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Scott Collison and the Software That Has to Earn Its Place
A doctorate in anthropology took Scott Collison into the business of understanding users. After leading Personify through its acquisition, he is taking the same question to Fourth: how does the software fit the working day?
Christopher O'Malley Made the Old Machine Move Fast
He built a career around an unfashionable proposition: old systems and established companies can learn new rhythms. Across mainframes, cloud software and cybersecurity, Christopher O'Malley made the quarterly promise his operating signature.
The Collect Call That Changed Mychelle Mollot’s Career
A geophysicist called Cognos from a rural Manitoba gas station and found an unexpected vocation. Three decades later, Mychelle Mollot still treats technical fluency, plain speech and curiosity as one job.
James O’Connell-Cooper Has Spent Two Decades Marketing the Work Behind the Work
From explaining the price of soy milk on New Zealand radio to leading growth marketing for vertical software in America, James O’Connell-Cooper has built a career around a deceptively hard brief: make useful systems feel human.
Brad Murdoch Is Betting the Help Desk’s Future Lives Behind Your Firewall
After two decades around B2B software and a string of acquired companies, Deskpro CEO Brad Murdoch is making a quieter AI pitch: useful automation, human judgment and infrastructure the security team can actually approve.
Daniel Barber Is Turning Privacy Into an Operating System
After years selling software built on customer data, Daniel Barber began asking a harder question: could a company map what it collects, honor what people ask, and make trust part of the machinery? DataGrail is his answer - and AI has made the question more urgent.
Tony Sumpster
Tony Sumpster is the CEO of Provar, the Salesforce-focused test automation company, a role he took on in December 2024. A veteran enterprise-software leader with roughly 25 years across corporate, private equity, and venture-backed companies, he previously ran Worksoft and Data Intensity as CEO and led Hewlett Packard Enterprise's largest software business unit as SVP and GM. He is known for turning around and scaling technology organizations and for building teams around diversity, passion, ability, and belief.
Eric Harber
Eric Harber is the CEO of KUKUI, the SaaS marketing, CRM, and analytics platform built for the automotive aftermarket. A Stanford-trained engineer with a Duke MBA, he has spent more than 25 years building and turning around global software companies - taking Hipcricket public as President and COO, running global product and marketing inside Amazon's Local Commerce group, leading Flowroute as CEO, and advising founders and boards as an Operating Partner at private equity firm Diversis Capital. He coaches high school wrestling and sits on the board of a Seattle-area nonprofit school.