From an early age, Vlad Shmunis had a passion for technology and solving problems. Little did he know that this combination would lead to becoming one of the most successful CEOs in the world. In the 1970s, Shmunis and his family immigrated from Ukraine to the U.S., where the budding software engineer eventually earned a master’s degree in computer science…
Steve Ashley isn’t just the President and COO of Shop.com, he’s one of the main reasons why the business has become a global powerhouse among e-commerce sites. In fact, he has been helping to build the business ever since he was in the 8th grade. The year was 1992 and the company was called Market America, a marketing and product-brokerage company headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina…
Bert Bean is living proof that hard work pays off. As Chief Executive Officer of Insight Global, he is responsible for a $3.3 billion staffing company with more than 4,000 employees working across 63 offices in the U.S. and Canada. Far from an overnight success, Bean’s journey to the top started more than 17 years ago. In 2005, he joined the organization as an entry level recruiter…
Airbnb’s CTO, Aristotle Balogh, was on his way to medical school when he discovered his passion for coding while studying at The Johns Hopkins University. This was during the mid-1980s, when the field was still in its infancy, but Balogh knew that he’d found his calling. After switching from his pre-med major, he quickly earned a bachelor’s and master’s in electrical and computer engineering…
Amy Weaver, President and CFO of cloud giant Salesforce, knows the importance of staying grounded. Among her many duties, she’s in charge of managing the delicate financial balance between growing revenue and investing in the future as her company works toward a target of $50 billion in revenue by 2025…
Undeterred by the challenges of a male-dominated industry, Rathi Murthy has risen through the ranks to become a powerful voice for women in technology. Her success story starts in Bangalore, India. After completing her undergraduate studies, she moved to San Francisco to do her master’s degree in computer engineering…
If you have ever benefited from the convenience of a Zoom call, you might want to thank Eric Yuan’s college girlfriend. As an undergraduate, Yuan was frustrated by the 10-hour train trip separating him from his girlfriend Sherry (who he later married) and was inspired to create videoconferencing software, as he wanted to find an easier way to see and talk to her…
Several years ago Enakshi Singh made the most important decision of her career. After more than a decade working at some of the biggest financial institutions in the world, Singh decided to take a chance in the startup world. In 2014 she joined Zymergen, the burgeoning biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California…
ADP’s President and Chief Executive Officer Carlos Rodriguez is a living embodiment of The American Dream. Born in Cuba, his parents fled the country and eventually settled in Miami when Rodriguez was just three years old. A gifted student, he soon became the first person in his family to attend college, which turned out to be Harvard…
As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Google’s Consumer Hardware business, Ana Corrales begins every day with a meticulously curated calendar of meetings to attend with her team, but she knows the importance of flexibility and a willingness to adapt…
