
A production creative became a service-quality fixer, a cable marketer and the long-serving CMO who helped guide Boingo from startup to public company to private ownership. Her operating system is disarmingly simple: notice the problem, volunteer an idea and get comfortable being uncomfortable.

After three decades inside the chip business, Fares Mubarak is betting that the next computing bottleneck is not thought but conversation - the tiny, power-hungry wireless exchanges between intelligent devices.