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Dinesh Malkani and the puzzle of the empty desk
After leading Cisco in India and SAARC, Dinesh Malkani helped build Smarten Spaces around a deceptively ordinary question: how do you get the right people into the right space, at the right time? His answer makes room for software, singing games, and the occasional pizza call.
Brian Muse Built Software for the Office. Then the Office Vanished.
Robin's co-founder spent a decade teaching rooms to understand people. The harder lesson arrived when people stopped going to rooms at all.
Kamal Mahyuddin Kept Choosing the Work Before It Looked Important
Before workplace software became a category, a Malaysian Rubyist arrived at Envoy as its second engineering hire. The quiet thread through his career is a taste for useful infrastructure - the kind people notice only after it works.
Diane Carlson Makes Complicated Technology Feel Like the Next Obvious Step
After three decades selling everything from secure deal rooms to invisible biometrics, Modo Labs' chief marketing officer has learned that well-designed technology does not demand attention. It quietly clears the way.
The Customer Is Already Talking: Meg Swanson’s Job Is to Make Software Listen
After two decades translating technical products into human choices, Eptura’s Chief Market Officer now runs product, marketing, and user experience together. Her thesis is disarmingly practical: listen closely, connect the data, and remove the friction people have learned to tolerate.
Karen Bucks Is Teaching the Office to Explain Itself
The former software founder and longtime SaaS marketer has a new brief: turn floor plans, badge swipes and office politics into a story the C-suite can actually use.
Christophe Garnier Wants to Delete the Empty-Desk Tax
After mobile ads, a bruising e-commerce collapse and a coworking detour, the Upflex co-founder found his durable idea in real estate’s least glamorous fact: paid-for desks sitting empty.
The Microsoft Executive Who Thinks Your Next Colleague Is Software
Jared Spataro spent two decades helping Office become a service and Teams become a workplace. Now he is selling a stranger idea - software will go beyond assisting the organization and join the org chart.
Dan Bladen Found a Better Office Inside a Broken Charger
A wireless-power founder watched his market disappear, rebuilt the company around a light ring, and came away with a sharper idea: the office should earn the commute.
Asaf Ganot
Asaf Ganot is the co-founder of ControlUp, the company that pioneered the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management category. He spent a decade as CEO building ControlUp from an Israeli VDI monitoring tool into a global enterprise software leader backed by $141M in funding, before transitioning to Executive Chairman and CEO of ControlUp Labs in 2023 to focus on product vision and innovation.