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Adam Christensen Has Spent 25 Years Making Technology Sound Human
Before BambooHR made him its first chief marketing officer, Christensen learned the trade in PR, helped tell PayPal's independence story, and spent years arguing that trust belongs on the same dashboard as growth.
Todd Aydelotte Runs New York's History - Then Gives Technology a Story
By day, Todd Aydelotte turns complicated technology into a clear argument. After hours, he turns archives into ultramarathons - following Tesla, Poe, Whitman and New York itself, one address at a time.
Stephen Bonsignore Keeps Asking the Questions Marketing Tries to Skip
After more than 25 years in brand communications, Crispin's chief marketing officer still starts with three plain questions: Why? Who? Where? The discipline is simple; the work never is.
John Montgomery Built Big by Making Birmingham His Biggest Client
He started with a laptop, a loft and a cell phone with comic proportions. Three decades later, John Montgomery’s most durable campaign is the compact promise behind Big Com: do ambitious work, and make the hometown better while you’re at it.
Lauren Banyar Reich Built a PR Firm for Real Life - Then Found Its Next Chapter
She started LBR/PR as a six-month experiment and spent more than 11 years proving that an agency could be candid, flexible and serious about earned trust. Its 2026 acquisition by Geben Communication made the experiment a blueprint.
Elizabeth Stephenson Built a Career Making Other People’s Work Legible
From teaching abroad to boardrooms in British Columbia, the Canadian communications executive has built a portfolio career around one practical skill: turning complicated organizations into stories people can act on.
Kathy Van Duzer Knows a House Is Also a Story
Before she negotiated homes on Long Island’s East End, Kathy Van Duzer negotiated millions in advertising media. Her career is a study in what happens when local knowledge meets a marketer’s instinct for attention.
Erik Thompson Makes Insurance Behave Like Entertainment
For two decades at Mercury Insurance, Erik Thompson has pursued a durable idea: when the product is complicated and the budget is finite, attention has to be earned with humor, culture and a reason to care.
Sharon Cooper Left the Newsroom and Took the Story to the Insurance Business
She spent the first act of her career explaining the news on camera. She has spent the second explaining a 115-year-old insurance company to the people who buy from it.
The Storyteller Behind Abbott
A journalism major who joined Abbott in 1996 now runs marketing, communications, and philanthropy for one of the biggest names in health - and she still argues the only thing that matters is whether you are relevant to the people you are trying to reach.
The Storyteller Behind the Storytellers
For 30 years he has sold the sellers - shaping how the world's biggest ad networks talk about themselves. Now he runs communications and marketing for dentsu, a 68,000-person business spread across the globe.
Steven Cragle Built a Career by Staying Curious
Across city government, agencies, Medtronic, Merck and UnitedHealth Group, Steven Cragle kept returning to one deceptively simple idea: good communication begins with curiosity about the whole person.
Krista Todd
She spent a career learning how to make people trust technology. Now she runs marketing for the company whose whole job is keeping 500 million of them safe online.
Jennifer George
She briefs CEOs, steers companies through their worst news days, and has spent more time in boardrooms than most people spend in traffic. Meet the communications operator behind some of America's most talked-about consumer brands.
Kelly Urban
Kelly Urban is the Chief Marketing Officer of Maui Jim, the Hawaii-born sunglasses maker now part of the Kering Eyewear group. Based in New York, she leads brand and marketing for a company famous for its PolarizedPlus2 lenses and aloha-rooted identity. Before Maui Jim she built a marketing and communications career that included time at GoPro and the agency Formula Public Relations, with strengths in strategic communications, brand storytelling, and team leadership.
Krista Mullen
Krista Fraioli Mullen is Chief Marketing Officer of Eleventy USA, LLC, the New York arm of the Milan-founded 'smart luxury' label Eleventy. She spent more than a decade at Harry Winston, climbing from US marketing coordinator to Director of US Marketing & Public Relations, learning to sell objects whose price is rarely printed. Educated in public relations at Hofstra University, she began her career in business development at Tangram International Exhibitions before moving into jewelry. At Eleventy she works on the American side of a brand that counts the United States as its largest market, roughly 45 percent of a business that reached about 125 million euros in 2025. Her public footprint is deliberately thin: one LinkedIn profile, no personal Instagram, no manifesto. In an industry that mistakes volume for influence, that is its own kind of statement.
Jennifer Rankin Byrne
Jennifer Rankin Byrne is the founder and principal of MERIT Coaching Communications Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she coaches leaders and communicators to sharpen their voice, build executive presence, and lead with authenticity. She brings more than two decades of communications leadership, including years as Vice President of Corporate Communications at PBS and earlier roles at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, AOL, and Turner Broadcasting/CNN. Her practice blends real-world corporate experience with a curiosity-led, customized coaching approach summed up in her tagline: 'Communicate with purpose. Grow with confidence.'
Sarah Kissko Hersh
Sarah Kissko Hersh is a public relations and communications leader with more than 25 years of agency and brand experience, and the founder of Type A Consultancy, a communications and leadership practice based just outside New York City. A Top 2% LinkedIn creator with a following in the tens of thousands, she works as a PR coach, trainer, and fractional communications advisor, helping executives and teams get unstuck, tell simpler stories, and communicate with clarity and kindness.
Kari Perez
Kari Perez is Vice President of Gaming Communications at Microsoft, where she leads global PR and communications strategy for Xbox. She joined the Xbox team in March 2021 after a distinguished career spanning gaming, streaming, and entertainment — including VP-level roles at Netflix Latin America and corporate affairs at HBO Latin America. Multilingual and internationally experienced, Perez has become one of the most prominent communications voices in the gaming industry, issuing statements on major Xbox announcements ranging from Game Pass price changes to leadership speculation.
Liz Mair
Liz Mair is a dual US-UK communications strategist and opposition researcher who runs Mair Strategies LLC. A recovering private equity lawyer turned political operative, she ran online communications for the Republican National Committee in 2008, advised presidential campaigns from Rand Paul to Carly Fiorina, and became a free-speech cause celebre when Congressman Devin Nunes sued her alongside a parody cow Twitter account. A self-described libertarian, she is a fixture on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and Real Time with Bill Maher, and writes for outlets from Reason to The New York Times.
Caitlin Epstein
Caitlin Epstein is VP of Corporate Communications at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering customer engagement for businesses worldwide. Since joining in 2015, she helped navigate Twilio through its IPO and became one of tech PR's sharpest voices on human-centered storytelling - best known for turning a CEO's breakfast burrito delivery into a Forbes-covered $3 billion acquisition narrative.
Cortney Lusignan
Cortney Lusignan is a seasoned communications and public relations executive currently serving as Senior Program Manager, AWS Communications, supporting the AWS Global Communications Vice President at Amazon Web Services. With a career spanning major PR agencies including Weber Shandwick and Edelman, and deep industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, and technology PR, Lusignan has built a reputation as a trusted operator at the intersection of enterprise cloud and strategic communications.
Daniella Vallurupalli
Daniella Vallurupalli is the Vice President and Head of Global Communications at Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company. She joined Cloudflare in 2014 when it had fewer than 80 employees and built its communications organization from the ground up. Today she oversees all internal and external communications across public relations, corporate and employee comms, analyst relations, social media, and visual storytelling for one of the most recognized brands in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
Hassan Al Shouli
Hassan Al Shouli is a senior communications and strategic business executive at Microsoft's CEMA (Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) President Office, based in the UAE. With nearly two decades of career experience, he has shaped Microsoft's presence across the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and broader MEA region through executive communications, multi-channel campaigns, and leadership engagement. Before Microsoft, he spent years in the fast-moving MENA digital market at dubizzle and analytics consultancies. He holds an MBA from Cass Business School (now Bayes) and a BSc in Electronics, Engineering, and Communications from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips spent 18 years at Microsoft rising to VP of Communications, where he led PR strategy for the company's advertising business, managed media around major acquisitions, guided CEO communications, and drove narratives through cultural transformations. With over four decades of total PR experience, he left Microsoft in late 2024 to launch Upstream Communications, a Seattle-based strategic communications firm focused on helping clients tell their stories with precision and purpose.
Natalie Miyake
Natalie Miyake is Partner, Marketing at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most storied venture capital firms. A seasoned communications strategist who grew up in Japan and studied in Madrid before working in New York and San Francisco, she shapes how Sequoia tells its story to the world. With a career spanning crisis PR at Brunswick Group, corporate communications at Twitter during its most turbulent acquisition years, and nearly a decade steering Sequoia's voice across its portfolio of unicorns and breakout companies, Miyake brings a rare mix of global perspective and Silicon Valley fluency to the intersection of finance and narrative.