Day: April 30, 2025

When André Heinz made the leap from leading 60,000 employees at Siemens Healthineers to joining Celonis, then a startup with just 600 staff, it was more than a career move—it was a statement of intent. Now Chief People Officer at Celonis, Heinz has been instrumental in tripling the company’s workforce in under three years while embedding a scalable, purpose-driven people strategy that aligns with the demands of a hyper growth environment…

As a young man, Zach Perret, Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid, saw a broken financial system failing millions and set out to reinvent it with Plaid, the company powering much of the infrastructure behind today’s booming fintech ecosystem. Since launching Plaid in 2013, Perret has transformed the way consumers connect their bank accounts to apps like Venmo, Robinhood, and Coinbase, enabling millions to engage with money more seamlessly…