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Christophe Jeusse
Christophe Jeusse is the Chief Executive Officer of Peoplelink Group, a South Bend, Indiana staffing company that provides administrative, industrial, skilled trade and professional contract workers to businesses across the United States. A French-trained finance executive with more than two decades in employment services, he moved from the international side of France's Groupe Crit into the top job at its U.S. staffing arm. He was recognized by Candidately's World Staffing Awards as one of the top 100 staffing leaders to watch in 2023 and nominated again in 2025.
Joss Leufrancois
Joss Leufrancois is the co-founder and CEO of Visage, an AI-and-human recruitment platform that crowdsources qualified, ready-to-interview candidates for large employers. A French-born entrepreneur who learned recruiting across London, Dubai, and the US, he previously co-founded and ran the recruitment agency Aldelia before selling it, then launched Visage in Dubai in 2015-2016. Today he runs the fully remote company from a ranch near Austin, Texas, blending a global sourcer network with data science to build candidate pipelines in 24-48 hours for clients that have included Tesla, Adecco, GoDaddy, and Virgin.
Mike Shebat
Mike Shebat is the co-founder and CEO of Traba, a New York-based labor marketplace that supplies vetted on-demand workers to warehouses, distribution centers, and light industrial employers. He started the company in 2021 after seeing, from inside a McMaster-Carr shipping floor and later Uber Eats, how often temp workers simply don't show up. Traba has raised roughly $46 million from Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, and Shebat, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, runs it on a famously intense in-office schedule.
Jon Beck
Jon Beck is the Founder and CEO of Ursus, Inc., a San Francisco-based staffing firm he built from scratch in 2015 into one of the fastest-growing in the U.S., recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for four consecutive years. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate and three-time rugby All-American, Beck brings 25+ years of technology executive experience across startups and global enterprises — including a stint at Cisco-acquired Embrane — to a company built around technical and creative talent for the digital transformation era.
Vivian Wang
Vivian Wang is the founder and CEO of LANDED, a generative-AI hiring platform built for the people who never had software built for them: the line cooks, cashiers, baristas and shift managers behind America's restaurants, hospitality groups and retailers. Launched in late 2019, LANDED automates sourcing, screening, vetting and interview scheduling for high-volume hourly roles, and by 2025 had grown to 500+ business customers, a database of 3.2 million-plus candidates and 6.3 million-plus job matches. A Princeton graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Enterprise Technology, Wang has raised roughly $8.7M from investors including Javelin Venture Partners and Blockchain Capital, and frames her mission around the 2.7 billion hourly workers worldwide.
Naren Kini
Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Anil Dharni
Anil Dharni is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sense, a San Francisco-based AI-powered talent engagement platform that serves over 1,000 organizations. Before reshaping how companies hire, he co-founded Funzio, the mobile gaming studio behind 'Crime City' and 'Modern War,' which sold to GREE for $210 million in 2012. At Sense, backed by SoftBank with $106 million raised and a $500M valuation, he is on a mission to humanize the contingent workforce and make candidates feel genuinely valued through AI, automation, and omnichannel communication.
Jay Campbell
Jay Campbell is a Knoxville-based fractional AI GTM leader and serial product builder who spent 15+ years in enterprise sales at Staffmark, Avionte, and Sense before turning his builder habit into the point of it all. He has shipped 45+ AI products - including Cadence (a personal AI OS with 50+ API integrations), DealIQ OS (an AI deal-coaching CRM), and getaFNjob - and writes the Selling with AI newsletter, which runs a 70% open rate. His thesis: most companies use AI to do the same things faster; winning teams use it to do things they could never do before.
Sumir Meghani
Sumir Meghani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Instawork, a San Francisco-based on-demand staffing platform connecting over 4 million skilled hourly workers with businesses across hospitality, light industrial, and warehousing sectors. A Stanford and Harvard Business School alumnus and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, Meghani built Instawork from a Y Combinator S15 startup into a $171.8M-funded company operating in 30+ markets across the U.S. and Canada, earning the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 Bay Area Award and back-to-back Inc. 5000 rankings.
Kedar Relangi
Kedar Relangi is the CEO and co-founder of Wilco Source, a Santa Clara-based Salesforce consulting firm specializing in healthcare and life sciences. Founded in 2014 alongside Sundar Ramasamy, Wilco Source became a go-to partner for pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, payers, and health providers seeking enterprise-wide Salesforce implementations. In November 2022, CitiusTech acquired Wilco Source in a strategic move to combine healthcare domain depth with specialized Salesforce delivery capabilities. With a background spanning computer science degrees from Osmania University and RWTH Aachen, and over 17 years in IT and healthcare technology, Relangi built Wilco Source into a ~440-person organization with roughly $55M in annual revenue before the acquisition.
Ram Naresh
Ram Naresh is the CEO and co-founder of Brillius Technologies, a Pleasanton, California-based IT services company he built from zero to $30 million in annual revenue over a decade. Starting as Formac Inc. in 2014, he steered the company through early-stage grind - 100-hour work weeks in the first five years - to become an Inc. 5000 honoree and a trusted DevOps and cloud transformation partner for Fortune 100 clients including Amazon, Apple, Verizon, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente. A former HP executive turned entrepreneur, he is now eyeing a doubling of revenue twice over the next ten years while expanding into AI, Canada, and Mexico.
Akhil Khera
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Leonard Adler
Leonard Adler is the founder and CEO of Green Jobs Network, a San Francisco-based social enterprise he launched in 2008 to connect job seekers with careers in sustainability, conservation, and clean energy. A Stanford-educated political scientist who went on to earn a J.D. from Georgetown Law and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School, Adler parlayed his early work in public-interest law and poverty research into building one of the internet's most active communities dedicated to green and climate careers. Under his leadership, Green Jobs Network has grown to run the largest LinkedIn group focused exclusively on green jobs—135,000+ members worldwide—while publishing a newsletter with more than 100,000 subscribers, hosting the Green Jobs Pod, and launching ClimateJobs.AI, an AI-powered career coaching platform. An Echoing Green Global Fellow and serial social entrepreneur, Adler has spoken at Stanford, the Commonwealth Club's Climate One, the National Career Development Association, and the Green Festivals, making him one of the most visible connectors in the climate workforce ecosystem.