Winners' Circle

Nataly Youssef is helping employers and employees recover healthcare dollars they are already entitled to, but often never receive. As CEO and Founder of Reclaim Health, she uses AI and healthcare claims data to detect billing errors, missed reimbursements, unused benefit opportunities, and plan inefficiencies that leave money behind. Reclaim Health recently won its second AI Excellence Award for...

Kartal Goksel is helping advertisers move beyond identity-based targeting and toward a more privacy-first, context-aware future. As Chief Technology Officer at Seedtag, he leads technology for a company focused on contextual advertising, using AI to understand what content means, how it feels, and what intent it signals without relying on personal identity or invasive tracking. In this episode, Ru...

Alex Urist is helping solve one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption: charging infrastructure that can scale without waiting years for grid upgrades. As co-founder of XCharge North America, he is leading the development of EV charging and energy storage solutions designed for the North American market. XCharge’s GridLink platform recently won a BIG Innovation Award for its battery-integrated DC...

Madan Moudgal is helping healthcare organizations use AI to improve operations without removing the human judgment that sensitive clinical decisions require. As Chief Digital Officer at Sagility, he leads technology transformation for a healthcare operations company serving U.S. payers and providers. Sagility’s Nurse Assist solution recently won an AI Excellence Award for helping clinical teams re...

Asaf Goldstein is helping IT support teams use AI to create faster, more proactive, and more human customer experiences. As Senior Director of Global Customer Care at SysAid, he leads a global support organization using AI to identify trends, resolve issues faster, deflect routine tickets, and give agents better context before they ever speak with a customer. In this episode, Russ and Asaf explore...

Tim Ray is helping apartment communities verify renters faster, more fairly, and with greater trust. As co-founder and CEO of Verifast, he leads an AI-powered verification platform built for the U.S. multifamily market, where property managers need to confirm identity, income, assets, and fraud risk at scale without relying only on traditional credit scores. In this episode, Russ and Tim explore w...

Shannon Copeland is helping companies find hidden savings, reduce procurement complexity, and make better decisions across supply chain and spend management. As CEO of SIB, he leads a company with 35 years of experience helping clients negotiate with vendors, improve competitiveness, and manage procurement across dozens of spend categories. Now, with SpendBrain, SIB is bringing AI into the procure...

Marcel Stellaard, Stephán Kemp, and Barton Harris are helping rethink vehicle security by shifting the focus from tracking stolen cars to preventing theft before a vehicle ever moves. As leaders with Titan Secure, they are bringing an anti-theft platform built in South Africa to global markets, including the United States, where vehicle theft, insurance costs, and recovery challenges continue to c...

Dan Stickel is helping families navigate one of life’s most stressful and unavoidable responsibilities: settling an estate after someone dies. As CEO of EstateExec, he is leading an online software platform that gives executors step-by-step guidance, accounting tools, jurisdiction-specific tasks, and AI-supported help to make the estate settlement process more organized, understandable, and afford...

Bill Verhelle is helping small businesses access equipment financing faster, easier, and with less friction. As CEO of QuickFi, he is leading a company that won a 2026 BIG Innovation Award for its embedded lending platform, which allows small business borrowers to self-serve equipment leases and loans directly from a mobile device. In this episode, Russ and Bill explore how QuickFi is changing the...

Aaron Pribil and Todd Haley are helping legal teams, corporations, and government clients bring AI into one of the most sensitive business environments: e-discovery. As leaders at HaystackID, they are working at the intersection of legal data, governance, security, and artificial intelligence to help organizations manage massive volumes of information without sacrificing defensibility, accuracy, o...

Simon Hodgkins is helping global brands solve one of the fastest growing business challenges of the AI era: how to create content at scale that still feels local, trusted, and accurate. As Chief Marketing Officer of Vistatec, he is leading a company that has spent nearly 30 years helping the world’s largest organizations translate, localize, and optimize content across languages, cultures, and mar...

Lukas Haffer is helping solve one of the biggest problems facing small businesses: access to affordable capital. As founder and CEO of Casca, he is modernizing the outdated lending systems used by banks so small business owners can get loans faster, easier, and at dramatically lower costs. In this episode, Russ and Lukas explore why millions of small businesses still face a broken lending process....

Dr Robert Roop is leading innovation in one of the most overlooked but essential industries in the world. As Chief Technology Officer at Axalta, he and his team are redefining what coatings can do, from improving durability and performance to enabling the next generation of electric vehicles, data centers, and sustainable manufacturing. In this episode, Russ and Robert explore how coatings go far...

Lori Tompos is on a mission to transform how leaders show up, communicate, and bring out the best in their teams. As founder of Avail Consulting and a Horizon Award winner, she draws on experience from West Point, Desert Storm, and the corporate world to challenge one of the most ingrained habits in business: managing people instead of leading them. In this episode, Russ and Lori explore why so ma...

Vikram Venugopal is transforming how life sciences companies communicate by turning one of the most persistent business challenges into a competitive advantage. As the leader behind Prezent, he is helping organizations move beyond cluttered, ineffective presentations to clear, audience driven storytelling powered by AI. In this episode, Russ and Vikram explore why business communication, especiall...

Steve Rotter is helping global organizations turn language from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage by treating translation as core infrastructure, not a side task. As Chief Marketing Officer at DeepL, he focuses on specialized AI models that deliver near human translation quality at scale, supporting everything from contracts and healthcare information to e commerce catalogs and live conver...

Nithin Mummaneni is rethinking how enterprises negotiate high stakes contracts by turning years of procurement consulting experience into an AI powered “negotiation intelligence” platform. As cofounder and CEO of Infinity Loop, he is helping large organizations finally answer a deceptively simple question at scale: did we get a good deal or not, and how do we do better next time. In this episode,...

Faruk Capan is rethinking how pharmaceutical companies bring products to market by rebuilding the entire commercialization model around AI. As Chief Innovation Officer at Eversana, he is leading the development of an AI powered platform that replaces slow, manual, and highly regulated workflows with a faster, more scalable system driven by intelligent agents and human expertise. In this episode, R...

Jim Straus is helping power the next wave of semiconductor innovation by improving one of the most critical and overlooked parts of chip manufacturing: the process. As Head of Sales and Service at ACM Research, Jim works with leading chipmakers around the world to increase yield, reduce waste, and unlock more production from every wafer through advanced wet cleaning and electroplating technologies...

Amol Waishampayan, Chief Product Officer at Full Throttle AI, is helping mid market brands and agencies move beyond click based attribution and walled gardens to real, outcome driven advertising on the open internet. In this episode, Russ and Amol explore how Full Throttle AI combines cookieless, household level identity, omni channel activation, and AI powered measurement so marketers can see whi...

Nick Reed, Chief Strategy Officer at Bizzdesign, helps large enterprises turn complex, siloed organizations into coherent, change ready systems that can actually deliver on their strategies. In this episode, Russ and Nick unpack Bizzdesign’s three way merger that tripled the size of the company, how their transformation suite bridges the strategy to execution gap, and why AI and agentic systems ar...

Zak Fay, AI Innovation Manager at BDO, is leading the RAID team, an internal AI innovation group that is turning a highly regulated global accounting firm into an AI powered force multiplier for its professionals. In this episode, Russ and Zak walk through how BDO went from early experiments with ChatGPT to launching Chat BDO on Azure OpenAI and rolling out nine AI agents in under a year, all whil...

Bret Kinsella, VP of AI Safety and Security at TELUS Digital, is helping enterprises move from AI guardrail guesswork to systematic, scalable testing that keeps generative AI both safe and useful. In this episode, Russ and Bret dig into how TELUS Digital built Fortify, an AI safety platform that lets teams simulate thousands of attacks in hours so they can find vulnerabilities before customers or...

Tom Cox, CEO of Humara, is redefining how AI drives revenue by focusing on the craft of selling, not just support. In this episode, Russ and Tom explore how Humara builds AI agents that replicate top performing human salespeople to navigate complex telecom buying journeys and increase conversion. They break down why traditional chatbots fall short, how real sales behaviors like rapport building an...