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Ashley Emery Wants Marketing to Count What Matters - and Feel It, Too
The VelocityEHS CMO built her career on funnels, forecasts and revenue accountability. Now she is making the case that rigorous marketing still needs a pulse.
Allan Malcolm Is Teaching Marketing Teams to Work With AI - Without Sounding Like It
After two decades across Autodesk, Trimble and now Voxel, the Ontario-based CMO has a bracingly practical rule for AI marketing: train the system, protect the voice, and keep a human in the room from the first move.
Andrew Leahy Is Turning the Safety Button Into a System
A personal loss sent the former financial analyst searching for a faster call for help. A decade later, POM Safe is moving upstream - from emergency response to the quieter work of spotting risk before a visit begins.
Daryl Hancock Spent 25 Years Making Invisible Risks Visible
Before RMEC joined a global compliance group, it began with four partners, a handful of clients and one founder working full-time. Daryl Hancock turned that unglamorous beginning into a 25-year study in making risk legible.
Nic Patee Built a Company Around the Moment Before Something Goes Wrong
A former college ballplayer turned physical therapist saw an expensive habit hiding in plain sight: work waited for trouble. His answer was to make prevention part of the shift.
David Fontain
David Fontain is the co-founder and CEO of Foresight, a San Francisco insurtech that pairs workers' compensation coverage with its own safety technology, Safesite. An Australian who grew up on the Gold Coast and started out in investment banking, he built Foresight after a childhood friend died in a preventable workplace accident. The company underwrites for hard-to-place middle-market businesses in industries like construction and manufacturing, using an 'engage and save' model that rewards safer companies with faster premium relief. Foresight has raised tens of millions from investors including OMERS Ventures, and its technology is credited with cutting workplace incident frequency by double digits.
Sercan Esen
Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of Intenseye, a New York-based AI company that plugs into the CCTV cameras already bolted to the walls of factories, warehouses and construction sites and watches, in real time, for the kinds of small unsafe acts that eventually kill people. A former Sony AI consultant with two degrees from Boğaziçi University, he spent the first two years of the company walking factory floors in 50-plus plants - making ice cream, assembling cars - before deciding what the software should look like. Intenseye now runs 120+ computer-vision models across facilities in 26 countries and has raised roughly $94 million, including a $64 million Series B led by Lightspeed in 2024. Esen is a 2023 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
Robert Schiller
Robert Schiller is the CEO of Impairment Science, Inc., the Cambridge, Massachusetts company behind DRUID, a smartphone app that measures cognitive and motor impairment in under three minutes through four game-like tasks. A repeat startup operator who has taken two high-tech companies public, Schiller runs a business built on a simple idea: instead of testing what is in your blood, test how your brain and body are actually performing right now. Under his leadership, DRUID has grown from a viral consumer download into Druid Enterprise, a workplace-safety platform used to gauge readiness for duty across fleets, public-safety departments, and employers.
Vivek Kumar
Vivek Kumar is the CEO and co-founder of Teamforce AI, a San Francisco software company that builds what it calls a 'system of proof' for operational risk. Instead of treating safety as a paperwork exercise, his platform surfaces the hazards and near-misses that never get reported, then verifies that fixes actually change behavior on the factory floor. A Wharton graduate, FINRA-licensed finance professional turned operator, patent holder, and angel investor, he hosts the Frontline Advantage podcast and works with manufacturers like Detroit Manufacturing Systems and BASF.
Jenni Ellis
Jenni Ellis is the Executive Assistant to the CEO at CompScience, a San Francisco insurtech building AI control systems that aim to prevent one million workplace injuries by 2035. The right hand to founder Josh Butler, she runs the day-to-day machinery behind a fast-scaling, Series B startup. Before CompScience she logged operations and office-management time across some of the Bay Area's best-known tech names - Replicate, DoorDash, Instacart, and Dropbox - building a reputation as the steady operator who keeps founders and offices moving. Colleagues describe her as vivacious and enthusiastic, a natural leader who keeps tabs on the day-to-day flow of a business.
Josh Butler
Josh Butler is the founder and CEO of CompScience, a San Francisco AI company that turns ordinary workplace cameras into a real-time safety system. He was building perception software for self-driving cars when a family member was badly hurt on a construction site, and he redirected that same computer-vision technology toward stopping workplace injuries. Today CompScience detects more than 50 behavioral and environmental hazards on camera, bundles the analytics into a workers' compensation insurance product, and counts hundreds of enterprise customers across construction, manufacturing, warehousing and food service.
Janine Yancey
Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.