Wrike Announces Winners of Second Annual Elite 100 Awards

Industry leaders recognized for exceptional innovation, collaboration, and results with Wrike’s intelligent work management platform

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wrike, the intelligent work management platform, today announced the winners of its second annual Wrike Elite 100 Awards, honoring customers who exemplify extraordinary expertise in leveraging Wrike to innovate, collaborate, and deliver measurable impact across their organizations. This year’s program expanded to include two new categories: AI Strategy and Engagement, reflecting Wrike’s continued investment in artificial intelligence and visual collaboration.

“The 2025 Wrike Elite 100 winners showcase the best of what’s possible when teams embrace intelligent work management,” said Alexey Korotich, Chief Product Officer at Wrike. “These leaders are setting the bar for innovation, collaboration, and efficiency by unlocking the full potential of the Wrike platform and its recent innovations in AI, automation, and visual collaboration tools.”

Award categories and 2025 winners:

• AI Strategy: Grant Gotwald, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park
  Built an “AI idea evaluator” that integrates seamlessly with Wrike to transform the innovation intake process, cutting manual overhead, improving submission quality, and accelerating review cycles across the organization.

• Analytics: Caitlin Henry and Brooke Beuthling, Minnesota Vikings
  Elevated Wrike dashboards and capacity planning to guide headcount, partner profitability, and strategic decision making, enabling leadership to align projects with organizational goals and prevent burnout across teams.

• Collaboration: Max Fisher, WPP
  United onshore and offshore teams managing 120+ client campaigns in just three months by establishing Wrike as a single source of truth, creating custom workflows, and driving adoption across the agency.

• Engagement: Toby Mankertz, Columbus Global
  Drove stakeholder engagement and alignment during a complex digital transformation by using Klaxoon to capture and prioritize thousands of ideas in structured, visual workshops that shaped the roadmap.

• Innovation: Chris Tinsley, SharkNinja
  Designed and implemented a dual-space model in Wrike, creating a scalable, real-time “command center” dashboard, improving visibility, cutting review cycles nearly in half, and saving thousands of hours per month.

• Orchestration: Anna Kravcova, Scopely
  Developed a Wrike-based skills database that enhanced resourcing, transparency, and workforce planning, while also launching a vendor evaluation program that improved accountability and strategic decision making.

• Results: Isabel Acosta, Starbucks
  Delivered a full project launch in just 10 weeks (a process that previously took 39 weeks) by leveraging Wrike blueprints, dashboards, and automations to accelerate execution without compromising quality.

“We are thrilled to celebrate the remarkable achievements of this year’s winners,” said Christine Royston, Chief Marketing Officer at Wrike. “Their stories prove the power of Wrike to transform work, empower teams, and drive extraordinary results across industries. We look forward to spotlighting their accomplishments in the coming months.”

For more information on the Wrike Elite 100 program, visit www.wrike.com/elite-100

About Wrike

Wrike is an intelligent work management platform where anyone can build, connect, automate, and scale workflows so work flows without limits. With unmatched intelligence, versatility, flexibility, scalability, and security, Wrike breaks down the barriers that hinder modern work and creates new pathways to success. More than 20,000 customers do the best work of their lives on Wrike. Find out how work flows at www.wrike.com.

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