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Martin is a serial entrepreneur spanning three continents and 25 years Martin is the Co-founder & CEO of Gaine, the next-generation master data management platform specializing in healthcare and life sciences. specializing in enterprise data management, including co-founding Delos Technology which became Siperian and is now owned by Informatica and recognized as the leading enterprise MDM platform globally.

Book Recommendations;

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, by Geoffrey A. Moore

Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CEO of ConverSight.ai, empowering Supply Chain Leaders to gain timely insights using a simple natural language QA platform. Ganesh has spent over 20 years in the Data & Analytics space, led one of the fastest-growing $200M analytics business groups, and served customers in Manufacturing, Logistics, retail, and Hospitality.

Andrew is the founder of ForMotiv, a platform that analyzes end-user digital behaviour patterns. He's also the founder of Saigon A.I., a boutique AI agency.

Kevin is the co-founder of Spectora. He is a bootstrapper with a background in finance, real estate, and SEO.

Mitch is the CMO, and Bradoc is the CRO. Floorzap is a newly emerging CRM and business management software for flooring dealers.

Bryan Barbeau is the principal and founder of Your Digital Canvas. He has more than 20 years of experience in the management and entrepreneurship fields. As a consultant and entrepreneur, he has worked as a Principal or Partner in Software Development, Hospitality, Accounting and Finance, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Services, Professional Services, Construction, and SaaS.

John is a digital designer who builds products that empower human creativity. He's currently the founder and CEO of Lava, which is a mobile app that empowers you to create, share, and discover social audio

Book Recommendation;

Living Philosophies, By Albert Einstein

How to make wealth, By Paul Graham

Rebecca Krauthamer is the co-founder and CPO of QuSecure. She is passionate about Artificial Intelligence and ethics, connecting people who can make great things happen together, building cutting-edge technology that genuinely improves all people's lives, and bringing out the best in people and teams.

She is a Current Techstars Starburst 2021 Cohort member with QuSecure, and was named a top 12 woman in Quantum Computing.

Stanford Symbolic Systems 2013. Forbes 30 Under 30, 2020 in Quantum Computing. Global Futures council Quantum Computing – World Economic Forum.

Matt is the co-founder & CEO of Cumulus Digital Systems, a software company focused on digitizing manual work that is mission-critical, high volume, and difficult to automate. Cumulus was incubated within Shell and spun out in 2018; its technology now serves clients across a wide range of industries. Matt was previously the Head of Programs at Shell TechWorks, which he helped launch in 2013. Before joining Shell, Matt held commercial roles with early-stage and established companies in the biotechnology and aerospace industries. Matt lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he enjoys spending time with his family, scuba diving, skiing, and tennis.

Andy is the CTO and Co-founder of Civo, the first cloud-native service provider powered only by Kubernetes.

Book Recommendations;

Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life). By, Thomas Erikson

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business. By, Josh Kaufman

George Boutsalis is, a Greek-Canadian who lives to learn, create and explore. At the age of 10, he started his first three businesses; which we'll get into later. It's now 2021, his passion project has turned into a startup, he chose to step down from his role as VP of Ops from the family business. His sole focus now is bringing honesty, objectivity, and transparency to social media.

Patrick Boyaggi is the co-founder and CEO of Own Up, a Boston-based company changing how people seek out, secure, and compare mortgages. Propelled by Boyaggi's belief that everyone should understand their mortgage, Own Up provides a combination of intelligent software and personalized advice from mortgage experts.

Book Recommendation;

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. By Marty Cagan

Pieter Luitjens is the CTO and co-founder of Private AI, a business building privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools to make privacy and GDPR compliance reliable.

Scott Orlinsky is the Co-Founder & COO of Everyware, a leading contactless payments and communications solutions company.

Book Recommendation;

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business; By Gino Wickman

Miguel is the CEO and Co-founder of Arex, a company with a vision to Power the best real estate investments, leveraging data networking effects. Due to his work applying technology for the Real Estate sector, he has been awarded and featured by institutions like Forbes, Colliers, Techstars, CBRE, and the European Commission. He's also actively involved as a speaker and working closely with institutions like FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain) and Real Estate Expertise as Regional Co-chair.

Brandon's journey spans leadership development for non-profits, flipping houses, building a soft-skills education company for teens, team member #1 at YC startup Searchlight.ai, and Zone of Genius Institute CEO/founder. This proprietary personality assessment helps people feel more aligned.

Brandon has a deep passion for teaching, coaching, and empowering others to become their most whole selves. His content has garnered over 17 million views and featured on media outlets like Inc.com, TIME, BBC, and HuffingtonPost.

John Keister is the co-founder and CEO of MixMode, an AI-based cloud-native threat & anomaly detection platform for high-volume data feeds. He has also co-founded two search and analytics companies that grew to $100+ million in revenue and went public.

Book Recommendations.

The Art Of War. By Sun Tzu

Ricardo is the co-founder and CEO of SellersFunding, the all-in-one financial solution platform designed for growing e-commerce merchants.

Arttu is the co-founder & CMO of Trustmary, a testimonial tool for lead generation.

Book Recommendations.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't. By Jim Collins

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com. By Aaron Ross

Juan is the CEO of Humantelligence, where he leads the Miami-based culture and talent intelligence start-up. They were recently named a top start-up to Watch by the Miami Herald, whose solution helps organizations accurately measure and manage culture at every level of an organization, from individuals and teams to overall corporate culture. He founded Gonza Executive Search and served as a client partner for Korn Ferry International and Heidrick & Struggles. All of this has teed up his work for Humantelligence. Named a 2021 Top 100 Influencer in our space by HR Executive magazine, Juan is an expert in using the BMW methodology (Behavior-Motivator-Work styles) to manage and hire for culture fit. A cultural analytics approach to building teams leads to increased engagement and productivity.

Tim Williams is the founder and CEO of Index Engines, a data integrity solution provider based in New Jersey. Index Engines builds enterprise-class software for the Information Governance, Data Management, Compliance, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity markets. The company's software allows companies to manage petabytes of data across primary, backup, and archival storage classes.

Book Recommendation;

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future By Peter Thiel

Alexa is the co-founder and COO of Moeco, an IoT platform helping customers manage and monitor their physical assets’ efficiency in logistics throughout the supply chain.

Gerald is the CTO and co-founder of Brainome, and he teaches as an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of UC Berkeley. Before that, he was a principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab after being with the International Computer Science Institute for ten years.

Ivan is the CEO and the co-founder of MuukTest. He is a Computer Systems Engineer and holds an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where his specialization was Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Ivan is passionate about startups, strategy, and solving problems. He has advised and participated in a handful of startups and is the Co-Founder of MuukTest, a no-code Test Automation Acceleration Platform.

Book Recommendations.

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture. By Ben Horowitz

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. By Rob Fitzpatrick

Alice is the founder of Flock Marketing Collective. An entrepreneur at heart and a firm believer in the multi-hustle. She’s founded and run businesses and worked inside early and late-stage startups. She started her career in London in the early 90s and arrived in Silicon Valley just in time for the dot-com boom. She has a passion for marketing and communications and starting fires.

Mike and Adam are the co-founders of Pay Tgthr. Mike is a recovering lawyer turned entrepreneur with a passion for all things fintech. After graduating from the UC Berkeley School of Law and spending a decade advising startups throughout Silicon Valley, his best friend of 25 years, Adam Juhasz, recruited him to leap recommending to build. Together, They're setting out to revolutionize the way couples spend, save and invest together.

James Wagoner is the CEO & Co-Founder of Joule Case, a startup aiming to make advanced power systems simple. He built his first battery startup out of college and that resulted in a $1.2B contract with Spain, but unfortunately was canceled due to austerity from the Financial Crisis. James enjoys attending music festivals, long-distance cycling, backpacking, and skiing when not building battery systems.

Nikola is the co-founder and CEO of PolyAI, a leading supplier of Conversational AI for automated customer service. Before starting PolyAI, Nikola worked with the Apple Siri team in Cambridge and was the first engineer at VocalIQ, a dialogue systems startup acquired by Apple. Nikola did his Ph.D. at Cambridge, working with Professor Steve Young.

Book Recommendations:

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. By Chris Voss The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. By Max Weber

Rory is the founder and CEO of VERB Technology. He began his career as an attorney at a major NYC law firm, representing world-renowned entrepreneurs. Since then, Rory changed the telecom industry landscape through a tech company start-up called Telx, he became a partner and 'Entrepreneur-in-Residence' in an NYC-based private equity fund, and he and his team created VERB and have re-invented what sales software applications should be in today’s video-centric business and social environment.

VERB is the market leader in interactive video-based sales enablement applications. The Company’s Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, platform is based on its proprietary interactive video technology. It is comprised of a suite of sales enablement business software products offered on a subscription basis. Its software applications are available in over 60 countries and more than 48 languages to both large enterprise and small business sales teams that need affordable, easy-to-use, and quick-to-get-results sales tools.

Available in both mobile and desktop versions, VERB's applications are offered as a fully integrated suite and on a standalone basis. They include verbLIVE (Interactive Livestream eCommerce and Shoppable Video and Webinar applications), verbCRM (White-labelled Interactive Video-based Customer Relationship Management application), verbTEAMS (a Self Onboarding version of verbCRM with built-in verbLIVE and Salesforce synchronization for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs), verbLEARN (Interactive video and gamified Learning Management System application), and verbMAIL (an interactive video mail solution integrated seamlessly into Microsoft Outlook). With 200 employees, the Company maintains offices in Newport Beach, California, and American Fork, Utah.

Rory has been actively involved in many charitable endeavors. He founded the US Chapter of Innocence in Danger, a global organization dedicated to protecting and rehabilitating children who have been victims of trafficking. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Institute of Technology and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Shakespeare Center.

Brendan is co-founder and CEO of Fig (fig.io). Fig makes engineers more productive in the terminal. Brendan is originally from Australia and studied economics and computer science at Harvard.

Igor is the co-founder of Lightly.ai. an ETH Spin-Off that is working on a novel data curation platform. Before, he worked in the innovation lab of the Swiss stock exchange as a software engineer. He has a background in computer vision and machine learning with several successful publications.

You can also view and interact with lightly's work on GitHub.

Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of Delegate, a RevOps-as-a-Service company helping venture-backed startups accelerate growth across their Go-to-Market technology stack. Previously, Patrick led the first SMB sales team at Talkdesk, which became one of the fastest-growing global companies with 1,500+ employees and a $10 billion valuation. He has been involved with numerous early-stage companies - from ideation to execution - that have raised millions of dollars in funding or acquired by global companies such as Appen, Avalara, and BlackBerry.

Andrew is the Founder and CEO of Givz. Prior to founding Givz, Andrew spent six years in investment banking and was the treasurer of a nonprofit organization. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Hamilton College. He lives in New York, is a proud dad of a 2-year-old daughter and a newborn son, and still tries to make time for recreational sports.

You can download Givz's Shopify App here.

Wolfred is the Founder of Cryptominium; he has ten years of experience with a successful sales history in Enterprise Software. Microsoft Azure Solutions(IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Wolfred has Developed excellent working relations with IT and C-Level clients across different industries.

James is the co-founder of Clearfind. He is a serial entrepreneur & investor. He loves to catalyze innovation to change the status quo positively and currently disrupting the way we manage software. James has a passion for many sectors, from property to financial technology.

Kirsti is the CEO and founder of 20/20 Insights. Having built her career inside of tech start-ups, spending time as an executive coach, and then returning to found her successful start-ups, Kirsti is out to make companies great places for everyone to go to work at.

Other organizations and projects that Kristi is involved in are; Fit For Life - Uganda, Women Leaders for the World, SheEO, Project ABLE

James Kaplan is the Co-Founder and CEO of MeetKai, a conversational AI voice assistant and search engine shaping the next-gen of artificial speech intelligence. He founded the startup with his Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Weili Dai, after becoming frustrated with the limitations of current automated assistants. Kaplan has had a true passion for AI and coding since he was six. He wrote his first bot at only nine years old, wrote the first Pokemon Go bot, and many others. Now his pioneering work in AI Personalized Conversational Search puts MeetKai in competition with the largest names in tech. Kaplan studied Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and currently resides in the Los Angeles area.

Angela is the co-founder of HelloGuru and is an executive with experience scaling hyper-growth companies, including Drift. She has vast expertise in Brand Development, using technology for marketing, and bringing products to consumers internationally and in the US. Angela’s last role as the Chief of Staff at Drift provided her the skills to lead cross-functional teams towards efficiency and selected objectives.

Amy is the CEO and founder of OfficeTogether, for companies who want to empower their employees with the flexibility to work how they are most productive while also honoring the magic of in-person time. They help teams schedule and plan time in the office together, whether you're coming in daily, weekly or monthly. Amy has been a software engineer for ten years and is building the founding engineering team.

Tim is the CTO of OneCause. He has 25 years of experience leading technology organizations from early-stage startups, scale-up, and acquisition. He is best known for his high-growth mentality and has a proven track record in building teams, designing architecture, and delivering valuable software solutions to customers. He previously held executive positions at Bolstra, 3DSIM, ZirMed, and Aprimo, and holds three patents for data-related algorithms. Tim holds a BS in Computer Science from Rose Hulman.

Dean is the CEO of Virtual Power Systems. Through his 30+ year career, Dean he has driven $10B in infrastructure projects across 3 continents. His extensive architecture, engineering, and operations experience spans Hardware, Network, Data Centers, and Infrastructure Software at Sun Microsystems, eBay, PayPal, Uber, and two startup companies. Dean is also the founder and chairman of Infrastructure Masons, a professional association whose members represent over $150B in infrastructure projects in more than 130 countries. Dean is a Digital Infrastructure industry executive advising startups, fortune 500 companies, and investment companies. He has produced numerous award-winning innovations in mission-critical facilities and compute environments and holds four US patents.

Book Recommendation;

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Anthem is a co-founder of HeraSoft, the first company to bring to market and commercially deploy a ransomware-proof cybersecurity suite based on blockchain and distributed web 3.0 technology. HeraSoft's technology is based on the in-house-built, public blockchain software stack called Hercules (herc.one). Anthem is also a multi-time founder and is passionate about teaching novices all things crypto, including how to manage their crypto portfolio.

Resources mentioned in the show; Bitcoin-paper

Saumya is the CPO and Co-founder of involve.ai, an AI-driven Early warning dashboard that helps companies predict churn and revenue growth opportunities using customer data. Before starting involve.ai, Saumya co-founded a startup right out of high school in New Delhi, focusing on using technology to reduce gender-based abortions in India. She did her undergrad in Computer Science and went on to earn her Masters in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on Natural Language Processing. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, winner of the Stevie Gold Entrepreneur of the Year award, recognized as the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, and is on the list of Top 100 Women in Technology IBM. Saumya is a strong advocate of more representation for women in tech and is the founder of Saakaar, a nonprofit in India for women empowerment. When not working, Saumya enjoys binge-watching Netflix, photography, and traveling.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-shei... 

Learn more about her business here: 

https://rockpapercoin.com

Dan is the co-founder of 401GO and he loves small businesses! Having started and been involved with over a dozen small businesses and startups, he has come to realize that business size is less important and that people matter. Culture is king!

Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, an entirely new kind of digital workplace savings platform transforming the way employers and employees are powering $33T in retirement savings for the benefit of everyone. Vestwell has built the backbone infrastructure engine removing the challenges financial services and payroll companies have had in providing high-scale, low-cost, flexible, modern workplace savings programs to smaller businesses and employees across the country.

Brad Hartman is the founder of BLC which stands for Bottom Line Consulting. Over the past decade, Brad has provided sports medicine consulting for professional athletes and members of the following organizations: U.S. Olympic Team, PGA, LPGA, NHL, MLB, NFL, and NASL. He also specializes in helping companies lower injury claims and the costs associated with them by providing content that focuses on the following: human kinetic durability, nutrition, ergonomics, and health psychology.

Ariel is the Founder & CEO of Microverse. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of TouristEye (which was acquired by Lonely Planet in 2013). He has lived in Argentina, Spain, San Francisco, Boston, Vietnam, Indonesia, and El Salvador and is currently based in Barcelona with his wife and chocolate lab, Luna.

Book Recommendations;

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer

The GitLab team handbook

Jeff is the Director of Technical Services at Badu Networks, a company dedicated to improving the way the world connects. Jeff considers himself fluent in sales speak and techno-babble, and he uses that ability to bridge the gap between sales and engineering.

One of our original white papers on our WarpEngine technology:

Badu_WarpTCP_White_Paper.pdf

10 reasons your network needs WarpEngine

Case study for a manufacturing company that installed WarpEngine:

case-studies/Infac.pdf

Oscar is co-founder of Nyckel: the lightning-fast ML platform for everyone. He is also the Senior Director of Machine Learning at Motional, where he works on ML products, research, platform for their fleet of autonomous vehicles. Before that, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Trevor Darrell's lab at Berkeley AI Research, where he worked on automated quantification of scientific image data using deep learning.

Previously, he was the lead developer at Hövding, where he created the algorithmic framework and hardware design for their invisible bicycle helmet. He has also worked on automated dietary logging systems for consumer applications and focusing algorithms for image-based cell analysis.

Oscar also manages and develops CoralNet, deploying deep convolutional neural networks to help coral reef ecologists mine image data.

Oscar got his Ph.D. in computer vision and machine learning at UCSD under David Kriegman and Serge Belongie, and his M.S. in engineering physics at Lund University under Kalle Åström.

Book Recommendation;

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship By, Robert C. Martin.