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Gerald Denny Still Sees Patients Between Board Meetings
A practicing nephrologist who runs the medical side of a $1.9 billion device business, and still keeps a standing clinic day.
Madeleine Ormond
Madeleine Ormond is a New York based business strategist and co-founder of The Backflip Group, a boutique consulting firm built to move companies from strategy to reality. She spent more than a decade working inside tech startups and larger technology companies before co-founding the firm, where she leads on product strategy, financial modeling, go-to-market planning, and the kind of hands-on execution that turns a plan into a working operation. Her work centers on helping growing companies test ideas at low risk, sharpen their thinking, and build foundations that scale.
Jordan Long
Jordan Long is the CMO and General Partner at ESO Fund, a San Mateo-based fintech firm that provides non-recourse funding to startup employees seeking to exercise stock options or unlock liquidity from private shares. A Bay Area native with a background in data analytics and mathematical economics from Wake Forest University, Jordan joined ESO Fund in 2018 and has built its marketing engine from the ground up, growing the fund through five vehicles and over $200 million in capital. He co-authors the firm's newsletter 'ESO's Monthly Start-Up' and serves as press contact, blending analytical rigor with editorial instinct in a niche that sits at the intersection of venture capital, tax planning, and employee financial wellness.