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Manuel Zepeda and the Business of Knowing What Happens Next
After three decades spent turning telecom complexity into commercial decisions, Manuel Zepeda has taken on a broader forecast: helping DTN’s customers decide what to do before weather, markets, and risk decide for them.
David Uyttendaele Put the Copy Shop in the Cloud - Then Kept Rewriting It
A college friendship became an internet consultancy, then a way to send documents from a browser to a press beside an overnight runway. A quarter-century later, Mimeo's CTO is still working on the handoff between human intention and machines.
Mick Slattery and the Useful Art of Asking Why
Across consulting, transit systems, workplace technology and now specialty materials, Mick Slattery has kept returning to the same deceptively simple question: why must business work this way?
Steve Goodbarn Counted the Internet Before He Guarded It
An accountant learned to read the hidden arithmetic of networks, then built a second career protecting the address book of the internet. Steve Goodbarn's route from Janus Capital to Secure64 is a study in what happens when financial discipline meets invisible infrastructure.
Liang Rubo and the Discipline of Day One
He spent years building ByteDance from behind the screen. Now the engineer who shared a dorm room, a desktop and a startup with Zhang Yiming is asking a global company to move as if it were still day one.
Stephanie Buscemi Put Marketing Where the Product Meets the Ledger
She took the long way into technology, then spent a quarter-century turning difficult software into a story customers, developers and finance chiefs could share. Her method is unusually plain: get close to the product, count what matters and listen before speaking.
Abby Strong Learned the Pipes Before She Sold the Promise
Before she led markets and customers at Cribl, Abby Strong spent years inside the machinery of enterprise networks. That technical apprenticeship still shapes how she hires, explains, and listens.
Juliette Rizkallah and the 48-Hour Rule for Building What Lasts
From a teenage exchange trip out of Paris to boardrooms in Austin, Kong's first CMO has made a career of trusting the evidence, challenging convention and giving ambitious ideas time to work.
Josh Harbert Built a Career Turning Technical Complexity Into a Story People Can Act On
The Couchbase CMO began as a programmer, learned to speak both product and pipeline, and now carries that translation habit into enterprise AI and sustainable technology.
Kate Reed Markets the Quietest Outcome in Cybersecurity
After more than two decades turning dense enterprise technology into plain-spoken stories, Delinea’s CMO is selling an unusual promise: the reassuring calm of nothing going wrong.
Mahesh Singh Has Spent a Career Making Work Visible
The NimbleWork co-founder has moved from engineering to operations, product, consulting and marketing while keeping one durable idea in view: teams make better decisions when they can see the work.
Cindy Goodrich Is Marketing the Conversation Nobody Wants to Start
An engineer turned brand builder, Empathy's first CMO has spent two decades making new categories feel human. Her current brief may be the hardest one yet: earn attention without exploiting the moment.
Irit Gillath Knows How to Sell the Systems Nobody Sees
An industrial engineer turned marketing executive, Gillath has spent more than two decades translating technical systems into reasons to care. At Alacriti, the subject is money in motion - instant, intricate and mostly invisible.
Michael Holdmann Has Been Trying to Fix the Internet Since Before We Called It the Cloud
After five decades in telecom, cloud services, IoT and standards work, the PraSaga founder is making his longest bet yet: that blockchains need better objects, not more contracts.
Arvind Rajan Is Teaching Old ERPs New Tricks
After two decades inside enterprise software, Astute Business Solutions co-founder Arvind Rajan is betting that the useful future of AI will arrive through live demos, trusted data and upgrades to systems companies already depend on.
Krishna Khadloya Spent Decades Teaching Cameras to Notice What Matters
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Krishna Khadloya was building the plumbing beneath it - engineering teams, edge intelligence and systems that turn a camera from a witness into a decision-maker.
Amar Bandaru Built a Career in the Machinery Behind the Moment
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Amar Bandaru spent two decades doing the quieter work beneath it: building applications, leading distributed teams and translating technical possibility into something a client could use.
Mariano Werner Has a Taste for the Messy Middle
The Argentine lawyer turned operator spent years advising companies, then chose to carry the consequences himself. After Lemontech and an Examedi turnaround, his next assignment is scaling Toku in Chile.
Granger Whitelaw Is Trading Rocket Fuel for the Ocean Floor
After Indy wins, rocket-plane patents and a long tour through technology companies, Granger Whitelaw has taken on a quieter race: turning Impossible Metals' hovering robots into a working ocean-resource system.
Raghavendra Watada Built CALTEK for the Work Between Systems and Stakes
A micro-sensor project, a Fremont company and a portfolio spanning data, telecom and regulated operations reveal an executive drawn to the unglamorous work that keeps complex systems moving.
Anjali Yadav and the Quiet Machinery Behind a Tech Company
Her public footprint is spare, but the work around it is substantial: people, process and the long operational shift from IT consulting to enterprise AI.
Ron Rock Keeps Taking the Machine Apart
From midnight eggs at Denny’s to sensor networks in airports and factories, the Microshare co-founder has spent four decades making complicated systems useful - usually by opening them up first.
Rick Cantu Built Redapt by Treating Every Tech Boom Like a Customer Problem
He started with refurbished UNIX machines and kept changing the company before the market could change it. Thirty years later, Rick Cantu's durable advantage still sounds almost unfashionably simple: listen closely, own the outcome, and earn the next call.
B. Scott Davis and the Long Memory of Technology
He joined Western Digital when storage was measured in megabytes. Thirty-eight years later, B. Scott Davis is selling the overlooked layer of the AI economy: somewhere for all that intelligence to live.
Ryan Asdourian Learned Strategy in a Mascot Suit
Before Ryan Asdourian became Lumen's chief storyteller, he learned to read 90,000 people without saying a word. Now he is applying that education to a harder crowd: companies deciding how to rebuild their networks for AI.
John Ahlman Wants the Solar App to Be the Thing You Show Your Neighbors
SolarEdge's North America marketing chief has a practical theory of the energy transition: make the hardware work together, make the data legible, and give a happy homeowner something worth showing at the kitchen table.
Susan Macke Built a Career by Moving From the Machine Room to the Strategy Table
Before she advised CMOs on strategy, Susan Macke built operating systems, embedded software, and smartphones. Her career is a case study in how technical fluency becomes commercial judgment - one deliberate translation at a time.
Catherine Kniker
Catherine Kniker began by decoding crashed computers. Now the Irish-born PTC executive is working on a larger systems problem: helping manufacturers connect product data, business strategy and sustainability before the first part reaches the factory floor.
Simon Biddiscombe
Simon Biddiscombe is a British-born technology executive and chartered accountant who has spent more than two decades in senior finance and leadership roles across Silicon Valley. He is Executive Vice Chairman and a board member of MicroVision, the Redmond-based laser beam scanning and lidar company, a role he took in September 2025. He is best known for leading enterprise security firm MobileIron as CEO through its 2020 sale to Ivanti, and earlier for rising from CFO to CEO at semiconductor networking company QLogic. His career began at PricewaterhouseCoopers and includes CFO stints at Mindspeed Technologies and Wyle Electronics, plus an Executive Partner role at private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Sudeep Goswami
Sudeep Goswami is the CEO of Traefik Labs, the open-source company behind the widely used Traefik Proxy and the cloud-native API gateway platform Traefik Hub. He stepped into the top job on February 1, 2024, after serving as Chief Revenue Officer, with founder Emile Vauge moving to CTO. Goswami's career spans roughly 25 years across software engineering, network design, product management, marketing, and sales, with earlier stops at Cisco, Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), Tempo Automation, and Very Good Security. He is known for translating deep infrastructure engineering into commercial growth for developer-focused companies.