
After seven years in Europe, Renan Conde returned to Brazil to build Factorial’s local operation. The harder lesson came after the hiring: how to turn a fast-growing sales team into a business that could keep its promises.
Sarah Franklin is the CEO of Lattice, the people-management platform headquartered in San Francisco. A Virginia Tech-trained chemical engineer and biochemist, she spent 15+ years at Salesforce, where she built Trailhead into a movement and later served as President and Chief Marketing Officer before stepping into Lattice's top job in January 2024 to rewire HR for the AI era.