Brendan Murphy.

My work tends to sit somewhere at the intersection of data, technology, and business strategy, and most of what I know about that intersection I picked up one place at a time. At Bahl & Gaynor I sat inside an equity research group and learned what disciplined judgment actually looks like — slow, unshowy, skeptical of its own first instinct. At 84.51°, Kroger's analytics arm, I worked on AI projects at a scale that forces you to care about the distance between a model that works in a notebook and one that survives contact with a real operation. At Tembo, a seed-stage startup, I owned revenue operations, which mostly meant doing whatever the week needed and learning how much of early growth is simply not dropping things. None of those places are mine to take credit for, but each taught me a different way to think about the work.

Outside of that, I run ultramarathons, climb, paint in oils, and play classical piano. I also take on the occasional freelance design or brand project for people whose work I believe in. These aren't hobbies in the résumé sense — they're the things I care about most, and probably the parts of my life that take the longest to explain to a stranger.