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Anna Rolnicki Learned to Read a Room at Sea. Now She Helps GovTech Find Its Audience.
Before permits, planning applications and inspection reports, Anna Rolnicki worked the most literal kind of live audience: cruise passengers. Her route to Cloudpermit's C-suite is a study in attention, translation and the quiet craft of making complicated work matter.
He Sold His Software Company. Six Years Later, He Bought It Back.
Sam Saab built Results from a one-person consulting tool, watched an acquisition shelve it, then returned with a new platform and the old team. His four-decade career is a study in patient software, customer memory, and the uncommon art of a second beginning.
John Bevilacqua Spent 13 Years Making Space Electronics Smaller - Then Trident Came Calling
The Ibeos founder built the unglamorous electronics that keep ambitious spacecraft useful. An Air Force research program, a 40-watt space computer and a 2026 acquisition reveal his practical theory of innovation: listen closely, shrink the hardware and earn the right to fly.
Josiah Gruber
Josiah Gruber is the CEO of Scout Space, a Reston, Virginia company building sensors and software to detect, track and characterize objects in orbit. An optical and RF remote-sensing engineer with more than 15 years of hands-on experience, he joined Scout in 2023 as an engineer, rose to VP of Engineering and then CTO, and took the top job in late 2025. Under his leadership Scout raised an $18M Series A in May 2026 and is putting its Owl optical payload on the inaugural flight of Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft.