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Jamie Walker Learned to Live by a Number - Then Helped Keyfactor Reach $100 Million
A college basketball player turned door-to-door salesperson brought an athlete's stamina and a seller's respect for the scoreboard to cybersecurity marketing. At Keyfactor, that education met a five-year run from roughly $15 million to more than $100 million in recurring revenue.
Marcella Sciorra Knows the Future of Advertising Still Has to Earn Your Trust
After two decades in media, Marcella Sciorra carried television's oldest lesson into healthcare advertising's newest frontier: reach means little without relevance, and relevance means little without trust.
Heather Smith Plays the Long Game Against Cybercrime
SpyCloud's first full-time marketer built a career around making complicated systems legible. Her other arenas - board games, curling ice, and conference floors - reveal how she thinks about teams, risk, and the next move.
Diyaar Wants to Take the Office Out of the Offsite
IRVI’s new nature base near Islamabad replaces the standard corporate retreat with something slower: shared meals, local craft, cultural memory and enough quiet to hear a different idea.
Art of Everyone Found a Better Corporate Icebreaker: Hand the Room a Paintbrush
The Bridgeport studio guides non-artists with a laser, turns a roomful of wary guests into co-authors, and leaves the host with something better than another branded tote bag.
Shannon Williams Is Turning School Communication Into an Operating System
After years of selling software to businesses, Shannon Williams has taken on a more human brief: helping school districts reach every family, protect their identity, and turn routine messages into trust.
Andretti Indoor Karting & Games
The racing surname is real, the karts hit real speed, and the business behind them is quietly turning empty afternoons into corporate team-building budgets - one 14-venue location at a time.
Alicia Chrapaty
From a three-note tax jingle to an AI-enabled national brand, Alicia Chrapaty has built a career by making complicated products feel human - while keeping one eye on the story and the other on the numbers.
Marco Experiences
Marco Experiences is a San Francisco startup that turns the miserable job of booking a company offsite into something closer to a search box. Its AI scans 4,000-plus vetted hotels, negotiates group rates 20-40% below retail, and lets teams book rooms, meeting space, and meals with no phone calls, contracts, or service fees. Founded in 2019 by Suman Siva and Nick Freeman, Marco started life as a social-events product, pivoted through virtual experiences during the pandemic, and landed on group travel for distributed teams - now used by 5,000+ teams including Figma, Gusto, Ramp, and Notion.
CoffeeSpace
CoffeeSpace is a mobile-first, AI-powered matchmaking platform that helps founders, talent, and startups find each other - swiping their way to a cofounder, a first hire, or a team to join. Often described as 'Hinge for cofounders,' it uses granular filters and dual-sided compatibility matching to pair ambitious builders by skills, working style, time commitment, and equity preferences. Founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco, the app has grown to 30,000+ users across 100+ countries.
Eric Bensley
Eric Bensley is VP of Product Marketing - CRM at ServiceNow, bringing over 25 years of experience in CRM solutions and enterprise software marketing. A self-described 'recovering perfectionist' and introvert who built product marketing functions at Citrix, Salesforce, and Asana before joining ServiceNow, he is known for translating complex enterprise platforms into crisp, sticky messaging - and for believing that great leaders grow people, not just products.
Alexander Patterson
Alexander Patterson is the founder and CEO of BEAT THE BOMB, the immersive social video game where teams in hazmat suits race through networked game rooms and either disarm a bomb or get blasted with paint, slime, or foam. A former tax lawyer turned Tough Mudder marketing chief, he built BEAT THE BOMB into a multi-city experiential entertainment brand that has hosted corporate teams from Google, Citi, Bloomberg, and Amazon, raising $22 million to expand across the United States.
Francis Barte
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
Suzanne Holloway
Suzanne Holloway is the Operating Partner for Go-to-Market at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. A hands-on marketing leader who helped Miro scale from pre-Series A to a $17.5 billion valuation, she now advises Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies on building marketing strategies and high-performing teams. With deep roots in early-stage B2B startups - from Greenhouse Software to Zugata (acquired by Culture Amp) - Holloway brings rare operational credibility to a firm better known for writing checks than rolling up sleeves.