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Gonzalo De Mujica and the Art of the Second Pass
Before Gonzalo De Mujica helped Traba win its first customers, he spent years learning how to see the whole field. His route from number 10 to founding operator is a study in carrying one kind of playmaking into another.
Before Alex Kevork Marketed Work, He Wired the Stage
A festival electrician became a product marketer by following the wires behind the show. Two decades later, Magnit Global's CMO still treats marketing as practical craft: listen closely, learn the machinery and make the complicated feel human.
Sarah Hodges Put On the Boots Before She Wrote the Message
The UKG chief marketing officer built her career by leaving the conference room - onto construction sites, into product teams, and closer to the people her companies serve.
Kelly Maiden Wants Marketing to Give You Goosebumps
The Aspect CMO has a simple test for creative work: it should make somebody feel something. Her route from a teenage auditorium to a global technology rebrand explains why she still steps away from the laptop to find the idea.
Sandra Moran Is Turning Training Into a Business Instrument
The Schoox CMO began in systems, learned to translate complex software into business value, and now wants workplace learning judged by what people can do next - not merely by what they completed.
Jason Radisson Learned Work From the Night Shift - Then Built Systems for Millions
Before the algorithms came the warehouse, the kitchen and the boiler room. Jason Radisson turned an unusually wide education in work into a career scaling marketplaces - and a practical theory of how companies should treat the people who keep them moving.
Laura Wilbanks
Laura Wilbanks has spent a career translating corporate ambition into work a marketing team can actually do. Her method joins customer focus, measurable goals and an insistence that people bring their own voice to the room.
Yong Kim
Yong Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Wonolo, an on-demand staffing marketplace that connects businesses with more than one million frontline workers across the United States. Born in Seoul, he moved alone to a New Hampshire boarding school at 15, graduated as valedictorian, and went on to the University of Chicago and Harvard before a career in tech investment banking at Deutsche Bank. A stint at a Coca-Cola innovation accelerator exposed the broken state of hourly staffing and led him to launch Wonolo in 2014. The company has raised roughly $200 million, including a Sequoia-led round, and Kim has become a prominent voice for treating gig and hourly workers with dignity, flexibility, and fair pay.
Refresh
Refresh is a white-labeled employee-experience SuperApp that unifies benefits, wellness, recognition, communication, and onboarding into one branded mobile app. Born in 2007 as Refresh Body, a New York on-demand massage-and-yoga concierge for offices and hotels, it pivoted into HR technology aimed at the deskless and frontline majority of the global workforce. Its orchestration layer connects thousands of existing HR, payroll, and collaboration tools, then delivers the right resource to the right employee at the right moment - so benefits that companies already pay for actually get used.