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The operators that made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
10Gwynne Shotwell
President and Chief Operating Officer at SpaceX
Eric Kelleher
President and Chief Operating Officer at Okta
9Matt Grimm
Co-founder and COO of Anduril
9Matt Portnov
Product Lead, AI Transformation at Decagon
9Emilie Choi 🛡️
President & COO at Coinbase
8Dan Westgarth
Chief Operating Officer at Deel
Claire Rosenfeld
Operations at Macroscope
8Jason Rusk
EVP of Restaurant Operations at Wonder
Gabriella G.
Chief Operating Officer at Warp
Gene Karshenboym
Engineering + Commercial Exec | Board Member | Vintage Car Enthusiast
7Karl Oskar
Building Cursor
7Cristina Cordova
COO at Linear; angel investor
7Luis Paarup
Co-founder and CTO at HappyRobot
Niklas Hoffmann
Head of Operations Solutions at flaschenpost
Matt Gould
Head of Insights and Operations at Gusto
Jess Herbert
Director of Go-to-Market Operations at Canvas Medical
6Brandon Gell
COO of Every
Gabriel Cid
Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Nexor AI
Brad Hoeweler
Risk Operations Lead, Payments at Ramp
5Caroline Ingeborn
Chief Operating Officer at Luma AI
5Justin Lopas
Co-Founder & COO at Base Power
5Daniela Amodei
Co-founder and President at Anthropic
4Doug Lambert
Co-founder of Saronic
4Julia Schottenstein
COO at LangChain
4Matthew Busel
Atlas Team Lead at Basis
4Brad Lightcap
Former Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI
4Emily Yuan
Co-founder and COO of Corgi
Patrick Crosswhite
Product and AI Operations; formerly Ramp
Shelby Belak
Marketing Technology and AI Operations at Samsara
4Sarah Vanden Broek
Director, CX Operations Strategy and AI at Playlist
3Katie Burke
Chief Operating Officer at Harvey
2Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
COO at Vercel; Shopify board member
2Neel Bhoopalam
Product Lead, Know Your Business at Persona
Andrew Cunningham
Go-to-market at fal
1Ben Booi
AI Operations at Opendoor
1Linda Du
President, COO & Co-Founder at Valon
1Taylor Brown
Co-Founder and COO at Fivetran
1Luca Andrea Collins
AI Chief of Staff at Replit
1Dilan Shah
Internal Reinvention Services at Cresta
1Livia Kuga
Co-founder of Alia, building AI for team coordination
Benjamin Levick
Head of Operations and Internal AI at Ramp
Natalie Toren
MTS Ops. Cafe 143 in Sydney.
1ryan mackenzie
Founding Sales @ Superwhisper; Former SWE
1Ashley McEnery
Jordan Neill
1Catherine McMillan
startup/ai ecosystem, growth & ops, ex-consultant
0Gaurav Agarwal
President and Chief Operating Officer at ClickUp
0Chris Jones
Senior Lead, Ops AI Lab at Shopify
Natalie Tsvetkov
Product and Operations Lead at David AI
Dana Paz
Head of Deployments at Base Power