
After petabyte queries, self-driving reliability, and real-time video, Ellen Hui tried to repair the place where company data so often goes to lose its freshness: the slide deck.
Jim Szafranski is the CEO of Prezi, the visual communications platform used by over 100 million people worldwide and more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. A MIT computer scientist and Stanford MBA, he joined Prezi in 2015 as COO and rose to CEO in 2020, steering the company's pivot from presentation software to a full visual suite encompassing Prezi Present, Prezi Video, and Prezi Design. Before Prezi, he spent a decade at Fiberlink building MaaS360, a mobile enterprise cloud platform acquired by IBM in 2013. He is known for applying rigorous process frameworks — including OKRs and strategic foresight influenced by Intel's Andy Grove — to scale technology companies.