Author: Jerome Knyszewski

The son of an electrical engineer and a middle-school teacher, Kevin Price grew up to become the senior manager of digital marketing at Canon USA. He was drawn to the business world early, and as he grew up, he got involved in the marketing side of enterprise. Most recently, he moved on to digital marketing, where he relished the opportunity to “pair hard and soft skills, especially analytics and customer psychology.” Kevin Price has already spent 12 years at Canon USA, gaining much-needed experience and expertise in B2C and B2B, which he put to use “across roughly a dozen distribution…

Raviteja Dodda is one of the co-founders of MoEngage, which he also runs as CEO. The company is an “Intelligent Customer Engagement Platform,” which was designed specifically to meet the needs of a “Mobile-first world.” At MoEngage, Raviteja Dodda makes sure that consumer businesses can “understand customer behavior across touch points and instantly act on those insights through personalized engagements across Mobile, Web and Email, with auto-optimization towards higher conversions powered by machine learning.” MoEngage and Raviteja Dodda understand that “traditional marketing clouds are expensive to implement, hard to learn, and rule-based.” So, the company spends much effort to build…

Ameera Shah is the managing director and promoter of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., which is a chain of pathology labs boasting of a loyal customer base in India, South Africa, and Africa. Currently, the company enjoys a ranking among the top 1% of pathology labs worldwide for its excellent systems and quality protocols. Under her leadership, the company has also had a successful listing at the stock exchanges in April 2019, with a 9% premium, despite the challenges in the market. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ameera Shah also took Metropolis Healthcare into the frontlines of testing in India. She also collaborated…

Julie Jensen is a transformational HR consultant and founder of Moxie HR Strategies. As a consultant, she is dynamic and transformational, with significant “multi-site experience in small to large public and private sector organizations.” She has also built up a consistent track record of success as an “influential change agent and collaborative business partner.” She also enjoys a “solid reputation for building resilient and high performing teams, engaging stakeholders and rapidly executing comprehensive strategies with impeccable service delivery.”   Throughout her long career, Julie Jensen has built up specialties in diverse areas, which are “organizational design & effectiveness, strategy development,…

Entrepreneurship runs in the family for Shinta Widjaja Kamdani. As the owner and CEO of Indonesia’s PT Sintesa Group, she has come from a long line of businessmen in the family, from whom she has learned much about how to run a successful global company. Her family has been involved in business for a hundred years, operating in several industries, namely “property, energy, industrial products and consumer products.” Shinta Kamdani rose to the CEO position of the Sintesa Group in 1999, after her father agreed to step down. She was still in her 30s when she assumed the position. Back…

Oxana Razumova is the co-founder of Sensemakers and the head of the board of the Friends Charity Foundation. An expert in communications and strategy, she has also built a long career as a strategy facilitator and a philanthropy consultant. Aside from her ventures, she is also a process communication model and emotional assertiveness trainer. At Sensemakers, Oxana Razumova and her team offer a variety of products that “help [you] elevate your organization in this new decade.” The company gives its clients the ability to look closely at their own organization and its environment, and then “implement the mechanisms that will…

Wendy Yates is a founder of multiple firms: Abigail-Elise Design Studio, Well Fit Human, and Abigail-Elise Brands. Beginning by re-launching her own design firm in Summit County, Colorado, she soon grew the business into a national firm with operations across the United States. Her work involves several disciplines, from interiors to product design, development, and hospitality, with the goal of moving onto real estate investment. When she felt that she wanted to regain her authentic connection with other people on a human level, she decided to create Well Fit Human. The brand aims to “bridge [my] love of lifestyle design…

Pradeep Khurana is the co-founder and managing director of ContinuServe, a company that offers professional services and outsourcing to help “mid-market and Fortune 2000 organizations improve service levels and reduce costs within their back-office operations through the implementation and delivery of shared services solutions.” The company also teams up with business leaders and CXOs to help them cut back on costs and put in place best practices in technology and finance. Among the company’s services are “advisory services, business process outsourcing” and “IT outsourcing.” At ContinuServe, Pradeep Khurana works with a lot of private equity firms that want to streamline…

Chintan Shah is a native from Milwaukee, earning his bachelor’s degree in Communications and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin and his MBA at Babson College, before going to New York City. As president and managing partner of KNB Communications, Chintan Shah oversees the company’s operations as a “marketing and PR firm exclusively serving the healthcare space.” Before joining KNB, he worked in the Power Systems sales division of IBM, while “working with clients in the healthcare, financial, and media markets.” He also managed marketing and sales for the Americas division of Unfors Raysafe, a “medical radiation management company…

Lauren Vaccarello is the chief marketing officer at Talend, an award-winning executive, and a best-selling author. She has had extensive marketing experience and a commendable track record in “accelerating revenue growth for the fastest growing SaaS companies in Silicon Valley.” Her background in demand generation allows her to excel at “building scalable integrated campaigns that leverage cutting edge marketing techniques.” While sustaining a company’s high performance defines her approach as a marketer, she also believes that businesses “need to tell compelling stories and build a brand if they want to own a category.” As an executive at Talend, Lauren Vaccarello…