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Some careers accumulate titles. Alan Tse’s career accumulates responsibility, quietly, industry after industry, until the scope of what he oversees becomes almost startling to say out loud. Since June 2018, Alan Tse has served as Global Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of JLL, a Fortune 500 commercial real estate services and investment management company […]
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There is a particular kind of pressure that comes with being the first in-house lawyer a company ever hires. There is no playbook to inherit, no department to walk into. Jesal Prabaker has built her career inside exactly that pressure, more than once. Today, she is the Founder and CEO of Optimized GC, a legal
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Some legal careers move in straight lines. Kevin Smith’s moves in concentric circles, always returning to the same core disciplines, with each turn bringing a wider field of responsibility. Since March 2026, Kevin Smith has served as Chief Legal Officer of Solifi, working remotely from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, a role he has now held
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A courtroom teaches a lawyer how to argue. A boardroom teaches a lawyer how to listen. Jessica Hately has spent more than two decades doing both, and somewhere along the way she stopped thinking of law as a profession you practice and started thinking of it as an infrastructure you build. Today, Jessica is a
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Atlanta’s payments corridor has a peculiar gravity. Executives leave it for New York or San Francisco, chase bigger titles in bigger cities, and then, often enough, they come back. Wally Mlynarski did exactly that in March 2026, when he was named Chief Executive Officer of Elavon, the global payments company headquartered in Atlanta and a
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Some founders talk about their companies the way parents talk about children, with a mixture of pride and exhaustion that only makes sense from the inside. Chris Dean has served as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Treasury Prime since 2017, at the helm of a company built around a clear premise: banks and
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Titles change hands quietly in the payments world. There is rarely a press conference, just a new name on a company announcement and, sometimes, a company that did not exist under its current name a few years earlier. Derek Dean became Chief Executive Officer of Aurora Payments in December 2024, and the company became Flute
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A new title rarely tells the whole story, but it is worth starting with anyway. In April 2026, John MacLeod became Senior Vice President, Director of Revenue Strategy and Sales at Newline™ by Fifth Third, the bank’s embedded-finance and payments platform, working from the greater Boston area. Newline combines Fifth Third’s banking capabilities with an
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Long before he was generating millions of views and driving sales for supplement and beauty brands, Jackson Silverman was running a nonprofit out of Charleston County, South Carolina, aimed at beating childhood hunger. It is a strange thing to sit alongside a career now built on affiliate marketing and TikTok Shop GMV, and yet the
Jackson Silverman: The Content Creator Who Built the Systems Behind TikTok Shop Read More »
Before he was negotiating affiliate deals for e-commerce brands and helping them scale on TikTok Shop, Zain Ali was studying energy systems and manufacturing lines. It is an unusual pedigree for someone who now runs a TikTok Shop agency serving recognizable consumer brands, but it may explain something essential about how he works. Engineers are
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For nine years, his job was to get a reality television star from a green room in Manhattan onto a stage in Tulsa, on time, under contract, and without incident. That is not, on its face, training for building a social commerce company. But look closer at what that job actually required: negotiating fees, managing
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Some careers move in a straight line, climbing tidily from one rung to the next. Deren Baker’s did not. His career has the shape of a river delta, splitting and rejoining, cutting through travel, retail, and data before finally widening into the vast, branching territory of global digital commerce he now oversees as CEO of
Deren Baker: Building Flywheel and the Future of Social Commerce Read More »
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