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Lauren Weiner Makes the Numbers Tell a Better Story
The RapidRatings CMO has spent two decades turning complicated financial technology into stories people can act on - and insisting that marketing earn its seat at the table with evidence.
Gretchen Eischen Makes Complicated Companies Easy to Understand
She studied language, learned procurement from the customer side, and found her calling in marketing. At Avetta, Gretchen Eischen is using the same skill again: turning complexity into a promise people can repeat.
Kody Gurfein Built a Marketing Career on the Hardest Product to Fake: Clarity
She joined Exiger to build marketing from zero. A decade later, the English literature graduate is arguing that in an AI-mediated market, a company's clearest story may be part of its technical infrastructure.
Mohammad Ahmad Is Making the Invisible Supply Chain Legible
His career began in the unglamorous details of electronic components. A decade into Z2Data, Mohammad Ahmad is still betting that clean, connected information can turn supply-chain panic into preparation.
Justin Dillon Turned a Protest Song Into Supply-Chain Software
A touring musician followed one uncomfortable question from a Russian club to the State Department, a viral consumer tool and the procurement departments of global companies. Now FRDM AI is joining WiseTech - proof that Dillon's longest-running composition was a supply chain.
Jenna Wells
Jenna Wells is the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Supply Wisdom, a real-time risk intelligence platform based in New York. A former U.S. Marine Corps signals intelligence officer and Purdue University graduate, she spent nearly two decades in intelligence and third-party risk management, including leadership roles at Wellington Management and Iron Mountain, before joining Supply Wisdom. She rose through the company from Head of Customer Experience to Head of Product to Chief Operating Officer, and was named CEO in June 2025 alongside a $14 million Series B funding round led by Jurassic Capital. Notably, she used the Supply Wisdom platform as a customer before joining the team that builds it.
Paul Paget
Paul Paget is the CEO of Black Kite, a Boston-based third-party cyber risk platform he joined in 2019 after a career running cybersecurity companies including PwnieExpress, Savant Protection, and Core Security Technologies. A Bowdoin history major turned career security operator, he has built and sold a string of security businesses and now leads Black Kite in the security ratings market.
Michael Saracini
Michael Saracini is the CEO of Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company he has led since 2011. With over two decades building profitable high-growth software businesses across CRM, HCM, and supply chain, Saracini has positioned Aravo as the category-defining platform for third-party risk management - managing 10.5 million suppliers and vendors across 177 countries for global enterprises in financial services, pharma, high-tech, and consumer goods. Under his leadership, Aravo has earned five consecutive Chartis Category Leader designations, won the 2025 TPRM Innovator Award, and built an AI-driven TPRM platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies navigating an era of regulatory complexity.