
Before she became CEO of RGA Australia and New Zealand, Alissa Holz spent years thinking about how institutions learn. Her career connects the mathematics of risk with the rather less tidy business of people.

From RCA’s semiconductor labs to EchoPixel, Ronald B. Schilling kept changing jobs to learn the part of technology he did not yet understand. Along the way, the engineer became a marketer, an executive, an investor, and a teacher.