While many kids these days go all-in on a single, competitive sport, Chonchol Gupta’s mom had a different idea. “When I was growing up my mom put in me in all… Read More
Jim McCorkle worked for three decades in corporate roles, feeding his need to do good in the world by engaging in volunteer efforts during his off hours. Most recently he’s… Read More
An upside to surviving nightmarish life experiences: it’s great for keeping things in perspective. At least that’s the case for Arun Theivendirarajah, Usermind’s vice president of product. Theivendirarajah grew up… Read More
With a list of tasks she hoped to accomplish before leaving town for the holidays, Julie Yue set her alarm for 6:45 a.m. one day last week. The alarm went… Read More
Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering for Karat, landed his job through a Craigslist ad. It was 2016 and he was on sabbatical, living in Brooklyn in New York… Read More
Gretchen O’Hara is a diehard Microsoft fan. You might have guessed as much given that she’s worked for the Redmond, Wash.-based cloud and tech giant for more than two decades,… Read More
Not only has Yvonne Wassenaar worked in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area most of her career, it’s also where she grew up. But recently, she got a… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies‘ CEO and co-founder Chad Robins can attribute some of his company’s notable success — see its $300 million IPO in June and the $400 million previously raised —… Read More
Erik Chelstad wants you to pay a little more attention to the person using the bathroom — not literally, but metaphorically. Chelstad is co-founder and chief technology officer of Observa,… Read More
Officially, Lydia Frank is PayScale’s vice president of corporate and product marketing — a promotion that was announced this month. But parts of the job remind Frank of her first… Read More
Leafly is a leading source of information on cannabis products, explaining everything from the type of high experienced from Blue Dream versus Bruce Banner strains of marijuana, to testing the… Read More
After Shankar Narayan graduated from Yale with a law degree, he needed a job that would help pay off his sizable student loans and provide a green card. It was… Read More
Some companies point to cutting-edge innovations for their success while others boast their customer-centric strategies. Chief Revenue Officer Loren Alhadeff says that DocuSign has its own special superpower. “The unique… Read More
For those who remember Clippy — Microsoft Office’s animated paperclip assistant — would you have liked him better as a typewriter? What about a stapler? Back in the mid-1990s, Rob… Read More
David Kraft is downright giddy for innovation. “I’m often naive enough to think there is no problem that can’t be solved,” Kraft said. And admittedly it would be a problem… Read More
When he was still a very young man — like not even old enough to drink legally — Joe Davy was on an accelerated path of career discovery that can… Read More
It didn’t take long for Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson to realize that if she wanted to effectively provide a research-based alternative to the unfounded claims of Jenny McCarthy and others… Read More
Eugenio Pace was destined to be a tech entrepreneur. He just jumped the gun. After earning a degree in electrical engineering and a master’s in computer science in Buenos Aires, he… Read More
Since Threshold Communications opened its (virtual) doors in 2001, the global voice and data service provider has operated almost entirely as a telecommuting company. Initially, it was a matter of… Read More
In February, Paulo Resende left a 15-year career at Microsoft to start a marketing firm helping Fortune 500 companies improve their branding with fellow Microsoft vet Thom Gruhler. Together they… Read More
Slack, Evernote, Microsoft Office, Google Suite. Those are a few of the most popular apps that the busy executives featured in our Working Geek series use to stay organized. With… Read More
When Lakshmi Shankar was working as a technology consultant she noticed a recurring problem. Clients often had trouble integrating paid video content with paywall and subscription tools. The problem was… Read More
Brian Paulen has been advising clients on how they can use technology to improve their business operations for nearly 20 years. He spent eight of those years as CEO of… Read More
Anna Hong has worn a lot of hats over the course of her career. After interning for Microsoft Research’s Asia division, she took an aerospace propulsion engineer position at the… Read More
As CEO and president of StrataCore, Aaron Loehr manages a team of about 20 IT professionals dedicated to helping enterprise clients identify and implement best practices in the cloud. But… Read More
Franklin Williams believes he has “the best job in the world.” That’s because he spends his days leading Socrata‘s product managers, designers, and engineers — a team that builds tools… Read More
During nearly a decade working in finance and accounting, MaryBeth Pecha experienced the challenges that come from gender inequity at the office first-hand. She bonded over those challenges with colleagues… Read More
As Chief Technology Officer of LiveStories, Eric Dillon has spent that last two years deeply immersed in code so that government agencies don’t have to be. LiveStories is a platform… Read More
When Karim Meghji joined Remitly in late 2016, CEO Matt Oppenheimer said he was “ecstatic” that someone with such a “unique set of experiences scaling up and managing large businesses”… Read More
Jennifer Chao has an unconventional strategy for relieving stress from her demanding job as Redfin’s vice president of engineering. Taking a page from a mentor’s playbook, she takes a day… Read More