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Neal Singh and the Quiet Art of Making Software Companies Work
Across Microsoft, Caradigm, Icertis, and Zenoti, Neal Singh has made a career of turning complicated enterprise software into an operating system for growth. His favorite description of the work is simpler: he is a builder, one brick at a time.
Lisa Graham Learned to Read a Factory. Now She Is Teaching AI to Listen.
The chemical engineer who once ran high-pressure experiments now leads Seeq with a stubbornly human idea: industrial AI matters only when it helps the people who understand the plant make a better decision.
Douglas Gourlay and the Seventy-Percent Decision
The former infantry officer and networking inventor now runs a data company by one compact rule: prepare hard, decide before certainty arrives, and own what happens next.
Kenny Hsu and the Arithmetic of Anywhere
He spent years making revenue predictable. Now Armada's chief business officer is helping take compute, connectivity, and AI to places where almost nothing is predictable.
Anne Baker Came Back to Make the Invisible Work Visible
The mechanical engineer turned marketer left Adaptiva, learned the machinery of global alliances, then returned to explain a quiet technology problem with enormous consequences.
Mark Jewett Has Spent 25 Years Making Complicated Technology Make Sense
From SQL Server to healthcare AI, the self-described data geek has built a career around a stubborn idea: sophisticated technology only matters when people can understand why it belongs in their work.
Mika Yamamoto Is Giving Customer AI a Human Job Description
After years spent joining the seams between marketing and customer experience, Mika Yamamoto has arrived at Veeam with a larger brief: make AI useful without making the customer feel processed.
Adriana Gil Miner Has Spent a Career Making Data Speak. Now She Is Teaching Us Which Voices to Trust.
The arts-minded daughter of two engineers built her career finding human stories in numbers. At Pindrop, that instinct has led her to a harder question: what happens when a familiar voice is no longer proof of a familiar person?
Pam Cory Knows the Question That Gets a Room Moving
The INRIX chief marketing officer has spent decades translating complicated technology into useful choices. Her more revealing skill is simpler: asking the question that lets everyone else into the room.
Christina Mautz Builds Marketing Around the Customer, Not the Fashion of the Moment
Across Yahoo, Amazon, Moz and a succession of Seattle startups, Christina Mautz has kept returning to one unfashionably durable idea: growth begins with understanding the customer.
Isaac Roybal Came Back to Seclore With a New Operating System
The former systems engineer has spent more than 25 years translating complicated technology into reasons to care. After leaving Seclore, he returned with a 90-day experiment: make AI part of the work, not a decorative side project.
Ryan Gavin Has Spent 25 Years Making Complicated Technology Feel Like the Next Obvious Thing
From Bing and Surface to AWS machine learning, Convoy and Slack, Gavin has built a career at the seam between product and market. His latest bet is that AI becomes useful when it joins the conversation already in progress.
Michael Schultz Has Spent 20 Years Teaching New Software Categories to Speak Enterprise
From PlaceWare and DocuSign to Bugcrowd, Nintex, Enlyft, and LogicGate, Schultz keeps arriving where useful technology still needs a language the enterprise can trust.
Bala Vishwanath Has Spent 25 Years Marketing What Comes Next
An engineer turned founder turned CMO, Vishwanath keeps returning to the same hard problem: how do you explain a technical shift before the market has agreed on the words for it? At SeekOut, that question now belongs to agentic AI and recruiting.
Brian Goldfarb Still Thinks Like a Developer. Now He Debugs the Story.
He started by writing code, learned to translate technology for humans, and built a career around one stubborn idea: marketing works when it behaves like an operating system, not an ornament.
Michael Atalla Is Translating the Agentic Enterprise
From writing code to helping move Office into the cloud, Michael Atalla has built a career around moments when technology changes faster than its story. At UiPath, his assignment is to make agentic automation concrete, trusted, and useful.
Tony Owens
Tony Alika Owens is the Chief Executive Officer of Amperity, the AI-powered lakehouse customer data platform, a role he took in November 2024. A veteran enterprise software operator with more than 20 years of experience, he spent a decade at Salesforce running field operations in the Americas as the company grew from $1.4 billion to well over $20 billion in revenue, held a group vice president role at Oracle, and served as president of worldwide field operations at LivePerson. He also sits on several boards and is known for a relentless focus on customer value.
Manny Medina
Manny Medina is the co-founder and CEO of Paid, a London-based platform that lets companies bill for AI agents based on the value they deliver instead of per-seat fees. Before Paid he built Outreach, the sales engagement company he grew from a near-dead recruiting marketplace into a business worth $4.4 billion with roughly $250 million in recurring revenue. An Ecuadorian computer engineer who was an early employee on what became AWS and spent six years at Microsoft, Medina is now betting that the seat-based SaaS pricing model is obsolete and that the agent economy needs a way to get paid.
Abhijit Mitra
Abhijit Mitra is the chief executive of Outreach, the Seattle-based sales execution platform used by Cisco, McKesson, Okta, SAP, Siemens and Verizon. A self-described technologist with more than two decades of product leadership at Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow and Commure, he was elevated from President of Product & Technology to CEO in September 2024, succeeding co-founder Manny Medina. He is reorienting the company around agentic AI for revenue teams.