Helen Fu Thomas is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Touchjet USA, Inc. An award-winning entrepreneur and marketer, Helen has a track record of building technology and digital media companies from the startup to exit. She was the founding CEO of LeapFrog China. At Livescribe, she grew worldwide sales from 0 to $50 million within three years. She built BlueFocus Communication Group from $0 to $200 million in North America within two years.

Aaron Caddel is the 26-year-old Founder and CEO behind brand darling, Mr. Holmes Bakehouse. What started as a dream while renting out a closet in San Francisco in 2011, has grown into an international vehicle for food culture. His success has never been cheap, though. He moved to San Francisco in his teens, due to driving restrictions placed on him shortly after a brain tumor diagnosis. He credits his success to an internal drive built from avoiding that reality.

Adam Bryant is a respected and noted expert on executive leadership whose work includes 525 Corner Office columns for the New York Times. At Merryck & Co., Adam is a Managing Director and Partner following a distinguished career as an editor and journalist. He works with executive leadership teams and organizations to foster a culture of innovation based on a best-practice framework he developed for his widely praised book Quick and Nimble.

ROI’s Into the Corner Office podcast showcases middle market CEO’s leadership stories and dives into the heart of what helps shape dynamic leaders. Our guests share their backgrounds, talk about their early years, and let us behind the scenes to see what helped shape them before they were known for their success in growing, developing, and leading extraordinary middle market companies and teams. Listen as they tell their own middle market executive leadership stories – straight up and right Into the Corner Office.