
At Pandatron, Dima Syrotkin is turning a founder’s long interest in self-awareness into an AI system for the awkward human work between corporate strategy and execution.

After IBM bought her previous startup, Deidre Paknad discovered that scale could turn strategy into slides, meetings and stale status reports. WorkBoard is her long campaign to give leaders a living system for turning ambition into visible outcomes.
Charlie Newark-French is the CEO of Cascade, an AI-powered strategy execution platform used by roughly 400 enterprises including PepsiCo, Roche, St. Jude and the World Wildlife Fund. A four-time enterprise software CEO who previously ran Hyperscience and Sharpen, he started at McKinsey, holds a BA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard, and argues that strategy should run like a live operating system rather than a PowerPoint deck. He hosts the executive podcast 'This Way Forward.'