,000 security-guard companies. In January 2025 Belfry raised a $12 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, taking total funding past $20 million, to consolidate scheduling, timekeeping, payroll and billing into a single platform for a roughly $50 billion industry.