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FORTUNE.COM // JULY 2019
Henrique
Dubugras
AGE 23
Co-CEO and cofounder,
Brex
Dubugras and his
cofounder, Pedro
Franceschi, carved out
a lucrative niche pro-
viding interest-free
credit cards to well-
funded startups that
lack the revenue to get
approved by bigger
banks. That’s a problem
the Brazilian natives
and Stanford dropouts
experienced firsthand,
along with many of
their Y Combinator
peers. Brex is now val-
ued at $2.6 billion.Karen Karniol-
Tambour
AGE 34
Head of investment
research, Bridgewater
Karniol-Tambour
joined Bridgewater
straight out of college
in 2006; 13 years later,
she’s reportedly one of
the few people fully
in the know when it
comes to founder Ray
Dalio’s thinking at the
world’s largest hedge
fund. Her mentor,
Bridgewater co-CIO
Bob Prince, has said he
expects her to succeed
him one day.Omer Ismail
AGE 39
Head of U.S. consumer
business,
Goldman Sachs
When Goldman went to
Main Street, it tapped
Dartmouth and HBS
grad Ismail to lead the
effort. Today, as a part-
ner, Ismail oversees the
entire U.S. consumerAudrey
Gelman,
Lauren Kassan,
Diedra Nelson
AGES 32, 31, 38
CEO and cofounder;
COO and cofounder;
CFO, The Wing
The millennial-pink
walls and tonal uphol-
ster y at The Wing’s
women-centric co-
working spaces/social
clubs may be dis-
missed by some as just
aesthetics, but every
detail was chosen to
make women comfort-
able. The all-female
leadership team over-
sees an empire that is
expanding faster than
WeWork or SoulCycle
at this stage in its his-
tor y. The original loca-
tion opened in October
2016; by this fall, it will
have 10 outposts, in-
cluding in London.Jessie
Wisdom
AGE 37
CEO and cofounder,
Humu
Can work work better?
Wisdom and her Humu
cofounder (ex-Googler
Laszlo Bock) think so.
Their behavioral
“nudge engine” plat-
form helps companies
boost productivity,
innovation, and reten-
tion in the workplace.
But unlike the hoodie-
wearing keyboard jock-
eys of older venture
cycles, Wisdom’s phi-
losophy is rooted
in empathy.business. That includes
personal-banking arm
Marcus by Goldman
Sachs, which now has
more than 3 million cus-
tomers, as well as the
Apple Card—Goldman’s
headline-grabbing col-
laboration with Apple.Ryan Williams
AGE 31
CEO and cofounder,
Cadre
While at Harvard, this
Baton Rouge native
started buying fore-
closed houses and flip-
ping them. Goldman
hired him as a tech ana-
lyst; then Blackstone
poached him to do real
estate deals. He left to
found Cadre, which
aims to disrupt the REIT
(real estate investment
trust) world.Kristo
Käärmann
AGE 38
CEO and cofounder,
TransferWise
Käärmann cofounded
TransferWise with fellow
Estonian émigré Taavet
Hinrikus, the first em-
ployee at Skype, after
seeing how much firms
were making on cross-
border money transfers.
At a $3.5 billion valuation,
the firm is now the high-
est valued private fintech
startup in Europe. The
operation has 5 million
customers and moves
$5 billion ever y month.Alysia
Montaño,
Phoebe Wright,
Allyson Felix
AGES 33, 30, 33
Professional runners
They risked their
reputations and legal
action by revealing
the ugly truth about
women and sports: If
you get pregnant, your
sponsors are legally al-
lowed to stop paying
you. The outcr y when
they went public forced
Nike to announce it
would end financial
penalties for pregnant
athletes—a victory for
parents everywhere.Kate Gulliver
AGE 37
Global head of talent,
Wayfair
Talen t helped e-tailer
Wayfair post record
revenue and make the
Fortune 500 this year.
Gulliver has achieved
a level of inclusion far
beyond anything in
Silicon Valley: Half of
Wayfair’s full-time
employees are women,
and she’s boosting
people who are non-
white and nonmale
into leadership roles.sam rapoport
senior director of football development age 38
Her mission? To “normalize women in football.” Rapoport
has overseen a winning streak of inclusion that has
turned NFL owners, coaches, and executives into gender
advocates. Thanks to her “matching” program, some 42
women—59% of them women of color—are thriving in
coaching, scouting, and football operations jobs.johanna faries
commissioner of call of duty e-sports league age 37
Just a game? Faries oversees Call of Duty’s e-sports
league, which according to the company generated more
revenue as of January than the Marvel Cinematic Universe
at the box office, and double that of the cumulative box
office of Star Wars. Before joining Activision, Faries
NFL headed business and fan development at the NFL.
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