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Oleg Shardin Put a Whiteboard on the Internet. Then He Went Looking for a Story.
Before remote work made the digital canvas feel inevitable, Shardin helped build one from a practical annoyance in Perm. His second act trades sticky notes for screenplays, while keeping the same fascination with how people understand one another.
Andrey Khusid Put the Whiteboard in a Browser. Then the World Caught Up.
A boy who rehearsed newspaper pitches at a tram stop built an infinite canvas for more than 100 million people. Fifteen years later, his neatest diagram has become his hardest decision.
Nathan Rawlins Makes Enterprise Software Feel Human
From Jive’s social-business era to Puppet’s grown-up rebrand and Lucid’s viral dog diagrams, Nathan Rawlins has spent two decades giving serious software a pulse. Now he is drawing the map between AI promise and the untidy way work actually happens.
Afshan Azhar
Afshan Azhar is the Chief Executive Officer of Mural, a leading visual collaboration platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, with over 900 employees and $193 million in total funding. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan, Azhar leads a company that has become a cornerstone of enterprise collaboration - enabling remote and hybrid teams to brainstorm, map customer journeys, run design sprints, and facilitate workshops through an AI-powered digital canvas. Mural serves thousands of enterprises globally, integrating deeply with Microsoft 365, Slack, and other productivity ecosystems.
Leigh-Margaret Stull
Leigh-Margaret Stull is the CEO of Mural, the visual work platform trusted by 95% of Fortune 100 companies. Appointed in July 2024, she brought over 25 years of operational and product leadership to the role, having previously served as COO and CPO at CareerBuilder. A Kentucky native now based in San Francisco, she is driving Mural's AI-first strategy around the conviction that empathy, creativity, and trust are the capabilities AI can amplify but never replace.