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Martin Vanderploeg knows where the head start comes from
The Workiva co-founder spent years making complicated work easier to follow. His gifts to public universities put the same question to a different test: who gets the chance to begin?
Matthew Rizai’s second act began with paperwork
After building Engineering Animation, Matthew Rizai returned to Ames with people he already trusted. Their next company, Workiva, took on the awkward business of getting corporate numbers to agree.
Yasser Mahmud Built a Marketing Career Around the Hardest Product to Sell: Trust
The Workiva CMO began as a systems engineer, learned to translate complex products into plain stakes, and now markets software for work nobody can afford to get wrong.
Joel Capperella Took a CMO Job With a Category Problem Attached
After eight years helping Workiva turn complex reporting software into a global growth story, Joel Capperella chose an even less glamorous puzzle: making revenue recognition impossible to ignore.
Julie Iskow
Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.