Tech Visionaries: Shaping the Future, 2025
ON THE COVER
Scott Conn is the Chief Information Officer for the city of Mesa, Arizona, where he leads the Department of Innovation and Technology, known as DoIT. In this role, he is focused on bringing advanced and thoughtful technology solutions to improve the lives of Mesa’s residents, businesses, and visitors.
Jack Spargo
Jack Spargo is the Chief Technology Officer at Ctrl Alt, a company that is changing how people invest in alternative assets by bringing them onto the blockchain. Ctrl Alt builds tokenization infrastructure, which means it helps turn traditional assets like real estate, bonds, private equity, and funds into digital tokens. These tokens are backed by the underlying asset and can be traded more easily, quickly, and securely than traditional financial systems.
Kevin Wooldridge
Kevin Wooldridge plays a key role at Microsoft, where he helps shape the future of work by focusing on the people behind the technology. As a leader in Microsoft Digital, he is part of the “Customer Zero” team—an internal group that becomes the first and most demanding users of Microsoft’s own innovations.
Zehra Cataltepe
Zehra Cataltepe is the CEO and Co-Founder of TAZI.AI, a predictive artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. Her company builds a platform powered by machine learning that is simple, explainable, and helpful for people working in customer-facing business roles. TAZI’s mission is clear and focused: to make AI useful and accessible to everyone, not just to experts in data science.
Team Teach Ltd
David Ivell began his journey in the technology industry through an apprenticeship at IBM, where he trained to become a Systems Engineer. Over the span of 15 years at IBM, David discovered his strength lay in solving business challenges rather than purely technical problems, naturally steering him towards a Solutions Architect role.
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