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The Architect Who Gave a Cloud Company Permission to Exist
Before Propel had customers, offices or a name worth remembering, an investor wanted one answer: could Ron Hess build it? His yes became the hinge of a decade-long wager on product data in the cloud.
Josh Epstein Turns Engineering Complexity Into a Story People Can Use
A math-trained marketer who protects his mornings for whiteboards, Epstein has spent nearly three decades making dense enterprise technology legible. At Aras, his subject is the digital thread - and the next test is whether AI can be trusted with it.
Dario Ambrosini Learned Marketing by Misunderstanding One Word
A finance graduate who preferred customers to transactions, Dario Ambrosini built a SaaS career around translation: between numbers and narrative, engineers and buyers, and now search engines and AI.
Catherine Kniker
Catherine Kniker began by decoding crashed computers. Now the Irish-born PTC executive is working on a larger systems problem: helping manufacturers connect product data, business strategy and sustainability before the first part reaches the factory floor.
Tim Rumer
Tim Rumer is a sporting goods executive who serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Mizuno USA in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. A left-handed pitcher drafted by the New York Yankees out of Duke University in 1990, he spent eight professional seasons in the minors and reached Triple-A before trading the mound for the boardroom. At Mizuno he climbed from business unit manager to product and lifecycle leadership - including a stint running ball glove development - and now steers partnerships and growth across the company's team sports and golf divisions.
Garth Coleman
Garth Coleman is the CEO of Canvas GFX (Canvas Envision), a Boston-based manufacturing software company building tools that turn engineering data into interactive, 3D visual work instructions for frontline factory workers. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from Babson, he spent roughly 19 years at Dassault Systemes leading global strategy for 3D visualization, PLM, AR/VR, and generative AI before taking the top job at Canvas. He champions a 'connected knowledge' approach to manufacturing, arguing that the industry modernized its products and processes but left the people on the floor relying on static PDFs and printed checklists.
Mok Oh
Mok Oh is the co-founder and CEO of Foundation EGI, a startup building what it calls the world's first Engineering General Intelligence platform - an AI system that turns messy engineering instructions into machine-executable workflows for design and manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT Ph.D. in computer graphics and vision, he previously founded EveryScape (a Street View for building interiors), served as Chief Scientist at PayPal where he built the data science org, and was CTO of Mercari US. Foundation EGI, spun out of MIT research, raised a $23M Series A in 2025, bringing total funding past $30M.
Michael Boese
Michael Boese is the CEO of Specright, the first cloud-based Specification Data Management platform, appointed in April 2025. A seasoned enterprise software executive with 25+ years across Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Taleo, and multiple startup CEO roles, Boese brings a track record of scaling B2B SaaS companies through operational discipline and product innovation. Under his leadership, Specright is accelerating its mission to digitize product specifications across global supply chains, with $42M in total funding, $22.4M ARR, and ambitions to infuse AI across its platform to help manufacturers, retailers, and brands make better, more sustainable products.