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Bastian Nominacher Learned to Read a Business Before He Taught Software How
A baker’s son from Bavaria found his calling in the digital crumbs companies leave behind. Fifteen years after a student project became Celonis, he is still asking the same practical question: where, exactly, does the work get stuck?
Martin Klenk Learned to Read the Invisible
Before Celonis could map the hidden life of a global company, its CTO had to learn that computers keep better diaries than people do. His career began with a 286, a library shelf and the pleasure of making difficult things work.
Rob Acker Spent 24 Years Selling the Cloud. Now He Wants to Make It Understand Itself.
The former Salesforce.org chief has returned to a problem he first noticed in the cloud’s early days: access to software is easy; making it work well is the difficult last mile.
Alexander Rinke
A mathematics student found a way to make invisible business processes visible. Fifteen years, thousands of handwritten letters and one clapped-out Opel later, Alexander Rinke is trying to give enterprise AI the context it lacks.
Avinash Misra
Avinash Misra is the CEO and co-founder of Skan AI, a Menlo Park-based enterprise AI company pioneering process intelligence and agentic automation. A serial entrepreneur who graduated from IIT Kanpur, he previously co-founded Endeavour Software Technologies — acquired by Genpact in 2015 — before launching Skan in 2018 with longtime partner Manish Garg. Skan has raised $54M in total funding, landed on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and launched the Agentic Ontology of Work (AOW) — a first-of-its-kind semantic framework for human-AI collaboration — positioning the company as the context infrastructure layer for the enterprise AI era.