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Leoni Runge and the things a label cannot tell you
Before founding Zaya Care, Leoni Runge worked on the paper trail behind fine wine and the interface behind blockchain. Her career turns on a practical question: how do you build something other people will trust enough to use?
Fahri Diner and the trouble with the last two metres
He helped send light across continents, then found the internet falling short inside the house. The Plume co-founder’s next chapter returns to photonics, with a vineyard and some formidable bicycle rides along the way.
Mario Vitale
Mario Vitale is CEO of Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions and President of Resilience, a cyber risk company that fuses cybersecurity, insurance and incident recovery into a single offering. A native New Yorker with more than 40 years in insurance, he previously ran Willis North America, Zurich's Global Corporate business and Aspen's global insurance operations before coming out of semi-retirement to help build Resilience alongside military-veteran founders Raj Shah and Vishaal Hariprasad.
Valentin Ruest
Valentin Ruest is the co-founder and US co-CEO of Classtime, a Zurich-born edtech company building a formative and summative assessment platform used by educators and learners in more than 90 countries. A University of St. Gallen and Harvard-trained economist who once ran mortgages at a Swiss fintech, he traded banking for classrooms, splitting his life between Santa Barbara and Zurich while teaching personal finance in public schools and arguing that software should help teachers decide, not decide for them.